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 10Th.
| sympathetic strike is feared.
Judge John p. Rea. commander-in-
chief of the G.. a. X. in 1SST-S, died at
his home in Minneapolis from disease
pronounced hardening of the brain.
A duel to the death was fought by
| Emmett Coy and Bonifacio Perez,
cowmen. in IIdalgo 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 lose NJ. Hernandez the rev.
| olutionaTy leader of Columbia, has been
| captured by government troops The
revolution is now considered ended.
DR.. 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
We're arrested.
! Chairman Babcock of the Republican
National Congressional committee has
| decided to remove its headquarters
| from Washington to Chicago and be-
gin business Immediately after the ma
,,r ton ON th.. hp
the most vigorous campaign will be
fought in the West
The secretary of war has awarded
the contract for the construction of
breakwater at San Pedro, California to
the California Construction Company at
its bid of 81. 2.375.o00. The original con
| tractors for this work failed in the per-
formance of contract requirements, and
their contract was annulled
The viceroy of India telegraphs that
good rain has fallen in MySore 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.O0O persons in receipt of relief.
The mystery connected with the
wrecking of the Lake Shore fast mail
has been cleared by the admission of
John Franz, trackwalker, that he
opened switch to make repairs, and
had forgotten TO close it until it 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. k-Rousseau. the premier
asking him to place the resignation in
the hands of the president of the re
public General de Gallifet pleads Ill
health as II reason for his decision.
The entire property known as the
Cupples shipping station, situated III
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. Brooklngs. a capitalist
This immense gift is of par value of
S3,OOO.0O0. 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, We're
held up and robbed near Falls City,
Nebraska, on the 2Sth. by n lone high
wayman. After the train left Verdon
the porter, mt the point of n revolver,
to precede and aid him. He worked
fast. and in fifteen minutes jumped Off
the train, when it Stacked up near Stel-
la, 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 1t cannot
last much longer. All shafts except
five of the Hecla branch have been
/ blocked with air at 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 II is known that the
, fire is eNtinguished.
Proportional representation, which
received its first trial in Belgium in
the recent elections, Is Il 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 royalist CON
siders that the new system will sup
press the small parties, while the Cath
Ollie 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 a revision of their consti-
tuition for the purpose of depriving 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
population predominates gave the larg-