Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-02-03
Observation-Disclosures.
GENERAL tEWS.
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injury of many others. The British
police in the foreign settlement found
coolie dying in the street and at.
tempted to take him to the police sta
ton, but he died en- the way This
caused report to spread that the po.
lice had killed the man, and large
number of Chinese attacked the police
The disturbance became dangerous
and the British and German gunboats
in the Yang Use Kiang landed parties
of marines and sailors, and the volun-
teers we're called to arms. The mob
was not overpowered for some time.
There was severe fighting. Several
foreigners and sailors were wounded
in the fighting. Two thousand troops,
sent by the viceroy of New Chwang,
have arrived here to restore order.
At the session of the state legisla-
ture at Charleston, w. Va, Delegate
Moore, Republican, offered a resolu-
ton asking for the postponement of
the election of senators fer fifteen
days until charges of bribery could be
Investigated. The resolution also
stated it was rumored that Delegate
Shock had been given $1,000 ard was
promised $1,000 more, and that Shock
had shown the money he had received
to William G. Bennett and John W. Da-
Wis. He asked immediate considera.
ton, but this was voted down. A
motion was then made to compel all
of the members present to vote, where
upon the Republicans left the hall IL
a body.
Three years after his original indict-
ment, and nearly two years after his
conviction and sentence to fourteen
years in San Quentin for bribery, Abe
Ruef, once the all powerful politica
boss of Frisco, secured a rehearing O.
his case from the supreme court
The effect of the ruling is to place
Ruef in the same position he occupied
when he appealed two years ago from
the sentence of the superior court an6
gives him an indefinite extension
the liberty he has enjoyed on bail
The action of the appellate court Nov
% in denying Ruefs appeal is Sc
1,
whole case is reopened.
Holding that U. S. Senator Lorimel
of Illinois had no knowledge of bribery
in connection with his election as sen.
seat was bought, but finding that ii
even the minority report citing ter
tainted legislative votes cast for Mr.
Lorimer as currupt was true, Lorimer
still was elected by one majority, Sen
ator Gamble of North Dakota, signer
of the majority report of the senate
committee on privileges and elections.
which vindicated Mr.. Lorimer, ad.
dressed the senate The speech was
the ablest defense of Mr.. Lorimer yet
presented.
Fire which originated in the SER
wants quarters in the Traders hotel
at Clarksburg, w. Va, swept a part of
the business district, infiicting a pc
cuniary loss of $250,O00, while it is es
timated two died in the ruins. The
fire spread from the Traders hotel to
the Grand Opera house. 1t was dc.
stroyed with the effects of "The Tolti
in the Hills" company. The Herald
Printing company's plant, the D. NJ.
Ogden Drygoods store, whose loss is
100000, Palace Furniture company
loss, 100000, and other smaller struc-
lures, whose loss will total $250,000.
At Pttsburg, Pa, by droppins
an inflated inner tube of an automobile
tire down a well, Margaret Saylor,
eighteen years old, saved the life of
John Wagner, who had fallen in and
was drowning The we'll is located in
the rear of the Saylnr girls home.
Wagner's plight was discovered By
Miss Saylor. Observing an inflated
automobile tube she grasped it and
dropped it to Wagner, WHO. almost en-
hausted from two hours battle for life.
used it as life preserver urtil res
cued by the police. who were called to
the scene.
Lawrence c. Phipps, the steel mag
nate, row leader in business and Sc
cial circles here, gave Denver sur
prise by marrying Miss Margaret
Rogers, daughter of Platt Rogers, n
wealthy attorney. Miss Rogers is "A
vocalist of rare ability and has
Travelled abroad for the last five years.
Mr.. Phipps was divorced from
Genevieve Chandler Phiprs, Sert II,
1904, after many stormy months Of
threats of divorce, reconciliations and
an exciting kidnapping of his two lit
tie daughters.
The Miller & Donohue Lumber CON-
rany of South Bend Ind, one
of the largest in northern Indiana, has
failed for $250,000, and is now insol-
vent, according to a petition filed by
the Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lum-
ber company, asking for receiver
The Miller & Donohue company fail
ure follows the failure of the Bogardus
Land ard Timber company of Ford
county, Illinois, the paper of which it
had indorsed 10 the extent of approxi-
mately $117,000
Attorney General Kuhn at Ian
sins, Mich, has handed down an
opinion that legislative employees can
not draw pay for Sundays-an opinion
which, II is said, win cut the expenses
Of the legislative session at least $l0.-
600 ard many additional thousands IL
the supreme court holds that the legis-
latcrs and employees are entitled to
pay only on working days.
Alfred W. Dodsworth, manager of the
New York Journal of Commerce, told
before the house ship subsidy irvesti-
eating committee of an attempt to buy
the editorial support of his publica-
tion in favor of the American govern
ment's purchase of the Panama canal
property from the DeLesseps company