The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-09-10
TELEeRAPHIc BREvITIEs.

France and Russia will have ninety
two submarine destroyers in six
months time.
General Leonard Wood, military gov
ernor of Cuba, left Washington for Ha-
vana, September 4th.
Joaquin Miller, the California poet,
has written to relatives that he has
made fortune in Texas oil.
1t is said that King Edward is likely
to confer a dukedom on Lord Salisbury
at the time of his majssty's coronation.
During August the total coinage was
$10,140,310 as follows: Gold. $6,7SO.-
900; silver, $3,141,0 900; minor coins,
$219,310.
The death rate from consumption in
the great cities of Europe is nearly
double what it is in the great cities of
the United States.
Senator George F. Hoar celebrated
his seventy-fifth birthday August 30th.
The senator is now serving his fifth
, term as member of the Senate.
Active work has begun on the con-
struction of the Vancouver Northern
G Yukon railway. 1t is said the line
| will be completed within year.
The steamer Homer recently arrived
at San Francisco from the Pribyloff
islands with 22,672 seal skins, large
number of fox skins and quantity of
! whale bone.
The new Alabama constitution was
adopted in the Legislature by vote
of 1872 to 10. 1t will be submitted to
the people for ratification at the next
state election.
A masked cyclist recently held up
| he ta tral ia
mail coach, wounded a passenger, Sc
cured the mails and opals valued at
| $1,000, and escaped.
The Eighteenth infantry will sail
from Manila for home September 10th.
on the transport Fitzpatrick. The trans
port Grant left Nagasaki on the 31st
ult. for San Francisco.
At Coochsbridge, Delaware. Septem-
ber 3rd, the monument marking the
battlefield where it is claimed the
Stars and Stripes were first unfurled
in battle was unveiled.
The National Fraternal Congress has
indorsed the proposed fraternal build
ing at the st. Louis exposition, and
| recommended that all fraternal socie-
ties contribute toward it.
Maurice C. Sutphen, professor in
Johns Hopkins University, was
drowned in the Shrewsbury river near
Atlantic Highlands, September End,
the boat being overturned.
Ex-President Cleveland has consent
ed to deliver the Grafton of Founders
day at the Carnegie Institute on Thurs
| day, November 7th, at the special re-
| quest of Andrew Carnegie.
The Daily Tribune of Nebraska City
has been sold to the Morton Printing
Company, of which j. Sterling Morton,
eX-secretary of agriculture, is the head,
and will be edited by him.
In the worlds great capitals. the
highest death rate from consumption
is in Buda-Pesth. forty-nine deaths per
| 10000 living, and the lowest is in Chi
cago, thirteen deaths per 10000 living.
1t is understood that the capital
stock of the new strawboard combine,
which will be known as the United
Box, Board and Paper Company. will
be anywhere from S20,0O0,00 to $780,
100000.
The demand for canned salmon in
the United States is so large that no
shipments will be made of this sea-
sons pack from Puget Sound to Eng
land. American Gamers are selling
their total pack at home.
The examination of applicants for
| appointments as assistant surgeons in
the army has been resumed in Wash
ington and San Francisco. Seventy
six vacancies in the medical depart.
ment still remain to be filled.
The San Francisco branch of the In
ternational Iron Molders' Union has
been given $4,000 by the national body
for the benefit of the members on
strike in that city The money will be
drawn in five weekly installments.
1t is announced that Sarah Bern
hardt has promised her services in
support of a fete in aid of the anti-tu-
berculosis propaganda. to be given on
the occasion of the Cars visit, and
under the patronage of the Czarina.
Andrew Carnegie has given $500 to
each, Sheldon, Law. Jones and Dick,
four miners who displayed conspicu-
GUS bravery in the rescue of their COM
rades at the time of the recent Doln-
ibristle (Perthshire) colliery disaster.
Agents of the Russian government
are investigating the rapid-fire gun of
Frank NJ. Garland of New Haven, Con-
necticut. The report will be favorable,
and it is not improbable that as a re-
suit Mr.. Garland will move to Russia
Reports from the island of Hawaii
continue to indicate tnat the volcano
Kiluauea is about to break forth again.
Visitors to the volcano report intense
heat for long distance around the
crater and huge volumes of smoke ris-
| ing.
At Wetumpka, Alabama, John
Strength and Martin Fuller, charged
with having participated in the lynch
ing of Robert White, a negro, were
convicted of murder in the second de-
gree and sentenced to ten years in
prison.
admiral Remey has cabled the Navy