The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1902-11-06
NEWS IN
MINIATURE
DOings OF a Busy World Told in
Terse Paragraphs.
NEWS CONDENSED
Happenings OF interest Over
Land and Sea Sc Personal
and Notes.

Toronto students celebrated Hal
.oween by riosing. t8sy0
New York is suffering from an
epidemic of trachoma.
President Roosevelt went turkey
hunting in Virginia last week.
There is comment in Washington
ove the Withholding of Gen. Miles
Report. 80. t.ilirt =
President Roosevelt has sent a
subscription to the New York CAM
paign fund.
H. B. Nickersoa denies that the
presidency Of the Southern Pacific
mas been offered him.
Gen. Gomez, vice president of
Venezuela, has been routed by in
:urgents near San Mateo. t
Employees of the Southern Pacific
will submit q new scale OF wages to
5he company in a 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 500, 900 IN bogus reve-
aue stamps at the Port OF New York.
HE.NE#
Gen. Sumner will give the Bocoa-
cd Moros more time to make peace
before attacking their forts.
A special commission is to examine
Port Arthur Ship Canal to deter
nine if it is safe for navigation.
The Engtish commission to study
jhe labor question in this country
will reach New York in a few days.
The opposition in the British Par
lament have a very slight chance Of
defeating the education bill.
Municipal socialism has been SO
successful in England that The
Times campaign against it is being
aughed at.
The European squadron of the
United States will leave Willie in a
,ew days for the West Indian ma
~aeuvers.,
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
oeen consolidated.
Charges have been preferred be-
'ore the Interstate Commerce Com
mission against the anthricate coal
roads.
The State National Bank of New
Orleans has been approved as re-
erv agent for the American Ma
bional Of Vicksburg, Miss.
President Loubet is acting as in
;ermediary 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
aver that might be. 4.
The Atlantic Coast Lumber Com
pany has been sued for 50, 900, 900
by the Colonial Trust Company.
The Mississippi authorities have
been ordered to answer the Louis
lana bill of complaint before the SUI
preme Court in respect of the
boundary line.
1t 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 days 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 a negro who was
captured and burned at the stake.
Senator Qaay 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 tie lack of cars.
A Special train has been chartered
to bring New York bankers to the
New Orleans convention.
A Chicago boy shot a notorman