Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-17

With an initial capitalization of
Railway and Steamboat Company has
been chartered by the secretary of |
state to operate a line Of steel freight |
and passenger boats between Colum- |
bia and Charleston and Georgetown,
s. c., and to build and operate a |
steam railway terminal and ware
house system in Columbia. T. c.
Williams, Of Columbia, the president, |
holds $99,7O0 worth Of the stock, it |
Is said. t.
Liverpool advioes state that with |
view Of determining in the courts |
the responsibility OF banking houses
IN connection with the defective bills |
Of lading alleged to have been issued |
by knight, Yancey & Co., of Decatur.
Ala, some Of the local cotton men !
refused to meet their acceptances
witch fell due on Saturday. on the |
ground that the collateral security was
fraudulent.
A general strike of 10000 to 10000 |
cloak makers in New York city has
been authorized by the Lady Garment
Workers International union, in ses-
sion here. The date and arrange
ments for the strike were left in the |
hands of the special committee, of
which Albert Block, of New York. is
chairman.
In accordance with the wiah Of the
late King Edward, the duke OF Con-
naught will succeed Earl Grey as the
governor-general of Canada, probably
next spring. The duke is first to
make a visit to South Africa for the
purpose Of opening the new parlia-
ment.
Judge w. F. Eve has been re-
elected president, together with all
the other officers, and Albany was Sc
lected as the next place Of meeting
at the annual state convention Of the
State Federation of Good Roads held
at Savannah, Ga. A number Of inter
esting speeches were made.
The American Medical association
has convened in its 65th annual ses-
sion at St. Louis. Delegates from
every state and territory Of the Unit
ed States and many Of the provinces
of Canada are in attendance.
Plans for the erection of 30-story
hotel at the southeast corner Of
on
have been announced. According to
the plans the hotel will contain 1,400
rooms and will cost $5,00O,000.
CRIMES Miss Inez Godbee,
AND the 16-year-old daugh-
CASUALTIES. ter of Council God
bee, living near Mears, in Screven
county, Georgia, was killed in a run
away near the Christian church in Gi-
rard, in Burke county, while return
ing from Sunday school. Her brother
got out of the buggy, leaving the
young lady in it, when the mule they
were driving became frightened and
ran away, throwing Miss Godbee out,
fracturing her skull.
At the 61st annual session of the
American Medical association at St.
Louis a paper by Drs. Isadore Dyer
and Ralph Hopkins, of New Orleans,
was read. 1t asserted that leprosy is
spreading to nearly every state in the
union, and that no concerted method
of caring for lepers is practical. OFF,
cials were accused of neglecting the
public laws.
Three cases of plague have been dis
covered among the Russian immi
grants Who arrived at Honolulu on
the Japanese liner Nippon Maru.
/ The Russians we're brought here from
Siberia to work on the sugar planta
tions. The discovery Of the plague
cases, probably, will result in all the
Russians who came on the Nippon
Maru being quarantined
The Barkentine Good News, of Phil
adelphia, has been lost at sea. Cap
tain Eriksson and her crew Of IL men
have been rescued and are now safe
on board the British steamer Metis,
bound to Norfolk, which signaled this
/ information to the Diamond Shoals
light ship off Cape Hatteras.
]. C. Mars, the aviator, fell so feet
with his Curtiss biplane while making
an exhibition fight at Topeka, Kan.
His machine was caught in a gust of
wind while making a turn and cap
sized. Mars climbed out of the wreck
unhurt. Mars attributed his fall to
an air current caused by a railroad
train.
Henry l.. Funnen, Of Senaca Falls,
was killed and several others serious
" injured when a trolley car of the
Geneva and Auburn railroad Overturn-
ed at Senaca Falls, N. Y. The car
skidded on wet rails near switch
and when the switch was reached the
car left the rails and turned upon its
side.
Will Grow, a young man about 20
years of age, living few miles north
of Mt Pleasant, Texas, fell from a
porch three feet high and broke his
neck. He dropped something on the
ground and in reaching for 1t fell
head first of the porch. In the fall
his neck and shoulder blade were
broken and death was almost instan-
taneous.
In the sight of younger brother
with whom he had gone hunting
young birds, Harry Eulberg, Of Chi
cago, II years old. was electrocuted
by coming in contact with al electric
wire when he climbed a pole to get
a nest. The boys legs were almost
burned of.
While bathing in Hilsborough river.
near Tampa, Fla, Victor Fabler, aged
10. and his brother, Henry Fabler, 16