The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
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next October, when he will be sixty
two years old.
Lieutenant Hobson has just recov-
| cred from an attack of typhoid fever.
He is in New York City.
The population of Berlin. Germany,
including the suburbs, Is 2,469,676, as
compared with 2,O76,946 In 1895.
| The electric trolley system is rapidly
displacing the storage system on the
busiest streets of Berlin, Germany.
Clyde shipbuilders recently placed or
ders for 100000 tons of plates in the
United States at saving of $25OOOO.
The Klondike is strictly up to date.
| Six automobiles have reached Daw-
son and will be used on run to the
creeks
st. Petersburg has been having a
terrible siege of influenza, the deaths
for the week before Christmas being
the highest for decade.
| The keel of the new cup defender
has been completed at the Hereshoffs
shops in Bristol, Rhode Island. The
casting weighs more than ninety tons.
The Frankfurter Zeitung says the
Gar, in his reply to Mr.. Kruger's
Marseilles telegram, announcing his ar
rival in France, addressed it to Mr..
Kruger"
The Fourth district Republican leg
fslators of Minnesota have endorsed
General Moses e. Clapp for the sena-
torial vacancy caused by the death of
Senator G. X. Davis.
The Legislative Council of Victoria
has, for the sixth time, rejected the
woman's suffrage bill. 1t has also re-
jected a proposal to submit the ques-
ton to a referendum.
Senator Jones of Arkansas, chair
man of the Democratic national COM
mittee, says there is no foundation for
the report that he contemplates resign
ing the craftsmanship.
The Dowager Lady Churchill, SEN
iof lady of the bedchamber and an
intimate friend of Queen Victoria, was
found dead in her bedroom at Os-
borne Christmas morning.
A Huntington, West Virginia, dis
patch says that the independent glass
combine recently, organized will on
January LIST advance the price on all
window glass fifteen per cent.
The Canadian Pacific will open a
school in Winnipeg for the teaching
of shorthand and telegraph to its
junior employees to enable them to
qualify for more important positions.
According to the figures of the New
York assessor the heirs of the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt will pay $685.
600 in personal property taxes next
year, the property being valued at
$16OOO,0OO.
Lord I.andsdowne, secretary of state
for foreign affairs, has concluded ne
gotiations by which Russia will, on
January 1st, give Great Britain entire
Of tha fn
Shanghai Kwan.
Recorder Goff of New York sentenced
Henry Zeimer one of the heads of
fraudulent divorce bureau, to ten years
in prison, and James Holden, alias
Frank Wilson. professional CORE
spondent, to three years.
Governor Allen of Porto Rico cele-
brated the holiday season by extend
ing executive clemency to twenty-four
prisoners in Porto Rican jails. He
pardoned seventeen murderers and
homicides and seven thieves.
Germany can punish very rich man.
Sternberg, the millionaire banker, was
found guilty, at Berlin, of unnameable
immoralities and sentenced to two and
one-half years Imprisonment with loss
of citizenship for five years.
Richard A. Wise, congressman from
the South Virginia district, died sud
denly at Williamsburg December 21st.
He had long been n sufferer from
Bright's disease. He was a son of the
late Governor Henry A. Wise.
The Fox Pressed Steel Car Works,
one of the largest industries in Joliet,
Illinois, was nearly destroyed by fire
on December oath. 1t is thought all
the costly machinery valued at $780,,
l.. 1.,,rt tN..I Itrt1 ltVnsv
can be replaced for about $4,000.
Celestino Perza, formerly the secre-
tary general of President Castro of
Venezuela has revolted against the
Venezuelan government near Lozema,
in the Guarico district. A force of
$500 Venezuelan troops under Gener-
al Aristides Fandeo has been sent
against Perza.
In pursuance of a resolution passed
by the common council, the city clerk
of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has sent
the following telegram to President
Kruger: I'VE extend greetings and
most urgently request you to visit our
city and meet more than 10000 of
your cOuntrymen."
John ID. Driscoll, better known as
Dynamite Driscoll, died at Boston,
December "a, of cancer of the tongue,
aged seventy years. He was friend
of John Mitchell, O'Donovan Rossa,
Charles S. Parnell. Michael Davitt
and all the prominent Irish patriots
During the civil war he served in the
Ninth Massachusetts volunteers.
Fifty thousand dollars in gold was
distributed by the American Express
Company among its employees as
Christmas remembrances. Every man
who has been in the employ of the com
pany for one year received a So gold
piece on Christmas eve. 1t is estimated
that there are over 10000 employees of
the company in the United States, Can