The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20
SHORT TELEGRAMs.

from her late dangerous illness.
Heavy rains have fallen recently in
the Kansas wheat belt
There was n heavy snow storm at
Saranac lake. New York, on May 9Th.
There is serious talk of removing
Andover Theological Seminary from
Massachusetts to Chicago.
Andrew Carnegie, who sailed from
New York April 3Oth on the steamer
st. Louis arrived in London May Sth.
1t is stated that Bret Harte left suf-
ficient literary material for the publ
cation of new volume of condensed
novels.
President Loubet of France gave
20,0O0 francs to the fund for the relief
of the sufferers from the Martinique
disaster.
British scientific societies will send
an expedition to Martinique to inves-
tgate the causes, character and physi-
cal results of the eruption.
King Victor Emmanuel has contrib
uted $4,000 lire to the fund being
raised for the relief of the sufferers
from the Martinique disaster.
1t is reported that President Roose-
welt may spend n part of his next sum
er's vacation in a hunting trip in the
The Liverpool journal of Commerce
asserts positively that j. p. Morgan
has arrived at some arrangement with
the Manchester Ship Canal Company.
Serious riots have occurred in several
French cities because Barnum X Bal
ley's circus tents are not large enough
to accommodate the crowds that seek
admission.
Anrnrlinar u fpl m
by the japanese authorities, the Rus
sian Pacific squadron will be rein
forced during the present year by
eleven ships.
1t is expected that Sir Thomas Lip
ton Will receive Il peerage in recogni-
tion of his work in connection with
the Kings dinner to 100000 poor on
coronation day.
The five-masted ship Prussein, said
to be the largest sailing vessel in the
world, was launched recently at n
German port. She is of 5000 tons
dead weight capacity.
The intercollegiate strength test Mt
Cambridge was won by Harvard with
a total of T4,596.1 points; Columbia sec
ond, T2,64S.1; University of Minnesota
third, 66,S13.2; Amherst fourth, 55,-
BOIL
The death has just occurred near
Southend, England, of Alfred Mat
thews, aged rs. naval veteran. who
was present throughout the siege of
Sebastopol, and fired the first gun in
the siege
The United States Steel Corporation
will expend SGOOO0,O0O in making inn
provements to its present holdings, and
instead of building one large tube mill
in the vicinity of Pittsburg, three will
be erected.
King Edward has intimated his de-
sire to the lord mayor of London that
the coronation offerings of the citizens
of London should take the form of Il
substantial addition to the Kings hos
pital funds.
The northeastern cell block of the
state reformatory at Pontiac, Illinois.
was destroyed by fire May Sth. entail
ing u loss of 100000. The inmates
We're removed to another section of
the building.
1t is rumored in London that Will
liam Waldorf Astor will be made Il
peer in June. OF late Mr. Astors gifts
to scientific, educational and patriotic
institutions in Great Britain have been
large and numerous.
The Munising Paper Company. limit
ed which has just been organized with
a capital of S1.OOO,O0O. Will build the
largest pulp and paper mills in the
United States at Munising, Michigan,
in the upper peninsula.
The American forces in the province
of Batangas, in southern LuZon, have
been concentrated at several towns in
the province. This action is taken be
cause armed insurgent resistance in
the province has ceased
The Kansas and Oklahoma Millers'
Association have initiated movement
to purchase three coasting steamers to
carry their products-4,OO0 barrels of
flour per day-to Cuba and the eastern
seaboard from Galveston.
AT the meeting of the Police Chiefs
Association of the United States and
Canada, held in Louisville. May 9th,
Richard Sylvester of Washington was
chosen president and New orleans Sc
lected for the next place Of meeting.
The case Sgainst Mrs. Carrie Nation
for joint smashing came to trial in the
District Court mt Topeka. May 18th.
and was dismissed on techncality
Mrs. Nation has one more trial 10 face
resulting from her raids of more than
Il year ago.
The government of the Netherlands
has ordered the Dutch warship Kon-
ingen Regentes to proceed from Cura-
Goa, Dutch West Indies, to the island
of Martinique, mt full speed, in order
TO assist the sufferers in the Mont Pc
lee outbreak.
The Spanish Cortes has just ap-
proved the new railroad project under
Which it is proposed to construct about
3,1O0 miles of narrow gauge railroad
at IA total cost of $50,OOO,O00, the state
guaranteeing four per cent. interest on
the capital required.