The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-04-14
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

Coffee sold at cents pound in New
York April 3rd. being the lowest price
on record in this country.
Mrs. Horace Porter. wife of the am
bassador to France. died in Paris April
9th of congestive chill.
A cablegram from Sweden acknowl-
edges the receipt of S940 sent from
Denver for the famine relief fund.
B. p. Brown of Redlands, California.
was arrested on the 9TH inst. on the
charge of having made threats against
the President.
The Yosemite Club of San Francisco
has arranged for fight between James
]. Jeffries and James ]. Corbett some
time next August.
Since the strike in Holland all the
trains of the Netherlands railroad car
ry detachments of militia and are thus
enabled to maintain a restricted SER
vice.
Immigration agents at Chicago de-
clare that the present year will see all
records for immigration and settlement
in the Northwest broken by large
majority.
The Ellis island immigration bureau
| reports that during March 65,3I6 aliens
entered the port of New York, an in
crease of 7,710 over the same months
of last year.
The United Railways Company of
Baltimore has increased the wages OF
its $500 conductors and motormen.
The advance will average from ten TO
twenty per cent.
A dispatch was received at the Navy
Department April 18th from Key West,
announcing the death of Rear Admiral
George E. Bellinap, U. S. ~, retired.
Death occurred from apoplexy.
BY vote of 1O3 to As, the Canadian
House declared its opinion that in o.
der to save the youth of the country
the manufacture. sale and importation
of cigarettes should be prohibited.
The semi-omcial announcement is
made in the Paris Tempes that King
Edward will arrive in Paris May End.
where he Will be received by President
Loubet. He will remain two or three
days.
Caught in a wheel making 100 revo-
iutions a minute, Michael Devanney.
an oiler employed in the Brooklyn iron
works, was whirled around the circle
for perhaps two minutes, but not seri-
ously hurt
1t is expected that more than 200
shingle factories in Washington, en-
ploying $500 hands, will be temporarily
closed, owing to concerted action OF the
owners, in order to reduce production
and stiffen prices.
As a result of a long crusade the
Board of Commissioners of the District
of Columbia has adopted resolution
forbiddng expectorating on the side
walks, making a violation thereof sub
feet to a fine of 81.
On the night of April 1st the most
severe hailstorm ever experienced in
La Crosse, Wisconsin, caused great
damage to all greenhouses and con-
servatories in the city. The hailstones.
which were an in diameter, came down
thickly for fifteen minutes.
In the Fair estate suit. now on trial
in New York, Lucien Mass of Paris tes-
titled that he witnessed. the accident
and that when he reached the scene
Mr. Fair was absolutely lifeless, but
Mrs. Fair was breathing. He noticed
a nervous contraction of her face and
hands.
Sheriff Morrison of Kiowa county
Thompson of Caddo, Porter of Garfield
and Bottom of Washita surrounded
ranch near Cordele. Oklahoma terrific
ry. and captured six of the remaining
outlaws of the Bert Casey gang. sup
posed to have robbed the Ledger bank
of $4,000.
The American indoor. and the West
srn outdoor records for the mile run
were broken at an athletic meet at
Ann Arbor, March 2Sth, by Nelson a.
kellogg, a literary student in the Uni
versity of Michigan. from Battle Creek.
He covered the mile in minutes, 80
2-5 seconds.
Rumors are current among the Ger
man Emperor's suite and in Danish
court circles that the German crown
prince, Frederick William, is to be be-
trothed to Duchess Cecile, sister of the
Grand Duke of Mecklenberg-Schwer
whose sister. Alexandrine, is the wife
of Prince Christian. the grandson of
the King of Denmark.
According to an agency dispatch
| from Constantinople. advices had been
received there from Monastir that the
| Macedonian revolutionary committee
| will proclaim a general insurrection in
| the European provinces of Turkey
| about April goth, when there will be
more than 100000 men armed with ri
fies and dynamite bombs in the field.
The United States has received a
| specific promise from Russia that the
open uObI III hdl4thui ia Sioii DS
| tanned The provision in the new
treaty now under negotiation with
China declaring Mukden and its port
Takushan at the mouth of the Ya-tu
river, open to foreign trade, affords the
| opportunity for testing these promises.
A Vienna dispatch says that the re-
port that Professor Lorenz had re-
ceived an invitation from j. Ogden Ar
mour to go to Chicago and visit his
child, Lolita, who has not completely
recovered from the operation per-
| formed upon her by Professor Lorenz
last October. is confirmed. Professor
Lorenzo will probably leave for the