The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-08-19
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leper colony has been established
ON the island of Guam.
A severe frost is reported in north
western Iowa. Near Sibley the dam
age to corn has been considerable.
A fire at Silver City, Utah, August
Sth, destroyed eight buildings in the
heart of the town, involving a loss of
$23,000. '
President Roosevelt sent an encour-
aging letter to the Negro Young Peo-
pies Christian Education Congress at
Atlanta.
The mortality from accidents 10 rail
way employees was reduced thirty-fi five
per cent. last year by improved coup
ling devices.
President David Starr Jordan of
Stanford University has found 453 dis
tinct varieties of fish in the bay OF
Apia. Samoa.
Calcutta is to be improved by driv-
ing wide, open thoroughfares through
the slums of the city, at n cost of
nearly $1O,O0O,0C0.
The remains of Harry Tracy, the
outlaw, have ben received at the Sa-
lem, Oregon, penitentiary, and uuried
in the prison cemetery.
NJ. A Werner of Pittsburg, Pennsyl-
vania, has received n concession to
build an extensive electric railway
system in st. Petersburg.
General Alger is being urged for the
appointment to the vacancy in the
Senate caused by the demise of Sena-
tor Mcmillan of Michigan.
The price of the Philadelphia Press
has been reduced to / cent copy.
with the exception of the Sunday edi-
ton, which remains at 4 cents.
Clara Barton, president of the Amer
lean Red Cross, who attended the In
ternatlonal Red Cross at st. Peters
burg last May, recently arrived at New
York from Hamburg.
France has secured the patent rights
of a new nitroglycerln powder which
1t is contended will send rifle bullet
seven and one-half miles and increase
the artillery range eighteen miles.
The American Book Company, which
was denied the right to do bushes in
Kansas by decision of the Kansas
Supreme Court, has appealed to the
Supreme Court of the United States.
President Roosevelt will receive the
honorary degree of LII. ID. from the
University of Chicago during his visit
to Chicago in the fall. October Sd has
been fixed as the date of the ceremony.
When a bridge fell the other day at
Stockholm, precipitating a crowd of
women and children into the water,
King Oscar of Sweden threw Off his
coat and actively assisted in the res
cue.
In n recent speech at ChautauQua,
New York, Congressman Grosvenor of
Ohio declared that we ought to have
annexed Cuba. He strongly defended
the course of the government in the
Philippines.
a race for the amateur mile swim
ming championship of England, con-
tested at-Norwood Park lane on Aug
ust 9th, was won by Cavill, an Aus
tralian. His time was IL 80 2-5, ere
ating new record for the distance.
Premier Balfour has announced the
appointment of the following commit
tee of inquiry into the conduct of the
Boer war: The Earl of Elgin, chair
man; Sir Henry Norman, Sir John Hop
kins, Lord Esher and Sir John Edge.
At meeting in London of the share
holders of Bryant Il May, makers of
matches, it was agreed to issue 1880
600 debenture bonds for the purpose
of purchasing, in conjunction with the
Diamond Match Company, a large tract
of pine land in California.
The Giorhale de Italie of Rome re-
Gently published an interview with the
son of former Secretary Reitz of the
Transvaal, who has arrived at Naples.
In this interview Mr.. Reitz declared
that war in the Transvaal would re-
commence few years hence.
a letter has been received from John
Rice Chandler, Worlds Fair commits
sioner to Central America. saying that
Nicaragua will take the utmost advan-
tage of the postponement to 1904 to
make n more extensive and complete
exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
By deal just consummated in the
East, the street car lines of Council
Bluffs, as well as the Intercity line. the
Lake Manawa lines and the East Oma-
ha line, with kindred interests, will
shortly pass under the control of the
Omaha Street Railway Company.
The various oyster canning and pack
ing companies in Mississippi, Louis
lana and Alabama, ten in number, it
is said, will combine under one head,
with IL capital of $2,OOO,O0O. 1t will
control all the business of the three
states along the fish and canning lines
President Curran presided at Leices.
ter at the recent annual meeting OF the
British Trades Unions Federation. He
urged an understanding between the
workers of Europe and America to
meet the effects of international capi
talism. The membership of the feder
alton was reported at 100000.
General Jacob Smith. whose "kiIl
and burn" order aroused so much in
dignation, was given a great ovation
on his return to his home at Ports
mouth, Ohio, few days ago. He will
make out a report of tile Samar cam.
paign and forward it to the War De-
partment.