Gilpin observer., 1900-11-15
TELECRAFHic BREvlriEs.

| us uSdlHSI ool Ill lSsU, an 1UcTehSe
Of 137, ,12O, or 80 per cent.
The Russian government will place
orders during the coming year for five
battleships with American shipbuild-
ers.
The population of Indiana, as official
ly announced by the census bureau, is
2,o16,46 as against 2,192, ,4O4 in 1890.
This is an increase of 324,OoS, or 14.7
per cent.
Frank Frooman of Cutler, Mimi,
was buried under thirty feet of earth
while cleaning n well. After thirteen
hours confinement he was rescued and
will live.
Horace Lee Washington, at present
consul at Valencia, Spain, has been ap-
pointed consul at Geneva, Switzerland,
exchanging place with Richard M.
Bartleman.
The census shows that the City of
Mexico has over 100000 population.
The population of the federal district,
including the capital city, is in excess
of half n million.
Official reports show the grain has
been completely burned up in the
drouth in portions of Siberia. The
fields have not been harvested and are
used for pasturage.
The result of the election to the Aus
tralian legislature assembly of Victoria
is the return of forty-five Ministerial
| lists, forty-eight members of the oppo-
sition and two Independents.
The October customs receipts at Ma
Mia were $1,SSS,0OO Mexican, an in
crease over the previous month OF
S150,000. The total revenue was ST.
| Dnn 900 oil raanrdS
The North German Lloyd Steamship
Company has ordered more than 1000
tons of structural iron from the United
States for its work shops and foundry,
as against Westphalan competition.
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender,
is said to have declared that the pres
ent rising in Spain is contrary to his
orders and will retard. instead of pro-
mote his efforts to secure his rights.
Frank Williams of Johnstown. Penn
sylvania, has bequeathed his fortune of
100000 to Lehigh university, where he
had been n student. The income Of
the fund is to be loaned to poor and
deserving students.
The elections to the Icelandic althing
have resulted in n great majority for
the proposition of Professor Gudmund-
| a
istry and give Iceland. virtually, an au-
| tonomous government.
Amid considerable excitement the
| lord mayor, at meeting of the Dublin
corporation. ruled out of order n resolu-
ton to confer the freedom of the city
on former President Kruger of the
| South African republic.
The Paris exposition authorities have
| n1nco1 hn Tran nj noyi1inn
Mr.. Pierson, the Transvaal emissary
general, refused to remove the inscrip-
tions insulting to England, with which
the walls were covered.
The Naval Department has directed
Admiral Remey at Cavite to convene n
court Of inquiry to inquire into the
charge of cowardice against Captain
Hall, United States marines. preferred
| by Minister Conger at Pekin.
The poor farm of Marion county,
Kansas. is more than self supporting.
Last year the institution realized
enough on its crops to pay for the
maintenance of its ten inmates and
leave balance of 5000 clear profit.
At Bow Street Police court. London.
Julian T. B. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin
Arnold, who had been eXtradited from
| California, was remanded on the
charge of misappropriating f14,0O of
trust funds. He denied the charges.
A Bremen cable says: "The indus
trial and agricultural protectionists
have combined now to urge higher Ger
man grain duties and have appeared
before the committee drafting n new
tariff in favor of such an advance"
William f. Seward and his wife, of
) Scranton township. near Urbana, ILL.,.
| have given their 600-acre farm. valued
at $4,000. for the founding of an insti-
tuition devoted to the education of col
ored people in the "black belt of the
south.
I The funeral of Professor Max Muller.
who died at Oxford, October 2S, was
| largely attended. those present includ-
ing representatives of Queen Victoria,
and Emperor William of Germany. The
latter sent n wreath inscribed ''To My
Dear Friend"
Lord Roberts has cabled to the war
office that Former President Steyn, in
dispatch to Delary's Burghers, Octo-
Der %, said Mr.. Kruger had gone to
Europe to get interviewed" and that
If he failed, "the Transvaal will be
auctioned off to the highest bidder"
Under the firm name of the Buffalo
Union Furnace Company three of the
largest iron smelling plants in South
Buffalo have been consolidated. The
capital stock is S1,2OO,0OO. The
plants in the consolidation are: The
Buffalo Furnace Company, the Union
Iron Works and the Buffalo Charcoal
Iron Company.
The American Rice Growers Distri-
button Company, Limited, has been in
corporated with capital OF $4,000
900, half OF which is paid. The officers
are: William X. Vanderbilt of New
York, president; William G. Duson Of
Crowley, vice president and general
manager; Alexander w. Halberg Of