The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-11-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREViTiES.

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| Carthage, New York, We're almost de-
/, stroyed by fire ON the Sth instant. Loss,
S2J0,o0O.
| The population of Maine is officially
| given out rs O94 .466, as against 6G1,-
oS6 in 1890, an increase of $3.50, or .
per cent
Lord Raglan, "A grandson of the Cri-
mean general of that name, will be
appointed under secretary of war in
the English Cabinet.
Il. G. Dun, founder of the mercantile
agency of Il. G. Dun & Co, died in
New York city ON the 10th instant at
the age of sevcnty-four years.
Judge Wayne Bailey of Rutland,
Vermont, is believed to own the larg
est dog in the world, German-Eng-
lish mastiff that weighs 2S5 pounds.
The inquest into the death of William
NJ. Rice, the Texas millionaire, has
ben indefinitely adjourned at the re-
quest of Assistant District Attorney
Osborne.
The population of Massachusetts, as
/ officially announced by the census bu-
reau. is 2,SO5.3iG. as against 2,23S,043
in 1890. an Increase of 566, ,403, or 25.2
! per cent.
presidency of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children, to sue
ceed Elbridge Gerry, and will take Of
flee January 1st.
Labor men in Vancouver, h. c., are
advocating the placing OF n heavy tax
on male domestic servants, the idea be-
ing to diminish the employment of Chi
nese and Japanese.
Judge Melhorn. at Marysville, Ohio,
has sentenced Rosslyn ii. Ferrell to
be elecrocuted Friday. March LIST, for
the murder of Express Messenger
Lane, August 10Th last.
Between 1000 and 1900 engineers
and firemen of the Chicago, Milwaukee
X st. Paul railroad system have re-
ceiyed materinl concessions in the way
of pay and working time.
The military department of Porto
Rico has been discontinued. Hereaft-
er the island will he included in the
Department of the East and known as
the district of Porto Rico.
Elbridge T. Gerry, founder of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children, and for the past twenty
one years at its head, has resigned as
president of the organization.
The mayor of Leavenworth, Kansas,
has offered reward for the arrest of
the murderer of Pearl Forbes, the
twenty-year-old girl whose body was
found in n ravine near her home.
The Kentucky State Board of Assess
ment and Valuation has fixed the tax
valuation of whisky at so barrel in
stead of 81 barrel. which has been
the assessment for several years past.
The Russian government intends to
send an agent to the United States to
study the homestead and presumption
laws. with the view of their partial
application TO the peasant commune
ties.
The twenty-seventh annual convcn-
tion of the National Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union has been called
tC meet at Washington, ID. c., Novem-
ber 30th and continue in session until
December 9TH.
The American Steel and Wire Com
pany has bought the fleet of the Amer
lean Steamship Company of Duluth,
paying SJ,2J0.000. There are twelve
ships, including the four largest YES
sells on the lakes.
1t is likely Sir Wilfrid Laurier will
recommend Sir Charles Tupper, the re-
tired Conservative, for n peerage for
his work in bringing about the confed-
GRAFTON of Canada and for the introduc-
ton of free schools.
Jerry Lynch, aged seventy-two, be-
lieved to be the last surviving member
of the crew of the Confederate battle
ship Alabama, died at his residence in
Inman Park, Atlanta, on the Sth in
stant. he left large estate.
The presbytery of Philadelphia voted
against a revision of the Westminster
faith and recommended to the general
assembly that the whole matter of re-
vision of the faith be dismissed. The
vote stood 30 against 60 for revision.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt is arranging
for her husband an album, containing
many snap shots which We're taken of
him ON his tour through the country
during the campaign, newspaper clip
pings. cartoons and reports of his
speeches.
A joint resolution has been intro
duced in the Vermont Legislature ask
ing Congress to take some recognition
of the distinguished services of Cap
tain Charles Clark of the United States
battleship Oregon during the Spanish
American war.
The whaler Dundee has returned to
Scotland from Davis strait with a par
ty of Arctic scientific explorers in
Guiding Messrs. Stein and Warmbath,
Americans, and DIR. I<ann, an Austrian.
who secured important Information as
to Ellesmereland.
The Russian minister of agriculture.
NJ. Yermoleff, after visiting the coal
deposits recently discovered on the
Black sea coast, in the government of
Kutais. estimates that they will yield
1.640,000 tons annually for sixty years.
He considers the quality excellent.
Navy expenses are increasing. The
comparative statement of estimates
and appropriations for the navy for
the fiscal years of 1901 and 1902 show