The Elbert County tribune., 1907-10-24

ada, was recently thrown into q panic
by the passing of the quarterly divi.
dend of the Detroit United Street Rail-
way company. most of the stock OF
which is held in that city.
The Nebraska railway commission
| has issued an order limiting the
speed OF trains on tie Missouri Pacific
in that state to 25 miles an hour until
the roadbed has been repaired.
Five persons, two men and three
women. have been arrested in Joplin,
Mo-, suspected of blowing up the
News-Herald printing plant with dy-
Mantle.
The la-t Indian pow-wow was re
Gently held in Collinsville, l. T. Ge-
ronimo. the old Apache chief, was the
principal figure.
j. N. Sapp has employed counsel to
aid in the prosecution of S. F. Whit
low, charged with the murder of May
Sapp at Moran. Kan.
A dollar a bushel was recently Of
fered for wheat at Arkansas City. Kan
By cave-in in the ballast quarries
of the Mexican Central railroad at
Victoria 16 laborers were killed and
IL others fatally injured
The trial of George A. Pettibone.
charged with completely In the assas.
sination of ex-Gov. Steunenberg, of
Idaho. Is set for October 2S at Boise.
The failure of Haller. Sochle & Co.,
an old banking house of Hamburg,
Germany. has been announced. The
liabilities are estimated at $1,000. 900.
Commercial business between Glace
bay, N. s., and Clifden. Ireland, is now
being accepted by the Marconi Wire
less Telegraph company.
The first carload of buffalo from the
New York gardens have been turned
loose in the government reserve in the
Indian territory.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane is authority for the statement
that the Southern Pacific railroad has
continued to give rebates to shippers
In defiance of the Hepburn law. The
facts will be laid before the depart
ment of justice.
Attorney General Hadley OF Missou-
ri has given an opinion In which he
holds that the state railroad commits
sioners have the power to reduce the
rates charged by express companies
in that state.
The Santa Fe Railroad company has
announced a voluntary raise IN salary
to all telegraph operators in the en-
pioy of the company.
Judgment has been entered in the st.
Louis courts against John Morton,
Joplin, Mo-, mining promoter, for
$537 ,030.22. He was charged with
selling paper" mine in the zinc dis
trict.
The State Savings bank of Butte,
Mont, in which F. Augustus Heinze is
the principal stockholder. closed its
doors on account of a run caused by
the failure of Heinze brokerage firms
in New York
The farmers and their wives from
all parts of the country to the number
of 5000 attended the National Farm
ers' congress recently held at Olxlaho-
ma City.
The Modern Woodmen of America
have closed a deal for 1000 acres of
land adjoining Colorado Springs on
which it is proposed to erect a sanitar-
ium for the treatment of members of
IS.
An ear of corn recently sold to the
highest bidder at the National corn ex-
position in Chicago brought $3.50.
A move has been started in Chicago
to purchase a $4,ccO trophy emblem
attic of the worlds baseball champion
ship.
The California limited train on the
Santa Fe railroad was recently ditch
ed at Earl, Col. The engineer was
killed and several passengers were in
jured but none fatally.
Fred Magill and his wife Faye Gra-
ham Magill have cen acquitted of the
charge of numbering the first Mrs Ma
gill at Decatur. Ill
The Philippine assembly was form
ally opened by Secretary Taft In Ma
Mia in the presence of large crowd
of people.
The new railroad branch Of the Y.
M. C. A. in st. Louis was recently
formally opened by Helen Gould.
A crowded trolley car in Cincinnati
left the rails on grade and plunged
over 25-foot embankment One man
was killed and 80 others injured.
The Illinois senate by a unanimous
vote. adopted joint resolution pro-
viding for submission to the voters a
constitutional amendment for $780,
100000 bond issue to proceed with the
deep water way project.
Persons making homestead entries
on public lands after November l will
be required to prove actual residence
on the land for IA months before they
can obtain title by cash payment, i'll
stead of eight months as heretofore.
The first joint resolution of the
Philippine commission and assembly
was one conveying the thanks of
Filipino people to the American peo-