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Negroes and whites clashed near
Magnolia, Ala. Two white men wore
killed and sovoral others wounded.
At Devils Bluff, Ark., George Bai
ley, a negro, was shot to death in his
cell by a mob. Negroes from tile
country round about Devils Bluff
held a mass meeting and voiced
their protest. The white citizens
armed themselyes and prepared for
retaliatory attack.
Baroness Vaughan, whom Leopold,
king of Belgium, made his queen in
fact if not in name, has left Bel
gium accepting the hint of the gov
ernment that if she did not depart
voluntarily she would be expelled
from the country. She went to
France.
advised his hearers to refuse to file
reports or to pay the assessment be
cause the law was unconstitutional
and would be found so by the courts.
The former senator declared that the
tax had been 'hoisted on the public
tinder false pretenses.' " ,
the day before the Farmer'sNatlonaL
bank of Tulsa- suspended, it was hold
ing $50,000 cash belonging to the
Keifer State Bank,' said the commissioner."
Governor Donehey of Arkansas has
declined to call the legislature in spe
cial session to consider statutory prohibition.
A Cleveland, Ohio, dispatch says:
"A fine of $100 for theatrical man
agers who permit late-coming pat
rons to be seated during the progress
of a1 play is fixed in an ordinance
passed by the city council. Late ar
rivals must wait outside until the
end of the act."
Henry Watterson, editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, suggests
Gifford Pinchot as the democratic
nominee for president in 1912.
Benjamin S. Liddon, former chief
justice of the supremo court of
Florida, is dead.
FREQUIpNjTL-Y
An old colored iman, who could
neither read nor write, and who had
been found by his, master to be de
ficient in his market4ook accounts,
blamed the butcher for tampering
with his book. The gentlemaja of the
house remonstrated by saying:
"But, Tom, figures don't-lie."
"No," answered the old man, "but
liars do figger." -- Ladies' Homo
Journal.
I sup-country
Politician ( sarcastically -pose
you know how -the
ought to be run. t-
-, Citizen (humbly).-n-No';I'd be sat,i.
isfied if I knew only Jiow it's being
run now. Brooklyn Life.
Bond mo address or two trappers,
and I will eond you Irco a mink
stretching pattern. I pay highest
prlcoo for raw furs. Write for prlco
list.
FURS
John W. Kern, late democratic
nominee for vice president, celebrat
ed his sixtieth birthday December 20.
Mr. Kern was born in Howard coun
ty, Indiana, December 20, 1849, and
has been a life-long resident of this
state. Since his twenty-first year,
when he was elected to the legisla
ture, he has been promirientjln dem-'
ocratic politics. In additidnvtb serv-:
ing several years as city attorney
of Indianapolis, he has been, the nom
inee of his party for governor, "United
States senator and vice presjdent of
the United States.
A grand jury at Chicago is investi
gating an alleged graft combination
in the city hall involving the sale
of coal to the city.
Zelaya's troops in Nicaragua were
defeated in a fierce battle with revo
lutionists under command of Gen
eral Estrada.
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Dr. Madriz was Inaugurated ptesl-
dent of Nicaragua. JSelaya", the re
tiring president, made a' brjef speech
endorsing' 7the administration.
Premier ,Yi, head of the. Korean
cabinet, was stabbed and fatally in
jured by a, Korean.
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Former United States Senator Har
ris of Kansas died ot heart disease
at C&i'cago' Mrs? Harris 'wds'Vith
her husband at the time of his death.
The body was taken to- Lawrence,
Kan. The Associated Press says:
"William Alexander Harris, was
United States senator from Kansas
from 1897 to 1903. He died at the
home of his sister-in-law,- Mrs. Lydia
M. Mackey. Senator Harris had been
in Chicago for a mon,thf. havirtfe gone
mere to attend the -international . Charles LJ Warriner, fo'rmercash
llvo stock exposition in, which he was i6r atff 'Cincinnati1 of the Bi 'Four
Interested. He had not been com- railroad", pleaded guilty to embezzl
plaining of 111 health, and was ap- nient and Tvas sentenced to nix 'years'
ptueuuy xu. goou conuiuon wnen sua- imprisonment.
uemy BtricKen. iie san& to tuo noor
A;New York, dispatch to the Chi
cago 'Record-Herald says r William.
Watson, the English poet, who as
tonished the world recently by his
bitter attack on the family of Pre
mier Asquith, is declared by his
brother to be insane and not re
sponsible for his actions. The broth
er is Robinson Watson, who is , in
Montreal."
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at his sfster-ln-law's home and died
within a "feV minutes. Senator Har
ris was born'. In Virginia, October 29,
1841. He was graduated from Co
lumbia college, Washington, in 1859,
and the Virginia military Institute in
1861. He served with honor in the
confederate states army for three
years as assistant adjutant general
and ordnance officer. In 1865 he re
moved to Kansas, where he became
engaged as a civil engineer In the
construction of the Kansas division
of the Union Pacific railroad In
1868 .he became a"gent for the sale of
the Delaware reservation and other
lands. Since- 1876, he' had been
prominent throughout the United
States as a farmer and breeder of
pure bred shorthorn cattle. This
Identified him with the live stock in
dustry and brought him often to Chi
cago where he was a member of the
Saddle and Sirloin club and a direc
tor of the international live stock ex
position.
Harry M. Daugherty of Columbus,
Ohio, has announced his candidacy
for the United States senate to suc
ceed Senator Charles Dick.
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