The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-05-07

It Washington is any guide for
the balance of the country. then the
laboring men of the country have
won a signal victory as the outcome
OF the coal strike, which was set.
tied late last fall by means of the
coal strike commission appointed by
President Roosevelt. May l is the
date on which the laboring men oil
the District of Colrmbi always
make their demands for shorter
hours, more pay and whatever
other concessions they deem them
selves entitled to receive at the
EaEds OF their employers. Usually
the contractors and employers have
resisted those demands for longer
or shorter time, and prolonged
strikes have resulted. THIS year,
however, the case is different, and
capital seems to have learned its
lesson from TIE coal strike, and ev-
cry reasonable demand labor has
made upon capital has been prompt
~ met and allowed.
Secretary Shaw has returned from
Iowa, where he went to join the
president on short tour through
the State. While no Official state
ment on the subject is given out, it
is stated on good authority that the
published reports that Assistant
United States Treasurer Williams.
at Chicago, and William Penn
Nixon, collector of that port, will be
relieved from their duties, is an.
true, and that they will retain their
present Offices. No selection has yet
been made of a successor to former
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Allies.
John S. Reynaud, Esq, acting
auditor of customs at New Orleans,
has figured out the total of customs
receipts for the month CT April at
that port, and found that they were
1871. 1906, beating the record OF
any previous April and being In
excess of receipts fer any previous
months in the past, except August,
1892, which showed 1881, 467.83.
A special from Solingen, Rhenish
Prussia, says United States Consul
Landger Was fined 30 marks by the
Judge OF local court for disorderlv
conduct in the court room where he
was present as witness. Mr..
Landger protested that he was
United States official and could not
be fined in that manner, and the
Judge sentenced him to three days'
Imprisonment for disorderly be-
havior. The consul left the court
room without being arrested.
Postmaster General Payne has an
nounced that the postotfice depart
ment has decided to put into effect
a two-cent postal rate between the
United States and the port of
Shanghai, the open door of China.
This has it's object the furthering of
commercial relations between this
country and the Flowery Kingdom.
Harry M. Clabaugh, for several
years associate justice of the SUI
preme court of the District OF Co.
lumEia, has taken the cath of office
as CHEF justice of that court sue
ceeding Z. r. Bingham, who has
been chief justice for sixteen years.
Edwin w. Kramer, of Louisiana,
has been appointed to a position as
clerk in the coast and geodetic sur
vey at a salary OF $72O per year, as
a result of civil service examlna-
ton.
Another Stamp Act.
Havana. General Nunez, civil
governor of Havana, has advised
the provincial council to end the
druggist deadlock by athorlzing the
atfixing of tax stamps to patent
medicines when SOLD to the con-
sumner instead of as previously.
when the medicines were received