The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-12-17
WIRE FLASHES

The Treasury purchased rs, 5000
ounces of silver for delivery at Ne
Orleans.
The Dutch Government withdrew
the education bill from the House OF
Commons.
Contract for the $4,000 addition
to the Jackson, Miss, postoffice was
awarded.
Two docks and steamship were
burned at Portland, Me-, causing
sS50,O0O loss.
Another revolution has broken out
in Salvador under the leadership of
Ex-Vice President Alfaro.
Senator Foraker, of Ohio, is pre-
pcring a speech defending his Stan
dard Oil connections.
President-eleet Taft refused to
talk of his cabinet. He Endorsed the
new treaty with Japan.
Texas and Louisiana naval stores
producers entered into an agreement
to curtail the 1909 output.
The Italian rice crop for 1908
yielded 25,000.O0O bushels, a high
water mark in rice production.
The case of w. H. Mitchell, charg-
ed with kidnapping Miss Linton, went
to the jury at Townsville, Ga.
Two trainmen were killed and two
others injured in wreck on the
Rock Island Railroad in Arkansas.
Ex-Gov. James X. Vardaman, an
nounced that he again would run
for election to the United States SEN
ate.
Durham, N. c., is excited over a
series of crimes, the climax being
the assassination of railroad engi-
neer at his post.
Mrs. Rice told the jury in the Da-
Wis murder trial in Omaha of the
death pact between DR.. Rustin and
the defendant, Davis.
Ed Williams, negro was convict
ed at Greensboro, Ala, of the muir
der of former Sheriff Drake. Three
others are to be tried.
A. p. Gilbert, assistant general
freight agent of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, was acquitted of
charge of granting rebates.
A revolution in Salvador led by
Lnc
been begun. Three towns have been
taken by the revolutionists.
Steamer 500 City, bound from
Newfoundland to New Orleans, was
believed lest with eighteen persons
aboard, in a gale off Cape Ray.
General Simon, the Haytian in
surgent leader. postponed his entry
into Port-au-Prince because ne con-
sidered Friday an unlucky day.
Grief-stricken because he accident
ally killed his pet dog, fifteen
year-old Louisville, KY, boy COM
mitted suicide with the same weap-
on.
A letter from E. H. Hartman on
Transportation OF Mineral Re-
sources was read at the American
Mining Congress in session in Pitts
burg.
A dyke gave way in front of Pine
Bluff, Ark, and dynamiting of levees
was resumed to divert the current.
Blocks of business houses were
abandoned
Mulai Hafid, the new Sultan of
Morocco, has accepted the Algeciras
act and the attendant conditions laid
down by the Powers for the recog-
milton of his sultanate
A Vienna dispatch to Parish stat
ed Montenegrins had begun the bonn
bardment of Cattaro, the Austrian
port on the Adriatic, and that the
city had been under fre.
The Marine Hospital Service will
ask Congress. for an appropriation
to investigate a new disease in tho
Southern States, sort of combina-
tiOA VI iCpIOpy dAu Iuodully
The steamer 500 City, bound from
the Great Lakes for New Orleans, to
run in the New Orleans-Texas trade,
was wrecked off the coast Of New
foundland. Eighteen lives were
probably lost.
Declaring that her mother-in-law,
the widow Of the proprietor of
leading Memphis Hotel, alienated
her husbands affections, Mrs. Chas.
B. Galloway of Monroe, La, filed suit
for $4,000 damages
Notable exercises in memory of
the late Grover Cleveland, expires
ident of the United tSates. consti-
tnted the opening session in New
York City of the Association of Life
Insurance Presidents.
Twenty-four new indictments were
returned in the Tennessee night RI
der case. Eight persons held at
Nashville were released on bond, the
court declaring their arrest and de-
tention to be illegal.