The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-04-28
National LEAGUE Standinq.
American Leaoue Standing.

A thousand miners and coke oven
men employed by the Davis colliery
at Elkins, w. Va, of which former
United States Seuator Henry Gasso-
way Davis is president, have been
granted an increase of per cent.
The Canadian house of comhons
gave final approval to the LII Great
Ing a Canadian navy by giving it
third reading.
At Lynn, Mass. four buildings were
burned and thickly settled district
of tenement houses threatened by a
fire Thursday morning. The total loss
will be about 100000.
Holding up Is women and two men
in the Serve-Self cafeteria at Kansas
City Thursday, two unmasked beg
bandits robbed the till, an dare fugi-
tives. One stood in the doorway and
covered the diners with revolvers,
while the other looted the till.
The pope has severed diplomatic
relations with the little principally
of Monaco on account of the Prince
of Monaco's proposed conference with
the king and queen of Italy on his
hobby of oceanography.
Aaronautic enthusiasts at the Uni
yersity of Chicago will attempt to
demonstrate the practicability of fly
ing on homemade biplanes. Members
of the University Aero club decided to
hot al M
reply to their appeal for financial aid
has been received.
An employer may hire any workman
he sees fit and refuse to employ other
men, according to decision by JUS
tice Greenbaum in suit for damages
brought by the New York Electrical
Workers union against members o1
an employers association baseS upor
the associations refusal to employ
members of the union.
A mans head was discovered in &
box in the office Of the Wells-Fargc
Express company at Springfield, Ill
1t was sent March 20 from the Chi
cago office Of the company in Wes
Madison street. 1t arrived in Spring
field April 1, and has since been il
storage at the local office.
F. N. Hoffstot, president of tn,
Pressed Steel Car company, was ar
rested in New York on a warrant is
sued in Pittsburg charging him witt
bribery and conspiracy in connection
with Pittsburg graft, and the allege
bribing of Pittsburg councilmen wit
$4,000.
A bulletin issued by the interstat
commerce commission shows tha
1,090 persons were killed and 22,49
injured in railroad accidents in tn
United States during the last thre
months of last year. This is an il
crease of 101 in the number kille
over the same period of the precedin
year and an increase Of 5,645 injured
Malcolm R. Patterson announce
his candidacy for reelection to tn
governorship of Tennessee in a lon
statement of his position
VIM. S. Phillips, president of tn
America-Mexico Mining and Depar
ment company, mining swindle tina
netted its promoters more than $500
900 in fraudulent stock sales, was SCI
fenced by Judge Lands in the distrie
court to serve three years in fedora
prison and to pay fine of $1,000.
Fire broke out In the Julien hots
at Dubuque, Ia, early Monday Will
200 guests were asleep. A panic fo
lowed and a number Of persons wer
injured. Sam Levy of Chicago wa
fatally injured by jumping from
third story window.
The military court of inquiry, whic
during the last year has been invest
eating the shooting up Of Brownsville
Tex, finds the evidence clearly SUI
tains the charge that the shootin
was done by soldiers of the Twei
ty-ifth Infantry, negro regiment.
A petition asking that John /
Walsh, Chicago financier. be pardone
was presented to President Taft b
Representative William A. Cullop
Indiana. The petition bore the name
OF 12,000 residents of Indiana alon
the lines of the Walsh railroad.
Charley Hunter, United States ci
cult clerk, who formerly was capital
and now is commander Of the Roos
yelt Rough Riders, has issued a 70
NAL call for regimental reunion /
New York June 16. The purpose
to welcome home Roosevelt on his r,
turn home.