Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-01-27
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together with complete counterfeit
ing outfit, were confscated in a raid
on their headquarters at 6657 South
State street. A counterfeit silver dol
lar, which they left behind when they
vacated rooms at 504 Cass street. sew
eral days ago led to the arrests.
Captain Thomas |. Porter and Oper-
ative Peter G. Drautzburg of tire gov
errment secret service, and Detectives
Patrick Lotus and Edward Gard of
Chicago Avenue station made the raid.
The men arrested are Louis Schlich-
ter, 542 Lincoln Park boulevard; Ar
thur Schlichter, brother, 6657 South
State street, and Walter J. Kuiros.
alias Frank Ross, alias Walter Rus
SELL 4116 Ogden avenue.
In Behalf Of 250,OOO employees en-
gagged in railroading, P. H. Morrissey,
OF Chicago, president of the American
Railroad Employees and Investors as
sociation, presented a formal state
ment to the interstate commerce COM
mission in support Of proposed ad-
varces in freight rates by railroads
MI Morrissey is the chairman of
committee representing the employees,
consisting Of George Brophy, conduc-
tor; r. E. Fitzpatrick, conductor; II.
f. Smith, baggageman, and r. ID. Bull
luck, locomotive engineer. T. j. Do
Ian of Chicago, general secretary
treasurer Of the International Broth
erhood Of Steam Shovel Men, also
ininn1 i,, bA cto4
Aviation prizes distributed in 1910
amounted to S940,0G0 This total does
not include special sums paid to avia-
tors for their appearance at different
meetings. Louis Paulhan, with prize
winnings of 100000 during the last
two years, received under contracts
$4,000 month extra for his flights in
America. Aviators who in 1910 won
$4,000 or more includes Paulhan, $780,
0G0; Latham, 100000; Morane, $780,
coo; Grahame White, $4,000; Leblanc,
$4,000; Cattaneo, $4,000; Chavez,
$4,000; Captain Dickson, $4,000; and
Wynmalen, s20,000.
Chicago, as the certer of the cold-
storage industry of the country is to
be the vortex of a wholesale unload
ing. Chicago wholesalers admit that
tie bottom has fallen cut Of the prices
for dairy products and poultry, and
that big slump is due as soon as the
contents Of the oold-storage warehous-
es can be put upon the market.
Although the collapse OF the cor
ner" is likely to be felt most keenly
by the cold-atorage men Of Chicago,
the pinch will he felt in many Of the
important shipping centers of the east
and middle west.
The reti1ing treasurer of North De-
kota, G. Luther Bick ord, was arrested
on warrant charging him with the
misarplication of $74,0C0. Fe was
taken irto custody as he came down
stairs from the senate balcony follow
ing a consultation with his friends.
Bickford recently was accused of
placing state funds in banls that did
not furnish sufficient guarantee in the
/ form of bonds, and a few days ago,
the house adopted a resolution calling
for an investigation of the affairs of
the state treasurer.
Representative Denly will be ap-
/ pointed a member of the commission
/ of six created in the treaty between
/ the United States and Canada for the
settlement CT disputes in connection
with the joint use OF the boundary
waters between the two countries
The convention provides that the
commission shall consist of three
American and three Canadian mem
bers. Mr.. Denby who was defeated
for reelection last November, is the
only American commissioner chosen
so far
Wearing a ring given him by the
late Chief Geronimo ard covered all
over the front of his red sweater with
bronze and silver medals CT many
sorts, ice f. Mikulec, an Austrian, who
has passed the last thirteen years Of
his life walking around the worl0
called at TIE White House to see Pres
ident Taft. He desired a letter from
the president to raste in the tcok he
carries with him and which contain 5
the signature of every governor in the
United States.
Near Pinghamtnn, N. Y, the prompt
work by fremen and after dants of the
Susquehanna Valley Home saeed the
lives of all the 1856 children Inmates
when fire broke out in the boiler room
of the dormitoTy building at a. m.
Dozens of the children were carried
out unconscious by the freMen and
were attended by physicians summon
ed from the city. The loss was not
large as the flames were confined to
the basement.
The German balloon Hindetrandt
missing since ascent at Schmargen-
dorf on Dec. 20, was found in lake
in Pomerania province in Prussia. The
bodies OF the two aerCnauts who set
out on the voyage were in the basket,
The lost balloonists were DR.. Roehrs
and a companion. It had been be-
lieved that they had met death in the
Baltic sea, the balloon having taken
that direction on rising.
The influx of butter from the farms
has played havoc with the Chicago
butter ard egg brokers who have in
vested freely in cold storage products.
Following the decreased demand for
the stored butter and eggs ard the
threatening aspect of the butter mar
ket. two firms, e. ]. Piggott, 35 River
street, AMI e. L. McAGams, So La Sale
street, failed.
At Springfield, Mass. Bishop Al
exandcr II. Vinton, of the Protest
ant Episcopal diocese of western Mas
sachusetts. is dead, following short
Hires with pneumonia