Gilpin observer., 1907-02-21

New Jersey hospital for the insane.
declared on the witness stand that
after the first three visits to Harry
Thaw in the Tombs he was satisfied
that he was of unsound mind.
The steamer Larchmont and schoon-
er Harry Knowleton met in collision
near Block Island, r. l., recently and
both sank in few minutes. OF the
200 persons on board the Larchmont
only 10 were saved. The entire crew
of the schooner succeeded in reaching
the shore.
A flood caused by an ice gorge at
Columbus, Neb., resulted in the death
Of four persons and the drowning of
all the live stock in the Union Pa
cific yards at that place.
Eight contracting firms have been
at Cleveland, O., for violation OF the
eight-hour law on government work.
August G has been decided upon by
| the Oklahoma constitutional conyen-
| ton as the date for holding the cleo
! tion to ratify the constitution of the
new state.
Nicaragua and Honduras have noti-
fled President Roosevelt of their
willingness to submit the questions
| in dispute between them to arbitra-
| ton.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, Louisville
Herald, Times and Evening Post have
| been indicted at Lebanon, KY, for
printing and circulating the "offen-
siye and indecent" proceedings of
the Thaw trial
| A New National Gamers associa-
ton including the Western Gamers
association, the Atlantic Gamers as
sociation and the California Packers
association, was recently formed at
Buffalo. N. Y.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Bradley, who Shot
| and killed former Senator Brown, Of
Utah, in his apartments in Washing
ton has been indicted for murder in
the first degree.
| Direct charges of cowardice have
been filed against some of the Of
ficers of the steamer Larchmont,
which sank off Block Island, R. L.,
recently.
By a vote "a to 13 the Kansas
senate recently adopted a resolution
excluding the correspondent of the
I Kansas City Star from the chamber
The senators were angry because the
newspaper criticised their action on
railroad legislation.
All the boilermakers in the Mis-
souri, Pacific shops at Sedalia, Mo-,
have gone out in sympathy with the
striking blacksmiths
The cruiser Chicago has been sent
to Salvador to look after American
interests during the existing friction
between Nicaragua and Honduras.
Two more railroad bridges have
been carried out by the flood in the
Platte river in Nebraska.
The Third National bank of Balti-
more has discontinued its all night
feature in conformity with a resolu-
tion of the clearing house limiting
The banking hours.
The Japanese government has
made an appropriation of $30O,00O to
cover the expense Of representatives
Of the army and navy who will par
.icipats IA the exposition at James
J town, Va.
Fifty-six women suffragists have
| been sent to prison in London for
creating a disturbance at a meeting
of parliament.
The United States assay office in
Ell Paso, Texas. has been abolished by
the treasury department.
The damage to shipping in Buffalo
harbor alone is s1,5O0.O00. Five great
lake steamers aground tell that part
of the story. Thirteen others make
ing brave attempts to ride out the
storm may add to It.
NiI>e blocks of residences. hotel
and church were recently destroyed
by fire at Pine Bluff, Ark.
! An explosion at the Laflin-Rand
powder works at Columbus, Kan. de-
aged the machinery. No lives were
| lost.
The Muskogee, I. T., Phoenix has
been purchased by n syndicate OF
republicans headed by Tams Bixby.
Gen. Kuropatkin's history OF the
Russo-Japanese war has at last be.
come public property in spite of the
efforts of the Russian government to
suppress it. He mercilessly criticises
the army which he commanded in the
Far East.
Owing to the death Of the wife OF
one Of the jurors the trial of Harry
X. Thaw was recently postponed for
several days by the consent of coun.
sci on both sides.
By the explosion Of gas in a restau.
rant at Los Angeles, Cal. four per-
sons were killed outright and 20