The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-04-24
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Africa at present
The Rev o. b. Wilson, superintend-
ent Of the Stillman institute at Tusca-
loosa, Alabama, was killed by light
ming while using telephone during a
thunderstorm.
1t is persistently stated in military
circles in London that Lieutenant Gen
eral Sir Charles Warren, the comman-
der of the Fifth division of the South
African field force. has been ordered
to return home.
A boat on board of which were
twenty members of the Catholic Stud
ents' Association, while crossing the
river Rhine from Bingen to Rudes-
helm, WAS capsized and thirteen of its
occupants were drowned.
DR. E. Benjamin Andrews, superin-
tendent of the Chicago public schools,
who was lately offered the position of
chancellor of the University of Ne
braska, has decided to accept the place.
He will go to Lincoln July list.
A prominent Republican, who has
been making quiet canvass OF Massa-
chusetts. says the Republicans are
united in favor of Secretary Long for
NIckinley's running mate and will in
struct the delegation TO Philadelphia
10 lHSlSI OH Ills NOMINATION..
Reports from Louisiana, Mississippi
and Alabama tell of heavy loss from
floods caused by the unprecedented
heavy rains of the past few days.
Crops have suffered seriously and near
ly every railroad is badly handicapped
by washouts and flooded tracks.
Andrew Carnegie has promised the
stitute of the city of Pittsburg. Penn
slyvania, to become responsible for $3,-
600 600, the amount estimated as nee
essary for the proposed extension and
enlargement of the already fine build
ing Mt the entrance Of Schley park,
that city.
Railroad agents report the heavy
rainfall will be of great benefit to the
winter wheat fields, as 1t will be to the
spring wheat in southern districts. 1t
is said the acreage devoted TO corn this
year will exceed that of any former
year, owing largely to the high price
that has prevailed the last winter
The new Cunard liner Invernia sail
ed from Queenstowns for New York
Tuesday with LOO Irish emigrants.
seven-eighths Of whom are young men
who evidently fear conscr.ption. Many
of the cmigrants before they would
embark required definite assurance
thai the vessel was not bound for
Africa.
The construction of the tunnel of the
Metropolitan railway at Paris was fin
ished on the 18th. All that remains to
be done now is a bridge across the ca
nal at st. Martin and the closing up of
the station at Care de Lyon. The roll
ing stock is to he delivered later, but
the trains will begin to run in July, a
little earlier than was expected.
Advices from Benson. Arizona. say
Jesus Garcia and another Mexican
named Flores held up faro game IN
Tom Steele's saloon at Johnson. IL IDiu-
ing camp twenty-five miles east of
Benson, Sunday, and killed Scott
WeatIersby. Il prominent mining man.
whom they thought was trying to pre-
vent their escape. Two posses are In
pursuit of the bandits. The robb, rs
got away with the entire bank roll.
which amounted to several hundred
dollars.
A dispatch to the Tribune from Lon
don says: The thoroughly entertained
opinion in diplomatic circles is that
Russia will not take advantage of the
British situation in South Africa, but
will wait until the end of the war, or
until the time comes for the division
of Portuguese territory in South Afri-
ca between Germany and England.
Russia will then offset the British and
German gains in this territory by or
dering an advance on Herat and by
strengthening her grip upon Persia.
-Four widely separated Dutch com
missions of Cape Colony have started
their own cooperative trading con-
Germs. with the intention of importing
directly from Europe and America all
the goods which hitherto have passed
through the hands of colonial middle
men. The Dutch of the Umvoti coun-
try, Natal. are going n step further
and obtaining, besides their own trad
ers, Dutch lawyers. doctors and news
papers, apparently intending absolute
ly to boycott the British, directly and
indirectly, and to become community
apart.
A Pretoria dispatch says: As soon
as the Berne award in the Delagoa Bay
railway arbitration was published the
Transvaal government offered to lend
Portugal the amount she was con
demned to pay tS5,OO0,OOO), which,
however, was courteously declined, the
statement being made that the money
was already provided. The government
is receiving many memorials from
burghers on the subject of sending the
Boer prisoners to st. Helena and will
formally protest to Great Britain on
the subject. Secretary of State Reitz
says the Transvaal government is not
taking any resolution regarding the de-
struction of the mines.
The New York Tribune says: The
current buying of the Gould stocks is
thought in Wall street to foreshadow
an important railroad consolidation in
the Southwest. Rockefeller interests.
which control the Missouri Kansas &
Texas road, have bought the Missouri
Pacific, and consolidation of these
roads is talked of. The rumors include
In the consolidation the Texas Pacific