Gilpin observer., 1912-03-21
GEN ERAl.

1GNEHAl.
United States District Judge Car.
penter refused to take from the Jury
the case of the ten Chicago meat
| packers.
John F. Hill, former governor of
Maine, acting chairman of the Repub-
lican National committee, died in Bos-
ton recently.
Seventeen hundred of the thirty-four
hundred mine workers who quit work
in the Panther Creek valley at Potts
vile, Pa, have returned to work.
Mahlon Pitney of New Jersey re-
Gently took the oath of office and as
sumed the duties of associate justice
of the Supreme Court of thes United
States at Washington, D. C.
The Paris dressmakers' most start
ling contribution to milady's ward
lobe this year is to be a new skirt,
very narrow, with a slit at the side
extending well above the knee.
Business in the steel industry is ac-
companied by developments of unusu-
al interest and Importance. The coal
strike in Europe is responsible for
greater activity in steel products in
New York and the prospective sus-
pension of mining operations in this
country has stimulated placing orders
for both finished and semi-fihished
steel for prompt shipment.
Not Guilty" was the plea of forty
six men arraigned in the Federal
Court at Indianapolis, Ind, on indict-
ments charging completely in the al
legged conspiracy unlawfully TO trans.
port dynamite from state to state.
Judge A. B. Anderson overruled all
demurrers of the defense but granted
thirty days for the filing of exceptions
to the ruling.
Under lowering skies and heavy
SEA the old battleshlp Maine, resur-
rected after fourteen years burial in
Havana harbor, plunged with her col
ors flying to her everlasting rest, 900
fathoms deep, in the waters of the
gulf. The sinking of the hulk was
carried out precisely as planned,
marking the Send of the work begun
more than year and half ago.
Wage increases aggregating more
than $4,000. o will go into the pock-
cts of New England textile workers
during the next twelve months, &C.
| cording to authoritative estimates of
the result of the present upward trend
of wages in cotton and wooden mills.
| On the basis of an annual payroll Of
$79,000,000 in the woolen mills, the in
tIyi1I
while cotton mill operatives will re-
ceive an advance of $5,OO0.OOO
Read Admiral George w. Melville,
U. S. Navy, retired. died at his home
in Philadelphia of paralysis. He was
national commander of the Loyal Le-
gion at the time of his death. Rear
Admiral Melville. who was placed ON
the retired list January 10, 1903, was
seventy-two years old. For sixteen
years he was chief of the bureau of
steam engineering in the Navy De-
partment, and was member of both
the Jeanette and the Greeley relief
expeditions to the Arctic Circle,
The end of the chase OF the Hills.
Vile. Va. raiders brought the death
hpl IA thc Soui tidbeuy
sequel up to five. Sidna and Floyd
Allen. two of the chiefs OF the band
which rode down on the Carroll coun.
ty court house and assassinated the
Judge. the prosecutor and the sheriff,
are In captivity-both wounded severe
ly. Sidna Aliens wife is dead, shot
in a pitched battle with posse in the
mountains while helping to defend
her outlaw husband. The fifth death
was that OF Nancy Ayres, a nineteen.
year-old girl. accidentally shot during
the fusillade in the court house.
A statement Of the results OF the
thirteenth census shows that In 1910
there were 71.5s0,270 persons ten
years OF age or over In the United
States. Of whom 5.517e0S were unable
to read or write. constituting IT per
cent Of the population.
President Taft may take hand In
the coal situation to avert q strike
in the anthracite fields. Tho President
Is said to be preparing to follow the
precedent established by his predsces-
sor and bring pressure to bear ON the
anthracite coal operators to make CON
cessions in the interests Of peao>