Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
rELEoRAPH sREvlruEs.
Governor Pingree announces that he
is out Of politics.

AT OitNeuuu, OnlO. SO street car
men are out on n strike.
Jeffries has challenged Sharkey to
fight, and he will accept
1t has been suggested in England
that the United States he asked to ar
bitrate the dispute between Great
Britain and the Transvaal.
Three of the largest shops connected
with the Armstrong Whitworth ord
nance works at Newcastle-on-Tyn
were destroyed by fire on the 10th.
The damage is estimated Mt f2O0,0
The Russian government has broken
| off diplomatic relations with the free
city of Bremen. owing to the refusal of
the Bremen authorities to grant satis-
faction for the alleged wrongful arrest
of Russian priest.
The Indians living in the neighbor.
hood of the upper waters of the Stew
art river, British Columbia, are in n
most deplorable condition. a terrible
famine prevails in that district, and
the unfortunate natives have already
been decimated for lack of food.
! United States Consul ]. c. McCook
at Dawson City reports to the secre-
tary of state under date of March 81,
that the gold production in Alaska
during the year 1898 will exceed $20.-
100000 and he predicts that the output
for 1899 will be double that amount.
Glass tableware manufacturers of
| the country have finally taken decis-
| i've steps toward forming combina-
| ton. An application has been filed
for n charter under the laws of Penn
| sylvania, and the new venture will be
pushed as fast as possible. The capi-
tai will be SS,000,O0O.
private dispatch from Tiflis says
that the Armenians and Turks in Kur.
dlStan have taken up anew their old
feud. Street fights and ambuscadeS
are reported from the cities of Van,
Bitlis aISl Diarbekr: scores of Arme-
mans and Turks have been killed in
the three cities and bloodshed is of
daily occurrence in the district.
1t is officially announced that the
government of Japan will enter the in
ternational patent union on the first of
July next. This will be good news to
American manufacturers, as there has
Deen no way to protect foreign pat
ents in Japan, and that empire is filled
with machines made by the Japanese
in imitation of the best American and
European patents. All Japanese
needs is sample and he is able to
reproduce it with marvellous accuracy.
American producers are already
finding an enlarged market in Cuba,
Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philip-
pines. The figures of the treasury bu.
reau of statistics, just issued. indicate
that the exports of the fiscal year,
which ends with this month, will
show larger expectation to Hawaii
than ever before and larger to Cuba
ana Puerto Rico than in any previous
year except those in which the rec-
procity features of the Mckinley law
were in operation
strike of 25.OOO coal miners is
planned in the central districts of
pennsylvania. Within the last ten
days secret meetings have been held
at Robertsdale and Clearfeld. at
which the national and district officers
Of the United Mine Workers AS
sociation We're authorized to pre-
pare the machine miners of the
whole district for a strike TO he
declared as soon as these officials
thought the time ripe. A letter from n
national organizer declares that this
Will be within month or six weeks.
The Christian Herald of New York
publishes n symposium of the Christian
religion and what is has done for hu-
manity. Prominent men of the coun-
try, from President Mckinley down.
members of the cabinet, United States
senators, judges of the supreme court,
prominent officers of the army and
navy, governors of states and leading
business men all express themselves as
friendly to Christianity, while the
great majority of them recognize n Sill
premc being and acknowledge the di-
vinity of Christ and the potency of
Christianity as n civilizing influence.
The German press has concluded that
the purchase from Spain of the Caro-
lines was bad bargain. Prince Bis
marck Is quoted as having said that
they were worthless and the Frank
| fort Ieitung says: 1.-THE text of the
agreement shows taht Spain retains all
the advantages of ownership. retains
full liberty for the clerical orders. has
coaling station in each group of the
| islands and Is put. commercially. on
the same footing rs Germany, while
she merely cedes to Germany the onus
of the cost Of the administration and
receives an eXhorbtant price. which
probably no other power would have
| paid"
The board of regents of the Kansas
Agricultural college In which the Re-
| publicans are in the ma ajority since the
recent removal of Populist members
! by Governor Stanley have adopted
resolutions discharging five members
OF the college faculty. the five men,
bers being President Thomas Il. VIII,
and Professors Frank Parsons, Il. n.
Bemis and ID. ]. ii. Ward and Secre-
tary w. II. Phipps. The instructors
dismissed were nppointecs OF the Pop
ulist board. 1t was Professor Will
who recently selected Colonel William
Jennings Bryan as commencement or