Gilpin observer., 1899-02-16
TELEoRAPHlc HREvlrlEs.

A lieutenant was severely wounded
IN fight at Admission, Alabama, be-
tween officers of the Fourth Kentucky
regiment
Rev. James Monroe Taylor, pres-
den OF Vassar College, has been unan-
imously elected president of Brown
University.
No Cuban generals attended General
CaliXto Garcia's funeral at Havana be-
cause they were angry at some of Gen.
eral Brooke's orders.
Six cases of yellow fever have devel-
oped among the soldiers belonging to
the Two Hundred and Second New
York regiment at Guanajuay, Cuba.
The Moore Bros. of Chicago are
working on Il paper bag combine which
will include all the large plants in the
United States. The combine will be
capitalized with $27,00O,OOc.
Late dispatches from Iloilo show the
capture of the town to have been very
tame affair. The Chinese and native
quarters were burned, but the better
section of the town was saved.
The secretary of war has given or
ders for the mastering out of the Third
regiment of immunes, now stationed ut
Santiago and vicinity. This regiment
was recruited by Coloney Ray, Il regu-
lar army officer.
1t is stated in official ci.cles at Ber-
lin that Prince Herbert Bismarck may
be appointed ambassador to Washing
ton. 1t is supposed to be II movement
toward the establishment of the most
friendly relations with America.
Paris papers assert that the negotia-
tions which have been in progress be-
tween the French and British govern
ment regarding the Bahr- El-Ghazel
basin, west of the White Nile. are on
the eve of satisfactory settlement.
In response to the piteous cries for
aid that went up from many sections
of the city, Governor Roosevelt has or
dered the opening of the armories of
the Eighth, Ninth, Twelfth, Sixty
ninth and Seventy-tirst regiments for
the shelter of such portions of the
homeless poor as might take refuge
there.
The missionary steamer Morning
Star is coaling at San Francisco for IL
nine months cruise in the South seas,
where she acts as transport for the
missionaries between the islands of the
Marshal, Caroline and Gilbert groups.
and as a trading ship in the interests
of the Congregational Foreign Mission
ary Society.
Disastrous conflagrations have oc-
Cured in the mountains northwest of
Oveido, Spain. The villages of Nillar.
Murias. DAMAGES and CaSavide have
been wiped out. Hany herds of cattle
have perished and other villages are
threatened. All efforts to quench the
fires have been futile. The people are
panic stricken and are fleeing to places
of safety.
The wholesale and retail book estab-
lishment of A. c. McClurg 4 Co. at
Chicago. was totally destroyed by n fire
which broke out at 10 o'clock on the
morning of the 18th, and which spread
rapidly through the tive-story brick
structure occupied by the firm. The
stock was probably the largest in the
country and the financial loss will prob
ably aggregate S5OO,OOO.
Since the adjournment of the Paris
Peace Commission. the Filipinos have
had agents in Hong Kong busily en-
gagged in fitting out tilibustering eXpe-
litions from that port. The Hong Kong
government is using every effort to pre-
vent such expeditions from leaving the
place, and English naval officers have
received orders to search all vessels
suspected of having arms aboard.
A dispatch from General Rios. COM
mander of the Spanish troops in the
Philippines says that the steamers
Christina and Uruguay are about to
leave for Spain with seven battalions.
comprising 900 men. with their flags,
guns and ammunition. Generals Mo
nett and Butt will sail with these
troops. Part of the expense for the
transportation of these soldiers Is TO be
paid by the United States.
The British tank steamer Weehawk-
pn. Captain TaZey, from Philadelphia,
January 27th. for Hull. has arrived at
the Azores with twenty-five women
and children passengers from the Ham
burg American liner Bulgaria, Captain
Schmidt, from New York. January 2Sth
for Hamburg. The Wechnwken re-
ports the Bulgaria drifting helplessly
500 miles from the Azores. Nothing Is
known as TO the fate of the other pas
sengers. of whom IL is understood that
the Bulgaria carries ninety.
\ decision which experienced lawyers
say Is of far-reaching Importance in
liking the rights of minority stockhold-
crs in their relations with corporation
officials has been handed down by
Judge Tuley of the Circuit Court ut
Chicago. Judge Tuley has dissolved
the injunction issued in January re-
straining Lewis B. Perrin II stocihold-
or of the Rodger Ballast Car Company.
from bringing mandamus proceedings
against the company 10 compel the dl-
rectory to allow him 10 examine the
corporation records
The United States transport Grant.
bound for Manila, having on board
General Lawton and staff, has arrived
AT SueZ. General I.awton has tclc-
grnphed the United States consular
agent that fifty members of the eXpe-