Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-02-06
SHORT rELEeRAms.


create fuel famine in Manila.
Forty persons were killed February
LIST by an explosion of ten tons OF gun
powder al Fort Bhatinda. In the Pun
jab. British India
Henry Phipps, the steel magnate. has
donated $50. 900 to the Johns Hopkins
hospital to establish separate depart
, ment for eonsumptiyes,
ThS anniversary OF the execution OF
King Charles l. January 80. l6i6. was
observed by several Episcopal churches
in Boston and vicinity.
The Southern Pacific company is pre-
pairing TO install the block system in
| signaling on the mountain division OF
| its northern overland route.
W Bourke Cochran has been nomin-
| ated as the Democratic candidate Tor
| Congress TO succeed George Is. McClei-
ian in the Twelfth New York dis
| triet
The Deutsche Tage Zeitung says that
! Emperor William viii embark at kiei
March 6th on his projected visit 10 the
south Of Europe, arriving at Palermo
| March 18th.
a Berlin dispatch says that Count
Sepheiu has begun the construction oil
a new airship. His call Tor financial
assistance brought him subscriptions
amounting 10 slt2,500,
Bostons death rate Of Il 60 per 1000
| inhabitants last year was the lowest
since 1873. when the first attempt 10
| keep reliable records was made The
| rate in 1902 was Is. 70.
AT Bessemer. in the copper district
OF northern Michigan. the temperature
| on January 2sth Tell to forty eight de-
grees below zero and cattle were frozen
stin in some OF the barns.
| On February LIST Mime. Nordica. the
prima donna tho in private life Is Mrs.
/ Lillian NJ. Doeme. WAS granted an IN
terlocutory decree OF divorce by Justice
| Bisehon. in the Supreme Court OF New
\ York
The National Editorial Association.
in accordance with definite arrange
ments. completed by the executive com
/ mitt..e. will hold its nineteenth annual
convention in st. Louis May 18th. 18th.
18th and 18th
A pulpit made from wood brought
| from the forests OF Virginia is soon to
be placed in St. Georges Church AT
Grayesend. England. in commemora-
ton of Princess Pocahontas. who is
buried in the ehancel.
For four successive years Nine. Am
ynot, at Hyeres in the south OF France.
has given birth to a boy ON the 10Th oi
January The first was in 1900. and
ON every January 25th since. she has
punctually repeated the feat.
George Hermann. the ex-inspector
OF constabulary. who robbed the gov
ernment and fled from MisaInis. Ainda-
mao. and was subsequently, captured al
Bayanan. has been convicted and SEN
fenced to thirteen years imprison-
ment.
The protected cruiser Charleston was
successfully launched AT the yard or
the Newport News Shipbuiiding and
Dry Dock Company January 23d. Miss
Helen w Rhetf. daughter OF Mayor X.
c. Rhett OF Charleston. christened the
vessel.
A dispatch received at Vienna from
Sofia, Bulgaria, says that the chiefs OF
the Macedonian revolutionary organiz-
alton in the interior have sent out cir
culars 10 the members of the organiza-
tion ordering a renewal OF the insur-
rection.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application OF President
ganize the Bankers Worlds Fair Ma
tional Bank. to be located on the
grounds of the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position.
A Manila dispatch says that the act
for maintaining the parity OF the cur
rency has passed II provides for the
purchase of Mexican silver coin as bull
lion and imposes tax on all contracts
l e.ff not
Der l. 1904.
Two years ago the body of a man
drowned near Bemidji. Minnesota. was
! buried as that Of James Pratt. Pratt
| returned last month TO learn that he
was mourned as dead. He left for the
Pacific coast on the day of the supposed
drowning and failed to write home.
Professor Gussenbauer. one Of the
| leading surgeons of Austria. has con-
| Quoted successfully experiments with
| radium for enlargement of the gullet
| in cases of cancerous contraction of the
esophagus. thereby obyiating the
| necessity of recourse to artificial noar-
| ishment.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has
quashed the indictments against ex-
| Mayor Ames of Minneapolis. who was
| sentenced to six years Imprisonment
for receiving money for the protection
| of criminals. The court held that he
was Illegally convicted and he is
| therefore set free.
II. ID. Stevens of Seattle was frozen
\ In an Alaska blizzard near Barclay
| Point, January 18th. His companion.
II. /. Frivold of Kayak. had both
hands frozen. and after Stevens death
managed to struggle to cabin two
| miles distant. where he was found
| three hours later.
| James Walters. alleged to be one of
! the most successful diamond thieves in
/ the United States. was arrested at
l MinneanoIiS on January 23d as he