Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-09
GENERAL NEWS,
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Electric company and street cars and
electric lights are out of commission
Three Of the five lines of the South
ern railway out of Asheyille were not
operated on account of washouts One
freight train on the Murphy division,
ran onto an undermined track and
turned completely over in the stream.
The fireman, pinned under the en-
gine, witS his head about six inches
above the water, was almost dead be-
fore eXtricated. Three hours late.
trestles over creeks and one bridge
across the French Broad river were
washed away. A $4,000 county bridge
was swept away in the stream.
A big sensation was sprung in
the trial at Chicago of Frank. B. Har.
riman, Charles L. Ewing and John M.
Taylor, former Illinois Central Of
ficials, before Judge Bruggemeyer,
when Attorney Fisher asked c. H.
Petty, who was testifying, to identify
a letter written to him by Henry D.
Ostermann, May 25, 1910, in which Os-
termann told Petty to keep quiet in
case he should be questioned by Illi-
nois Central officials as to graft in the
car repair bills presented to the Illi-
nois Central. Witness Petty at once
identified the signature as that of
Henry 0. Cstermann, following which
the letter was introduced as evidence.
The Kansas Republican party coun-
Gil held in Topeka, Kan, was over
whelmingly insurgent and the band
wagon was run, over Senator Curtis
and others who sought to secure an
unqualified endorsement of President
Taft. The only endorsement the presi-
dent received was an assurance that
the Kansas Republicans would COM
mend only such acts as met with the
approval of the Kansas insurgents.
William Allen White, under the d.
rectin of Senators Bristow, Victor
Murdock and Gov. Stubbs, wrote that
part of the platform which relates to
national matters.
President Taft at Beverly heard from
John F. O'ROurke, president of the
O'Rourke Engineering Construction
company of New York the story of
how, on next Christmas morning the
hull of the Maine can be lifted clear
of the waters in Havana harbor. Mr..
O'Rourke, whose company wants the
contract for raising the wreck of the
Maine, eyTlfiped to the president that
the hull can be brought up in such
perfect condition as to permit the
whole world to determine whether the
Spanish-American war was justified.
At meeting of the American Bar
association held in Chattanooga
Tenn, George w. Chamlee, counsel
for James r. Watts of New York,
brought charges against Joseph H.
Choate, former ambassador to Eng
land, and asked for his expulsion from
the American Bar association. The
charges were referred to the griev-
ance committee. Choate is accused
of neglecting the interests of his eli
ent, Watts, in a lawsuit.
The defense in the bribery trial
at Chicago of Lee O'Neil Browne
introduced test 'mony to show that
Charles A White, star witness for the
state, had threatened to make the
Lorimer bunch come across" by de.
claring that he had been bribed to
vote for Lorimer for senator, and thus
get money for his silence on the sub
ject. White at that time declared he
/ ri
At Columbus, O., a mob of fully
1000 people battled with the police
when street car rioting broke out with
fresh fury. Struck down by the clubs
of policemen, several were seriously
injured One, a deputy sheriff, mis-
taken for a rioter, may die. A chauf-
feur for a police automobile was
struck unconscious with brick Fifty
rioters are arrested and locked in the
city prison.
1t has developed in steel circles in
Pennsylvania that one of the indus
tries stopped by the great Johnstown
flood of 1889 is to be resumed at once.
The intelligence came through the
placing of contracts for the constrUc-
ton of the new mills on the site of
those destroyed by the flood, and
which for years has been about the
only scar caused by the waters that
! is visible
At Bilbao, Spain, violent attacks by
strikers en- workers led 90 frequent
clashes with the troops. The worst
rioting was in the Gale Rivera ard
the nei2hboring streets. Gen. De
Bourbon, personally heading the sol
diery, occupied the bridges and
stopped all traffic between the UPPER
and lower towrs. This confined the
rioters to the lower town.
]. C. Mars barely escaped death by
drowning in the sea VIXEN he was
hurled in the Narrows opposite Fort
Wadsworth, while attempting a thrill
ing fight from the Sheepshead Bay
race track to Staten island. The avi-
ator and his machine, a Curtiss III
plane, fell 200 feet.
A negro woman with leprosy has
been living in New York for more than
seven years, associating with people
of her own race. The nature of her
ailment did not become known until
she applied at Bellevue hospital for
treatment.
At Carterville, Ill, Miss Gertrude
Arthur, aged twenty-four years, col
ored, died of pellagra. Professor W.
H. Holmes of Northwestern university
confirms the diagnosis of local ply
sicians.
Secretarv cf War Dickinson drove
gold spi<c to mark the completion
Of the line OF tie Philippines Railway
company from Iloilo to Sapiz. Panay
island