The Elbert County tribune., 1907-10-17

Railroad Commissioner Williams OF
Nebraska, after an inspection of the
Missouri Pacific railway In that state,
pronounces the roadbed unsafe and
recommends a restriction of the speed
| OF trains.
Up to date there has been "a cases
! and 81 deaths from bubonic plague In
San Francisco.
The first game in the worlds cham
pionship series between the Detroit
.. and Chicago baseball clubs ended in a
tie score of 3 to after IL innings had
been played.
The steel steamer Cypress was
wrecked on Loke Superior with %
drowned except the second mate who
drifted ashore on raft.
The report of the United States Ex
press company filed with the Kansas
railroad commission shows gross earn
, ings of sec, ,137. 90 and operating expen
ses of 500 ,534.77.
Canes and swagger sticks for young
women is the latest New York fad.
Four young men, all residents OF
Perth Amboy. were recently drowned
in Raritan bay, near Keyport, N. ].
The Metropolitan street railway
company of New York has been placed
In the hands Of receiver.
A body supposed to be that of Jack
Simpkins. the long missing member Of
the Western Federation Of miners
was recently found in Shoshone coun.
ty. Idaho.
Mrs. Charles ]. Romadke, wife of a
millionaire manufacturer of Milwau
kee, has been arrested in Chicago
charged with theft. She confessed to
many robberies which have baffied ths
police.
Two prominent physicians of Paris
created a sensation in the Academy
of Medicine by report that they had
succeeded in removing birthmarks
with radium. The operation is en-.
tirely painless and may be applied tc
an infant while asleep.
The turbine steamer Lusitania
broke all records on her second west.
ward trip from Queenstown to New
York, making the distance in foui
days and 20 hours. The fastest days
run was GIT knots.
The mystery in the disappearance OF
Miss Helen Maloney. daughter of q
Philadelphia millionaire, and a youns
Englishman named Clarkson, was
deepened recently by the statement OF
a New York broker that he wa- secret.
ly married to the girl in December
1905.
Joseph Powers n Burlington opera.
tor at Waldron. Mo, has been arrested
by United States authorities charged
with interfering with messages in or.
der to harrass operators who took
strikers places.
Wheat for May delivery recently
sold in Chicago for sl,11h cents
bushel.
Chicago won the fourth game of the
worlds championship series from De,
troit by the score os to l. The game
was played at Detroit before crowd
of $1,000 people.
Robbers recently blew the safe OF
the bank of Hanna. 1. T., securing
81 900.
Passengers on liners going to and
from Europe may now enjoy thea
trical performance every night in the
week.
The Santa Fe railroad has been con-
victed in the federal court at Los
Angeles. Cal. of giving rebates to the
Grand Canon Lime and Cement com-
pany of Arizona The maximum PEN
atty which may be imposed is S1,25O.-
| 900.
A new railroad has been chartered
to build from Englewood, Kan,
through Guymon. Ok, to a junction
with the Santa Fe in New Mexico.
Federal Judge Lawrence has rend-
cred decision in which he holds that
all malt and fermented liquors re-
gardless of the amount of alcohol con-
tanned are contraband in Indian terri
tory
The boarding house keepers of West
Springfield, Mass, have organized a
union for their own protection.
Cuban labor leaders have aban-
doned their intention of calling n gen
eral strike.
The Russian council of ministers
has appropriated sc,5OO,0OO for coloni-
cation purposes in Siberia.
Three negroes were lyncbed at TIM
lea. Miss, for series of burglaries.
The vote of the New York Teleg-
raphers' union to call out the men
from leased wire Offices has been
rescinded.
The earnings of the Santa Fe for
the year ended June 30 were s93. $685.
4o7. an increase of nearly 5000 900
over the previous year.
The attorney general of Kansas is
preparing list of questions the in