The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16

souil penlleutiary lrOm ST Joseph
by Sheriff Sampson are alleged to
have been drunk when turned over to
the institution and the board OF char
tiles is making an investigation.
The steamer Troy. a 5.o00-ton steel
packet freighter, collided with the
span OF the interstate bridge at Du-
luth. Mimi. and precipitated it into
the channels on either side of the
center pier on which the span re-
volved, completely blocking nayiga-
tion TO and from the upper harbor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, who have been making a tour
of Europe. have returned. They
were met at quarantine by the presi-
dents yacht and taken to Oyster
Bay.
Panama authorities have arrested
IL Colombians who were formerly
revolutionary generals on the charge
OF conspiracy against high national
authority. The prisoners were con-
spicuous during the revolution of
1900 and had just returned to the
isthmus.
Frank E. Creelman of Chicago,
who has large interests in different
parts Of the country. has filed an
involuntary petition in bankruptcy.
Charles Holiday, a harvest hand
has been placed in Jail at Pratt, Kan,
charged with beating and kidnapping
the 16-year-old daughter of farmer
near Cu!lison.
The fire commission OF San Fran
cisco has approved a recommends
tion of the fire chief favoring the
installation of a supplemental salt
water system to protect the business
section.
Governor Mickey of Nebraska has
notified the police commissioners of
South Omaha that unless they keep
the saloons closed on Sunday, pro-
ceedings will be instituted for their
dismissal.
The Idaho state democratic conven-
mon plank in their platform which
if enacted into law would disfran-
chise all faithful Mormons.
Edward Bateman, a negro, was re-
Gently hung at Springfield, Mo-, for
assaulting a white woman at Aurora,
last February
Owing to the recent hot wave sew
eral factories in Paterson, N. j.. were
compelled to shut down. Several
deaths and many prostrations were re-
ported.
The heaviest rain in several years
visited Joplin, Mo-, recently. wash
ing out many streets and flooding bus
mess houses. The foundation for the
new $4,000 hotel, now under con-
truction, was wrecked.
John Donahue. farmer living
eight miles north, of Fredonia, Kan,
was shot and killed by his wife.
Ernest Steinheart, a whisky sales
man for a Kentucky house, COM
mitted suicide in st. Louis giving as
1 reason that he would rather be
dead than to continue selling liquor
The third annual conference of the
International League of Women Suf-
fragists met recently at Copenhagen,
Denmark, with Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait presiding.
1t has been announced by the
tnlleu oldttS lTtd5uTy ucDdT ll1tuL
that the purchase if silver bullion for
the subsidiary coinage would be re-
sumed Immediately. About 100000
ounces a week VIII be needed at
present.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
recently returned an indictment
against the Standard Oil company for
recei.ing rebates from the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railway
company. Bond was required in the
sum of $4,000. The indictment con-
tained 19 counts.
Henry w. Herring. cashier of the de-
funct Milwaukee Avenue State bank,
of Chicago, was arrested recently in
connection with the disappearance of
nearly s1.000,000 of the banks funds.
A well-dressed girl about is years
old was killed by the premature ex-
plosion of a bomb near the residence
recently.
Justice Giegerich of New York, has
ordered the Mutual Life Insurance
company to furnish a correct list of
its policyholders to the international
Policyholders' committee and to lille
similar list with the state insur-
ance department at Albany within ten
days
George Hall. one of the lynchers
of the three negroes at Salisbury, N.
c., recently, has been convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary for Is
years. This is the first instance on
record of the conviction of a lyncher
in North Carolina.
A photograph of the new island
recently formed in Alaskan waters
near Dutch Harbor, has been received
at Tacoma, Wash. Clouds of steam