Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
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STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

To the surprise of the politicians,
the Democrats of Iowa cast almost
10000 votes in their primary on June
End.
Lincoln dispatch says that Cover
nor Glenn of North Carolina has been
selected to make the first seconding
speech for Mr.. Bryan in the Denver
convention
The largest cinnamon bear ever
killed near Rawlns, Wyoming, was
slain by j. Hurt few days ago at the
ranch of the Osborne Livestock Com
pany. The animal weighed LOO
pounds.
United States Senator Stephenson OF
Wisconsin, who was elected by the last
Legislature to fill the unexpired term
of Senator John C. Spooner, resigned,
announces himself a candidate for re-
election.
Arrangements are being made by
the people of New Ulm, Fairfax and
Redwood Falls, Minnesota, suitably to
commemorate the memorable attack
on Fort Ridgeley by the Indians on Au-
gust %, 1862.
A tornado passed about five miles
northwest of Mountain Lake, Mime
sofa, June oath. demolishing at least
dozen farm buildings. killing one
child and wounding scores of persons,
some of whom may die.
Something unique in educational
work was brought to public attention
when 700 pupils in sixteen Chicago
parochial schools where the study OF
Irish history is taught. were presented
with Irish diplomas at St. Bridget's
hall.
At Terre Haute, Indiana. Sunday
night. being taunted because he had
Joined the church, Roy Liggett shot
and killed his companion. Fred Koch.
The young men were on their way
home from church. Liggett surren-
dered to the police.
A Chicago woman attorney has just
received fee of 100000. She is Miss
Mary e. Miller. who successfully prose
cuted a suit on behalf OF the grand
children of the late William Bross for
the distribution of the SO ,00O0 900 estate
left by the decedent
The Detroit News in an article on
marine conditions on the Great Lakes.
states 1.1S0 vessels are idle at pres
ent and that 1000 marine laborers are
idle as result, entailing a monthly
loss to the laborers of $4,000 and to
tht ohipO"htiS VI S-,vO'sVNVs
Secretary Mellor of the Nebraska
state board of agriculture has an
nounced that Secretary Of War Taft
will visit Lincoln September Bird to at
tend the state fair Secretary Taft
promised Governor Sheldon that he
would come. w. j. Bryan has been
invited to speak.
The tornado that struck Clinton.
town of 400 inhabitants in the western
part of Minnesota late Saturday after
noon. killed seven people and injured
more than sixty others, but only elev-
en- of these were seriously hurt. Thir-
ty-three houses in Clinton were de-
stroyed and twenty-five were practic,
sly ruined.
Colonel William F. Tucker, son-in-
law of Mrs. John A. Logan of Chicago,
is probably the only living man who
ever saw the interior of his abdomen.
He submitted at Mount Clemens.
Michigan, to the uncommon and peril
Gus operation known as omentoplexy.
The anaesthetic was applied locally
only and he remained conscious while
surgeons slit his abdomen and set
Things to rights therein.
A fire was discovered recently in
the cupola of ST. Anthony's church at
Evanston. Indiana. 200 feet above the
ground, caused by a sparrow's nest
In another case sparrow built its
nest behind an electric transformer,
where any break of the circuit would
have set fire to the building, and an
other case is reported where spar
raw flew to its nest with a piece of
burning string from bonfire, starting
fire which caused serious damage.