The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-08-18
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

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| 1t is announced that John A. Book
walter of Springfield. Ohio. will be a
candidate for United States senator to
succeed Senator Hanna.
Fifty ladrones, who were implicated
in the recent raids near Surigao. in the
| province of Mindanao have been sen
| fenced to long terms OF Imprisonment.
| At Kamloops, British Columbia, on
the 10th inst. while playing with re-
volver. Willie Edmonds. aged six, was
shot and killed by Charles Newman.
aged seven.
The Treasury Department on the 1lth
inst. purchased 10000 ounces OF silver
for Philippine coinage at an average
1 price of 55A cents, delivery to be made
| in San Francisco.
The volcano of Kilauea. on the isl
and of Hawaii, the movement of which
was suspended a few days ago by
lava slide into the crater, has resumed
its usual state of activity.
The strike riots at Cracow. Austrian
Poland, have resulted. according to
Cracow newspaper, in sixty deaths
| since August 5 through conflicts be-
| tween the strikers and the troops.
General Miles has accepted the Of
flee of president of the Thomas Jeffer-
| son Memorial Association, and tie as
| sociation announces that his election
, is for the remainder of its existence.
The Cooperative Union laundry,
which was established by union laun
dry workers during the big strike in
| Chicago's warehouses last June, has
been declared failure and has closed.
Eaton Stone. an old circus perform
er. who is said to have been the first
man to turn somersault on a gallop-
ing horse, died at Nutley. New Jersey,
on the 10th inst at the age of eighty
six.
The Italian minister of marine has
| directed that d squadron be kept in
| readiness to sail for the East should
the complications in Macedonia make
it necessary to protect Italian sub
jects.
Brigadier General A. E. Woodson.
u. S. A. retired, died at Pac!a, Kan
sas, August T. aged sixty-two years.
He was in the military service forty
one years. He will be buried in the
national cemetery at Arlington, Vir-
ginia.
1t is rumored at Constantinople that
the Turkish troops in Macedonia have
become so demoralized by their failure
are deserting and selling their rifles to
insurgents. in order to obtain pro-
visions.
The Kieff. Russia, correspondent Of
the London Times says leading Rus
sian employer estimates that the strike
m Russia affected half million men
and that the strength of the movement
is increasing and the authorities are
nonplussed.
At Chicago on the 9TH inst. John Al
| eXander Dowie, general overseer of the
| Christian Catholic church, was made
| a citizen of the United States upon re-
bouncing in the Superior Court his al
egiance to the sovereign of Great
Britain and Ireland
An American firm has contracted to
furnish the Russian flour mills. at Pc
kin. with $500. 900 worth of machinery.
The output of the mills will be in
creased within year to 1,500 barrels
Der day, superseding the supply OF
lour from America.
violent earthquake shook Lisbon.
Portugal at 10 O'Clock on the night of
August 9. The shock lasted but two
seconds and no fatalities are reported.
but it serves to recall the great earth
quake and succeeding fire in 1775,
when over 10000 lives were lost.
The President has rendered to Charles
p. McClelland of Westchester county
New York, membership on the Board
of General Appraisers. Mr.. McClel-
land is a Democrat and a member of
the New York State Senate from the
Twenty district.
A dispatch from Pekin says 700 per
sons were drowned in the disastrous
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China, July 27 The bridges within
the city and many houses with their
occupants were swept away in the tor.
rent. Two thousand of the inhabitants
are left destitute.
Three workmen were killed and
twenty-four wounded at Kieff. Russia,
August 6. when the Cossacks fired on
the strikers who were attempting to
interfere with railroad traffic. The
rioters numbered 1000. magistrate,
an officer. and several soldiers were
injured by stones.
A Cape Town dispatch says that
Princess Radziwill who was sentenced
to two years Imprisonment by the
Supreme Court. April 80, 1902, for
forgery in connection with notes pur
porting to have been indorsed by Cecil
Rhodes, has been liberated from prison
and has started for England.
At Carthage. Missouri. August s,
wind storm before daylight destroyed
thousands of dollars worth of fruits
and shade trees and caused more or less
damage to small buildings and mining
property in the town and at Jasper,
Lamar and Seneca. taking in three
counties along the Kansas line.
The Photographers national con
vention, at Indianapolis, approved the
plan for bullding a national salon at
Winona. 1t will be the arst undertak-