Gilpin observer., 1908-11-19


duced 10 cents a hundred pounds at
New York on the 18th inst. This fol-
lows a recent reduction OF so cents q
hundred pounds.
Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, the noted
Labrador medical missionary and ex-
piorer, discredits the report of the find
ing of Andree's body on the coast Of
Labrador by Captain Chalker.
The Park theater at Brooklyn, N. r.,
historic playhouse, was burned on
the night of the 18th inst. only an hour
after a large audience had left the
building, where the Spooner stock COM
pany was playing.
The American AntiSaloon League
will inaugurate pledge signing move
ment early next year throughout the
United States. DIR. Russell, at pres
ent superintendent of the league work
In New York. will have charge.
Edward M. Morgan. postmaster of
in the abdomen Monday morning by
bullet fired by E. H. B. Mackey, an
eccentric English stenographer, who
then committed suicide.
An explosion on the Steamer Tennis
kaming at Temiskaming, Ontario.
Monday night caused the death of at
least five persons by the explosion or
by drowning, one being an American
hunter named Mcbride. Six badly
burned men may die.
The council chamber of the Dublin
city hall was gutted by fire Wednes-
day and the city hall itself had mar
row escape from destruction. All the
paintings in the room of the council
chamber, many of which were OF his
toric interest. including the we'll
known picture of Daniel O'Connell,
were destroyed.
Governor Hughes of New York has
filed his certificate of election ex-
penses with the secretary of state,
giving his total expenditures at
$369.65. OF this sum he spent $260.16
for travelling and incidental expenses,
$9671 for hotel bills, including tele-
phone and messenger charges, and
$127S for kilograms.
Harvey w. Watterson, son of Hen.
ry Watterson, editor of the Louisville
Courier journal, fell to his death from
the nineteenth floor of the building in
which his office was located, at 81
Wall street, New York, last week,
striking on the roof of a tenstory
building below. His head was crushed
and almost every bone in his body
broken.
Echo river, in Mammoth cave, Ken
tucky, is almost dry as result of a
drouth. Many OF the avenues where
the water stood ten or fifteen feet
deep. are now mere footpaths. AS
result of the opportunity afforded,
many parts of the cave that have never
been reached have been explored. The
river has never been known to be SO
low.
Augustine Birrell, chief secretary for
Ireland. while addressing a meeting in
favor of dis-establishment at the City
Temple in London, was subjected to
disgraceful interruptions by suffra-
gettes. Nearly a score of the adher
ents of the suffragette movement, men
and women, were elected from the
building amid uproarous scenes of
struggling and violence.
In the German Reichstag Tuesday
Emperor William was severely criti-
cised during the debate on the inter
pellations concerning the converse
tions published with the permission of
the Emperor in the London Telegraph
October 2Sth. Chancellor Won Buelow's
defense seemed to be halfhearted and
a person high in his confidence is au-
thority for the statement that he also
had told the Emperor that neither him
self nor his successors could remain in
office unless his majesty was more re-
served.