The Rice belt journal., 1909-07-23
ms OF THE WORLD
..sur,e of the tens OF Inter
j Shsi o,r country a'd the World
s % ~ .rce For the Past Fe"
Days.

:,,on Ala. gas damaged to
aDp+er aptent of $4,000 by a storm
week. l.. n.5Y,. burned
W :. ,ss,,It Of IN automobile accl-
sir .,sieb occurred about five miles
~; ,l;.,otri. which has sent to the
,.oo convention Of Elk: the great, IT,
=, s.rd Of EIks in Elk history, VIII
( = 10 reanion of the order IN st.
Iouis in ls11'
~ v. Dulaney, the Young court
- # johnson City, Tenn. who
d5s,appared ten days ,,4, ago, Is aIIesS% III sS%
: s'Ie' 5s short in his accounts to the
s,tsnt Of about $4,000.
Iopi, Rosenberg, a cigar maker
!. rls,eIand, O., was murdered on
! lonely island in the e st, cIa'F HATS
;n,, above the Joe Bedore summer
resort ), at Port Huron, Mich.
Miss Cora Fields, aged u, on
| hearing that her sister, Miss Fran, non,
es. had married their co0s'n' Nlii
= u carothers, who had been atten-
five to both young ladies, shot and
tilIed herself at the home OF her
uncle near Vernon, Tenn.
ollie Williams, 20 years old, was
mked in the Quitman, Miss, jail
and Deputy Sheriff Speer says the
boy has confessed III "ritihS tlla'
i murdered his father, Collin Viii
hams. one of the weaIthiest men in
the county.
Because he was sleeping at the
t;me set for his marriage to Miss
safronia TipIett, a school teacher OF
Morley, Mo, who was attending a
summer term of the Normal school
at Gape Girardeau, Mo-, John h.
Brown, a travelling man, is minus a
bride he intended to have.
What is believed to be the high
est price ever paid for a domestic
eat-$525-was given by Mrs. Ly-
mas Of Chicago for Rob Roy a.,
England's champion male Chlnchll-
Ia Persian cat. and the winner of
numerous prizes. The animal will
be sent to the United States on
the steamer Majestic.
Investigation is to be made into
the cause of frequent fires that have
occurred aboard steamships, cotton
laden, bound for Norfolk, Va, from
the South. The department Of COM
merca and labor at Washington has
instructed the local photographic
Office to ascertain if possible the
causes Of combustion.
A new dirigible torpedo recently
patented by Swedish inventor has
aroused great interest in Swedish
naval circles. the projectile is op-
Grated by electricity. 1t is said to
have a range of 5000 yards and its
course can be altered, while sub
merged from the point of depart
ure, at the will Of the operator.
That marriage gifts from hus-
band to wife may not be reversed
following divorce was a rule laid
down in the Oklahoma state SUI
preme court by Associate Justice
Jesse ]. Dunn, in an opinion re-
ycrsing the district court at Musko-
gee in the case of Jennie B. Thom-
as VS., Judge John R. Thomas.
A radical innovation was ordered
IN the management Of the Missouri
penitentiary when the board of prl<-
IN inspectors, composed Of State
Treasurer James Cowgirl, State
Auditor John P. Gordon and Attor-
ney General E. W. Major, directed
Warden Henry Andrae to prepare
or the practical abandonment of
tripes and to uniform the convicts
according to grades. There are to
'e several grades of clothing. ac-
'ordlng to the merit of the inmates
those who have attracted the high
merit uniform will be reduced to
he uniform denoting an inferior
.rade when they violate the rules.
L'he striped clothing will he retain