Gilpin observer., 1912-04-04
GEN ERAL.

Six thousand tons of potatoes, the
largest shipment ever received in New
York, arrived recently from London.
John Arbuckle, the well known cof-
fee man, died in Brooklyn. He was
seventy-four and leaves many millions.
Suffragists have announced that
they will print daily paper in Chica-
go, devoted to the cause of equal suf-
frage
Ralph Raymond, locomotive fireman,
has been arrested in Chicago for rob-
bing the body of a man killed by his
engine.
There are 15,O15,569 Catholics in the
'nited States proper. according to the
1912 edition of Kennedy's Official
Catholic Directory.
The total value of imports of farm
products into the United States Fn
1910 was s1,556,947, ,430, as against ST..
226 6,562,446 in 1906.
Woman suffrage and the election OF
United States Senators by direct vote
were defeated in the State Senate Of
Massachusetts by close votes.
Massachusetts is to send a commit
ee, made up principally of wage earn
ers, to Europe to investigate labor con-
ditions. The committee is specifical-
ly directed to visit great manufacture
ing institutions.
The Senate rejected the Sherwood
dollar-a-day pension bill, which had
passed the House, and then adopted.
56 to l6, the Smoot general age and
service pension measure, under which
the pension roll would be increased
by s20,0O0,O00 annually during the
next i've years.
To put her system of diet. which
she believes is a solution of the cost
of living problem, to the hardest pos
sible test, Mrs. David Beach, well
known in musical circles in New York,
will walk from that city to Chicago,
starting April 10. She expects to reach
Chicago by June /.
The federal treasury is fast over
taking the big deficit that has been
characteristic of the current fiscal
year. The high total of revenue for
the month OF March, exceeding the
expenditures by $10,6SS.000, has re-
duced the deficit from s20,570,00O to
1892, 900. The surplus a year ago
was only $l,963,O0O.
After being out for twenty four
hours, the jury which has been trying
the officials of the sugar trust on the
charge of criminal conspiracy growing
out OF the closing of the plant of the
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Compa-
ny following loan of s1,25O,O0O to
its owner, Adolph Segal of Phlladel-
phia reported that it was unable to
agree and was discharged by Federal
Judge Hand.
Although strikes are still in prog
ress in various Massachusetts textile
centers, the week has brought about q
noticeable improvement IN general
conditions. Several of the smaller la
Dor difficulties have been settled and
strike of 10000 cotton mill opera
tives at New Bedford was ayerted by
the granting of the ten per cent ad-
vance. Similar advances were made In
other mills in New England, SO that
at least 100000 operatives will share
in the distribution.
Prices Of carpeting and rugs are
likely to advance sharply during tho
next two months, according to trade
announcements, owing to the scarcity
of desirable carpet woods in the mar.
kets of the world.
Senator Stephoason or Wisconsin.
octogenarian millionaire banker and
lumberman, retains his seat in the Sen.
lto. BY a vote Of 40 to "a the SEN
ate declared his election valid and 70
jected the charge that s107,793 which
the senator admitted spending in the
Wisconsin primaries had been used
corruptly.