The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-03-20
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a Baptist church.
/ Rev. Thomas X. Beecher. who was
pastor of Park Church, Elmira, New
York, for forty-siX years, and brother
! of Henry Ward Beecher, died at his
home on the 18th of paralysis.
A firm of Washington bankers is get
ting ready to start for Cape Nome at
the opening of navigation for the pur-
pose of establishing IL bank. and will
carry complete outfit for IL safe de
posit company.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York has subscribed for e.
100000 of the new English war loan.
| The company at first offered to take
this amount outright, and even now
| hopes to secure it.
A committee was formed in Cape
| Town few days ago for the purpose
Of working for peace. The committee
consists of prominent lawyers, includ-
| ing a brother OF the Justice of the Col
ony, clergymeD and Afrikander ladies.
The British steamer Oceanic, which
arrived Wednesday, brought loo Irish
immigrants. There We're many young
men among the passengers. They left
Ireland because of the fear that they
would be drafted and forced to fight
the Beers.
Another war is threatened in the
| Tonic Basin country, Arizona, similar
to that of 1887 and 1888, when forty
people We're killed In what was known
as the Tewksbury- Graham feud. The
trouble is between the cattlemen and
the sheepmen.
The Second Presbyterian church, at
| Twentieth street and Michigan ave
nue., Chicago, was burned on the Sth.
] homo nj nf
aristocratic congregations in the city.
The loss on building and furnishings
is estimated at 100000.
The special committee appointed to
wait upon Monsignor Sbarretti and
present to him the protest against his
appointment as bishop of Havana We're
Informed by Sbarretti that he could
not abandon the position. as he had
been sent there by the Pope.
Serious conditions obtain in Morocco.
From advices received yesterday II
appears that a state of anarchy pre-
walls throughout the kingdom and that
much blood has been shed and many
lives lost. 1t is thought that European
Intervention will ultimately be neces
sary.
A special to the Salt Lake Herald
from Price, Utah, says: Indian Agent
Q
ernmcnt land on the Uintah reserva-
ton to eastern flock masters The
leases run for five years and the
amount involved is S1S,3O0, which goes
to the Uintah Indians.
More than 500 men and women sat
down at the Lincoln dinner given by
the workingmens committee of 100 10
New York. 1t was dollar" dinner,
but both menu and decorations ex-
celled those of the celebrated Bryan
dollar" dinner, given in the Grand
Central Palace last year.
A conspiracy to establish mon
archy in Brazil has been discovered.
Various high officers are implicated. in
Guiding Admiral Mello. The plan OF
the conspirators was to establish pro-
vislonal government and then take
plebiscite. Energetic movement by the
government has foiled the plot.
Mrs. Lucinda H. Stone, widely
known as the mother of "Womens
clubs and a writer and educator of
note, died on the 14th at the age of
eighty-six. Kalamazoo College, which
for many years was under the tutelage
of Mrs. Stone and her husband. Dr. j.
A. b. Stone, was the first institution In
the West in which women were taught
the higher studies.
1t is emi-otficially announced that
when the Orange Free State and the
Transvaal address to n number of the
larger and small states n request for
! friendly mediation, the German gov
ernment men replied that it would will
ing participate provided the essential
/ condition of such mediation were pres
ent, namely, the certainty that both
belligerents desired it.
The final steps have been taken for
the incorporation of the Armour pack
ing interests with capitalization of
S20OO0,o0O. Formerly the business
was conducted as co-partnership
| The incorporation will not change the
management in any sense. The pa
/ pers, which were forwarded to Spring
field for filing, provide for n corpora
ton embodying all the packing inter-
ests of Armour & Co. at Chicago and
elsewhere.
A cablegram received in Washington
announces the marriage of Mrs. Fran
ces Hodgson Burnett to Stephen Town
send, Il. r. @. s.. of the Inner Temple,
Continental Club, London. Mrs. Bur
nett came over to this country in Octo-
Der last, and after having spent the
winter at her Washington residence
sailed for Genoa on February 2Sth On
her arrival in Genoa she was met by
Mr.. Townsend and the marriage was
quietly celebrated.
Attorney General Smyth of Nebraska
has decided to file damage suits for
/ nearly $1,50000O in the Supreme Court
Monday against the Union Pacific, Mis-
souri, Pacific and the Rock Island rail
roads under the maximum freight rate
law. the state holding that the failure
of the roads to comply with the act
has made them liable to heavy pen
alties. The Union Pacific is sued for
$685., 900, the Missouri Pacific for S435 =
900 and the Rock Island for $4,000.