The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-09-16
SHORT TEL EGRAMs.

the sale of liquor of any description in
our Samoan possessions.
1t is now said that the fatal accident
to the Fairs in France was due to de-
fective steering wheel instead of a col
lapsed tire.
Lord -Curzon at Simla recently said
that he had no intention of resigning
until the full term of his vice royalty
had expired.
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender,
has sent a letter to the Carlist deputy,
vigorously deprecating any attempt at
q rising in the interests of Carlists.
1t is proposed to make the dinner to
be given to President Roosevelt at the
Mercantile club in St Louis next Octo-
ber the finest ever served in that city.
A remarkable scene has been wit
messed at Holborn viaduct station, in
London, when 1SO Roman Catholic pill
grims left by special train for Lourdes.
During his visit at Chattanooga, Sep
tember 18th, President Roosevelt went
over the battlefelds of Chickamauga,
Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain.
A runaway engine at Oakland, Cali
fornia, on the 9TH instant, was side
tracked and made n thirty-foot leap in
to the sea in the presence of thousands
of people.
Dispatches from Bueno Ayres an
nounce the destruction of the town of
Bolivar. Argentine Republic, by a tor
nado. Fourteen were killed and fifty
We're injured.
The foreign minister. NJ. Delcasse,
cabled to the French embassy at Wash
ington, directing that official to ex-
press his congratulations on President
Roosevelts escape from death.
The use of waters from arsenic
springs that recently broke out pear
Mapiami, Mexico, is said to have oc-
casiored the death of thirty persons
and the serious illness of over 400
more.
At Shelbyville, Kentucky, Fisher
Million, negro, tried in the County
Court. was found guilty of vagrancy
and sentenced to be sold into servitude
for n period of twelve months, the
highest penalty.
Information has been received at the
British admiralty of sharp fight in
the Persian gulf between a boats crew
of the British gunboat Lapwing and n
slave schooner. A bluejacket was killed
and several We're wounded.
On account of the impossibility of Sc
curing berths for Manila at an earlier
date, Mgr. Guidi, the apostolic delegate
to the Philippines. will sail from Mar
seilles, October 1st, and Is due to ar
rive at Manila on November 1lth.
During the recent maneuvers near
Tivoli. Italy. n military balloon burst
and sixteen soldiers were badly injured
in consequence. Two of the men We're
fatally hurt. The explosion of the bal
loon Is attributed to intense heat.
The White Star line has ordered an
other steamer to be built by Harland Il
Wolff of Belfast, which is to be twenty
the same company's steamer Cedric
now the largest liner in the world.
General Cronje has stated that dur
ing the war he had lost, from wounds
and disease, twenty relatives. He ex-
pressed himself as prepared. however.
not only to forgive, but as far as God
had given him the power, to forget.
A new claimant has arisen for the
honor of being selected as the British
terminal port proposed for the new
Canadian service. Active steps are
being taken to lay the claims of Holly
Hend before the proper authorities.
A dispatch from Calcutta says that
an earthquake shock has been felt
throughout the province of Assam and
the Chittagong, division of Bengal. The
inhabitants We're panicstricken. Terri
BILE commissions of nature are prophe-
sled
The Boer generals have issued n
statement declaring there is no truth
in the reports of differences between
themselves and Mr. Kruger. DIR. Leyds.
and the Boer delegates in Europe, add
ing that their relations with them con
tinue to be most harmonious.
Dispatches from Rome say the Ital-
ian minister of posts and telegraphs,
Signor Galimberti, is negotiating for
the use of wireless telegraphy, when
this system becomes practicable. be-
tween Italy, England and the United
States.
While President Roosevelt was at
Ellsworth, Maine, A. l.. New of the Pa
cific Wireless Telegraph Company at
Catalina Island. California, sent him a
message of congratulation which pass
ed through the air without wire to the
mainland.
AS first step toward the construc-
tion of New York Chicago boulevard
William Il. Dickinson, treasurer of the
New Automobile club, recently started
on an automobile trip to Chicago. He
will report to the association after a
close inspection of the roads.
ct the close of the naval maneuvers
at Pola, Austria, Emperor Francis Jo
seph appointed Archduke Francis Fer
dinand, the heir presumptive, to be Al
admiral This nomination is believed
to indicate the emperor's intention tc
strengthen the Austrian navy.
Excavations now in progress on the
college campus at Princetown, New
Jersey, have disclosed the old pump
which, in the early COS, was the instru
ment with which the sophomores duck
ed the freshmen, The pump is still in
tact and will be carefully preserved.
n. al.