Gilpin observer., 1919-06-26
FOREIGN

from Baltimore has been sunk by q
mine explosion, dispatch to Lloyds
from Gothenburg reports.
A divorce craze is sweeping England
Three courts granted DEGREES in one
day at the rate of fifteen an hour. The
total number on the calendar Is S0S
and in 452 of these husbands are the
petitioners
Five million dollars are to be set
aside by the British government to
conduct a search for petroleum in
Great Britain, the financial secretary
to the treasury told the House of Com
mons. He also stated that $1,000
would be devoted to aid flax produc.
tion, principally in Ireland
On the initiative of the government
there will be monster demonstrations
in Paris, July Fourth, in honor of the
anniversary of the independence of the
United States. General Pershing will
be received by the municipality. Pres
ident Poincare will review a parade of
American troops in the Place de la
Concorde.
n strike of priests, which is without
precedent has just occurred at Loret-
to, celebrated resort of pilgrims
The priests asked for an amelioration
of their financial condition, owing to
the high cost of living, and when their
claims were not granted, they stopped
celebrating masses and performing
other religious duties.
Capt. John Alcock, pilot of the Vick-
ers-Nimy airplane which made the first
nonstop flight from North America to
Ireland, announced that he and Lieut..
a. w. Brown, the navigator, intended
to divide equally $4,000 of the 100000
prize given them by the Daily Mail.
The other $4,000 will go to the work
men who built the machine.
Instead of bread lines in Petrograd
there are crowds awaiting their turn
for coffins and death certificates.
visitors to hospitals refuse to recog-
niZe their dead relatives in order to
save funeral expenses, and the old and
young are got rid of or told to die as
soon as possible so that crust of
bread may be saved for the survivors.
SPORT
Joie Ray, crack middle distance run
ner of the Illinois Athletic Club, won
the first annual Chicago Daily News
marathon of six and three-fourths
miles on the boulebard in the time of
30 40 :02.
Mrs. George w. Wightman, Long
wood Cricket Club, won the women's
national lawn tennis championship
when she defeated Miss Marion Zind-
erstein, her clubmate at the Philadel-
phia Cricket Club, 81, So.
The Illinois House of Representa-
tives passed the ten-round commission
boxing bill. The victory of the fight
fans came after years of defeat from
the hands of legislatures. The measure
provides for commission of three to
be named by the governor, limits the
weight of gloves to six ounces and pro-
hiblts decisions.
w. S. HOon of Jewell Junction, Iowa.
captured the cup for high score in the
state trap shoot which closed at Mason
City with 591 out of 600 targets thrown
in three days. A. r. Chalk, Portal,
n. D., made a score of 592 but, as II
nonresident, was barred from claiming
the cup. b. f. Ebert, Des Moines, win
ner of individual honors, was the run
ner-up with 800.
GENERAL
The Lower House of the Ohio Legis-
lature have adopted a resolution ask
ing Governor Cox to stop the Willard
Dempsey heavyweight championship
prize fight to be held at Toledo, July
4th
Samuel Gompers was reelected pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, in convention at Atlantic City,
and his salary raised from $500 to
$4,000. Mr.. Gompers in speech said
the selection was American labor's an
swer to its traducers and opponents.
Governor Lowden of Illinois signed
the search and seizure" bill, passed
by the Fifty-first General Assembly
and designed to enforce prohibition in
dry" territory.
The steamer Vauban left New York
for South American points with more
than $15,0o0,00O in gold aboard. This
is said to be the largest single cargo
of gold that ever left New York.
Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., of AL
aska received Il cable stating the epi-
demic of Influenza at Bristol bay and
other western Alaska points, has been
suppressed. A government expedition
is now on its way from the states to
fight the epidemic.
Full confessions are expected by the
police from Antony Kunski, build
ing contractor, and Miss Frances
Mann, arrested in connection with a
$500,000 "fire-bug" ring, which is al.
legged to have been responsible for
more than 200 fires In Chicago and In
I surrounding TOWNS In IilipniS NTI,hi,