Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-21
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GENERAL NEWS.
. Observation-Disclosures

ginning this week, the Fruit Importefs'
tinicn stationed men with stencils on
all the piers where shipments of lem
ons arrive and they will paint on each
box a protest against the tariff rate.
IF lemons were free this box woula
cost you s1.26 less" is a favorite stem.
ell among the importers Others
are: "The tariff is squeezing me-" RE
wise the tariff and get me cheaper"
IF the tariff squeezes me much more
| won't come here" and Tariff is max
ing us sour on the United States"
Considerable excitement, but ne
damage resulted in the Ohio house Of
representatives when Speaker vining,
in a speech from the floor, declared
that Senator Deaton, an opponent OF
the Gebhart uniform school text book
which Vining was supporting, was a
moral coward" When. the house re-
cessed Deaton assailed Vining and
wanted to fight. They nearly came to
fistieuffs before friends separated
them. Later the bill was beaten
Peace overtures were laid be-
fore Francisco Madero, insurgent lead
er, at his camp west of Bustillos, in
Mexico. The result is pending. Asked
on what terms he would conclude
peace Madero said at first he could
only repeat demands already made
The preliminaries were unofficial,
but were looked upon as opening a
way for more direct negotiations be-
tween Madero and the City of Mexico
Mayor Venbergen, OF Scranton, Pa,
has received a letter from George
F. Baer, president of the Reading and
Jersey Central companies, contribut-
ing $4,000 to the Pancoast mine re-
lief fund, $4,000 for the Temple Iron
and $4,000 for the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal company, the latter the
coal mining branch of the Jersey Cen
tral company.
At Evansville, Ind, the city s
street car lines will be extended from
the end of Fulton avenue to Locust
Hill cemetery, distance of about q
half-mile Work will be begun in q
short time. The improvement will
cost several thousand dollars.
Professor George "a. Reisner OF
Harvard university claims to have
solved the riddle of the sphinx. He
says it is a sculptured portrait OF
Cephr Chephren, a Pharaoh of Egypt
of the fourth dynasty, who ruled in ths
year 1850 B. c.
Colonel and Mrs. Henry May OF
Washington have announced that the
marriage of their daughter, Miss
Cecilia May, and Robert Low Bacon
Jr., son of the United States ambas-
sador to France, will not take place.
A four-mile race will be feature at
cne of the Kentucky tracks this fall
The idea was suggested by Major r
A Daingerfeld, mana ger of James R
Keene's Castelton farm, at a meetir 2
of horsemen in Lexington.
c. H. Cooke, president of the Bank
CT Hawaii in honolulu, is in New York
He said that 1910 had been a very
prosperous year in the islands and
that the outlook for the sugar crop
this year is fine.
President Taft received DR.. Romolo
S. Naon, the rewly accredited minis
ter from Argentine, and Senor Rivero
recently appointed minister from
Cuba, who presented their credentials
to this country.
Daniel O'Reilly, who was formerly
an assistant district attorney in New
York, and who was coursel for the
defense in both the Thaw trials, was
indicted for criminally receiving stolen
goods.
In the house of commons in London
the government began putting the
screws Oh the house with view to
pushing the passage Of the veto bill
through the committee stage.
Lieutenant Honeywell of st. Louis
and his aide, who sailed in hslloon
from San Antonio in an effort to lift
the Lahm cup, landed fifteen miles
south OF Little Rock, Ark.
Judge Sanborn of the United States
circuit court decided against the state
on every point in the Minnesota rate
cases, holding the rates are SO low
as to be confiscatory.
Year 1910 was the most prosperous
in history for the railroads OF Illinois
and the nation, according to the en-
nual report of the state commits sion.
The starving Cree Indians of the
Keewatin district of Carada are tear
ing open the caches of the Hudson
Bay company in search of food.
An unknown colored woman threw
her thirteen-year-old son irto the
then jumped in after him.
His wife is suing for an absolute di
vorce from Burrows McNeir of New
York, grandson of Ex-senator Julius
C. Burrows of Michigan.
Stories of exorbitant rents are keep
ing people away from London; rateI
for coronation little higher than or
binary charges.
William Keith, most famous of Cali.
fornia painters, died in San Francisco
OF neaTt troupie dS LIS Wlle Was lSau
ing to him.
Assemblymar Walsh's bill providing
for commission fosm Of government
in cities was passed in the New Jer
sey house.
T. P. O'Connor says although heated
scenes occur in house of commons
Tories are making only sham fight or
veto bill.
Attorney General Wickersham was
cited in contempt of court by Judge
Denison, who heard bathtub cases in
Detroit.
The New York Polo grounds caught
fire and within an hour the west and