The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04
TELEGRAPHIc sREvITIEs.

VII. has become greatly interested III
Christian Science.
1t is estimated that the new Rus
sian loan will be subscribed for at
least seven times.
Arab Pasha, the famous Egyptian
rebel, who was banished to Ceylon IN
1882, has been pardoned.
New York is the only state in the
Union that has a greater population
than the city of London.
French agriculturists intend to hght
frost and grasshoppers, as well as hall
storms, with cannon and smoke.
Smallpox on the transport Indiana,
at Taku, will delay the departure of
the Ninth infantry for Manila
The Iowa Prohibitionlsts have nomi-
mated A. n. Coates for governor ana
A. Wray for lieutenant governor.
Bresci, the assassin of King Hum
bert, committed suicide few days
since ill his cell in the San Stefano
prison.
The graduating class of the Chicago
high school this year numbers over
loo, less than thirty per cent OF
whom are boys.
The new census returns gives the
popuation of Australasia at 4,ooo,69l.
InlS Is an lHtTtuSe VI nv icV SAhNS 'AS
last enumeration.
The Michigan House by unanimous
vote passed a bill taxing the Pullman
Palace Car Company three per cent.
on gross earnings.
The annual produce of currants in
Greece is about 100000 tons, but last
year. owing to the downy mildew, II
fell to $4,000 tons.
U'bn A Unr paSSpmpr ore mine nj
Norway, Michigan, has been pur-
chased by the United States Steel cor
poration for S2,5OO,OOO.
In response to the protest of the for
eign embassies the Turkish order pro
hibiting the entry of typewriters into
Turkey has been rescinded.
Promoters of the Charleston EXposl-
ton say they have ample resources
and that the display will be ready Tor
the opening in December
Paul du Chaillu, the famous explor-
er. hunter and writer, is planning
three-years' tour of Russia to gather
material for new work on that coun-
try.
Major General Henry C. Corbin, ad-
iutant general of the army, VIII san
for the Philippines June 18th, to make
n general inspection of military COLI
ditions.
The volcano of Keloet, Java, is in
eruption, the lava consuming many
native villages, endangering the city
of Blita and running large coffee plan
tations.
Movements are said to be on foot
to organize coal trusts in Ohio, In
diana and Illinois and the prospects
are that Il gigantic combination Oh all
three will be formed.
In the Irish championship games at
Dublin last month L. O'Connor OF
| Waterford covered twenty-four feet
nine inches in the long jump, beating
| all previous records.
A bill has been passed by the leg
| islative bodies of Norway providing
| for universal communal suffrage for
men and giving the suffrage to women
paying Il certain amount of taxes.
The southern synod of the Presby-
terian church in Kentucky Will COM
| municate with the northern synod to
formulate plan to endow Sayre col
| lege with 1900, 900. This Is college
| for women.
Peter Postell of Hopkinsville, Ken
| lucky, probably the richest colored
man in the South, died recently, leav-
ing fortune estimated at Sooo,ooo,
which he had accumulated in the gro
cery business.
Pasteboard armor is the latest form
of defense. Experiments at Copen-
hagen show that millboard three inch
es thick was impenetrable to carbine
bullets which pierced tve-inch wooded
| planks.
Rev. Henry Warman, n Methodist
clergyman ut Glendine, Montana, has
/ a.. ,1,.,.. - lnh ~
knights of the Maccabees for $4,000
damages because they initiated him too
! roughly.
The Edison Storage Battery Com
pany has been Incorporated at Tren-
| ton, New Jersey, with S1,OOO,OOO cap
| ital to manufacture storage batteries
under the new patent of Thomas \.
| Edison.
At their next meeting the directors
of the Pullman Sleeping Car Company
will be asked to pass upon plans for
| pensioning the 1900 or $4,000 EN-
| ployes of the company when retired
| from service.
Excited citizens of Jefferson and st.
| Charles parishes, opposite New Or
| leans, have burned all the buildings
that the State Leper Board had erect
ed in jefferson parish, in fulfllment or
| the boards plans to establish there u
| laZoretto.
DR.. Bryan of the University of In
diana has accepted the presidency of
the Central Normal and Trade school
of Manila, and expects to take thither
with him twenty teachers, mostly
graduates of the University of lndi-
| ana.
Marthinus Vessels Pretorius, the
! first president of the Dutch African
Republic, the title of which was
changed in 1858 to the South African
| Republic, died May 10Th, at Potchef-
stroom, Transvaal colony, after two