The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings &c -.
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Item. Gathered ~r--, A.,
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the
BENEFIT of Our Readers.
Personal.


John F. Stevens, retiring chief en-
gineer of the isthmian canal, predicts
that the canal will be opened in jan
uary 1915.
Private advices from Venezuela
say that President Castro has suffered
a relapse.
Postmaster General Meyer has an
nounced the appointment of DIR. John
A Holmes as his private secretary.
Secretary Taft held a long confer
ence while at Panama with President
Amidor and Secretary of State Arias,
regarding various complaints of the
Panama republic,
Judge Jacob W. Wilkins, for is
years a member of the supreme court
of Illinois, is dead at his home in
Danville. aged 10 years.
Commander Robert E. Peary has Sc
cured the. necessary funds for another
expedition to the far North. His ves-
sci, the Roosevelt, is nearly ready. and
he expects to set out the last of June.
M. Takahashi, the Japanese finan-
cial agent, arrived in New York re-
Gently on his way to Japan from
Paris and London where he arranged
the big five percent loan for his
country
William Green has been elected
mayor of Topeka, Kan, by a plurality
of 1900, votes.
James J. Hill has resigned as presi-
dent of the Great Northern railroad
and is succeeded by his son, T. w
Hill. Mr.. Hill will be chairman of
the board of directors.
Capt. William Swift. who was in
command of the battleship Connecti-
cut when it grounded in January has
been suspended for nine months and
loses three numbers.
d. E. Cornell was elected mayor of
Kansas City, Kan. over w. w. Rose.
the democratic nominee by a majority
of LIB votes.
Bishop James N Fitzgerald, OF the
NJ. E. church, who with his family
has been on tour of the world, died
recently of pleurisy at Hongkong,
China His home was in st. Louis.
Judge II. F. Thompson, of Mime
apolis, Kan, a prominent attorney,
The congress of the Christian
church recently held in Cincinnati
has elected Rev. w. f. Richardson,
of Kansas City, Mo-, president, and
Rev. Wallace c. Payne, of Lawrence,
Kan; secretary.
Martin Flores, who came from San
Antonio. Tex, has been arrested in
New York charged with making
threats against the president. He
was sent to Bellevue hospital
Miscellaneous.
The strike of the st. Louis Brewery
workers has been settled. The mat
ters in dispute were compromised.
For the first time in the history of
Illinois woman was elected justice
of the peace in Evanston, the fashion,
able Chicago suburb at the recent
election.
In a recent New York tenement fire
Mrs. Sotupo and her four children met
death by suffocation.
The Nebraska legislature has adopt
ed resolution endorsing the posi-
tion of President Roosevelt in his
controversy with E. H Hartman.
The United States is now importing
more than 100000 worth of cocoa
per month, while importations of cof-
fee and tea are declining.
Representatives from all over the
world are attending the 18th general
conference of the Mormon church at
Salt Lake, Utah.
The department of the interior is
to bring suit at once against the
Southern Pacific railroad to cancel
all patents to land in the White
Horse Mining district of Nevada, is
sued to the company, on the ground
that the land was agricultural.
The safe of the bank at Redfield,
Kan, was recently wrecked by rob-
bers. But little money was secured
by the cracksmen.
On account of the car shortage
Louisina lumbermen are preparing 10
ship their product up the Mississippi
river by barges.
Only three minutes were consumed
at Cincinnati recently, in indicting
Bartholomew Cavagna, former teller
of the First National bank, accept
ing plea of guilty of embezzlement
and sentencing him to six years in
the penitentiary.
By a premature explosion IN the
Black Diamond mine at Joplin, NO.,
two miners were instantly killed.
Announcement has been made at
Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg. Pa.
of another eff tn the andoMnle n I
fund by the founder amounting to
$4,000, 900.
Because Emperor William disap-
proves the movement to hold a
worlds exposition in Berlin during
1913 has been abandoned.