The Elbert County tribune., 1907-03-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Ct the
Past Seven Days.
interesting Itens Gathered from Al,
parts of the We~Ia Condemned
Inte Small Space for the
Beneat OF OR Readers
PersonaI.

Samuel l. Clemens MARK Twain
the author has sailed for Bermuda.
President Mellen of the New York
New Haven & Hartford railroad has
telegraphed President Roosevelt ask
ing an interview.
Judge Thomas Maloney, who was
private secretary to President Andrew
Johnson died recently at Ogden, Utah
By order of the president about
zS,0o0,000 acres of coal land will be
Immediately opened to entry as rap
idly as the geological survey can
make proper examinations.
Joseph E. McJimsey. father of e.
e. E. McJimsey. editor of the Spring
field, Mo. Republican, died recently
at his home in Chillicothe. Mo.
Rev. Henry Coe Culbertson. of lola,
Kan. has accepted the presidency of
the College of Emporia.
Charles Gordon Knox, secretary of
the St. Louis Commercial club. died
of typhoid fever while returning from
a visit to Panama recently
Stuyvesant Fish, former president
of the Illinois Central railroad, has
been elected a director in the Mis-.
souri Pacific
Lieut.. Frank Lahm, Sixth cavalry
tU. s. A., has been detailed as in
structor of ballooming at Fort
Leavenworth. He won the James
Gordon Bennett cup in the inter
national balloon race at Paris last
September.
Judge Pollock. in the federal dis
Itrict court has denied the application
t.F II
Ihebeas corpus. The former army Of
lficer must serve seven more montSe
lin the prison at Fort Leavenworth.
A fire in Borsano, Italy destroyed
Ithe greater part of the village and
rendered 1000 persons homeless.
Joe. Ullman, the well known book
Imaker and sporting man. has broken
down mentally and has been placed
lin private sanitarium in California.
Tho funeral OF John Alexander
lDowie was held in quiet and unos-
|tentatious manner at Zion City re-
Gently.
Maurice Grau. the well-known i'm
ipressario, is dead in Paris.
Mrs. S. N Castle. an early mission
AIRY in the Hawaiian islands died re-
Gently at Honolulu. She was 80 years
Iof age.
]. X. Burnham, of the Burnham,
Hanna, Munger Dry Goods company.
lof Kansas City, and president of the
National Wholesale Dry Goods asso-
citation, died recently Of pneumonia at
ibis home in Kansas City.
William j. Oliver, of Knoxville.
ITenn., whose bid for the construction
of the Panama canal was recently re-
jected, has been elected vice presi-
dent of the newly organized United
Estates Trust company of Washing
ton.
J. L. Benton, of Monticello, Ga. is
ito be sent abroad by the government
Ito investigate the market for cotton
seed products.
Miscellaneous.
The Nicaraguan government has
ISSUED a decree recognizing the pro-
ivisional government organized by the
Irevolutionists of Honduras and de-
Iclaring its members to be allies of
Nicaragua.
1t is estimated that the loss by
THE recent flood in Pittsburg, Pa, and
1.-THE immediate vicinity will amount
Ito s10,OO0,0OO Ten square miles of
1.-THE city was submerged.
Secretary Metcalf has left Wash
lington for cruise of inspection in
Cuban and Porto Rican waters.
The most sensational decline in
prices for several years occurred in
the Wall street stock market recent
|ly. Conditions were decidedly
ipanicky for several hours
Serious roiting occurred in Louis
willie, KY, when the street railway
company attempted to run cars with
strike-breakers. mob of more than
Il 900 persons fought off the police and
tore five of the cars to pieces. Many
persons were injured.
The greatest flood ever experienced
|by Pittsburg. Pa, recently swept
down upon the city catching the peo-
lpis unplep pared. Several lives were lost
and much properly was damaged.
Gertrude Hanish, stenographeI
leaped from a window in the 18th
story of Cincinnati office building
and was dashed to death on the
street below. Hundreds of people
witnessed the deed.
The prosecution In the Thaw case
gained a point recently when Justice
Fitzgerald decided to admit the evil
dence of ]. C. Smith, brother-in-law
of Stanford White. regarding conver-
sations with the defendant at the
Madison Square garden on the night
of the tragedy.
A member of John D. Rockefel-
Ter, Jr.'s bible class is given as au
thority for the statement that in the
elder Rockefeller's win just completed