Gilpin observer., 1902-02-13
SHORT rELEoRAMs.

loving cup by the citizens Of Nash
vile.
Mrs. DAILY has been appointed sole
trustee of the estate of the late Mar
Gus DAILY.
Fire caused loss of nearly $3,OOO,.
600 at Waterbury, Connecticut, on the
End and 3rd.
The British Parliament is again
wrestling with the bill allowing man
to marry his deceased wife's sister.
The first monthly instalment amount
ing to 1,S2O,OOO taels of the Chinese
indemnity was paid on the LIST to the
bankers committee of the powers at
Shanghai.
General Fred Funston will not have
to undergo another operation, but he
will have to remain at Kansas City
several days longer under treatment of
Dr. Il. s. Robinson, his physician.
BY the explosion of the boilers of the
towboat John w. Allies near Pittsburg
William Perry was killed outright,
four persons probably fatally injured
and five are still missing. Six others
were rescued from the icy waters.
The Archduke Frances Ferdinand,
heir presumptive to the throne of
Austria and Hungary, has gone to st.
Petersburg. The visit of the archduke
to the Russian capital is regarded as
being Of great political Significance.
A car loaded with silks, feathers,
millinery, furs and general merchan-
disc, said to be worth $4,000, sent out
by the American Express Company for
wholesale houses in New York to retail
ers in New Jersey towns, is reported
to have been looted.
The Minnesota State Board of Par
dons has refused to grant the petition
for an absolute pardon for James and
Cole Younger, and the two noted con-
victs have to remain in Minnesota be-
ing now out of prison on parole, but
limited to the state borders.
Mrs. Mary McKittich, who lived
alone in a dingy home at Greenwood,
New York, and who for many years
was supported by charity, died few
days ago and now various sums of
money, amounting in all to $4,000,
have been found secreted about the
house.
Early yesterday four masked men
entered the office of George Hill, con-
tractor of EliZabethport, New Jersey,
and after gagging watchman, carried
off $500 in money. The watchman,
in trying to free himself, was struck
over the head with Il piece of iron and
badly hurt.
The charred corpse of A. T. Vail,
pioneer rancher, was found in the ruins
Of his house at Arvapai canyon, eighty
five miles from Tucson, Ariz. 1t is be-
lieved that Apache Indians killed Vail.
looted the house and burned it. The
Indians are much dissatisfied on ac-
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their ratOns.
The agreement between the leading
British, American and continental
steamship lines concerning both pas
senger and freight rates, and which
raises saloon rates to a uniform mini
mum, will go into operation in a few
days. Sixteen lines have signed the
agreement which means an extension
Of the summer season of transatlantic
travel.
The Dowager Empress, the Emperor
and the Empress received the ladies'
and children of the diplomatic corps
the other day in the private apart
ments of the palace. Mrs. Conger,
wife of United States Minister Conger,
as doyeness of the diplomatic corps, !
and the Dowager Empress exchanged
speeches. The visitors afterward were
entertained at banquet, during which
the Dowager Empress and the En-
peror mingled freely with their guests.
Dean Meiklejohn of Brown Univer-
sity in his annual report dealing with
college registration, differs with Pres
ident Eliot of Harvard, by attributing
the increased registration Of Browns
students, in a measure, to athletic
prominence, especially when that
prominence comes through victories.
President Eliot, in his recent report,
said that success or failure in sports
has had no influence on registration at
Harvard e Yale.
1t is now said the retirement Of Lord
Salisbury from office will be coincident
with the end Of the South African war.
The st. James Gazette claims to have
the highest authority for saying 1.-The
premier has fixed the restoration Of
peace In South Africa as the appropri-
ate moment to resign office. II the
war is ended, Lord Salisbury will re-
tire ut the conclusion of the present
parliamentary session, but 1t il his
present intention to retain his post un-
til peace Is accomplished"
By the will Of the late NJ. Vagliano,
the island Of Cephalonia will benefit to
the extent Of about 100000 ($2,5OO,-
0OU, which sum will remain In the
London and Westminster bank and the
interest be transferred to Greece every
quarter. 1t was his wish that there
shall not be any poverty on the island
where he was born and for which he
already has done SO much. The bal.
ance of his personality, amounting to
something like f$3, 100000. will be d.
vided between his nephews.
Recognizing in tuberculosis an infec-
tious disease, the physicians of New
York are demanding the isolation of
consumptives for the protection of the
public, and to the end that the suffer-
ers may receive better treatment and
have every possible chance Of recov-