The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-06-24
SHORT TELEGRAMs.

that General Gomez was bribed not to
run for the presidency of Cuba.
1t is announced at Madrid that the
Spanish government has decided to ap-
,oiDt minister to the Cuban Repub-
lie.
The government printers at Manila
have petitioned that their salaries shall
be paid in gold instead of Mexican sill
yer.
The official count of the vote in the
Oregon election shows that Chamber
lain, Democrat for governor has a ma
jority of 256.
Naval Constructor Hobson has been
given three months leave of absence
on account of eye trouble and is likely
to be retired.
Unprecedented cold weather for June
is reported from Germany and Aus
tria and cold rains are damaging crops
in many localities.
Alexander City, Ala, place of 1,5OO
inhabitants, was entirely destroyed by
fire on the 18th inst, the loss being es-
timated at S750,00O.
The Cuban Senate has approved the
bill fixing President Palma's salary
at $4,000 year, and that of Senor
| Estevez, the vice president, at $4,000.
The degree of doctor of Jurisprudence
will be conferred upon Grover Cleve-
land by the Augustinan College of st.
Thomas at villa Nova, Pennsylvania.
There is no truth in the statement
| published in the United States that an
anarchist plot to assassinate Emperor
Francis Joseph was discovered in vi
emma.
Two sharp earthquake shocks We're
| held at Newport, Ore, on the night of
| the 18th inst, one at s p. m. and an
| other at / a. m, but no damage is re-
ported.
BY recent agreement all disputes
| that may arise between the team own
ers and employees of Chicago and the
teamsters will be submitted to arbi-
tration.
The Prince of Wales held a unique
| coronation review on the Horse Guards
parade recently of 1900 boys gathered
| from all parts of the kingdom, belong
| ing to the boys brigade connected with
| the various churches.
A recent dispatch from Cape Town.
South Africa, says: Unprecedented
snowstorms have swept over the mid
lands. Trains are blockaded by n six
foot drift at Maauwpoort. The tele
graph wires are down.
Mary Custis Lee. daughter OF the
late General Robert L. Lee, was re-
| Gently arrested and mulcted in the sum
| of So for riding in the car set apart
for negroes ON the train between Wash
Ington and Alexandria.
The Manila Chamber of Commerce
| has presented to General Chaffee set
of resolutions expressing the regard
with which General Chafree and the
army in the Philippines are held by the
business men of Manila.
1t is said that John Wanamaker.
of Philadelphia, is trying to buy the
Palmer House property In Chicago with
a view to erecting n twenty-story build
ing and establishing the largest depart
ment store in the world.
Farms of Nevada on June l, 1900. ac-
cording to census bulletin on agricul
ture in that state. numbered 2.1S4, anG
We're valued at S15.615,71O. The gross
/ farm income in 1899 was 50. 49, 167 and
the gross income on investment IS per
cent.
The tax reformers of Pennsylvania
have organized Il tax reform league
and have started propaganda work to
secure an amendment to the state con-
stltution along the lines of the Austria
| lasian tax amendment soon to be voted
on in Colorado.
New York to Chicago in nineteen
| hours ard fifty-seven minutes-that is
the record time made by the new fast
trains put into service by the Lake
| Shore and Pennsylvania railroads June
18th. The twenty-hour schedules over
both were more than equaled.
The Democratic convention in ILL
nois adopted platform that hedges on
the silver question. The resolutions
deplore the death of William McKin-
| ley. our 'much-loved. mourned Pres-
dent" and of John +. Altgeld, who
died fighting for human freedom"
Prince Henry of Prussia has made
glad the hearts of Mr.. and Mrs Chris
topher Blum of New York by consent
ing to act as godfather by proxy of
their twins, who We're born the day
Emperor Williams yacht was
launched and named William and
! Henry.
According to a census bureau report
just issued on the agriculture of the In.
dian Territory, 45,oO5 farms were
enumerated there on June /, 1900, and
We're valued at S46.S63, 40. The gross
farm income in 1899 was S23, 237 992.
and the gross income on investment %
| per cent.
In the course of a recent lecture be-
fore the Royal Institution of Great
Britain, William Marconi announced
that he had invented a highly sensitive
magnetic detecter of electric waves, by
which it was possible to read about
thirty words per minute iR wireless
telegraphy.
1t is suggested in Paris that. in order
to commemorate the sympathy shown
by President Roosevelt and the United
States in the recent Martinique catas-
named Rue de President Roosevelt
| nlate helnc nfiiXed at ench end of The