Gilpin observer., 1911-10-26
GEN ERAL.

DR.. Anna Howard Shaw of Moylan,
Pa, president since 1905 of the Ma.
tional Woman's Suffrage Association,
was reelected unanimously at Louis.
vile, Ky.
The Southern Presbyterian Foreign
Missions committee at Nashville,
Tenn, has received a cablegram from
S. 1. Woodbridge at Shanghai, China,
saying all missionaries there are safe.
The judiciary of the United States
must be brought within the control
and made answerable to the well
thought out judgment of the people, is
the opinion of Theodore Roosevelt.
who spoke on "The Conservation of
Womanhood and Childhood" before
the Civic Forum in New York.
That spirited, if not unfriendly,
contest for the removal of the national
headquarters from New York to Chi.
cago, will be entered into, by the dele.
gates to the forty-third annual conven.
ton of the National American Won.
an Suffrage Association, now in ses-
sion in Louisville, KY, has been indi
Gated.
In the arrest of Richard Abernatbv,
a manufacturer at Spartanburg, s. O.,
on charge of having murdered Viii.
liam A. Abbott in 1879, George A. Abb
bot, painter, believes his quest of
thirty-two years for the slayer of his
brother is ended. 1t has been George
Abbott's one life purpose to avenge
his brothers death.
John R. Walsh, former banker, pub.
Usher and railroad owner, released on
parole a week ago from the Leaven-
worth federal penitentiary, died in
Chicago of heart disease. Mr.. Walsh
had been in bed most of the time
since leaving Leavenworth October
18th. He had been attended constant
ly by physicians. Intermittent reports
of his failing health during his incar-
ceration had been denied at the peni-
tentiary. 1t was plain on his release
that he had aged and he gave up plans
for resumption of his position as a
financial leader and took to his bed.
Mr.. Walsh was IA years old.
The Wright brothers. Orville and
Wilbur, inventors of the aeroplane.
have perfected a discovery expected
to add vastly to the safety of avia-
ton. Orville Wright has decided to
give the announcement of his inven-
ton to the world and to put the de-
vice into practical use for the first
time. In brief Mr.. Wright's statement
was that he had perfected device
for the automatic controlling of glid-
ere and power-driver aeroplanes, to
keep such machines at proper balance
in the air. 1t is expected to relieve
him of the work of balancing it in the
air, enormously increasing the safety
of the aviator and of the machine.
Former Senator Aldrich, of Rhode
Island, submitted to the National
Monetary Commission at Washington,
of which he is chairman, revision
of his plan for monetary legislation.
The commission may use it as the
basis of its recommendations to Con-
gress. The basic principles of the re-
vsed plan are substantially the same
as those embodied in Mr.. Aldrich's
first proposal, sent to the commits
sion last January, which he said he
expected would serve as n basis for
national discussion. Briefly, the plan
still provides for the organization of
the national reserve association with
capital Of approximately 100000, 900
III which the United States govern
ment and the banks owning shares
in the association shall be the only
depositors.
Direct approval Of the campaign for
the sale of Red Cross seals has been
given by the American Federation of
labor, according to an announcement
made by the National Association for
the Study and Prevention of Tubercu-
losis. At the last annual convention
of the American Federation of Labor,
resolution was adopted calling on
all the members Of the federation to
further the sale as much as possible.
Eight miners we're killed and eight
others were temporarily overcome by
an explosion Of powder in the O'Gara
mine at Harrisburg. Ill