The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-03
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out Tom Sharkey in the fifteenth
round.
Twenty-Five cases of bubonic plague
were officially reported at Rio de
Janeiro on the 26th. There have been
twelve deaths from the disease this
week
The Canton assessors report of
the property owned by President Nc
! Kinley shows that he listed $4,000 in
personal possessions. This sum is made
up of $4,000 cash and $4,000 of Other
funds in the shape of credits.
At Edinburgh the Worlds Woman's
Christian Temperance union program
included an impressive memorial serv
ice in honor of the late Miss Frances
e. Willard, former president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
In the case of b. II. Roberts, found
guilty of unlawful cohabitation, the
judgment of the court was that he pay
n fine in the sum of $3.50 or in lieu
thereof that he be imprisoned in the
county Jail for period of $50 days.
thirty days stay was granted in order
that the defendant might file bill of
exceptions.
Sufficient supplies have ut last been
collected, and the final advance of
the British troops to open communica-
ton with Kumassi began on the oath.
On the road from Ashanti to Kwahou
are three villages where are gathered
some 1000 fighting men, who have
practiced the rites of fetish worship
and pledged themselves to help the
Ashantis.
A cyclone passed over Beaver coun-
ty, formerly known as No Mans Land,
on the 23rd. Henry Bardwell Steve
Ill
and William Hamburger and Paul
Rhodes fatally injured. The storm
swept the country for sixty miles.
Thousands of cattle We're stampeded
and many killed and injured. Several
houses We're destroyed.
Charles NJ. Barnes, special commits
sioner of the United States agricultural
department, has just arrived from Nc
Mullen county, $50 miles south of
Austin, Tex, and says strong evil
dences of the existence of buried pre-
historic city have just been discovered
there. Pieces of ancient pottery have
been found. The site is on an eleva-
ton near the Nueces river.
The Boer ENJOYS, who have been in
this country for the past two months,
have issued an address to the people
of the United States. After express
many of the invitations extended 10
them, they expressed their thanks to
the American public for the deep sym
pathy they have shown for the cause
of the two struggling republics"
1t transpires that ninety persons
were killed and 372 wounded in the re
cent conflict between the troops and
peasants in the Narna district. A state
of siege has been proclaimed in the
districts of Varna. Shumla, Tirnova,
Rasgrad, Rustchuk and Ristovatz. The
government is anxious to limit the
number of newspapers, and has issued
stringent regulations as to the quail
fications which must be possessed by
editors.
A committee to advocate the indie
pendence of the Beers has been formed
in Paris, and has issued manifesto
signed by forty French senators and
deputies, including eight ex-ministers.
The manifesto urges n union of all
similar committees which exist in Rus
sia, America, Germany, Holland, and
even in England, with the view of n
combined effort to bring about peace
and prevent the destruction of the two
republics.
The situation in the Kiowa and
serious on account of hundreds of pros
pectors fiocking to the Wichita noun
tains. searching for valuable minerals.
Five hundred are already there. The
Indian police have orders from the
Interior department to eject invaders,
and If this is attempted, bloodshed is
feared. Rich deposits of ore have re
Gently been discovered in the noun
tains. Excitement is running high, and
n clash between the prospectors and
the authorities is expected.
One of the strongest rebellions which
has taken place in the last 100 years
is in full swing in Barstonga, n Pa
cific island under British rule in the
South seas. The uprising has spread
over the whole island. The natives are
advancing on the European settle
ments along the coast and threatening
the capital. The greatest carnage and
murder is being witnessed. Over fifty
Europeans have already been killed.
At last reports they were fortifying
coast towns and preparing for n deS-
perate resistance. An appeal will be
made for assistance from Great Brit
ain.
Chicago is preparing for the greatest
grand encampment ever held in the his
tory of this veteran organization. 1t
will be the thirty-fourth. and in all
probability the last really notable one.
One of the great features of the en-
campment will be magnificent court
OF honor to be erected along Michigan
avenue from Van Buren to Twelfth
street, distance of nearly a mile.
This is to have great arches at either
end, and will cost about $4,000. Each
of the various parades will pass
through this court of honor M n cpr-
tain point of which President McKin-
ley and other distinguished guests will
review the march of the heroes There
will be free band concerts in the vari-