Gilpin observer., 1920-06-03
FOREIGN.

HOuSe Teilcl system anu itS SUCCESSFUL
work was expressed to the Hoover
committee in Berlin by Chancellor
Mueller.
The Armenians have accepted an in
vitatiOn from the Russian Bolshevists
to send delegates to Moscow, according
| to information received by the French
foreign office
The downger countess of Granard,
mother of the present earl of Granard.
who married Beatrice, daughter of Og
den Mills of New York, is dead at Cas-
tleknock, Ireland.
The japanese cabinet has voted to
reduce the naval budget from S33, ,O0O,-
600 to $22,OO0OOO. The original pro-
gram of extension will not be inter-
fered with, authorities said.
Field Marshal SZetozar Boroevic,
commander of Austrian forces on the
Italian front from late In 1915 until
October, 1918, is dead, his death being
caused by stroke of apopleXy.
An explosion during experiments in
the chemical laboratory of Muenster
University resulted in the death of six
students, says II wireless message from
Berlin. Several others were seriously
injured.
Germany has submitted a statement
to the allied control commission de-
claring that $4,000 pieces of German
artillery remain to be destroyed and
that 500 have already been broken up,
according to the Echo de Paris.
Il. III. Beasley, managing director of
the British Columbia Union Steamship
Company, was killed when the airplane
in which he had flown over Vancouver
crashed to the ground from Il height
of $500 feet. Major A. II. Baker, his
companion, was seriously injured.
Feeling is growing that the Russian
Bolsheviki are directing their armies
toward Persia, as they have cOncen-
| trated about 10000 troops in the vicin-
ity of Baku. These troops have not
participated largely in the fight
against the Georgians and Armenians.
Concern is felt in commercial mar
kets throughout France because of a
rapid decline in prices of stable com
modities. In the past thirty days, cot
ton has declined 244 francs per fifty
Kilograms in the Havre market, while
coffee has fallen seventy-siX and wool
thirty-five points in the same time.
The well-knOwn Swiss aviator Tad
doll fell into Lake Constance and was
drowned while flying a seaplane in a
contest mt Romanshorn. Taddioli was
the first aviator to cross the Alps, ac-
| complishlng the feat In July, 1910,
when he flew from SestO Calande,
Italy, to Geneva in two hours.
GENERAL.
Fire destroyed section of pier at
Galveston owned by the Morgan Steam
ship line. The loss, including pier,
warehouses and their contents, was es-
timated ut $2,00O,00O
Sweeping denial that Great Britain
was seeking to monopoize the worlds
fuel oil supply was made in New York
by Sir Auckland Gcddes, British am
bassador, speaking ut the Pilgrims
dinner.
Indictments against seven persons,
| including three women, charging that
the alleged failure to mark prices on
theater tickets which they sold, were
returned mt Chicago by the federal
| grand jury.
Mrs. Fred A. Yost of Crivity, Wis,
was called TO Bushnell, ILL.,, by the Sc
rious illness of. her daughter, Mrs.
Ernest Neunaker. Before she could ar
/ nj Va har a n,,
the body in IN undertaking establish
ment the shock was so great to Mrs.
Yost it killed her.
The Lincoln hotel fire in Seattle in
which four lives We're lost, was proba-
bly, the work of an inccndiary, Fire
\ Marshal Harry w. Bringhurst as
serted. Ten fires in that city during
the last month We're of like origin, ac-
cording to the fire marshal, and six of
these were set in the basement of hO-
| tells
Ten leaders of the railroad strike in
| New Jersey were indicted by the fed
eral grand jury mt Newark under the
Lever act. They We're charged with
conspiring to obstruct Interstate com
| merce.
Franklin X. Lane, former secretary
| of the interior, was elected n director
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
| Company Mr.. Lane retired from the
cabinet March l, after twenty-one
years of public life.
A gift of $4,000 to their retiring in
ternational president, Charles G. Shay
of New York, was made by members
of the international Alliance of The
atrical Stage Employees and Motion
Picture Operators of the United States
and Canada Mt the closing session OF
their annual convention mt Cleveland,
Ohio.