The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-04-09
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| Five hundred factory girls went out
on strike at st. Joseph, Missouri,
April 1st.
/ NJ. Waldeck- -Rosseau, French pre-
mier, is suffering from an abcess of
| the throat
The bubonic plague continues its
ravages at Capetown and gives the Of
| ficials much concern.
Oxford won the great annual boat
race between oxford and Cambridge
universities March 30th.
The entire wheat and oat crop of
northern Texas is threatened with de-
struction by the fly pest.
The United States Rubber Company
has reduced its prices twenty-eight
per cent from those of 1900.
The trial of James Callahan for COM
plicity in the abduction of young Cud-
any will begin April 22d at Omaha.
The published statement that Lord
Salisbury has symptoms of Brights
disease is denied by his private secre-
tary.
Five hundred and fifty journeymen
painters and decorators at Cincinnati
struck for an eight-hour day on the 1st
of April.
The Jefferson hotel at Richmond, Vir-
ginia, burned on the night of March
2yuh. Its cost was Sl,OOO,OOO and 1t
was insured for $650,000.
Medical Director William Il. Hord
died at Washington April 1st at the
age of seventy. He had been in the
naval service for forty years.
The capital of the United States Steel
Corporation has been increased to ST.
100000 900. The state of New Jersey
U So. f..r- = hat
of the papers.
Sir Thomas Upton feels confident of
winning the All Americas cup this
summer with his new yacht sham
rock II. He expects to sail for Ameri-
ca about June 10Th.
Governor Dietrich of Nebraska. ex-
poets to resign Mt an early date to ac-
cept the office of United States senator
for the short term, to which he was re-
Gently elected.
Three expert biologists from the Un-
tied States survey have been detailed
to make geological and mineral recon-
noissance of the island of Cuba, whose
government will pay the expense.
Petroleum in large quantities is re-
ported to have been discovered at
Greenvllle, Clay county, Iowa, and
people are gathering in great num-
bers. This Is the first oil discovered
in Iowa.
1t is believed at the Indian Office In
Washington that the recent reported
trouble with Navajos in southern Utah
and northern Arizona was due to the
encroachment of white miners on the
reservation.
Two tons of American flags have
been contracted for in Chicago to be
/ col. 80, fan and araptaI n the
school buildings. 1t is proposed 90
erect flag over every school house on
the island before July 4th.
The official Gazette of the City of
Mexico has published denial of the
announcement made in various Mexi-
! can newspapers that President Diaz
| has asked permission to go to Europe
for the benefit of his health.
| The secretary of agriculture has sent
| dairy experts to Japan and China for
, the purpose of introducing American
| dairy products In the markets of the
China sea, and another to the Carib-
bean sea for the same purpose.
| Tom l.. Johnson, the noted single-tax
advocate, who has just been elected
mayor of Cleveland. Ohio. says that he
shall fight, without giving or accept
ing quarter" for municipal ownership
I
Alfred T. Patrick is again on trial
in New York charged with causing the
death of Millionaire Rice last Septem-
Der. Patrick is also alleged to have
forged will and other documents pur-
porting to have been signed by Rice.
| Harry Adnmson Lund. whose
strange disappearance from the steam
ship Eddy in New York two years ago
created sensation. has turned up in
! Nanaimo, British Columbia, where he
: has been working in the mines for
some time.
Colonel A. X Mcclure has an
nounced his retirement from the edl-
torial direction of the Philadelphia
Times. Colonel Mcclure began his
4 Journalistic work over tifty-five years
ago. as the editor of weekly paper
in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
r. l.. Pease, vice president OF the
Exchange National Bank at Atchison,
Kansas, died March 10Th. He was one
nt the operators of the Holiday stage
line between Atchison and Salt Lake
in the early days, and later was an
| extensive star route contractor.
In North Carolina the attempt to i'm
peach Chief Justice Fuchs of the Su-
preme Court and Associate Judge
Douglas failed through inability to Sc
cure n two-thirds vote for impeach-
ment 1nere were twenty-seven votes
for conviction and twenty-three for ac-
quittal.
A fire in the main building of the
Jacob Dodd Packing Company's plant
at Kansas City. March Both, destroyed
100000 worth of property The
building was burned in 1899 and i'm
medately rebuilt, and has since been
used for the manufacture of butterine,
employing seventy-five men.
! The United Mine Workers of the