The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The convention of Mississippi TRAY
elers will be at jackson june 25th4
and 26th.
Gov. G. L. Lilly, Of Connecticut,
died Wednesday. ''-E'he path of glory
leads but to the grave"
Adjutant General Fridge announces
the encampment of the Guard July
II to %, at Camp Sample.
Governor Campbell, OF Texas has a
plan to build and own State rail
road. This is, reversing the usual pro-
cedure.
The young Turks party has forced
Abdul Hamid, the Sultan. to resign
and Rechad Effendi will be the new
ruler of Turkey.
Florida is near dry. The Senate
passed the bill submitting Statewide
prohibition bin to the people. It's now
up to- the House.
The Lackawanna railroad has am
nounced a reduction of 2 cents per
pound ON sugar Very. sweet of the
Lackawanna, to be sure.
The first new building to go up in
Lumbertom for a year will be a large
AMI commodious restaurant. Gee, they
must maze been hungry -
Ed Horu, a white man of Bay
Springs, was murdered by two me-
groes at Port Gibson AS yet no
1rx,, oI,ipo hoe, hoay, ,-or0UScd
Mr.. Eliot, formerly of Harvard, de-
clared Sunday: Arbitration never
prevents, it promotes industrial strife.
Another blow to tradition!
Gandsi, which name is the initials
of the Gulf & Ship Island, lis now a
fullfledged town with 367 population.
CoVington county is coming up.
A Japanese squadron entered the
barber at San Pedro, CAL, Sunday, on
a peaceful mission. Not long back, we
we're expecting the Japs, but net in
such peaceful mood
Senator Bailey declared in Wash
ington Thursday that President Taft
lis wasting his time and has no
chance to change the political COM
plexion of the Southern States. Why
tell secrets out of school?
The Cuban budget is expected to
show deficit of $12,000,000 The
United States plan seems to find IA
vor with the lesser members of the
American Republican family.
Andrew Carnegie, in an address at
New York Thursday, declared that
peace is threatened and that all worl
powers are getting ready for war.
And the new Carnegie peace temple
just completed, too!
A farewell dinner was given Thurs
day in New York, in honor of Rich
ard Croker, who is going back to his
irish home. 1t is safe to assume
that many aspiring New York politi-
clans cheerfully Clipped in their quo
ia to that dinner.
A beautiful suitcase has been pre-
scented to President Taft by admiring
friends in the Philippines If it is big
enough to held one suit of MIR. Taft's
clothes, he will be compelled to list
it ais trunk when he travleS abroad.
j. Barney Whaley and Theophilus
Messer are under $3.50 bond ait Alex
andria, fer impersonating government
officials. What did they do? Eat pos
sums? Our country correspond emit
should give more details.
The merchants of Kentwood have
formed an association for protection
against people who do not pay their
bills. This means those who get cred
1T formally; not the informal ones
who take the goods at night time.
When the Kings Daughters fair
closed at Gulfport Tuesday night the
Daughters were $3.50 ito the good .
A handkerchief sent by Mrs. Taft,
whose husband has a political job at
Washington, d. c., brought $11.
A. Beauchamp, of Hattiesburg, was
SO busy writing letter, that he did
not know that the house was burning
until the alarm was given by a switch
engine nearby. ''In the spring a
young mans fancy Oh, slush!
A veteran policeman and his black
mistress were convicted at Natchez
under the statute applying to such af-
fairs. Louisiana fndfcts, Mississippi
convicts. The contention that expos
ure is all that is really necessary de-
serves some consideration, but conyic
tiOnS count.
The Southern Yacht Club, of New
Orleans, will be asked to participate
in a regatta at Pascagoula on the oc-
casion of the silver service presenta-'
tom to the Mississippi at Horn Island.
This sentence sounds nice and geo
graphical.
Washington dispatches announces
that brisk fight is on over the i'm
come tax. There is such brisk fight
all the time over the income, that It'll
is not surprising the hostiities are
to Include any attempt to,
tax lit.