The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-04-30
rELEoRAPHlc BREvirIEs.

ing Great Britain 81, 100000 weekly.
President Mckinley has accepted the
Invitation to visit St. Joseph, Missouri,
June 10th.
The Kansas Wholesale Egg Dealers
Association will ship 100 cars Of Kan
sas eggs to Cuba.
The smallpox epidemic bids fair to
become general among the Indians of
southeastern Alaska.
Bubonic plague has broken out in
the Australian insane asylum and at
Brisbane and Perth.
Prince Kropotkin, the Russian an
archist, is proselyting in Chicago, as
sisted by Mrs. Lucy Parsons.
The Empress of Germany has made
a donation of 1000 marks to the Jew
ish invalid air fund of Berlin.
The Prussian crop report, just Is
sued, shows the worst condition since
these reports have been kept.
The Czar has signed decree expell-
Ing Count Leo Tolstoi from Russia
and the decree has been served.
The New York state tax rate for the
next fiscal year has been fixed at IL
mills, the lowest in forty years.
The annual return of recruiting for
the British army for 1900 shows to-
tai enlistment of 0S,361 against 42,7OO
N 1899.
Burglars have broken into the
Chilian museum of fine arts and stolen
ten of the finest paintings, costing
100000.
The continued drouth has produced
n water famine throughout the 18TH
mus of Panama, especially among the
poorer classes.
The California State Medical Society
recently passed resolutions admitting
the existence of the bubonic plague in
San Francisco.
The Council of State has decided to
submit to the Storthing Il royal pro-
posal for extraordinary grants for the
defense of Norway.
The consumption of nitrate of soda
(Chili saltpetre) reached n new record
in March, when the whole amount for
the world totaled 100000 quintals.
Thirteen thousand men will be i'm
mediately enlisted by the War Depart
ment to bring the artillery corps up to
its authorized strength of $4,000 men.
A copy of the Nome News Letter of
January 10th has been received at
Seattle. The weather at Nome was
mild, with prospectors en- route to the
hills.
The Fulton mills of the American
Woolen Company, at Oswego, New
York, have been closed. Between 1900
and 1,JO0 men and women lose en-
ployment.
The st. Lawrence river is to be
spanned by third bridge opposite
Montreal. The estimated cost is &c.
0OO, 900 and the terminals will cost 81,
900, 600 more.
A strike by the coal miners of
France. planned to be general and in
clude all miners in the country, will
occur in June unless terms are agreed
upon before that.
Mexico has signed the convention of
the peace conference. China, Luxem-
bourg and Turkey are now the only
countries which have not signed the
peace convention.
A New York banking house proposes
to purchase all the iron manufacturing
industries in Ironton, Ohio, and Ash
land, Kentucky and the iron railway
for about S3,00O,OOO.
Alexander Agassiz of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, has been elected pres
ident of the National Academy of Sci
ence. He succeeds DR.. Wolcott Gibbs
of New York, resigned.
A dispatch from Madrid to the Lon
don Daily Express says that the Ca
nary islands have been swept by a cy-
clone, killing twelve persons and doing
great damage to property.
John Z. Holland, inventor of the sub
marine torpedo boat Holland, says
that in n few years submarine ves-
sells will supplant surface craft for
short journeys on rough water.
The Board of Classification of the
United States General Appraisers ut
New York holds the United States gov
ernment justified in imposing n coun-
tervailing duty on Russian sugar.
The Egyptian government. accord
ing to dispatch from Cairo, has
granted a concession to an American
company to ply passenger boats be-
tween Khartoum and South Soudan.
Mount Vesuvius is again in state
of active eruption, and many people,
scientists. students and the curious,
including American tourists, are leay-
ing Paris by every train for Naples.
The itinerary of the Presidents tour
of the Pacific coast is now complete
and no further appeals for changes en-
route or stops will be considered. The
party will spend June I'd at Salt Lake
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail
way has announced voluntary in
crease in shopmen's wages from 27 to
81 cents an hour. The working hours
We're also increased from eight to ten.
Frederick Z. Fish will become presi-
dent of the American Bell Telephone
Company and of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company July
1st His salary will be 100000 year
The anti-scalpers' bill has passed
both branches of the New York Leg
islature. 1t makes the buying and
selling of railway or steamboat tickets
by other than railroad or Steamboat