Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-07-15
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. .
GENERAL NEWS,



Washington, Baltimore, Atlanta. Gin
cinnati, and many other cities in the
west and south are most actite in this
direction and their example is likely
to be followed in other places where
there is a large proportion of negro
population.
The big triple decked steamboat
Grand Republic returning from Rock
away beach, with about thirty excur-
sionists on board, took fire in the lower
New York bay. The burning craft,
the sister ship of the Inflated General
Slocum, was headed at once to the
deck of the Crescent Athletic club,
where all her panic:stricken passen-
gers were landed.
The crew Of the yacht Tolna, owned
by Count Rudolph Festetics Ge Tolna
of Austria mutinied with the purpose,
it is reported, of looting the vessel.
The sailors bound two of the officers,
but the count quelled the mutiny with
a revolver. The ringleaders of the
mutiny were handed over to the au-
thorities at Madeira.
All the rooms of the White House
will be accessible to the public during
the present summer for the first time
in many years. Before leaving for
Beverly President Taft gave instruc-
tons that the building should be
thrown Open. As general rule only
the public reception rooms are shown
to visitors.
Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont and Miss
Irez MilhOIland, the American suf-
fraeists, have arrived in London.
Miss Nilholland stated that on the
trip across on the steamship Lusitania
Senator Depew presided at meeting
of GOO passengers at which $1,000 was
subscribed for the suffrage cause.
Though he has just returned from
G fifteen months trip abroad with his
father. the ex-president, Kermit ROOse-
welt sailed for Paris on the Hamburg
American liner Amerika. The purpose
Of the trip, it is stated, is to continue
his studies interrupted by his trip to
Africa
kidnapping is to be made a capital
offenee in Louisiana for both principals
and aCcOmplices. A measure to this
effect was passed almost unanimously
in the house at Baton Rouge and it is
stated that no real opposition will de-
ve.cp against the bill in the senate.
John D. and Mrs. Rockefeller, with a
retinue CT servants, arrived at Forest
Hill, their home in East Cleveland, o.,
to pass the summer The arrival had
been delayed by the illness Of Mrs.
Rockefeller. She is said to be greatly
improved.
At Kansas City the jury that heard
the evidence in the bleached -four case
returned a verdict which declared
that the -four seized was adulterated
and misbranded, as charged by the
government in the prosecution of the
case.
Pepresentative Walter Preston
Brownlcw Of the First congressional
district Of Tennessee, after suffering
for several years from BrigLts disease,
died in the hospital Of the National
Soldiers home at Johnson City, Tenn.
New York is in the throes of the
garment workers walkout, which has
called cut more workers than even
the union leaders expected. The num-
Der of strikers is estimated at $4,000.
About 1900 shops are affected.
: private cabIegram received in
New Orleans from Bluefelds, Nicara-
qua. states that General Matuty Las
been executed, following a trial by
court-martial. It was charged that ho
betrayed the Estrada cause.
The Louisiana legislature elected
Jared Young Sanders, govcrntr Of
Louisiana, United States senator to
succeed the late Senator McEncry, the
term running until March, 1915.
On petition of the International Pa
per company, Federal Judge Colt ap-
pcinted John Norris Of New York and
CHARLES e. Weed receivers of the Bos-
ton Herald company.
Secretary Of War Jacob M. Dickin-
son and party arrived at Honolulu on
the steamer Siberia from San Francis
CO. They are en- route to the Philip
pines All are well.
President Taft has appointed B. S.
Rodev of Albuquerque, N NJ, 10 be
United States district attorney at
Nome, Alaska, vice George B. Grigs-
by, removed.
The school census, just completed,
gives 1858 children and 1929 per-
sons for the Joliet school district,
which includes a small section outside
the city.
At Kansas City, Tr. B. c. Hyde, con-
victed having poisoned Colonel Thorn
as II. Swope sentenced life at hard Ia
Dor by Judge Latshaw in criminal
court
Theodore Roosevelt will aid Rep
resentative Poindexter of Washington
in his fight for the senatorship. Poin-
dexter is a foe of Secretary Ballinger
Eliza, the widow of Jack Haverly,
The government ended the fiscal
year with a surplus of 1,4O2, ,432 in
the treasury instead of {. deficit.
The long drought in the vicinity of
Sioux City, Iowa, was broken by a
heavy fall of rain, which will be OF
great benefit to the crops
Mrs Ella Flags Young of Chicago
vas elected president of the National
Educational association at the Boston
convention.
Harold Heath of California has been
appointed a naturalist in the Alaska
fur-seai sc,vice at salary of $4,000.
''Iona" ones. noted political char
acter OF II nois and Wisconsin, is dead