The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-01-02
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Hastings, Minnesota, suffered from a
big fire on the 25th. Loss 100000
Recruits for the Boer army are being
recruited at Cincinnati and other cities.
Thirty men We're killed by an eX-
plosion of gas in a colliery at Brown
vile, Pennsylvania.
The Salvation Army served dinner to
24,OOO poor people at Madison Square
Garden, New York, on Christmas.
By a wreck on the Northern Pacific,
six miles east of Bearmouth, Mon
tana, four men We're killed and several
injured, more or less seriously.
The posto ice department has never
handled so many Christmas packages
as this year. The returns of registered
packages will show a total nearly dou-
bic that of any previous season.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent at Colon reports that official advices
have been received from Venezuela
that the government troops in that re-
public &C 4pletely defeated the rebel
forces uE E-er General Hernandez on
December 18th.
A horrible wholesale murder has just
been committed in Osiek, near Kalisch,
Poland Nine members of the family
of a wealthy landed proprietor, named
Kowalslli, We're killed after frightful
erything valuable There is no clue to
the murderers.
The steamer Dunottar Castle, having
on board Lord Roberts of Kandahar,
commander-in-c chief of the British
forces in South Africa, and General
Sir Kitchener, who came from Egypt
TO join Lord Roberts as his chief of
staff, has sailed from Gibralter.
A dispatch from Pretoria unter date
of December 18th says: General Jou-
bert has recovered and returned to the
front today. There were special ser
vices yesterday in the different laagers
as thanksgiving for the victories of
Colenso, Stormberg and Modder river.
Lady Randolph Churchill has re-
ceived n cable dispatch from her son,
| Winston Churchill, who was captured
| by the Beers in Natal and taken to
| Pretoria, and whose escape from there
| was announced December LIST, saying
he had arrived safely at Delagoa bay.
Charles II. Cole, formerly president
of the Globe National Bank of Boston,
is under arrest at Los Angeles. Mr..
Boston authorities, with misappropriat-
ing and embezzling S900,UU0 on four
counts. The bank has suspended bust
/ ness.
The directors of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company have offered n re-
ward of $4,000 for information lead
| ing to the discovery and conviction of
any persons who may have circulated
recently false statements or rumors
with intent to affect the market price
| of the stocks or securities of the cor
poration.
President Henry Morton of the Stew
ems Institute has announced that An
drau "a rpe0ie had npreAh tn give $50
600 toward the payment for the con-
struction of n new engineering labor
atory, as an adjunct to the institute in
Hoboken, New Jersey. The new build
| ing Will be begun Immediately.
Archbishop Kain of st. Louis has
| received communication from Mgr
/ MartinelI, the apostolic delegate at
| Washington, saying that the recent
| decree issued from Rome, regarding
indulgences and other favors from the
/ Pope, does not in any way abridge the
] faculties heretofore held by bishops
and archbishops of issuing dispensa-
w. w. Simpson and A. w. Lager
! Qust of the Christian and Missionary
Alliance of New York arrived on the
Idzuni Maru from Thibet. After three
years work not n single convert to
Christianity has been obtained. The
Buddhist priests, owing to China's in
ternal troubles, are in absolute con-
troll and will make physical war on the
4. Introduction of Christinnitv
The British war office has received II
dispatch from Pietermaritzburg, Natal
dated Sunday, December oath, an
nouncing that in an engagement at La
dysmith, December 22nd Major A. G.
King, Captains Wathens and Oaks,
Lieutenant Hulse and Lieutenant Colo
mel Fawcett We're wounded, and that
nine non-commissioned officers and
men were killed and ten wounded
This was the result of sortie.
Congressman Boutelle is suffering
from Bright's disease in its last stages
and fhe violent attacks, bordering on
delirium, which he has experienced in
the last few days have been caused by
uraemic poisoning, which results in
commissions resembling symptoms of
insanity. While the utmost secrecy has
been maintained ever since Congress-
man Boutelle's return to his home con
cerning his real condition, it has be-
come known, through various sources,
that his case is far more critical than
has been admitted by the doctors and
members of the family.
The Supreme Court of Montana has
announced its decision in the Well
come disbarment case. The court, in
an opinion per curiam by the whole
court, reviews the recent memorable
proceedings had before it, and winds
up by finding that John B. Welcome
must be deprived of the privilege of