Gilpin observer., 1899-04-27
rELEoRAPHIc sREvlrIEs.
Ex7Ggvernor Qglesby of Illinois died
suddenly on tile path.

Ex-Ggvernor Oglesby of Illinois died
suddenly on tile oath.
Big foods are reported in eastern
Kansas, and Nebraska.f
1t is reported in Chicago that Charles
I. Yerkes is to sell his street railway
interests to New York syndicate.
Richard Croker. on his promise to re-
turn to this country, has been excused
from further attendance on the Mazet
committee until August g29th. Mr.
Croker sailed for England Wednesday.
The strike that has been in progress
Mt Budweis, Bohemia, for some time
eliminated on the 25th in riOting and
in the collisions between the troops
and the rioters several persons We're
wounded.
A special from Galena, Kansas. says:
Charles Williams, alias Jones, colored,
was shot to death at $50 this morn
ing in the city Jail by mob of ne
groes. Williams killed Laura Canafax,
negress.
AS the American member of the In
ternational Peace and Arbitration com
mission, Mrs. Wright Sewall is send
ing out plan for holding simutan-
eous peace meetings throughout the
world May 18th.
The jury in the Windsor. New York,
hotel fire inquest brought in a verdict
that the fire was caused by accident.
The police still have $4,000 worth of
unclaimed jewelry and other valuables
recovered from the fire ruins.
Major Francis b. Dodge of the pay
department, recently relieved from du-
ty at Denver, has been selected by the
War Department to disburse the S3,-
100000 allotted by the government for
the payment of the troops Cf the Gu
ban army as condition of its dis
bandment.
The safe and lock manufacturers of
the United States are about to form a
combination, and it is said the ar
rangements will be completed within
thirty days. There Will be thirteen
companies in the organization. The
capital stock will be $17.500,000. of
which $2,500OOO will be common
stock
The fanatical and warlike tribe of
Druses, in the Lebanon district of
southern Sy-ia. declare that they will
no longer be mulcted by the Sultan's
taX-gatherer. Turkish agents have al
ready suffered severely at their hands,
and troops are to be dispatched from
Turkey Europe to bring the recalci-
trants to terms.
A French company has been organ
lied with the approval of the govern
ment to construct railway line
through the desert of Sahara from the
Mediterranean coast to the Gulf of
Guinea. The northern terminus will
1nn vrnic IN limo will dine
south distance of about 1000 miles
to the Niger territory. and then east
ward to the French portion of the
Congo valley. The cost is estimated
at $50,OOO,OOO.
The labor strike continues at Ward
ner, Idaho. with no evidence of weak
ness on either side. The miners have
decided to concentrate their fight on
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan. which
employs about 400 men. Twenty nom
union men yielded to the pleas of the
strikers and came out from that mine
Tuesday. After long meeting the
union miners, to the number of 400.
marched in body to the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan and tried to induce the
night shift to come out. With few
exceptions they We're unsuccessful.
A curious detail of Sundays election
in Spain has just come our. The Mad
rid correspondent of lie Temps calls II
peculiar feature" of the campaign
the important part money played. One
of the defeated candidates admits hav-
ing spent 10000 pesetas ($3,S6O). but
finds consolation in the fact that his
rival had to spend 10000 pesetas ($13.-
51O) to win the seat in the cOrtes. Sew
eral hundred thousand pesetas We're
corruptly used in Biscay province. lslt
nevertheless Premier Silvela considers
that the elections reveal marked pro-
gress us regards the neutrality of the
authorities and the almost complete
absence of disorder