The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-03-31
The transactions Of J. Willis Horton


so, were the subject Of investigation
at a secret meeting of the board of
governors Of the Chicago Stock eX-
change.
The federal board of arbitration ap-
pointed to adjust the difficulties of the
members of the Switchmen's Union Of
North America employed in the yards
Of eight middle western railroads, has
granted the switchmen a wage in
cerase of three cents an hour.
Mrs. Guy f. Smith of Minneapolis,
is dead as result of being inoculat-
ed with antitoXin for dfptheria. She
died in COMMISSIONS five minutes after
the antitoXin had been administered
by physician.
kathrine Mantz, 1G years old, who
has been sought by the police of Ohio
since the finding of the body of her
sister at her home in Massillon, Fri
day evening under circumstances in
dicating murder by poison, was ar
rested Monday morning at the Good
rich rubber works at Akron O., where
she had obtained employment under
the name of Effie Morgan.
John c. Maybray, Leon Losier, Tom
s. Robinson, Willard Powell, Clarence
Glass, Ed. Leach, Eddie X. Morris,
Clarence Forbes, Harry Forbes,
Frank and Eddie Mccoy, leaders of
the famous Mabray swindling gang,
were sentenced to two years in the
federal penitentiary at Fort Leaven-
worth, and fined $4,000 each by Judge
Mcpherson at Council Bluffs, Ia, Mon
day.
Stormy as have been sessions of the
Hungarian chamber of deputies, the
Magyars Monday outdid themselves,
and inkwells, books and other handy
missiles were hurled at the heads of
the ministers until the latter took re-
fuge in fight. Both Premier Khuen Won
Hedevary and Count Serenyi were
struck by inkwells and their heads
We're cut.
Two men were killed in an ex-
ploSion in mine No. 1S of the Western
Coal and Mining Co., at Jenny Lind,
Ark. The dead are John and Jesse
Glaze, brothers, shot firers.
Gov. Haskell was eXonerated of the
charge Of misrepresentation and mis-
management of state funds in a re-
port filed in the legislature Friday by
the Oklahoma house committee, COM
posed of five Democrats and two
Republicans.
Henry Ziegenhein, president of the
Lafayette bank, former mayor of st.
Louis and the most picturesque figure
in the city's political history of later
days, died suddenly at 10 O'Clock
thursday night on street car of
apolexy.
The evidence of a S-year-old girl,
will be the most important factor in
determing the death of Mrs. Daisy
Cartwright, in connection with which
Ziua Cartwright the husband, is held
pending the verdict of the coronsr's
jury at Tuseola, Ill
A straight load of hogs, averaging
246 pounds each, was sold at the
East st. Louis stock yards Friday for
$11 hundred pounds-a total of
$1,731.S4 and an average of $27.O6 per
hog.
Attacked and robbed in a berth in
Pullman sleeper by masked bandit
on~the Central railroad of New Jersey,
Charles Hill, wealthy resident of
Lancaster, was found unconscious
when the train reached Jersey City.
Two men were killed and several
injured by an explosion of dynamite
in the oil and gas field 12 miles north
of Bartlesville, Ok.
The Prairie Oil and Gas company at
Muskogee, Ok, announced a raise of
cents for light crude oil and a raise
of 2 cents on fuel oil, making light
crude oil SO cents and fuel oil 80
cents. This is 2 cents above the
average market price.
The diet has passed, without es-
sentlaa changes, the governments
Prussian suffrage bill. The vote was
238 to 1888. The measure has been
bitterly opposed by the Socialists
whose recent public demonstrations
of protest have brought them into
frequent conflicts with the police
In the local option election Haskell
county, Tex, went dry by majority
of 500 votes. Judge H. G. Mcconnell
was the manager for the prohibition
lists and F. M. Potts manager for the
| antis.
Arthur Barnett, IA years old, and
Robert Barnett, 12, sons of Mr.. and
Mrs Barnett, were drowned in the
Arkansas river, at Orchard Grove,
Colo Neither could swim.
Walter H. Stewart who for many
years conducted a private bank at
Chittenango, N. Y, serving one
years sentence at hard labor in the
Onondaga penitentiary. He was found
guilty of receiving deposits when his
bank was insolvent
That strike will be declared by
the members of the United Mine
Workers and that it will include 35O,.
900 union miners, but enough non.
union workmen and the allied union.
lists of other vacations IN hrino the