The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-05
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from Seattle ON the 29th bound for
Cape Nome.
Twenty thousand builders at Stock
holm We're locked out on the 25th. A
| sympathetic strike is feared.
Judge .Iohn l.. Rea. commander-in-
chief of the G.. A. X. in 1SSTS, died at
his home in Minneapolis from a disease
pronounced hardening of the BRAIN.
A duel to the death was fought by
Emmet Coy and Bonifacio Perez,
cowmen. in IIidalgo county, Texas, at
100 yards. Winchcsters We're used.
Both men fell dead in their tracks.
1t is estimated that 10000 people Wis
tied Louisville during the recent en-
campment OF the Confederate veterans.
General Jose NJ. Hernandez the rev.
olutionary leader of Columbia, has been
captured by government troops The
revolution is now considered ended.
DIR. w. f. Arnold. the naval surgeon,
has arrived ut Berlin from Paris and
is making Interesting Investigations
and experiments in connection with
the healing of wounds and the killing
of yellow fever germs by the applica-
ton of intense electric light.
Two young women, armed with re-
volvers. giving their names as Gertie
and Winnie Pigg. broke into and looted
the residence of T.. :. Noleman, at
! Irvington, Illinois, in broad daylight.
The family was absent. The two girls
stole clothing and $50 in money. They
were arrested.
| Chairman Babcock of the Republican
| National Congressional committee has
decided 10 remove its headquarters
| from Washington to Chicago and be-
gin business Immediately after the ma
/ tional convention, on the theory that
| the most vigorous campaign will be
| fought in the West.
The secretary of war has awarded
| the contract for the construction of n
breakwater at San Pedro, California to
the California Construction Company at
| its bid of S2,375,00O. The original CON
tractors for this work failed in the per-
formance of contract requirements, and
their contract was annulled.
The viceroy of India telcgraphs that
good rain has fallen in Nlysore and that
scattered showers have fallen else
where. The cholera in many parts of
Bombay and Rajutana has not abated.
and is causing much mortality And i'm
pedes the relief work. There are now
5,T3O,OOO persons in receipt of relief
The mystery connected with the
wrecking of the Lake Shore fast mail
recently. in which two lives were lost.
has been cleared by the admission of
John Franz, Il trackwalker, that he
opened switch to make repairs, and
had forgotten to close it until II was
too late. Franz expressed great grief
for his carelessness.
General. the Marquis de Gallifet, the
French minister of war, has resigned.
1t is officially announced that his sue
cessor is General Andre. In his letter
to NJ. Waldeck- Rousseau, the premier,
asking him to place the resignation In
the hands of the president of the re-
public, General de Gailifet pleads Ill
health as n reason for his decision.
The entire property known as the
Cupples shipping station, situated IN
the wholesale business district of st.
Louis. has been decided to washing
ton University by Samuel Cupples,
one of ST. Louis foremost merchants,
and Robert S. Brooiiings. n capitalist.
This immense gift is of n par value of
s., 3,OOO. 900. and it will place the uni
versity among the richly endowed col
leges of the country.
The passengers on the sleeping car
ON the Missouri Pacific express, were
held up and robbed near Fails City,
Nebraska, on the 2Sth, by a lone high
wayman. After the train left Nerdon
he entered the sleeper and compelled
the porter, at the point of revolver.
to precede and aid him. He worked
fast. and in fifteen minutes jumped off
the train, when IL Stacked up near Stel-
Ia, keeping the passengers back at the
point of his revolver.
There is every reason to believe that
the fire in the Calumet and Hecla mine
is under control and that it cannot
last much longer. All shafts except
five of the Hccla branch have been
blocked with air ut the mouth TO pre-
vent air from entering and tanning
the flames. Little gas is escaping any
where, and the mine people believe the
fire is dying out. The shafts will not
be opened until 1t is known that the
fire is extinguished.
Proportional representation. which
received its first trial in Belgium in
the recent elections, is system which
in the view of all the newspapers of
Brussels will put an end to political
hatreds and intestine disorders. The
Etoile Beige. liberal and roynlist. con-
siders that the new system will sup
press the small parties, while the Cath
olic royalist and governmental Jour
nal de BruXelleS pruclaims the result
as a sweeping victory for the interests
it represents.
BY majority Of nearly 10000 the
people of Virginia last Tuesday decid
ed to have Il revision of their consti-
tuition for the purpose of dcpriving the
colored population of the right of suf-
frage so far as can be done without
conflicting with the constitution of the
United States; and it is a curious fact
that the counties in which the colored
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