Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
GENERAL NEWS,


the pnone or permitting any outside
sweetheart to hang phone tolls on the
city will be discharged. 1t has been
customary for lovesick ones to call up
their sweethearts daily, even though
in distant cities. and have tolls
charged to the city, Fictitious names
being given so that the checks cannot
be traced.
Attorney General Wickersham has
decided that there is no law under
which the statue OF Robert E. Lee can
be refused a position in Statuary hall,
in the capitol at Washington. The
statue is in Statuary hall now, a gift
to the nation from Virginia, but objec-
tiOIs have been raised to it because of
General Lees affiliation with the south
ern Confederacy. Speeches have been
made in congress against it, and the
department of New York Grand Army
organization adopted resolutions
against it. To settle the matter finally
the president referred the protests to
the attoney general.
Jacob NJ. Dickerson, United States
secretary CT war, and his party, have
had some remarkable experiences in
the Philippines. They have made their
Journeys on horseback, in jinrickshas
ard Sedan chairs and have been re-
ceived by the natives everywhere. Two
hundred and fifty armed Igorot tribes
men in their regalia and arms escorted
the party during their stay at Boutoc.
Primitive dances, the tritesmen being
dressed in barbaric costumes have Eeen
witnessed by the party and in their
visits unprecedented assemblages of
natives have turned out to give well
come.
Uncle Sam is looking for 500 practi-
cal farmers who would like to own
homes of their own. The government
now has about 500 farSs awaiting set
tlement under the various irrigation
projects in the northwest. There is no
drawing or any element of chance in
applying for one of these farms 1t is
only necessa~g- to make a homestead
entry, the only charge besides the reg
ular land office fee for filing being the
actual cost of getting water to the
land. Payment may be made in ten
annual installments, without interest.
Millionaire Edward II. Jennings
of Pittsburg stepped from his prison
in the Allegheny county jail and into
his $4,000 touring car, which had been
driven up to the Jail door by one Of his
daughters, Mrs. Jennings being forced
to remain home through Illness. The
president of the Columbia National
bank Of Pittsburg, who had just finish
ed his sixty days Imprisonment for
completely in bribing Pittsburg coun-
Jail prisoners as he left his cell for
freedom.
OtiIla Johnson, of Colorado Springs,
Colo, Swedish girl, despondent be-
cause she lost her position, sought
death by living the life of a savage in
time she picked berries and herbs and
at night slept in cave. With cloth
ing in shreds, she was found kneeling
on the steps of the Swedish church.
She was turned over to the police.
Lionel Walden and Jules Pages, the
American artists, and Alexander Gar
field, the American explorer of Africa,
have been decorated at Paris with the
cross of the Legion Of honor Henry
E. Gourd, president of the French
chamber of commerce at New York,
was at the same time promoted from
II, of 1,0 7 Of
Honor.
The honor of shaking hands with
Theodore Roosevelt almost cost T. J.
Shea his life. Roosevelt, travelling to
the coal districts of Pennsylvania by
auto, stopped Shea to ask for guidance,
and leaned over and shook his hand.
Shea was SO eager to tell his friends
that he ran two miles into the city and
dropped unconscious.
A new bread trust, suspected of hav-
ing close relations with the National
Biscuit company, has been launched
at New York under the laws of Dele
ware. The name of the new concern
will be the Federal Bakeries company.
1t will start with a capitalization of
$3O,00O,000.
The seizure of another Japanese
schooner, preaching in the Bering sea,
has been reported to the treasury de-
partment at Washington by Captain
Foley of the revenue cutter Tacoma,
which is guarding sealing fields in that
section.
Walter Leitz of Seattle, Wash, while
cleaning a rifle accidentally shot and
killed his mother. The father was pres
ent and with difficulty restrained the
14-year-old boy from taking his own
life when he discovered what he had
done.
Astronomers from the important OBJ
servatories of the world will meet in
Pasadena the last week in August at
what is termed the fourth conference
of the international Union for Coop
Grafton in Solar Research.
Damage caused to French crops by
continued cold and wet weather is esti-
mated unofficially at $400,000,000 The
wheat crop is estimated at 312 100000
900 bushels, compared with 369 100000
bushels in 1909.
An oil portrait of General o. o. How
ard is to be hung in the memorial hall
at the West Point Military academy.
The portrait will cost $4,000, raised
by subscriptions from friends Of the
officer
Judge Walter V. R. Berry, one of the
American members cf the internation-
al tribunals of EgyIt has resigned.