The Elbert County tribune., 1907-03-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings CT the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from, All
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the
Benent of Our Headers.
Personal.


ure.
John Alexander Dowie, founder OF
the Catholic Christian church of Zion
City, ILL.,, is dead.
William Hagedon. who 1t is claimed
was the heaviest man in Missouri and
who weighed 503 pounds died recent
ly at his home near Richmond.
John Turner died at Paola, Kan,
at the age of 81 years. He saw the
coronation of Queen Victoria.
George w. Perkins has given his
personal check for s54, 4,O19.19 to rein
burse the New York Life Insurance
company for the money contributed
to the republican committee during
the last national campaign.
Signor Gallo, the Italian minister
Of justice. died recently in Rome of
syncope. He had held many promln-
ent positions in the government.
The Dowager Empress of Russia is
in London visiting her sister Queen
Alexandra.
Former Senator j. r. Burton. of
Kansas, will be released from the
Ironton, Mo-, jail on March %. He
will return directly to his home in
Abilene. Kan.
Gen Booth. OF the Salvation Army.
has arrived in this country from
London on his way to Japan and the
Far East.
James r. Garfield has taken the
oath of office as secretary of the in
terror.
Col. ]. B. Thomas, governor of the
Soldiers home at Dayton. o., since
1889, recently died in that institution.
Secretary Taft and party of of
ficials will soon visit Cuba, Porto
Rica and the Panama Canal. The test
pits on the site of the projected looks
at Gatun will be inspected.
G. w. II. Lucas, mayor of Cherokee,
Kan, was fatally injured recently by
falling from the back door of the
opera house. He was II years of age.
DR., Karl Heinrich Won Boetticher.
who served as German minister OF
the interior under Bismarck, is dead
W. H. Burrow, cashier of bank
at Smith Center, Kansas. has been
appointed a national bank examiner
Henry Davis Todd. lieutenant com
mander U. S. N, retired the last
member of the naval academy class of
1857. died recently at Annapolis, Md,
District Attorney Jerome and Judge
Fitzgerald recently had a sharp clash
during the progress of the Thaw trial.
Capt David ]. Gibbon, U. S. A..
retired, who invented number of
instruments now in use in the wealth
er bureau, is dead in Washington.
Edwin Leland, post office in
spector, son Of Cyrus Leland, of Kan
sas, has been removed from the gov
ernment service.
Frank T. Campbell. formerly lieu
tenant governor of Iowa, died re-
Gently at Lima, o.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia university. was married
at New York recently to Miss Kate
La Montague
The ]. H. Crane Furniture company,
one of the pioneer firms of st. Louis,
has made an assignment for the bene-
fit of creditors.
Perry Evans, teacher of a country
school in Oklahoma, was recently as
saulted and killed by number of his
male pupils.
Congressional.
During the Fifty-ninth congress 34,
S79 bills and joint resolutions were
introduced in both branches, of which
6,940 became laws.
Both houses of congress have
passed a resolution creating a joint
committee of five senators and five
representatives of the Sixtieth con-
gress to revise and codify the laws
of the United States.
Miscellaneous.
Mrs ]. E. Stoval, of Lawton, Ok,
recently gave birth to a baby girl
in street car at Oklahoma City.
After two years of litigation the
guessing contest regarding attend
ance at the ST. Louis worlds fair has
been decided by the courts. NJ Lo-
gan Guthrie, of Fulton, Mo-, was
awarded the prize of s25,000
A big strike of placer gold has been
made in Lost Creek, near Bellingham,
Wash.
The street car mems union of
Omaha, Neb., has voted against
strike to enforce demands for a
"closed shop"
The defense in the Thaw trial took
the prosecution by surprise when they
notified District Attorney Jerome that
1t would rest their case with the testi-
mony of Mrs. William Thaw. The
state will now put in rebuttal eyi-
dence. and then the argument will be-
gin.
The governors of the various
states have been notified that the
brigade and division encampments
for instruction of the militia will
be omitted this year on account OF