The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
SHORT TeLgeRAms.

people in New York City on Christmas
Day.
The automobile races at Berlin for
the James Gordon Bennett cup VIII
take place June IL. 1904.
The Society of the Army OF the Cum
berland has decided to admit to mem
bership members Of the military tele-
graph corps.
A new railroad $50 miles long. from
St. Petersburg to Vitebsk. has been
opened to traffic. 1t will be extended
to KEN and Odessa.
Mrs Helen W. Evarts. widow of the
late William NJ. Evarts of New York.
died at Windsor Vermont. December
9Th, in her eighty-fourth year.
A Russian correspondent OF the Lon
don Times reports a panic among the
population OF Gomel, owing TO the
fresh police searches and arrests OF
Jews.
Baron Gevers. the minister OF the
Netherlands at Washington. has been
selected to succeed Dr. Westenberg.
deceased. the former Netherlands min
lister at Rome.
Rev. Francis E. Clark. the founder
of the Christian Endeavor Society.
left New York December 25th on
trip around the world. being accom-
panied by his daughter.
Ruth Miller Hoar. wife of Senator
Hoar of Massachusetts,, died at her
home in Washington on the night of
December cath. OF angina pectoris.
Mrs. Hoar was the oenator's second
wife.
A vote is to be taken soon by the
members of the International Machin-
lists Union and the Metal Mechanics
Union on the question of consolida-
tion. The two organizations number
10000.
Ex-Gov Isaac Sharp of Kansas died
at Washington City. December 25th.
at the age of seyenty-one years. He
was prominent as free-soiler during
the Kansas Missouri struggle early in
the sos.
A Capetown dispatch says that
general insurrection has broken out
among the Bondelzwarts tribes, In
Great Namaqualand, German South
west Africa. The insurrectionists
have collected in the Kara mountains.
At Paris few days ngo Col. Paul
Renard's automobile train. consisting
of two trucks, each carrying a ton
load. and two passenger cars. paraded
on number of streets. The expert
ment is reported to have been sue
cessful.
The photograph laboratory of the
United States Geological Survey at
Washington was considerably dam
aged by fire on the night of Decem-
ber 27th. The principal loss is from
the destruction OF blue prints and
chemicals.
mt 4 a
special from Lincoln, Nebraska. stat
ing that twenty-five Russians living
in the city. and who recently returned
from the beet fields. have leprosy.
Russians have been doing washing in
families in Lincoln and the case Will
be thoroughly investigated. The Rus
slams do not speak English.
A New York dispatch says that w.
F.. Cody has purchased the Nate
Salisbury interest in the Wild West
show from the Salisbury estate. and
has formed partnership in that show
with J. A. Bailey. owner of the Bar
mum & Bailey circus. under the firm
name of Cody & Bailey. MIR. Baileys
interest in the partnership is equal to
that of Mr.. Cody.
In n report to the mayor of New
York, Bridge Commissioner Linden
thai recommends the rebuilding OF
Brooklyn bridge. which was opened 10
traffic In 1888 The commissioner
says the suspended structure. from
anchorage to anchorage, is in worn
out and weakened condition. requiring
constant and expensive repairs to keep
1t safe. The rebuilding OF the bridge.
he asserts. has become imperative.
The British war office received
dispatch from Mai. Gen. Sir Charles
Egerton, dated Kerrit, Somaliland, De-
cember 21st, saying that 100 British
and native troops had surprised 1000
dervishes at Jidballi, thirty-eight
miles east OF Badwein. The engage
ment lasted three hours. The enemy's
casualties were eighty killed and 100
wounded. The British loss was two
men killed, four wounded and one
missing.
When the Pennsylvania anthracite
collieries shut down Christmas eve
for a holiday until January 4th the
most successful year In the history OF
the region came to a close. Total ship
mcnts will aggregate SO. .000, 900 tons.
exceeding by 100000 tons the best
previous record. The proceeds of this
output at tidewater are estimated at
1878 900 900. and the workers who pro
duced 1t received in wages about $75,-
100000.
Mayor Collins OF Boston has vetoed
the resolution OF the board of alder
men to grant the use of Faneuil hall
for an exhibition of poultry. II re-
gard such use of Faneuil hall as ille-
Ultimate and substantially a profana-
tion." wrote the mayor. ''The haU is
resort all patriotic visitors who come
to Boston, and its use for poultry
exhibition or any kind of show ridi-
cules and contaminates its sacred
memories"