The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-08-12
SHORT TELEGRAMS. S.

in central Portugal on the 9th instant
A fire at Washington. Louisiana, Au-
gust 9th, destroyed thirty-hye build
ings.
Experiments are being made in the
manufacture of paper from sugar cane
chaff.
Andrew Carnegie, who bought the ia
nous library belonging to John Acton,
has presented it to John Morley.
The Italian government has ordered
that the Marconi wireless telegraph APP
paratus be established ON all warships.
The average condition of cotton as
shown by the monthly cotton report is
sued by the Agricultural Department is
S1.9.
Capt. w A. Phillips of the Tenth in
fantry has been appointed governor Of
the island of Paragua, in the Philip
pines.
The Columbia Southern Railway
Company of Oregon has given orders
to haze all engines equipped for burn
ing oil.
John Dillon, William Redmond. Mich
ael Davitt, Timothy Healy and other
Irish leaders will come to America Sep
tember 18th.
King Victor Emmanuel has contrib
uted 100000 lire TO the restoration of
the Campanille of st. Marks, which
collapsed July 14th.
The London Mail says that one of the
great portions of st. Pau"s cathedral
threatens to collapse unless thorough
repairs are undertaken.
Ex-senator Don Cameron, of Penn
sylvania, was thrown from a carriage
and severely injured at Inverlochy cas-
tie in Scotland August 4th.
There were earthquake shocks at
Genoa and Pisa in Italy August 9TH,
accompanied by subterannean rum
blings. No damage was done.
The Prussian government has or
dered ambulance cars installed on all
Prussian railways in order to provide
for quick relief in case of wreck.
Japan is re-arming her army, cables
the st. Petersburg correspondent of
the London Daily Mail. with n new
rifle, and selling the old rifles TO China.
DIR. William NJ. Beardshear. presi-
dent of Iowa State College at Ames,
Iowa. and former president of the Ma
tional Educational Association, died
August 9th.
Captain McCrea of the gunboat Ma
chlas has telegraphed from Cape Hay
tien that the insurrection in Hayu is
practically over and the authority of
the government secure.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Company has secured possession OF the
lesson tract OF fifty acres, lying con-
tiguous to the fair site, on terms salts
factory to all concerned
Rudyard Kipling, who has been
much annoyed by the visits of Brighton
eNcursionists TO his house at Rotting
dean, has purchased n new country
place near Tunbridge Wells.
The historic building in Frankfort
in which the old German emperors
were crowned, is beginning to crumble.
The authorities have ordered that
braces be placed Immediately to save
ii.
In n decision handed down by the
Supreme Court of California the mar
riage of divorced persons in Reno. Ne
vada, or elsewhere within one year of
the granting of the divorce in Califor-
mia is declared legal.
Visitors to London who will not be
able to see the interior of Westminster
abbey before the coronation may do so
after the event, ii having been officially
announced that the edifice will be open
from August 10Th to August 26th.
A heavy windstorm that swept over
st. Louis August 9th wrecked two of
the towers of the varied industrial
building, in course of erection on the
worlds fair site. The towers We're 200
feet high. The damage will amount to
several thousand dollars.
A ruling has been made by the attor-
ney general of Hawaii to the effect that
eNQueen Liluokalani must pay the in
come tax on her annual allowance of
1900 from the territory The provis-
ion for this allowance was made by the
last Legislature. The tax amounts to
$50.
NJ. Deutsche. donor of the prize of
100000 francs offered for the invention
of dirigible balloon, which was won
by Santos-Dumont, was seriously hurt
in an automobile accident in n suburb
of Paris August 4th. Several ribs were
We're broken and he was otherwise in
jured.
The strike of the bridge and struc-
tural iron workers employed by the
Pennsylvania Steel Company, which
has been on since May 1st, has been
settled and the men are back at work.
The men were granted their demand
for 30 cents an hour for and eight
hour day.
William Ziegler of New York. who
is interested in the Baldwin-Zlegler eX-
pedition. says he has received an un-
signed cablegram from Tromsoe. Nor
way, reading: Cheer up. Awaiting
Frithof. Beware of canards. Fear
less" The dispatch is supposed to be
from Baldwin.
The civil tribunal of Paris has con-
demned the Echo de Paris. the Nation
alist organ, to pay Colonel PicqHart
10000 francs damages for libel The