Gilpin observer., 1917-12-20
Foreign

by the American expeditionary forces.
According to provisional estimates.
5,801 100000 kronen have been sub
scribed to the seventh Austrian war
loan.
Solemn celebration throughout the
world over the taking of Jerusalem
by Christian forces was ordered by
the pope.
Bolsheviki forces have taken over
the Chinese Eastern railway and the
administrative are in northern Man
churia, according to telegram from
Harbin.
Officials Of the Philippine govern
ment have issued warning to ship
owners to beware of German raiders
suspected to be near Singapore, one Of
the strait settlements.
The latest in the series of amalga-
nations of prominent British banks is
the fusion of the National Provincial
Bank of England and the Union Of
London and Smiths Bank.
Charles s. Smith of st. Louis. a
member of the staff of John F. Ste
vens, head of the American Railway
Commission of Russia, is reported TO
have been arrested at Petrograd.
1t was announced by the northeast
ern sea fisheries committee that a
Hull, England, fishing skipper has
earned $125,000 since the war broke
out and another made $4,000 in two
years.
Francisco Villa, according to re-
ports reaching Ell Paso, Tex, is in con-
troll of all cities and towns in Chi
huahua south of chihuahua City.
Among the cities said to be held by
Villa are Parral, Jiminez and Santa
Rosalia.
The Union government has been re-
turned and conscription confirmed by
the Canadian domestic vote Early re-
turns received from all over Canada
indicate that the government of Sir
Robert Borden has been elected to
administer Canadian affairs for an
other five years and that Sir Wilfrid
Laurier is as definitely defeated as in
the reciprocity election of 1911.
Jean Baptste Glockin, first officer
of the ill-fated munitions ship Mont
Blanc, testifying at Halifax, N. s., at
the resumption of the government in.
quiry to determine responsibility for
the collision between that vessel and
the Belgian relief ship limo, which
caused the Halifax disaster, declared
that the signals given by the relief
ship just before the collision were
contrary to the rules of navigation.
Sporting News
Napoleon Lajoie, once king of Sec
ond baseman, has signed with the Bos-
ton Red Sox, according to information
divulged at a meeting of the Ameri-
can Association magnates in Chicago.
Camp Funston's baclfield, including
"Potsy" Clark of Illinois, was unable
to puncture Camp MacArthur's line to
an appreciable extent and the Waco
camps football team won by a score
of 13 to 6 at Waco, Tex.
Sam Langford, the Boston tar baby
knocked out the highly-touted Kid Nor
folk, who halls from Panama, in the
second round of scheduled twenty
round bout at the Stockyards stadium
in Denver before crowd of 1000
fight fans.
The Halifax cup, donated in 1873
for competition, and which has since
become the chief trophy in the crick-
citing world, is mainly responsible fol
fund of $4,000 raised among the
cricketers of Philadelphia for the re-
lief of sufferers by the Halifax disas-
| ter.
General
Speaking at Red Cross rally in
New York, w. H. Taft declared an in
conclusive peace was the greatest
danger facing America.
Danger of a serious coal famine was
delayed in New York for approximate
ly three days at the least. Twenty.
five thousand tons of coal taken from
Sunday.
The Twentieth Century Limited ar
rived in Chicago from New York three
hours late and the Red Cross netted
s434. Practically all of the passen
gers donated their dollar-an-hour re
bate to the fund.
Miss Harriet A. Varney, nurse oi
West Upton, was found not guilty oi
the murder Of Mrs. Pauline Keyes, the
ten months bride of George II. Keyei
OF Boston. by jury in the Norfolk
County Superior Court, at Dedham
Mass.
To keep coal production at maxi
mum, Fuel Administrator Garfield II
preparing to appeal to operators ant
miners to forego the usual Christmai
and New Year holidays. Every idle
day in the mines costs the country
nearly 100000 tons of fuel