The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-08-20
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From All Sources, State,
National and Foreign.


DR.. Kc,h, the famous German ply.
he is dead.
Forest fires have broken out again
in British Columbia.
Japan is preparing to welcome the
American battleship fleet.
The State of Alabama will fight the
increase in railroad rates.
The Hartman roads have entered
the market for 5000 steel cars.
The capacity of the Sugar Refinery
at Bunkie, La, will be doubled.
Tie American Monetary Coml. is
sion is holding sessions In London.
Bears made a sensational raid on
October cotton contracts in New York
Two new cases of fever were re-
ported at Vera Cruz, and one at Meri-
da.
An alleged Japanese spy was killed
while resisting arrest at Pekin, Chi
ma.
The Dutch Government has ordered
number of warships to Venezuelan
waters.
Mr.. Taft declined to comment for
publication on Mr.. Bryan's speech of
acceptance.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
has started crusade against Speak
er Cannon.
Tokyo newspapers are making
startling charges of corruption in the
Japanese army.
Chinese soldiers at Wuchow, Chi
ma, murdered their commander and
stole 100000.
Captain Baldwin made another
successful flight with his airship
near Washington.
The Canadian Pacific RAILROAD
strike seems to have settled down to
test of endurance.
Judge Taft has been warned by Iowa
Republican leaders not to interfere
In their factional fight.
Young Turks of New York threaten
to kill Mehmid All Bey, the discred-
tied Turkish minister.
Ambassador Reid gave dinner in
honor of the American Monetary
Commission in London.
Wilbur Wright, the American aero
maui, made successful fights, with
his aeroplane in France.
Celebrations in honor of the Amer
lean battleship fleet continued at
Auckland, New Zealand.
First bales of new cotton are re-
ported from number of points in
Louisiana and Mississippi.
King Edward was met at CronLerg
by Emperor William, and naval pro-
grammes, were discussed.
Dennis Kane, one hundred years
old, of New Orleans, was injured by
| train at Batesville, Ind.
The Netherlands has dispatched a
battleship to Venezuela and prepared
for trouble, at Wiilemstad.
Successful experiments were made
in the Isthmian Canal Zone with
truck and landscape gardens.
1t was reported that B. D. Chandler
of Boston was killed in al automobile
accident near Boulogne-Sur-M er.
officers of the American fleet en-
tertained 1900 New Zealanders on the
battleship Louisiana at Auckland.
Admiral Sperry and 200 officers of
the fleet went from auckland to the
geyser districts of New Zealand.
King Edward, of Great Britain,
and Emp error William, of Germany,
held long conference at Cronberg.
Sir Thomas Upton said he would
issue another challenge for the yacht
cup, If universal rules were adopted.
The liquidation of the Panama Ca
nal Company, which has been going
on in Paris since 1889 is completed.
Congressional candidates through
put the various Louisiana districts adj
dressed a number of Democratic. rail-
lies.
The arrest of two Russians at Te-
heran has caused friction between
the Russian and Persian Govern
ments.
The Honduran minister at Wash
ington received assurance that peace
had been fully restored in Central
America.
A serious revolutionary movement
in Portugal was disclosed by the
smuggling into the country Of arms
and bombs.
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans,
lately in command of the Atlantic
battleship fleet, was placed on the
retired list Aug 10.
DR.. c. w. Vogel, of the United
States Marine Hospital Service, re-
ports that bubonic plague is spread
ing rapidly in Venezuela.
The disputes between the Federal
government and the Catholi: church
in Porto kIco over church lands was
settled by Assistant Secretary Of state