Gilpin observer., 1919-05-29
FOREIGN

Jose, Costa Rica, by bomb, accord
ing to advices received by the State
Department.
The Oloncst In western Russia are
seeking union of their territory with
Finland, according to Helsingfors re-
ports to the Swedish press transmit
ted to the State Department.
There are $4,000 buildings to be re-
built in the devastated districts of
France, according to statistics given
the Chamber of Deputies by NJ. Le-
brun, the minister of liberated terri
i tories.
Co. E. NJ. Houses membership on
the committee of organization of the
League of Nations is only temporary
and he probably will be succeeded by
former President Taft, according to
Paris reports.
Polish troops have captured the i'm
portant town of Lutsk, in Volhynia,
northeast of Lemberg, from the sUk-
rainians, dispatch from Berlin says.
The Poles also took 1000 prisoners
and large number of guns.
The latest guess as to when the
peace treaty. will be signed, is some
time between June 10th and June 10th.
The belief was freely expressed in
French official circles that the Ger
mans will sign the treaty.
| The volcano of Kalut, in Java, has
burst into eruption, wiping out twenty
villages in the district of Brengat and
eleven in the vicinity of Blitar and
causing deaths estimated at $4,000, &C
cording to dispatch received at Am
sterdam.
One hundred and thirty prominent
men have entered their names as mem-
bers of party which will tour the
United States this autumn to study
economic conditions. Among those
who will make the trip will be twenty
five members of the Swiss parliament.
A number of the leaders of the
Chinese students in Toxic, writing
their names with their own blood,
have signed n resolution calling on
1000 of the students in Toxic to re-
turn to China to protest against the
peace conference decision in regard to
Shantung and against the alleged am
| Ditlon or Japan in China.
An air plane that was carrying a
treasure of Russian and Austrian gold
bank notes from Moscow to Budapest
fell into the Rumanian lines near Ga
Ian in Transylvania and was captured
The money was being sent by the Rus
sian Reds to finance Hungarian prop
aganda. Advices from Vienna de-
scribed the machine as being worth
its weight in gold''
SPORT
Michigan defeated Notre Dame in n
dual track and field meet, 691a to 81 ".
Frank TrOeh, Vancouver, WASH, still
retains the Hercules all-round amateur
trapshooting trophy. He defeated his
brother, J. b. Troeh, 1856 to 10 targets
in championship match at Portland.
Aroused by a most remarkable show
ing made by his opponent in the third
and fourth rounds, Benny Leonard,
worlds lightweight champion, knocked
out George young" Erne of Buffalo
in the sixth round of what was to have
been an eight-rOund bout at Trenton,
n. j.
GENERAL
Beryl Kendrick, an aviator of At
lantic City, and James Bew, a real es
tate agent, were killed when Ken
bricks airplane plunged into a sand
bar in the inlet at the upper part of
the city.
The estate of the late Chauncey
| pf tet- nf
Cos bar pins, flfty-nine cuff Inks thir-
ty-seven clasps, eleven brooches, eight
stickpins, pendants, chains and rosar-
les. Total value, S31.60
A. p. Hurt, United States deputy col
lector of internal revenue, was shot
and killed and two members of his
posse were wounded near POnt Gap,
on the Virginia-K Kentucky border, while
attempting to arrest twelve mountain
GERS accused of evadlng the selective
service law.
Thirty persons were burned, several
probably fatally, in triple explosion
in the case and can department of the
Standard OIL Company, Bayonne, N. j.
One man, a living torch, leaped into
Newark bay and was rescued.
Unable to pay death claims of $780,
600 as result of Influenza epidemic,
the Catholic Mutual Benefit Associa-
ton will notify members that extra as
sessments must be levied until the de-
flcit is wiped out, it has been an
nounced by John j. Hynes, supreme
president of the order.
Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
chairman of the Salvation Army home
service campaign in New York, made
public cable message from General
Pershing, in which the commander OF
the expeditionary forces urged the
American people to support the activi.