The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-04-17
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July 4th.
The United States Supreme Court
has refused to grant writ of certer-
ioral in the case of Oberlin NJ. Carter,
thus denying the right of appeal to
that court.
The greatest fire Newark, New Jer-
sey, ever experienced swept through
the retail dry goods district Tuesday
night, destroying score or more
buildings. The loss is estimated at
over $1,OOO,0OO.
Saturday the midnight express on the
Lehigh Valley railroad struck a car
riage containing seven persons, near
Geneva, New York, instantly killing
five of the occupants, fatally injuring
another and badly brulsing the
other. All were members of a family.
The Pennsylvania railroad pension
department has acted upon the cases
of 99S employees who We're relieved
from service on the first of the present
year, and has fixed the monthly PEN
sion allowance to be paid to each, the
aggregate of which amounts to over
100000 per annum.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, General
U. S. Grants favorite child, went to
New York from her mothers home in
Washington, to have a cancer removed
by Il skilled surgeon. 1t is announced
that her physician believes the opera
ton was successful and that she is
now on the road to recovery.
One of the most remarkable achieve
ments in modern surgery and medical
science was accomplished at Chicago
recently, when total blindness that had
existed for several years was relieved
and the sight restored. This was done
thrnnDb h. ,,f
the brain, n tumor being removed.
1t is stated on what is believed to
be good authority that already $4,000
Russian soldiers are concentrating IN
the interior of Persia. These troops
have advanced quietly, passing the
Russian-Persian frontier in small, sep
arate detachments-all during the last
ten or twelve days. Russian troops are
still being dispatched daily to the from
tier of Afghanistan.
The Navy Department is informed
that ordinary bituminous coal for
steaming purposes is now $40 a ton at
Gibraltar. The same quality can be
purchased for less than 81 at Lam
bert's Point, Virginia. The high price
is due to lack of transportation, the
British government having chartered
almost everything that can float to car
y
In the case of the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern Company VS.. William
Voight, the United States Supreme
Court has decided that an express mes
senger who was injured in a railroad
accident after signing an agreement TO
relieve the railroad company from re-
sponsibility in case of accident, could
not claim damages. The court held
that there was no principle of public
policy preventing n mans making
such a contract
The Board of General Appraisers at
New York has decided that Puerto
Rico is a foreign country. Certain i'm
porters protested against the payment
of duties, and appealed to the Board
of General Appraisers, which has de-
cided that until Congress by special
legislation extends the tariff laws over
the newly acquired territory, it cannot
admit merchandise from Puerto Ricau
ports free of duty. An appeal Will be
made to the court.
Representatives of the various Kan
sas wholesale grocers have formulated
plans to fight the tobacco trust, and
more principally the Continental To-
bacco Company. The grocers state
that the trust has cut down the profits
of wholesalers three times in the last
three months and compels them to
buy large amounts of tobacco at one
time. Resolutions asking aid of whole
sale grocery houses in the fight against
the trust were passed.
More than half a company of the
1000 recruits at Fort Slocum. New
York, deserted Thursday night, and es-
capped to New Rochelle, New York,
with the connivance of sentries who
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an occurrence. Ten of the men have
returned. but two of the sentries who
deserted with the others and fortytwo
privates have not been heard from.
The men who came back are now in
solitary confinement
The Appellate Court mt Chicago has
rendered n unanimous opinion through
Judge Adams that property owners
along the line of the various elevated
railroad in Chicago may sue for dam
ages alleged to have been sustained by
the depreciation of property values re-
sulting from the construction and op-
GRAFTON of the elevated systems. The
decision has direct bearing on suits
against the elevated railroad COM
panies in which the aggregate of dam
ages sought runs into the millions.
Evansville. Indiana, heirs of Edgar
2. Thompson, owner and ruler of Var
tu Nara, one of the Fiji islands. who
left an estate valued at $4,000, 900,
have been notified of his death. In
1862 Edgar Paul Thompson left his
home ana nothing was heard from him
by his relatives until he sent them
news of his whereabouts from the Fiji
islands, where he was engaged in
growing cotton. His estate there and
in America is valued at $1O0OO,OO0,
and it will be divided among his rela-
tives in this country.
The first important strike among
Puerto Rican laborerS began on the