The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-06-02

The Will or benjamin y. Jones, the
Pittsburg steel manufacturer. divided
$6Q. 600 among the widow and four
children.
A Paris dispatch says that Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer pronounces the story of
her engagement to the Prince of Mon
AGO as absurd
A fire at Laconia New Hampshire,
on May Goth, burned 100 buildings and
left $50 people homeless. The loss Is
nearly 100000
The Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Central Pennsylvania has voted almost
unanimously against the proposition to
change the name of the church.
Sarah Bernhard made her second
appearance before a Berlin audience
few days ago. She had cool recep-
tion by the public and the press.
Director of the Mint Roberts has
purchased 5.162. .070 ounces of silver for
the Philippine coinage, at an average
price of about 53A cents per ounce.
Tod Sloane, the American jockey has
ben expelled from further entrance to
the tracks of the French Jockey Club
Tor exercising a horse without au-
thority
Ella Wheeler Wilcox urges that wo-
mems clubs throughout the country
should hold special meetings and ap-
peal to the czarfna of Russia in an
effort to stop the massacre of Jews.
Miller Reese Hutchinson of Alabama
is said to have perfected a new dry
storage battery that is much lighter
than any now in use. Tiny batteries
can be made to run portable lamps.
At the demand of General Bobrikoff,
the governor general of Finland, NJ.
Savon, the Swedish counsel at Nystad,
Finland, has been dismissed for parti-
cipation in the anti-Russian agitation.
The national convention of the Fed
GRAFTON of Musicians at its meeting
just closed in indianapolis, abolished
the color line, and unions uf ooioTed
musicians will not be designated as
"colored" any longer.
John ID. Rockefeller has offered to in
crease his donation to the student
building fund of Indiana University at
Bloomington, from 100000 to $4,000
on condition that fund of $4,000 be
raised from other sources.
Two thousand native houses have
been destroyed by fire in the Tondo
district of Manila About 5000 persons
are homeless and are being fed and
sheltered by the municipality. The
damage is estimated at 100000 pesos.
Paul Blouet, the famous French
writer and newspaper correspondent,
who wrote under the name of Max
O'Rell." died at Paris May .24th from
the effects of an operation for appen-
dicitis at New York some time pre-
vious.
: A fire at st. Hyacinthe. Quebec, on
May Goth destroyed the shoe factory of
Cole Brothers, and hal; a dozen other
industries, together with 250 houses.
leaving nearly a quarter of the city's
population homeless The loss was
about 100000 ~
John D. Rockefeller. has given 5000
to the Washington. ID. c., Young Nen's
Christian Association, conditioned on
raising 100000 before January 1st,
1904. The total contribute thus far
is raised by Mr.. Rockefeller's subscrip-
ton to S210,0G0.
The district managers of the Nation
al Metal Trades Association, in session
at Cincinnati, decided TO extend the
labor employment bureau by organiz-
ing local bureaus in ali the districts of
the association. One Iof the bureaus
will be in Denver.
At a special election held May 2Gth
in the Seventh congressional district.
of Kansas, to fill vacancy, Victor
Murdock. Republican nominee. carried
every one of the thirty-six counties and
probably every one of the 1,200 pre-
cincts in the district.
DR.. S. Hobart Peabody, assistant di-
rector of exhibits of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition and widely
known educator, died at St Louis on
May 26th, AGED seventy-four. He was
a noted mathematician linguist. nat
uralist and astronomer.
The, congregation of the propaganda
in Rome is examing proposition to
divide the diocese of Davenport. Iowa,
in two, besides establishing four new
dioceses in the west, which would
bring the total of the American do
ceses from eighty-five to ninety.
The semi-ofiicial as well as the in
dependent press of Berlin takes pains
to explain that Prince Isenry's (of Prus-
sia) visit to Spain is without political
significance and even casts ridicule on
the Spanish papers for discussing
German-Sparish alliance in connection
with the visit.
The Legislature of Chihuahua, Mex
leo, state bordering on Texas and
New Mexico, has proclaimed Genera,
Luis Terrazas governor for the next
four years. He is the wealthiest man
in Mexico and is the father-in-law of
Enrique C. Creel, Mexico's leading
banker and financier.
Great Britain has decided to accord
China the same terms in the settlement.
of the boxer indemnity as those ac-
cepted by the United States. The
state department has been informed
that the English charge at Pekin has
slgnified the willingness of his gov
ernment to accept payment on g, silver
basis for a term of years This very