Gilpin observer., 1902-09-04
SHORT TELEeRAMs.

Violent earthquake shocks were felt
August 22nd at Andishan and Pavlovsk
near st. Petersburg, Russia
It is stated that strong pressure is be-
ing exerted at Rome to have Arch
bishop Ireland made cardinal.
A fire in the business and residence
sections Of Rossland, British Columbia.
on August 25th did $4,000 damage.
Mount Allomonte, in Calabria, Italy.
has been in eruption since Aug. 22nd,
emitting showers Of stones and flames.
Sir Thomas Upton, of yachting fame,
had an automobile smashup a short
time since, but escaped with something
Of shock and a few slight bruises.
The British transport Staffordshire
has sailed from Hamilton, Bermuda,
for Cape Town with 1000 Beers who
had been prisoners in the detention
camps on that island.
Eight thousand harvesters have ar
rived in Winnepeg. OF the number
about 200 have gone to North Dakota,
and it is said the alien labor law ma
ehinery may be set in motion.
1t is reported that the recent expert
mental shipment Of two carloads Of
Georgia peaches to England was high
ly successful. The fruit arrived in fine
shape and brought handsome prices.
A territorial charter has been granted
to the Guthrie, Shawnee and Coal Gate
Railroad Company, with 81 100000 cap
ital, to build line from Guthrie west
ward to Beaver, distance of $50 miles.
Astronomer William H. Wright of the
astronomical staff of the Lick observa-
tory has been chosen to take charge OF
the D. o. Mills expedition now being
outfitted at Mount Hamilton, to spend
two years in Chile.
The Cuban government has recog-
niZed the contract made by the Ameri-
can military government of Cuba with
Mgr. Sbarretti, formerly bishop of Ha-
vana, in settlement of questions Of the
ownership Of church property.
The Chinese government has issued
an edict that the murderers of an Eng
lish missionary named Lewis, and an
Australian missionary named Bruce be
punished. The crimes were committed
at Chen Chou, in Hu Nan province.
Colorado has rival as presidential
hunting ground. When President
Roosevelt visits North Carolina this fall
he will be given bear hunt under the
leadership Of big Tom" Wilson, the
champion bear hunter of the state.
The principal part of Ruskin, little
town seven miles west of Waycross,
Georgia, was burned on the night of
August 25th. The town was formerly
the home of the Ruskin commonwealth
colony of socialists from Tennessee.
The White Star line steamer Cedric
of 21,OOO tons, the largest liner afioat,
was successfully launched at Harland
& Wolff's yards at Belfast, Ireland, Au-
gust 21st. Her carrying capacity is
1S, 400 tons and she has accommoda-
tons for 5000 passengers.
According to a recent survey ap-
proved by the Department of the Inte-
rior the important railroad town Of
Chickasaw is located in Oklahoma in
stead of Indian Territory. An appeal
will be made to the Supreme Court and
protracted litigation is expected.
At South Norwalk, Connecticut, Aug
ust 22nd, the worlds wagon record on
q half mile track was broken by pair
Of horses driven by their owner, e. 7.
Bedford of Green's Farm. The time for
the mile was 2:15h. The previous rec
ord was 2:16A, made in Toledo, Ohio.
Hiram Cron, the only soldier Of the
War of 1872 on the pension rolls, is dy-
Ing of old age at DunbrOOk, Oneida
county, New York, in his 1O3rd year.
For the past two years he has been
drowning a pension of $25 month un-
der a special act, having previously re-
ceived but $S.
The annual report Of Wilder s. Met
calf, pension agent at Topeka, Kansas,
shows for the first time in the history
of the Office falling Off in the amount
of money paid out for pensions. TIE
total amount disbursed from Topeka
for the fiscal year ending June Both,
was $15,905, 1850. ..
The largest shipment of cattle ever
taken across the Atlantic left Portland,
Maine, August 23d, on the steamship
Norsden of the Dominion line. In all,
there were 1,179 head of cattle and L.
1858 sheep. The ship carried eighteen
car loads of hay and grain to feed the
stock on their ten days passage to Liv-
erpool. .-.
The city OF Tampico, Mexico, in con-
junction with the state of rTamaulipas
and the federal government, has COM
Plcteu aAIuhSChhchto lOks'. shC. NOhStAoS@
ton of sewer and waterworks systems,
and has appropriated $3,OOO,OOO for
general street improvements. The con-
tract for both systems has been let to
New Yorker. 81
A determined effort to increase the
stock of chinook salmon in. the Colum-
bia river Is to be made by the state
and United States authorities. Fish
Warden Van Dusen announces that
during the coming year 6O,O00,O00
young salmon will be turned loose from
the hatcheries along the Columbia and
its tributaries.
! The Rome correspondent Of the Lon
don Daily Mil relates a curious story
of a recent agrarian riot at Cassano-
murge, near Bari, where 400 peasants
seized a large estate and began dividing
tha lands In n occordn npa with thair idpa q