Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-26

GENERAL news,


Of 1000 state troops to the capitol
yard Bankers and business men have
raised $12,500 to pay the special dep
uty sheriffs, but the authorities have
been practically unable to enlist dep
uties or special police officers.
An abnormal condition over which
the city of Denver has no control is
given as the reason for the high sui
eide record there. According to a re-
cent report Of tho government Den
yer is fourth in the number of suicides.
City officials say that the high rate is
due to persons in destitute circum-
stances coming to the city in search
of health, becoming discouraged and
ending their lives.
Charles D. Norton of Chicago, Sec
retary to President Taft, according to
rumors which have been current in f.
niancal circles for several days, and
which will not down, is soon to be
made president of the Equitable Life
Assurance society to succeed Paul
Morton, who, according to the same
authority, is to resign to accept the
presidency of the Mexican railroad
Henry c. Frick, the American steel
king Of Pitsburg, has just purchased
Rembrandt's celebrated portrait "a
Polish Cavalier" for 100000. The
price, one that has set art-lov-
ing Paris agog with gossip, is a rec
ord one for a Rembrandt Mr.. Frick
is an art lover and is the possessor of
one of the finest private collections of
the old masters in America.
The two new members of the bench
of the supreme court of the United
States, who have been house hunting
in Washington, have found homes af-
ter a long search and careful consider
alton Associate Justice Hughes has
leased a residence at Twenty-fourth
street and Massachusetts avenue, N.
w, and Associate Justice Lurton one
at 1921 1 street, N. w.
That the state of California is
insurgent in its Republican
politics was proved beyond a doubt
when Hiram Johnson, leading expo
nent of anti-administration doctrines,
swept the field in the direct primaries,
winning his partys nomination for
governor by a plurality that borders
on $4,000.
At Plymouth, Ind, in rear
end collision of two sections of a
freight train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, Joseph Mcfarland, a fire.
man, was probably fatally injured and
John HALEY, conductor; Charles
Moore. engineer, and Clyde Faulkner,
fireman, were seriously hurt.
That Chairman Knapp of the inter-
state commerce commission will be
named by President Taft as one of the
additional circuit judges who are to
constitute the commerce court, and
that he probably will be the senior
member of the new court, is now
strong probability.
A daring pirate vessel is at work
in the waters Of the Pacific along the
upper coast of Mexico, according to ad-
vices received by the department of
war and marine. A war vessel has
been dispatched to overhaul the al
legged robbing craft, which is known
as the Baltico.
fhe forest fires now raging in the
Occur dAlene district in Idaho, espe-
cially in the vicinity of Wallace, Muir
ray and Mullan, are taxing the fight
ing resources of hundreds of men al
most beyond endurance, and the task
of subduing the flames is practically
hopeless.
At st. Paul, Mimi, Frank w. Water
man, president of the Ramsey County
State bank, was given a straight SEN
tence of forty-five days in the work.
house, without the option of a fine, by
Judge Finchout in police court for ex-
ceeding tha speed limit allowed by law
The final step at Chicago in
the organization of the National As
sociation of Rotary Clubs occurred
when national officers were elected at
a session in the Congress hotel. Paul
P. Harris, of Chicago, founder of the
first club, was elected president.
Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of former
President Roosevelt, is roughing it in
Montana, accompanied by Major Hen
ry Fairfield Osborn, famous paleontol-
ogist of the United States geological
survey; Miss Osborn, his daughter;
and party of guides.
An unusual lowering of the water
in Lake Winnipesaukee, one of the
principal sources of the Merrimac riv-
er, threatens to tie up millions Of
spindles in the textile cities along the
Merrimac in Massachusetts and New
Hampshire.
Unless the late run of salmon in
western ard central Alaska exceeds
that of previous years the output of
hackers this season will fall short.
The pack in nearly all districts, ex-
cept Cooks inlet, is far below that of
last year,
President Pedro Montt of Chile died
at Bremen shortly after arriving ON
the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse from New York His death was
caused by heart failure following re-
cent attack OF angina pectoris.
Mayor Gaynor of New York steadily
continues to improve and.seems better
and stronger than at any time since
he was shot by the assassin, Gala
CHER. Danger of infection is almost
passed.
Mgr. Franciscusi Collier, pastor of IS.
Peter and Paul's German Catholic
church in ST. Louis for f1fty-four years,
is dead He was widely known in his
efforts to establish Catholic schools.
General A. j. Warner, one of the
most prominent free silver men of the
country, died at Marietta, O., of the
infrmities of old age.-