Gilpin observer., 1899-02-02
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active IN Paris.
The makers Of derby hats have
formed combine.
Many deaths from small pox are re-
ported from Manila.
Chinese rebels are reported to have
killed 1000 regular soldiers.
Several cases of the bubonic plague
have appeared in the island of Manri-
tins.
PARIS bank, London, was robbed
Of 100000 recently and then re-
turned 100000 of it, which was in big
bills, by mail
A company has been organized at
Peoria to run line of motor busses
in opposition to the street car line.
The busses will run from the center of
the city to all the suburbs.
The American Missionary Associa-
ton, which works for the negro race,
has issued an appeal to the Congrega-
tional churches of the United States
to observe February 10Th as Lincoln
Sunday.
The secretary of the Porto Rican
authorities made away with between
100000 and 100000 pesos of trust
funds that We're deposited in the treas
ury here.
The Wisconsin senatorial deadlock
was broken on the Both. Joseph V.
Quarles of Milwaukee was nominated
in the Republican caucus to succeed
John l.. Mitchell, whose term expires
on the 4th of March.
A fatal snowslide occurred on the
main line of the Canadian Pacific rail
road at Rogers pass, on the summit
of Selkirks. The round-house and sta
ton were swept away, seven lives
were lost and two persons injured.
The United States steamship Ranger
will be prepared to go into commission.
She has been detailed to make deep
sea SoundingS between Honolulu and
Guam and Guam and Manila, the OBJ
ject in view being the survey of
suitable cable route.
The Madrid correspondent of the
Standard says that, owing to the re-
cent development of the Carlist agita-
ton, the government has decided to
retain the state of siege and the sus-
pension of the constitutional guaran-
tees for some time longer.
The great record of freight move
ment made January 18th ON the Penn
sylvania railroad when eighty-nine
trains passed eastward through Altoo-
na was broken Saturday when ninety
one trains passed eastward At the
same time there We're from fifty to
seventy west-bound trains to be looked
after. besides clearing for thrty-five
passenger trains.
Governor McMillin of Tennessee has
vetoed the bill authorizing Memphis
to issue bonds for park purposes, be-
cause the bill allowed the municipal
government of Memphis to issue for
park purposes gold bonds, with inter-
est payable in gold. He says in his
veto that he will not sanction legisla-
tion discriminating against United
States legal tender coins.
Private advices received at Seattle
state that the government will send
three detachments of soldiers into the
Copper river district of Alaska next
spring to lay out mail route to the
Yukon river and establish posts. The
purpose is to establish an all-American
route to the Yukon. 1t will extend
from the mouth of Copper river to Ea-
gle City, sixty miles below Dawson.
President Mckinley is understood to
have empowered Robert p Porter to
arrange for the disbursement of S3,-
100000 among the Cuban soldiers. Mr.
Porter will probably go with Senor
Gonzales de QueSada to Remedies to
meet General MaXimo Gomez to per-
suade the Cuban commander-in-chief
to disband his forces and lend his infiu-
ence to the United States military ad-
ministration.
There has been q marked increase
during the past year in the use of auto
mobiles in the city of Paris not only
as pleasure vehicles, but for practical
application as public cabs and for bus
mess purposes rs delivery wagons. 1t
is announced that soon there will be
100 motor cabs driven by electricity
running in the streets of Paris and, IL
the experiment be successful, the cabs
will be increased to 1000.
The Postotiice Department has
placed on sale mt all the tirst-class
postotiiccs in the country all the left
over newspaper and periodical postage
stamps whose use was discontinued
July 1st. There are 10000 sets of
these awaiting philatelists. Their
practical postage value having gone.
these sets of twelve stamps each will
be kept on sale mt 81 n set for private
uses until December 31st next.
Reports reach Moscow from Hong
kong that the insurgents in central
China are still sweeping everything
before them. From the victory mt Ky
Yong they are said to have gone over
TO the southeast. into the northern
part of Quang-rung province. There
they are said to have stormed and
captured the city of Chow Choo. and,
leaving it under garrison, to- have pro-
ceedcd northeast to lay siege to Kan
choo. in the province of Kiang-Si.
According to n dispatch just received