Gilpin observer., 1920-10-28
FOREIGN

eul oOCi'iilStS HtS DeRuu uiFecl uStioh
In Halle, Germany, by selling the Of
flee Of the Independent party's news
paper, says dispatch from Frank
fort.
Joseph Murphy, one Of the hunger
strikers in Cork Jail, Is dead. His death
followed Mayor MacSwiney ohly one
day. Murphy was d member of the
Irish Volunteers, and was well known
as an athlete.
An Increase of 41.15 day in the
wages Of Alberta coal miners, granted
by operators in conference with repre-
sentatives Of the United Mine Workers
Of America. has been announced In
Calgary, Alberta.
Total value of fish and. fish prod
ucts marketed In Canada during 1919
was $50, e,4s5,579, compared to SEQ, ,25O.-
544 in 1918. These figures were an
nounced at Ottawa by the dominion
bureau of statistics.
Incontrovertible evidence. 1t was
said, has reached the Spanish and
Portuguese authorities that the rail-
road strike in Portugal was the be-
ginning Of an attempt by the Bolshe-
visit elements to seize power.
The imports into France for the
nine months ended Sept. 30 were 27,-
1S9,000,000 francs, as compared with
"a, 567 100000 for the same period of
1919. The exports were 1857 ,OO0, 900,
as compared with 6,704,OOO.OO0.
An undated dispatch received In
London reports "A twelve-hOur battle
between the Spaniards and the MOOrs
in Morocco, In which the Spaniards
lost twenty-five men killed and 1O6
wounded, the majority Of these being
native troops. The Moors are said to
have suffered severe losses
Action by the French government
to recover $1,s72, 100. alleged to be the
value of war equipment which went
down with the steamship North Cam
brla Aug. 2, 1918, has been instituted
in Admiralty Court in Brooklyn against
the Commonwealth and Dominion Line,
Limited, of London.
Panama maintains sovereign rights
over the territory upon which Ameri-
can wireless stations have been erect
ed, Secretary Of Justice AlfarA ruled
In ordering the arrest of a wireless op-
orator at Puerta Obaldio ON a charge
Of wOunding a citizen of Panama. The
operator will be tried under the Pan
anna laws.
general strike throughout Poland
has been proclaimed a. protest
against the proposed creation Of an
upper parliamentary house under the
new constitution, ON which commits
sion has been working for more than
a year. In Warsaw the street cars
ceased running and restaurants and
many stores were closed.
GENERAL
The convicts. George Stivers and
Marcus Bassett, who escaped from
Sing Sing prison, were captured in
the woods at Warner. N. n.
Sale Of the 8,641 deadweight ton
steamer Westmead to the Standard
Company of New York for
81, ,412, ,461 has been announced at the
Shippng BOarO.
New York trucking companies
adopted resolutions refusing recent d.
mands Of their $4,000 employees for
shorter hours and increased pay, and
notifying them that they must work
ten hours for the present nine-houf
wage.
Current production of anthracita
coal ID well up to normal and distribu-
tion from the mines 10 proceeding
without Interruptions which prevailed
last spring and recently. according b
q statement issued by the anthracite
bureau Of information at Philadelphia.
Three trainmen were killed. five
others injured and five or six pas
sengers shaken up in a head-on col
lision between two Norfolk & West
ern passenger trains at Rural Retreat,
Va, according to an official announce
ment at the railway headquarters at
Roanoke, Va. The trains met on a
siding.
The Philadelphia 4 Reading railway
has announced reduction of its work
ing f0rce approximately 1000 men and
that all employees have been put on an
elght-hour basis.
A farm survey to eradicate the COM
mon barberry as u defensive measure
against wheat rust has been started
by the Department of Agriculture In
portions OF thirteen states in the West
and Middle West
Testimony taken at the New York
hearing of the Joint legislative com
mittee investigating the alleged build
Ing trust, relative to the payment Of
$4,000 BY e. b. Levy, real estate
owner and builder. to have u strike
settled on one of his building projects,
will be submitted to the proper
prosecuting authorities for immediate
action"
Mrs. Mi1ia n Shouta u,iSioxv oP