The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-10-27
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

telegraphy has been lnaugurated De-
tween Pekin, China, and the coast.
The city hall of Sneboygan, one of
the finest municipal buildings in upper
Michigan, was destroyed by fire Octo-
Der 18th.
Sir Henry Irving and members OF
his theatrical company arrived in New
York October goth on the steamer
Minneapolis from London
Gen. Russell Alger. ex-Secretary of
War, and Cornelius Bliss, ex-Secretary
of the Interior, have been travelling
extensively in Arizona
Maj. Gen. Samuel s. Sumner has
arranged to assume command OF the
Department of the Missouri, with head
quarters at Omaha, November goth.
Theodore Betram. baritone of the
royal opera at Berlin is under contract
to make tour of the United. States.
He will receive $4,000 for two
months engagement.
The President has accepted the res
ignation of Rear Admiral r. B. Brad
ford as chief of the Bureau of Equip
ment. Capt. George A. Converse takes
charge of the bureau.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has issued orders to cut down
the force in the Altoona shops ten
per cent, which will necessitate the
suspension of 500 men.
The st. Louis Law School. a branch
Of the Washington University, has re-
fused to receive as student Charles
+. Kelley. a former speaker of the
House of Delegates, convicted of brib-
cry.
Silver and lead bullion to the value
of 500, 900, which was lost in Staten
Island sound September 27th off the
deck of a barge, has been recovered
through the work of divers and
dredge.
The Audubon Society of Washing
ton has just held birdless hat show
at which the leading milliners of the
city had exhibits wholly free from the
taint of bird slaughter. President
Roosevelt is one of the vice presidents
of the society.
Gordon Mckay. aged eighty-two.
millionaire inventor of shoemaking
machinery, died at Newport, Rhode
Island. October 18th. By his death
it is understood that Harvard Univer-
sity becomes enriched by something
like 100000.
Through sleeping car service be-
tween Chicago and Los Angeles and
San Francisco, and between Chicago
and Galveston has been established
by the Wabash. New first-class Pull
man cars have been provided for the
California service.
While digging for coal in an aban-
doned mine near Dravosburg. Pennsyi-
vania. recently. Daniel Sorg discov-
cred about $4,000 worth of clothing,
dry goods. hardware, etc. The police
believe the goods were placed in the
mine by band of thieves operating
successfully in the Monogahela val
ley for year.
Owing to an attachment for quar-
ter of million dollars placed on the
plant of the Household Sewing Ma
chine Company at Providence. Rhode
Island, by trustees of the William }.
King estate, the machine works have
been shut down. The attachment
covers notes valued at $236,eO0,
claimed as due the estate. 0!
The President has commuted. to ex-
pire Immediately, the sentences OF Ma
rion Marshall. Cyrus Raines and Bur
ton Harper. coal miners who were CON
victed in West Virginia of resisting
n United States deputy marshal They
were sentenced June IL last. Marshall
month and Raines to Imprisonment for
five months.
The annual report of the Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy railroad for the
year ending June 80, Just issued, shows
an increase in gross earnings of s3,-
9s3.53S The surplus was increased
by S3,22S.149. The report calls at
tention to the fact that the length
of road operated Jnne 80 was S,324
miles, as against s124 at the end of
the preceding fiscal year, z
Advices from Mazatlan. Mexico,
state that the terrific storm which
visited that city and port few days
ago caused considerable loss of life
In the city sixteen people were killed
and a number OF others injured. The
ships in the -harbbr also suffered much
damage. The Danish schooner Clara
was entirely wrecked and the captain
and fourteen sailors were drowned.
The famous Parker will case at Dev-'
enport, Iowa, was decided October goth
by Judge Wolf, who holds that Francis
Parker, son of Mrs. Fraissenet and
Frederick Parker of Omaha. was ac-
kuowled in the deeds to be the son of
Frederick Parker and hence is heir
to one-haf - the million-dollar estate
of James Monroe Parker. JCS &c Wolf,
holds that Mrs. Fraissenet was ser
want, and not Parker's wife.
Edward Fuller. life, guard connect
ed with Henderson s paviliontat Coney
Island, swan from the Battery to Hen
.derson,s. pavilion recently in the ree-
ord-breaking time OF five hours nifty
five minutes. 1t is claimed that the.
best previous record from the Battery
to Coney Island Point was eight hours.
Fuller swan a mile and half further
in order to reach henderson's pavilion
and yet beat the record two hours and
five minutes.