Gilpin observer., 1917-03-01
Foreign

England's "win-the-war" loan sub
scriptions totaled f1,312.950, 900 zap
proximately $7.564, $50. .0O0) of new
money, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Bonar Law announced in the House OF
Commons.
The army estimate issued in Lon.
don provides for an army OF 100000
men exclusive of India. An additional
Lazy estimate calls for $4,000 officers
end men, bringing the total of the
navy personnel to 100000.
The bishop of London proposes to
close all but eight churches in the city
of London until the end of the war in
order to set free the clergymen to act
as chaplains for troops in active serv-
Ice or for volunteers under the nation
al service scheme.
The duke of Atholl has just died,
leaving an estate of 100000 acres Ill
the Scottish highlands nf Perthshirc.
At $40 acres to the square mile. this
is over 315 square miles, or about the
size of those sections in southeast
Europe which desire to be liberatel J
and "nationalized."
1t has required thirty-twc-paga >
booklet for the imperial postoffice to
enumerate the list of newspapers and
Periodical publications in Germany o.
recognized standing which temper
arily will not appear during tha
course of the war" The list includes
1,43O publications.
The Brazilian government has in
structed the legation at London to in
form the British government on the
impression caused in Brazil by the an
nouncement of the prohibition on cof-
fee and to explain the reason why the
Brazilian government hoped the meas.
ure would not be applied.
The will of Roger Easement, the
former British knight and consul, who
was hanged in Pentonville prison
Aug. last, after his conviction of
conspiring to cause the Dublin revolt
last Easter. was probated in London.
1t disposed of his estate of 9135,
which he left to his cousin, Mrs.
Parry.
Telegrapning from Madrid Sunday
I.euter's correspondent says that
James w. Gerard, former American
ambassador to Germany; Mrs. Gerard
and the members of the embassy staff
left the Spanish capital on a special
train for Corunna, where the party
VIII embark for the voyage to the
United States.
Twenty-six Americans, six of whom
were cabin passengers and twenty
members of the crew were on board
the Cunard liner Laconia, from New
York, Feb. IS, for Liverpool, with sew.
enty-five passengers and crew of 2Ao,
when the vessel was sunk by Ger.
man submarine. Three casualties, one
unidentified, have been reported Fif-
ty survivors were landed at Bantry
Head and 267 at Queenstown. Mrs.
Mary E. Hoy and daughter of Chicago
are supposed to have been drowned.
Sporting News
Frank Taberski, worlds champion
at pocket billiards. defeated Louis
al y.
Youngstown, Ohio.
Colorado's fifth annual state bowl.
ing tournament came to an end in
Denver. The affair closed with the
sweepstakes, which Fred Wolf won,
averaging better than 1879 pins per
game
A Kalamazoo. Mich, dispatch says
John Mullin, famous harness horse
driver fifty years ago. is dead at the
county home. He was 92 years old.
Several weeks ago Mullin fell out of a
bathtub and fractured his hip.
What is said to be worlds record
In twenty-four-hour endurance roller
skating was established at the Broad
way roller skating rink in Denver,
when Robert Wheeler covered 2S1
miles and eight laps in twenty-four
hours. defeating Weatherby, Miller
and Eisenhand, the latter dropping
cut when he was painfully injured.
General
Thomas w. Lawson, Boston finan
cier. author and inspirer of the now
famous leak investigation. celebrat
ed his siAtieth birthday anniversary
Sugar valued at 100000 was de
stroyed by fire on board the British
steamship Baysura, which was being
loaded with cargo for the entente al
lies at Brooklyn. NJ Y. pier. The
vessel suffered damage estimated a,
100000.
From ten to twenty persons are 70
ported to have been killed and mum
ber injured In rear-end collision be
tween the mercantile express and 9
freight train on the Pennsylvania rail
road at Mount Union station, between
Altoona and Harrisburg. Pa.
John Grier Hibben. president O
Princeton University. speaking in /,
church in New York. criticised tn,
United States for what he termed ~