Gilpin observer., 1918-03-14
Foreign

where they landed.
King Alfonso of Spain has accepted
the resignation of the entire cabinet
headed by Marquis Alhucemas.
Ratification of commercial treaties
between France and the United States
and Spain have been officially ex-
changed
Leon Trotzky, in an address at a
meeting of Maximalist party at Pet
rograd, announced that he had re-
signed as commissary for foreign af-
fairs.
The government at Toxic presented
bill in the diet authorizing the mob
ilizing and requisition for war pur-
poses of all factories producing war
supplies.
Rumania has broken off peace nego-
tiations with Germany, but has con
cluded peace with Russia" according
to Petrograd official wireless re-
ceived at London.
Two American engineers, Nyl and
Purcell, have been robbed and cap
tured by bandits near Yehsien, in the
province of Honan, China. A Chinese
assistant also was taken, prisoner.
The British government has granted
safe conduct to Holland for Count
Won Luxburg, former German ambassa-
dor to Argentina, but has refused to
allow his German physician to accom-
pany him.
Capt. William Redmond has become
a candidate for the Parliamentary
seat for Waterford, made vacant by
the death of his father, John Redmond,
the Nationalist leader. He is opposed
by DR.. White, Sin Feiner.
The cabinet at Picking has decided
to dispatch 10000 Chinese troops to
Manchuria. Expenses of the expedi-
tion, to the amount of 100000 yen,
were authorized through the floating
of foreign loan.
Premier Marquis De Alhucemas,
who presented the resignation of the
Spanish cabinet and declined to form
new ministry, has yielded to the
argument of King Alfonso and agreed
to continue In office. No changes will
be made in the cabinet.
The body of John Redmond was
taken from London to Ireland. Mes
sages of sympathy from Queen Mary
and Queen Alexandra were among
those received by Mrs. Redmond.
Queen Alexandra, in referring to the
death of Mr.. Redmond, said it was IAN
irreparable loss. which we all share"
Delayed news of a revolt among the
Yaqui Indians in the federal army of
Sonora was received at Juarez. The
revolt occurred at La Mesa, Sonora,
when 700 Indian troops Joined the
Yaquis, who are on the warpath in
that state. Fourteen Mexican officers
who attempted to stop the revolt,
were killed.
Directing attention to the serious
ness of the German menace in Siberia
and in southern Asia, urging Japanese
Intervention and insisting that the
German people afford no hope of ris-
ing against their imperialistic masters,
Lord Robert Cecil. minister of block
AIDE. pointed out in a statement in Lon
don what already had been accomp-
lished by the Germans in the. East.
Sporting News
Fred Fulton, the Rochester, Mimi,
giant, knocked out Tom Cowler, the
215-pound British pugilist. in the fifth
round Of their scheduled eight-round
bout at the Coliseum in st. Louis.
Jim Mccormick, veteran pitcher of
the Chicago White Sox, died in st.
Joseph's hospital at Paterson, N. j.
He was team-mate of Billy Sunday and
old Silver Flint. Mccormick was more
than 60 years of age.
Charles H. Weeghman, president of
the Chicago National League Baseball
Club. telegraphed Pitcher Alexander
to come to Chicago at once to discuss
the question OF the $4,000 bonus the
player has demanded before signing
contract.
Christy Matthewson will chaperon a
party of Reds out of Cincinnati, Ohio,
for Montgomery, Ala, where his team
will be quartered while training at
Camp Sheridan.
General
Thirteen persons. mostly negroes.
were lost when the tugboat w. A.
Bisso, sank in the Mississippi river
near New Orleans. La. after she
rammed a Mexican oil tanker.
Organization of a new national and
patriotic body, to be known as the
Soldiers Families of America, has
been started in New York by Judge
William ii. Wadhams and other promi-
nent New Workers..
Ten sterilizing machines, each
weighing 5000 pounds. said to be the
largest pieces of disinfecting appa.
ratus ever manufactured, have been