The Neshoba Democrat., 1909-09-23

AoAI aPPolHtcu I1eHly
Z. Emery of Yale, James B. Rey-
nolds of Boston and Alvin H. San
ders of Chicago as members of the
national tariff commission.
Following the murder of a white
woman near Demopolis, Ala, by
two negroes, the husband killed one
of the blacks and posse of neigh
bors put the otner to death.
Henson, Explorer .Peary's negro
servant, gave out statement in
which he said that Peary was ac-
companied to the north pole by one
negro and four Eskimos.
President Taft gave out state
ment in which he sustains Secre-
tary Ballinger in the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy, and ordered
the discharge of L. r. CLAWS.
The body of Lieut.. James N.
Sutton, Jr., was exhumed in Ar
llngton cemetery, and an examina-
ton of the face disclosed a large
bruise on the forehead and another
on the cheek.
With a .22-caliber bullet imbed-
ded in his brain, fired there with
suicidal intent more than two weeks
ago, Frank Blaine left the Casual
ty hospital in Washington, d. c.,
discharged as cured.
Astounded by the remarkable di-
vorce crop in Oklahoma county, To-
cal judges have arrived at a tacit
agreement, after a well considered
plan of action, to decline to enter
tin applications for divorce upon
the uncorroborated testimony of
plaintiffs.
The acting secretary of the de-
partment of commerce and labor
rebuked the New Orleans entertain
ment committee for asking for per-
mission to use a foreign vessel to
show President Taft and the Wa
terways convention delegates the
New Orleans narbor.
A decided sensation was created
throughout Ohio when the names;
OF the seventeen business men in
dicted by the special grand jury,
which has been investigating charg-
es of bribery and grating in
Youngstown and Mahoney county
affairs, were made public.
r. M. Corona, representing the
Lafayette Compress, was arrested at
Rayne, Ala, on the charge of at
tempting to violate the antitrust
laws in connection with the strug-
gle to control the cotton seed mar
ket. Prices have advanced to
$42.5O per thousand pounds.
Miss Phoebe w. Couzins of St.
Louis and Washington has received
notice from Governor Hadley of
Missouri of her appointment as one
OF the ten delegates from Missouri
to the American Mining congress,
which meets in Goldfleld, New,
September ~ to October 3.
Philip Fisher shot mis- wife, Ag-
mes, killing her instantly, and shot
Charles De Priest through the eye
and nose with one bullet, at Jack
son, Ohio. Fisher and his wife mad
not been living together and he
went to her mothers and found her
sitting on the porch with De Priest
Conditions at the Western peni-
tentlary of Pennsylvania, at Ale
gheny, have been found so intoler-
able as to require the immediate
removal of all federal prisoners
whose transfer is practicable, and
to demand the most serious consid-
Grafton of the proper public author
tiles.
When Frank H. Miller, former
ly OF Little Rock, who was sem
fenced to six months in the work.
house at st. Louis for passing a
worthless check, finishes his SEN
tence he will be arrested and held
for the authorities of New York.
where he is wanted on similar
charge.
Governor Sanders has issued an
invitation to the governors of the
southern states and the members Of