Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-03-17
GENERAL NEWS,
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armed them. The armory was soon
opened and forty-nine rifles and belts
of cartridges procured Then &C.
Cured a running fight to the hills
Gov. Ahumada quickly took charge
of affairs. His first act was to order
the turnkey at the prison shot for
giving up the keys, then he ordered
cavalry captain imprisoned for hav-
ing given orders that everybody ap-
pearing on the streets should be shot
The supply ship Celtic arrived from
Cuba with a big draft of men whose
erlistments have expired or will ex-
pire shortly, and the Uncas was dis
patched from the Norfolk navy yard
to bring the men to this city When
the tug started back to Norfolk, de-
spite the fact that the channel Is wide
and deep, it went about 1000 feet off
its Course and hit hard on the beach
Finally the vessel floated, but only
after a night of terror during which
distress whistles were blown and
rockets and revolvers fired ccntinu-
ously. The men declared the tug on
several occasions rearly capsized.
Victor Clare of Palms, Mich, has
teen arrested on request CT the sher-
iff Of Salt Lake City, who stated in his
telegram that he held a warrant charg-
ing murder and robbery The Oregon
Short Lire hold-up at Ogden Jan. 2
is said to be involved. Bryan O'Hare
is also under arrest at Sandusky.
Mich At the time of robbery one of the
train porteTs was killed and another
wounded. The men were traced to
the woods Of northern Michigan, but
the arrests were not made until the
conductor of the train was brought to
Michigan and identified the men.
Harris J. Morgan, from Butler coun-
ty, escaped from the Ohio penitentiary
in sensational manner, and although
bloodhounds were used by tie officers
t.. of the prison he has not been located.
Morgan was serving eighteen years
for burglary and larceny, having been
received at the state prison on Dec. / ,
1910. He was known as a desperate
man, and when he landed in the PEN
itentiary his head was bandaged up
as a result of a fight he had with a
prisoner in the Butler county jail.
The Uuited States circuit court in
the city of New York has directed
the issue of subpoenas to George J.
Gould and a number of well known
railroad men and bankers of this city
to appear on March 13 as witnesses
in the litigation instituted in Ohio by
the Central Trust company against
the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
company and in the cross suit brought
by the receivers for the Wabash Pitts
burg Terminal Railroad company
against the original plaintiffs
In New York city Gustav e. Kis-
eel, Wall street broker, and fer many
years a secret financial agent of the
sugar trust, lies desperately i'll in the
Presbyterian hospital. The attending
physicians despair of his life Kissel
is urder indictment for consriring
with officers CT the sugar trust to re-
strain interstate commerce in the in
terest of the big sugar monopoly. The
validity of the indictments has been
sustained by the United States au-
preme court.
Under the leadership of Mexican
negro, whose name is unknown, an
armed force of fifty men left Ell CaLon.
a small town about twelve miles from
this city, and is reported to have adj
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fornia, where an attack is expected.
Every ablebodied man in the place
was ordered to the trenches which
have been dug, and every preparation
has been made for offering strong re-
sistance to the Invaders.
Ir the city of New York Mai Walter
A. Thurston, u. S. A.. retired, fell from
the second story window of sarator-
ium on Lexington avenue, where he
had been undergoing treatment.
He was found unconscious in the
house yard suffering from a fractured
rib and possibly internal injuries. At
the hospital to which he was taken
his hurts were considered serious,
but not necessarily fatal.
Abe Ruef, of San Francisco, Cal.
the convicted bCss, made his last play
to prevent his removal to San Quentin
prison for fCulte teen years and lost
Ruef got a. stay of sentence a week
ago on the ground that he wanted to
attend to somcGrivate business before
going to prison. Instead he devoted
his time to studying up technical
points with which to block justice.
At Syracuse, ~ Y, about two hun
dred women, nearly all of whom were
accompanied by their husbands, at
tended a boxing exhibition given for
the benefit Of a Syracuse hospital.
The women occupied seats on the
stage and in the galleries of the hall
and were the most interested of the
spectators.
Conductors, brakemen and per
ters employed by the Missouri Pacific
railroad have been indicted in the fed
eral court on charges of violating the
il irterstate commerce law. 1t is ALLEGED
the trainmen collected cash fares from
passengers at lower rates than the
published fare.
The Rockefeller institute believes
that its search for a cure for ir'fr+i
paralysis is about to be rewarded.
Within six months, according 10 H..
Simon Fleyner, definite announcements
Of a sreoific remedy may be placed
before the public.
At New York city William Rind,
first officer of the American liner st.
Paul, who was convicted reC emily OF
smuggling diamond rings into this
country, vas se-tenced to the peniten.
tiary en- BlackwelPs island for vc-~
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