Gilpin observer., 1901-09-19
TELEGRAPHic BREviTlEs.


Mexico will be held at Albuquerque
| October 10Th.
The American Sugar Refining Com
pany has advanced prices on Nos. 4. 5.
q, and refined sugar five points.
Senator Depew has been invited to
deliver the address at the opening of
the Charleston Exposition December
| 1St.
The postmaster at Nome, Joseph II.
Wright, has been arrested and held
for trial on the charge of embezZling
$4,000.
A number of big robberies have been
carried on by thieves on the gold pro-
ducing creeks back of Dawson City
this month.
Clergy half-fare perfits are to be ex-
tended to cover the entire territory
between Chicago and the Pacific coast.
Charles 7. Yerkes has secured con-
troll of the projected Brompton-P n-Picca-
dilly (tube) ralIroad, with capital of
f2,10O,0O0.
The steamer Sierra, which sailed
for San Francisco, has on board $780,
600 in gold.
The census bureau reports that in
commercial bales of cotton, as against
9,645,974 bales in 1899.
At the Harlem race course, Chicago,
on the 9TH instant, Jiminez ran a mile
and seventy yards in 40 3-5, breaking
the record for that distance.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland has
consented to deliver the Grafton on
Founders Day of the Carnegie Insti-
tute, in Pittsburg, November Tth.
Henry Dickens, son of Charles Dick
ems, is in this country, with his two
daughters, Misses Elaine and Olive,
and is staying at Lake Champlain.
United States Ambassador General
Horace Porter has received instruc-
tions from Washington to invite
France to participate in the ST. Louis
exposition.
The Trades Union Congress at Swan
sea, Wales, has voted to accumulate a
fund with which to fight the House of
Lords picketing decision "and other
legal wrongs"
Kate Livingstone, cousin of DIR.
Livingstone, is living in the Isle of
Null, in the Hebrides, and has just
completed her 106th year. She rs,
however, very weak.
An assessment of fifty cents per cap
ita has been levied on the $1,000 cloak
makers of New York for the purpose
of fighting injunctions against the
cloakmakers' strike pickets.
Miss Stone, the missionary recently
abducted by brigands in the Vilayet
of Salonica, Turkey, is still prisoner.
1t has not yet been stated what ran
som is demanded for her release.
Dartmouth College in New Hamp-
shire will celebrate it's Tooth anniver-
sary September 25th and Goth. One
thousand of the alumni will parade
dressed in revolutionary costumes.
Andrew Carnegie has donated
large pipe organ to the Central Pres
byterian Church of New Castle, Penn
sylvania, which city recently refused
Mr.. Carnegies offer of 4 library build
ing.
Fire started by spark from crossed
electric wires destroyed machinery in
the Hicks-Judd Printing establishment
of San Francisco worth 100000 and
did other damage estimated at $780,
600.
A. B. Hammond of Portland, Oregon,
has bought for $500 900 the largest un-
broken tract of timber land still re-
manning in first hands in Oregon. Fif-
ty thousand acres We're involved in the
deal.
Vice President Roosevelt has written
A. B. Cummins, Republican nominee
for governor, that he will make two
speeches in Iowa this campaign, one
of them being in Des Moines about
October 9TH.
The transport Mcclellan, from New
York, July 10th, with the congressional
party, has reached Manila. The WIS.,
itors will make tour of the islands for
the purpose of investigating the con-
! duct of affairs.
Geo. Braunraided, member of the
Soldiers Home at Leavenworth. was
dishonorably discharged recently and
drummed out of camp for expressing
satisfaction at the shooting of Presl-
dent Mckinley.
Robert II. Mumford, known through
out the Yukon country and the states
as "Polly Bob" committed suicide at
Nome ON August 22d, by swallowing
twenty grains of morphine, In room
at the Gold IIlll hotel.
The plant of the American Glucose
Sugar Refining Company mt Peoria,
ILL.,. the largest of the kind in the
United States, and the property of the
Glucose trust. has been closed down in.
definitely. The plant employed about
100 hands
General S. ID. Stanley, president of
the Society of the Army of the Cum
berland, announces that the annual re-
union of that society and the veterans
of that army will be held Mt Louisville,
Kentucky, on Perryvillc days, Octo-
Der Sth and 9th.
Application was made in the SUI
preme Court, Brooklyn. for the disso-
luton of the National Gramaphone
Company and the appointment of n
temporary receiver on the ground that
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