The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-05-21
TELEGRAPHIc sREvITIEs.

President Carter of William College
has rendered his resignation, to take
effect September list.
The British Parliament has granted
King Edward VII. the sum of S2,35O,-
600 year for his private use.
Princess Frederick Charles of
Hesse, youngest sister of Emperor
William has given birth to twin sons.
Grand Duke Michael, heir presump-
tive to the Russian throne, is said to
have "A keen desire to visit the United
States.
There are more Indians now in the
schools of the government than at any
other time in the last ten years, the
total being 25.S6S.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, an
swering n question in the House of
Commons, said General DeWets house
was burned fhst June.
Seven counts charging James Gala
han, alleged to be one of the kidnap-
pers of young Cudahy, with perjury
on his late trial, have been filed.
Finished lumber of all grades has
been advanced 81 n thousand by the
price list committee OF the Mississippi
Valley Lumbermens Association.
Attorney General Harlan has decid-
ed that cock fighting is illegal, so
about the only amusement of the Por-
to Ricans is to be taken from them.
President Maurice Hutin of the
Panama Canal Company is in this
country with an object of selling the
canal to the United States government.
The remains of Confederate dead in
the Arlington and Soldiers Home
cemeteries at Washington are to be
removed to another section of Airing
ton.
The maids of honor and ladies in
waiting of Queen Victoria's court will
receive very small pensions, which
promises 10 occasion some heart burn
ing.
The Deiterich syndicate and the
American Window Glass Company
have formed pool to absorb all of
the large natural gas companies in In
| diana.
The official count of the vote of the
Cherokee nation on the Cherokee agree
| ment with the Dawes commission
shows majority of / ,023 votes for re-
| lection.
Topeka is said to be dryer now than
| at any time since Mrs. Nations cru
| sade. Little liquor is being sold and
| even this in as secret n manner as
| possible.
Hon. Charles Foster, eX-secretary of
| the treasury. has made application in
the United States Court as voluntary
bankrupt. His debts are STAT ,UOS,
| with no assets.
At n recent trial in Paris it was re-
vealed that a French firm was making
more than $4,000 corsets year for
men. 5000 being shipped to England,
chiefly for army officers.
According to dispatch from Pie
termariZburg 10 the London Mail, Lord
| Kitchener is about to try n new plan
of burning the veldt in order to COM
pei the Beers to surrender
The board of naval officers headed
by Captain Chadwick, appointed TO
make n full investigation of wireless
telegraphy, reports that it Will be
valuable adjunct to the navy.
\. Z. Pollock, president of the Guy
ahoga Saving and Building Company of
Cleveland, who committed suicide Mt
Seattle this month, carried $4,000 life
insurance in favor of his family.
The Farwell ranch syndicate of Chi
cago has sold TO George w. Littlefeld,
president of the Austin, Texas, Ma
tional Bank, 2S4, 600 acres of land in
Hockey and Lamb counties, Texas.
Professor David Shepard Holman,
known throughout the scientific world
as the inventor of the Holman life
! slides. which are extensively used by
microscopists, is dead, aged seventy
five years.
a parliamentary paper just issued
shows that 634 farm buildings, cot
tages and novels We're burned in the
Orange River Colony and the Trans
vaal from June, 1900, to the end of
January, 1901
Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of
the late William Il. Gladstone. has ac-
cepted the post of warden of the Wom-
ems University settlement, Southwark,
London. Miss Gladstone will so into
residence early in September.
To take care of it. increasing busi-
ness and to prepare for the worlds
| fair. the Burlington railroad is pre-
pairing an extensive system of termi-
mails and yards in North st. Louis, at
an estimated cost of S1,OOOOO0.
In the annual all-around athletic
| contest between the two universities
at New Haven on the 11th instant,
Yale defeated Harvard by n score of
| 81 points to Al. The contests includ-
ed running, jumping, hammer throw
| ing, etc.
An Italian consul in Chicago has
| asked the consular agent in Kansas
City to investigate the labor trouble
in lola. Kansas that resulted in sever
al Italians being driven from the town
after having been assaulted by Ameri
can workmen.
New York City's tree planting as
sociation, composed of public-spirited
citizens, not only set out 2,126 shade
trees last year, but secured the pass
age or laws empowering the park COM
missioners to take entire charge of
street tree planting, so that the work