The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-10-02
reLEoRAPHIc eREviriEs.

sent from Switzerland.
Mobs continue to drive adherents of
Dowie from Mansfield, Ohio.
The Great Northern's tunnel near
Spokane was completed on the 22nd.
II is two and a half miles in length.
Thirty-one new cases of yellow fever
have been officially reported at Ha-
vana, making nearly 100 now under
treatment.
Queen Victoria has appointed the
Duke of Marlborough lord lieutenant
of Ireland, to succeed the Earl of Cad
ogan, who retires on account of i'll
health
Lightning struck kiln at the Glen
Carbon brick yards in Illinois, demol-
ishing the kiln and burying five men
under tons of brick. Four We're taken
out dead.
Advices from Skagway tell of n new
strike in the Forty Mile district. The
find was on Rock creek and Is said to
have been rich, one nugget alone being
taken out that was worth $3.50
Lord Roberts reports that General
Ian Hamilton found Mt the Crocodile
river, near Hector Spruit, thirteen
guns, including several lost by the
British. They We're almost destroyed.
General John NJ. Palmer ex-United
States senator from Illinois, died Tues
day from heart failure, aged eighty
three years. He was an honorary pail
bearer at General McClernand's funer-
al the previous Saturday.
For the first time since April, 1899,
bar silver on the 2Gth, reached 20
pence per ounce in London, which is
equivalent to 63.2I cents in New York,
American money. The actual New
York quotation was 621s cents.
Leon Bard, former United States
vice consul at Hamburg, has been
sentenced to fifteen months impris-
onment for misappropriating 23.5OO
marks. part of an Inheritance which
he received for two American women.
Secretary Root writes that his con-
dition is improving, but gives no indi-
cation of purpose TO return to Wash
ington soon. He is at his summer
home at Southampton, L. l., and is
convalescing from a severe surgical
operation.
An $4,000 gallon water tank on the
Rock Island road collapsed, flooding n
steel wire plant mt Joliet. suspending
work and destroying $1,000 worth of
product. Telegraphic wires went down
damage is 5000.
General Wood, governor Of Cuba, de-
clares the wreck of the Maine is an OBJ
struction to navigation. He desires to
remove the ship. and now that Secre-
tary Long has no objection. inasmuch
as the vessel is of no value, this action
will be taken.
Mrs. Elizabeth Van Lew. who during
fhn " bpt tho stntps furnished thp
Union forces valuable information of
the Confederate army and aided pris-
oners in escaping from Libby prison.
and who, after the war, was awarded
by General Grant the postmastership
Mt Richmond. died here to-day at an
advanced age.
In number of the cities adjacent
to the coal regions, notably Reading,
the coal supply Is getting low and
many families have been unable to
purchase even .small quantities. 1t
seems an extraordinary state of things
for this section of the country. where
ordinarily tons of coal can be picked
up along the railroads.
The board of regents of the Univer-
sity of Idaho has selected Professor
J. A. Mclean president of that insti-
tuition. Professor Mclean now fills
the chair of philosophy and history in
the University of Colorado. He is n
graduate of Columbia college and
comes highly recommended by Presi-
dent Seth Low of that institution.
At the session of the United Typo
thetae of America at Kansas City the
executive committee made its report,
which expressed enmity to the union
label system, and recommended that
it be fought through the courts. The
committee also recommended that $500
be appropriated to help the employing
printers of San Francisco carry on
their fight against the union label.
A secret circular has been sent out
by Joannicius. the metropolitan of
Kieff, to all the Russian archbishops.
virtually communicating Tolstoi, the
Russian novelist and social reformer.
1t declares that Tolstoi is an avowed
enemy of the church. and that, there
fore, unless he recants the holy synod
will prohibit the celebration of all di-
vine services and eXpiatory masses in
the event of his death.
In the course of it's investigation of
the possible origin of plaques, the San
itary Commission at Antwerp has de-
cided that rats and mice are the most
dangerous propagators of disease and
offers premiums for dead rodents. 1t
also recommends n similar course to
the authorities in all other ports. 1t
is suspected that both the recent
plague at Oporto and that still existent
in Glasgow took their origin from in
fected rats.
The Mexican government is at pres
ent actively engaged in massing troops
in Sonora and otherwise extensively
preparing for the winter campaign
against the Yaqui Indians occupying
the Baccatete mountains. 1t is not
likely that peace will be made,
as the Mexicans offer no terms except
unconditional surrender, and as many