The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From All Sources, Safe,
National and Foreign,

Federal Court upheld safety ap-
pliance law.
The population of the Panama Ca
nal one is $4,000.
The Washington market is swamp
cd with stale eggs.
The Tokyo Exposition has been
postponed until 1917.
Robert P. Devine, of Mobile, sui
cided with carbolic acid.
Interstate Commission ordered re-
duction ia cattle rates.
There is run on the Frederlchs
berger Bank in Berlin.
Typhoid fever is spreading rapidly
in the DistrictNof Columbia.
Two prominent merchants Of Tab
riz, Persia were assassinated.
w. ]. Bryan delivered an address
at his old home at Salem, Ill.
President aAlfaro, of Ecuador, is
seriously i'll with heart disease.
Thirty miners were suffocated in
burning mine at McAlester, Okla.
All grades of refined sugar were
reduced 10 cents hundred pounds.
TONY" Pastor, the theatrical man
ager, died at Elmhurst, L. l., aged II
years.
Revolving cannibalism is being
practiced by tribes in Northern ST.
ebria.
The damage to cotton by recent
rains was estimated at 100000
bales.
Activity in the pig iron market in
all the iron centers of the country
was evidenced.
Hampton Reynolds resigned posi-
ton as Engineer Of New Orleans
Public Belt
The War Department is caring for
several soldiers who developed lep-
rosy.
The corrup practice of selling gov
ernorshipS has been resumed in
Persia.
Mrs. Kate Howard, one of the lead
ers in the riots at Springfield, H.,
committed suicide.
w. H. Ouigg was presented with
loving cup by office associates be-
fore leaving for new post.
A lone highwayman robbed stage
coach between Cody and Meeteese,
Wyo., of $500.
The Portuguese Parliament approx
ed an extradition treaty with the
United States.
More than thirty miners persisted
in a coal mine disaster at Haley
vile, Okla.
The American battleship fleet
sailed from Sydney, N. S. W., for Mel
bourne, Australia.
David E. Thompson American Am
basador to Mexico, was run down by
a bicyclist and injured.
The death is announced of Antonio
Henro Becquer, the well known
French scientist
The revolutionary movement is
spreading to Persia and the Shah
is face to face with a crisis
Vance Williams, negro, suspected
of the murder of R. G. Brown, was
1ynched near Louisville, Ga.
The case of Beech Hargis, charged
with the murder of his father, Judge
Hargis, was called at Jackson, Ky.
Colonel w. F. Stewart, the Drey-
fus of the American Army, has been
ordered to take the horseback test.
Wade HI. Ellis, of Ohio, has &C
cepted the position of Assistant At
torney General Of the United States
The Venezuelan revolutionists have
organized to junta New York and
are preparing to start an insurrection
in Venezuela.
A movement was placed on foot to
establish permanent audit COM
mittee for the New York Stock Ex-
change.
I. Tia Bey, who is refugee in Lon
don, says all of the Turkish officials
from the Sutton down are throughly
corrupt.
President D. D. Curran Of North
eastern and party are inspecting
lines between New Orleans and Shreve
port.
Missouri Pacific handled record
breaking train load of forty-eight
carloads of coffee to Chicago and st.
Louis.
Louis Coxey, IL years old, admit
ted wreckinig passenger train near
Buford, Ca, by which two men were
killed.
Trustees of Mississippi Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College de-
manded the resignation of two mem-
bers of the institutions faculty.
An unidentified negro at Mobile
attacked and severely injured Miss
Lena Horta, In her home. An armed
posse is searching fer him.
Plans were put under way by the
Associated Advertising Clubs of