The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-04-03
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

| HEeloTid Is DelHS eulTeucHeu. "A
laager for women and children is being
constructed some miles out of town.
Letters received from Samuel L.
Clemens mark Twain, say that he and
his family will soon return to Hartford
and take up their permanent home
there.
Advices received announce the death
In the Mooi hospital of General Sir Ed
ward Woodgate, who was wounded in
the engagement at Spion kop ON Janu-
ary 24th.
Real work on the New York $780,
100000 tunnel for underground rapid
transit was begun at Bleecker and
Greene streets on lowering the Bleeck
er street sewer, which the tunnel bi-
sects, on the 26th.
Three large coal and coke companies
Of Altoona have notified their miners
of general advance in wages of
twenty per cent, to take effect April
l. The increase Is voluntary and will
benefit 5000 miners.
| The viceroy of India says that nearly
| 100000 persons are in receipt of regu-
| lar relief and that the cost for the en-
suing year is estimated at 525 lacs of
rupees. The loss in revenue for one
year have been 121 lacs of rupees.
|
Lord Roberts proclamation is caus-
! ing much dissatisfaction among the
loyal farmer Dutch IN this neighbor-
hood Gadysmith). ns 1t is taken to
mean that he has morally pledged HIM
self to preserve life and property of
the rebels who lay down their arms
and return to their homes.
The information received by the in
forSfnfp mi al oh
that the total increase in railway lines
of the United States during the calen-
dar year 1899 was 1857 miles, the
largest increase being in Iowa, 572
miles; the next in Minnesota, 316
miles, and the next in Arkansas, 269
miles.
A complaint charging George @.
Trey, ex-member of the Board of Edu-
cation at Omaha with receiving
bribe, was filed in the Police Court
upon information. The complaint
charges that Trey accepted money from
Charles A. Chiniquy for assisting him
in getting a contract from the school
board.
1t is semi-officially announced that
the government of Austria Hungary
has replied to the South African ap-
peal for mediation in the war that
1t was only possible to take such q
step when both belligerents desired 1t,
and that. therefore, 1t was impossible
under the present conditions, to accede
to the request made.
A dispatch from Kobe, dated March
2Sth says: Renewed trouble between
Russia and Japan in Corea is immi-
nent. The movements OF the Russian
fleet indicate the probability of the
seizure of Corean port. The war of
flee officials at Toxic are holding con.
ferences and there has been consider.
able military and naval activity In
Japan this month.
A strike of 10000 members OF the
International Association of Machin-
lists and the Amalgamated Sociesy of
Engineers in the New York district,
may be precipitated by the action OF
the New York and New Jersey Machin-
cry Manufacturers Association in or
ganizing to resist the demand of nine
hour day, which was to have been
made on April 1st
Three children were burned to death
In fire which destroyed the farm
house of John Brassill, in East Proyi-
dence. Rhode Island. The mother sue
ceeded in rescuing one, an infant, from
Its burning cradle, but the babe lived
only few hours. The other little vic
! tins perished while the mother vainly
stroye to penetrate the wall of fire that
beat her off
w. p. Hunt, stage driver on the
road from Valentine to Rosebud. Ne
braska, was attacked by two high
waymen while carrying the mail The
robbers were on horseback. Hunt start
ed his team into run and began fir
ing at the bandits Eis watch pre-
vented one of the robbers bullets pene-
trating his body. The chase ended
when, as Hunt fired his last shot, one
of the horsemen dropped from his sad
die.
Consul General Guenther reports to
the department of state that the courts
at Frankfort, Germany, have decided
that an employer is entitled to all the
results of the thought and labor of the
men in his employ including any in.
ventlons they may devise. In the par
| tcular case referred to workman
was found guilty of larceny in selling
his own invention to n stranger, the
court holding that 1t was not his prop.
| erty.
! Policeman George w. KIrkley at
| Birmingham, Alabama, and J. II. Ad-
ans was shot and seriously injured
within block of the police station by
! two white men supposed to be safe
crackers. The men We're suspected of
theft and We're being taken to the sta
4 ton house for examination In regard
to a burglary. Suddenly both prison
ers drew revolvers and fired Police
men Kirllley was shot in the abdomen
and Adams was struck in the shoulder
The prisoners escaped.
A Chicago dispatch says: Ten veal
thy stone contractors, whose firms
aggregate capital of more than 81 .OOO,-
600, are working in stone yard here
daily to help one of their number CON-
.plete a large contract. All their work