Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-19
GENERAL NEWS,

lHeuldJeIy upon Hef release from prlS-
on in the event that she is set free.
Whether the girl who is jointly charg-
ed with Crippen with guilty knowledge
of one of the most brutal crimes of the
decade will elect to make an asset of
her notoriety was not made known at
the provincial Jail, where the two pris-
oners are confined awaiting extradi-
tion to England.
Henry Vastow, a New York produce
merchant, asserts that an automobile
stole his gold watch and chain and he
wants the machine or somebody con-
nected with it arrested Vastow was
crossing an uptown street when a ma
chine whizzed by He had a heavy
bundle on his shoulder and did not see
the automobile until it was too late
to get out of the way. 1t just grazed
him, without doing him any serious in
jury. But projecting belt or screen
caught his watch and chain and his
$3.50 gold timepiece disappeared in the
cloud of dust with the automobile
The Rev. Father Martin Brennan of
st. Louis, the priest astronomer has
discovered heart shaped spot on the
sun. The spot is estimated by Father
Brennan to be from $4,000 to 10000
miles in width. 1t is surrounded by
fourteen smaller spots, four of which
are of large size. They cluster about
midway between the rim of the sun
q n
unable to discern it with smoked
glasses, but got a good view through
a telescope. Sun spots are due to I'M
usual activity in the sun.
Fort Worth, Tex, won the next
biennial gathering of the supreme
lodge of the knights of Phythias,
which will be held beginning the
first Tuesday in August, 1912.
Representative Charles A. Bookwalter
of Indianapolis startled the Pythians
by introducing a resolution directing
the supreme lodge to pay its own ex-
penses at the next meeting and select
Winnipeg or some other Canadian
city as the convention place. After
long debate the Bookwalter resolution
was rejected.
Big Jim Hall, once heavyweight
champion of Australia, who defeated
FitzsimmOns, has been ordered out of
Omaha by Judge Crawford. Detectives
Heitfeld and Donahoue arrested Hall
as a suspicious character and a vag-
rant. Hall recently has led an obscure
life with fair prosperity as a card play
er on Pullman trains. His appearance
in court indicated misfortune. He was
poorly dressed and had only scant
funds on his person.
Admissions made while Gin his cups"
by G. NJ. Gernbrush, sailor at Port
land, Ore, may clear the name of John
Devine of the charge of train wreck
ing, but not restore him his life. De-
vine died in state prison at Canon
City, Col, one year ago, after having
served six years of life sentence for
wrecking a Santa Fe train near Fow-
Ter, Col, in 1903 Gernbush is under
arrest and has been brought to Canon
City, Col, for trial.
is said to be preparing to sue
for divorce and the custody of his
four children. Mrs. Jack Cudahy,
who is living with the children in the
Cudahy residence, declares she would
almost as soon lose her life as lose her
children She is preparing to file
counter charges against her husband
if the petition is filed against her.
Drs. Brinckerhoff and Curry and NJ.
T. Hallman of Honolulu have succeed
means the ultimate discovery of a
cure for the disease. The doctors are
now attempting to make toxine from
the bacilli Experiments at the leper
settlements soon will be made.
In the week extending from July 81
until Aug. 6 20,66S cases of cholera
were reported throughout Russia, with
1873 deaths. Returns from the prin-
cipal provinces show the following fa-
talities: Don Cossacks, 1,342; Kuban,
1,122; Ekaterinoslav, 776; Samara
707; Kherson, 451.
An order making void big increase
in freight rates on grain, distilling and
manufacturing products on three
Kentucky divisions of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad has been enter
ed at Louisville by the Kentucky rail
way commission.
William hartman of Brooklyn was
chosen president of the American As
sociation of Park Superintendent at
the closing business session of the or
ganization in Harrisburg, Pa. Kansas
City was selected for the next conven-
tion
A. H. Brooks of the United States
geological survey sailed on the steam
er Alemeda for Valdez and Seward,
where he will oversee the work being
done by survey parties in the Alaska
coal fields.
The birthplace of Rutherford B.
Hayes at Delaware, o., nineteenth
president of the United States, has
been destroyed by fire. The building
was a two-story brick, 100 years old.
DR.. L. B. Kebler of the bureau of
chemistry of the department of agri-
culture declares that soothing sirups
lower infant vitality and may cause in
fantile paralysis.
Joseph w. Folk, former governor of
Missouri, was injured in being hurled
out of an automobile, which was over
turned near Muscatine, Ia.
Mrc William Iohn McCauohan who
was injured July 26 by jumping from
the window of burning hotel in Bel
fast, Ireland, is dead.
Three Chinese banks have failed,
with losses of $5,0OO,OOO, owing to the
collapse of the rubber boom.