Gilpin observer., 1918-07-11
FOREIGN

struck the Philippines.
Cardinal Sebastian Martinelli, pre-
feet of the Sacred Heart Congregation
of Rites and former papal delegate to
the United States. died in Rome.
The Reiohstag passed the peace
treaty and supplementary treaties with
Rumanis, according to a Berlin dis
patch. The independent Socialists vot-
ed against all the treaties.
Berlin dispatches report that severe
floods followed a sudden, heavy rain
fall In many parts of Germany. Seri-
GUS damage to crops and loss Of prop
erty are reported from several dis
tricts.
Italian forces in Albania, the Vienna
war office announced, attacked the
forces on the mid.
die and lower voyusa river. The Aus
trian advanced posts were withdrawn
to their main positions.
Alexander F. Kerensky, when in.
formed Of the assassination of General
Count Won Mirback, said, while he
could not feel elated at the death Of
a human being he cauld not help
saying 'it is good thing for Russia. F"
Owing to the lateness of the new po.
tato crop, the Berlin authorities, &C.
cording to the Tageblatt, announced
the reduction of the potato ration from
three to one pound, and the distribu-
ton OF an extra 200 grammes of beans
and peas per head.
Canadian troopship that was in
the fleet of boats where the British
steamship Orissa was attacked and
sunk off the Irish coast brought word
that two submarines were sunk after
the Orissa was torpedoed, according
to disabled soldiers reaching Toronto,
Ont.
The report that a revolution has
started in the Ukraine is confirmed by
travellers from Kiev who have arrived
at Vitebsk. They report that $4,000
well-armed revolutionary troops are
marching from the Fastov railway
junction, forty miles southwest Of
Kiev. German detachments, the trav-
elers say. are Withdrawing toward
Kiev.
Sporting News
President j Walter Morris Of the
Texas league has officially announced
that Sundays baseball games conclud.
ed the 1918 season.
Matt Brock of Cleveland and Harry
Bramer Of Denver have been matched
to box fifteen rounds at the Denver
Stockyards stadium on the night of
July 1S.
Directors of the Western league,
meeting at Omaha, abruptly ended the
season for the league in professional
baseball with Sundays games. Presi-
dents OF all clubs in the league were
present and action was unanimous.
President Dickerson of the Western
Baseball Association returned to his
home at Grand Rapids, Mich, for a
short rest before setting out for
France. where he has been appointed
athletic director for the troops of the
overseas forces.
Up at ole Cheyenne the yip-yip of
the cowboy and the hi-hi of the cow
girl are being heard again-and the
one-time cow town is taking on once
more the colorful atmosphere of the
West that has passed. Preparations
are nearing completion for the annual
Frontier celebration-and they're pro-
claiming to the world that 1t will be
bigger and better this year than ever
before. Following the announcement
That fhiu hloh -
staged from July 20 to 81, opening
with an auto road classic on the 22nd
will be for the benefit Of war funds,
the Red Cross, the Y. M. c. A., the Sal
walton army and the knights Of Co
lumbus. comes word that the entries
have surpassed all other years, and
this will be the twenty-second time the
famous frontier exposition has at.
tracted thousands from over all the
country.
General
The telegraphers strike order was
rescinded.
A Canadian troop ship, the City of
Vienna, went ashore on the Atlantic
coast. All the troops and the crew
were safely removed.
The rescue by an American patrol
boat of 700 troops from the Canadian
troop ship City Of Vienna, wrecked off
the Atlantic coast. was reported at
Boston.
Thousands Of specially devised ri,
files for sending propaganda over ths
enemy lines now are in use in the al
lied armies according to James Ker.
ney, director Of the Franco.American
committee Of public information.
Birchet (KiD Clarke. many times
the fishing companion of Grover Cleve
land and Joseph Jefferson, and known
in newspaper circles as "the dean OF
American theatrical press ar0nta u