The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY AND TERSE-
LY NARRATED.
FROM EVERYWHERE
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton, and Particularly
From the Great
Southwest.

the I)TGSlNtuG las uCGlutu " ulS-
charge rioting negro soldiers.
The Farmers and Miners bank
of Ladd, ILL.,, a mining town, was
held up and robbed by two men in
broad daylight, who bound the cash
Ter and secured several thousand
dollars.
The interstate commerce commits
sion modilies its ruling and permits
railroads to issue mileage for adyer-
Using.
Texas railroad commission takes
steps to compel Pullman company
to reduce its charges 20 per cent.
Henry w. Herring, cashier of Paul
Stensland's bank in Chicago, goes to
join him at Joliet penitentiary.
George Z. Dexter, vice president
of the Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
has announced that he will not 90
from New York to Tennessee in re
Spouse to the summons of Insurance
. Commissioner Folk to answer com
plants of policy-holders that their
money was being used in an effort
to re-elect the present management
of the company. He intimates that
if the commissioner desires to see
him, he can be found in his Office.
Dispatches have been pouring into
Halifax, Nova Scotia, bringing
news Of vessels wrecked or in dis
tress, of wires Frustrated, and of
damage done by gale and sea along
the coasts of Nova Scotia, Cape Bre-
ton, \. b., and Prince Edward
island.
Seven persons were killed and
nine were injured at Mocha, Eeua
dor, station ON the Quito railroad,
owing to natives meddling with the
brake on a car.
In a cheap lodging house at
Baltimore, Md, DR.. J. Baxter
Mathews, of Greensboro, n. c.,
blew out his brains with a 32-caliber
revolver. He had been convicted of
wife murder.
Hereafter a transport will be dis
patched to the Philippines on the
fifth of each month, instead of ev-
cry 20 days, as formerly.
The death is announced of Au-
boron f. w. NJ. Herbert, the Eng
! Hsh journalist. He was born in
1883.
A telegram containing a sum-
mary of the declaration of policy
made by Premier Clemenceau in
the French chamber of deputies was
sent the pope. After its perusal
the pontiff is reported to have said:
'The French churches are prepared
for all kinds of persecution. They
have already shown the power of re-
sistance they possess"
The annual banquet Of the Fort
Worth board of trade was held in
Imperial hall. Covers were laid for
200 guests, and every place was
filled.
The American Mohair Growers
association has selected San Anto-
MO as the place for concentrating
all Of the mohair output of Texas,
Arizona and New Mexico. Large
warehouses viii be built for stor-
ing the product. 1t will be held and
sold on demand to the outside buy
ers. The association will station its
own representative IN New York. 1t
expects to control about 2,000,000
pounds of mohair annually.
News has been received of the
death at Chalchihuites, state of Ia
catas. Mexico, of DR.. Edward A.
Weyman, who was one Of the prom
inent figures in the early history
of Texas. He went from New York
TO JOIN the Texas navy in 1889 and
left ii when Gen. Sam Houston We
toed the war bill.
The Corn Products mill of the
Atchison (kas.) Live Stock Co.,
with daily capacity of / 900 bar
rels, burned to the ground. The
fire originated in the top of the mill
while il was in operation, from an
unknown cause. The property was
valued at $4,000; insurance, $780,
600. The mill will be rebuilt.
BY agreement of the prosecuting
attorney at Little Rock, Ark, and
attorneys representing five of the
cotton oil companies doing business
in Pulaski county, orders were en-
tered ending the antitrust suits
against the companies. Four of the
companies paid fines of $12,500
each.
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