The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-27
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

May nth.
The Sultan of Turkey has contrib
uted 10000 francs to the Martinique
relief fund.
King Edward has sent 2J,O00 francs
as his contribution TO the fund being
raised for the relief of the sufferers
from the Martinique disaster.
1t is estimated that ut least 10000
strikers will take advantage of the tie
up in the anthracite coal region for Il
trip to their old homes in Europe.
Lord Pauncefotes health has com
PEELED him to ask the British Cabinet
to accept his immediate resignation
as ambassador TO the United States.
The Mexican government is investi-
eating the system of apprenticing chill
dren kidnapped from Yucatan province
and some fifty of the cases have been
examined.
A bomb was recently found in the
compartment of Emperor Francis JOS
eph of Austria as he was about to
take the night train from Vienna to
Budapest.
Final appraisement of the estate left
by Jacob $. Rogers, the locomotive
builder, shows that, as its legacy, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art will get
5,547, 300.
H. Clay Pierce of St Louis has pur-
chased the King of Portugal's steam
yacht, Amelia, formerly the Yacona.
The yacht will be refitted and brought
over at once.
Chicago now has population of q,
$4,000, according to the latest city di-
rectory which has just issued from the
press. This is an increase of 10000
over last year.
The corner stone for the new dormi-
tory of the Baron de Hirsch Agricul-
tural School at the Jewish colony at
Woodbine, near Cape May, New Jer-
sey. has just been laid.
in Mobile, Alabama, the City Coun-
ell has adopted an ordinance and
made an appropriation for the exter-
mination of the mosquito by the use
of kerosene and paraffine oil.
Earthquakes are reported from the
southern part of Portugal. but no IA
talities occurred. The disturbances
are supposed to be connected with the
upheavals in the West Indies.
Bishop William Taylor, perhaps the
greatest of all missionary bishops
from the Methodist Church. died at
Palo Alto, California, May 10Th, after
a long illness, at the age of eighty-one
years.
Several agricultural societies. coop
Grating with the Prussian ministry of
agriculture, have offered prize of 30
600 marks for process of drying po-
tatoes so that they can be successfully
stored for years.
The attendance at the baseball
in,
was 30,O1S. the American League re-
porting 15,41S and the National Ia, 600.
Pretty good attendance for n played
out national pastime.
Exaggerated statements of the need
of Kansas for harvest hands, recent
ly published, having caused flood
of letters on the subject, 7. B. Gerow,
state employment agent, authorizes n
denial of the statement.
The United States attorney for Ok
lahoma has received information from
the commissioner of Indian affairs that
;he 1000 allotted Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe Indians in Oklahoma are declared
to be United States citizens.
President Roosevelt is expected to
visit Harvard College during com
week and he will also be
national League of Peace Clubs in Bos-
ION during the last week in June.
\ coroner's jury which inquired into
the deaths of Paul Leicester Ford, the
author, and Malcolm w. Ford, his
brother, the noted athlete, returned n
verdict that Malcolm was temporarily
insane NJ the time of the tragedy.
Mr.. Wennerstrum, n commissioner
n | ENnnGitinn nj a
canvass of the situation in Christiana,
has expressed great satisfaction with
the plans and prospects for Scandi-
navian participation in the exposition.
Details for the plan of the consolida-
tion of the kodak enterprises have been
made public. The aggregate cash
value of all these enterprises is esti-
mated at S20000.OOO, and capital stock
of the consolidated corporation is $780,
100000.
A county election contest at Galway
led to series of severe fights there
Lord Norris of Killarney personally
led his supporters against his Nation
alist opponents. A dozen men We're
wounded, some of them sustaining Sc
rious injuries.
Advices from Alaska say that Cap
tain Richardson, sent forth by the
United States government to investi-
gate a report that Canadian surveyors
had removed an old Russian boundary
mound, is satisfied that the report was
without foundations.
General Indignation is felt in Saliva
dor over the award of the arbitration
commission in Washington, which
compels the government of Salvador
to pay more than S5OOO0o to satisfy
the claims of American citizens in the
port of FL Triunfo matter
President Roosevelt, Emperor Will
lam and the Car have telegraphed to
President Loubet expressing their sin
cere sympathy with France in the sor-
row caused by the terrible West In
dim cataStrnnhe ALI three nrn com