Gilpin observer., 1902-06-19
SHORT TELEeRAMs.

Mig AilOHSO udS SlSueu d QeCTec
authorizing the loan Of 33,OOO,OOO Pc
setas, at three per cent, internal re-
deemable bonds.
A recent typhoon caused much dam
age to the telegraph lines throughout
the island Of Luzon and many native
boats were wrecked.
President Palma has signed a bill
fixing the salaries of members of the
Cuban senate and house Of representa-
tives at $4,000 year.
new direct steamship service Is to
be inaugurated between New York and
northern Spanish ports, to be known
as the Larrinaga steamship line.
A rumor that Great Britain intends
to purchase the district of LourenZo
Marques, in Portuguese East Africa,
has caused great excitement in Portu-
gal.
At the recent races in Baltimore,
Howard Freeman rode bicycle ten
miles in IA minutes and AIN seconds,
lowering the worlds record by nearly
two minutes.
The degree of doctor of laws has
been conferred on Whitelaw Reid, spe-
cial ambassador of the United States
to the coronation of King Edward, by
Cambridge University.
Hon. Michael Henry Herbert, re-
Gently appointed British ambassador
to the United States in succession to
Lord Pauncefote, will be made knight
commander Of the Bath.
The British colonial secretary praises
the colonies which have, he says, fur
nished the motherland with an army
in South Africa larger than the British
army which fought at Waterloo.
Francis J. Patton has resigned the
presidency of Princeton University and
Prof. Woodrow Wilson Mccormick,
professor of Jurisprudence and politics,
has been elected as his successor.
General Enrique Collaso, the last
man of prominence to oppose the pres
idency Of General Palma, has called on
the latter at Havana and pledged his
sincere support to the government.
A proclamation has ben issued at
Pretoria substituting a tix of ten per
cent. net on the profits CT mining op
erations. for the five per cent. tax that
was imposed by the late Volksraad.
On June 7th the whaleback steamer
Thomas Wilson was struck and cut al
most in two by the steamer George
G. Hadley near Duluth. Nine men of
the Wilson's crew went down with the
vessel.
Governor Toole of Montana has ad-
dressed a letter to the chief executive
of each state in the Union, asking him
to appoint delegates to the interna-
tional mining congress at Butte next
September.
The fifty-irst annual meeting of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science and of several affili-
ated scientific societies will be held in
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, from June
% to July 3, 1902.
The pope was highly delighted with
President Roosevelt's gift of a CON-
plete set of the latter's work, and is
sued orders that mosaics of st. Peters
and the vatican be transmitted to the
president, with thanks.
During the months of January and
February there We're 800 deaths from
typhoid fever in the British army.
Notwithstanding the regulation regard
ing boiled water, the soldiers continue
to drink out Of brooks and rivers.
Advices received at Cape Town from
Buenos Ayres say the Argentine gov
ernment has appointed special agent
to visit the camps in South Africa and
offer free transportation to Beers de-
sirous of emigrating to Argentina.
A tornado near Lake Park. Mime
sofa, on the 10th instant, swept over
q strip of land two miles wide and
three miles long. 1t destroyed nine
farm houses and killed ten persons.
The church at Spangle was destroyed.
Signor Riva, q professor in the Uni
versity Of Rome, and Count Cino Prin-
etu, a cousin of the Italian minister of
foreign affairs. were killed in a land
slide while ascending Mont Grigna,
near Lake Lecco, Switzerland, June
4th.
The President is said to have prom
lsed Representative McLaughl!0 of
California and John Il. Hughes OF Los
Angeles, the organizer of 'TeSidy's
Terrors," that he would visit Los An
geles some time during the spring of
1903.
Margaret Taylor, who was kidnapped
from Cincinnati over four years ago,
arrived there few days ago, accom-
panied by her parents and her brother
Edward, aged three years. whom she
never had seen until they met in New
York.
Referring to the report that control
of the Cunard Steamship Company had
been secured by the shipping combine,
]. p. Morgan stated that absolutely
no negotiations were on between the
shipping combine and the Cunard
company.
IN restocking the farms OF burghers
of the Transvaal the main difficulty is
to find wheat and cattle likely to thrive.
No great difficulty is experienced in re-
gard to the horses, as the government
is able to dispose of great numbers of
remounts.
De Nedderlandsche Stats Courant,
the official organ, has published letter
from Queen Wilhelmina in which she
conveys her sincere thanks and graft