Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
FOREIGN.

rTuHce. III uccOrUunce WITH tle terms
of the Versailles treaty, have begun
recently.
Japanese troops have captured the
entire length of the Ussuri railroad
from VlndivOstoli to Kliabarovsk. nc-
cOrding to II Toxic cablc.ram.
The Germans are working feversh-
ly to construct giant commercial aud
passenger alrships and airplanes, ac-
cording to II report from ROmanshOrn.
The first trials of two monster ma
chimes We're successfully held above
Lake Constance recently.
After studying the State Depart
ment's interpretation of the Monroe
doctrine. sent several weeks ago, the
Congress of Salvador adopted decree
proposing the creation of Latin
American Court of Arbitration with
the United States excluded.
Paul DeMott, an American newspa-
perman who was alleged to have been
connectedswith the Communist move
ment in Germany, was shot and killed
while attempting to escape from Vessel
prison, according to advices from the
foreign office to the American mission
at Berlin.
The city Of Frankfort has been fined
10000 marks In gold (normally $4,000
by the French, it is reported, to be
paid as compensation for the attack
bya civilian mob on French citizen,
who was beaten up and deprived of
his bicycle and rifle The city also
must furnish ten bicycles and ten re-
volvers.
The population of Canada for 1920
is estimated at 100000, as compared
with 100000 in 1911, in n report
made public in the House of Commons
by Secretary of State Sifton. The es-
timated total revenue for 1920 is $685.
100000. Total revenue per capita for
1920 is estimated at $3611 and e1-
penditures per capita at S75Ol.
The German government hopes to
raise 1,OO000O,O0O marks by unusual
levy on telephone subscribers. 1t is an
nounced that they will he assessed Il
special One-time tax of 1000 marks,
which will bear interest .and be re-
turned when the subscription is can
celled. Charges for the use of tele-
phone will be more than doubled and
postage rates increased 100 per cent in
April. Telegraph rates will be heavily
advanced.
GENERAL.
Mrs. Mittie Jester Cumming, charged
with the murder of her divorced hus-
band, who was shot to death in the
street in Hampton, Va, in February,
has been acquitted by jury.
The torpedo boat destroyer Peary,
named in honor of the late Rear Ad-
miral Peary, was launched at the
Cramps shipyard ON the eleventh an
niversary of his discovery of the North
Pole.
Mrs Rose Veal of Chicago told Her
man Eckhardt that she'd be a sister
to him, but never his wife. Eckhardt
set fire to her home and attempted to
slash his wrists. Firemen saved the
house and physicians Eckhardt.
The Federal Fair Price Committee
in southern Michigan issued a formal
order reducing the prices of milk from
16 cents quart and 10 cents pint
to IA cents and cents, respectively,
effective from April 18th to August
1st.
Governor Smith of New York has
notified John Block of counsel for the
expelled Socialist members of the as
sembly, he had no power to call a spe-
cial election in the five assembly dis.
tricts formerly represented by Social.
ist members.
A thoroughbred Poland China hog,
which William Brothers, breeders, of
Villisca, Iowa, bought about fifteen
months ago from L. II. McClarnon of
Braddville, Iowa, for $285, has been
sold by them at private sale to w. H.
Ellsworth of Goldfield. Iowa, for the
record price Of $4,000, declared to be
the highest price ever paid for hog
in the United States, If not in the
world.
Action Of the Michigan Legislature
in ratifying the national prohibition
amendment Is final and cannot be
submitted to n referendum vote of the
people, the Supreme Court held in a
decision handed down at Lansing.
The national debt of Canada on Feb.
ruary 2Sth, last, amounted to $1,915,.
905.924, according to a report made In
the House of Commons. The Domin.
ions gross debt amounted to S3,149,.
09S,990 and its assets to 81 ,223, 1O3, ,O66
A crowd numbering several thou
sands, while watching aviators do
stunts in the air at Newark, n. j..
saw plane dive straight down from
height of 5000 feet, killing its pas
senger, Clarence Staplcton, and inflict
ing mortal injuries upon the federal
aerial mail pilot, Fred w. Robinson
Tenants in one Chicago apartment