The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-08
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Spain, the floor of the room collapsed,
and the dying man and four others
persons We're killed and fourteen were
injured.
Judge Pangsley, in the Common
Pleas Court at Toledo, has declared
that provision of the Ohio statutes
unconstitutional which prohibits an
employer from discharging workman
because the employe is a member of
labor union.
The marine hospital service has re-
ceived information that the yellow
fever is epidemic in San Salvador. The
surgeons of the service stationed at tha
fruit ports have been notified and will
keep the officials here advised of any
developments in the situation.
The program among the Republican
senators is to make Mr.. Wolcott of
Colorado temporary chairman and Mr..
Lodge permanent chairman of the Re
publican national convention, and let
Mr.. Depew make the nominating
speech for President Mckinley.
Messrs William X. Vanderbilt and
Oliver IL. i. Belmont, who are making
an automobile tour-o central Europe,
arrived in Strasburg last evening, hav-
ing come by way of Munich and Stutt-
CART from Vienna. They left this morn
ing for Paris. going by way of Nancy.
The Rev Arthur C. McGiffert has
formally withdrawn from the Presby-
terian church. His resignation was
contained in letter to the presbytery
of New York, and Dr. McGiffert's re-
quest that his name be dropped from
the roll of the presbytery was granted.
General Otis has leave to come home
in his own time and way. and cables
that he intends to start from Manila
about the lst of next month. General
Macarthur will take command of the
military forces and act as governor
general until Judge Taft and the re-
mainder of the commission arrive.
The flour mill of II Tuttle & Co. at
Columbia City, Indiana, was wrecked
by an explosion on the 10th. Henry
Landon, fireman, and o. s. Young,
teamster. We're killed. Several others
Were painfully injured. The mill was
not running at the time. and it is be
lieved that natural gas caused the eN-
plosion.
According to dispatches from Nladi-
vostock. forty Japanese cruisers are
now stationed at Kobe. The mikado
is said to have directed sis minister of
finance to undertake the negotiation of
"A state loan. and six cruisers are said
to have been ordered, with the under
standing that work ON them is to be
rushed.
II is announced officially that the
tests with the Marconi system of wire
less telegraphy between the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse and other steam
ers and the lighthouse on the Island of
Borkum. ut the mouth of the Ems.
have proved Successful. Morse writing
being perfectly reproduced at dis
tance of eighteen miles. New tests
have been ordered.
The strikers In Puerto Rico are now
quiet and the soldiers who We're called
out owing TO the riots. have been re
moved. Because of the incompetency
of the city police. force of insular po-
lice have been detailed to Puerto Tiera,
the scene of the recent disorders, but
no more trouble is expected there.
complete reorganization of the police
force is contemplated.
The Canadian government has prac-
tically refused the offer of the British
government to Canadian officers of
forty-tive commissions in the imperial
army. The selection was to De left
with Lord Mimic. governor general.
and the imperial commander-in-chi
at Halifax. The Dominion government
wanted to make the selection, hence
the hitch which has occurred.
a special Dispatch from Shanghai an
nounces that the British, French and
German ministers have sent Il joint
note to the Chinese foreign office de-
manding the total suppression of the
society of Boxers" within two months
and announcing that otherwise the
powers mentioned will land troops ana
march into the interior of the northern
provinces, Shan Tung and Chi Ii. in
order to secure the safety of foreign
ers.
Greek Indians from Indian territory
are coming north and will locate in
Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas. An
agreement has just been signed and
made public by the members of the In
dian commission whereby the Creeks
will be allowed to take up 240 acres of
land to n family under the Curtis act,
and for such opportunity relinQuish to
the government the control of their
schools and abolish their tribal govern
ment.
The correspondent of the London
Times at LourenZo Marquee, telegraph
ing Monday. says: "Trustworthy refu-
gees assert that the Beers recently OBJ
tanned at least thirty pieces of artillery,
some of large caliber, which We're
brought overland as machinery from a
west African port. Eight of these guns
were dispatched to the Free State n
week ago. The Boer officials openly
boast that they have succeeded in
smuggling ammunition through Portu-
guese territory.
The editor of the United Irishman at
Dublin visited the editor of the Irish
Figaro and soundly horsewhipped him
for insulting reference in his paper to
Miss Maud Come. the Irish Jeanne
dare" The assailant was fined Il in
police court and went to Jail for IL
month rather than give bond not tc