The Elbert County tribune., 1898-11-10
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Three more transports left San Fran
cisco for Manila Inst week.
| The Peruvian government Will pay
the McCord award Of $4,000.
Consul Hanna warns young men
without money not TO go 10 Porto Rico.
The manufactures Of galvanized
wire have increased the price OF their
products 81 per ton.
BY corner In ribs at Chicago. Ar
mour and Cudahy were squeezed out Of
/ n good sum last week. :.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist Church viii
invade the Philippines
Negro miners are said TO be Intimidat-
ing the white residents OF Hanna, a
Wyoming coal mining town.
Spain has been told by the American
commissioners that she must yield the
Philippines to the United States
Secretary Alger has mustered out
Generals Graham. Liscum, Whittier,
Baldwin, Egbert, HulIngs and Worth.
Two English companies have been
incorporated In Wyoming to develop
properties in the Grand Encampment
district.
Mrs. Jessie Conway is under arrest
nt Meetsctsc, Wyoming, for the nj
legged poisoning of her husband while
he was sick
Miss Harriet Quilllan OF wnlsenburg,
Colorado, bns been appointed n nurse ut
the Osage Indian School, Oklahoma, ut
800 per nnnum.
Scrvian brigands seized prominent
man and when his rnnsom was not
promptly paid hanged him to n tree
not far from his home.
Los Angeles will entertain the next
annual convention of the National Edu-
cational Association II favorable rail-
road rates can be obtnined.
DIR. Swallow. the Prohibition candi-
date for governor OF Pennsylvania,
charges the Democratic state chairman
with having sold out TO Senator Quay.
Leading society women Of New York
are forming n cooperative establish
ment to make their own tailor gowns.
The locked-out tailors will be employed.
The Civil Service League has ap-
pealed to the President not TO withdraw
any places from the operations of the
civil service law, as has been intimated
In the public press.
The secretary OF the interior hns or
dered patented to the state of Wyom-
ing 16,62g ncres of land In the Chey-
enne district on account OF the grant
to the State Agricultural College.
The Court of Cessation at Paris hns
decided to grant revision OF the Drey-
fus case and will institute supple
mentary inquiry. The court, however,
has declined to order the release of
Dreyfus.
Governor Pingrec Is determined TO
carry his suit brought TO compel the
Michigan Central railroad to sell him
thousand-rnileage book for $50, to
the United States Supreme Court, II
possible.
II. b. Henderson, state bank exam
iner OF Wyoming, reports that the de-
posits of all the banks In the state on
September. 20, 1898, amounted to S3,-
700, an increase Of S350,000 since
July 14th.
The movement of troops south from
Camp Mcnde has begun. The Southern
camps viii be rapidly prepared for the
entire Second corps. The Pennsyl-
vanians will not move until after cleo
ton, so they may vote.
Receipts of gold at the Denver mint
the present month show n totnl value
Of $1,009, ,202.44. For the same month
last year the receipts were $780,
556.10, the incrcase for the present
month being S6T3,G46.34.
Friendly Chinese have warned Rev.
DR.. Gardner of San Francisco, inter-
prefer of the Chinese Hureau, who Is
making an aggressive campaign
against the trnde In slnve girls, that his
life Is In danger froDi highblnders.
More than 100000 bushels of wheat
md corn cleared the Philadelphia GUS
tom house Saturday on steamers bound
to European ports. The shipments OF
wheat md corn from Philadelphia
since January 1st hnve aggregated
over 25,OOQ,0 600 bushels.
The Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf
road Is shipping 10 Grand Island, Ne
braska, ten carloads of sugar beets, to
be made into sugar. This is the larg-
est experiment made In the sugar beet
Industry, and is watched eagerly by all
Interested in the movement.
The request OF the First Colorado in
fnntry to be returned from Manila TO
the United States cannot be granted
by the War Department. 1t was stat
ed by a WnT Department officer that
such requests had been frequent from
soldiers Of volunteer organizations who
enlisted to Eight, but did not enlist for
garrison duty.
Commissioner of Pensions II. Clay
Evans stHtes that up to September
Both the war with Spain had caused
the loss Of the lives OF 2,oO6 American
soldiers md sailors. He further declar-
ed that the statistics of his office show
that the percentage of deaths In camps
from disease during last summer was
much less than during the civil war.
Baron Won Heyking, the German
minister to China, has proposed to the
representatives of the powers Mt Pek-
In Joint occupation of the railway
from Shan Hal Kwan. province of Pc
Chi Ii. to Pelzin, thus securing COM
munication with the coast unless the
Chinese government promptly with
draws its troops to safe distance
from the line.
A dispatch from Gloucester, Massa-
chusetts says: The last season has
been severe on the fishing fleet The
reckoning for the year Is fourteen ycs-
sells total loss, eighty-two men drown
ed. twenty-three women widowed and
fifty-fve children made orphans. The
losses will approximate $4,000. The
terrible gales which ragged on the banks
during October. 1897, are undoubtedly
responsible for the losses of three yes-
sells and their entire crews. while the
series OF gales which prevailed during
the winter also brought the fate OF
many a Gloucester fisherman.
A dispatch from Ride to the Denver