Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-08-18
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nuge frame VIII rest has been prepar-
ed, the travelling cranes are in posi-
tion and worlmen are placing in posi-.
ton the plates that are to form the
outer bottom of the $4,000 ton battle
ship. The keel will be laid with simple
ceremonies early next month and a
year later some young woman, to be
designated by Governor Dix, will
smash a bottle of wine on her bows
and christen her. Early in tho fall of
1913 the New York will take her posi-
tion as the flagship of llc Atlantic
feet.
AT Chicago Tuesday an alleged at
tempt on the part of four boy inmates
to burn the Uhlich Evangelical Luth-
eran Orphan home, 2014 Burling street,
where more than 100 children arc
kept, became known when a report
of the affair was sent to the fire at
torney's Office. More than $500 worth
of damage was caused by the ffames
before they were checked by fircmen
The boys are said to have set some
debris ON the fourth floor of The place
on fire because they were not allowed
to so to Lircoln rark, daily privilege
Of which they lad been deprived as
punishment.
The military value of the cavalry
branch has been enormously increas.
ed by the adoption of wireless tele
graphy, for the first time in this coun-
try thoroughly tried out in the Texas
maneuvers. The signal corps had de-
vised an extremely light and portable
wireless apparatus, easily carried on q
back of horse and capable of being
put into operation from any point in
the fed within few mi. utes. II
was found that the messages can be
reliably received when the cavalry
detachment was anywhere within
twenty-five miles of a receiving sta
ton
Captain James Watson, the re
cruiting officer at Indianapolis, Ind
informed the war department that he
holds affidavits charging a private
George Peters, WITH being an Austrian
secret agent. The department is con
sidering the charges with view tt
determining upon a course of action
This is the first case to be brought
up under the law passed at the last
session OF congress to prevent the dis
closures of national defense secrets
This act is bread in it's provisions and
is applicable to all attempts to secure
military information improperly.
London docks were practically under
mob rule, with the result that there
was such a dwindling of food supplies
that the metropolis experienced some
thing akin to what might happen if q
hostile foreign force should succeed In
interrupting Great Bfitain's trade
routes. Unless progress is made in the
negotiations looking to a settlement
of the strike of dock workers, the
calling out of troops seems inevitable
as the police are unable to deal will
the emergency.
At Washington Thursday the stee
trust investigating committee at an eX
ecutive session decided rot to press a
this time questions of campaign con
tributions, in connection with which
George W. Perkins of New York, a di
rector of the United States Steel cor
poration. was threatened with con
tempt proceeding before the house o
representatives The committee de
cided to compel the Steel corporation
to produce the books of subsidiary com
panies.
At Hammond, Ind, Thursday LAX
Bulatovich, who challenged Rcdoval
Milashovic to a duel to death, inclos
ing two bullets with his challenge
was heavily fined, sentenced to jai
and disfranchised by Judge Riley
The sentence is the first ever inflicted
in Indiana under the statute forbid
ding dueling. The trouble betweel
the men grew out of the dismissal 0
Bulatovich from a secret society.
At El Paso, Tex, Friday James Fl
Conlin, aged fifty, at one time vic
president and general manager of tn
Chicago, Rock Island and Mexic
railroad, a short line since acquire
by the Poc,l Island road, and in 1870
SUPERINTENDENT of the Rock Islam
terminal elevations in Chicago, wa
found dead in room of the Robert
Banner building with a bullet in hi
heart, evidently self-infiicted.
At Washington, the Democrat
cotton revision bill, which just abou
cuts the cotton rates of the presen
tariff law IN half, was passed in tn
house by vote of 202 to 81. Twer
ty-six Republicans, Representaiv
Aiken of New York, who is unclasse
politically, and Representative Berger
the. Socialist, helped to jam the meas
ure through.
Members of congress who claim t
be in possession of knowledge that th
president will veto the statehood bill
instead of permitting it to become
law without his signature, are expect
ing from the White House one of tn
most vigorous state documents tn
president has ever penned.
Great Britain will now commenc
new era in it's history, the hous
of lords having passed the bill curl
ing it's own power, by vote of IL
to ia. There is great joy in the iii
eral ranks over the victory. By tn
passing of the veto bill the creation Q
new Eeers is avoided.
Taft signed the reapportionment bi
| under which the house of represents
tives is increased from 391 to 40
members, with two more when Arizo
ma and New Mexico are admitted t,
the union.
Democrats face possible disruption
of party harmony in house, owing t,
rivalry of Clark and Underwood TO-