The Elbert County tribune., 1905-10-26
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs

On the 18th inst. earthquake shocks
were felt in the province OF Calabria.
Italy, in Cuba and in Jamaica.
There was Ii general fumigation at
New Orleans October 18th and tons of
sulphur perfumed and purified the air.
Field Marshal Edhem Pasha. the con-
queror OF Greece. is alive and in good
health The report OF his death arose
from the demise of namesake.
Yankee Consul. a noted thorough
bred, died at Lexington. Kentucky. on
the llth inst. He was valued at $780,
600, and belonged to Paul Raines of
Cleveland.
Herr Moller, Prussian minister of
commerce and industry, has resigned.
He will be succeeded by Herr Del
bruck, president of the province of
West Prussia.
The Berlin Chess Club has accepted
the challenge of the Manhattan Chess
Club of New York for a match of six
boarcs to be played by cable. at the
end of November.
The President has accepted the rusig-
nation of Eugene Tucker as associate
justice of the Supreme Court OF Ari-
zona. To succeed him the President
A meeting of the Carnegie trustees
TO consider the disposition of the Sl0.-
100000 fund to pension retired teach
ers has been called at the New York
| home of Andrew Carnegie November
| 18th
Isaac Taylor, Indian fighter, scout,
stage coach driver, and one of the first
men 10 make the trip overland from
70 ha To- nj
Kansas City, October Gath. at the age
of eighty-four years.
The police OF Barcelona. Spain. have
found number of packages of dyna-
mite concealed in flowers. Investiga-
tions Indicate that there was plot to
use dynamite during President Lou
bets visit to King Alfonso.
The tenth anniversary of the found.
ing Of the prison volunteer league was
| celebrated at the Joliet, Illinois, pen
itentiary on the 18th inst. Mrs. Maud
| Ballington Booth founded the league.
She made an address to 1.400 convicts.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
| Cherwell reports that while anchored
| between Ceuta and Ceres, she was fired
at by Moors, whose bullets pierced her
funnel. The Cherwell threw her
searchlight on the assailants. There
were no casualties.
The Santa Fe announces that COM
mencing November 18th, the daily ser
vice for the eleventh season OF the
California Limited" will be resumed
between Chicago, Los Angeles, San Di-
! ego and San Francisco. This train
now runs semi-weekly.
General Bates. acting chief of staff.
has detailed Maj. Gen. John F. Weston,
formerly commissary general of sub
sistence, to the command of the north
ern military division, with headquar-
! ters at st. Louis, to succeed Maj. Gen.
George NJ. Randall, retired.
1t is understood in manufacturing
circles in Massachusetts that within
short time the Fall River Cotton
Manufacturers Association will gram
an advance in wages to the operatives
numbering upwards of $4,000 now EN-
ployed in association m6is.
The Arizona Association of Congre
gational ministers adopted a resolution
urging Congress to incorporate in the
Arizona statehood bill prohibition
against the licensing of gambling, lot
teries and the sale of intoxicating liz
uors in the state of Arizona.
Gen. X. l.. Mills, superintendent OF
the military academy at West Point
in his annual report pictures very sat
isfactory conditions as to discipline
military bearing and soldierly conduct
of the cadets, and says that hazing In
any form has shown no symptom of re
appearing.
The discontinuance of racing reports
caused a decrease of S215,755 in the
gross earnings of the Western Union
Telegraph Company for the year ended
June Both last. The decrease, President
Clowry reports, resulted in spite of 9
large Increase of revenue from mes
sage business.
Secretary of War Taft is a very bis
man physically In order to furnish
him with comfortable place to sleeT
in the cruiser Columbia on his trip tc
Panama it became necessary to make
a special bunk, which was placed
where there would be the least jai
from the machinery.
According to the report Of the navni
board of inspection and survey the
final forty-eight-hour trial OF the
cruiser Galveston was satisfactory In
every way. The average speed for a
four-hour run under forced draft was
1856 knots an hour. the speed which
the vessel was designed to make being
1875 knots.
Five tons of molten metal exploded
at the Joliet plant of the Illinois Stee
Company, falling in a shower OF deatt
OH band of worllmen about the con
verter. One man is dead, three are
fatally burned and a half dozen in
jured so badly that they may die
Many others suffered severe burns or
their feet and hands.
The American Hawaiian Steamship
Company expects to ship at least 300.
600 tons of Hawaiian sugar annually
across the Mexican isthmus under the
contract recently entered into with the
National Railroad of Tehuantepet