The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-03-03
SHORT TElEGRAMS.

Lynch bill requiring city councils to
fix the rates to be charged by public
utilities.
The plague continues at Mazatlan,
Mexico, and handshaking has been pro-
hibited during the prevalence of the
epidemic.
Both houses of the Legislature have
passed a bill appropriating 100000
for the payment of claims of Indian
war veterans.
The national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be
held at San Francisco during the week
of August 18th.
The New York Chamber of Com
merce has adopted a resolution for a
state building and exhibit at the St.
Louis Exposition.
The Delaware Legislature took its
regular daily ballot for senator Feb
ruary Gath and scored the thirtieth at
tempt without results.
Admiral Schley, Col. A. X. Mcclure
and Gen. Joseph Wheeler were given
an ovation by the people of New Or
leans on their visit to the Mardi Gras.
Advices from Sydney say the ports Of
Australia have declared quarantine
against San Francisco and all vessels
from California will have to be fumi-
gated.
Governor Pardee of California has
signed a bill appropriating $4,000 to
defray the expenses of the National G.
A. r. encampment in San Francisco
next August
The Utah Senate has passed bill
appropriating $4,000 for the Utah ex-
htbit at the st. Louis Worlds Fair, and
$4,000 for the Lewis and Clark Expo
sition at Portland.
The Gar has ordered the immediate
construction of the proposed Idensal-
mi-Kayana railroad, so as to give en-
ployment to the Firms who are suffer-
ing from famine.
David Marks, LII. D., of Frederick
town, n. g, Is Zee years CT age and
has been in active public life for sixty
Canadian Senate.
The steamer City of Louisville, car
rying $50 visitors to the carnival,
made the trip from Cincinnati to New
Orleans. distance of 1881 miles. in
less than four days and half.
The health officer of the town of
West Seneca, New York. reports that
there are eighty cases of typhoid fever
100 additional cases not reported.
The arrangements for the starting
of 100000 woolen mill near Great
Falls, Montana, have been completed,
and the preliminary steps towards its
erection will be commenced at once.
In the last report of the New York
Health Department it is estimated that
the present population of Greater New
York is 1872 ,903. an increase since the
United States census of 1900 of 295,-
701.
The central relief committee at
Stockholm has forwarded to the gov
ernor of the province of Westerbotten
to be used for the distribution of seed,
$4,000, of which $1,000 was contributed
by the Americans.
1t is announced that hut twelve
miles of steel are to be laid in order to
complete the Fort Smith and Western
railroad into Weleettka Indian Terri
tory, over half of the distance between
Fort Smith and Guthrie.
In spite of the unexpected opposition
the lower house of the Illinois Legisla-
ture passed the bill to appropriate So
900 for statue of Miss Frances e.
Willard to be placed in the statuary
hall at Washington, by n vote OF 102
to 16.
The Ontario Lumbermen's Associa-
ton has adopted resolution con-
demning the proposed export duty on
pulp wood by the Dominion. No ex-
port duty, the resolution declares,
should be placed on any product of the
forest.
Claude de Lorraine, who was chief
engineer on the Monitor when that
vessel sank the Merrimac during the
Civil War, and his son Edward, aged
twenty-four, were found dead from as
phyxiation February 18th at their
home in Brooklyn.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
postoffee at East Atchison, Kansas,
February oath. The explosion set fire
to the building which with two adjoin-
ing buildings and contents and all the
mail matter in the postoffice, was de-
stroyed. No money was secured.
A resolution requesting Congress
to call a convention for the purpose of
submitting an amendment to the con-
stitution, calling for the election Of
United States senator by direct vote OF
the people, was defeated in the Cali
fornia Senate by a tie vote of II to II.
The actors of New York propose to
give benefit for Miss Clara Morris.
Among the patrons, many of whom
have contributed money, are Bishop
Potter, w. O. Whitney, =. P. Morgan.
George ]. Gould, II. o. Havemeyer.
John d. Crimmins and John G. Car
Isle. ai -et
Austen Chamberlain. the, British
postmaster general. in behalf of his
father, the colonial secretary, who is
in South Africa, informed the House,
of Commons that the British Alaskan
commissioners will be selected after
consultation with the Dominion gov
ernment. |
District Attorney Jerome of New
York is irving to llnraYel a ,ipaniic