Gilpin observer., 1919-08-28

Helr apparent 10 tne Rufnanlan throne,
according to dispatch.
n dispatch from Casa Blanca re-
ported that the French patrol boats
had picked up the bodies of three dead
men off the African coast. The men
are presumably members of the crew
of the missing aeroplane Goliath, the
dispatch said.
The BOlshevist battleshp Andrea
PervOsvan, the battle cruiser PetrO-
pavlOvsk, a transport and guardship
are reported to have been sunk during
an engagement with the British fleet
in the Gulf of Finland. The British
are said to have lost three motor boats
and to have had eight officers and
three men killed
GENERAL
Joseph G. Wilholt, Wichita Western
League Outfielder, ended his batting
streak in which he set a new worlds
record by hitting safely in siXty-nine
consecutive games.
Two bank messengers of the Fidel-
ity Trust Company were held up and
ioDpeu VI fl-,oVO ny louT IniSkeu Dan-
dts in Boston. The robbers made their
escape in an automobile.
Seven persons We're killed and thir-
ty-four injured in collision between
an express train and troop train in
France. The express was running
Willis L. Davis of San Francisco,
defeated Norman Il. Brookes, Austral-
ian tennis star, 1861, HIP, in the
semi-final round of the Meadow Clubs
cup mems singles at Southampton, N.
Y.
The first cargo to reach New York
from Hamburg, Germany, since the en-
try of the United States into the world
war arrived on the steamship Keresan,
which brought 1S1 packages of glass
ware.
The Irish republic mission has an
nounced the opening of headquarters
in New York to carry on the work of
floating the $40, 100000 Irish republic
bond issue to be undertaken by the
American commission on Irish indie
pendence under the craftsmanship of
Frank p Walsh.
Walter Elliott, negro, who is al
legged to have assaulted a farmers
wife, was shot to death by a mob
which later carried the body to the
scene of the crime and swung it TO
Il tree in country churchyard. The
mob took the negro from Sheriff
Kearney, two miles from Louisburg,
n. c., while on his way to the Jail.
No trace had been found of the four
masked bandits who held up and rob-
bed Louisville and Nashville passen-
ger train No. Z, ten miles south of Co
lumbia. Officers are continuing the
search through middle Tennessee.
Booty amounting to 100000 in cash
was reported taken from the mail
pouches, although no official estimate
could be obtained.
Police are combing Detroit for three
automobile bandits who in broad day
light held up William Baldwin, aged
2I, collector for the Standard Oil
him of n leather bag containing $4,000
cash, checks and oil coupons which he
had collected from substations of the
company. The holdup was witnessed
by number of pedestrians.
Lucy Murillo, II years old, of New
York City, was arrested on n charge of
homicide. She is accused of causing
the death of her onc-day-old baby by
letting it fall six stories from the win
dow of II factory.
The Third Division of the American
army, one of the last divisions to leave
French soil, has subscribed S31 900 for
two monuments to be erected on the
flanks of the approach to the Marne
bridge which its Seventh Machine Gun
Battalion dynamited in defending thS
crossing against the great German Of
fensive in the spring of 1913, it was
announced by Maj. Gen. Robert l..
Howe, division commander
A reward of $1,000 for the apprehen-
sion of Paul j. B. Haverly, grand
keeper of records and seal of the
knights of Pythias Grand Lodge of
Illinois, missing since Aug g. was an
nounced by Smith l.. Won Fossen of
Beardstown, H., grand chancellor OF
the lodge, who stated that a shortage
of more than 100000 had been found
In the lodge funds. Issuance of war
rant for arrest was authorized by
legal advisory committee appointed by
the chancellor
James Townsend, 20, returned SOL
dier of Duhuoue Iown confessed that
he had murdered his stepfather, IT.
Trees, and has thrown his body in the
Mississippi river, according to the po-
lice. The body was found. Both legs
and the right arm were bound and n
1O0-pouDd rock was tied around the
neck.
Members Of the Twenty-seventh d.