The Elbert County tribune., 1903-10-01
SHORT TeLEeRAMs.

court methods.
The probating OF Lord Saiisbury's
N u showed that he left an estate val
ued at 1851 $50.
Telegraphic communication by wire
was established with Nome and st. Mi
ehaels. Alaska, on September 2ist
Senator Redfeld Proctor OF Vermont.
has Just paid a line OF $3.50 in New
Hampshire Tor shooting raccoon out
pI season,
1t is reported at Sofia. Bulgaria. that
Zoo Turks We're killed with dynamite
while fighting against a body OF insur-
gents in the Kresna deiile.
The women of walllngton. New
Jersey have defied the painters and
decorators houses. and have formed
league TO paint their own houses.
Richard Watson Glider, editor OF the
Century Magazine. who was solicited to
run for alderman of New York as a
Citizens Union candidate. has declined.
The SANDER sui. brought against ex-
Postmaster General John Wanamaker
by former Public Printer Robinson. re,
Gently ended in victory Tor the de-
fendant
The New York Wine, Liquor and
Beer Dealers Association has arrayed
itself against Governor Odell's adminis-
tration on account of the license laws
enacted by the last Legislature.
The sehooners Sadie and Lille of
Prospect Maine, and the Mackeral
seiner George l.. Edwards. of Glouees-
ter. were wrecked recently on Pema-
luid point during the night and fifteen
lives were lost.
1t is stated that John D. Rockefeller
has decided to erect no less than fif-
teen large office buildings and business
blocks in the downtown district OF
Cleveland at cost aggregating more
than SSO,000,000,
The United States Court OF Appeals
at San Francisco has sustained a sem
tence for larceny for stealing dog in
Alaska. The decision says: "A dog Ia
chattel, and next to man, is the most
important factor in the past and pres
ent history of the country"
At South Haven. Connecticut. Sep
tember 22d. Oliver r. Sherwood. tho
defaultlng cashier of the Southport
National Bank. was sentenced to ten
years in prison by Judge Platt In the
United States Court Sherwood was
300.
There remains less than two miles OF
the trestle work to be completed in
crossing the Great Salt Lake on the
Southern Pacific cutoff, and this work
Will occupy several months. The sinks,
which at first formed a serious obsta-
fle. have at last been practically over
rome
a Dresdep dispatch says that Herr
Bcbel has re-established his authority
In the Socialist party by carrying his
resolution against the Reyisionists by
several hundred votes against eleven
dissenting voices and having elected
an executive committee of his own
choosing
The Laciawanna Iron and Steel
Company's five furnaces ut Lebanon.
| Pennsylvania; at Cornwall and North
Cornwall. and the coke plant in Leb-
anon. are to ut once suspend operations
Tor an indefinite time. No reason is
given for the suspension. Two thou
sand men are affected.
More than 5000 men employed at
the Pencoyd iron works in Philadel-
phia. will be thrown out OF work with
In two weeks. All departments OF the
plant with the possible exception OF the
bridge building shops, will remain idle
until January /. The immediate
cause is said TO be lack OF orders.
Joseph Mariconi, employed in a
power plant at Spler Falls. New York,
was recently subjected to an electric
current of 10000 volts by falling against
two wires, and still lives to tell the
story. He was knocked unconscious
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entered and left Ordinarily 1000 volts
will cause instant death.
Under instructions from the state de
partment, Robert z. Skinner. the
American consul general at Marseilles
will penetrate the wilds of Abyssinia
guarded by detachment of American
marines from the European squadron
He goes to negotiate with the king oi
Abyssinia a commercial treaty, which
il is hoped Will give important advant-
ages to American trade.
Al Grand Rapids. Michigan. n few
days ago, the body of Prof. Max
Wright. instructor In modern languages
in Leland Stanford University, and the
son OF wealthy parents, was buried in
cheap. uBpainted pine box. Professor
Wright believed expensive funerals to
be wrong and directed before death
that the 5000 of his money that ordi-
narily would BIZ spent for funeral be
used for a public fountain.
The National Irrigation Congress at
Ogden, elected the following officers:
President, w. A. Clark. Montana; first
vice president, l.. W. Shurtlin. Utah ;
second vice president, W. G. johnson.
Denver; third vice president. John
Hall. Texas; secretary, II. d. Maxson.
Reno. Nevada, and twenty executive
committeeman, including Colorado.
Gilbert McClurg; New Mexico. G. A.
Richardson. Wyoming, Fanimore
Chatterton.
Word has been received announcing
the itinerary and personnel Of the COM
mission of English educational exports