The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-10-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.


captain general of Madrid.
Paul POns, the French wrestler, who
claims the championship of Europe,
has arrived in this country.
Firman Bousson made an unsuccess-
full attempt to sail his dirigible balloon
at Paris recently. He will try again
and hopes to rival Count Won Zeppelin.
Charles Dudley Warner. the cele-
brated author and journalist, died sud
denly from an attack of pneumonia at
Hartford, Connecticut, on the 10th in
stant.
Major General Leonard Wood, gov
ernor of Cuba, is making a flying trip
to New York and other eastern points,
and will take his family back to Cuba
with him.
The Transvaal foreign secretary,
postmaster general and treasurer have
arrived at Naples on board the German
steamer Herzog. They proceeded to
Hamburg.
Supplies are being rushed from Van
couver, b. c., to rescue 200 Indians,
who are reported to be starving at
Humberton Meadows, $50 miles north
of Agassiz.
The Caribou Consolidated gold mine
of Quesnelle, b. c., has shipped to
New York record breaking ingot,
weighing 1853 pounds and of the value
of $154, ,765.
Rev. DIR. ]. N Craig of Baltimore
dropped dead in the pulpit on the 24th
instant while addressing the Presby-
terian synod OF Virginia, in session at
Newport News.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
Red Cross Society, who has been di-
recting work at Galveston for six
weeks, was recently quite ill, but Is
reported to be improving.
The Hon. w p. Schreiner, the for
mer premier of Cape Colony, has re
signed his seat in Parliament owing to
the persistent objection of the eX-
tremists to the Afrikanders.
The report of the treasurer of the
Union Printers Home at indianapolis
for the six months ending August 81,
1900. shows balance in the treasury
OF $1o,OOS. The expenditures in the six
months were 500, 1876.
There are ninety-two cases of yellow
fever in all at Havana. and nineteen
Americans are down with the disease.
The death rate among the American
victims has been eight per cent The
fever is decreasing.
The widow of Baron Won Ketteler.
the murdered German ambassador to
China, has arrived safely in Detroit
and is at the home of her father, Hen
ry b. Ledyard, president of the Mich
igan Central railroad.
A. D. Price of Palestine, Texas, n
student at an Asheville. Nor1h Caro-
lima, school, died few days since from
injuries sustained in Il practice game
Of football. His spinal column was
broken between his shoulders.
Commissioner Evans of the pension
bureau states that $4,000 claims for
pension on account of the Spanish
American war had been filed up to
October 22nd. OF this number, 4,23I
have been already adjudicated.
By the signing of a three years
agreement with the structural iron
workers to-day the labor troubles in
Chicago, so far as they affect the con-
struction of the new postofiice build
ing. have been settled. A large force
will now be worked.
Great uneasincss was created in psi
ace circles" says n Constantinople cor
respondent, ''by report that an Amer
lean squadron was approaching, and
the censor was instructed to prohibit
the press from mentioning the sub
ject.'
Dunavant. Kansas, was partly de-
stroyed by fire October 2ith. The busi-
ness portion is total loss. including
Richardson's store and hotel, the post
office building, three residences, steam
laundry, grist mill, Yourley's manufac-
turing plant and contractors shop and
office.
Among the honorary pail bearers Mt
the funeral of Charles Dudley Warner,
at Hartford. Connecticut were Thom-
as Bailey Aldrich, S. l.. Clemens Mark
Twain), Senator Hawley. Professor w.
NJ. Sloane of Columbia University and
President George w. Smith of Trinity
College.
Lord Roberts cables from Pretoria.
October 21st. that no orders have been
placed by Col mel Girouard in Ameri-
ca, but that Warnher, Belt * Co., act
ing for various mining firms. have, ow
ing to the inability of English houses
to complete orders on time, placed
portion of then orders in America.
The citizens of Oklahoma and Indian
territory want single statehood for the
two territories. and the formation of
leagues to promote this end has COM
menced. The first league was organ
ized at Wagner. l. T. Determined eff
forts in this direction are being made
by the leading people of those terri
tories.
An American lady. Mrs. Marguerite
Foulks, was found dead at the Champ
de Mars railway station in the grounds
of the exposition, at Paris, n few days
since. She was apparently about sixty
years of age, well dressed and had
plenty of money on her person, togeth-
er with rich jewelry. Her body was
taken to the morgue.
The New York State College of For
estry has been asked to furnish six
competent, assistants to the forestry
bureau at Manila. +. |. CAPTAIN Ahern,