The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-01-06
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peTleuceu at syracuse, SICILY, on the
night of December 27th.
The Maine cattle commission has is
sued statement that the state is free
from the foot and mouth disease.
There are 444, ,407 depositors in the
Connecticut savings banks and the
amount of their deposits is $203, ,522,-
225.
The new battleship Maine has been
placed in commission at the League
Island navy yard. Her full compile
ment of men will be $40.
Contracts have been made for zoe, 600
tons of coal for shipment from English,
Scotch and Welsh ports to eastern
ports of the United States.
Andrew Carnegie has given S25, 900
library to the mountain branch of the
National Soldiers Home at johnson
City, Tennessee, which is to be opened
April 1st.
The Red Cross Society is sending
representatives to Andijan, Russian
Asia. to organize relief for the earth
quake sufferers and has contributed
SIT 500 to the relief fund.
Berlin papers say that Prince Henry
of Prussia is coming to the United
States in 1904 to visit the st. Louis
Exposition and unveil the veterans
monument in Philadelphia.
The Michigan Sugar Manufacturers
Association has adopted resolutions
protesting against the ratification of
any treaty with Cuba which reduces
the present tariff on sugar.
Count Tolstoi has sent a personal
appeal asking the papers, in view of
his advanced age and illness, not to
publish any further reports of his con-
dition, as they cause him pain.
The government has purchased four
Idaho for stocking the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park. The herd in the park
now numbers about forty-five.
The Rome Tribuna says that the
Pope has ordered the Archbishop of
Manila to excommunicate all persons
who endeavor to promote the creation
of national church in the Philippines.
Gen. Leonard Wood has accepted an
invitation of the Kansas Day Club to
respond to toast at the banquet jan
unry 18th. General Funston and Ga
lusha Grow will also probably be pres
ent.
1t is rumored that the intercollegiate
football rules committee is likely to
take some action that will abolish mass
plays, which are strongly objected to
by college authorities as brutal and
dangerous.
report comes from st. Petersburg
that story is current there to the
effect that the Gar was induced to
call The Hague peace conference by
reaGon of advice received at a spiritual
istic seance.
At meeting in Brussels of the In
ternational Socialist Bureau resolutions
were passed in relation to the possible
results of the economic war with which
1t is claimed the United States are
threatening Europe.
Employees of the Buffalo. Rochester G.
Pittsburg railroad have been granted a
seven per cent. increase in wages. eff
fective December 1st. The company
employs about 1900 men, almost all
of whom will benefit by the raise.
General Davis at Manila cables that
Capt. Robert McGregor, engineer
corps. died December 23d of acute ap.
pendicitis. Captain McGregor was a
native OF Michigan and was graduated
at the military academy in June. 1889.
President Roosevelt sent a private
telegram to Lord Mimic, governor gen
eral of Canada, conveying best wishes
for the New Year to him and Lady
Minto and expressing earnest hope
for the welfare and prosperity of Can
ada
Marconi has for some time been
sending two or three messages daily
by wireless telegraphy from Glace Bay,
Nova Scotia to Cornwall. England.
Some of these dispatches ore lengthy.
One was directed to exEmpress Eu-
genie.
William Waldorf Astor has given
S250.000 to build a new out-patient de-
partment for the hospital for sick chill
dren in Great Ormond street. London
II will be dedicated to the memory of
his daughter Gwendoline, who died re-
Gently
Five hundred million dollars in gold
is the amount of American capital in
vested in Mexico by LILY American
companies, firms and individuals, ac-
cording to estimates carefully prepared
by Consul General A. d. Barlow at
Mexico City.
The Lackawanna Steel Company of
Buffalo, New York, the largest indie
pendent steel manufacturing concern
in the world. recently received its first
consignment of ores. The Lackawan-
ma company has n capital stock of S40,-
100000 and will employ $1,000 men.
Nate Salisbury. one of the country's
best known showmen. principal owner
of Buffalo Bill's" Wild West Show.
and heavy stockholder in the Barnum
& Bailey Company. died at Long Branch
New Jersey on December 24th, after
weeks sickness, of stomach trouble.
DR.. Frederick l.. Brady. who was
member of Roosevelt's Rough Riders
in the Spanish-American war, died in
New York City December Goth. He
was in the engagement at Las Quasi
mas, the battle of San Juan hill and at
Santiago, making an honorable record
The new Peoples Undenominationa
church at st. Paul. Minnesota. built
at q cost of Sl0O 900 to replace the