The Neshoba Democrat., 1909-05-20
Baron Rosen. the Russian am.

Taft, preparatory to mis- departure
Saturday for Europe.
I David Detrick, aged 102, the
J Oldest man in Southern Indiana,
walked to church to attend a spe-
! cial service in honor of his birth
day and afterward presided at a
family dinner at which four gen.
erations were present.
| E. H. Webb of Bolton, Tex. was
shot and killed by jeff Cathey.
Cathey and wife were out hunting
squirrels and it is alleged Webb
threatened to kill both with a knife,
taking hold Of Mrs. Cathey and re-
fusing to release her. Cathey snot
him and surrendered.
The thirty-ninth annual session
of the Southwestern Kentucky Med
| ical Association was convened at
Paducah, Ky, with an attendance
of about $50 doctors, among them
being many prominent visitors. The
attendance is the largest in the his
tory of the association.
| Richard U. Sherman, son of Vice
President Sherman, has been elect
ed president of the Consolidated
Water Company of Utica, a three
million dollar corporation, and I'M
mediately resigned his position as
private secretary to William Loeb,
collector of the port at New York.
While all around them scores of
people were kneeling at mass, Ri
cardo Quirez and Alfonso Fariar,
members of wealthy families and
students of Marista College, of
Monterey, Mexico, fought a duel
with pocket knives in a pew of the
cathedral. Both were seriously
wounded.
Henry Vazy, young English
man who fired two snots at Rev.
Father James X. Fielding, when
the latter discovered him in an at
tempt to rob the aims box of Cor
pus Christi church, in Chicago,
walked from the criminal court a
free man, as Father Fielding re-
fused to prosecute.
Broughton Brandenburg, the
newspaper man and magazine wri-
ter, charged with grand larceny in
connection with the sale of an ar
ticle purporting to have been writ
ten by Grover Cleveland, created a
surprise by waving extradition and
agreeing to return East without
further resistance. The writ of ha-
beas corpus obtained in his behalf
was dismissed.
Master builders and general con-
tractors associations of Denver,
COL, declared a lockout of 1000
men affiliated with the Building
Trades Council. 1t is expected that
work on practically every large con-
tract in the city will be suspended.
The trouble is the outgrowth of
strife between the Brotherhood of
Carpenters Union and the Build
ing Trades Council.
| A balloon trip over the Atlantic
from Boston to Europe is planned
by Henry H. Clayton, who recently
resigned as meteorologist at the
Blue Hill observatory after 16 years
OF study of the direction and veloc-
lty or wind currents. Prof. Clay
ton believes he can accomplish the
feat by taking advantage of an up
per air current or planetary cur
rent, which his experiments have
shown, flows constantly eastward at
the height of two miles or more
above the earth.
The departmental committee
appointed in July of 1908 to in
qulre into the alleged combinations
in the meat trade in the United
Kingdom has issued its report. A
large portion thereof is devoted to
the American beef trust and it's rep
resentatives in London, the commit
tee concluding that while a combi-
nation exists to certain extent
between four companies in the Uni
ted States, engaged in the United
Kingdom, it is not at present suf1i-
clently powerful seriously to endan.
ger the beef trade as a whole. But
should these firms, as seems posi-.