The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-11-04


Heavy property loss was caused
by a prairie fire in Trip county. S.
D.
The National Monterey Commits
sion will meet at Washington Nov.
goth.
Prince Ito's assassin was identi-
fed as former newspaper editor at
Seoul.
Eugene ]. Marsh was killed by
falling from q motor cycle at Dali
las, Tex.
The Unionists were victorious in
a by-election in one of the suburbs
of London.
The drawings of the British bat
tleship Dreadnought have mysteri-
ously disappeared.
A. G. Erwin was acquitted at
Leesville, La, of the murder of Mar
shall MCGEE at Hornbeck.
John D. Rockefeller has given
$1,000,000 to eradicate the hook
worm disease in the south.
Tobacco growers OF Mason Coun-
ty. KY, will request troops for pro-
lection against night riders.
The Treasury Department is sup
porting Collector Loeb in the New
York customs fraud investigation.
The comptroller of the currency
has adopted a more rigid system for
the examination of national banks.
A. l.. Lawshe, formerly third as
sistant postmaster general, is slated
to succeed Curry as governor Of New
Mexico.
Senator H. D. Money. OF Mississip-
pi. is campaigning for the Democlit-
ic ticket in Maryland.
Charles c. Smith was held at Da-
Wis, Okla, for the murder of his
cousin, Albert Smith, whose headless
body was found in river,
Mrs. Abraham Levy, after having
her husband jailed at Chicago for
abandonment, shot through the cell
bars and fatally wounded the man.
Sensational charges are made
against the management of the Peo-
pies Savings Bank at Meridian,
Miss.
A score Of miners were killed by
an explosion in the Rhimney Iron
Company's colliery in Glamorgan-
shire, Wales.
Vital statistics for the first six
months of the present year show an
excess of deaths over births in
France Of 28,205.
Congressman Tawney, chairman
of the House committee on appro-
priations has begun work on the an
nual budgets.
The threats of corporations to
evade the Federal corporation tax
law by forming co-partnerships is
not taken seriously at Washington.
James Mcmahon pleaded guilty at
Kansas City. Kans., to the murder
of his two sisters and borther-in-
law, and was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
Official ballots to be used in the
election Nov. 2, in Breathitt county,
KY, were seized from a bank at
Jackson, KY, and carried to a re-
mote hamlet.
The four defendants in the jack
son Lumber Company peonage case
will surrender at Pensacola, Fla, re-
lieving their bondsmen, but will con-
tinue the fight on habeas corpus pro-
ceedings.
John Sickles, e7 years old, was &C
quilted at Moundsville. w. Va, of
the charge Of numbering his nephew,
Randolph Kitchen, whom he found
in his daughters room.
A new and interesting situation
has been created by the French epis-
copate's declaration of war against
the public schools of France and the
open attempt initiated by Archbish-
op Germann, OF Toulouse to rally the
Catholic voters at the general cleo
lions of 1910 In support of candi-
dates committed to the defense of
the church interests.
The opinion prevails at Washing
ton that Judge H. H. Lurton, Of Ten
nessee, will be appointed to succeed
the late Justice Peckham on the SUI
preme Court bench.
Booker T. Washington and others
are arranging a semicentennial cele-
bration of the freeing OF negro slaves.
According to figures of the Census
Bureau the death rate for 1908 was
the lowest yet recorded.
Sorrow was expressed all over the
world over the assassination OF
Prince Ito at Hardin, Manchuria.
George E. Roberts, president of
the Commercial National Bank OF
Chicago, explained HIS reasons for
favoring the central bank plan.
Gen. o. o. Howard, the last of the
Federal commanders In the civil war,
died in Vermont.
The Treasury Department made
several concessions relative to the |
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