Gilpin observer., 1906-04-12
CONDENSED rELEGRAMs

embezzlement of Indiana state funds
to the amount of 100000, has been
landed in the penitentiary.
Executive officials of the western
railroads in conference at Chicago de-
c1ded to run homeseekers' excursions
to the Northwest every Tuesday dur.
ing the coming coming summer.
The keel was laid at the docks of the
American Shipbuilding Company, Bay
City, Michigan, April I'd, for the big
gest vessel ever built for the great
lakes. The vessel will be 620 feet long.
Larry Rogers who recently perjured
himself telling the New York district
attorney of a pilot to assassinate Rev.
c. H. Parkhurst," has been sentenced
to seven years and six months in Sing
Sing.
President Roosevelt will deliver his
Memorial Day address this year before
the Army and Navy Union at Norfolk.
Virginia. The ceremonies there will be
held at the navy yard and in the sail.
ors' cemetery.
At the meeting of the executive
board of the National Council of
Women at Toledo, the bill for the Gre
alton of the United States Children's
Bureau was indorsed and it's immedi-
ate passage urged.
Convinced that the Yaqui war in So
nora has been abetted by Americans
importing firearms into Mexico for the
use of the Indians, the Mexican govern
ment has issued blanket order eX-
cluding all weapons.
The Prussian government has pub
lished bill for the construction Of
twenty-four secondary railways and
double-tracking twenty-seven existing
roads, and for other purposes, the total
cost being $54,200,000.
Physicians at Cincinnati kept Joseph
H. Wilson alive for three days after
he had taken poison to end his life,
and thus prevented the accomplish
ment of his wish to die before his
$4,000 insurance policy expired.
The trial trip of the protected
cruiser st. Louis, built at Philadelphia
by the Neafie & Levy company.
showed a speed of twenty-five and one
half knots, which exceeds the govern
ment requirement by half knot.
Charles NJ. Carpenter of Chicago,
agent of the Barber Asphalt Company
for Wisconsin, was fined $1,000 by the
court of Green Bay for bribing three
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fed that he knew nothing of the brib-
cry.
The city election at Springfield, Illi-
nois, Tuesday, resulted in victory for
the advocates of the municipal owner
ship of the electric light plant. Every
alderman who favored municipal own
ership was elected by an overwhelm-
ing majority.
Gil of Women, has decided upon a ma
tional memorial to Susan B. Anthony,
to be placed in Washington. The me-
mortal will be an immense bronze bust
and more than 1000 will be raised for
its construction.
The criminal court at Breslau, Rus
sia, sentenced Karl Bezier, a lawyer,
son Of the recently appointed Prussian
minister Of justice, DR.. BeZler, to four
| months detention in a fortress for
having fought a duel with pistols. In
the duel no one was hurt.
Burglars broke into Three Saints
church at Kieff, Russia. They made
complete haul of all of the jewels and
dug out the gems from the ikons and
chalice. Even the gold work of the
ikonistasis and altar and the bullion
from the embroidered vestments were
taken.
James B. Howard, who has been in
Jail at Louisville, Kentucky, pending
the disposition of his case by the
United States Supreme Court has
taken to Frankfort to begin his term
of life Imprisonment to which he was
sentenced for the murder of William
Goebel.
Rev. Samuel Murray, well known
German Baptist minister, died at Wa
bash, Indiana, April 1st. 1t was the
one hundredth anniversary of his birth
and he expected to celebrate the event
by preaching the last sermon of his
life. He had been in the ministry for
seventy years.
James w. Ince, the young white
farmer, who murdered his wife and
three children near Whitley, Arkansas,
one year ago, was hanged at Danville
April 18th. 1t developed at the trial
that his father murdered his mother
twenty years ago and that his sister
had committed suicide.
On April 5th the Supreme Court of II.
linois issued a decision declaring the
new state primary election law uncon-
stitutional. Governor Deneen immedi-
ately issued call for special session
Of the Legislature to be held at 10
o'clock Tuesday morning, April 10th,
to enact new primary law.
At the extraordinary age of 1913
years, Mrs. Philo Rogers. a negro
woman, died April 9th in Chicago.
She was grandmother when the Mis-
souri, compromise was an issue Of the
hour and had reached her three score
years and ten when the emancipation
proclamation liberated her from bond
age.
Fred Klantschy has been sentenced
by Judge Cooper in the County Court
at Canon City. to pay a fine of $500 for