The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-09-01


DR.. Edward J. lanes. president of the |
Northwestern University, has been |
elected president OF the University OF |
Illinois.
The German Veterans Association OF |
North America, in annual convention |
at st. Louis, elected Julius Frame OF |
Dallas. Texas. president.
The total Internal revenue receipts |
for July last were $50. 1861 4s. as COM
pared with $40 .l0S.362 for July. 1908.
decrease OF $1.703.3l2.
The Kansas City packing house stI4k-
ers contend that the packing houses
cannot legally run boarding houses for
their employees inside OF the plants.
A Brussels correspondent OF the Lon
don Daily News says that three French
submarine boats OF the Dauphin type
have been forwarded to vladlvostok by
rail.
The new peso coined by the govern
ment for use In the Philippine islands
is said to be meeting with general IA
vor and rapidly displacing Spanish and
Mexican coins
From the opening OF the Worlds
Fair at ST. Louis, April 3lst. to Au-
gust 21st 7.655.S7s admissions were re-
corded. The average is now over 1O0,-
900 day.
with the names OF several of the
most prominent men IN Washington
among It's trustees, correspondence
university has been Incorporated In
Washington city.
Miss Susan b. Anthony has returned
| from Europe, where she attended the
congress of women at Berlin. She
thinks the cause of woman suffrage Is
gaining almost everywhere.
Since tho completion of the drainage
| canal, which has now been In use for
| Ave years, Chicago reports u notable
reduction In deaths from impure water
diseases. The flow Is 10000 cubic feet
| = minute.
| At a conference Just closed between
| President Escalon of Salvador. Presi-
dent Zelaya OF Nicaragua, the three
presidents signed an agreement to
maintain peace in the Republics of Cen
trai America.
Hannah Il. Van Wart Pessinger. a
granddaughter of Isaac Van Wart. one
OF the three patriots who captured
Major John Andre on the Tarrytown
road in 1880. died August 22d. at her
home In Brooklyn. New York.
The government report of the condi-
ton of the crops In Prussia on August
18th, using one as very good. two as
good. three us middling and four as
bad. is: Winter wheat. 81. summer
wheat. 20; winter rye. 20; summer
rye. 3.3.
The property loss In the great st.
Paul and Minneapolis tornado OF Au-
gust 10th is estimated at S2.5500O0.
divided as follows: st. Paul park.
TQn nm. Ntipnoa ek00 O0Os SILL
water, 100000; waconia. $4,000;
country districts. 100000.
The completion OF the Galveston sea
wall was celebrated August 22d by run
ming excursions from different parts OF
the state OF Texas to Galveston. Gov
ernor Lanham was present and made
an eulogistic address. commenting on
the work which has been accomplished.
A hurricane did great damage In the
northeast part of South Dakota on the
night OF August 21st, three being
killed and thirty or more injured. Al
Willow Lakes, a small town in Hamiin
county, every building was wrecked.
A good deal of damage was done at
Bryant.
Mrs. Caroline Boles Ely. a we'll
known writer. died in New York City
August 23d. She was seventy-nine years
old and was the widow Of Col. Geo. b.
Ely, an attorney OF Madison, Wisconsin,
who organized company and after
ward commanded regiment In the IA
nous Iron Brigade during the civil
War.
Owing TO a disagreement between
the designer. Nat Herresnoff OF Rhode
Island and representatives OF the Ger
man emperor over plans for n new
schooner yacht after the model of the
schooner yacht Ingomar. construction
has been delayed. 1t is believed the
boat will be started In the fall or win
ter Of 1905.
The rlgor of the Russian divorce
laws, which formerly did not allow d
husband or wife guilty of adultery &c
marry again except after seven years
irreproachable conduct. has been mod
ihed by the holy synod making the pc
Rod two years In case the offenders
agree to do public penance, according
to tho direction of their bishops.
A tornado struck the township OF
Rich Valley and Bergen In Minnesota
Saturday night August goth. killing
four persons. Mary O'Donnell. aged ID
daughter of Patrick ODonnell. and the
7-year-old son OF Anthony O'Donneil
and Frederick Gross and his mother
and destroying thousands OF, acres Of
grain and many barns. houses and
sheds.
Extensive violations Of the customs
laws have been unearthed at San Fran
cisco by customs inspectors who
searched the United States naval trans
port Solace, which arrived from Man
LA. Guam and Honolulu. Forty-ont
seizures were made, amounting In
. value to several thousand dollars, in
GLIDING cigars. silks. embroideries. de-
corated porcelain and Japanese curios
The forces under Datto All. on the