The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15


sion whicn he afterward repudiate'i
during the Haywood trial at Boise
Idaho.
The first organization ever known
in the spice trade has been effected
in New York Fifty-six of the most
important concerns in the country are
In the association.
For fear the cardinals would be in
suited in Rome, the pope counter
manded all receptions planned In
honor of the anniversary of his cor
onation.
During the recent trouble at Casa
Blanca, Morocco. the Jewish quarter
Of the city was sacked and many per.
sons were massacred In the city.
A temporary restraining order han
been issued against members OF the
coal miners union at Chattanooga,
Tenn, to prevent them interfering
with the business of the Mont Lake
Coal company.
Gov. Conner and the officials Of the
Southern railroad have reached an
agreement and the license of the rail
road in Alabama will be reinstated.
Sixteen coal mines in Colorado
have been closed on account of the
strike on the Colorado & Southern
railroad. More than $500 miners are
idle.
In accorance with the imperial de-
cree recently issued all the opium
dens in Canton. China, have been
closed.
Telegraph operators employed by
the Western Union in many of the
western cities have gone out in sym
pathy with the Chicago and Los
Angeles strikers. In Kansas City,
the entire force except three women
went out.
In an attempt to again invade Casa
Blanca. more than 1000 of the Moroc-
can rebels were slain.
The government has chartered II
steamers to transport 100000 tons oil
coal to the Pacific coast.
w. G. Quantrell, leader of the band
of guerillas which sacked Lawrence.
Kansas, during the Civil war, was
recently reported alive on Vancouver
Island. Those in the best position
to know place no credence in the
story.
A Topeka, Kan, druggist recently
confessed to the county attorney that
during July he had sold $3.50 worth
| of medicine on prescriptions and ST.
400 worth of beer, wine and whisky.
Duveen Brothers. of London, have
purchased for $5,000,000 the famous
art collection of the late Rudolph
Kann. the Paris financier.
In an automobile accident near Mil
waukee, Wis, two men were killed
and two others seriously injured.
Eleven persons were killed and ten
others injured in railroad wreck in
| Germany. Among the dead was a
Russian prince.
A representation of the legendary
ride of Lady Godiva was recently
given by an actress in Coventry, Eng
land. Thousands of people witnessed
the affair.
| The Alabama legislature has for
mally elected Joseph F. Johnstone to
succeed the late Senator Pettus.
The Golden Cycle Mining com.
pany's S1,000,000 reduction plant, To-
Gated in the foothills south of Colo
rado City, Col, was recently de-
stroyed by fire.
Severe local storms in various sec
tions of the Mississippi valley recent
ly caused great damage to property
| and standing crops. Telegraph and
telephone wires were down in all di.
rections.
Twelve persons were prostrated by
the intense heat in one day at Kan.
sas City recently.
The explosion of car of dynamite
at Essex. Ont, killed seven persons
and broke every window in the town.
Israel Munson Spelman, the last
surviving member of the Harvard
class of 1886 and the Oldest alumnus
| of the college is dead at Marblehead,
Mass.
Gov. Hoke Smith. of Georgia, has
signed the prohibition bill which be-
comes effective January l. 1908.
DR.. Simon Flexner, head of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search, claims to have discovered
serum for the cure of spinal menin.
gifts
The subcommittee of the Missouri
state board OF agriculture has decid-
ed to recommend that two state roads
be built between Kansas City and
st. Louis. The southern route, south
of the river, will cost $4,000 and
the central route is to cost S1.193.000.
French and Spanish warships bonn
barded the Moorish villages surround
ing Casa Blanca, Morocco, killing $50
of the native tribesmen. The battery
of Casa Blanca fired on the warships
and was demolished.
Negro soldiers of the 25th infantry,
the organization that created the
trouble at Brownsville, Tex, started
riot at San Francisco and 18 of
them were arrested.