Gilpin observer., 1904-11-24
CONDENSED TELEcRAns

The French postal department has
decided to replace its mail coaches by
electric motor cars.
Mrs. Will Carleton. wife Of the poet
author, died suddenly on the 11th inst,
at her home in Brooklyn.
The Santa Fe railway is estimated
to have lost $1.OOO.0OO by the recent
floods in New Mexico and Arizona.
The bill to abolish capital punish
ment In Vermont passed the house of
representatives by vote Of 1853 to 83.
William Mayer of Mount Carroll, IL
linois, lost his hon,s by betting on Par
ker and committed suicide by hanging.
The st. Louis Worlds Fair officials
have repaid to the United States sub
treasury the entire government loan Of
$4,600,000.
Thomas Richardson, magistrate of
Henry county, Virginia, was found fro
zen to death on the public highway
few days ago.
Nine scouts Of the constabulary and
one American attached to the hospital
corps have been killed in an ambush
on the east coast of Samar.
Serious characterization riots have
Troops were called out and seven per.
sons killed and thirty wounded.
| A bronze statue of Robert Treat
Paine, one of the signers Of the Dec
laration of Independence, was un-
yelled at Taunton, Massachusetts. on
the 18th inst
1t is officially announced that the
Seoul-Fusan railway was completed.
/ Tv.of f1n will anfv, 1cf
time between Toxic and Seoul will
then be fifty hours.
William L. Douglas. the newly
elected acknowledgements Of Massa-
chusetts, gave the Democratic state
committee $4,000 for campaign ex-
penses and thinks he got off easy.
The Kansas City. Mexico & Orient
railway into Wichita, Kansas, opened
for business November 18th. Contracts
have been let for the construction OF
522 miles of road from Wichita toward
Kansas City.
President Roosevelt will recommend
to Congress that authority be given
the Philippine commission to revise
the tariff now in force in those islands.
Since it has been in effect many
changes have become necessary for
the development Of the islands.
Rev. DR.. Herbert Welch, pastor of
the First Methodist Episcopal Church
at Mt. Vernon, New York, has been
chosen by the trustees a. the new
president of Ohio Wesleyan university,
succeeding Rev. ]. w. Bashford. who
last spring was elected bishop.
The Chinese government has under
taken, in return for certain conces-
l cfnne q IN rnniccinn and a1cnlatfnn
Of interest, to pay the whole Of the
national indemnity of 1901 on gold
basis. The powers are certain to &C.
cept the proposals.. which are unex-
pectedly favorable.
The missionary committee Of the
Methodist Episcopal convention at
Boston voted unanimously to appro-
pirate s1,220,000 for missionary work
during the coming year, and that this
sum be so divided as to give SOL, 500
for work in the foreign field, and S51SI-
500 for domestic work.
The American consul at Kharput, Dr.
Thomas H. Norton, has been instructed
to proceed to the Turko-Persian from
tier and watch the operations OF the
Turkish and Persian authorities who
have undertaken to arrest the murder
ers of the American missionary, Rev.
B. w. Labare, who was killed in April
last.
The straw vote in the American
colony of Mexico City. which was par
ticipated in by many Of the colony.
demonstrated conclusively the choice
Of Roosevelt for President. All had
supposed that the colony would go
overwhelmingly Democratic. The re-
suit was: Roosevelt, 355, Parker ais.
Swallow 10. Debs 10, Watson 4.
A Vancouver, B. c., newspaper says
that DR.. Neil S. Phelps, Of Battle
Creek. Michigan, the scientist and for
mer millionaire, who mysteriously dis
appeared year ago, has been quietly
living in Vancouver nearly the whole
of that time under the name of DIR.
Fields. His identity was discovered
by q photograph published in Chi
cago paper and he suddenly disap-
peared.
The following are among the appro-
priations made by the Methodist Mis-
sionary committee at the conference
in Boston: For colored work, mostly
in the South, $27.500; for work
among whites in Alaska, $4,000; in
California, $500. During the week a
total of nearly $1.537,00 was appro-
priated to mission work carried on in
thirty foreign countries and In sixteen
languages In the United States.
At Pekin. November 18th the Ameri-
can, Austrian, German, Russian and
Belgian ministers were received in
audience in the forbidden city, and
presented the dawager empress with
autograph letters from their respec.
tive rulers, congratulating her on her
birthday. The other ministers will
present letters later. The dowager
empress will send her portrait to the
rulers who noticed her birthday.
Gabriel Syv-ton, the Nationalist dep
uty who struck War Minister Andre in