Gilpin observer., 1917-10-25
Foreign


Spain.
The sum of 12 2,430.OOO.0 900 marks was
subscribed to the seventh German war
loan closing on October 18th, accord
ing to Berlin dispatch.
George E. Turnure, 21 years old, of
New York, an American aviator.
brought down a German biplane in
the neighborhood of Furness.
Count Won Luxburg, the German
charge d'affaires, will sail on the
Dutch steamer Hollandia. England
and her allies have granted him safe
conduct.
The Chamber of Deputies unani-
mously voted that the memory Of
Capt. George Guynemer, the famous
French aviator. be commemorated by
placing an inscription in the Pan
theon.
Germany SO far has wrung about
81, 100000 in cash from stricken
Belgium, exclusive of what she gained
by occupation of the country and sys-
tematic exploitation of its resources
and people.
A Toxic dispatch says the former
German steamer Darvel, which for
some time has been in the control of
the United States navy, is total
wreck on Stres island. The crew of
the vessel was saved.
Mexico City newspapers devote
much space to discussion of possi-
BILE break in that countrys relations
with Germany, following the recent
question was debated.
Premier Lloyd George and the chan
cellor of the exchequer, Andrew Bonar
Law, were the principal speakers at
an imposing demonstration in Albert
hall in London, to inaugurate the au-
Premier Lloyd George said that
twice as many German submarines
were lost in the first ten months Of
this year as in all of last year. The
British tonnage lost monthly now is
not much more than one-third of the
total destroyed last April.
General Baration has been killed in
a first line trench. He was a captain
of the French command under Gen.
eral Marchand, whose occupation of
Fashoda, in Sudan, in 1898, brought
about clash with Lord Kitchener
which threatened to result in war be-
tween France and Great Britain.
The Japanese steamship Hitachi
Maru, due at Delagoa bay, Portuguese
East Africa, Oct. 1st, is missing and is
believed to have struck a mine, with
the loss of all on board. The num-
ber of passengers is not known, but
Mr.. Onai, London manager of the
Nippon Yusen Kaishi. owners of the
vessel. was among them.
Sporting News
Lieutenant Resnati, flying his big
Caproni, which carried eight passen-
gers, landed at the government avia-
tion field at Mineola, L. l., three hours
and forty-five minutes after he rose
from the ground at Norfolk, Va.
Members of the world champion
White Sox team received checks for
their share of the receipts from the
world series amounting to $91, 1878
Each of the twenty-five players eli.
gible to share in the money received
check for s3.666.
Four teams-Ohio State, Illinois,
Minnesota and Chicago-remain in the
race for the Big Ten football champ
ionship as result of games played.
The defeat of Wisconsin, Purdue and
Indiana eliminated them from the
scramble. Neither Michigan nor
Iowa are considered in the running.
Bob Fitzsimmons, the grand old
man of the prize ring, and one of the
greatest fighters that ever put on a
pair of boxing gloves, passed away in
Chicago, after an illness of five days
of pneumonia. His name will go
down in ring history as the only man
in the world that ever won three IT,
ties.
General
A fire in small building threat
ened the base hospital at Camp De-
vens, Mass, and endangered the lives
of 800 sick soldiers.
Jesus gutierrez, chauffeur, was
found dead on the Tucson. Nogales
road about fifty miles south of Tue
son. Ariz.. his head crushed with
stone.
Accidentally shot in the chest while
hunting ducks at Rush Lake, Wis.
with his brother, Gustave, United
States Senator Paul o. Husting was
fatally wounded.
Never in its history has the navy
presented to the enlisted personnel
such remarkable opportunities of pro-
motion, Secretary Daniels declared in
an address to $4,000 sailors at the
Great Lakes, H., training station.
Sixty-seven lives were lost when the
army transport Antilles went down
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