The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-11-03
SHORT TELEGRAMs.

weekly as heretofore.
The President has appointed Horace
w. Bailey United States marshal for
Vermont, to succeed Fred Field, dis
missed.
The widow of the Rev. Charles Spur
geon, the noted preacher. who died
January 81, 1892. died at London Oc-;
tober 22nd.
Mrs l.. Q. G. Lamar, wife of the for
mer Justice of the Supreme Court OF the
United States, died at Macon. Georgia,
October 9th.
King Edward has approved the ap-
pointment OF Sir Henry Mortimer Du-
rand as British ambassador to the
United States.
Now we are up against it. New
York pie trust has put up the price
of pies and there is no telling when
they will enter the western field.
Orin Hickok, for many years one OF
the best known trainers and drivers OF
famous horses, has been sent to the
Ohio State Hospital for the Insane.
The firm of Horace L. Shattuc &
Sons, hardware. bicycle and automo-
bile dealers of Lowell, Boston and
Providence, has assigned, with liabili-
| ties of 100000.
William j. Bryan has postponed his
departure for Europe until after a de?
cision has been rendered in the Bennett
will case, in which he is Interested.
| This may delay him for week or Two;
1t is reported from Quito that a
dense column of fire is visible from
| there. emerging from the crater OF the
! Cotopaxi volcano. The neighboring
villages have not sustained any dam.
| age.
The outbreak of cholera at Bethle-
hem, in the Holy Land, which was re-
ported October 18th, has been stamped
out and the Gordon of troops which had
| been rssSTn around the city has been
| removed.
| Keokuk, aged eighty-fve, the Oldest
Indian in the Sac and Fox tribes, died
at Guthrie, Oklahoma. October 21th.
Keokuk was an unusually inteiiigent
| Indian and the son of the great sac
| and Fox chief after whom Keokuk,
| Iowa, was named.
United States engineers are investi-
eating a project for irrigating 10000
acres in central Washington, forming
gigantic looop through the Big Bend
country" Over three-fourth of the
vast territory wilf5Set its water supply
from the Spokane river.
A French military commission has
inspected Santos-Dumonts No. 10 dir
igible balloon. This and other balloons
are to be placed at the disposal OF
France in case of war. The commits
sioners expressed satisfaction with the
results of their inspection.
Mrs. William Tate, colored woman,
twenty-three years old, of GAINESVILLE
Ohio, recently gave birth to four girl
babies, all of normal size and weigh
ing slightly more than six and one-hal1
pounds each. The woman Is the mother
of three other children. born singly.
81 mating toaq 81 he bSifed
States to raise funds for destitute
Macedonians. They are graduates OF
American colleges, Furnajieff. having
studied at Princeton and Popon al
Hamilton. New York.
A permanent anti-tuberculosis COM
mission. comprising hygienists, physi-
clans. members of ministries and vari-
GUS chambers. has been organized in
Paris under the presidency of Leon
Bourgeois, president OF the Chamber
OF Deputies. Its scope is prevention
rather than remedial.
The Illinois Steel Company has laid
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Chicago. No notice of the contem-
plated action was given, the men being
merely told that there would be no
more work for them for the present.
The men were employed in the slab
and plate mills and the open hearth
mill.
The Italian minister to Abyssinia,
Major -Cicco di Cola, has been in
structed to assist United States Consul
Skinner of Marseilles, France, in car
rying out the latter's mission to King
Menelik, one of the objects of which is
to invite the king to visit The st. Louis
Exposition and to provide for an Abys-
sinian exhibit
Mrs. Angeline Jewett, a convert to
the doctrines of John Alexander Dowie,
has sold her farm at Clifford, New
Hampshire, for 81 500 and of the pro-
ceeds has sent 81 400 to Dowie. Mrs.
Jewett says she believes in Dowie and
declares that God showed me that it
was best to dispose OF the farm and
send him the money"
The new Omaha extension Sf the Chi
cago Great Western road tor regular
passenger service between ST. Paul and
! Omaha is now ready for service. Two
| trains will be run each way daily be-
! tween the Twin Cities and Omaha, to
connect with trains for Colorado points.
| The time between st. Paul and Den
yer will be twenty-four and one-half
| hours.
| The War Department has issued
! statement showing the customs reve-
nues in the Philippines for the six
months of 1903 to be $4,449, ,424 For
the same period in 1902 the receipts
were $4,33S. ACT. The statement says
that each successive year of American
ocucpation has brought forth a core
spending wealthy growth of these rev.
enues.
Emnerur William sank to his knees