The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-22

WIRE FLASHES

Wheat advanced cents per bushea
on the Chicago Board OF Trade
Teheran, the capital of Persia. ID
practically under the control of fha
reyolutionists.
State Senator o. w. Bayles was
shot and killed at Monroeville, Ala.
by ID. K. Smith.
An earthquake caused great Bazs
OF life and damage to property I'm
Greece.
The revolutionicts in Persia have
practically complete control of Te-
heran, the capital.
The royalist forces in Persia have
offered to surrender to the in4uF-
gents.
Three hundred persons were killed
or hurried by the earthquake en-
Greece
The anniversary of the Fall OF ths
.Bastile was celebrated through0uf
France.
Spain has begun measures against
the Moors for the recent murder OF
four Spanish workmen in Morocen-
The Argentine minister to BoIiVfa
has left La Paz and war between
the two countries is threatened
! DR.. Won Bethmann-Hollweg VIII
probably be appointed chancellor al
the German Empire to succeed Won
Buelow.
Baron Oskar Rothschild a member
of the famous European family at
fnanciers committed suicide at VI
emma.
Walter Williams, negro, near
Burgaw, N c., shot and killed kl&
brother-in-law, his wife and him
self.
The English women suffrage4tea
who were sent to Jail in. ondoR ara
starving themselves and refuse Co.
comply with prison rules.
William J. Bryan addressed a let
ter to President Taft, asking him Co
allow the people to vote on popular
election of senators.
The British submarine boat c &C
was sunk in a collision off the coast
of England and thirteen lives we're
lost.
7. U. Sammis, of Lemars, Iowz.
was elected grand exalted ruler Of
the Elks over Garry Hermann. oe
Cincinnati.
Henry Munson was disemboweied
by ten-foot shark which he and
four companions, while bathing.
fought in st. Andrews Bay, Fla
The cotton boil weevil is said c.
have appeared near Ameticus, Ga
Several men were wounded during
a strike riot at McKees Rock, Pa
The body of Ensign H. K. Aiken.
who was killed by an explosion On
the cruiser North Carolina, was ship
ped from Naples to New Orleans
The Bolivian government has
agreed to apologize to Argentine for
the recent attack on the ArgenkTas
Minister at La Paz.
Reports received from Melila, Mo-
rocco, say that the Kabyle tribes
attack the Spanish position, and thaf
great excitement prevails.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, wife of Harry
K. Thaw, the slayer of STANFORD
White, testified in the insanity trial
at White Plains, N. Y, that her hEs-
band threatened to kill her.
Deputy Bohlman. while getting eE-
idence in a suspected saloon Rexr
Mobile, was attacked by the propFfe+
tor, M. Saxon, who in turn was Gaaf
and seriously wounded by the oficeE-
DR.. w. r. Miller, who shot aR2
killed J. H. Sayler. a bank president
at Crescent City ILL.,. when SayBeE
found the physician with Mrs. SayEers
was threatened with lynching by q
mob. The woman is under arrest
A chemical analysis by Prof. Geo
A. Ferguson, of Columbia UniversitEp
has detected the presence of poison In
the vital organs of Elsie Sigel, wE@
was murdered by Leon Ling, ChiEz
man, in New York.
The missing books of the Unlfe1
Copper Comp any sought in connea-
ticn with charges against F. Angus
tus Heinze, regarding his handling
of Mercantile National Bank funds
ere in the possession of the Uniteh
States district attorney in New York
With a deficit of approximately
100000 pesos between the goverE-
ments receipts and expenditures
caused by the financial panic tzst
year and the consequent falling CT
of receipts, the Mexican government
has announced that retrenchuaesE
steps are to be taken.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, subpceH1e6
by the state, which is opposing bar
husbands release from the Mates
wan Asylum, took the stand ~ N
witness at the hearing in the Sur
preme Court at White Plains, n Va
on Harry X. Thaw's mental eoMdE-