Idaho Springs siftings., 1905-02-04
CONDENSED IELEeRAMs

George Nixon is the newly elected
United States senator from Nevada.
Fire at Oberlin College January 31st
DESTROYED Baldwin cottage. the prin-
cipal ladies' dormitory. valued at $40.-
0o0
The Missouri State Senate has
passed bill repeating the law prohib-
itfng the use OF alum in baking pow
ders.
A cablegram from Santiago, Chill.
says that the first automobile has just
crossed the Andes at an elevation OF
$1,000 feet.
/ Postmaster James NJ. Hobson OF
Greensboro Alabama, father of Capt.
Richmond P. Hobson. died January
3lst. aged sixty-eight
The japanese recently captured OF
Hokkaido island, northern Japan. the
British steamer Wyfield. loaded with
contraband for Vladivostok
The directors OF the Lewis & Clark
Exposition Company have decided to
open the fair TO the public Sundays.
The Oregon Trail shows will be
closed.
Lady Curzon, wife OF the siceroy OF
India, has completely recovered from
her long Illness. and is preparing to
join her husband in India with their
children.
bill granting to women the righs
TO vote for presidential electors has
been favorably reported to the Kansas
House of Representatives. 1t is ex-
pected the bill will pass.
The police committee of the San
Francisco grand jury is unearthing
| regularly organized system of gross
police corruption in Chinatown and
numerous indictments are expected.
The Montana legislature has memor-
Ialized Congress to submit 10 the peo-
pie a constitutional amendment pro-
viding for the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people.
Gadsden and Attala. Alabama, expe-
rienced an earthquake shock during
the night of January 27th. Many citi-
zens were awakened. In some in
stances glassware was thrown from the
tables.
1t is announced that there is to be
a combination of the forty-three lead
ing telephone companies of the United
States and Canada under the tutelage
Of the American Telephone and Teie-
graph Company. the capitalization TO
be $3.50, ,o50, 900.
St. Petersburg dispath says the
report that Maxim Gorky. the celebrat-
ed novelist. may be hanged for high
treason is without the slightest foun-
dation. Even his friends declare the
rumor absurd. The expectation Is that
he will be released in few weeks.
The government shipped 55s boxes
of Philippine coins to Manila on the
transport Sherman February list.
These were old Spanish coins. re-
claimed by the government and re-
coined. amounting to 1856 900 pesos.
and also 10000 pesos in 20-centavos
pieces.
After twenty years service as
United States commissioner OF labcr.
Carroll ID. Wright retired from that Of
nee January 31st. leaving for Worces-
ter. Massachusetts,. to assume the pres
idency OF Clark College. His sue
cessor. DIR. c. p. Neill. has taken
charge of the Office.
Spencer Eddy. secretary OF the
American embassy at st. Petersburg
was nearly ridden down by cavalry.
having gotten between half d squad
ron OF Cossaeks charging a crowd. and
the crowd Itself. He ran three blocks
met the sleigh OF an acquaintance,
jumped on the footboard behind and
escaped.
Suits for damages aggregating al
most S2.500.000 have been brought
against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in the United States Circuit
Court by the Pennsylvania Coal and
Coke Company and the Webster Coal
and Coke Company on account OF al
legged discrimination against the plain
till companies.
II is stated at San Francisco that
the actual construction work Of the
Western Pacific railroad will begin
within two months and that a Gould
road to San Francisco promises to be
an accomplished fact soon. Rights Of
way and a San francisco terminal are
said to have been finally secured with
out fear of interference.
Fifty miles in thirty-eight minutes
fifty-one seconds was made in the Day
tona handicap In Florida January 31st
by w. II. Fletcher in f. r. Thomas
eighty horsepower automobile. The
race was In ten-mile stretches. with
two minutes control at each turn. w.
II. BOwden made a mile in thirty-two
and four-fifths seconds.
President Beckwith OF the defunct
Citizens National Bank at Oberlin,
Ohio, is reported in u serious condi-
tion. Beckwith has been i'll with heart
trouble ever since the close of the
bank on account OF the Chadwick
loans and has gradually grown weaker
It is believed he will not live to be
tried on the charges against him.
A statue has been erected In Fuller
ton Memorial hall at the art institute
at Chicago in honor Of DIR. Mary Harris
Thompson. DIR. Thompson was the
founder in 1865 Of the Mary Thomp-