Gilpin observer., 1899-08-17
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

Ihomas B. Reed and Richard Croker
arrived at New York from Europe the
other day.
Admiral Dewey will not visit Eng
land. He expects to reach the United
States October 1st.
The cable ship Hooker went aground
near Manila the other day and ut last
accounts could not be hauled off.
Twenty-four of the crew of the
steamer Warren mutinied Just before
sailing from Manila and were sent to
prison.
The Lake Carriers Association has
raised the wages of all men employed
on the boats, from second mates down,
10 per cent.
Cleveland business men have orcan-
lied to suppress the street car mems
boycott, and now the street car men
will boycott them
General Gomez says that he thinks
the future independence of Cuba is Sc
cure. and advises the Cubans to attend
strictly to business.
a plant for the manufacture af the
Manchester oil motor, to cost 100000,
and to employ about 600 skilled me-
chnnics, is to be built in Pittsburg
Richard Croker. the Tammany boss.
says since his return from Europe
tnat he has become converted to the
view that the Philippine war is all
wrong. e..
Active military operations are in
progress in the Transvaal. 1t is re-
ported that the Beers are arranging
with the railways for the mobilization
Of the burghers. = :.
The Arctic whaling season. it is stat
ed, has been n complete failure. The
captains of the whalers Jeanette, Kar-
lux and Alexander report it the worst
+. Turing the past twenty years.
Colonel .Mulford. First Nebraska,
who has just returned from the Phil
ppines with his regiment, has accepted
a captains commission in one of the
volunteer regiments, and will return
to the Philippines. '@t
News has been received from Con
stantinOple of the discovery of mill
tary conspiracy to dethrone the Sultan.
The leaders in the plot, General Akh-
met Khalil and four of his officers.
have been secretly drowned in the
| The steamer China from Yokohama
and Honolulu arrived on the 14th
/
]. G. Schurman of the Philippine isl
lnds commission. and president of
Cornell University. Mrs Schurman
accompanied him.
1t is reported from Pekin that the
empress dowager, fearing poison, has
discharged her former cooks and serv-
ants and has appointed one Yung Lu
major-domo. with the understanding
that he is to be responsible with his
life for the servants he employs.
Gov. Theodore Roosevelt. of New
York, is to open the political campaign
in Ohio this fall for the Republicans.
He and Judge George X. Nash, Repub-
licnn candidate for governor of Ohio,
are to speak from the same platform
in Grace Park, Akron, September %.
Mrs. Lily Langtry. the actress. has
been married to Hugo Gerald de
Battle, % years of age, the eldest son
of Sir Henry Percival de Battle. n re-
tired general and Crimean veteran.
The ceremony was private, the only
witness being Mrs. Langtry's daughter.
The China Merchants Steam Naviga-
ton Company, with headquarters in
Shanghai. is discussing the necessity,
daily becoming more evident, of turn
ing its magnificent fleet of steamers
over to Japanese register in order to es-
cape the oppressive royalties eXacted
by the Chinese government.
An English missionary has accom-
plished the feat of entering Chang
schaf the capital of the province of
! Human. selling religious books to the
natives and departing unmolestcd. The
missionary's security. however. was
owing TO the presence in the river of
the British gunboat Woodlark.
Chancellor Tristram of the diocese
Of London. has decided that the dis
playing of the crucifiX in st. Ethel
burgas church is Illegal. and has order
ed that the table of the ten command
ments be restored. This decision is
In favor of Kensit the anti-rituallst ag
itator who brought the action.
The police of Ostend are Mt their
wits end in consequence of another rob
berry. As in the case of Congressman
Lowering. the thieves got booty to the
value of $4,000. but Coverings loss
, was largely in banking paper on which
payment could be stopped while the
woman residing mt the Hotel des An
glais. who is the latest victim, has lost
n G000O frame necklace of pearls.
1t is said that the Italian government
Is hesitniing to sign the arbitration
protocol framed by the peace confer
encc at The Hague. desiring first to see
| published the Pope's views on the
scope and elasticity of the arbtrat tion
scheme. If there seems to he any pros
pect of the Nntican's availing itself of
the establishment of an arbitration
tribunal to try TO reopen the question
of temporal sovereignty. Italy's course
with reference to the protocol will he
seriously affected.
| The Cleveland business mems anti
| boycott committee. appointed ms n re-
suit of the meeting held the other day,