Gilpin observer., 1918-01-24
Foreign

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Sir Edward Carson, minister with
out portfolio in the British war cabi-
net, has resigned.
Ostend. on the Belgium coast, has
been bombarded by naval forces, 1t
was announced in Berlin
The Constituent Assembly has been
dissolved by the Bolshevik authorities,
it is officially announced at Petrograd.
Sailor guards closed the Assembly.
A. l. Shingaroff, minister of finance
in the Kerensky cabinet, and Prof. F..
F. Kokoshkine, state comptroller un-
der Kerensky, were murdered in their
beds in the marine hospital at Petro-
grad
The American gunboat Monacacy
was fired upon by the Chinese fifty
miles above Yochow, on the Yang-Tse-
Kiang. sailor named O'Brien was
killed and two other sailors were
wounded.
The Austrian ministry has resigned,
according to a Vienna dispatch to the
Berliner Morgen Post Count Won
,
has been charged wit. he task of
forming new cabinet.
The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says
that unless Leon Trotzky, the Bolshe-
vik foreign minister accepts the de-
mands of the central powers when he
returns TO BrestI.itovsk on Jan. 30
the central powers will break off peace
negotiations.
The winning of the war and hence
the future OF the world is, to large
extent, in the hands of American wom-
en-, Capt Andre Tardieu, French High
Commissioner to the United States,
told members of the Vassar College
Alumnae Association at their banquet
in New York.
The director of the German hospitals
has informer the foreign office at
Buenos Aires that the condition of
Count Won Luxburg, former German
minister to Argentina, steadily has be-
has been in the hospital five weeks
suffering from nervous breakdown.
In the lower house of the Hungarian
parliament Premier Wekerle, a Buda-
pest dispatch reports, said in reply
to a question that the government ad
hered to the principle of peace with
out annexation or indemnities and
that this standpoint was shared by
every organ of the monarchy, above
all by the king.
Several new. large Arctic islands
were discovered northwest of Banks
land, in the spring of 1916, by Vilhe-
jalmur Stefansson, the arctic explorer,
according to Capt A. Lane, who arrived
at Fairbanks, Alaska, from the Arctic
Ocean, bringing direct news from the
explorer, who, he says, is spending the
1917-191S winter in the northern seas
at Bartel Island. The explorer claimed
the new lands for Canada.
Sporting News
Because of the heavy snow and in
clement weather the national cham
pionship field trials. scheduled for
Grand Junction, Colo, have been post
poned until Feb. 4.
The dates for the grand American
Handicap Tournament of the Inter
state Trapshooting Association have
been set for Aug. to 9 inclusive.
The tournament will be held at Chi
cago under the auspices of the South
Shore Country Club
The Atlantic trophy for men, repre-
senting the whist championship east
n les iny,
S. S. Lenz and George Killing of the
Knickerbocker Whist Club of New
York at the nineteenth annual meet
ing of the Atlantic Whist Association
at New York.
General
The Hawaiian American line steam
ship Texan, in a collision at sea, ar
rived at an American port safely un-
der her own steam
The crew of a Danish vessel, the
Huldamanersk, which was torpedoed
by German U-boat on Jan. 10, has
arrived at Las Palmas, Canary islands,
according to an official dispatch.
Authentic news of the sinking of
can freighter, while a convoy of which
they were part was passing light
house on the Mediterranean Spanish
coast, was received in shipping circles
in New York from Spain. There was
no loss Of life.
Ulysses Grant Hillyer, son of the
late Gen. William c. Hillyer. member
of General Grants staff during the
Civil War. committed suicide at the
home of his sister at East Orange. N.
J.Y inhaling illuminating gas. He was
formerly connected with the Continen-
tai Oil Company of Denver, where his
wife is said to be living.
Taylor Adams and his son, Cletus
Adams, charged with kidnapping Baby
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