Gilpin observer., 1917-02-01
Foreign

placed his resignation in the hands OF
President Menocal at Havana
The crew of thirty-four of a Ger
man submarine, which foundered off
the Norwegian coast, was landed near
Hammerfest, Norway, by Norwegian
motorboat.
With 1900 huge army motor trucks
running night and day in Paris deliv-
ering and distributing coal, the situa-
tion among the poor has been amelior-
ated. although the bitter weather con-
tinues.
Uniform bread" consisting of half
rye flour and 40 per cent white flour
and 10 per cent barley flour, is to be
adopted exclusively in Berlin, accord
ing to ruling made by the magis-
trates.
to wreck train on which King AL
fonso of Spain was a passenger. The
royal train was proceeded by a freight
train, the engineer of which saw an
obstacle on the track and removed it.
William c. Anderson, labor member
of parliament, speaking today at Lei
cester, said he was giving away no
secret in stating that the population
bf the United Kingdom would at
very early date be put under a ration
system.
The order of the Victoria Cross, the
most coveted decoration within the
gift of the English sovereign, has at
TO itth lot
ing its sixtieth year jan 30. The
order was instituted by Queen Vic
toria near the close of the Crimean
war.
Income taxes in Prussia in the year
1916, increased to 49S,O00,00O marks
in comparison with $4,000, 900 marks
in 1915. The number of tax payers
was increased from 100000 to 7,500,-
600. The average income taxpayers
increased from 2,267 marks to 2,430
marks.
The president of Costa Rica, AL
fredo Gonzales. was deposed from Of
flee by the military forces of San
Jose, supported by number of citi-
zens. The administrative power was
conferred on the minister of war,
Federico Tinoco, as provincial chief
executive.
Sporting News
Two promising infield recruits,
Bobby Jones from San Francisco and
Ben Dyer from Denver, have signed
Tiger contracts at Detroit.
Willie Ritchie, former lightweight
champion, is ready to enter the welter-
weight class. In addition to that, the
California boxer has assumed the
management of George Thompson, the
Pacific coast bantamweight champion.
Miller Higgins, manager of the st.
Louis National League team, has an
nounced that Catcher Tony Brottem
has been sold to the Omaha Club of
the Western league, under an optional
agreement
The selection of Mike Donlin to
handle the Memphis team completes
the roster of Southern league man.
ayers, which is as follows: Atlanta,
Charley Frank; Birmingham, Carlton
Molesworth; Chattanooga, Norman
Elberfeld; Nashville, Roy ELAN; Mo-
bile. Matty Mcintyre, New Orleans.
John Dobbs; Memphis, Mike Donlin,
and Little Rock, Charley Starr.
General
The dreadnought Mississippi. which
will be one of the worlds most eff
cient and powerful fighting machines,
has been launched at Newport News,
Va.
Ninety medical schools in the Unit
ed States with a total enrolment in
graduating classes of more than 5000
young men, available for army and
navy service, has been instituted al
Chicago.
Three persons were killed and thir.
ty-three injured, two probably fatally,
in rear end collision between a Cot
ton Belt engine carrying caboose
and a Rock Island passenger train at
Mounds, Ark.
Charges that some employee in the
office of the secretary of state at
Springfield by issuing unregistered
tags was in league with band OF
automobile thieves, who have stolen
many cars in Chicago in the last few
months, were made by States Attor-
ney Hoyne at Chicago.
Miss Ethel Byrne, who went on a
hunger strike" when she was sen,
fenced last Monday to thirty days in
the penitentiary at Blackwell's island
for spreading birth control propa-
ganda in New York, was described by
Commissioner OF Corrections Burdett
G. Lewis as progressing well under
gentle, forcible feeding"
Leaders of the prohibition move
ment at Seattle, Wash, said that in
all probability their organization
would offer financial aid for the de-
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