The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1905-07-08

Bishop l. w. Joyce of the Methodist
church in Minnesota has been stricken
with paralysis and is seriously i'll.
President Roosevelt has announced
the appointment Of Charles g. Magoon.
governor of the Panama canal zone. as
United States minister to Panama
Judge George Gray, of Wilmington,
Del, has accepted the invitation Of the
arbitration board named to decide the
miners shot-frers question in Illinois
to become the fifth member of the.
board.
During the fiscal year just closed &C.,
GAG immigrants were landed at the port
Of Boston, which is record breaker.
A national conference of governors
Of states, boards Of trade, chambers Of
commerce, labor organizations and
other bodies interested is to be held in
New York September 1921, to discuss
the immigration question.
/ Official investigation has developed
that the .Austro- Hungarian government
encourages the emigration of its sur
with the understanding that they will
return to their native land to spend
their accumulated earnings
During violent storm at Ottumwa,'
Ia, and vicinity, number of houses
were unroofed. trees uprooted and wire
service demoralized. Great damage was
done to growing crops in Wapella
county.
The new Acacia fraternity, an organ
ization of Master Masons in colleges,
held its first conclave at Ann Arbor,
Mich. The universities of Michigan,
Kansas. Nebraska, California and Le-
land Stanford were represented.
A dispatch from Batavia. island Of
Java, Dutch colony, says that the
Russian cruiser Terek has been dis
armed and interned there because of
her inability to take on sufficient coal
within the time limit
Fifty-seven naval officers, from the
grade of captain down, have been
| named for retirement to create yacan-
cies necessary under the naval person
mel act.
The Fall River (Mass.) Manufacture
ers' association has refused to grant
the demand of the weavers for res
toration of wages to the basis which
prevailed prior to the 121s per cent.
cut last July.
The Milwaukee grand jury has hand
ed down batch of indictments of per-
sons alleged to have been engaged in
deals" in connection with public busi-
ness involving bribery.
/ 80 Tob- M
his summer home, Lake Sunapee, New
bury, N. H., at 1925 on the morning
of the 1st Death came suddenly from
heart failure, after a day in which his
physicians thought he showed encour-
aging symptoms. Mr.. Hay was in his
sixty-seventh year
In the annual races on the Thames
at New London, Conn, between Yale
and Harvard, the latter easily won
| the four-oared and freshman races;
but when it came to the varsity eight
cared race, there was battle royal
over the four-mile course, up stream,
in which every inch was valiantly con-
tested, Yale finally winning by the
length of an oar
The Merchants distillery at Terre
| Haute, Ind, suffered loss of $780, 600
| by the destruction of its elevator and
damage to the spirits house by fire.
In the wreck of Santa Fe passen-
ger train at San Antonio, N. M, Con-
ductor A. A. Wells, of Ell Paso, Tex,
was killed and five persons injured.
The health authorities of Ecuador
have declared Panama to be infected
with bubonic plague and have declared
a quarantine against vessels from Pan
ANA ports.
Agrarian disorders are spreading
rapidly throughout Russia. The whole
| country is profoundly stirred, and the
intelligent classes seem almost solidly
arrayed against the government. All
conditions seem ripe for the long-pre-
dicted revolution.
A mutiny among the sailors at Lii
bau, Russia, following on the heels of
the events at Odessa, has produced
| profound impression in official circles,
and all eyes are turned toward Cron-
stadt
i The British steamer Tropic, bound
for New York, went ashore Is miles
north of Constitution, Chill, and will
prove total loss
The Wholesale Grocery Association
of the United States was organized
at meeting held in Milwaukee.
William Judson, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, was chairman.
Eight prisoners, mostly alleged
l mn TI1ar.c
white man-were taken from the jail
at Watkinsville, Ga, by mob made
up of men from neighboring counties.
4 and snot to death.
Thomas Johnson, anegro police.
man, of Chicago, afteE being chased
several blocks and threatened with
death for protecting non-union men,
fired upon his pursuers, fatally
wounding Michael Mejedly
The cruiser Charleston, in her trial
run off Provincetown, Mass, made an
average speed of 22.3 knots an hour,
which was 03 knots above her contract
requirement.
A Chinese mass meeting was held
/ in Honolulu. at which the efforts be-
/ ing made in China to boycott Ameri-
can goods, on account of the operations
of the exclusion law, were Endorsed.
A dispatch from Odessa, Russia, on
the night of the 2Sth, said that the
wharves and shipping in the harbor
were in flames. fired BY the mutinous
crew of the battleship Kniaz Potemkin,
who killed nearly all their officers and
threw their bodies overheard The so
cialists ashore were pushing the revolt
along.
A general strike, accompanied by
disorder and bloodshed, has broken out
/ in Odessa, Russia. Several collisions
bctweeE the military and strikers have
occurred. IN one instance a company
Of Ccssaeks was repulsed by mob of
400 vorkmen
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