The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-05-05
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great Southwest
National Leauue Standinp.
American LEAGUE STANDING.


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Down in the vault of the Jefferson
bank at Forsyth and Canal streets,
New York, George W. Rose, assistant
receiving teller Of the bank. took his
own life by cutting his throat with
an ink eraser.
Albert w. Wolter, convicted Of ths
murder of Ruth Wheeler, Is years old,
was sentenced TO die in the electric
chair at Sing Sing prison the week
beginning June g. He displayed only
q languid interest in the court pro-
ceedings.
1t became apparent, much to the
surprise Of treasury officials, the re-
turns from the corporation law will
fall $4,000, 900 short of the original es.
innate of $30,000000.
Plans for golden peace jubilee to
be celebrated by union and eonfeder-
ate veterans Of the civil war in New
Orleans in 1915 were proposed to Dixie
warriors at Mobile, Ala, by the Lou
isiana deleg alton. The idea has met
with instant favor among veterans at
Mobile.
The hurried, yet quiet manner in
which the Paris police threw a Gordon
of secret service men about Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, has given rise
t. fears that the ex-president's life is
In danger from anarchists.
Police are endeavoring to clear up
the seventeenth black hand murder in
Chicago within the year and the sec
ond within three days. Gaetano Dis.
saliva. a well-to-do Italian, was found
dead on the sidewalk In front of a
house in the Italian quarter, with bull
let holes and three knife wounds in
his breast
The intelligence department of the
British foreign office, the most mys.
terfous secret bureau in the world has
been detailed to guard Theodore
Roosevelt during his stay In England
Knowing that James O'Connor, 70
years old, blind musician, was lost
in burning house in Chicago, Ralph
Gembel, 4 years old, entered the
house, and, fighting has way
through the flames, brought the man
to safety.
W. Bourke Cochran, former Demo
cratic congressman, has been assigned
by Judge Malone. in general sessions,
New York City, to defend a negro,
Victor Nelson, on murder charge.
Preston Brown, one of the four men
who captured Jefferson Davis, at the
close Of the civil war, is dead ait Lees
burg, Ind.
The El Pago (Tex.) Morning Times
has been sold for $150,00O to a stock
company headed by Thomas O'Keefe.
The Times was founded 80 years ago
by Capt. Juan s. Hart.
Mrs. John ID. Rockefeller Is making
her first visit to her home in Tarry.
town. N. Y, in over year. When
she arrived she was SO weak that she
had to be assisted to a carriage by
her husband and son. An attack OF
pneumonia, which she suffered last
year, has impaired her health
Major General Franklin Bell com
pleted his term of duty as chief OF
STAFF OF the army last Friday and
took official leave Of his associates
MaJor-General Leonard Wood sue,
ceeds General Bell as chief of staff
but will not assume the duties of that
Office until he returns from Buepos
Ayres In June next.
Samuel P. Peters, member of the
national house of representatives from
1888 to 1891, died at his home in New
ton, Kan, after an illness of two
years. He was captain of Compan,
a. Seyenty-third Ohio infantry, in the
civil war.
Corporation tax assessments up Il
date amount Of $15,052,15G. Only s132.
Y O4b has been paid into the treasury
on the account of the tax. Corpora
tons have until June 80 to pay up.
That the $3.oOo0oO failure of tn,
big cotton firm of Knight, Yancey &
Co. at Decatur, Ala, was due to Ell
gantic swindle, and the issuing O
forged bills of lading. was admitted
ny Mr. Yancey, the junior member O
the firm.
With the wind blowing gale, (
spectacular fire ragged for hours In IN,
Lincoln, Neb., yards Of the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy railroad Thurs
day night The loss Is between $125,
600 and $150,00o. Nearly dozen rail
road buildings and 80 freight cars
Z were burned.