The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-07-18
GEN ERAL.

The City Council of Pfttsburg, Pa,
has voted an appropriation for farm
ers' market house on the Monongahela
river wharf.
Contracts will be signed soon under
which all the members of the New
York Police department will have
their lives insured.
Mabel Keihl. aged two. attempted
to swallow a gooseberry and choked
to death, at the home Of her parents,
near Sundance. Wyo.
The existence of bubonic plague in
Havana has been definitely deter
mined. A special board of physicians
has pronounced the case at Las Ami
mas hospital true bubonic.
The board of directors Of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad has voted
S250.OOO to be expended at once in
changing the gauge of the trackage
between Salida and Montrose. Colo.
James N. Fill. son Of ]. ]. Hill. and
railway, has retired from the vice
presidency OF that road. He will he
succeeded by Col. William II. Clougn.
Three men, Giuseppi Cirolli. George
Williams, negro. and Santa Zanza.
were put to death in the electric chair
in quick succession at Sing Sing pris-
on July Sth All were convicted muir
derers.
AS a result of eating barbecued
meat at the reunion of the Canady fam
lily on July 4. at August. Ga, four per-
sons have died from ptomaine pois-
oning and forty-one are i'll, seven OF
whom are beyond hope of living.
Eugene w. Chafin of Arizona and
Illinois was nominated for President
of the United States by the National
Prohibition party in convention in At
lantic City, n. ]. Aaron S. Watkins
of Ohio was nominated for vice pres
:dent.
Realizing their determination to as
tonish the natives of the Olympic sta
dunn, Stockholm. the American team
signalized the second days athletic
tournament by { clean sweep of the
l00-metre race. and a bumper crop Of
other notable victories.
Rat catchers are busy all along the
Boston waterfront. Under the direc-
ton of the Board OF Health they will
endeavor to eliminate all possible
sources of the bubonic plague. All YES
sells from southern ports are being fu-
migated.
Eighty-four thousand eight hundred
and thirty-eight persons were arrested
for felonies and misdemeanors by
members of the Chicago Police De-
partment in the year of 1911, Accord
ing to figures taken from the annual
report of Chief McWeeney.
The heat wave, which began to
make itself felt in the eastern section
of the country on July 4, continues
with temperatures above 90, causing
scattered deaths and general suffer
ing The total number of deaths re-
Prospects of an unusually prosper
GUS year in all lines of trade are held
out by wholesale merchants of the
East. With the assurance given in the
federal governments crop report that
upwards of 539.000,000 more bushels
of cereals would be harvested this
year than last, country wide feeling
OF prosperity was established and re-
ports from Chicago wholesalers, as
well as outsiders, have predicted
heavy sales in all lines of industries.
Thomas p. Mills of Superior, Wis.
chairman of the board of grand trus-
tees, was elected grand exalted ruler
Of the Benevolent and Protective Or
der of Elks, by acclamation at Port
land, Ore. Rochester was selected for
meeting place of next convention.
A mass meeting of those interested
in the See America First idea will be
held In Chicago in October. to which
representatives Of TRANSPORTATION COM
panies. hotels and organizations in all
parts of North America and the posses
sions Of the United States. will be in
vited