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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-02
Woman and Child Cut by Negro.

YOUNGSTOWN, O., June I'm quar-
rel Irving Johnson, colored, attempted
to murder Mrs. Ida Welcome, white
woman. and her 7-year-old son. He cut
Mrs. Welcomes throat with razor
and slashed the boy badly across Il
face. The woman may die. Thinking
he had killed her, johnson then tried to
commit suicide by cutting his own
throat. He will probably recover.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-02
Terms and Premiums.

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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-02
Lost

Between the top of hill on the
Ices Ferry turnpike ana the Court
house an open faced gold witch
stem winder, Waltham movement
Finder will be literally rewarded ny
returning 80 this office.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-02
FIVE KILLED BY EXPLOSION.


Revised List of the Casualties Near
Marietta, o.
MARIETTA, O., June "A revised list
of the casualties in the nitroglycerin
explosion at the Kelly oil well shows
five dead and five injured, three fatally,
rs follows:
Killed.
William Watson.
Thomas Daniels, farmer.
Hazelton Spears, farmer.
William Carpenter, ST., farmer.
Herman Spears, farmer.
Fatally Injured.
James Spears.
Dawson Stotlar.
Henry Stotlar
Seriously Injured.
John Stotlar.
Walter Daniels.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-02

ANOTHER lot of tailor mistit suits
Just received at Hirschman's. II
there is one among them that viii
suit you, take it at the price Of ready
nladp cinfhinr
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-02
Robbers Held Citizens at Bay.

Dies MONIES, June 2.-The Savings
bank at Sheldahl, about 20 miles north,
was blown up by four robbers. They
secured $1,000 and escaped, after two
held about 90 citizens at bay with rifles
while the others looted the wrecked
vaults. The explosion almost tore the
bank building to pieces.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-02
BRITISH REFUSED.
Such a Report Ahoat at Lou
reno Marques.
KRuGrRs CAPTURE UNSUPPORTED

4 se-pie.ep rha, the tzen. Commit.
tee 1.as nave Been Sof Abie to Pre-
serve Peace at Pre,os.a--A siege May
is Necessary.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-02
LEGATIONS GUARDED.
Foreign Marines on Duty at
Pekin.
RUSSIA VAS UNDER SUSPICION.

co'o..at superiority Of Her Representa-
ton At Taku Regarded As significant.
Triple Alliance Advocates United Acc
fion ty Europe Diplomats suspicious,
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-02
For Sale Bargain.

Farm of l52 acres For partiet
lars call on, Jason CLARK,
Morgantown. " Va
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-02
The Daily Intelligencer.

Specimen copies Of either edition OF
the Intelligencer sent free to any adj
dress.
We want an agent at every Postofiice
in West Virginia, Eastern Ohio
Western Pennsylvania.
Remittances should be made by reg
istered letter, postal money order or
check. Address,
IntelIigencer Publishing Company,
Wheeling. w. Va.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-02
Want a Wbeel?

The bicycle season will soon
be here and you will hav
fever. Columbus and Ram
blers are known by every one
and recognized to be the best.
Both chain and chalnless
wheels. A number of cheap
er wheels which are not so ex-
pensive but are very good
ones are also handled. Call
and get catalogue.
JUSTIN M. KUNKLE.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

Among various other meanings which The Congre-
gatlonast in the late election results 1t includes this:
That in dealing with Latin and Malay peoples, whom the
fortunes of have made wards are to act with
more wisdom than did after the Civil War in dealing
with the negroes; to be less sentimental and doc
trnaire and and matter fact, albeit none the
less ideastic in ultimate aim The ultimate aim will
take of ITSELF if approached though practical meth
DDS, to the exclusion absolute of the sentimental and
dOctrinaire."
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01
In popuation Kinds leads all the counties of the state

In population Kinds leads all the counties OF the state
with So 577 Washington is good second, with 1910
followed Yazoo and Warren In point OF wealth Hinds
is at the top of the list with showing OF Slo'of9o 4o'
followed by Lauderdale fifth in populaton with Sh''2'
77O Warren, $7,573O93; Washington, S7,5o9'9lo and
Yazoo So 1926 The greatest increase over the gueS
of 1899 is shown by Perry 81 469 949 followed oy Hnas
and Harrison, shade over Sl,3OOoOo each Monroe is
the only other county with much million increase,
while Washington shows but little over half million.
The only county showing decrease from last year is
Sharkey, having dropped $lOO,3S3.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

The words of Loubet and the wild accalmS OF the pop
Mace NAV e MS music to the ear of Kruger, but ne mus
know if indeed he know anything of world politics. tna'
thew are as barren of the significance which he would SO
delight to find in them as was the "we-vew-wth-indig
nation of the Kansas City platform 1t may not be True
that humanitys bowels of compassion DO not extend Us
far down as its pocketbook but it is fact that IN 'ns
business age nation does not allow its atrulsc emo'onS
to SO get the better of its judgment as to involve u
sentimental war. Emotional though she be, even IN ner
la belle France knows just now Tar W 60
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01
AN IMPROVE,
MENT
NEEDED.


office as to work an injustice to people at large.
However the utmost that apaper do to call
public attention abuses the remedy for the evil nvar
iaby rests with the people themselves There nearly
always means through which matters may be rectifed; it
is merely question of setting in motion the agencies
istng for the correction of public abuses In every town
or cty regardless of there certain evils and abuses
the existence of which everybody acknowledges and
body attempts to terminate. tits New York. it is SO
in ireenyile.
The Times has called attention to or two such
matters beretofore but without creating much rip
ue mon the placid surface of general Indifference There
i, something else, however, which needs mendng
that The Times ventures to remark upon it. despite pre-
experience
We aude to the telephone service furnished, at full
rates Ia the people of Greenve by the Cumberland Tel
el,hone and Telegraph Co.
f we were asked to specify the particulars in which
the service ia nexcusably inefficient and VIGOROUSLY poor
m sond he at loss as where to begin the enumera-
ton Parties paying full monthly rate for ndivid-
a w,re get no better service than those line with
two or three others 1t is thing indeed to attempt
,obo conversation without being interrupted by hear
mo very distinctly two three other conversations The
LONG distance lines are equally badly managed and in
errspiinns to conversations common to be
eected whenever one tries to talk One of the chief
causes of complaint il the almost constant crossing of
wires This trouble is prevalent that the ringing of
ones telephone bell by means necessarily indicates
.lnees it be to listen 10 converse ton which should
MT he audible, even one inclined to hear When
"a, are called up in the morning three times before your
al bour for rising each time to be told that you are
NIT wanted or requested to deliver steak when you don't
ba,en to be able to do So you justified making
cnpIaut and demanding rectifcatiOn of condition which
makes such things possible.
The Times has never entertained any pophIistic an
tpatby to corporations, but it can readily understand
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

how such abuses of the monopoly existing here may in
vite opposition the shape of hostile legislation, excess
taxation etc 1t is certainly not calculated to make
friends for the company The Times holds its columns at
the service of any Cumberland official who to speak
the people of Greenve subject, which should be
important to the company it to its patrons 1t has
taken but few minutes to write this, yet in the time the
writer has had to respond to his telephone hell four times
neither of which was call for him.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

The figures given out by Auditor Cole show the ma
eria wealth OF the state to be $685. 1885, 947 With popu
ation of 1270 the per capita wealth of Mississippi is
now more than $139 Such figures these taken in con-
junction with the showing for the entire country must
pangs of anguish to fill the hearts of those who are
sitting round waiting, hoping, for the advent
of hard times and pancs to give power to Democracy,
without submitting it to the pruning knife of common
sense.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

The independence" extremists the Cuban Const-
tuonal convention having all sorts of fits the
suggested probability of the United States reservng the
lsleof Pines regardless of what becomes of Cuba De-
pending upon memory we of the impression that this
little island was coded to America by the treaty peace
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

Governor Thomas OF Colorado has been called to time
by the National AntiMob and Lynch Law Association,
and as might have beer expected of man who would
pay any attention at all to such concern, has plead the
baby act He renders due apology to this mos senseess
and t organization and says he did all he could to pro-
ec poor Porter but the county officers paid attention
to him.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

In little while we shall hear the usual winter and
early spring talk about heavy purchases of cotton mules
large sales of fertilizer big business in farming impe
ments. ct cetera while is safe to predict that the n
crease of acreage will be tremendous as usual. The
man who has Deen wise need care little about sucb tall
for he should have nothing hand to be affected bv #
1t is rcasonabeto expect stimulation as to eyro
acreage, to result from ruling prices but after all is sold
and done the season than all other factors that
is to determine next years CROP 'N"'
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01


the span of the forty years allotted as the
Ir,,, ,Do.u, life period of Edgar Allan Poe taken to
$50" N gether with what has since befalen his
OF FATE. memory and his work. He is not alone
IN having hyeu a life in which popular and
L- critical interest increase with the perspec
tive, IN having left legacy the value of which
hances vastly with the lapse of years but is accorded
fate to the product of few minds to at first suffer so
much OF indifference, such scant appreciation, even con-
tempt and rdcne, and yet live to the triumph which
the closing years of the century have rendered willing
tribute t. the literary remains of the greatest poetic genius
this continent has produced For most minds there
fascination about the record of unfortunate who.
either in life memory, has fallen upon lasting fame and
this interest is apt to be greater if the recognition Of
genius in the object of study has been too long de-
ferred
More than any American poet of the first rank did
Poe write for sheer love of putting his emotions into
rhythmic form,-as he expressed it in early preface
spoetry has been with passion, not purposes; yet
truly also may be SAID that he literally coined his
brain into bread His work passion, bnt his neces
sites constant that he hawked his literary
for the wherewthal to live.
From his first boyish venture, the publication of
samerIane and Other Poems in Boston in 1921 to the
day of his death, barring his brief academy and army
experience, his living precarious 1t was was earned
solely with his pen he earned dollar in any other
way. AllsunuerStOod IOf many years. frequently
ligned, ii only few months since all sections of
his country, and England WE'LL sent their men of letters
to witness the unwilling of his bust. pay homage to his
genius and pronounce him great
Last week auction sale of books took place in New
York The Mckee collection numbered numerous famous
American books dear to the heart of the bbOphie, but
whatever was associated with the of Poe bid to
the very top We books put up out of which their
author realized barely enough to keep him going till he
produced something else bringing what to him would have
seemed fortune.
His first published collection, "Tamerane," was read
y taken at $2,O5O ''Al Aaraaf, Tameranc and Other
Poems his second book, published in Baltimore, 1929,
brought 81 1OO the 'Poems" went at 1866 Poe's copy
of the Broadway Journal brought $780, while his copy
the Mirror was thought cheap at $3.50 The Raven and
.sTaes which had been presented to Mrs Sarah Helen
Whitman by Poe, during his conditional engagement to
that widow, brought 1910.
" hat memories bound up in the thus bid
off at auction sale! But had they brought to their
author under the hammer they might have brought less
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

In passing upon the admissbility as evidence of
document without the required stamps affixed the
supreme court of Georgia has held to pretty good states
rights doctrine 1t does not propose to allow congress
prescribe any rules for the courts of Georgia
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

The Bookman reports the six best selling books for
October to have been: /. The Master Christian Q.
Eben Holden. 8. Tommy and Grizel. 4, The Rede mp
ton of David Corson. 5. The Reign of Law. 6. AL
ice of Old Vincennes.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01
NEGRO
JOURNALISM.

expression OF undyng antaonlsms, and mediums for adj
vertising leading members of the
There is one fact which must impress itself upon the
most casual reader of these papers, and that Is that the
pure negro has but insignificant part their conduct
life indeed he may be said to have absolutely none
except when they into paroxysms the ynchng of
rpst The editors of these Sheets the cuts of the
distinguished members of the race which they present.
the contributors to their columns all strictly mulatto
To read their utterances and glance over their adver
semens is but to receive additional proof of the weak
and ncapacy of the race, whether consider the
pure type the hybrid ofshoot. We find in them such
articles Fortunes attack Charles Dudley Warner
echoed in Coopers the Americans condition would
be greatly improved if of the cabre of Charles
Dudy Warner were transported to the Great Beyond
Their advertisements consist largely of appeals addressed
by chemical companies in Boston and other New England
towns to those of the unfortunate as not to have
enough white blood in their veins to straghten the hair
their heads to nostrum for taking out its
kinks
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

At the risk of being called down, the Times wonld
mildly suggest that cotton is not always going to STAY
meetings of cotton growers unions farmers ASSOCIATIONS
ct cetera, at many of which the talk would indicate 5o
ten cents had become fixture Some of the snestora
have even gone SO far to advance the absurd idea that
combination of some sort BEARING nnon tb nat
marketing the crop, had gwen the country the nreoO
prices Combinations of planters can no more ae If an
price OF cotton than could sxteen-toone Such tall
in it. 'u!ging
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01
THE MAY
CASE.

treatment accorded British subjects and American citizens
by the petty republics of South and Central America
1t has been the pride and glory of the British Empire
that guaranteed protection, ample and absolute, to its
subjects, regardless of time place or circumstance We
Americans read and hear great deal of
talk about the protecting shadow of the stars and
stripes, and other spread but with England it
has been something than talk, and in the remoest
corners of the world she has made potent by her
ships the voice of her consus when asserting the rights
of her subjects
When the death of the American contractor put
temporary stop the construction of the road being built
by the Guatemaan government, numerous claims we're
presented by parties formerly engaged the road Those
presented by British subjects paid, those made by
Americans simply Ignored. Subsequent to this May
tracted operate the road for the government and
of this contract that the claim reported settled
The situation possibly helped to some extent by
the effect the SpanshAmerican mind Of the war;
but it still bad enough 1t has been for many years
saying, in which there was too much truth, that through
out Central and South America Jamaica negro COM
manded more respect than American citizen. Only a
few days ago American engineers refused to pull trains
the Sonora Division of the Southern Pacific in the vain
hope that they could thereby force the taking of action
looking to the granting of trials to eight American rail
road men confined in Mexican prisons. The Mexican a
tnoreS arrest Inc crew OF any train causing an accident
te wayfarer, and take their own tme when it comes to
giving them trial. 1t to be presumed that some day
the palaverng of the American consul may secure trial
for these men, but the of British officials in such
countries usually to demand not requests which
to our liking.
This government is badly in need Of a revolutionary
overhauing of its entire consular SYSTEM and in the
change 1t should be made impossible to appoint any
lives or half breeds to represent American interests
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

There is something worth thinking over in the corn
now being operated by Phillips In all probability
the usual fate of the attempt to any great commod
y will be experienced br Mr.. Phillips, and he may 90
with not enough to break up on fifty cents and better for
corn n Chicago is not pleasant proposition to 60 against
1t is not necessary to indulge in patitudes about the wis
dom of always raising enough corn Let 1t suffice TO saw
happy the man who has enough and spare for he can
sell his surplus bushels to his neighbour and charge him
slxty-ive cents for each of them.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

The press dispatches report that the British umpire,
the arbitration of the of Robert H. May against
the government of Guatemala has rendered judgment in
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

meht OF inc negro paper, we 1all 70 see
how the most enthusiastic believer in the
intellectual ability of the negro race is to
wiring much comfort out Off, review of
this field of its mental endeavor. Both
these papers are merely vehicles fer the
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

One of the most disagreeabe, and generally the most
hankess the functions of paper is to call attention to
he nefent administration of affairs of public concern
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01
mCROPS.~s>


There seems to be d growing tendency upon the part
of the planters in this section to get rid of one crop
quickly and pre- pare for another without loss of time
Measured by every rule of common sense and experience
this is the wise course to pursue.
The the question of labor is settled the
crop be put into the ground With year such as
the present. the difference between crop planted late and
early not great but with average frost date
the early planting makes the crop.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

mingling of the veterans of the opposing
armies, made necessary In their laying
out, is worth mulch to the cause of better
feeling between the sections.
Nothing is better calculated to inspire
respect in an opponent than the exhibition
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01
"a LESSON
IN ITSELF
SUBLIME. "

of unaterabe faith the righteousness of ones cause
To his lasting credit be it sad at these gatherings the
Southern veteran has never failed in dlgnfed and be-
coming manner to let the world know that he has done
nothing for which he felt called upon to apologize.
There is something in the nature of lesson to con-
gressiona bushwhackers and partisan editors in the
speeches made at the dinner given the Iowa veterans
in Vicksburg on Tuesday There is no questioning
the feeling which prompted Gen. Lee to say 81 can
look into your faces, gentlemen Of Iowa, and 1
don't see there anything to indicate that you are ashamed
of what did then and you look me in the eve too
gentlemen. but you will not any elItae beam ndi-
eating that am ashamed of anything that did. Each
side be proud of the record made and of their COM
mon heritage American citizens And the words of
Judge Reed of Iowa equally as sincere: 'Like nv
distinguished friends, Gen. Rassuer and Gen. Lee / saw
hat for all that done there apology necessary
nat is past and we stand tonight the people of two great
ates Of an indssoube union goryDgi the memory of
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01
SATURDAY, DECRMBER l. 1900.

This Is common expression but in few instances is it
80 filed with force when applied to the description of
the succession of vcisstdes of fortune which crowded
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

Mr.. Neill is making earnest effort to reoovar he
lost prestge and the power it gave him. ~ MS
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

Plant enough corn and feed-stuff to insure q sne,
as you can. '"PV
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

Taking the New York Age, edited by T. Thomas For
tune and the Coored American, of Washington, edited
by Edward E. Cooper, types of the highest develop
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

Aside from the beauty and historical value to the flu
ure of the great military parks being established through
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

favor Of the claimant. 10 those acqualnt-
ed with the facts of the case, and with the
antecedent matters out of which this con-
troversy grew, there will be recalled one of
the numberless instances wherein has been
emphasized the difference between the
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

It is generally considered to be the duty
of paper to act in the capacity of a sort
of collective voice of protest, and in be-
half OF community, county Or state, hold
IN 10 view whatever is being so handled,
whether public corporation or public
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-01

the span of the forty years allotted as the
life period of Edgar Allan Poe, taken to-
gether with what has since befallen his
memory and his work. He is not alone
in having lveu life in which popular and
critical interest increase with the perspec-