The Elbert County tribune., 1909-10-28


man.
A dozen Of the Detroit baseball play
ers are going to pay months visit
to Havana, playing three games .
week.
At Pensacola, Fla, October 21st, the
enormous amount OF 4.26 inches OF
rain fell in one hour. The water ran
four inches deep in many streets.
The visit OF the Russian emperor to
Italy is commented upon in London
as marking further loosening of the
ties binding Italy to the triple alli-
ance.
The manager of the New York
clearing house states the bank clear
ings of the country at s15S,559. 9.4s7 900
during the fiscal year ending Septem-
ber goth. This is an increase over the
previous year of s32.410.1 .153.200.
Calcutta dispatch says that the
recent earthquake in Beluchistan was
the worst that has occurred over such
a wide area in many years. 1t is re-
ported that the fatalities were 126
and that 154 persons were injured.
The Japanese commercial commits
sioners made a trip from Boston to
monument to Commodore Perry.
whose expedition was the occasion OF
opening the ports of Japan to the
world.
That the cultivation of vacant lots
in cities has gone a long way toward
a solution of the problem of caring for
the city's poor, was the opinion OF
many of the delegates to the first ma
tional conference at Buffalo on vacant
lot and school gardening.
At the port of New York a few days
since, 1,045 Greek immigrants were
vaccinated at the rate of two minute.
AL immigrants are vaccinated before
embarkation. but the Greeks have
failed to provide pure virus. hence the
federal health officer of the port, and
three assistants.
The New York Tribune founded by
Horace Greeley in 1S41, announces
that two radical changes have been
made-the price has been cut from
cents to / cent, while the familiar six
column makeup has been changed to
seven columns. The changes created
wide comment throughout the city.
The Herald now remains the only g.
cent morning paper in New York.
Colonel Roosevelt, accompanied by
r. J. Cunningham, the hunter and
guide, arrived at Naivashi on the goth
inst. With the exception of Colonel
Roosevelt, the members of the expedi-
tion have at one time or another ex-
perienced slight attacks of fever as
the result of frequent changes of tenn
perature. All are now in good
health.
A mining property covering four
square miles and valued at $7,500,000,
on the Island of Jamaica, will be sold
this week by DR.. John M. Morgan of
Boston to large mining interests. The
property is one of the most phenom-
email of its kind, having made million
aires of its owners in less than three
years. One-half OF the property is
owned by the Boston physicians.
Some storm records were broken in
the recent Philippine typhoon which
crossed northern Luzon and the Cen
guet mountains. Eighteen inches of
rain fell in nine hours and twenty-six
inches fell in the twenty-four hours
the storm lasted. The Bued river
rose sixty feet. The wind gauge at
the observatory broke when the wind
attained velocity of ninety-five miles
an hour.
With a view to stemming the tide
of emigration which threatens to de-
plete the country of agricultural Ia
borers, a national subscription has
been started in Sweden to obtain
funds for loans to laborers left un-
employed after the recent big strike.
The loans are intended to enable the
purchase of small farms and will be
made repayable within ten years. The
fund will be administered by the Anti
Emigration Society of Sweden.
Wilbur and Orville Wright, the
aeronauts. through counsel. have
applied in the United States
court in New York for an in
junction to restrain Ralph Saulnier
from making flights in the French fly
ing machine which he brought to this
country n few weeks ago. Saulnier's S
machine is duplicate of the one on
which Bleriot crossed the English
channel and the Wrights contend it ia
an infringement OF their patents.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
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