The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TEkSElY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great Southwest.

The French Senate passed the bud
get bill, which carries S40,0o0,0o0 ad'
ditional taxation, the new taxes being
principally levied on automobiles, to-
bacco, wines and inheritances.
President Joseph Smith of the Nor
man church has been served with
subpoena to appear before the federal
grand jury at Pueblo, Colo, April 9,
10 testify as to the affairs of the
Utah-Idaho Sugar company, of which
he is president.
The Pittsburg special federal grand
Jury returned q presentment against
the Imperial Window Glass company,
a West Virginia corporation, charg-
ing it with being in combination in
restraint of trade.
An explosion on the British steamer
Cairnrona, off Dungeness, Eng,
wrecked the women's Qaurters, killing
one child and injuring a number of
women and children. The steamer
caught fire and a panic ensued, in
which men fought for the possession
of the boats and had to be beaten
back by the crew to allow 1.-The wo-
men to be taken off first.
Mrs. Emma Smith, an active tenn
perance worker here, member of the
Orinoco, o., w. c. T. U. and wife of
Policeman George Smith, was arrest
ed as a "bootlegger," the specific
charge being selling intoxicating Ii.
Quors without a license.
The Ohio house of representatives
has passed the Anderson Dill author
izing cities, villages and townships to
conduct local option elections to de-
termine whether or not Sunday base
ball shall be permitted.
Forty pictures from the collection of
Charles T. Yerkes sold at Mendels-
sohn hall, New York, brought $162,22
They were sold before the largest
crowd that has attended sale of pic
lures in that city since the auction of
the Matheson collection.
That the sudden shrinkage Of cot
ton prices cost James A. Patten $780,
600 is reported by Chicago exchange
members, few of whom figured in
the crash In much less spectacular
degree
The Pittsburg graft investigating
grand jury returned presentment Or
dering the indictments of Frank H.
Heffstot, prominent steel manu-.
facturer and banker on two charges of
conspiracy and bribery.
In New York Mrs. Alice V. McAloon
has obtained a final decree of divorce
from William A. McAloon, who is
known on the stage as Andrew
Mack" An interlocutory decree was
granted in December last
The military court of inquiry, which
during the last year has been investi
eating the shooting up of Brownsville
Tex, finds the evidence clearly sus
tains the charge that the shooting
was done by soldiers of the Twen
ty-ffth Infantry, negro regiment.
Chas. Benichie, so years old, the
last surviving chief of the Chippewa
Indians, was killed by South Shore
passenger train between Baraga, Mich
and the reservation. He was on his
way home from Baraga, where he ha6
been celebrating the election.
William McGuinness, 45-year-olt
Democratic ward leader, choked t
death in Brooklyn restaurant while
trying to swallow large bite out O.
ham sandwich.
Hood A. Alexander, superintendent
for the Philadelphia street railway
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed today by Harold Lane, 20, a strik
ing trolley man.
After lying in ambush all night a
the home of Jesse Anderson, ALLEGED
leader of the band of night riders tha
murdered 12-year-old Charles Carol
and whipped Mrs. Carroll and he
other children, Sheriff Vincent and
posse arrested Anderson near Browns
vile, Ky.
At Hartford, Conn, while trying ou
mis- new aeroplane, Hiram Perry Max
i'm, Jr., inventor Of the noiseless gun
was thrown from his seat, when tn,
plane was about 80 feet in the al
and, besides sustaining broken an
kle, suffered various injuries to hi
thighs and hips.
The Sugar Trust-The American
Sugar Refining company-must pre-
duce it's books in the government
suit against IT, according to a rulin,
made by Judge Lacombe, in the cir
cult court in New York City.
Mrs. Elisa Shafer and her four chill
4 dren are in Jail at Berryville, Ark
charged with the murder of Mrs Sha
fer's husband near Blue Springs. /
10 charged that one OF the boys too
Shafer's revolver from underneath hi
pillow while he slept and killed him
Frank Johnson, an aviator, narrow
ly escaped drowning when his Curtis
biplane plunged into San Francisc
bay. a mile from shore, of Almeds
Cal. His wife and his mother fainte
when he fell from height of 80 fee
and were not revived until after b