The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-21
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
Benent of Our Readers.
Personal.

Mrs. ]. H. Kingery secured a YER
dict at Springfield, Mo-. against w.
H. Shipley, railroad conductor for
$1,000 as damages for the alienation of
her husbands affections.
Capt ]. N. Bofinger of st. Louis.
is dead. During the Civil war he had
charge of the steamboat transportation
of Union soldiers before vicksburg.
Gen. James NJ Williams. United
States army retired died at his home
in Washington. He was a colonel of
the first negro regiment in the Civil
war.
Alfred Walter. president of the
Seaboard Air Line system of rail-
roads. is dead at his home in New
York.
A great crowd OF personal and po-
litical friends gathered in London to
say farewell to Ambassador Bryce and
Mrs. Bryce on their departure for
the United States.
Lieut.. Frank Lahm will defend the
James Gordon Bennett aeronautical
cup at the ST. Louis balloon races
next October.
ISA- 1ON. II IdIh w. flSblnS, VI ANtW
York, is dead at his home in Olean.
He occupied the executive chair from
1904 to 1906.
A divorce has been granted in the
case of Jessie Lincoln Beckwitb,
daughter of Robert T. Lincoln, and
grand daughter of President Lincoln.
Official information has been re-
ut oh In AT
suit of an operation President Castro.
of Venezuela. is in fair way to re-
cover.
Harold S. Van Buren, of New York,
the American Consul at Nice, France,
is dead.
James F. Harrison. a grand son of
William Henry Harrison, is dead at
Mound City, Kan. He was a vetrean
of the Mexican and Civil wars
Alexis Alladin. leader of the peas
ant party in Russia has arrived in
New York. His intention is to tour
the United States in the cause of
freedom for Russians.
E. s. Ellsworth, a promoter and
philanthropist of Iowa Falls, Ia, is
dead at his home in that city.
A. M Campbell, one of the found
ers of Salina. Kan, and a pioneer of
the state, recently fell down a cellar
way in that city and was killed.
ConrressIonRI.
The president has assured the Cali
fornians in Washington that an ex-
ira session of congress will be called
If the pending immigration bill is not
passed at the present session.
The house after an interesting de-
bate has passed the naval appropria-
tion bill which carries in round num-
bers S96,000,000. An effort to strike
out the provision for an additional
battleshiD of the Dreadnaught class
was defeated by vote of lag to ia.
Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania,
made a strong speech in the senate
recently in opposition to the reso-
luton unseating Reed Smoot of Utah.
Temperance advocates 1000 strong,
recently made a demonstration at
the national capitol in support of
bill to rid the District of Columbia of
the liquor traffic.
IA
duced in congress to empower the
president to exclude from the mails
publications which contain the revolt
ing details of the Thaw trial and
other cases of similar nature.
The senate has passed bill to
provide for an investigation of the wa
ter resources of the United States.
The president has sent to the SEN
ate the new treaty with Santo Do
mingo relative to the revenues of
that country.
The senate and house copferees
immigration bill whereby foreigners
who uso their passports to secure ad-
mission to the United States to the
detriment of labor conditions will be
excluded. The idea is to bar Japa-
nese coolies who come to this coun-
try from Hawaii and the Philippines.
President Roosevelt has sent to
congress a message calling attention
to the urgent need Of legislation af-
fecting the different phases of the
public land situation in the United
States.
Opposition has developed in the
senate to the immigration bill as
amended by the committee.
MisceiInnesns.
The senate has passed the bill
granting the government the right of
appeal to the United States supreme
court in criminal cases.
While this country produces three
fourths of the cotton of the world
we imported last year s12,O00,O0O
worth of that product.
Salt Lake City, Utah, is suffering
from an epidemic Of cerebro-spinal
meningitis.
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