Gilpin observer., 1919-08-14
vOREIGN

tions to be held in Washington this
autumn.
George Johnson, United States
army officer, committed suicide in
dramatic fashion at Nice. He waded
out into the sea in sight of numbers of
pleasure seekers and then drew re-
volver ond shot himself.
The Rumanians have swept the
country bare of provisions for miles
around Budapest The American food
mission at Vienna, in response to urg-
ent appeals, has undertaken to feed the
school children OF Budapest.
Sixty to eighty soldiers were killed
and 200 wounded in the fighting dur
ing food riots, according to estimates,
at Chemnitz. Ten civilians were killed
and fifty wounded. The city now is
quiet and trains are running.
Marshal FOch, COMMUNICATIVE chief
of the allied armies during the war, is
reported by the Echo de Paris to have
been invited by the United States gov
ernment, as well as several Organiza-
tions in the country, to visit America.
All the castles and buildings which
the HohenZOllerns can prove they pur-
chased with their own money they may
retain. This is the decision of a COM
mission which almost has completed
the task of liquidating the affairs of
the royal house.
According to the Westfalischen An
zeiger, Count Gutenberg, as represen-
tative of the king of Prussia, has pro-
posed taking 2,5O0,O0O guilders from
the eX-kaiser's private fortune in or
der to buy an estate where the ex-kai-
ser can remain as king of Prussia.
A statement has been made that
American steel companies, after hav-
ing bought out the Doehlewercke steel
factories at Vienna and Dusseldorf, the
largest in Europe, are now negotiating
to acquire the famous SkOda works,
noted for its naval gums If successful
in this the Americans will have vir-
tually monopoly of the steel works
of the continent, it is said.
The surrender of General Kruska,
commander of the German prison camp
at Kaiser, has been demanded by the |
allies as the first of the enemy Off |
cialS to be tried for violations of inter-
national law during the war, according |
to Copenhagen dispatch, quoting Ber- |
lin advices. General Kruska is accused |
of having been responsible for an cpl |
demic of typhus fever at the Kaiser
camp which caused the deaths of 5000 |
French prisoners.
GENERAL
The sugar crop of Cuba this year is
expected to break all records, accord
ing to Gabriel G. Menocal, brother of |
the president of Cuba, who is in New
York from Havana.
Texas schools will open next month
with shortage of teachers estimated
rious in the history of the states
school system, according to state
ment 10y the State Teachers Associa-
ton, made public. Low wages is given
as cause for lack of applicants for
schools.
In his great mansion overlooking a
lake, the beautiful Berkshire, where
he sought seclusiOn when bodily mfr
nifty overlook him and his mind was
saddened by the entrance of his coun-
try into the war, Andrew Carnegie,
iron master and philanthropist, died at
Lenox, Mass.
Suits for $5OO,OOO for damages al
legged to have resulted from the strike
called by the Actors Equity Associa-
Company Uhe Shuberts) in the United
States District Court In New York
against nearly 300 of the country's
most prominent stage and screen stars.
A nationwide movement to combat
the "Bolsheviliian tendencies sweeping
the country" has been started in Chi
cago. 1t will eliminate in great mass
attendance will be 1000 delegates rep
resenting every important state and
national Industrial and agricultural
organization in the United States.
The sugar yield from the Louisiana
cane crop will be more than 100000
tons below the average for the preced-
ing ten years, according to estimates
of the federal bureau Of crops made
public.
Two Mexicans We're shot and killed
by American customs guards at Eel
Paso, Texas, while attempting to
smuggle six barrels of whisky to Mex
leo, according to the announcement of
Judge Jesus Cuen, of the District
Court, who completed an investigation
One OF the smugglers was identified
as a man named Ruiz, of prominent
family In Juarez.
The National Geographic Society has
been asked to investigate the claim OF
John Shell, mountaineer OF Leslie
county, Kentucky, that he Is 100 years
old Shells neiphhors corrohora "a, tho