Gilpin observer., 1899-06-22
rELEoRAPHlc nREvlTlEs.

will sail from San Francisco this week
for the Philippines. -.,-.
Moses Fowler Chase, aged twenty
one years, alleged to be mentally In
competent and reputed to be worth
S60O,0OO, was abducted from the Hotel
| Cadillac, Detroit, last Sunday night.
Judge Simonton of the County Court
at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has de-
| cided that canteens for the sale or
| liquor to soldiers cannot be carried ON
without regular license from the
courts.
| A native diver. while getting metal
from the wreck of the sunken Spanish
cruiser Almirante Oquendo off Santia-
go, found bag containing $4,000. half
coin. and the other half in Spanish pa
per money of little value.
4 Miners are being engaged in the zinc
| mining district of Missouri to be sent
to Idaho to take the places of the strik-
ing miners of the Coeur d'Alene mines.
| The company engaging the miners
agree to pay $3.50 Il day and railroad
fare, ..
A dispatch from Foo Chow says:
;Anti-foreign troubles have occurred at
Kieng- Ning-Fu, province of Ngan-
| Hwai The church and mission have
been burned. but the missionaries es-
capped to Ming Whai on their way to
Foo Chow.
Non-union colored miners who We're
being brought into Evansville, Indiana,
to take strikers places. We're fired
upon by unknown parties June 2lst.
Six men We're shot, three probably
fatally. One of the latter was James
Moore, an operator.
Allen Bros wholesale grocery build
ing at Omaha was partly burned on
I the 18th During the fire a magazine
of powder. which the firemen We're at
tempting to remove, exploded. inJuring
eleven firemen. including the chief.
! Damage to stock and building. Sll5,-
| 900. ....
| The United States Smokeless Powder
Company's factory. situated on Point
! San Pedro, California. was the scene
of a disastrous explosion on the 18Th.
-Four employees We're killed. and three
seriously injured. while six buildings
were demolished by the shock and the
resultant flames.
Blase Patrie. a railroad section hand
| at Cleveland. Ohio. was killed on the
! 18th while attempting TO save a wom-
an from being run down by Lake
| Shore train. The woman. Mrs. Jennie
| Price. was riding Il wheel and fell iii
front of the train. She was badly in
jured and will die.
1t is announced that as Governor
Stephens has signed the street railway
| bill, the negotiations for Il general
consolidation of all the street railroads
| of St Louis, which have been in prog
ress for some time. are now practically
completed, and Il consummation is only
matter of few days.
The government of Trinidad has de-
cided to adopt the Maroni system of
wireless telegraphy for communication
with the dependency of Tobago. To
bago is an island in the Windward
| group of the British West Indies.
thirty-two miles long by twelve wide.
and is twenty-four miles northeast of
Trinidad.
ChicagO's population, according to
Chief of Police Ripley, has finally pass
ed the 2O0O.0O0 mark. and is now
2.0SS,043. The figures are the result of
the yearly census taken by the police
force. Sergeant ID. T.. Long of the Po
lice Department. who has charge of the
work. does not claim that the figures
are exact
English church circles have been
for the revised version of the Bible Sc
cured by the Universities of oxford
and Cambridge, through verdict. up.
holding their copyright, just rendered
by the Chancery Court. The evidence
showed that the universities paid the
compilers 100000.
company has been formed in Bel
GUM for the purpose of developing the
Philippine islands. the capital stock
being fixed at 100000 francs. The
board of directors includes NJ. Melot
Burgo. Master Namur de Brocquevillc
and NJ. Thieupont. members of the Bel
gan chamber. and NJ. Andre. Belgian
consul general at Manila.
A reciprocity treaty between the
United States and Great Britain in re-
lation TO trade between this country
and the British colony of Barbadoes
has been signed by the representatives
of the two governments. Ii Is the first
treaty framed under the Dingley law
and the first of the series of treaties
which the British colonies TO the south
of this country are seeking to effect.
A diamond now in the possession of
Judge Tuthill of Chicago is said to
he part of the bribe which Daniel
Coughln is charged with having Of
fered to Juror Taylor to influence n
verdict for the Illinois Central in II
land damage suit The gem, 1t Is
claimed, was accepted by the juror,
after consultation with the judge.
Taylor's home is only door or two
north of where DIR. Cronin lived.
Special Plcnipotentiary Kasson has
lust received an authenticated copy
from Belgium of the decree recently
enacted by the Belgian government
raising the prohibition on the importa-
tion into Belgium of American cattle.
The decree recites the preceding de-
crccs prohibiting importations of cattle
| from Ampricu and the nniniou of the