The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-08-20
rELEGRAPHIc sREvITIEs.

Camp Lincoln, Illinois, August 3Oth.
The Schley court of inquiry will
convene at Washington September
18th.
The Pacific cable bill has passed Its
third reading in the English House of
Commons.
Nearly half the Chinese seeking ad-
mission to this country at San Fran
cisco are refused.
The corporation of Glasgow has de-
cided to confer the freedom of the city
ON Andrew Carnegie.
Count Won Waldersee, recent COM
mander of the allied forces in China,
has arrived in Germany.
The Rock Island Railway company
has ordered the building of twenty
new depots in Oklahoma.
Count Tolstoi is going to the Crimea
shortly, and the ministry of railroads
is placing a special car at his disposal.
The triennial conclave of knights
Templar will be held this yeart at
Templar will be held this year at
9th and 2Sth.
The British Board of Trade state
ment for July shows an increase of
S13 ,2S3,5OO in imports and a decrease
of $S40,00O in exports.
1t is stated that nearly every school
teacher who is going to the Philip
pines has married the girl of his heart
and will take her with him.
Four-fifths of the town of Farsund,
Sweden. on the North sea, has been
destroyed by fire. About 1,2OO peo-
pie were rendered homeless.
The Kansas City Stock Yards Com
pany has been granted certificate au-
thorizing an increase of the capital
stock from 81, 100000 to SS.25O,OOo.
Pierpont Morgan is to be a temporary
resident of San Francisco soon, While
he is attending the Episcopal triennial
council which begins October IND.
The doctors have ordered the Mar
quis Ito, the former Japanese premier,
to take n sea voyage for his health.
He will go to America for a short
stay.
The National Association of Dentists
has passed resolution for the appoint
ment of committee on ways and
means to fight so-called bogus diplo-
ma mills
A comparative statement of the net
earnings of the Union Pacific for the
fiscal year just closed shows an in
crease of $1,136.12T over the preced-
ing twelve months.
The contract providing for the Ma
Mia harbor improvements have been
signed, and work will begin immedi-
ately. The cost of the improvements
will amount to $1,50O,OOO.
Ireland's greatest drain is emigra-
ton and America is getting the finest
of our race" declared Michael Davitt,
the Irish leader, who has come to Chi
cago to address the United Irish So
cieties.
The main business portion of Lime
Springs. Iowa, was wiped out by fire
August Sth. Loss. S150.oO0. Fourteen
business firms We're burned out. Two
banks and hardware store are still
standing.
Civil Governor Taft, in the immedi-
ate future, will reduce the police force
of Manila by one-half. At present
there are 1900 policemen for the city,
whose population numbers only 25O,-
600 souls.
United States Judge Hawley has rem
dered his decision in the Nevada rail
road tax case, granting the injunction
prayed for by the Southern Pacific
company against the State Board of
Assessors.
The packing firms of Armour & Co.
and Swift & Co. have become joint
owners of the stock yards at Fort
Worth, Texas, and will soon expend
81 100000 in building branch plants
at that place.
Governor Taft has addressed n let
ter to the new Justices urging that the
Philippine courts be so conducted as
to create n good impression. The ma
tive first offences should be treated
with paternal clemency.
The vicerSy of India reports that
the famine prospects have been much
improved by heavy rain in Bombay
presidency, and that the government
is considering the advisability of re-
ducing somewhat the famine relief.
Miss Estelle Reel, national superin-
the Indian school service. The course
pleted uniform course of study for
the Indian school esrvice. The course
treats of thirty-one subjects, design
ed to train the Indian to become self
supporting.
The law passed by the Wisconsin
Legislature last winter appropriating
$4,000 to pay innocent purchasers of
county orders, issued under the Kelley
Cure law of 1895, declared invalid by
the Supreme Court, is now declared to
be unconstitutional.
The total imports of manufactures of
silk into the Philippines during 1900
We're 1885,, 5,9S4 as against S1S3,OO0 for
1899, an increase of Ill per cent. The
imports of this commodity from the
United States increased 216 per cent.
in the same period.
The department store of Anthony
Hordern Il Sons in Sydney, Australia,
burned July 18th. They We're among
the largest in the world, employing
over 1,5O0 hands and serving an av-
-rage of 10000 customers daily. The