The Elbert County tribune., 1909-06-17

Ths recent fire 1t Presque Isle. Ne.
destroyed 126 buildings, to the value
Of $2bo,0oo and left between 500 and
1000 people homeless.
Captain Peter C. Hams. Jr. serving
q sentence In Sing Sing prison for kill
ing William E. Annis. has been as
signed to the position OF accountant in
the tin shops.
The s30,00o,00o suit OF the Pennsyl
van1a Sugar Refining Company
against the American Sugar Refining
Company. the so-called trust. was set
tied out Of court. Terms OF the settle
ment were not made public.
Intense heat characterized the ses.
sions of the Confederate reunion at
Memphis on the Sth inst. Twenty per.
sons were prostrated. two dying. A
flower parade, in which many women
participated, followed the. afternoon
session.
At meeting in New York John D.
Ryan was elected president of the
Amalgamated Copper Company to sue
coed the late H. H. Rogers. B. B.
Thayer was elected president Of the
Anaconda Copper Mining Company,
succeeding John d. Ryan.
Two $50 gold pieces struck from
the United States mint at Philadel-
phia in 1877 were sold at the Numis-
matte Club in New York to William
H. Woodlin, wealthy collector, for
$4,000 each, the highest price ever
paid for an American coin. Both we're
perfect specimens.
After being under sea off the jap
anese coast for thirty-five years gold
and silver valued at $500, 900 has been
salved by Japanese vessel off IRA
gawa from sunken German steamer
wrecked in 1874 The treasure was
landed at Knrihamato to be shipped to
the German government
All hope is gone of having the lives
of the crew Of the Russion submarine
Kambala. which was sunk In collision
with the battleship Rostislav during
maneuvers near Sebastopol, or of re-
covering the wreck, owing to the great
depth of water. Two divers have died
in the attempts to rescue the men.
A lion escaped from his cage at q
since and caused injury to three per-
sons before he was recaptured. How
ard e. Smith, an employe in the show.
had his arm broken while attempting
to catch the beast and two women
were injured in efforts to getaway.
Two earthquake shocks we've felt
in France on the 11th inst. The shocks
affected practically the whole of the
south of France and equaled in sever
ity the earthquake of 1884. The vio-
lence of the shock appeared to have
been greatest in the vicinity of Tou-
lon. Warships in the harbor were
shaken from their moorings.
1t is stated at Paris that the Spanish
minister to Cuba has handed the Gu.
ban government note embodying
claim for the payment Of q share Of
the Spanish debt. 1t is pointedfout in
the note that the American plenfpo-
tentiaries In Paris in 1898 refused tc
decide this point, holding that the suz.
erainty had descended on the Cuban
republic and not the United States.
The great Unitarian family of Bos
ton met Sunday in the South Congre-
gational church to pay last tribute
to their departed leader, Edward Ever
ett Hale. At the same hour a host of
friends and admirers of Doctor Hale
gathered at the Park Street Unitarian
church to listen to eulogies by cler-
gymen of many creeds. Flags were
floated at half mast by order OF the
city's chief executive.
Andrew Carnegie has founded 1900
public libraries representing donations
aggregating $51,596,963, according to
his own statement in the current mum.
ber of Golfers Weekly. Up to De
cember 81, 1908, the philanthropist says
says he erected in the United States
s59 library buildings with 20a
branches at cost of $34,S75, ,745.
England and Wales come second with
329 buildings and fifty-nine branches,
at a cost of $7,s59,55O.