The Starkville news., 1909-06-04

Senator Bailey Of Texas and W.
is. Manning, Washington corre-
spondent of the New York Times,
engaged in fist fight.
Destructive storm spread over GEN.
tral Loui5ana, Mississippi and Ala
bama, putttig railroads out of busi-
ness and running crops.
President Taft talked to negroes
at Howard University celebration,
telling them to live so as to earn
respect of Southern white men.
Thirteen men were hanged in pub
lie in Colstantinople, having previ-
ously found guilty of completely in
| the revolutionary outbreak of April
13.
Seven are known to be dead, many
are dying and over a score are badly
injured as result of tornado
which swept over North Dakota re-
Gently.
The Louisiana Prison Reform AS
sociation has undertaken an investl-
cation of the system of working prls-
oners on the public roads of Caddo
parish.
Count Boni de Castellane won
partial victory in the litigation over
the custody of his children. He
will be permitted to name their in
structor
| New York Cotton Exchange men,
bers are indignant at action of the
American Cotton Manufacturers
Association in praising New Orleans
contract.
President F. W. Weller of the
Standard Oil Company, announced
that a pipe line would be built from
| the Oklahoma oil fields to Baton
Rouge, La.
Upwards of 5000 scholars Of in
ternational repute are in London to
attend the seventh international con
gress of applied chemistry, which
was formally opened.
Because a bullet fired by his wife
failed to kill him, Ferdinand Shultz
committed suicide by hanging in
Harrisburg, Tex. His body was
found hanging to tree.
The Louisiana Railroad Commits
sion has issued an order command
ing the Texas and Pacific to build
a passenger depot in New Orleans to
cost not less than $150,00O.
Theodore Roosevelt, who is at
present the guest of Governor Jack
son of Nairobi, Africa, accepted an
invitation to a public banquet to be
given in his honor August 3.
The Turkish government has in
vited Jews from Russia and Rou-
mania to settle in Turkey, agreeing
to remove all restrictions and to
grant full citizenship to them.
Hugo Friedman, As years old, 4
travelling salesman of Baltimore,
Nd, hanged himself with strap
from a hook in a closet in his room
at the Claypool hotel, Indianapolis.
Charles Morrison, a comparative
ly unknown millionaire, whose es-
tate, it is estimated, is worth be-
tween $5O,0OO,OOO and $75,O00,00O,
died near Reading, England
The military authorities are con-
sidering the removal of the place of
residence of the former sultan, Abb
dull Hamid, from Salonki to one of
the islands in the Mediterranean.
By the decisive vote of SO to 3,
the Senate decided to postpone u2-
til June 10 the further con-
sideration of the income tax ques-
ton in connection with the tariff
Prominent negroes from many
parts of the United States, are in
Columbus, Ohio, to attend the Sec
ond annual meetingsof the National
Negro American Political League.
A woman of Petersburg, Ind, was
awarded $4,000 in her damage suit
against saloon keeper of Jimtown.
The woman alleged that her hus-
band was drowned while under Tie
influence of liquor sold to him ~
the saloon keeper.
Joseph E. Yeargin, aged % years,
was instantly killed and Charles T.
Fincham, aged 45, prominent con-
tractor of San Antonio, Tex, lies in
a hospital with broken back, as
result of their automobile skidding
and being dashed into a telegraph
pole.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt mas
ordered a motor launch from the
firm that built the Duke of West
minister's flyer that carried off all
the prizes at the Monte Carlo races.
| Delegates to the conference of the
Farmers Union at Memphis dis