Gilpin observer., 1899-10-19
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rive Dattlesnip6, one cruiser, one
cadet training ship and twenty five tor
pedo boats and torpedo boat destroy
ers Will comprise the new construction
completed and added to the navy with
In the next year.
Pennsylvania's football team sus-
tained crushing defeat at the hands
Of the Sarlsle Indian team, the score
ut the conclusion of the game being 16
to o. From the beginning the Pennsyl-
vania team was Outplayed.
There is rumor afioat in market cir
cles that Armour & Co., Swift & Co.
and other large western packers are
engaged In an effort to corner the poul-
try market. Advices from the West
indicate that these firms have placed
large orders for poultry.
An explosion of mine gas occurred at
the Shenandoah City colliery, by which
twenty-five men were entombed. All
of them We're rescued alive, but sew
eral are seriously injured. The fire
has been extinguished. The colliery is
one of the largest of the Philadelphia
Il Reading Coal and Iron Company's
operations.
The newspaper Patria at Manila has
been suppressed and its editor, Senor
Utor, Spaniard. placed under arrest
on charge of printing and publishing
seditious documents. For some time
the Patria had been hostile to the
Americans. Recently pamphlets at
| tacking the Americans and the friend
ly Filipinos, have been circulated. and
the police believe that Utor wrote and
printed them.
In some quarters in Paris it is be-
lieved that Franco-German under
Sf n iny will 1Np ,,f 81,
the war in Africa. Several of the lead
ing continental journals outside of
France develop the same idea. the rea-
son given being that the Germans must
be strong enough to meet the United
States and England. 'who could easily
destroy the German navy"
The Sixth artillery batteries sta
toned at Honolulu have lost between
twenty and thirty men in the last few
| days by desertion. All the soldiers here
are anxious to be sent to Manila. The
men think they can steal aboard
transport and on arrival report to the
officers of the Sixth Mt Manila and es-
cape with slight punishment. The sol
diers are willing to stand thirty days
In the guard house for the sake of get
ting to the scene of the war.
| The government of Spain has de-
J clared martial law in Barcelona, the
| entire city being vehement in support
| of DIR. Robert, the reform mayor who
has just resigned rather than aid in the
/ collection by force of oppressive taxes.
/ The government finds 1t hard to discov-
er successor for the popular and pub
lic-spirited alcalde. and 1t is further
perplexed in face of an identical re-
volt on the part of the merchants and
| manufacturers nf Vnlnnrio
The executive council of the Ameri-
, can Federation of Labor has dis
cussed the decision of the Supreme
! Court of Colorado that the eight-hour
law of that state is unconstitutional,
and concluded to open correspondence
with organized labor in that state with
a view Of ascertnining the advisability
, of taking an appeal from the decision
to the United States Supreme Court.
the federation to assist in making this
appeal should 1t be deemed advantage
GUS to the workers of Colorado.
The German steamer Kaiser. from
Hamburg. is discriminating at the en-
trance Of the Suez canal 1000 pieces of
ammunition consigned to the Trans
vaal. This step Is taken in order to
avoid seizure in the Red sea by British
cruisers. The ammunition will prob
ably be re-embarked for Hamburg
| The Kaiser was shadowed by the Brit
ish secOnd-class cruiser Thetis through
the Mediterranean. 1t is reported that
several German officers are on board
the Kaiser bound for the Transvaal.
The most serious fire in the history of
Knightstown. Pa. broke out at 80
O'Clock Tuesday morning. Three lives
Were lost, and property worth 100000
or more was destroyed. The dead are:
Truman Rhodes. Charles Scutter and
Don Davey. The men killed We're
members of the volunteer fire depart
ment and were fighting the fire when
the front wall of three-story build
ing fell outward. They were caught
by the falling bricks and crushed to
death, and it is believed that at least
two others met with the same fate.
The Schlesiche Zeitung of Berlin an
! nounces that n new proposal has been
put forward regarding the Samoan
question. England has offered Ger
many compensation If she will re-
nounce Upolu. The agrnrian organ
adds that 1t is not impossible that Ger
many will accept the proposal. provid-
ed that very high indemnity is paid.
The foreign office intimates that the re-
port In the Schlesische Zeitung is an
indiscretion and Is not quite exact. 1t
Is true that England made the proposal
in question. but II was declined.
One life Is believed to have been lost
in n fire tonight in the factory OF W.
G. Ritchle Paper Box Company. at Chi
cagO. Two hundred persons were at
work in the building when the fire oc-
Cured. II Is believed everybody es-
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der McMastcr. the superintendent. He
was last seen making his way from the
sixth to the third floor. Laura Thrill.
Nora Kosle and another girl, named