The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
snterestin< Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for tho
Beneht of Our Readers.
Psrsonai.

SoH Sodl corporation OF 81. LOUIS, mas
been arrested and has confessed to a
shortage of between s25 200 and $26,-
900 in his accounts.
w. c. Phillips, clerk of the district
court, Lincoln, Neb., has been indicted
by the grand jury on charge of en-
bezzlement.
Z. H. Conger, Ex-United States
minister to China and ambassador to
Mexico, has died at his home in Pas
adena, Cal.
Frank II. Butler, who was charged
with the murder of the Marvin boy at
Dover, Del, has been released from
custody. for want of sufficient evil
dence against him.
A E. Stilwell and a party Of 80
capitalists who took trip over the
lines of the Orient railroad in Mexico,
have returned.
The board of regents of the state
university of Iowa have elected Prof
G. F. Kay. of Kansas university to the
chair of economics, geology and
petrology.
j. C. Horton, a prominent retired
business man of Kansas City. who was
survivor of the Quantrell raid of
Lawrence. Kan. is dead
Mrs. Russell Sage has been chosen
president of the foundation to which
she recently gave s1O,0O0,OOO. The
object of the organization is to better
the condition of the poor of the coun-
try.
Mrs. John Dillon, wife of the Irish
leader in the British parliament. is
dead.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president
of the University of California, has
been Offered the presidency of the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
Lyndon B. Phifer. 13 years old, of
Rich Hill, Mo-, has been awarded a
bronze medal and $4,000 by the Car
negie Hero Fund commission.
DR.. Klopsch. editor of the Christian
Herald, has been decorated with the
Order of the Rising Sun by the EN-
peror of Japan, for his efforts to re-
lieve famine sufferers in that country
last year.
T. j. Moore, owner of the Pittsburg
Headlight, has been elected chairman
of the Kansas republican state COM
mittee.
Judge Thomas Ryan, of Kansas,
assistant secretary of the interior, has
had a relapse and is again confined
to his home in Washington.
Rev. William H. Roberts. of Phil
adelphia. was elected moderator of
the 18th general assembly of the
Presbyterian church at Columbus, 0.
Edwin Conger, former minister to
China is critically i'll at his home in
Pasadena, Cal
B. H. Fulton, of Marysville, has
been elected grand commander of the
Kansas Knights Templar.
Admiral Dewey presided at ban
quet given in honor of Gen. Kuroki
at the Hotel Astor in New York re-
Gently.
Alonzo B. Jones, retired yachts
man of New York, was killed recently
Dy 1alllnS from ped.
G. R. Sprague, of Wichita, has been
elected president of the Kansas
Eagles. The next state convention
will be held at Galena.
MlsceIianeous.
The Kansas attorney general has
filed custer suits in the supreme court
against four more brewing companies.
A portion of the report of Attorneys
Kellogg and Severance to the Inter-
state Commerce commission regard
ing the Hartman railroad deals has
been published in New York. The
attorneys declare that the Sherman
antitrust act has been violated and
advise the annulment of the various
agreements.
Abraham Ruef, the former political
boss of San Francisco, created a
sensation in Judge Dunn's court by
pleading guilty to an indictment for
extortion. Sentence was deferred for
two weeks.
An explosion of powder in a rail-
road camp at the foot of Lookout
mountain in Tennessee, killed three
trainmen, injured several others and
caused considerable damage to sur
rounding property.
The Illinois legislature has taken
recess until October next.
The recent fair at the Metropolitan
opera house in New York realized
$75, 900 for the Actors fund.
The American Baptist Missionary
Union has received during the past
year s976.072 for missions.
The baptism of the heir of the Span
ish throne, Prince Alfonso of the
Asturias, has taken place in the priv
ate chapel of the palace in the pres
ence of the royal family. the state