Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20
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The transport Garonne arrived at
Manila on the 7th instant with eight
troops of the First cavalry aboard.
During the Austrian military maneu-
vers on the border Of Galicia and Bo-
hemia, big gun exploded. killing four
men outright, and fatally wounding
eighteen others.
Mission boards throughout the coun-
try are making efforts to collect money
with which to relieve their mission
aries in China whose homes have been
burned by the Boxers.
Rev. Frank Gunsaulus Of Chicago
has presented his resignation as presi-
dent Of the Armour Institute. DIR. Gun
saulus wishes to give his undivided
attention to his church work.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved of the following patents Of land
in the Salt Lake City land district:
1906 acres for the State Agricultural
College; 12971 acres for the insane
asylum and 4,223 acres for the reform
school.
The Capetown correspondent of the
Daily Mail, regarding the refugees,
says: "The distress among them is very
serious. Large numbers, mostly Amer
leans, are living in caves on the sides
of Table mountain. owing to their ina
bility to pay rent"
The North American company's
steamer Homer has arrived from the
Pribyloff islands. via Dutch Harbor,
with 22.47O seal skins, valued at $780,,
600; eighteen barrels of blue and white
fox skins. valued at $4,000, and from
Dutch Harbor thirty-six barrels Of fur.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany Is reported to have closed con-
tracts with the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company and with an Eng
lish steamship line for regular service
between Philadelphia and Bremen and
Philadelphia and London, respectively.
Baroness Won Ketteler arrived at
Tien Tsin September 9th, escorted by
n German naval detachment. Admiral
Kirchoff made all the necessary ar
rangements to facilitate the journey of
the bar0nesA who, after a visit to the
United States, will proceed to Ger
many.
The Navy Department has been in
formed of the arrival of the battleship
Oregon at Woo Sung and Of the arrival
at Shanghai from Chez Foo Of the gun
boat Nashville. Woo Sung is the port
of Shanghai and here the Oregon will
remain, as her draught will not permit
Of her going to Shanghai.
The second days session of the Sons
of Veterans nineteenth annual nation
al encampment opened at Syracuse on
the 10Th, with $50 delegates in attend
ance. The university location matter
was taken up. The committee in
charge reported in favor of Mason City
and this report was adopted by vote
of 142 to 10.
The summer of 1900 has been a rec
ord-brehker In several respects, at least
in the East. 1t has been the hottest
summer ever known in New York; the
August which has Just closed was the
hottest August ever known In New
York. the average temperature, day
and night, for the entire month being
seventy-seven degrees.
The Japanese found Prince Ching,
leader Of the Conservative. pro-for-
eign party, In the western hills, twenty
miles distant, and are holding him
there with view Of n conference and
In the hope that he may establish CON-
munication with the dowager empress.
Papers have been found In the en-
perOr's room at the palace containing
lists Of the foreigners killed and the
foreigners property destroyed.
General Joseph Wheeler, considered
one Of the most picturesque figures in
the United States army. retired to pri-
vate life on the 10th. having reached
the age limit of sixty-four years.
General Wade will be temporarily in
charge of the Department Of the Lakes
until General Otis, appointed to the
place, arrives. General Wheeler will
60 to his home In Alabama and follow
ing this he and his daughters will take
a trip abroad.
The new year at West Point began
last week with 434 cadets on the rolls.
the largest number by sixty that was
ever at the academy. The first or SEN
ior class numbers seventy-five, the sec
Ond or Junior class sixty-eight, the third
class 115 and the fourth or freshman
class 116. This increase Is due to
law passed by Congress- at the close of
the last session authorizing the Presi-
dent to appoint 100 additional cadets
to meet the demand for trained off,
GERS in our enlarged army.
Replying to the telegraphic message
forwarded to the Car. September 4th,
on the occasion of the placing of the
foreign office archives of the ratifica-
tions OF the agreements and treaties
resulting from the peace conference,
his majesty, after expressing his sin
cere thanks. concludes: God grant
that the labors In which these gen.
temen have taken such active part
may serve as the basis for the estab-
lishment, even though In the distant
future, Of universal peace. which is
the goal Of Christian civilization"
The Chinese minister nt Washington
has received an imperial edlct confer
ring on III Hung Chang extraordinary
power for the complete settlement OF
the Chinese trpnblps II piyps hin, M