The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-23

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Louis Railway company declared
semi-annua1 dividend Of LIZ per cent
which is reduction Of IL OF I per
cent from the regular semi-annual div
idend.
The government custom inspec-
tors and wharf Waterman were kill
ed and two longshoremen and two
clerks injured In the explosion at
Boston Of box containing decorating
caps. The box had arrived from Ger
many and when one Of the inspectors
attempted to open the box he struck
1t with an ak and the explosion fol-
lowed.
Miss Annie Morgan, daughter of j.
Pierpont Morgan, Is investigating In
stitutions Of German workingmen In
company with committee appointed
by the Berlin city council, she in
spected the municipal laborer's
houses Of that city.
Two men were killed at Santa Bar
bara, Ca, by falling into = tank of
burning oil. The tank contained
5000 barrels of oil and the men were
fighting the fire, being suspended
over the tank by ropes. The ropes
broke and they dropped into the sea
Of boiling oil.
The Right Rev. William Awdry,
Anglican bishop of South Toxic, ia.
pan, In strong letter to the London
Times repudiates the idea that the
Japanese have any aggressive inten-
tons towards the United States or
elsewhere.
Three men were killed, one fatally
injured and dozen severely hurt by
an explosion of fireworks on the Bos-
ton and Maine freight wharf in Bos-
ton harbor. The shed was destroyed.
Six hundred men were at work on the
wharf. One died on the way to the
hospital.
Jonas Rohra, blind man residing at
Wllkesbarre, Pa, was arrested
charged with shooting and severely
wounding his wife.
A panic followed the exploding of
bomb in tenement house in New
York City. No one was injured by
the explosion but the house was near
ly demolished
Six men were instantly Killed. and
six other men are entombed in the
shaft of the Williamson Coal com
pany'S mine at Pottsyille, Pa An ex-
plosion OF gas followed by fire was
the cause of the fatality.
At the Elks convention held in Dali
las, Texas, a barbecue was served to
thirty-seven thousand persons Ten
tons Of beef, two tons of mutton, thir
ty thousand loaves of bread, ten
thousand pounds of beans, twelve bar
rels of pickles and fifteen thousand
pounds Of condensed Mexican chilli
were consumed.
A Chicago firm of contractors is
about to undertake what is said to be
the greatest house-moying task on
: record. The operation is part of the
cleaning up work on the Site Of the
new $40, 100000 station of the North.
western railroad. A fve-story brick
and steel building, one hundred feet
wide and one hundred and fifty feet
long, weighing about six thousand
tons, is to be moved distance OF
about half block. The job will cost
$4,000 and will require three months.
The house is to DE rolled along on
railroad iron by means of hand jacks
A carload of federal prisoners has
been received at the Atlanta federal
prison from Moundsville, w. Va The
government has been letting federal
prisoners out to different state pris-
ons under contract, but has decided
to abolish this plan and will in the fu.
turs confine all it's prisoners in the
two government prisons at Atlanta
Ca, and Leavenworth, Kan.
Judge Kohlsaat of Chicago, has
granted an injunction sought by the
government restraining the Monon
railroad from issuing passes in return
for advertising.
The Prince of Wales has sailed
from London, on the battleship Indom.
liable, to Canada, to participate in the
ter centenary celebration to be held
in that country
The mystery of the disappearance
of Mrs Clifford W. Hartridge, wife of
one of Harry K. Thaw's lawyers, In
October last, was solved when it was
Learned that she had died in the
Homeopathic hospital at Pitts
burg, Pa. The hospital authori-
ties were unaware Of her identity un-
til after her death. She having en-
tered the institution under an as.
sumed name.
In clash between union miners
and deputy sheriffs at Sayreton, Ala,
two men were shot and thirteen ar
rests made.
Washington.
That a household servant, when
travelling with member of a fam
rs Sc To-