The Starkville news., 1909-05-28

!. AAio.
London is reveling in another
German war scare
Shefket mas been appointed to
command all Turkish troops in Eu-
ropean Turkey.
DR.. Wightman of the Marine
Hospital service died of yellow fe-
yer in Guayaquil.
August Poos of st. Louis killed
:. his wife after he had been fatally
wounded by his son.
The tifty-ninth annual conven-
. ton of the Illinois State Medical
Society is in session.
Dock fire at Lille. France, de-
stroyed million and a half Of prop
erty and cost one life. /
National Manufacturers elected
John Kirby, Jr., president and dis
cussed labor and tariff.
\ new rule of the Mississi ppi
Supreme Court provides that in the
future no opinions will be read.
W. p. Forset, an aged farmer,
and his wife were found murdered
in their home near Leonardstown,
Md.
The third Federal grand jury
called to reinvestigate alleged land
frauds has been completed at Tulsa,
Okla.
The body of George Meredith,
who died in London recently, is to
be cremated, in accordance with his
wishes.
The thirteenth annual convention
of the Interstate Cotton Seed
Crushers' Association began at
Memphis.
Mrs. Hubert Burnett, near Car
mi. H.. shot and killed her broth
er-in-law, Julian Burnett, in de-
fense of her husband.
Jesse Scott, the young farmer
who confessed to the murder of
". L. Embrcy, has been placed III
jail at Indianola, Miss.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. III. Hunter were
attacked on street at Cherokee,
Kan, by negro, and the husband
shoc and seriousl Y wounded.
Il. J. Eckhart, state receiver Of
the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, Is
making an inventory Of the proper
ty of that concern in Texas
Because his girl wife gave him
SKINNED milk instead Of cream, j.
d. Roselair. near Hillsboro. Ore,
killed the woman at the breakfast
table.
Rt. Rev. John Farrelly, the new
bishop of Cleveland, left Rome for
Paris. He expects to sail from
Cherbourg for the United States
June 6.
Fire in the seven-story Hover
Power block at Akron, Ohio, de-
stroyed the building and its con-
tents, causing ! loss estimated at
$1,5O0,000.
The president has sent to the
Senate the nomination OF Walter
Eli Clark Of Connecticut to be gov
ernor of Alaska to succeed Wilford
b. Hoggatt of Indiana.
King Manuel of Portgual has
conferred special medals on his
mother and others who showed
bravery in the attack on himself
and his father and brother.
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daugn-
ter of William J. Bryan, has ar
ranged for convention to be held
in Denver in July of all the 'Jane
Jefferson clubs In Colorado.
All the officers and men of the
United States army who served in
Cuba during the period Of pacifica-
tion from October 6, 1906, to April
!, 1909, will receive from the gov
eminent medals with ribbons, In
recognition of that service.
The resignation of Lieut.. Com.
James z. Walker, United States
navy, recently forwarded from
Guam, where he was stationed for
a short time, has been accepted by
the president.
To protect he life of his mother
as well as his own, D. E. McLaugh-
lin of Buckatunna, Miss, shot and
killed his father, who, crazed with
drink. was threatening to extermi-
nate the family.
After an interesting debate, the
Illinois Daily Newspaper Associa-
ton went on record as favoring the
commission form Of government
for cities of that state, outside of