The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-02
Wire Flashes

A severe earthquake occurred at
Agde, France.
Ati-foreign riots have again brok-
en- out in China.
Ex-President Roosevelt spent
quiet week in England.
J. P. Morgan left Paris for Lon
don in his usual health.
DR.. Robert Koch, the famous Ger
man scientist, died at Berlin.
The exodus of Jewish families
from Kiev, Russia is in progress.
The Madriz forces captured the
custom-house and bluff at Bluefields,
Nicaragua.
William Seyler. charged with the
murder of Jane Adams at Atlantic
City, was acquitted.
Ten thousand miners are involved
in the strike in Pennsylvania coal
mines, where rioting took place.
The Nicaraguan steamer Venus
searched a schooner flying the Amer
lean flag near Bluefields, Nicaragua.
According to a cable from Lon
don, it is practically settled that
Lord Kitchener will be the next Vic
eroy of India.
Tie United States grand jury at
Montgomery, Ala, has been investi-
eating the alleged Shreve bankrupt
cy frauds.
Cambridge University (England)
conferred the honorary degree of
doctor Of laws on Ex-President
Roosevelt
A deputation from the British
group Of the interparliamentary I'm
ion was received by Roosevelt in Lon
don last week.
The French submarine boat Plu-
viose was sunk in collision with
the steamer Pas de Calais in the
English Channel. Twenty-seven lives
were lost.
The steamer Frank H. Goodyear
was sunk in a collision with the
steamer James B. Wood on Lake HUI
ron last week. Eighteen lives were
lost.
Appropriations of more than $780,
900 were made by the General Eduoa-
ton Board in New York for the en-.
dowment of various colleges for work
In the south.
The steamer Skerryvore and the
German bark J. G. Vinnen collided
in the English channel and twenty
two lives were lost, the Skerryvore
having been sunk.
A. E. Cliff was appointed general
of the Illinois Central, with head
quarters in New Orleans. succeeding
H. McCourt, resigned.
The plant of the Hooker Develop
ment Company, one Of the largest
chemical concerns in this country,
was destroyed by fire at Niagara
Falls. Loss 100000.
The North Presbyterian General
Assembly practically exonerated the
New York synod in the Black heresy
case. The report of the judicial COM
mittee was compromise.
The British bark Swan Hilda was
wrecked on Staten Island, in the
southwest extremity of TERRA del
Fuego, and Captain Pyne, his wife
and thirteen others were drowned.
Governor Hughes called an extra
ordinary session of the New York
Legislature for Monday, June 20.
His action resulted from the defeat
of his district primaries measure In
the closing hours of the present ses-
sion.
France and Great Britain submit
ted to the Governments of Russia and
Italy, the other two protecting pow
ers, proposition to invite Crete to
admit Mussulman deputies to the
Cretan Assembly and thus restore
the status quo.
Archbishop Glennon, addressing
the immigration Congress at Ironton,
Mo-, declared The situation in the
cities portends bloody revolution. He
says twenty millienaires hold most
of st. Louis wealth, while 10000
slaves make a bare living.
Pending an investigation OF
charges against him, Chief Of Police
Frederick Kohler, who has national
reputation as the golden rule" chief
of police of Cleveland, Ohio. was sus-
pended by Mayor Baehr. The charges
filed accused the chief of misconduct
in Office and of immortality.
The entire trolley system of the
United Traction Company in Albany.
N. Y, has been tied up by strike.
The strike was declared owing to a
disagreement as to the Rensselaer,
trolley crews running their cars
through Albany to the circus
grounds.
John Boil, alias John Chapman,
who while under sentence to death
escaped from the county pest rouse
at Mobile, Ala, where he was recov-
ering from smallpox, was captured