Gilpin observer., 1919-07-24
FOREIGN

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less dispatch received in London.
The electoral committee of the French
Senate decided to report unfavorably
the bill adopted by the Chamber of
Deputies giving the vote to women.
Norman Ross of San Francisco, who
won the swimming match in the Seine
across Paris, has Informed the Excel
sior that he intends to try to swim the
English channel.
Baroness de la Roche, the French
aviatress, was killed in an airplane ac-
cident at the airdrome at CrotOy near
Paris. The baroness was flying with
passenger when the accident Oc-
CURED.
Lady Diana Manners Cooper, while
watching the display of fireworks in
Hyde Park SrOm the roof of her house
in London, accidentally stepped into a
skylight and fell twenty feet, break
ing a thigh and suffering other injur-
les.
Jack Dempsey, worlds heavyweight
champion, will meet either Joe Beck
EFT, British champion, or Georges Car
dan early in 1920, according to an an
nouncement In London by Promoter G.
b. Cochran.
A Helsingfors dispatch to London
gives refugee from Petrograd as au-
thority for the statement that the
Bolshevlki are offering a quarter of a
million dollars for the assassination Of
Can Juctuc Nonnarb dim tho Finnish
regent, with the object of paralyzing
Finnish resistance.
-Four million children in Europe are
being fed under the Auspices of the
American relief administration. This
work probably will be continued
through private charity and under
American direction, even after the con-
clusion of the work of the American
food administration in Europe
The work of recovering stolen Bel
gian machinery from Germany is pro-
ceeding with full swing. Approximate
ly 5000 tons of machinery are being
shipped back weekly to the original
owners by German industrial firms,
who have set them up in their own
factories The total tonnage returned
on July list was $4,000
Prices on all foodstuffs have fallen
with crash in Berlin as result of
the lifting of the blockade. They be-
gan to show weakness when it was
rumOred that the embargo would be
lifted, but the real drop came only
when Illicit dealers with huge con-
cealed' stocks brought them out in a
virtual panic to unload before compet-
ing supplies entered Germany.
SPORT
Miss Ryan of California won the
Irish ladies' lawn tennis champion
ship" at Dublin from Janet Jackson,
the English representative. The score
was 80, 81.
Norman Ross of San Francisco,
United States army, won the swim
ming match in the Seine across Paris,
n distance Of about $500 meters, in
one hour and thirty minutes Bacigal-
upo, italian, was only four-fifths of
second behind Ross. Morris, Austral-
ian, was third An immense crowd
lined both banks of the Seine and gave
evidence of the popularity of Ross, as
consequence of his victories during
the interalied games, by heartily
cheering him.
GENERAL
In n presidential decree issued in
Panama prohibiting the supplying of
Intoxicating drinks to members of the
army and navy of the United States,
1t is declared that beer containing
not more than per cent alcohol will
not be classified as an intoxicating
liquor"
twenty-five persons were injured,
several probably fatally, when light
ming struck crowded street car in
the center of the downtown district
during severe electrical storm in
Pittsburgh. A number of women and
children We're trampled in panic
which followed
More than million Jews from ev-
cry part of the globe are preparing
to migrate to Palestine as soon as it's
political status is fixed, according to
surveys by the International Zionist
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igration committees have been formed
in many countries Ii was said.
More than 1000 airplanes of the
pleasure type could be sold Immediate
ly II manufacturers could make deliv-
cries and more than 500 have been
purchased or ordered in the United
States in the last three months, ac-
cording to statement issued by Hen