Gilpin observer., 1899-07-06
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Bishop Newman of the Methodist
church is seriously i'll.
Yellow fever has broken out among
the troops at Santiago.
A trust has secured a large part of
The tobacco land OF Virginia.
England is shipping immense guam
titles OF war material to South Africa.
Robert p. Porter. who has spent
much time in Cuba, favors annexa-
ton.
Dreyfuss was landed in France Sun
day. His physical condition is said to
be bad.
Governor Jones of Arkansas has
ordered a sheriff to keep out imported
negro miners.
1t is believed General Otis will need
at least $4,000 soldiers to restore order
in the Philippians.
Professor George Harris of Andover
Seminary has been chosen president
of Amherst College.
The fight between the Croker and
Sheehan factions of Tammany hall
Mas become very bitter.
About 35.OOO commercial travellers
have been thrown out of employment
by the organization of trusts.
Horrible stories of enforced canni-
balism continue to come from the Kot-
zeDue Sound region i'm Alaska.
A New York man rode n bicycle a
mile in :57 4-5 seconds the other day.
lie was paced by n locomotive.
A persistent mob at Brussels, op-
posed to the franchise law, was dis
persed by bayonets the other day.
The Nebraska. Pennsylvania and
Utah troops which have been on duty
in the Philippines have started on their
homeward journey.
The secretary of state of New Jersey
received $S3,53S in fees during June
from the various corporations mostly
trusts organized during last month.
| The Venezuela arbitrators at Paris
have been listening to the historical
argument of Sir Richard Webster on
behalf Of England. 1t occupied
week.
| Captain Coghlan. U. S. ~. appeared
before the Winfield 0KansasJ Chau-
tauqua and his lecture on "The Battle
of Manila" was listened to by over
5000 persons. He was received with
| marked enthusiasm
Fifty-two cases of yellow fever have
developed in Panama thus far in the
month of June. and twenty-four cases
have resulted fatally. The first vic
tins were six Augustine friars, who
recently arrived from Manila. No
Americans have died.
The coal miners strike. looked for
by the Westphalian operators, has
broken out. The men in several of the
mines in the province have refused to
go to work without an increase in
wages to correspond with the greater
price at which the operators are sell
ing coal. and it is feared that the strike
may become general.
+ General Horatio G. Wright, who
, made u brilliant record in the late war,
| serving at Gettysburg and the CAM
paign in the Wilderness and around
Richmond, died Sunday after an ILL
ness Of three months. Besides his fine
war record. General Wright achieved
| cminence as an engineer serving as
chief of the United Stats army engi-
ncers from 1879 until his retirementin>
1884. N
At the meeting of the general pas
senger agents of forty-four roads in
Chicago It was unanimously agreed
that until further notice agents should
receive liberal commissions for selling
tickets over foreign or connecting
lines. These commissions will run
from % cents to 81 per ticket, the
average being about 81. Between 1000
and 5000 agents will be benefited by
the action of the passenger managers.
Companies NJ and l. of the Twenty
fifth and Il of the Twenty-fourth in
o.,
Nevada, Thursday. Major Noble in
command. on the way to San Fran
cisco, from whence they will go to
Manila. The train stopped and
party of the negroes, the companies
| being colored sailors. raided n saloon
! near the station. They wrecked the
I bar and shot the bartender, Chris
Deiss. 1t is feared that Deiss will die.
Senor Gomez, the civil governor of
| Santa Clara province, is mt Havana
with committee of farmers from
| that province to urge that General
| Brooke take prompt measures to aid
the farmers in this section. There Is
great destitution in Santa Clara prov
ince owing to lack of implements with
which 20 work. In some parts Of the
province there, Is actual starvation.
General Brooke has promised Gomez
that steps will be taken to relieve the
/ distress.
| In n recent interview at Chicago,
Mr. Bryan expressed himself ms fol-
lows regarding trusts: TRUSTS, he
said will form II more important feat
ure IN the next campaign than ever Tor
the reason that there are more trusts
and combines of. greater Importance.
The Democratic party believes the
trusts should be nnnihilated. The trusts
are 80 indefensible that no better Illus
tration of their absolute indefensibility
can be offered than the fnct that the
Ohio Rcpublican convention, of which