The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-22
rELEoRAPAuc eREvIrIEs.


John f. Fee, founder of Berea Col
lege, at Berea, Kentucky, died on the
18th instant.
-Four detectives were hired to guard
night and day the French-Vanderbut
wedding presents.
A bill making kidnapping capital Of
fense has been introduced into the Ten
nessee Legislature.
A famine is reported in the province
of Shen 81, China, and 100000 people
are said to be facing starvation.
March Lamb, a negro of Vineland,
New Jersey, has lived on hoecakes
most of his life. and is 104 years old.
Postmaster General Smith has rec
commended an extensive pneumatic
tube system for the conveyance of
mail in Chicago.
No Knife, the last chief of the Oma-
ha Indian tribe, died n few days ago
on the reservation in Nebraska at the
age of 115 years.
1t is rumored in London that Lord
Curzon will resign the vice-royalty OF
India because the climate does not
agree with his wife's health.
will begin Monday, April list. All the
persons living at midnight Sunday.
March 31st, will be counted.
James A. Mount, who had just re
tired from the office of governor of In
diana. died suddenly of heart disease
at Indianapolis on the 10th inst.
Mr.. w. p. Fishback, n noted lawyer
and former editor of the st. Louis
Globe Democrat, died at indianapolis
ON the 18th inst, aged seventy-two.
The trial of the three men charged
with assaulting and killing Jennie
Bosschieter at Paterson, New Jersey,
last October, was begun on the 14th.
1t is officially reported at Yokohama,
Japan, that 400 fishermen are missing
and that they are supposed to have per-
ished in storm January 10th off the
west coast.
A resolution has been adopted by the
Missouri House of Representatives,,
memorializing Congress to allow the
Filipinos to establish IA government of
their own.
Peter f. Dunno, author of the "Doo-
ley papers, has recovered sufficiently
to leave the Chicago hospital, where he
erable time.
Recently an enormous photograph
was taken in the Swift packing house,
Chicago, showing 1000 men Mt work.
Twenty pounds of powder were used
in the flashlight
Both houses of the Idaho Legislature
passed unanimously a memorial to
Congress protesting against the enact
ment of any measure providing for the
leasing of the public ranges.
Trolley cars of suburban electric
railway near st. Louis have n COM
plete telephone outfit whereby their
crews are able to converse with the
headquarters office ON occasion
A. +. DreutZer of Chicago and Olaf
Gergstrom of Nebraska have made ar
rangements for colonizing about 1OO,
600 acres of land in Fentress and Nor
gan counties, Tennessee, with Firms.
BY recent collision on the Central
Railroad of New Jersey, near Laurel
Run, car filed with black powder ex-
ploded with such force that the report
was heard a distance of twenty mises
Prairie chickens are said to be more
abundant in western Kansas that for
years, and the farmers show Il DISPOSE
ton to give the birds chance to null
tiply by keeping n check on the hunt
erS.
The growing shortage of good pas
ture lands in Montana is causing the
cattlemen of that state to look about
for other fields and some of them will
take portions of their herds to Alaska
in the spring.
II rl,a rntnn-
moner is to appear on the 23d instant.
The Northern Pacific company has
declared regular quarterly dividend
of one per cent. on its preferred stock,
payable March 4th.
1t is reported from London that Tom
L. Johnson, the American street rail
road capitalist, has bought the Baker
Street and Waterloo underground rail
road from the London and Globe FL
nance Corporation, Limited.
Japan strongly opposes the. transfer
of the peace negotiations to Europe, on
the ground that the presence of Ii
Hung Chang and Prince Ching is nee
essary for the maintenance of order Mt
Pekin and throughout China.
The largest articles of export from
the United States are breadstuifs, pro-
visions, cotton ana petroleum neSe
four articles aggregated SS32,364,23
during the calendar year 1900. an in-
crease from SG93, ,610,T41 in 1897
The Indiana board of charities hats
given out statistics showing that the
total number of insane in the state is
4,509. In 1880 the rate of insane to the
population of Indiana was 1 in 800.
In 1892 the ratio was l to 600. Under
the new census the ratio for 1900 is l
to 55S.
The latest organization in trades un-
of