The Elbert County tribune., 1905-02-09
CONDENSED KILOGRAMS

destroyed BALDWIN cottage, the prir-
clpai ladies' dormitory. valued at s40.-
The Missouri State Senate has
passed bill repeating the law prohib-
ting the use OF alum in baking pow
ders.
A cablegram from Santiago. Chill,
says that the first automobile has Just
crossed the Andes at an elevation of
$1,000 feet.
Postmaster James NJ. Hobson of
greensboro. Alabama, father of Capt.
Richmond p. Hobson, died January
3lss, aged sixty-eight
The Japanese recently captured Off
Hokkaido island, northern Japan, the
British steamer Wyfeld, loaded with
contraband for Vladivostok.
The directors OF the Lewis G. Clark
Exposition Company have decided to
open the fair to the public Sundays.
The Oregon Trail shows will be
closed.
LADY Curzon, wife of the viceroy of
india. has completely recovered from
her long illness. and is preparing to
Join her husband in India with their
children.
n bill granting to women the right
TO vote for presidential electors has
been favorably reported to the Kansas
House of Representatives. 1t is ex-
pected the bill will pass.
The police committee of The San
Francisco grand jury is unearthing
regularly organized system of gross
police corruption in Chinatown and
numerous indictments are expected.
The Montana legislature has memoir
ialized Congress to submit to the peo-
pie constitutional amendment pro-
viding for the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people.
Gadsden and Alfalfa, Alabama, expe-
rienced an earthquake shock during
the night of January 9th. Many citi-
zens were awakened. In some in
stances glassware was thrown from the
tables.
1t is announced that there is to be
combination of the forty-three lead
ing telephone companies of the United
States and Canada under the tutelage
of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, the capitalization to
be $250.0U0,000.
st. Petersburg dispath says the |
report that Maxim Gcrky, the celebrat-
ed novelist. may be hanged for high |
treason is without the slightest foun-
dalton. Even his friends declare the |
rumor absurd. The expectation is that |
he will be released in few weeks.
The government shipped 55S boxes
of Philippine coins to Manila en- the |
transport Sherman February LIST. |
These were old Spanish coins, re-
claimed by the government and re-
coined. amounting to 1,056.000 pesos, |
t.,
pieces.
After twenty years service as
United States commissioner of labor
Carroll d. Wright retired from that Of
fee January 31st. leaving for Worces-
ter. Massachusetts,, to assume the pres
idency of Clark College. His sue
cessor. DIR. c. p. NELL, has taken
charge of the office.
Spencer Eddy, secretary of the
American embassy at St. Petersburg,
was nearly ridden down by cavalry
having gotten between half squad
ron of Cossacks charging a crowd and |
the crowd itself. He ran three blocks, |
met the sleigh Of an acquaintance
jumped on the footboard behind and
escaped.
Suits for damages aggregating al
most S2,500,000 have been brought |
against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in the United States Circuit |
Court by the Pennsylvania Coal and |
Coke Company and the Webster Coal
and Coke Company on account of al
legged discrimination against the plain
tiff companies.
1t is stated at San Francisco that
the actual construction work of the
Western Pacific railroad will begin
within two months and that a Gould
road to San Francisco promises to be
an accomplished fact soon. Rights of
way and San Francisco terminal are
said to have been finally secured with
out fear of interference.
Fifty miles in thirty-eight minutes
fifty-one seconds was made in the Day
tona handicap in Florida January 31st
by w. III. Fletcher in EAR. Thomas
eighty horsepower automobile. The
race was in ten-mile stretches, with
two minutes control at each turn. w.
II. Bowden made a mile in thirty-two
and four-fifths seconds.
President Beckwith of the defunct
Citizens National Bank at Oberlin,
Ohio, ie reported in q serious condi-
ton. Beckwith has been Ill with heart
trouble ever since the close of the
bank on account of the Chadwick
loans and has gradually grown weaker.
1t is believed he will not live to be
tried oh the charges against him.
statue has been erected in Fuller
ton Memorial hall at the art institute
at Chicago in honor of DIR. Mary Harris
Thompson. DR.. Thompson was the
founder in 1865 of the Mary Thon,p-
son hospital for women and children.
and was the pioneer woman physician
of the Northwest. The memorial cost
$3.50. and is the work of Daniel c.
French.