The Elbert County tribune., 1905-10-12
CONDENSED TELEGRAms

Plans are said to be under way for
the construction OF beet sugar plant
at Provo. Utah. to cost 100000.
The strike OF the drivers employed
on United States mail wagons in New
York City resulted in the granting OF
their demands.
Richard Clarkson. pension agent for
Iowa and Nebraska. and for thirty
years manager OF the Iowa State Reg
lister, died October Sd.
AS the result of arbitration 5000 un.
ion carpenters In Boston and vicinity
had their wages increased 2s cents a
day on Monday. October I'd.
Secretary Taft has undertaken to de
liver a speech in Ohio during the pres
ent campaign, at n time and place to
be fixed by the Republican state com
mittee later on.
J. j. Hill. president of the Great
Northern railroad, has ordered that all
operators on the system who refused
to so out during the recent strike shall
have their salaries doubled.
The decennial census Just completed
shows the population of Kansas as en-
rolled by the assessors in March, 1905,
to be l.543.SlS, an increase Of 209.0St
over the population as shown by the
census IN 1879.
The publication of the October bu-
reau report showing the condition of
| cotton to be 71.2 per cent. again3t III
last month and 73.S per cent. last year,
was followed by sensational break
in the cotton market
The appraisement at over s16.o00,-
J 900 of the estate of the late Adrian 1se-
/ lin of New Rochelle. New York. has
been filed in court The appraisement
showed 81 .407. .050 Of real estate and
| Sl4,925.9 900 of personal property.
A Moscow dispatch says that Lieu
tenant General Stoessel. who com
manded the Russian forces at Port
| Arthur, Is suffering from a stroke of
paralysis which affects his entire left
side. The generals recovery is hoped
/ for.
| Passenger fares in upper Michigan
| have been voluntarily reduced by the
Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul road
the reduction being from cents a mile
to cents. Similar action on the part
on the Chicago d Northwestern was
recently announced.
AT Magnolia. Missouri. Bessie Per
! kins, n white woman. has been sen
fenced to ten years in the penitentiary
! for marrying and living with "A negro
Judge Wilkinson, in passing sentence.
said ne regretted that he could make
the punishment no heavier.
Mr. De Thai, secretary OF the Rus
sian embassy at Washington. has been
temporarily transferred to Mexico as
charge d'affaircs Of The Russian lega-
tion there. Prince kudaehen. who was
with Baron Rosen at Toxic. has been
attached TO the Washington embassy.
The figures show that 90.772 imml-
| grants landed at Ellis Island last
month as against 50 270S in September,
1904. The last month has. according
to Commissioner Watchorn. been the
heaviest Immigration September in
the history of the immigration bureau.
Orders for 1000 tons OF shipping
haze been placed with clyde builders
during the past month, while i4.001
tons of new ships were launched dur.
ing The same period. This boom is due
TO the expectation of great increase
in the far eastern trade, now that the
war is over
The North American Commercial
Company, lessee of sealing rights of
the Pribylof Islands. shipped 14.36S
fur sealskins during the season of 1905,
against 13.12S shipped In 1904. accord
ing to figures made public to-day by
w. l. Lembky, agent in charge of seal
fisheries of Alaska.
The so.called Great Berlin Street
Railway Company, owner of most OF
the surface lines in the city OF Berlin.
has decided TO increase its capital by
SIS 100000 and construct underground
lines under Potsdamcr. I.eipsiger and
Inter den Linden streets, provided. as
seems probable. that "A ninety-year con
cession can be obtained.
The New York State Department OF
Labor calls attention to a marked i'm
provement in trade, which began in
the middle OF 1904 and has continued
almost uninterruptedly. The depart.
nent says that now there are rela-
lively fewer idle wage earners in New
York than there were even in 1902. the
most prosperous year of the decade.
The report of Francis A. Dodge, the
paymastcr general of the army, points
out that the enlisted men have now
every chance to put away money for
their own savings by the deposit sys-
TEN. which guarantees them absolute
safety. During the year the year the
amount deposited by the men was 81 ;.
53l .020. making the total amount since
the establishment of the system, $780,
294 4,326
Mail advices from the South Seas
include a disastrous typhoon and tidal
wave in the Marshall group, causing
The loss OF 120 lives. A wave nearly
six feet high swept the islands of ia.
iuit. The settlement is on an island
about mile long and where the Euro
peans are gathered is about 100 yards
wide. The top story of the hotel. In
which the foreigners lived, was blown
OFF and several had narro~ escapes
from falling debris.
By direction OF the President the
State and Navy Departments have be
| gun the preparation of plans for recep-