Gilpin observer., 1911-08-31
GEN ERAU.


Edward Bennett, graduate of Oxford,
killed his three small children and
then took his own life at Thomaston,
Maine.
The national convention OF Loyal
Order of Moose appropriated $4,000
for the organization of Moose indus.
trial school.
| Fifty-one societies were represented
with about 200 delegate at the con-
vention of Associated Fraternities at
Niagara Falls.
Elmhurt. Wis. was almost wiped out
by fire which destroyed sawmill,
100000. worth of timber, six stores
and fourteen residences.
Efforts to sell a few hundred bales
of August cotton in the market in
New York sent the price down to
1920. or rs points lower.
At Minneapolis all cold records for
August for twenty years, with the ex-
ception of one day were broken when
the thermometer registered forty-six
degrees above zero.
Judge William Jeff Pollard of st.
Louis, President Taft's special repre-
sentative to the international congress
against alcoholism at The Hague, says
the consumption of alcohol is on the
decrease.
When the National Synod of the
Reform Presbyterian church meets in
ST. Louis in September it is probable
that its constitution will be revised in
order that it's members may vote upon
the liquor question.
Seven persons known to be dead,
many injured and property loss of
more than 100000 is the damage
wrought by the storm which struck
Charleston. S. c., isolating that city
from the rest of the world.
Mrs. Charles Ochal nearly killed
her husband at their home in Brad
dock, Pa, because. she says, he told
her she was in the same class with
days aud forced her to sleep under the
bed with the family's pet canine.
| An alcohol lamp on the platform in
the Congregational church in Eastford
Village, Conn.,, where the annual fair
of the Ladies' Aid Society was in
progress, became SO ashamed of being
full OF alcohol in such company tha.
1t blew up.
For the first time in many seasons
the federal treasury is making no prep
arations to meet the autumnal de.
mands for money for moving crops.
Neither do treasury officials expect
the usual crop moving season demand
for bills of small denomination.
Vaccination against typhoid fever
has been made compulsory for every
officer and enlisted man in the United
States army under forty-five years
old. The only exceptions allowed are
those who have had the disease, or
who have already been vaccinated.
AS result of quarrel in which r.
G. Whidden, deacon OF country
church near Ashburn, Ca. vowed the
Rev. Duncan Massey should never
preach in the church again, Whidden
shot and killed ]. NJ. Lawson, another
leacQn.
A deficit Of $22.0O0.000 on ordinary
accounts for August already is shown
in the government finances, in COM
parison with deficit OF $14.00O.000
last year. Customs receipts show a de-
crease of 100000 as compared with
year ago. The governments total
expenditures for the same period are
more than 100000 greater.
Mrs. Nancy Edey. ninety-sx years
old, was married for the sixth time at
Troy. Mo-. to Reed Inflow. twenty.fou'
years old. The brides fifth husband
died six weeks ago on the county poor
farm at Troy
Because the Baltimore & Ohio Rail.
road Company will not grant him sew.
eral flat cars to carry tie walking
delegates" to the hobo convention"
to be held In Washington. James Eads
How. the wealthy hobo" who is max
ing all arrangements, is organizing
spectacular march Of tramps from Bal
timore to Washington.