Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-10-21
GENERAL NEWS,


1O2 victories and 4S defeats, finishing
81 points ahead of the Highlanders.
The Detroits, who came in third, at
tribrted their failure to weaa pitch
Ing. The Boston Red Sox finished a
poor fourth. The Cleveland's tried
experiments and changes all the year.
and were never seriously considered.
The Chicago White Sox got such a
poor start that in spite of fine brace
near the end of the campaign, they
could not overhaul the Clevelands. The
Washingtons, at one time well up in
the race, did better than usual, but
weakened in the last month. The
st. Louis Browns, composed of inferior
material, were never in the hunt.
Popular feeling against the church
Is very strong in Lisbon. The gov
ernment opposes excesses and says 1t
will prevent them, but Quelhaes has
been the scene of shameful vandalism
by mob. The accounts of the origin
of the trouble there, cabled Saturday,
are conflicting. Bomb throwing Of
Jesuits is as vehemently denied on
one side as it Is asserted on the other.
oympathizers with the Jesuits say the
mob attacked the Jesuits without the
least provocation, but they admit that
The Jesuits fired rifles in self-defense.
A disastrous fire broke out in the
elevator at Ann Arbor, Mich, of the
gas works and before it was extin-
guished $4,000 worth of property was
destroyed. Just what caused the fire
is at present unknown, but according
to the theory of one of the employees
load Of coke was dumped In the
screen before all the fire was out of
it. This set fire to the elevator which
was entirely destroyed, and which, In
falling, crushed through the roof Of
the engine room, destroying some Of
the machinery.
Colonel Roosevelt finally did the
trick in st. Louis. He went up in the
air. Like good many others he has
succumbed to the temptation OF flying.
Late in the afternoon at the Kin
loch aviation field, eighteen miles east
Of st. Louis, Mr. Roosevelt made his
first flight with Arch Hoxsey In q
Wright biplane he encircled the field
twice, and remained in the air min
utes and 20 seconds. When he came
down to earth the colonel exclaimed
that it was the bulliest experiment he
had ever had.
At Columbus, Ohio, John R. Mar
ker, chief engineer of the board Of
public works, created a sensation by
filing charges of graft against former
Chief Engineer Charles E. Perkins, for
eighteen years an official, and whom
Mr. Marker succeeded several months
ago by appointment of Governor Har-
mon; Superintendent Charles Hatch
of Akron, and Collector Charles Wat
kins of Waverly, nephew Of George H.
Watkins of Portsmouth, president OF
the state board of public works.
The River Seine, which in January
threatened to destroy Paris, now looms
up in the role of savior In the present
railroad strike. The government has
made arrangements to rush food sup
plies to the capital from the sea. re-
QUESTIONING all tugs, boats and barges
to meet the crisis brought about by
the stoppage of the railroad service |
and to ease the food market, which al
ready is hard hit.
The anniversary of the execution Of |
Professor Francisco Ferrer, founder OF |
the modern school at Barcelona, who |
was convicted of having conspired
against the government, had been
dreaded by the authorities, as the free |
thinkers, socialists and republicans
had planned Ferrer demonstrations
that might easily lead to bloodshed. |
However, no serious disorder occurred |
anywhere.
John Lane, laborer, of Lansing, |
Mich, about forty years old, and uns
married, attempted to commit suicide |
at his home by placing a muzzle Of q
shotgun against the base of his skull |
and then pulling the trigger with q
neck, fracturing the skull and bury |
ing itself in the ceiling. His chances
of recovery are very slim.
The keepers and deputy sheriffs |
who are searching for five convicts
who escaped from Sing Sing prison,
including big Bill'' Green, the fattest
convict in the institution, are now al |
most positive that the fugitives are
hiding in the dense woods on Butter |
milk mountain, which is part of the |
great estate of John D. Rockefeller at |
Pocantico Hill.
Near Belfast, Ireland, Aviator Fer
guson was injured, perhaps fatally,
when he fell thirty feet with his mon
oplane. The accident happened while
Ferguson was making an exhibition
flight at the aviation tourney here.
His machine was caught by gust Of
wind and capsized. Ferguson fell
head foremost with the monoplane on
top of him.
The following ticket was nominated
by Michigan Republicans at Detroit:
Governor, Charles S. Osborne: lieu
tenant governor, John @. Ross; secre-
tary of state, F. c. Martindale; state
treasurer, Albert E. Sleeper; attorney
general, Franz c. Kuhn; supreme
court justice, John E. Bird; auditor
general, o. B. Fuller.
At Santa Ana, Cal, taken un-
awares at the close of religious SER
vices in the Jail, Sheriff Lacy and
Miss Christina Kerl, missionary,
were thrown into cell by two prison
ers, one an alleged murderer and the /
other, forger, and held for nearly an !
hour while the prisoners escaped.
The American Automobile associa.
tion has suspended Barney Oldfeld
and his manager, w. H. Pickens, for /
announcing an unauthorized race with
Jack Johnson at Sheepshead track ON
Oct. 20.