The Elbert County tribune., 1906-11-22

AHS SoheSor OI tne port OIL san
Francisco has been notified to pre-
pare for the reception of a Japanese
squadron which will visit that city
next spring. Extreme courtesy is to
be offered the officers and squadron
Sixteen new laws have been pro-
posed by the insurance commission
which held its session in Chicago for
the purpose of correcting the abuses
In the management of life insurance
companies and the various states
Will be asked to adopt them.
The Central Freight Association at
Chicago has refused the demands of
the independent oil dealers for a re-
duction of 40 per cent in freight rates
on petroleum and its products and
they have decided to take the case be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission.
Robbers recently dynamited the
bank al Laherna, Garfield county.
Ok. and escaped with s2.700 in cash
The German Epworth league of the
Methodist church has decided to meet
In st. Joseph, Mo-. in October 1907.
Attorney General Moody, acting
through the resident United States
district attorney. has instituted pro
ceedings in the federal court at St
Louis, under the Sherman antitrust
act, to dissolve the Standard Oil com
bination.
The National Tube company al
Pittsburg, Pa, has received an order
for 430 miles of eightinch pipe for
line to connect the Indian territor
oil field with Port Arthur, Tex.
A storm unprecedented in violence
recently ragged over the entire state
of Washington and a portion of Ore
gon. Great damage was reported at
Portland. Tacoma and Seattle.
The reports from Gibraltar that
preparations were bing made for an
Anglo French demonstration Off Tan
gier are officially declared TO be er
roneous.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train
while running at full speed was
ditcbed by spreading rails near Glen
coe, Mo. The entire train plunged
into an embankment but none of tho
passengers was injured.
Charges of alleged attempts to
bribe the members of the jury whici
tried the Standard Oil case at Find
lay. o., in September are being In
vestigated by the present grand jury
there.
Attorney General Moody has issued
instructions regarding violations oI
the eight hour law TO the various dis
trict attorneys of the country. A
strict enforcement of the statute is
promised.
In the federal court at Cleveland
to bank wreclIing and was sentenced
to serve two years Imprisonment anc
pay fine of $4,000.
The National Baptist congress hello
three day session at st. Louis re
Gently. Ministers and laynen from
all over the country were present.
The wages of all employees of the
roads west of Plttsburg, operated by
the Pennsylvania company, receiving
less than 5000 a month, have been
increased 10 per cent by the board
of directors.
Seattle and Tacoma, Wash, were
recently visited by disastrous floods
A new counterfeit $40 Buffalo"
note has been discovered by the Uni
ted States secret service.
Federal authorities are investigat-
ing the disappearance of upwards OF
81 100000 of the relief funds sent to
San Francisco earthquake sufferers
The president is behind the inquiry
A Dutch cruiser recently from the
island of Curacao, reports that it Is
believed there that President Castro
of Venezuela. is dead and that the
government is concealing the fact in
order to maintain itself in power
Mrs. Charles Mowry, and her three
little children, were burned to death
recently in their home near Cold
water, Mich.
The failure of F. D. Day G. Co., a
grain and bond commission firm OF
Omaha, Neb., with branches in sew
eral cities has been announced
Robbers recently wrecked the safe
and building of the bank at Walker
Mo-, and made their escape The
amount of money secured is moi
known.
The final official returns from all
the counties in Kansas show Gov
Hoch's plurality to be 1886.
The official returns from the entire
state of Iowa show the total vote cast
for governor was Cummins. 21G,5O5;
Porter, 196,052; Cummins' plurality
20.455.
The capital stock of the Pullman
Car company has been increased by
$24,900,000, making 1T s10O,000.o00.
The New York Central Railroad
company has been convicted of CIV
ing rebates to the sugar trust in