The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
Doings of a Busy World Told in
Terse Paragraphs.
CONDENSED NEWS
appenings of Interest Over
Land and Sea :. Personal
and Notes.

The British steamship Coralie has
been seized on an alleged claim of
$40, 376.5O.
The police of Paris have been un-
able to unravel the mystery of Mrs.
Cores death.
The German budget shows deficit
of IA, $50, 600 for 1902 and $37, 500, 600
for 1903.
American interests will establish
dock and warehouse on the Man
chester Ship Canal.
Boston was selected as the next
place of meeting of the American
Federation of Labor.
Efforts to float the schooner La
Plata, stranded on the Chandeliers,
has been abandoned.
Russian peasants believe they can
appeal from the Gar to the Hague
tribunal.
Danny Maher," the jockey, is
returning to this country with
$125, 900 in British gold.
Railroad traffic at Dallas, Texas,
had to be abandoned for two days
on account of the floods.
A good grade of illuminating oil
has been struck near the surface not
far from Houston, Tex.
AS q result of Dr. Lorenz's visit
name.ess capitalist of Los Angeles
will establish free hospital for de-
formed children.
Thirty thousand acres of pine
land have been purchased in Ala
bama by a Wisconsin sawmill man.
Gen. Herrera insurgent~ an6 the
Colombian Commissioners have come
to terms and signed a treaty OF
peace. 1s-sse
When President Roosevelt spoke
to the Union League at Philadel.
phia, some excitement was caused
by a determined rush of man to-
ward the Presidents carriage, but
it was found be only wanted ia
shake hands.
pullman and Burns, the suspend
ed Jockeys, have applied for permis-
sion to ride at New Orleans and
San Francisco. -,
The Southern Railroad has or.
gained and inc orporated as Missis-
sippi corporation. Other railroads
will follow.
A company at Lake Charles, La,
has let contract to sink an oil well.
The anthracite mine owners and
the Miners Union have agreed to
endeavor to adjust their differences
utside of the Strike Commission.
English papers do not take kindly
to the increase of wages on Ameri-
can railroads, holding that com.
MERGE will not stand the increased
freight rates. 200
1t is believed in London that Por-
tugal will not sell her colonies, but
that England will secure her usual
foothold by concessions.
Aconp any n West Cuba is expe-
rimenting in cotton raising on a
large scale. Coffee and citrus fruits
will also be largely cultivated.
Herr Krupp, the great German
gunmaker and the richest man in
Germany, is dead. Cause-apoplexy
and there are persistent rumors OF
suicide.
The coroner ordered a jury to
hold up its verdict on the death of
Joseph Weitkam of st. Louis, re-
Gently killed by street car, until
he could ascertain the legal speed
limit.
In class fight at the Iowa State
University hotel was nearly
wrecked, the police force was
whipped and several people injured.
The bitterness growing out of the
South African war is subsiding in
England The British ministeriallsts
think the Irish problem is clearing
and that the dawn is near.
VIM. S. Vanderbilt Allen, who
disappeared six years ago. hassbeen
an inmate of a private insane 3sy-
lum. He claims he was kidnapped.
A negro boy, who attacked little
white girl at Covingtvon, KY, was
MN, orcifa1llv whinpnd hu hic fafhor