The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-09-09
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The Chicago public schools opened on
September 2nd with an aggregate of
275,0OO pupils.
Arrangements are being made to
either filter or boil all the water used
in the public school buildings of Chi
cago.
On Tuesday, September 2nd, Senator
Plat of New York predicted that the
anthracite coal strike would be settled
In two weeks.
In London August Both II. ). md A.
e. Ilsey beat the 1OO-mile unpaced tan
| dem road record for bicycles, covering
the distance in 4:36:29.
At Chicago, August 3Oth. A. A. Han
sen completed n ride of 63434 miles in
| 'twenty-four hours on n motor bicycle,
making worlds record.
Should the Pope life till 1903 he will
| celebrate his diamond jubilee as a
bishop. his golden jubilee as cardi-
| nal and his silver jubilee as n pope.
| w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., has aban-
doned automobiling, in which he holds
the worlds mile record, because of the
death of his brother-in-law, Charles L.
Fair.
A dispatch to the Central News of
London from Copenhagen says it is re-
ported that the Czarina has had a mis-
carriage but that her condition is not
alarming.
Registration for the new school year
in Greater New York began September
Sd. The total registration, new and
old, of the five boroughs is expected to
reach 100000.
A new comet of telescope size was
discovered by Professor Perrine of the
Lick observatory on the morning of
September LIST. 1t was in the constel-
1ation Perseus.
Thirteen men were shot and wounded
more or less seriously by Jerry Hunt
er, a seventy-year old ncgro whom they
were trying to arrest, in New York on
September 2nd.
The new coast defense monitor Wyo-
ming had her first trial trip at San
Francisco. August Both She developed
a speed of 81 knots, although designed
only for 10 knots.
In bicycle race on the Velodrom
track at Hartford. Connecticut, Septem-
bcr md. Henry Caldwell rode five miles
in seven minutes and twenty yseven sec
onds, which is the worlds record for
that distance.
At Peapack. New Jersey. August
the name of Smith sat down to dinner
on the first day of the annual reunion
of Smiths. These reunions have been
held since 1876.
Carlisle NJ. Graham swan from the
whirlpool below Niagara falls through
the lower rapids to Lewiston on the
afternoon of August 31st. He had
some narrow escapes, but came
through safe and sound.
Both branches of the Cuban congress
have pasesd resolutions ealing for the
release of all convicts now confined on
the island of Cuba who fought in the
Cuban army, says n Havana dispatch
to the New York Tribune.
An trade as recently agreed upon by
the Sultan of Turkey has been issued,
repeating the exceptional measures
adopted against the Armenians, If the
Armenian patriarch would guarantee
that no outbreak would follow.
1t is thought by some of the San
Francisco people who are interested in
the Marcus island deal that the Japan
csc cruiser which went to intercept
Captain Rosehills expedition from
Honolulu, went to the wrong island.
Forty per cent. of the entire crop of
cotton, or 4,156,oO0 bales. is retained
for American consumption this year,
and of this total northern mills will
take 100000 bales, while 1,S65.0OD
bales will be taken by southern mills.
The National Orange home at Hat
boro, twenty miles north of Philadel-
phia. has just been dedicated by
Orangemen. The new home is unde-
Eominational and will be open to all
orphan children of Protestant parent
age.
The revolutionary movement in favor
of Mohammed, brother of the Sultan of
Morocco. Moual Abdel Aziz, is spread
ing among the Berber tribes. Berbers
recently attacked the town of Mekine.
but the governor managed to pacify
the tribesmen.
Claus Spreckles, president of the
Federal Sugar Refining Company, and
his counsel recently arrived at Montre-
nj to organize n Canadian sugar REIN
ing company with a capital of S6,0OO.-
600. Papers for the Incorporation We're
signed and forwarded to Ottawa.
News recently arrived at Vancouver.
British Columbia, from Skagway, that
the government winter road from
White Horse to Dawson would be
completed about October 1st. The
course taken shortens the distance from
White Horse to Dawson by some sixty
miles as compared with the distance
traversed on the ice trails down the
Yukon river.
Expectation of an early challenge
from Great Britain for another inter
national yacht race for the Americas
sup has stirred up speculation in New
York yachting circles Much secrecy
surrounds the plans for the English
| challenger. and the intentions of the
| New York Yacht Club are shrouded in