The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-04-23
NEWS BREVITIES

II. W. Headley Of Lake City, Ia,
has offered reward of $50 for any in
formation that leads to the Identified
tion of the person who signed the
name of his daughter Alice on an egg
bearing the statement that she was
in search of husband.
A party of small boys on a sap
ping" expedition on a small island
in the Mississippi, near La Crosse,
Wis, discovered what may lead to be
the uncovering of one of the largest
counterfeiting gangs which ever opeT-
ated in the northwest.
The physicians at Bellevue hospital,
New York, practically gave up all
hope for the recovery of Selig Silver
stein. the sclf-confessed maker of the
bomb which exploded in his hand in
Union square as he was preparing to
throw it during a mass meeting Of the
unemployed, killing one man and seri-
ously iniuring himself.
Nelson F. Rush. who has teen tried
for forgery in the federal and state
courts of Chicago as the result of a
remarkable mistake in identity. said
that his experience in suffering for
doubles misdeeds now seem like a
nightmare He almost doubted his
own identity.
The walls of the Mekasukey acad-
envy. a national Indian school at Sem
mole, Okla, are crumbling and the
| school has been abandoned. The build
ing is a four.story brick erected by
| the Seminoles years ago, and was one
| of the finest in Oklahoma.
Options are being secured in LOUIS
lana lands suitable for raising of TO-
| bacco, which will be utilized in colo
nizing victims of the night riders in
Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and
West Virginia. The New Orleans
Progressive Union was first asked to
| foster this movement and now the
plan has developed SO extensively that
| it was announced that all the available
| lands in st. James and other parishes
where the famous Perrique tobaccos
|
tions.
| Should the plans of the American
| government be acceptable TO Mexico
the cruiser Albany will be utilized &c
| convey Ambassador Creel and W.
| Buchanan on their mission of peace
and good-fellowship to the Central
| American republics.
President Roosevelt sent the nom
ination of Lawrence 0. Murray OF
New York, as the comptroller of the
currency. to the senate. Mr.. MurrlS
for the last five years has been as
sstant secretary OF the department o.
commerce and labor.
The ban of the Catholic church
against another marriage on the par
of Helen Maloney, daughter of Martin
Maloney. Standard Oil magnate. dnC
papal marquis, to Samuel ClarksOn
the Englishman with whom she
eloped, was announced by Archbishop
| Ryan.
1t is proposed to hold a natiOna
spelling contest in connection witt
the annual session of the National Ed
vocational association, to be held ii
Cleveland beginning June 30.
As the result of i'll feeling ovel
the tobacco situation, Joe Gerhar'
and Ben Rinehart fought a street due
| at Clarksville Tenn. Gerhart was
wounded slightly, as were also Ton
Williams and Dub Smith, bystanders
Rev. b. II. Fulkerson, pastor of the
Huntland (Tenn) Methodist church
is under $4,000 bond at Winchester
on charges of bigamy and abduction
1t is charged that he deserted his fam
lily and eloped with an unmarried
woman. He was arrested in River
side, Cal.
According to dispatches from 10
rea, the Japanese and the natives are
in desperate conflict. the japanese
storming villages and killing native
men. women and children. The
southeastern interior is held by Ko
rean rebels and Japan is rushing
troops into the country.