Gilpin observer., 1908-11-26

the Eternal City" with his family
in 1910 and is already making inquir-
les for a suitable villa in which to
live.
A dispatch from Vienna says that a
band of Servians. while crossing the
Bosnian frontier near Sevornik. was
repulsed by Austrian troops. The Ser
vians lost seventeen mon killed and
the Austrians three killed.
The state of Louisiana has adopted
by popular vote the constitutional
amendment exempting from taxation
loans made by life insurance compe-
MES to their policyholders and loans
upon real estate mortgages.
Mrs. Russell Sage of New York has
given $4,000 toward the establish
ment of college for colored youth
in Kentucky to be branch of Berea
college. The college will be modelled
after the Tuskegee institute.
The American Mining Congress will
meet at Pittsburg December I'd to
5th. Among those who are expected
to be present are: President-elect
William H. Taft, James ]. Hill, Ed
ward Hartman and the governors of
at least a dozen states.
Wilbur Wright had a narrow escape
at Lemans, France, from serious in
jury. The chain of a propeller broke
and the machine began to turn over.
Wright re-established the balance OF
the aeroplane by leaning to one side
and cut off the motor, descending in
safety.
The death OF the Grand Duke Alexis
has resulted in the reinstatement of
the Grand Duke Cyril, eldest son of
Grand Duke Vladimir, in the imperial
favor. Cyril was stripped of his hon
ors and exiled from Russia following
his marriage in 1905 with the divorced
Grand Duchess Victoria of Hesse.
Directors of the Standard Oil Com
pany have declared regular quarter
ly dividend of $40 per share, the same
as for the corresponding quarter of
last year. This means a total of $40
in dividends for the year, the same as
last year. The dividend is payable
December 18th, to stock of record De-
cember 9th.
Engineers of the United States Geo
logical Survey report extreme low wa
ter conditions in many streams of New
York and New England during Sep
tember and October. The Connecticut
river in particular, reached the low
est stage ever recorded and continued
at this stage for the greater part Of
two months.
A group of $50 girls, employees of the
Mercantile Corporation at Dayton.
Ohio, which has the contract for all
stamped envelopes and wrappers for
the government, were posing for a
photograph on scaffold, fifteen feet
above the ground, when the scaffold
gave way and all were precipitated to
the ground. A dozen were badly hurt
but none will die.
The weekly report of the worlds
shipment of wheat for the period end
ing Saturday, November 14th, shows a
decrease over the previous weeks
shipments of 264,00O bushels. The de-
crease over the corresponding per-
iod of 1907 is 10000 bushels. The to-
tails of the corn shipment show de-
crease over the same week in 1907 Of
423,000 bushels.
Careful calculation of the production
of automobiles in America next year
places the output of all the factories
close to $4,000 cars. This total pro-
duct, valued at approximately $l20, ,000.-
1rrf1I 1>o l~,,O
this means that car will be marketed
for about every 1000 of population in
the country and that the cars will aver
afe $1,000 in price.
Churches of the country have united
in raising funds for the rebuilding of
San Francisco churches wrecked in
the earthquake, and DR.. Freeman Bo-
ward, prominent divine of San Fran
cisco, accompanied by w. c. Evans,
superintendent of the San Francisco
district of Methodist Episcopal
churches, have just returned to the
coast with 100000, appropriated by
the committee on home missions and
churches, which met recently in Tope-
ka. kas.
Moritz Rosenthal, special counsel
for the Standard Oil Company, is said
to draw salary of $1,000 a day or
$4,000 a week. He gained the favor of
the Standard by winning what ap-
pearei to be hopeless western case
on a technicality, and the big concern
Immediately annexed him to It's staff.
The Independent Fertilizer Company
has been incorporated at Trenton,
New Jersey, with capital stock Of
$5O,000,0O0.