Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-08-25
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GENERAL NEWS


| CnlcagO, counsel for the lntern2tiora al
Harvester company, filed with the
house steel trust" investigating com
mittee in answer to charges made by
| Burdette ID. Townsend, special agent
] of the department of justice in 1908.
AS to the charges that the Interna.
tional received rebates from railroads
and special concessions from the United
States Stecl corporation, the reply de
Glars that the harvester company's
relation to the United States Stesl
corporation is not different fom its
relations with the competitors cf the
steel corporation and that during
the past seven years it has bought
from the steel corporation ten per
CEN Of its total needs While it has
purchased 30 per cent from competi-
tors Of the United States S,eel''
AT Evansville. Ind, Tuesday seventy
five rural mail carriers of the First
congressional district met and re-
elected the old officers with George
Heuring of Petersburg as presid mt,
and decided to ask the state conven-
ton to meet IL Evansville next year
The convention this year will he
held at Greensburg on Lsbor day.
Resolutions fa,oring better road laws
in Indiana a-d asking the government.
to put rural carries on a scale Of
! wages graduated by length Cf service,
with the privilege of transfer to CO.
ordinate branches of the postal SER
vice, were adopted.
London's strike seems to Lave been
settled too quickly. The men look.
ed for q long struggle and the settle
ment evidently took them by surprise
/ The r9rt authority remains firm
/ against the payment of wages for
meal time and insists on strict adher-
ence to the agreement signed by the
strikers representatives July 81. The
authority a!Go refuses to make any
oon1 essions in the demands Of tile
union men that they be not required to
work with non-union men.
Michigan's mortality report issued by
Secretary of State Martindale shows
that S,141 deaths occurred in Michi-
gan during July, which corresponds
to the annual death rate of 1870 pc
900 estimated population. Tubercu
lUsis caused the death of 205; entcritis
and diarrhea to children under two
years Of age, 232 cancer, III, and
violence, S12. There was also re-
ported CT deaths from drowning, nine
from sunstrcke and six from tetanus
At Little Rock, Ark, Friday two
thousand persons, 700 of them white,
heard DR.. Booker T. Washington, pres
ident of the National Negro Business
league, at a session of that body, urge
the negroes 10 av axe to their opportu-
mites, " Wbich he said were everywhere
especially in the south. He said negro
youths should be taught useful trades
and believed too many of them are sat
isfied 10 exc out scanty liveiihoods as
waite and Pullman porters.
Arthur J. Williams, foreman of the
foundry section of the government!
printing Office, is to be given a gold
medal by Vice President Sherman
The medal has been awarded to Mr.
Williams by the public printer for a
hygienic invention which will greatly
reduce the danger from graphite dust
and tend in the future to improve the
health of eectrotypers and printers. 1t
will also insure cleaner working con-
ditions.
At Columbus, Ind, Mr.. Benjamin
f. Repp. seventy-e ight years old, has
filed suit in the Bartholomew circuit
court 70. 500 damages against the In
dianapois, Columbus & Southern
! Traction company, alleging that when
a few weeks ago he was robbed of
5000 by pickpcchets on one Of the
companys cars in this city, that the
conductor refused to assist him TO re-
cover his money.
The senate passed the Cummins bill
terminating the existence of the ma
tional monetary commission after the
bill had been amended to close the af-
fairs of the commission on Jan. 8, in
stead of the first week in December.
The amendment was offered by Sem
ator Hepburn and was adopted by a
vote of 80 to 80.
The next diplomatic service en-
trance examination will be held in
Washington, beginning Dec. A. This
viii be followed next spring by
consular examinations. Examinations
also will be held at the latter time to
obtain list Of eligibles for appoint
ment to the consular assistant and
student interpreter corps.
A general railway strike throughout
the United Kingdom has been called.
This will affect both the passenger
and traffic service and will involve
$4,000 workmen. The railways have
been given twenty-four hours time to
meet representatives of the working
men.
At Louisville Tuesday William A.
Hardy, laborer, was stricken blind
as he walked the streets. He grouped
about aimlessly for time until he
realized his plight, then prevailed on
children to lead him to policeman,
who saw that Hardy was taken to his
home.
The wool bill, as reported by the
conference committe of the two houses
and which was adopted by the house,
was reported to the senate but Sem
ator La Toilette asked that it go over.
The cotton bill was laid before the
senate and Senator Cummins ad-
dressed the senate at length in sup
port of his amendments to the bill
revising the metal schedule.
At Winkelman, Ari., zoo buildings
were blown down. The Mexican quar-
ters at Hayden were destroyed and
manv are reported injured there