Gilpin observer., 1899-07-27
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

An attempt is to be made to sup
press gambling in Havana.
The Epworth League has 1,75O,O0O
members and 26,450 societies.
A negro in Texas was lynched the
other day for burning u church.
The street car strike in Brooklyn and
New York Is not meeting with sue
cess.
German papers express the fear that
Great Britain will try to annex Sa-
moa.
The people of Peoria, Illinois, pro-
! pose to erect n monument to the men,
ory of Robert G. Ingersoll.
Archbishop Ireland lectured on tenn
perance at Cork on the Goth. He sailed
for New York the next day.
The Dominion government tele-
graph line is now completed to Five
Fingers and is progressing so rapidly
that messages may be sent over it to
Dawson in less than two months from
date.
1t is stated that the French ministry
has decided to punish General De
| Negrier, who has indulged repeatedly
| in remarks incompatible with disci
pline, having criticised the govern
| ment.
The Oxnard Sugar Company has pur
chased the Patterson ranch, near Ven
| tura, California, consisting of 5,516
acres. The price paid is reported to be
| half Il million. The land will be plant
ed to sugar beets.
A special from Brinson, Georgia
says: Charles Mack, the leader of the
gang that has been robbing and as
saulting in this vicinity, was lynched
at Saffold to-day, and his body cut into
hundreds of pieces.
The United States transport Tartar
has sailed for Manila with portion OF
the Nineteenth infantry and a number
of recruits for the army in the Philip
pines. General Joe Wheeler was also
! on board. He Is under orders to report
to General Otis for duty.
George NJ. Valentine. cashier of the
suspended Middlesex County bank, at
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, has been
sentenced in Middlesex County Court
to six years in the New Jersey state
penitentiary at Trenton, for the mis-
appropriation of about $13O,O0O from
the bank.
Ah Yu of Shanghai. China. lands
man who enlisted in the navy in 1894.
and was formerly attached to Dewey's
pension of $50 n month for lung trou-
BILE. He hais the distinction of being
the first Chinese pensioner of this gov
ernment.
The Standard Oil Company will con-
test the law recently enacted by the
Tennessee Legislature providing that
all fees over n stipulated sum shall go
into the state treasury. The company
alleges that when such fees go into the
treasury they cease to be fees and be.
come taxes.
The Trieste correspondent of the
London Daily Mail telegraphs that Ad.
miral Dewey, in the course of conver.
sation with the correspondent. de-
clared that he had small claim to be
regarded as hero. as nervousness ana
bad coffee made him dreadfully sea.
sick before the battle began.
According to the st. Petersburg cor
respondent of the London Daily Mail.
Naval Lieutenant Bizeman,. the late
czarowitzs adjutant, committed sui
eide by shooting himself with a revol-
yer at Abbas Tuman in the Caucasus.
after being bitterly upbraided by the
Gar for allowing the cZarowitz to go
cycling alone
An order has been issued regulating
practice before the courts of the Phil
ippines, and substituting the American
for the Spanish system in important re-
spects. Members of the bar must be
residents of the island. Citizens of for
eign governments are ineligible to prac-
tice at the bar. Members of the
American bar are eligible.
The Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage
is in luck. A few days ago n check
bearing the signatures of the execu-
of nf hn hi 1
sent to his wife. 1t was for $1S0,O0O,
and represented her share in the sale
of the cotton tie and band mills of
Lindsay & McCutcheon, which We're
recently sold to the combine for $685.
600. 1t is said her father was one of
the firm before his death.
Cook county, Illinois. has won
point in the fight the Pullman and Bill
lings estates are making against the
inheritance tax. Sitting in the pre-
liminary hearing, Judges Carter and
Epler of the County Court denied at all
points the contention of the heirs that
the inheritance tax is unconstitutional
If the County courts decision Is sus-
tnned by the Supreme Court the es-
tates must pay nearly 100000 in taxes
News has been received from Cen
| eral Smith mt Iloilo. island of Panay
of n severe fight Wednesday at Bobona
between Captain Byrne of the Six
| teenth infantry. with seventy men,
and force of 45O Babaylones. who sur
| prised the American troops. One hun
dred and fifteen of the enemy were
killed, as Is shown by actual count.
many We're wounded and one was TAX
en- prisoner. The American loss was
one man killed and one wounded.
The members of the Second Oregon
Mt San Francisco have objected to the
form of discharges because II does not
| contain the word honorable" IL Is
| said nj tho War Daporttnnnt thnt thoro