The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

The annual meeting of the National
Grange was held at Springfield, Ohio,
last Tuesday.
Much of the canned beef bought for
| the British army has been found to be
unfit for food.
A horrible mine catastrophe is re-
ported from Ludwigsgluck, ,Silesia
where twelve men We're killed by the
ignition of fire damp.
Colonel Metcalf of the Twentieth
Kansas regiment is charged with hAv-
| ing shot n defenselesS Filipino prSon.
er. He denies the charge.
A grand banquet in honor of En-
peror William was given at Windsor
Castle last Tuesday night. The gold
plate in use was worth S10,O0O,O0O.
Lady Salisbury, wife of the premier,
who has been in ill health for n long
time, suffering a second stroke of par
alysis in July last, died Monday after
noon.
1t is said that II. U. Nudge, general
superintendent of the Santa Fe system,
will succeed General Manager Frey on
January list, and that C. f. Russegue
of Galveston, general superintendent
of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa FA
will succeed Nudge.
John Rockefeller president of the
Standard Oil Company, has made Il
conditional gift of S150,000 to the Roch-
ester Theological Seminary, Baptist
institution. He will give a dollar for
each dollar collected by the seminary
until the sum Of 100000 is reached.
Mrs. Henry hamburger, a midwife.
living at st. Louis, has been arrested
on Il bench warrant sworn out on in
formation laid before the grand jury,
WI ish oh t1nt oh hns In loo
of the murder of at least three wOmi
and the destruction of scores of babies
The complete vote in Ohio for gov
ernor stood as follows: George X.
Nash, republican, 41T,199: John II. Nc
Lean, democrat, 36S. .1T6; Samuel NJ.
Jones, non-partisan, 106721: Seth ii.
Ellis, union reform, 7,T99; George NJ.
Hammel, Prohibition. 5,S25; Robert
Bandlow, Socialistic Labor, 2,439.
Numerous railroads have petitioned
the interstate commerce commission
for further extension of the time in
which to equip their cars with auto
matte couplers and train brakes. The
commissioners have fixed December
9th next as the date when the petition
ers and other interested will be heard.
The mission of Lord Mayor Daniel
Talon of Dublin and John f. Red
terest of preserving the Parnell home
stead in County Wicklow, Ireland, has
been successful. Tonight Thomas F.
Smith, private secretary to Richprd
Croker, and general secretary of Tam
many hall, presented to the lord mayor,
in the name of Tammany Hail. n GER
titled check for f3,000 to save the Par
nell homestead. This was $1,000 in ex-
cess of the amount required.
Official advices from Bogota, dateA
November 18th, report that n terribly
battle between the government forces
and the revolutionists was fought near
Bucaramanga, capital of the depart
ment of Santander, in which the gov
ernrnent forces were victorious. 1t is
reported that the battle lasted two
days, ending at noon of December 10th.
More than 1000 rebels We're killed and
1000 We're wounded. About 10000
men on both sides were engaged in the
fight.
The reduction of the hours of labor
to six n day and the enforcement of
an increased wage scale by n number
of affiliated trades viii, it is said, be
undertaken by the Building Trades
council of Chicago If the builders and
contractors carry out their threat of n
lockout on January /, 1900. Both pro-
positions will receive serious consid-
Grafton from the unions in the coun-
ell, and. it is said, that body will act
positively on the subject as soon as
the local organizations have voted.
Iowa will present Colonel d. b.
Henderson with n gavel Immediately
after his election as speaker of the nat
ional house. 1t is bein. made of rose
wood. brought to Iowa by captain of
the 51st Iowa regiment, who took it
from Admiral Montejo's flagship, sunk
by Dewey in Manila bay. The gavel
will be mounted in solid gold, en-
graved with Mr.. Henderson's mono
gram and the seals of the state and
United States. 1t will cost $500. \
block of native granite is being pol
ished for use with it.
Mrs. James Brown Potter's tea con-
cert at Claridge's hotel, London, for
the benefit of the American hosptA
ship. Maine, was great success. IN
exquisitely decorated rooms WI
thronged with the exclusive of fashion
able people in brilliant attire, including
the Prince of Wales the Duke of Cam
bridge. Princess Christian of SchleS-
wig Hosteln. Something over 400
was added to the Maine fund as a re-
suit of the entertainment. a more
charming and successful gathering has
seldom been witnessed ut any social
function in London.
Latest mail advices from Manila in
dicate the existence of serious trouble
among the Sulu islanders, growing out
of the killing by some followers of the
Sultan of nine of the adherents of Dato
Jakanine the Ilost powerful and influ-
entail sub-chief of'the archipelago. The
men We're fishermen and We're killed by
the Sultan's soldiers, they having re-
sisted the attempt of the soldiers to
seize some fish they had caught. The
chief has sworn to be avenged and de-
clared that he would commence war