Gilpin observer., 1899-08-03
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
to the Fort Worth public library.
Admiral Dewey is reported to have
said that our next war will be with
Germany.
The government in buying horses for
service in the Philippines will not take
broncos.
Six hundred imported negroes have
recently been put to work in the Kan
sas coal mines.
A Denver merchant reports having
been robbed of $1,000 while inspecting
the slums of Chicago.
The bursting of boiler of thresh-
ing machine outfit killed six men near
White Cloud, Michigan.
During the last thirty days there
have been imported at the port of Ha-
vana 1862 head of cattle.
The girls clubs of several southern
Kansas towns have resolved never to
marry young man unless he has
served with the famous Twentieth
| Kansas.
| AS a result of the run on the Jacques
| Cartier bank at Montreal, occasioning
| y
run ON other French banks has oc-
! Cured.
According to reports from naval of
| fcers in the Philippines, Aguinaldo
continues to get war supplies from
! Germans at Hong Kong, and the Jap
anese at Yokohama.
A dispatch to the New York Journal
| from Newport, Rhode Island, reports
that o. H. p. Belmont has been black
balled in lodge of the 1. o. o. +. to
which he applied for membership.
Mrs. f. B. Croker has conveyed
| gift to the local lodge of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks her
mansion in San Francisco, which with
surrounding grounds is valued at
$4,000.
According to a4yices from Magellan
Straits, the American minister at San
tiago, Chile, has definitely purchased
various islands in the Wellington ar
chipelago with the object of establish
ing coaling station.
The governor of Santiago confirms
the general opinion that the assassina-
tiOn of President HereauX of San Do
mingO was political crime. 1t is re-
ported that the assassins party is
gathering forces preparatory to an at
tack on the government troops.
The scarcity of coke in Germany re-
duced the production of pig-iron for
June to a point 10, 151 tons below that
for May. Notwithstanding enormous
imports of English coke this dimihu-
tiOn in output will not be made up in
the current month. -r
The Board of Regents of the Unver-
sity of Michigan has given Pro-
fessor Dean c. Worcester years
leave of absence. as he Informed the
board that his work in the Philippines
would not be completed until the mid
die of winter, and after that time he
wished to study in Europe.
Details of Yaqui uprising in Mex
leo have been received Mt San Fran
cisco. The Indians are pillaging.
killing and Outraging. They out
ragged two nuns and two planters
daughters, afterward killing them.
missionary named Beltram and priest.
name not given. were also killed and
their bodies horribly mutilated.
The crops on the Pingree potato
patches about Detroit. cultivated by
the poor, this year promises to break
all records. There is total of 1S2
acres. The vines are in Il splendid con-
ditiOn, the bugs seem to have left them
alone. and there will be more bushels
of larger potatoes to the acre than ev-
er before known in that vicinity.
A dispatch received from Zermatt
which lies below the Theodule gla-
cier, near the Matterhorn and Brett
horn, says that Nine. Therese Morel
and daughter. of Paris. while seeking
aIn on of thp m n fn ing
by. missed their footing and rolled
1900 feet down the side of the peak.
The mother was killed and the daugh-
ter is likely to die.
A committee representing practically
all the big lumber manufacturers of
the Northwest in session at Alinneapo-
lis has decided on rise of 81 per
thousand in the prices of lumber. July
Goth prices We're raised fifty cents per
thousand. but the lumbermen justify
further increase by the restricted sup
ply and increased demand.
The sum of $1,000 lost in panel
, game at Chicago by a contractor sup
posedly from Colorado has been re-
covered by the police. The mans real
name is concealed under the alias of
Edwards" The money was given by
the two women who robbed Edwards"
to n third one, who put 1t in n safety
deposit vault. She confessed her part
In the transaction.
b. III. Howell the American oarsman.
won the Kingfield silver sculls and the
amateur championship of the Thames
| finishing the course between Putney
and Mortlake four lengths ahead OF
Blackstnffe, who was second. Fox
was third I'm the contest. Howell won
the diamond sculls in the Henley re-
gnttn on July 7th.
| The Neapoltan press has gone hys-
| terical over the lynching of Italian
subjects at Tnllulah, Louisiana. All the