Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-03-02

AT the present prices OF uuuf8
the slices Of bread IN the worlds
fair sandwich at St. Louis may be
almost as thin as the slice Of ham.
In the last fourteen years there
have been 1908 fires In Kansas
City caused by gasoline, in which
City nine persons have been burned
60 death.
The anti Foraker faction in
Ohio seems to have assumed a
Dicktorial attitude in regard to
who shall be Senator Hanna's
successor.
Mr. Bryan declares himself OPP
posed to the policy OF ''anything
to win" Then, Of coarse, the
Colonel - opposed to the furthur
fusion Of The Democrats and Pop
ulists in Nebraska.
The wal experts are substanti.
ally agreed that in the next great
battle between the Russians and
Japanese one side or the other will
probably be defeated. Other i'm
portant information will be given
out from time to time.
The emperor Of japan sent 8
message Of sympathy TO Baltimore.
Japan has asked for the space at
the st. Louis fair which was set
apart for Russia and which Rus
STA declined to use. II the friend
ship Americans have for the Jap
anese grows cold it will not be the
fault Of the Japs.
What is claimed to be one Of the
largest clocks in the world has
been placed in new tower in Eliz-
abeth, N. j. It is thirty eight
feet in diameter, with eighteen
foot hands. The tower, which is
$50 feet high was built expressly
for the clock, which will be illumi-
mated at night, and will be visible
for many miles around.
The New York BOare of Health
has outlawed the feather buster,
declaring it a disseminator OF
germs and a cause Of pneumonia
and other diseases. Dust, says the
? health board, must be collected
with a damp cloth and not aroused,
! while in repOse it is as a sleeping
lion. Now let all towns en-
force sprinkling of the sidewalks
when sweeping is necessary
A hotel keeper who kept a re-
markable hostelry has at last been
: run to earth at Paris. he kept
good sized hotel, and attracted the
attention Of the police by turning
away all guests on the excuse that
! the house was full. The officers
searched the place and found thai
, four burglars lived there, and had
been stealing travellers baggage
which they sent to the hotel. Tit
o hotel keeper sold the goods fol
them, and what could not DO solo
q was packed away in the diheren
rooms. Over 500, 900 worth o
stuff was seized.
] II nearly makes us laugh now T.
remember that Washington's in
auguratiOn was delayed by q con
/. troversy over his official title. tn
senate proposed ''his highness, tn
President Of the United States o
. America and protector Of thei
Hberties.n The house would havI
4 only president Of the Unite'
States Of America" Conierenc
i produced no agreement, so thI
house decided the question in 1t
own way, and the senate had :
N follow. Many prints OF the de-,
paraded Washington IS thigh
ness" leading newspapers takin
is sides with the senate. The plat
people, however, did not catch th
"a injection.
T" Wireless telegraphy is rapid
ls coming into commercial utility !
Of Germany, and large numbers (
"spark messages" as such tell
: grams are called, are transmitte
daily. There is q servicain OperI
ton between Denmark and PruI
{. sia, while two German steameI
s. running between KEEL and KorsOe
- are equipped with instrument
s and maintain continuous COMMIT
q nicatiOn with both German an
Danish land stations. The systel
employed Is the SlaqG-ArcO. Pr
: vats messages are accepted ct q
= omces-at Bulk, near Kiel, az
and OF the Isle Of Fehmarn.
: Zee Of IL cents is charged for evel
message transmitted from nj OF
~ ton to the other, Irrespective
the number Of words it contain
ng and it is then dispatched to 81
- mart Of Germany or Denmark at