The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-13
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| ported Tor Il week.
News comes from Brussels that the
Belgian mint has just turned out
nickel coinage of 100000 roubles ($2,
5000 for the Persian government
The Belgian address to President Nc
Kinley, urging him to offer his services
as mediator between the British and
the Beers has received the actual sig
natures of 10000 persons.
| According to dispatch from Port
Arthur, n treaty between China and
Korea, prohibiting the Importation of
! opium into Korea, has just been
signed.
The Merchants Association OF New
York has sent Il protest to the western
| Classification committee at Chicago
against the new classification which
has recently been adopted for all rail-
roads west of the Mississippi river.
Henry Walsh. an old and trusted
clerk in charge of the mailing depart
ment of the Chicago postoffice, has
been arrested, charged with robbing
the mails. 1t is calculated that Walsh
has robbed 500 letters during the past
year.
A dramatized version of the Rev.
| Charles NJ. Sheldon's novel, I'm His
Steps" which is so popular in America,
was produced at the Adelphi theater,
London, under the title of THE Better
Life" but does not seem, according
to the critics, to be II success.
The Baptist ministers conference at
| New York has adopted resolutions de-
nouncing the Introduction of the rum
shop into the Philippines and petition
| ing the President of the United States
/ to use the power vested in him to
abate and remove this evil from the
| islands over which we are guardians.
Twenty-seven manufacturing jeweSA
ers of Pforzheim, near Baden Baden,
who Cancelled their contracts for
| space at the Paris Exposition through
Indignation because of the condemna-
ton of ex-Captain Dreyfus, have re-
considered their decision and have re
entered their exhibits, which will be
| collective.
| The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Mail says: The changed atti-
tude of the Empress Dowager and her
virtual abandonment of her resolution
to depose the emperor are directly due
| to the torrent of public remonstrances
against her action. For the first time
in Chinese history, public opinion has
been effective"
Last Monday night fire broke out in
| the mercantile house of NaleZ, Lopez
~ Abascal, ut Tampa Mexico, consum-
ing the entire block with the exception
| of three houses. The estimated loss is
between SSOO,OOO and S1,00O,0OO, part
ly covered by insurance.. Eleven re-
| tail and one wholesale house, includ-
ing the city meat market, burned.
American commerce with the islandJ
| and countries of the Pacific shows Il
greater gain in the year 1899 than that
with any other part of the world. Our
total exports increased $4,000, 900, all
of which, with the exception of 81 900, n
| 600, was with Asia and Oceanica. Our
total imports increased $164,OOO,OOO
and S4S, S,OOO.O 900 of this increasee was
from Asia and Oecanica.
The Russian imperial bureau of
medical affairs has issued n memoran-
DUN concerning the famine in the gov
ernment of Bessarabia. stating that
10000 roubles CS20O,OOO) has been as
signed for the relief of distress in that
district. Sixty nine thousand men are
without work. and the committee has
decided to build public roads to give
employment 10 local paupers.
Between the rival committees MAX
ing arrangements mt Philadelphia for
the National Republican Convention
! there Is feeling of intense bitterness.
which is likely to have a disastrous eff
feet on efforts to raise the 100000
guaranty fund. 1t would not surprise
many citizens If the national commit
tee took the convention and gave it to
Chicago or some other city.
Nearly 1000 laborers at Santiago.
Cuba, are out on n strike. 1t is worthy
of note that the only reliable labor OBJ
tainable is Spanish Planters and
miners are employing all the peninsu-
lars they can get During the last six
months more than 1900 Galicians have
arrived in the island, but the present
stress has reduced the labor supply far
below the demand, causing the employ
ment of many jamaican negroes.
The Nebraska State Board of Trans
portation has ordered a reduction of
thirty per cent, of freight rates on
corn, oats mill and all feed stuffs. This
is the first reduction in six years. Com
plants have come in from feeders oner
the range that they could rot afford t2S
ship corn from the corn-producing sea-
tions of the state. 1t is not believed
the roads will resist the orders. The
roads have made low rates for feeding
cattle shipped to the ranges, and low
rate on corn to feed these is simply in
the line of business and has been un-
der consideration by the roads.
1t has just transpired that when tile
Italian ambassador at Constantinople
Signor Pansa, presented his govern
ment's demand on Monday for the sur
render of the Italian girl who had been
detained in Turkish harmen at Bfous-
sa (Brusa), he gave the demand, or or
der, the form of an ultimatum. The
Turkish governments reply to the first
Italian remonstrance having been un-
satisfactory, the Porte was informed
that the girl must be surrendered with
in forty eight hours. Just before the
time limit expired the girl Sylvia Ge-
nell was conducted to the Italian en-
bassy and surrendered to her father.