The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-19
rELEoRAPHIc eREvIrIEs.

Victoria's funeral.
1t is announced that the Marquis of
Lorne will publish n life of Queen Vic
toria, his mother-in-law.
The anti-compulsory vaccination bill
passed by the Utah Legislature was
vetoed by Governor Wells.
The Missouri Legislature will strike
out provisions of medical bills obnox-
ious to Christian scientists.
Ex-King Milan of Servia is dead.
He was compelled to abdicate in 1889,
and was regarded as a drunken profit
gate.
If bill introduced in the Illinois
Legislature passes, criminals sentenced
to death will be executed by means of
electricity.
George Carter, negro, charged with
assaulting a white woman, was hanged
by mob at Paris, Kentucky, on the
11th instant.
The great Nile dam at Assuan has
been completed. Sir John Aird cabled
few days ago: You can now walk
across the Nile"
Hon. Charles A. Boutelle, representa-
tive of the Fourth Maine district, has
resigned his seat in Congress, to take
effect February 2Sth.
The intensely cold weather prevailing
In China is causing widespread suffer
ing. There have been over 100 deaths
in Canton from the cold.
Holland dispatches say that President
Kruger is suffering from heart trouble
and general debility and it is feared
that he cannot live long.
The Austrian census shows the pres
x,y,t ,.,,1., H.. >. H.. 4
647, or an increase of 293,71O over the
census taken ten years ago.
The authorities of Stockholm in Swe-
den, as precaution against the
plague, offer bounty of 10 ore about
2l5 cents for each rat killed.
The approval of New York city off,
cials has been given to Battery park as
a site for n naval arch to commemorate
the deeds of valor by the United States
sailors.
Baroness Van Ketteler, widow of the
murdered German minister TO China,
has started for Germany. Since last
fall she has been at her fathers home
in Detroit, Michigan.
The weather bureau at Washington
is perfecting a new system of wireless
telegraphy, different from that of Mar
fully more than sixty miles.
At recent auction in Londan a col
lection of autograph letters and docu-
ments of William Penn, including his
Will, written by himself in 1705, We're
sold at auction for 355 guineas.
Former Lieutenant Governor Bates
of Vermont has been offered the posi-
ton of judge in the Philippine islands
and he will accept the appointment
The salary will be $500 per year.
Major E. II. Conger, United States
minister to China, has cabled to an
Iowa friend that he will accept the
Republican nomination for governor
of Iowa, but will not make n tigh. for
1t.
Destructive bush fires throughout
Victoria, Australia, have done great
damage to property and stock. The
heat is excessive and there have been
violent dust storms in and around Mel
bourne.
The American forces in the Phillip
pines have captured since September
18th, eighteen cannon, ] 500 rifles, thou
sands of bolos and 10000 cartridges.
Besides this 700 rifles have been sur
rendered.
The Legislature of Virginia has ac-
cepted from Tennessee the cession of
one-half of Main street in Bristol as
the boundary line between the two
states. The matter has been in litiga-
ton many years.
The Dowlais and Cyfartha (South
Wales) steel works are appealing for
reduction of their tax assessment, on
the ground that the American campetl-
ton is causing an extraordinary de-
preston in the trade.
Speculation is rife in Londan as to
the date of King Edwards coronation,
some maintaining that it will occur as
early as September. But probably the
year of court mourning will be strictly
observed, the coronation not occurring
until February, or later, in 1902.
A San Diego dispatch says ex-Mayor
William II. Carlson of that city has re-
signed the position of government COM
missioner of railroads in Cuba and will
return home with sufficient backing to
build railroad from San Diego to
Yuma, Arizona.
Rev. Thomas w. Vanscoy, president
of the Wesleyan University of Helena,
Montana, died on the 11th instant. He
was fifty-three years old, a native of
Indiana and had served in the One
Hundred and Fifty-fourth Indiana vol
unteers during the Civil War
A Springfield, Illinois, dispatch of the
9th instant says: General James NJ.
Ruggles, one of the founders of the Re-
publican party, died to-day at Hlpping
sanitarium, Havana, aged eighty-one
He drafted the first platform on which
the Republican party was organized.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
the Oceanic company's steamer Zea-
landia will take on her next trip to
Honolulu 900 Porto Ricans for the
sugar plantations of Hawaii. The en-
barkation of these contract laborers
will he made from Port Los Angeles.