Gilpin observer., 1920-04-22

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The batteships Oldenburg and POsen
will be delivered April % at Rosythe,
Scotland.
| II. Guamu Rasul, adopted son of the
sultan of Sulu, is studying law in
| washington preparatory to assuming
his duties in the government of his
people. He is paying particular atten-
tiOn to International law and political
science. He is already governor of a
province in his country, and hopes
some day to be at the head of Moro
affairs
GENERAL.
Three persons are known to have
been killed and half dozen or more
injured, some seriously, in cyclone
which swept portions of Union coun-
ty, North Carolina, according to re-
ports.
American Red Cross supplies en-
route from Marseilles to Constantine
pie have been destroyed in the burning
of the steamer Reye, which caught fire
in the harbOr at SalOnilli. The ship was
total loss.
A band of robbers at Braintree,
Mass, killed AlessandrO Barandelli, a
guard, probably fatally wounded Fred
erick Parmenter, paymaster for Slater
Morrill, Company, and seized the
firms payroll amounting to $4,000.
Swedish prlncesses may henceforth
marry commOners, for the government
has introduced in Parliament bill to
amend the old law which forbade them
to wed any one not of royal blood. Un-
der the proposed law only the kings
knowledge and consent is requisite for
such unions.
Louis Joseph, Brooklyn manager for
Wilson & Co., has been arrested and
held in $500 bail for examination on
charge Of prOfiteering. Federal agents
complained that he used the railrOad
strike as pretext to increase prices.
Representatives of two other packing
companies have been arrested.
Leading temperance societies of the
country will make every effort to have
the present Congress pass law with
drawing the protection of the Ameri-
can flag and cOnsuls from persons who
enter foreign countries to do business
| which is against the law in the United
States, according to DIR. Clarence Il.
Wilson of the Oregon conference, who
spoke at the New Hampshire Meth
odist conference at Haverhill, Mass,
| recently.
Opposition to a fiat bonus payment
to all eX-service men and women and
Endorsement of the plan for land grants
and long term loans and for increased
payments to those disabled during war
service was expressed in n resolution
| adopted at joint session of the con-
ventions of the National League for
Nursing Education, the National Or
ganization for Public Health Nursing
and the American Nurses Association
at Atlanta, Ga.
For the first time in speedway his
tory, European contestants promise to
outnumber representatives OF the
United States in an indianapolis 500
mile race on May Both.
The recent outbreak of violent crime
in London and throughout England
generally has reused the British police
authorities to II realization that blue
uniform and funny helmet are insult
ficient equipment to enable police
man to deal effectively with violent
criminal who has learned all about the
use of lethal weapons in the war.
These authorities are now discussing
seriously II proposal to supply the Lon
don police with revolvers and perhaps
with sword bayonets.
Deflation In America at the rate of
S750,000,000 per month and In Great
Britain Mt the rate Of $4,000, 900, 900 per
annun 80 percent of total tax in
come-wields n steady advance In the
buying value of gold and of silver,
and hence gradual lift In the profits
from investment. Wages Is the least
of the commodities that will show loss
in value, but II gradual lift In efficiency
| from 60 per cent-the present average
-back to prewar par Is generally pre-
dicted.
George Stallings, manager of the
Boston National League baseball club
for seven seasons. has announced that
this will be his last year In baseball.
Cattle and cotton interests In Georgia
will demand all his attention, he said
Stallings was major and minor
league manager for twenty-five years.
Three hundred spectators in Chicago
were thrilled when detectives chased
DIR. Alfred Zuick and six drug addicts
over roofs for an hour. The officers
won. The fugitives sang "The Mar-