The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-26
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hcially declared off.
The steamer Venus blockaded
Bluefields. There had been fighting
at Rama.
The railroad bill was displaced In
the Senate by the naval appropria-
ton bill.
The submission of evidence in the
Ballinger-Pinchot investigation has
been ended.
The United States offered to medi-
ate in the threatened war between
Peru and Ecuador.
Thirty black spots were observed
on the sun, one of them 10000
miles in diameter.
Twenty to thirty men were killed
and fifty injured in boiler explosion
at Canton, Ohio.
Several persons were killed and
great damage done to property by
tornado in Oklahoma.
Six bishops Of the Catholic church
were consecrated simultaneously at
St. Paul by Archbishop Ireland.
Work on the Bush-Everett gas
pipe line from Caddo field to st,
Louis will start within sixty days.
Nine crowned heads of Europe and
Theodore Roosevelt were among the
guests of King George at dinner.
Arrangements are being perfect
ed at Washington for the visit of the
members Of the Louisiana legisla-
ture.
Astronomers secured valuable pho
tographs and data during the passage
of the earth through the tail of the
comet.
Thousands passed the bier of
King Edward. Theodore Roosevelt
rode in the eighth carriage during
the ceremonials.
Senator Stone, of Missouri, will
introduce resolution in the Senate
inquiring into Senator Knox's Mica
raguan policy
One hundred persons were killed
by dynamite explosion that wreck
ed the Rural Guard Barracks at Pr
mar Del Rio, Cuba.
Henry Watterson, in an address
before the Canadian Publishers AS
ISOLATION at Toronto, deplored the
passing of personal journalism, say
ing the duel is more interesting than
the libel suit.
The body of King Edward was re-
moved from Buckingham Palace to
Westminster Hall, while the remains
lay In state.
The College of Methodist Bishops
vetoed the action Of the conference
at Asheville, N. c., by which the
name of the church was changed to
the Methodist church.
The Gulf Coast Lumber Exporters
Association, in session at Pensacola,
was told that the soda-dip process for
export material is unsatisfactory.
Four thousand Independent Demo-
Gratis of Tennessee, in session at
Nashville, rebuked Governor Patter-
son for raping the judiciary, and
nominated tickets for the Supreme
Court and the court of appeals.
The Methodist Conference at Ashe-
vile adopted the committee report
placing the control Of Vanderbilt
University with the church.
The American Cotton Manufacture
ers Association, in session at Char
lotte, went on record as favoring
the ship subsidy.
Paul J. Rainey and Harry Payne
Whitney have purchased the steam
er Roosevelt, and will sail for the
arctic regions June 20 on hunting
expedition.
Upon instructions from Washing
ton, Lieutenant Colonel Robert E.
Ames was confined to quarters at Ma
Mia, and will be court-martialed on
charges of conduct unbecoming an
officer and to prejudice of military
discipline.
The Mississippi Press Association,
in session at New Albany, adopted
resolutions favoring New Orleans as
the place for holding the Panama
Exposition.
It Is announced that the Missis-
sippi Central Railroad will go to
Mobile from Hattiesburg, Miss, over
the New Orleans, Mobile and Chica-
go railroad.
Revs. w. B. Murrah, WIS. Lam
buth, e. D. Mouzon, R G. Water
house and H. Mccoy were elected
bishops by the general conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South
A receivers complaint filed at New
York in the case of Steele, Miller
& Co., alleges that more than ST.
600, 900 loss was sustained by opera
tors as result of fraudulent bills
of lading.
At the opening of the American