Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-30
GENERAL kE,.iS.

OtPb' " IL WColOOll, VI OILt IL,
United States inspector of stec
vessels, left for Ludington and Il.
waukee to gather further informet
concerning the loss of Pere Marqrt
car ferry No. Is, which founde
Lake Michigan with a loss of f.
eight lives. The reports of WI
ten ard w. A. Collins, local irs
at Milwaukee, transmitted tc
Westcott, has been returned t. II
for amplification, it is understC cd
is reported the local inspectors v,
unable to place responsibility for t.
accident.
Congressman Boutell, who was 6e-
feated in the Ninth Illinois district phi
maries, has announced that he would
seek to regain his seat in Washington
by running on an independent ticket.
'1 am still in the running l shall
run independently and 1 shall be
elected" declared Boutell "I'll run
just to spite the newspapers and to
spite them still more, will be elected.
I have only just begun to fight. /
will be returned to Washington and
will continue with the policies which
have thus far marked my career"
The suit at Salt Lake City, Utah,
of Mrs. Anna Bradley to break the
will of the late Arthur Brown, at one
time United States senator from Utah,
will be settled by the payment of $12,.
600 to Mrs. Bradley for her sons.
Brown was shot and fatally wounded
by Mrs. Bradley Dec s, 1906 in Wash.
ington after he had severed his relaD
tions with her. In his will he specif.
ically denied the paternity of the two
children, Arthur and Martin Montgom-
cry, cutting them off without cent.
The forty-fourth annual encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Re
public, at Atlantic City, N. j., may be
the last. The commander-in-chief, Gen.
Samuel Van SAINT, declared that ha
hoped to attend great national en-
campment next year when survivors
of the Civil war, whether they be of
Lees or Grants, Longstreets or Sher.
mans army, should rally around one
great camp fire and hold forth as
brothers and Americans in peace and
harmony. ....
Queen Alexandra may yet become a
royal problem. The lateSt rumor deal
ing with King Edwards widow has
made even court circles gasp. She is
credited with the desire to have a
secondary national anthem" exclu.
sively her own, and as Alexandra is
the sort of person who gets what she
wants, Englishmen are already look
ing forward to the early publication
of God Save Queen Alexandra" as
the song is to be called
Between the heavy losses sustained
through grating officials and dishon-
est-repairing companies and through
having to ship freight at rates which
they say do not yield profit, the Illi-
nois Central Railway company is in an
unhealthy financial condition. accord
ing to testimony of Martin B. Blau.
welt. comptroller of the road, before
the interstate commerce commission
sitting in Chicago.
York city on, the Mauretania for
London, where he goes to superintend
the beginning of the building opera
tions on his new opera house in Lon
don. He will return in a few weeks
Although no announcement has been
made. it became known that Mr.. Ham
merstain had engaged Lima Cavaleiri-
Chanler for his London opera house.
A persistent report that the Missou-
ri Pacific Railroad company had been
robbed of $15O,0O0 by the men charged
with defrauding the Illinois Central
through car repair graft at Sheffield,
Mo-, branch of the Blue Island Car
and Equipment company, was posi-
lively denied by James C. jeffrey, in
terstate commerce attorney for the
Missouri Pacific.
Vivian M. Lewis, commissioner OF
banking and insurance of New Jersey,
was nominated for governor at the Re-
publican state convention at Jersey
City He received four-fifths of the
total vote cast on. the first ballot, and
when the roll call was completed the
counties which had not already done
so, moved to make the nomination
unanimous.
All of the balloons which started
from Indianapolis, thirteen in number,
have been heard from. The last to re-
port was Miss Sophia, which landed
in Calhoun county West Virginia. w.
F. Assmann, the pilot, reported from
Clarksburg, w. Va, that he landed
many miles from a railroad with less
than two sacks of ballast.
George Chavez. the Peruvian avia-
tor, flew from Brig, Switzerland, over
the Simploni pass in the Alps noun
tains, marking the first successful ne
gotiation of the difficult feat. Chavez
arrived at Dcmolossola, on the Ital-
ian side. but was seriously injured and
his monoplane destroyed in landing.
Supervising Engineer Louckes Of
the corps of engineers making final
surveys for sites on dams, ordered or
about to be ordered for the lower Ohio
river, said that his crew, after two
days work near Henderson, KY, had
found site for dam No. 48 at point
seven miles below Henderson.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt has gone
to President Taft for aid in his fight
against the bosses in New York state.
The conference took place in New
Haven, where Mr.. Taft had gone to at
tend a meeting of the Yale corpora
ton.
Gen. Samuel Crocker Lawrence. Most
Puissant Grand Commander of the An
cient, Accepted, Scottish Rite for the
northern Masonic jurisdiction of the
United States, has resigned his Office.
The figures available at the sanitary
bureau show that in the present chol-
era epidemic there have been 191 ,076
c~~ce with S8,716 deaths throughout
Russia.
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