The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-10-09
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struck for uniform wages.
The Dayton shoe factory. valued at
$500, 600, was burned ut Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, on the 2nd.
1t is announced that the entire
amount of Swedish bonds consigned
for sale in this country has been dis
posed of.
General Leonard Wood, commanding
United States forces in Cuba, has made
recommendation that all the troops in
Cuba be mounted.
The Mosquito fleet built for the Unit
ed States customs service in Cuban
waters sailed ON the Bird en- route for
Cuba by the inside route.
Letters from Havana indicate that
much apprehension exists among the
Americans there regarding the yellow
fever, as the conditions grow worse in
stead of improving.
The first lot of the 200 Galveston and
coast country orphans which San An
tonic families have agreed to adopt
arrived there Monday, and We're given
homes in well-to-do families.
Martin Kingman, a millionaire manu-
facturer at Peoria, says Bryan re
ceived S150.OO0 from Colorado silver
men for his refusal TO accept II nomina-
ton other than on silver platform.
Returns from the Connecticut town
elections show net Republican loss
of seven towns. OF the 1G2 towns vot-
ing all but two have been heard from.
They stand: Republic rs, lis; Demo
cratic, AZ.
| The puddlers of the Norristown,
| Pennsylvania, mills held meeting yes
terday and decided to accept cut of
| 81 ton in wages. Fires We're lighted
in the afternoon after an idleness of
six months.
Tue Michigan Supreme Court in an
unanimous opinion. declared the act
granting a bounty of l cent per pound
on all beet sugar manufactured in the
state unconstitutional. The act was
passed in 1897.
People at the Presbyterian head
| quarters in New York, who have been
! Keeping tab on the action of the Pres
| byterians, predict the overwhelming
defeat of the movement to revise the
creed of the church.
Lord Wolseley asks the public wish
ng to honor the returning soldiers ito
refrain, while extending them a hearty
welcome, from offering them intoXicat-
ing liquors rs. like all of us, they are
/ open to temptation
The fifteenth annual encampment of
Union Veterans Union opened at
| Washington on the 2nd with an at
tendance of fully 700 delegates The
Woman's Relief Corps is holding
simultaneous meeting.
Famine and suffering among the In
dams on the SacatOn reservation
| grows greater. Recent reports from an
authoritative source stated that 5000
Pimas and Papagoes are already des-
utute and in dire want.
Four more fishing vessels with crews
| aggregating thirty-tive men have been
| posted in New Foundland as having
been lost during the great gale of Sep
tember 18th. This is likely to com
plete the list of local disasters.
The Peruvian Congress has passed
vote of censure against the late cabinet
as n result of the recent financial dis
closures. A new cabinet has been
formed with Senor Almenara rs pre-
mier and Senor Osma as minister of
foreign affairs.
The recent rain storms in the south
of France have destroyed utterly the
late crops, and have greatly damaged
the wine crop. The Rhone has over
flowed and is flooding the villages
along its course. Several railroad
washouts have also occurred.
The Postolfice Department has is
sued n tabulated statement of the
money order business of the country
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1900.
During the year 80 1890 money or
ders Were issued for S255, ,61O.Q7I, an
increase of SG2,3OG,949 over last year.
At Ballu. on the Caspian sea, fierce
fire has destroyed the property of eight
oil companies including ninety-seven
wells. ten reservoirs containing 10000
600 pounds of naptha, and any quanti-
ty of buildings and machinery. The
whole loss will be tremendous. The
fire was still raging on the 1st.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of busi-
ness September ., 1900, the debt, less
cash in the treasury, amounted to ST.
log, 156,671, which is accounted for by
the increase in the cash on hand and
the redemption of the two per cent
bonds
Father Fitzpatrick of the Holy Fam
lily Church, Omaha, fought a C.esper-
ate battle with a burglar at the chancel
the other night, subdued the culprit,
called the police and sent HIM to Jail.
The priest does not give the details %
the struggle, but told the officers that
he brought the thief to submission, and
that he begged for mercy
British steamships and railroads nre
expected to burn American smokeless
soft coal soon. Negotiations for 500
900 tons have practically been COM
pleted between a Chicago firm of hi
luminous coal mine operators and an
agent of London brokerage firm. 1t
is believed this marks the beginning
of a regular demand by British con
Germs f1 American coal.
The Chicago City Council has passed
an amended ordinance for the leasing
of power created by the drainage ca
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