The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-04-10
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and jewelry the other night.
Much distress prevails among the
poor of Sweden. Applications for relief
at the Stockholm poorhouse never
were more numerous than this winter.
Cape Town is deplorable. The medi-
cal authorities seem unable to cope
with the spread of typhoid fever, from
which many are dying.
City Chamberlain Seymour Lowman
of Elmira, New York, says that the
shortage of his predecessor, Frank Il.
Bundy. will undoubtedly reach $4,000,
according to the additional discrepan-
cies discovered during the past week.
The Armenian revolutionary commits
sion threatens to kill the patriarch and
the president of the national council un-
less they resign. The Armenians ac-
cuse the official and the prelate of be-
ing in sympathy with the Turkish gov
ernment.
party of Americans employed in
the construction of the Mexican Cen
trail railroad near Tlajomulco unearth-
ed n big collection of prehistoric relics
and an earthen jar containing $4,000
in old Spanish gold. The wealth was
divided among the discoverers.
John Watika. Seminole Indian, was
given fifty lashes on his bare back at
Wewoka, Indian territory. The fog
ging was delivered in public, aud hun
dreds witnessed 1t. Watika was con-
victed recently upon two charges of lar
ceny, and had also deserted his wife.
Henry Dorst killed himself at Venice,
Illinois, by drinking quart of whisky
without removing his lips from the bot
tie except to catch his breath between
gulps. He and some companions had
bought quart of whisky, and one of
them said he would pay for the con-
tents if Dorst would drink it all. This
he did.
Carston r. Borchgrevnik, leader Of
the Newnes South Polar Expedition,
who arrived at Campbelltown, New
Zealand, on the 2nd, telegraphs to Sir
George Newnes that not only was the
south magnetic pole located, but the
expedition reached the furthest point
south, with sledge, of which there is
any record, namely, latitude IS degrees
so minutes south.
The transport Sheridan arrived at
San Francisco from Manila on the 1st.
She reported typhoid fever aboard and
will probably remain for several days.
The Sheridan brought from Manila 40
army prisoners. eighty-six sick, eleven
insane and thirty-two discharged sol
diers, and eleven navy prisoners and
fourteen sick sailors.
In the Portuguese Chamber of Depu.
ties the minister of foreign affairs an
nounced that Great Britain had de-
Of In trq e.
port British troops through Belra in ac-
cordance with existing treaties. Por-
tugal has notified the Transvaal gov
ernment of its decision. The minister
asserted that the relations between
Great Britain and Portugal were most
cordial"
Word has been received in New York
that the holy office at Rome has rsn-
dered a decision that is looked upon as
unfavorable to Catholic academies
throughout the country which accept
Protestant girls as pupils. This news
came from Quebec. where the sister SUI
perior of n girls academy received into
the institution three Protestant girls
whose families had agreed that they
We're to be treated as We're Catholic
pupils.
DR. st. George Mivart. former lectur-
er on zoology at st. Mary's hospital
medical school, and professor of biol
ogy at the University of Luvain, long
recognized as the leading scientist
within the Roman Catholic Church in
England, is dead. The late DIR. Mivart
was recently involved in a sharp con
troversy with Cardinal Vaughn, arch
bishop of Westminster, growing out of
certain articles he had contributed to
hn
nightly Review, which We're considered
heretical.
The steamship Alki arrived Mt Port
Townsend. Washington. from the north
three days late. While leaving Dunbar
bay she collded with an Iceberg,
knocking a big hole in her bow. She
was headed for the beach, which she
reached in almost a sinking condition.
Her pumps We're kept working all the
way down. Her officers report Cross
sound as being filed with floating ice,
the result of severe shocks of earth
quake which broke large quantities of
ice from glaciers and precipitated them
into the sea.
The American garrisons in the Phil
ippines have devised new scheme of
dealing with the bandits. Every time
an American commissary train or con
voy is attacked, or any of the peaceful
natives are murdered and robbed, n
detail of good men is sent post haste
after the marauders. In nearly every
case the rebels have been badly pun
ished. At Palisa pass, where the ma
tives had planned an ambush for Cap
tain McGee, company II, 29th infantry,
fifteen men of the same company were
sent out. They ran into another am
bnsh and We're attacked by force
twenty times their number. But the
American fire was so accurate and con-
tinuous that the rebels could not leave
the brush. Sixty-hve Filipinos surren-
dered to seven men.
TRIES TO KILL PRINCE OF WALES