Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-19

GENERAL EEWS,
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oho e'PpiofOu TIC -uuNOulilltce report,
recommending statehood for both ter
ritcries after they shall have voted en-
certain cons titutional amendments.
Arizona is asked to resubmit the re-
call provision of its nstitution, vet.
ing on an amendment which eliminates
the judiciary. New Mexico is asked
to vote on an amendment making its
constitution mere easily amendable.
The joint resolution reported by Chair.
man Flood of the committee on terri
tories, will be called up later in the
week.
At Los Angeles. Cal. John J. Nc
Namara and his brother, ]. B. Nc.
Namara, having been re-indicted nine
teen times on charges of murder ar
raigred on the indictments and re-
mandcd to Jail without bail, were re-
turned to the county prison to await
the arrival of June /, when they prob.
ably will plead to the charges
The men the McNamaras are ac-
cused of numbering were employees of
the Los Angeles Times who lost their
the newspaper plant a few minutes
after 1 o'clock on the morning of Oct.
], last. Two other persons died fol.
lowing the explosion, but after they
had been taken from the building.
The Cunningham Alaskan coal land
claims, which brought about the
Ballinger-Pinchot congressional inves-
tigation, approached their final deter
mination. Attorneys for the Cunning
ham claimants appeared to argue their
case before Secretary Fisher of the in
t. rior department, Land Commission
er bennett and members of the board
Of law review of the general land Of
fee e. C. Hughes, Seattle and ]. P.
Gray of Wallace, Idaho, are repres ant-
ing the claimants, Commissioner Den
nett is to hand down the decis en-.
Secretary Fisher decided to sit at the
hearing, however, SO that IN case an
appeal is made to him time and ex-
pense may be saved.
At Los Angeles, Cal, The ap-
plication of John ]. Mcnamara for tho
fixing of bail On the charge of dy.
namiting was disallowed by Superior
Judge Bordwell without prejudice and
with leave to renew it at any time.
Recently Mrs. Inez c. Decker, repre-
senting an organization of working
women in Los Angeles, invited the
mother of ]. J. Mcnamara to come to
this city as their guest. Mrs. McNa-
mara's reply contains an acceptance.
She said she is unable to pay her own
way and must depend on the women
who invited her for fare and other ex.
penses.
President John r. Alpine Of the
United Association of Plumbers, who
is leading the strike against the In
ternational Association Of Steamfitters
was taken to task before a meeting OF
the executive council of the American
Federation of Labor. He was practi-
cally charged with being responsible
for the depredations of the union labor
"wrecking crews" that have caused
two deaths and terrorized the citizens
of Chicago. The accusation was made
by John Mangan of the international
steamfitters.
Leaving his engine, which was pull
ing an eastbound Wabash passenger
train, Charles Miller. an engineer, led
a party of fifty passengers to the burn
ing home Of Miss Daisy Whitaker,
west of Chillicothe, Mo-, and ex-
tinguished the flames, probably saving
the lives CT Miss Whitaker and her
aged mother.
Following the placing Of small
brown bean pot filed with a white
powder under the famous "Rr!dge ct
Sighs" at the Tombs prison. Now
York, an Italian boy and an old WON
an were arrested. They are suspected
OF trying to blow up the prison.
Attorneys for the Alpha Cement
company have presented to the inter
state commerce commission figures tc
show that the total capitalization c!
the United States Steel corporation
and j. P. Morgan & Co. concerns
amounts to 15,S57 629,3S9.
At Washington Monday the Republi
can senators in party conference unan
imously nominated Senator J. H. Gal
linger of New Hampshire as president
pro tenn. of the senate to succeed Sen
ator William P. Frye of Maine, who re
signed owing to ill-health.
Representative of eight states mel
at Fargo, N. d., and formed the North
western Live Stock Sanitary associa
ton, the object of which is to adopt
a uniform method of stock inspection
and to secure a uniform certificate oi
sanitation.
The steamship Corwin sailed from
Seattle for Nome, the famous golt
camp on Bering sea, where 1000 peo
pie have been cut off from direct con
nection with the world since las
October.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don News informs his paper that there
is grave anxiety expressed over the
condition of the Pope. 1t is said tha
he displays symptoms of senile decay
Senator LaFollette said the block
ing of the Helm inquiry renders it i'm
perative upon the United States sen
ate to undertake a new investigation.
One of every seven couples married
in Iowa in 1910 took their matrimonial
troubles into court, and one of every
ten couples was divorced.
Colonel Roosevelt denied that he
would hunt polar bears in the Arctic
with Captain Robert Bartlett, during
1912, presidential year.
French actress says New York is a
ea.Ss city than Paris; another is
e..S.-,, by sights in Gotham