The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-07-09
NEWS OF THE DAY
TERSELY RELATED.
Doings Of a Great Busy World Told
in Terse Paragraphs.
WAVES FROM THE MAGIC WIRES
Condensed and Served While Hot to
Our Readers in Labor Saving Slices.-.
Cream of Late Dispatches From the
Four Quarters of the Globe.

Snow is plentiful at Leadville.
Colo.
The Balkan situation is reports d
as grave.
The Washington police depart
ment has a scandal.
Washington may become the CEN
ter OF trust corporations.
Tammany Hall celebrated the
Fourth in typical fashion.
Fine sport is promised at the M O.
bile regatta July IL.
The Jewish rab ois' conference at
Detroit has adjourned.
Employees of the Denver Smelter
Works are on strike.
A powerful gale at Topeka, Kan
sas, blew trolley car from the
tracks.
Vestney Europy says the foreign
press is again inimical to Russia.
Two people were killed At Har-
Ian, Ia, by exposion of cannon.
Great interest is being shown in
many quarters in the St. Louis
Worlds Fair.
Sportsmen declare their faith in
the Reliance and assert that TIE
cup is safe.
The great Pacific cable between
San Francisco and Manila IS com
pleted, and many messages have
ben transmitted over it.
Eleven persons were seriously in
jured in a collision between two
street cars in a suburb of Birming-
ham, Ala.
The hot weather in the Eastern
States caused a number OF deaths
and prostrations in the large cities.
Four persons were eLectrocutad
at Pittsburg, Pa, by coming i n
contact with pool Of water
charged by suspended live wire.
One Fourth of July cele orator
vas killed and two fatally wounded
by the premature explosion OF a
Cannou at Harlan, Iowa. August
Edgelz had his head torn Of ir New
York.
President Roosevelt participated
Ill Fourth of July celebration at
II huntingdon, L. /.
President Roosevelt sent a mes
sage around the world in nine and
one half minutes over the new
cable.
The Beaumont Street Car Compa-
ny expects to bear the strike among
its employees with the aid Of re-
cruits secured in New Orleans.
Bubonic plague has appeared at
Valparaiso and Talcuhuna, Chilli.
The members of the Cuban senate
are showing a disposition to hold
up the naval station and the Isle of
Pines treaties.
Americans in ROME celebrated
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the Fourth of July.
The American Society of London
celebrated the Fourth of July by
dinner at which 500 persons were
present.
The Russian war minister Gen
eral Kurapani, acting on instruc-
tions from the czar, has altered his
itinerary and has left Vladivostock
suddenly, going to Nikolavsk. ma
val station Ct Asiatic Russia, on the
north bank OF the Amur, for the
purpose of inspecting the fortifica-
tions which would be specially i'm
portant In the event OF conflict
with japan and Great Britain.
An edition of Count Tolstoi's
pamphlet, "Thou Shalt Not KILL"
was seized by the police at Berlin
on the ground that it contains state
nents regarding Emperor which
are cIassed as high treason.
Pope Leo has been stricken with
pneumonia, and is in stats OF coma,
from which be may not be aroused.
The British government displays
much interest in the so-called Rus
sian Americana incident.
The German fleet under command
of Prince Henry, will visit Ameri-
can waters during the Worlds Fair.
/ Frank p. Sargent, commissioner
/ of immigration. says the flood OF un-
/ desirable aliens is menace to lib