The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-20

the occupants as to its safety and it
is predicted that the building must be
abandoned.
The opening session OF The Hague
peace conference was very brief last
ing only about 20 minutes. In his op-
ening adress M. Nelidoff stated that
disarmament and universal peace arc
unattainable.
The emperor OF Russia has issued
ukase abolishing the present douma
and orering another election under a
new law which greatly restricts the
right of suffrage.
Bubonic plague has broken out on
the island OF Trinidad and communi-
cation between the island and yene-
zuela has been severed.
The launch belonging to the battle
ship Minnesota, which went down
in Hampton roads with eleven meu
aboard has been raised but only one
body was found.
Faustino Ablen, head chief of the
Pulajanes on the island of Leyte. has
been captured by United States
| ticcpo. Mo ~ 10 Ahoh6ht VIII
the Pulajane war on that island.
In one day recently 20,sS1 undeliv-
cred letters were returned to senders
by the dead letter office.
The 200th anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the Church of England
in Connecticut was recently ceiebrat-
ed with elborate ceremonies at STRAIT
ford
-Four jointists of Cherokee, Kan.
have been fined 500 and costs and
sentenced to 30 days on the rock pile
for violating the prohibitory law.
A suit has been filed in Philadel-
phia by the government to break up
the monopoly of the anthracite coal
carrying railroads in Pennsylvania.
Justice Brewer, of the United States
supreme court, has denied the appli-
cation of II. II. Tucker for a writ Of
habeas corpus in the contempt case
from Leavenworth.
Judge Smith Mcpherson. in the fed
eral court at Kansas City has issued
temporary restraining order to
prevent the Missouri state auditor
from collecting a tax of cents on
sales of futures in grain and stocks.
The Southwestern Interstate Coal
Operators association has elected
James F. Elliot. of Haileyville, I. T.,
president to succeed the late w. G..
Perry.
The test questions OF the Kansas
state board of medical examiners
were stolen from the state printing
office 1T Topeka and peddled among
the candidates for examination at
Kansas City. Kan. Many of the ITO
young men will have to take the ex-
animation over again.
In the Haywood trial at Boise, Ida
ho, the prosecution is corroborating
the story of Harry Orchard. A letter
| was traced by post office books from
Pettibone in Denver to Orchard in
San Francisco.
BY agreement of the board Of man
ayers of the insane asylum at st.
Joseph, Mo-. Superintendent Wood
son. was exonerated of the charges
brought against him. He Immediately
resigned ana lne leSi5hatioh "ao ~
cepted
The state courts of Missouri and
the federal court at Kansas City are
| in a clash over the enforcement OF
the two-cent passenger fare law and
| the maximum freight rate law.
A crisis was reached in the parlia-
mentary situation in Russia when
| the government demanded the sur
| render of 55 members of the lower
house with the alternative OF dis
solution unless the demand was COM
piled with. The ultimatum was re-
jected by the douma-
The Catholic church of the Sacred
| Heart, one of the finest edifices in
Ottawa, Ont, was recently destroyed
by fire.
President Roosevelt and family
| have taken up their residence at their
summer home at Oyster Bay, Long
| Island
| The joint control of the Chicago
and Alton railroad by the Union Pa
cific and Rock Island has been dis
continued ana tne rodu placSu III INC
hands of its stockholders.
A jury OF IL men has returned a
verdict of guilty against Mayor
Eugene E. Schmdtz of San Francisco
on charge of extorting money from
the French restaurant keepers. The
sentence of the court was deferred
The executive committee of the
| Cattle Raisers' association of Texas
has decided to stand by the live
stock commission men in their fight
against the post mortem order of the
packers regarding cows and helfers,
The Japanese residents of San Fran
cisco are arranging to demand an in
demnity of the United States govern
ment for the alleged assaults on them