The Starkville news., 1909-06-04
news A GLANCE
Brief Epitome of the Events From All
the World, including Our Neigh
Dor States.

The shipping strike in France is
spreading.
Council Of Sarbonne gave medal
to Andrew Carnegie.
Consul Drew Linnard is investi-
eating trouble at Bleufelds.
Cornerstone of Scottish Rite ca
thedral was laid at Memphis.
The Louisiana School for the
Blind held commencement eXer-
cises.
Tennessee delegation is already
working for a pardon for Sheriff
Shipp.
EN-President Roosevelt is taking
time to write book while he is in
Africa.
Champ Clark has told Democrats
to hustle for themselves for COM
mittee jobs.
The strike of the firemen on the
Georgia Railroad has been officially
declared off.
Two Cuban patriots are in jail
charged with conspiring against the
government
\ revolutionary outbreak occurred
at Lima. Peru. Several were killed
and wounded.
Sixty fishing vessels foundered in
storm off Spanish coast and 100
lives were lost.
The friends Of protection for SUI
gar were successful in two test votes
In the Senate.
David Henerson, an American,
killed his daughter and committed
suicide in Paris.
North German Lloyd passenger
steamer Princess Alice ran aground
off Staten Island.
Archbishop Blenk of New Orleans
was received in private audience by
the pope at Rome.
The prohibitionists were defeated
in the election at Petersburg, Va,
after an exciting contest.
A warm controversy has developed
over the appointment Of surveyor
of customs at New Orleans.
James Barnes and F. 0. Louner,
two Americans, were killed by dy-
Mantle explosion in Mexico.
Three men killed and one seri-
ously injured is the result of a
freight wreck in Mobile, Ala.
Two workmen were perhaps fa-
tally scalded in an accident at the
Roller pumping plant, near Crowley,
La.
The jury was completed and the
taking of testimony begun in the
Crosby murder trial at Hattiesburg,
Miss.
Fire at Gainesville, Tex, Destroy
ed the Cooke county court house
with all the court records. Loss,
$4,000.
Arguments was concluded before
the Alabama Supreme Court in the
impeachment trial of Sheriff Frank
Cazalas.
The program was announced for
the dedication of the monument to
Gen. Stephen D. Lee at Vicksburg
June II.
President Taft holds the ticket
that drew a barrel of sauer-kraut
worth SO at the EIks' fair in San
duskv, Ohio.
Bishop Davis Sessums of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese Of
Louisiana, arrived in New York
from Europe.
The Elks at Morgan City, La,
gave house warming in their new
home, celebrating the first aniversa-
~ of the lodge.
His friendship for the negro was
reiterated by President Taft in a
speech at the commencement exer-
cises at Howard University, the col
ored institution of learning located
within the District of Columbia.
After 46 hours of almost constant
wrangling, the jury in the case of
M. B. MAIDEN, NJ. J. Boyle and f.
A. Pouchot, labor leaders, in Chica-
90 brought in verdict Of guilty,
fning each of the defendants $500.
Senator Beveridge OF Indiana has
introduced an amendment to the
tariff bill, prohibiting any dealer or
manufacturer of tobacco from CIV
ing away coupons emitting the pur-
chaser to gift or prize. &
Dr.. John w. Bischoff, the S'blind
organist of Washington" who lost
his sight when two years of age, is
dead. For the last % years DR.. Bis
ehof had been the organist of the
First CONGREGATION church.