Sharp County record., 1906-10-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPlTOME OF THE MOST I'M
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully oisestsd and Condensed
Compilation Of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign
MISCELLANEOUS.

| Jones, QleQ on railway llalA HSoA
Little Rock, Ark, while on his way
from Oklahoma City to CartersVllle,
Ca, his home, where he intended TO
celebrate the forty-ninth anniversary
of his birth with a family reunion.
His wife and two daughters were
with him when he died, as also his
friend and co-worker, Rev. Walter
Halcomb.
The supreme court of the United
States denied the petition of former
United States Senator Burton OF Kan
sas for a rehearing nthe case In
which he is under sentence of i'm
prisonment and me on the charge OF
accepting an attorneys fee in a case
in which the government was inter
ssted while he was serving as SEN
ator. The former senator announced
his intention of going to prison.
Fourteen of the II balloons which
started from Tagal, near Berlin, in
the race for Emperor Williams cup,
reported landed the following day. 1t
appears to be certain at this moment
that the Ernest, the smallest of the
balloons, won.
Joda Hamilton, the confessed slay-
er of the five members of the Parsons
family, near Houston, Texas county
Mo-, is in Jail at Carthage, Mo-, ray
ing maniac.
Witnesses before interstate com
merce commission in Chicago allege
that they we're driven out of busi-
ness by the Illinois and Iowa grain
combination.
DR.. M. G. Pingree, cousin of for
mer Gov. Pingree of Michigan, COM
mitted suicide in Chicago by locking
himself in his bathroom and turning
on the gas. No cause tor the suicide
is known.
Count John A. Creighton, one of the
founders of Creighton university,
Omaha, Neb., has decided to that in
stitution two buildings in the whole
sale district worth about 100000.
The first action taken by the con.
gress Of the League of the Russian
People was to dispatch a telegram
to Emperor Nicholas, declaring that
the autocracy alone was able to con.
solidate the empire and assure the
welfare of his majesty's subjects.
William Cheney, prominent resident
of Lockport, ILL.,, and a foreman in
the employ Of the sanitary district OF
Chicago, was murdered by Antoni AS
fronta, an Italian workman, whom he
discharged.
Damages of fully S1,000,0JJ, includ'
ing the partial demolition of one town,
was done by a hurricane on the coast
of Central America.
President Castro Of Venezuela re-
ported dying, and uprising already
planned signal being announcement
of presidents death.
Barney Parsons, farmer, his wife
and three children were murdered
near Licking, Texas county, Mo. Jodia
Hamilton, a farmer, was arrested
charged with the murder, and con
fessed There were threats Of lynch
ing, and the sheriff spirited him away
to the Ozark mountains.
Secretary Taft, Assistant Secretary
Of State Bacon and Gen. Funston
sailed from Cuba, their labors ther
being completed. The government Of
Cuba was turned over to Gov. Chas
L. Magoon in a simple American man
ner, devoid Of show.
The aged emperor of Austria is con
fined to his apartments with a cough
and catarrh Medical advisers agree
that he should be removed to mildei
climate.
A mass meetings Of citizens held in
Union square, San Francisco, called tC
form a committee of public safety
broke up in disorder, two factions
striving to gain control of the assem-
blage.
Fraulein Bertha Krupp, the richest
woman in Germany, and Gustav Won
Bohlen und Halbach, an army officer
were married. One hundred and
eighty thousand dollars was distrib
ued among the employees Of the Krupl
gun works on the occasion.
Judge John W. Wofford, of the Grim
inal court, Kansas City, declared from
the bench that John ID. Rockefeller
was the most maliciously maligned
man in the world.
Acknowledgement Moody announced
in Washington, after comforting with
the president, that he would retire
from the cabinet January !,
The United States, through It's
peace commissioners, is not ready
to announce when It will withdraw
from the island of Cuba and surren
der the reins of government to the
Cubans, but this action can not be
taken until the time arrives wher
fair elections are assured,
For the first 10 weeks of the flsca
year the exports Of wheat were As,
102,927 bushels, against 19,S73,S37 in
1905, 19,90j,SS in 1904 and 9Oj7SS2,
in 1901. During the same period the