Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23
A CHAPTER Robert and Charles
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10 Qeatn at ReynoldSViile, Pa, and
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Caesar
Ferris, were fatally injured, and tie
only other members of the family,
Maud, aged II, and q baby. were badly
hurt in fire which destroyed the
Ferris home.
While attempting to arrest a bunch
OF negro gamblers at Pine Park. Grady
county, Ca, Marshal Prevatt was
wounded and one Of the negroes kill
ed. The marshal, with three deputies,
went out to arrest the negroes, who
resisted them, and began shooting at
the marshal. wounding him through
the hand. One of the negroes was
killed by deputy as he was aiming
his gun at Marshal Prevatt.
Naval Constructor Washington l..
Capps has started for the Philippines
to consider plans for the establish
ment of American Notifications in the
Pacific. He is going to make a careful
study Of the navy yard at Cavite in
Manila harbor and the naval station
at Olongapo, on Subig bay Part of
the general scheme of naval develop
ment in the Pacific is to create an
American Gibraltar at Pearl har5o-
Sixteen Chinese concealed in a box
car were arrested at Ysleta, below Ell
Paso, and two Americans were also ar
rested, charged with smuggling the
Chinese into this country. The car
had hnnn ipOH
baled hay, leaving a space in the mid
die of the car, and into this space the
Cinnamon had been let do xn from the
roof.
Sam Reighley, of Moweaku. H., was
shot and killed at Hot Springs, Ark,
by Patrolman Wiilox Ford, while re-
sisting arrest. Reighley was arrested
Tor being disorderly. 1t is said he re-
Gently inherited considerable money.
and had come to Hot SPRINGS in search
OF his health.
Robbers held UP Cashier ]. Fl. Co.
mer, of the Prue State bank, at Prue.
Okla, at the point of a revolver. took
what money was available and es-
capped. The amount taken has not yet
peen ascertained. Citizens formed a
posse and pursued the robbers.
John J. smyth, a bartender. who
shot and killed his wife and young
daughter at their home in Norfolk last
August, was electrocuted in the peni-
tentiary at Richmond Va. Jim Sit
ing, a negro, who murdered 7O-year-
Old white woman in Rockingham last
August, was also put to death.
E. d. Boseman, a farmer about 65
years old, was shot TO death and his
son, Otto Boseman, aged %. badly. if
not fatally, wounded by Coy Blackmar
youth OF % years. at HartsvilIe, s.
&. Blackman made his escape. The
shooting occurred as the result of a
quarrel over the ownership of a pistol.
it is said.
Vice-President Edward Van Wyck
Rossiter OF the New York Central
lines, died at his home in Flushing.
l.. L., OF a complication of diseases.
His life had been despaired of for
several days and his wife and family
were at his bedside. Mr. Rossiter
spent his life in the service of the
New York Central.
The supreme court of the United
States has held that the federal court
of New York had erred in dismissing
certain counts of Indictment against
f. Augustus Heinze, charging mis-
application of funds of the Mercantile
National bank of New York. Fur
ther proceedings must now be had
in the lower court.
Mrs. Lille Easeley, wife of G.. A.
Easeley, farmer residing five miles
from Mobile, Ala, died from the effects
of burns received while trying to light
fire with a can OF kerosene. The
oil touched live coal and the can
exploded. She was almost cooked
from her waist down.
A dozen passengers were injured on
the Hudson Valley railroad. north of
Scnuylerville, N. Y, when a passen-
ger trolley car crashed into two freight
cars which had broken from an elec-
trio engine. None of the passengers
escaped injury, although there were
no fatalities.
During fisticuff at Grand Prairie,
Tex, between DR.. o. B. Nicholson,
local dentist, ard Hugh Foster, an 49,
year-old youth, Nicholson was felled
by blow. In falling his neck was
broken and he died within an hour.
w. L. Egan, of Watonga, member
of the Soutl western Normal football
team, of Alva, Okla, died as the re-
suit of injuries received in a football
game. He suffered a fracture of the
skull.
Seven men walked into tenderloin
gambling club at New York, held
the twenty-five inmates and robB
them of all their money and valuabl IS.
The amount CT the haul is not known
John w. Schaum, formerly part own
er of the Milwaukee Journal, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself
through the head with a revolver. Bus.
mess troubles are assigned as the
cause.
Nearly 100000 damage was done at
Miss, by a fire which ragged
for two hours in the resident section.
Eight handsome residences were de-
stroyed and for time it appeared
that several blocks of houses were
doomed
General Henry Edwin Tremain, one
Of the founders of the Grand Army Of
the Republic, and one of the best
known lawyers of New York, is dea |.
Three weeks ago he passed his seven
-icth birthday.
Francis Fl. Burr, aged "a, who was
'amous as the captain of the Harvard |
oothall eleven of 1908, died at Boston, I
after an illness of two months, of |
Uphold fever. He made an enviab'e
e~utstion at Harvard as an athlete.