The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-12-23
SHORT TELEGRAMS.


Rear Admiral Casey will retire from
command of the Pacific squadron Jan
uary 2Sth next, and will be succeeded
by Rear Admiral Henry Glass.
| The Congress of Mexico has passed
bill to punish with Imprisonment
harsh. insulting criticisms of Congress,
the army and navy and celeges.
The 5000 employees in the shops of
the Pullman company are preparing to
take a stand in support of a demand
for shorter hours and no Sunday work.
The select committee of the British
House of commons on steamship sub
sides has reported against the sys-
tenn as far more harmful than bene-
fetal.
Recent heavy rains have flooded
| many of the coal mines in the Schuyl-
kill region of Pennsylvania. Mines in
the Tamaqua section are also seriously
affected.
A check for 81 900 to be used in pur-
chasing coal for the poor was recently
sent by Miss Helen Gould to the Sal
vation Army headquarters in New
York City.
The Hon. Arthur Elliott. NJ. p,
states that there is no foundation for
the report that lis brother, Lord Min
10. is about to resign the governor gen.
eralship of Canada.
John Redmond, the Irish leader, and
the majority of his colleagues, who
have absented themselves for some
time. have resumed their attendance
in the House of Commons.
A hitherto unknown portrait of Mar
tin Luther. painted by Lucas Cranach,
the celebrated artist and burgomaster
of Wittenburg. has been uncovered in
the town church of wlttenburg.
1t is reported that Count Won Bue-
low, the German imperial chancellor,
will be elevated to the rank of prince
by Emperor William, after the sue
cessful completion of the commercial
treaties.
The coalition cabinet of Chill has re-
signed after having been ten days in
power. The resignation of the minis
ters was an outcome of a disagreement
between the cabinet and President
Riesco over election matters.
General George p Moorman, adju-
tant general of the United Confederate
Veterans, died on the 10th inst. at
New Orleans, aged sixty-one years. He
was on the staff of Forrest and other
Eighteen gypsies who were en-
camped at Blaseney, near Arad, Hun
gary, have been frozen to death. Many
persons in other parts of the country
also have met death as a result of
the intense cold weather prevailing.
The Democratic committee of Okla
homa has decided to contest the cleo
ton of b. S. Mcclure, Republican, who
defeated William M. Cross, Democrat.
for delegate 20 Congress from Okla
homa, by the narrow majority of 394
votes.
After repeated postponements and
protracted deba.e, the New York
board of aldermen has by a vote of Al
to SO granted the Pennsylvania rail
road tunnel franchise and by 40 to 15
the New York & New Jersey tunnel
franchise.
A convention of negroes at Salem.
Alabama, on the 1Ith instant, organ
lied a Colored Republican Club and
passed resolutions commencing the
action of President Roosevelt in not
recognizing the Lily White" branch of
the party.
The societies composed of Philippine
veterans, the National Society of the
Army of the Philippines and the Phil
ippine Islands Veterans, have been
merged and the National Society of
the Army of the Philippines is the one
that survives.
Comptroller of the Currency Ridge
ley has closed the National Bank of
South Pennsylvania at Hyndman,
Pennsylvania. The failure of the
bank was due to losses sustained
through large loans made to officers
and directors.
The American Public Health Asso-
citation, at its recent meeting in New
Orleans, adopted resolutions in favor
of a national consumption sanitarium.
delegates will be appointed to the In
ternational tuberculosis Congress at
st. Louis in 1904.
Signor Bacelli, Italian minister of
commerce, has informed Fair Commits
sioner Gridler that Italy will be unable
officially to participate in the St Louis
Exposition. He promised, however, to
encourage Italian manufacturers to
support the fair privately.
The civil service commission will
hold examinations January 9th at
Salt Lake, Ogden, Cheyenne, Boise
and Denver for position of medical
clerk in the Pension Bureau. Twenty
five clerks possessing knowledge of
medicine are to be appointed.
The Supreme Court of Georgia, in
the case of the prosecution of Chris
ton Scientist for refusing to employ
a regular physician for his sick child,
has decided that failure to give medi-
cine to children when ill is not vio-
| lation of the laws of the state.
General Miles, accompanied by his
aides, will arrive in Berlin via the ST.
/ berian railroad January 18th. He
was presented to Emperor William at
| the Berlin maneuvers in 1897, and will
| probably be received again if the EN-
| peror is in the city when the general
( arrives.