The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-12-03
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From All Sources, State,
National and Foreign.

the Chinese Government.
A revolutionary movement has
started in Venezuela.
A JanaHese loan of $4,000, 900
was floated In London.
The Treasury Department favors
increasing the tax on beer.
Senator Hale, Of Maine, will re-
tain the craftsmanship of the Senate
Committee on Naval Affairs.
Rumors are rife at Pekin, China,
of impending changes in Government
circles.
Fire at Bardstown, KY, destroy
ed 1900 barrels of whiskey, causing
s1,150,0o0 loss.
Montenegro troops cut the tele-
graph wires leading to Austria and
occupied Dug Pass.
Miss Clara w. Harrick fell nine
floors down an elevator shaft at In
dianapolis and was killed.
The Catholic Missionary Congress
concluded its work at Chicago and
adjourned.
David Rothschild, former bank
er of New York, died in .,ing Sing
prison.
Sescretary Cortelyou issued a call
for bids for $30,0uO,000 worth of
Panama Canal bonds
A surgeon at Buffalo says cancer
is a parasitic disease, and that the
common garden worm is the source.
Miss Saliie Hill, of Bolivar, Tenn,
eloped with William B. Seattle. son
Of Pittsburg millionaire.
Mrs. Russell Sage gave S25. 200 to-
wards establishing college for ne
groes at Lexington, Ky.
The Alabama State convention OF
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union closed its sessions at Mobile.
Tom l.. Johnson, Mayor of Cleve-
land. Ohio, says his fortune has been
swept away and he is practically pen
niless.
John ID. Rockefeller occupied the
witness stand in the suit of the Fed
eral Government against the Stand
ard Oil Company in New York.
The fighting craft of Japan. COM
prising 10 vessels, exclusive of sub
mariners, passed in review before
the Emperor.
Major General w. P. Duval has
been selected to succeed Major Gen
eral John F. Weston in command of
the troops in the Philippines.
President Roosevelt has ordered a
walking test for officers of the Navy
similar to that prescribed for officers
Of the Army.
A delegation representing the rice
interests Of Louisiana and Texas was
given hearing by the House Ways
and Means Committee.
Returning home at midnight, Will
Menchen, residing at Laurel Hill,
Pa, killed his wife and Reddick
Byrd, whom he found in her COM
pany.
The Government of the Neither
land has proposed to promote the
convocation of an international COM
mittee to arrange for third peace
conference.
The eastbound cannon ball passen-
ger train on the Texas and Pacific
Railroad was wrecked near White
castle, La, and one man killed and
two others injured.
John Gates, a negro, in jail at
Waynesboro, Miss, on charge of
ROBBERY, Knocked the trusty in the
head with a stick of wood and made
good his escape.
Lieutenant Frank T. Evans, son
Of Admiral Evans, was found guilty
of violating naval regulations and
reprimanded by the Navy Depart
ment.
Walter Zeller, 10 years old, con-
fessed at Vineland, N. j.. that he
and two companions murdered Eel
ler's aged grandfather for money
supposed to have been concealed.
A recommendation by a commit
tee in the American Federation of
Labor convention in Denver to dis
regard injunctions was defeated at
ter much discussion.
Plans to erect a handsome monu-
ment to the joint memory of Gems.
Lee and Grant at Bloody Angle"
were approved by Richmond veter-
ans.
President Thomas D. Boyd, l.. S.
u. issued statement to the people
of Louisiana, replying to charges
made by tulane University's foot
ball team.
1t was stated that twenty of the
largest mining and metal refining
companies in the West wore to form
merger. The combined capital
stock of the companies is $3.50, 000,-
900.