Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
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GENERAL NENS.


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presented to the seventeon-year-old
son O. tie sheriff fake telegram
which oI6ered him TO release the ne
grces. Tne ten men had automobiles,
in which they placed the negroes, and
then specified TO the outlkrts, where
another mob was waiting. The ne
eroes were bound to trees and at a
given sisnsl the members Of the mob.
some thirty in all, opened fire with
rifles end pistols Vclley after volley
was fred until the negroes were liter
ally cut TO pieces.
The tattleShip Maine in Havana har-
hor, viii, when raised, be towed cut to
sea and sunk in deep water unless
congress- directs otherwise Informa-
ticn TO this effect was received by
congress from Secretary Of War Dick
inson. Re forwarded a report of the
board Of engineers in charge of the
work Of raising the wrecked Maine
The beard recommends that when
the wreck is raised it shall he stripped
of all material of value and the re-
mains "towed out to sea and be sunk
in deep water" In his letter of trans
INITIAL, Secretary Dickinson said that
he had approved the recommendation
Of the board
For the first time since the Hepburn
act went into effect in June, 1906, the
interstate commerce commission has
allowed general increase in freight
rates on an important commodity.
The commission handed down a 6e-
oision sustaining the risht Of carriers
in North and South Dakota to increase
freight rates on grain and grain pred
ucts from producing POINTS in those
states TO Minneapolis, Duluth, Milwau-
kee and Chicago anl points taking the
same rates. The commissioner, how
ever, declines TO sustain proposed aG-
vances in rates of coarse grain from
points in those states to Omaha, Neb.
The motions at Cincinnati, Ohio, to
quash the perjury indictments against
George b. Cox, banker and politician,
made by his attorneys two weeks ago,
were granted by Judge William r
Dickson, of tie common pleas coult
who has announced his decision in the
case. The judge found the indictments
defective in substance, this phase OF
the decision operating to free Cox not
only from the indictments in question
but also from reindictment en- the
same set CT alleged facts by any sub
sequent grand jury.
Formation of a combination Of cleo
trio porcelain potteries in Trenton, N
j., and East Liverpool, o., was finished
b. j. II. Parker Of Boston and George
G. Anderson of this city. The holding
company will lie the General PoTCe
lain company Of New Jersey, recently
incorporated. Deeds for all properties
here have been fled at Lisbon, O., the
consideration in the several instances
being from enc to five dollars. New
Office viii be orened and all business
directed by the local headquarters.
In The executive session of the sen
ate the nomination Of Elmer Caldwell
of Oregon, to be marshal fer the dis
trict of Oregon was rejected. TIE
nomination had been unfavorably re
ported to the senate earlier in the day
by the judiciary committee. The
nomination was opposed by Senator
Bourne.
The special committee OF the house
elected to investigate the United States
Steel corporation began work, it's first
business BEING to communicate with
the department Of justice and the bu
reau of corporations to obtain records
OF inquiries made by those depart
ments into the affairs of the steel cor
poration.
Three places on Lake Minnetonka
in Minnesota, have asked the privilege
and honor Of making themselves the
summer headquarters Of the president
Of the United States A delegation
from Michigan called at the White
House to picture to Mr.. Taft the beau
ties of Maokinac Island.
Homer NJ. Messenger, a trustee OF
the National Order of Railway Mail
Clerks, is missing from his home at
Rocky River, a suburb of Cleveland
Messenger took a rowboat and went
out into the lake to fish, A short time
later the beat was found adrilt.
The search Of Dr. Orville Owen o1
Detroit, who has been excavating in
the mud Of the River Wye in England
for manuscripts which he believes will
establish that Bacon was the author
of the Shakespearean plays, has been
abandoned.
Three hundred men prominent in
the business community of New York
city met at the call of the Postal Prog.
ress leae,le to discuss the betterment
of postal conditions and urge the
passage by congress OF a parcels post
bill
Under the will of Walter e. Duryea,
fled New York, the bulk Of his for.
tune, estimated at s2,5o0,0O0, gees to
Miss Eleanor Percgrine, a trained
nurse, who was his housekeeper for
the last twelve years of his life.
Chicago veterans Of the Civil war
voted against parading en- May 80
Memorial day, unless tie work-horse
parade, scheduled for that day, is
called off.
Democratic leaders OF house served
notice on senate that there must be
q vote on reciprocity, farmers free
list bill and ON revised wool tariff
Six persons were saved from death
by fire in a four story uptown tcne-
ment in New York by long slide
down clothesline.
The New York supreme court has
ruled that mother cannot dispose Of
her child by viii.