The Neshoba Democrat., 1909-08-12
NEWS OF THE WORLD
a Brief Resume Of the Items Of Inter-
est In Our Country and the World
at Large For the Past Few
Days.

An epidemic of typhoid fever is
reported at Tuscumbia, Ala.
Eleven persons died from neat in
Chicago one day last week.
st. Louis will hold a centennial
celebration the first week in Octo-
ber.
Frederick B. Mumford has been
chosen dean of the agricultural col
lege at Columbia, Mo.
Roy Kinzer, a deputy sheriff at
Carrollton, ILL.,, shot and killed
himself over domestic troubles.
A bill to put double tax on
near-beer has been passed by the
House of Representatives of Geor-
gia.
Burglars entered the postotfice at
Eolia, Mo-, and secured $21 in cash,
$24 worth of stamps and jewelry
valued at $50.
One lobbyist, upon leaving Wash
ington in the closing days of the
tariff session, stated that he was
paid 100000 for his services.
Harry G. Puliam, president Of
the National Baseball League, who
committed suicide in New York
city, was buried at Louisville, Ky,
Monday afternoon.
John R. Abernathy, United
States marshal of Oklahoma, was
critically injured in a runaway ac-
cident, being struck by running
horse and kicked from his buggy.
A New York dispatch states that
the instant Harry X. Thaw obtains
his freedom, providing Justice
Mills decides he is sane, he will in
stitute proceedings against Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw for absolute divorce,
naming two or three men well
known in New York.
Reports to the Register of Mo-
bile, Ala, give details of the severe
storm which visited Southern Mis-
sissippi and state that it played
havoc with growing crops. The
rain amounted to a cloudburst over
the central portion of Southern
Mississippi and the damage has
been great.
According to information given
by Governor Harmon of Ohio the
plan of ]. p Morgan for the reor-
ganization of the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton and Dayton Railroad Compa-
ny and its merger with the Balti-
more and Ohio road, is not being
indorsed by some of the creditors
of the first named line.
W. P. Harris, secretary of the
Security Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Muskogee, Okla, has
] been arrested on charge of pro-
noting alleged fraudulent insur-
ance and receiving money under
false pretenses. Harris is alleged
to have operated through the mails
and to have had agents, in Oklaho-
ma and adjoining states.
The Interstate Lamber Company
has perfected arrs1gements to build
a line Of railroad to connect Co.
lumbus, Miss, with the Frisco. 1t
will intersect the Southern railway
one mile west of Steens, Miss, and
run thence in northeasterly direc-
tion to Winfield, Ala, where it will
connect with the Frisco and with
the Brilliant branch of the Illinois
Central.
Mrs. Amanda Iseman, state or
ganizer for the Ladies' Auxiliary
to the Woodmen of the World, and
worthy grand of the Manchester
Grove Of Paducah, KY. has entered
suit in the circuit court against
Mike Iseman, one of Paducah's
wealthiest men and largest real es.
tate owners, for divorce, $4,000
alimony and the custody of thei1
five infant children. She alleges
drunkenness, cruelty, non-support
and immortality.
G. A. Whitley, white miner,
was instantly killed in the Tusca-
loosa mine at Birmingham, Ala.
Forty men were overcome by
gases in the Central Coal and Coke
Company's mine at Pittsburg, Kan,
The town9of Maryville, Texas
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