The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-21
Wire Flashes.


reduced to an assay Office.
Severe earth shocks were recently
felt in Germany and Austria Hun
gary.
A rumor is current in Washington
that ecretary of the, Treasury Mac
Veagh will resign.
The Pan-American conference was
held at Buenos Aires, Argentine Re-
public. ~
The German Government emphati-
cally denied the report that it is IN
triguing with Nicaragua.
There is considerable speculation
at Washington about the successor
of Admiral Caps.
The Democratic congressional
committee will make public all cam
paign contributions.
Sam Brown, a negro killed R.
]. Rouglas, a prominent planter, on
his plantation near Alma Ga.
A revolutionary conspiracy was
unearthed in Cuba. The leaders
were arrested.
The Northern and Western Ex-
press, on the New York Central, was
wrecked at Newton Hook, and three
trainmen killed.
Johnson Gottfried Gale, Ger
man astronomer, who was the first
observer of the planet Neptune. died
in Berlin.
Two more indictments were re-
turned against the twelve defendants
in the Shreve iewelry fraud case, at
Montgomery, Ala.
Every member of the Cabinet has
been absent from Washington for
several days, with nobody sitting ON
the government cid"
The opinion prevails at Pekin,
China, that the Russo-Japanese
treaty means the end of the open
door policy in the Arient.
A Portuguese gunboat bombarded
a private settlement on Colowan Is
land, killing many natives and des-
,troying several houses.
Oscar Erbsloeh, a noted aeronaut.
and four companions were killed by
the collapse of a balloon in Ger
many.
A story is current in Washington
that Clifford Pinchot may be NOM
mated for governor of New York by
the Republicans.
Several hundred patent medicine
concerns have been ordered to pay
an internal revenue liquor tax be-
cause their preparation contain large
quantities of alcohol.
Eight persons were fatally fnjur-
ed when a special car of the Detroit
Flint Electric Railway was struck
by work-train at Artonville, near
Detroit, Mich.
A train bearing 100 delegates to
the American Chemical Society con-
vention at San Francisco plunged
over an embankment near Salinas,
Cal The egineer was killed and
four women passengers injured.
The Hon. C.. S. Rolls, son of Lord
Llangatock, hero of the recent chan
mel flight from Dover to France and
return, was killed by fall while
flying with his Wright biplane at
Bournemouth, England
The Spanish Government received
a strong protest from the Vatican
against the bill prepared by Premier
Canalejas,, forbidding other religi-
Gus orders to enter Spain pending
the settlement of the religious diff
culties.
During the debate on naval ex-
penditures in the House of Com
mons Premier Asquith reiterated
that it was the desire of the Brit
ish Government to come to a friend
" agreement with Germany looking
to the curtailment of armament.
William Pittman, the American
captured by the Madriz forces near
Bluefelds, was found in starving
condition in filthy cell at Managua,
according to a dispatch to the State
Department from Consul Oilvares.
Mr.. Olivares. forced Madriz to accord
Pittman better treatment.
The British bankers committee
appointed to inquire into the cotton
trade situation, has decided to pro-
pose that, commencing November,
American cotton bills of lading shall
be negotiated only when they are
guaranteed by an American banking
institution.
Suspension of recent general adj
vances in freight rates has been de-
termined upon by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. These tar
ifs were to become effective on
Aug. l. By vote of the commits
sion the proposed rates will be sus-
pended until a formal inquiry into
their reasonableness can be had.
The indictments found by the Fed
eral Grand Jury in New York on
June Is last in the cases against
n