Gilpin observer., 1912-07-11
GEN ERAl.

Seven dead and many prostrations
was the summary in Chicago at the
close of the hottest day this year.
July 5.
The City Council of Pittsburg, Pa
has voted an appropriation for farm
ers' market house on the Monongahela
river wharf
Damage aggregating 100000. was
caused by an electrical storm which
swept over Chicago. Lightning struck
twelve houses.
-Four men were killed and four seri-
usly wounded in a pitched battle be.
tween Union and non-union workers
and guards at Lake Charles, La.
The existence of bubonic plague in
Havana has been definitely deter
mined. A special board of physicians
has pronounced the case at Las Ami
mas hospital true bubonic.
James N. Fill, son of j. ]. Hill, and
vice president of the Northern Pacific
railway, has retired from the vice
presidency Of that road. He will be
succeeded by Col William H. Clough
Three men, Giuseppi Cirolli. George
Williams, negro, and Santa Zanza,
were put to death in the electric chair
in quick succession at Sing Sing pris-
on July Sth. All were convicted muir
derers.
Realizing their determination to as
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dunn, Stockholm, the American team
signalized the second days athletic
tournament by { clean sweep of the
100-metre race. and a bumper crop Of
other notable victories.
Gen. r. F. Hoke, Confederate Off
Ger. said to have been the personal
choice of General Lee to succeed him
in case he was killed in battle. died
at his home in Lincolnton, North
Carolina, recently.
Thomas Moore of Jacksonville, Fla,
one of the most widely know balloon
lists in the country, while making a
triple parachute drop over Hillside
Pleasure park at Belleville. N. j., was
instantly killed by fall of 800 feet.
A call to the people of the United
States who are in sympathy with the
National Progressive movement" to
send delegates TO a national conven-
has been given out by United States
Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon of Montana.
Theodore Roosevelt's campaign man
ager
Deluged with threatening letters
warning of oanger and demands for
money, William Vincent Astor of New
York, youthful head of the Astor fam
lily, has armed himself with reyol.
yer, stationed guards about his home
in Fifth avenue and at Rhinebeck, and
is constantly trailed by an armed
guard when he goes about the city Ur
to the country.
Twenty-seven persons were killed
and thirty injured, a number fatally,
as result of a wreck on the Lgonier
Valley railroad at Wilpen, Pa An
overloaded passenger coach pushed
by an engine was struck by double
header freight train of coal cars.
crushing the coach like paper and
spreading death and injury to all but
one aboard the train.
1t is estimated that the total ex-
pense OF holding the Democratic ma.
tional convention at Baltimore was $4-
941 400, divided as follows: $4,000
raised by Baltimore and spent on con.
vention hall, corps of assistants, etc;
$780, 400 estimated amount spent by
delegates and alternates; 81 300 900
estimated amount spent by visitors to
Baltimore. Total. $i.9i1,400.
Rev. Dr. w. ID. Farland, a prominent
educator of Pittsburg. Pa. who was
found guilty OF causing the death of
his secretary, Elsie Dodds Coe, by an
operation, was sentenced to serve one
year in Jail and fined six and one
fourth cents with costs.
Fifty persons were killed and 275
seriously injured In June by vehicles
In the streets of New York city. Au.
tomobiles killed twenty-six and Injured
1853, street cars killed nineteen and In
jured ninety-nine, and wagons caused
the death Of fourteen and the injury OF
t%enty-three.