Gilpin observer., 1907-08-22


tary of Hawaii.
The attorneys general of the Missis-
sippi valley states met in st. Louis
to formulate plans for a national con-
ference of attorneys general.
New York detectives have arrested
the ringleaders of the Armenian
Hunchakist secret society and OBJ
tanned confession from them regard
ing the murder of priest and
wealthy rug merchant. 1t is believed
the murderous organization has
been broken up.
While playing hide-and-seek with
her father, the three-year-old daugh-
ter of c. A. Rock, residing near Cuba.
ILL.,, lost both her feet by coming into
contact with the sickle blades of a
mower
Mr. and Mrs. George w. Hudson,
an aged couple living near Mobiles
vile, Ind, were recently murdered
and robbed of $4,000, the price of a
farm which they had just sold.
The Federated Trades Council of
Milwaukee, Wis, has passed resolu-
| tion opposing the fine imposed re-
Gently on the Standard Oil company
by Judge Lands. They declare gov
ernment ownership the only remedy.
A convention of the attorney gen.
erals of all the states in the United
States has been called to meet in St.
Louis September 80 and October 1,
to provide for concerted action in
prosecutions against corporations for
violation of state laws
President Small of the Commercial
Telegraphers union has ordered a
| general strike of all members of the
organization
During a heavy storm at st Joseph,
Mo, many business houses were flood
ed and the Moran packing plant,
which was struck by lightning, was
entirely destroyed
A negro burglar recently shot and
severely wounded Stella Austin and
c c Hoyt, of Wichita, Kan. After
rifiing the houses the burglar es-
| capped.
| Large operators in the Joplin lead
and zinc district are preparing to in
stall steam shovels in their mines. II
the plan proves successful, some 5000
laborers who have been earning from
five to seven dollars a day will be
out of employment.
Secret service agent Of the govern
ment are said to be on the payrolls
of all the big railroad corporations
and trust companies in the country
watching for infractions of the anti
trust law.
The Kansas charter board has
granted charter to the Great West.
ern Rubber company of Olathe. The
capital stock of the company is $780,
900.
Folden, Minn., was recently entered
by burglars and robbed of $2,2OJ.
Members of the Chicago Press
club made an emphatic protest when
William D. Haywood, secretary-treas.
urer of the Western Federation OF
Miners, who was recently acquitted
of charge of murder, paid a visit
to the club rooms.
The Kansas board of railroad com
missioners has issued an order that
arrival and departure of all trains
must be bulletined at each station.
The internal revenue receipts for
the fiscal year ended June 80 were
$269, ,c64,022, an increase of $9O,561,
23:.
Gov. Folk has commuted to life i'm
prisonment the sentence of Lord
Darlington, convicted of the murder
of James McCann at St. Louis.
A 3G-inch water main burst in a
Chicago street recently throwing a
column of water 60, feet high. The
easements for several blocks were
flooded and much damage to property
resulted.
Papers in proposed suit to dis.
solve the harvester trust are being
prepared in the department of jus.
tice at Washington. The suit will
probably be filed in Chicago.
One man was killed and several In.
jured by the derailment of the Bur.
lington Kansas City-St. Joseph train
near Weston, Mo-. recently.
Seventeen summer hotels, 60 cot.
tages and score of buildings occu.
pied as stores were destroyed by fire
recently at Old Orchard, Me. Two
lives were lost and five persons were
injured.
]. Warren Hastings, since 1864 q
trusted official of the United States
subtreasury in Boston, has been ar
rested for the embezzlement of $4,000
Of government funds.
The International Typographical
union has voted to hold is next ses-
sion in Boston.
Missouri produced 2G,2O6,934 corn
cob pipes last year valued at $4O2,513.
The veterans of the Twentieth Kan.
sas infantry recently met in Kansas
City and organized a permanent as
sociation. Capt. Claud Hamilton of