The Elbert County tribune., 1904-12-29
CONDENSED TELEcRAhs

army posts.
Right Rev. Richard Phelan, bishop OF
the Roman Catholic diocese OF Pitts
burg, died at lakewood. Pennsylvania,
December goth.
Five textile unions at Fall River.
Massachusetts,. have voted to submit
t labor troubles involved in the long
! pending strike to arbitration.
The next annual convention OF the
National Association of State Dairy
and Food Departments will be held at
Portland. Oregon. June 20-25.
William L. Elkins, the Pennsylvania
street railway and gas operator and
| financier, who died in November. 1908,
left an estate worth s31, $4,000.
Rev. Luther H. Trowbridge OF De-
troit. for thirty years editor and pro-
prietor of the Christian Herald of that
city, died in Los Angeles December
18th.
| The London board OF trade inquiry
into the damages done by the Russian
fleet to British fishing boats is said to
show that the claims will aggregate
$500. 900.
The Nova Reforma OF Lemberg.
Austria, says a steady stream of Rus
sian deserters continues to arrive
there, most of whom are going to
America.
Chief Censor Zbereff of Moscow has
issued a warning to the editors OF the
local papers to insert nothing In their
papers in connection with the doings
of zemstovs and town councils.
Colonel Stephen Allen Bassford, who
commanded the Ninety-fourth Ohio
volunteer infantry in the Civil War.
died at New York City December goth.
He entered the army as a private.
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation to attend the Lincoln Day
dinner to be given by the Republican
club of New York, February 13. The
President will deliver an address.
Wireless telegraph messages were
sent on the 18th inst. from Kansas
/ City to Cleveland, Ohio, 725 miles.
without relay. This Is said to be the
longest distance overland ever coy
cred.
A lone robber held up the bank of
Chisholm, Minnesota, during business
hours. secured $1,000 and escaped. He
forced Cashier Greiser into the vault
at the poins of a revolver and locked
the door.
Nine. Adelina Patti recently gave
concert for the benefit OF the Red
Cross society under the auspices OF
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna. The
concert was a brilliant success. net
ting over $4,000.
A new bank with 100000 paid-up
capital, furnished by Boston. Los
Angeles and Indianapolis capitalists.
has been organized In the City Of
Mexico. to be called the Mexican
Banking Company, limited.
Eight persons were killed and hve
badly injured at Minneapolis, Decem-
Der goth, by the falling OF a side wall
OF the recently burned o. H. Peck
building, which toppied over and
struck the Crocker hotel adjoining.
The Steel Bar Association. at a
meeting in Jersey City December goth
advanced the price of steel bars 81
ton. The steel plate manufacturers
held a meeting there also and voted to
advance the pricesof steel plates 81
ton.
Between Liberty and the verdigris
river, more than a mile Of the par
TALLY completed pipe line Of the Kan
sas Natural Gas Company was blown
up with dynamite by masked men
some time during the night Of Decem-
i Der 18th.
Two more banks closed December
goth on account of runs precipitated by
uneasiness occasioned by the Chad
wick exposures. though neither had
any of the Chadwick paper. They are
the. First National hank OF Conneaut
{ and the Marine bank of Conneant Har
Dor, Ohio.
Pope Plus x is reported to be ruffer-
ing from gout and is somewhat lame
| Mrs. Mary Andrews Clark. mother
Of Senator William A. Clark and OF
]. Ross Clark, died at Los Angeles.
December 18th, after an illness Of but
three days. Mrs. Clark was nearly 90
years of age.
] The Court OF Appeals has confirmed
the Judgment of the lower court ia,
vorably to TOD" Sloan, the Ameri-
can jockey. and against the pockey
club. Sloan sued the Jockey club
for $4,000 damages for being warned
off the turf in connection with Rose
de MATS winning the prix de Diane at
the Chantilly races in May. 1902.
Depositors in two of the largest
savings banks in New York-the
Bowery and the Greenwich, have been
notified of an increase in the interest
rate which is raised from three and
one-half per cent. to four per cent. A
similar advance will. it is stated, be
made shortly by other institutions.
The savings deposits in the two banks
aggregate s132,o00,000.
Gifts amounting to s437,370 were an.
nounced by President Harper at the
fifty-third quarterly convocation of the
University of Chicago December Goth.
John d. Rockefeller gave s245,000 for
current expenses and 100000 for i'm
provements to the heating plant. The
next largest sum was given by Mrs
Hiram G. Kelly of Chicago who gave
$4,000 for the erection of a building
for classics.