Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-25
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him "as real friend OF mankind"
William Dean Howells, who was one
OF Mark Twains closest friends, will
introduce the speakers. Joseph H.
Choat will recall experiences he shared
with Mark Twain. The Rev. Joseph
Hopkins Twitchell, long pastor of the
church at Hartford, Conn, which the
Clemens family attended, will present
side of the humorist not we'll known.
Champ Clark will speak as a repre-
sentative of Missouri and Speaker Can
non will tell of the things the humor-
list did for an equitable copyright law.
Colonel Henry Watterson will recount
anecdotes and DR.. Henry Van Dyke
will read a poem.
Four raids were made at San An.
tonic and three places on the Texas
side of the Mexican border by United
States secret service operatives
brought to light over 500 rifles and
100000 rounds of ammunition. In two
abandoned shacks near Del Rio and
Brownsville, quantity of the arms
and ammunition were found, and
in San Antonio 145 guns and $4,000
rounds of cartridges were found in one
house. Other hiding places have been
discovered, but officers refuse to give
out any information. The government
officers who have been working on the
case for six weeks say they traced
small shipments of arms labelled any,
thing but arms from Cincinnati, Chi
cago, Kansas City and ST. Louis. 1t
is believed the munitions of war are
intended for Mexican revolutionary
purposes, and arrests will be made
King George V. of England ar
rived in London from Sandrineham
and received Premier Asquith soon af-
ter reaching the palace. Postpone
ment of the governments announce
ment of its program and frequent COM
munications between the king and the
cabinet have strengthened the impress
sion that his majesty may have re-
fused to give guarantees OF the creation
OF new peers in the preeent circum-
stances. Resignation of cabinet seems
more probable than dissolution OF par
lament. The action of the king is be-
Ing discussed in the newspapers 1t
appears difficult for the throne to avoid
being involved in the political crisis,
to escape which the conference be-
tween the government and the oppo-
sition was arranged.
Insular Agent William H. Clarke of
Pennsylvania has been suspended from
Office in the Philippines by Secre-
tary Of War Dickinson for alleged in
subordination to Governor General
Forbes. Mr. Clarke was engaged in the
investigation of alleged graft cases at
Baguio, the charge made being that
his deputies were intimidating and
otherwise misconducting themselves.
Governor General Forbes ordered an
investigation OF their methods. Mr..
Clarke protested, denied the authority
of the governor general and instructed
his deputies to give the investigator
sent by Governor General Forbes no
information
Representative Robert e. Wilson,
of Chicago, reelected to the L.
linois house, was indicted again by the
November grand jury on charges of
perjury. The bill was an amplification
of the old charge of perjury, based on
the same testimony he gave before the
May grand jury, when he denied hav-
ing presided over a distribution of an
alleged jackpot July Is, 1909, in the
Southern hotel in St. Louis.
President Taft, responding to the
request of Clifford Pinchot, former
chief forester, and his brother, Amos
Pinchot, for permission to submit a
brief On the question of issuing patents
in the Cunningham Alaskan coal land
claims, has informed Mr. Pinchot that
- may submit such a brief and ad
vise' him to send it to the executive
Office 1sfore Dec. /.
John IL Fargo, artist, died at tho
Butler hospl al, Providence, R. l.. after
a long illness. His survived by a
widow, Margaret, three daughters and
four sons. His three daughters are
Mrs. William Claxton, OF Philadelphia,
Mrs. Edwards H. Childs, the wife Of a.
lawyer of this city, and an unmarried
daughter, Frances.
Robert e. Wilson, the member of TIE
Illinois Legislature who is charged
with having distributed the legislative
Jackpot money at the Southern hotel
in St Louis, has been summoned by
the Lorimer Investigating committee
to be in Washington Dec. and hold
himself in readiness to appear for ex-
animation.
Trial to test the effect of an uncon-
fined explosion of high explosive nj
troglycerin, the monitor Puritan was
badly damaged in Hampton roads after
two charges of 200 pounds each had
been exploded against the vessels af-
ter turret. In sinking condition the
Puritan was rushed to the Norfolk ma
Wy yard.
At Kansas City, Mo-, twenty
automobiles, twenty-five motorcycles,
q motor-hearse and an open auto
truck, filled with pallbearers and a
profusion of flowers, formed the fu-
neral cortege Of Walter Lindel mo-
torcyclist who was killed in a COLI
sion with wagon.
AL Oedllle, w dSH, lHe HISL leg
islation resulting from the adoption
of the woman's suffrage amendment
to the constitution last week was
brought up when a bill was introduced
in the city council prohibiting smoking
in polling places at general or special
elections.
Mr. Roosevelt has just bought thor
oughbred Kentucky blue grass saddle
horse from A. Philip Hexamer of Ho-
boken. 1t 10 bay gelding named
Kaiser.