Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-07
GENERAL NEWS,


OF priest ard deputy sheriff the man
walked snlil.nely from his cell to the
gallows and ran lightly up the steps.
1t was public hanging, and t:fore
! him stood 1900 persons, to whom he
waved his hand. Tfn he reached up,
grasred tie Moose and placed 1t about
his neck, put his arms by his side to
be strapped, and smilingly said: "Good
by all" The man held his head in po-
sition for TIE adjustment of the black
cap and in another moment the trap
was sprung. He was dead ia twelve
minutes.
The Democrats expect to have their
caucus day or two before congress
convenes in extra session. There are
four Democrats prominently spoken OF
for the minority leadership. They are
Senator Bacon Of Georgia who, with
Senator Martin of Virginia. is the old.
est Democrat in point of service in the
senate; Senator Shively OF Indiana,
the vice chairman of the caucus: Sen
ator Stone of Missouri, who took the
lead among senate Democrats in the
last days of the recent session In the
fight against the tariff board bill. and
Senator John Sharp Williams OF Mis-
sissippi, who for a number Of years
was the minority leader of the house
The congress of the Daughters OF
the American Revolution, which meets
in Washington April II to 22, will be
received by President and Mrs Taft
at the White House Wednesday after
noon, April 10, and, with other mem
bers of the organization. and Of the
Sons of the American Revolution. by
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, president gen
eral of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, Monday evening, April H.
In announcing these receptions the
program committee added that Satur
day evening. April IS, the memoria!
Continental hall will be open for in
srecticn by the daughters and their
friends.
A deal to purchase the New York
theater and Criterion theater proper.
ties, running from Forty-Fourth to
Forty Fifth streets on Broadway, has
been consummated by Marshall Field
6 Co., the Chicago department store
owners The transaction, which takes
in also a stretch of property running
to the east of the theaters, involves an
investment of more than s3.5o0.o0o
Marshall Field G. Co. bought the
property, it is understood, with the
idea OF putting up an immense depart
ment store, thus establishing the nrst
great enterprise OF the kind in the
I.ongacre district
At Des Moines, Ia, Saturday, Dr. II
B. Kelly OF Council Bluffs, being taken
to the inebriate asylum at Knoxville,
drew a revolver from his pocket and
killed Deputy Sheriff Clarence Wool
man. also of Council Bluffs, as the lat
ter was taking him from the Rock ISL
and station to the union station in Des
Moines. E. Stursing, bartender. hear
ing the shots, ran to the officers as
sistance and was fatally wounded.
The plan of patrolling portions Of the
plan of patrolling portions Of the
boundary along the Rio Grance, al
ready proven feasible by the fight Of
one of the army biplanes from LAREDO
to Eagle Pass month ago, Is soon to
be put into actual practice. Major
George o. Squier is in command OF the
aeronautical detachment of the Unit
ed States army signal corps that is to
do the work.
A bomb was exploded almost under
81.
The officer was standing at the door
way of a tenement house In First
avenue. The bomb was in a cellar
way net a rod from his feet He was
uninjured, although the front of the
building was damaged and doors and
windows were blown in.
Unfolding the cortentions of Prose
cutting Attorney Henry T. Hunt at
every point, Judge Thomas A. Jones,
chief judge of the Ohio circuit courts,
removed from further consideration Of
the George B. Cox case Judges Peter
Swing and Samuel w. Smith OF the cir
cult court of Hamilton county, in Gin
cinnati.
Demands of between $500 and 5000
trainmen employed by the Lehish Val
ley railroad en- its main line and
branches between New York and Buff
falo, for an increase in wages were
granted by General Manager J. F. Ma
guire. The increase will go into ef-
feet April 1.
Because of discriminating evidence In
the form of letters from Madero's
agents found in the possession of Of
fcers of an artillery regiment sta
tened at Tacubaya, Mex, several of
their number have been arrested and
confined in the penitentiary.
Seated at a table in one Of the
room in Portland, Me-, Justice Henry
C. Peabody, of the supreme court, fell
over on the floor dead Fatty degen-
GRAFTON of the heart was the cause.
Charles Hamilton, the aviator, had
narrow escape from serious injury
when his automobile was struck by
trolley car On the Berlin turnpike near
New Britain, Conn.
The postoffice department has made
arran gements with the Pennsylvania
ard the Missouri Pacific for new fast
mail train frcm New York to Kan.
sas City.
Owr ership of the ST. Louis National
League Baseball club passes to Mrs
Helen Brittcn of Cleveland by the will
Of her uncle, Stanley Robson.
Health Commissioner IederI. NJ
New York is directing raids on cardy
and cake stand keepers who keep their
wares exposed.