The Elbert County tribune., 1905-11-02
CONDENSED TELEGRAms

whom l.bso,e17 paid and s7l.16s were
free.
John F. Stevens. chief engineer of
the Panama canal. emphatically do
MES the rumor that he Is about to re-
sign the position
The reorganization bill now before
the philippine commission providing
for reducing the departments of the
government will save s1.250.o00 (gold)
annually.
The entire business section OF Al.
turas. California, $50 miles north OF
Reno, Nevada, has been destroyed By
fire. twenty-seven business houses and
two residences being consumed.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has
handed down decisions sustaining the
constitutionality of the anti-cigarette
law, the inheritance tax law and the
law to punish desecration OF the Ameri.
can flag.
The presbytery of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church in Bohlin, Ken
tucky, has decided that all women
members of the Presbytery shall give
to charity all eggs laid by their hens
on Sunday.
John J. George OF the Fifteenth bat
terry of Fort Sam Houston, Texas waa
killed October.17th by a cannon wheel
striking boulder and capsizing while
the battery was practicing on the Fort
Sill reservation.
The shortage of the Mexican wheat
crop is greater than was estimated a
few weeks ago, and millers are looking
for the entire removal of the duty on
A mo lst-t h.
first Of the year.
AT the state Republican convention
In Rhode Island. Governor George II.
Utter, was renominated by acclama.
ton, together with all the present state
officers. The platform declares
strongly for protection.
A dispatch from Santiago. Chile,
says that about fifty persons were
killed and 800 wounded during the re-
cent rioting there. The trouble was
caused by the opposition of the people
to the import tax on Argentine cattle.
A general council" to consider the
proposed union of the Congregational
t670,000 members). United Brethren
(250.000) and Methodist Protestant
(1S0,000) churches has been called 10
assemble at Dayton. Ohio, February Z.
1906.
The discharge of employees of the
pension bureau who have been lending
money to their fellow employees at ex
orbitant rates of interest. sometimes as
high as ten per cent. per month. will
be recommended by Commissioned
Warner.
The Sorbonne University at Paris
has sent two young women on trip
around the world as a reward for max
ing the best records in their studies
They will come to the United States
first and visit some OF the leading uni
versities.
According to advices from Man
churia, General Linevitch, on receip
of the notifications OF the ratification
of the peace treaty. ordered the de
struction of the barricades and other
impediments of communication with
the neutral zone.
More coal was taken from the mines
of the United Kingdom during the last
year thansin any previous year on rec
ord. Vhe total, according to the return
issued by the home Office. amounted to
232, ,42S,272 tons, being 3,083,S03 tons
more than in 1908.
The French parliament will be asked
| to offer 100000 prize for a cure foI
| consumption. The project has the ap
proval of the government and there
fore its adoption is assured. The dis
cussion at the tuberculosis congress ii
responsible for this prize.
Sir Thomas Upton expects to chal
lenge for the Americas cup in 1907
IT,. ha Z
keen as ever and that while too late
to challenge for 1906. II all went well
he would be at Sandy Hook with q
new challenger the following year.
1t is denied by the Department oi
Justice that the voluntary testimony
Of the beef packers given In the De
partment of Commerce and Labor in
quiry as to the cause of the high price
OF beef has been used in the injunc
ton suit brought against the packers
A monument to Pope Plus X. sub
scribed for by Catholics all over the
world, was unveiled October 22d al
Riese, the little village in the Vene
tan province where the Pope was
born. His holiness is represented In
the act of administering benediction
King Victor Emmanuel recently re
ceived $4,000 anonymously for the
benefit of the sufferers by the recen'
earthquake in the province of Gala
bria. Baron Ko.chen, Russian consul
at Messina, now states that the con
tribution was made by Emperor Nicho
las.
The federal House Of Representa-
tives of the commonwealth of Austria
liza has adODted a motion to petition
King Edward to grant home rule to Ire
land. This success of the home rulers
is attributed in large measure to VIII
liam Redmond's recent campaign in
Australia.
William II. Nicholson, who is estab
fishing the new town of Cuzco, In In
diana, Is putting in all the leases a
clause to the effect that If liquor is
sold, drank or given away on any oi
the premises, the property reverts to