The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-11
SHORT TELEGRAMs.


| The floods which threatened to en-
gulf Cincinnati have been stopped by
a cold wave. The river reached the
| forty -eight-foot danger point but came
| no further.
| Charles Broadway Rouss, who Of
fered 81 100000 for a cure for his blind
ness. is dead. He was New York
merchant of peculiar and in some re-
spects penurious ways.
A prairie fire near DoXie, in Roger
Mills county, Oklahoma, in addition to
great damage to property, burned to
death the ten-year-old daughter of JOS
eph Rogers, homesteader.
In ST. Mary's Hospital, in Brooklyn,
Neil Bryant, the last of the old-time
minstrels. awaits death. Within the
last few days he has weakened great
deal and his end is expected at any
time.
]. Pierpont Morgan has given $1,000
600 to the University of the South at
Suwanee, Tennessee. This Is one of
the foremost institutions in the South,
having an average attendance Of 600
students.
The youngest bride in the country is
Mrs. James Irwin, aged ten years, of
Centerville, Hickman county, Tennes-
see. She has just been married. Her
husband is between forty-five and fifty
years of age.
The centennial of the incorporation of
Cincinnati was celebrated Wednesday
with appropriate exercises by the mu-
nicipal authorities, both executive and
legislative, the Chamber of Commerce
and other organizations.
In test just made a train crew 400
miles from Chicago talked over the tel
| egraph wires to Chief Operator Par
| sons. of the Illinois Central railroad, at
| the Twelfth street depot. As result
the railroad telephone was declared to
| be n success.
] With "The Candidacy of Mr.. Hill' as
a text. William ]. Bryan made it plain,
| in statement given out to the press
as an extract from a forthcoming is
sue of his paper. that he would oppose
| to the end David Il. Hllls ambitions
| and nomination for President
The steamer Libertader. now operat-
| ing in the interests of the Mato's rev.
| olution against President Castro of
| Venezuela. and whose name was re-
| Gently announced to have been changed
| to Bolivar. bombarded the Port of
Guira for the purpose of protecting the
landing of insurgent forces there.
The jury at Chicago In the case OF
| Dr. Orville S. Burnett last night re
| turned verdict of guilty and recon-
| mended that the defendant be sent to
the penitentiary for fifteen years. Bur-
nett was found guilty of the murder of
Mrs. Charlotte Nicoll. He entered into
a contract with her that the two should
commit suicide.
Prince Henry carries a policy of
| 100000 insuring him against assassi-
nation. and is said to be the only man
| in the world so insured. His brother
| the Emperor. has a life insurance pol
icy for S5.O0O.OoO. King Edward VII.
is insured for S3.GOO.0OO. The Gar of
| Russia and his immediate family are
insured for $S,IJO,O0O.
Commissioner OF Indian Affairs Jones
at Washington has authorized the use
OF taxes collected in the Cherokee ma
tlon on hay and merchandise for the
relief of destitute and starving full
blood Cherokee Indians. Last years
drouth ruined the Cherokees' crops and
left the Indians without food or oven
clothing, and many are actually starry
ing.
The following have been appointed
cadets: Ralph Earle Sampson, son of
Rear Admiral w. T. Sampson. princi-
pal; Woodward Philip. son of the late
Rear Admiral Philip. first alternate; o.
w. Howard, son of Major General
Howard. U. S. A.. second alternate.
and Pressley Morgan Taylor. son of
| Rear Admiral Henry c. Taylor, third
| alternate.
Denials have been made by financiers
| and railroad officials interested in the
Northern Securities Company that it
| Is proposed to incorporate company
under the laws of Canada. legally
| equipped to protect the interests of
shareholders in the railroad merger in
| the event of embarrassment owing to
| President Roosevelt's Instructions to
Attorney General Knox.
Major NJ. ]. Jenkins. the Rough
| Rider. has written a letter to Lieuten-
ant Governor Tillman of South Caro-
lima declining the sword which it had
been intended to present to him
' through the agency of President
Roosevelt, but which invitation to the
President had been withdrawn by
Tfllman on account of bis action in the
Tillman-McLaurin affair.
Francis Warner. one of the best
known detectives in the West, died yes
terday in Chicago. He was the father
of Gray Warner of Denver. Mr.. Warn
er was for twenty-five years superin.
tendent of the Chicago Office of the
Pinkerton detective agency. and was
one of the men entrusted with the pro-
lection of President Lincoln on the trip
to Washington for his first inaugta-
ton.
In a test just made n train crew 400
miies from Chicago talked over the
telegraph wires to Chief Operator Par
sons of the Illinois Central railroad at
the Twelfth Street depot. As result
the railroad telephone was decared to
be a success. The inventor asserts it
makes no difference whether or not
telegraphic messages are being flashed