The Elbert County tribune., 1908-12-03
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN NEWS.

Samuel Gompers was reelected pres
Ident OF the American Federation OF
Labor at the Denver convention.
By majorities OF LOO. 600 and 975,
Jefferson, Sandusky and Clermont
counties, Ohio. voted dry November
23rd, knocking out 21O saloons. HUI
ron county voted wet by 10.
The pay as you enter" system Of
collecting fares has been introduced
successfully en- one of the street car
lines In Chicago In rush hours 1t is
said seventy-five persons minute can
be loaded.
Following the death of another la
borer brought in from the Western Pa
cific Construction camp, the authori-
ties of Elko. Nevada, are taking steps
to have all grog shops in the corstruc-
ton camps abolished.
Two boys named Baker, living on
the Tennessee river, near Waverly,
Tennessee, were given severe whip
ping by masked night riders for the
reason, as given by the riders, that
they would not work.
Col. w. II. Zimmerman, aged seven
z3rd at Macon, Ca, on train. He was
colonel of the regiment in which Pres
ident Mckinley enlisted as a private
and issued the commission of lieuten-
ant to the young private.
President Roosevelt will not make a
display at the Alaska -Yukon-Pacific ex-
position Of the trophies of his South AT
rican hunt next year. In reply to for
NAL request sent two weeks ago, Sec
retary Loeb for the President has re-
piled that it will be impossible to COM
ply.
AT the recent election an amendment
to the Minnesota constitution was SUBJ
mitted providing for the establishment
of state fund for hail and tornado IN
surance. A majority of all the votes
cast was necessary and this was not
secured. as many citizens failed to vote
either way.
The American Smelling e Refining
company continues TO report an i'm
proyement In conditions. the one con-
cern being the gradual decline In the
price CT silver which has interrupted
the mining OF the low grade ores.
There are no present indications of q
better price for silver.
Adelina Guttilla, three years old,
daughter OF Dominica Guttilla, who has
been exhibited in many of the large
cities, and who was one OF the won
ders Of the medical profession, died at
Springfield, o., few days since of
pneumonia. She was forty inches high
and weighed 140 pounds. She was con-
sidered the largest baby in the world.
At Seattle Friday, Hugh Mcmahon,
manager Of the American cafe, and a
we'll known business man, was muir
dered in the front yard of residence
next door to his own home. His face
had been battered to a pulp, his skull
fractured, and finger nearly torn off
from which a $500 diamond had been
wrenched. The police believe the mur-
der was the work Of thugs.
AS result of a war on Clubs" in
which liquor bas been sold on Sundays
and during the hours that saloons were
closed. 61 clubs were raided in ST.
Louis and 1872 men arrested. When ar.
| AaiShCu AL PoiiSS CouiI iuOsI VI tuS
prisoners were discharged, their re
lease being greeted with cheering from
hundreds Of spectators. The raids
were ordered by Fovernor Folk.
That the Missouri Pacific has de
cided to double track its system from
Kansas City to Pueblo is the positive
announcement given out by Superin
tendent ]. e. Snedeker in an interview
at Ottawa, Kas. This. he said, is part
of plan of improvement which the
Missouri Pacific has determined on
and which provides for an expendi
ture of $lO,OoO,oOO year for ten year.
in permanent work.