Gilpin observer., 1919-11-27
FOREIGN

Touring Club.
Fire at Beatrice, Neb., completely de-
stroyed the Drake block. one of the
largest business buildings in the town.
causing loss Of 100000, with insur-
ance of about half
Premier Clemenceau has rented at
st. Vincent, Vendee. small solitary
house on the seashOre, where he hopes
to rest and work in solitude, according
to reports from Paris.
Gabrielle dAnnunzio has decided to
make n lecture tour of America at
once, 1t is reported from Rome. The
poet warrior says he wants to explain
the Fiume question to Americans.
All records in the prices of fashiona-
BILE gowns are beaten by spring models
just announced in Paris. They will be
$4,000 francs ($2,4OO), while an after
noon frOck, a POiret creation, costs 2S,-
900 francs (S5,6OO).
Dispatches received from Belgrade
state that the Serbian government has
authorized that country's delegation at
Paris to sign the treaty with Austria,
which Serbia did not sign at ST. Ger
main on September 10th.
Plans are under way to spend o.
100000 marks for the purchase and
equipment of residence for future
German presidents in Berlin, some
thing on the line of the White House
in Washington or the Elysee in Paris,
but necessarily less pretentious.
Another Klondike has been discov-
cred in Laponia, or Lapland, to the
north of Finland. The reports brought
back by travellers are so startling and
important that the Norwegian govern
ment has sent an official expedition to
the gold fields. Meanwhile stampede
is reported in progress.
Because Germans raised no Objec-
tions to the erection of memorials to
British soldiers in German cemeteries,
cided to permit the building of me-
mortal to German soldiers buried in a
military cemetery at Oswestry, Eng
land.
The unpOpularity of militarism has
resulted in depriving Japanese railway
officials of their glittering shoulder
straps and swords. The wearing of
gold braid and side arms by the rail-
way officials was introduced about ten
years ago. The railway people now
look more democratic.
A message from General Denikine
says his volunteer army has broken
the RED" front between Orel and
TambOy. A Bolshevik army, consist
ing Of $4,000 men, was beaten. 1t is
stated that 10000 men, belonging to
General Petlura's army, have deserted
and that his forces are in disorder.
GENERAL
A mail pouch containing $97, 900
worth Of Liberty bonds was stolen
from the union station at Dunkirk, N.
Y.
A special federal grand jury at Gov
ington, KY, returned sixty-three in
dictments charging $50 persons with
violations of the wartime prohibition
act
The famous Holstein Friesian bull,
King Segis Pontiac Alcartra, valued at
$4,000, died at Middletown, N. Y. It
was owned by John H. Ardmann of
FairmOnt farm.
Lieut. Robert Stocker and civilian
named Thompson, believed to have
been radio tester, were drowned
when their hydroairplane fell into the
Delaware river, six miles below Ches-
ter The bodies have not yet been re-
covered. The plane was towed to the
Philadelphia navy yard
With more than seventy days left the
Ohio automobile department has brok-
en- all records OF the state and, in fact,
any state in the Union in the number
of licenses issued for 1919. Up to Oct
20 the department issued licenses for
SOB, 800 passenger cars and commercial
vehicles operated by gasoline.
Twenty-Five persons, most of them
women and girls, lost their lives in y
fire which quickly destroyed frame
building In which 300 of the village
folk were making merry at a dance at
Vile Platte, La.
More than 100000 in government
bonds, mostly Liberty issues, was TAX
en- by robbers who cut their way into
the vault of the Farmers Savings Bank
at Rockford, Ohio, and looted eighteen
of sixty deposit boxes of the vault.
The American merchant marine has
expanded from four ships in deep sea
commerce before the war to a fleet OF
9,773,0O0 tons In ocean service, accord
ing to figures made public by the Ma
tional Marine League. In addition
great lakes shipping measures 2,0O0,-
900 tons, giving total of 11,773,00O
against Great Britain's $4,000, 900 tons.
]. II. Munroe, famed after the Civil
war as "The Drummer Boy OF Shiloh"
Is dead in Peoria, ILL.,, at the age of 10