The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-11
CONDENSED rELEcRAns

The drought has destroyed the
maize (corn) crop In Roumania and
the government has prohibited the ex-
| portation OF maize.
According to the schedules OF the
estate OF the late William C. Whitney
which were filed in New York City. the
estate is estimated at $21 .ss4.101.
j. A. Sloan Of the United States
| Bureau OF Animal Industry. says the
drouth in southern Arizona has caused
loss OF fifty per cent to the cattle
men.
Several distinct shocks Of earth
| quake were felt at-2:30 a. m. July Goth,
| at Woodland, California. They were
heavy enough to waken people. but no
damage was done.
Robert e. Pattison, twice Demo.
cratic governor of Pennsylvania, died
at his home in suburb OF Philadelphia
! on the LIST inst. of pneumonia at the
age of ifty-three years.
| Judge and Mrs. Alton b. Parker
have accepted the invitation of Ma
tional Committeeman Norman e. Mack
| to be his guests New York day, Octo.
Der 4. at the Worlds Fair.
Capt. Henry Ware Lyon has been
selected to succeed Rear Admiral
Terry in command of the naval station
at Honolulu, in anticipation of the lat
ter's retirement next December.
The comparative statement of the
government receipts and expenditures
for the month OF July, 1904, shows a
deficit of $17,407,72S. as against a
deficit OF s7.776,6l3 for July last year
Louis London Of the "Bostonians."
danfaa tha Draoo dfcpotchac cont ottt
from Atlantic City, New Jersey. to the
effect that the company is in financial
straits and will not be organized for
the coming season.
Isaac w. Barnum, inventor of the
hemming attachment for sewing ma
chimes and who is said to have pos
sessed fortune OF 100000 a few
years ago. died In poverty at Brooklyn,
New York. last month.
William Pickens. a negro. who
graduated with high honors at Yale
a month ago, has just been advised of
his election to membership In the Phi
Beta Kappa Society. He is the only ne
gro belonging to the society.
Chief WillSie. of the United States
secret service, announces the discov-
cry of a new counterfeit $40 note. 1t
is on the National Bank of Commerce
of New York, series of 1882. Bruce,
register, Wyman, treasurer. 1t is a
poorly executed photograph.
A New York dispatch says that
July 31st was the biggest day in
Coney Islands history, according to
expert counters. 1t is estimated that
fully 100000 persons went to the re-
sort by trolley cars. trains and boats.
The crowd was well handled.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick has been
obliged to alter the plans for her
American trip in consequence Of ner-
vous prostration, from which she suf
fered since her release. II is not likely
that Mrs. Maybrick will be able to
start before the end of August, II then.
In reply to an invitation by COM
mittee of the @. A. r. to attend the
national encampment at Boston August
1920. President Roosevelt said that he
would probably have to decline, as he
had declined all similar invitations to
participate in public functions during
the present year.
A Mexican woman got the guards
drunk at the Jail in Aqua Prieta, a
border town In the state of Sonora, OPP
posite Douglas, Arizona, and liberated
three Mexicans who were under arrest.
charged with being implicated In MUIR
dering and robbing American prospec.
tors in Sonora recently.
The general land Office recently an.
nounced that the registration at
DEVILS Lake and Grand Forks, North
Dakota. for the DEVILS Lake Indian
reservation lands. which are to be
opened to settlement. would begin at 9
a. m. August 8. The registration will
close at 6 p. m. August 20.
Mrs. Nelson A. Miles, wife of Gen.
eral Miles. died at West Point, New
York, on the night of August LIST, OF
heart disease at the age Of sixty-two
! years. Mrs. Miles was the daughter
of Judge Charles Sherman, and a
niece of the late Senator John Sher
man of Ohio and General William t
Sherman.
A forest fire on the ella forest re
| serve in Arizona, which ragged two
months, defying the efforts OF forest
rangers and devastating an area fifteen
| square miles, which was covered by
fine timber, has been put out by heavy
rains. For a time smoke from the
fire enveloped Silver City, New Mex
leo, nifty miles away.
All the officers and employees Of the
Knickerbocker Steamboat Company, as
well as the United States inspectors
indicted by the federal grand Jury IL
New York City In connection with the
Slocum disaster of June is last, have
been admitted to bail in the United
States Circuit Court. 1t Is believed
the trials cannot begin until late IL
the fall.
To punish adequately unscrupulous
dealers who have sold adulterated mill
and caused the death of a number O
! babies in the western part OF Pennsyl
vania. It is declared by an officer o
the dairy and food commission tina
future prosecutions will not end will
fines. but will extend to indictment
| and trinl hv iiirt nm thu oh IN roc, Of L.,