The Elbert County tribune., 1902-12-11
SHORT rHLgoRAMs.


Greater New York.
An American chamber Of commerce
mas peen organized by American busl-
ness men In Berlin.
ohios eight-hour labor law as ap.
Piled TO public works has been de-
ciared unconstitutional by the supreme
court
Following the lead OF the Union Pa
cinc the Southern Pacific has decided
upon plan for pensloning aged en-
ployes.
Official returns in Arlzosn give the
vote for delegate to Congress as fol.
lows: ]. F. Wilson (Dem.). 9.7l6; Rob
ert E. Morrison tRep), $3.50.
Walter w. Law not only owns the
carpet factory at Briarcliff. New York,
but ne owns the entire village with the
exception of two small parcels OF land.
Because he was sick and without
money Adolph Jacobs. slxty-six years
OF age, committed suicide by hanging
himself on December LIST at n Denver
rooming house.
All the telegraph operators on the
Wisconsin Central Railroad have been
granted an increase in salary amount
ing TO % a month for every employe
in that department.
Deputy Police Commissioner Piper
OF New York City has decided to send
some captains and mounted police to
the West Point Military Academy for
special Instructions in horsemanship.
After admitting that for twenty
years she had been sending begging
letters to prominent government OH.
cials, Mrs. Anna Mayors has been sen
fenced to the New York work house
for six months.
The president has denied thirty-two
applications for pardon. has restored
to citizenship five applicants who have
served out their terms of imprlson-
ment, and has acted favorably upon
six other cases.
Ambassador Char1emagne Tower
has arrived at Vienna from Livadia.
where he was received in farewell
audience by the czar. He says: "The
czar and czarina are both enjoying the
best possible health"
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at tho close of busi-
ness November 30, 1902, the debt, less
cash in the treasury. amounted to
s95s O9I ,2S1. which is a decrease for
tne month OF S9lu,14u. n
Governor Stone of Pennsylvania has
honored the requlsltion of the COVER.
nor of Missouri for the return to ST.
Louis Of Charles Il. Kelly. formerly
president of the boodling House of
Delegates of st. Louis.
The efforts to restore agriculture In
the Philippines have been blocked by
a dearth of field animals. Ninety per
cent. Of the caribous died in the origin.
al epidemic of rinderpest and of the
small number left many have died
Admiral Dewey sailed from Wash.
ingtoa December LIST to take active
command of the large feet engaged in
maneuvers In the Caribbean sea. IL
is the first time he has been on sea
duty since his exploits in tho Philip
pines.
Surgeon General oReilly has re.
cclvod n report from Colonel Adair
chief surgeon in the Philippines, that
there has been an increase of malaria
and dysentery among troops in the
Philippines. and decided decrease OF
cholera.
The Ontario quarantine department
has ordered that owing TO the outbreak
Of foot and mouth disease in the
United States all cattle entering Can
ada from the western states shall be
cleaned and thoroughly disinfected at
the border.
The absorption of the Nickel cor.
poration of London by the Information
al Nickel Corporation. an American
concern, has practically been complet-
ed. To-day ninety-three per cent. of
the shareholders OF the British con-
cern had accepted the offer made to
them.
The state OF Indiana has won the
long fought case against the Vandalia
railroad in the Supreme Court and the
school fund. unless an appeal should
be taken to the United States Supreme
Court, and the State Supreme Court
be reversed. will receive an addition OF
$685., 5,424.75.
Mrs. Kate Vance. colored woman.
died at Newton, Kansas. November
2Sth. at the age OF 1913 years. Mrs.
Vance had daughter ninety years
old. and her husband died at the age
OF 105. She remembered with distinct
ness Jefferson's administration and the
war OF 1912.
Rules and regulations for pension
Nhith ihto tANtb
AIRY l, 1903, have been completed by
officials of the Union Pacific Railroad,
by which its old employees will be re-
tired on pension. It is stated that the
system involves the annual distribu-
ton of over 100000.
Julius Weis, one of the wealthlest
cotton merchants of New Orleans, was
recently fined $25 for violating the
Wilson separate car law. He sat in
the section reserved for negroes and
declined the conductors request to
get up because there was no empty
seat in the white section
The Shamrock III. will be launched
at the end of March or early in April
She will be much more ready for sea
than was the Shamrock Ii. when the
latter was launched. Lady Shaftes-
bury, wife of the commodore of the