The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-11-27
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Rear Admiral Robert StemDl, re-
tired, died on the Goth in the Fifth Ave
nue. hotel, New York, aged ninety.
The population of Minnesota is 1,751,-
394, as against 1902, ,S26 in 1890. This
Is an increase of 44S,56S, or 34.5 per
cent.
Postmaster General Smith has given
an unqualified denial to a published re-
port that he intended to resign next
month.
The council of the city of London has
decided to take steps to institute ser
vice of electric cars throughout the me-
tropolis.
The population of Pennsylvania is
6,302, ,115, as against 5,25S,O14 in 1880.
This is an increase of 1,044, ,101, or 1913
per cent.
The population of New York state
is 7,26S,O12, as against 5,997, ,S53 in
1890, an increase of 1870, ,159, or 21.1
per cent.
Martin Irons, once leader OF the union
labor organizations and who directed
the great Missouri Pacific strike in the
SOS, died recently.
Only fifty-six cases of yellow fever
are now under treatment in Havana
Among these are two Americans. The
ulSehSe is aDatluS.
Governor Allen d. Chandler of Geor-
gia has issued n call for a National
Maritime Congress at Brunswick,
Georgia, January Both next.
The population of Hawaii, as an
nounced by the census bureau, is 154,-
0O1, as against 1O9, ,O20 in 1896. This is
an increase of 1881. or 41.2 per cent.
At the woman's suffragists' bazar in
New York next month will be offered
for sale n quilt made by Susan b. An
thony when she was fourteen years
old.
The population of Louisiana, as an
nounced by the census bureau, is l.
3S1 1,625, as against 1,11S,5S7 in 1880.
This is an increase of 263, OBS, or 23.5
per cent.
A New York dispatch says that the
will Of Ambrose McGregor, the Stand
ard Oil millionaire disposes of an es-
tate valued at $5,4OO,0oo, all going to
relatives.
The population of the state Of Ken
lucky as announced by the census bu-
reau is 2,147,174, as against 1,S5S, ,635 in
1890. This is an increase of 2SS, 500, or
15.5 per cent.
In the cotton convention at Macon
HULL IlOhe SllllIn Stlteu IndI WltnlH
twenty-five years he expected to see the
worlds consumption of cotton raised to
3O,OOO,OOO bales.
Yale will educate free of charge five
Filipinos, provided young men of ex-
ceptonal fitness and high character be
selected by Judge Taft of the Philip
pine Commission.
According to Commissioner of Immi-
IN m, ut yArly
grants have arrievd in this country at
the rate of 1000 per day from all coun-
tries since July LIST.
The population of Iowa, as an
nounced officially by the census
bureau, is 2,231, ,S53, as against 1,911,-
S96 in 1880. This Is an Increase Of
319,95S, or 16.7 per cent.
The population of the state of Mich
igan as announced officially by the
census bureau recently is 2,42O,9S2, as
against 2.093, $50 in 1890. This is an
increase of 1927 ,093, or 1876 per cent.
The present population of the Ha-
waiian Islands is $4,000. This is an
increase of a little over seventy-one per
cent within the past ten years. The
city of Honolulu has n population OF
16,399.
General FftZhugh Lee will stay in
New York for three or four days. At
ter reporting at Washington he will go
to Omaha and take command Of the
Department of Missouri, to which he
has been assigned.
NJ. G. Brumbaugh, commissioner of
education for Porto Rico, says the
school system now in operation there
includes 800 teachers and $4,000 pupils.
This is only a beginning, as there are
100000 children of school age without
school facilities.
Edward l.. Sway, who fled from
Kansas City four months ago after OBJ
tanning n large sum of money from
banks throughout the country by
means of duplicate chattel mortgages,
is being followed closely by detectives
in South America
The State Department at Washington
has forwarded a gold watch and chain
to be presented to Captain A. w. Rich
ardson of the British steamship Orange
Prince, in recognition of his services in
rescuing two American fishermen who
had drifted to sea.
In n cane rush of the Institute of
Technology students at Boston, Hugh
G. Moore, a freshman from Rochester,
New York, was either suffocated or
died from heart failure, his body being
at the bottom of the heap of excited
and struggling boys.
Ambassador Choate has made repre-
sentations to the British foreign office
on the subject of the Filipino junta at
Hong Kong. The foreign office is in
vestigating the matter and will reply
as soon as the reports of the authori-
ties at Hong Kong are received.
Lieutenant +. w. Alstetter, United
States engineer corps, has been liber-
ated by the Philippine insurgents and
will start for his home in Gallon, Ohio,
soon. Lieutenant Alstetter was cap
tured about three months ago while
building a railway near Manila.