Gilpin observer., 1906-06-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings C the
Past Seven Days.
= -terestsnE Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the
Beneht of Our Readers,
PERSONAL.


| as United States senator from Kansas,
the appointment.
Judge A. w. Benson has been ap-
f; pointed by Gov. Hoch to be United
States senator from Kansas to succeed
]. r. Burton. Judge Benson has ac-
cepted the appointment.
Mr.. and Mrs Nicholas Longworth
have reached London, where they will
spend the first two weeks of their
| European outing.
Congressman Hepburn was renomi
mated by acclamation by the republi-
cans of the Eighth Iowa district.
Gov. Folk, of Missouri. has been ap-
pointed chairman of the reception
committee which is to tender BAN
quet to William ]. Bryan on his ar
| rival at New York from his trip
around the world.
Rev. f. E. Price, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Ottawa, Kan, has
been selected by the board of trustees
as president of the university in that
city.
Joe S. Trigg, founder of the Rock
ford Register, editor of the Iowa State
! Register and Leader, weekly, died at
his home at Rockford, Iowa, Wednes
day.
The honorary degree of L. L. D. has
been conferred upon Gov. Folk by the
Missouri state university.
| Col. Charles A. Clark, of Cedar
Rapids, has been elected commander
| of the Iowa department of the G. A. r
for the ensuing syear.
With simplicity and complete alb
sence of ostentation, in accordance
| with his expressed wish, the funeral
| Of the late Senator German was held
| from the family residence in Washing.
| ton.
George w. Sutherland, who is said
to have been the first union man to
reach the top of Lookout mountain
in the battle above the Clouds" died
recently at his home in Clintonville
| Wis.
| Gov. Folk of Missouri has accepted
an invitation to preside at a meeting
in New York which will welcome
William j. Bryan on his return from
his trip around the world.
| CONVERSATIONAL.
A good roads bill has been intro
duced in the house by Representative
Rhodes, of Missouri, appropriating
$50,000,000 to be expended on public
roads in the various states.
Representative Fulkerson Of Missou-
ri, has introduced a resolution calling
on the president and secretary of agri-
culture to Immediately make public all
information possible regarding the
packing houses and the meat products
prepared there.
The bill dividing the Usage Indian
lands and funds has been favorably
reported to the senate.
The president has signed the dena-
tured alcohol bill.
| Former Gov. Williams P. White, of
Maryland, has been appointed to sue
ceed the late Arthur Pue German in
the United States senate.
The president mas sent to congress
the report of the agricultural depart
ment experts regarding conditions In
the Chicago meat packing houses, ac-
companied by letter in which he
points out that there is no conflict
| in substance between the Neill-Rey-
nolds report and that of the depart
ment experts.
According to Representative Hep
burn, Speaker Cannon has definitely
promised that the pure food bill will
be taken up at the present session OF
congress.
| After a long discussion the senate
voted to insist on its amendments TO
the railroad rate bill and sent it back
| to conference, naming the same con-
ferees as before.
| The house committee on agriculture
| has granted the request of the meat
packers for a hearing to answer the
charges contained in the Neill-Rey-
nolds report recently sent to congress.
miscellaneous.
Trade OF the United States with Ja-
pan is greater than with any
other Oriental country. amounting in
1905 to $106,0O0,000.
More than 10000 Christian Scientists
from all parts of the world attended
the dedication of the new $1,0O00 900
temple erected by that denomination
at Boston.
Eleven men were killed and five 9TH
ers badly injured by the explosion Of
dynamite plant near Pequea, Pa.
The city of Chicago has inaugurated
rigid inspection of the packing
houses and stock yards in that local
ity.
The Pennsylvania republicans have
nominated Edwin s. Stuart, former
mayor of Philadelphia, as their candi-
date for governor.
Three gunboats captured by Admiral
Dewey at the battle of Manila were
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