Gilpin observer., 1899-03-23
TELEoRAPHIc sREvIrIEs.

mont is an ally of the Republicans.
Rudyard Kipling. is improved so
much that he is beginning work again
A reconnoitering party of Americans
near lioil0 had hot engagement with
natives Thursday.
Inc California Legislature has ad-
lourned without electing a United
states senator.
Inc Kansas City Smelling and Re
nnlng Company has finally gone into
the big smelter trust.
Cecil Rhodes has succeeded. IT is
stated, in securing the co-opera ton of
Germany in building his Cape to Cairo
railroad.
A large force of men is still at work
at the ruins of the Windsor hotel. New
York, searching for bodies and yalu-
ables. The task is an enormous one.
thursdays money transfers between
banks at the New York clearing house.
day was $17,413.S62, which is the
largest transfer of the kind on the rec
ords of the Institution.
A resolution was offered in the Penn
sylvania House by McWhinney of AL
legheny, and adopted, requesting Gov
ernor Stone to select Monday. May I.
lS99 as dewey Day." and designate
the same as legal holiday.
The Turkish government has or
dered from the ammunition factory at
st. Poelten. lower Austria, plant for
the complete manufacture of Mauser
cartridges. The machinery, which has
a daily capacity of 100000 shells, costs
100000.
Mrs. Martha Place was executed at
Sing Sing prison on the Goth. She was
the first woman to die in the electric
chair in the state of New York. and
she went to her death quietly. Her
death was instantaneous. But two
shocks We're given.
Representatives of the Stove Found.
ers' National Defense AssosciatiOn and
delegates from the Iron Molders' Union
Of North America held conference
recently and voted raise of 10 per
cent. in wages. which directly benefits
10000 stove molders.
There has been return of winter
over the British isles. In London
there has been Il heavy fall of snow,
and snow storms have swept the mid
land and north coast. and work is al Il
standstill. Storms have also ragged
over the North sea.
The Antarctic exploring expeditions
steamer Southern Cross has arrived at
Port Chalmers. New Zealand. after
landing Borchgrevink and his party at
Cape Adair, Victoria island. She re-
ports that all the explorers We're in
good health when landed.
that 5000 Cretan Mussulman refugees
who were in desperate lack of work
and food. invaded and pillaged the
Greek and Turkish quarters of the
city, conflict resulting in which
many persons were killed or wounded.
Major General Ludlow. military gov
ernor of the Department of Havana,
desires to be relieved of his duties and
to go to the Philippines. 1t is under
stood that he has applied to the War
Department for transfer and has
strenuously urged that it be made. He
is weary of the details of city admins
tration.
Joseph Medill. editor in chief of the
Chicago Tribune. died at San Antonio.
Texas, on the 18th, of heart failure
He was conscious up to the moment of
death. which he met with calm placid
ity. He said to his private physician
ten minutes before he died: My last
words shall be. What is the newsT"
He was 10 years old.
The committee of the whole of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Dr John
Halls) church. New York. has decided
to recommend that Rev. Alexander
Connell be called. Mr.. Connell is the
pastor of a large church in London and
occupies high place in English Pres
byterianism. He is an eloquent preach
er. He is 81 years old. Mr.. Connell
was warm friend of DIR. Hall.
w. c. Whitney is the head and shoul-
ders of an electric trust which has con
solidated with the storage battery
companies and will control the electric
cabs of New York, build thousands of
others. establish routes, push the Hol-
land submarine torpedo boat, build
electric launches and ferry boats. The
capital stock will be $100,000,0OO.
1t is not only in Yemen that the
Turks are meeting reverses. 1t is re-
ported that II new rebellion has made
headway in Hauran, the district of
Arabia just to the east of the river
Jordan, and that the Damascus tribes.
tired of Turkish misrule. have attacked
the Sultan's forces. killing seventy.
The Porte contemplates sending pun
tive expedition into the region south
of Damascus.
General Brooke has been cabled to
proceed to the execution of the order
providing for the discharge of all sol
diers who enlisted in the regular army
mt the outbreak of hostilities upon the
cessation of the war. should they apply
for such discharge. He will endeavor
to re-enlist as many MS possible. and
will fill the vacancies remaining in the
regular ranks from volunteers who
care to transfer.
The Chicago city council has passed
n resolution by vote of 30 to which
directs the mayor to present II memo
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