The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-01-16
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for life for having participated in
lynching.
William Waldorf Astor has given
100000 to equip British troops for the
Boer war.
A tenement house fire in East
Ninety-second street, New York, re-
suited in three deaths and seven per-
sons being badly injured.
The Colombian revolutionists have
taken Pampelona and Bucuramanga
without a fight 1t is believed that they
intend to reach Bogota by way of
Socorro.
Phil Armour, the Chicago million
aire packer, is at Pasadena and has
announced that he will make his fu-
ture home there. He is negotiating for
a residence.
Director of Posts Rathbone is gradu-
ally appointing Cubans as postmasters
all over the island. AT the present
time there are only eight Americans
in charge of postoffices in Cuba.
Samuel Craig of Carbondale, Illinois,
lost his life while tagging a passenger
train to prevent n collision. He was
run over by the train because of the
fog, but the train stopped in time
The grand jury at Lansing, Michi-
gan, created series of sensations by
bringing bills of indictment charging
several state officers with fragrant
criminal offenses. The speaker of the
House was charged with bribery.
Bulgaria has never contracted n
debt under conditions so onerous as
those which affect the loan just con-
cluded by the government. The loan
is for 40,000,0O0 francs, at per cent
interest, secured by the tobacco reve-
nues.
A dispatch received from Alden says
the authorities of that place have re-
nounced all further search of the i'm
perlal German mail steamer, detained
there under suspicion of having con-
traband of war on board. The steamer
will resume her voyage in few days.
Colonel +. i. IIilder, who was con-
uected with the Latin-American bu
reau of the Worlds Fair, has been sent
to the Philippine islands under the di-
rection of the Smithsonian institution
to collect an exhibit for the Pan
American exposition of Buffalo in
1901.
Miss Mary L. How has obtained
verdict for $1,000 in the New York
Supreme Court in her action against
Mrs. Frances Augusta Skinner. The
suit was brought by Miss How for
$24, $50 for services rendered by her
to Mrs. Skinner rs society COACH" as
a companion and entertainer.
Most alarming news comes from
Macedonia. II is reported that Al
banian bands. armed to the teeth, are
invading Debren, in the Vilayet of
Soloniki, and neighboring Christian
villages, doing all manner of unheard-
of violence and threatening the in
habitants with an immediate general
massacre of the Christian population.
The great epidemic of influenza in
London shows no signs of abatement,
but rather is increasing. The hospitals
report an increase in the number of
cases, and already business is seriously
deranged through the number Of alb
sentees. One of the tramway compan-
les reports that a large per cent. of
its employees are incapacitated for work
from this cause.
During eleven months of 1899 our
exports to the newly acquired colonies
Were double what they We're in 1898,
and reached $37, ,S54, ,11o. When il is
considered that they have not yet re-
turned to anything like normal con-
ditions, that there has been actual war
in the Philippines, these figures justify
the expectation of II great increase in
our future commerce.
1t is reported that James J. Hill,
president of the Great Northern Rail
road, is about to add mammoth steel
plant TO his other properties. This
plant is to be located at Great Falls,
Montana. Its primary purpose is to
manufacture steel rails. bridge steel
and other articles especially required
in railroad construction, maintenance
and operation, but to what extent it
may branch out beyond these lines
cannot be guessed.
Latest mail advices from India aver
that the situation there grows darker
every week. Three million are work
ing on the government relief works.
The sale of children by starving par
ents is becoming common. Families
are breaking up, each member for him
self, in search of food Abandoned
children are found with frequency. 1t
is famine of water as well as food.
Cattle are dying off by thousands and
no rain is now expected until June.
Colonel Swetchine, governor of
Tifiis, Transcaucasia, has FASTENED
with an ample relief fund, n body of
troops, staff of physicians and full
field hospital outfit, to the Achalkalak
district of the government of Tiflis.
His staff is busy assisting the hun
dreds of persons injured in the recent
earthquakes, helping the homeless and
digging out and burying the dead. In
the ruins of the thirteen villages de-
stfoyed upwards of 500 bodies have
been recovered.
Mrs o. G. Sinclair of Carlyle, Illi-
nois, was reading near the stove in
her home, with her head inclined
toward the stove. In her hair she
wore a celluloid comb, which sud
denly ignited from the heat of the