The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-03-24

the Bay of Fonseca for three months
sails for Panama, leaving the domin-
ion of Zelaya free of the threat of
American armed forces.
Consul Junior the so-caled educat-
ed chlmpanzee, who was dressed and
taught to act like man, died at Dal-
las, Tex, of bronchial pneumonia after
an illness of four days. Consul was
valued at $4,000 and was insured
with London insurance company
for that amount.
The financial loss in the United
States caused by tuberculosis in food
producing nimals amounts to S24,OOO,-
600 annually, according to DR.. A. D.
Melvin, chief of the bureau of animal
industry of the department of agri.
culture
At Hamilton, Ohio, Miami university
students dynamited and destroyed the
large fountain recently presented to
the university by H. S. Thobe, an Ok.
| ford contractor.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook Is on his way
back to New York from South Amer
| lea, according to statement made
by friend. 1t is said he has even
cabled the Waldorf Astoria to reserve
a suite of rooms for bimsef and wife
Jack Cudahy, the Kansas City mil
lionalre packer, whose affray with
Jere Lillis, the Kansas City banker
and club man, whom he found in COM
pany with his wife, is keeping in Sc
clusion at the home of Joy Morton, in
Chicago
The record price paid for cattle in
west Texas this year is reported in
the sale of 1900 three and four-year-
old steers at Mason, Tex, and 500
three-year-olds and upward steers at
Brady, Tex, for $32 80 fiat
The National Packing company lost
its fight to hide the minutes of its di-
rectors' meetings from the Hudson
county, n. Y, grand jury Monday
when Supreme Court Justice Swayze
at Trenton signed an order for the
production of the records.
President Taft Monday sent to the
senate the name of William S. Ken
yon of Fort Dodge, Ia, as assistant to
the attorney general, vice Wade Ellis
of Ohio, recently resigned, to become
chairman of the Ohio State Republi-
can executive committee
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, is to take
up his residence in San Francisco i'm
mediately after his marriage to Flea
nor Butler Alexander, which probably
will be in June.
Former Vice President Charles w.
Fairbanks and Mrs. Fairbanks sailed
for New York from Liverpool, Satur
day, on the steamer Mauretania Other
passengers were Rear Admiral Gar
cla, president of the Argentina naval
Scott of the British navy, anG Sir
Robert w. Perks.
Whether or not the coal miners of
the southwest, numbering more than
$4,000, in Missouri, Arkansas, Okla
homa and Kansas, will go on a strike
at the expiration of their contract
with their employers, April l, or re.
cede from their demands, will be de-
cided at the national convention of
the United Mine Workers of America
in Cincinnati this week.
James A. Patten, the Chicago spec
ulator, who was jostled and driven
out of the Manchester Cotton ex-
change, sailed Saturday from Liver
pool for New York on board the
steamer Mauretania. The English
press, generally strong fer law and
order, extends no sympathy for Mr..
Patten in his Manchester experience.
The state supreme court at Topeka,
Kan, held that a saloonkeeper in
Kansas cannot recover more than
nominal damages in the event that
he is mobbed and his property de-
stroyed.
The recent raids on blind tigers"
in Danville, Ky, and vicinity have re-
suited in arrests, with convictions in
l55 cases and fully hundred more to
be tried. Fines already assessed for
violation of the liquor laws aggregate
$4,000, and workhouse sentences
amounting to 1000 days have been i'm
posed.
Suspension of work in the Illinois
coal mines is practically certain, ac-
cording to a statement made bv Dun
can Macdonald, president of the Hi
nois miners organization. The shut
down will take place April l, through
lack OF agreement between the miners
and the operators at joint scale con-
ference held in Chicago.
Aviator Lorraine was probably
FATALLY injured in a forty-foot fall of
the Bleriot monoplane in which he
was flying at Pau, France. The
machine was smashed.
Aired Davis, a negro pensioner of
theodore Roosevelt, died Thursday at
Oyster Bay, l.. l., at the age of 1O2
years. He entered the employ of Col
Roosevelts father upwards of fifty
years ago.
Religious hostility Friday resulted
in battle with knives, revolvers and
rifles, in which II were injured, some
fatally at the village fair at Carral