The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-08-27
NEWS OF A WEEK.

LOUISVILLE ana Nashville earnings
showed big decrease.
White miners at Springfield; Ill.
refused to work with negroes.
Russian revolutionists butchered
Jewish family at Yurievka, Rus
STA.
The Dutch Government has sent re
endorsements to Willemstad, Gu
racao.
A monument to Jose Marti. the Gu
ban patriot, has been completed at
Rome.
w. ]. Bryan delivered an address
before large crowd at Des Moines,
Iowa.
One person was killed and four
injured in an automobile accident at
Los Angeles.
Judge w. H. Taft spoke at a rally
OF Virginia = Republicans at Hot
| Springs, Va.
Railroad officials, it was said, ex-
pect a banner year. for New Orleans
in grain exports.
Wilbur Wright, the American aero
Elanist, made another successful
flight at Lemans.
The Anti-Asiatic League demands
the exclusion of all Asiatics from
the United States.
The new Federal building at BIZ
! lOxl, Miss, was dedicated with i'm
pressive ceremonies.
Trouble between white and negro
miners near Jelico, Tenn, was re-
ported very serious.
Merchants Of Willemstad. it was
stated, declined to. further purchase
supplies from Venezuela.
Congressman James E. Sherman,
stated that Gov. Hughes would be
renon:inated in New York.
The Turkish navy, it is stated,
would be reorganized under the di-
rection of British adviser
The Mississippi Postoffice Clerks
Association will meet Aug. 26 in
State convention 1T Jackson.
A new oil corporation was organic
ed at Breaux Bridge, La, to pros
pect in tn Anse-la-Butte field.
Over 500 Boston prisoners were
given their liberty on account Of the
| crowded condition of the jars.
While France sypathizes with
Holland in the quarrel with Venezue-
la, she will keep out of the row.
The growth of cotton mills, re-
mote from the cotton belt, is made
the subject of extended comment.
Much interest is felt in the suits
| of Cincinnati rectifiers to prevent
whiskey being labeled Imitation"
The race trouble between the
whites and negroes is spreading to
the small towns around Springfield.
| ILL.,
Interstate Commission promised
| Louisiana Commission early cons.d-
Grafton of freight rate advance COM
| plant.
Colonel e. NJ. Durham, at Vicks-
burg, denied that there is a combi-
nation of oil mill interests in con-
| temptation.
The Federal Government filed a
petition for rehearing in the Stand
ard Oil case in the Court of Appeals,
at Chicago.
The Alabama Coal Operators AS
ISOLATION issued en- official statement
refusing the demand of the miners to
consider them as union.
! A negro arrested in a small Flori-
da town was believed to be the black
| who criminally assaulted PeIsaco-
la white woman last week.
Prof. Gustav Mann, scientist OF
wide renown. arrived from England
to occupy the chair of physiology and
histology at Tulane University.
it was announced that John F.
Archibald had declined to pay the I'M
dertaker's bill rendered for the buriak
OF child his automobile killed.
The giaLd jury at Eddyville. KY,
failed to return any indictments
against alleged night riders, though
| 40 warrants had been presented
The Interstate Commer Commits
sion may be called upon to value
several railroads as a result of the
| operation of the new currency law.
Anthony Davis a negro non-union
miner, whose house was dynamited
at Pratt City, Ala, was lynched by a
mob of union miners near Pratt City.
The Dutch Government has adopt
ed retaliatory measures against Ven
enzuela. The Royal Mail Steamship
Line has abandoned Venezuelan
| ports.
After first beating her escort into
| insensibiIity \ number of soldiers as
saulted a young woman in Wyoming.
Twenty-six were arrested and are in
chains.
Charles e. Mageon, Provisional
Governor of Cuba, arrived In Wash
tass He called on the Secretary
| of War and had an extended confer