The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-07-04
GEN ERAL.

A new pipe organ, one of the largest
in tho world, has been installed in the
Tabernacle at Zion. Ill.,
Former United States Senator An
thony Higgins of Delaware is dead. He
was seventy-one years old.
Frederick W. Lehman. solicitor gen
eral OF the United States. has placed
his resignation in the hands of Presi-
dent Taft
The call for the national convention
of the new Progressive party will be is
sued within few days. Roosevelt ia
vors ST. Paul.
st. Louis will be candidate for the
trump" convention of the "Progres-
sive Party" offspring of the Roosevelt
Presidency boom.
Low tide prevented a heavy loss OF
life when the steamer Grand Manan,
carrying 600 excursionists, struck
dredge in the st. Croix river at Calais,
Maine.
Drury B. Badgely. a wealthy farmer
residing at Pleasant Hill. w. Va, WAS
attacked by swarm of bees, which
settled in his hair and beard and
stung him to death,
Employees of all the United States
| navy yards in the country, to the num-
ber of 10000 will be laid off July 1
unless Congress makes provision for
payment of their wages.
Because thirteen-year-old> Guy Hur-,
die of Washington received a parental
rebuke for exchanging watch for
chicken, to which he had taken a
fancy, the boy hanged himself from
tree.
Ann Boston, the negro woman who
stabbed and killed Mrs. r. E. Jordan.
wife of prominent planter at Pine
hurst. Ca. recently, was taken from
officers at Cordele by mob and
| lynched.
| James Darby, well known golfer.
lost his life in going to the rescue of
nine-year-old caddy who had got in
to deep water trying to retrieve a golf
ball from pond on the links at Glen
Cove, y. Y.
| In line with the action of other steel
concerns the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany, it has been announced, advanced
the price OF structural steel and steel
bars 81 ton and also increased its
rate on steel billets by 81 a ton.
Progressive party headquarters for
Illinois have been opened ia the Con-
gress hotel In Chicago. Medill Nc
Cormick announced the opening and
it was said permanent officers would
be chosen later.
| Seven thousand cases have been re-
ported since the outbreak of bubonic
plague in Porto Rico and this is hav-
| ing serious effect. particularly in
San Juan. 1t is estimated that 5000
persons have left that city.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan, with four companies OF troops
for St. Michael and Fort Davis. in
Alaska, is still imprisoned in the ice
which is drifting toward the Arctic
ocean. In five days the Sheridan has
moved 100 miles westward and may be
carried through Bering straits into the
Arctic ocean.
William Marshall Bullitt of Louis
Vile, KY. will be named by President
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of St. Louis as solicitor general of the
United States. according to Cabin,t
officer who talked with the President.
No official announcement has been
made, but it is thought Mr.. Bullitt mas
accepted the place.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany announce another cut in rates,
effective July l. Several months ago,
when the telegraph company an
nounced day and night letters to all
parts of the United States and Canada,
merchants asked If little reduction
could not be made in local states rates
! in order to bring the day and night let
ter service in the state down to near
half a cent word basis. The compa-
ny has granted this request by reduc-
ling large number of their Accent
rates to 80 cents.
| John c. Hartzell is on trial in Chi
cago for the theft from the Haskell
museum at the University of Chicago
of a golden amulet worn by King
Menes of Egypt. S.4OO years B. c. The
bar of gold is the only one of it's kind
in the world and is priceless.
Samuel Gompers and Frank Morri-
son, of the American Federation of
Labor, recently sentenced to one year
and nine months in Jail. respectively,
for contempt Of court, have filed an
appeal from Justice Wright's decision.
and gave bail Execution of their sen.