The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from Al,
parts of the World Condenseo
Into Small Space for the
BENEFIT of Our Readers.
Personal.

4
ly is dead as aresult of the wounds
inflicted
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Miller were
struck by a Missouri Pacific passenger
train near Hope, Kan, and both we're
killed.
Gen. J. X. Hudson, for years a news
paper editor and publisher OF Topeka
Kan, and a veteran Of both the civil
and Spanish American wars, died at
his home in Tojeka of heart disease
complicated with dropsy after sever
al months illness.
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 W
capitalists who took trip over the
lines of the Orient railroad In Mexico,
| have returned.
Dennis Kearney, the Sand Lot
Orator." who led the agitation against
the Chinese in San Francisco In tne
early seventies, is dead at his home
in Alameda. Cal.
| Auillil ti OSNtg was ehS 6"09N -
| honor at banquet held in Washington
to celebrate the ninth anniversary OF
the battle of Manila bay.
Gen Kurolxi, of the Japanese army,
who won fame in the war with Russia,
is now in this country.
| Charles II. Hinton, an assistant ex-
aminer of the patent office, dropped
dead in the lobby of the Y. M. c. A.
building in Washington, where he had
Just responded to toast at banquet.
John Cudahy, the well-known Chi
cago packer, is critically Ill.
Capt Edgar Macklin, of the Twenty
fifth infantry. has been acquitted by
the court martial which tried him in
connection with the shooting up of
Brownsville, Texas.
Arthur Melvin, chief editorial writ
er on the New York American. died
recently in Hamilton, Bermuda, of
heart failure.
President Castro, of Venezuela, is
again reported seriously i'll.
| William E. Corey has been re-
elected president of the United States
Steel corporation.
Miscellaneous.
Counsel for Meyer, Haywood and
Pettibone have issued formal state
ment denying that their clients were in
Idaho at the time of the murder of Gov.
Steunenberg.
William A. Brewer, Jr., former
president of the Washington Life In
surance company, was fined $500 at
New York recently for making false
returns to the state superintendent
of insurance.
Il A warm welcome was extended Gen.
Kuroki and suite upon their arrival
in Seattle. In addition to the thous-
ands of Americans. hundreds of jap
anese We're on hand to greet their
general.
Il Serious antiEuropean riots have
occurred at Rawalpindi British In
dia. A Hindu mob burned several
buildings, pillaged mission church,
and looted the post office.
William Cross, his wife and two
y sons were asphyxiated in New York
by inhaling Illuminating gas.
y Newton Youngblood, n 16year-old
Oklahoma boy has been sentenced to
prison for life for killing farmer.
A San Francisco newspaper carrier
has been arrested for selling counter
felt money In his room was found
, several hundred dollars of the greer
good"
Thirty thousand acres of irrigated
land near Billings. Mont, are to be
opened for settlement by the govern
, ment about July l.
Ten men of the United States gun
boat Tacoma. while on shore leave a
Santiago, Cuba, were attacked by tn,
city police and badly injured An in
vestigation by the authorities was i'm
mediately begun.
On the last day of April snow coy
, | cred the entire state of Iowa to
depth of from three to eight inches.
A bomb was thrown at the carriag,
of President Cabrera in the streets o
Guatamala City, but the official escap
ed unharmed although the horses wer,
killed.
France is mcving for commission
like that appointed by the United
States to adjust the tariff with Ger
' many
Four men have been arrested il
{ st. Louis on suspicion of havini
1 started the fire by which two mel
: We're killed and eight others injured
Four hundred men have been mad
idle by the destruction Of the plant o
the National Stove company a
Lorain. o.
The first Kansas state convention o
. the Society of Equity, the farmers
union. held a two days session ii
: I Wichita recently,
The second biennial session of TIL