Gilpin observer., 1919-03-20
FOREIGN

menced divorce proceedings against
his wife, charging infidelity before the
war
Leon Vaudecrane and Robert Schree-
ber, former army aviators of Paris,
who proposed an aerial duel, have
postponed it until the peace treaty ID
| signed.
1t has become known that Pope Ben
edict has addressed an appeal to the
powers emphasizing the urgency Of
the speedy conclusion of peace with
Germany.
The German submarine U-48 while
attempting to escape from FerrOl,
Spain, was chased by destroyer and
sunk, according to a Havas dispatch
from Madrid
Rio Janeiro dispatches report the
sinking of the North American schoon-
er Chaffka. Thirteen survivors, in
Guiding the captain and his wife, have
been landed.
An American freight train ran off
an embankment near st. Nazaire, kill
ing two Americans and injuring the
engineer and fireman, according to a
report received in Paris.
Three German steamers captured by
allied warships for violation of the
armistice terms have arrived at Dun
kirk for internment. The steamers are
the Italia, Mercur and Pluto.
The preliminary peace treaty will
probably contain the clause compel
tn t,,r nFf iaI
found guilty of war crimes to be tried
by an international tribunal.
A serious situation has developed
in County Glare, Ireland, by the es-
cape of lunatics from the Glare men,
tai hospital. The county is overrun
with the madmen, many of whom are
dangerous. The men made their es-
of the attendants
The leave of absence area for the
American army of occupation was re-
Gently extended to include Greece I'm
der the present plan officers and men
of the Third army, in cases where
leave is granted, may visit Paris, Bel
gium, England, Italy or Greece, leaves
being for two weeks except in excep-
tiOnal cases.
SPORT
The appointment of Al Sharpe, Cor
nell University athletic coach, to be
football coach at Yale, was announced
in the Yale Alumni Weekly.
Charles b. Adams, hero of the 1909
worlds series, will try comeback
with the Plttsburg Pirates this year.
Adams is 35 years old and a real ve-
teran as pitchers go.
Tommy Murphy of Chicago and Mike
Hirsh of Great Lakes fought ten fast
rounds to draw at Cedar Rapids Muir
ply had shade the better of the argu-
ment toward the last, and both boys
were badly winded at the finish.
The unconditional release by the
Philadelphia National League club Of
Charles Albert Bender means the pass
ing of the American Indian from the
great national pastime. Ben Lineup,
another Indian hurler, was let out by
the Phillies two weeks ago, Benders
release coming this week. Chief Mey-
ers, the former Giant catcher, later
with the Robins, has given up the game
in favor of the United States marine
corps.
GENERAL
The brewers of Boston are planning
to become candy makers after July l.
Edgar Crabtree, candidate for mayor
of Jacksonville, Fla, promises to pur-
chase no campaign cigars, kiss no ba-
bies, and to serve without pay IL
elected.
Figures compiled by government ex-
perts show that up to Feb. 1, S57 7,9OO,-
600 had been spent on the great
smokeless powder plant at Nitro, near
Charles. w. Va, which has now been
abandoned.
Percy Kuhns, 2s, of Freeport, H.,
died the other day after living for
three years with broken back.
1t was reported that the consensus
OF packers and representatives of the
food administration In conference In
Chicago was in favor of fixing n max
imum price OF not more than sis and
more probably $3.50 for hogs.
Four prisoners are held In New
York on charge of "advocnting the
overthrow of the United States gov
ernment" as the result of raid on
what the police termed Bolshevlst
headquarters at 1873 East Fifteenth
street.
The first reinforced concrete freight
car ever built was delivered to the IL
llnois Central railroad for operation
In it's coal service. The car was de-
signed when war demands made steel
for commercial uses almost unobtain-
able.
Eleven years and eight months was