The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-08-26
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e. G. Williams.
Napoleon Laioie 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 mur
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 were
advanced 10c 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 X. 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 $7,O0O.O0O 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 rs degrees of the freezing point.
Henry Taylor, a negro, charged
with assaulting Mrs. Josh Vickers
and then numbering her and her in
fant, was lynched near McRea, Ga.
Miss Virginia Paul, a Philadel-
phia society girl, and w. Brooks Les
sig, an attorney, were drowned while
swimming at Wildwood N. J.
The Mexican ambassador visited
Beverly, and arranged for President
Taft and President Daiz to exchange
visits at FL Pa-o and Ciudad Juarez.
Before and after his golf game,
President Taft talked over depart
ment matters with Mr.. Meyer, Sec
retary 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-
ished by the wrecking of the barge
shawmont in gale off Shinnecock,
L. l..
John Barnett spoke on land re-
clamation in Central American coun-
tries at the Irans-Mississipp Con-
gress in Denver.
Seven cadets, were dismissed from
the United State: Military Academy
at West Point, NJ 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
G. F. Marion, of Atlanta, Ga, shot |
and killed his wife in the Office of
the police chief at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
after the woman had refused to re-
turn home.
William WcLeod, farm hand,
confessed at Douglas, Ca, to MUIR
dering Miss Matte Graham, whom
be feared was to marry another
man.
The Kansas Superintendent of In
surance ordered a II per cent re-
duction made Sept. on the rates Of
all insurance companies doing busi- I
ness in that State.
William A. Bourque, driver, and |
Harry Halcombe, his mechanician,
we're killed in an accident during the
25O-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.
Flagman Sawyer, on Louisville
and Nashville train, was struck by
lightning when he went back to
Hag 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-
", charging infringement of patent
rights on their aeroplane invention
The grand jury in New York
handed down an indictment against
Charles Katz. president of the East
srn Brewing Company, of Brooklyn,
charging him with grand larceny in
with the Windsor Trust
Company loan transaction.
The ENJOYS of the Central Ameri-
can l.publics are greatly agitated
over the meeting between Taft and
Diaz at Ell Paso. They fear that It
result in an American-Mexican pro-
.ectorate over the Central American
countries.