The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-04-29

Col. William ID. Mann OF Town Top
les Friday awarded the plaintiff judg-
ment for $4,000. The suit grew out
OF publication of an article in Town
Topics.
James l.. Dixon, "a years old, thinks
that the United States marine corps
is a good place for man to be, even
though he is worth sI25,000. He en-
listed in Chicago Friday for four
years.
Judge White in Portsmouth, Va.
Friday reduced the number of liquor
licenses in Norfolk county from about
fifty to fifteen. The court refused all
saloon licenses outside the Ocean
View and Pine Beach Enclosures, and
granted only one license each within
those Enclosures.
Archbishop Ireland, accompanied by
Bishop O'Gorman of Sioux Falls, S. d.,
called on President Taft late Friday
and spent some little time with him.
The call was purely one of respect.
Judge Foster in the United States
court Friday dismissed the application
for a writ of habeas corpus in the
case of Louis F. Allardt, who, it is
claimed, defrauded merchants OF
Peoria, Ill., of about $4,000
The Williams & Rogers company,
one of Cleveland's largest depart
ment stores, which recently went into
the hands of receiver, was declared
bankrupt in the federal court by
Judge Taylor Tuesday. The liabili-
ties schedule $S4S,957, and the assets
$149,423.
E. II. Hartman will sail for
Europe about the middle of June to
be gone indefinitely-probably be-
twecn two and three months. While
By no means a sick man, he has de-
cided to go abroad for the first time
since he was operated on for appen-
dicitis several years ago.
A man of saving disposition who
placed cigar butt in his pocket
thinking he had crushed out the light,
caused panic at the National theater
in Chicago Wednesday night. When
the cigar butt had nursed itself into
vigorous life again those back OF him
thought the stage was on fire.
A new factor appeared In the wheat
situation in American when call was
issued for a mass meeting Of all grain
growers under the auspices OF the
Farmers union at Springfield, Mo-. on
May IL next.
Charles Lopez, who Is in the San
Quentin penitentiary awaiting execu-
ton on June 20, requested that he be
allowed to see man hanged before
he himself is led to the gallows.
Newspaper publishers from all parts
OF the country to the number OF up
wards of $50 attended the opening
session of the Newspaper Publishers
association in the Waldorf-Astorla.
New York, Wednesday.
Billy Bowman of Chattanooga
knocked out kid" Murphy of Saginaw,
Mich, in the third round of sched-
rled eight-round bout at Chattanooga,
Tenn, Wednesday night.
James Arbuckle was killed, three
persons were injured and property
damaged to the extent Of $4,000 by a
tornado which swept through Oglesby,
Tex, late Wednesday night.
Edward Solomon. former governor
of Wisconsin, is dead at Frankfort on
main Germany.
Mrs. Sarah E. Thompson, aged II,
who served as a spy during the civil
war and is said to be the only woman
carried on the pension rolls as SOL
der, was so severely injured in Wash
ington by being knocked down by
street car near the capitol that she
may die.
The official scandal disclosed by
the arrest of nine members of the
lower house of the Japanese diet in
with the alleged miscon-
duct of the officers of the Japanese
Sugar company is steadily growing
and more arrests among the legisla-
tors are expected.
The Illinois Central will build a
bridge to cost 100000 across the
Ohio river near Henderson, KY, II
miles below Evansville. Work will
start this year. Illinois Central trains
now cross on the Louisville & Nash
Vile bridge.
The Cuban senate Monday passed
the house bill authorizing the presi-
dent to suspend at his discretion the
export duties on sugar, tobacco and
liquors.
President Taft has nominated
Thomas c. Dawson Of Iowa to be
United States minister to Chile.
The house bill legalizing Sunday
baseball in Minnesota passed the SEN
ate Monday. 1t is thought that Gov.
Johnson will sign it,
The battleship Mississippi was
Monday finally accepted by the gov