The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
Beneat of Our Readers.
Personal,


nearly 60 years was steamboat cap
tain on the Mississippi and other riv-
ers. died at his home in New Albany.
Ind.
Bernard L. Levinthal, who for Is
years has been chief rabbi of the or
thodox Jews of Philadelphia. has been
elected chief rabbi of the entire body
of orthodox Jews in the United States.
Hill z. Wilson, for eight years as
sistant secretary of state for Kansas
has resigned TO devote his attention
TO his mining interests.
Congressman De Almond has been
renominated by the democrats of the
Sixth congressional district of Mis-
souri, making the ninth consecutive
time he has received the nomination
without opposition
John Dedriclx Strassburg, the oldest
post Office employe in point of SER
vice as well as in years in the United
States is dead at his home in Louis
vile. Ky. He was So years of age
and has been in continuous service
for 63 years.
John Sharp Williams has been re-
nominated for congress by the demo-
Gratis of the Eighth Mississippi dis
trict
The body of Russell Sage. the New
York financier, was laid to rest at
Troy, N Y, with simple ceremonies.
Don Pedro Monte has been elected
president of Chile for a term of five
years.
H. c. Brokmeyer, former lieutenant
governor of Missouri and acting gov
ernor in 1867, is dead in st. Louis
hospital after lingering illness. He
was a nephew of Prince Bismarck and
a native of Minden, Prussia.
Charles H. Whitaker, Sr., editor OF
the Clinton, Mo-, Democrat, died re-
Gently at his home in Clinton aged 70
years. He had been in the newspaper
business in Illinois and Missouri 50
years.
President Palma, of Cuba, has par
doned Millie Brown and other Amer
leans arrested on the Isle of Pines for
maintaining a private telegraph line.
miscellaneous.
The threatened strike of the United
brotherhood of Paper Makers has been
averted by the employers granting
their demands.
The Pacific express on the New
York Central railroad was wrecked
at Chelsea, N. Y, the engine and ex-
press car going into the river and the
balance of the train was piled up in
hod 10
killed and a large number injured.
The bank of Rush Springs, l. T..
has closed its doors and a receiver
has been appointed. The liabilities
are supposed to be about $4,000 more
than the assets.
The American Surety company. one
of the largest and most powerful
bonding companies in the United
States, has been cited to appear be-
fore Superintendent of Insurance Luz
ling, of Kansas, and show cause why
its certificate should not be revoked
on the ground that it is a trust.
Two bombs were dropped from an
elevated train in New York recently
into a crowd of 200 members of the
plumbers union, who were standing
in the street below. Eight men were
painfully injured.
Twenty-Five passengers were injured
two probably fatally, by the derail-
ment recently at Springfield. Mo-, of
a st. Louis & San Francisco passenger
train.
The will of the late Russell Sage
has been filed for probate. After be-
aueathing s650,O00 to blood relations,
the document gives the residue of the
estate, about $4,000, 900. to the widow.
who will distribute it in charity.
Judge Landis, of the United States
district court at Chicago has handed
down a decision declaring that John
Alexander Dowie is not the owner
of Zion City and its industries. the
court deciding that the money given
to Dowie was trust. A receiver was
appointed and an election for a gen.
eral overseer ordered to be held on
the third Tuesday of September.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
made public the regulations govern
ing the inspection of meat products
for interstate and foreign trade under
the new law. They are very stringent
throughout and are In line with the
best authorities on the subject.
At conference in Chicago in which
every road interested was represented,
it was decided to end the grain rate
war from Missouri river points to Chi
cago on August 10.
Gov. Ide, of the Philippines has re-
quested military aid to punish the
Pnlajanes in the island of Leyte.
A special federal grand jury has
been called to meet in Chicago to in
vestigate the Standard Oil company's
methods of transporting its products.
1t is said by officials that new and i'm
portant evidence has recently been