The Elbert County tribune., 1909-07-29

When President Taft takes mis- tr1p
down the Mississippi river from st.
Louis to New Orleans. Mark Twain,
humorist, will act ~ pilot on the boat
carrying the country's chief executive
Crete has been evacuated by the
four protecting powers-Great Britain.
France. Russia and Italy-whoss
troops left Sunday and Monday. There
is great rejoicing among the inhabi-
tants.
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals, in a decision handed down
at San Francisco. has sustained the
constitutionality of the federal enact
ments providing that cattle or sheep
in transit by rail must be watered and
fed every twenty-eight hours.
The British immigration to Canada
during the last year was 52,S01, as
compared with 120,1S2 in the fiscal
year previous. The continental immi-
grafton for the same period was 34,175,
as compared with S3,975. Immigrants
from the United States numbered 59,-
1872, being $40 more than came in dur
ing the preceding year.
The success of several London suf-
fragettes in obtaining their release
from prison by carrying out a hunger
strike" has caused all of the suffra-
gettes in Holloway jail to adopt this
method of gaining their freedom. Miss
Elsie Mackenzie WAS discharged from
prison in critical condition, having
gone 151 hours without food
Swift retribution overlook two reck-
less automobilists at Yonkers, N. Y,
who ran down and killed James Sim.
a motorman. The men in the cai kept
on at unabated speed. Then within
sight of the group that gathered about
their victim, their machine skidded
into tree. overturned and was de-
stroyed by fire. The occupants leaped
out and disappeared.
The prosecutors of Harry Thaw are
criticised and insanity experts scored
in 2O-page booklet which Mrs. Mary
Copley Thaw, mother of Thaw, has
just issued. 1t bears the title, 1.-THE Sc
cret Unveiled" and alleges the exist
ence OF a ''cowardly combination"
against Thaw and the taking of unusu-
ally oppressive measures in his case
His entire sanity at present is strong
ly asserted.
At Vichy, France, On the 21st inst,
Paul Tissandier made an aeroplane
flight Of of'fifty-six minutes.
A company has been formed at Ber-
lin for the purpose OF erecting a great
airship garage, with landing and test
ing grounds. AS the company is inter
ested in dirigfble balloons, it designs
to lease about 1000 acres near Berlin
where 1t will erect great sheds and re
pair shops and benzine and hydrogen
reservoirs.
John s. Wise, Jr., of New York, who
is now in Paris, says that former
President Roosevelt. just prior to his
departure from New York on his Al
frican hunting expedition, promised
him and other Republicans in New
York that he would return in time for
the mayoralty campaign. Mr.. Wise
says he has not given up the hope that
Mr.. Roosevelt will head the mayoralty
ticket in New York this autumn.
A cantilever bridge 1850 feet in
length and costing $3.0O0.o00 is being
built across the Copper River in
Alaska. 1t will be completed within
eighteen months. The bridge crosses
the river between two large glaciers,
the Miles and Childs, the latter having
a frontage on the river varying from
300 to 700 feet. Huge masses of ice
weighing hundreds of tons break away
from the face and plunge into the
river with report like the roar Of a
cannon.