The Brandon news., 1909-08-12
WIRE FLASHES

was begun at Alexandra, La
The strike situation in Sweden In
showing signs of relaxing.
Herman Henning, a merchant At
Nashville, Tenn, was murdered in hin
store.
A canal company is projected In
Concordia Parish, La. to supply irTi-
cation to rice farms.
Judge w. H. Mann received thu
Democratic nomination for governor
of Virginia.
The ST. Louis police are stfll
searching for the Italians who kid
naped two children.
The taking of evidence in the
Harry K. Thaw sanity PROCEEDINGS
was concluded.
John Gagins, after numbering John
Dugan at Kelceyville, ILL.,, suicided
rather than surrender to posse.
Senator La Toilette, of Wisconsin.
bitterly attacked Senator Elkins, Of
West Virginia, in his newspaper.
A Detroit minister sent a Baton
Rouge saloonman $500 without ex-
planning the reason for the tendor.
Japan has notified the powers that
she will reconstruct the Antung-
Mukden Railroad, in spite of the OPP
position of China.
Dispatches to the State Depart
ment described the situation in the
Southeastern section of Europe a.
critical.
The Carmichael Statewide proht-
bition bill passed the Alabama Sem
ate, having previously passed the
House.
Idelfonso Gomez fourteen years
old was arrested at Brownsville, Tex
as, accused of numbering Elisco Cam
tu, aged ten.
Robert w. Sears, of Sears, Roe
buck & Co., Chicago, having amassed
$2,000,000 announced his retirement
from active business.
Two Shreveport detectives who un-
earthNd five alleged blind tigers at
Opelousas were brutally assaulted by
unidentified persons.
Governor Sanders addressed good
roads meeting at Franklinton, La,
and steps were taken to build 16o
miles of road.
The Turkish Government has sent
a formal note to Greece demanding
a declaration by that country of nom
fpforforonoo IN Hrofon affairs
Forty members of the Vicksburg,
Miss, Board of Trade visits East Car
roll Parish, La, August IL and i'm
spect the growing rioe crops.
The Mexican Government has made
sweeping changes in officials in north
ern Mexico as a result of the pres
idential campaign in that country.
Important developments may oc-
cur in the South American imbrogiio
growing out of the strained relations
between BOLIVIA and Argentina, in n
few days.
Miss Bertha Define after quarrel
ing with her sweetheart at Roanoke,
Va, attempted suicide by shooting,
but heavy rat" in her hair saved
her life.
Mrs. Thaw, mother of Harry K
Thaw, created a sensation by bitter
ly denouncing District Attorney Je-
rome during the lunacy trial at White
Plains, N. Y.
Ex-Superior Judge J. r. Clarkson,
missing three weeks from his homa
at Kenosha, Wis, was found work.
ing in a pearl button factory at Sa-
bula, Iowa.
Wade Glasscock, wealthy planter.
merchant and police juror, Of Awoy-
elles parish, La. was killed by Sidney
Lemoine, youth. in duel at Man
sura, La.
The basis prohibition bill in the
Alabama legislature, prohibiting near
beer and locker clubs, was passed by
the Senate and will become effective
Monday.
A Federal judge at Muskogee,
Okla, sustained the demurrers of the
defendants and ordered dismissed
5000 Indian lands alienation cases.
involving the ownership of 2,000,-
900 acres of land.
The prospects of another outbreak
in Spain seem to depend on the
course the authorities decide to pur-
sue regarding the prisoners that
have been in the Montjuich fortress
since the disorders of last week.
Rev. F. r. English, who went to
Mississippi from Cincinnati to accept
the presidency of Rust University,
returned home and declared he had
escaped mob violence because he
shook hands with a negro preacher
at Ethel
Father J. ]. Holtgreve was indict-
ed in Plaquemine, La, twenty-eight
times for crime against nature and
three times for libel. Bond was fixed
at $7O,750. He was returned there
in custody of deputy sheriff.
Eight members OF the late Missis-
sippi and Louisiana Retail Lumber
Dealers Association paid $500 each