The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-05
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prisoner was cremated.
Mobile jury declared it would not
believe prohibition officer on oath.
Seven men were killed by a dy-
Mantle explosion at Blairtown, N. J.
The relations between Japan and
China are strained.
Albert Lawson, a negro who shot
Sheriff r. M. Compton was lynched
by mob at Paris, Tenn.
M. BRAND will probably be called
upon to form a new cabinet in
France.
Popular opposition to the war
with Morocco resulted in riots and
bloodshed in Spain.
Rev. William E. Thompson, an
enemy of saloons. was ordered to
leave Memphis or be killed.
The United States, it is said, con-
templates establishing a protector
ate over Honduras.
Fierce fighting between Spanish
troops and tribesmen occurred in
| Morocco.
Premier AsQuith, in a speech in
London, criticised the American and
German tariff systems.
Philip Rhinelander was elected
vice chancellor of the University OF
the South.
A large number of workmen were
killed by the collapse of building
in st. Petersburg.
Six white men and a negro of
Butler County, Ala, are held at
Montgomery on a charge of peonage.
The French cabinet resigned as
the result of defeat in the Chamber
of Deputies over the naval scandals
King Green, a negro who attempt
ed to seize a horse driven by white
girls, was hanged by mob at Gum
branch, Ga.
A sheriff, town marshal and four
other men were arrested at Albany,
Ga, following a bloody fight over a
poker game.
Safe and Sane League with
10000 members, was formed il
Alabama to fight constitutional pro-
hibition.
The hunger strike" Of the wo-
men suffragettes who are in Jail in
London is proving successful. Six
more women were released.
DR.. William Miller, Mrs. J. B.
Sayler and John Grunden were in
dicted at Watseka, ILL.,, for the muir
der of the woman's husband.
There is a prospect of an AMIGA
BILE adjustment of the differences be-
TIVE Bolivia and the Argentine Re-
public.
Eighteen lives were lost in the
hurricane which swept the Texas
coast. The property loss will run
up into the hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
Members of the Louisiana delega-
ton protested against the attempt
Of Commissioner Keefe to prevent
station at New Orleans.
The Argentine Government has
given the Bolivian minister at Bue-
nos Ayres his passports and or
dered him to leave Buenos within
twenty-four hours.
Will Webb, a negro charged with
criminally assaulting Mrs. Exile
Brown, was rescued from a mob Of
1000 near Vining, Ca, by foul
officers.
The worst storm since the hurri-
cane of 1909 swept the coast of
Texas, causing great damage at
Galveston and other points. Ten
lives were lost at Galveston.
A women's Anglo-Geramn entente
committee, with the object of striv-
ing to put an end to the incessant
pickering between the two nations,
was organized in London.
The entire collection of the speci-
mems of the Roosevelt expedition
now numbers 1000 covering NAM
mails and hides of all sizes from
field mice to rhinocerii, and from
The st. Petersburg cholera situa-
ton now seems to be we'll under
control, and the Russian authori-
ties are confident that 1t will not
reach the proportions of the 1908
epidemic.
Madaria Dhinigri, the Indian stu
dent who, on the night of July l
shot and killed Lieutenant Colonel
Sir William HUT Curzon Wylie and
DR.. Canvas Lalaca, was found guilty
in London and sentenced to death.
Substantial progress in canal con-
struction all along the line is shown
by reports coming to the Washington
Office of the Isthmian Canal Com.
mission.
King. Alfonso of Spain aided and
encouraged the marriage OF Prince
Alfonso to Princess Beatrice, and