The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-07-30
TELEGRAPHIc eREvITIEs.

Ieary relleI steamer Erlck.
Lord Kitchener has committed the SEN
tence of death passed on thirty-four
Boer prisoners to penal servitude for
life at Bermuda.
A new Berlin municipal budget
shows that 300 streets in Berlin are
planted with Al 900 trees, which repre-
sent a value of $190,OOO.
The United States fish commission
has collected and classified about 24O
species of Hawaiian fish, fifty of
which are new to science.
The Navy. Department has pur-
chased the big floating steel dry dock
in Havana harbor from the govern
ment of Spain for $1S5,0OO.
On July Goth the town of Riceville,
Iowa, with population of 800 to l.
600, was practically wiped out by fire,
involving Il loss estimated at 100000.
1t is announced on good authority
that the national headquarters of the
Democratic party will be removed
from Chicago to st. Louis September
1st.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
Kansas City, Kansas, $4,000 for
free library, the city to furnish the
site and spend $500 a year in main
tenance.
The health officer of the port of New
York, DIR. Doty, has decided to take
hold of the mosquito question in Sta
ten island and attempt the extermina-
ton of the pests.
The latest directory of Manhattan
and the Bronx. just issued, indicates
| population in the two boroughs of p
| 075, ,45O, or an increase in one year of
23,S5O inhabitants.
The plant of the Michigan Barrel
| Company at Grand Rapids, Michigan,
was destroyed by fire July 18th. Loss,
| 100000. The plant was the largest of
its kind in existence.
The NStional Fraternal Congress,
composed of representatives of the
leading fraternal and beneficiary So
cieties of the country, meets at De
troit, Michigan, August 9th.
DIR. Delos Parker. a lecturer in De-
troit College, announces that he has
proven by exhaustive experiments
that badness results from poisoned air
caused by improper breathing.
The Supreme Tent. knights OF the
Maccabees, has decided that all old
members must be re-rated on the same
plan as new members, at the age at
which they Joined the order.
The transport Thomas sailed from
San Francisco July 23rd for Manila
| via Honolulu with the 500 teachers
who are going to accept positions in
the schools in the Philippines.
The British government is expected
to make a grant of half n million dol
lars to Lord Roberts in recognition of
his services in South Africa and to
enable him TO maintain his peerage.
Former Governor Taylor of Tennes-
see has been invited to take part In n
fiddling contest between the old set
tiers of Missouri. which is to take
place at Kansas City on August 10th.
The Kentucky court of appeals has
ordered the Scott county circuit to
grant eN-Secretary of State Caleb
Powers another trial. 1t is possible
that the trial will be held in October.
Five people committed suicide in
New York Monday The extremely
hot weather is believed to have caused
the increase in the number of suicides
recently.
The Boston Journal is erecting a
new building into which its offices will
be moved in September, 1902. 1t will
then have the finest journalistic
home in the world at n cost of 81 1,OOO,-
900.
In addition to the other bases of
supplies demanded in the Plat amend
ment. 1t is the intention of the admin
istration to permanently retain MORO
castle, overlooking the harbor of Ha-
vana.
The directors of the Canadian Pa
citic railway at their next meeting will
consider the question of substituting
electric power for steam engines on
all high grades in the Rocky Noun
tains.
The latest combination to be formed
is of flint glass bottle makers. There
are about fifty in the United States
and every one was brought into the
combination. The capitalization is
$4,000, 900.
There has been n decrease of the
Chinese population in the United States
since 1890 of 1865, the number now
here being $1,000. The japanese in
creased during the past ten years from
2,039 to 2430O.
Observations have confirmed the
rise of the coast of the North Sea.
| There has been n decrease in the
depth of the water at the mouth of the
Elbe of from sixteen feet to eighteen
feet since 1895.
The word "Christian" stays in the
| bill of rights in the virginia constitu-
ton, as far as the constitutional con-
vention is concerned. BY vote of 7
to 4 the committee decided to preserve
the ordinary language.
The steamship Northwestern, the
first ship of n regular line to make the
round trip from Chicago to Europe en-
| tered the harbor on her return amid
II deafening salute of whistles. The
round trip took eightyfour days.
| 1t is reported at Capetown that Gen
| aral Delarey has Informed the [loks-
| burp rpmmnu u6o thot tbaro iS N, Innrar