The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-15
SHORT TELEoRAms.

II Is expected that Gen. William
Booth of the Salvation Army will Wis
Il America again this fall.
-hc rourth nonthiy lnstallment OF
Chinese indemnity, amounting TO ST.
W., l92. was paid April 30th.
The Leavenworth. Kansas. Carnegie
library, the building costing $4,000.
was formally opened May LIST.
Property valued at between $500. 1000
and 100000 was destroyed by fire ct
New Milford, Connecticut, May 9th.
During the past three months more
than 100000 tons OF steel rails have
gone into Mexico via Galveston,
Texas
A strike OF oil has been made at
Waters station, few miles from Aus
tin, Texas. The oil was found at nine
ty feet.
An official estimate Of thc total cost
of the South African war 10 March
81, 1902, places the amount at nearly
Sl,i15,0O0,OOo
Rumors are in circulation at Constan-
tinople that plot against the Sultan
has been discovered. The second en-
much has been banished.
Canada has offered thirty eight
ony in Patagonia, which has been un-
able to exc out existence there.
1t Is understood at Ottawa that n
bill viii be introduced this session CIV
Ing parliamentary representation TO
the Yukon in the Dominion Parlia-
mcnt.
Tornadocs In Iowa May ist. did great
damage at Bayard In Guthrie county,
and Van Meter. In Decatur county.
Lohrvillc. Adaza, Farnhamvllle and
Hiteman.
European mails Just received are
said to have brought from Richard
Croker letters TO Tammnny leaders
staung that he viii return to New
York late IN August.
A cablegram from Calcutta, India,
says all the mission houses occupied
by the Kansas missionaries there We're
destroyed by the recent storm. The
Kansas missionaries escaped.
DIR. Thomas Wilson, curator OF pre-
historic archaeology In the Smithso-
nian institution and the nntional mu-
scum for years, died at Washington
May 4th In his seyentleth years.
Robert l.. Lindsay. who acquired no
torfety as the claimant of extensive
lands under Spanish grant, has been
Indicted ia Kansas City for using the
malls In operating u scheme to de-
fraud.
The mountain. at Gonffol, near
Mines, France, which some time ago
attracted much attention by having
shifted its position, has now blocked
up the only road which connected with
1rescol.
| Cardinal Martinelii, apostolic dele
gate to the United States, says he has
been recalled TO Rome by Pope Leo
| MIL, and viii sail for Rome as soon
as he can adjust the affairs of the
papal delegation.
Another alcohol exhibition viii be
held in Paris this month. The first
sections will be fixed and portable mo-
tors and carburators; second, automo-
biles and boats; third. devices for light
ingv and heating.
George j. Gould has chartered the
British built steam yacht Taurus,
formerly the Eros. The vessel has
commenced to fit out at Southamp-
ton. England, and win sail for New
York about May 10th.
On May 4th Augusta zevero, another
Brazilian aeronaut, made n successful
| trial in his airship La Paix" in Paris.
1t was held by rope, but moved ana
| steered readily. In appearance 1t IL
much like Santos-Dumonts airships.
First Lieut. Alphonso Strebler of the
| Philippine scouts, who commanded the
small detachment OF soldiers who cap
tured Lukbnn, the noted Filipino in
surgent leader, is TO be appointed n
second lieutenant In the regular army
Gov. jefferson Davis Of Arkansas
has pardoned Andrew Thompson, ne
gro convicted of assault, on condition
that Thompson go to Massachusetts
within the next thirty days with the
intention OF becoming citizen OF that
state.
Two hundred and fifty fishermen are
reported to have been drowned in u
gale which has made havoc of the her
ring fishing fleet on the west coast of
Japan. The Japanese cruiser Musashi
was driven ashore, but her crew was
saved
The Amsterdam, New York, Central
Labor Union, composed OF twenty five
subordinate unions with n total mem
bership of 1000, has adopted IA resolu-
ton to abstain from the use OF meat
handled by the so-called meat trust
for the next thirty days.
Hughes LeRoux, the French lecturer,
in a dispatch to the Associated Press,
denies that while In Chicago a few
dnys SINCE he stated that Captain