Gilpin observer., 1899-08-24
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persons have died of famine on the
east coast of Africa.
Major Russell Harrison. inspector
general. is critically i'll at Santiago
with yellow fever. The disease has
progressed for three days. although not
pronounced yellow fever at first.
General Juan Jiminez, the San Do
mingo filibusterer, was arrested the
other day as he was leaving Cuba for
San Domingo. He was afterwards re-
leased and is planning an invasion.
special from Leghorn, Italy, says
five men have been arrested there on
the charge of attacking and woundlng
some sailors who had come ashore
from the United States cruiser Olymp-
Ia.
\ head-end collision between two
trolley cars occurred on the Norris
town. Chestnut Hill & Roxborough
railway. in Plymouth township. Penn
sylvania. Thirty persons were injured,
four fatally.
The st. Paul German Catholic church
at Cincinnati was burned and several
adjoining buildings damaged on the
18th. The total loss is estimated at
S12O,OOO. The church was being re-
modelled and the fire started from the
supplies of the workmen.
Out of 1000 men who went into the
kotzebue country last fall. over Z per
cent. have died from scurvy. or met
tragic deaths. This is the statement of
j. X. Jones of Sycamore, Illinois, who,
with thirty-five men afflicted with dis
ease, came down on the Roanoke.
While accommodating party of the
Twenty-fourth infantry, under Captain
Crane, was crossing the Mariquina riv-
err. near Manila. on II raft. the hawsers
broke. The current, swift at that
point. caused the raft to capsize,
drowning nine enlisted men.
The Nandyck festival is at its
height mt Antwerp. Three hundred
thousand visitors entered Antwerp in
twenty-four hours to witness the pro-
cession from the cathedral in honor of
the Virgin and the Vandyck historical
cortege. Hundreds of Americans are
arriving daily.
Two disastrous fires broke out in st.
Petersburg Monday. In the first the
military apothecary headquarters and
sanitary warehouses We're destroyed,
involving Il loss of millions of rublcs
GrOmoffs timber wharf and lumber
Janus. 'nc IdISeSl III also
caught fire. The loss in this case also
will run into the millions of rubles.
1t is said in London that there is no
longer any doubt that President Kru-
ger has refused to submit to the de-
mand of Mr.. Chamberlain for the APP
pointmcnt of court of inquiry. He
may have done so automatically or
hedgingly. But. that his answer Is
regarded by the British government as
tantamount to positive refusal is now
an established fact. War appears to
be inevitable.
Major Ross, head of the malarial ex-
petition sent out by the Liverpool
School OF Tropical Diseases, cabled
from Sierre Leone: 1.-The malarial mos
quito has been found" The major
went to West Africa on the theory that
! malaria is disseminated by the swamp
freqUcnting mosquitoes. The British
government will be asked to send sci
entific force to work in conjunction
with Major Ross.
n large portion of northern New
York. including the counties of Jeffer-
son, st. Lawrence and Lewis, is being
swept by fierce forest fires that have
already destroyed thousands of dol
lars worth of valuable timber land
ana threaten to do more serious dam
age unless quenched by heavy rain.
At Antwerp Copleys big woods are
on fire and dwelling houses on the out
skirts of the village are in danger of
destruction. Many families have
moved ont. Thousands of farmers are
fighting the flames.
White capperS are terrorZing the
negroes in Greenwood county and in
the vicinity of Phoenix. South Caro-
lima. where race riots occurred last No
vember, and from where the Tolbcrts
were banished. \ strong posse has
been organized to enforce the law.
Hundreds of people are involved in
nightly raids on negro houses. Fifty
families have been visited, threatened,
whipped and otherwise torrorizpd. Two
hundred negroes from farms spent last
night on the streets of Greenwood,
fearing to stay at their homes. Large
land owners are making their tenants
sleep in plantation barns for protec-
ton. Work is suspended over large
section Of country.
The board appointed to examine into
the causes of the grounding of the
United States cable ship Hooker
which recently went ashore near the
mouth of Corrcgidor harbor nj tho en-
trance of Manila bay. finds that the
accident occurred In daylight on n
reef shown on the chart and that there
were evidences of carelessncss on the
part of the navigator of the vessel.
The cable Instruments and other prop
erty have been removed from the
Hooker and the cable Is now being re-
moved. If no storm intcrvcnes hopes
are entertained that the vessel may he
hauled of and repaired. Her hull has
been badly torn by the coral reef on
which she struck.
The Kansas City, Plttsburg & Gulf
road Is boycotted. In addition to the
Burlington lines west of the AIissssp-
pi river and the Chicago. Milwaukee &
ST Innl TIM Sunil I,n AIissnnrI D.