The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-11-06
TELEGRAPHIC BREviTIES.

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coming Canadian soldiers from South
Africa, was welcomed at Halifax with
roaring cannon.
Fully 5000 people attended the Chi
cago horse show in one night, which is
the most successful affair of the kind
ever held in the city.
The French cruisers La Sielle and La
Souchet, the former the flagship of Ad-
miral Richard, are in Baltimore harbor
and will stay a'weeB.
Major Henry ]. Hearsay. editor of
the Daily States at New Orleans, and
one of the strongest newspaper writ
ers in the South, is dead, aged sixty.
William St John Lyme, premier of
New South Wales, says the Australian
people would like TO see Queen Victoria
asuume the title of Queen of Australia
From the Santa Fe general offices in
Chicago $500 kilograms We're recently
sent out in one day, which ought to
have kept both the wires and the oper-
ators hot.
Norman Brokaw, one of the most
prominent paper manufacturers in the
country, died ut Kankawna, Wisconsin,
October Both, after lingering illness
resulting from appendicitis.
Mary Voelker. n waitress mt the Man
haitian hotel Wichita, Kansas, has fall
en- heir to property of $4,000. She is
descended from the Bekkers of Hol-
land The estate is in India.
The Rev. Henry Russell-Pritchard,
the oldest minister of the Christian
Church in the United States, died sud
denly at Chesterfield, Indiana, Octo-
ber 2Sth, aged eighty-one years.
A Cleveland dispatch says the price
of steel plates has been advanced from
IL to 1.25 cents, by agreement among
the manufacturers, who have recent
ly been comforting upon the subject.
Edward Dewey. brother of Admiral
Dewey. died at Montpelier Vermont,
October 2Sth, at the age of seventy-one
years. He served in the Civil War as
quartermaster of the Eighth Vermont
regiment.
In the Court of Appeals at Frankfort,
Kentucky, the judgment of the lower
court in the contests over the minor
state officers was affirmed, thus estab-
fishing the title of the Democratic in
cumbents.
NJ Millerand, the French minister of
commerce, has obtained President Lou
bets signature TO n decree prolonging
the Exposition until November 18th,
and fixing November Tth as n free day
for the poor.
w. S. Robson, one of the most extern
sive cotton planters of Texas, has
gathered statistics from the BraZos
and Colorado valleys and declares that
the boil weavil has destroyed S6,0O0,-
900 worth of this years cotton crop.
AT Boston a few days since Harry
Elks broke all bicycle records from
twelve to twenty-five miles, inclusive,
his time for twenty-five miles being
81: :O2 3-5, which beats the previous rec
ord made by Stinson by II Is sec
onds.
A dispatch received at the War De-
partment announces the arrival at Ma
Mia of the transport Hancock with
three companies of the Fourth and four
of the Twenty-fifth infantry and three
officers and 100 men of the marine
corps.
A band of American confidence men
has successfully done Berlin and other
German cities. passing Confederate so
bills, which have been readily accept
ed at forty marks ,(9.52) each. The po-
lice have received reports of scores of
victims.
Avondale. the estate of the late
Charles Stewart Parnell, was sold at
auction October 31st. by the land
judges court. The purchaser was Mr.
Boyland. a friend of John Howard Par
nell, brother of the famous Irish
statesman.
Any attempt on the part of Germany
to establish "A coaling station in terri
tory of Venezuela will be opposed by
the United States, says n Washington
special to the New York Herald. Such
I'll. ~.
ciples of the Monroe doctrine.
According to a correspondent of the
London Daily Mail, the Beers have 49,
600 men in the field, nearly half of
whom are in Orange River Colony.
These are divided into commanders of
some 300 men each, but are capable of
combination for large operations.
Experimental excavations at various
points along the route of the Charing
Cross, Euston & Hampstead railway,
in London. whose franchise was re-
Gently acquired by Charles T. Yerkes,
have been commenced, and the work
will be continued without Interrupt
ton.
The London Sportsman announces
that the Prince of Wales has cancelled
his retainer to Tod Sloan for 1901. The
announcement is as follows: The ar
rangement by which Sloan was to be
the first jockey to the Prince of
Wales next season will not be carried
out"
The Chicago & Grand Trunk railroad
was sold at Port Huron, Michigan, Oc-
tober 31st. under first mortgage pro-
ceedings. General Manager Charles NJ
Hays and +. w. Meredith of Detroit,
representing the stockholders of the
road bought the road being sold to
them for S5,70S,7 ,7O1.
In the earthquake at Caracas, San
Casimiro, Qua and Charallano were en-