The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-12-31
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TlI federal government Of Austria
liza has decided to send contingent of
1000 men to South Africa.
A seat on the New York Stock Ex-
change was sold few days ago for
$4,000. This is the highest price ever
paid.
A deal has been practically closed for
the sale of the Topeka street railway
system to a st. Louis syndicate for
$5OO,0OO.
Cecil Rhodes has suffe cred from a heat
stroke and has abandoned his trip to
Khartoum. He is now hurrying back
to Cairo.
The American Tobacco combina ton
has made an incursion into Germany,
and it proposes later to carry the war
into Russia.
William Ellery Charming, the noted
poet and essayist, died at Concord,
Massachusetts, December 23rd, aged
eighty-three years.
Judge David McAdam, of the Su-
preme Court Of New York, died in,
New York City December 22nd, of
cancer of the tongue.
Professor W. ]. Spillman of Pullman,
Washington, will succeed Professor f.
Latson Scribner as agrostologist of the
Department of Agriculture.
Papers Incorporating the American
Lumber Company, capital $4,000, 900,
have been filed with the county clerk
of Essex county, New Jersey.
President Roosevelt has sent to Con-
gress a letter strongly commencing the
plan for a national forest reservation
in the southern Appalachian region.
The Swedish Antarctic expedition un-
der DIR. Otto Nordenskjol has arrived
at Buenos Ayres. DR.. Nordenskjol ex-
poets to return to Sweden in May, 1903.
DR.. Samuel Smiles, author of the
Self-Helf series, and well known to
American readers, celebrated his
ninetieth birthday December 23rd in
London.
A st. Petersburg capitalist has prom
ised to supply 140.OoO roubles for the
expense of north polar exploring
party which plans to leave next year
in the ship Panteleimon.
The National Broom Manufacturers
Association of the United States and
Canada decided December 18th to ad-
vance the price of brooms and are con-
sidering n further advance.
1t is officially announced ct Berlin
that in consequence of the murder of
a German near Peking, August 9th, fif-
teen members of the band found guilty
of the crime have been executed.
Emil l.. Boas general agent of the
Hamburg American line, who returned
from Europe recently says his com
pany claims no rights in Nicaragua
through the purchase of the Atlas line.
General Horace w. Carpenter,
wealthy retired merchant of the Pacific
art L., tl,.. . Ia 80,
Columbia university for the endow-
and literature.
By the collapse of the city market
house at Zacatecas, Mexico, December
22nd, fully forty-fve lives were lost
and over score of persons seriously
injured, some of them so badly that
they cannot recover.
The safe in the county treasurer-s
office at Atwood. Kansas. was blown
open on the morning of the 22nd and
$500 taken. Officers were on the
scene In few moments, but the
cracksmen had escaped.
Physicians of the University OF Mich
igan think they have discovered an
antiseptic for all intestinal diseases.
such as cholera, typhoid fever and
dysentery. 1t has already been sue
cessfully tried on small animals.
Colonel James Forney of the marine
corps, who is now in command. of the
marines at the League Island navy
yard, Philadelphia, has been ordered
to Cavite, Philippine Islands, to as
sumo command of the first brigade of
marines.
A feature of the winter cruise of the
North Atlantic squadron in West
Indian and gulf waters will be drills in
landing and launching boats crews of
sailors and other maneuvers. in which
conditions of actual warfare will be
simulated.
The Treasury Department has issued
a circular extending the prohibition
against the Importation of meat cattle
from Australia and New Zealand into
the United States, so as to include
Hawaii, it being territory of the
United States.
The municipal council of Dublin
voted to bcstow the freedom of the
city of Dublin on John Redmond, the
Nationalist leader in the House of
Commons, who returned to Ireland a
few days ago from n visit to the
United States.
Great naval activity of every de-
scription prevails at Sebastopol. A
Russian naval officer recently declared
that If Sebastopol had to play an
active role it would be in a position
to give n better account of itself than
fifty years ago.
Cherokee Indians are reported starv-
ing in the hills near Tallequa in the
Going Snake district, as a result of
the loss of their crops and the blizzard.
They are members of the Netoowah
tribe, and are said to be the LATEST
people on earth.
The British war office has issued an
other long dispatch received from Lord
Kitchener leIailinn the 1nurdnrS of