The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-07-02
TELEGRAPHIc BREvITIES.

Prince Edward of York, n bicycle on
his seventh birthday, June 23rd.
United States Ambassador White
writes from Berlin that he has no in-
tention of resigring, rs reported.
Broom makers of Ohio, Indena, Il
linois and Michigan talk of forming
combine with S6,0O0,O0O capital.
Chancellor Cook has decided that
the Nashville railway has a perpetual
ownership in the streets of Nashville,
Tennessee.
During the week ending June 22nl
there were 155 new cases and 1Jo
deaths from the bubonic plague at
Hong Kong.
1t is announced that the Mormon
niticent temple in New York City at
an early date.
The French senatorial army COM
years compulsory military service, in
stead of three.
The directors of the Mexican Cen
trail railroad have authorized the pur-
chase of the Monterey & Mexican Gulf
railroad, 800 miles in length.
An unexploded bomb was recently
two princes of the house of Monteno-
gro had been travelling in Italy.
Over 5000 miles of new steam rall.
way will be constructed in the United
States this year. Oklahoma and In
dian territory are in the list for U12
miles.
Dietrich Weiland, the man who, at
Bremen in March last, threw n piece
Of iron at Emperor William, wound
ing him in the cheek, will not be prose-
cuted.
1t is now evident that the grain crop
of Prussia this year Will fall ye.y
much short of the average, necessital-
Ing large importations from the United
States or elsewhere.
The Brown University corporation
has elected Former President +. Ben
jamin Andrews, now of Nebraska
State University, to fill vacancy in
the board of trustees.
Officers of the Chilian training ship
1eneral Baquedano, now on her way
to New York, will place memorial
tablet on Washington's tomb in the
name of the Chilean navy.
\ fierce storm of wind and rain with
thunderd and lightning occurred mt
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, June 22nd.
Several lives We're lost. Over an inch
of rain fell in less than an hour.
General Francis NJ. Drake, founder
of Drake University, Des Moines,
Iowa, has renewed his offer to give
ST., 900 for every So, 600 the university
can raise for the endowment fund.
The Australian Assembly has "N-
PEELED Mr.. Findley, editor of a Mel
bourne labor organ, for republishing
in his paper an article from the Irish
People violently attacking King Ed
ward.
One minute and thirty-seven and
four-fifths seconds was the time made
by Brigadier in n one-mile running
race at Sheepshead Bay, June 30. This
lowers the worlds record one-fifth of
a second.
Steamer advices from Hawaii are 10
the effect that the volcano Kilauea is
showing signs of renewed activity.
Huge volumes of smoke We're seen
over the volcano and another outbreak
is predicted.
Thirty acres of coal land near Pitts
ton, Pennsylvania, sank several feet
n few days ago, and the surface is still
going down. The COO employees .s-
capped. The cave-in was due to rob
piHB pliidTs.
The British war secretary, Mr..
Broderick, recently informed ques-
toner in the House of Commons that
out of 63,0O0 persons in the concentra-
ton camps of South Africa, $4,000
We're children.
There were $4,000 acres of land cul-
tivated in rice last year in Texas, and
this year the acreage has increased TO
1o1 0DD ncrpS TnuiSiapa which ic IN
older rice-growing state, has 3OO,oG0
acres under cultivation.
Miss Kuntze of Berlin, with n guide
named Furrer, recently succeeded in
reaching the top of Gelmerhorn, near
the Rhone glacier, in Switzerland. This
is the first time the mountain has ever
been ascended. 1t is 10,5OO feet high.
a United States exploration party
arrived in Dawson early in June on the
way to northern Alaska to explore one
of the widest unknown areas in the
vast territory. 1t is headed by w. =.
Mendenhall, geologist, and ID. l.. Rea-
burn. topographer.
Joseph Cook, the distinguished lee
turer and author, died June 25th, at
his summer home at Ticonderoga, New
York. He was born January 26, 1913.
Mr.. Cook is best remembered by his
efforts to show, in his lectures, the h:lr.
mony of the Bible with science
In the international pigeon match at
Glasgow, Scotland, June 22nd, the
American team won with a score of
D73; Scotland, $50. Fred Gilbert Cf
Spirit Lake, Iowa; X. Merrill of Mil
waukee and Il. X. Crosby scored the
highest possible, breaking every tar
get.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1901, the postage stamp issue includes
1900, 100000 ones, $500, 100000 twos
and 309, ,236,O00 of higher denomina-
tons. The total, including special de-
livery 10-cent stamps, is 5,116 236, 600,
against 4,377, ,727, 900 for the previous