Gilpin observer., 1899-01-26
iELE0RAPHic BREvITIES.


cash reserve ten millions last week.
The deadlock in the Montana, West
Virginia and California legislatures
continues.
German capitalists are planning to
lay cable from that country to the
United States.
The latest news from the Klondike
region says that typhoid fever is rag
ing ut Dawson.
A heavy earthquake shock was felt
in southern Greece on the 23rd. Sey-
eral villages We're nearly destroyed.
There has been fresh fighting in the
Congo state between the Belgian
troops and the rebels, the former hav-
ing sustained heavy losses, including
some white officers killed.
Holm Maxwell, Chicago newspaper
man, in the federal court has been
awarded verdict of $4,000 against
Nat C. Goodwin, the actor, for in
fringement on MaNwelfs play, Con
gress."
Charles A. Williams, whose engage
ment to a San Francisco heiress was
broken off upon the publication of his
previous history while at Cheyenne,
has sued the San Francisco Call for
S250,000 damages.
Colonel Lee, chief quartermaster of
the Department of the Lakes, has in
yited proposals for the erection of a
large refrigerating plant at Manila for
the use of the commissary department
of the United States in the Philip
pines. The plant, as designed. will be
one Of the largest of its kind ever built.
Mayor p. C. Hesser of Fort Scott.
Kansas, has been expelled from Grace
NJ. l.. Church by public announcement.
because of his failure to make an eff
fort to close the saloons of the city
His wife thereupon withdrew. Hesser
was elected as a Prohibitionist. and
his wife was president Of the local w.
C. T. u. He has been regular at
tendant of the church services.
At the instance of Surgeon General
Sternberg, Secretary Alger has or
dered the hospital ship Relief to Ma
Mia to serve there as hospital ship
and also for an ambulance for the CON
veyance of sick and wounded soldiers
from Manila to Nagasaki or even to
San Francisco. The Relief is now at
New York and will go by way of the
SueZ canal.
Colonel Ingersoll dclevered a touch
ing eulogy at Kansas City last Sunday
over the remains of Mrs. Mary ]. Bow
man, widow of the late William &.
Bowman, who forty-three years ago at
Shawneetown. Illinois, occupied the
same law office with Ingersoll. Mrs.
Bowman was a great admirer of the
colonel, and often expressed the wish
that he would ofiiciate at her funeral.
With the first day of the coming
month 111a cents will be slashed from
the export grain rate now in effect over
all eastern lines from Chicago to all At
lantic seaboard points. This will
make the rate from Chicago TO New Y ork
1S1a cents and that from Philadelphia
and Newport News 111a cents. On the
same day the dressed beef rate will be
reduced five cents per 100 pounds. At
the present time is it is 4o cents.
The National Prison Association met
at New Orleans on the 23rd. Warden
Thayer of Dannemora prison. New
York, made an address on prison in
dustries, giving the results of many
years experience. Superintendent Sef-
ton of the Ohio Male Reformatory
read n paper on rcformatories for
adults. Joseph p. Byers of Ohio fol
lowed in an address on county jails
and municipal prisoners.
The reports received from various
parts of the country by the surgeon
general of the marine hospital service
and published in the official bulletin
yesterday show that the epidemic of
influenza is rapidly subsiding. and
that, although it has been more gen
eral than ever before, the disease was
of milder type than in foymer years.
and the mortality comparatively small.
The indirect mortality, however. is not
given. although it is believed to he
much greater than the direct mortal
ity.
The Moscow tea board has received
from China n cablcgram announcing
the continued success of the insurgents
in central China. The rebellion, which
began in the Lien-Chou district. has
rapidly spread to the northward. and
the revolutionistS are gaining recruits
daily. The outlaw Nui, with 5000 reb-
els. has swept the imperial troops be
fore him and has occupied the city of
Ky Yong. after short siege. Rein
iorcements of imperial troops are said
10 be hurrying TO the assault of the
city.
Army officers at Havana are finding
iault with the customs regulations
which exact Il duty of 30 pcr cent. on
the khaki uniforms sent them by
American tallors. The quartermas-
lcfs department makes no provisions
Tor supplying officers with these uni
Iorms. and the men consider it Il hard
snip to pay an extra price for the uni
iorms required by the climate but un-
ontainable in Havana. The express
ohlces are full Of abandoned packages
winch the men decline to accept un-
less admitted free of duty
The British iirst-class battleship
'oillngwood, driven by the strong cur
rents, collidcd with the British third.