Gilpin observer., 1899-06-29
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Chicago assessors are making large
increases In assessments of business
property.
Georgetown University has conferred
the degree of doctor Of laws upon Ad-
miral Schley.
The new French ministry was sup
of only twenty-siX. NJ. Waldeck Raus-
seau is the premier.
Three negroes are dead and one is
not expected to live as n result of riot
between the white and negro miners
at the ore mines near Cardiff, in JEFF
fer,son county, Alabama.
The town of Kieng Ming Foo, in the
province of FO Kien, China, has been
widely placarded with bills offering II
reward of 1000 for the heads of mis-
sionaries. Anti-foreign riots are feared.
News received from Guaymas states
that party of twenty Mexicans which
left san Ignacio, on the gulf, for the
mines, lost their way and died of thirst.
Their bodies We're discovered by ans
other party.
A sneak thief entered the Metropoli-
tan National Bank at Boston and stole
$4,000, while the paying teller's atten-
ton was drawn away for Il moment.
He was captured in New York and the
money was recovered.
All the tin plate works in the coun-
try will be closed on midnight Friday
as a result of the failure to settle on u
wage scale at the conference in Chi
cago. Fully $4,000 persons will be
thrown idle by the shut down.
Z. L. McCloud, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Chicago, Rock
Island Il Pacific, has been elected
chairman of the Western Passenger
Association to succeed b. ID. Caldwell,
resigned to become traffic manager of
the Delaware, Lackawanna Il Western.
According to dispatches from Con-
stantnople, fighting still continues on
the TurcO-Servian frontier. and the Ser
Wan peasantry is arming to resist fur
ther invasion. The Sultan has ordered
the court-martial of the Macedonian
and Albanian rebels who invaded Ser
via near JablonitZa..
Mr. and Mrs. II. S. Phillips, Miss
Sears and DIR. Packenham, missionar-
les of the Church Missionary Society of
the Church Of England, who We're re-
ported to have been murdered at Kien-
Ning-Foo, northwest of Foochow, have
arrived safely in Foochow. They say
that the district is rapidly becoming
quiet.
Willis l.. Moore. chief of the Weather
Bureau, Department of Agriculture.
and Philander johnson of Washington
were rescued from drowning at Cape
May Monday by Congressman Henry
G. Loudenslager, chairman of the PEN
sion committee, and w. ii. Kirkpatrick
of Philadelphia. They got beyond their
depth while in the surf.
archaeological Investigators of the
Brussels Academy of Medicine declare
that they have discovered n serum for
the cure of cancer. 1t is declared that
the administration of the serum to
horses, cows and dogs affected with
cancerous growths has proved so sue
cessful as to leave no doubt of the i'm
portance of the discovery.
Rev. Father George d. Heldmann of
st. Paurs Roman Catholic church, Chi
gress on the Democratic ticket in the
Second district. Father Heldmann
says he knows OF only one other in
stance of Catholic priest who wanted
to go to Congress. This was in 1897.
In consequence of the outbreaks of
yellow fever the garrison of United
States troops at Santiago has been re-
moved from the old Spanish barracks
to comfortable camp on the hills on
the road to El Moro. Thus far four sol
diers have died of the fever and there
are eighteen cases in the hospitals. One
civilian has Succumbed to the disease
and there are three civilian suspects.
A Chicago syndicate has secured a
contract for the new issue of S3,O0O,O00
of city Of Montreal forty-year 31A per
cent. gold bonds. on an interest basis
of about 3H per cent. The Importance
of this transaction Is the greater owing
to the fact that all previous issues Of
bonds of the same kind have been
promptly bought in with London SOW
ereigns. Americans rarely being able to
compete against the British demand.
An agreement between the Big Con-
solidated Street Railway Company of
Cleveland and its striking employees
was reached at 6 O'Clock Saturday. The
agreement provides for the hearing of
grievances and II resort TO arbitration
in case the men and the company caI-
not agree, and it also provides far the
reinstatement of practically so per
cent of the old men mt once, the re-
mainder, except those who have been
guilty of violence, being placed ON the
waiting list.
Standard OIL now controls the whis-
ky industry of the United States. The
control of all the whisky, alcohol and
distilling business of the. country has
passed into the hands of the Whitney
Widencr- -Elliins syndicate, representing
the millions of what is popularity
known ne the Standard Oil crowd