The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-07
Wire Flashes.

The New Orleans and San Fran
cisco exposition boomers are watch
ing each other closely.
The Democratic Federation has
been organized by party leaders to
BRING aDouL harmony.
The British House of Commons
passed bill eliminating the Catho-
lie clause in the kings oath.
President Taft and Ex-President
Roosevelt held long conference at
Taft's summer home, Beverly, Mass
George D. Barron was ordered to
pay over sS,0O0,0O0, with interest
within eight days by the Mexican
courts.
The British political leaders fail
ed to reach an agreement in regard
to the veto power OF the House of
Lords.
The Department of the Interior
decided that the Sabine Islands. be-
long to the State of Louisiana and
not to Texas.
A petition has been presented to
Estrada the Nicaraguan insurgent
chief, asking him to seek American
intervention
The duke of d'Alencon, grandson
of King Louis Philippe, who was
| deposed by the revolution of 1S4S,
died in London.
Otto Eppers, a 17-year-old youth
leaped from the Brooklyn Bridge
into the river below, and emerged
unhurt, for $3.50.
Twenty persons were injured,
some fatally, by the explosion of
bomb in theatre at Buenos Ayres,
Argentine Republic.
Four bodies were taken from the
Lick River and the Kentucky floods
are reported to have done great dam
age to property.
Ibrahim Wardani, the assassin of
Boutros Pasha Ghali, the Egyptian
premier, and minister of foreign af-
fairs, was hanged at Cairo.
A great curtailment movement,
involving cutting off of one to two
million pieces of cloth began among
the mills of the Piedmont.
Dr. Alloys Obrist, the famous must
cal conductor and Anna Suffer, a
court singer, were found dead to-
gether at Stuttgart, Germany.
Vice President Sherman and
| Speaker Cannon appointed commit
tees from the Senate and House to
attend the funeral of Senator S. D.
McEnery.
The combined influence of Presl-
dent Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and
Governor Hughes failed to save the
Cobb direct nomination bills from
defeat in the New York Assembly.
Certain stockholders of the Cum
berland Telephone Company brought
suit at Louisville, KY, to restrain
the consummation of alleged unlaw-
full acts attempted by the company's
officers.
The Roman Rota, court appoint
ed by the pope, decided that the
Reid-Parkhurst marriage Is valid.
This makes the eid-Riospigliosi
marriage invalid. Princess Riospi-
gliosi is a native of New Orleans.
The special grand jury, of which
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was fore
man in New York, after six months
investigation, reported that it had
found no evidence of organized
white slave traffic in the metropolis.
William P. Pittman, the Boston
engineer, who was recently captured
by the Nicaraguan troops and who
! is charged with laying mines at
Bluefelds, is receiving the treatment
of a prisoner of war at Bluefelds
Bluff.
Edwin S. Homles, Jr., former as
sociate statistician of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, indicted in
1905 for misconduct in Office in
connection with the cotton statls-
tics leak" pleaded guilty in Criminal
Court No. l. He was fined $1,000
which he paid.
Theodore Roosevelt jumped into
the primary controversy in New
York by telegraphing Lloyd c. Girls
com, chairman of the New York
Republican county committee, that
he hoped the Cobb bill, with certain
amendments suggested by Mr.. Girls
com, would become a law.