The Delta independent., 1907-03-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Ecse Important Happenings cf ths
Past Seven Days.
tnterestins Items Gathered from A..
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
Benefit of Our Readers.
PeFnOAaL

SJo,OOO. lnlS is one or lne lalScS'
settlements for personal injuries even
made.
John F. Spratt, father of William
E. Spratt. mayor of ST. Joseph, died
recently at the home of his son. He
was GO years old.
II. b. Talley an attorney of Tulsa
l. T., has been sentenced to 20 days
in Jail and 500 fine for throwing a
chair at the opposing counsel.
A. II. Reed of Westmoreland, Kan,
died in Los Angeles, Cal. Of injuries
received in a collision with an electric
car
Mrs. ]. II. Kingery secured YER
dict at Springfield. Mo-, against w.
H. Shipley, railroad conductor for
$4,000 as damages for the alienation OF
her husbands affections.
Capt. J. 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 colonel oi
war.
A great crowd of personal and po.
litical friends gathered in London tc
say farewell to Ambassador Bryce ana
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.
EN- Gov Frank w. Higgins. OF New
York. is dead at his home in Olean.
He occupied the executive chair from
1904 to 1906.
divorce has been granted in the
case of Jessie Lincoln Beckwith,
daughter of Robert T. Lincoln. and
grand daughter of President Lincoln.
James F. Harrison, 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
the United States in the cause of
freedom for Russians.
E. S. Ellsworth, promoter and
philanthropist of Iowa Falls, Ia, ia
dead at his home in that city.
A. NJ. Campbell, one of the found
ers of Salina, Kan, and a pioneer OF
the state, recently fell down cellar
way in that city and was killed.
Conxre..i"uni.
The hCuSa cOmr1itrpa on interest 1 q
and foreign commerce has decided to
make favorable report on a bill lim':.
ing the time of consecutive employ
ment of trainmen to 1G hours.
The house has agreed to the con.
ference report on the immigration bill
which provides for the exclusion OF
Japanese coolies.
Temperance advocates 1000 strong.
recently made demonstration at
bill to rid the District of Columbia of
the liquor traffic.
The president has assured the Call
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-
ton bill which carries in round num-
bers S9G,000,0O0. An effort to strike
out the provision for an additional
battleshiD of the Drealnaupht class
was defeated by vote of LAG to ia.
opposition has developed in the
amended by the committee.
a joint resolution :as been intro
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 a similar nature
The senate and house conferees
have reported an amendment to the
immigration bill whereby foreigners
who use 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
Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania,
made strong speech in the senate
recently in opposition to the reso.
luton unseating Reed Smoot of Utah.
Direct charges of cowardice have
been filed against some of the Of
Ulcers of the steamer Larchmont,
which sank off Block Island, Il. l.,
recently.
The lower house of congress has
braska into two judicial districts.
While this country produces thres
fourths of the cotton of the world
we imported last year $4,000, ,OO(
worth of that product
An icicle falling 10 feet in a mine
shaft at Carterville, Mo, instantl,