The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-05-19

'iculture college for extension work.
That former Vice-President Fair
banks has been officially offered the
post of ambassador extraordinary to
Great Britain is accepted as prob
ably authentic. By coincidence the
news reached Mr.. Fairbanks on his
Fears that heavy loss of life has fol-
lowed serious typhoon, which swept
the entire Kobe district, were ex-
by officials at Kobe, Japan.
The wreck of one steamer, carrying
passengers from Osaka to Nagova, is
reported. In addition to large crew.
SO passengers were aboard and all
We're reported lost, although this lacks
confirmation.
Robert McCray, wanted in Texas,
Missouri, Georgia and Virginia on
charges of issuing bogus checks, is
under arrest at Buffalo, N. Y. Sheriff
Henry Peitz of Crawford county, Mo-,
has gone to Albany for extradition pa
pers.
The erection of reviewing stands
along the route from Westminster hall
to Paddington station. the line of the
funeral procession of King Edward,
has begun.
At Central Falls, r. l., 500 employees
of the United States Cotton mills were
thrown out of work by strike of
1On 0f
cent in wages. The entire plant has
closed down.
Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, in a
collision between her automobile and
Madison avenue trolley car, in New
York City, received a bruised arm and
Is under the care of physician.
Miss Helen Jorowski, pretty girl
Of Philadelphia, who was to have been
married to Peter Horoney, was sold
by him for $40 to Alexander Papusis
few hours before the weddinx and
she was married to the purchase.
Five children were frigbtfully
burned and three of them may die as
result of gas explosion THAI oc-
CURED in the home Of William Moran
in Buffalo, N. Y
The New York stock exchange will
be closed for two hours on Friday,
May 20, the day of the funeral of King
Edward. The usual opening hour OF
10 O'Clock has been put off until noon.
The superior court at Pittsburg re-
fuses to quash the appeal of Helen
Boyle, convicted accomplice in the
Billy Whitla kidnapping, as demanded
by Assistant District Attorney Leinin-
ger Of Mercer county, where she was
convicted. The case was continued un-
til October.
Geo. Cooper, a prominent farmerof
Thompson, Mo-, returned home after
an absence of 10 days, during which
time the farmers in his section had
raised a purse for an investigation
concerning his mysterious disappear.
ance. He does not remember where
he had been.
A boy was killed, seven were in
jured, none fatally, and 40 others
were thrown into the water when a
suspension bridge over Center creek
in Lakeside park, Carthage, Mo-, col.
lapsed.
A great brush field surrounding the
plant of the General Explosives COM
pany at Hull, Canada, is being
searched for fragments of human
bodies. following a terrific explosion
in which Is persons are known to
have been killed, a score of others in.
jured.
In pistol fight on a public street
at Cordell, Ca, between Bowen, Ed
ward and Herbert Mercer, brothers,
on one side, and Grady Snelgrove on
the other, Snellgrove and William
| Benton, a bystander, were killed. Ed
ward Mercer was wounded
Returns from Spain's elections in
81 provinces show the following re-
suits: Liberals, "a; Conservatives, 35;
Republicans, 95; Socialists, /; Carl
| lists, 6.
| In the face of typhoid fever epi-
demic, due to impure water supply at
Madison, students at the University
vi WloSOHSlu dTS uTlUklnS peer IN
place of bacilli-laden water from city
artesian wells
Robert E. Peary gave his polar lee
ture at the Casino in Berlin under
the auspices of the Berlin Geographic
cal society. About 200 members were
present. He greeted, among other
distinguished men present, Count Zep-
pelin, upon the mention of whose
name the greatest ovation of the eve
ming occurred.
Professor Uchermann of Christi
ania, after examining Mr.. Roosevelt's
throat, said that it's condition was
only such as was natural after the
strain of being overworked for six
weeks.
The income tax resolution was
killed in the lower branch of the Mass
a chusetts legislature by vote of 1O2
to l76 on the question of substituting
1t for an adverse report of commit
tee.
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