The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-09

After IA hours deliveration a vel
dict Of not guilty was reached bv tn
jury trying George A. Pettibone 70
completely In the murder of ex-Goy
Steunenberg Of Idaho.
| A little girl was born on a Pullman
car on the Santa Fe railroad lust Al
the train was pulling into Topeka
Kan, recently.
| A large number of the troops a
Goldfield, New, have been recalle,
and have returned to their rerulaj
station in California Only 1876 wer,
left at Goldfield.
| In letter written to the secretar,
of the navy President Roosevelt Sc
verely condemns the action of Ad
miral Brownson In resigning rather
than appoint surgeon to the com
mand of hospital ship when orderet
to do so.
The revenues collected through the
postoffice department during 1901
amounted to $1S3000,000
Reports from Vancouver, B. c.. state
that large numbers of Japanese re
serve army men have been ordered
to Toxic and that several hundred
are ready to leave for Japan.
Photographs illustrating feats OF
horsemanship by military men oi
European armies accompany recon
mendations to congress from .he
president for oetterment of army
riding.
The Isthmian canal commission
has decided to construct the canal
locks 100 feet wide which is the
width originally projected, unless II
is shown that naval developments
make greater width, desirable.
Col. Marsh NJ. Murdoch. postmaster
of Wichita, Kan, and editor of the
Eagle. died at his home in that city
recently. He was the father of Con.
gressman Murdoch, and for so years
has been a power in Kansas affairs.
He was 20 years of age.
New York authorities estimate that
it will cost s5,O0O000 to stamp out
tuberculosis among the cattle herds OF
the state.
Night riders recently swooped down
upon Russellville, Logan county, KY,
burning number of Independent to.
bacco concerns and other establish.
ments and shooting three men who ap-
peared upon the streets.
The bank clearings of the country
for the last week in 1907 shows a de-
crease of 41.5 per cent as compared
with the last week in 1906.
All the government troops except
two companies have been removed
from Goldfield, New.
During December total OF 1900.
539 cubic yards of earth was exca
waited on the Panama canal
AT Wharton, Ohio, three families
comprising dozen people were seri
ously poisoned by eating cheese
The Western Passenger association
has refused to grant special rates to
the spring and fall meetings of mer.
chants in Chicago and st. Louis.
H. F. Storrs, beekkeeper for the
California Safe Deposit and Trust
company at San Francisco, has bon
fessed to making false entries in the
banks book amounting to s1000000.
Maximilien Harden, who has been
on trial at Berlin for libeling Count
Won Moltke in his paper. has been
sentenced to four months imprison.
ment.
In the Pettibone trial ot Boise, Ida.
no. the prosecution made the only ar
gument to the jury, the defense refus-
Ing to argue the evidence.
At the last cabinet meeting in 1907
1t was decided to appeal from the de-
cision of Judge Lewis of Denver by
which all the indictments against
coal land grafters in Colorado were
quashed.
An Atlantic City chair pusher
found a pocketbook containing $4O0
in money and jewelry valued at sew
eral thousand dollars which he re-
turned to the woman who lost it. His
honesty was rewarded by the gift of
two nickels and two pennies.
The price of lumber at Minneapo.
lis, Mimi, is down from 81 to So a
thousand feet.
M. De Tross, the Belgian premier
and minister of the interior, is criti-
cally ill at Brussels.
Citizens of Franklin, Pa, have
brought suit for damages against the
company which supplies water to the
city charging that a recent typhoid
epidemic was caused by the impure
water supplied.
The annual tournament of roses
was held at Pasadena, Cal, on New
Years day. Seventy thousand per.
sons witnessed the beautiful floral pa
rade in which Miss May Sutton. the
International tennis champion, was
the queen.
Three members of the city fire de-
partment OF Vancouver, B. c., were
attacked and badly wounded by a
crowd of Japanese armed with knives.
The firemen had accidentally brct~,
the glass, in front of Japanes.