The Elbert County tribune., 1903-09-03
SHORT reLeoRAms.

Texas.
a ST. Petersburg dispatch says that
law legaiizing strikes in Russia is in
preparation.
The Americans won the International
cricket match Just finished at Toronto
by a score OF 277 TO l3O
Dan Patch broke the worlds record
Tor PAGERS August 18th by pacing
mile In 1853 at Brighton Beach.
In the recent county Democratic con-
venton at Cleveland. Ohio, Mayor Tom
way.
The American Mining Congress will
meet at Deadwood, South Dakota. Sep
tember 7th and remain in session for a
week
a stock company has been formed in
Chlcago 10 liquldate bankrupt estate.
The name OF the corporation is ''Por-
ter Brothers in Liquidation
| Prince George OF Greece has renewed
the demand to have Crete annexed TO
Greece II Is thought thas annexation
would not be objected to by Turkey.
Maruis c. Krarup and Thomas Fetch
left San Francisco July goth for an au-
tomobiu trip across the continent and
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August 2lst
The ST. Mary Fruit Association 1f
Jamaica will suspend operations for
| twelve months because OF the almost
total destruction OF the banana crop by
the late hurricane.
Ia flying large box kite at Glen
wood Iowa. Edward Merrill was car
ried nearly fifty feet into the air. but
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him down in safety.
The Mason & Hamlin Company.
manufacturers OF organs and pianos.
having their factory at Cambridge.
Massachusetts. have assigned for the
benefit of their creditors.
Mayor Charles Henry Smith of At
lanta, Georgia, who soon after the war
acquired great fame as ''Bill Arp" the
southern humorist. died August 2ith.
| at the age Of seventy-seven.
Pieiru Cartonl. a prominent Italian.
land owner. has given 100000 to found
sanatorium for consumptive patients
in Rome. in memory of his two sons.
who succumbed to tuberculosis.
a new gem recently discovered in
California has been examined by DIR.
| Charles baskerville. the New York
chemist. and named Kunzite. after
George E. Kunz. its discoyerer.
The Grand Army of the Republic has
n membership OF 255. 100, the tota! num-
Der Of posts being GIL. During the
last year the net loss In membership
was 9162. of which S,366 was by death.
Miss Ruth Bryan. eldest daughter of
the Democratic leader William j. Bry-
an, will take up charitable work in the
Hull House settlement, Chicago. next
fall Miss Bryan is nineteen years of
age
Secretary Cortelyou has transferred
the statistical work OF the immigration
Bureau to the Census Bureau. His pol
| ley Is to make the Census Bureau the
one great statistical bureau Of the gov
erument.
The election of Alfredo Baquerlza
Moreno, Ecuadorean minister to the
United States. as vice president OF the
Republic Of Ecuador. has been annulled
| by Congress on the ground that 1t was
unconstitutional.
Acting Secretary of State Loo
E1is has received two cablegrams
from Minister Beaupre, at Bo-
gotta, conveying Information that
efforts are still being made to find n
way " ithANt th' ehhhA Ai'aNJ#
The postmaster general has signed
| the protocol to the postal treaty be-
( tween the United States ard Cuba
made necessary by the amendments by
the Cuban Senate The treaty becomIs
effective without ratification by the
American Senate.
Luis Brigano. an Italian pedestrian
who left Buenos Ayres. Argentina, on
V.saf1 20 ca. IFrur, ,s4aa1
has arrived here, says New York
Herald dispatch of August 21st from
Lima, Peru. He will proceed after a
rest of eight days
A negro named Cody has successfully
jumped from the structure OF the new
bridge being erected over the East
river at New York, known as the VIII
liamsburg bridge. 1t was drop of
l47 feet. Cody jumped from the Brook
/ lyn bridge one year ago.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
SAYS that Pedro Alvarodo. the famous
mining magnate of Parral. is not dead.
as has been generally reported, but is
in good health. 1t is not known how
the report Of his death, which gained
wide circulation. originated.
England and the United States will
refer to arbitration the question OF the
ownership OF the group of islands OFF
the coast of Borneo. claimed by both.
The islands are not considered valuable
aud there is nc danger OF friction on
the question OF their ownership.
Emperor William has added his fif-
ty-fourth residence to the flfty-three he
already owns by buying the estate of
Damn Muehle. called the Pearl of
Brandenburg." for 100000. Il was
owned by a, country squire. Won Moll-
ank. The present residence will be re-
built and converted into a hunting cas-
Tie.
r.ha A,,ta poha-.s n ,tyar boat or