Gilpin observer., 1920-07-08
FOREIGN

600 marks. Minister Of Finance Wirth
announced before the budget commit
tee Of the relchstag.
Supreme power in the government Of
Poland and full military authority
have been vested in a national council
Of defense created by the Polish diet.
Two American who are said to have
represented themselves as big business
men, are alleged to have been caught
smuggling opium from Annoy, China, to
Manila.
Germany is 100000 tons in arrears
of her engagements concerning the
delivery of coal In execution of the
treaty Of Versailles, according to an
Interview with Louis LOucheur printed
in the Petit Parisien in Paris.
Polish forces on the Bolshevist front
have evacuated MozIr and Kalenkowitz,
in Polesia, according to an official
statement issued at army staff head
quarters at Warsaw. This step was
taken, it is said, for the purpose Of
shortening the front.
The French Chamber of Deputies
voted an additional 10000 francs IL
year for cabinet ministers and 1900
francs for secretaries of state, in rec
ognition of the increased cost of liv-
ing. The vote, which was taken by the
raising of hands, was almost unani-
nous.
The Mexican national debt, is more
than 546.00O,000 pesos, including in
tereSt, it was announced officially. OF
this, more than 100000 pesos is owed
abroad. Efforts will be made to reach
an agreement with MeXico's credit
ors regarding the resumption of inter-
est payments.
The secretary of foreign affairs has
ordered the boundary commission to
investigate complaints by farmers of
Otinaja, state of Chihuahua, Mexico,
that recent rains had moved the bed of
the Rio Grande southwark, leaving
lands of MeXicans apparently on the
American side.
Lord Abernon, the newly appointed
British ambassador to Germany, pre-
sented his credentials to President
Ebert ut Berlin. He declared that the
world crisis will be overcome only by
general collaboration of which the
basis is maintenance of firm, friendly
alliances and strict execution of the
peace treaty"
GENERAL
A S25,O00,000 loan to Switzerland
will be raised in the United States
as result of negotiations concluded
between the Swiss government and
American bankers, it has been an
nOunced in New York.
Newcomb Palmer, young farmer of
Momence, ILL.,, is being held Mt Chica-
go, and Byron Caldwell, n former en-
ploye of Palmer, is In Jail Mt Kanka-
kee. ILL.,, charged with an attempt to
extort $4,000 from Lem Small, candi-
date for the Republican nomination for
governor of Illinois.
An express car on the Charleston
and Western Carolina Railroad was re-
ported robbed near Augusta, Ga, by
bandits who gagged and bound an ex-
press messenger and an armed guard
and made away with S59,725, consti-
tuting the pay roll for the marines at
Paris Island, S. c., station.
In a collision between three cars on
the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley
railroad, near South Piston station,
eighteen persons are reported killed
and 100 injured. The accident occur
red when lightning struck telegraph
pole along the line OF the track and the
pole fell over on the tracks in front OF
II car bound for Scranton.
]. S. Eubanks, president of the st.
Louis Yardmen's Association, and the
Rev. j. p. Aregood, II Baptist minister
of st. Louis, We're escorted out of town
by citizens committee OF nine as
they were about to address n mass
meeting Of labor union people at Pine
Bluff, Ark. They were taken three
miles from the city. partially stripped,
whipped, and told to leave the city
and stay away.
Three men were killed in Chicago
when II scaffold on which they were
working collapsed in the interior OF Il
concrete smohestack at the Iroquis
plant OF the Steel x Tube Company of
America, ON the south side. The men
fell 1875 feet.
Meat packers from all parts of the
cOlntry will meet I'm Atlantic City,
Sept. 10, IA and 10, to discuss problems
affecting the industry, Thomas L.
Wilson, president of the Institute Of
American Meat Packers, has an
nounced at Chicago.
Georges Carpenter, the French
champion, has returned to New York
to make preparations for sailing home.
Jack Curley, who has been in charge OF
pentier will positively return to Amer