The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-07-09
News Of the World

The output OF the batson, oPih-
die Top and Sour Lake oil fields IS
decreasing on an average of $4,000
barrels month.
The great worlds fair handicap
race at st. Louis was won by Colo
NAL Girl, owned by Otto Stiefel,
with Hermis second. The race was
worth $41,0 900 to the winner.
John H. McDuffic, who captured
Rube Burrows, the noted train
robber, several years ago, was shot
and killed by neighbor at his home
in River county, Alabama, last
week.
Robbers caused a panic in gam
bling house at Houston, Tex, by
exploding a stick of dynamite I'M
der poker table and during the
excitement got away with a bank
roll of $4,000.
Chas. Z. Magoon has been ap-
pointed general counsel for the
isthmian canal commission. Judge
Magoon has been the law officer of
the bureau of insular affairs since
the office was created in 1899.
Rev. L. G. Broughton, a proml-
nent Baptist minister OF Albany,
Ga, was cowhided by Chief Of Po-
lice Westbrook, because the minis
ter had charged in sermon that
the officer was drunkard and
shielded law-breakers.
Gov. Peabody of Colorado, while
on visit to Chicago, was waited
upon by a committee of three,
claiming to represent Chicago work
ingmen, and advised to leave the
state. The governor told the men
he would remain as long as he liked,
and ordered them from his room.
A Kansas City Southern passen-
ger was wrecked near Joplin, Mo-.
by the spreading of rails and the
following persons were injured;
Frank Giddings of Neosho, Mo. !;
W. T. Bird, postal clerk, Kansas
City; Evi Martin, postoffice inspect
tor, Joplin, and physician from
Emporia, Kan.
Nine million of acres Of govern
ment land in Nebraska were opened
to settlement June 20, under act of
congress. which permits homestead
ers to filehyl 640 acres. This land
| is known as semi-arid land, and is
mostly adapted to grazing. 1t is
the last great opening Of govern
ment land of this nature that will
ever be made and was the occasion
of a rush for choice sections by
those desiring to establish branches.
The prohibition party, in nation
al convention at Indianapolis, nom
mated S. G.. Swallow Of Pennsyl-
vania, for president and G. W
Carroll of Texas for vice president
In addition to the planks on the
liquor question, the platform de
clares the party to be in favor Of
international arbitration, suffrage
law based on mental and mora
qualifications, uniform laws of thu
country and dependencies, popular
, election of United States senator's
civil service extension and the I'M
tiative and referendum.
, Chas. Gutke, Edmund Berscl
= and Chas. F. Kelley, former mem
S bers of the st. Louis house of dele
S gates. under indictment for perjur
and bribery. caused CONSERVATION
among their former associates an
! many wealthy citizens by confess
ing when placed on trial few day
a ago. In a statement given to tn
! press by Gutke, he declares ever
corporation Of any consequence /
st. Louis paid the famous combln
: of nineteen large sums of money fo
n their votes to secure desired frar
1 chises and municipal contract
n Kelley declares he was given $50
: 900 to make the trip to Europe an
: remain until the statute of lin
t. tation expired in certain cases
d which men worth millions mlgl
d have been involved The col
: fessed boodlers declare the cit
r, of st. Louis has been at tt
d mercy of a combine in the house {
delegates for twenty-five years.
= George Rice, a former oil refine
II of Ohio, has filed a bill in CHANGER
Y. at Trenton, N. j., asking that Il
j. Standard Oil Company be dissol
1t ed as an illegal combination in +
straint of trade. and that the cou
p appoint receivers or directors
1. take charge of its affairs pendir
D. the dissolution. Rice claims TIL
al he was driven out of business |
0, the so-called trust, which exis
in against the laws of the Unite
States.
Of The government bureau of lab
rs is making an investigation of Il
labor dificu1tins in Colorado