Gilpin observer., 1920-06-10
FOREIGN.

village OF AchupayaS, in the province
of Chimborazo. Fourteen bodies have
been unearthed. Many persons were
injured
Albanian insurgents have annihilated
an Italian battalion near Alessio am
italian wnrships have shelled that city,
according to a Vienna dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company.
Gen. Candido Aguilar, governor of
Vera Cruz and son-in-law of the late
President Carrnnza, has surrendered to
lowed to leave the country
Clifton Crawford, internationally
known actor. was found dead in Lon.
don in an areaway of the hotel NJ
which he was stopping. having fallen
five stories from the window of his
ROOM
Virtually all of 500 steers aboard the
American steamer st. Charles were
drowned and devOured by sharks which
infest the waters off Moro castle, when
the animals stampeded and plunged
overheard
Marshal FOch was slightly injured
when his automobile cOllided with
taxicab In Paris His injury consists
OF cuts about the face from glass. The
driver and occupant of the taXicab
also were injured
Preparations are being made both by
the government and the municipality
to receive in a few days several hun
dred delegates from the whole world
who will meet at Genoa for the inter.
national seamen's labor conferences.
The American delegates will be pres
ent only us observers
The aeroplane Goliath, plloted by
Lieutenants BOssoutrot and Bernard,
broke the world record for continuous
tinue only after II had remained in the
air twenty-four hours nineteen minutes
and seven seconds, covering distance
of 1,915 10 kilometers.
Resht, an important city ia Persia,
sixteen miles southeast of Enzeli, the
most important Caspian seaport of
that country, and about $50 miles
northwest of Teheran, has been occu-
pied by Russian Bolshevist troops, ac-
cording to advices received by the Per-
sian legation at COnstantinople
1t is reported that the Turks cap
tured BOZanti, north of Adina, taking
prisoners in large numbers. Turks are
not free to turn their entire strength
in that area against Adina, Tarsus and
Mersina, but say they do not want to
take these towns lest they incur rhe
Ill will of the British and Americans.
Applause from large audience re-
sounded in the little theater of Ser
bruck, near Geneva, while gigantic
python slowly crushed its trainer, n
Hungarian girl, to death. The girl
shrieked for help as the coils of the
serpent closed about her. but the audi
ence believed her cries were part Of
the entertainment and cheered loudly.
King George " of England has won
verdict for S52.5T5 in the Supreme
Court in Il suit against Ernest Harrah,
broker. The king sued for Sl72,OOO
on contract for 25,OOO tons of scrap
steel for delivery to Italy. The con-
tract was made through ]. =. Morgan
& Co. The defense was II counter
claim. The trouble arose over the
reports of inspectors and alleged de-
lays in delivery.
GENERAL.
New York City had population Of
5,621,15 on January 2nd, an increase
of S54, ,26S, or 17.9 per cent over 1910,
the census bureau has announced.
Five persons were killed and more
than 100 injured in an explosion ut the
plant of the Mason Tire and Ruhter
Company at Kent, twelve lilies frs
Akron, Ohio.
Five persons were killed near uranr
Rapids. Mich, when an interurban
train struck an automobile in which
they We're riding. The dead: John b.
PolZin, his wife and two children,
Joseph, 13, Agnes, q, and Ulric Host,
13, II neighbor's son.
The John A. Roberts Corporation OF
Utica, dealers in wearing apparel, wa.
fined $4,000 by Federal Judge IInr.
land Il. Howe, following its conviction
of proflteering on eleven counts n,
Syracuse, n. y.
sleeping sickness caused the death
of Midshipman Clinton Hodges of Tu-
lare, Calf. member of the third class,
NJ the naval hospital at Annapolis,
Md. He had been i'll about week.
This is the first fatality from the dis
ease that ever occurred there.
The 7,500-ton cargo carrier Gold
star. named In honor OF the American
mothers whose sons We're killed In the
world war, was launched at Whining
ton, Del, by the Bethlehem Shipbuid.
ing Corporation. The sponsor was
Mrs. J. NJ. Gallagher OF Wayne, gold
star" mother.