The Elbert County tribune., 1907-01-24

members during 1906.
In the senate recently Senator
Spooner maSe a lengthy constitution
al argument upholding the presidents
right to discharge the negro troops
attack on Senator Tillman during the
course of his remarks.
An investigation of public land
frauds has begun at Pueblo. Col, at
which sensational disclosures are ex-
pected to be made. The inquiry will
probably last for two months.
The report of the canal commission
on the borings at the Gatun dam site
shows that the lock walls Will rest on
good. solid foundation.
The suit to test the exclusion of
Japanese children from the primary
schools OF San Francisco has been
filed in the federal court in that
city.
The president has written a letter
to Chairman Foss, of the house
committee on naval affairs advocat
the Dreadnaught class.
Reports from Kingston, Jamaica,
say that since the recent earthquake
the city is gradually sinking and
grave fears are felt that the entire
city will slip into the bay.
According to later reports the King
ston horror is growing Communica-
ton with the island is partially re
stored and every message that comes
brings fresh details of the appalling
catastrophe.
In recent rush of passengers to
board an elevated train in Chicago,
Miss Lillian Dahlke was pushed from
the platform and fatally injured.
President Roosevelt recently ad-
dressed the National convention for
extension of the foreign commerce Of
the United States at Washington.
The committee appointed by the
Oklahoma constitutional convention
to investigate charges of corruption
has reported that no evidence was
found of money being used
The boiler of a locomotive on the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad ex.
ploded near Bridgeport, Pa, killing
five trainmen.
In his speech of acceptance to the
Nebraska legislature, Senator-elect
Norris Brown came out openly for
the selection of United States sena-
tors by direct vote of the peoples
The Japanese government has
made an appropriation of 100000 to
cover the expense of representatives
of the army and navy who will par
ticipate in the exposition at James,
town, Va.
The democrats in the Kansas leg
islature nominated Col. w. A. Har-
ris as their candidate for United
States senator.
Senator Carmack recently made a
lengthy address in the senate in de-
fense of the presidents action dis
charging the Negro soldiers at
Brownsville.
ID. w. Wade, % years old, a son of
the defaulting treasurer of Cloud
county, Kan, has been arrested in
Kansas City on charge of embezzle.
ment
The Philippine government is after
the Standard Oil company for the
nonpayment of $19,514 duty on oils
shipped into the islands.
| An emergency bill for the relief of
the earthquake sufferers on the is
land Jamaica has been passed by the
house.
Suits have been filed at Little Rock,
Ark, against Armour & Co., the Ham,
mond Packing company, Morris & Co.,
and the Cudahy Packing company for
violations of the state antitrust law.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria are epi-
demic in Chicago, and many of the
schools have been closed. Six thous.
and children were reported i'll with
the diseases.
David P. Dyer jr., son of the Uni
ted States district attorney at St
Louis, has been acquitted of the
charge of embezzling SCI, 800 of the
government funds
A special car loaded with flowers
was recently shipped by the ladies'
of Beaumont, Tex, to the hospitals
and charitable institutions at Kansas
City.
At the request of Gov. Swettenham
of Jamaica. the American landing par
ties have been withdrawn from Kings.
ton and the battleships have sailed
away.
Prominent Jewish residents of Los
Angeles are working on a plan to
colonize lower California with Hebrew
immigrants from Russia and else
where.
In the explosion of a boiler of a
Reading engine attached to one of the
Atlantic City flyers at Blue Anchor
N. j., the engineer and two firemen
We're killed.
A dispatch received at Panama says