The Elbert County tribune., 1906-11-15

charged from the service by order OF
the president because they refused
to disclose the names of the men who
actually, did the shooting on that oc-
Herbert C. Squiers. newly appointed
minister to Panama. has arrived at
his new station accompanied by
Theodore P. Shonts, chairman of the
canal commission.
Returns Indicate that Nebraska has
elected the entire republican state
ticket and all the congressman except
one. The legislature will elect a re-
publican United States senator
Secretary Taft is making an inspec-
ton of the forts in the northwest with
view to recommending to the pres
ident certain one to be made brigade
posts.
1t Is announced that Secretary OF
the Interior Hitchcock will retire from
the cabinet next March and that his
place will be filled by James A. Gar
field.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application Of ]. NJ. Bel
lamy, ]. w. Blezek, H. ]. Cassin, T. NJ
Bixby and L. H. Wells to organize the
First National bank of Randlett, o. T.,
with s25,000.
Interesting details OF the finding
of a people on Prince Albert land
in the Arctic are given by an officer
of the revenue cutter Thetis, who
received his information from Capt
Klinlinberg, of the steam whaler
Olga, who located them last winter
while ice bound in the far north.
The sixth annual meeting of the
National Association for the Study
of Epilepsy and the treatment and
care OF Epileptics was held in New
Haven, Conn.
T. A. Caldwell, a government secret
service man. was found dead along
side the railroad track at Algodones.
N. NJ, by section men. An investi-
CATION to learn the cause of his
death will be made.
The president accompanied by Mrs.
Roosevelt, Surgeon General Rixey of
the navy and NJ. C. Latta, has started
on his trip to Panama on board the
battleship Louisiana. He win be In
constant wireless communication with
the White house while on the ship.
Four days will be spent on the 18TH
mus inspecting the canal.
Congressman-elect George X Fav
rot, of Baton Rouge, La shot and
killed DR.. H. H. Albrich while hun
dreds of persons were near the scene
of the shooting. He refused to make
a statement except to say the quarrel
was of a private nature.
The department of justice has is.
sued instructions to the local officials
to begin proceedings against the
person or persons guilty of the re-
cent embezzlement of $61,500 from
the subtreasury at st. Louis.
A fire at Canton, China, destroyed
over 500 houses and caused loss OF
more than s1.000.000.
Passengers on a Santa Fe train
were held up at Gallup. N. NJ, and
robbed of several hundred dollars by
robbers who entered the train while
it was standing at that point. After
getting all the valuables possible the
robbers disappeared in the darkness.
The faculty of Augustana college
at Rock Island. ILL.,, suspended over
80 students for participating in a
riotous demonstration against meln-
bers of the board OF directors re-
Gently because the directors had re-
fused to sanction intercollegiate bas-
ketbail.
Holding a hand of each of his two
little boys, aged seven and nine re-
spectively, and walking down the
Arham, cotton buyer of Carey, Tex,
deliberately walked into Colorado &
Southern train near Childress, Tex,
and was killed. The boys received
probably fatal injuries.
Joseph Walton. a young man of
Newton. Kan, was killed by train
at Sedgwick, Kan.
Gov. Beckham, of Kentucky, has
been successful in his contest with
Senator McCreary for the United
States senatorship from that state.
Mount Culibra, situated 40 miles
west of Trinidad, Col. is reported in
a state of eruption. smoke and vapor
having been seen issuing from the
mountain.
Charles E. Hughes, republican, de
feated w. r. Hearst, the Indepen-
dence league and democratic cand;-
date for governor of New York by
$4,000 majority.
A Frisco passenger train crashed
into surry loaded with four men,
in deep cut near Lawton, Ok. kill
ing one man and probably fatally in
juring the other three.
The license of the Mutual Life In
surance company OF New York to
do business in Kentucky has been
revoked by the insurance commits