Gilpin observer., 1911-12-28
GEN ERAL.

Fire, which wrecked two factory
buildings in the Williamsburg district
at Brooklyn, caused loss estimated
at 100000.
Ten more bodies have been re-
moved from Cross Mountain mine at
Briceville, Tenn, bringing the number
of victims up to S5.
A grandmother at twenty-nine,
mother of eight children and sister.
in-law of her daughter, is Mrs. Will.
liam Golden of Norris, Ill.
Joseph Reed and Thomas Levan,
miners, were buried alive when thou.
sands of tons of coal fell in the Backer
No. 4 colliery. at Shenandoah, Pa.
The government has filed suit in the
| United States Circuit Court against
the Keystone Watch Case Company,
declaring it an unlawful combination
in violation of the Sherman antitrust
act
While trying to show how he had
lost the forefinger of his right hand,
Francis Lotosky, employe in Granite
City, ILL.,, foundry, put the forefinger
Of his left hand up on whirling saw
and it was cut off.
The Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, au.
thor of 'In His Steps," has resigned
the pastorate of the Central Congrega-
tional church of Topeka, which he has
held for twenty-thTee years. He will
make tour of the world.
John Bigelow, the venerable diplo-
mat and author. died at his home in
New York. Mr.. Bigelow died in the
ninety-fifth year of his age, in the old
fashioned house on Gramercy Park
that had long been his residence.
With more than 3OO,OOO,OOO dozen
eggs in storage in New York City,
enough to supply the city for months
to come, the cold storage trust is push
ing the price of eggs beyond anything
| ever before known at this season Of
| the year.
| AS a punishment for carrying a
stock swindle by mail, alleged to have
extended over two years and said to
have netted millions in profit, four
promoters of the firm of Burr Broth
ers, New York, incorporated, were
each sentenced to years imprison-
ment on Blackwells Island.
That the action of the United States
in abrogating the Russian treaty of
| 1882 may precipitate n war with that
country was the assertion of both
| United States Senator Hepburn of Ida.
no and Governor Mann of Virginia in
| speeches at a dinner of the New Jer-
sey Society at Philadelphia.
Twelve persons were killed and q
score injured in collision at Odessa,
Mimi, when the second section of the
Columbian Flyer, from the Pacific
coast, bound for ST. Paul, on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee e st. Paul road.
crashed into the rear end of the first
section Of that train.
Nathaniel Towles, a negro, alleged
to have slashed the throat of Miss Iva
O'Connell, a telephone operator at
Lafayette, Ind, was trailed and caught
by the aid of bloodhounds and would
have been the victim OF revolver in
the hands of the girls father at the
police station had not the plunger
snapped on the only empty shell in
the weapon.
Using keyring in place of the GUS
tomary gold band. omitting the word
''obey" from the service, and with the
justice of the peace who performed the
the ceremony and all the witnesses in
their shirt sleeves, Lorenzo Imigo
Jones and Miss Nellie Moore Josethon.
both of Brooklyn, were married at
Union Hill. n. j., by Peter McCosken.
justice of the peace.
Reindeer meat from Alaska soon
may be food common to the Ameri-
can table. says William F. Lopp, in
charge of the government reindeer
service there. "In twenty-five years.
at the present rate of increase" he
says, there should be 100000 prime
reindeer in Alaska, on which the peo-
pie of this country can depend for
much of their flesh diet. In taste,
ton and beef. but more palatable than
either"
| With the ultimate object Of STAN
dardizing all hash served in public
places in Kansas the State Board Of
Health has instituted an investigation
as to the ingredients commonly used
by restaurants and hotels in the con-
coction Of the dish.
A Kansas man has bet $4,000 that
rain will fall in Thomas county, Kan
sas, between March 1st and May 1st
of next year. II the rain comes
| "Jitn" Fiske will clean I'm S0e nm next
summer, go to Europe, wear patent
leather shoes and silk hat. and kill
! 1t" generally.