Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06
The dam of the Keystone plant Of

The dam of the Keystone plant OF
the International Harvester Company
in the Rock river at Sterling, Illinois,
was washed out by high water and ice
on the I'd inst, causing loss of $4,000
and throwing 1,500 men out of work.
James Scanlan, one of the several
champion athletes on the New York
police force, swan half way across
the Hudson river on the Sd inst. and
back again, his only difficulty being
in dodging large cakes of ice. Scan
Ian had wager with another police
man for swim across the river and
as his challenger failed to appear,
Scanlan started without him.
Charges that some physicians in
Philadelphia deliberately prolong the
period of illness of patients and neg
lect the use of anti-toXin in order to
increase their income, are made by
DR.. Joseph S. Neff, director of the city
department of health and charities,
who offers this reason for the in
crease in diphtheria for the present
year, while all other preventable dis
eases show decrease.
Mississippi, who has been named Unit
ed States Senator by Governor Neel
as successor to the late A. ]. McI.au-
rim, was one of several Confederate
leaders suspected nf being in con-
spiracy with J. Wilkes Booth to kill
President Lincoln. A reward of S1O,-
900 was offered for his arrest. He
later succeeded in satisfying the au-
thorities that he was in no way impi-
Gated in the crime.
Neon, a newly-discovered gas, is the
cause of the aurora borealis, according
to statement made at Boston by DIR.
w. J. Dudley. head of the department
of chemistry at Vanderbilt University,
before the division of physical and in
organic chemists of the American AS
sociation for the Advancement of Sci
ence. Or. Dudley showed what he
claimed to be the only sample of
neon now in this country. 1t requires
over 100 tons of air to get pint OF
neon
Few, if any, of our American col
leges are going to abolish football"
is the statement of Prof. w. H. p.
Faunce of Brown University "But
the game must be radically modified.
The spirit of winning at any cost is
too prevaleI these days. 1t is evil
dent in all phases of our life | sin
cerely hope that the men interested
in the future of the sport will keep
this in mind. Personally, | like the
game.'
Messrs. Mattheissen and Voltscheek,
officers of the Russian army, have
purchased at Paris two dirigible bal
looms with capacities of 1,4OO and g.
600 cubic meters, with which they will
undertake an expedition to the South
Pole. The explorers plan to convey
the apparatus by ship as far south as
the ice will permit, and thence pro-
ceed in the balloons southwark. They
will keep in touch with their ship,
their base of supplies, by means of
wireless outfit.
Justice Mclean of the Supreme
Court of New York, has signed an Or
der making final adjudication of the
$7,O00,000 estate of the late DR.. Thorn
as w. Evans, the American dentist of
Paris, who rescued the Empress Eu-
genie from Partisan mob September
5th, 1871, four days after the battle
of Sedan. The decision will make it
possible for the city Of Philadelphia
to proceed with the erection of the
Thomas w. Evans museum and dental
college, which will be DIR. Evans chief
monument. About $6,OO0,OOO is now
available.