Gilpin observer., 1906-07-05

Mason City, Ia, street car and inter-
urban lines has taken place.
TWO tanks of the Union Oil company
exploded at University Park, a few
miles north of Portland, Ore, with suf.
ficient force to shatter every window
within three quarters of a mile. The
cause is not known.
The corner stone for a new village
of Ottajano has been laid with cere-
mony upon the site of the village of
that name destroyed by the recent
eruption Of Mount Vesuvius.
In the wreck of a passenger train
at Salisbury, England, % passengers.
mostly Americans, and four trainmen
were killed and seven persons injured.
The train was loaded with 43 persons
who had landed from the steamer New
York.
c. H. Luling, superintendent Of in
surance for Kansas, has announced
that all insurance companies failing
to pay San Francisco losses in full
will be Immediately deprived of the
right to do business in Kansas.
The third Pan-American confer
ence, or, to be exact, the third inter-
national American conference, will
meet at Rio de Janeiro, capital of Bra
zil, July 21.
The Missouri supreme court has
rendered an opinion upholding the
right of suffrage for the old soldiers
in the federal home in St. James. Tho
right had been denied by decision of
the circuit court of Phelps county.
Attorneys for Ex-senator Burton
deny the rumor that an appeal will be
made to President Roosevelt for par.
don for Burton in case the supreme
court denies the request for a new
hearing.
After July 81 OF this year no more
saloons than are in existence can be
cpened in Chicago until the popula-
ton of the city is nearly double that
of the present time, according to an
ordinance passed by the city council.
The senate bill which repeals the
so-called 2S hour law, by fixing the
maximum of time in transit for stock
at SO hours upon the written request
of the owner or person in charge of
the particular shipment has passed.
The board of health has directed
the owners of 81 out of III slaughter
houses in various sections of Philadel-
phia to abandon their establishments.
Conditions, it is charged, were un-
sanitary.
The Nebraska, Kansas and Okla
homa headquarters Of the rural free
delivery department of the postoffice
will be removed from Omaha TO Kan
sas City.
Conferences are being held in
Washington by United States district
attorneys preparatory to filing the
criminal suits which are to be brought
by the government against the Stand
ard Oil company.
President Roosevelt has approved
the resolution passed by congress ex-
pressing the horror of the people of
the United States over the massacre
of Jews in Russia.
Lewis Embry Jr. has been nomina-
ted by the democrats of Pennsylvania
for governor. Mr.. Embry had pre-
viously Been nominated by the Lincoln
republicans for the same Office.
Nearly every building in the town
of Tittzewah, Ok, has been practi-
cally demolished by tornado. Many
people took refuge in cyclone caves
and no person was injured.
The correspondent at Constantinople
of the Standard reports that Turkey
has decided to take measures to sup
press tho Creek bands which are dis.
turbing Macedonia.
Attorney General Moody has directed
that suits be brought against a large
number of railroad companies to re-
cover penalties for violation of tha
safety appliance law.
1t is stated that Gar Nicholas will
attend with emperor William the en-
tire maneuvers of the German fleet
near the end of July.
John Clark, superintendent Of
Red Cross relief station in San Fran
cisco. has been arrested for selling
large quantities of relief blankets and
appropriating the money.
Seven tramps captured freight
train near Glendale, Ohio, and at the
point of revolvers forced the cre'v to
leave They ran the train ten miles
and then abandoned it.
Havard defeated Yale in the annual
varsity boat race at New London
Conn, by two lengths and half
Harvard's time was 23:02 and Yales
23:11.
The emperor Of Russia is now vir.
tually a prisoner in his palace, only
driving within the grounds. He is sur.
rounded only by his most trusted SER
wants and has the imperial yacht
always ready to sail at moments no.
tice. Wireless communication with
several fortresses is maintained.
Over two inches Of rain fell in Lon
don in eight hours recently constitute