The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of tbs
Past Seven Days.
fpfereatinE Items Gathered from, All
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for tho
Benent of Our Readers.
Personal.

found guilty of murder and his punish
ment fixed at life imprisonment in the
the Kansas penitentiary.
A. E. Stilwell and a party of 90
capitalists who took trip over the
lines of the Orient railroad in Mexico.
have returned.
Rumors are in circulation in Wash
ington that Secretary Loeb is to leave
the president and take the presi-
dency of the Washington Railway and
Electric company.
Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
was recent caller at the white
mousse This Is his first visit to the
president since the publication of the
alleged conspiracy against Mr.. Roose-
welt.
Rev. John Fulton. editor of the
Church Standard, an Episcopalian
publication, is dead in Philadelphia.
His early work was done in ST.
Louis.
Rev. DR.. William W. Lord, of the
Protestant Episcopal church. and the
pastor of Jefferson Davis. died re-
Gently in New York aged SS years.
Rev. Leroy A. Belt, ex-presideDt of
the Ohio Northern university, widely
known in Methodist church circles, is
dead at Kenton. o.
John Mitchell, president OF the
United Mine Workers, is i'll at the
home of friend in Chicago. His
illness is not regarded as serious at
present
James Bartlett Hammond, inventor
of the typewriter bearing his name,
has lost his mind and is confined to
Bellevue hospital at New York for
observation.
Wolfman G. Fuchs, an expert in the
use of the X-ray, is dead in Chicago
of cancer contracted from coming in
to contact with the X-ray apparatus.
Dennis Kearney, the Sand Lot
Orator. who led the agitation against
the Chinese in San Francisco in the
early seventies, is dead at his home
In Alameda, Cal.
Harry S. New, acting chairman of
the republican national committee,
was in conference with President
Roosevelt at the White house re-
Gently.
4hi La W5Ou 1OLDer OF
Gov. George l.. Sheldon, of Nebraska,
is dead at her home in Nehawka
She was 73 years old.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, called on
the president recently, but declared
that his mission was not to call a halt
in federal land fraud investigations
in his state
Prof. Ritter Won Mosetig- -Moorhof,
the famous Austrian surgeon and in
troducer of iodoform, was recently
drowned in the Danube river.
Victor II. Olmsted, an employe OF
the agricultural department. has gone
to Cuba to supervise the taking of
census of the island.
Brig. Gen. John w. Buff has been
placed on the army retired list. He
was in command of the Department
of the Dakotas with headquarters in
st. Paul.
Frederick 1. Allen, commissioner of
patents, has rendered his resignation
to President Roosevelt to take effect
June 1.
Alan r. Hawley made a balloon as
cention at st. Louis and landed safely |
ee ONi AONASO'i' AiA', VI ihi'So away.
Miscellaneous.
In an explosion in a mine at Black |
Diamond, Wash, four men were
killed, five fatally and IA seriously |
injured
The 100000 Masonic temple at South |
McAlester, I. T., was recently dedi-
Gated with elaborate ceremony
A reunion of all the descendants of |
the signers of the declaration of inde-
pendence is planed for the James,
town exposition on July A next
Harry Campbell, convict in the |
Missouri penitentiary deliberately cut |
off four fingers on his left hand in Or
der to escape work.
The Standard Oil company has pur-
chased the interest in the Illinois oil |
field of Edward H. Everett and
August Busch for s750,O00
A treaty of peace has been signed
between Nicaragua and Salvador at
Amapala, Honduras.
The Illinois legislature has passed a
bill forbidding the sale of intoxicating
liquors within II miles of a military
or naval reservation.
The Wisconsin freight depot at
Minneapolis was recently totally de-
stroyed by fire causing a loss Of
100000.
The 18th anniversary of the opening
of Oklahoma to settlement was re-
Gently observed throughout the ter
ritory by general holiday.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has decided that party rate tick
cts, such as are sold by the railroads
to theatrical companies, must be sold
to the general public where the same
nnmher of nerSons ask for transnnrta-