The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-05-12
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great Southwest.
National League Standing
American League.

Advances in railroad wages already
made or to be made before the end of
the year are estimated at $100,000,000
for the entire country. This is the
figure stated by President w. c.
Brown of the New York Central Cal
culated on the interstate commerce
wages paid to railroad employees un-
der the new scale will amount to ST.
227,233,000 year.
DR.. Howard l.. Ricketts,, assistant
professor of pathology in the Univer
sity of Chicago, is dead, and another
name has been added to the long list
OF victims that science has claimed as
her own. DR.. Ricketts, died in Mexico
City Of typhoid fever, the disease b.
went south to study.
United States Judge John A. Mar
shall sustained the contention of at
torneys for Governor Haskell and 9TH
ers in the Muskogee town lot cases
and continued their trials.
Hundreds OF persons are injured
and many are missing as the result of
a fire which destroyed 1000 buildings
at Aamori, Japan. Ninety per cent of
the city Is In ruins and it is impos.
sible to estimate the casualties.
AS labor leaders view the situation.
q great building trades strike in st.
Louis is imminent. That 10000 men
may on the instant throw down their
tools and desert construction of build
ings is matter of serious proximity,
say these leaders.
A press dispatch from Washington
announced that John D. Rockefeller
has abandoned the idea of securing a
national charter for his proposed foun-
dation. Starr J. Murphy, personal
counsel for Mr.. Rockefeller, and
speaking for the Standard Oil presi-
dent, said the statement was entirely
without foundation. Mr.. Murphy also
said that Mr.. Rockefeller had nothing
to do with the Economic and Gener-
al Foundation" for which a charter is
being sought from the New York leg
islature for IAN aged man of wealth."
said to have $2,500000 to spend on
charity.
Rioting, similar to that which led
to the anti-foreign war in HUI Nan and
the burning of missions, has broken
out in two of the most populous prov.
fnces in Chi Kiang on the Eastern
sea. Disorders are also being re-
newed in Hu Nan, according to ad.
vices received at Shanghai.
The house by vote of 130-67
adopted Representative Maddens
amendment to the railroad bill pro.
viding for a physical valuation OF
railroads. The amendment author
ICES the interstate commerce commits
sion to ascertain the value of all the
property of every common carrier in
the United States.
At Bucharest, Ron.nania, the Dimin.
catzu prints dispatches from Kieff
stating that hundreds Of Jews were
massacred there by the Russian peas.
antry. Hundreds of peasants from
surrounding towns gathered in Kieff
according to the dispatches, and in
vaded the ghetto, where they com
mitted the most terrible atrocities.
Just as the law Is about to knock
on the shackles of the second soul.
mate ENHANCEMENT, the news come.
rom Paris that Ferdinand Pinney
Earle has found fourth affinity. The
Il first one divorced him, for the second
decree annulling their marriage il
Imminent; the third cast him aside
before they could reach the marriage
stage.
Refusal by John W. Kern either tc
affirm or deny the report that he will
accept the nomination for United
States senator from Indiana, gives
strength to the suggestion of the Tag
CART machine politicians that theil
leader had outwitted the progressive.
OF his party In Thursdays conven
ton.
With about half the cars in opera
ton in Columbus, O., the street ca,
strike which has been hanging fire
for the past two weeks, broke Friday
morning. The men declare that ar
agreement reached by arbitration has
been violated by the company.
Lieutenant Hotrichter, an officer In
one Of the crack Austrian regiments
has confessed he sent poisoned can
dy and poisoned medicines to superior
officers. more than score in mum
Der, in the hope that by their death
\ ne would be promoted Hofrichter
probably will face firing squad.