Gilpin observer., 1904-09-01
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seventeen persons were killed au0
more than 200 injured by the great
Minnesota tornado of August 21st.
DR.. Edward ]. James, president of the
Northwestern University, has been
elected president of the University OF
Illinois.
The German Veterans Association of
North America. in annual convention
at st. Louis. elected Julius Frame OF
Dallas. Texas, president.
The total internal revenue receipts
for July last were $40, ,405, ,04S, as COM
pared with 22,1OS,362 for July, 1903.
decrease of $1,703.31S
The Kansas City packing house stl4k-
ers contend that the packing houses
cannot legally run boarding houses for
their employees inside of the plants.
A Brussels correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News says that three French
submarine boats of the Dauphin type
have been forwarded to Vladivostok by
rail-
The new peso coined by the govern
ment for use in the Philippine islands
is said to be meeting with general IA
vor and rapidly displacing Spanish and
Mexican coins.
From the opening of the Worlds
Fair at St. Louis, April 31st, to Au-
gust 21st 7,655,S7S admissions were re-
corded. The average is now over 100.-
600 day.
With the names of several of the
most prominent men in Washington
among its trustees, a correspondence
university has been incorporated in
Washington city.
Miss Susan B. Anthony has returned
from Europe, where she attended the
congress of women at Berlin. She
thinks the cause of woman suffrage Is
gaining almost everywhere.
Since the completion of the drainage
canal. which has now been in use for
five years, Chicago reports a notable
reduction in deaths from impure water
diseases. The dow is 10000 cubic feet
. minute.
At conference just closed between
President Escalon of Salvador. Presi-
dent Zelaya of Nicaragua. the three
presidents signed an agreement to
maintain peace in the Republics of Cen
trai America.
Hannah E. Van .Wart Pessinger. a
granddaughter of Isaac Van Wart. one
of the three patriots who captured
Major John Andre on the Tarrytown
AOou IA 4too, ulSu august SSus ~ ASA
home in Brooklyn. New York.
+ The government report of the condi-
ton of the crops in Prussia on August
18th, using one as very good, two as
good. three as middling and four as
bad, is: Winter wheat, 81; Summer
wheat, 20; winter rye. 2.6; summer
rye. 3.3.
The property loss in the great st.
or,1 odn If H.
gust goth is estimated at $2,550. 900.
divided as follows: st. Paul park.
$1.7S0. 900; Minneapolis. $500. 600; Still
water. 100000; Waconia. $4,000;
country districts, 100000.
The completion of the Galveston sea
wall was celebrated August 22d by run
ming excursions from different parts OF
the state Of Texas to Galveston. Gov
ernOr Lanham was present and made
an eulosistic address, commenting on
the work which has been accomplished.
A hurricane did great damage in the
northeast part of South Dakota on the
night of August 21st, three being
killed and thirty or more injured. AT
Willow Lakes, a smaA town in Hamlin
county. every building was wrecked.
A good deal Of damage was done at
Bryant.
Mrs. Caroline Boles Ely, q we'll
known writer. died in New York City
August 23d She was seventy-nine years
old and was the widow OF Col. Geo. B.
Ely, an attorney of Madison, Wisconsin,
who organized company and after
ward commanded regiment in the ia
nous Iron Brigade during the Civil
War.
Owing to a disagreement between
the designer. Nat Herreshoff OF Rhode
Island. and representatives Of the Ger
man emperor over plans for new
schooner yacht after the model Of the
schooner yacht Ingomar. construction
has been delayed. 1t is believed the
boat will be started in the fall or win
ter of 1905.
The rigor of the Russian divorce
laws, which formerly did not allow a
husband or wife guilty Of adultery to
marry again except after seven years
irreproachable conduct, has been mod
fled by the holy synod making the Pc
Rod two years in case the Offenders
agree to do public penance, according
to the direction of their bishops.
A tornado struck the township OF
Rich Valley and Bergen in Minnesota
Saturday night August goth, killing
four persons. Mary O'Donnell, aged 13,
daughter of Patrick O'Donnell. and the
7-year-old son Of Anthony ODonnell
and Frederick Gross and his mother.
and destroying thousands Of acres OF
grain and many barns, houses and
sheds.
Extensive violations of the customs
laws have been unearthed at San Fran
cisco by customs inspectors who
searched the United States naval trans
port Solace, which arrived from Man
lila, Guam and Honolulu. Forty-one
seizures were made, amounting In
value to several thousand dollars. In