Gilpin observer., 1900-09-13
rELEoRAPH,c sREvlrlEs.
Santiago, Cuba, has an electric rail.

Large orders for American coal are
being taken in Europe.
Lord Roberts has officially annexed
the Transvaal to the British empire.
Several mud volcanoes have again
become active in Nendocino county,
California.
The Swift and Armour packing COM
panies have placed in cold storage 216,-
OOO,0O eggs for future sale.
AS result of the financial failure of
the Paris exposition the projected
Liege exposition has been abandoned
and that intended to be held in Brus-
sells in 1905 will probably suffer the
same fate.
Nineteen arrests have been made of
persons alleged to have taken part in
the recent riot in Akron, Ohio. A spe-
cial grand jury will be called to take
up the cases. Nearly 300 witnesses
will be examined.
The flour mills of Minneapolis, whose
year ended with Saturday night
eclipsed all previous records in the his
tory of the industry. The product last
year was 1i,297 $50 barrels; this year.
14,500,000 barrels.
John D. Rockefeller has made Spell
man Seminary. IL negro college of At
lanta, n present of S1SO,OOO. The money
has been paid into the treasury of the
American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety of New York, which has charge
of the college.
An official dispatch from Taku an
nounces the receipt of a telegram from
Pekin. dated August 25th, saying the
German troops have taken possession
of n hill within the imperial city. The
dispatch adds that 1000 additional
troops have reached Taku.
At the reunion of the Forty-siXth
Ohio volunteer infantry at Columbus,
Ohio, the colors of the Thirticth Louis
lana regiment We're returned to COM
mittee of survivors of that organiza-
tion. The flag was captured at Ezra
court house. near Atlanta, Georgia, dur
ing the rebellion.
Two young Americans, Harry Hengel
and George Laughney, students at the
University at Eichstadt, visited the
catacombs at Rome, strayed away ana
disappeared. They We're found the
next morning by German students.
who. carrying torches, searched. for
them all night.
The National Tube Company has ad-
vanced prices on merchant and wrought
! iron pipe five per cent, to take effect
| at once. No change is made in the
prices of boiler tubes and other grades.
The advance is made because of the
increase in the cost of iron and steel
skelp, or pipe iron and steel.
Mrs. George Heisner, living near
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, was killed
| by lightning. The house was struck
twice while the family was at dinner.
At the second bolt the occupants of the
house ran outdoors, when "A third bolt
struck near them. Mrs. Heisner was
killed and a baby she carried in her
arms was slightly hurt. The house was
wrecked.
The War Department has received in
| formation that the work of laying a
| cable from Shanghai to Chez Foo had
commenced. 1t is believed that unless
some accident is encountered the cable
will be completed and in operation
within week. This ought to make
communication between Washington
and our officials in China much more
expeditions.
The agent of the Mexican Interna-
tional railroad reports that n S2O,OOO
package was stolen from the Wells
Fargo Express Company at Treveno,
Mexico and recovered in peculiar
manner. The thief was escaping north
into the United States on n train, when
the package accidentally fell from his
coat while he was STOPPING over and
tne trainmen took it.
Three mills owned by the American
Steel and Wire Company in Cleveland,
which were closed down June 1st, re-
sumed operations on the 4th. giving
employment to between 800 and 600
men. 1t is stated by the employees that
there has been n general cut in wages
amounting In some cases to as high as
twenty-three per cent, and also that
the hours of labor have been increased.
President Mckinley has received n
reply to the invitation he addressed to
eXPresident Cleveland to accept an
appointment as member of The
Hague commission. Mr.. Cleveland's s
reply will not be made public, but 1t
Is understood he has attached certain
conditions to his acceptance. EXPIRES
ldent Harrison agreed to act as COM
missioner in letter received at the
White House.
A dispatch from Council Bluffs says:
District Court opened here to-day, at
torncys for James Doyle in his suit
against James Il. Burns, president of
the Portland Gold Mining Company.
state that they intend to try to force
the case to trial Mt this term. If they
succeed In doing this it will probably
occupy almost the entire term. as there
nre 100 witnesses, the majority of
whom live in Colorado.
State issues. of which that of local
option was the most important, caused
n twenty per cent decrease in the Re
publican vote In Vermont In the state
election and large proportion of that
loss wont TO the DomOcrntlc nnrtY. Whn