The Neshoba Democrat., 1909-12-23

raised by the Chicago branch of the
Y. M. C. A.
Henry Dillow, known as the her
NIT of the hills, who has for many
years lived alone, and wandered
about the hills in the northw, sterly
portion of Alexander county, was
brought to the county Jail, Cairo, H.,
demented.
The bursting of a boiler on a Chi
cago, Peoria & st. Louis engine near
knbourne, ILL.,, caused injury to four
members of the train crew and scat
tered parts of the engine several hun
dred yards from the right of way.
James Wade, a wealthy farmer and
Civil War veteran, near Evansville.
H., was caught in the mud in field
near his home and was unable to ex-
tricate himself. He was found
frozen to death.
A. ]. deadlock, of Miller. Mo-,
dropped dead at Lawrenceburg, Mo-.
as he was preparing to take his place
in the Masonic funeral service of Joe
Miller.
With the top of his head shot of,
Walter Jackson died at the Dallas,
Tex, City Hospital. Ben Smith and
Ed Brown are detained in the county
jail. They claim that the three start
ed on hunting trip. Jackson. they
say, was in the back end of the
wagon. They heard a report from
his gun, and, looking around, saw him
fall wounded from the wagon.
A new high record price for real
estate in the financial district of New
York City was established by the sale
o. nineteen-story building at the
corner of Nassau and Wall streets to
the Manhattan Trust Company. 1t is
generally understood the price paid
was s1,500,000. The plot on which the
building stands contains 1925 square
feet, thus the price was approximately
sS25 square foot.
Eugene w. Chain, former Prohibi-
tion candidate for President, has
been admitted to practice before the
Supreme Court Of the United States
at Washington. Chain was present
ed to the Court by United States
Senator Robert NJ. Lafollette of Wis.
consin.
Antonio Mangino. who has been
missing since the murder of his wife
and two step-children in Cleveland.
December II, was arrested at Akron.
Ohio.
With eight cases of scarlet fever
| and ten of diphtheria gradually recov-
ering, the town of Cuba, H., is rally.
ing from one of the most widespread
epidemics in its history. All schools
and churches have been closed.
Fire resulting in losses aggregating
more than 100000, upon which there
is about $4,000 insurance, occurred in
buildings occupied by the Magnolia
Paper company and the South Texas
Candy company in Houston, Tex.
Four miners are entombed in the
second level of the Negaunee iron
mine, Negaunee, Mich Two of the
miners are Italians and two are Firms
The names are not yet known The
men were buried by a fall of ground
and there is no way to tell whether
they are alive or dead.
Grayson H. Osborn, defaulting teller
OF the Huntington National bank, ap
peared in the United States court al
| Columbus, O., and entered a plea of
guilty of embezzling s2S,0OO from the
banks funds. He was sentenced to
six and one-half years in the federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kas.
Will Howell's four-year-old son fell
into a kettle of boiling lard and was
burned to death at Greenville, Tex.
He was dead when found and the
body was almost cooked.
1t is reported that the paralysis in
the right arm of King Leopold Is ex-
tending and that he can write only
with difficulty. He spends much of
his time in an easy chair.
After killing Sheriff Jacob Bell, Of
Holmes county, running wild for forty
eight hours and terrorizing the people,
y. Il. Boley, an escaped patient from
the Massilion state hospital for the in
sane, was fatally shot and captured on
the farm of R. s. Wells, one mile
north of Shreve, Ohio.
Leaving note which is accepted
by her parents as a confession of un-
| requited love for the man they de-
clared she never had seen, Miss Mary
Scott 20 years old, of Baltimore,
Md, committed suicide by swallow
ing carbolic acid.
Lamar Middleton, one of the best
known newspaper correspondents in
Europe and nephew of Lucius Quin-
tus Lamar, died suddenly at his home
in Paris at the age of 81.
Because P. G. Foy and Thomas Glib.
bon of Girardville, Pa, were tied in
a contest for school director, the
court ordered that they toss coin
to ascertain which should fill the of.
| fee.
Not guilty" was the jury's verdict
In the case Of Mrs. Anna Anderson of
Warren, Pa, who, goaded beyond en-.
durance by the continued cruelty of
her aged husband, killed him in a