The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-04-14

which she lett Antwerp Saturday, an
unknown vessel cut the Kate Thomas
in two. The Kate Thomas sank with
all on board, with the exception of
cabin boy, who managed to cling
to a piece of wreckase and was res
cued.
Many church people in Worcester,
Mass, deplore the visit of President
Taft 10 Worcester on the Sabbath day
in connection with celebration.
Some of the Methodist pastors spoke
in terms from their pulpits turning
Taft'S visit 'an outrage to the New
England Sabbath" because he allowed
himself to take part in the secular
parade and meeting"
Gen. William Booth, head of the
Salvation Army, is seriously i'll
at his home in London. He was
seized with fainting spell Mon
day, necessitating the cancellation of
all his engagements for the week
The Mccall bill, providing for the
publication of campaign contributions
and expenses, was favorably reported
to the house by Chairman Gaines of
the committee on election and priv
ileges.
The constitutionality of the Arkan
| sas statute forbidding the drumming
| on trains for business and physicians
bath houses, hotels and boarding
houses was upheld by the supreme
court of the United States.
Four girls were probably fatally
hurt and eight others received serious
| injuries as the result of a fire Mon
day which partially destroyed six
story building occupied by the Cen
tral Steam Laundry, in Chicago. The
girls injured all jumped from the
second story to the pavement.
June Vandervoort, young farmer
living near Perth, Kan, shot and
killed his wife Sunday night Awak-
ing, he heard someone moving about
the room. He got shotgun kept be-
side the bed and fired.
Eight cases of smallpox have de-
veloped near the Puget Sound navy
yard, and in an effort to check the
spread of the disease the county
health officers are taking &yastc
steps. All the saloons, billiard and pool
halls and schools of Charlestown,
Wash, have been ordered closed
Simon F. Antler, wealthy clothier
of Chicago, and his wife Ida, have
been made defendants in a suit for
100000 damages for alleged aliena
tion of the affections of their son, Max
Antler. The suit was filed by Mrs
Sarah Antler their daughter-in-law.
In a public statement Assistan,
Secretary Norton of the treasury de
partment, in calling attention to the
INCREASE in teh treasury balance of
about $7000,O0O during the last ten
days of Marcn, says it is evident that
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law is an ex.
cellent producer of revenue.
All the present and lormer Pitts
burg councilmen, known as the Big
Five,' have now told their storines to
the graft investigation grand july. The
indictment of six banks as corpora
tions and other startling sensations
are expected, and as a result the
graft prosecution is now busily en-
gagged preparing cases for the trials
next week.
Because his discharge from the
army shows he was one of the two
men who captured Jefferson Davis
IN Savannah Ga, forty-five years ago,
John Violet aged 70 years, was re-
leased from the Seattle, Wash, city
Jail on suspended sentence. Violet
was convicted of "bootlegging."
Death in the elecrtic chair was the
sentence imposed upon Lajama Mados
II years old, who shot and killed.
Selig Korn, BANKER, during a raid
on the private bank of Herman and
Selig Korn, in Brooklyn last Janu.
ary. The execution will take place the
week of May 8.
The report OF the interstate and
foreign commerce committee of the
house on the railroad regulation bill,
as amended in the committee, was
submitted to the house. 1t contains
an outline of the changes made in
the bill as originally submitted by
the administration and changes the
amended bill would make in the pre-
sent law.
Fire cars were dynamited in Phil.
adelphia Thursday night. Windows
We're shattered, but no one was in
1ured. The company has offered re-
ward of $500 for the arrest and con.
!, viction of any one placing explosives
on the tracks.
When crowd of several hundred
strikers marched to the big plug
: factory of the American Tobacco Co.
at Louisville, KY, Friday, and at.
tempted to draw out the emploves
the police used their clubs freely and
: in short time cleared the streets
surrounding the factory.
The senate passed the bill giving
state courts concurrent jurisdiction
with United States courts in EN-.