The Elbert County tribune., 1906-11-08

The Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
way company has announced an In
crease in wages of ten per cent to all
employees whose salaries are less than
5000 month.
The trustees of the Devlin estate
have brought suit against the widow
of C. j. Devlin in the federal court at
Topeka to recover ss72.50o which she
is alleged to have received on life in
surance policies.
The receiver of the defunct First
National bank of Topeka, Kan. has
paid the depositors second dividend
amounting to s22o. 1913. There will
probably be another dividend before
Christmas.
Four Japanese officials recently
visited Richmond. Va, for the pur-
pose of buying tobacco for their gov
ernment.
w. B. Woodbridge, a st. Louis jew
elry drummer. was recently arrested
in San Francisco on charge of for
gerry.
private cablegram received at
Kansas City. Mo-. states that Col
Henry Olcott, president and founder
of the Theosophical society had been
badly injured in a railroad wreck in
Italy. Col. Olcott was former news
paper man and represented the New
YORK Tribune at the execution of
John Brown.
In an address to a company of fol-
lowers Wilbur Glen Voliva recently
outlined plans for new Zion which
Is to be the greatest religious colony
of the world.
An examination of the Cuban treas
ury shows more than s12 900 on
hand. mostly in American gold. The
books salanced.
oklahoma and Indian territory
millers at meeting in Oklahoma
City declared that the shortage of
cars for the movement OF grain and
cotton is seriously interfering with
business
The trial of the Castellane divorce
suit began in Paris, recently. After
partial statement of plaintiffs case
an adjournment was taken for one
week.
The worst prairie fire in II years
swept over the country south of Dick,
inson, N. D., recently, destroying
livestock and burning many farm
buildings.
Latest advices from the scene of
the wreck of three electric cars near
Atlantic City, N. j.. place the mum.
ber of drowned at So. The coroner's
jury is now investigating the acci-
dent.
The department. of agriculture has
issued two bulletins regarding the
material and manufacture of de-
natured or industrial alcohol
A violent storm which recently
swept over southern France did con
siderable damage along the coast.
Nice suffered severely.
The promgramme of receptions and
dinners at the White house for the
season of 19O6-1907 has been announc-
ed by Secretary Loeb.
What is claimed to be the largest
lodging house in the world has largest
thrown open to working men in Bos-
ton.
BY his finger prints soldier in
prison at Leavenworth, Kan, was
identified as long lost English muir
deref.
All the railroads operating in Okla
homa have been made defendants in
complaint filed with the Interstate
Commerce commission by the attorney
general Df fha tprritOrv
The government receipts for Octo-
ber exceeded the expenditures by $2,-
624,211.
One man was killed and one fatally
injured in an explosion in coal mine
at Ottumwa. Ia. recently.
A movement has been started at
Newport, X. l., to prevail on the navy
department at Washington to place a
drydock in Narragansett bay.
Judge Graham has decided that w.
H. Laigden was defacto district At
torney of San Francisco. This in.
sures the Indictment and prosecution
of the alleged municipal grafters.
The Carriage Builders National
association has adopted a resolution
declaring that the tariff question
should be removed from partisan
politics and turned over to perma-
nent comnission of commercial ex-
perts.
Emperor William is suffering with
a heavy cold.
Charles Whitney Norton, said to be
responsible for extensive swindl ing
operations in various parts of the
country, in which his victims were de-
frauded out of securities amounting
to s3,0o0,o00, has been arrested in
Chicago.
Four companies, comprising the
Cotton Oil trust, were recently fined
L e.