Gilpin observer., 1917-03-29
Foreign

a Grand Duke Nicholas OuSted from
chief command Of the Russian armies
because of his connection with tho
Romanoff dynasty
The body Of Sergeant J. r. McCon-
nell, the American aviator who was
killed in an engagement with two
German machines, has been found by
French cavalry.
An elaborate organization by which
a Gordon of German submarines.
around the Spanish and Portuguese
coasts, has been furnished supplies.
has been unearthed at Madrid.
The former German minister, Rear
Admiral Won Hintze, and the staff Of
the legation, left Peking by special
train for Shanghai The German col
ony gave the departing diplomats a
rousing farewell.
The French government gave no.
tice of it's intention to address neutral
countries in protest against "acts of
barbarism and devastation on the part
OF the Germans in the French terri
tory which they are evacuating."
The Volyusky Guards, First regi-
ment, which declared for the revolu-
ton, marched to the Tauride palace
to express loyalty to the government
and the necessity of carrying on the
war to a victorious end, says a Reu-
ter Petrograd dispatch.
r. Ducret, president of the Besan-
con Prisoners of War Association,
has forwarded to the foreign office at
Paris a declaration made by Besan-
con man, prisoner, who was forced
by the Germans to work within the
zone of fire, and who escaped.
The London Telegraph says that
the committee appointed to investi-
gate the liquor trade has reported in
favor of the state purchase and con-
troll of the business in England, Wales
and Ireland. Scotland is excluded be.
cause Of different conditions in that
country.
Military headquarters at Ell Paso,
Texas, received information that
Gen. Alvarado Obregon, recently re-
signed minister of war of Mexico. was
under arrest at the Mexican capital
in connection with incessant rumors
that revolution against the estab-
lished government was about to be
undertaken.
Sporting News
Aggressiveness of Tommy Gibbons
of ST. Paul won him a newspaper de.
cision over Battling Levinsky Of New
York in 10-round bout at st. Paul.
Mary X. Browne defeated Molla
Bjurstedt at Long Beach, Calf, Ga,
6-l, in the women's singles finals in a
tennis tournment in progress here.
The California Fair and Racing AS
sociation announced at San Francisco
dates for the seasons circuit, begin
ming at Salinas July II and ending at
Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 1917.
A movement was initiated at the
annual dinner of the Phi Delta Theta
Alumni Club of Chicago to start =.
Frederick A. Funston memorial fund
among all the chapters of the frater.
nifty in the country.
Jack Bratton virtually knocked out
Bobby Burns at the N A. c. in Den
yer in the fourth round of a sched-
uled fifteen-round bout, when the ref
cree stopped the bout on account of
the bad condition Burns was in.
Reports that John McGraw will not
manage the New York Giants after
this year were set at rest when it was
announced that he has signed a five
year contract with President Hemp
stead beginning at the close of the
1917 season and calling for $4,000
Through court order issued by
Judge Gillen, Ad Wolgast. confined in
a sanitarium at Milwaukee suffering
from symptoms of brain malady, is
ward of his wife. Wolgast has
fortune of 100000 and recently has
lost large amounts buying crippled"
race horses and worthless property.
General
Shipping men at Newport News,
Va, say fifty American muleteers
were aboard the British steamer Es-
meraldas, reported sunk by the Ger
man raider Moewe.
With the arrival of strong and well.
armed reinforcements, Gen. Francisco
Murguia announced at Chihuahua City
that his campaign to exterminate Villa
and his followers will be taken up.
The United States must devote It.
self to increased agricultural produc-
tion, in the opinion OF David Lubin,
the American representative in the In.
ternational Institute Of Agriculture at
Rome.
All through the great central West
militia called out by orders from
Washington were hurrying to their
armories. The immediate orders
were for each unit to assemble at its
armory at it's home station and to
equip for duty.
President Wilson called into the
federal service 10000 additional