The Elbert County tribune., 1903-04-16
SHORT TEIEcRAMs.

ON'"h no latf nc1NY trOstS there VIII
De lew strawberries or peaches raised
In Maryland this season.
coGee sold at cents pound in New
YORK April 3rd, being the lowest price
on record in this country.
Mrs Horace Porter. wife of the nm
bassador to France. died In Paris April
9TH OF conGestivo chill.
A cahegram from Sweden acknowl-
euge5 the receipt of $40 sent from
Denver for the famine relief fund.
ID. P. Brown of Redlands, California.
was arrested on the 9th inst. on the
chGrge Of having made threats against
the President.
The Yosemite Club OF San Francisco
has arranged for a fight between James
J. Jelrlcs and James j. Corbett some
time next August.
Since the strike In Holland all tho
trains OF the Netherlands railroad car
ry de'achments OF militia and are thus
enabled to maintain a restricted SER
vice.
Immigration agents at Chicago de-
clare that the present year will see all
records for immigration and settlement
In the Northwest broken by n large
majority.
The Ellis island immigration bureau
reports that during March 65.376 alions
entered the port OF New Yonk. an In
crease Of 7.7l0 over the same months
Of last year.
The United Railways Company of
Baltimore has increased the wages OF
its $500 conductors and motormen.
The adyanee will average from ten to
twenty per cent.
A dispatch was received at the Navy
Department April 7th from Key West,
announcing the death Of Rear Admiral
George Z, Bell,nap. U. S. n. retired.
Death occurred from apoplexy.
BY vote OF 1903 to 4s. the Canadian
House declared its opinion that in or
der TO save the youth of the country
the Manufacture sale and importation
of cigarettes should be prohibited.
Tho serni-onicial announcement is
riade in the Paris Tempes that King
Edward will arrive In Paris May 2nd.
where he VIII be received by President
Ioubet He will remain two or three
days.
Caught in a wheel making 100 reyo-
iutions a minute, Michael Deyanncy.
an oiler employed In the Brooklyn Iron
works. was whirled around the circle
for perhaps two minutes, but not acrl-
ouAiy hurt.
II is expected that more than 200
shlngie factories in Washington. em-
ploying 500 hands. will be temporarily
closed, owing to concerted action OF the
owners, in order TO reduce production
and stlnen prices.
As a result of a long crusade tho
Board Of Commissioners Of the District
OF Columbia has adopted resolution
forbiddlng expeotoratiug on tho side
walks. making a violation thereof sub
feet to fine Of 81.
On the night OF April Isl the most
severe hailstorm ever experienced in
La Crosse, Wisconsin. caused great
damugo 10 all greenhouses and con-
seryatories in the city. The hailstones,
which were an in diameter. came down
thckly for fifteen minutes.
In the Fair estate suit. row on trial
IN New York, l-ucicn Mass Of Paris tes-
tilted that he witnessed the accident
and that when he reached the scene
Mr. Fair was absolutely llfcless," but
Mrs. Fair was breathing. He noticed
nervous contraction OF her face and
hands.
Sheriff Morrison of KIowa county
Thompson of Caddo. Porter of Garfield
and Bottom of Washita surrounded A
ranch near Cordele. Oklahoma terrific
ry, and captured six of the remaining
outlaws of the Bert Casey gang. sup
posed to have robbed the Ledger bank
Of $4,000.
The American indoor. and the West
ern outdoor records for the mile run
were broken at an athletic meet at
Ann Arbor. March 2Sth by Nelson A.
kellogg. n literary student In the Uni
yersity Of Michigan. from Battle Creek.
He covered .he mile in minutes. 80
20 seconds.
Rumors are current among the Ger
man Emperor's suite and in Danish
court circles that the German crown
prince. Frederl TX William. is TO be be-
trothed to Duchess Cecilc. sister of the
Grand Duke of Mecklenberg-S -Schwerin,
whose sister. Alexandrine. is the wife
of Prince Christian. the grandson OF
the King of Denmark.
According to an agency dispatch
from Constantlnople, adyices bad been
received there from Monastir that the
Macedonian revolutionary committee
Will proclaim a general insurrection in
the European provinces OF Turkey
about April goth. when there will be
more than 100000 men armed with RI
aes ard dynamite bombs in the field.
The United States has received n
specific promise from Russia that tho
open Coor In Manchuria shall be main
tanned. Tho provision in the new
treaty now under negotiation with
China declaring Mukden and lis port
Takushan. at the mouth OF the Ya-tu
river, open to foreign trade. affords the
opportunity for testing these promises.
a Vienna dispatch says that the re-
port that Professor Lorenz had re-
ceiyod an invitation from j. Ogden Ar
mour to go to Chicago and visit his
child. lolita. who has not completely