The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-04-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREviTiES.

the Indiana state house grounds few
days ago.
King Oscar of Sweden has accepted
the post of arbitrator on the Samoan
claims of the United States, Great
Britain and Germany.
The Turkish government has raised
loan of 81 100000 from the Ottoman
Bank, to settle the claims of the
/ Cramps and the Krupps.
D. III. Lewis, late cashier of the now
! insolvent Farmers National Bank OF
Nergcnnes, Vermont, is accused of
i having embezzled $4,000.
| Eastern capitalists are forming n
combine which will control all the
dredging work on the great lakes. 1t
! will have n capital of $10,000,000.
In addition to the gift of Sl,00o,0OO
TO Armour Institute, Chicago, recently
announced, Mrs T. ID. Armour purposes
soon to erect and equip a new build
/ ing.
| The engagement of Miss Martha
Hichborn, daughter of Rear Admiral
Hichborn, to James G. Blaine, Jr., is
announced. The wedding Will take
place June 4th.
| Secretary Hay will endeavor TO as
! certain the sentiments of the leading
to negotiate another ship canal treaty
with Great Britain.
a site of 1iJ acres is said to have
been acquired in Ireland for the cree
tion of a royal residence, the plans for
the building have been approved and
1 work will commence shortly.
| Miss Ellen Anne Griffin, who died in
New York few days ago, left $4,000
for the maintenance of her black and
tan dog, Dandy jim" She also re-
membered several nephews and nleces.
1t is reported that Emperor William
has sent his chief cook to the United
States to learn how to make buckwheat
cakes, and incidentally to look into the
American style of cooking generally.
! 1t is reported that the Rolled Steel
| Car Company OF Pittsburg contem-
plates establishing a large plant, to
employ 5000 men, for the purpose of
building steel cars ut Youngstown,
Ohio.
The Cramps will launch the new
battleship Maine Memorial Day. Sur
d vivors of the Maine and widows and
1 orphans of sailors killed in Havana
harbor will probably be invited to at
tend.
/ The first cable of the new East River
April 11th by powerful engine and
drawn taut 120 feet above the water.
/ The actual raising of the cable took
| just seven minutes.
! Gifts of money for educational. re-
ligious and benevolent purposes in the
United States for 1900 amounted to
S4T, 100000. These are the figures OF
Mr.. Rossiter Johnson editor of Apple
toms Annual Cyclopedia.
The British war office has decided to
strengthen the fortitications of ia
maica. Quick-firing guns of the latest
patterns are being sent out, in addition
TO the heavy guns recently placed in
the forts about Fort Royal.
The Glasgow, Scotland. municipal
committee has recommended the
awarding of big contract to an Amer
lean steel company for the supplying
Of 1850 tons of rails and fish plates
for the municipal street railway of
| Glasgow.
After much search .hree bars of gold
stolen from the specie room of the
North German Lloyd steamship, Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse, We're found be-
hind cornice of the corridor of the
second-class saloon. The thief has not
yet been discovered.
A report from the consul general at
Vienna, Austria, to the State Depart
ment gives the preliminary results of
the census taken last December in
Austria Hungary. The present popu-
lation of the Austro- Hungarian mon
archy is about 4G,S900Oo.
On the Manchuria railroad the rails
have been laid on the Hailar-Zizikar
division and the remaining two-thrds
of the whole line between Tchita and
Nladivostock is nearly completed. The
whole line, it is believed. will be opened
for passenger traffic next month.
A floral parade that will surpass
anything of the kind ever attempted
in the West, is one of the features
contemplated for the entertainment of
President Mckinley when he visits
Chicago in June. This novel welcome
will take the place of a military dis
| play.
On Captain Schley's return from the
| South Atlantic it is not expected that
he will be assigned to any further
duty, as he will retire next October,
and there would hardly be time for his
taking up n work of any magnitude
in the few months remaining of his
acting service.
Captain John MCGOWAN has been
retired with the rank of rear admiral.
| He broke down in health while com
| manding the monitor Monadnock on
| the Asiatic station several months
ago, and has since had short term
| of service in command of the naval
station at Key West
The Postofiice Department at WASH
| ington has changed some of the names
in the state of Washington-''Spok
in place of Spokane; Lake Kooten;,f'
for Lake Kootenay; Pend Oreille'
for Pend d'Oreille; "Clcalum" for
Cle-Elum; "Sanpoil' for Sans Poll,
and "Okinagan" for Okanogan.
over $50 newly enlisted soldiers of
the Fourteenth cavalry at Fort Leav-
enworth, Kansas. have recently de-