The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
Personal.

Personal.
Walter Oprey charged with horse
stealing jumped from rapidly NOV
ing train at Ceweta, /. T., in an effort
| to escape from a deputy marshal and
was seriously il not fatally injured.
Mrs. Margaret Carpenter of Brook
| lyn has celebrated her 101st birthday
and asserts that she has never been
! i'll since she was seven months old.
William d. Haywood Secretary
treasurer of the Western Federation
\ Of Miners has been declared not gull
| ty of the murder of Former Governor
Steunenberg of Idaho by jury at
Boise.
Judge Green, associate justice of
the Kansas supreme court is dead.
The jury in the case against Louis
Glass on trial in San Francisco for
bribery has disagreed.
Cardinal Gibbons celebrated his
| 73d birthday recently at Westminster,
Md
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and her mother
are said to be in San Francisco to
plead with Attorney Delmas to again
defend Harry Thaw.
On the finding of a retiring board
that he is incapacitated for active ser
vice Lieut. Col. Charles d. Ayres.
Fourteenth cavalry. has been placed
on the retired list of the army.
William Cricket, mayor of Oscaloosa
Ia, died recently of heart disease. He
was a prominent coal operator.
Charles w. Dawes, of Chicago. re-
Gently addressed the Wisconsin
Bankers association on "The Defects
of the Sherman Antitrust Law"
Richard H. Halsey. president of
the Oshkosh, Wis, Normal school,
was accidentally shot and killed re-
Gently.
Congressman Nicholas Longworth
and Mrs. Longworth sailed on the
steamer Siberia from San Francisco
| for Honolulu.
Col. Philip Figyelmessy. Hungarian
patriot and soldier of fortune, and
friend of Kossuth, is dead at his
home in Philadelphia.
Rev. William Banks Rogers, has re-
signed the presidency of the Catho-
lie university of st. Louis.
Robert C. Mitchell, founder of the
Duluth (Minn) News-Tribune and a
| pioneer newspaperman of the state,
is dead at his home in that city.
Miscellaneous.
Senator Stone, of Missouri. and
| Representative Towne, of New York.
! have arrived in Manila, on a tour of
the Philippines.
Mrs. Katherine Felske, aged 104
said to have been the Oldest person
in Nebraska. died recently at her
home in Grand Island.
President Jesse. OF the University
of Missouri, has decided to temper
arily withdraw from the institution in
an effort to regain his health.
During a storm at Augusta. Geor-
gia, recently, bolt of lightning set
fire to cotton mill. Immediately
afterward second bolt turned on
the automatic sprinkler, extinguish-
ing the fire but flooding all parts
of the plant.
A Mexican student attending Cor
nell university has invented a water
bicycle on which he rides on the wa
ters of Lake Cayuga without danger.
Judge Landis, in the federal court
at Chicago. has refused the request
of the attorneys for John d. Rookie
feller for the withdrawal of the sub
poena recently issued for their client.
Eight men were recently drowned
near Toronto, Ont, by the capsizing
of gasoline launch.
During livery stable fire at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, 800 horses stampeded
|
score of persons seriously.
The Alabama Legislature has appro-
priated $4,000 for resisting the
fights made by the railroads on state
regulation laws. The Alabama stu
alton Is similar to that in North Car
olina where the federal courts have
nulified the state law.
A heavy wind storm struck a crowd
ed Chautauqua tent at Ashland, Neb,
creating a, panic in which Is persons
were more or less seriously Injured
Mrs. Elizabeth Agassiz, widow of
Louis Agassiz. the famous scientist, is
dead in Boston aged S5 years.
The spinning mills at Belfast, Ire
land, have been compelled to close
on account of a coal shortage caused
by a strike of dock laborers.
The strike of the garbage driver:
in New York has caused vast piles
of refuse to collect in the tenement
district endangering the health of the
people.
The damage to the five railroads
centering at La Crosse, Wis, from the
recent floods will amount to hun
Gov. Frantz has issued the call for
an election to ratify the Oklahoma
constitution for September II.