The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-05-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

According TO the returns of the recent
census Scotland has population of H.
All ,957.
Esther Cleveland, daughter of the
former President, is suffering from
diphtheria.
Cumana in Venezuela was visited by
n violent earthquake shock May 10th.
No loss of life is reported.
The Gar, in an autograph letter, has
promised to reorganize the imperial
council on modern lines.
The Thirty first, Forty first and For
ty-second infantry regiments sailed for
home from Manila, May 18th.
General Macarthur celebrated the
surrenders of the insurgents Lascarda
and Lacuna by releasing 1000 Filipino
prisoners.
New York capitalists have secured
concessions from Mexico and will build
n 30O-mile railroad through the Yuca-
tan forests.
S. r. Galloway, president of the New
York Central railroad, will resign to
accept the presidency of the new Amer
Jean Locomotive Company.
Andrew Carnegie has given S1O,OoO,-
OOO to establish free education in four
Scotch universities-Edinburg Glas-
gov, Aberdeen and st. Andrews.
Statistics just published by the Inter
national Sugar Association show that
Germany's beet sugar acreage this year
is l, ,165, ,170 acres, an increase of 69,947.
Circuit Judge Dufield of Hot Springs,
Arkansas, in recent decision upheld
the validity of the drastic anti-gam-
bling act passed by the last Legisla-
ture.
The workingmen's pension bill intro
duced in the French Legislature pro-
vides an annuity of $50 for n worker of
either sex at the age of siNty-tive
years.
The approximate value of the com
mercial fisheries of the United States
| in 1899 was S400O0.0o0, to which the
oyster industry contributed about S14,-
100000.
The Order of Railway Conductors
will continue the grand offices mt Ce-
dar Rapids, Iowa, and cooperate, as
far as possible, with other railroad fra
ternities.
A pronounced earthquake shock was
felt at Wellston, Ohio, May 18th. 1t
was also felt at GAINESVILLE, Ports
mouth and Ironton, and at Huntington,
West Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs Robert Shaw left New
/ York city in their automobile at n.
IN. May Sth and arrived at Chicago at
6:45 p. IN. May 18th, the distance be
ing !, 100 miles or more.
A parliamentary paper just issued
] ,nI - I'll fGl, ttnn in
South Africa May list to be 269, 191.
The total deaths We're 14,97S, and
wounded 1920. In hospital, April
18th, there We're 1877.
The upper house of the Norway Stor-
/ thing rejected the bill adopted by the
lower house May 11th providing COM
munal suffrage for women paying
taxes on an income of at least 800
crowns.
The sovereign camp, Woodmen of the
World, has decided that in future If a
member engages in the liquor business
he shall bs expelled, and camps refus-
ing to take this action shall have their
charters revoked.
A package containing $1,000 in cur
rency. consigned by registered mail by
the Kansas City National Bank Of
Kansas. has disappeared, and detec-
tives are working on the theory that it
wSs stolen by postal clerk.
The New York Indian Association
will send letter of protest to Govern
or Toole of Montana, asking the release
of Little Whirlwind, the young Chey-
enne Indian who, it is claimed, is un-
Justly enduring life sentence for muir
der.
A Berlin dispatch says that the Prus-
sian railways have been Informed that
there will be n large emigration this
spring of Ruthenian farmers to the
United States and that 6,OOO will pass
through Hamburg in the course of the
next few days.
Alexander Edward Sweet, founder of
Texas Sftings and humorist of ma
tional reputation under the pen names
of "Col Bill Sweet and REV. Whang-
doodle" died at New York May Goth of
heart disease. He was n native of
Nova Scotia and sixty years old.
"Steeple Jack" Williams, whose dar-
ing feats in high places have made him
known all over the country, was run
over and killed by a street car at
Cleveland, May 18th. He attempted to
dash across the street in front of n troll
ley car and his life was crushed out.
The Kansas Supreme Court reversed
the decision of the District Court in
the Topeka mayoralty contest, and in
stalled j. w. f. Hughes, the Republi-
can and law enforcement candidate, in
the mayors chair. Topeka is now en-
tirely under the control of the dry
element, and operations against the
joints are expected at once.
The Navy Department has been ad-
vised that the higher courts in Cali
L, ion ~ II st