Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-30

GENERAL NEWS.

regions mas been conceded, as also has
big shortage in the 1911 hay and pota.
to output while the new corn crop
seems to be threatened. In the opin-
ion Of several Observers, with a repeti-
tion of the drouthy conditions that
lave prevailed in previous ten year
cycles, Writer wheat, the bulk OF
which las come to maturity, seems to
he falling faI short OF earlier promise
and the spring sown variety is an un-
known quartity fhe wheat pit was
III state of feverish excitement all
through the day and prices ascended
to a decidedly higher range than for.
merly noted.
News was received in Douglas, Ariz.,
by Judge ID. A. Richardson from one
of the leading business men of Can.
anea to the effect that wholesale
butohery was perpetrated by the fed.
eral troops at that place. When the
revolution first started sixty retel sym.
rathizers were thrown into prison at
Cananea. When Colonel Juan Cabral
and his rebels entered the city and
took possession, his first act was to
proceed to the Jail with view to lib.
Grating the political prisoners. He
found that they were not there. A
japanese grave digger said he had
been ordered by the federals to dig
some extra deep graves. The insur-
recto forces eXhumed the bodies and
found from three to fifteen in each
grave.
The postoflce department. in Wash.
ington estimates that by June
80 there VIII be on deposit in the nine.
ty-threo POSTAL savings banks, the first
forty-eieht of which were started or
Jan, l, and the remaining forty-hve or
On July 1 many additional deposl-
.aries will be placed in commission II
July it will be possible fer GepoSitorf
to convert their savings into United
States bonds bearing 21a per cent in
tcrest. With few exceptions the west
ern repositories have larger deposits
than those in the east. The postal
bank at Leadville, Colo, tops the list
with 51S depositors and deposits aegre.
eating SCI. .S97
Despite the fact that the New YORK
entomologist has announced that
the farmers and fruit growers had lit
tie to fear from the visit of the seven.
teen-year locusts, fruit growers in the
fruit telt along the Hudson claim that
their young trees are being seriously
damaged If not killed by the locusts
They show marks as If they might
lave been inflicted by finely pointed
cog wheel with pressure applied II
each Of the cuts are three or four
eggs This condition is said to he
general aRopg young trees. Millions
Of locusts infest every part Of Orange
county and there is continuous real
through these districts.
At Wilmington, Del, Friday, Judges
Gray CT Wilmington, Burlington ol
Pittsburp, and Lanning of Trenton
n. j.. flied an opinion in the United
States circuit court declaring DuPcnt
Powder company and twenty-seven
other companies and individuals to be
guilty Of maintaining a combination
in restraint of interstate commerce in
powder and ether explosives
Tho bills against United States Sen
ator Henry A. Dupont and fourteen
other defendants were dismissed. This
is the celebrated suit of the govern
ment against the powder trust for al
legged violation Of the Sherman anti
trust act.
Standing at an altar of quartz and
granite carved and fashioned by the
hands Of the bride on a narrow ledge
leo feet above the ground, and reached
by a trail hewn out of the solid rock
by the bridegroom, Miss Beatrice
Farnham, the Boston artist and sculp.
tress, and John Otto, eccentric hermit
and prospector, were married in the
Monument National park, Of which
Otto has recently been appointed su.
perintendent.
The coronation procession Of suf
fragists which traversed tho streets
of London before the meeting at Al
bert hall was probably justly described
by Mrs. Maldwin Drummond. formerly
Mrs. Marshall Field Jr. of Chicago, az
"the greatest procession of women in
support of the suffrage movement the
world has ever seem" Mrs Drum
mond was general" of the parade.
In Havana harbor, Cuba. the first
human parts to be recovered from the
wreck of the American battleship
Maine were discovered when workmen
removing mud and debris from the
spar deck, just forward Of the after
superstructures, discovered the black
ened and coral incrusted bones of a
LETT fore arm and right foot
At Buffalo, n Y, Edward Valentine
Lee, who stole $4,000 in cash from
the paymas. er's safe on the battleship
Georgia at Havana on Feb IL, was
arrested here by Detective O'Grady Of
the local police, and two agents of the
department. of justice, who have been
trailing The man for months, they say
Students representing 225 colleges
and including sixty Chinese gathered
at Linwood park, just west of Cleve-
land, o., to take part in the annual
student conference under the auspices
of the y Nj. G.. A.
The plant of the Virginia Manufac-
turing company at Suffolk, Va,
veneer concern, was destroyed by fire
in the night Tie loss is estimated at
100000.
Bruno Oscar klein, who was enc of
the best known musicians in New
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