The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-06
Doings of a Busy World Told in
Terse Paragraphs.
NEWS CONDENSED
Happenings of Interest Over
Land and Sea : Personal
and Notes.

AOWCCA ny IlOeluS.
New York is suffering from an
epidemic of trachoma.
President Roosevelt went turkey
hunting in Virginia last week
There is comment in Washington
over the Withholding of Gen. Miles
Report.
President Roosevelt has sent
subscription to the New York CAM
paign fund.
H. B. Nickerson denies that the
presidency of the Southern Pacific
has been offered him.
Gen. Gomez, vice president Of
Venezuela, has been routed by in
surgents near San Mateo.
Employees of the Southern Pacific
will submit a new scale of wages to
the company IN few days.
Mayor Phelan of San Francisco
declares the disease there called the
plague is not infectious.
Investigation has shown fraud to
the extent of $400, 900 IN bogus reve-
nue. stamps OF the Port of New York.
Gen. Sumner will give the Bocoa-
lod Moros more time to make peace
before attacking their forts.
A special commission is to examine
Port Arthur Ship Canal to deter
mine if it is safe for navigation.
The English commission to study
the labor question in this country
will reach New York in few days.
The opposition in the British Par
lament have very slight chance of
defeating the education bill.
Municipal socialism has been so
successful in England that The
Times campaign against it is being
laughed at.
The European squadron of the
United States will leave Vile in a
few days for the West Indian ma
neuvers.
A suit has begun at Rochester, N.
T., against the officers of the Safety
Fund Insurance Company.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore and the Baltimore and
Potomac Railway Companies have
been consolidated.
Charges have been preferred be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Cope-
mission against the anthricate coal
roads.
The State National Bank of New
Orleans has been approved as re-
serve agent for the American Ma
tional Of, Vicksburg, Miss.
President Loubet is acting as in
termediary in the coal strike in
France, the mine owners having
agreed to the commission plan.
1t is stated that King Edward was
treated last spring for a rodent
ulcer at the root of his nose, what
ever that might be.
The Atlantic Coast Lumber Com
pany has been sued for 81, 900, 600
by the Colonial Trust Company.
The Mississippi authorities have
been ordered to answer the Louis
lana bill of complaint before the Su-
preme Court in respect of the
boundary line.
It is said that Chili's naval dem
onstration in Brazilian waters was
intended as a demonstration against
American tutilage and in favor of a
coalition of South American States.
A serious fight was narrowly
averted at Panama, some 6ays ago.
American marines refused to permit
Colombian troops to remove ammu-
milton from the depot.
Two white men were found MUIR
dered in their bed near Darling.
Miss, recently by negro who was
captured and burned at the stake.
Senator Quay may be prosecuted
for violating the civil service law.
Ninety per cent of the railroad
coal mines in the Pittsburg district
are closed owing to the lack of cars.
A special train has been chartered
to bring New York bankers to the
New Orleans conventions.
A Chicago boy shot a motorman
in the eye with a bean shooter,