The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-11
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way.
The sultan of Turkey has reigned
twenty-five years.
Large orders for American coal are
being taken in Europe.
Lord Roberts has officially annexed
the Transvaal to the British empire.
Several mud volcanoes have again
become active in Nendocino county,
California.
The Swift and Armour packing COM
panies have placed in cold storage 216,-
100000 eggs for future sale.
AS result of the financial failure of
the Paris exposition the projected
Liege exposition has been abandoned
and that intended to be held in Brus-
sells in 1905 will probably suffer the
same fate.
Nineteen arrests have been made of
persons alleged to have taken part in
the recent riot in Akron, Ohio. A spe-
cial grand jury will be called to take
up the cases. Nearly SG6 witnesses
will be examined.
The flour mills of Minneapolis, whose
year ended with Saturday night,
eclipsed all previous records in the his
tory of the industry. The product last
year was 14,297.2S0 barrels; this year.
14,5o0,000 barrels.
John d. Rockefeller has madN Spell
man Seminary, negro college of At
lanta, present of S1S0,000. The money
has been paid into the treasury of the
American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety of New York, which has charge
of the college.
An official dispatch from Taku an
nounces the receipt of n telegram from
Pekin. dated August 25th, saying the
German troops have taken possession
Of a hill within the imperial city. The
dispatch adds that 1000 additional
troops have reached Taku.
At the reunion of the Forty-sixth
Ohio volunteer infantry at Columbus,
Ohio, the colors of the Thirtieth Louis
lana regiment We're returned to com
mittee of survivors of that organiza-
ton. The flag was captured mt Ezra
court house, near Atlanta, Georgia, dur
ing the rebellion.
Mrs. George Heisner, living near
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, was killed
by lightning. The house was struck
twice while the family was at dinner.
At the second bolt the occupants of the
house ran outdoors, when third bolt
struck near them. Mrs. Heisner was
killed and n baby she carried in her
arms was slightly hurt. The house was
wrecked.
The War Department has received in
formation that the work of laying n
cable from Shanghai 10 Chez Foo had
commenced. 1t is believed that unless
some accident is encountered the cable
will be completed and in operation
within n week. This ought to make
communication between Washington
and our officials in China much more
expeditions.
The agent of the Mexican Interna-
tional railroad reports that $4,000
package was stolen from the Wells
Fargo Express Company at Treveno,
Mexico, and recovered Nn a peculiar
manner. The thief was escaping north
into the United Stato0 on n train, when
the package accidentally fell from his
coat while he was stopping over and
lne trainmen took II.
Three mills owned by the American
Steel and Wire Company in Cleveland.
which were closed down June 1st. re-
sumed operations on the 4th. giving
employment to between 500 and 800
men. 1t is stated by the employees that
there has been n general cut in wages
amounting in some cases to as high as
twenty-three per cent, and also that
the hours of labor have been increased.
President Mckinley has received n
reply to the invitation he addressed to
eX-President Cleveland to accept an
appointment as n member of The
Hague commission. Mr.. Cleveland's S
reply will not be made public, but 4.
is understood he has attached certain
conditions to his acceptance. EXPIRES
ident Harrison agreed to act as com
missioner in letter received at the
White House.
A dispatch from Council Bluffs says:
District Court opened here to-day, at
torneys for James Doyle in his suit
against James +. Burns, president of
the Portland Gold Mining Company.
state that they intend to try to force
the case to trial at this term. If they
succeed in doing this it will probably
occupy almost the entire term. as there
are $50 witnesses, the majority of
whom live in Colorado.
State issues, of which that of local
option was the most important, caused
n twenty per ceLt decrease in the Re
publican vote in Vermont in the state
election and large proportion of that
loss went to the Democratic party. The
Republicans, of course, carried the
state by an immense margin. 1t is
likely to fall at least 10000 under the
vote of 1896, but at the same time it is
probably about 5000 ahead of the gu
bernatorial vote of two years ago.
DIR. Sheldon Jackson, chief govern
ment educational commissioner for
Alaska, who is conveying across the
continent twenty-five Laplanders sent
by the government to Alaska thirty
months ago with reindeer, and now re-
turninG Il Ianlanl is in Duluth Min