The Elbert County tribune., 1903-09-24
SHORT TeLeesAms.


Recent heavy rains have done great
damage to the hay and grain crops in
Eastern Washington.
The i5.000-ton armored cruiser
maryland was launched at Newport
News, Va. September 18th.
Otto Sarony. the famous portrait
photographer. OF New York city. died
Oh lung disease on The l4th inst
Rear Admiral o'Neh. chief of ord
nance Will ask for SIS s.0o0. QUO for ord
nance in the navy for the next fiscal
year.
Count TolstoI celebrated his seventy
hfih birthday on September iith, at
pome among his children. lie was in
excellent health.
The board OF regents of the Nehras-
ka state university have decided 10
locate an agricultural experiment sta
tlon at North Platte.
It is reported at Deadwood that tho
Rothschilds have offered $35 100000 for
the famous Homestake gold mine. own
ed by the Hearst estate.
The Rev. Robert Benson. son of the
late archbishop OF Canterbury. who
died In 1896. has been received into the
AAeihuu AdtuOic tnurtus
-Four students of the technical high
school OF Stuttgart. Germany. have
been sentenced to three months deten-
ion In u fortress for duelling.
Rear Admiral Francis A. Cook. who
commanded the Brooklyn at Santiago.
was retired on his own application
September 18th after forty years SER
vice
Two earthquake shocks were felt at
Portland. Ore, on the afternoon of
September 1lth. No damage was done.
although the largest brick buildings
Were shaken quite severely.
The Anaconda group of mines at
Butte closed for two months pending
alterations in the big Washoe smelter.
resumed operations September 18th
The mines employ 5000 men,
Heroic work on the part of nurses
and attendants prevented a serious loss
OF life in FIRE that started from de-
fective tlue In the Keogh- Wright hos
| pital at Salt Lake. The loss Will not
exceed $4,000.
Lieut.. Colonel Charles G. Treat.
commandant of cadets Mt West Point,
and Capt james X. Thompson. Fiji
teenth Infantry. have been detailed as
umpres during the army maneuyers at
Fort Riley. Kansas.
Some time will probably elapse be-
| fore the meeting OF the Venezuelan ar
bitration tribunal at The Hague. as the
Associated Press Is informed that the
Gar has asked for two months in
which to select the arbitrators.
Augusta. Wis. was greatly damaged
by cloudburst September 18th. Alb
botsford, Medrord. Chelsie, Merrill.
Mondova. Unity and Glenwood are
among the other points in Wisconsin
| that suffered from heavy floods.
Ralph Mcbride. aged seventeen, died
ut Button. Iowa. on the 18th instant
a. the result of initiation into high
school secret society. The grand jury
returned indictments against nine stu
dents In connection with the aifair.
1t having been stated that President
Roosevelt had objected to meeting Sir
Thomas Upton at dinner of the Sea-
wanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. tho
president wrote a letter to the chair
man of the club trustees denying the
report.
Francis v. Benque. arrested on com
plant of federal authorities on a
charge of having written threatening
letters to Secretary Hay, has been com
mitted to the Manhattan state asylum
Wards Island. having been found par
tally insane.
President Loubet recently paid an
unusual compliment TO the wife OF
Senator Lodge by placing his box at
the opera at her disposal. General
Brugere. commander-in-chief of the
army. sat with Senator Lodge and wife
in the box Throughout the evening
The ivy on Massachusetts and Harv-
ard halls at Harvard college, that on
the former dating probably from the
building of the hall. in 1920. hus been
cut down to the roots for the purpose
Of stimulating the growth. The dust
and sdirt of almost two centuries had
TO be scraped off diligently before the
bricks became visible.
Tho Board OF Inquiry into the
charges of cruelty formulated against
Major Robert l.. Howse through Major
Hunter, has finished hearing testl-
mony at Manila, and adjourned. 1t will
later consider the arguments offered on
both sides OF the case, at the close OF
which the records Will be sent To
Washington for final adjudication
At Cleveland. O.. September 18th the
trotting mare Lou Dillon. paced by two
running horses and driven by Willard
Sanders, lowered to 2:5 the high sulky
trotting record Of 2:sA made by Maud
S. in 1885. The sulky used weighed
flfty-two pounds, eight pounds more
than the sulky used by Maud S. The
sulky was not ball bearing. but of the
old axle type.
The secret service has received a
new counterfeit 500 National Bank
note on the Mechanics National Bank
OF New Bedford, Mass. The series is OF
1882. check letter b. charter No. 743,
Bruce. register. wyman. treasurer OF
the United States. IL is good photo