Lower coast gazette., 1910-03-19
NATIONAL NEWS.

Corporations in various sections O
the country are sending in briefs to tn,
U. S. Supreme Court claiming the cor
poration tax law is unconstitutional
John j. Hinson, a ten year old boy
of Pensacola, Florida, stuck a wire mai
in his foot March 4, and died Of lock.
jaw March 8.
The U. S. Department of Justice
filed on March 8, a thousand page brief
with the U. S. Supreme Court in sup
port of its petition that the Standard
Oil be dissolved as in violation of the
Sherman antitrust law.
Secretary of State Knox is meeting
with opposition in all of his attempts
to enlarge the Oriental field for Ameri-
can exploitation. AS a diplomat the
honored secretary does not seem to be
an unqualified success.
U. S. Senator John w. Daniels of
Virginia was stricken with paralysis at
Daytonia, Florida, but is reported as
recovering.
The Mississippi legislature is consid-
ering the formation of a. new county
out Of parts of Greene and Jackson
counties.
Evidences of bad faith seem to be
piling up against Secretary Ballinger
in the Ballenger-Pinchot inquiry now
under way in Washington.
Twenty-Five thousandfir emen on west
ern and southern railroads have voted a
strike if not granted an increase in
wages.
Ex-senator Gordon, who for two
months represented Mississippi in the
U. S. Senate, while a successor was
elected to succeed the late A. j..
McLaurin, has returned to Okolona,
Mississippi, after making an almost
royal progress home. Senator is an Old
confederate soldier and a gentleman of
the old school and completely captivat-
Washington.
Appeals for arbitration are being
made in Philadelphia on the Transit Co.
order to settle the street car strike,
all the industries of the city are be-
damaged.
Sunday, March 20, has been fixed in
National House of Representatives
n Washington as the date for deliver
ng the eulogies on the late Represent
ltive Robert Davey Of Louisiana.
Chas. K. Hamilton, while giving an
aviation exhibition in a Curtiss biplane
1t Seattle, Washington, last week, was
INJURED by his biplane turning turtle on
account OF hitting the water in a de-
scent. Hamilton made a miscalculation,
intending in his descent to skim alcng
he surface of a pond, but one of the
,lanes struck the water and turned the
Machine over.
The Virginia legislature, the third of
he states to vote on the income tax
amendment of the constitution, has
'oted it down. The two other state
legislatures that have voted are those
+ Alabama, which accepted the amend
nent, ard that of Georgia, which turn
d it down.
The central labor union in PhilaGel-
hia, in order to show the strength of
rganized labor, has ordered all the
lilkmen, bakers, grocery clerks and
Their employees in food supply houses
0 quit work and to remain away from
FORK until the street car strikers
r~ievances have been settled.
An explosion of gas in a shaft of the
and Wilkesbarre Coal Co. near
filkesbarre. Pa, killed seven men.
The Polly, said to be the Oldest
now in existence, having been
uilt at Amesbury, Maine in 1906, will :
e on exhibition at CINCINNATI, Ohio,
MS summer in the Ohio River. i
Senator Cummins of Iowa will lead
lie fight in the u. S. Senate against {
lie presidents railroad bill.
The towboat Aubrey Of the People, j
oal Co. of Pittsburg, Pa. sunk in the
hio river last Monday from an explo-
on Of its boilers. Two are reported
cad, n missing and twelve injured
the result of this explosion. /,