The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-05-26
American LEAGUE.
Three-I League.


aeroplane flight from Paris to Cler-
mant-Ferrand, distance of 262 miles,
in six hours. Three years ago Niche
lin offered $4,000 for such a flight
and named other conditions that
caused the offer to be laughed at at
sidered impossible.
George w. Coleman, the $12-a-week
clerk of the National City Bank Of
Cambridge, Mass, pleaded guilty to
looting that institution of $780, 900 and
was sentenced by Judge Hale to IS
years in the federal prison at Allan
ia.
At Kansas City the Uncle Sam, a
pleasure steamer, heavily loaded with
passengers, turned over at the foot Of
Grand avenue in the Missouri river.
The Uncle Sam had just started on an
afternoon trip with $50 passengers.
All were rescued.
Forty-seven workmen were drowned
by the upsetting Of boat in which
a party Of 94 was being carried across
the River Dnieper near Alexandrov-
sky, Russia.
Mrs. Wesley Wright and Mrs. Gena
Heath and six children were drowned
in the Gossatat river near Gillian,
Ark. They were trying to cross the
river in a wagon and in the darkness
did not observe that the river was out
of it's banks.
What is said to be the largest sugar
cargo ever carried by any vessel, and
which is the record cargo from Porto
Rico is being shipped to San Juan for
the United States on the five-masted
Fuller Palmer. She is taking on $4,000
bags of sugar, valued at $50O,OO0.
John Dobinski, young coal miner
from Divernon, ILL.,, who went to Chi
cago to be married, was mistaken for
q hold-up man and shot dead by fou1
policemen.
Many tourists, who had climbed
Mount Wilson to view the comet, were
made seasick by the swaying of the
1eak during the earthquakes which
visited Los Angeles, CAL, and sur
rounding territory.
The supreme court of the United
States denied the petition Of Charles
w. Morse for permission to file a writ
OF habeas corpus.
Closing and sealing the door of a
beer-laden freight car, into which six
tramps had broken and were making
merry, F. w. Hunt, a Colorado &
Southern conductor, attached the cal
TO his train and whirled the vagrant
sextet into Cheyenne, Wyo., where
they were delivered to the sheriff.
John D. Rockefeller, always popula,
among the people of Tarrytown, N. Y.
where he lives, is adding to that POD
ularity this spring by his fondness
Tor taking his friends and neighbors
out driving. Not pleasant day goes
by without the oil king inviting some
OF them, men, women and children. tc
ride with him in automobile or car
riage. and 1t Is safe to say that the in
vitations are seldom declined, for hi.
vehlcles are the best to be had, AMI
the drives around Tarrytown are beau
tiful. Mr.. Rockefeller, before startins
for ride, always dons a paper vest
declaring it great protection agains
colds, and he insists that his guests dt
the same. After the ride he refuse,
70 take back the garments, and conse
quently in nearly every home in Tarry
town may be found a paper vest pre-
served as a souvenir of delightful
ride with the multi-millionaire.
In revenge for the loss of hundred,
0f their comrades in the campaign 70,
the suppression Of the Albanian re
volt, Turkish soldiers are putting t.
death all rebel prisoners and ar,
butchering the noncombatants In tn,
nndefended towns.
James Wallace Van Cleaye. presi
dent of the Bucks Stove and Rang,
company, organizer Of the Citizens
Industrial association, moving spirit O
the st. Louis Manufacturers associa
fion and unflinching foe Of the labo,
unions, died of heart failure at hi.
home In st. Louis.