The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-12-03

1t is reported that fashionable pleas
ure resorts on the Mediterranean have
decided to exclude consumpuves.
According to the latest reports the
fraternal organizations of this coun-
try and Canada contain 5,722, ,016 mem
bers.
According to a dispatch to tho Lon
don Standard from Odessa. 100 persons
perished in the recent earthquakes at
Ezeroun..
a London newspaper figures that the
population of New York City in 1911
should be as great us that of London is
now, ,4S3,342.
In disregard of the expressed wish of
Queen Alexandra, many of the British
peeresses are having their coronation
robes made in France.
Colonel Arthur Lynch, the newly
elected member of Parliament for Gal
way, has been Informed that if he
comes 20 England he will be tried for
treason.
Railway employees in this country
constitute an army of nearly 100000
people, with probably nearly 5.000000
people dependent ON the wages paid
by railroads.
When the casket containing the body
of James Winn was opened at the
grave at Decatur, Alabama, the sup
posed dead man came to life and was
taken back home for treatment.
John Goodnow, consul general at
Shanghai, reports to the State Depart
ment that over 100000 people in the
Yangtse valley will starve this winter
unless they get help from outside.
The London correspondent ofthe New
York Tribune says those in the way
of seeing Lord Salisbury, British pre-
mier, describe him as againg rapidly
and displaying little interest in public
affairs.
A strong movement has been organ,
lied in Paris for the enactment of
law prohibiting the wearing of corsets
by women under thirty years of age.
1t has the support of artists and ply
sicians
The French Senate has adopted pro-
posals supported by the premier, Nj.
Waldeck- -Rosseau. to appoint a COM
mission to study the means to be taken
in order to arrest the depopulation of
France.
Governor Hunt of Porto Rico says
that island is in Il prosperous condi-
ton. lie claims that the people are
but they are becoming enthusiastically
American.
The German Emperor maintains a
lieterary bureau. Every paper of any
importance published in Germany is
sent to this bureau, and all articles ex-
pressing, strong opinions are cut out
and preserved.
Vienna papers assert that Turkey is
preparing an arrogant circular note to
powers protesting against their per
petual interference" in Turkish af-
fairs and demanding to know their in
tentioD regarding Crete.
The immense oil well near Baku, in
Russia, which has been producing H.
100000 gallons daily since November
18th, has been supplemented by an
other gusher almost as large, which
was struck November 21st.
Helen Wilman Post, C. c. Post and
Charles Burgman of Sea Breeze, Flori-
da, have been indicted at Macon, Geor-
gia. for alleged fraudulent use of the
mails in sending letters and pamphlets
advocating their science of mental
healing.
The French Academy has awarded
the prize for virtue of 1000 francs to
Cecile Morand, a seamstress, who is n
dwarf and lame, and who, from the
age of thirteen years, has supported
paralytic father, n sick mother and ten
brothers and sisters.
Rich Americans cannot buy their
way into Westminster Abbey to wit
ness the coronation ceremonies. King
Edward has decided that the mere fact
of any seat being sold dispossesses
both the holder and the nominee from
the right of OccuDyiug it.
The New York Tribune's London rep
resentative says the coronation robes
are being displayed on wicker dunn
mics in the earl marshafs office for the
benefit of dressmakers and tailors, so
that no mistakes may be made when
titled customers give orders.
The London correspondent of the
New York Tribune cables that King
Edward is not sick as reported. Those
recently with him assert that he has
no throat ailment whatever, and that
his general health and spirits are now
better than for a long time.
The steamer Gauss, bearing the Ger
man Antarctic expedition. headed by
Professor Enrich Won Drygalski of
Berlin, which sailed from Kiel August
11th. and concerning the safety of
which considerable anxiety has been
felt. reached Cape Town November
23rd.
The United States Supreme Court
has decided that the heirs of the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt must pay S361,-
SO3.43 into the Golfers of Uncle Sam.
This is the total of the Inheritance tax
fixed by the federal government
against the estate. The heirs have al
ready been compelled to pay a state
tax of S52099S. The federal tax just
fixed brings the total up to SSS2,SO1.
The secretary of war has directed
81, oIt oil