Gilpin observer., 1920-11-04
FOREIGN

dropped to Z cents q pound recently,
following the downward trend Of cof-
fee and tea, local manufac cturcrs on
nounced at Montreal.
The bull fighters throughout Spain
are considering concerted action with
The object of obtaining higher pay.
They also desire new rules regarding
the manner in which bulls are admit
ted to the ring.
Royal Canadian mounted police were
killed in fire which destroyed the old
winter fair buildings at Brandon, Man..
with loss of 100000. Efforts of fire
fighters are being directed toward
saving the new fair buildings and
nearby residences.
Sylvia Pankhurst, who was arrested
on Oct. 10, charged with attempting
to cause sedition in the navy by edit
ing and publishing an issue of the
newspaper, The Workers Dreadnaught,
Oct. l6, was sentenced to six months
Imprisonment on conviction for the Of
fense in London.
Alfred Cocchi, charged with murder
of Ruth Cruger, whose body was found
buried in the cellar under his shop
in Brooklyn several months after he
fled to Italy, was convicted of murder.
He was sentenced to twenty-seven
years, four months and three days by
the court in Bologna, Italy.
Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik min.
lister of war, who is directing the re-
grouping of the Red troops in the
south, has visited points along the
Dneiper front. 1t was he who or
dered the concentrated effort which
resulted in the evacuation of Alexan-
drOvsk by the forces of General
Wrangel.
Canadian highways aggregate $4,000
miles, according to figures presented
by government report, and the land
appropriated for their construction and
Improvement is valued at $75O.00O,OOO.
For every mile the public travels on
railways, it is estimated, it travels two
miles on highways. Canada has ex-
bpended S20,O0O,OOO on highways in the
last five years.
The Mexican government has sue
ceeded in effecting settlement with
| the British government of the claims
for the murder of william S. Benton,
Il British subject, who was murdered
Feb. II, 1914, by Francisco Villa or
his agents, near Juarez. The settle
ment consists of the payment of S10,
600 cash to Benton's widow, Mexican
| woman, and daily stipend of $3.50
| as long as she remains widow.
Within two years after the arml-
stice, France has practically remade
the vast area of her agricultural soil
which was pitted and Scared beyond
usefulness by the ravages of war. Fig
ures received by the French commits
sion in New York show that out Of
100000 acres which were rendered
unfit for cultivation by the effects Of
battle from 1914 to 1918, only 2S0,O0O
acres will not be incondition to per-
nit of sowing next spring.
GENERAL
| Convicted in Federal Court on
charges of prOfiteering in sugar and
dealing in it without license, Luther
Ellison of Jonesboro, Ark, was SEN
| fenced to two years at Fort Leaven-
worth and fined $1,000.
| The speed typewriting championship
of the United States and Canada was
won at New York by George l.. Hoss-
field Of Paterson, N. j., who typed ap-
/ oil mil
sixty consecutive minutes. The con-
test featured the opening of the seven
teenth national business show
Count Primo Magri, Il, second hus-
band of Mrs. Tom Thumb and himself
a famous dwarf, died mt hospital at
Middleboro, Mass, after an illness Of
two weeks. Two weeks ago Count
Magri held an auction sale of the late
Tom Thumbs effects and those of his
wife and with the proceeds planned
to return to Italy, the country of his
birth.
Charged with smuggling diamond
ring and a pearl necklace valued ut
$1O,500 in the United States, Victor
Vivaudou, millionaire perfume manu-.
facturer, pleaded guilty in the Fed
eral District Court in New York and
was fined $4,000. The gems were con-
fiscated by the government
Many European children, born dur
ing the lean war years, will enjoy the
taste of sweets next Christmas for the
first time in their lives, as result
of price declines in this country. Be-
cause Of lower costs, the American re-
lief administration announced 1t would
add two and one-flfth pounds of sugar
and one pound of cocoa to all pack
ages bought with Hoover food drafts
beginning Nov. l.
The World Film Corporation must
nav Kitty Gordon 81 691 for in iuries