Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-03
LEAK5,vIlLE GREENE COUNTY MISS, FRIDAY JUNE B. 1910

NASHVILLE railway. According to the
statement of Engineer Ben Smith. the
woman was accompanied by another
woman, who seized her skirts and
dragged her off the track. But for
this she would have been instantly
killed.
Concealing himself behind q log
with his gray whiskers protruding,
Leroy Roberts, a farmer, of Ripley,
Tenn, succeeded in his undertaking
OF "foolins" his hunting companion,
Estes Montgomery by barking" like
a squirrel. Montgomery in his haste
to kill what he thought was gray
squirrel, pumped one Larrel of his
shotgun at Roberts, who may lose
both eyes as the result of bird-shot
wounds.
Charles C. Dickinson. formerly pres
ident of the Carnegie Trust Company
and a millionaire, died in Roosevelt
hospital, New York City, of heart fail
ure and pneumonia, following a mys-
terious inhalation of poisonous gases
in the laboratory of a friend. Dick
inson was an amateur chemist OF
considerable ability and was wit
Messing some experiments when the
gases overcame him.
A Rockland, Me-, dispatch says that
twenty-five Of the crew of the pas
senger steamer James T. Morse mar
rowly escaped when that ship was
rammed and sunk at her berth by the
steamer Belfast. She went down
within a few minutes after being
struck. The Belfast was but slightly
injured.
TIL negro Jesse Matson, who mur-
dered Deputy Sheriff Scott Taylor,
was captured near Exmoor and lynch
ed by mob near Pelham, Ala. He
was hanged to a tree and his body
literally shot to pieces. MatSon killed
Deputy Taylor near Acton, Ake., fol-
lowing a difficulty over some work
the negro had promised to do.
BY the accidental discharge Of a
revolver he was handling. James
Chapple, aged 10, son of farmer liv-
ing near Bristol, Tenn, was killed,
the ball entering his breast and lodg-
ing near the heart. The youth hur-
ried down the stairway, falling dead
in his mothers arms.
The Hotel Champlain, owned by the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Com
pany, has been burned. The loss is
estimated at $125, 900. 1t was stated
after the fire that there were no
guests in the building and all the SER
wants are believed to have made their
escape.
The home of George keenan,, a
leader in the crusade against the sa-
looms of GAINESVILLE, O., was blown up
by dynamite Although the house
was wrecked, the family escaped
The police declare that the dynamite
was set off by members of the wet"
forces.
Five men, two of them white, are
dead, it is said, as the result of a
race battle on the outskirts of a grove
where a negro picnic was being held
at Bogalusa, La.
The plant of the Hooker Develop
ment company, one of the largest
chemical concerns in this country, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss 100000
NOTES Diplomats at
FROM NATIONS Washington con-
CAPITAL. versant with far
Eastern questions can not speak of
China without being conscious of the
anti-foreign feeling in many parts of
that another great anti-foreign up
rising is gathering in the empire,
which may become even more formid-
able than the Boxer revolution When
duce evidence of the vast unrest in
China they point to the anti-foreign
feeling in Chang Sha, the cancellation
of contracts with fore 'gners, the re-
fusal to grant further concessions,
and, further, the uncompromising at
titude toward foreigners assumed by
Chinese officials recently.
Robed IN a white lace gown that
cost $4,000, Miss Mathilde Townsend
one of the best known girls in Wash
ington's smart set, daughter of Mrs.
May Scott Townsend. was married to
Peter Goelet Gerry, of New York, son
of Mr.. and Mrs Elbridge T. Gerry. of
New York President and Mrs. Taft
and Vice-President and Mrs. Sherman
headed the guests at the bridal cere-
mony.
President Tast has sent to the SEN
ate nominations including the follow
ing: United States judge, eastern
Texas, Gordon Russell. Mr.. Russell
was formerly a. Georgian, and resided
at Dalton, prior to his successful ca
reer in Texas.
J. c. Napier, said to be one of the
most prominent negroes financially in
the South, of Nashville, Tenn, was
rendered a diplomatic appointment by
President Taft He declined. Just
what the position was has not been
announced.
Supporters of the bill to provide
for an issue of $30,O00,O0O in certifi-
Gates of Indebtedness to complete re-
clamation projects, announced that
they would try to place It as rider"
on the administration land withdrawal
bill.
The Cummins amendment to the
railroad bill prohibiting the increas-
ing Of rates by railroads until they
have been declared by the interstate
commerce commission to be just and
reasonable. was defeated by the SEN
ate by vote of 20 to 43.