The Neshoba Democrat., 1909-09-30


on the Louisville & Nashville rail-
road near Springfield, Tenn.
The strike of journeymen plumb
ers and gastitters at TeXarkana,
Ark, lasted one day, and terminat-
ed when the last shop that had been
out acceded to the demands of the
union and signed the new agree
ment to advance the scale Of wages
from $3.50 to $4 for an eight hour
day.
Advices at the state department
at Washington, d. c., from st. Pc
tersburg say that during the eight
days following August 20 last
there were 697 cases Of cholera in
Russia, which resulted in 27S
deaths. OF all cases 1S2, with ~
deaths, were reported from St. Pc
tersburg.
William Sims, former police
chief at Shawnee, Okla, was placed
on trial charged with accepting
bribes from gamblers and bootleg
gers for immunity from prosecu-
ton during his term of office. Sims
was indicted along with District
Judge Mabcn and County Attorney
Biggers.
Two women were killed and two
men and a woman seriously injured
when an autimobile containing
eight persons jumped eff trestle
at Fourth and Weller streets, in
Seattle. Wash. The car fell twen-
ty-fve feet, the gasoline tank cx-
ploded and flames shot thirty feet
in the air.
Alberto Sanchez. an electrical en-
gineer, at present an inmate of Be-
lem prison, in Mexico, claims to
have invented an apparatus wnere-
by vision as we'll as voice may be
transmitted over an ordinary tele-
phone wire, and the prison officials
admit that successful tests have
boo,, ,,,oln with @bn ,,n1 ,l,
A net increase of 573,551 in the
population of the United States by
the arrival and departure of aliens
was scored during the last fiscal
year, against an increase of 209, 9,S67
the previous year. There was a
falling off in immigration from
7S2,S70 aliens during the previous
fiscal year to 151,7SG the past
year.
The postal savings bank question
came to the fore at the meeting of
the savings bank section of the
American Bankers association con-
vention at Chicago. A committee
report was made adverse to postal
savings banks, and speeches depre-
eating the entrance of the govern
ment into the banking business
were delivered.
Next to the Christian New Year,
that of the Hebrews is the most
generally observed in New York.
1t is one of the boasts of the city
that i has more Jews than Pales-
tine, and while majority of them
perhaps have drifted away from the
orthodox faith of their fathers
practically all join in the New
Year observance.
Writing to his wife's relatives in
Missouri that she was dead, asking
for $50 with whicn to bury her and
using the money to marry another
woman were the ''frenzied finance
methods attributed to Ernest r.
Palmer, aged 35 years, motorman
for the Chicago Railway company
The man has been arraigned on g
charge Of bigamy.
An entire family of six persons
was murdered and the bodies of all
but one of the victims were burned
with their home at Hurley, Buchan.
an county, Va. The motive evil
IDENTITY was robbery, as TIE owner OF
the house, an aged woman known
as ''Aunt Betty" Justis, was gen.
orally supposed to keep large sum
OF money about the place.
Judge A. W. Fite of Trenton.
Ga, directed II. A. Rucker, United
States collector of internal revenue
at Atlanta, to show cause why he
should not be declared guilty of