Gilpin observer., 1912-01-25
GEN ERAL.

GENERAL.
During the first fifteen days of Jan
uary the fire insurance companies of
|'the country became liable for $15, ,OO0,-
600 in losses.
Fearing condition of chaos in Pc
have agreed not to recognize the
Chinese republic.
Margaret Doyle, twenty years old,
left the Medico-Chirurgical hospital in
Philadelphia after having been on a
hospital cot seven years and having
undergone thirty-two operations.
Witnesses who are expected to
throw light on explosions on the Pa
cific coast are to appear before the
federal grand jury in Indianapolis in
the investigation of the dynamite con-
spiracy.
Badly mutilated. the bodies of Felix
Broussard. his wife and three child
rem, aged eight, six and three, negroes,
were found in their home at Lake
Charles, La, making the second whole
sale negro murder in this state within
week and the sixth within the year.
A blood-stained axe was found be-
were found in their home at Lake
lay.
Five persons were killed and more
than score injured when Seminole
Limited No. 8 running fifty miles an
hour crashed into the rear and tele-
scoped passenger train No. 25 stand
ing at the station at Kinmundy, Ill.
Among those killed were J. T. Hara-
han, former president OF the Illinois
Central and F. o. Melcher, vice presi-
dent of the Rock Island.
The result of a conference between
Wilbur Wright, Capt. Def. Chandler
and other officers Of the signal corps
at the army's aviation camp in Au-
gusta, Ca, will, 1t is stated, be the
development Of a machine capable OF
carrying a greater amount of army
equipment of necessary use in mill
tary aeronautics and Of flying success
fully in winds which the present ma
chine cannot navigate.
A bill that will cause much excite
ment in the ranks Of baseball men IL
to be introduced in the New York
State Legislature by Senator James
J. Frawley, one of the Democratic
leaders and author Of the new law for
the regulation OF boxing. 1t is Sem
ator Frawley's plan to tax the gross
receipts of baseball clubs exceeding
a certain limit. the money thus col
lected to be turned over to the play
grounds in the leading cities and
towns.
II women can be counted on to re-
spond to a call for the practice OF self
denial there wiz be 10000 members
OF the Housewives leagues and $4,000
members OF the New York City FEEDER
alton OF Women's clubs going butter
less for the next thirty days. The boy
colt by club members was placed on
this particular dairy product. and it is
hoped by the insurgents that the fact
will accomplish an immediate reduc.
ton in the price of butter, which. they
say, is altogether too high.
Some idea OF the rapid growth and
present magnitude Of the Forest Serv-
ice is given in the annual report Of the
forester for the fiscal year 1911. From
modest beginning only few years
ago, the Forestry Bureau has grown
to be one OF the largest bureaus In
point OF the number of its employees,
maintaining an establishment in Wash
ington alone costing almost 100000
annually; it expended last year more
than $6,500,000, and now exercises au-
thority over an area 16S, ,165,163 acres
in extent. In 1911 1t collected over
$4,000, 900 in grazing fees, and sold
timber from national forests for about
half as much more.
Hangman's Day for Arkansas will
be on January 26th. Then the gal
lows will reap a rich harvest. in expia-
tion of the many homicides committed
in 1911. Nine negroes will hang. Three
negroes were hanged on December
18th.
Mrs. Nancy Hall, mother OF little
Ruth Hall OF Lancaster, o.. who died
several weeks ago after eating pan
cakes in which arsenic was found, was
indicted by the Fairfield county grand
Jury, charged with murder in the first
degree. Mrs. Hall collected 5000 In
surance on her daughters life.