The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-11
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Apalachicola, Florida.
A grand jury has been sworn in by
the Supreme Court OF New York TO
consider 1000 cases of alleged election
fraud.
The State Department has been for
mally notified that the Olympic games
will be held at Athens, Greece. from
April 22d to May I'd.
The anDual tournament of the In
door Rifle League of the United States
will be held at Grand Rapids, Michi-
gan. February 18th to 18th.
The executive committee OF the
American Bar Association has decided
to hold the next annual meeting in st.
Paul, August 29th, Goth and 31st.
The precious Madonna Del Popolo.
by Lippo Memmi, which was stolen
some time ago from the Church of
Santa Maria De Servi, has been re-
covered at Siena.
A new high record price for seat
on the stock exchange was reached
December 26th, when S95, 900 was paid.
This, with the $4,000 initiation fee,
brings it up to $4,000.
Charters taken out in eastern states
during 1905 represent a total capitali
cording to figures Just made public.
the exact figures are 81, 153, ,334 81.
A series of earthquake shocks were
felt at about $50 a. m. at Agram,
Gill. Laibch, Marburg and Gratz, in
Austria. Buildings cracked and the in
habitants fed panic-stricken from their
houses.
Lieut.. Gen. Count Won Moltke has
been appointed chief of the general
staff of the German army, succeeding
Field Marshal Count Won Schleiffen.
Won Moltke is a nephew of the great
commander.
Spaniards, Cubans and Americans in
Havana fraternized in celebration of
the new year. The reception given by
President Palma at the palace was
largely attended. Many Americans
were present.
Japan's FIRST ambassador to the
United States win be Viscount Suzo
Aoki, now a member of the privy
council, close friend and adviser of
the Mikado, and one of the foremost
men Of his country.
The trackmen of the Canadian Pa
cific railway have secured an increase
of cents a day to the section men
and ten cents to the foremen. The in
crease will apply to all the lines from
Fort William to the Atlantic coast.
The controversy between the city OF
Knoxville, Tennessee, and its water
company, as to the right of the city to
establish its own water works, has
been decided by the Supreme Court of
the United States in favor of the city.
An advertisement appearing in a
San Francisco paper offers for sale
Tanning and Washington islands, in
the South Pacific, under instructions of
the register of the British high COM
missioners court for the western Pa
cific.
Robert H. Todd. mayor of San Juan,
Porto Rico has sailed for Washington,
as delegate from the Porto Rico Mu-
nicipal League, of which he is presi-
dent, with the object of asking Con-
gress to pass law creating an cleo
tive senate in the island.
The peasants on the immense es-
tates of Count Stroganoff at Perm, in
Russia, met and coolly arranged to di-
vide the major portion of the lands
| among themselves. They sent to the
! count notification of the portion they
will allow him to retain.
After a division of almost 100 years,
| steps were consummated December
| 29th in the joint session of general
| committees at st. Louis which, when
| formally ratified, will unite the North
ern Presbyterian Church, u. S. A, and
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
The Critic Del Pueblo of Guayaquil,
Ecuador, reports that there have been
| simultaneous outbreaks at Riobamba,
| capital of Riobamba, at Latacunga,
| capital of Leon, and at Guaranda, cap
ital of Bolivar, in favor of General Al
| faro, former president of the republic.
George Washington, youngest son of
| the late John Augustine Washington,
who was the last individual owner of
Mount Vernon. and the last of the dis
tinguished Washington family to be
morn at Mount Vernon. died December
31st at his home in Charleston, West
| Virginia.
The government weather station at
North Head. Washington, was struck
| by lightning December 26th Opera
| tor Kelliher was knocked senseless
temporarily, the meteorological instru-
ments were destroyed, and the house
set on fire and every pane of glass in
the building shattered.
The Irterborough Rapid Transit
Company which operates the subway
and elevated roads of New York City,
raised the pay of its employees January
| 1st. The increase ranges from Is to
| 25 cents day, with two days off with
pay each month for employees who
work twelve hours a day.
A letter has been received in San
Francisco from one of seven vessels
| frozen in the ice near Herschel Island
1t came from Reuben Spencer and Sam
uel Redmond, engineers on the steamer
Bowhead. At the time it was written
October 15, 1905, the crews of the yes
sells had been reduced to half rations