Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-09
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GENERAL NEWS,
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TO- Inc Stdte OF OnlO tnuS loses the
first of the legislative bribery cases
The jury was in session only one
hour and half DR.. Nye faces three
other indictments. The case which
the state lost was considered it's
strongest. The other cases depend
upon the evidence of Burns detectives
and their character has been raked
over and their previous regulations
delved into by detectives employed by
the indicted solons.
AT Indianapolis, Ind, suit for re-
coiver fer the Brown-Ketcham Iron
Works, one of the largest structural
iron works of the west, has been filed
by Edward Pierson, preferred stock
holder. Pierson alleges that the liza
blllties of the company amount to ST.
100000, and the assets are but $685.
TO. william ii. Trown is president OF
the company and John L. Ketcham
secretary-treasurer Pierson declares
that the company lost nearly $4,000
during the first four months of this
year. He asks that a receiver be ap-
pointed to wind up the affairs of the
company.
The state Of Michigan has eighty
secondary schools on the list of
schools accredited by the North Cen
trail Association of Colleges and Sec
ondary Schools. This means that any
student graduated by one of these
schools will be admitted to any uni
versity or college belonging to the as
sociation without examination, upon
presenting a certificate from his school
showing that he has done the work
required for entrance to the college
or university at which he applies for
admission. The association covers
eighteen states.
Attcrnew General Wickersham, ap-
pearing in Washington City before
the house committee on expenditures
in the department of justice, testified
that he had advised the United States
Steel corporation on several occasions
from 1901 to 1909 during his connec-
tion with the firm of Strong G. Cad
wallader and that he had received his
share of the fee turned into the firm
for services to the American Sugar
Refining company, personally attend
ed to by Henry w. Taft, brother of the
president
Portuguese monarchists have de-
vised plot to overthrow the Portu-
guese republic and restore his lost
throne to Manuel. The plotters are
trying to prevail on Manuel to return
to Portugal and lead the revolution
So far the fugitive king has refused to
TO so. He is willing, however, to GO
back to his country if asked to do so
by representative assembly,
w. r. Pinkerton, head of the detec-
tive Agency, has been summoned to
London by Winston Churchill, home
secretary of the British government
to become adviser-in-chief of the army
of secret service men who will guard
the capital from the hordes of good
crooks now focking to that city in ex-
pectation of rich plunder during the
coronation of George V.
At Shelbyville, Ind, the attorneys
in the case of Sophia d. Hughes and
others against William NJ Thompson
and others, al of Indianapolis, filed a
motion for new trial in the case to
break the will of Lovina Straight, who
left all of her property, valued at $780,,
600, with the exception of $4,000, for
the establishment of home for aged
and dependent people.
In New York city officers of the
United States Steel corporation and OF
the larger independents, meeting at
, the Metropolitan club, resolved that
the present prices of steel products
with respect to seven items are toe
high and ought to be reduced. What
was taken to be a fair reduction was
proposed, and the steel manufacturers
acquiesced.
After years of exclusion from Rus
sia, Jews who desire to enter that
country on business will be admitted
hereafter under restrictions to he pre-.
scribed by the Russian government
This is concession to the continued
protests of the United States against
the discrimination by Russia against
Jews who are American citizens.
At Chicago a mad dog bit fif
teen persons, majority of them girls
and little children. Four of the vic
| TINS were taken to the Pasteur insti
tute The dog finally was shot and
killed by policemen after a crowd OF
citizens, led by the police, had chased
| it to Thirty-eighth street and Campbell
avenue.
Bishop Mcdowell of the Methodist
Episcopal church, former chancellor OF
Denver university, who returned from
China on the steamer Mongolia, de
clares that the worst stage of the
| famine in China is passed. Bishop
Mcdowell has been on a tour of inspec
ton in India and China.
Revelations of the alleged plot tc
start another revolution in Mexico aft
er overthrowing the leadership OF
ing his journey to Mexico City, caused
intense excitement throughout the in
surgent army.
At South Haven, Mich, the lake
steamer City of Kalamazoo of the Chi
cago and South Haven line, caught fire
from the smokestack while being fitted
for her first trip of the season, and her
upper main cabin was destroyed with
considerable furniture.
Three hundred men prominent in
the business community of New York
city met at the call of the Postal Prog
ress league to discuss the betterment
of postal conditions and urge the
passage by congress of a parcels post
hill