The Elbert County tribune., 1905-03-16
CONDENSED 1GLEGRAMs


OF q state building at the Lewis &
Clarke exposition.
A. M. Palmer. the noted theatrical
manager. died in New York City
March 9TH of apoplexy. He was sixty
seven years of age.
The Kaiser sent a personal letter
containing an invitation for the KEEL
week to the American ambassador,
Charlemagne Tower.
aae Union elevator at Council Bluffs
was burned on the night of March 9Th,
together with 100000 bushels of grain,
mostly corn. Loss. 100000.
At Batoum in Caucasia on the 9Th
inst Cossacks broke up an outdoor
meeting at which speeches were deliv
cred, chased the audience into the
courts of houses and killed or wound
ed seven men and one woman.
In the name of the city of Seattle.
Samuel hill, member Of the board OF
overseers of Harvard University. has
subscribed $4,000 to special fund of
S1.000,000 to relieve the annual def
cheney existing at the institution.
1t is announced that DR.. John Alex
ander Dowie has definitely decided TO
establish a new Zion" near the City
residence, as the climate of Chicago is
too harsh for him in his old age.
The Canadian camp ate a rhinoceros
dinner March Sd at the Hotel Aston in
New York City. The menu cards an
nounced that the ''fllet of rhino" had
been prepared from a rhinoceros pre-
scented by Prince Henry of Prussia.
Immigration statistics show more
than 100 per cent. Increase of new
corners during the month of February
over the corresponding period of last
year. The arrivals of the month were
53.460, as against 23,410 in February,
1904.
Christiana dispatch says that a
special committee of the storthing has
decided by sixteen votes to three to
submit a bill to the storthing provid-
ing for the establishment of separate
Norwegian consular service by April.
1906.
General Booth of the Salvation Army
started from London March LIST ON his
first visit to Jerusalem, where he win
hold an open-air meeting on Mount
Calvary. From there the general will
go to Australia and New Zealand on
a farewell visit.
The Mexican National Sugar Rein
ing Compan.. Incorporated unde' the
laws of New Jersey, has filed incorpo-
ration papers in the City of Mexico.
The company is capitalized at $1,000
900 gold and purposes to erect a mod
ern sugar refinery at :, era Cruz.
1t is officially announced in London
that Earl Cawdor will succeed Lord
Selbourne as first lord of the admi-
oil Il, To-,
of surprise, he having since his ac-
cesslon to the earldom taken no active
part in politics and being absorbed in
railway management.
The plant of the American Cereal
Company at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was
destroyed by fire ON the night of the
9TH inst. The works were said to be
the largest of the kind in the world
and the loss is estimated at 81 500, 600,
on which there was si,000.0OO insur-
arce.
Governor Hoch of Kansas received
a telegram from an Independent oil re-
finery company of humboldt. saying
tnat the freight charges on a car of
oil just shipped were S5074 less under
the newly enacted maximum freight
rate law. The telegram was read in
both me Senate and House.
James Nick. Gordan, aged thirty, an
agricultural expert and specialist in
the growing of celery, committed sui
eide at Chicago on the 9TH inst by
leaping from the fourth floor of Nc
Coy's hotel to the street. He had
shown signs CO insanity while on a
train with his wife coming from Cali
fornia.
AS result of inquiries which were
commenced in December last IL has
been discovered that In upper Hun
gary there has been system of falsi-
fication of records, such as the chang
ing of names, false entries of deaths.
etc. by which many thousands of
young Hungarians have avoided obli-
gatory military service.
Existence of a gigantic combination
controlling the drug trade of the
United States and costing the consum-
ers s40.000,000 annually, is held to
have been proved by the hearing just
concluded before Special United States
Commissioner Marshall e. Sampsell at
Chicago. The amount of business CON
trolled by the combination is placed at
$400,000,000 yearly.
A ten per cent. increase in wages
was granted to the employees OF the
H. G. Frick company in the Pennsylva-
mia coke region on the LIST of March.
General good times rs gwen as the rea-
son for the advance. w. j. Rainey and
the Cochran company, independent
coke operators. promptly announced
that they would pay the same scale,
the increase altogether affecting 10000
men.
Ben Daniels, superintendent of the
Arizona penitentiary. former mem
Der of the Presidents regiment of
Rough Riders, and a member of the
picked escort of the President inaug-
ura'ion day, presented to the Presi-