The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-08-13
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From All Sources, State,
National and Foreign.


Considerable damage was done by
an earthquake In Algeria.
A cloudburst at Bisbee, A. T.,
washed away many buildings.
Assistant Attorney General Cooley
has resigned on account of i'll health.
Month by month the total excava-
ton on the Isthmian Canal is increas-
ing.
w. ]. Bryan issued an appeal for
contributions to the Democratic cam
paign fund.
Forty-three political prisoners
were released by President Cabrera,
Of Guatemala.
United States Senator w. B. ALI
son died suddenly at his home at Du-
buQue, Iowa.
Twelve thousand men emp Dyed by
the Canadian Pacific Railroad went
out on strike.
Plans for a national Democratic
club were formed by Mr.. Bryan and
senator Taylor.
President Castro, OF Venezuela. has
demanded an apology and an indem-
nifty from Holland.
The police jury of Lafayette par
ish La. voted against the calling Of
q prohibition election.
Mylus Ericsen, the Danish explorer
and two companions, persisted in q
snowstorm in Greenland.
The Panama Canal excavation for
July was 3,16S,64O cubic yards.
against 3,056,976 in June.
Count zeppelin the German aeron
aut, made successful trip Of several
hundred miles in his airship.
1t was reported that $40 were kill
ed in the fighting at Tabriz, Persia,
during the last several weeks.
Count Zeppelin, 1t was said, would
be given sum by the German gov
ernment to rebuild his airship.
st. Louis politicians expressed dis
satisfaction with the working of the
Missouri primary election law.
The young Turks have completely
triumphed, establishing a new Cab
met on constitutional basis.
The suspension OF Eastman & Co.,
brokers, was announced on the Con-
solidated Exchange New York.
Count Zerpsiin's airship. after .:y-
ing over Germany nearly twenty
four hours, exploded and burned.
The Sultan OF Turkey was stabbed
by would-be assassin, but a coat
Of mail prevented serious injury.
New York had ten deaths from the
heat and Chicago two. There were
scores of prostrations in both cities.
Will Millans, a negro charged with
completely in dynamiting a house,
was lynched near Birmingham, Ala.
Mayor George B. Mcclellan of New
York annonn ;ed tho names o. the
Grover Cleveland Memorial Commit
tea.
Raisuli, the bandit, with fifty
horsemen, rode up to the the British
legation at Tangier and deli cred an
ultimatum.
Charged with attempted criminal
assault, negro was taken from an
officer near Bethany, La, and riddled
with bullets.
AS a result of the unsuccessful
conspiracy against President Rexas.
many prominent Colombians have
been arrested.
Dangerous authorizations were dis
covered in many food samples anal
yzed by the experts of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture.
DR.. Bryan of Chicago told the pure
food convention that of 121 soft
drink samples he collected In Chicago
63 contained poisons.
It is rumored at Washington that
Wade H. Ellis, of Ohio, will succeed
Bonaparte as Attorney General after
the November election
One person was killed and another
wounded in a battle between negro
picnickers and street railway en-
ployes at Pensacola, Fla
Al result OF the strike o. electr1-
clans, the Canadian Pacific shops
were In darkness. Strike-breakers
were hurried to Winnipeg.
Numerous disorders occurred in
the mining strike district In Ala
bama. Governor Conner will order
more troops to the scene
Considerable trouble was reported
from the Alabama strike zone. in
Guiding the lynching of negro and
/, the dynamiting of several houses.
Judge Pardee, of the Federal Court,
dissolved the injunction issued by
Judge Speer and granted the rail-
roads an appeal in the Georgia rate
case.
Citizens of Pointe Coupee parish
whipped two negroes fer sending m
sulting letters to white men and
warned them rot to enter the parish
again.
Confederate veterans at Mobile are
incensed because a Citronelle peace
justice committed Mrs. M. L. Powell,
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