The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-11-25
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

boNeIHoI ldteS Vi lllluOlS has Deeu
dangerously sick. but is now GONZALES
cent.
1t is suggested that President Loubet
of France visit the st. Louis EXPOSE
tion in 1903.
Joseph Chamberlain has started on
a. trip to South Africa to investigate
conditions there.
| The amount allowed by the Ameri-
can claims commission, which recently
| finished its work. is 81, ,6S3 900, and the
sum disallowed is s1.S04,00
Robbers cracked the safe in the
Farmers Loan and Trust Company's
Bank at Arthur. Iowa, and secured $2,-
300 in cash. There is no clue
Eighteen Egyptians were killed and
many injured at Cairo as the result OF
an explosion of nitro-glycerine in
magazine situated near the citadel.
The bodies of several men have been
found near spring in southern Ne
vada, and an analysis of the water
showed it to be charged with arsenic.
The Philadelphia & Reading rail-
way has announced an advance in
wages of employees in all departments,
effective from November 1st. The in
crease will be equivalent to about ten
per cent.
A call has been issued for general
meeting of the distillers of the coun-
try at Louisville on November 25th, to
discuss the feasibility of organizing
mutual fire company to write whisky
risks exclusively.
DIR. C. r. Bourcart. Swiss minister
| at London, persisting in his refusal to
go to Washington, the Bundesrath Of
former president of the confederation,
but NJ. Frey declined.
Plans have been submitted to the
French minister of the interior for the
construction of an electric railroad to
the summit of Mount Blanc from the
village of Les Houches. on the Savoy
side of the mountains.
General Tasker Bliss, an expert on
tariff matters, has been sent to Cuba
| to investigate conditions there in re-
gard to their bearing upon the pend
ing commercial treaty between Cuba
and the United States.
Thieves have broken into the un-
derground strong rooms of the bank
ing firm of Pelurinho at Lisbon and
have stolen S165, 900. One of the
clerks of the bank has been arrested
in connection with the robbery.
The cholera epidemic is spreading
rapidly in Palestine. The populations
of GAIA and LYDIA Uudd) have been
decimated, and the authorities are TAX
ing flight. At Jaffa there have been
| fifty-seven deaths in three days.
Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the cele-
brated Wesleyan preacher, died sud-
denly in London on the 18th. Mr..
Hughes was one of the leading spirits
of the social purity movement and
Anti-Gambling League in England.
The St Petersburg correspondent
of the Mail telegraphs that fire last
ing three days has destroyed the town
of Resht. in Persia. Fifteen hundred
houses and many warehouses were
wiped out. and 200 persons perished.
Two bandits held up gambling den
at Columbia Heights. near Minneap-
oils, Wednesday night. and secured
81 943 from the score of players and
the proprietors. Harvey Howard. a
negro porter. was shot by the robbers.
Differences have arisen between the
state department and the Colombian
government which may delay an
agreement on the terms of a canal
treaty beyond the time in which it
treaty.
Royal assent was given to all the
bills relating to Charles I. Yerkes'
tube" railroad plans for London. The
bills providing for the construction of
the roads cover an aggregate of 100
miles of underground and surface
tracks.
The movement among the students
of the German universities against pis-
tol duels is gaining ground. Meetings
of students at Tuebingen and Bonuk
have petitioned lie minister of war to
forbid pistol duels except in the grav-
est cases.
One man was killed and a dozen
men, women and children more or less
seriously injured in a collision be-
tween a Western avenue electric train
and a Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
freight train at the Eighteenth street
crossing, Chicago.
The homecoming of Gen. Luke e.
Wright. after a three-years' absence in
the Philippines. was made memorable
Tuesday night by the citizens of Mem
phis. Cannons doomed a salute of sew
enteen guns. bonfires were lighted on
the principal thoroughfares and the
streets were lined with people who
shouted an enthusiastic welcome to
the vice governor.
Queen Helena gave birth to a daugh-
ter on the 10Th. The mother and child
are announced to be doing well. The
new princess will be named "Mafaloa"
The child born to the King and Queen
of Italy is the second daughter, the
first, Princess Yolande Margherita,
having been born in Rome on June l,
1901. The birth of another princess in
stead of an heir to the throne is great
public disappointment.
The Cuban House of Representatives