Gilpin observer., 1920-08-05
FOREIGN

twelve injured in munitions factory
explosion near Prague.
Thousands were rendered homeless
by typhoOn which, accompanied by
torrential rains, swept the Island Of
Luzon, p. l,
Brigadier General Lucas, who was
kidnapped by Sim Feiners from a
hunting lodge boarded military lor-
ry and escaped
DIR. +. Porras, candidate of the Lib
eral Conservative party, was elected
president of the Republic of Panama.
His opponent in the campaign was DIR.
Ciero Urriola.
Archbishop Daniel ]. Mannix of Mel
bourne, Australia, will not be allowed
to land in England because of his re-
cent utterances, Premier Lloyd George
has announced in the House of Com
mons.
About fifty American women and
children have left Warsaw recently.
The only women remaining are well
fare workers, who have been assured
of transportation should the capital be
directly menaced by the Bolshevists.
Explosion of bomb in window of
st. Filipes Catholic Church at Havana,
while service was in progress, re-
suited in the death of one woman and
slight injuries to a few other persons.
The one victims death was due to
fright. Only slight damage was done
to the church.
Twenty-Five persons were killed and
fiftyseven We're wounded in fighting
in Ireland during July, Premier Lloyd
George declared in the House of Com
mons. The killed We're fifteen police
men, four soldiers and three civilians.
Wounded We're thirty policemen, twen-
ty-two soldiers and five civilians.
The king received John ii. Fahey,
former president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, accompanied
by A. Il. Dennis, American commercial
attache at Rome in an audience at the
Quirinal palace. The informal cOnver-
satiOn, lasting half hour, had the as
pect of talk any business man in
business men.
Troops of General WI Pei Flu are
close to Peking on the southwest, but
everything is orderly. Traffic with
Tien Tsin has been interrupted for
several days. Tung ChO, where lootirg
and disorder was reported Sunday, is
said to be quiet The detachment of
A II, TN t,,;v,c N,.k
American residents, If necessary, is
remaining there as precautionary
measure.
GENERAL
Fire swept through the warehouses
of the Appalachian Corporation at New
Orleans, destroying sisal and other
merchandise to the value of more than
$l,OOO,OOO.
Resolute captured the fifth race be-
tween the defender and the challenger
Shamrock w.. in their contest for the
cup, and thereby the cup re-
mains In America.
Phillip Nisseman, 24 years old, a con-
vict in the state prison at Auburn, n.
Y, was murdered in the prison yard
by fellow inmates following n series
of fights in which several convicts
participated.
Sensation followed sensation In the
unprecedented career of Charles Ponzi
of Boston, variOusly known as the 80
per cent interest king and the post
age stamp king of Pie alley" who
claims to have made S12.0OOOOO in a
few months by manipulation of for
eign exchange. The United States gov
ernment IL investigating the finance
wizards accounts.
CASTOR Chevrolet set IA new worlds
record for 100 miles over II dirt track
ut Columbus, Ohio, when he covered
the century without stop in 50 min
utes and 23 seconds He drove the
same Frontenac car with which he
won the SS0,00O Indianapolis Decora-
tion day race. The former record of 9l
minutes and 30 seconds was set by
Tom Alley at Minneapolis in 1914.
Fire Chief John Healy of Denver,
was elected unanimously president of
wv sNSSotlutlbli Ol FlTp
Chiefs mt the concluding session of the
convention at Toronto.
bounty of cents for each rat,
dead or alive, was declared by the city
of Philadelphia in connection with n
movement by health officials to pre-
vent the entrance of bubonic plague to
that city.
The estat. of the late Col. Robert
Bacon, formerly II partner in j. l..
Morgan x Company, totals S7,5S5. 200,
according to an appraisal announced
by the state controller of New York,
for the purpose of fixing the transfer
tax.
Nearly SOD Russian children, en-
route from Nladivostok to Petrograd