Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-16
GENERAL KE,,IS,


of molten metal and Stag on Ore Eun-
dred and Fourth street, near an en-
trance to the Illinois Steel conrany's
plant. The auto was driven by
Peter Lesterhouse, a contractor, of
309 One Hundred and Twelfth street
Sitting in front beside him was his
wife. In the rear seats were Miss
Anna Becker, Mrs. Lesterhouses sis
ter, and Miss Blanche Hunt, a friend.
The impact had tossed Mr.. and Mrs
Lesterhouse and Mrs. Hunt out of the
car and into the path CT the Ec,ten
shower. They were instantly burned
to death. The steel men stopped
their train and ran to the rescue. Miss
Baker was sent to the hospital
At S. Paul, Mimi, the national con-
servation congress at the closing ses-
sion adopted platform Demanding ma
tional control of the country's natural
resources. This followed a lively fight
in the committee on the mention of
Theodore Roosevelt as the originator
of the policies mentioned and the ig-
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in the elimination of beth names.
When the congress reached the elec-
tion of officers, Clifford Pinchot end
]. B. White, chairman of the executive
committee, having declined to contest
for the presidency, Henry w. Wallace
of Des Moines, Ia, was chosen. DR..
Austin Latchaw of Kansas City was
named treasurer and Thomas Siipp
was reelected secretary.
The Pacific Coast express that left
st. Louis in the night for st. Joseph
and the west, was boarded at the
Union station by a lone robber He
killed and threw over oard J. NJ. Wine
of st. Louis, a fagman, held up the
porter who came back to let the fag-
man in, ordered him to turn out the
lights in his car which he then enter
ed and robber four passengers. The
desperate got off the train ct the Carr
street station on the levee and made
good his escape. The entire time con-
sumed in the murder, robbery and es-
cape did not exceed ten minutes.
The civil service commission at
Columbus, o., has handed down it's
decision in the cases of the th 'ty-
three city patrolmen who were dis
missed by the director OF pUbnc SAFETY,
approving the action of the dire .or
and refusing to grant to tie ,tce
mutineers the privilege of reins .te-
ment in the department OF lice.
The patrolmen were dismissed f~om
the force for refusing to { bey o. Iers
when directed by Mayor Marsha to
ride on cars to prevent lawlessness
during the strike riots.
# Governor Hughes is to be made
chief justice of the supreme court
he will be promoted from an associa te
justiceship. Reports that the nomila-
tion of the governor as an associate
justice would be withdrawn and his
name sent to the senate as chief jas
tice have been put to rest by arrange
ments that the New York executive
has been making to take up his duties
on the bench on tie second McrdGy
in October.
But for the fact that leol. of QUO
rum was declared it is evident that
the Ballinger-Pinchot congressiora. IN
vestigation committee, which net in
Minneapolis, would have adopted a
resolution asking the removal of the
secretary from Office in direct and
forcible manner. Ballinger was s2ved
by Chairman Nelson, who dela- ed &C
ton and telegraphed for rein nrce-
ments in the persons of Senator Root
and Representative DENLY a-d OH
stead.
Lloyd w. Bowers. solicitor general Of
United States who has been mentioned
as the probable successor of Chief jus
tice Fuller on the supreme bench. IS
dead in Boston. He YVES a ChicOFoan
and we'll known as corporation law
yer, before his appointment to the d.
partment of justice by President Taft
M. Bowers was taken i'll month aco
and came here to recuperste. It was
announced that he vas or tie wGy
recovery when the collapse came.
At Issy-Les-Mol;nerx, in Fr5nco,
a Peruvian aviator of the name
the name of Chavez reached re or(
height in BIeriot monoplare. ascen
ing $3.50 feet He says tfat after
passing the heigth reached by Near
at Deauville, 8,472 feet, or Tert 5, !
began to feel that he ccrld GO u
higher. The cod was intense q
fol n
bleeding.
At Montreal, Can. fore most frrrc~
in the Roman Catholic hiosrchy nd
dressed Montreal ccngrepaticns at the
twenty-first Eucharistic congress " ht Il
Cardinal Vannutelli, the pfral leg; to
tc the congress, presided at moss n:
the cathedral, Cardinal Logre at HEcr-
Dame and Father Vauehsn. the m ST
militant and most picturesque s~eaker
of the faith, at ST. Patrick's.
The retaining wall of The smreC-
way in New York city along tie F3c-
lem river gave way in two Te~eut
places and slid into the water RE
first cave-in occurred above igh
Bridge at One Hundred ard &c, enty-
Seventh street, whe nabout eCG feet
of the wall caved, carrying with il
about twenty feet of the speed vay
proper.
At ST. Louis, Mo-, Mrs. An(rcv
Brardenburger, so years Gle 80
weighing 10 pounds, swan i've nil !
in the height of the heavi, st rs u
storm in the city's history. she swan
from the east end of the Fads h'iFga
in the heart of the business ;Cl
to the st. Louis Alterheim, st 54v
South Broadway