The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-04-21


that asked for mutton.
Misunderstanding orders, express
and work trains on the Interurban
railway, came together near Wood
lake, Tex. j. S. Burke and an un-
identified man were killed. Several
others were seriously injured.
c. B. Hay, editor of the Morehouse
(Mo.) Hustler, who shot and killed
DIR. l.. w. Hart, mayor Of Morehouse,
Tuesday, is in Jail at New Madrid
The tragedy grew out Of political diff
ferences. 1t is thought Hay will set
up plea of self-defense
"A dozen or more persons were in.
jured, six of them seriously, when an
electric car on the South Chicago and
Calumet line was demolished bv a
switch engine on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad in South Chicago. The
electric car was cut in half, the pas
sengers being scattered in all direc-
tions.
President Taft attended the funeral
Sunday of the late Thomas f. Walsh,
the Colorado mining king, who died in
Washington Friday night. He was ac-
companied by his aid, Capt. Butt.
Ambitious to gain fame as a sculp-
| tor Evelyn Nesbit Thaw sailed for
| Paris to continue her art work abroad.
She will rent modest apartment in
Paris and do her own cooking.
|
The house passed a twin bill. allow
ing 1920 to Jesse Skaggs, who shot
and killed burglar in an Illinois
post office, and 5000 to ]. s. Sea-
borough, sheriff, who trailed a New
York burgler and killed him after a
desperate battle.
Fire, which is supposed to have Or
iginated in the Middletown market
house, destroyed the market-house, au-
ditorium, several stores and dwellings
and buildings on the Middletown Fair
grounds, nine miles from Harrisburg,
Pa.
Big Four passenger train No. Il was
wrecked at Gallon, O., by running into
a freight engine, through a misread-
ing of orders. Engineer Edward Ma
haney of Cleveland was killed and sew
eral passengers were bruised, but
none seriously injured.
Cattlemen from Laguna, Sonora
Mexico, report that the Colorado river
is rapidly forming a second Salton sea
in Lower California. A party OF en-
gineers are preparing to visit the lit
tle-known region said to be inundated
to investigate.
First to be launched OF the new en-
larged type of ocean-going torpedo
boat destroyers, the destroyer Perkins
was sent down the ways into Fore
river Saturday from the yards of the
Fire River Shipbuilding company at
Quincy, Mass.
Rev. M. l.. Bibb, the well-known
Montgomery Baptist preacher, who
created quite stir in Missouri some
time since, by advocating free whisky,
has abandoned his new theory and
now comes out strongly in favor of
statewide prohibition.
High tribute was paid in the house
to the ability and character of the
late David DeArmond, who represent.
ed the Sixth Missouri district in this
house for nearly nineteen years, and
who met tragic death by fire at his
home in Butler, Mo-, on November %
The Colossus, Great Britain's ninth
battleship of the Dreadnought type,
was launched Saturday. The vessel
has displacement of $4,000 tons. The
keel was laid nine months ago.
Representative Henry D. Clayton Of
Alabama and Mrs. Bette Davis, a
wealthy young widow of Georgetown,
KY, were married Sunday at the
home of Mrs. Davis.
The California state board of health
has decided that hotels, restaurants
and boarding houses serving eggs
must designate on the menu card the
age and origin of the hen fruit.
The Indiana Prohibitionists in con-
vention nominated state ticket
and unanimously indorsed Felix T.
McWhirter of this city for United
States senator. The platform adopted
by the prohibition convention takes
a strong stand against liquor and de-
nounced the Republican party for
failing to speak of temperance legis
lation in their state platform.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit
company, whose employees still are Oh
strike, has asked permission of the
; city to float new loan of $4,000, 900.
; In communication submitting the Or
dinance President Kruger of the tran
sit company said that the extraor-
dinary expenses recently incurred
have reduced the reserve capital
which the company was counting on
to make improvements.
Senator Lorimer of Illinois and Ly.
man E. Cooley, engineer spent an
hour and half with President Taft
Thursday explaining the great-lakes
to-the-gulf waterway project.
The navy department will withdraw
within the next few weeks a force
of about S0O marine from tho iSthnuc