Gilpin observer., 1901-11-07
rELEaRAPHlc sREvITIEs.

Thomas A. Edison's iron ore compa-
ny has reduced its capital, finding the
separation of iron by magnets unprofit-
able.
The Scottish Rite Masons unveiled a
monument to the late grand master,
General Albert Pike, at Washington,
October 23rd.
A. B. Cummins, Republican candi-
date for governor of Iowa, Is bedfast
at his home in Des Moines and COM
PEELED to cancel speaking dates indefi-
nitely.
Joseph Shaffer, twice tried and twice
convicted of murder in the first degree
and twice sentenced to be hanged, has
been granted new trial by the Su-
preme Court of Montana.
Captain w. w. Diehlenberg of the
Kosmos liner Rameses says that San
Diego and San Francisco are to be
made ports of call for the Hamburg
American line Of steamers.
The German press is discussing in
lively fashion the following utterance
attributed to Emperor William: "If
no commercial treaties are negotiated,
1 shall smash everything to pieces"
The King Alfred, the largest cruiser
in the world, was successfully
launched at Barrow-in-F -Furness October
2Sth. The King Alfred cost $5,O5S, 795.
She will have u speed Of twenty-three
knots.
Judge Wheeler of Iowa has declared
unconstitutional the law passed by the
twenty-eighth General Assembly, pro-
hibiting the sale of liquor shipped into
Iowa from other states in original
packages.
An Austrian paper reports serious
inundation at Broussa, near the sea of
MarmOra., The water rose with terri
bic suddenness in the night time,
eighty persons being drowned and 776
houses destroyed.
The annual report of General James
A. Dumont supervising inspector gen.
eral of steam vessels, shows that the
total loss of life on steam vessels last
year was $40, an increase of 14O over
the previous year.
King Edward has purchased Benja-
min Constants portrait of the late
Queen Victoria, which was SO promi-
nent at the last royal academy exhibit
tion. 1t will be hung in the royal din
ing room at Windsor castle.
The total number Of cases of typhus
officially reported in Belgium Is 1,239.
Thus far there have been twenty-seven
deaths, while only 1872 have complete
ly recovered. The epidemic has spread
to Bachem and Ludenscheid.
P. D. Scott, national worlds fair
commissioner at st. Louis. has re-
ceived a telegram from Miss Helen
Gould in which she accepts the ap-
pOintment of lady manager Of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Ernest on-Thompson, the writer
on wild animal life, will in future be
known as Ernest Thompson-Seton. A
name has been granted by judge Of
the District Court in New York.
According to dispatch to the Novoe
Vremya from VladivostOck the Russian
General Grodokoff, accompanied by
the Russian assistant minister Of
finance, M. Romenoff, will soon open
the Manchurian- Siberian railway.
Lee Chop. perhaps the wealthiest
man in New York's chinatown" is
going back to China to live out his old
age in luxury which can be purchased
with the fortune of $15O.OOO he has
amassed in merchandise in America.
Heavy SHOWS have been falling in
various parts of northern Arizona. Ten
inches has fallen at Williams and in
the extreme north II Is even deeper.
1t Is Of immense value in providing
water on dry sheep and cattle ranges.
The Supreme Court of Montana has
decided that 1t is not lawful to give
union firms the advantage over nom
union firms In the matter of bids for
supplying furniture for the new state
capitol. All citizens must be treated
alike.
Henry Wiseman, in jackson, Michi-
gan, prison, has confessed that he muir
dered Mrs. Ellen Huss in the woods
near Royal, Oklahoma. where her body
was found several weeks ago. The
murder was committed in October,
1900.
The Independent Home Rulers, q po-
litical party largely composed of ma
tives and half whites, have indorsed
Robert w. Wilcox for governor of Ha-
wall, and sent resolutions to that ef-
feet to President Roosevelt. Wilcox is
Hawaiian delegate to Congress.
Henry Clay Hall, for thirty consec-
utive years consul in Cuba and min
lister to Central America, died at his
home In Millbury October Goth, aged
eighty-one years. He was known as
the father Of the Nicaraguan canal,
and drafted the first treaty for the
building of it.
The divorce proceedings by which
Frederick M. Gebhard and Louise Geb-
hard are legally separated, were con-
cluded at Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
by the order of the court that Mr.. Geb-
hard pay his former wife $1S5,000 and
dence.
Largest In the World.
Walter Baker & Co., Ltd, Dorches-
ter. Mass. are the largest manufactur