The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-14
Wire Flashes.

CnOu III pTduC0. 1911 III
J.. G. Dean, of Hattiesburg, Miss,
committed suicide at Washington.
AS Senator Money will retire next
March, the Democrats of the Senate
will have to select a new leader.
President Taft issued proclama-
ton withdrawing 35,O00,0O0 acres
Of land from the public domain.
The Spanish Parliament is engaged
in bitter controversy over the STA
tus Of religious orders in Spain.
Republican leaders are greatly
alarmed over the split in their par
ty in New York.
The proposed German-American
Exposition at Berlin has been aban-
uoned.
American Baptist missionaries in
Italy have demanded protection from
mobs.
The. Federal Government is inves-
tigating the cost of carrying the
mails. ~sT
The railroads In the Southern
States are expected to increase their
freight rates.
j. B. Allison, formerly City Hall
1anitor at Asheville, shot and killed
F. M. McGehee, patrol wagon driver.
Secretary of Interior Ballinger an
nounced that he had no intention OF
resigning from the Cabinet
Director Newell, of the Federal Re-
clamation Service, declares he has
no intention of resigning.
The presidential boom of Joseph
w. Folk is growing in the Eastern
States.
Precautions have been taken to
prevent yellow fever from spreading
from Costa Rica to the United
States
Colonel John S. Mosby, of Confed-
crate guerilla fame, has been dis
missed from the government service
on account of his advanced age.
Commercial organizations have
petitioned the Spanish Government
to prevent certain religious orders
from monopolizing industries.
The land surveys made by George
Washington in the vicinity of the
District of Columbia will sbe remeas-
ured rik
Seventy thousand women garment
makers in New York struck for high
er wages and improved working con-
ditions.
The Jeffries-Johnson prize fight
pictures will be prohibited in British
South Africa on account of the dam
ger of a race conflict
Theodore Roosevelt authorized the
announcement that he would take the
stump in Indiana this fall in favor
of Senator Beveridge's fight for re-
election.
The election of J. Y. Sanders as
United States senator by the Louisi-
ana Legislature was we'll received
in congressional circles at Washing
ton.
Baroness de la Roche, the first
French woman aeroplanist, was Sc
riously injured at Bethany Plains,
France, by falling from height. Of
fifty meters.
Some Of the Latin-American re-
publics will make protest against
the attitude of the United States to-.
ward Nicaragua at the Buenos Ayres
conference.
The State Department officials are
in receiptof rumors that ZeIaya has
offered the Estrada faction in Mica
ragua to have the Venus withdrawn
in consideration of a guarantee OF
protection for his property and a
sum of $4,000 advanced by him
personally to meet the first payment
on the Emery claim.
Labor Dispute to Be Arbitrated.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.-The ferma-
ton of plan to prevent all local la
Dor troubles was announced here.
Labor leaders and representatives of
the Employers Association have
agreed to submit all labor disputes
to board of arbitration. Employees
will continue to work pending the
decision of the board, whose rulings
shall be final. This is said to be the
first city in the United States to
adopt this programme.
Assistant Secretary Wilson. of the
State Department, is considerably ex-
ercised about the reports that Ex-
President Zelaya Is furnishing funds
to the Madriz forces in Nicaragua.
Startling reports on the condition
on July of spring wheat were
made by the crop reporting board. OF
the Department of Agriculture, The
average condition of spring wheat, in,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Mime?
sofa and Washington, the four states
which contain more than t88 per cent.
of the total sprigs acreage in the
United States was only 1925, as com
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