The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-25
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egraph business.
| In Servia the Cabinet has rendered
its resignation, owing to the adoption
| by the National Assembly of a civil
service reform measure.
1t is practically settled that the
| Twenty ninth infantry, now at san
| Francisco will sail for the Philippines
on the transport Sheridan about April
| 1st
Fire at Marissa, Illinois, Tuesday
night, destroyed two blocks of build
ings, causing a loss of $4,000, with
only small amount of insurance TO
offset it.
John Woodward, the negro murderer
of Leonard Calvitt, n white planter of
| Union Point, Concordia parish, Louis
lana, was lynched within 300 yards of
the parish prison in Vidalia, Louisiana.
| The Senate, in executive session,
confirmed the nomination Of Captain
, a. S. Crowninshield to be rear ad-
miral. There was no comment upon
the nomination.
Secretary Root has notified Acting
Governor Wright that taxes and duties
collected in the Philippines under the
recent tariff act for the islands shall
be converted directly into the Philip
pine treasury.
| Lord Kimberley, the Liberal leader
of the British House of Lords, who has
been I'll for some time past, suffered a
| relapse yesterday evening and is in n
| semi-unconscious condition.
James II. Fairchild, president of
Oberlin College and who was connect
ed with the college in various capaci-
ties for sixty-three years, died on the
10Th, aged eighty-five years.
When the great blizzard which ragged
over the Dakotas and Manitoba subsid-
ed, the weather was fair, but intense
ly cold, the thermometer ranging from
ten to sixteen degrees below zero.
The Turkish government has fatly
refused the demand of the United
States for the repayment of the SI2,oOo
paid to the brigands as a ransom for
Miss Ellen NJ. Stone and her COM
panion, Madame Tsilka.
Reports from all sections of Califor-
mia indicate that spring is well ad-
vanced The weather prevailing dur
ing the last week or ten days has been
remarkable the fruit trees all over the
state have commenced TO blossom.
Chicago has experienced severe win
ter weather. There was II drop in the
temperature of fifty degrees. AT .
o'clock Monday the mercury regis
tered four degrees below zero, while
strong wind added to the general
discomfort.
King Edward has notified the may
ors of the county of London that the
sum of $50 is placed at their disposal
and he invited them to make the neces-
sary arrangements to entertain the
ha mn nf Il
a dinner in celebration of his corona
| tion.
The News says that the Colorado &
Southern railroad has been sold to Il
syndicate headed by John w. Gates and
| Edwin Hawley, formerly the eastern
' traffic manager of the Southern Pa
cific, but whether the syndicate bought
for itself or for the Gould interests is
not known.
Suit has been instituted at Butte by
| James A. Boyer to recover from the
| Washoe Copper Mining Company the
sum of S150,00O which 1t is claimed is
the value of ore alleged to have been
Illegally extracted by the Washoe com
pany from beneath n lot belonging TO
Boyer.
At the spring session of the Institu-
| ton of Naval Architects in London 1t
was announced that the admiralty had
| decided to create Il new class of war
vessels to be known as the scout class,
somewhat after the type of torpedo
boat destroyers, but CT greater sea
power.
The Supreme Court of California, in
n decision, declares the trust clause in
the will of the late Senator James G.
Fair invalid and the property will at
once be distributed among the chill
dren of the deceased senator. 1t is es-
timated that the estate Is worth up
wards of $20,OO0,O00.
The woman's suffrage amendment
was given its final death blow by the
| Iowa Legislature when the House by
a vote of SO to IS adopted the report
| of the committee recommending it for
| indefinite postponement. After it had
passed the Senate the suffragists be-
lieved the most serious obstacle had
been passed.
The legal officers who have been eN-
amining the question presented by the
| flight of Gaynor and Green from Sa-
vannah TO Canada have practically
reached the conclusion that they can
be reached under the eXtradition
treaty. A prolonged struggle in the
| Canadian courts is expected before the
| fugitives can he secured.
| One of the largest single orders for
/ horses ever given in the country has
| been closed with buyer at the South
st. Joseph horse and mule market The
contract calls for 1000 horses, to be
delivered at the rate of 500 per month
for twenty-four months. While the
contract includes many varieties of
animals, it is the general belief that
the greater part of them are for the
use of the British army in South
| Africa.
The President has decided to give
another nomination to ]. Fl. Devaux,