The Elbert County tribune., 1907-03-07

fits alone from the liquor sold the
inmates was $4,000 annually.
The postal receipts of the Kansas
City postoffice for the month of Feb
r3ary were $l29.t43.1l. The receipts
s115.774.9s showing an increase of
s13. .36s.13 or liz per cent.
Arthur Brisbane editor OF the New
York Journal has purchased a desert
ed village in New Jersey which he
proposes to convert into a model farm
The tract contains 600 acres and the
price was $125.Oo0.
Lyman K. Lane. former financial
clerk in the office of the Indian agent
at Muskogee, l. T.. has been arrested
charged with the embezzlement OF
1885 of government funds.
By vote of 20 to 40. Senator Jo-
seph w. Bailey has been exonerated
by the lower house of the Texas legis-
lature of charges of irregular acts in
public life.
BY the carelessness of a porter who
threw a lighted match into a keg of
''fireproof' paint an explosion was
caused at st. Joseph, Mo-, which re-
suited in fire loss of $4,000.
The 25,aao employees of the Colo
RADIO Fue, & Iron company ceased
work for swo hours and a half re-
Gently during the progress OF the
funeral of Frank ]. Hearne, presi-
dent of the company.
The Y NJ. c. A. building at Utica.
n. Y, was totally destroyed by fire
recently, causing a loss of s150,000.
The supreme court of Indiana has
declared unconstitutional the employ
ers liability law except as regards
railroads.
A destructive tornado recently
struck the town of Washington. Ark.
and almost literally wiped it out of
existence. Two negroes were killed
and many persons injured.
William ]. oliver, the Knoxville.
| Tenn, bidder on Panama canal work,
declares he has been handed a
lemon" in exchange for $4,000 of his
money, by the government at Wash
ington
The United States treasurers re-
port for February shows surplus for
| TIE luOHlu VI @o,AOo,VVo-
A suit has been filed at Concord,
N. H., by relatives of Mrs, Mary
Baker G. Eddy. head of the Christian
Science church. against the trustees
of the institution to compel an &C
counting of the financial affairs of
the church
| While wrokmen were tearing down
building in Kansas City recently
the walls collapsed. killing one man
and seriously injuring four others.
| Out of 215 candidates for this years
Rhodes scholarships 1873 passed the
prescribed examination. OF these 45
will be chosen to go to OXFORD next
October. The scholarships are worth
1.500 a year.
According to a recent census bull
letin out of only two fifths Of the pop
ulation of the United States more
| than half a million persons died in
1905. Consumption caused the great
est number of deaths.
By the explosion of dynamite In
the home of Rev. ]. B. Title, Bap-
tist minister of Carmi, ILL.,, Mr.. Title
his father, wife and baby were killed
outright, and two children of the FAM
lily were fatally injured.
A party headed by Speaker Cannon
and Senator Curtis of Kansas will
spend a month during March and
South America the Panama canal and
Cuba win be visited.
| Harry X. Thaw, recently enlivened
an extremely dull session of his trial
by issuing brief statement in which
he charged District Attorney Jerome
with unprofessional remarks in court,
and in conclusion declared that his
wife's natural real goodness was
above the comprehension of the prose-
cutting attorney.
| Chief Engineer Stevens reports that
during February 65O,0OO cubic yards
of dirt were removed from Culebra
cut on the Panama canal.
The George Washington university
has appointed committee to raise
| 100000 to purchase a new site for
the institution at the national cap
ital.
A woman and three children were
found dead at st, Louis. Nearby lay
a nearly empty bottle of patent
medicine which had been recently
purchased.
Recent advices from Nicaragua say
that the governorment forces have
captured two towns in Honduras af-
ter delivering a crushing defeat to
the Hondurean army.
Thomas Baldwin a wealthy I'LL
nois farmer, recently shot and killed
four persons at Colfax He had been
arrested charged with criminal as
sault on a 14-year old girl, and the
deed was done out of revenge. Among
those killed was the victim OF his
assault and her mother