The Starkville news., 1909-06-04

census.
S. N. ID. North, director of the
census, has rendered his resignation
to President Taft. =
+. z. Baker, the Oldest newspaper
editor in Kansas, died recently in
his ninetieth year.
Mrs. A. c. Hastings, 79 years old,
the sister of Grover Cleveland, died
at Hartford, Conn.
Congressman William Lorimer of
Chicago is the Junior United States
senator from Illinois.
A new portrait of the czar's only
son and heir is delighting the people
Of the Russian capital.
Five children were probably IA
tally injured during fire panic in
q school at Central City, Ky.
Nortsern Presbyterians discussed
immigration, and condemned remov-
al Of Commissioner Watchhorn.
Mistaking her for burglar, Geo.
W. Thompson shot and killed his
wife at his home in indianapolis.
Six men were Instantly killed and
one severely wounded as a result OF
a boiler explosion at Dowaglac,
Mich.
The case of Madden, Puchot and
Boyle, the labor leaders charged
with conspiracy to eHtort, is with
the jury.
Southern Presbyterian Assembly
heard last speech from General
Young on Kentucky Central Uni
versity matter.
His admirers among the business
men of Chicago are raising a fund
of 100000 to erect statue Of Gro
yer Cleveland.
Private Detective Elsie Duff was
fined 500 and costs for disturbing
the peace of Mrs. Beatrice Brevaine
Dreyfus in st. Louis.
The tension in the Georgia Rail
road fremen's strike is increasing
with every hours delay in settling
the race question involved.
The National Brotherhood of
Trainmen adjourned after selecting
Harrisburg, Pa, as the place for
the next biennial meeting.
By a deal financed by J. p. Nor
gan & Co., the greatest dry goods
combination ever attempted IN this
country has been effected.
| Consul General Robert J. Whine,
at London, has resigned and Consul
John L. Griffiths, at Liverpool, will
be nominated to succeed him.
A. G.. Gunther, the mining man
who killed himself in Memphis
(Tenn.) hotel, was well known IN
mining circles in Los Angeles.
American cotton manufacturers at
Richmond paid high compliment to
New Orleans Exchange, and adopt
ed resolutions to trade through it.
Special trains for handling heavy
traffic during the reunion of ex-Con-
federates will be placed In service
by railroads running into Memphis.
The consolidated statement of Ok
lahoma's state banks on April 2S
show their individual deposits total
l$4O,991,937, an increase since Feb
ruary Of $5,s31,233.
The session of the fifty-first an
nual General Assembly of the Uni
ted Presbyterian Church in America
is being held at Knoxville College,
a negro institution maintained by
that church.
| Governor Hadley of Missouri has
signed the bill providing for the ex-
clusion from the state Of cattle in
fected with Texas fever or Texas
tick, and authorizing the quarantine
of cattle so affected which may be
now in the state.
Indictments charging fraud in the
Muskogee town lot cases yEre re-
turned by the United States grand
jury against Gov. Charles n. Has
kell, T. B. Sewers, W. t. Hutchins,
lC. W. Turner, A. z. English and
| W. R. Eaton. The accused men are
charged with obtaining titles from
the government to town lots in Mus
kogee by illegal methods. Bond in
each case was fixed at $4,000 and
was promptly furnished. Arrange
ments for the trials have not been
made, but it is thought the cases
will be heard at an early date.
| Stories Of alleged bribe money
concealed in the soap dishes of bath.
rooms comprised an interesting part
of the testimony in the trial of Pat
rick Calhoun of San Francisco,
charged with bribery.
President Taft has presented to