The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-02-14
TELEGRAPHIC RREVITIES.

or war against America.
Aguinaldo now claims jurisdiction
over the whole Philippine archipelago.
The London Times says the American
volunteers fought like regulars at Ma
Mia.
General Count Won Caprivi, the for
mer chancellor of the German emnire,
died on the 9th.
The county commissioners at Chica-
% have increased their salaries and
law suit is the result.
The Czar has given 100000 ruties
(S49O,OOO from his privy purse fog the
relief of Russian famine sufferers.
Rudyard Kipling, the novelist. with
his wife, are visiting the United States.
They will go to Mexico later on.
DR.. A. w. Hit. a German physician
from India, who has made n life study
of leprosy, says there are 532 cases of
leprosy in the United States, ten of
which are in Chicago.
Professor Frank of the Agricultural
University of Berlin has reported to the
Prussian government after six months
investigation that the San Jose scale
is non-eXistent in Germany.
The Alabama House of Representa-
adopted a resolution that the national
flag be hoisted over every school house
In the state and be kept floating there.
The negotiations for Sir Henry Irv-
inS's tour of the country, to begin next
october, have progressed so satisfac-
torily that his personal representative
Bran StOker, has started for this coun-
try.
a dispatch TO the Frankfort Zeitung
from Constantinople says the French
embassy has formally and strongly pro-
tested to the Porte against the conces-
sion to Germany of n port and dock at
Haidar Pasha, nearly opposite Con
stantinople.
Adyices have been received at Brus-
sells from the Congo Free State that Ma
1or Lothaire, commanding n force of
Congo troops has refeated with heavy
loss the tribe of Mongolia cannibals
who recently killed and ate four Bel
gians.
Colonel John A. Sexton, commander
in-chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, and member of the War In
vestigating Commission, died at Wash
ington on the 9th, after an illness last.
ing several weeks. His body was
| buried at Chicago.
mayor peHerai James II. wade,
| United States volunteers, has been di-
rected TO proceed to st. Paul, Minneso-
Ia, and take command of the Depart
ment of Dakota, relieving Brigadier
General John NJ Bacon, ordered to join
his regiment in Cuba.
1t is understood that the battleship
Iowa, due to arrive at San Francisco
from Magdalena bay, will be immedi-
| ately prepared for trip to Manila. She
VIII take ON an immense supply of am
! munitlon for Dewey's fleet and to await
dispatches from Washington.
The Spanish premier, Senor Sagasta,
IWSii n niminmiealafey submit ' to tho On. oGeen an
n decree convoking the Cortes fad that
he expects to have a majority of thirty
favorable to the approval of the treaty
of peace with the United States.
The Dawes and Creek commissions
have completed their treaty. All lands
of the tribe, except town. school.
church and cemetery sites, are TO be di-
vlded among the citizens of the tribe
equally and the allotments are to be
! hon-taXabie for twenty-onc years.
The Centennial, with 1,SOO tons of
army stores, has sailed for Manila from
San Francisco. Preparations are now
active at the quartermaster's depot to
send 5000 additional tons of army
stores, chiefly commissary. to the Phil
ippines, although the method of trans
portation has not yet been decided
upon.
The payment of the department EN-
| ployes ut Havana has been proceeding
for the past few days. The custom
house has been furnishing funds to
the other department for this purpose.
and for the first time in months, the
employees have known a punctual and
full payment of their salaries, at which
they are much pleased.
The keel of the new battleship Maine
Will be laid at the Champs ship yard
February 10Th. This date will be the
anniversary of the explosion in Ha-
vana harbor of the ship of that name
The Cramps also announce that efforts
VIII be pushed to have the new battle
| ship ready TO be launched February
| 10, 1900, the second anniversary OF the
Maine disaster
Governor General Henry has ordered
the dissolution of the Porto Rico Cabi-
net and substitutes for II departments
| OF state, justice, finance and interior
| The order announces that ii having be-
come evident TO General Henry. after n
careful trial of two months. that the in
sular Cabinet does not correspond with
American methods of progress, and de-
| clares its dissolution.
Advices received by the Merritt
| Wrecking Company are to the effect
that the Spanish cruiser Reina Mer-
cedes, on which its wreckers are work
+ ing at Santiago, will be fioated in about
two weeks, providing the present good
weather pre- railed. The ship was scut-
tied, but as her machinery was not dam
aged much it is thought she can come
to the Norfolk navy yard under her
| own steam.
The south-bound passenger train on
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