The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-05-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

to Gath.
Adelbert Hay. son of the secretary
of state, has resigned as United States
consul general at Pretoria.
Charles Moore, well-known stock
man and brother of Mrs. Carrie Ma
tion, died at Lewisburg, Kansas, April
9th.
Twenty or more persons are repert-
ed to have been killed by a snowslide
at Sunrise City, Alaska.
Venezuela has apologized for the ar
rest of United States Consular Agent
Baiz and the incident is closed.
d. d. Thompson, the new editor of
the Northwestern Christian Advocate
at Chicago is a layman. He had been
associate editor OF the Advocate for
some time.
The War Department is making eff
forts to have the reorganiZed standing
army fully officered and equipped and
enlisted to the strength of $4,000 by
August 1st.
An American concern has secured
the contract for mill locomotives re-
Gently ordered by the Calcutta port
commissioners, despite active Euro
pean competition.
1t is reported that an immense vol
ume of counterfeit silver dollars has
been circulated among the boomers
on the border of the Kiowa and Co.
manche country. in Oklahoma.
One OF the last acts of the President
before leaving the White House on his
tour was the signing of the commits
sion of Mr.. Pruden, one of his assist
ant secretaries, as a major and pay
master.
The position of general superintend-
ent of normal schools for the Philip
pines, at salary of $4,000 year, has
been offered to Elmer Burrett Bryan,
professor of philosophy and pedagogy
at Indiana.
Carrie Henderson, 103 years old,
who went to Montana with the first
rush for gold, is dying at Helena. She
worked as a slave with Fred Douglass
in the South before the Civil War and
at one time had fortune.
The Abbott woman suffrage bill,
granting women the right to vote in
township elections, was killed in the
lower house of the Illinois Legisla-
ture, the enacting clause being strick-
en- out by viva voce vote.
Stephen A. Weltmer and Joseph II.
Kelly, former president and secretary
of the Weltmer Institute of Magnetic
Healing at Nevada, Missouri, vino
pleaded guilty to using the mails to
defraud, were each fined $500.
Chicago manufacturers of clothing.
representing an aggregate capital of
from s15.000,OUv to s20000,000. met
April 25th and decided to form an as
sociation which will combine with
similar bodies throughout the United
States.
The Rosebud mine at Aurora, Mis-
souri,, caved in Friday and buried five
men at a depth of 10 feet. 1t may be
a month before the men can be
Shane. Elmer Bigler, John Gillian and
Feester.
The new comet observed at the
Yerkes observatory April 9th is said
by the astronomers to be the bright
est that has appeared for nineteen
years. 1t was discovered at Queens
town, April 23rd, and observed at
Cape of Good Hope April 25th.
An oil gusher was struck April Both
at Sulphur, Louisiana, forty-five miles
east of Beaumont, Texas. on the
Southern Pacific railway. The oil is
when it broke loose it went to the top
of the derrick, sixty feet high.
The United States Court of Appeals
at st. Louis has decided that the fact
that an employe remains in the en-
ploy of a company when he well knows
that a risk is assumed by SO doing,
does not relieve the employer of the
responsibility If accidents occur.
The fifth international convention
of the Epworth League of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church will be held at
San Francisco July 18th to 21st.
Bishops Warren and Cranston will be
among the speakers and music will be
provided by a trained chorus of 1000
voices.
Suit has been instituted against the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Company for s250000 damages by
forty-four claimants alleged to have
been injured in the wreck at Depere,
Wisconsin. June oath last year. All
are residents of Oshkosh, Menasha
and Fon du Lac.
The figures of the treasury bureau
of statistics indicate that the coal ex-
ports of the fiscal year, which ends
June Both, will amount to about S,000-
900 tons, as against less than 100000
tons in 1890, 3,772, 1872 tons in 1895 and
7,1SS,64S tons in 1900. These figures
are exceeded only by England and
Germany.
At a meeting held in New York
April 30th an agreement was reached
which will bring the greatest ship
building concerns of this country
under one management. H. e. Hunt
ington is said to be the president, and
l. NJ. Scott, president of the Union
Iron Works at San Francisco, will be
vice president.
The California Supreme Court has
declared the trust clause in the will
OF the late James G. Fair invalid. 1t