The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From All Sources, State,
National and Foreign.

went adrift off Norfolk.
The United States has resumed
diplomatic relations with Venezuela.
J. e. McColgin. Mason. and insur-
ance man, died at Monroe, La, aged
S.
F. w. Cutting, treasurer of a saw
ings bank at Worchester, Mass, sui
ciied.
Fire at Wham, La, destroyed the
saw mill of the Matthews Lumber
Company.
C. r. Parker, prominent Hoo Hoo
was drowned while hunting near
Monroe. La.
The fate of the sugar tariff de-
ponds upon the attitude of Western
Congressman.
A site was selected for the $780,
600 ederal building to be erected
at Franklin, La.
The Beard of Trade Building at
Little Rock was destroyed by fire,
causing SlOO,0O0.
Mrs. F. l.. Peterson shot and kill
ed her husband at Kansas City be-
cause he slapped her.
Bishop John Stephen Michaud, of
the Catholic diocese of Burlingto
Vt, died at New York.
President-elect w. H. Taft will
visit New Orleans when he returns
from his trip to Panama
Fire at Lima, Ohio, threatens the
entire business section, entailing an
estimated loss of $1,000,000.
The Venezuelan Government has
raised the embargo on the trans
shipment OF goods at Willemstad.
The Louisiana Board of Educa-
ton will open bids March 1 for text
book contracts for the next four
years.
Thrilling stories of raids by night
riders were told in the trial of al
legged night riders at Union City,
Tenn
Sensational disclosures were made
in the municipal graft scandal at
Pittsburg, Pa, and more arrests are
expected.
Harvey Hazel, II years, old, was
convicted at Toledo, Ohio, of the
murder of his mother and sentenced
to life term.
One thousand families in a Brook
Ign tenement block were made home
less by fire that inflicted 100000
property loss.
Mob violence is threatened at
Haveloc, Neb., because teh traction
company failed to keep its pledges.
to give a scent fare.
A burglar at Natchez, Miss, as
saulted and killed Robert F. Reed,
70 years old, and probably fatally
wounded his wife, aged GO.
The new $4,000 water works
system at Columbia, Miss, was given
q satisfactory test. and reduction
in insurance rates is expected
Evidence was introduced in the
Cooper trial at Nashville, Tenn. to
show that the Coopers made threats
against Ex-senator e. W. Carmack
Two wrecks occurred on the Yazoo
and Mississippi valley Railroad in
the vicinity of Bayou Sara, La, caus-
Ing a delay of twenty-eight hours to
traffic.
Fire in the Herald Square Thea
ire. New York, caused $4,000 prop
erty damage. The audience left the
building without disorder. Actors
and chorus girls fed to the street in
their stage costumes.
Frederick A. Burnham, former
President of the Mutual Reserve Life
Insurance Company, was found dead
in bed in his home in New York, of
gas poisoning. The police say that
death was due to suicide.
George l.. Breland, river pilot,
his wife and a negro were arrested
at Natchez, Miss, on charge of
grand larceny following the diScoy-
cry of carload of stolen goods and
yaiuables in the Breland place.
President Castro's power in Ven
ezuela has been completely broken
Acting President Gomez has reor-
gained the Government and liber-
ated all of the political prisoners.
A plot to assassinate Gomez by Cas-
tro's adherents was frustrated.
The contempt case of the Bucks
Stove and Range Company against
President Gompers. Vice President
Mitchell and Secretary Morrison, of
the Federation of Labor, was decid-
ed by Justice Wright, of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia,
adversely to the Federation of La
Dor, Gompers was sentenced to
twelve months Imprisonment, Mitch
ell to nine months and Morrison to
six months.
The suit OF count Doni de Castel-
lane for the custody of his children