The Elbert County tribune., 1902-08-07
SHORT TELEoRAMs.

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]. z. Morgan VIII sail for New York
August 18th on the White Star line
steamer Oceanic.
The new Aiaecr OF Afghanistan has
declared against the admission OF mis-
sionarIes to his country.
General Garcia-velez. son OF the late
General Calixto Garcia, has been APP
pointed Cuban minister to Mexico.
The latest s.atistics show that the so
cialist press of Germany numbers 140
| publications. OF which fifty-two are
dailics.
Fire on the night OF July 2Sth de-
stroyed the shoe shop at the Kansas
state penitentiary in Leavenworth.
Loss. 10000.
According to the Tribuna of Rome,
King Victor Emanuel VIII visit EN-
peror William In Berlin during the last
week in August.
Rev. Thomas A. Flynn, vicar general
of the diocese OF Sioux Falls. South
Dakota, has been appointed domestic
| prelate OF the Pope.
The Servion Cabinet which resigned
on July 2Ith has ended the crisis
which resulted from the resignation by
consentlng TO remain in Office.
Ming NictOr EunHlhnueis uccOupnnieu
by Signor Prinettl. the minister OF for
eign affairs, Will start for Berlin Aug
ust 22nd, TO visit Emperor william.
The new United Box Board and Pa
| per Company. formed by a combina-
ton of strawboard manufacturers,
will have capitalization Of S2s.96I.-
| 400.
The official gazette announces Gen.
DrnI kffehanar'G flfla 4 sNiscnllnT
Kitchener of Khartoum and of the
Vaal. and OF Asphalt. in County Suf-
| folk"
The steamship Rosslyn Castle sailed
from bermuda July Doth for South Az
rica with the first party OF returning
Beers, numbering $50 persons, on
/ board.
A recent cloudburst, hail and wind
storm at Irwin, Pennsylvania. which
extended over an area of less than two
miles. did $200. 600 damage in less than
an hour.
Sixty-four OF the ninety released
Boer prisoners who arrived In New
York from Bermuda on July 14th-
have sailed for Cape Town and Mossel
Bay. South Africa.
Rev DIR. Stephen L. Baldwin. record
ing secretary OF the Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
died at Brooklyn, July 2sth, OF typhoid
fever. He was sixty-seven years OF
age.
1t is reported thar the Great North
ern railway will replace Its japanese
workmen with Italians. The Great
| Northern employs over 1000 on its
lines in Montana, receiving 16 cents an
| hour.
| @
'.The yampire,r which inspired Rud-
yard Kipling's poem bearing the same
title, has been purchased by w. *.
Vanderbilt. The price paid, 1t is said.
was $3.50
Mr.. Chamberlain, British colonial
secretary, has announced that all those
not of African birth who fought
against the British during the Boer
war will not be allowed to return to
South Africa.
A typewriter has been perfected Mt
| the Remington typewriter works by
which n telegraph message can be sent
by the machine. II is claimed that 1t
VIII revolutionize the present system
of press reports.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon. chair
man of the Hawaii committee, has no.
/ titled Senator Burton OF Kansas, who
| Is member of the committee, that
four of the five members expect to
make the trip to Hawaii.
Vast areas of timber along thousands
of miles of the heavily wooded Yukon
slopes In Alaska have been ravaged
by fires and devastated Of their SPLEEN
did growth of spruce and birch timber
within the last few weeks.
General Lucas Meyer, formerly com
l 90 Hat
! forces, is being lionized in London. He
has dined with Alfred Rothschild and
lunched with Earl Roberts, command
er-in-chief OF the British forces.
General Lord Methuen, who was
wounded and captured by the Beers.
but subsequently released, and who
arrived in England early last month.
| has undergone a successful operation
for the extraction Of bullets from his
leg.
DR.. Zellia, n professor at the Vienna
university, who is exploring Palestine
in behalf of the Imperial Academy of
Sciences, has discovered the walls and
| gateway of the ancient temple of Solo
mon In the neighborhood OF Janohaha.
In Samaria-
After three months discussion, the
scope of the arbitration in regard to
the disputed house tax question has
been settled. says a Toxic dispatch.
Japan probably will refrain from col
lecting the tax. pending the result OF
the arbitration.
The steamship interests OF Montreal
will make vigorous protest against
| the substituting OF the Canadian Pacific
railway to run a passenger and freight
fast line across the Atlantic. They
claim that II this is done 1t will kill
all the other steamship lines.