Gilpin observer., 1919-11-20
FOREIGN

A military pilot named Liert has
| broken the speed record for altitude,
reaching height of 5000 meters in
eleven minutes in Italy.
President Eberts salary has been
fixed at 100000 marks by the budget
commission in Berlin, which also
| placed a similar sum at his disposal
| for incidentals for which he is to give
strict accounting.
A crisis appears imminent in Aus
tria. The Vienna government, it is
reported, is unable to maintain its
power and the republic is likely 10 fall
to pieces, several groups declaring for
"A union with Germany.
The Swedish steamer Pekng, 1900
tons, foundered in typhoon in the
Pacific with loss of all on board,
while on her way to Gothenburg from
| Kobe, Japan. says dispatch from For
mosa. The Peking left Kobe on Oct. IL
| Philip Scheidemann, former Ger
man chancellor, writing in the Vor-
waertS, says he considers that Ger
many is in the power of the reaction
aries. 'The entire army" he writes,
''seems to be at the disposal of the re-
dictionaries. Unity of the working
classes has become bounden duty"
The increasing number of marriages
between French girls and Chinese la
borers in France has resulted in the
minister of the interior warning
French women that most of the cool
les already have wives in China,
bands, they would he regarded merely
as secondary wives.
So acute has the shortage of house
hold coal in France become that
wealthy Parisians who can afford it
have ordered such fuel shipped to
them from America as they would
table delicaceS. In the cargo of the
Siamese Prince, which sailed for
Havre, was twelve barrels of coal con-
signed to an individual in Paris. The
Jumps of anthracite We're rs carefully
barreled as sugar.
Six billion francs is the sum repre-
Senting the loss suffered by SwitZer-
land as result of the war, according
to an estimate of NJ. Sarasin, president
of the Swiss Bankers Union of Berne
OF this 2.4OO,OO0,0O0 francs are ac-
counted for by depreciation of German
securities and 1.500,000,0O0 francs by
depreciation of AustroHungarian Sc.
curities held by Swiss citizens. The
losses suffered by the hotel world are
put down as amounting to 100000, 900
francs. The majority of Swiss private
fortunes are invested in foreign gov
ernment and foreign industrial under.
takings, the value of which has de-
clined from 40 to 80 per cent
GENERAL
Approximately 1000 bales of cotton
burned in n fire which swept part of
the st. Louis Cotton Compress Com
pany's plant at Eldorado. Ark. accord
ing to Il dispatch received mt Little
Rock. The loss is about S1,OOO,OOO
The eighth international egg-laying
contest at the State Agricultural Col
lege at StOrrS, Conn, ended with n vic
tory for the ten Barred Plymouth
Rocks entered by Jules f. Francais of
WeSthampton Beach, L. l. Their total
yield for the fifty-two weeks is 2,O22
eggs, this being the only pen in the en-
tire competition to average more than
200 eggs for each of the ten hens.
Laurel Quebec, Poultry Farm Barred
Rocks stood second with a total of L.
91S.
Automobile accidents in the state of
New York We're responsible for the
deaths of 1O4 persons, according to
report of the National Highway Pro
tective Society issued recently. Dur
ing the corresponding month last year
ninety-five persons We're killed in the
state by auto accidents. The report
shows that of these deaths. fifty-nine
occurred in New Yok city, while dur
ing the same month last year fifty-sx
persons We're killed in motor car acct
dents in the city.
Appointment of Secretary Glass TO
the United States Senate to succeed
the late Thomas $. Martin, and the ac-
ceptance of Mr.. Glass have been an
nounced by Henry Hodges, aide TO
Governor Davis.
with woman and two men under
arrest on charges of promoting an
archy through distribution of inflam-
matory literature, the Boston police be-
lieved they have broken up well-or-
ganlzed red campaign In Boston.
Mrs. Marion Il. Sproul, secretary of
the Communist party In Massachusetts
Israel Rossman, owner of "A small peri
odical store, and Max Andeman of
RoNbury are the three alleged reds un-
der arrest
Former service men were with diff
Guilty prevented by the police from Sc
verely beating Meyer Fayerman mt Ho.
boken. n, j., after he had been caught
searching the baggage of soldier dead
brought from Russia on the Lake Oar.
aga. The offender was given n scath-