The Starkville news., 1909-05-28

being formed into nat pins 9&
Developments in the Calhoun
trial in San Francisco were sensa-
tional. Rudolph Spreekels. told of
interview with Abe Ruef, making
startling propositions to him.
Miss Louise Arbogast is held at
st. Paul, Mimi, on the charge of
numbering her father, Louis Arbo-
gast, wealthy German meat deal
er. She is believed to be insane.
Mrs. Paine of Dover, Mass,
claims that she is a half sister to
the present emperor of Germany,
and will endeayor to establish hei
right to a fortune in that country.
Twenty or more persons were IN
jured, some Of them seriously, by
dropping from windows in fire,
starting from a gas explosion, which
destroyed the Toledo flats, Chicago.
The final ceremonies in the can
onization of Clement Hoffhauer, the
German redemptionist, and Joseph
Oriolc, Spanish priest of Barcelo-
ma, took place in st. Peters at
Rome
Personal apologies from Presi-
dent Miguel Davilla of Honduras,
combined with ample monetary sat
isfaction, has closed diplomatic
incident between Mexico and Hon
duras.
The members of the Chamber Of
Deputies took the oath in the pres
ence of the sultan to uphold the
constitution of Turkey and to pro-
tect the shcriat and the rights Of
the nation.
Presidential nominations of Will
liam Williams to be commissioner
of immigration of the port of New
York, and Walter +. Clark, to be
governor of Alaska, were confirmed
by the Senate.
Col. Henry Watterson, editor of
the Louisville Courier-J ournal, will
preside at the dedication of the
monument to the memory of Gen.
Stephen ID. Lee in the VickSburg
National Park on June II.
Louis C. Kohler and Lorenz
Kress, Jr., of Milwaukee. Wis,
owners of patent for brake ap-
pliance, have brought suit against
the st. Louis Car Company for ST.
900 for an alleged breach Of con-
tract.
A controversy over a line fence
between two farms near Richmond,
Ind, resulted in the killing Of
Alexander Meek and Raymond
Meek, father and son, and the Sc
rious injury of Frank Rallsbach,
ST., and his son.
A local newspaper in st. Peters
burg publishes dispatch from To-
kio saying Japan has decided to
send a warship to the Bering Sea
on account of the repeated seizures
there of japanese vessels by Ameri-
can and Russian ships.
Fire on the wharf Of the Ham
burg-American line at Kingston,
Jamaica, destroyed the entire dock,
130 feet long. Two-thirds of the
cargo Of the steamer Prinz Joachim,
valued at $4,000, was destroyed.
The other damage is estimated at
$4,000.
Lieut.. Gen. Anatole NJ. Stossel
and Rear Admiral Nebogatoff have
been released from confinement in
the fortress of st. Peter and st.
Paul by order of Emperor Nicholas.
The health Of both men has been
gravely affected by their confine-
ment in the prison.
Marked for death, the police be-
ieve, because he had been a close
friend of Lieut.. Joseph Petrosino
of the New York police department.
who was assassinated in Italy, Pieg-
gio Puccio, a cigar maker, was as
sassinated as he entered his apart
ments in New York city.
Nearly 500 feet of the famous
tunnel over Tennessee Pass, on the
Denver and Rio Grande railway, To-
Gated about five miles west of Lead
vile, Col, caved in recently. There
we're no casualties. The cave-in oc-
Cured about 1000 feet from the
portal of the tunnel, and was caus-
ed by melting SHOWS.
The sheep ranch of Taylor Bros.
in Colorado was raided recently by
a band of cattlemen and 5000 head
of sheep slain The trouble originat-
ed over contested sheep range.
+ The Dark Tobacco Growers As
sociation of Tennessee has lust