Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-07-01
GENERAL NEWS,


ney General Elliott M. Major besar
custer proceedings against five meat
packing companies by filing quo war
ranto informations in the supreme
court. The companies attacked are
Armour Packing company, Swift & Co.
Morris & Co., Hammond Packing com
pany. ard the st. Louis Dressed Beei
and Provision company
Captain S. F. Cody, the aviator, fei
100 feet in making a flight at Alder
shot, in England, and was severely in
1ured. His aeroplane was caught In q
gust of wind and, becoming unmanage
able, plunged to the ground. Cody
was pinned beneath the wreckage and
rendered insensible. His most seri
Gus injuries were found to be on the
| head.
| H. E. Honeywell and William Assur
mann, pilots of the balloon Centennial
were forced to descend in the Ken
lucky mountains near Bowen. Five
! hundred and fifty-seven miles of tie
! trip from st. Louis to the coast had
been made. 1t is said that mountain
GERS fired upon the ballonists when
they were high in the air
! The motion of former City Superin
tendent of Schools N. C. Dougherty
of Peoria, ILL.,, now serving a sentence
In Joliet penitentiary for forgery and
embeZzlement of school funds, for a
writ of supersedeas and admittance ia
bail pending the decision of his ap
peal case, was denied by the Illinois
supreme court.
The Frank A. Robbins circus train
composed of fifteen cars, was wrecked
one mile from Ebensburg, Pa, on the
Pennsylvania railroad. Two lions, an
elephant, one leopard, one hyena, one
ibex and one jaugar escaped as the re
suit of the wreck and the people of the
vicinity are in a state of terror.
Abandoning a trip to New Haven to
see his son graduate from Yale, and
announcing that he would stay in the
capital all summer if necessary, Pres
ident Taft began his first open fight
with the United States senate in de.
manding the passage of the postal say.
ings bank bill.
Mrs. James Gillett, wife of the Cali.
fornia governor, narrowly escaped be-
ing killed in a runaway at Sacramento.
The coachman was thrown from his
riage, with Mrs. Gillett clinging to the
seat, turned over twice. She was bad
ly bruised.
Intimate acQuaintances of Thomas
Fortune Ryan, the New York financier,
are deeply concerned over his health.
Mr.. Ryan left on the Mauretania for
an indefinite sojourn in Europe and his
friends understand he is to be under
the care of a physician during his
absence.
Alexander Chittick, president of the
Crescent Medical university in Chi
cago, alleged to sell diplomas, who
was charged with using the mails to
defraud, was sentenced to two months
in the county Jail by Judge Lands in
the United States district court at Chi
cago
A full investigation of the charges
of bribery made against Senator LOr-
inner of Illinois in connection with his
election was decided upon by the sen.
ate committee on privileges and elec-
tions. No report will be made before
next December.
concerted movement looking to the
entry of w. ]. Bryan in the Nebraska
senatorial race was begun when Dem
ocratic leaders of the state prepared
for the circulation of petitions in all
counties asking Mr.. Bryan to enter
the race.
Mrs. Anna Sinton Taft, sister-in-law
of President Taft, won in the appellate
court in Chicago which gave her the
right to take possession of the La
Sale theater. The fight was over the
renewal of q lease.
The Taft administration scored when
the house passed the bill providing
for an issue of $20,O00,O0 of certifi-
Gates of Indebtedness to be used in
completing reclamation projects al
ready started.
The most intense heat ever known
in western Canada was registered.
The thermometer touched 104 in the
shade at some points and it was SO in
Winnipeg Many prostrations were re-
ported.
DR.. Charles F. Aked, pastor of the
Fifth Avenue Baptist church In New
York. has almost wholly recovered
from a long attack of typhoid fever.
He has sailed for Switzerland.
Out of a class of thirty at the Yale
Medical school eleven did not pass the
required examinations for graduation
and have been told that they would
not be permitted to try again.
The bill providing for the publicity
of campaign contributions in congress
sional and national elections has been
added to the list of Taft measures
passed by congress.
/ Two petitions seeking to oust five
meat packing companies from the
state of Missouri will be filed in the
supreme court 5y Attorney General
Major.
/ Governor Judson Harmon was re-
nominated by acclamation in the Ohio
state Democratic convention at Day
ton and irdorsed for president in 1912.
Plans for merging the Chicago Rail-
ways company and the Chicago Con-
solidated Tractien company have been
practically completed.
Secretary Of War Dickinson has
started a tour of the world. He will
visit the Philippines. japan and sever
al other countries.
Mildred Carter, who became Lady
Achoson in London. is the fourth
American girl 10 n.S.rry European Lo-
bleman this year.