The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-04-01
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

tion Company's lines.
Forty turkish battalions have been
mobiliZed for service in Albania, where
there is a reign of anarchy.
The Transmississippi Commercial
Congress will meet at St Paul, Mime
sofa, on August 10Th, 10th, 21st and
22nd.
Hereafter dynamo cars will be run
on Union Pacific through trains to fur
nish light for the trains and for the
headlight.
President Roosevelt has accepted the
invitation to deliver the memorial ad-
dress at the National cemetery at Ar
lington May 30th.
1t is reported from Salonica that the
Turkish authorities have arrested Pas
tor Tsilka on suspicion of completely
in the abduction of Miss Stone.
The British, German and French
steamship lines have reached an agree
ment regarding saloon passenger rates
and these rates will be slightly ad-
vanced.
A compulsory Industrial arbitration
court has been established in New
! South Wales. The membership in
cludes representatives of employers
and employees.
Germany will send n commission to
the United States to study the cultiva-
ton of cotton with the view to the
establishment of experimental stations
in German East Africa on American
lines.
Ping pong suddenly has become al
most as great craze in New York
City as it has in London. \ good ping
pong set % said to be hard to buy, be-
cause the demand is far ahead of the
supply.
Queen Wilhelmina's annual visit to
Amsterdam has been abandoned and
while the general health of her majes-
ty is satisfactory, her physicians are of
the opinion that all serious fatigues
ought to be avoided.
Joseph Zane, n pauper, has left the
almshouse for Boston to secure his
share in the estate of his uncle in Bal
timore, Maryland. The estate is val
ued at 100000 the former pauper's
share is estimated at 100000.
The Episcopalians of the territory of
Hawaii come under the Jurisdiction of
the Episcopal church of America after
April LIST. They will no longer be
under the Church of England, and
Lord Bishop Alfred Willis will retire.
In damage suit the United States
Court of Appeals at st. Louis has de-
cided that a railway fireman and
telegraph operator on the same road
are not fellow servants" in the sense
In which the term is used in the stat
tues.
a dispatch TO the Exchange Tele-
gram Company from Lahore says the
plague mortality has reached 1000
daily. The outbreak, which is the
worst on record. is attributed to the
policy of non-interference in caste Gus
toms.
The whole of Hayti is disturbed, ow-
ing to the bad political situation. The
government is making numerous ar
rests, principally in Jacmel, where 1t
is feared revolutionary outbreak is
imminent.
The first statue to the late President
Mckinley has just beeen delivered in
the plaster to "A foundry at Providence,
Rhode Island. where ii VIII be east in
broze at once and be ready to be un-
yelled ut Muskegon, Michigan, ON
Memorial Day.
George Smith of s.. Louis, adopted
son of George Smith. founder of the
Smith academy, by his will, filed for
probate last week, left S450,OOO, The
bulk of his estate, to Harvard Jniver-
sity. The money Is to be used In build
ing three dormitories.
Mayor Low OF New York has signed
the bill authorizing the Pennsylvania
railroad 10 construct n tunnel under
the North river and to. build two rail-
road stations in the borough OF Man
haitian. The bill now goes to the gov
ernor for final action.
Secretary Hay has been notified that
owing TO the protests of United States
Minister Hart ut Bogota and our con-
suls on the isthmus, the order looking
TO the censorship by the Colombian
government of official dispatches of
consuls has been vacated.
General Greedy has invited bids for
supplying a system of wireless telegra-
ply between Nome City and St. Mich
ael, Alaska, 104 miles across the sound.
Bidders must prove the capacity of
their apparatus by sixty-mlle tests
along the Atlantic coast.
\ record breaking sale of postage
stamps is reported by the Chicago post
office. The sale was 1,OOO,OOO stamps,
for which the purchaser gave a check
for $4,000. In one package were 3OO,-
900 4-cent stamps an in the other the
same number of 1-cent stamps.
Temperance people of Topeka, Kan
sas, are seriously considering making
the Rev g. A. Sheldon, author of In
His Steps," their candidate for mayor.
Mr.. Sheldon says he would be averse
to giving up his church work, but does
not refuse to become Il candidate.
King Edwards birthday is in No
vember, Il period of the year very up
suitable for such brilliant military
function as the trooping of the colors,
and the announcement that the day is
to be officially celebrated this year on
May 3Uth gives much satisfaction in
London.
The neUsDapers at Vienna report a