Gilpin observer., 1905-02-02
CONDENSED TELEcRAhs

Senator John Kean has been re-
elected in New Jersey.
The Cleveland Electric Railway
Company has inangurated test Of g.
cent fares within q limited zone.
| Recent earthquakes in Greece de-
stroyed q village in Thessaly and
foods did q great deal of damage in
Sparta.
King Victor Emmanuel has signed a
decree comforting the Grand Gordon Of
the Crown Of Italy on Whitelaw Reid
Of New York.
Three distinct shocks of earthquake
at Santiago. Cuba, January 22d, caused
much excitement. though no serious
damage was done.
The Russian government has or
dered the Ludwig Loewe arms factory
in Germany to supply, as soon as pos
sible, 500 machine guns.
s. R. Beckwith, who was President
Garfield's family physician at the. time
of his assassination, died a few days
ago at Atlantic City. New Jersey.
Thomas A. Edison is recovering
mastoid abscess behind his left ear.
He had a similar trouble a few years
ago.
John Randolph Bull, who died Jan
uary goth at Bayonne. New Jersey, was
q veteran Of two wars and an init
mate friend Of General Lafayette and
Henry Clay.
A few cases of yellow fever are re,
ported to exist in the Panama canal
zone and there is some fear expressed
that panic may result in an exodus
Of the canal builders.
A Greek band January 31st defeated
eighty Bulgarians near Chesgeli, kill
ing or wounding thirty. Bulgarian vii
layers of the same district are fleeing
to the mountains in fear of the Greeks.
The national House Of Representa-
tives has appointed Friday, February
18th next, as the date for holding ap-
propriate exercises in statuary hall, &C.
cepting the statue of Frances E. Will
lard.
The main building, which includes
the dormitory, of the Roger Williams
University for Negroes at Nashville,
Tennessee, was destroyed by fire on
the night of January oath. Loss,
100000.
The national convention of the
United Mine Workers of America at
Indianapolis to-day adopted resolu
ton forbidding membership to all sa.
/ loonkeepers, owners of saloons or bar
keepers.
On the night of January 21st Charles
Tuxhorn, q farmer living near Nc
Pherson, Kansas. killed his two sons.
young boys aged six and ten years,
burned his house and barn with all OF
their contents, and then shot and
killed himself
It has been decided by the executive
committee Of the National Amateur
Skating Association that all skaters
who enter events under the rules or
direction of the association must be
registered the same as in the ranks OF
the Amateur Athletic Union.
The suicide Of Charles H. House.
man. cashier OF the East Side Savings
Bank at Columbus, Ohio, precipitated
. run on the bank and q receiver was
appointed. The assets are given at
$3.50, 900; liabilities $423. 800, of which
1884. 400 are individual deposits.
Dr.. Livingston Farrand, professor Of
anthropology at Columbia University.
has been named as head Of the Ma
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis. organized
less than a year ago at q meeting Of
the National Medical Association.
Campbell Russell. one of the best
known stockmen of the Southwest, has
fled a petition in bankruptcy. His la
biiities are placed at $113,16 and as
sets at $89,747. He is a leading breeder
of Hereford cattle and founded the
town of Russell, Indian Territory.
At the Santa Fe meeting in Topeka
practically no opposition was mani
tested by the stockholders to the prop
osition of increasing the common
stock OF the company and issuing $780,
I 600, 900 convertible bonds. The COM
mon stock is increased from $102 ,000,-
900 to $152 100000.
George Foster Peabody banker and
treasurer Of the Democratic national
committee, is reported to have broken
down physically and is now at his
farm home in northern New York. He
Is not seriously i'll. but the physi-
! clans have ordered him to take a long
rest and a change Of scene.
Henry Phipps. business associate of
Andrew Carnegie and one of. the d.
rectors Of the United States Steel
| Corporation, has decided to make his
model tenement house" philanthropy
q triangular enterprise by including in
It the cities OF Philadelphia and Allie
cheney, as well as New York.
At a meeting Of the paper and wood
pulp manufacturers Of Canada, 1t was
unanimously resolved that, In the in
terests Of the Dominion. and espe-
cially OF the province Of Quebec. ev.
| cry effort should be made to secure
the enactment Of legislation to pro-
hibit the export Of logs and pulp
wood.
The trustees of the Peabody educa-
ton fund, at their meeting in Wash