The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-14
CONDENSED TELEeRAms

Severe storms occurred on the night
OF September LIST throughout the
greater part OF Wisconsin, resulting In
heavy damage
The announcement is made that the
United States Steel Company has do
cided to maintain the price of steel
rails to its customers for 1906 at $28 a
ton.
Great interest is being takeE at Phil
adelphia over the correction of the reg
istration list. 1t is stated that 10000
bogus names will be stricken on the
rolls.
Frank c. Graves, formerly financial
writer on New York newspaper, has
| just paid $4,000 for seat on the
New York stock exchange. This is
the highest price ever paid.
The population OF Massachusetts, is
2.99S.958, an increase of 49S,775 over
1885. when the last official census was
taken. Boston's population is 593.59S.
an increase of 96.67S in ten years.
King Oscar has conferred the honor
Of knighthood of the Royal Order Of
Vasa upon B. Lowenstein of Memphis.
| Tennessee. Mr.. Lowenstein has been
a constant visitor to Sweden for twelve
years.
The coinage executed at the mints
| of the United States during August
was: Gold, $9.020,000; silver. $780,
900; Panama half balboas, 100000
pieces; Philippine pesos. 100000
pieces.
The War Department has approved
the plans for the building of new ar.
tillery post at the Preside. near San
Francisco, and $750,000 will be ex-
pended for this purpose within the
next year.
The porte has replied to the note OF
the six embassies, declining to accept
the scheme proposed by them for tho
financial control of Macedonia The
powers will insist on the acceptance OF
the scheme.
On the recommendation of Grand
Duke Vladimir. the emperor has par
doned Prokope, who was sentenced to
death for the assassination of Colonel
Kremarenko, chief of police of Viborg.
on July 22d last.
Total industrial dividends payable in
September will rise above 10.450.000.
according to statistics gathered by the
Journal of Commerce. This is an in.
crease of more than $3,500.000 over
| September year ago.
More Americans havo visited the
Yellowstone National Park this sum-
mer than ever before. 1t is estimated
that 10000 persons have been in the
| park since the season opened. The
record last year was $4,000.
The German postal authorities, who
have always been very progressive.
and who for some time have been ex-
perimenting with automobiles, have de-.
cided to put these modern vehicles in
use on all rural delivery routes.
Secretar, Bonaparte has issued an
order for a court martial to try Com
mander Lucien Young and Ensign
Charles T. Wade, on charges growing
out of the fatal explosion on the gun
boat Bennington at San Diego in July.
The Hartman lines have given an
order in Chicago for seventy-five chair
cars. to cost about s750.000 They will
be used on the system west of Ogden
the Southern Pacific, Oregon Short
Line, Shasta route and Pacific coast
lines.
|. President Paul Morton reports that
the Equitable society's business has
fallen less than ten per cent. in the
United States and Canada during the
seven months ending August /, 1905,
as compared with the corresponding
period of last year.
Edward ]. Lewis, the defaulting real
estate broker of Wheaton. Illinois. who
by duplicate mortgages swindled
widows and ether poor persons to the
extent of 100000, was taken to the
Joliet penitentiary to serve a long sen
| tence. Lewis secretly went before
Judge Bishop Of Wheaton and pleaded
guilty.
More than 10000 acres of land on
the Uinta reservation had been filed
upon as homesteads up to September
I'd by persons who drew lucky mum
bers in the recent drawing at Provo
So far the names of 555 persons enti
tied to make filings have been called
at the land Office, and of these 3S,
have responded and FLEA on home
steads.
The Carnegie Steel Company, which
is a sub-company of the United State
Steel corporation, has ordered in ever,
blast furnace capable of being ope
rated. The demand for pig iron is 81
great that the steel corporation want
to get into operation its total capacity
1t is not improbable that the Carnegie
company will run 100 blast furnace
, for time.
The amalgamation of the lumber in
terests, intended principally to operat
in the redwood districts on the Pacifi
coast, was effected at Detroit Angus
31st and the Pacific Lumber Compan
was organized, with capitalization o
} s10,000.000. Articles of incorporation
/ will be filed under the laws of M@ine
The new company is an outgrowth 0
the Pacific company Of New Jersey.
t The new 16,000-ton battleship Vel
, mont, built for the United States GOV
ernment by the Fore River Shipbuild
! ing Company at Quincy, MassachI
I setts, was successfully launched Al
gust 31st The Vermont is one of tn