The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

3Oth and a lively session is expected.
Official reports on pig-iron produc-
tion in Germany during 1899 show
S029305 tons, as against 7,402, III
tons in 1898.
The British steamer Expedient has
run down and sunk n harbor steamer
near Altoona, Germany. Thirty work
men We're drowned.
Missouri is suing Nebraska to estab-
lish its right to a strip of land that has
been cut off by "A change in the bed of
the Missouri river.
Thirty thousand cases of influenza
have been reported by the physicians
of Rome. The disease for the most
part, however, appears in n mild form.
but the authorities have the closing of
the schools under consideration.
There is n rumor in Paris that a re-
bellion has occurred among the Sou
danese troops in Khartoum. There are
only 100 white British soldiers there
under command of n major. The SOU
danese force consists of two battalions
with Il total of 1,50O men.
While the United States gunboat
Wheeling. now in Hongkong harbor,
was saluting in honor of the German
emperor's birthday, Il gun burst, kill
Ing Gunners Campbell and Nelson and
and Gunners Conroy and Bite.
f. W. Howe, editor of the Atchison
Globe, has accepted an invitation to
write for the Topeka State Journal
during the week that the Rev. c. NJ.
Sheldon edits the Capital as n Chris
tlAn daily n lay sermon each day on
how ministers should preach the gos-
pei.
II is stated that the cowboys and
miners in southern Arizona have or
ganized and are preparing to invade
SoDora and avenge the murder of rhe
six prospectors. They will fight against
the Mexican troops for the indepen-
dence of the Sonora and the Yaqui ma
ton.
Belgian vessel-owners are petitioning
the government to withdraw the law
imposing Belgian captains ON Belgian
ships. Belgian masters, the owners
say, are incompetent, and they much
prefer Americans, Englishmen, Ger
mans or Scandinavians. The petition
has aroused intense Indignation among
Belgian mariners.
Sig. Pans, Italian ambassador to the
porte, is protesting most vigorously
against the seizure of an Italian girl
for a Turkish hnrem at Broussa. The
Turkish government refuses to deliver
adopted the religion of Islam. Ital-
ian-T'urkish relations are greatly
strained in consequence.
Marcus DAILY. president of the Anal
gamated Copper Company, has retired
from the personal and active manage
mcnt of the big corporations proper
ties in Montana. and has been succeed
ed by G-. NJ. Hyams, who for n number
of years has been general manager of
the Boston and Montana Mining Com
pany. one of the concerns taken by the
Amalgamatcd.
\ representative of the American
coal trust who has been in Bremen
during the last week has been overrun
with orders. owing to the scarcity
which the Austrian strikes have pro-
duced. The American producers,
however. are unable TO supply half of
the quantity demanded. because trans
portaton facilities are lacking. and the
American coal syndicate declines TO
furnish such facilities.
There is now being presented to the
Burlington employees II proposition for
Il pension system similar to that re-
Gently put into effect with the Penn
sylvania lines. 1t is figured that with
the $1,000 men to start with. all with
an average age younger than that of
the Pennsylvania. the system should
he installed more easily from finan-
cial point of view, and would have
many beneficcnt results.
The election of nnety-nine senators
in France on the 2Sth resulted in n
practical rout for the Nationalists. only
three out of their thirty candidates be-
ing elected. OF these. Generals Mer-
cier and Lambert alone succeeded, !
both commanding large majorities.
y
tionalist candidate. The result is as
follows: Republicans 81, Liberal Re /
publicans 6, Radicals Is, Socialists I,
Monarchists /, Nationalists 3.
A lead pencil. the value of which Is |
about . cents, but which was an old |
heirloom, is the cause of a law suit in |
Michigan. Horace Blood was showing |
the pencil to DIR. George NJ. Dunn, |
when Dunn put ii in his pocket. Blood |
asked him TO bring it back, and fin
ally notified him that unless it was re-
turned suit would be commenced. In |
Justice Noyes' court the pencil was
turned over to the justice, but the suit
will be finished to see who pays the
costs.
Until she reached San Francisco,
Mrs. Lawton knew nothing of the eff
fort of the American people to provide
in a measure for the loss of the bread
winner. When told of the fund
amounting to almost 100000 that had
been raised for the Lawton family the
widow was overcome with gratitude
and could only sob forth her thanks.
To know that the children would be
provided with home was a source of
much comfort to the mother after
many trials she had endured.
An extraordinary exodus of Amcri-
cans towards Europe is in progress, ac.
cording to the figures of the passport
bureau of the State Department Up