Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-07-22
GENERAL NEWS,

Divine, on MoTningside Heights, re-
straining the joint district council of
New York of the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners and the
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters
and Joiners from interfering with the
work on the cathedral, has been made
permanent by Judge Ward of Tic
United States circuit court.
Henry Dexter, the millionaire pre-
fdent of the American News company,
who died at his home in New Yo.i;
the other day in the ninety-eighth yeat
OF his life, passed the greater part c
the last seven years in an unavailr
search for the murderer of his S.
Orlando P. Dexter A reward of S10-
600 offered by Mr.. Dexter for the az
pIehension of the murderer is Sc
to be continued in a codicil to I'll,
nonogenarian's will
Only two members of Presi6~-
Taft's cabinet are in the capito
the nation sitting on the liz q"
as former President Roosevelt dee:g-
mated this summer assignment. On
Postmaster General Frank H. Hitch
cock, the ranking officer of the two
here, devolves the duty of being tho
head of the government in Washington
at present. The other member of the
cabinet in Washington is Secretary Of
the Navy Meyer.
Although no formal announcement
as been made it is the understanding
of the friends of Miss Mary Mannering
the actress that she will be married
soon to Frederick w. Wadsworth, the
wealthy business man of Detroit, Mich
ASKED about The report, Miss Manner
ing herself said that any announce
ment of her approaching marriage was
premature but would say nothing
further.
Porter Charlton, who is at the pres
ent time under arrest at Hoboken,
y. j., charged with the murder of his
Vie, Mrs Mary Scott Charlton, at
! Gle Como, Italy, will not be surren-
deged in response to the request made
By The Italian government for his ex-
tradition to Italy for trial. The inten-
tio1s of the officers of the state de-
rartDent is to decline to surrender
aim.
Fifty Sharpsville, Pa, excursionists
were taken i'll on a train while return
Ing from Conneaut Lake and a half
dCZcr physicians had to be summoned
or TIE arrival of the train at Scranton.
The symptoms displayed, according to
tie physicians, were like ptomaine
poisoning, and were caused, they say,
b. eating ice cream. None of the cas-
es has resulted seriously.
Many Of New York fashionable folk
made their way to Garrison-on-the-
Hudson for the marriage of Miss Isa-
bel Mildred Dick, daughter of Mr.. and
MIS- Evans R. Dick, to Stuyvesant
Fish Jr. 1t was one of the summers
most important weddings, attended by
a Ia-ce contingent from Philadelphia,
fC1Eer home of the brides parents.
Customs officers at New York have
been warned to watch for the dia-
monGs, valued at 100000, smuggled
from LuCeritz Bay in the German
province of Southwest Africa. The
first reports were that the smugglers
were aboard a German liner, but now
t eIe aTc svs1iciors that the diamonds
VIII lie carried to New York.
jGr1nc~e immigration to the United
States las decreased considerably
since the strict enforcement of the
JGpanese-American agreement. Ori-
entail immigration companies have suf-
fered considerably, and several have
been disorganized. These facts are
given in a report received at the state
department in Washington.
Glenn Curtiss added more laurels to
his already formidable title to king
Of the Air" by setting a new Ameri-
can record for a fifty-mile aeroplane
fight at Atlantic City, N. j. He
covered . half-hundred measured miles
in five-mile laps along the beach in
elapsed tine of l hour IA minutes SO
seconds.
Scotl: nd Yard cabled the police of
the United States requesting the ar
rest Of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, an
American Physician, who is wanted in
connection with tie death of his wife,
Belle Elmore, an actress. The case
is strikingly similar to the Charlton
murder at Lake Como Italy.
A sharp earthquake was felt at
Munich, Bavaria. The walls of several
buildings were cracked. The wavelike
movement continued three seconds,
terrifying the people, who fed from
their homes and remained in the
streets long after the disturbance had
ceased.
Two lives were lost, scores of per-
sons were injured, $50 horses burned
to death and damage amounting to
half a million dollars wrought in a fire
on the edge of the business district
of Portland, Ore The fire started in
the big exposition building.
At New York a sentence of twenty
days in Jail, the record penalty in that
city for the offense, was imposed upon
J. l. Heald, doorkeeper for moving
picture show, for admitting an unac-
conlpanied minor to his place.
The interstate commerce commits
sion announced that the recently filed
tariffs. making advances in the freight
rates On cattle and dressed beef be-
tween Chicago and New York, had
not been suspended.
Colonel jorge Valera, a mulatto, and
six OF er persons, most of them col
ored, we're arrested in Cuba by the
cec~et police charged with conspiracy