Gilpin observer., 1911-02-02
GEN ERAL.

1ENGhAIs
mally reelected in joint session in
Madison, Wis.
The University of Michigan has
graduated 26,979 men and women
since it was founded.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward,
author and lecturer, died in Newton,
Mass, after short illness at the age
of 67.
Horsewhipping in public may be-
come the method of Furnishing tobacco
chewers and smokers in Zion City,
near Chicago.
The strike of the Florida cigar max
ers, which has lasted seven months,
has been called off by the joint ad-
visory board, conditionally.
The entire police and detective
force of Pittsburg, Pa, and of a pri-
vate detective agency are endeavoring
to solve the robbery of $4,000 worth
of jewelry from the home of Mrs. Will
liam Tbaw, Jr
Death came to four persons while
thoroughfare of Philadelphia, when
sign on building near Tenth street,
blown from it's fastenings by high
wind, crashed down upon them,
Nevada, the last of the wild and
woolly West" is going to reform.
Carson City reports movement to
carry through the Legislature meas
tres to bar cigarettes and easy di-
yorces, and give the ballot to woman.
Deposits of individuals in the 1900
National banks of the United States
decreased $191 ,566,4SS between Nov
10 and Jan. Ia situation probably
unprecedented in the reports made to
the comptroller of the currency in
Washington.
government interference" in the cap
italization of railroads has been made
by Charles G. Dawes, president of the
Central Trust Company of Illinois, in
the hearing before the railroad securl-
ties commission in Chicago.
After struggling for more than twen-
ty-four hours with the testimony, the
worth Schnek, charged with poison
ing her husband, John o. Schenk, at
Wheeling, w. Va, announced that it
could not reach a verdict. Judge Jor-
dan discharged the jurors and Mrs.
Schnek isagain in jail to await another
trial
Within less than ten months after
the initiation by President Taft of ne
gotiations with the Canadian govern
ment, there was laid simultaneously
before the American Congress at
Washington and the Canadian Parlia-
ment at Ottawa, reciprocity arrange
ment which, if approved, will do
much, in the opinion Of the negotia-
tors, to enlarge trade between the
United States and Canada.
Latest government reports confirm
the previous advices that 800 persons
were killed by the earthquakes and
eruption of Mount Taal, in the Philip
pines. No American are among the
number. 1t is impossible to estimate
how many natives on the west shore
were buried in the ashes, but 1t Is
known that twenty-one were suffocat-
ed and five fatally burned.
Disclosures of a sensational nature
were made of the fact that in raid
en- an opium den in New York recently
by customs inspectors, a mass OF
documentary evidence was found
which probably will result in the solu
ton of the Elsie Sigel and other mur-
Ger mysteries and which establishes
beyond question the existence of cor
rupt relations between syndicate OF
Chinese criminals and police officials
In this and other cities.
J. A. ID. McCurdy. Canadian by
birth, but now affiliated with Ameri-
can aviators, set new record in over
the-water flights, covering nearly 100
miles. from Key West to within ten
miles of Havana. when from slight
accident he was compelled to drop into
the sea. There he remained, his BIZ
plane floated by pontoons until the life
boat OF the torpedo boat destroyer Ter
ry picked him up.
The contest in New Jersey for the
successor to John Kean, Jr., In the
United States senate. was settled,
when James Z. MARITIME was elected