The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-18
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

4NatlOlil SOuSTtSS Will Dt
held ut Macon, Georgia. October 18th,
Sth 9th and 10th.
Prince Henry of Prussia sailed for
Germany on board the Hamburg
American liner Deutschland on Tues
day.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of
President Roosevelt, accompanied by
party of friends, including Senator
Thomas 9. Platt, arrived in Havana
Wednesday.
John Lawson, known in bicycle cir
cles throughout the country as the
Terrible Swede," was taken TO Il hos
pital in Milwaukee, having beel-
stricken with pneumonia.
The Capetown correspondent of the
London Standard cables that the
breathing of Cecil Rhodes is most
difficult and labored, and that all the
dangerous symptoms remain.
Brigadier General David S. Stanley,
U. S. A, retired who rendered gallant
and distinguished services in the war
of the Rebellion, is lying dangerously
i'll at his home in Washington.
The jury in the case of William
Brooks, charged with the murder ef
James Roberts in the Dawson Club sa-
LOOM Cripple Greek, on Christmas
morning, returned Il verdict of not
guilty.
Premier Sagasta announces the def
mite resignation of Senor UrZaiZ, the
minister of finance. The Spanish cabi-
net meets tomorrow, when new heads
of the ministry of finance and the in
terror will be appointed.
Sarah Jane PETER, wife of ex-Sen-
ator w. A. PETER of Kansas, died in
| W II ~ 81, dor nf
her daughter, Mrs. n. J. McIlhenny
Mrs. PETER. who was seventy years Of
age, suffered an attack Of paralysis in
January.
Two natural gas explosions at Peru,
Ind, wrecked two buildings and in
jured six people. Frank hiley, Sr., is
supposed to be fatally injured. Others
injured are Frank kiley, Jr., James
and Bridget Kiley, Mrs. John Hayes
and baby.
The Baroness de Roques denies all
the reports that her daughter, Mrs.
Florence Maybrick, will be included in
the coronation amnesty, saying: Il
have not received information Of any
sort relating TO Mrs. Maybrick's possi-
BILE release"
A cyclone swept through the south
ern section of Coplah and the north
ern section of Lincoln counties, Missis-
sippi, killing at least seven persons and
leveling buildings, trees and fences.
Montgomery, village in Copiah coun-
ty, was almost wrecked.
Bishop Henry c. Potter was the sub
ject of special prayers by the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union of
| Newark, New Jersey. That Bishop
Potter may see the temperance and
| rnastinn N ~ different
light was the burden of supplications
in his behalf.
George E. Bateman. hack driver.
was awarded $44G by "A jury in the
| District Court as Il commission for
| having secured for j. q. Hiesland, n
| Manitou curio dealer. n purchaser for
valuable mineral collection. Bate
man "steercd" the purchaser to HE
stands store.
| Fire which originated in the kitchen
| of the residence of Arthur Bouchard,
| Matane, Quebec, caused the death of
Mrs. Bouchard and nine children.
Bouchard jumped from an upper story
window and was about to be followed
by his wife. but she failed in her at
tempt and perished.
At the quarterly meeting of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
| General Thomas I. Eckert was elected
chairman of the board of directors and
Colonel X. c. Clowry, now vice presi-
| dent and general superintendent of the
western division at Chicago, was elect
ed president and general manager of
the company.
A $4,000 city hall building will be
erected at Canon City this summer
The contract has already been award
ed to S. a. Van Buskirk, local con-
tractor. Work upon the building will
| commence as soon as the site, which
is now occupied by n small frame
building used for public school pur-
poses, can be cleared.
A meeting of the creditors of the
late Archbishop Purcell was held, Ia
| which resolutions We're adopted asking
| for the discharge of the receivers and
appealing to Rome for special collec-
tions throughout the United States to
| wipe out the Indebtedness, of which
there is a balance of about $6O0O,OO0
including the accumulated interest of
many years
The biggest blaze seen in Paris since
the burning of the Opera ComiGue in
1897 broke ont Monday in block of
warehouses in the Rue Montmartre.
The warehouses were partially filed
with silk, velvet and woolen goods.
| These materials caused the fire to rage
furiously and the flames spread rapidly
TO the upper portions of the buildings,
| which were used as residences. Loss,
S250,00O.
George Z. Murray pleaded guilty in
Chicago to IL conspiracy to keep a fu-
| gitive from justice out of the state
and was fined $500 and costs. Murray
was indicted with Alexander Sullivan
and others for conspiring TO keep out
of the state former Bailiff James j.
Lynch. under Indictment for jury
bribing in the personal injury cases
against the West Chicago Street Rail