Gilpin observer., 1911-09-14
GENERAL.


Congressman ]. P. Latta Of Nebras.
ka Is dead.
One of the worst rain and electrical
storms of the year swept across Low
er Michigan causing extensive dam
age.
A fee of one thousand dollars to
marry John Jacob Astor and Miss
Force was refused by Edward G. John
son, DID.
Hundreds of families in Boston are
going without milk for breakfast be-
cause 200 milk wagon drivers struck
for higher wages.
Mrs. Samantha Breniholtz, who dur
ing the battle of Gettysburg was chief
telegrapher at that place, is dead at
Hagerstown, Nd, aged seventy-five.
From 499 out of 521 cities. towns
and plantations in Maine, unofficial
returns gave majority Of 904 for re-
peal of the prohibitory constitutional
amendment.
Nearly $4,000 persons engaged in
the New England textile industry
have resumed work after various Pc
riods of idleness due to pronounced
policy of curtailment.
Henry Clay Beattie, who has been
on trial at Chesterfield Courthouse.
Va, for some time, on charge of
numbering his wife, was found guilty
of murder in the first degree and his
punishment assessed at death.
Col. John Jacob Astor and Madeline
Halmage Force, both of New York,
were married at Beechwood, R. l., the
bridegroom's Newport house. The
bride was given away by her father.
William Force.
Mayor Thomas E. Knots, five of the
nine members of the City Council.
City Engineer w. A Williston and a
son of one of the aldermen of Gary,
Ind. have been arrested on charges
of accepting and soliciting bribes in
a heating franchise deal.
The crop report issued by the De-
partment of Agriculture does not in
dicate generally much improvement in
the condition OF the crops over that
of month ago. Some improvement
was shown in corn September 1st.
over August 1st, but it only amounted
to seven-tenths of / per cent in the
aggregate.
The United States is facing the
most serious sugar famine in years.
The refiners have practically no stock
on hand; there has been almost no
trading in anything except seconds on
the New York market for weeks; the
refiners find it impossible to obtain
any more of the big European surplus.
and the fall crop for the United States
threatens to show a serious diminu-
tion, as compared with previous years.
One thousand acres of land in Ohio,
including the entire site of Whining
by Mrs. Margaret Ray of Moscow.
Idaho, as her property. Mrs. Ray has
now placed her claim in the hands of
Spokane attorney, who is Investigate
ing the case with the intention of
bringing suit in the Ohio courts for
the property.
Charles II. jerks. an agent at Co
surance Company, is held in $1,000
bail by United States commissioner
on a charge of using the mails to de-
fraud. Postal inspectors say jerks
had been Systematically defrauding
the company for three years. 1t is al
legged he collected more than $4,000
in death benefits on policies of per-
CONS who ara ati11 alive
All the American naval strength
deemed necessary as precaution 10
being concentrated as near as pos
sible to the scene of serious disorders
the Navy Department that he sailed
on his flagship Saratoga, accompanied
by the cruisers New Orleans and
Helena from Shanghai for Nanking.
The admiral's report contained moth
ing regarding the situation in China
The millionaire iron manufacturer.
X. T. Crane, Of Chicago. made public
arraignment Of the big universities.
He charges alarming prevalence Of
drinking and gaming among the stu
dents. Columbia he ranks the worst.
but conditions at Harvard. Princeton
and Cornell, he declares, are almost
as bad.
At the age of twenty-nine Mrs. p.
w. Bender Of Atlanta, Ca, was .
grandmother Of two children, and
three at 80 years. 1t is claimed that
Mrs. Bender is the youngest grand.
mother ON record.