Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-10-28
GENERAL NEWS,
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cambridge Colby, a lawyer, of III
Broadway. A petition in bankruptcy
was also filed against them by Stern,
Singer & Barr, attorneys for a group
of creditors, on the ground that they
committed an act of bankruptcy by
making an assignment Judge Holt,
sitting in the United States court, ap.
pointed Edward G. Benedict receiver
for the firm with bond of $4,000.
No definite figures were forthcom-
ing, but it was stated that their liza
bilities were in excess of $1,000 900.
| 1t is estimated that cash and stocks
which the firm has on hand are in the
neighborhood of $4,000 and that
stocks of customers exceeding 800, 900
are held in trust by the firm.
Cheered by thousands of spectators,
the Olympic, the worlds largest steam
ship, took her maiden plunge at the
shipyards in Belfast. The mon
ster ship is the latest addition to the
great feet of the White Star line.
Exceeding one-sixth of a mile in
length, the Olympic Is nearly 100 feet
longer than any ship now af1oat and,
compared with her, the Great Eastern,
launched in 1858, would seem dwarf.
The exact measurements of the Olym-
pic are: Length over all, 8821a feet;
breadth over all, 92h feet, and from
keel to the top of the tunnels the dis
tance is 175 feet. She has eleven
steel decks and fifteen water-tight
bulkheads.
The federal grand jury in New York
city has handed down indict-
ments charging Benjamin Duveen.
Henry ]. Duveen, Joel ]. Duveen, Jo-
seph ]. Duveen and Louis ]. Duveen
with conspirlng to defraud the govern
ment by undertaking importations of
art objects by means of false and
fraudulent invoices, entries, state
ments, affidavits and other false and
fraudulent devices. At the same time
Henry and Benjamin, the only mem
bers of the firm in this country, were
served with a summons in a civil suit
\ by which the government seeks to re-
cover the value of undervalued impor.
tations for more than $1,0OO,O00
I A fire starting at East St Louis, Ill,
in the Chicago and Alton railway
freighthouses on the river front spread
rapidly to neighboring structures and
caused a loss of more than $500, 900.
The blaze was of no significance
when discovered, but soon spread to
ten tank cars of oil, which exploded,
hurting blazing fluid in every direction.
The oil set fire to the Baltimore and
Ohio freight warehouse. A score Of
oil tanks in the building exploded with
a roar that was heard for miles.
Statistics by Auditor General Fuller
show there has been a startling in
crease in insanity in Michigan since
1892. The total number of inmates in
the FIVE ssylums and the state home
for feeble-minded at present is 7,751,
compared with 2,169 eighteen years
ago. Since 1892 there has been a
steady increase of insanity. The asy-
lums are overcrowded in many in,
stances at present.
Miss Edna Smith of Aurora, ILL.,,
twenty-three years of age, daugh-
ter of the late Captain Charles H.
Smith, president of the Western
Wheeled Scraper company, $2,000,-
900 corporation, was elected member
of the board of directors at meeting
of the stockholders. to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the death of her fa-
theT.
At Shelbyville, Ind, three little
children were seriously hurt when
horses hitched to a school hack be-
came frightened and ran away. There
were sixteen children in the vehicle
Those injured were Nora Bass, 8
years old; Russell Rhodes, 8 years
old, and Garnet Fox. The other chill
dren jumped and were uninjured
Tiffany's mine in New Mexico is the
scene of an Indian outbreak. The
San Domingo tribe of Indians seized
the valuable mine from which Tif-
fany gets it's supply of turquoise and
mined enough of the stone to make
beads and jewelry for their annual
festival of thanksgiving.
At Newcastle, Ind, as the re-
suit of shooting and cutting bee, Ed
ward Gale, colored, has two bullet
wounds in his face, one bullet going
in at the edge of the mouth and COM
ing out at the back of the head, and
Will Duggart is suffering with nuner-
GUS razor cuts.
Fearing riot trouble in Chicago
from the spread of the strike in the
forty-eight tailoring shops of Hart,
Schaffner & Marx. 5000 of whose em
al police and private detectives were
pressed into service to guard the non
union workers who remained at work.
Among the candidates for chief
justice of the supreme court of the
United States whom President Taft is
considering is Associate Justice Ed
ward Douglass White, who is strongly
urged for the place, and President Taft
is giving serious consideration to the
recommendations
The expected trial at Springfield, ILL.,,
of State Senator Pemberton of Oak
land and Representative Clark of Van
dalia, charged with conspiracy in the
letting of the contract last January
for new furniture for the state house,
began in the Sangamon county cir
cult court.
AT st. Louis, Alfred LIE Blanc,
| driving his Bleriot monopiane, with a
S0-horsepower, seven cylinder Gnome
motor, smashed all American records
for aeroplane speed, when he travelled
over the measured mile in So seconds,
-average speed of nearly sS miles an
nour.