Gilpin observer., 1907-05-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for tho
Benent OF Our Readers.
Personal.

Mr.. aid Mrs. Anthony Miller were
struck by Missouri Pacific passenger
train near Hope, Kan, and both were
killed.
Gen. ]. X. Hudson, for years news
paper editor and publisher Of Topeka
Kan, and a veteran of both the civil
and Spanish American wars, died at
his home in Tojeka Of heart disease
complicated with dropsy after sever
al months Illness.
Frank H. Butler, who was charged
with the murder Of the Marvin boy at
Dover, DEL, has been released from
custody, for want of sufficient evil
dence against him.
A. E. Stilwell and party Of 30
capitalists who took trip over the
lines of the Orient railroad in Mexico,
have returned.
Dennis Kearney, the Sand Lot
Orator." who led the agitation against
the Chinese in San Francisco in the
early seventies. is dead at his home
in Alameda. Cal.
Admiral Dewey was the guest of
honor at banquet held in washington
" CclSDEdlo Tie anniversary VI
the battle Of Manila bay.
Gen. Kuroki, of the Japanese army,
who won fame in the war with Russia,
is now in this country.
Charles II. Hinton, an assistant ex-
aminer of the patent office, dropped
dead in the lobby of the Y. NJ. c. A.
building in Washington, where he had
just responded to toast at banquet
John Cudahy, the well-known Chi
cago packer, Is critically i'll.
Capt Edgar Macklin, of the Twenty
fifth infantry, has been acquitted by
the court martial which tried him in
connection with the shooting up of
Brownsville, Texas.
Arthur Melvin, chief editorial writ
er on the New York American, died
recently in Hamilton, Bermuda, of
heart failure.
President Castro. OF Venezuela, is
again reported seriously i'll.
William E. Corey has been re-
elected president of the United States
Steel corporation.
Miscellaneous.
Counsel for Meyer. Haywood and
Pettibone have issued a formal state
ment denying that their clients were in
Idaho at the time of the murder of Gov.
Steunenberg.
William A. Brewer, Jr., former
president of the Washington Life In
surance company, was fined $500 at
New York recently for making false
n mi
of insurance.
\ warm welcome was extended Gen.
kuroki and suite upon their arrival
in Seattle. In addition to the thous-
ands Of Americans, hundreds of Jap
anese were on hand to greet their
general.
Serious anti-European riots have
occurred at Rawalpindi. British In
dia. A Hindu mob burned several
buildings, pillaged "A mission church.
and looted the post office
William Cross. his wife and two
sons were asphyxiated in New York
by inhaling Illuminating gas.
Newton Youngblood, n 16-year-old
Oklahoma boy has been sentenced to
prison for life for killing farmer.
A San Francisco newspaper carrier
has been arrested for selling counter
felt money. In his room was found
several hundred dollars OF the greer
good
Thirty thousand acres of irrigated
land near Billings, Mont, are to be
opened for settlement by the govern
ment about July l.
Ten men of the United States gun
boat Tacoma. while on shore leave at
Santiago, Cuba, were attacked by the
city police and badly injured. An in
vestigation by the authorities was i'm
mediately begun.
On the last day of April snow COW
cred the entire state of Iowa to
depth of from three to eight inches.
A bomb was thrown at the carriage
of President Cabrera in the streets of
Guatemala City. but the official escap-
ed unharmed although the horses were
killed.
France is moving for commission
like that appointed by the United
States to adjust the tariff with Ger
many.
Four men have been arrested in
st. Louis on suspicion of having
started the fire by which two men
were killed and eight Others injured.
-Four hundred men have been made
idle by the destruction of the plant of
the National Stove company at
Lorain, o.
The first Kansas state convention of
the Society of Equity. the farmers
union, held two days session in
Wichita recently
The second biennial session of the
Missouri Federation of Women's clubs