The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of ths
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Benz
eft of Our Readers.
Personal.

Personal.
Emmet Dalton, the ex-Coffeyville
bandit, who is out of the Kansas peni-
tentiary on a parole. is employed as
night clerk at a Topeka hotel.
Secretary Taft in his speech at Ok
lahoma City advised the people of the
territory to vote against the adoption
of the proposed constitution.
The Army of the Philippines in ses.
sion at Kansas City, elected Capt. H.
A. Crow. of Connellsville, Pa, as COM
mander-in-chief.
William Jennings Bryan recently
addressed an audience of 5000 per-
sons at Plattsburg. Mo.
Rev. B. D. Conkling, shortly after
preaching a sermon at Lyons, Kan,
fell dead of heart disease.
Gen" Lewis Cass Fry. who COM
manded the Pacific Coast division of
Coxey's army in 1894, is dead at
Brice. Mo.
While on his way to speak at the
Rockford. ILL.,. chautauqua. the train
on which William ]. Bryan was trav-
cling was wrecked but none of the
passengers was injured.
Former President Cleveland is re-
ported to have so far recovered his
health as to be able to travel.
Secretary of War Taft opened the
: with an address at Louisville on the
race problem and general political
issues from a southern standpoint
Postmaster McElroy of the national
house of representatives, is dead at
Delaware, Ohio. He was rs years
old.
The German empress was recently
injured by a fall which will confine
her to her bed for several weeks.
James A. Finley, of Chanute, has
been appointed judge of the Seventh
Kansas district by Gov. Hoch.
The wife of Lieut. Won Bredow of
the German army, a daughter of Sen
ator Newlands, of Nevada, died re-
Gently in Berlin.
Attorney General Bonaparte has
been invited to address the Missouri
State Bar association at it's annual
meeting in Kansas City in September.
Miscellaneous.
Gov. Conner, of Alabama, has given
the railroads of the state until Octo-
ber l to comply with the new rate
law. After that date he will call the
legislature and urge the enactment of
more drastic laws.
The Western Federation of Labor
is considering a proposition to bring
counter suit against the National
-lnufacturers' association charging
that body with conspiracy.
The board of county commission
ers of Shawnee county. Kansas, have
decided to test in the courts the con-
stitutionality of the new state assess
ment and taxation law.
Secretary Cortelyou has announced
a new 1lan to relieve the financial
stringency. Funds of the government
will be deposited at points where
the stringency occurs instead of in
fore. The object is to keep the
spectators from profiting by govern
ment aid.
Ex-senator J. r. Burton, of Abilene.
and L. C. Housed and ]. H. Yetter, of
the Topeka Capital, have purchased
the Salina, Kan, Union. The paper
will be made daily and Mr. Burton
will have editorial charge.
The final report of the investiga-
ting committee regarding the frauds
in connection with Pennsylvania g
new capitol building has been sub
mitted to Gov. Stuart with a recon-
mendation that the attorney general
b. instructed to begin proceedings
against the guilty parties at once.
A fire in Cincinnati recently burned
over several acres of ground and
caused a property loss OF s15O,O0O.
The Santa Fe has opened school
for apprentices In the different de
partments Of railroading at Topeka
The annual reunion of the National
Association of Mexican War Veterans
was recently held at jamestown. Va.
The New York Journal of Com
merce is authority for the statement
that Attorney General Bonaparte is
net.
The entire business section of Port
land, Ark, has been destroyed by fire.
An outbreak of the foot and mouth
disease is reported among the cattle
in Ellsworth county, Kansas.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas has refused
to accept the resignation of District
Judge Stilwell and has ordered him
to take a years vacation.
The annual meeting of the. Missouri
Sheep Breeders association will be
held at the State Fair at Sedalia on
Governors Day, October 8.
The first shovel full of dirt was re-
Gently thrown on the Cape Cod canal
The plans for the canal date back zoe
years.
J.P. Stillings and w. ]. Sewer farm