Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-05

GENERAL NEWS.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,


the Rev. William John McCaughan,
former pastor of the Third Presbyter-
ian church in Chicago, and his wife.
They were caught on an upper floor,
and in attempting to find an exit
through the hall were terribly burned.
Their escape being cut off the minis
ter and his wife finally threw them
selves from an upper window Both
struck the pavement with great force
ard when removed to a hospital it was
found that their skulls were fractured.
Much excitement prevailed at the
Brooklyn navy yard when an ammuni-
ton lighter, which was berthed along
side the supply ship Culgoa, caught on
fire from some unknown cause and
was almost destroyed, together with
her ammunition, after being towed
out into midstream. The Culgoa was
damaged slightly. The ammunition,
which was in the form of powder,
flashed up and burned. but being in
ursealed cans did not explode
Chief of Police Steward of Chi
cago announced that the exhibition
of the Johns on-Jeffries fight pictures
will not be permitted in Chicago. In
a sweeping order, which, according to
the manager of large film firm, will
force the withdrawal from Chicago
of films now being exhibited here, the
chief commanded his subordinates to
stop the exhibition of any pictures de-
picting acts which are contrary to the
laws Of Illinois
John La Monte Hurst of Denver has
presented 10 the American University
of Washington a sofa which was used
in the White House by Abraham Lin
coin. The sofa. which is upholstered
in green leather. is just as it was when
in the possession of lne martyred pres
ident MIR. Hurst, who is a son of the
late Bishop John Fletcher Hurst, has
had the article in his possession for
many years.
Marshall P. Wilder, known ali over
the English speaking world as a popu-
lar platform lecturer, monOlogist and
humorist, has been seriously i'll at his
home in Atlanta City from an attack
of acute indigestion and breakdown
from overwork. For a time the physi-
clans treating him considered his con-
dition very grave, but he rallied and
the doctors say it is possible that he
will recover
The biggest Arbor day tree-planting
on record will be tried in Brooklyn
this year. More than 250,000 Seeding
trees-hardy Catalpas. which grow
rapidly and attain height of twenty
feet in as many years, have been do
mated to the Brooklyn board of edu-
cation and will be distributed, one
each to every public school pupil in
the big borough.
Reports from Santiago de Cuba tell
of great excitement, it being feared
that an insurrection will start there.
General Vincent Mimet has disap-
peared and Colonel Janet was seen
leaving the harbor in boat, his des-
tination being unknown. 1t is sus.
movement. and have left to meet at
an appointed place.
August Ropke, assistant secretary
and bookkeeper of the Fidelity Trust
company of Louisville, KY, is now be-
lieved to have stolen $1,140,000 from
the institution which employed him
for eighteen years. His thefts have
wiped out the banks entire surplus.
Jacob NJ Dickerson. secretary of
war of the United States, assisted at
Manila in the organization of ma
tional society to fight tuberculosis in
the Philippines. The secretary will
depart soon for North LuZon to visit
several non-Christian tribes.
Unrest in Tibet, due to activity of
the Chinese, has caused the Indian
government to order a considerable
force of troops to be held on the from
tier in readiness to proceed to the re-
lief of Gyantse and Guatong. British
agencies in Tibet.
Damage caused to French crops by
continued cold and wet weather is esti-
mated unofficially at $400,00O,00O. The
wheat crop is estimated at 312,2OO,OOO
900 bushels. compared with $4,000, 900
bushels in 1909.
At Los Angeles. Cal, sixteen
year-old Beatrice Anita Turnbull. alias
Baldwin, began her fight for share
of the $2O,OO0,000 estate of the old
turfman Lucky" Baldwin. before the
superior court.
Eugene Debs has been operated on
for abdominal trouble at St Mary's
hospital, Rochester. Mimi. The oper-
alton was entirely successful and
Debs' condition was said not to be
alarming.
United States engineers figures
with regard to traffic through the 500
canals for the year ended June 80,
1910. are challenged by vessel men of
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, who claim an
increase.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson at
Portland, Ore, declared that the gov
ernment will open for settlers all land
in forest reserves that do not run over
1000 feet of timber to the acre.
Cardinal Gibbons, on his seventy
sixth birthday, declared the govern
ment should purge the statute books
of the divorce law and advised young
men to enter politics.
Reuben Todd of DrybroOk, N. Y,
better known as Rip Van Winkle to
photographers and artists the country
over, is dead. He was found drowned.
Seven aeroplanes. stored in tent
in a park at East St. Louis, ILL.,, were
demolished when a heavy windstorm
struck the city.