Gilpin observer., 1899-05-04
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they have the missing men of the gun.
boat Yorktown and are holding them
as prisoners. = a. -
A consolidation of the peanut indus.
try OF the country, under the control
OF single company, with capital Of
$1,000, 600, is about to be effected. Il.
The conductors, engineers, firemen
and brakemen of the Santa Fe Pacific
threaten to go out in a body because
Of the new schedule of wages, which
cuts them 80 per cent.
Rudyard Kipling will sail for, Eng
land on May 24th,, .Mr xIkipltHg and
family ats present are At Lakewood.
New Jersey, Ehere the author ia; recIl
4 pefating Aftera long serious illness
4 Major iGeneralS OTIS and Admiral
4 Dewey, ut a SECOND conference with
Ethe insargent Commission Saturday
[3porning, decided to grant an armistice.
This decision Is universally COM
mepded.
News comes through the Ottoman
sanitary authorities that the plague
has broken out at Muscat. the capital
OF Oman, Arabia, and it is necessary
that precautionary measures be taken
at Port Said and Suez
Mayor Noonan of Kirksville, Missouri,
has sent message to Governor Steph-
ems tonight asking him to issue n
proclamation in behalf of the storm
sufferers. Twenty-Five thousand dol
lars will be needed during the next
two weeks to prevent suffering.
The New York Mutual Gas Light
Company has given notice that the
price of gas to all it's customers had
been reduced from $1.1O to 65 cents
| nor 1 O00 foot Tho Consolidated Cas-
Company also announced n similar re-
duction, and the fight will be hot one.
A report from st. Petersburg says
that the Anglo-Russian railway agree
ment has been signed. BY the terms
of the agreement Russia contracts not
to obtain or to assist any other power
to obtain railway concession in the
Yangtse valley, while Great Britain
similarly contracts in regard to the
Manchuria.
Specials from South Dakota to the
Journal state that prairie fires have
done much damage in that state. Near
ly One-third of Brule county has been
burned over, many buildings lost and
much stock burned. Near Parker con-
siderable damage has been done and
the town itself had close call from
| destruction.
According to dispatch from ST.
Petersburg the, Shah of Persia has
signed seventy-year concession to
Russian mining company covering the
whole province of Ozorbaijan. having
an area of 10000 square miles. The
province contains rich copper deposits
and the company will exploit the tract
for metals and gems and construct
railways, roads and harbOrs.
General Gomez which announces the
formation of n junta of Cuban gener-
ais who will advise him concerning the
disbandment of the army and all other
matters relative to the establishment
of an Independent democratic repub-
| lie. The junta of Cuban generals met
yesterday and decided to send COM.
mlssioners to all the provinces to ex-
pedite the army disbandment.
Regarding the conference soon to be
held in Brussels to discuss the ques-
ton of introducing alcohol into Africa,
| France has already nominated dele
gates, and it is believed here that an
understanding will be reached on the
general subject, but that the applica-
ton of the terms agreed upon will be
very difficult. 1t is impossible to es-
tablish regular custom houses, and
vast scale.
The insurgents have an insurrectiOn
on their own hands, the Maccabbees,
traditional foes of the Tagals, are ris-
ing in the north, while the burden of
thousands of hungry and discontinued
people who fled before the American
army and who are camping behind the
Filipino lines. multiplies the troubles
of the Filipino government, the head
quarters of which are now at San
lsidorO, having been removed north
ward when Calumpit fell.
Yale carried off the honOrs at the
annual carnival of relay races held by
the University of Pennsylvania last
week, the wearers of the blue winning
the one mile two-mile and four-mile
championship relay races. Although
Pennsylvania was disappointed in the
outcome of these events, she Is happy
because one of her men now holds the
American broad jump record. A. G.
. KraenZeline, who is also the American
championship hurdler. jumped ~ feet
31a inches. breaking the American rec
ord of % feet S5s inches. held by Myer
Prinstein of Syracuse University.
General Polavieja. minister of war,
has made public letter which he has
Just dispatched to General Weyler, In
which he threatens. without excess OF
| circumlocution. to shoot the former
encouragement of Cuba. General
Polavieja declares that he knows all
about General Weyler's absurd con-
spiracles, and adds: IL know that you
are incapable. Without risking your
own hide YOU excite the passions of
civilians. who are Ignorant of your
weaknesses: but / am disposed to
shoot generals. If need be, as If they
were common soldiers"