The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-26
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in session at Seattle, elected officers.
Donald NJ. Balm was acquitted at
Atlanta of the charge of numbering
Z. G. Williams.
Napoleon Lajoie resigned as man
ager Of the Cleveland American Lea
que Club.
The hot wave from Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Oklahoma extended down
into the South.
j. A. Walton was convicted of muir
der and sentenced to life imprison-
ment at Meridian, Miss.
The National Democrat, a Wash
ington political paper, suspended
publication.
The president of the two organi-
cations of postmasters in convention
at Biloxi were reelected.
All grades of refined sugar we're
advanced loo per hundred pounds,
making standard granulated sos.
Prices of stock on the New York
Exchange broke, and at the close
the market was demoralized.
The Fuller prohibition bill was
passed In the Alaboma Senate, hav-
ing already passed the House.
In Cincinnati the convention of
the Society of American Florists
was begun.
Harry K Thaw was returned to
the Matteawan Asylum for the Grim
inal Insane from the White Plains
jail.
A committee of the Louisiana
Board OF Equalization recommend
ed a 100000 increase in the ass
essments OF timber lands.
In New York six and half inches
OF rain fell in forty-eight hours. The
weather In the metropolis was with
In Is degrees OF the freezing point.
Henry Taylor, a negro, charged
with assaulting Mrs. Josh vickers
and then numbering her and her In
FAINT. was lyuched near McRea, Ga.
Miss Virginia Paul, a Philadel-
phia society girl, and w. Brooks Les
BiE, On attorney, were drowned while
swimming at Wildwood NJ J.
The Mexican ambassador visited
Beverly. and arranged for President
Taft and President Daiz to exchange
visits at Ell Pa"o and Ciudad Juarez.
Before and after his golf game,
President Taft talked over depart
ment matters with Mr.. Meyer, Sec
rotary OF the Navy.
Col. Ike T. Pryor OF San Antonio,
Tex, was selected as the candidate
for president of the Trans-Mississip-
pi Commercial Congress.
Five men are believed to have per-
ishsd by the wrecking OF the barge
Shawmont In a gale on Shinnecock.
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John Barnett spoke on land re-
clamation In Central American coun-
tries at the 1rans- Mississippi Con-
grees In Denver.
Seven cadets were dismissed from
the United State: Military Academy
at West Point, N. Y, by order OF
President Taft for hazing.
Gov. Noel OF Mississippi. made
round OF visits to the Federal de-
partment in Washington to look af-
ter matters In which his state is in
terested.
q. r. Marion. of Atlanta. Ca. shot
and killed his wife In the Office OF
the police chief at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
after the woman had refused to re-
turn hons,
william WcLeod, . farm hand,
confessed at Douglas. Ca, 10 muir
dering Miss Matte Graham, whom
he feared was to marry another
man.
The Kansas superintendent OF In
surNnce ordered IL per cent re-
duetion made Sept. on the rates OF
NIL insurance companies doing bust
ness In that State.
William A. Bourque, q driver, and
Harry Halcombe. his mechanician.
were killed In an accident during the
250-mile automobile race on the new
Indianapolis speedway. -
The Rev. J. T.. Docking, formerly
of Jacksonville, Fla. was elected
president of Rust University, the
school for negroes at Holly Springs,
Miss.
John c. Roberts and Marion Rob-
erts were arrested in Kentucky, on
the charge of counterfeiting Mexican
bank notes. One million dollars
worth OF bogus notes we're seized
F1agman Sawyer, on Louisville
and Nashville train, was struck by
lightning when he went back to
flag q train, and was picked up on
the track. He was not badly hurt.
Wilbur and Orville Wright, the
aeroplanauts entered suit in the
United States Circuit Court in New
York against the Aeronautic Socie-
ty, charging infringement of patent