Gilpin observer., 1903-04-30
SHORT 1Ei-EoRAMs.

making tour OF Algeria.
The house formerly owned by Pres
1dent Kruger at Pretoria has been sold
for $4,000.
A dispatch from The Hague says that
Queen Wilhelmina is expecting an heir
to the throne.
Important improvements are to be
made on the State University grounds
at Boulder next summer.
Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons, wife of the
former heavyweight champion pugilist.
died at her home in Brooklyn, New
York. April 18th, of pneumonia.
Among the documents captured from
the Filipino insurgents is one endorsed
in the handwriting of Aguinaldo with
instructions to kill General Otis.
Premier Balfour, in a letter to an
inquirer, emphatically repudiates any
intention on the part of the govern
ment of giving home rule to Ireland.
The Twenty-third infantry, 1000
strong, under command of Col. ]. NJ.
Thompson, left Plattsburg. New York.
April Goth, for the Philippines via San
Francisco.
D. w. Hitchcock, general agent OF
the Union Pacific passenger depart
ment at San Francisco, has applied for
retirement under the recently adopted
pension system.
Sir Thomas Upton says that the loss
of the Shamrock Ills mast in a squall
will not delay the international yacht
race. The damage can be repaired in
three or four weeks.
An epidemic of typhoid fever has
broken out at the Stanford University
in California. More than 100 cases
have been reported from the university
and town of Palo Alto.
The residence of the late Gen. Philip
H. Sheridan in Washington city which
was presented to him by admirers
throughout the country, has been sold
by Mrs. Sheridan for S55 1000.
In its official report of the distress in
northern Sweden, the central relief
committee at Stockholm says the funds
at the disposal of the committee are
sufficient, provided the growth of the
pasturage is not retarded.
Senator w. A. Clark has purchased
the Traction company at Los Angeles
as a nucleus for the Southern Pacific
syndicate's operations in competition
with II. E. Huntington for supremacy
Ten workmen engaged in making a
tunnel on the Mexican Central extern
sion at Tuxpam, in the state of Jelisco,
recently lost their lives in a cave-in
caused by several earthquake shocks
coming in rapid succession.
A snowstorm lasting for thirty hours
covered nearly all middle Europe April
18th and goth. Many ancient trees were
uprooted in the imperial park at Pots
dam, some of them dating from the
time of Frederick the Great.
According to tradition, April 21st
was the 2,656th anniversary of the
foundation of Rome, termed Rome's
birthday. Prince Colonna, the mayor
of Rome. received thousands of tele-
grams wishing the eternal city a glor-
ious future.
A Hong Kong dispatch says that the
famine in Kwangsi province is killing
tens of thousands of persons and wom-
en- there are selling themselves into
slavery to escape starvation. The
American consul at Canton has inaug
urated a relief fund.
King Edward has appointed a royal
commission to inquire into the question
of the importation of food in time of
war and other similar subjects. The
Price of Wales is a member Of the
commission and Lord Balfour of Bur-
leigh is its chairman.
The correspondent of the London
Daily Mail at Copenhagen says it is
expected that the Norwegian govern
ment will take steps to check the emf
grafton to the United States, which
threatens to denude the country of its
best class of working population.
On account of i'll health. Andrew
White. former ambassador to Germany.
has declined to serve as one of the
United States commissioners at the
Forthcoming monetary conference, thus
confining the delegation to the three
persons already named, Messrs. Conant,
jerks and Hanna.
Serious damage was done by tor
nado at st. Paul. Neosho county, Kan
sas, on the night OF April 18th. Mrs.
David Graham and three members of
a family named Longham were thought
to be fatally injured. Near Cherryvale
the two-year-old child OF Stanley Fos-
ter was fatally hurt.
The Mexican Monetary Commission
is receiving thousands OF replies to 8
circular sent out asking for state
ment of the amount of cash and silver
pesos on hand March 3lst. Up to date
the amount is s5s.000,000. The general
estimate of bankers is that the amount
of pesos in circulation is $b05 ,000. 900.
The new United States armored
cruiser West Virginia was successfully
launched at the Newport News ship
building yards April 18th. The daugh-
ter of Governor White of West Virginia
officiated as sponsor. The new cruiser
is a sister ship to the California and
Pennsylvania and will carry forty
seven officers and 7S3 seamen and ma
rines.
Secretary Root has directed the
court martial Of number of army Of
ficers In Alaska who have been charged