The Elbert County tribune., 1908-06-04

A tornado = mile from Fremont Ne
braska. recently did damage to the ex-
tent OF $4,000. Several farm houses
were destroyed and five persope are
reported injured, none fatally.
Over 10000 deaths have resulted
from the severe famine prevailing in
the Usoga province, Uganda. East
Africa. The government Is feeding 5O,-
600 Of the natives. Crops are q com
plete failure.
OF $1,600.000 gold which has been
engaged for export by the National
City bank OF New York, $500 900 is to
go to Switzerland. This is the first en-
gagement Of gold to go directly to that
country in the memory OF bankers.
Henry Farman, the British aeronaut,
recently began series OF experiments
at Client In Belgium with his aero
plane. He accomplished for the first
time number OF flights in the teeth
of a strong wind.
An order has been put into effect by
the Santa Fe suspending work Of all
but apprentices In several departments
of the Topeka shops. About 1000 men
are thrown out of employment A sim
liar order was issued at the Newton
shops.
1t rained all day in New York City
on Memorial Day. but nevertheless T.
900 gray haired veterans marched in
an address at Grants tomb. but only
those who could get under shelter
heard him. as 1t rained hard.
Daniel F. Golahan, legal adviser OF
Charles F. Murphy, leader OF Tam
many hall and chairman OF the law
committee of the Tammany organiza-
ton, was elected grand sachem at a
meeting of the sachems of Tammany
hall to succeed Bourke Cochran.
Sixty young women OF Pittsburg,
who II they placed their family for
tunes In one pot. would make total
of half billion dollars. will form the
chorus of "The Pirates Of Penzance,"
when it is given in the Alvin theater
there June 18th and 18th for the bene-
fit of the Industrial Home of Crippled
Children.
Entangled in the folds OF a large Am
erican flag. which he waved when he
made a parachute drop of 1000 feet
from balloon at Hillside park, near
Passaic, New Jersey. Sunday, Fred
erick l.. Wood. eighteen years old, an
aeronaut of New Haven, Connecticut.
fell helpless in the Passaic river and
was drowned.
The Harvard athletic committee has
voted that in the opinion of the athletic
committee it is not advisable to abol-
ish intercollegiate athletic sports from
the date OF the last football game until
the opening of the baseball season.
The committee earlier In the spring
had advocated the elimination of all
winter sports.
Dynamiters wrecked the big pipe
line that conveys water from Bonita
mountains, New Mexico, to Carrizozo.
New Mexico, where all engines of the
Ell Paso & Southwestern system are
supplied. This is one of the biggest
engineering feats in the Southwest di-
verting the entire water supply of the
Bonita river and cost 100000. Re-
pairs are being made.
The gift of an additional 100000
to the Rockefeller institute in New
York City by John d. Rockefeller was
announced Memorial Day, after a
meeting of the trustees of the insti-
tute. The money is to be used for the
erection of a new blilding near the
present institute. The gift makes a
total of $4.500.000 given to the insti-
tute by Rockefeller.
Confident of his ability to carry the
stars and stripes to the North pole,
Commander Robert e. Peary, who has
planted the American flag nearer the
pole than any other living man, is in
New York making active preparations
for another Arctic dash. The steamer
Roosevelt, which carried him and his
party on his last northward journey.
has been overhauled for her expected
battles with the ice.