The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-04-15
5HORT TELeGRAMS.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Panama April 9th.

Texas is about TO erect large NH
for the manufacture of cane sugar by
convicts.
Topeka has been chosen as the place
for the Populist state convention to
meet ON June oath.
A new soldiers and sailors monu-
ment at Riverside park, New YORK,
will be dedicated on Memorial Day
British employers are advocating a
revival of apprenticeship as method
of increasing the supply of skilled la
Dor.
Automobiles which have fiange out
side a pneumatic tire, are being used
for scouting on the Tl.nsvaal rail-
ways.
Careful computation made at Preto-
ria gives the strength of the scat
tered Boer commandos at between
5000 and 5000 men.
The shah of Persia will visit Berlin
in May and will pay his respects to
Emperor William. The Shah is going
to Contrexeville, France.
st. Johns military school at Manlius,
ten miles east of Saratoga, New YORK,
was destroyed by fire on the night of
the Sth. Loss estimated at SlOO'Ooo.
A serious and organized rebellion is
reported among the Servian inhabi-
tants of the northern villages of Tur-
key. Several encounters have taken
place.
Colonel John Mckee, the wealthiest
colored man in Philadelphia, if not in
the country. died on the Sth instant.
His estate is estimated at about ST.
100000.
According to a decision made by the
Supreme Court of Kansas, express
agents may deliver liquor in g. o. d.
packages without violating the prohib-
itOry law.
At a recent meeting in Chicago the
Western Stove Manufacturers Associa-
tion decided to raise the price OF stoves
five per cent. The association reports
forty different concerns.
News comes from Australia that the
French have annexed the island OF
Rimitara. one of the T'ubual group, in
the South seas. The entire group is
now under French control.
Three missing tourists of the party of
four who recently attempted TO ascend
the Rax Alps, in lower Austria, have
been discovered. half frozen, but alive.
The fourth had been found dead.
Twenty-eight members of the fresh
men and sophomore classes of the Uni
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pended for thirty days for participating
in the recent contest over class colors,
Hudda Mullah. the fanatic who has
in the past endeavored to embr0il
Great Britain and Afghanistan. has
started for Cabul. the capital of At
ghanstan, with 1000 armed followers.
In 1882 Henry V. Lucas fell heir to
100000 a few days ago he took
advantage of the bankruptcy act in
Chicago and cleared himself of an in
debtedness of $4,000 that he could not
pay.
Twenty-cight Russian carriage horses
of the Orloff breed have just been
brought to New York. This is said to
be the first Importation Of Russian
heavy harness horses ever seen in
the United States.
Judge William Il. Day, president of
the Mckinley National Memorial As
sociation, has made n request that all
contributions to the memorial fund be
forwarded to Myron T. Herrick, treas
urer, ut Cleveland.
The President has directed that more
than seventy townships in northern
Montana be withdrawn from public en-
try for use in the big irrigation scheme
known as the st. Mary's canal and
MIX river PROJECT.
An experimental plant, to cost sever
al millions of dollars, is TO be built mt
the BethlehenJ Steel Company's works
| for the manufacture of car wheels
| from pressed steel Work on the ma
chinery has begun.
Great preparations are being made
at GainsbOrough, Lincolnshire, for the
celebration of the tercentenary of
I.I. IpnlninGpn ghurph which is
noted for its association with the early
| history of the pilgrim fathers.
The gunboat Marietta, which has
been keeping watch over American in
terests at Colombia. sailed Sunday for
New York. The cruiser Philadelphia
still remains at Panama, on the Pa
cific side, 20 await developments.
Major O. l.. Pruden, assistant secre-
tary to the President, has been remov-
ed to Garfield hospital. in Washington,
for treatment for organic heart trouble.
lie is in a dangerous condition, and 1t
is believed cannot survive very long.
At a meeting of the board of gov
ernors of the Automobile Club of
America. Charles NJ. Schwab, presi-
dent of the United States Steel Cor
poration, was elected n member. Mr..
Schwab is an enthusiastic AUTOMOBILE
list.
All the employees in the Santa Fe gem
eral offices ut Topeka have been order
ed to stop work because the office
building is in imminent danger of col
lapse, and the departments will remain
closed until the defects can be
| remedied.
| Epes Sargent, a civil war correspond
| ent who rendered valuable service to
| the northern side during the Civil War,
| and who later filed many positions in
the government employ at Washing