Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-02-17

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At Chicago four woll armed mon
held UP ard robbed Rectors rcstau.
rant at 10 o'clock Sunday morning
The restaurant is at Clark and Mon
roe streets, in the heart Of the bust
ness section. The robbers eot he
tween $500 and $4,000 and had no
1 trouble in making their escape. Cash.
Ter j. p. Adams, q waiter and a scrub
woman, were the only persons in the
restaurant -Four men entered lv The
Monroe street door and went di.cctlr
TO the cashiers deck. r'hey the
drew ravolvers and Hands uy" was
ordered. Waiter and woman ve-c
forced to stand with their faces to &
wall with their hands above Their
heads while Adams YVES ordered to
open the safe and hand out its cen
tests. He opened the money box Of
the safe and handed over receipts. es.
timated at between $500 and $4,000.
Adams was then ordered to join his
companions standing face to the wall
ard the four men backed out Of the
place and made their escape.
The senate is now facing the GER
tainty Of vote On the popular elcc-
tiOn Of senators before the adjourn.
ment CT congress. BY slillful maneu-
Vering Senator Rorah succeeded in
having the resolution made the un-
finished business Of the senate.
Hereafter it viii come up automat-
ically every day at 2 o'clock and Sen
ator Borah viii have it in a paria-
nentary position where he can COMPEL
its continuous consideration and ulti-
mately force the senate to a vote.
1t cannot be displaced from its COM
manding position on the senate calen-
dar without a yea and nay vote The
majority that stood back Of Senator
Borah is too large to permit this to be
done. AS Senator Hale expressed it
in his short capitulation speech,
"manifestly the majority of the senate
wants this matter placed before the
body and it would be a waste Of time
to protest further"
Mrs Russell Sage, of New York
city, has given 100000 to Cornell
university, to be used in the construc-
ten Of women's dormtory or col
1ege, according to a statement issued
by President Schmmann The new
building is to be known as the PIu-
dence Risley hall, in memory of the
mother Of Russell Sage, and it viii
house about 115 women students.
This new building, with Sage col
leGe, the dormitOry given by Henry
W. Sare, a number or years ago, viii
take charge Of all Of the goods in the
university who now number 400.
Near Greenwich, Conn, as the re-
suit OF a head-on collision between two
skaters on a pond near Ernest Thonp-
sen Seton's estate at Cos Cob, Fred
erick Brunner, a bank clerk, viii lose
his sight and may die of his injuries
Bruner was practicing for race
and had his head down, going hard
against the wind, when he hit George
Crawford, who wss skating toward
him. 1t being dark neither knew of
the others proximity. Both skaters
were knocked unconscious.
The new commerce court formally
organized in Washington and then 2d-
iouIned until Feb. is. Before adjourn
ment, Presiding Judge Knapp an
ncunced these special appointments:
Clerk, George r. Schneider, at pres
ent clerk of the interstate commission
of the senate, Of which the late Sen
ator Elkins was chairman marshal,
Fred j. Starek, Of Cleveland, O. The
clerk and marshal are to receive sal
aries of $4,000 year each.
When 100 carloads Of oil. stored
in an Erie railroad company's ware,
house on the Weehawllen riverside
caught fire, q black plume Of smoke,
as wide as the river itself waved over
the Manhattan shore, and as far east
as Coney Island all day and late into
the night. At times the river was 50
obscured that ferry boats had to sound
their Whistles and grope blindly
through it as if through fog.
BY a vote Of 14l TO SO the house
passed the Lowden bill authorizing the
purchase Of embassy building abroad.
This bill or similar bills have been
pending for many years. This is the
first time that the supporters Of the
idea that the government should own
its own embassy buildings in foreign
capitals have ever been able to induce
the house to act favorably On the
| proposition.
Under the new three-year contract.
which goes into effect next season,
Signor Caruso has agreed to sing IN
der the management Of the Motropoli-
tan only in America. All his Euro
pean engagemonts will be under other
/ maragemeut. He will receive $4,000
a performance and probably will sing
+ sixty or seventy times in this country.
Hiram C. Gill, mayor OF Seattle,
+ Wash, was removed from Office by the
voters participating in the recall cleo
/ tion, and George W. Dilling, Public
Welfare league candidate, was chosen
+ by a plurality of COCO to serve as
mayor during the remainder of the
term for which Gill had been elected.
At Marietta, Ohio, Edward A. Ep-
Ter, former auditor of the Marietta,
/ Columbus and Cleveland railroad, who
is charged with embezzling $4,000 of
the funds of the railroad, escaped
from the county jel. George Bayless,
arrested on a charge of burglary, es-
capped with him.
IN an ENGAGEMENT between the Thir-
teenth cavalry and 200 revolutionists
at Navajoa, southern Sonora, twenty
four rebels were killed and thirteen
wounded These were left on the field.
The battle lasted five hours and the
insurgents were defeated.
Whirled around a shaft at st. Louis,
Martin c. Kuehntrt, twenty-nine years
old, was beaten to death by his body
striking an oak beam four feet above
the revolving shafting. The accident
] occurred at the plant of foundry
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