The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-04-21
NEWS Of The WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF. THE WORLD
TERSElY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great Southwest.

mite exploded at Kobe, Japan, Thurs
day, doing great damage. A similar
explosion occurred few days ago.
Houses were destroyed, vessels in
jured, and it is believed several were
killed.
One woman was killed and two 9th
er persons were fatally hurt when
motor car, in which they were riding
was struck by southbound New
York, New Haven & Hartford train
near Meridian, Conn.
Sultan Mehamed suspended all audi
ences on account of illness. 1t is re-
ported he has symptoms of appendi-
citis.
Three are dead, dozen or more in
jured and it is feared six or eight
bodies are under huge pile of wreck
age resulting from the derailment of
Northern Pacific train at Hangman
Creek, Wash, just outside the city
limits.
Officers of the state department are
of the opinion that prohibition of the
expectation of pulp wood cut on crown
lands in the province of Quebec will
seriously hamper and interfere with
the prospective treaty negotiations for
the close trade relations between the
United States and Canada.
1t is said that the pope has struck
Off from the list of candidates for the
cardinalte all Americans, including the
archbshops of New York, ST. saul,
Chicago and New Orleans. The chan
celery of the VATICAN confirmed this,
without volunteering an explanation.
A. B. Harris, governor of Louisiana
just after the close of the civil war,
died Wednesday at his home in Chi
cago.
Letters received from Cristobal,
Panama, say that on March 81, Sam
uel Barnes, a marine on the cruiser
Tacoma, fell overheard and was car
ried under by a mammoth shark.
A jury in the United States circuit
court in New York refused to allow
Attorney Clifford w. Hartridge, one
of the attorneys for Harry Thaw, in
his trial for killing Stanford White,
one cent damages in the suit he
brought for $4,000. Judge Holt at
the same time ordered perjury and
disbarment proceedings to be brought
against Hartridge.
A bill appropriating SCI, 900 for re-
paying TO private citizens of that sum
a1Nn fo, hn Of
len NJ Stone, the American mission
ar who was abducted by Bulgarian
brigands in 1901, was passed by the
senate.
At Meridian, Miss, after having
killed ex-Sheriff J. R. Temple, Jail
er, in a battle in the prison, Tom
O'Neil, a negro desperate, who shot
and then, before he died. taken by a
mob of 1000 men and boys, strung up
to a telephone pole and lynched.
The Maryland Steel company has
announced 6 per cent advance in
the, wages of it's employees at Spar
rows Point.
The last shot on the great Gunni-
son tunnel, which President Taft ded-
icated last September, was fired Mon
day, and the only work that remains
to complete the irrigation project for
the Uncampahgre valley is the con-
creting.
Fire broke out in the Julien hotel
at Dubuque, Ia, early Monday while
200 guests were asleep. A panic fol-
lowed and number of persons were
injured. Sam Levy of Chicago was
fatally injured by jumping from a
third story window.
The body of an unidentified man,
believed to be John Wolf of Ottawa,
Ill, with bullet wound in his head,
was found floating in the Illinois river
Tuesday. Three feet from the body
was dead dog, also with a bullet
wound in it's head.
Charles Beech, a strike breaker at
Elwood, Ind. was shot and perhaps
fatally wounded in fight between
striking employees of the tinplate mills
and the strike breakers. Other shots
struck two bystanders, slightly injur-
Ing them
The military court of inquiry, which
during the last year has been investi-
eating the shooting up of Brownsville,
Tex, finds the evidence clearly sus-
tains the charge that the shooting
was done by soldiers of the Twen-
ty-hfth Infantry, a negro regiment.
Mrs. Carrie B. Walsh the widow,
and Mrs. Evelyn B. Mclean, the
daughter, received practically the en-
tire estate Of the late Thomas F.
Walsh, whose will filed leaves 500, 900
to charity. The estate is estimated at
from $S,000,O0O to $1O,O0O,OOO.
Two masked bandits boarded the
Pioneer Limited on tho Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul, northbound, be-
tween Tomas and Oakdale, Wis, ear
ly Friday morning, and, after a battle
with Conductor Schumway, cut the
air hose, but fed when the train
stopped without securing any loot.