Gilpin observer., 1919-02-27
FOREIGN.

The supreme war cornell has ro-
sumed it's sessions despite the absence
of Premier Clemenceau.
Adelina Patti, the famous opera sing
er, is dangerously III at her home in
Wales, according to a dispatch.
The Prince of Wales visited the in
terallied press club in Paris. He was
informally presented to the correspond
ents attending the peace conference.
Edward ShOrtt, NJ. p, chief secre-
tary to the lord lieutenant for Ire
land, will introduce bill in the Brit
ish Parliament to deport 1876 enemy
aliens.
A number of undismantled subma-
rines lying in dry dock in kiel har-
Dor have been taken out to sea and
sunk, in accordance with the armistice
terms.
Queen Helena of Italy has been in
Paris to see her father, King Nicholas
of Montenegro. She was accompanied
by her daughters, including Princess
YOlande.
There was great increase last
week in influenza cases in Paris. In
three weeks deaths of the disease or
maladies resulting therefrom We're
2S4, $40 and $50.
The Queen of Rumania and her
daughter, the Princess Elizabeth, have
fled from Bucharest to England, fear
ing a revolution in Rumana, says a
dispatch received from Vienna.
In spite of annoying efforts by the
Germans to hinder the provisioning of
Poland the supreme food and relief
council has landed three shiploads of
food in Danzig and sent the food by
railway to Warsaw, where it is being
distributed under allied control
A French aviation mission will
leave France for the United States to
demonstrate the degree of efficiency
of the French airplanes. They will
take the five fastest planes equipped
with closed cabins Five of the most
noted French aces will be pilots.
SPORT
William Larue of Oakland, Cal,
knocked out James Flynn of Pueblo,
Colo, in the first round of sched-
uled four-round bout in Oakland.
Ralph de Palma in specially built
automobile equipped with ii Liberty
motor, broke three more worlds rec
ords for straightaway dashes on the
Daytona Beach speedway.
Paul Gardner of Chicago won the
.I,, 40. 4, Of
the Coronado Country Club at San Di-
ego. He defeated Percival Thompson
Coronado 3 up and to play, in the
championship flight of thirty-siX holes.
Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle and Ia
coma will have teams in the new
Northwestern International Baseball
league this year, four club circuit
having been definitely decided on by
those interested in the new organiza-
tions.
Entry of teams in the nineteenth
annual tournament of the American
Bowling Congress has closed. A. l.
Langtry, secretary, announced that 80
teams from outside were on the books
and that Toledo will have 300 The
tournament will be held at Toledo.
GENERAL
Forty-nine declarations of war were
made between 1914 and 1918.
Nearly 100000 acres in Canada
are devoted to wheat growing
William Howard Taft will return to
Yale University next fall as Kent pro-
fessor of law.
Miss Edna Goodrich, fourth wife of
Nat c. Goodwin, will contest the ac-
tors will, she announced in New
York.
The Campau avenue branch of the
First National Bank at Detroit was
robbed of $4,000 while the cashier
was held Mt bay by six bandits.
The packing house employees have
been given 10 per cent advance by
the decision of the arbitrator, Judge
Alschuler, it was announced in Chi
cago.
Private John Lacrosse has returned
from France with five bullets st1ll in
his body. Eight have been extracted. He
says he ended the career of one Ger
man for every bullet he received.
Nine persons are known 10 have been
killed and seventy-flve others injured,
many fatally, when Baltimore & Ohio
railroad passenger train crashed into a
double header locomotive at Pittsburg
A new air flight record for II five
passenger plane was established when
Capt. Roy n. Francis and four pas
sengers reached New York two hours
and fifteen minutes after leaving
Washington.
Frank Mozano and Rosario Borgia
Akron, ohio, were electrocuted at the
state prison following vain attempt
in the Legislature to save their lives
| The two men were convicted for the