Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-11-03

prlsonment, was reve rsed and the case
was remanded for re-rial by the Mis-
souri, supreme court April II last
A special effort is being made bv all
attorneys concerned in this trial to
make speed A force of deputy mar
shals worked serving the last of the
zoo special veniremen from whom the
jury will be selected. 1t was thought
the jury would be filled by the end of
this week. The entire trial will last
not more than three weeks, it is be-
lievfd -
CINCINNATI, oHIO-The Farm.
ers' and Merchants bank Of Vandalia
ILL.,, has filed it's appeal in the circuit
court of appeals against the verdict
given against it in the federal court of
Michigan. 1t brought suit in that
court against former Sheriff Harrison
w. Mains of Port Huron, seeking to
recover $11 ,431 from him as damages
1t was the banks claim that the
sheriff, in making an execution levy
for the bank, had failed through
negligence to attach enough property
when he might have done SO, with the
result that the bank was loser to the
amount sued for The Michigan court
and jury decided in favor of Mains.
WASHlNGTON-The freight rates
on both fresh and cured meats and
other packing house products from
Cedar Rapids, Ia. to eastern destina-
tions must not be greater after Dec 1
noints han those from Missouri river
this effect was mSdeago. An order to
commerce commission in the case of
T. L. Sinclair & Co. of Cedar Rapids
against the st. Paul and other rail
roads Complainant showed that the
rate on live hogs from Iowa points to
the east is lower than on dressed hogs
and hog products.
NEW YORK-The federal navy yard
shops and commissary department of
the army in New York city are to be
the subject of an examination by the
congressional committee which is in
yestigating government properties in
this section of the country. The COM
mittee, which is composed of Congress
men Redfield of Brooklyn, w. B. Will
son of Pennsylvania and John Q. Til
son of New Haven, began its investi-
cation of the Taylor and other systems
of scientific management as applied
to government shops in Boston last
week.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.-The health
officers of this city confessed that
they could not say when the diph-
iberia epidemic is to be crushed out.
Cultures taken from the throats of
teachers and children in the public
and parochial schools show that the
disease is far from abating and the
health authorities ordered parents to
keep at home children unedr sixteen
Orders have been issued for the
closing of all theaters, picture shows
and other places of amusement to
children
PEKIN, CHiNA-Sheng Hsuan Huai,
the minister of communication in the
present cabinet, has been dismissed
and Tang Shao vi, his predecessor in
the same office, was reappointed. 1t
was the railway naturalization policy
of Sheng Hsuan Huai which in large
degree led to the present uprising. A
resolution was introduced in the ma
tional assembly demanding his i'm
peachment and dismissal. Some of
the radicals in the legislative body
demanded that he be executed.
PEORIA, ILL.-About two thousand
school teachers from nineteen counties.
composing the Military Tract Educa-
tional association, attended the fourth
annual convention of the association
The principal addresses were given
by J. N. Hurry, M. D., secretary OF the
state board of health or Indiana, and
William H. Allen, director of the
bureau of municipal research, OF New
York city.
LOUISVILLE, kY.-A large special
suffrage car" equipped for long dis
tance travel, bearing a number of wo-
man suffrage speakers and carrying a
never failing supply of suffrage liter
ature, will tour the country shortly,
according to information given out in
this city. Arrangements for financing
the enterprise were made during the
recent convention.
LAFAYETTE, IND. - Charles w.
Fairbanks, former vice president OF
the United States, has accepted an IN
vitation to speak at the centennial OF
the battle of Tippecanoe and has been
selected to preside at the evening
meeting the night of Nov. Z.
ROME-An official army bulletin
reports that the Turks lost 400 killed
and more than 800 wounded at Ben
gazi. It is further reported that the
Turkish troops, which retired in dis
order inland, are trying to rally.
MEXICO CITY, MEX.-Official no
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