The Elbert County tribune., 1905-07-27
CONDENSED KILOGRAMS

Inc hOrean loan OF u ,0OO,OOU, uOdteu
at Toxic. was oversubscribed four
times. 1t was the first foreign loan
ever foated in Japan.
The Roosevelt. in which Capt Rob-
ert E. Peary hopes to reach the North
Pole. started on her long voyage from
New York City July 10th.
A Toxic dispatch says it is expected
that the Russian warships Pallada,
Pobieda and Poltava. sunk at Port Ar
thur, will soon be relocated.
Hereafter the Japanese army Of all
services will be clothed in khaki. The
officers will be distinguished from the
men only by their shoulder straps
]. Scott Leary of the Olympic Club,
San Francisco. broke the worlds swim
ming record for 100 yards at the Lewis
and Clark Fair July 18th. making the
distance in one minute fat.
The Municipal Council of Paris has
decided to accept from John II. Harjes,
the American banker. the gift Of a
statue of Benjamin Franklin, to be
erected at the end of Rue de Franklin
The will of Moses A. Dropsie. late
president of GrantZ College. gives the
bulk of his estate to the establishment
of Jewish college in Philadelphia.
The estate is estimated at upward of
100000.
A special United States grand jury
will be summoned in September to meet
in Milwaukee and will devote itself
to an inquiry into the affairs OF the
General Paper Company, the so-called
paper trust
At Weston, Massachusetts, by the
discharge of shotgun which he had
loaded for the purpose of killing stray
cats. Thomas T. Hagar, a cousin OF
Major Gen. Leonard Wood. was In
stantly killed last night.
John T. Foster, one of the famous in
ventors in the United States, under
whose direction the first gold pens
were manufactured in New York City,
died at Arlington, New Jersey, July
18th. at the age of eighty-fve years
The chief of staff has approved the
recommendations of Quartsrmaster
General Humphrey for the improve
ment of quarters at the various army
posts througout the country. For this
purpose Congress appropriated s4,6SS,
$50.
The roof of the chapel OF the
Women's hospital at Fermo. Italy, fell
on the 10th inst. during the celebra-
ton Of mass, killing sixteen women
and fifty children and injuring sixteen
women and a large number of chill
dren.
Prof. Heber Curtis and Joel Steb
bins OF Lick observatory sailed for
Labrador from st. Johns, Newfound-
land, July 18th, on the mail steamer
to arrange for observing the total
solar eclipse, visible there August
30th
The Venezuelan government has
paid to the British and German lega-
tons 2,797.959 bolivars. being the first
six months installment due under the
contract recently signed for the con
version of the foreign debt of Vene-
zuela.
Lieutenant General Chaffee and the
party OF army officers who are to at.
tend the French army maneuvers. will
sail from New York August 10Th on
the steamer Kroonland and go to Ant
wsrp. whence they will proceed to
Paris.
The battleship Vermont will be
launched at the shipyard OF the Fore
River Shipbuilding Company. Quincy,
Massachusetts, August 31st. The gov
ernor of Vermont has designated his
daughter, Miss Jennie Bell to act as
sponsor.
President Palma has vetoed the
action of the Cuban Congress, which
continued in effect the budget for the
fiscal year ending June Both last. His
reason for SO doing is that the old
budget did not include any provision
for the sanitation of cities.
At the annual meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the Freedmen's Aid
and Southern Educational Society Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, one
of the most important steps was to
authorize the expenditure of 100000
for college building at Austin, Texas
Harold Powell of the United States
Department OF Agriculture says he
has conclusively demonstrated tina.
ripe fruit, well refrigerated before
shipment, will arrive sound under or
binary railroad refrigeration, even
after being from ten to fifteen days
en- route.
The governments OF Great Britain
and Spain have accepted the invita-
ton of the sultan of Morocco to at
tend the international conference on
Moroccan reforms, on condition that
the contents of the program to be dis
cussed by the conference be communi-
Gated to them beforehand.
Laura Hyde Woodwork Stedman,
wife of Edmund Clarence Stedman,
the banker-poet, died July 18th from
heart disease at the villa of the family
in Bronxville, New York. Mr.. and
Mrs. Stedman had been married for
more than fifty years. They have two
sons, Frederick Stuart and Arthur
Stedman.
The committee named by Mayor
Mcclellan OF New York to consider
plans for submission to the next
mayor for the centenary celebration
In 1907 of the first use OF steam in
water navigation. has decided to send