The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-02
Lieut.. Clarence England, navigating

| Hiout- Sidrence England, navigating
officer of the United States cruiser
Chattanooga, was killed on the bridge
Of his vessel while just outside the
harbor at Chefoo, China, by a tsnllci
fired from a French cruiser engaged
in target practice
The Standard Oil company has re-
duced the price of the higher grades
of crude petroleum three cents and
other grades two cents.
Dr. Mary Michael Flack. Kansas
physician, has sued the Wells-F Fargo
Express company for s25,0O0 for the
loss of 1000 pages of manuscript
said to contain the story of her life
Insurance Commissioner Wolf, OF
San Francisco. is preparing a report
showing in datail the losses OF each
insurance company and the report Is
expected to show an aggregate insur-
ance loss of more than $250,00O 900.
A Southern Pacific passenger train
collided with an electric car near Pas
adena. Calf, and three persons were
killed and 60 injured.
The Phoenix Royal Insurance COM
pany, of Vienna, Austria, which car
ried s2,500.000 insurance in San Fran
cisco. has decided not to pay any
loss growing out of the confiagration
last April.
The packing companies recently
convicted in the federal court
at Kansas City of rebating have filed
transcripts and bills of exceptions in
United States court of appeals in st.
Louis.
1t is proposed to sell at public auc-
tion in September every parcel of
land belonging to the late C. J. Dew
lin. of Topeka now in the hands of
the trustees.
Proclamations announcing that the
death sentence has been imposed on
the emperor Gen. Trepoff, NJ. Pobie-
donostseff, Gen. Orloff and others have
been scattered throughout Peterhof
by the Russian terrorists.
Nine perons were killed and a num-
ber of others seriously injured as the
result of wreck on the Great North
Gently. The engine, mail, baggage and
smoking cars plunged over 10 foot
embankment Into the deep waters of
Diamond lake.
The Kansas state board of health
has issued an order to the county
health officers to see that every school
house in their jurisdictions is pro-
perly fumigated before the school term
begins.
While party Of young ministers at
tending the State Baptist association
at Perue Springs, Mo-, were bathing
in the lake, Rev S. E. Rogers. pastor
of the De Kalb and Nelson, Mo-,
| churches, attempted to swim across
the lake and was drowned.
Suit has been filed in the federal
court at Muskogee, I. T., to restrain
Tams Bixby, commissioner of the five
civilized tribes, from re-opening the
| roll for the addition of the names of
infants born since the regular en-
rollment.
A warrant has been issued for
Charles H. Everly. formerly teller
of the ST. Louis Union Trust company
who disappeared recently leaving a
| shortage in his accounts of $4,000
He had been considered an exemplary
citizen and was prominent in church
| circles.
A severe wind and electric storm
recently swept over ST. Louis destroy
| ing several frame houses. One man.
a negro, was killed. A loaded ex-
cursion steamer was blown across
the river at Alton, ILL.,, but the pas
| sengers were rescued.
Political discomfort in Persia is
again assuming an acute phase.
| Suits have been filed by the govern
ment in the federal court at Salt Lake
City. Utah, to recover 10000 acres OF
been acquired from the United States
by gross frauds.
Mayor Tom l.. Johnson, of Cleve-
| land, O., recently took drastic action
| against the Cleveland Electric Rail-
way company. While tearing up the
| company's tracks he was served with
an injunction by the court which he
ignored until the work was finished
He was cited for contempt.
Plans are under way for merging
| the brick plants in Findlay, O., Kan
sas City. Kan, Chanute, Kan. West
Superior, Wis, GAINESVILLE, O., Roches-
ter, N. Y, Kansas City, Mo-, Phil
adelphia, Washington, Cleveland, Min
neapolis and Omaha. into one company
to be known as the Hydraulic Pressed
Brick company of st. Louis. The new
organization will have a capital oi
100000 and capacity of 100000, ,00C
bricks year
An amendment to the model ar
bitration treaty proposed by William
| J. Bryan was unanimously adopted
amid great enthusiasm by the inter-
parliamentary union in session in
London.
The arrival Of Secretary Root al
Rio de Janeiro was made the occa-
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