The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-12-10
TELEeRAPHic eREvITIEs.

3,5OO,O00 signatures.
A battalion of the Second regiment of
cavalry will be brought from Cuba
about January 18th.
The number of students in the 10
regular medical schools of the United
States in 1900 was 1919 females and
p, ,673 males
The decline in the value of British
securities since the beginning of the
Boer war is estimated ut more than
n billion dollars.
| The German minister to Venezuela
recommends to his government that
| eight warships be sent there to collect
the German claims.
The Cape to Cairo line of the African
Transcontinental Telegraph Company
has been constructed as far as Bis
| marckb burg, Togoland.
The ferry boats, San Rafael and
Sansali.o collided in the bay at San
Francisco on the night of November
29th, and twenty lives We're lost.
The big battleship Illinois, sent to
test the New Orleans floating dock.
passed safely and easily through the
jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi
A London dispatch says the report
cabled to the United States that Flor
| ence Nightingale was near death was
unfounded. Florence Nightingale is
| we'll
Announcement is made that the sem
tence of accommodation against
Father Jeremiah j. Crowley of Chi
cago would be recalled within few
days.
j. S. Andrews, who pre-empted
claim within the present limits of
Chicago in 1914. died at Wichita, Kan
sas, December 3rd, aged eighty-four
years.
Maria Luisa. negress, 160 years old,
died last month at Rio Janeiro, Brazil.
She was the last representative of the
slaves who We're imported directly
from Africa.
Edward John Eyre. who was gov
ernor of Jamaica and its dependencies,
1S62-66, and who put down the mutiny
of the negroes there, is dead. He was
born in 1915
Sousa and his band played by royal
command on the night of December
1st at Sandringham before their majes-
ties, King Edward and Queen AleNan-
dria and the royal family.
Purdue College of Lafayette, Indi-
ana, received as a Thanksgiving pres
ent 100000 from Mrs Eliza Fowler, to |
equipment of an assembly hall.
Kansas is experiencing its second |
water famine for this year. Water
works companies say that the situa-
ton, as far as the water supply is con-
cerned, is as serious as last summer. |
Latest reports indicate that probably |
only three lives We're lost in the ferry |
boat collision Mt San Francisco, De |
cember list. 1t was at first thought I
that as many as twenty were drowned. |
1t is officially stated at the Hague |
that the story reproduced in the Lon !
don News from the Vaamsche Ga
zette about Queen Wilhelmina quar-
reling with the prince consort is un-
true.
The Peruvian minister, Senor Osman,
and the Bolivian minister of foreign |
affairs have signed protocol submit
ting to arbitration the pending ques-
tions between their respective coun-
tries.
For the first time Russian univer-
sity has this time placed Tolstoi's
works in its curriculum. "A special
seminary for the study of his writ
ings and teachings has been opened ut
Kiem.
The statistician of the Department Of
the probable cotton production of the
United States in 1901-02. This was
about 100000 bales less than trade
estimates.
William Alexander Selllirk. n Cali |
fornia pioneer of 1850, and for nearly |
half n century n prominent figure in |
the newspaper and political world of !
the Pacific coast, died at Seattle, De |
cember 1st
An important archaeological discov-
cry is announced from Vologoda, |
where n skeleton, declared to be hu-
man, has been found with the unpre-
cedented length of 4.T5 arshines, or
over eleven feet
John Heinrich, who pleaded guilty |
to the charge of picking the pockets of |
members of the late President McIIin- |
leys party during their visit to Los |
Angeles last May, was given three |
years in San Quentin prison
In recent fast run to make up time |
between Chicago and Cleveland, the /
Lake Shore train carrying the Aus |
tralian mail made eighty miles an hour !
for part of the distance and averaged |
fifty-five miles including stops.
The German Colonial Council has
decided that while the emancipation of |
the children of slaves might be prac-
ticable in Togoland and the Camerons, |
the time had not arrived to declare |
them free in German East Africa.
The estimates for Germany's eXpen-
1itures in China for 1902 are S9SO0,-
600, as against $30,00o,0oo expended in
1901. Pensions for widows and or
phans resulting from the China eXpe-
dition amount to $4,000 annually.
The Illinois Appellate Court has re-
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by which the Chicago Board of Trade