Gilpin observer., 1916-10-05
FOREIGN

back one hour. beginning at 3 a. M,
October /.
The British schooners William
George. ISL tons, and Pearl of Truro,
144 tons, and the Norwegian schooner
Manuel of Tonsberg, have been sunk.
Twenty-Five workmen were killed
through the collapse of a portion of
the railway tunnel of the Vise-Aix-La-
Chapelle line, according to the Am
sterdam Echo Beige.
Emperor Lidj Jeassu of Abyssinia,
has been deposed at Adds Ababa
Lidj Jeassu is. 22 years old and a
grandson of Emperor Menelik, whom
he succeeded in 1913.
The strides Of Japan in shipbuild-
ing since the beginning of the war are
shown by the official announcement
that twenty-eight steamships with a
total tonnage of 100000 were launched
during the first half of the current
year.
Robbers entered the village of Ca
ron, eighteen miles west of Moose
Jaw, Sask., cut all telegraph and tele.
phone wires into the town, overpow-
cred the watchman at the bank of
Hamilton, blew the safe and escaped
with $4,000.
In a fight which broke out at Man
aqua, Nicaragua, during the election
of G. Chamorro as president of the
republic, Salvador Zelaya, nephew
of former President Zelaya, attacked
group of conservatives, shooting and
killing four of them.
General Lucio Blanco, whose ambi-
tions once urged him to aspire to the
Mexican presidency, was convicted by
court martial of acts of treason
against constitutionalist government
and sentenced to six years imprison-
ment. Blanco has been awaiting trial
for more than year.
DEGREES issues at Mexico City by
Gen. Carranza provide for the COM
plete re-establishment of tribunals of
justice throughout the republic Gov
ernors are ordered to carry out the
laws of each state according to the
constitution and to appoint magis-
trates and judges for the regular
term. All the courts must be in opera
tion by November 1.
Sporting News
Abe Attell, of New York, was given
the decision over Stanley Yoakum in
his fight a. Denver.
Kid Williams, the bantamweight
champion of the world, outclassed
Benny Kaufman, Philadelphia best
bantamweight, in six rounds at Phila-
delphia
Two worlds records were made by
The Real Lady in winning the two
year-old division OF the Kentucky flu.
turity, the principal event of the open
ing day of the fortyfourth annual
of the Kentucky Trotting
Horse Breeders association at Lex
ington.
Final unofficial averages of the
Western, league show that Butcher of
Denver won the championship. with
a percentage Of .377. Watson of Sioux
City was leading base stealer with 49,
and tied for sacrifice hit honors with
krug of Omaha at "a each. Dyer of
Denver took home run honors with 16,
beating out Butcher by one, but Butch
er easily took the total base champion.
ship with 1920, Kirkham and Rebel
Oakes, Denver, were tied for the lead
in runs scored at 205 each. Denver
led in club batting with .3O4.
General
At Hornell. N. Y, Charles L. Hughes
his twenty thousandth mile
of campaigning within eight weeks
Fifty-three persons were injured
seven seriously, when section of the
floor of the First Presbyterian church
of Johnson City, N. Y, collapsed dur
ing the cornerstone ceremonies.
The body of well-dressed and ap
wealthy woman about 60
years old, who had been shot twice
In the head and robbed, was found
in clump of bushes just outside
Grand Rapids, Mich.
formal offer by Jacob Henkel to
marry Miss Anna Kahnel, who brought
a $4,000 breach of promise suit
against him, is believed to be the
first document of its kind ever re-
corded in New York.
Seven men fought revolver battle
over the sale" OF woman for 5000
at Chicago, with the result that one
OF the men was shot to death and
another was so seriously wounded
that physicians say he will die.
Tacit admission of the future of
the general sympathetic strike in
New York in behalf of the striking
street car men was made in a report
to conference OF labor leaders,
which discussed the general situation.
Women" said Mrs. j. Il. owen
Phillips, addressing an Equal Fran.