The Elbert County tribune., 1904-12-01
CONDENSED TELEcRAns

J. Pierpont Morgan has been elected
president OF the New York Metropou-
tan Museum OF Art.
Secretary of War Taft will BE- In
command OF the naval forces Of the
Isthmus of Panama while he Is there.
Commander Booth Tucker. who for
eight and half years has been at the
head OF the Salvation Army In this
country, recently sailed for England
Gen. Louis Palma Di Cesnola, d.
rector and trustee Of the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art, New York City, died
November 21st at the age of II years.
Orders are being prepared opening
to commercial business the naval coast
wireless telegraph stations at Yerba
Buena, California, and Mare Island
navy yard.
Joseph Brown. son of the late Gov
ernor Joseph NJ. Brown OF Georgia,
wants all the southern electors to cast
their votes for Roosevelt, making his
election unanimous.
Col. William c. P. Breckenridge died
at Lexington, Kentucky, November
18th from the effects OF a stroke OF
paralysis three days previous.
The American Sheet and Tin Plate
Company has opened It's eight-mill
plant in Pfttsburg and Is said to be ar
ranging to start eighty-four idle tin
plate mills early in December.
In the foot ball game at New Haven
November 18th Harvard was beaten by
Yale by score of IL to o. being the
same score made by Yale in her vic
tory over Princeton week before.
Twenty-one department stores in
New York City have entered into an
alliance to prosecute shoplifters. Losses
of half a million dollars from this
source have been suffered during the
past year.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
Turkey is ordering hundred new bat
teries of artillery from German. French
and English factories at the cost of
s10,000.000. The Krupp company gets
the largest contracts.
Queen Liliuokalani and former Dele
ggate Kalanianole came over from
Honolulu recently to attend to the
queens project of securing an appro-
priation from Congress to pay her for
the former crown lands.
Secretary Taft left Washington No
vember 18th for New Orleans on his
way to Panama. where he goes as the
special representative of President
Roosevelt to present a message OF am
ity and good will to President Anna
dor.
Pat Grove, for whose capture Cud-
ahy, the millionaire packer, is reported
to have offered a reward of $25 900 az
the kidnaper of his little son, Is
thought to be in the City of Mexico
and the police are endeavoring to To-
cate him.
A forest fire in the Illinois bottoms,
seven miles north of Peoria, Illinois,
has devastated seven square miles OF
territory. The countryside was filled
with small game driven from their lairs
by the flames. Several farm buildings
were destroyed.
Miss Anna s. Peck, the American
mountain climber, arrived at New York
recently from Colon. Miss Peck, who
left New York last June, has been in
Peru. where she succeeded in ascend
ing Huascan mountain to q height OF
81 900 feet Immense crevasses pre-
vented her reaching the summit.
In sensational finish on the Assocta-
tion track at Oklahoma City, Novem-
ber 18th, Dan Patch lowered ths
worlds record for pacing mile on
half-mile track. the official time being
2:03 fiat. The previous record. held by
Dan Patch himself, was made at Bir-
mingham. Alabama. last year. being
2:03H.
]. P. Storm, former county treasurer
of Yavapai count, Arizona, who wal
found bound and gagged in the vault
of his Office on November 9th, and who
reported that he had been robbed oi
$4,000 by two men and then placed II
the vault, where he claims he was fol
fourteen hours, has been arrested OF
the charge of embezzlement
An automobile train with four carr
was successfully tested at Berlin a few
days ago by the German War Depart
ment. By means of special couplings
the cars were drawn after the auto
mobile round sharp curves. keepini
the same track. The velocity was IF.
teen miles an hour. The train went
over meadows at the rate of eight miles
an hour.
President Roosevelt has announced
the appointment of Francis E. Leupr
to be Indian commissioner, vice VII.
liam A. Jones, resigned. Commissioner
Jones' resignation and Mr.. Leupp's ap-
pointment will take effect January 1st
Mr.. Leupp is Washington correspond
ent Of the New York Evening Post and
has been identified with Indian AFFAIR."
for many years.
Spelterini. prominent balloonist, to-
gether with two members of the Aero
static Club of Berlin. recently made an
ascension from Zurich, Switzerland.
passing over the Bernese Alps and
making safe landing in the village
Of Corbatiere. in the canton OF New
chatel. They attained an elevation o.
two miles, experiencing bright sun.
shine but intense cold.
The Holland government has notified
the American charge d'affaires that
Queen Wilhelmina win be glad to see