The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-10-01
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From All Sources, State,
National and Foreign.


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August 0. B. Legpia, was inaugu-
rated President Of fcru.
Heavy earthquake shocks were felt
ct sea near Acapulco, Mexico.
Two heavy earthquake shocks were
felt ON the Pacific coast Of Mexico.
The British Admiralty has ap-
proved plans for an Australian navy.
Cholera conditions in Manila were
reported materially improving.
The International Conference on
tuberculosis was opened in Philadel-
nhia.
A ten-year-old school girl was bad
~ beaten by 100 negro pupils In Chi
cago.
The Irish League of America pledg
ed $4,000 to the cause of Irish free
dom.
The International Conference On
Tuberculosis was opened in Philadsl-
phia.
Mr.. Taft spoke at Milwaukee and
was publicly Endorsed 1y Senator La
Toilette.
James G. woodward was for the
third time nominated for mayor Of
Atlanta, Ga.
A fresh outbreak of the bubonic
plague in Caracas, Venezuela, was
reported.
Germany's response to the Franco
Spanish Morocco note was telegraph
ed to Paris.
A typhoon of terrific velocity
swept through the central portiin Of
the PHILIPPINES.
The Standard Oil Company con-
tributed 100000 to Roosevelt's cam
paign fund in 1904.
Wilbur Wright remained in the air
fifty-four minutes with his aero
plane at LIE Mans, France.
While there Is decrease in new
cholera cases in st. Petersburg,
deaths are numerous.
The cannery ship Star of Bengal
was wrecked on Coronation Island
and Ito lives were lost.
Sixty white pupils are on strike in
q topeka, Kan, school because of
the presence of negro children.
The Washington Life Insurance
Company passed into the control OF
Pittsburg syndicate.
w. X. Heart renewed his Standard
Oil exposures in speech in New
York and read more letters.
1t was announced that WI Ting
Fang, the Chinese minister, would
be recalled to China by November.
Charges of bribery to vote for the
local option bill were made in con-
nection with the Indiana legislatures.
Thos. l.. Hisgen, independence
party candidate for President, was
Kissed at Fort Worth, Tex, while
making a speech.
1t was stated that clearing house
for white slaves existed in Chicago,
and tkat 200 girls had been sold to
Cinnamon.
Germany's concilatory reply to
the Franco-Spanish note indicates IN
early settlement of the Moroccan dis
pute.
Ex-Congressman John Allen, of
Mississippi, who Is at Washington,
say he believes Bryan will be elee-
ted.
The Governor of the Bahama Is
lands reported that number of is
lands we're swept by the hurrican,
of Sept. 13.
The body of James Tracy of Mon
roe, La, was found under house in
Memphis. His murder is mystery
to the police.
A. Russell Peabody, who was one
of thu attorneys for the defense at
the first Thaw trial, died suddenly
in Babylon, L. /.
DIR. Carnilo Calleja of Madrid,
physician to the king of Spain, was
hurt in Washington by being throws
from street car.
Cotton oil miIlmen of Mississippi
stated they feared the movement Of
farmers to hold" included cotton
seed as well as cotton.
1t was stated that because Of chol-
era in Manila the men Of the battle
ship fleet arriving there Oct. /,
might be given no shore leave
Albert T. Patrick, the lawyer serv-
Ing sentence in Sing Sing for muir
der. charged the prison authorities
were trying to goad him to suicide.
A. O. Brown and L. G. Young,
Stock Exchange members Of the sus-
pended firm of A. O. Brown & Co.,
were expelled from the New York
Exchange.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, in session at Atlanta, Ga, fall
ed to elicit any information regard
ing the Southeastern Freight Assoc
cations sctior in raising rates.
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