The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-05-27
WIRE FLASHES

r. L. Sapp was killed in a lumber
mill accident at Roosevelt, La.
Colonel Roosevelt is meeting great
luck in his chase for big game.
Eugene PEBBLES killed his wife
with an Ak at Norfolk, va.
H. H. Rogers. Standard OIL mag
nate, died in New York.
Three lives were lost in a severe
storm in the vicinity of Pensacola.
Robert e. Keaty was killed at Ii
vonia, La, by George Brown, his
brother-in-law.
Nine persons we're injured in a
wreck on the New Orleans and North
eastern yards at Lumberton, Miss.
]. J. Montoli went to Jail at BIZ
loxi, Miss, rather than work out the
So road tax.
The Lagrue trial at Amite City,
La, resulted in a verdict of guilty
without capital punishment.
Frank M. Scott, accused postoffice
official of Rosedale, Miss, has been
released at Jackson on $4,000 bond.
Government Agent Evans says the
boil weevil is causing apprehension
in the southern part of Louisiana. I
OF the thirty-eight applicants to
practice dentistry in Mississippi
twenty were successful.
Mississippi editors elected F. R.
Birdsall president, and selected New
Albany for the next meeting.
Turkish officials from the Sultan
down took oaths to uphold the con-
stitution. ~
French strikers started riot in
the streets of Paris and several were
hurt.
President Davila, of Honduras,
apologized to Mexico for insult 20
the Mexican legation at Tegucigalpa.
The English lord who insulted the
new American countess apologized at
public meeting.
Mrs. Jennie Carsten at Hast
Hampton, Conn, killed two of her
children and herself.
Monk Bray was killed near Pensa-
cola, Fla, in duel with his brother,
Joseph.
The Dutch government has In
formed Castro's brother that he can
not remain at Willamstad.
The General Federation in Paris
has called off the strike, realizing its
futility.
The trial of a labor leader in Chi
cago is developing sensations like the
trials of Sam Parks.
Will Mack, negro, wanted fol
criminal assault in Rankin county
Mississippi, has been placed in the
Warren county Jail for safe-keeping
The Louisiana Association of Elks
disbanded at Baton Rouge because
the national association refuses to
recognize the organization.
Oscar Rouson, white man of East
Baton Rouge parish, declined to give
up the negro family he had reared
and left for Kansas.
Of the 245 applicants before the
Mississippi Board of Health for Ii.
cense to practice medicine 10 were
successful.
James Vaughan was arrested at
Water Valley, Miss, charged with
mailing a letter containing threat
of arson.
Will Mack, negro, who criminally
assaulted the daughter OF Will Myers
near Pelahatchie, Miss, year ago.
was captured near Jackson, Miss.
Twenty members of the japanese
parliament and many prominent men
have been arrested in connection
with the sugar scandal.
The steamer Mongolian, imprison-
ed in the ice for several days on
Nova Scotia, has been released and
made port safely.
National Manufacturers installed
John Kirby as president and made
valuable gifts to the retiring presi-
dent, indorsing his policy.
Strikers on the Georgia Railway
are resorting to violence, and the
railroad has applied to the federal
courts.
The Richland Lumber Company
promoted by Mengel Bros, of Louis
Vile, KY, will erect a 100000 hard
wood mill at Rayville, La.
The widow of Engineer E. E. Nc
Daniel, who was killed in wreck on
the Arkansas, Louisiana and Gull
Railroad, brought suit at -Moproe
La, for $4,000.
The De Soto Parish Industrial
Company, with 100000 capital, was
organized to promote immigration
and boost business and industrial in
terests.
Mike Lipsey, near-beer dealer at
Shreveport, La. was convicted of vio-
lating the prohibition law and fined
5000 and sentenced to thirty days on
the roads.
The new canning plant erected at
Baton Rouge at a cost of $4,000 and
with 1000 acres of truck ready to
draw from cannot operate because OF
lack of ready capital.
DR.. Allen S. King, of Morgan City,
was shot and killed by Leroy Olivier,
a 16-year-old boy, whose sister con-
sorco5 ~ downfall