Gilpin observer., 1919-05-22
YOREIQN

OF o,S13,41O, according to figures pub
lished in Berlin.
That Germany will make. known her
decision regarding the peace treaty
well within the fifteen days time limit
for discussion, was the opinion that
prevails In allied circles now.
A wireless dispatch from Moscow
reported that cruiser and two de-
stroyers Of unknown nationality bonn
barded the region north of Ropsha,
twenty-fOur miles north of Petrograd,
without result.
The Italians have consented to es.
tabishment of Fiume as free port,
as well as relinquishing their claims
to portion of the Istrian and Dal-
matian mainlands, it was learned au-
thOritatively at Paris.
Serious fighting between Serbians
and Croatians at Agram, the Croa-
tians' capital, is reported in Vienna
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
said to have been killed.
General Denekine, who is personally
conducting the operations of his anti
Boshevik army against the city of
Tsaritzin, on the Voga, announces the
capture of 10000 prisoners and TWEEN
ty-eight guns from the Bolsheviki
War insurance, us carried on by the
British government, dropped some
$S3,000,00O net profit into the nations
Golfers, according to report just
made public. The chief item of profit
was $SO,0O0,O0O on the hulls of British
steamships which survived German
submarine warfare.
Vienna dispatch says that, accord
ing to Hungarian official agency re-
port, Nj. Tchitcherin, the Bolshevik
foreign minister of Russia, has tele-
graphed to Bella Kun, head of the SOW
let government of Hungary. that the
Ukrainian Red army has defeated the
Rumanians along the Dniester river
and has crossed the stream, the Ru-
manians taking flight.
Sanginary encounters have occurred
at Sofia between the garrison and
revolutiOnaries, who demanded the
resignation of the government and the
establishment of soviet, according to
dispatch from Vienna. All Bulgaria
is reported to be in an uproar Rust
chuk, Philippipols and varna are also
said to have become affected by the
revolutionary movement.
SPORT
Mike O'Doud of st. Paul, middle
weight boxing champion, has arrived
in New York from France with a cas-
ual company
Capt. Eddie Rckenbacker, Ameri-
cas- "Ace of Aces" has accepted an
invitation from the Indianapolis mo-
tor speedway to be the referee in the
5OO-mile Liberty sweepstakes May 81.
President Frank Navin of the De-
troit Americans announced he had
purchased Hubert ('Dutch') Leonard,
pitcher, from the New York Ameri-
cans. Leonard is to report i'm about a
week. The amount paid for the pitch
ef was said to be in excess of $1,000.
GENERAL
Samuel Gompers emphatically de-
MED report published that he would
resign as president of the American
Federation of Labor at that body's
convention in Atlantic City in June.
Arrested for vagrancy at Omaha,
Earl Beavers showed assets of $780,
900. He told the judge he had made it
bootlegging, but had retired from the
game. 1.-The police are jealous of me-"
Beavers said.
Six persons, including the captains
wife and four children, and the engin-
eer, were drowned when the coal
laden barge Nanticoke, owned by the
Potter Transportation company of
New York, sank off the Isle of Shoals.
Capt William Gray and Allen McDou-
gall, deck hand, were picked rp by
the coast guard at Rye beach after
they had drifted about in "A small boat
for several hours. They are the only
survivors.
Making 457 consecutive loops during
a flight lasting one hour and fifty
four minutes, Lieutenants Ralph ].
johnson and Mark II. Woodward SET
II new worlds record at Carlstrom
field, Arcadia, Fla. \ Lapere two
seated fighting plane was used.
An army balloon, carrying four pas.
sengers, arrived in st. Louis from
Omaha, Neb., travelling the distance in
approximately sixteen hours. The bal.
loon mt times reached an altitude of
10000 feet, they said. The party left
Omaha with st. Louis as its objective
Protests of the Toledo Ministerial
Union and of other organizations
against the holding of the Willard
Dempsey fight, July 1, have been vir
tually thrown to the discard by Mayor
Schreiber. The mayor has issued q
statement approving the action of tn,