Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-07-29
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
GENERAL NEWS,


ScnnappS was arrested. The COM
plant was filed by Frank f. Marmann,
who says Mr.. Rockefeller is known as
John D." and asked what the oil
kings Sunday school pupils would say
if they chanced to pass the saloon and
saw that sign. Marmann said he con- ,
Bidered the sign an insult to my good
friend, Rockefeller"
Herkimer county New York, is
used to red hot political conflicts, but
it is conceded that the present fight
for the Republican congressional NOM
ination in the Twenty-Seventh district,
composed of the counties of Oneida
and Herkimer between Theodore
Douglas Robinson, nephew of EXPIRES
ident Roosevelt, and Charles S. Mil
lington, the present incumbent, is
about the warmest contest ever waged
in this hot bed of Republicanism.
At Omaha, Neb., the National AS
sociation of Advertising Clubs of
America took liberties with Charles
w. Fairbanks of Indianapolis, when
they had the eX-vice president of tb
OhIICu OlcllCo elAI6olCd, anu III u. ~
lice patrol started ostensibly fer the,
city Jail, but instead carried him to
the Field club, where he was the
guest of honor at luncheon which
had been prepared for him.
Discovery of a new counterfeit $40
gold certificate has been announced
by Chief WiIkie of the secret service.
The certificate is represented to be
Of the act of July II, 1882, series of
1901, and bears the check letter d."
plate No. $50, the signature Of ". 7.
Vernon, register of the treasury. Lee
McClung, treasurer of the United
States and the portrait of Hilligas
At Sacramento, Cal, two young
men giving the names of James Brown
and CHARLES Dunbar who were arrested
as horsethief suspects, have been prac-
tically identified as the bandits who
held up and robbed the Japan mail
train on the Southern Pacific at Good
year On April H. The numbers of the
revolvers they carried led to the iden-
tiication.
CuSIGS6IlCA JOSt pn T. ~ 1OnDClIy
Tenth Massachusetts district, was con-
victed at Boston of having violated
the election laws of the state. 1t was
charged that he distributed cards at
TcIine place in Dorchester during the
city election last January. Judge
Churchill imposed a fine of $40. The
congressman appealed the case.
A Philadelphia, Pa, after the
Joint committee of the Conductors
ard Trainmens' Union on the Pennsyl-
varia lines, east of Pittsburg had held
conferences with General Manager
Meyers of the railroad, it was said by
both sides that a working basis of set
tlement had been agreed upon, many
misunderstanding cleared
Determined to die with the least
possible amount of funds on Land,
DR.. Daniel X. Pearsons of Chicago,
who is more than go years old and af-,
ficted with rheumatism, has plann ed
to sell his home and enter a sani-
trrium, to spend the rest of his days.
He has given $6,OO0,0O0 to twenty-nine
small colleges.
At Logansport, Ind, just because
his mother threatened to send him to
the reform school, Verl Mooney II
years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Mooney. swallowed the contents of
bottle CT chloroform with suicidal in
tent ard physicians saved his life with
the greatest difficulty.
John B. Miller, convicted of en-
bezzling the funds of a Washington,
D. c., building and loan association
was sentenced to twenty years in the
federal prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan. 1t was the extreme penalty of
the law
President Taft has appointed Hem
derson M. Somerville of New York as
president of the board of United States
general appraisers. Mr.. Somerville
has been a general appraiser of mer-
chandise at New York for many years
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor, has announced
that the Bucks Stove and. Range COM
pany of st. Louis has agreed to aban-
don its open shop policy and here
after to employ none but union men,
Near Barcelona, in Spain, while
he was making a cross-country flight
Aviator Ehrmarn's aeroplane was hit
by lightning and fell to the ground.
The aviator escaped uninjured, which
is regarded as almost miraculous.
The affairs of James Guffey, Demo
cratic leader of Pennsylvania, and one
of the best known, oil and coal men of
the entire country, were placed iE the
hands of a receiver Liabilities are
s7,O0O,O00 and assets s15,000.000.
The interstate commerce commission
ruled that an interstate excursion for
commercial clubs whose members are
to be carried as guests at the expense
of the railroad companies cannot be
sanctioned.
The. late Melville w. Fuller, chief
justice of the-United States supreme
court, died possessed of property val
ued at $950,000. while his wife, who
died in 1904, possessed an estate val
ued at $115.000.
! London directors of the .Pillsbury-
Washburn Flour Mills company of
Minneapolis charge thatlS4, 100000 are
mysteriorsly missing, and blame spec
ulation in wheat and loose business
methods. ~
j. Howard Lowery, the Utica. N, Y,
young man indicted for embezzlinS
( $144, 900 from the Utica National bank,
search of three months.
Mutiny broke out i'll the prison at
Madrid, Spain. The fighting lasted
three hours and was only ended when
troops we're called in.
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