The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-10-14
SHORT TELEGRAMs.

to the union for women students of St.
Andrews University, of which institu
ton he is rector.
The Peru chamber of deputies has
confirmed the grant of $4,000 already
sanctioned by the Senate, provided for
the representation of Peru at the st.
Louis exposition.
The Multonomah, Oregon, Typo
graphical Union has levied an assess
ment of five per cent on all members
for the benefit of the striking coal min
ers of Pennsylvania.
William D. Huber of Philadelphia
was reelected president of the United
brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
of the United States and Canada at
the Atlanta meeting.
Tolstois home at Yasnaia Poliana,
in the government of Toula, had mar
row escape from being totally de-
stroyed by fire September 23d. The
upper part of the house was de-
stroyed
After having made exhaustive trials
of American and British built locomo-
tives on the government railways,
the New Zealand officials report that
the best results have been achieved
with the former
A dispatch from Odessa, Russia,
says that the failure of the great met
allurgical works of Kurtsch for S9,-
100000 has caused fiutter on the
stock markets, and has resulted in
making idle 5000 men.
A regular steamship line will soon be
inaugurated between Pensacola and
South Africa, the vessels sailing BIZ
monthly. 1t is said the main object of
the line will be the transportation OF
live stock for the Boer farms.
The initial surveys for a proposed
new ditch. to supply the plantations
in the center of the island of Maui,
Hawaii, with water from Nahil<u, have
been commenced. The new ditch will
be forty-five miles in length.
Efforts are being made to form a
100000 combination of manurac-
turers and sellers of patented railway
supplies. The proposed company is
to include the manufacturers of car
roofs, springs, doors, brake shoes and
beams.
A telegram from st. Johns, N F.,
of October 7th, says the whole coast
of Labrador has been swept by fear
full gale. Eighteen fishing vessels were
driven ashore and wrecked. One steam
er brought in 139 shipwrecked fisher
men.
The Philippine insular government
has appropriated $4,000 to fight chol-
era in the province of Iloilo, Panay.
Although the number of cholera cases
in this province has decreased. there
is still an average of thousand cases
a day.
John B. Goodwin. grand secretary OF
the Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows, has announced the appointment
of Maj. Gen. NJ. ]. Rainey, department.
commander of Iowa. to be commander
of the Patriarchs Militant throughout
the world.
At Minneapolis, October I'd, Judge
Brooks sentenced former Superintend-
ent of Police Frederick w. Ames to
six years and half in the penitenti-
ary for accepting a bribe. A stay OF
fifty days in which to move for a new
trial was granted.
A new line of freight steamers will
be put on the route connecting San
Francisco with New York by the Luck
enbachs, of New York, well known in
shipping circles on the Atlantic coast.
The line will give its whole attention
to the freight business.
Hawaii to the United States during the
past two fiscal years is as follows:
July /, 1900, to June 80, 1901, 690,S77,-
934 pounds; July 1, 1901, to June 80,
1902. 720.553.337 pounds. valued at
$23,520,1 ,113.
A charter has been granted to the
Tennessee, Georgia & South Carolina
Railroad Company to build and operate
a line from Blue Ridge, Georgia, to
Charleston, Tennessee, a distance of
200 miles. The road will be branch
Of the Louisville & Nashville.
The Japanese government within the
next six years will build four battle
ships, six first-class cruisers and va
rious lesser craft, at a cost OF $10,-
900 annually for the six years. The
battleships are to be built in England,
and the cruisers in England, France
and Germany.
Preliminary steps have been taken
for the organization of the Episcopal
church of an order of Paulist fathers,
to consist of priests and deacons in
that church who shall pledge them
selves to the work of missionaries
while earning their livelihood by sec
ular work, without receiving any COM
pensation for their ministrations.
The governments $5,000,000 appro-
priation will soon become available to
the st. Louis Exposition Company
The city of st. Louis has deposited all
of its $5,000,000 and subscribers to the
$5,000000 of exposition company stock
are paying their obligations so rapid
ly that all of the s15,000,000 will soon
be in the treasury of the company.
Membefs of the board of govern
-ment of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America, at a recent meet
ing in New York. mapped out cam
paign in the interests of temperance.
1t was agreed to cut up the national
union into six districts, comprising
almost every state in the Union, with