The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-11-19
TELEGRAPHIc eREViTIEs.

employment bureau.
Cresceus gave an exhibition trot at
st. Louis on the 9th instant. The best
he could do was 2:OI fiat.
The Cuban Democratic party has
adopted General Bartolome Masso as
its candidate for the presidency or
Cuba.
IT has been decided to hold a carnival
in Sydney, Nova Scotia. next summer
to include aquatic sports, rowing and
yacht racing.
st. John Dix. who wrecked four
banks in the state of Washington last
year. has been arrested in London and
will be eXtradited.
King Edward has decided to have
the celebrated Koh-I-Noor diamond
mounted in the crown of Queen Alex
andra for the coronation.
Laying the keel blocks for the con-
struction of n new fighting cruiser for
the Turkish government has been be-
gun at Cramps shipyard.
The battleship Iowa will be assigned
as the flagship of Rear Admiral Crown
inshield when that officer takes com
mand of the European station.
An electric broad gauge railroad ex-
pertinent between Berlin and ZosZen
has resulted in the train attaining
speed of ninety-three miles an hour.
President Roosevelt, who has been
looking for a new team, is opposed to
docking the tails of horses and Will not
consider any offers of bangtailed ami
mails.
All the German naval officers are re-
ceivlng instructions in wireless teleg-
raphy, and all ships of the German
navy will be equipped with wireless
apparatus.
Six thousand dollars has been given
Charles o. Baird of Philadelphia, the
income of which is to be used toward
prizes for oratory in the senior class at
Princeton.
A Constantlnople dispatch says that
n severe earthquake occurred on the
9th instant at Erzeroum. Many houses
were destroyed and the inhabitants
sought safety in the open.
The Commercial Pacific Gable Com
pany, recently Incorporated to operate
a cable line between this country and
the Philippines. has Increased its cap
ital from 100000 to S3,OoO,o0O.
Mother Bickerdyke of army fame
died at Bunker Hlll. KansaS, Novem-
ber Sth. at the age OF eighty-four years.
Her WORK among the Union soldiers
during the war is well known.
A dispatch to the Herald from Paris
says: The municipal council of st.
Cloud has decided to give the name of
Santos -Dumont to a street leading TO
the balloon park in st. Cloud.
The Standard on Company has de-
clared a dividend of IS per share, pay
able December 18th. making S49 per
share for the calendar year, which is
the same amount as last year.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to pro-
vide $4,000 building for the Wood
library of Canandaigua, New York, on
condition that the municipality shall
guarantee 5000 annually for its sup
port.
A deal is about to be consummated
by which all the leading fruit canning
establishments of California outside of
the California Fruit Gamers Associa-
tion will pass into the hands of an
eastern syndicate.
The entire system of the Market
Street Railway Company at San Fran
cisco has practically been sold to a
Baltimore syndicate, which has for
several months been negotiating for its
purchase, for $26,000,0OO.
Resolutions strongly protesting
against the ratification of the reciproc-
ity treaties which will come before
Congress at its approaching session,
have been adopted by the Southern
California Fruit Exchange.
There is now n bill pending in the
French chamber of deputies providing
for n graduated tax upon unmarried
persons, increasing rapidly in amount
upon both women and men between
4 -
Berlin advices state that ground was
broken for the new American church
on the 9th inst. \ large crowd of
Americans We're present. The United
States ambassador. Andrew D. White.
will lay the corner stone Thanksgiving
Day.
According TO the Tribune, John Hays
Hammond. the mining engineer Woo
had an unpleasant experience in South
Africa at the hands of President Kru-
gers government at the time of the
Jameson raid, Is to make his home in
New York City.
Chief Architect Taylor of the Worlds
fair at st. Louis furnished n schedule
giving revised figures of the dimen-
sions of the principal exposition build
ings, their cost and the area in acres
they will occupy. Mr.. Taylor puts the
total cost of the structures at $G,T5O,-
900.
The Burlington Railway Company
has been granted franchise to build
a trolley line in Lead, South Dakota,
and will complete it in fourteen
months. The Deadwood Central line
will be converted into an electric road
Immediately, giving a trolley line be-
tween Deadwood and Lead.
Paul Revere, vice president and gen.
eral of the Sons of the American Rev
olution. died on the 10th instant ut
Morristown, New Jersey, aged 10 years.
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