Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-06
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GENERAL NEWS.
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and important cre Among the deci-
sicns expected are those in the lemon
rate cases. the water carrier cases,
the Chicago stockyard cases and the
Louisville and Nashville case to set
aside an order Of the interstate COM
merce commission prescribing class
rates from New Orleans te Mobile and
cities in Alabama and Florida.
INDIANAPOLIS, INp.-Advices re-
ceived from Detroit state that Harry
Quick, we'll known young man Of In
dianapolis, and son of the president
of the Continental National bank, is
under arrest on charges of forgery and
passing fraudulent checks. The checks
on which he is said to have raised
funds bore his fathers name and were
on the Continental bank. Mr. Quick
said his sons operations had been 60
ing on for some time and that ne had
attempted to reach him by other meth
eds. but failed. Recently check for
SEQ was passed in Walkerville, Ind,
the name of George f. Quick appear
ing on it, and the arrest followed in
Detroit
SACO, ME.--Benjamin r. Hamilton,
who was the first merchant in this
country to employ girls as saleswo-
men in store, is dead at the age of
ninety-two years. Hamilton's store in
1855 was one Of the largest drygoods
houses in the east. He caused a tre-
mendous sensation in that year by en-
ploying comely young women as clerks
and the women of Saco showed their
disaoprova, by boycottine the store.
The idea eventually took" how
ever and Hamilton opened similar
stores in Biddeford and Portland where
the novelty of woman clerks made the
enterprises great successes.
Q
EVANSVILLE, lND.-Sweeping to
one side the ruling of President Sam
uel Gompers Of the American Fedora
tion Of Labor, that no woman dele
gates should be seated in subsequent
conventions of the Indiana Federation
OF Labor, the federation convention,
after a stormy and heated debate,
voted in favor Of seating eight women
delegates of the Womens Label
league. Mrs. Lille J. Schrenker, one
Of the contesting delegates from Mum
Gle, asserted her rights vigorously on
the floor and charged that the fight
against her sex was political
EDWARDSViLLE, PA.-Joseph Gro
bona, aged thirteen, was "lynched"
by two boys and was not rescued un-
til he was unconscious and almost
dead A man walking along the street
about / p. m. found the boy hanging
from a high fence with rope around
his neck and his hands and feet bound.
After several hours he recovered
sufficiently to declare that Andrews
Lipsky and Edward Deshburn, fifteen,
had caught him and strung him up
after declaring that he was the fell
low they wanted. They were arrested
and held for hearing.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.-Miss Annie
Crawford, who is now facing a charge
of numbering her sister Elsie, Will not
be charged with the deaths of her ia
ther and mother and sister Agnes, all
of whom died under mysterious cir
cumstances in June and July, 1910.
1t is said the decision Of the district
attorney not TO investigate further the
first three deaths was based upon a
report of the city chemist that it would
be practically impossible to determine
the presence Of opium in any of the
bodies since they had been buried fif-
teen months.
NEW YORk-The great American
Tobacco company, ordered dissolved
by the United States supreme court,
will be divided into three corporations,
operating separately and in competi-
ton with one another. Their names,
it is understood, will be the American
Tobacco company, the Continental To
bacco company and the Liggctt &
Myres Tobacco company.
MARCHALL, MlCH.-Judge Porter
in probate court here entered an or
Ger declaring Barney Julian, former
Albion merchant, legally dead Juli-
an started for Chicago Feb. 2, 1904,
with a considerable sum of money to
buy goods He has not been seen or
heard of since His widow, who now
lives in Niles, will receive $4,000 life
insurance.
CHlcAGO-The union labor leaders
estimated that tie fight between the
steamfitters and the plumbers has
ccst the building trades workmen of
Chicago SS.56g,C00 This computation
is based on the sympathetic strikes
which have prevailed for 100 days.
NEW YORK-About ten thousand
heads Of New York families, 500 retail
dealers in fifty lines and several hun
dred farmers of the Pennsylvania
state grange have combined in an as
sociation here to eliminate the middle
man and lower the cost of living.
MARTlNSVILLE lND.-Mr. and
Nrs. Jacob Fisher Of this city fear the
body Of the young woman found in
Gary harbor last week is that of their
daughter Minnie, from whom they
have not heard directly for nearly