Gilpin observer., 1904-08-25
CONDENSED TEIEcRAns THE FARM AND RANGE

Forest nres have been raging In Mon
tana.
Former Premier Wsldeck- Rousseau
Of France died near Paris on the 10th
Inst.
Telephone lineman at work in Penn
sylvania recently destroyed $50 rattle
snakes with dynamite.
The Republican state convention to
select candidates for the state ticket
| will be held at Saratoga September
14th.
DR.. Dowie and his son rescued three
young women from drowning in Lake
Michigan the other day at the risk OF
their lives.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Decoy sank OF the Sicily islands as the
result Of a collision with another des-
troyer. The crew was saved.
The governess Of Thomas A. Edison's
children recently committed suicide
with poison, due to anxiety from fear
that the children would be Kidnapped.
A supplementary report of Admiral
Togo's casualties in the battle with the
{, Port Arthur squadron, August 10th, in
! creases the total of killed and wound
ed to 225.
The supreme lodge, which is the bus
iness department OF the Knights Of Py-
thias. opened its sessions at Louisville
| (Kentucky) on the 10th. The atten-
dance was large.
| The farm house of B. A. Bowling,
near Perth, Oklahoma, was struck by
lightning and burned on the I7th. Four
members of the family were burned to
death in the house.
| An unknown Italian who attempted
to kidnap Helen White, a child five
years old, narrowly escaped lynching
in Allegheny. and was only saved from
nertous injuries by the arrival Of the
police.
According to the London Shipping
| Gazette, Japan has just ordered two
large battleships of twenty-three knots
from Vickers, Maxim & Armstrong, in
addition to the battleship already build
ing there.
4! Sherman M. Booth, one OF the orig
tnal abOlitiOntsts Of the middle West
died at Chicago August 10th, aged nine
ty two years. Mr.. Booth conducted
several newspapers before and after the
Civil War
| Attaches of the immigrants free la
Dor bureau at New York estimate that
10000 domestic servants are needed in
this city and 1t is stated that the de-
mands of housekeepers seeking help
J are far in excess of the supply.
4 Former Gov. Elihu Jackson has been
nominated for Congress by the Demo-
Gratis Of the First Maryland district.
Ex-Governor Jackson's opponent will
be his brother, William H. Jackson.
the present Republican representative.
The news that Gen. Rafael Reyes
had assumed the presidency of Colom-
bia was received with satisfaction in
J all circles at Panama. 1t Is believed
/ that diplomatic relations between Pan
anna and Colombia will be established
soon. Al
The American line announces that
the steerage rate to Philadelphia will be
! $3.50 Instead of $40. This reduction
caused CONSERVATION among the lines
] ly that they will do anything at pres
ent to combat it.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
has entered upon the second half VI its
| entire period and the total attendance
up to date. in round numbers, is 7,OOO.-
900. 1t is believed that the second half
will even more than triple the attend
ance so far recorded.
1t is reported that Nine Janauschek.
the aged actress, who has been Ill at
the Actors Fund home at Staten Island,
has suffered relapse and been re-
moved to a sanitarium at Amityville.
Long Island. for special Treatment. She
is a victim Of paralysis.
In a ruling by Judge H. NJ. Somer-
vile the board of United States general
! appraisers has decided that chickens
are not household effects. In so doing
the board overruled a claim OF Mrs. f.
| Lamarre Of Port Townsend. Washing
ton, for free entry OF coop Of chickens.
Disastrous conHagrations are occur
ring in hungary in consequence OF the
! prolonged drouth. Hundreds of houses
/ in the aggregate have been destroyed
by fire in various villages during the
past week, in which from fifteen to
twenty persons have been burned to
death.
| The supreme council of Catholic
Knights OF America in session at st.
Louis adopted new insurance rates, ef-
fective November 1st and decided that
saloonkeepers and liquor dealers could
! be admitted to the order, with the pro-
viso that such members be placed in
the extra hazardous" class.
! A special train from Cincinnati bound
for Coronado Beach. California. and
running as the second section Of No.
5, on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway, was ditched one miles east OF
| Scranton, Kansas. on the 17th. One
person was fatally injured. fve were
hurt seriously and six others sustained
slight injuries.
Emperor William has given his Am
erican built yacht Meteor to the crown
prince. 1t is expected that the emper-
or's new yacht. to be built by the
| Herreshoffs at Bristol. Rhode Island.
will be ready in time for the Kiel races