The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02
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| Moors with artillery at Melilla.
| Dixie Day" was celebrated at the
Alaska Exposition.
President Taft will urge Congress
to pass postal savings bank bill.
President Taft agreed to extend
his stay at baton Rouge, La.
The American Bar Association con.
vened at Detroit Mich.
The National Conservation Con-
gress convened at Seattle.
Fighting between the Spaniards
and Moors has become general on
| the Moroccan coast.
The annual meeting Of the Ameri-
can Bar Association was begun in
Detroit.
The Supreme Court of the Forest
ers Of America met in Toledo in an
nual session.
E. H. Hartman has gone into re-
tiremert at his home at Arden, N.
~.
At local option election Harris
burg, W., voted wet by majority
of 81.
Archbishop Farley returned to
| New York from a visit to the Pope
in Rome.
The benzoate of soda controversy
| is raging in the National Pure Food
| Congress at Denver Colo.
An attempt was made to burn
negro lodge building at Monroe, La,
where a negro shot thirty citizens.
Henry Farman won the Grand
Prix de la Champagne at Rheims,
and broke all endurance recods.
A girl giving her home as Laurel,
Hiss, was arrested in mans attire in
the railroad yard at Mobile.
E. H. Hartman returned to the
tired, sick man seeking health.
E. H. Hartman placed himself in
seclusion, and reports as to his
health were conflicting.
Evidence of peonage was brought
out in the Pittsburg strike investi-
CATION
river-railroad transfer was de-
Dictated with imposing ceremonies at
Donaldsonville La.
President Taft discussed the re-
| port of the monetary commission
with Senator Aldrich.
g. Grosvenor Dave spoke at
| ChautauQua, N. Y, on "COnserva-
| ton"
Radical changes in State courts
were recommended at the National
Bar Association meeting in Detroit
Ten men were killed and over a
dozen injured in an explosion of dy-
Mantle at Boca Chica, Fla
Ambassador Thompson wired the
State Department that there was
no danger of serious trouble in Next
CO.
Food experts in session in Denver
declared benzoate of soda harmless
by indorsing the Remsen Board re-
port.
The assessed value of the real and
personal property in New York was
| fixed at $7,250,50O.559 by the tax
| board.
No further disorders by strikers
were reported from McKees Rock,
d.
of eleven.
Three men were wounded, one fat
| ally, in the climax of a feud be-
! tween two families at independence,
Ind
Rufus Gillespie, Samuel F. Thig-
pen and Lemuel P Conner were ap-
pointed Mississippi census supervi-
sors.
The Federal Government is in
vestigating peonage charges in the
Pressed Steel Car Company's at Mo
KEGS Rocks, Pa.
n total of $4,000 bags of coffee
! from Brazil arrived in New York,
, brcsling all records for one days
! receipts.
The Louisiana team remained in
I, lastt place at the Camp Perry rife
match Mississippi dropped from
thirty-ninth to fortieth place.
In his second attempt, at Rheims
France. Hubert Latham, the French
aviator. broke the worlds record for
! time and distance
1 The investigation of the graft scan
| cal at Montreal, Canada, shows that
| the city was swindled out of thou
sands OF dollars.
Steve Brown, negro, was killed
near Bronson, Fla, while in the act
of asgaulting Mrs. Becky Snowdon
| by Bart Farcloth, a white man.
Gov. Wilson. of kentucky, address
ed the American Bar Association on
the recent tobacco war and night
riding in his State.
| The announcement by E. H. Harri-
| man that there would be no dis
tribution of extra dividends to Union
/ and Southern Pacific stockholders
caused slump in prices on the
! Now York Stock Exchange.
At Meadville Buckley Halford was
arrested in connection with the at
tempted assassination Of e. W. New
man. A warrant was sworn out for
! the arrest of Fred Middleton, ana
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