Gilpin observer., 1917-10-11
FOREIGN

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Company. who went on strike in Mex
leo. are returning to work.
Sir Edward Letchworth. grand Sec
retary Of English Freemasons, died in
London. He was "a years old.
Heavy SHOWS are reported in the
Vosges and suspension of war activ-
tiles there may be expected soon.
The escape Of an interned German
submarine from Cadiz caused a sensa-
ton. High Spanish officials have been
suspended.
Eight thousand soldiers at Gomel, in
the province of Mohilev. after meet
ing, refused to go to the front, says a
telegram from Gomel, and have sur
rendered.
DR.. Perl, the German minister to
Peru, was handed his passports by the
Peruvian government. 1t was report
ed from Lima that he would go to
Ecuador.
Because their demand for an in
crease in pay had been refused, the
employees of the automobile omnibus
and tramway lines voted twenty-four
hour strike for Paris.
An official statement issued at To-
kio gives the total casualties in the
typhoon at 2,704, including ITO deaths.
These figures do not include deaths
on forty-seven ships Of all sizes and
descriptions which were lost
The provisional government at Pet
rograd has decided to permit Gen.
Soukhomlinoff, the former minister of
war, who was convicted Of treason, to
serve his term in the st. Peter and st.
Paul prison instead of Siberia.
Semi-official announcement is made
in Berlin that the August estimate of
the German grain crop has shown that
a reduction of 10 per cent in the bread
ration from Nov. / will be necessity
if the grain supply is to last out the
year.
Arrivals at Amsterdam from Ham
burg report that new battle cruiser,
while on trial run off Helgoland,
struck mine and was seriously dam
aged. Three officers and twenty sail
ors were drowned. The vessel was
towed to port.
The Cologne Gazette in its report of
the address of DR.. Karl Helferich, Ger
man minister of the interior, in the
Reichstag Saturday represented him
as saying: "The question of war aims
will be discussed in the course of a
big debate next week"
SPORTING NEWS
The School of Mines defeated the
Fort Logan soldiers at Golden by q
score of 81 to 0.
George Albert Blewett, aged 20, of
Los Angeles, freshman at the Uni
versity of California, died at San Fran
cisco of injuries received in a football
game.
Grover Alexander Loudermilk kept
the Browns in the hunt for the city
championship of St. Louis by pitching
both games of doubleheader with the
Cardinals.
Wilbur Hightower, formerly pitcher
on the baseball team of the Agricul-
tural College at Fort Collins, Colo,
and later captain of the football team
of the Northwestern University, near
Chicago, is recovering from an opera
tion in France.
Eddie Cicotte of Detroit, pitcher ex-
traordinary to the Chicago Americans,
piloted his team to victory at Chicago
over the New York Nationals by
score of 2 to in the first game of the
1917 worlds series, and the Sox won
the second game Sunday. 7-2.
GENERAL
Fifteen persons We're injured, sever
al seriously. when two passenger
Money to pay German spy passed
through several American banks.
trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st Paul railroad colIided at Colmar,
Iowa.
A s3,O00,00O Liberty loan subscrip-
tion by the Aetna Life Insurance Com
pany of Hartford, Conn, was received.
Anna Robinson, formerly Countess
of Rosslyn, died in the Manhattan
State Hospital on Wards island, New
York.
e. p. Ripley, president of the Atchi
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Com
pany, looks for quick finish of the
world war. "'
Uncle Sam has started to draft
Thanksgiving turkeys for soldiers and
sailors. A consignment of $4,000
pounds is already on the way to the
boys behind the trenches In France.
Two of Chicago's oldest and wealth.
lest families will be Joined through
the marriage of Miss Alice Cudahy
and Capt. Leander J.. Mccormick,
grandson of the founder of the Inter
national Harvester Company.
A plan to purchase Palestine and
populate 1t with Jews from every
country in the world after the termin.
alton Of the war was advanced by
Max Shulman, in an address before n