The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-14
Most Important Happenings &C tie
Past Seven Days.
interesting Items Gathered from AID
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increased S39.000.000 during 1906.
Howard Robb. an Arkansas state
senator, is dead.
Isabelle Urquhart, the actress, died
recently in Rochester, N. Y.
Emperor Wilhelm, of Germany. is
planning a visit to King Alfonso OF
Spain this spring.
Mary S. Anthony. sister of and life
long co-worker with Susan B. Anthony
died recently at her home in Roches
ter, N. Y.
United States District Judge
Charles D. Parlange. of New Orleans.
died suddenly in that city of apoplexy.
The republican caucus of the New
Jersey legislature has nominated
Frank o. Briggs for United States
senator to succeed John F. Dryden.
Mrs. Drusilla Morrell, whose hus-
band fought in the war of 1912, is
dead in Brooklyn, N Y, at the age OF
102.
DIR. George E. Ladd, who for ten
years has been director of the Mis-
souri, state school of mines at Rolla,
has resigned his position to engage
in the mining business.
Richard w. Morgan, of Boulder
county, Col, has been expelled from
the state senate for accepting a br
John B. Mcdonald, who constructed
the subway in New York, has been
elected president of W. ]. divers
Panama Construction company.
Former Congressman Benjamin w.
Harris, known as the father of the
new navy" is dead at his home in
Massachusetts.
Preston H. Leslie, former govern
of of Kentucky and later governor of
the territory of Montana, is dead at
his home in Helena.
John d. Rockefeller has announced
gift of $32,OOO,O0O to the general
education board
CongressionaI.
The president has signed the gen.
eral service pension bill recently
passed by congress.
The provision in the Indian appro.
priation bill which allowed the full
bloods to sell their lands has been
defeated in the senate by a vote of
81 to %. The provision to sell the
surface of mineral lands was also de-
feated.
Representative Murphy, of Mis-
souri,, has introduced a bill in the
house to repeal the act admitting Okla
homa to statehood on the ground that
the constitutional convention at
Guthrie has failed to comply with the
the conditions of the enabling act.
The scarlet fever and diphtheria epi-
denies which have been raging in
Chicago have broken out with renewed
violence. All records were broken re-
Gently when 407 new cases were re-
ported in one day.
The senate has agreed to appoint
committee to consider the revision Of
the land laws of the country.
The house committee on judiciary
has submitted report declaring that
congress has no jurisdiction or au-
thority to suppress abuses or amelior-
ate conditions surrounding woman or
child labor. The committee holds
that the subject is within the police
power of the various states.
The senate has passed the Indian
appropriation bill.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate to give the president absolute
control of the Panama canal.
The house has passed the river and
harbor bill carrying an appropriation
of SS3,000,000. A survey of the Mis-.
souri, river from its mouth to Sioux
City is provided for.
The house recently passed 725 pri-
vate pension bills in 80 minutes, max
ing new record
miscellaneous.
In a sensational speech at Lincoln,
Neb.. State Senator Patrick accused
the brewery and distillery interests
with trying to corrupt the legislature
and prevent the passage of unfriendly
bills.
The approximate value of the Mar
shall Field estate is placed at $75,000,-
000 by the executors of the will.
A meeting of the National Mckinley
Memorial association was held in
Washington recently to hear the re-
ports of the various officers.
Stanford White threatened to kill
Harry Thaw, according to a witness
in the New York murder trial who
notified Thaw of his danger.
Sapulpa, l. T., has offered to fur
nish 100 acres of land and give $780,
900 in cash if the capital of the new
state is located there.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas, has sent a
special message to the legislature ask
ing for more stringent prohibitory and
gambling laws.
The heart of New York Chinatown
is to be obliterated and a city park
is to take its place.
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