The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-03-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH And WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great Southwest.

The senate committee on COM
merce will take up and dispose of the
Mississippi and Missouri river pro-
jects in the river and harbor bill next
Tuesday. They have been deferred
during the illness of Chairman Frye,
who desired to be present when the
vote was taken.
Frederick Saugrain, the oldest living
native of the Louisiana Purchase,
celebrated his 104th birthday anniver
sary Thursday at Sedalia, Mo.
All danger of strike of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen on 49 western roads
is past. An agreement providing for
settlement of all the points in dispute
was signed by the firemen and railroad
managers.
AS a result of an automobile ac-
cident at 8 a. m. Thursday on the
viaduct in East st. Louis, three men
are in ST. Mary's hospital the bodies
of two men are thought to be at the
bottom of Cahokia creek, which is be-
ing dragged
Proposals to form a national labor
party were discussed at the session
of the executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. The sug-
gestion involves cooperation with the
National Farmers union, body
claiming 100000 members.
A bulletin issued from the bedside
of United States Senator Daniel of
Virginia indicates a slight improve
ment in his condition.
The Kansas Pharmaceutical associa-
tion will hold it's next annual conven-
tion in Saline May "a, 26 and 27.
There will be no statewide strike
called of the union men in Pennsyl-
vania by the members of the State
Federation of Labor executive council,
The delegates are opposed to such
drastic measures, although they will
not be quoted.
The bill for the raising of the battle
ship Maine in Havana harbor, passed
the house late by vote of $50 to 4.
The bill provides that the army engi-
neers shall remove the bodies of the
sailors to Arlington National cemetery.
A $25O,O0O fire Wednesday destroy
ed the Lehigh Valley Coal company's
Mineral Springs breaker, one of the
biggest in Pennsylvania.
Twenty people were, injured, two OF
1Iyhny
train left the track near Bismark, N.
D., Monday afternoon.
That there will be no strike of fire
men on forty-nine western railroads
is the opinion expressed to-day by
railroad officials here, following the
announcement that Charles P. Neill,
labor commissioner and federal medi-
ator under the Erdman law had made
definite settlement proposition to
the representatives of the Firemens
Brotherhood and the railroads.
Officers of the seven brewery
unions in St. Louis have called a
meeting to prepare a new wage sched
ule, which may demand an increase.
Upon the heels of this announcement
all breweries in ST. Louis have sent
out notifications to their customers to
stock up. They assert conditions in
the future cannot be prognosticated.
The American peace and arbitration
league held big banquet in New
York Friday evening, the guests OF
honor being President Taft and for
mer Vice President Charles Warren
Fairbanks
Eli Dewey, II years old, said to be
relative of Rear Admiral Dewey, was
killed by Santa Fe passenger train
at Prowers, Col. He was a wealthy
farmer and came from Vermont many
years ago.
Representative Gillette introduced a
bill in the house of representatives de-
scribing a bundle" as containing 250
shingles inches wide, the bundle to
be 20 shingles wide, with 25 courses
at the end.
Lee Fairchild, at one time president
of the Pieiales club, poet, humorist
and for many years familiar figure
in political campaigns in New York
and elsewhere, died penniless at a
New York hospital of pneumonia. He
was SO years old.
Middle of the road" is the position
President Taft assumed in regard to
the Connon-Insurgent struggle at
Washington.
BY a vote Of to IL the executive
committee Of the Philadelphia Car
mems union, after an all night meet
ing rejected the proposlAon Of the
philadelphia Rapid Transit company,
looking to settlement of the trolley
strike.
# Prof r. +, Benton, principal Of the
Pine Bluff, Ark, high school, COM
mttted suicide at his home by shoot
Ing himself in the head He had been
despondent since the death of his
\ mother, three months ago, and re-
Gently became subject to suicidal
Aqania