Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-24
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pllshed fhe feat of sailing in his bi-
plane from New York to Philadelphia
and return, winning the $4,000 prize
offered by New York and PHILADELPHIA
newspapers. He left New York at
T43 a. M, and returned to the spot
from which he started at 6:40 p. ii
He was delayed five hours on the re.
turn trip at Perth Amboy, N. j., by O.
broken propeller.
An explosion OF a dynamite bomb
in the hallway of G TIT cvc~--o New
York tenement house. blew out doors
and windows and wrecked the first
floor of the building. The $50 occu-
pants were panic-stricken, but fed to
the fire escapes. Firemen removed a
majority of them by means of ladders
The explosion is believed to have been
the work of the Black Hand.
! Pressure is being brought to bear on
Secretary of War Dickinson for anoth-
er regiment of troops to take part in
the big show on the lake front in Chi
cago on July 4. At least 5000 sol
diers will take part, but 500 more are
required to police the grounds. 1t is
for this duty that the additional reg
iment is asked.
John Wilson, stevedore who works
about the docks in Chicago, was saved
from drowning by William Burke, dock
superintendent of the Graham & Nor
ton Transportation company; Police
man Paul Marquardt, and James Hef-
/ fern, who formed human chain and
drew him out of the river into which
he had fallen.
/ Fire that started on the northern
water front in Seattle, Wash, during
a hurricane in the night swept east
ward into a district thickly covered
with wooden buildings. In a short
time the fire covered twenty acres.
The loss was $1,000,000 and 500 peo-
pie were driven homeless into the
storm.
4 Suit has been begun in the United
States circuit court in Chicago to de-
stroy the Chicago butter and egg
board, as a combination in restraint
of trade. The action was filed by
District Attorney Sims. An illegal
monopoly of the butter and egg mar
ket is charged against the board.
The Frank A. Robbins circus train,
composed of fifteen cars, was wrecked
one mile from Ebensburg, Pa, on the
Pennsylvania railroad. Two lions, an
elephant, one leopard, one hyena, one
ibex and one jaugar escaped as the re-
suit of the wreck and the people of the
vicinity are in a state of terror.
J. c. Mars, aviator, had a fall from
a height of fifty feet with his Curtiss
biplane while making an exhibition
flight at Topeka, Kan. His machine
was caught in a gust of wind while
making a turn and capsized. The BIZ
plane was broken but Mars climbed
out of the wreck unhurt.
Mrs. James Gillett, wife of the Cali
fornia governor, narrowly escaped be-
ing killed in a runaway at Sacramento.
The coachman was thrown from his
seat and severely hurt, while the car
riage, with Mrs. Gillett elinging to the
seat, turned over twice. She was bad
ly bruised.
Postofice inspectors have been or
dered to .Parmerlee, N. NJ, to take
charge of one of the youngest safe
crackers in history. The prisoner,
who has confessed to robbing the safe
in the Parmerlee postoffice, is Mex
ican lad of twelve years.
A Joint resolution originating in the
house and authorizing Illinois, Indiana
and Michigan to agree on the question
of Jurisdiction over crimes committed
on Lake Michigan was adopted by the
senate. 1t now goes to the president
for his signature.
A concerted movement looking to the
entry of w. J. Bryan in the Nebraska
senatorial race was begun when Dem
ocratic leaders of the state prepared
for the circulation of petitions in all
counties asking Mr.. Bryan to enter
the race.
Official dispatches from Managua,
Nicaragua, state that the war is fast
reducing western Nicaragua to state
of panic. The expectation of fruit
products has been prohibited and the
money exchange is rapidly increasing.
Governor B. F. Carroll standpatter,
was renominated for governor at the
Iowa Republican primaries by a ma
iority of about 5000 over Warren
Garst, progressive. The progressives
nominated several congressman.
Basing his estimate on recent re-
ports from the wheat belt of the state,
Charles Harris, director of the Kan
sas free employment bureau, stated
that Kansas will need about 10000 har-
vest hands this year.
Princeton university will receive
about $1,500,000 as result of an
nouncement made at special meeting
of the board of trustees. The con-
troversy over the graduate college is
said to be at an end.
At Harrington, Wash, mob of 100
white men chased all of the thirty
japanese laborers employed in the
plant of the United States Lumber
company out of the town.
] YOnkerS, N. y, is IN the grip OF
trolley strike involving practically all
/ the employees of the Yonkers Railway
company, numbering 325 men.
Three cases of plague have beer dis.
covered among the Russian irlmi
grants who arrived at Honolulu on the
i japanese liner Nippon Maru-
| The Brooklyn Sunday School union
celebrated its eighty-irst anniversary
with parade of children and teachers
to the number of 10000.
! Secretary of War Dickinson has
started a tour of the world He will
! visit the Philippines, Japan and sever
al other countries.