The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-15
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Mrs. L. C. Kearns of st. Louis will
build-a charity hospital at Eureka, Ar
| kansas, to cost $4,000.
Kansas City has been having some
| thing of n smallpox epidemic, more
| than 100 cases existing at one time.
The Union Pacific announces that it
will spend million dollars in Kansas
in making improvements to its road.
A bill has been introduced in the
! Missouri Legislature providing for the
| punishment of kidnapping by hanging.
The Hennepin paper mill at Little
Falls, Minnesota, burned on the 7th
instant Loss, S75, 900; insurance, $685.
900.
-Four farmers of Searcy county, Ar
kansas, died recently from drinking
wood alcohol, which is highly poison
| Gus.
A company has been formed to estab-
lish rapid transit between Chatta-
nooga, Tennessee, and Lookout noun
| tain
The Dingley Woolen Mills Company
| of Philadelphia, an extensive manufac-
turing concern, has gone into the hands
of receiver.
Andrew d. White, the United States
ambassador to Germany, has been
my of Science.
The copper district of Michigan is
| flooded with spurious small coins,
chiefly Scent pieces. Secret service
| agents are at work
1t is stated that rubber manufac-
turing company with capital of ST.
100000, will be established in Chicago
to fight the rubber trust.
The reports of an outbreak of the
| plague at Vladivostock are confirmed.
| There have been nineteen cases, of
which fifteen were fatal.
1t is estimated that there are 2oO,-
600 cases of grippe, bronchitis and
pneumonia in New York City. All the
hospitals are overlooking.
The city of Heidelberg, Germany, has
| just purchased and begun to operate
the street car lines in that city, as well
as the electric light plant.
Frank James, brother of Jesse
James, the noted bandit, lost in his
fight for the doorkeepership of the Mis-
souri, House of Representatives.
On the Sth instant the transport
Sherman landed 900 returned soldiers
from Manila, at Francisco, of whom
437 We're sick. Six died on the trip.
John B. Laing, believed to have been
the oldest Free Mason in the United
States. died at Chicago n few days ago,
Scotland in 1929.
In response to the appeal of the Prin-
cess of Wales for further contributions
to the fund for the families of the men
at the front William Waldorf Astor
has contributed 5000.
Minister Conger cables the State De-
| nortmppt that there is prpupl for the
belief that the Empress Dowager is op-
posing the acceptance by China of the
demands of the powers.
The Philippine Commission has made
permanent the suspension by General
Macarthur of Judge Majarries of the
court of first instance, for improper ad-
ministration of his duties.
The Missouri House of Representa-
tives in the State Legislature, by a vote
of 10 to Al, adopted resolution ex-
pressing sympathy with the Filipinos
in their struggle for liberty.
Secretary Gage has sent to the House
an estimate of appropriations aggregat-
ing $1,OOOOO0 for continuation of the
work on the United States postoffice
and court house building at Chicago.
The nitrate building of the Eastman
kodak works at Rochester. New York,
WIS Ou 1llt OIL
tenant Edward Murphy and George f.
Long lost their lives by the fumes of
the chemicals.
In the Idaho Legislature the House
adopted n resolution memoralizing the
United States Senate to reject the ship
subsidy bill as repulsive to the Ameri-
can spirit in the matter of comforting
special privileges.
News has been received at Brussels
that the steamer Soudan, which left
Antwerp early in December to under
take river service in the Congo state,
foundered on the way, ten of her COM
pany being drowned.
A shortage of oranges and lemons is
predicted because of fight inaugural
ed by Canifornia growers and ship
pers on dealers who have tried to force
down prices. Shipments will be with
held till the market strengthens.
A bill will be introduced into the
Kansas Legislature appropriating 3d.
600, 900 for the Kansas Semi-centennial
Exposition in 1904. The exposition
will celebrate the fitieth anniversary of
the organization of Kansas as a state.
Alaska Gamers believe the salmon
fishing business is likely to be over
done on the Alaskan coast this year.
AT leaSt twenty new calHerles VIII pe
established because of the high prices
realized in those which We're estab-
lished there last year.
The Northern Pacific and Great
Northern roads have announced that
the passenger rates in Montana and
Idaho will, on February 1st be re
duced from to 3 cents per mile, max
ing a uniform rate cf 9 cents per mile
over the entire mileage of both sys-
tens.