The Elbert County tribune., 1906-07-26


The London newspapers report that
number of Chicago meat packers
contemplate oEsning packing houses
and warehouses in England.
In collision on the Seaboard Air
Line one mile from Hamlet, N. c.,
19 persons were killed and % injured.
The commission appointed by the
Russian government to inquire into
the surrender of Port Arthur recon-
mends that Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel be
sentenced to death and that Gen.
Fock be condemned to the galleys for
20 years.
Smallpox has broken out at Colon
on the lsthmus of Panama.
Mayor Rose, of Kansas City. Kan,
has again been cited to appear before
the Kansas supreme court to answer
a second contempt charge brought
by the attorney general. The first
charge was recently taken to the fed
eral supreme court.
Correspondence has been presented
to the Wisconsin legislative insurance
investigating committee in which a
judge of the state supreme court Of
fered a plan for a subterfuge under
which rebate could be given poll
cy holder and still come within the
pale of the law.
The Chicago & Alton Railway COM
pany, John n. Faithorn and F. A.
Wann, former officials of the road
have been granted a stay of execution
pending an appeal to the United States
court of appeals in the case in which
they were recently find an aggregate
sum of 100000
The New York Central Railroad
company is reported to have made a
bid of $1S,000,000 for the two Indiana
railroads owned by John r. Walsh
former president of the defunct Chi
cago National bank.
Philadelphia has been chosen by
the Elks as the convention aity for
next year.
The federal grand jury at Cleve
land, o., which has been investigating
the relations of the Standard Oil COM
pany with the railroads has adjourned
without returning indictments. The
government attorneys discovered that
the acts charged had been committed
in another jurisdiction.
William Stryker. former state su-
perintendept of public instruction in
Kansas and now editor of the Tulsa,
I. T., Daily Democrat. was assaulted
in that city by Woodson Norvell, a
candidate for attorney general.
Eastern Cherokee Indians have ap-
piled to the District of Columbia su-
preme court for an injunction to pre-
vent the United States treasurer from
paying a $4,000 fee to st. Louis and
Vinita attorneys.
The Paris Journal declares that the
emperors of Austria, Germany and
Russia have entered into an alliance
regarding Poland whereby each is to
protect the interests of the other in
case of a revolution in that country.
The agrarian outrages continue in
the province of Veronezh, Russia The
peasants have risen as one man and
in one night recently burned more
than 20 estates and killed several Of
the proprietors.
Martin Flynn, president of the
Peoples Savings bank of Des Moines,
Ia, recently committed suicide in
that city by shooting. He was well
known throughout the west as a
breeder of shorthorn cattle.
A statement issued by the depart
ment of commerce and labor says the
foreign commerce of the United States
for the fiscal year just ended aggre-
gated $2,970.0O0,000.
By the explosion of q 20-gallon tank
of carbide at Greenwood, Ind, Rev.
D. I. Lewis and George McNeenus
were killed and Harry Lewis was seri-
ously injured. The men were pre-
pairing for stereopticon exhibition.
Socorro, New Mexico, has recently
suffered considerable damage from
earthquake shocks, So being recorded
in less than three days. The Pc
cuniary loss will not be large owing
to the fact that most of the structures
in the town are of adobe.
At the instance of Secretary Taft
the president has directed that off,
GERS in charge of public work must
detect and punish violations of the
eight hour law.
An invitation has been sent to
President Roosevelt to visit New Or
leans while en- route to Panama this
fall.
An investigation of the accounts of
the late Maj. George A. Bartlett, dis
bursting officer of the treasury depart
ment at Washington, show a shortage
of $4,000.
Fire in Yokohama recently de-
stroyed 1000 Japanese houses.
An application has been filed in
the district court at Des Moines, Ia,
for receiver for the Brotherhood of
American Yeomen, fraterual insur-
ance order operating in the western
states