Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-11
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GENERAL NEWS.


Mosher and wife, of Chicago, and NJ
/. Mosher and Mrs Ethel Allen OF
Kansas City. Farmers captured the
bandits" shortly after the robbery had
taken place County authorities say
the youths told them they had planned
an invasion of the south, intending to
commit enough robberies to pay their
expenses, and later go to Wyoming to
establish a permanent haunt.
Police officers at Reno, New, caps
tured S. AuEi, demented Japanese,
whose father is wealthy member of
the Japanese parliament. Auki had
escaped while on a train from E. J.
Cassidy, who was appointed by the
United States government to accom-
pany him from New York, to Japan
Auki is an engineer While travelling
in Switzerland lie became iInbued with
the idea that Lake Geneva could be
made to develop tremendous water
power without ruiniag the beauty of
the lake. He came to the United
States and attempted to gain an au-
dience with President Taft
At New York, Florence Burns
WHdrick, convicted with Edward H.
Brooks OF eXtorting a note for $500
from Charles W. Hurlburt, was SEN
fenced by Judge Grain in general ses-
sions to serve not less than seven
years and five months, nor more than
fourteen years and ten months in state
prison. Brooks sentence was the same.
The woman's lip curled with scorn
when she heard her sentence and at
once she started for the door lead
ing to the prison. She walked so fast
that the keeper who was with her mad
to hold her back Brooks took his SEN
tence dOggedly.
The elections in the Island of Cuba
passed off without disturbances being
reported from any place. The con-
servatives have apparently won in the
province sof Santiago and Matanzas,
but Pinar Del Rio is still doubtful.
The Liberals carried Havana prov
ince, but the Conservatives claim the
city. Returns are coming in slowly
According to the scanty returns thus
far received, the Liberals are winning
everywhere except in Camague. The
claim Of the Conservatives that they
have Won a victory in Havana is
doubtful.
Lecturing at St. Georges Church in
Kansas City, Mo- Colonel Jasper
Ewing Brady, one of the four officers
sent by the government to investigate
the destruction of the battleship Maine
in Havana harbor Feb. IA, 1898, de-
clared the mine which destroyed the
battleship was placed by Cubans to
bring war with Spain and the deliver
ancs OF Cuba. He asserted further
that the information had been sent to
the president and secretary of'War
The annual meeting in New York
city of the trustees of the Pea
body Education Fund drew together
at the Waldorf q body of prominent
men from the north and south, in what
is believed to be the next to the last,
if not the last, yearly meeting of the
men who have had the trust Steps
were taken looking to the formal dis
solution of the board and the distribu-
ton of the remainder of the fund
Colonel Christopher c. Wilson, of
New York City, president of the
United Wireless Telegraph company,
was sent to the Tombs by Judge La
combe on a presentment Of the fed
eral grand jury for contempt of court
in refusing to surrender a ietterpress
book which the board Of directors had
been subpoenaed to produce. Colonel
Wilson will stand committed until the
book is produced.
A workman of the Hase. in Ger
many has achieved the distinction of
becoming the worlds first stowaway
on an airship. Impelled by a long
ing to experience fight through the
air, he crept under a tarpaulin cover
ing the benzine tank Of the Parseval
Kiel He erawled out and apologized
for his presence aboard on the tip.
At Edwardsville, Ind, two in
dictnaepts were returned against John
Burton, professional wrestler, by the
grand jury, charging him with killing
Leo Wentz and Louis A Weibract
Aug. a. Burton, with q strangle hold,
is alleged to have crushed the two
men to death in fight in a vacant
house at Marine, Ill.
The Milan, Italy, correspondent of
the London Chronicle telegraphs
his paper that in accordance with in
structions from Cardinal Merry Del
Val to Cardinal Ritchelmy, archbishop
of Turin, the latter has declined to
off1ciate at the coming marriage of
Princess Clementine and Prince Vic
tor Napoleon. e
Willis F. Counselman of Chicago,
the former broker and club man. sent
to Jail for three months by Judge Chet-
lain for contempt of court in connec-
ton with his alleged fraudulent di-
vorce from his insane wife and his sub
sequent, marriage to Miss Clara
French was released from Jail.
At Greensburg, Kan, DR.. G. H. Buck
was arrested charged with poisoning
his wife Mrs Buck died about two
weeks ago. Her father w. B. Kinsall,
farmer living near Greensburg, says
he has sufficient evidence to make
god the charge.
At New York City, because, as he
alleges, his wife became a victim of
the morphine habit through the un-
lawful sale Of the drug, Ernest c. Bill
ton has brought suit against Norman
A. Littel. New York druggist
At New York in a fire set by
an incendiary Mrs. Samuel Avenor,
wife OF the rabbi of the Lebegeve syn
asogue. rerished in her home, 172 Clin-
ton street