Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-04

GENERAL NEWS.

Cincinnati on the morning Of election
day. He will leave Cincinnati for
Washington the same afternoon, ar
irving here on the morning of the
9th. After a few hours Iii Washing
ton, the president starts for Panama.
He will go by rail to Charleston S.
c., arriving there about o'clock on
the msrning Of Nov. 10. He will go
aboard the battleship Tennessee some
time in the morning, and that battle
ship, with its convoy the cruiser Mon
tana, will leave Charleston at high
tide on the 10th.
Several hundred convicts in Leaven-
worth, Kan, prison, twelve of whom
are former bankers, are eagerly look
ing forward to the meeting Of the
board of parole, which is expected to
convene here in November to con-
slider applications for parole under the
act Of congress approved last June.
Among these who are eligible to re-
ceive the benefits of the new law are
Frank Bigelow of milwaukee; J. L. Bro
derrick, Elkhart, Ind; G. A. Consman,
Terre Haute, Ind; Fred Lubbe, Indi-
annapolis; w. H. Schmidt and S. G.
Braunard, Cleveland, and c. H. Thorn
ton, Chicago.
At Philadelphia, tuesday, John X.
Tener, Republican candidate for gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, swore out
warrant for the arrest of F. A. Van
Valkenburg, editor and president of
the North American company of this
city, charging him with criminal libel.
The warrant was not served. Fran
els Skunk Brown, A. S. L. Shields,
and George S. Graham, counsel for
Tener, sent letter to Van Valken-
burg informing him of the action the
gubernatorial candidate had taken,
and notifying him that a hearing in
the case would be held on Friday.
The bold, venturesome aviators at
Belmont park have been unable to dis
tance the arrows of cupid. Following
close upon the announcement of the
engagement of Claude Grahame-White,
the English flyer, to Miss Pauline
Chase, the actress, comes the news of
the bethrOthal of Count jacques De
Lesseps, Of the French aid pilots, and
Miss Grace Mckenzie, the beautiful
daughter of William Mckenzie, multi
millionaire and perhaps the most pow
erful capitalist and promoter in the
Dominion of Canada.
Nicholas Simon of Appleton, Wis,
manufacturer Of the two-tOn cheese
which is given a place of prominence
at the Chicago dairy show sold it
to the dairy shew association. The
latter disposed of the exhibit to a de-
partment store, which will cut it imme-
diately after the close of the exposi-
ton The cheese was pronounced alb
solutely perfect by the judges, and was
awarded the premium as the largest
ever manufactured in the world.
Emperor William of Germany and
the Empress Augusta Victoria arrived
in Brussels, Belgium, on a visit to King
Albert and Queen Elizabeth. Their
reception was cordial and courteous
by the people in the street, but sew
eral persons were arrested for kissing.
The kaiser and party were met at
the railway station by King Albert
and Queen Elizabeth and drove
through streets lined with 10000
troops.
The international court of arbitra-
ton sitting at the Hague rendered its
decision in the Orinoco claim case.
The Barge award is declared null on
four points and the American compa-
ny is awarded S46,S67, with 8 per cent
interest since June 16, 1908, and $1,000
costs. Judgement is to be paid by Ven
ezuela within two months. The tri-
bunal respected the American conten-
tions on the other points in the dis
pute.
At Edgertown, Mass, an i'm
perfect oil stove in the cabin of the
auxiliary schooner yacht Senat, owned
by John A. Fish, of the New York
Yacht club, caused the destruction and
sinking of the craft in the harbor.
EIr. Fish, Mrs A. o. Williams, of
Eoank, Conn, and Miss K. S. Brown,
OF New York, Capt. Wallace Brown
Of Noank, and four sailors took to the
small boats and reached shore safely.
At Anderson, Ind. John T. Fer
ris made the initial tryout of biplane
of his own invention. The machine
responded to the starting Of the en-
CINE and left the ground gracefully.
At height of twenty feet the pro.
peller came in contact with limb OF
a tree and was broken. Ferris was
not injured in the fall to the ground.
Brigadier General Frederick FuRs-
ton, commandant of the army service
school at Fort Leavenworth, will be
transferred to the command of the de-
partment of Luzon of the Philippines
division. Brigadier General Ramsay
D. Potts, now in command Of that de-
partment is on his way to the United
States suffering from an eye trouble.
Criminal pros ecution at Chicago
of Frank B. Hartman, John NJ.
Taylor and Charles l.. Ewing, the
three former Illinois Central officials
accused of completely in the $4,000, 600
car-repair graft, will not be stopped, it
is said, by the habeas corpus proceed
ings begun before Judge Chetlain.
Captain Madiot, a French mill
tary aviator, fell seventy yards in a
Bragnet biplane near Douaai and was
killed. The cause of his fall is un-
known. He had been flying splendid
ly, and had begun to volplane when
the onlookers saw the machine sud-
denly collapse and drop.
At New York City, because, as he
alleges, his wife became victim of
the morphine habit through the un-
lawful sale of the drug, Ernest c. Bill
ton has brought suit against Norman
A. Littel, New York druggist.