Gilpin observer., 1919-07-31
FOREIGN


gin entraining for Brest Aug. 5.
The Hungarian soviet troops have
been thrown back in disorder across
the Thesis river by the Itumanians, at
Szolnok and other points, according to
reports.
The council of five, it was learned
in Paris, has notified Admiral Won Tir
pitt, former German minister of ma
rine, that his substitution for the ex-
kaiser in assuming guilt for the war is
impossible and cannot be considered.
win f. Archibald. who handled the
first cable message ever sent across
the Atlantic, addressed by the late
Queen Victoria to the President of the
United States, is dead at Nanaimo, B.
G. He was 81 years old and had been
n telegrapher since the age of IA.
The Polish advance into Galicia was
made so rapidly that the Ukrainians
had no time to destroy the railways or
bridges as they retired The Poles, ac
cOrding to this announcement, took g.,
800 prisoners and forty-One guns as
well as vast quantities of munitions.
An American loan of 100000, 900 has
been obtained by Martin Nordegg, rep
resenting the Deutsche Bank of Berlin,
according to an exchange telegraph
dispatch from Berlin. 1t was said 10
per cent of the loan would be deposited
in foreign bonds to the German banks
credit.
Japanese newspapers announce that
three brothers-in-law of Emperor Yo-
shihito will soon visit the United
States, Great Britain and France for
military inspection. They will stay
abroad for about three years. The i'm
perial travellers are Princes Kitashira-
kawa, Asaka and Higashi Kuni
The Philippine legislature purposes
the enactment of prohibition meas
ure for the islands in the event it is
held that the national prohibition
amendment recently ratified in the
United States does not apply to the
Philippines. This announcement was
made by Legislative leaders. The pro-
posed measure, it was said would be
lean government.
SPORT
Leo Houck of Seattle and young"
Cyclone" Brown of San Francisco
fought ten rounds to draw at Phoe-
nix. They are lightweights.
Frank Barrieu of San Francisco was
given the decision after twelverOund
boxing match at Boise, Ida, with AL
SOmmers, a fighter recently released
from the army.
Tommy Carter lightweight champion
of the Southern department, United
States army, won the decision over
Otto Wallace of Milwaukee in a fif-
teen-round bout staged at Fort Bliss.
The fight was fast all the way and the
decision close one.
GENERAL
Both houses of the Arkansas Legis-
lature ratified the federal woman suf-
frage amendment. Arkansas is the
twelfth state to ratify the proposed
amendment.
Thirteen thousand ounces of plat
mum have been sold by the ordnance
department of the army, it was an
nounced in New York. The mineral
sold at $1O5 an OUNCE.
Four persons were killed and four.
teen injured in head-on street car
collision on the outskirts of MinneapO.
lis. The mOtorman on one of the cars
was among those killed.
The death of Patrick Cudahy, mil
lionaire packer of Milwaukee, brother
of Edward A. Cudahy, president of the
Cudahy Packing Company, one of the
five great packing firms of Chicago,
removed the third of the Cudahy bro.
theirs whose rise to great wealth and
influence made one of the remarkable
chapters of the history of Western
business.
While emulating Benjamin Franklin
and flying kite during thunder
storm, Andrew Loyak of Scranton, Pa.
was killed when n bolt of lightning fol
lowed the wet kite string from the
skies.
Nathan Strauss, wealthy New York
merchant and philanthropist, may De
the first mayor of Jerusalem, when,
under the pact made by Britain after
its conquest, the ancient Hebraic city
becomes Jewish commonwealth In
Palestine.
Broadway, New York, is a much ma
ligned street, according to city Off
cials, who announced that the "crops'
along the famous th0roughfare viii
reap value this year of more thai
$4,000. The crops are real crops, too
running principally to sweet corn an,
peas, grown In vacant lots alonl
Broadway's eleven-mile extent.
A campaign Will soon be launche,
by German-Americans in this countr.
to raise at least $35,000,000 for thu
relief of war sufferers in German!
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