The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-05-26

Lne negro Tor IL hours.
Fearing he would be discharged. Joe
LIE Blanc, a laborer employed by the
Chicago board of education, shot his
foreman, John Roach, and then com.
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the heart. Roach was seri.
ously wounded.
In running fight between a posse
and band of robbers who entered a
bank at Wapanucka, Okla, a member
OF the posse was shot.
Miss Helen Gould has given $4,000
to defray the expenses of sending five
Christian workers to the Orient to
conduct a series of bible conferences
with missionaries in China and Japan
Harry Payne Whitney and Paul
Rainey, both known the world over as
sportsmen, have purchased the steam
er Roosevelt, with which Peary sailed
to the north pole. They will sail from
Brooklyn, June 20. for hunting and
exploring trip into the Arctic regions
1t is said here that Rainey has am
UlIiOHS 10 Tedcl the pole.
Commander R. e. Peary's lecture
in Vienna was attended by the cabinet
ministers and many persons promi.
nent in Austrian life. At the close of
the lecture the gold medal of the I'M
perial Geographical society was pre-
sented to Commander Peary and a
banquet was given in his honor.
Daring thieves took $32, 900 from the
Oil City office of the Adams Express
company and left no clew behind. The
theft is one of the most daring ever
committed in Pennsylvania. 1t was
taken from the office in the absence
of Night Manager TRULY. He left the
office unguarded for few minutes
about a. m. When he returned
there was no trace of the money.
Train No. 4 on the Salt Lake route,
due in Salt Lake City January 2, az
rived Tuesday, four months late. The
train was marooned January l near
Caliente, New, by washout. Through
traffic on the line will be resumed
June IS.
Thirty-six negro convicts lost their
lives when the stockade of the Red
Feather Coal company at Lucille, Ala,
was destroyed by a fire set by one of
the prisoners in an effort to gain his
freedom. Thirty-five of the convicts
were burned to death and another was
fatally shot by the guards while at
tempting to escape. Among the for
mer is the negro who started the
blaze
w. Cooper Morris, former cashier Of
the defunct Oregon Trust and Savings
bank of Seattle, Wash, convicted last
week of the embezzlement of $175,000
from the bank, was sentenced to six
years in the penitentiary.
John A. Ryerson, president of the
Ideal Electric Co., son of the Rev. DR..
]. s. Stone, rector of st. James Epis-
copal church, prominent clubman and
athlete, plunged headforemost from
the thirteenth floor Of the Chicago
chamber of commerce building and
was dashed to death on the stone
flooring in the corridor below.
John Webster Courlay, vice-consul
at Jaurez, Mexico, opposite Ell Paso,
died at the Ell Paso county eruptive
hospital of smallpox.
Commander Robert E. Peary's lee
ture was given before the Geographic
cal society in Rome. King Victor
Emanuel and the duke of Abruzzi, the
latter coming from Venice; Marquis
di San Giuliano, minister of foreign
affairs, and host of distinguished
people were present.
Noah T. Shaw, inventor of a cool
Ing board and known to undertakers
throughout the United States, died at
his home in Columbus, O., of the in
tirmities of old age. He was so years
old.
Twelve persons were seriously in
5ured and eight others sustained les
ser hurts when Kansas City, Mexico
and Orient passenger train was de-
rallied by spreading rails near Milton,
Kas.
The modified long and short haul
amendment introduced by Senator
Dixon as substitute for the Hepburn
amendment to the railroad bill was
adopted by the senate. The vote on
the Dixon substitute was Sc ayes, 10
noes.
One of the conditions imposed upon
William Powers, who will be released
from the state penitentiary under a
parole by Governor Hadley, is that he
go at once to Gait, Mo-, with O. A.
Snapp, who is to come for him,
and Immediately, on his arrivel at
Gait, that he marry Snaps daughter
Nancy, and that both Snapp and Pow
ers report the marriage to the gov
ernor promptly.
The two bandits who held up the
Phoenix & Maricopa passenger train
near Phoenix, Ariz., were captured by
a posse headed by Sheriff Carl Hay.
den and immigration Inspector Cronin
In the desert beyond Cass Grande.
| Commander Gilmer of the United
States gunboat Paducah has served
notice on General Irias, who is in
command OF the Venus, that he will