Gilpin observer., 1918-01-10
Foreign

Is manifesting signS Of eruption.
The German crown prince in a New
Year order to his army praises its
valor in the battles of the year just
closed.
Major Grayson M. P. Murphy Of
New York, has resigned as head of
the American Red Cross mission in
Europe, 1t was announced in Paris.
A dispatch received at London from
the Russian wireless service says that
$4,000 German soldiers in the region
east of Kovno have revolted.
Premier Lloyd Georges speech to
the delegates of the trades unions is
characterized by the weekly news
papers as marking historical epoch
in the war
1t is officially announced that Spain
is tranquil everywhere The number
of non-commissioned officers removed
from the army because of their activ-
tiles in forming "juntas of defense"
has reached 1900.
A British torpedo boat destroyer has
been torpedOed and sunk in the Medi
terranean sea, according to an Ad
miralty announcement issued in Lon.
don. All the officers of the destroyer
were saved, but ten members of the
crew were lost.
Earl Reading, Lord Chief Justice,
has been appointed British high com.
missioner in the United States. Be-
sides taking over the work of the
British Embassy in Washington, he
will have charge of the work of the
British War Mission and its establish
ments in New York and Washington.
In thanking the Roman aristocracy
for their Christmas and Near Years
greetings, Pope Benedict expressed his
appreciation that the nobility had in
dorsed "our words with which we re-
Gently invited the peoples of the earth
to return to God with the view of has,
tening the end of the frightful misfor-
tune which has afflicted the world for
more than three years.
The three cardinal points of the
British peace terms, as enunciated by
Lloyd George. British prime minister,
are: Re-establishment of the sanctity
of treaties; territorial settlement
based on the right of self determina-
tion or the consent of the governed;
the creation of an international organ
izatiOn to limit ornaments and dimin-
ish the probability of war.
Emperor William has conferred the
Order Pour lie Merite on Submarine
Commander Kophamel, on his return
from a cruise to the Cape Verde Is
lands. During this cruise, Kophamel
asserts, he sank an American destroy
er and fourteen merchantmen, most of
them bound from the United States
for Italy or France. He is said to
have brought back twenty-five tons of
copper as booty.
Sporting News
'Baseballs and. bats are useless
toys" is the dictum pronounced by the
Italian customs authorities in placing
a ban on the importation of these ar
ticles for Americans in Italy.
Bobby Mclean, American champion
was the possessor of two new profes-
sional ice skating records, as we'll as
a lead of three events, in his series
of races with Oscar Mathiesen, Nor
wegian champion, for the worlds title
at. Chicago.
bill to legalize boxing in Kentucky
under control of State Commission
and bill to abolish pari-mutsel bet
ting and the State Racing Commission
will be introduced at the next session
OF the State Legislature, 1t was re-
ported among sporting circles at
Louisville, Ky.
General
An indictment charging Congress-
man John M. Nelson with conspiracy
to evade the draft law was quashed by
Judge Carpenter in the Federal Court
at Madison. Wis.
By vote of 81 to 80 the United
States Senate passed the Walsh-Pitt-
man oil and coal land leasing bill and
ended the first stage of four-year
fight to secure Congressional enact.
ment on this question.
Money in circulation in the United
States Jan. l amounted to $5,12O,424.-
900, or $4S.76 per capita, compared
with $5.0S5,370 900 one month ago. In
the last year money in circulation has
increased $6S0.000.OO0.
Led, according to witnesses, by two
civilians. fifteen to twenty American
bluejackets entered the office OF the
Daily Call, radical newspaper at
Seattle, Wash. and almost completely
wrecked the establishment.
Winfield Scott Sims, inventor of the
Sims'Dudley dynamite gun used by
the Cuban insurgents and also by the
Rough Riders in the battle of Santl.
ago. died in a hospital at Newark, N
j.. from a complication of diseases.
College girls and shop girls will