The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-11
TELEeRAPHIc eREvITIEs.

Queen Helena of Italy gave birth
to a daughter June 1st.
| England is arranging to send draft
| of Boer prisoners to Barbados.
The Forty-fifth infantry was mus
tered out at San Francisco on the 4th
instant.
| Turkey has made the first payment
on the cruiser ordered from the
Cramps.
The United Presbyterian General
Assembly adjourned to meet in Pitts
burg in 1902.
The Forty-sixth infantry. United
States volunteers, has been mustered
out of service.
The Treasury Department will send
three immigrant inspectors to Porto
Rico for permanent duty.
The proposed consolidation of lead
| ing Grand Rapids furniture factories
! has practically fallen through.
A combine of eastern and western
shovel makers is being formed which
will be capitalized at $10,000,OOO.
The American Shirt aud Collar Com
pany, capital $2O,O0o,O00, has absorbed
eight OF the largest plants in the coun-
try.
The Michigan Legislature, after hav-
ing been in continuous session since
January LIST, voted to adjourn June
| 9th.
The Dowager Duchess of New Cas-
tie, mother of the present duke and
Lord Francis Hope, is about to become
n nun.
The Indian population of Canada
was 90,010 in 1900, according to the
report of the Department of Indian
| Affairs.
The butchers of New York have an
nounced an increase in the price of
meats, varying from one-half to three
cents per pound.
2. II. Ashmead of Lehigh, Pennsyl-
vania. who recently returned from
Ecuador, advises young Americans TO
go to that country.
The London Mail says King Ed
ward has declined to reduce his eccle-
! siastical establishment from thirty-siN
| paid chaplains to twelve.
Arbuckle Brothers have advanced
all grades or refined sugar ten points.
This is still five points under the prices
of the American Refining Company.
The Grant Memorial Commission has
issued n pamphlet inviting the compe
tition of architects for models. The
The American Telegraph and Teie-
| phone Company. mt meeting of stock
| holders voted to increase its capital
stock from S100,00O,0Oo to S15o,O0o,OOO.
Julia Ward Howe celebrated her
| eighty-second birthday at Boston,
May 2Tth. and by request sang for her
| friends her famous Battle Hymn of
the Republic"
| 1xr
of 10000 applicants at the British
patent offices during the past year, and
| the inventions of these women proved
most successful.
Action has been instituted by Sir
| Charles Sutherland to set aside the
purchase of Skibo castle by Andrew
| Carnegie hTe castle was bought by
Mr.. Carnegie. two years ago.
Germany. in the opinion OF the Vos-
sische Zeitung, will need to import 5O,-
10000 bushels more wheat and D.
O0O,0 bushels more rye this year
than last, owing TO ruined harvests.
Ballington Booth and Booth-Tucker
deny that there is any prospect OF
General Booth and his son reaching an
agreement and merging the Salvation
Army into the Volunteers of America.
Ira Remsen. PHI D., LII. D., profes-
University since 1876, has been elect
ed president of the University, sue
ceeding DIR. Daniel G. Gilman, re
signed.
1t is said that the British govern
ment has decided 20 introduce new
American labor saving machinery,
such as pneumatic drilling and rivet-
ing machines, etc, at the Portsmouth
dock yards.
Edouard Taylore. n French cycllst,
defeated Frank Caldwell of Hartford,
Connecticut. in race at Philadelphia
on May Both. The FTenchman rode
twenty miles in little less than thir-
ty-seven minutes.
No proposal has been made to the
State Department by the British gov
ernment for the reassembling of the
Joint High Commission to settle ques-
tions in dispute between the United
States and Canada.
The business committee of the Ma
tional Suffrage Association will hold n
conference at Buffalo, September 9th
and 10th, at which the leading feature
will be symposium on some import
ant aspect of suffrage.
Texas. which enlisted only 1,965 sol
diers in the Union army during the
war, is now, more than thirty-five
years after its close, the place of res
idence of s. 100 pensioners and the PEN
sion payments there are nearly $1,000.
600.
1t is reported that the revolution in
Santa Domingo has been completely
crushed at its inception, and n num-
Der of the prominent rebels shot or
imprisoned. Among the latter is a son
of the late President Hereaux. who is
said to have been the leader of the
movement.
The Westminster Gazette of London,
in commenting upon the Supreme
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