The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-08-28
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planning. to start a great department
store in London.
A panic on viaduct crossing Paris
street resulted in the killing of two
women. Many others We're hurt.
The will of the late ex-senator In
gals was filed for probate. 1t be-
Queathed to his wife all his property,
and appoints her sole executor, without
bond.
To meet the demand for accommoda-
tions for the encampment, sixty-three
Chicago school buildings are to be
turned into hotels, with ample accom-
modations.
Schekih Bey, head of the cipher bu-
reau of the Turkish foreign office, has
been appointed Turkish minister to the
United States in place of Ali Ferrouh
Bey, recalled.
The Sultan has ordered n committee
to investigate the recent massacre of
200 Armenians in the Sassun district of
Asiatic Turkey. Meantime his majes-
ty has relieved All Pasha of the com
mand of Bitlis.
The Pail Mall Gazette publishes n
dispatch from Rome which declares
that an important medical discovery
concerning Bright's disease has been
made by DIR. Ovid Brown, formerly of
New York but now of Rome.
William NJ. johnson of Hackensack,
New Jersey, the president of the New
Jersey Senate, has accepted the office
of assistant postmaster general made
vacant by the resignation of Perry
Heath. He will take charge in a few
days.
Tom Martin and Barney Keegan up
set lamp while lighting in n room in
the Hamilton house at Hamilton, Mon
tana, and set fire to the building. Both
were burned to death. The hotel and
three adjoining buildings We're burned.
Loss $4,000.
London is likely to be the location of
the first great plant for the manufac-
ture of liquid air. Professor Charles
II. Tripler. accompanied by several dir
ectors of his company, has gone to Lon
don to complete the preliminary ar
rangements for this plant.
The United Christian. the official or
gan of the United Christian party, an
nounces that j. f. X. Leonard of Aims
worth, Iowa prosperous farmer, six
ty years old, has been nominated for
President of the United States by the
national committee of the party.
The Presbyterian Board of ForeigI
Missions has received cablegram say
ing that all missionaries at Pao Ting
Flu were killed. 1t is thought that the
Presbyterian missionaries mt Pao Ting
Flu numbered three. and that altogether
there We're ten foreign missionaries
there
A dispatch to the Journal and Ad'
vertiser from Rome says: a staff OF
thirty Italian detectives will be sent to
this country to operate in the centers
here, where Italians abound. They
will be under the command of an In
spector, who will have his headquar-
ters in New York.
A treaty of amity, commerce and
navigation and general Intercourse has
been signed Professionally by the Span
ish minister of state and the American
minister Mt Madrid. This practically
marks the last step in the complete res
toration of relations between Spain
and the United States.
The population of Greater New York,
as indicated by the count just complet-
ed at the census office, is 3,i31 ,2O2.
This includes the population Of the
boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, pre-
vioIsly announced, and those of Brook
lyn, Richmond and Queens. An APP
proximate of the increase since 1880
shows it TO have ben 37.9 per cent.
General Grodekoff." says the st. Pc
tersburg correspondent of the London
Times, ''telegraphs n remarkable fact,
which must be taken as pre-emptory
notice of what is probably to follow.
The Russians have now conquered the
right bank of the Amur. which is there
fore no longer the frontier. but an in
ternal river of the Russian empire"
Wheat shipments from Oklahoma
have become so great during the past
week that not enough cars to transport
the grain east can be secured by ele-
vator men and farmers from the rail
road companies. The eastward ship
ment of wheat from Oklahoma is larger
than ever before. 1t is going to Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New York and Newport
News.
For saving the life of Mrs. Elmer
Carthage of Galveston, Texas, thirty
four years ago, Mrs. Julia Sheldon,
knitting mill employees of New York, is
made heir to n fortune of $4,000. Mrs.
Sheldon was Mrs. Carthage's maid in
1866. While out riding with her mis-
tress the horse ran away. Mrs. Shell
don cut the traces in time to save them
from being dashed over a precipice.
James Morrison, state department
commander of the G. a. X. of Pennsyl-
vania, has announced that but three
of the thirty-six posts in Philadelphia,
with a membership of 1000, will send
delegations to the national encamp-
ment in Chicago next week. Comman-
der Morrison stated that this action is
the result of the invitation extended to
Wy 7 ,ttT I,na t1rnrr nflt
The annual report of the pension bu-
reau shows that Colorado stands away
above its surrounding states in its
number of pensioners and in the
amount paid out in pensions. During