The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-04


Jews were expelled from Kiev, and
the suburbs, Solomenka and Demief-
fka, Russia.
The long-drawn-out arguments in
the Newfoundland fisheries case be-
for the Hague arbitration tribunal
closed.
Miscellaneous.
The Minnesota Democratic State
Convention at Minneapolis nominal
ed John Lind for governor.
President Taft returned to his
summer home at Beverly. Mass.
The Republican Party in Ohio is
torn with discussions, and Harding,
the nominee for governor, will have
rough time.
The Department of Agriculture has
begun the distribution of cotton
standards.
General Leonard Wood is acting
secretary of war.
Owing to the discovery of the foot
and mouth disease among cattle in
Yorkshire. England, the importation
of cattle from that country into the
United States has been prohibited
until the extent of the desease can
be determined.
Frank B. Hayne bid for $4,000
bales of cotton on the New York Cot
ton Exchange and caused wild ex-
element in the market.
Warren G. Harding was nominat-
ed for governor of Ohio by the Re-
publican State Convention.
The Navy Department received adj
vices that Americans and American
interest at Cape Gracias, Nicaragua,
are safe.
A vote in the Nebraska Demo-
cratic Convention showed the ma
jor.y against w. j. Bryan.
A process of forced liquidation
was responsible for some very severe
declines in prices in the New York
stock market.
The directors of the United States
Steel Corporation declared the re-
gular quarterly dividend of IA per
cent of the common stock for the
quarter ending June 80. The regu-
lar dividend of ga per cent on the
preferred stock was declared.
The regular Republicans gained
an apparent clear majority of the
resolutions committee of the Ohio
Republican Convention at Columbus,
when the district delegates met to
select the committee members.
The gunboat Hornet, which was
purchased by Mr.. Stern, of New Or
leans, may not be permitted to leave
Washington.
The War and Navy Departments
will ask Congress for appropriations
to buy aeroplanes.
The extent of the cholera epidemic
in Russia is revealed in figures
made public by the government sani-
tary commission. The stricken re-
gion now includes forty-two provin-
ces and territories of European Rus
STA, and since the outbreak of the dis
ease, last May, there have been a
total of 1852 cases, with 1861
deaths.
Spain has received practically an
ultimatum from the Vatican in re-
gard to the church question.
Twenty-Five persons persisted in q
flood that followed cloudburst at
the town of Dees, Hungary. The
damage to property and crops was
heavy.
Twenty-eight hundred ice cream
cones shipped by birmingham, Ala,
concern were seized and destroyed by
Federal authorities at Nashville.
Tenn, on the ground that they con-
tanned boric acid, which Is held TO
be Injurious to health.
The Treasury Department opened
bids for Federal building sites in
Mississippi and Alabama.
Recent agitation against gambling
houses has resulted in the closing OF
practically every gambling joint in
the city.
An "unloaded" gun fired by a
friend killed Ollie Hubbard and
wounded Dewey Horne, who was be-
hind him at Eastman, Ga.
Six were wounded in race riot
at Ashland, w. Va.
A proposition was made TO Mis-
sissippi College, at Canton, that z
two-year medical course be establish
ed.
Five hundred inmates of tie Ma.
tional Soldiers Home at Johnson
| City, Tenn, were poisoned by eat
ing bread pudding. Two died.
Miss Sophie Wright delivered an
address, and Frederick Warde lec'
tured on Shakespeare at the Crystal
Springs Chatauqna on Kings Dauyh
tiers Day.