Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-21
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
GENERAL ME.1S
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,

appearance in the United States cir
cult court. but District Attorney Wise
said he had received assurances that
the attitude of all would be practically
uniform and that the rest would file
formal pleas in a day or two and be
included under the action OF the court.
Neither Herbert l.. Satterlee, j. p.
Morgan's son-in-law, nor Frank j.
Gould was present. Mr.. Satterlee en-.
tered plea through his attorney, but
Mr. Gould was not represented. The
district attorney said he hoped the
cases could 60 to trial before the end
of the year.
DR.. Wiley. pure food expert and CHIEF
chemist Of the bureau of chemistry Of
the department of agriculture. has
been condemned by committee on
personnel of the department of ag-
riculture with recommendation to
President Taft that he be permitted
to resign" from his official position.
1t is charged that DR.. Wiley permit.
DR.. H. H. Rusby. recognized pharma.
cognocist of Columbia university, New
York, for compensation in excess OF
that allowed by the government II
Is claimed that the arrangement was
to put DR.. Rusby on the payroll of the
department at $1,000 year as an en-.
2loye of the bureau Of chemistry, an
agreement being made with him that
he should be called upon to perform
only such service as this salary would
compensate for at the rate Of $40 per
day for laboratory Investigations and
$50 per day for attendance in court
The increases at Indianapolis, Ind,
of 5 cents per. hundred pounds
by ice dealers on three consecutive
days and the charge by one dealer
that attempts were made to force him
into the combination have caused the
prosecutor to present the case to the
grand jury under the state antitrust
law. An investigation will be begun.
The companies claim that the con
tinued hot weather has exhausted
their surplus stock and that they are
not able to supply the demand The
price of ice earlier in the season was
80 cents per hundred pounds, but it is
now As. Patrons are being served
now with only talf the amount they
order, the dealers saying they have
not enough ice to meet the demand
Clarenre s. Darrow of Chicago, for
many years one Of the best known
lawyers and radical thinkers of Chi
cago, who is now in charge of the de.
fense in the Los Angeles Times dyna.
miting case, has given up his Chicago
apartment, dissolved his law partner.
ship and has resolved on the compile.
tion of his present case to retire from
the practice of law and abandon Chi
cago as a place of residence. The
firm of DaIICw, Masters G. Wilson was
dissolved month ago 1t is learned
The dissolution was due to Darrow's
ill health, advancing years and a de-
sire to devote the rest of his life to
study ard literary work rather than
to The drudgery of the law.
Senator Borah complained in the
senate at the delay by the conferces
of the seante and house on the resolu-
tion for the direct election of senator's
He asked WREN report might be ex-
pected Some Of the senators had re-
ported that the resolution might 60
over until the regular session in the
fall. Senators Clark, Nelson and Ba-
con, senate conferees, assured Senator
Borah that there was no purpose on
their part to delay or defeat the reso-
luton. They blamed the house con.
ferees for the delay. There is be-
lief that the matter will GO over.
In New York city six persons are
under arrest as the result of a raid by
government agents on a series Of
moonshine distilleries in New York and
Brooklyn. Besides the prisoners the
raid yielded one large still found in a
Brooklyn fiat, one large still found in
four-story Brooklyn loft building,
and 1000 gallons of moonshine bran
dy from the gangs wholesale distrib-
uting house on Pitt street, Manhattan.
Altogether the haul was the largest Of
its kind ever made in this district.
mot guilty" was the plea at Los
Angeles, Cal, Of ]. ]. Mcnamara and
his brother, James Mcnamara, to each
of the nineteen counts charging them
with murder, read separately in Judge
Walter BorGwells department of the
supreme court. J. ]. McNamara also
pleaded not guilty to twentieth in
dictment charging him with dyna-
miting the Llewellyn Iron works.
The first tariff vote Of the United
States senate was taken with the re-
suit victory for the president The
vote was upon the amendment Of Sen
ator Cummins Of Iowa to the Canadian
reciprocity bill, adding meats TO the
free list provided in the measure. The
amendment was defeated, IA to 80.
At Fort Wayne. Ind, John M.
Nolan, aged fifty-one, a night watch
man in the Pennsylvania railroad
freight house, shot and killed his wife
and tried to kill himself The bullet
grazed his head and he suffered =
scalp wound.
House Democrats started investiga-
ton of charge that President Taft con-
nived with the Morgan-Guggenhei1 in
:erests in railroad deal in Alaska.
James Petit, prominent board CT
trade man, was drowned in Lake Mich
isan, near the Moraine hotel at High
lanG Park, Ill.
Captain Faria of wrecke. Santa
Rosa accused of cruelty and blamed
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