Gilpin observer., 1902-06-26
SHORT TELEeRAMs.

tnat General Gomez was bribed not to
run for the presidency of Cuba.
1t is announced at Madrid that the
Spanish government has decided to ap-
point a minister to the Cuban Repub-
lie.
The government printers at Afhnila-
have petitioned that their salaries shall
be paid in gold instead of Mexican sill
yer.
The official count of the vote in the
Oregon election shows that Chamber
lain, Democrat, for governor has a ma
jority Of 256.
Naval Constructor HobsOn has been
given three months leave Of absence
on account of eye trouble and Is likely
to be retired.
Unprecedented cold weather for June
is reported from Germany and Aus
tria and cold rains are damaging crops
in many localities.
Alexander City, Ala, place of 1,5OO
Inhabitants, was entirely destroyed by
fire on tine 18th inst, the loss being es-
timated at $750,OOO.
The Cuban Senate has approved the
bill fixing President Palma's salary
at $4,000 a year, and that Of Senor
Estevez, the vice president, at $4,000.
The degree of doctor of jurisprudence
will be conferred upon Grover Cleve-
land by the Augustinian College of st.
Thomas at Villa Nova, Pennsylvania.
There is no truth in the statement
published in the United States that an
anarchist plot to assassinate Emperor
Francis Joseph was discovered in VI
emma.
Two sharp earthquake shocks were
held at Newport, Ore, on the night of
the 14th inst, one at p. M, and an
other at l a. M, but no damage is re-
ported.
By a recent agreement all disputes
that may arise between the team own
ers and employees Of Chicago and the
teamsters will be submitted to arbi-
tratOn.
The Prince of Wales held a unique
coronation review on the Horse Guards
parade recently of 1900 boys gathered
from all parts of the kingdom, belong
ing to the boys brigade connected with
the various churches.
A recent dispatch from Cape Town.
South Africa, says: Unprecedented
snowstorms have swept over the mid
lands. Trains are blockaded by a six
graph wires are down.
Mary Custis Lee, daughter of the
late General Robert E. Lee, was re-
Gently arrested and mulcted in the sum
of So for riding in the car set apart
for negroes on the train between WASH
ington and Alexandria.
The Manila Chamber of Commerce
has presented to General Chaffee a set
of resolutions expressing the regard
with which General Chaffee and the
army in the Philippines are held by the
business men of Manila.
1t is said that John Wanamaker,
of Philadelphia, is trying to buy the
Palmer House property in Chicago with
view to erecting twenty-story build
ing and establishing the largest depart
ment store in the world.
Farms of Nevada on June 1, 1900. ac-
| cording to n census bulletin on agricul-
ture in that state. numbered 2.1S4, and
were valued at S15.615,710 The gross
farm income in 1899 was 5,1S5. 1877 and
the gross income on investment 1S per
cent.
The tax reformers Of Pennsylvania
have organized a tax reform league
! and have started propaganda work to
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stitution along the lines of the Austria
lasian tax amendment soon to be voted
| on in Colorado.
New York to Chicago in nineteen
hours ard fifty-seven minutes-that is
the record time made by the new fast
trains put into service by the Lake
Shore and Pennsylvania railroads June
| 18th. The twenty-hour schedules over
both were more than equaled.
The Democratic convention in Illi-
nois adopted platform that hedges on
| the silver question. The resolutions
| deplore the death of William McIin-
ley. our ''much-loved, mourned Presi-
| dent" and of John p Altgeld, who
| died fighting for human freedom"
Prince Henry of Prussia has made
glad the hearts of Mr.. and Mrs. Chris
topher Blum of New York by consent
ing to act as godfather by proxy of
their twins, who were born the day
Emperor Williams yacht was
launched and named William and
| Henry.
According to census bureau report
Just issued on the agriculture OF the In.
dian Territory, 45,505' farms were
enumerated there ON June l, 1900, and
We're valued at $46.S63. 40 The gross
farm income in 1899 was 500. .237 .992.
and the gross income on investment 2J
per cent.
In the course of a recent lecture be.
fore tho Royal Institution of Great
Britain. William Marconi announced
that he had invented highly sensitive
magnetic detecter of electric waves. by
which 1t was possible to read about
thirty words per minute in wireless
telegraphy.
1t is suggested in Paris that. in order
to commemorate the sympathy shown
by President Roosevelt and the United
States In the recent Martinique catas-
trophe. n street OF Paris should be
named Rue de President Roosevelt. n
| plate helng aflixed nj each end of ihe