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Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Indian Ball Game.

One hundred Choctaw braves will
engage in their famous Indian ball
game near Forest on the 8th of Aug
ust, and the event promises to attract
many visitors who will witness the
ferocious contest. Fifty Indians
will take part on each side, the Red
waters being allied against the COM
bined factions of the Turkey Creek
and Muskalushes. Both are branches
Of the old Choctaw tribe, and this is
the first game of ball that has been
played since the memorable battle of
1897, when eight Of the participants
were killed at the close of the strug-
ole.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

Doctors in the Yazoo-Mississippi
delta levee district are up in arms
against the levee board because of
the action of the board in imposing
a privilege tax of $40 on each prac-
ticing physician in the district. I'M
der the State law the doctors are ex-
empted from the payment of this
tax, as a special act of grace, and the
doctors have been so long accustom-
ed to this exemption that they are
unwilling to concede the right of the
levee board to tax them.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
AN EARTHQUAKE IN MONTANA.
MissOuIa County, Montana, Visited
BY EarthGuaIke-severa Build
ings at Clinton Collapsed.

st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 5.--A Helena
st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. "A Helena
(Mont.) special to the Dispatch says:
An earthquake visited Missoula
county Sunday evening, causing some
damage. 1t lasted several seconds,
vibrations being quick and short. At
Bonner one of the large dynamos at
the electrical plant was shaken from
its adjustment. At Clinton the shock
was quite severe, the operator report
ing that several buildings collapsed.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Okolona 3 Grenada railroad.

Prominent capitalists have been
interested in the proposed Okalona
& Grenada road, and it is stated that
they are about to dispose of their in
terests to the Mobile 6 Ohio system,
and that this road will push the con-
struction and have it finished with
in the next year. The road will
prove valuable feeder to the Mobile
& Ohio, and will also help to hold
the trade against the Mobile, Jack
son & Kansas City line to be built
northward through the State, di-
viding the trade territory of the Illi-
nois Central and Mobile & Ohio
systems,
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Trial of Whit Owens.

Judge Lowerey will hold a special
term of court at Oxford on August
18 to try the case of Whit Owens,
provided the case is tried at Oxford
at all. The attorneys for Owens, it
is understood, will make application
for change of venue. Owens will
claim that he cannot get a fair trial
in Lafayette county on account of
the strong sentiment existing there
against him as a result of the horri-
Bile murder of the two deputy mar
shals.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Interesting Find.

Mr.. Rowland of the department of
archives and, history has found in
the State archives the original man
uscripts Of the trial of the famous
bandit Mason, who was convicted at
Natchez Of numberless acts Of rob-
berry and murder in the early terri
torial days of Mississippi and hang
ed for his misdeeds. The notorious
Mason fourished durinr the latter
part Of the eighteenth and earlier
wears of the nineteenth centuries,
and his lawless band terrorized the
travellers on the Mississippi river
and The Natchez trace. On the river
they we're pirates and on the land
highwaymen, and few were the trav-
elers who escaped the watchful eyes
Of Mason and his men.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Calhoun County Celebration.

A crowd estimated at between
1000 and 5000 attended the cele-
bration Of the fiftieth anniversary Of
the organization of Calhoun county
at Pittsboro last week. The day
will be remembered as the most
pleasant and tranquil in the history
Of the county, and the crowd was the
largest that ever assembled within
its confines.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

Heavy rains have been quite gem
eral over the State during the past
week, greatly improving the condi-
ton Of growing crops, particularly
late corn and cotton. The drouth
situation has been relieved, but not
before great damage was wrought to
the corn crop. The cotton crop, how
ever, according to the opinion of ex-
perts, is much above the average at
this season for three years past, and
: banner yield is anticipated.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
White Men as Rousters.

Metropolis, ILL.,, Aug. 4.-On two big
Cincinnati and Memphis steamers
which passed here today on their way
down the Ohio river, was witnessed
the spectacle of white men working as
rousters, a sight river mer have not
seen since long before the civil war.
The negro rousters are all striking.
not so much for higher wages as be-
cause of the hot weather and heavy
wheat shipments, which deprive the
rousters Of rest.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
New Oil Mills.

The Tupelo Cotton Oil Company
has decided. to enlarge its capacity
and the stockholders have voted an
increase of $4,000 of capital stock
to accomplish this purpose. A new
oil mill is now organizing at New,
Miss. There will be over twenty
new oil mills in operation this fall.
The new mill at Jackson has been
completed and will be ready for the
first ginnin0. This mill is the larg-
est of the four mills located there.
Competition in the seed market
promises to be fierce. The fight is al
ready on now and agents for nrmer-
GUS mills are in the field bespeaking
seed business.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
PRISON DYNAMITED
Fifteen Convicts Escape from Ten
nessee Penltentiary.
Gus Hyatt Leads Desperate Gang to Lib.
srty-One OF the Escaping Prisoners
observation-disclosures on the
Trail of Others.

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. Alarmed
with dynamite to blow his way out Of
prison, Gus Hyatt, the train robber and
desperate, tonight led a desperate
band of 16 convicts to liberty from
the Tennessee penitentiary. Fifteen
Of the escaping party got entirely clear
of the premises, and only one, Ed Car
ney, safe blower, sent up from Nash.
vile, paid the penalty Of death in the
bold undertaking.
Two FugitIves Captured.
Joe Loss and James Work were
traced down by bloodhounds and cap.
tured, but the rest Of the prisoners had
wandered SO far out Of bounds that by
midnight no trace Of them could be
had.
Blew the Main Wing.
The prisoners were furnished dyna-
mite from the outside, which they used
in blowing out an opening in the main
wing Of the prison.
Hyatt stood off the inside guard with
a brace of revolvers, which had also
been furnished him from the outside,
while the men preceded him, aud Car
ney, the prisoner who was killed, i'm
mediately preceded the train robber.
Doe Laid the Dynamite.
The dynamite was laid by Doe, the
Manchester train robber, and he male
good his escape with the train of pris-
oners that left by the opening made by
the explosive material.
Six of the prisoners that got away
were government men, and the others
were State convicts. Posses with blood
hounds are in pursuit.
Prisoners Escaped.
The men who escaped are George
Lawrence, burglar, Shelby county, es-
capped once before; Emory Hunter,
murder, Roane county; Dick Miller,
house breaking and larceny, Davidson;
Joe Doe, burglary, Coffee county;
frank Brewer, house breaking, Benton
county; Frank Watson, murder, Shell
by county; Gus Hyatt, highway rob
berry, Montgomery; Joe Grady, house
breaking, Benton county; Jim Thomp-
son, United States prisoner from Ken
lucky; Fred Seguin, United States pris-
oner, Northern Alabama; VIM. Gill
more, United States prisoner, Ken
lucky; Joe Lass, carrying burglars
tools; Jim Ward, burglary and forgery,
Shelby county. The latter two were
CAPTURED.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
stoned to Death.

Hopliinsville, KY, Aug. 4.-In a
quarrel about a woman near Trenton
today, Nose Tyler, a farm hand, ad-
vanced with a drawn pistol on Thad
Coleman. Coleman hurled two stones
at Tyler. The first stunned him and
the second struck him on the head and
killed him instantly. The coroner's in
quest verdict exonerated Coleman.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

Greenwood Island, at one time fa-
nous as a military reservation on
the Gulf coast, and which played a
prominent part in the operation of
naval fleets during the civil war, has
been sold bv the government land Of
flee for 5000. The purchasers are
Messrs. L. Brame, Charles Fl.
Wood and 3. S. Wilson.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Army Worms Appear.

Army worms are appearing in
some portions of Lefore county, do
ing considerable damage to young
cotton. The planters are buying
paris green and it is hoped that by
its use the worms will be prevented
from spreading a great deal.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
REGATTA WEEK AT CowEs.
Only Fine weather Needed to In-
sure the Success of the Royal
Yacht SquadrOn's Regatta.

Cowes, Isle of Wight, Aug. 4.-Re-
gatta week opened with every pros
pect of a record meeting and only
fine weather needed to secure the
success of the Royal Yacht Squad
ron's racing season. The presence of
the king has caused an added inter-
est to be taken in the event. There
was much speculation as to the per-
formance of the German emperor's
Meteor HI, which was to hoist her
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
]. I. MONTGOMERY DEAD.
He Played Conspicuous Part In the Civil
War and Lost His Fleet at
Memphis.

Chicago, Aug. 4.-Commodore Joseph
E. Montgomery, the aged Confederate
naval officer, whe nearly captured Gen.
Grant during the civil war, died here
today at the home of his son, DR..
James Montgomery. Commodore Mont
gomery was born in Carrollton, Ky, in
1917, and from his youth until the war
broke out was engaged in river traffic.
AT the battle Of Mobile bay he played a
conspicuous part. He was in the en-.
gagements at Fort Pillow sand New
Orleans and at Memphis he lost his
fleet He was an intimate friend of
Jefferson Davis. He lost his eyesight
twelve years ago and since that time
had lived in this city.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

racing flag for the first time in Brit
ish waters.
The racing for yachts of over 70
feet proved a disappointment, the
Meteor and George Waetjens' Nava-
hoe both being scratched. The Sy-
barita, owned by NJ. B. Kennedy, of
Glasgow, sailed over the course alone.
The king was on the deck of the
Victoria and Albert all morning,
watching the yachts start.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
NEGOTIATIONS UNDER WAY.
New York Evening Press Reports Notable
Progress In Frisco Expansion.

New York Evening Press Reports Notable
Progress In Frisco Expansion.
New York, Aug. 4.-The Evening
Post says: Very positive statements
were made today that negotiations are
pending for the acquisition of the Cen
tral of Georgia system by the st. Louis
& San Francisco, which, last week, Sc
cured the Chicago G Eastern Illinois
and which during the last year, has
made notable progress in expansion.
These reports were practically con-
firmed, so far as regards the statement
that negotiations with this purpose in
view, have been under way They are
not, however, completed. From the
same authority, denial was obtained
Of the reports of a grand merger of
all Southern railroads.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
The czar WIN Meet the Kaiser.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 4.-Extensive
preparations are being made for the
reception of Emperor William on his
approaching visit to Russia. He will
be met by the czar in the roadstead
of Reval, and together they will wit
ness the maneuvers of the Russian
squadron of Carlo.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Sensible Advice.

St. Paul, Mimi, Aug. T. 4.-Archbish-
up Ireland, in his sermon at the ca
thedral, Sunday, advised American
Catholics to leave the friars question
to Pope Leo to settle with the United
States government, which hitter, he
said, ''is just, and will do what is
right"
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Cnhn Going backward.

New York, Aug. 4.-The Cuban gov
ernment, it is said, is already neglect
ing the sanitary measures inaugurat-
ed by the United States officials DUR
ing the temporary occupation, and
already there is fear of an outbreak
of yellow fever in Havana and San
tiago.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Southern Women,a CONGRESS-.

Monteagle, Tenn, Aug. 4.-The
Southern Women's congress opened
here to-day with delegates present
from all the leading women's organi-
cations. Among the speakers were
Mrs. Selena Halman, of Tennessee;
Miss Victoria Campbell, Mrs. Mary
Jewett Telford and Mrs. Carrie Lee
Carter.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
crons In the Northwent.

St. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 4.-The north
western states are now in the midst
of the greatest harvest ever known.
Minnesota, North Dakota and South
Dakota have produced more wheat,
oats, barley and flax than crop esti-
matters have credited them with.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
HIgh-Water ConvIct LIst.

The prison population of the peni-
tentiary is now larger than it has
ever been. There are now 1 ITO men
In stripes on the various prison
farms owned and worked by the
State.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Loan Bill Passes the House.

Washington, Aug. 4.-The state de-
partment has received the following
cablegram from Minister Squiers, dat
ed Havana, August 4:
The house has passed the bill au-
thorizing loan of $35,OOo,o0o; mini
mum rate of issue 90 per cent. Maxi
mum interest five per cent, redeema-
bic in 40 years.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Rock River Assemhlx.

Dixon, H., Aug. 4.-Twenty thou
sand people were on the grounds Of
the Rock River assembly Sunday. FL
len NJ. Stone was present and told the
story of her capture by brigands, at
themorning service N the tabernacle.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
CAMERON SEVERELY INJURED
Former Senator Thrown From Cart
While Driving with His Wife

FORMER senator Thrown from Cart
While Driving With His Wife,
London, Aug. Awhile former Uni
ted States Senator Don Cameron ana
Mrs. Cameron were driving this after
noon from Fort William, Inverness
shire Scotland, to Inverlachy Castle,
Lochabar, which he has leased for the
summer, the horses SHE'D and the car
riage collided with a cart. Both Mr..
and Mrs. Cameron were thrown out
end the senator severely injured IN tn
groin. With the exception of the shock
Mrs. Cameron was not hurt.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
EnlargIng NIoOomb city shops.

The Illinois Central is making ar
rangements to enlarge its shops at
McComb City, the third largest on
the system. The company is erect
ing a new boiler house, and enlarge
ments and improvements will be
made in nearly every department of
the shops.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
ON THE IMPERIAL YACHT.
Emperor william Leaves KieI, On
the HOhenzOIIern, for Russia
to Meet the CEar.

Kiel, Aug. 4.-The imperial yacht
Hohenzollern, with Emperor William
on board, sailed this morning for Re-
val, Russia, where his majesty is GO
ing to pay visit to the czar on the
occasion of the Russian naval maneu-
vers.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Encampment of stnte Gnnrd.

A general encampment of the
Mississippi National Guard will be
held at Biloxi beginning on August
13 and will continue for ten days.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
The End Not Far on.

Ames, Ia, Aug. 4.-Dr. William M.
Beardshear, president of the Iowa
Agricultural college, is slowly sinking
and the end can not be far of.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
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NO APPLICATION REQUIRED.

A receipt is given and morey will be 10
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Sold at all agencies of the Southern Ex.
press Company at all reasonable hours.
RArEs AnE As roIsowe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-24

The mysterious performance with a $500
check which took place between Mr.. Davis
and Representative Robert w. Miers or his
sponsors presents some interesting features.
Some weeks ago a turn in the Democratic
Second district made the candidacy of Rep
resentative Miers appear so hopeless that
it was understood he would retire from
the contest, and such an announcement
was made. That ne might become the
residuary legatee. so to speak. of the Miers
assets in the district, Mr.. Davis, a jealous
competitor. gave a check for $500 to Sena-
tor Corr and others Of the friends of Mr.
Miers upon the understanding that the lat
course. the $500 was not regarded as bribe
or anything of that sort, but a contribu-
ton to Mr.. Miers to pay his expenses in
an unsuccessful canvass. But, instead of
Withdrawing from the race as Mr.. Miers's
friends promised Mr.. Davis he would do.
he and his friends pushed a quiet but Wig
orous campaign while Mr. Davis waited in
the certainty of Mr.. Miers's withdrawal.
Later, when it was discovered that Mr..
Miers could be nominated and that he had
never intended to withdraw, Mr.. Davis
must have felt that he had been deceived
by the supporters Of Mr.. Miers. Doubt
less, if he should free his mind about it,
he would declare that he had been made
the victim of a trick in which honorable
men would not engage. AS for Mr.. Miers,
while he may not like the publicity which
the transaction has given him, he may
congratulate himself that Mr.. Davis was
put out of the fight by one of the neatest
schemes ever devised by political mana
gers. Still. it is not a performance of
which any man can be proud AS for Mr..
Davis he will get back his $500 and may
yet count himself fortunate that he has
his money and does not have the nominal
ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-24

spring up a competition in which those
who can work for the smallest wages will
win and those who take the lowest wages
can do so because they can subsist upon
the cheapest food. Whether the native
common laborer sinks TO the level of the
immigrant by being compelled to accept
the lower standard of wages and the lower
standard of living, or through idleneas, is
not worth considering. 1t is a certainty
that. if forced into such competition, the
American will sink to the lower level, and
this evil Congress should prevent.
There have been some labor and economic
topics upon which the Journal has taken
issue with President Gompers, of the Fed
Grafton of Labor, but upon this matter OF
unrestricted immigration this paper and
Mr.. Gompers have been in full accord. So
now the Journal joins Mr.. Gompers in sup
porting the proposition of Mr.. Watson as
embraced in the Underwood amendment.
The protection of American labor by keep
ing out of the country the ignorant imni-
grant is a logical duty of the Republican
party. The immigration bill as amended IN
the House on Thursday will do that if
enacted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-24
PENSION BILL DAY.
Lively Debate i'm the House-1O5
Measures Passed.

WASHINGTON, May 2S.-The House de-
voted the day TO private pension bills and
to a few other minor measures. In all los
private pension bills were passed. The
House adjourned until Monday in order to
participate in the Rochambeau ceremonies
tomorrow.
During the consideration of pension bills
Mr.. Loud, of California, declared that pen
sion legislation had gone far beyond the
point of reason and had become a disgrace
TO this legislative body He said it was
physically impossible for the committee
reporting these bills to consider them care
fully. as 1,169 had been reported at this
session and passed within a total of
twenty-eight hours.
Mr.. LIQUIDS remarks brought out several
emphatic protests. Chairman Sulloway of
the committee asserted that the bills had
the most careful consideration. He paid
a tribute TO the old soldiers as the wards
of the Nation who should be protected in
their old age and never permitted TO enter
aims institution.
Mr.. Miers, of Indiana, and Mr.. Sulzer, of
New York, also paid glowing tributes to
the old soldiers. Mr.. Miers said that it
was an alternative between this legislation
and lover the hills TO the poorhouse"
Mr. Sulzer emphatically protested against
the slandering of the men who followed the
nag ana declared tndt IL was the duty or
every patriotic representative to stand be-
hind the old soldier.
A spirited contest occurred between
Messrs. Sulzer, of New York, and Hull, of
Iowa, when the latter sought to defeat one
of Mr.. Suffers relief bills to remove the
charge of desertion against Michael Null
lett. The New York member declared that
Mr.. Hull. as chairman of the military COM
mittee, was seeking TO punish him for a
vote on one of the military bills. Mr.. Hull
denied any such purpose, and asserted that
Mr.. Suffers relief bill was without merit
and had been reported as a personal favor
and when the House sided with Mr.. Splzer
Mr.. Hull prevented final action by raising
the point of no quorum.
The following bills were passed: To re-
divide the district of Alaska into three
recording districts; for the promotion of
First Lieut.. John NJ. Simms, revenue cutter
service.
The House disagreed to the Senate
amendments to the bill 10 prevent the false
branding marking Of food or dairy prod
ucts, and asked for conference.
Mr.. Gaines, of Tennessee, had read the
appeal of the Governor of Tennessee for
relief for the widows and children of the
men buried in the recent mine disaster in
Tennessee.
The House. at AIS p. m. adjourned until
Monday.