Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-07-08
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City, alleging no cause for action is
shown in the petitions. This raises
legal propositions, and the case will
be argued on the demurrers at the
October term of the Missouri supreme
court unless the attorney general de-
nands the appointment of a commits
sioner to take testimony pending ac-
ton on the demurrer.
About ninety names a day are being
dropped from the pension rolls. The
average is equivalent to about 2.70O
deaths a month. or about $4,000 an
nually, among federal survivors Of the
civil war carried on the pension lists.
The old soldiers Of beth armies are
vanishing rapidly. Just how many
survive will not be known until after
the completion of the thirteenth cen
sus.
Public confidence in airships of the
Zeppelin tyre has received a crushing
blow 2s a result Of the wreck Of the
dirigible Deutschland, and the pros
poets of the successful operation of
aerial passenger lines, which was to
be a feature Of summer life in Ger
many, were suddenly dimmed.
President Taft and former President
Roosevelt net at the summer camp on
Burgess point, near Beverly, Mass, in
what is regarded as the most import
ant political conference in years. 1t
was the first time the two men had
seen each other since the Inauguration
Of President Taft in 1909.
King Georges cabinets decision to
appoint Hon. Lewis Harcourt 'viceroy
Of India to succeed Lord Mimic is as
criEed to the power welded by beau
tiful American woman, Mrs. Harcourt
herself, who was Miss Mary Ethel
Burns, daughter Of w. H. Burns of
New York city.
Three steamers, the Tioresta. EaGs,
and Schiller. grounded on Round isl
and in keavy c,cUd CT s-roke caused
by forest fires in the vicinity of Seult
Ste. Marie The forest G-es, while
causing no apprehension on shore, ere
making navigation il ST. Mary's riv-
CT hazardous.
Because Of heart trouble augmented
by the strenuous lGtors Of the recent
session of the senate, Senator A. B.
Cummins has cenceled his Lhautauqua
dates until Aug. a upon the advice of
physicians. TIE sec9tor has also been
ordered to give up golf and cigars tenn
porarily.
Theodore Roosevelt. 80. at the an
nua1 comm ezcement luncheon Of the
Alumni association in Memorial Hall,
participated with his classmates in the
celebration Of the thirtieth anniver-
sary of their graduation, at Harvard
college, in Cambridge, Mass.
One of President Taft's automobiles.
driven by his son, Robert A. ran,
ran over ard severely injured an Ital-
ian street iatorer at Beverly, Nee".
At the hospital it was said there we're
indications that the mans cl-uE "
fractured.
Groups Of Rutherien and Polish stu
dents in the University Of Lemterg,
in Hungary, fought e-ch ether. Before
the police separated the combatants
many officials and students had been
seriously wounded. Broken heads were
the rule.
Reports that an operation had beCn
performed on the throat Of Theodore
Roosevelt were denied by the secre-
tary of Dr. Walter F. Chappell, of New
York, who was said to have made an
engagement to attend the colonel.
AT Syracuse, N. Y, the jury in the
case of Willard H. Peck, former sec
retary of the Peoples Mutual Life In
surance association and league, who
was charged with perjury, was unable
to agree and was discharged
Leland H. Barnard, for a number
Of years cashier Of the Oakland, Cal,
branch of the Sperry Flour company,
is in the city prison accused of en-
bezzling $4,000 from the firm. lie
has confessed his shortage.
Port Arthur, the town taken from
the Russians by the Japanese, which
was closed to international trade by
the japanese, has just been thrown
open as a free commercial port of en-
try.
DR.. B. c. Hyde, convicted May 16 of
poisoning Colonel Thomas H. Swope,
the millionaire philanthropist, was de-
MED a new trial by Judge LatshaW in
the criminal court at Kansas City.
Commissioner of immigration Will
Jams report shows that S95 600 immi-
grants landed at New York in the last
twelve months, against 773,000 last
year and 1,004766 in 1907.
The appropriations made by the ses-
sion of congress just closed amounted
to S1.027.133,446, according to an Off
cial announcement made by the house
appropriations committee.
Edwin S. Holmes, the statistician in
volved in the Theodore H. Price cot
ton deal" case, pleaded guilty in the
district supreme court at Washington
and was fred $4,000.
Great Corn island and the whole
Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, with the
exception of the town Of Bluefelds,
are in the hands of the government
troops.
Eight hundred chickens and twenty
horses were burned to death in fire
along tie Harlem river in New York,
in which twenty firms suffered losses.
Lucius ". Eoyt, president of the Col
orado Per association and dean of the
law department of the University of
Denver, is Cead in Denver.
The government ended the fiscal
year with surplus of $91,4O2,432 in
the treasury instead OF a deficit.
All grades Of refined sugar have
been advanced 10 cents G hundred
pounds.