Gilpin observer., 1906-03-08
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A waterspout descended upon Ma
hanora in the island of Madagascar
February 21st, entirely destroying the
village and drowning many persons.
The citizens of Bath, England, have
decided by vote of two to one
against the acceptance Of Andrew Car
negie's offer of $65,000 for a public
library.
Old North College at Middleton,
Connecticut, belonging to the Wes-
leyan University, was burned March
1st. 1t contained $50 rooms and was
erected in 1927.
The premier of Japan, Marquis
Saionji. temporarily will assume the
portfolio of foreign minister, made va
cant by the resignation recently OF
Count Takahiro Kato.
The San Francisco board OF super
visors has passed an ordinance fixing
the price of gas at s5 cents per 1000
feet and providing for ten per cent.
reduction in the water rate.
Dispatches have been received from
China by the congregation of the pro-
paganda at Rome, stating that five
Marist missionaries have been mas
sacred and their mission destroyed.
Reports from the Artega district,
state of Chihuahua, Mexico, state that
fines aggregating s127,000 have been
imposed on several miners of that dis
trict for infractions of the stamp law.
Perfect weather marked the annual
carnival celebration at New Orleans,
February 9th, and enormous crowds
witnessed the annual pageant OF his
majesty Rex. PromiscuOus masking
was general.
1t is asserted that the Pope has ex-
pressed his intention to hold a con-
sistory during the first fortnight OF
April and create some cardinals, as
there are now twelve vacancies in the
sacred college.
Judge Triebor, in the United States
Court at ST. Louis fined four members
of the Carpenters district council and
their organizer. adjudged to be in con.
tempt OF court, an aggregate, with
costs, Of $1,000.
The Russian Cabinet has decided td
establish local committees in the
provinces consisting Of officials,
zemstvoists and peasants to assist the
agrarian banks to devise means for the
more profitable working of the soil.
DR.. William Hill, who was present in
a professional capacity at the birth OF
William J. Bryan, and who was consul
at Sarnia, Canada, during Cleveland's
first administration, died at Blooming.
ton, Illinois, March lst, aged seventy.
seven years.
At a meeting March 1st the Mutual
Life directors took steps to sue the Nc
Curdys for $750,000. and will engage
Joseph II. Choate as counsel. They
also indorsed part Of the Armstrong
report and accepted the resignation oil
Stuyvesant Fish
Having accumulated a fortune estt
mated at upward of $1,O0O.OOO by In
vestments In Wall street. Thomas M
Hilliard, for many years manager oi
the WaldorfAstoria, has severed his
connection with that hotel and retired
from business life.
Fire at Bridgeport, Connecticut, on
the 27th ult., destroyed the big factory
of the Star Shirt Company, entailine
loss of $4,000. Seven hundred
women operatives were taken out
safely, but Mrs. Jennie Heaphy, aged
forty-two collapsed from excitement
and died.
Suit brought at Paris by Countess
Boni de Castellane formerly Anna
Could against her husband for sep
aration was reached upon the docket
of the first tribunal Of the Seine, but
the court adjourned the case for a
fortnight when a date for the hearing
will be fixed.
Castle Could" the magnificent
country place planned by Howard
Gould, will never be built. In court in
New York City, attorneys for Howard
Gould announced he had abandoned
the project. The jury, with colored
foreman, ordered Gould to pay $65,000
to the contractor.
Replying to questions in Parliament
the Japanese government announced
the intention OF adopting the two
Years conscription plan and explained
that while increasing the war estab
| lishment twenty-three per cent. 1t
would only involve an additional out
lay of $1,500.000.
Dr. OFT, King Edwards Marienbad
physician, has taken the occasion OF
his return from his visit to England
to publicly deny the rumors of the
kings illness. These, DR.. OFT declares,
are malicious inventions, possibly
traceable to political motives He says
King Edward was never in better
health than at present.
According to DIR. Thomas G. Allen,
who has given the chicago Medical
Society the results Of his study of VIC
lent deaths in that city, there have
been 759 murders in Chicago since
1899 With one-third of London's pop
ulation, Chicago's murder rate is eight
times that of London, and is said to be
the highest of any city in the civilized
world.
,he will of the late John A. Mccall
who for many years was president OF
the New York Life Insurance Com
pany has been filed for probate in New
York City. According to the petition
for the probate the estate Is valued "at