The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-09
Wire Flashes.

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lowered 10 cents per hundred lbs.
The Tariff Commission question
will cause serious trouble in the SEN
ate.
A demented Russian hurled a tin
can at the crown prince of Germany
at Berlin.
Ex-President Roosevelt and Sena-
tor Elihu Root held conference in
London.
President Taft delivered an adj
dress at Byrn Nav College, Phila
delphia, Pa.
Secretary Meyer has ordered i'm
provements at the New Orleans Ma
val Station.
Seventeen men were killed by a
premature explosion of powder at
Morgan. Utah.
Twelve persons were injured in a
passenger wreck on the Southern
railway at Sycamore, Va.
1t is reported in Washington that
Secretary of War Dickinson will sue
coed Moody on the Supreme Court
bench.
The Government of Peru has in
dieated its purpose to withdraw its
army from the Ecuadorean frontier
on June 4.
The Republican insurgents in the
H0uco will rooLn or0<har aff1rk 70
depose Speaker Cannon before the
House adjourns.
The city of Marking, China, has
been posted with placards melting
the people to the destruction of for
eign life and property.
Captain Charles S Rolls, the Eng
fish aviator, flew across the Eng
lish Channel from Dover to San
Gate, France, and returned without
stopping.
Bills have been introduced in the
House changing the material of the
New Orleans postoffice, in course OF
construction, from limestone to gran
lite or marble.
The San Francisco exposition
boomers are bringing strong pressure
to bear on Congressman Rodenberg,
of Illinois, to induce him to consent
to favorable report on their bill.
The La Toilette amendment to the
railroad bill providing for the ascer-
tainment of physical valuation of
railroads as basis for fixing rates,
was rejected by the Senate by a vote
of rs to so.
An appropriation of $4,000 was
made by the House to enable the sec
rotary of agriculture to make an in
vestigation of methods of making
paper from various plants and woods.
By vote of 81 to 80 the House
adopted an amendment to the sundry
civil bill providing that no money
appropriated for the enforcement of
the Sherman antitrust law should
be used for the prosecution of labor
organizations.
The United States, it was officially
declared, has no intention OF in any
way intervening in Nicaragua or re-
cognizing either party to the contro-
versy until one faction or the other
has obtained full control of the gov
eminent by consent of the people.
The Burton amendment to the rail-
road bill to authorize the Interstate
Commerce Commission to fix the
minimum rates that may be charged
by railroads which compete with wa
ter routes, was adopted by the Sen
ate.
The Arbitration Tribunal before
which is to be tried the issue be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain growing out of conflicting in
terpretations of the Newfoundland
fisheries treaty of 1918 is in session
at The Hague.
One of the largest melons" ever
sliced for the delectation of stock
holders will be cut by the Singer
Manufacturing Company, which has
called meeting of directors on June
Is to declare $3O,O00,000 stock
dividend for its shareholders.
1t was discovered that the govern
ments Injunction against the West
ern trunk freight rate increase ap-
piled only to tariff A, lis, mention
ed in the bill, and did not cover the
increased rate on wool of 10 per cent,
which went into effect June /.
An amendment to the railroad bill
offered by Senator Overman, regulat-
ing the suspension of state laws by
the issuance of injunctions in inter-
locutory proceedings in Federal
courts, was adopted by the Senate.
It prohibits such course except af-
ter hearing by three judges.
There was a sensational break in
the cotton market in New York, with
trading more active and excited than
at any time since the series of drastic
declines which carried prices down
about three cents a pound last jan