Gilpin observer., 1919-11-06
FOREIGN

African diamond fields is confirmed
officially AS announced in London,
the price was f3,750O0O
The Russian soviet conlmunique re-
ceived by wireless from Moscow,
claims the capture of 1.500 prisoners
In the taking of PetrOpavlovsk, 1853
miles west of Omsk, from the Kolchak
forces.
Demand will be made of Germany
that all violations of the armistice be
made good. This has been decided up
on by the supreme council which has
completed the protocol to the German
treaty
FOrty-One persons were killed and
large number injured in collision be-
tween an express train and another
train at Vigerslev Five of the six
coaches Of the express train rolled
down an embankment after the COLI
sion.
Advices from Mexico City state that
the stockholders of the Mexican Ma
tional Railway lines will meet Nov. 10
and elect board of directors after
which control of the railroads will pass
from the government to private con-
troll
A wireless message sent from Mos
COW, and signed by NJ. Trotslsy, Bolshe-
vik minister of war, declares that the
anti-BOlshevist forces have been driven
from the envirOns of PetrOgrad, and
that the city is free from any danger
of capture
DR.. Glaessing, burgOmaster of Wies-
baden. in the occupied territory, has
been deposed by the allied commander
in-chief on Il charge of maladministra-
ton. Blame for the coal shortage of
the city is imputed to him and he is
charged with generally neglecting to
cooperate with the French authorities
DIR. Glaessing has been ordered to
leave the occupied regions
An inventory of the crown jewels
has disclosed that the famous diamond
known as the 'Grand Duke of Tus-
cany" and sixteen other valuable oh
jects have been removed, presumably
by the former emperor of Austria
when he fled the country. 1t Is ad-
mitted to he an open question. how
ever, whether this stone was private
or state property.
The Socialist party has unanimously
adopted resolution expressing belief
that Austria cannot survive as a sep
arate state. and urging the government
to do all in its power to secure the re-
mOval from the peace terms of the
clause prohibiting union with Germany.
Budapest dispatches say that a SlOvak
rising against the CZechs in the Ung
and Berg districts, and participated in
by former Hungarian infantry regi-
ments 66 and - has been put down by
Czech troops. after considerable dis
order.
GENERAL
No effort will he made by the
United Mine Workers of America to
have nOnunion miners in the Pittsburg
field join the strike until after the in
junction proceedings in indianapolis
have been disposed of, according to
union officials.
dying motormans last act at Edge
water n. j., was to apply the brakes
to his car lest it coast PERCEPTIONS in
cline on the Hudson palisades and kill
thirty passengers Thrown from their
seats by the sudden stopping of the car
the passengers found the motorman,
Alexander Rabb, dead from heart dis
ease. The car had stopped on the edge
of the precipice
Police authorities at Morristown,
Pa, have discarded the Bertillon fin
gerprint system for Il new footprint
system which they have adopted.
barefoot burglar recently entered sew
cral homes in the residential portion OF
the city and escaped with valuable
booty. The police hope to capture him
with the aid of muddy footprints found
mt all the homes entered
Published intimatiOns that the ab-
dnction of William o. jenkins, Ameri-
can consular agent ut Pucbla, pre-
scnted phases indicative of connivance
by Jenkins and certain of his asso-
ciates with the bandits are refuted in
story published by the Excelsior OF
Mexico City, Mex.
A nationwide roundup of anarchist
leaders is expected to follow II visit to
Cleveland. o., of william j. Flynn,
head OF the United States secret serv-
Ice Police were advised that Flynn Is
planning TO personally investigate the
evidence gathered against alleged
bomb plotters which so far has resulted
in eight arrests.
Prohibition is wiping out another
New York landmark - Hitchcock's
"Beanery" on Park Row. In this little
cellar restaurant, chatting until dawn.
sat such international figures as Presi-
dent Arthur and Colonel Roosevelt,
| such leaders of journalism as Horace
Greeley and Charles a. Dana. Greeley's
chair still occupies its corner and hab-