Gilpin observer., 1920-07-29
FOREIGN

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tender, Spain, killing its three occu-
pants.
Emperor Yoshihito Of Japan, accom-
panied by the empress. has left Toxic
for the imperial summer residence at
NikkO.
The general strike declared in
Rome in consequence of fighting be-
tween tramway workers and street
crowds has ended. Work has been re-
sumed in all Industries.
An attempt to reach North Point
and thus complete the Danish explor-
alton of North Greenland, will be
made by Lange Koch, the young Dan
ish scientist and Polar explorer, this
summer
Prince Ferdinand is in Santiago, Gal
icia. where, in the kings name, he
made the traditional offering of gold
in the cathedral where the body of
st. james the Greater is inferred He
was accompanied by several Spanish
mobiles.
Lieutenant Shirase Sho, who at
tempted to reach the South Pole in
1907, has asked the Japanese diet to
appropriate 100000 for an aerial ex-
pedition to the Antarctic. He thinks
naval aviators can reach the pole by
taking to the air after going as far
south on steamers ns possible.
Francisco Villa, the rebel leader, is
trying to surrender, but the govern
ment will not negotiate with him. ac-
cording to an official statement. More
than 5000 men are opposing villa in
the state of Chihuahua, the statement
says, and the federal forces are oc-
cupyng all his supply bases and sur
rounding him.
The armies on the Feng Tai Lang
Fang sector of the Tien Tsin railway
line of Gen. Hsu-Shu Cheng, former
resident commissioner of inner Mon
golia and one of the Anfu leaders are
reported to be disintegrating like the
forces to the southward of the capital.
Ten thousand of his men, comprising
the Third division. under General
Sung-TZe. Yang. have advised the gov.
ernment that they are ready TO obey
the orders of the war ministry.
GENERAL
Cook county has filed suit against
William Hale Thompson, mayor of
Chicago, to collect $246.O5 in paid per-
sonal taxes for the years 1915 and
1916
The American Legion's plans to as
sist in the distribution of Victory
medals now being issued by the War
Department remains as outlined in
press dispatches published throughout
the country.
Amesoi Patason of Lawrence,
Kan, who at 10 is leading contestant
for the honor of representing the
United States in the distance races in
the Olympic games at Antwerp this
year, is n full blood Zuni Indian.
Word has been received mt the Of
flee of the Poland China Journal at
Kansas City, Mo-, that ''The Yankee" +"
a Poland China boar owned by w. l..
Ellsworth X Sons of Goldfield, Iowa,
and purchased for $4,000, is dead
Six men-representing themselves
as federal prohibition, agents, entered
the home of w. S. Ireland, a manu-
facturer in st. Louis, Mo, and after
jewelry and papers valued at $4,000.
L. II. Murdoch, prominent in Cincin-
natis business and club life, and said
to be the father of the more daylight
movement in America, died mt Balti-
more, "A few hours after having under
gone an operation at the Johns Hop
kins hospital there. He was rs years
old
Andy Deuser, aged II, of Indiannpo.
lis, is in the detention home, at his own
request, and his mother Mrs. Rose
peuser, and brother, Louis, 20, face
boy had been chained to post in the
barn and made to stand there for
more than fifteen hours as punishment
for running away. His chums re-
leased him by filing the chain.
Police Chief F. w. Smith was found
guilty of contempt of courtand fined
500 by Judge Levine at Cleveland.
Ohio. Judge Levine held the chief
guilty OF failing to observe the court $
injunction ordering him to open all
police records to reporters for the
Cleveland News.
Suddenly stricken by appendicitis,
Herman Carlson. n coal passer on the
Stockholm, of the Swedish-Amerlcan
line, was rushed to an operating table
while the ship was stopped in mid.
ocean for two hours. The liner drift.
ed while DIR. MoritZ Simon, the ship
surgeon, performed the operation
Carlson was reported rapidly recover.
ing when the steamer arrived In port
ut New York.
There was real "kick" In a
corpse" found by prohibition agents