The log cabin Democrat., 1908-03-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.

IOWcI. Nell-kuOWn meTCHdHt, bloodhounds were placed on the trail of the murderers and came up on George Johnson and Tom Barnett, both negroes. The negroes were talk en into custody and at first locked up in the jail at Barnett. Fearing a lynching, officers later started with the men to Quitman, Miss, but one of the negroes got away. Blood hounds were again brought into play and are trailing the fugitive. Powell was shot in the back of the head as the result of what is believed to have been a grudge.
 The engine of Southern railway freight train, while travelling at the rate of twenty miles on hour, explod- ed at Champion, two miles below Roberts, Ga.. fatally scalding En- gineer Charles O'Neil of Fort Val ley and a negro brakeman. Another negro train hand was badly scald- ed. The engine and four freight cars were demolished and the track torn up for a considerable distance. The cause of the explosion is as yet unknown.
 Wholesale expulsions for disgrace ful conduct may follow the discovery of detectives that wild orgies have taken place recently in the Hyde Park High School fraternity houses and those occupied by the Wendell Phillips Chapters. The names of more than 30 boys, all of wealthy families, are in the hands of Pres ident Schneider of the School Board who is deliberating on what dispo- sition shall be made of the accused.
 In the trial of John Abner, at Jackson, Ky, charged with compll- city in the murder of James Cockril, |, Asbury Speyer testified that he un- derstood that John Smith received S1O0 for killing Cockrill, as that was the price he received for the murder of B. D. Cox. Asked by Judge Bach if that was his regular price for killing men, he electrified his hearers with the reply: "That was what Judge Hargis paid"
 Her ice cream freezer breaking down at the last minute. Mrs. Roy Creigh of Rising Sun, Md, seized upon the novel idea of using the family washing machine. A can of cream was placed in the center of the machine, ice packed around it and agitated by means of the ma chine turner. The cream was voted q success by party of visiting young people.
 The Berlin Society is authority for the statement that the claim of Dr. Schilling of Aurnberg that A-rays cure bronchial catarrh has been ln- vestigated and that a number of cures have been effected by Dr. lm- melmann. At the same time 1t Is reported from Prague that Dr. Levy Dorn has succeeded in curing bron- ehial asthma by X-rays.
 Grand Duke Michael AleXandro- witch, the czar's only brother, a bachelor and nearly 30 years of age, is having his first affair of the heart and the woman he loves has been promptly banished from Russian soil. She is the daughter of South Russian landed proprietor, but her name cannot be learned at present.
 Dave Briggs, a locomotive engi- neor. lost his life in a freight wreck on the Mexia-Navasota cutoff, near WaXahachie, Tex. lie was caught under the engine, which turned over and crushed him to death. The dead engineer was young man and lived at Ennis, Tex.
 The trial of Beach Hargis for the murder of his father, Judge James Hargis, the noted feud leader, will not begin at Jackson, Ky, until the conclusion of the trial of John Ab- ner. charged with the murder of James C.ockrill.
 An ancient Egyptian tomb, weighing 250 tons, situated near the pyramids, 20 miles from Cairo, may be removed to Chicago as a speci- men for exhibition in the Field mu- saum of natural history.