The Elbert County tribune., 1899-12-07
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The ministry of Chile has resigned
owing TO differences concerning the
currency question:
1t Is reported that Cecil Rhodes has
large balloon rendy at Kimberley In
which to escape II the Boers capture
the town. His life Is not worth cent
II the Boers get him.
Ii Hung Chang's appointment as
minister OF commerce, already cabled,
Is regarded as distinctly a step In the
right direction. and as likely to tend to
Improve greatly foreign commercial re-
latlons with China.
The ST. Petersburg correspoE lent Of
the London Mail asserts that the Rus
sian and Persian governments have
signed an agreement prolonging for ten
yenrs Russia's railway construction
monopoly in Persia.
The ancient single turreted monitor
Passaic, which originally formed a
part OF Admiral Fnrragut's ironclad
squadron. il TO be sold for junk. Ever
since her hostile operations against
! southern ports. thirty-sIx years ago,
she has been rustIng away at the naval
station at Pensacola.
Advices from Tokyo Indicate that
Japan Is putting forth every effort 10
| get Its military and naval establish
ment In condition for effective service.
The wnr budget has been increased to
$30OOOO,OOO-nn Unprecedented ex-
| pendlture. A-sennls are being erected
at Yokohama, Osaka and Nagasnki.
Brevet- Colonel Sir Francis Reginald
Wingate. with nn Egyptian force OF q
900 men, forced 5000 dervlshes led by
Ahmed Fedil TO give battle a few days
ago. The British loss was one officer
mortnlly wounded and two men slight
ly injured. The dervlshes lost 400 kill
ed, besides n considerable number OF
prisoners.
President Zelayn of Nicaragua, ac-
cording to u private letter from Blue
fields. has notified the Roman Catholic
authorities that hereafter he viii re-
quire for state purposes one-half their
ecclesiastical receipts The exaction
creafes intense Indignation among the
priests OF the republic, who must sub
nit temporarily, although the matter
Is very likely to inspire n revolution.
The battlefield OF Breeds Hill. south
OF Kenesaw mountain, Tennessee,
where the Fourteenth army corps made
such brave charge to victory during
| the civil war, win soon be purchased
by the survivors of the Eighty-slxth
regiment of Illinois volunteers. The
regiment Will improve the battlefield
and ask the state to erect a monument.
and II will then he turned over to the
government as national park.
| The War Department has requested
| that twelve more army secretaries OF
the Young Mems Christian Association
be sent with the troops TO Manila.
| When the twelve men under the new
order have sailed there Will be fifteen
army Young Mems Christian Associa-
| ton secretaries In the Philippines. Miss
Helen Gould OF New York has contrib
uted the larger portion of the money
for the maintenance of this special
work.
Mayor Jones of Toledo has made
| sworn statement of his campaign eN-
penses. He says he incurred no ex-
penses within the provisions of the
Garfield corrupt practice act. He fur
ther affirms that his total personal cx-
| penses In the campaign amounted to
$500. which sum with S7,SG6, account
ed for by the secretary Of the non
partisan campaign committee, includes
every dollar, direct or indirectly, cx-
pended In his campaign.
The Armenian patriarch at Constnnti-
nopie, who recently resigned his office
and only resumed II when the sultan
promulgated an irnde commanding sub
stantlal and far-reaching reforms In
the treatment of Armenians. has COM
| planned to the sultan that the edict in
question is n dead letter, that bloodshed
In Armenia still continues The sui
tan hns issued supplementary orders,
commanding the strict execution OF all
the provisions of the trade.
At the Eastern Indiana Normal Uni
versity Mt Muncie, Clarence II. Dayton
| was Initiated into the mysteries of
class societies. Wagon axel grease wns
smeared all over his body and his
clothing was torn or In shreds and an
| electric battery was applied The
slrock was so great that his sense of
hearing has been destroyed and the
young mans condition is.dangerous.
Another candidate was tied to a tomb
stone In the cemetery and remained
there all night
A storm of Indignation has been
aroused mt Havann by the appointment
of Mgr. Donatus Sbaretti, auditor of
the apostolic delegation nt Washington.
as bishop of Cuba. The press protest6
bitterly against what II terms an s'im-
polite and aggressive resolution on the
part OF the pope. Patria, the organ of
Wv SNhrh purity. uSkS II Inefe
IL not some Cuban who could have
been appointed. 1t advises the Roman
Catholic people of Cuba to ENTER nm
energetic protest against the outrage"
Truth announces that Emperor VIII
liam has achieved one of the objects of
his visit to England In having Induced
Queen Victoria to give n conditional
| promise to visit the Prussiaa court dur
Ing thelast week In April. She will tray
ell. 1t appears, from North Italy to Ger
mnny by the st. Gothard tunnel and
VIII be Germany's guest for several
days at Coblentz or Potsdam. Her
majesty's visit will he entirely private.
There will be no receptions. reviews or
other wearisome functions
! A Brooklyn concern known MS the
Franklin syndicate has lust gone to
the wall AS II result of the exposure of
Its illegal methods. The manager.
named Miller. agreed TO pay ten per
cent. week on deposits and up to the
time OF closing had done so. He
CANNED thnt he used the money in
| stock speculation. lie was receiving
many small deposits aggregatinp mn
immense sum. He has disappeared and
the police cannot find him or his
money. Several other slmilar CON
Germs in Brooklyn and New York have
been closed as n result of these ex-
posures.
The fear is again springing ND in
Paris that the prospects of the Expo
sition of 1900 will be harmed by the
campaign of abuse against England.
and especially against Queen Victoria.
In which the French press and the
comic papers are indulging. Ever
since the outbreak OF the Transvaal
war cartoons especially derisiye. eli