The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-06-16
SHORT TELEGRAMS.


Sea of Azof and the Caspian.
Hiram c. Burlingame died at West
field, Mass, June 7th, at just three
months less than 104 years of age.
Dr. Richard Gottheil of New York
was elected president of the Federation
of American Zionists at Pittsburg.
1t is announced that the Marquis
of Salisbury is making good progress
towards recovery from his illness.
Two boys with revolvers held up and
robbed eight passengers on an electric
street car in Seattle on the night of
June Sth.
Senator w. A. Clark of Montana will
be president of the eleventh irrigation
congress. which meets at Ogden. Utah.
next September.
To the poet Fable the German gov
ernment has just granted a pension Of
S750 year. tribute never before paid
to poetry in Germany.
The President recently accepted the
resignation of Director of the Census
Merriam, to take effect on the Sth inst
Director North assumed charge of the
Office.
The extensive buildings occupied by
the boards of revenue and rites at Pek-
ing, China, were burned June 9th. The
revenue building contained four mill
ion taels.
At paced bicycle race in Boston on
the 9th inst, Bobby" Walthour rode
five miles in six minutes and six and
four-fifths seconds, beating all previ-
Gus records.
Absolutely necessary relief in the
way of rations, medicines, ETC. will
be given by the War Department to
the sufferers by the disastrous floods
in South Carolina.
Estimates by Maine lumber men
place the loss from fires and drouth on
Aroostook county at more than $10O0,-
900 and for northern and eastern
Maine at 100000.
Several fertile farms near North To-
peka have been entirely ruined. The
swift current washed away much of
the good soil and in its place has left
a thick. hard layer of sand.
Major Robert l.. Howse of the Porto
Rico provisional regiment has been
ordered to Manila to be present during
the investigation of the charges made
against him of cruel treatment of Fill
ipino prisoners.
1t is reported in Austria that the
German Emperor and the Czar of Rus
sia Will visit Vienna simultaneously
at the beginning of September. The
Czar will continue his journey to Rome
by way of Trieste.
The Breakers, one of the two large
hotels at Palm Beach, Florida. was
burned June 9th. The loss including
furniture, which was not insured. is
about 100000. There was $500 insur-
ance on the building.
Professor Virgins, the celebrated
Canadian meteorological expert, says
that the great drouth is due to lack
of electricity and predicts that towers
will eventually be built on mountains
to light up the entire country.
The State Department at Washington
has been notified by United States Min
lister Dudley that Peru has successful
ly put in operation the law passed two
years ago. providing for the adoption
of the gold standard March / of this
year.
The statistician of the Department
of Agriculture estimates the total
area planted to cotton in the United
States this season at 2S,907 900 acres.
an increase of 1929. 900 acres or 81
per cent. upon the acreage planted
last year.
A colony of 1000 Russians are ne
gotiating for land upon which to set
tie in the Rio Grande valley. near Ell
Paso, Texas, and engage in agricu-
tural pursuits. The Russians were
disappointed in obtaining cheap lands
in western Kansas.
The Car in an autograph letter au-
fng trff In, 10, ~,
religion to be given in the Polish Ian
guage in all the middle class schools
of Poland. Such instruction hitherto
has been limited to six schools and
had to be given in the Russian tongue.
German Sergeant Warneck of the
Ninety-second infantry has been sem
fenced to thirty months imprisonment
and to dismissal from the army. after
having been convicted of 166 instances
of abuse of soldiers. In two cases
Warneck spat in the mouths of re-
cruits.
William Thompson, who for thirty
years had been the. president of the
New York Pie Baking Company, died
in New York June 7th. He was sew
enty-five years of age. Mr. Thomp-
son was the pioneer in the wholesale
pie baking industry in America. The
business brought him fortune of
$1,000, ,00G.
AT the annual diocesan council of
the diocese of Fond du Lac, Wiscon-
sin. the proposition to change, the
name of the Protestant Episcopal
church to the American Catholic
church was acted upon fayorably. The
clerical delegates voted unanimously
in favor of the proposed change. while
the vote of the lay. delegates stood
forty-three for and seven against
Vienna dispatches report a whole
sale emigration of miners and work
men in the iron districts of Austria
to the United States in consequence