Gilpin observer., 1917-11-08
Foreign
Canadian elections to be held Dec.

Thousands of British women and
girls employed in munition factories.
Before leaving Paris for Rome,
David Lloyd George, the British
premier. had a long interview with
Gen. Pershing.
An appalling story of cold-blooded
massacre by Germans of crews o;
British North sea conveys in recent
battle is told by the Norwegian news
papers.
AT London the Norwegian legation
announces that during October nine
teen Norwegian vessels, aggregating
34,577 tons, and forty-eight Norwegian
seamen were lost.
The Seine federation of the radical
Socialist party asked it's representa-
tives in the Paris municipal council
to propose naming a street in the cap
ital after President Wilson.
Austria's food difficulties, the Allge-
meme zeitung of Vienna says it
learns, have become notably sharper
in consequence of Hungary's flat re-
fusal of Austrian proposals for sup
ply of grain.
Fire in the forgings plant of the
Cliff Ammunition Company at Toron-
to. Canada. did 100000 damage. Two
hundred employees working in the
night shift escaped without casualties
According to the correspondent at
Gorizia Of the Budapest newspaper
Pasti-Hirlap, the Austrians made their
attack upon Gorizia with a new poi
sonous gas. the invention of Vien-
nese professor.
The Carranza government is plan
ming to construct railway from En-
senada. the most northern port on the
West coast Of Lower California, to
Santa Rosalia, the principal town in
the Southern part.
1t is generally believed in diplo-
matte circles at Copenhagen that the
visit to Berlin of Count Ottokara
Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian foreign
minister, may be a preliminary to a
new peace offer by the central powers
The National Liberal platform
adopted by the reichstag committee
of the party, according to Berlin ad-
vices, seems to promise active CO.
operation of the National Liberals
with the reichstag majority bloc, not
withstanding few minor disharmon.
les
Sporting News
The sale of King Largo for 10000.
said to be the highest price ever paid
for Shetland pony, was announced
in New York.
Five football teams in the East are
still undefeated. They are Dart.
mouth, Williams, Pittsburg. Washing
ton and Jefferson and Stevens.
With the elimination of Minnesota,
three teams-Ohio State, Chicago and
lllinois-remain undefeated in the
race for the Big Ten football cham.
pionship.
Art Johnson of Grand Valley scored
his sixth straight knockout this year
when he knocked Hert Thomas of
Denver out in eleven rounds at the
Eagles club in Glenwood Springs.
frankie Murphy. Denver light
weight, and Lee Morrisey of Wallace,
Idaho, fought fifteen of the hardest,
fastest and toughest rounds to a draw
at the Lakeside Athletic club in Den
yer.
General
New York city has entered the coal
and grocery business.
Walter X. Lands. formerly post.
master at Porto Rico, and brother to
Federal Judge Kenesaw M. Lands,
died at his home in Logansport. Ind.
The trial of Mrs. Bianci de Saulles.
accused of numbering her husband,
John II. DeSaulles, one-time noted
Yale athlete, was deferred until Nov.
10 at Mineola. N. Y.
Taking as its text the announce.
ment of the first American casualties
in the world war, the London Daily
Mail prints eulogistc editorial on
American participation in the hostil-
tiles.
John V. w. Reynders of New York,
student aviator attached to the
United States naval station at Bay
Springs, n. V, fell $500 feet from u
seaplane into Great South bay and
was killed.
The drawing of numbers to deter
mine the order in which the men reg
istered for military service shall be
called to fill Puerto Rico's quota was
held. From numbers selected 1854
men are to be called
After being given a mock trial, at
which he was accused of pro-German-
ism, William Saer. sc years old, well.
known citizen at Lansing. Mich. was
tarred and feathered by group of
men clad in white robes
Coal production in Southeastern
Kansas virtually reached the vanish
L.. t,.e sl.A..