Gilpin observer., 1920-03-18
FOREIGN

for 300 aeroplanes, 1t hns been learned
officially in Paris.
A sapphire eight inches long and
weighing more than five pounds il re-
ported to have been found at Mo9ok,
India, by II Burmese. Its value is es-
timnted ut between S175, 900 and $780,
600
Japanese children no longer have to
learn 5000 alphabetic characters be-
fore they are able to read and write.
School kids are joyful The number
has been reduced to 1900 by govern
ment decree.
The movement recently launched in
Toxic by university students for uni
versnl suffrage in Japan has spread to
all parts of the country and to Korea
and Manchurla as well, according to
advices received.
The Special Trade Union Congress
in session in London, voted Overwhelm-
| ingly against the strike policy and in
favor of continued efforts, by cOnsti-
tutlonal means, to effect the natiOnali-
aztion of mines
| utllClHk part
ner for Gaby Delys, has announced
that he intends to devote the legacy
bequeathed to him by his lost friend
to the construction of mammoth
dance palace as Il memorial to her in
| Paris.
Constable Scully was shot and in
stantly killed at Glenmire, County
Cork, Ireland. lie was the twenty
sixth policeman murdered since Janu-
AIRY Dist. Two soldiers and number
| of civilians were killed by gangs in
the same vicinity recently
Blame for the troubles that are be-
ing experienced in settling the Turkish
problem We're laid ut the door of the
United States by Earl CurZOn, the for
| eign secretary, in explaining the peace
| conferences negotiations to the House
of Lords in London.
A revolt has broken out among sew
eral units of the Japanese troops in
Siberia, according to Il wireless dis
patch sent out by the soviet govern
ment at Moscow. The soldiers ripped
off their shoulder straps and substi-
tuted red straps, the dispatch says.
Fifty-two members of the Egyptian
legislative assembly recently met ut
the house of Said Zagloul Pasha, who
headed the Egyptian mission to the
peace conference. and adopted IL reso-
luton proclaiming the independence of
Egypt and the Sudan, according to a
dispatch from Cairo.
President Dcschancl of France is ad-
vertising for II first-class chef 1t has
been revealed that the former famous
cook ut the ElySec palace was dis
charged by EXPIRES. Poincare because
he was too expensive and was replaced
by second rate "maitre d'cuisine,"
| who was able to prepare simple meals
| at n minimum cost. NJ Deschanel,
| who, like his wife. is wealthy i'm his
own right, purposes TO spare no ex-
| pense to make the palace menus the
most exquisite in the land
GENERAL
The estate of Harris c. Fahnestock.
banker, who died in June. 1914, is val
ued at S17,T5,661, according to an ac
| counting filed in New York with Sur
rogate James A. Foley, by executors of
| the estate.
w. H. Edwards, collector of internal
revenue, at New York, estimated that
more than 100000 federal tax income
| returns had been made in Manhattan.
Official estimates put the total col
lected ut S25O,OOO.OOO.
Eugene V. Dcbs, now an inmate of
the United States penitentiary at At
lanta, Ga, has consented to the use Of
his name as n presidential candidate
In the coming Michigan primary, ac-
| cordng to Warden Fred B. Zerbst.
Two inmates of Clinton prison at
| DannemOra have died, five have gone
| totally blind and twenty-five are VIC
Tins OF partial loss of vision as the re-
suit of the outbreak of some mysteri-
Gus malady which is battling state Of
| ficials and medical men.
w. Radway, 60 years old, of Sioux
Falls, $. d., was killed ut Daytona,
| Fla, when lie was struck by an air
| plane, which was speeding down 4
beach preparatory 10 flight
| Trade winds. sweeping from west to
east at 100 to 800 miles an hour, were
discovered at 10000 feet by Major Ru-
dolph w. Schroeder, army test pilot
ut Dayton, Ohio, before he fell approx
imately five miles and landed without
crashing after establishing nn altitude
record of 36.020 feet In II recent flight.
| Roy l.. DAILY, who is in charge Of
| prohibition enforcement In the Phila-
delphiu district, has written to Wash.
ington for II ruling on The question
whether champagne shall be used for
christening vessels. He has suggested
tha, this would he an admirable means