The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-11-19
WIRE FLASHES

City.
An apartment house exclusively.
for negroes will be opened in New
York.
Echo River, in Mammoth Cave, is
almost dry from the protracted
| drought.
Servia will appeal to public opin-
ion fer support In her dispute with
Austria.
Tom Hickman was drowned near
Morgan City, La, while tr.ing to
save his mule.
No Japanese exclusion legislati N
is expected at the approaching ses-
sion of Congress.
Four persons were killed and four
injured in a saw mill boiler explo-
sion at Pound, Ky.
Eleven negroes are under arrest
for the murder of Boss Veasey, plan
ter, near Coldwater, Miss.
William A. Biggs and Pearle Eoone,
woman companion were found mUr-
dered at Greenville, Miss.
1t was announced that William j.
Bryan and his wife would go to Mex
leo for rest and recreation.
1t was stated that the cotton mill
men of the South were looking for
ward to year or prosperity.
No progress was made in the nego-
tiations between the Powers with re-
gard to the Balkan situation.
Prices advanced sharply on the
New York Stock Exchal ge and there
is large amount of trading.
Chancellor son Buelow of Germany
will put the question of his resig-
nation up to Emperor William.
The balloons American and United
States have started from Los Angeles
on a race across the continent.
Secretary of the Treasury Cor.el-
you will shortly issue $4,000, 900
worth of Panama Canal bonds.
Secretary Metcalf resigned his port
folio with the Navy and will be sue
ceeded by Truman H. Newberry.
The American schooner Henry
Clausen, Jr., bound from Gulfport,
Miss, for st. ichaels, was burned at
sea.
The Federal Sugar Refining Com
pany issued a lengthy statement call
ing for reduction of the tariff on
sugar.
Three arrest were made at Baton
Rouge, La, in connection with the
alleged thefts from wholesale glo-
Gerry.
Congressman ChampaClark, OF Mis-
souri,, says the Republican leaders
are opposed to any material changes
in the tariff.
1t is reported that the Standard
Oil Company will operate on an ex-
tensiye scale in the Gaddo, La, oil
and gas field.
Francis j. Heney, prosecuting at
torney at San Francisco. Cal, was
shot and seriously wounded by Nor
ris Haas, an ex-convict.
A. M. Barksdale, was denied a new
trial at Baton Rouge, La, for killing
Lamar Norwood, and senteced to i've
years in the penitentiary.
1t was announced that a 800. 900
memorial to the late Grover Cleve-
land would be erected at Princeton
by the citizens of New Jersey.
R. B. Reynolds, of Bearden, Tenn,
and ]. H. Wall, CT Hattiesburg. were
burned TO. death in the fire origiEat-
ing in the Bullock Hotel at Gulfpor:
Walter Ammon, wealthy manufac-
turer and clubman, was shot and kill
ed by Andrew McGrath, a business
rival, in a railroad station at Jersey
City.
The appointment OF Colonel Gee
H. Toraey as Surgeon General IL
the Army to succeed Surgeon General
r. M. O'Reilly was announced by the
Secretary Of War.
Miss Dickinson, who walked from
Ascension parish to Baton Rouge,
La. to see Governor Sanders. was
placed in prison on suspicion Of be-
ing insane.
Miss Mae Otis, held at Chicago oil.
the charge of hiring detectives who
posed as thugs" to murder her moth
er, will be examined as to her men,
tai condition.
President ROOSEVELT issued a state
ment regarding his connection witt,
The Outlook" a literary publication
in which Standard Oil men were said
to be interested.
William Powell. for more than
twenty years night Waterman at the
Louisiana State Capitol, resigned and
was succeeded by Sam Lewis, a for
mer member OF the legislature
Brig. Gen. Arthur Murray in his
annual report recommended that the
Coast Artillery Of Tie United States