Gilpin observer., 1920-01-01
FOREIGN

cinemas now total 566, according to an
unofficial census.
Sir William Osler, noted physician,
who has been i'll for several weeks, is
dead at Oxford, England
Mrs. Gwyneph Marjory Thomson will
be the first woman barrister in the
United Kingdom. Her application for
admission as student for the bar wus
accepted by the Benchers of Lincolns
Inn in London.
News has been received in London of
the discovery of a sixty-mile ridge of
gold near KalgoOrlie, in western Aus
trala. 1t is the longest gold-bearlng
formation ever found in history. The
new Klondike already is attracting
prospectors from all parts of the
world
Yves lie TrOcquer, under-secretary of
state for liquidation of stocks, told the
Chamber of Deputies in Paris that g.
OOO,000,OOO francs would be realized
from the liquidation of French war
stocks and that 13,00O,00O,O0O francs
would accrue from the liquidation Of
American army supplies.
Premier Nitti of Italy, expressed the
opinion that from 1900, 900, 900 to 15,-
OOO,OOO,OOO lire would be subscribed to
the victory loan, the sale of which be-
gins Jan. 9th. On his return from the
visit he is to make to Paris and Lon
don early in January Premier Nitti
will undertake a speaking tour on be-
half Of the loan.
The rebels in Eastern Siberia, says
Il Moscow dispatch, have completely
several all communication on the
Amur line and BlagOvieshtchensk has
been cut off. The dispatch adds that
Galician troops, intended for the de-
fense Of Kiev, have revOlted against
General Denikine, the anti-Bolshevik
leader in the South and attacked the
volunteer army in the rear.
The University of London is planning
to build an institution of phonetics at
a cost of $6OOOOO, where seventy as
sistants would be engaged in research
work on the 1000 languages of the
British empire. The scheme, which
originated with Daniel Jones, head of
the phonetic department of the univer-
sity, calls for the expenditure of ST.
100000.
An epidemic of influenza similar to
that which swept around the world last
year has broken out in Japan, accord
ing to Toxic advices to the Nippon Jill,
Japanese newspaper of Honolulu. Re-
ports from different parts of Japan re-
ceived in Toxic, says the Nippu Jiji
correspondent, states that the govern
ment has taken energetic measures to
block the spread of the epidemic
Herr Huszar, the Hungarian pre-
mier, stated in Budapest to deputa-
tiOn representing those crippled during
the war, that Communism had cost Hun
gary eighteen billion kronen (nominal-
ly about S3,600,OO0, ,00O), according to
II report received in Berlin The pre-
mier said that Rumanian invasion had
taken thirty-six billion kronen more.
The national assembly now had to re-
store Hungary's finance from des-
perate condition.
GENERAL
Sir Horace Plunkett, the Irish pub
licist, arrived In New York on the
steamship Adriatic, for business trip
He refused to comment on Premier
Lloyd Georges plan for a dual parlia-
ment for Ireland because he had not
examined the proposition in detail
After shooting Cashier Herman
Rothfuss i'm the right foot and locking
him, Miss Lottie Roger, bookkeeper
and Lawrence Smith, customer, in the
vault, seven armed bandits robbed the
Peoples bank of Ottawa Lake, Mich,
of 5000 in bonds and cash, and es-
capped.
New York boasts of new school
boy tennis wonder in the person OF
Charles NJ. Wood, Jr., IA years old, of
the Dewitt Clinton High school. Play
Ing in the semi-finals of the junior in
door national championships the youth
easily won his match and displayed
such powerful service and speed at
volleying that experts among the spec
tators were fairly dazzled
Cracksmen broke into the safe of
the Oresster & Hassler Chemical Com
pany at Perth Amboy, n. j., and es
capped with gold and platinum valued
at $4,000.
Statistics obtained show that 1,725
British girls married American dough
boys. or these only seventeen remain
to be sent to join their husbands in the
United States.
Charges of murders will be made
against all persons who have sold
| liquor containing wood alcohol County
Prosecutor J. Henry Harrison an.
nounced at Newark, n. j.
The Boy Scouts of America has
grown To n total membership of 47O,-
O34 since its organization nine years
ago, according to a report issued in
New York. OF this number 1896 are
scout masters and 1884 assistants,