Gilpin observer., 1901-09-05
rELeeRAPHlc HREvIrIEs.
Spain is building six new warships

Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, and
his family are in st. Petersburg.
The United States average exports
of 100000 tons of coal per month.
Plans are under way for an unbrok-
en- electric railway across the state of
New York.
Duluth -four mills are preparing to
make 10000 barrels of flour every
twenty-four hours.
A report of the British government
shows there are now 11S,497 persons
In the refugee camps in South Africa.
The tenth annual session of the con-
catenated order of Hoo Hoos has been
called to meet at Norfolk, Virginia,
September 9th.
Colonel j. H. Haverly, whose fame in
minstrelsy is worldwide, is danger
ously i'll at st. Marks hospital in Salt
Lake City of heart trouble.
The strike at Senator w. A. Clark's
big United Verde copper mining plant
at Jerome, Arizona, is ended, and the
plant is again in full blast.
1t is now thought that the monument
for Benjamin Harrison will be in the
form of an arch, to cost 100000. over
100000 has already been raised.
The transport Warren, which has ar
rived at San Francisco from Seattle,
will be fitted up to carry several hun
dred school teachers to Manila.
The government will soon commence
magnificent observatory for the terres-
trial division of the coast survey.
The Russian beet crop has been ser
iously damaged by plague of cater
pillars. The loss is variously estimat-
ed at from twenty-five to fifty per cent.
President Loubet of France has con-
ferred upon President w. R. Harper of
the University of Chicago the decora-
tion of the order of the Legion of
Honor.
Negotiations are still pending Tor the
purchase by the United States of the
Danish West Indies, and it is generally
believed in Copenhagen that the ces-
sion will be made
Negroes are barred from enlistment
in the First Cuban Artillery. One hun
dred and fifty "Cubans" will be enlist
ed. All must be twenty-one years old
Vi iiioi Z, anu WIille
In 1897 Russia sold Germany s27,-
302,410 worth more of grain than did
the United States, but in 1900 the Unit
ed States was only S4947,25O worth
behind her European rival.
1t is understood that an elevator
company in Yonkers is at work on two
lifts" for Buckingham palace, Eng
land on an order from King Edward,
sent indirectly to this country.
Collinsville, Alabama, was visited by
cloudburst August 22nd, and greatly
damaged. Several stores were COM
pletely inundated and many residences
washed from their foundations.
The French sugar bounties having
occasioned deficit of Ia, 100000 francs
the minister of finance has issued a
decree reducing them by fifty-five per
cent, with a view of covering the de-
felt.
The committee on foreign affairs of
the Chilian chamber of deputies has
refused to grant the funds necessary
for the representation of Chilli at the
Pan-American congress in the City of
Mexico.
1t Is stated at the War Department
that such good progress is being made
in the formation of a Cuban govern
ment that the revision of the tariff for
Cuba will probably await action by that
government.
The Russian government has decid-
ed to continue the state of siege in
Moscow province for another year.
Otherwise 1t would expire September
7th. This indicates that the political
situation is still serious.
At the annual meeting of the Can
adian Pacific, to be held on October
End. a resolution will be submitted au-
thorizing the issue of bonds to the ex-
tent of &2,500,000 to be used In the ac-
QUESTION of steam vessels.
A big swordfish was brought into
Boston a few days ago. Before 1t was
cut up or sawed off it tipped the scales
at nearly half ton. Its length was
close to seventeen feet, and 1t was arm
ed with rapier three feet long. 1t
fought its captors three hours.
AS soon as General Wood returns
to Havana 1t is expected that he will
make arrangements for calling an cleo
ton, and the delegates to the constitu-
tional convention expect the govern
ment to be organized not later than
February 4, 1902.
Telephone communication can now
be established with incoming steamers
in New York before the gang plank is
put out. In the case of outgoing steam
ers passengers can have telephone
communication with their friends till
the vessel leaves the pier.
The United Irish League has re.
Quested John Redmond to go to the
United States and, in conjunction with
Michael Davitt, place the position of
the Nationalist movement before the
Americans. Mr.. Redmond will sail for
New York early in October.