The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-03-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great Southwest.

cases of bankruptcy in the United
States have at least a suspicion of
fraud and tnat national fund of ST.
l.. Sawyer of st. Paul in an address
to the Chicago Credit Mems associa-
ton, advocated establishment of
national fund to prosecute "profes-
sional debtors and bankrupts."
Omaha women have shamed the
the 'hatpin" ordinance will be allow
ed to die natural death.
Halley's comet will be visible to the
naked eye just before dawn April s,
or shortly after that date, states 8.
w. w. Campbell, director of Lick OBJ
servatory.
With pump shotgun, Mrs. Shipp
wife of Sheriff Thomas B. Shipp, at
Decatur, Ala, prevented the escape of
four white prisoners, charged with
capital offenses.
Preparations for the homecoming
celebration of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Warren Failbanks are completed at
Indianapolis, Ind. The former vice
president and his wife will be given
a hearty Hoosier welcome, and the
whole state will be represented.
John P. Cudahy, millionaire packer
of Kansas City, who recently obtained
notoriety by his attack upon Jere F..
Lillis, banker, in the Cudahy home,
accompanied by Joseph M. Cudahy
and his wife of Chicago, have arrived
at Asheville, N. G.
Three firemen were blown fifty feet
and seriously injured in gasoline
explosion in 100000 fire which de-
stroyed j. B. Reeves garage at Cam
den, N. ]. Twenty-three autos were
burned.
What the Chicago police declare
is another bold black hand murder
was committed Thursday afternoon,
when Carmelo Copris, 81 years old,
Italian storekeeper, was found dead,
with four stiletto wounds in his neck.
Opposition to postal savings banks
was voiced before the house commit
tee on postoffices and post roads by
representative of the American Bank
ers' association. Not only did the
speakers oppose the postal savings
bank bill, which recently passed the
senate, but they said they opposed the
principle of the government going
into the banking business.
An unprecedented registration of
1883 Tuesday raised the number of
Chicago voters to total that assured
new record, estimated by the cleo
producing animals amounts to $24,000,-
after revision
Judge William N. Butler unexpect-
edly called a special grand jury late
Tuesday night at Cairo, Ill.,, to investi-
gate the action of the mob that at
tackled the county Jail in February,
when an effort was made to get the
negro John Pratt, purse snatcher, out
of Jail and lynch him.
The house committee on naval af-
fairs favorably reported a bill ap-
propriating 100000 to raise the wreck
of the battleship Maine, in Havana
harbor.
A big crowd greeted Edward Payson
Weston when he arrived at Kingsley,
Kan, and escorted him to the home of
Mayor Pearson, where a gold watch
was presented to him as a birthday
present from the citizens of the town.
The jury in the states charter an
nulment suit against the French Lick
Springs Hotel Co., owned principally
by Thomas G. Taggart found for the
defendant at Paoli, Ind.
Nearly $4,000 delegates will at
tend the Farmers Educational and
Cooperative Union convention ia St
Louis the week of May 2, according to
letters received by John Grady, in
charge of arrangements. Eighty or.
ganizations have been heard from
and 14,500 locals, each with an aver
age membership, have announcer they
will send delegates.
The senate committee on judiciary
voted to recommend the rejection by
the senate of Robert T. Devlins
nomination as United States district
attorney at San Francisco.
Herman H. Moritz, retired New
York heal estate man, shot and killed
his two young sons, set fire to his
home in the Bronx and then commit
ted suicide. He had been in a mel.
ancholy state of mind for some time
Fire, which started from an un
known cause, entirely destroyed the
Cumberland, Nd, city hall, in which
was located the Academy of Music
the Masonic Temple, Odd Fellows hal
and the market house The loss is
over $150,0O0.
An entire family, composed of The
ophil Thoni, wife and two grown
daughters, were burned to death in
a fire that consumed their home on 9
farm six miles west of Twin Falls
Idaho. It is believed the house was
robbed and then fired to conceal the
crime.