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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
SENATOR PLATT
TO BE THE HOST

New York, April Great interest
centers in the second annual dinner oi
the Bretheren of 1.-The Amen Corner, u
to taRe place at the Fifth Avenue Ho.
tel tonight. Senator Thomas G. Plat
is to be the guest of honor. Senator
Platt is one of the original frequenters
of tbs "Amen Corner" section OF
the main corridor of the hotel. There
are few politicians of note who at
some time or other have not seated
Themselves on one of the four settees
and discussed politics, the weather or
some subject of interest. To be entitld
to membership among the Brethren
one must attend at least ten nightly
meetings. Many explanations have
been given of how the amen Cor
ner" received it's name. The one
generally accepted is that in the earlier
days of its existence there were wont
to gather there men who said Amen"
to any proposition favored by them.
Among the distinguished persons who
have accepted invitations to the dinner
are President Roosevelt, Governor
Odell, Senator M. A. Hanna, Senator
J. B, Foraker, Senator M s. Quay,
Joseph H. Manley of Maine, Arch
bishop John Ireland, Senator Arthur
P. German, Secretary Elihu Root,
Postmaster General Henry @. Payne
and Chief Justice Alton B. Parker of
the Court of Appeals.
1t is promised that there are many
surprises in store for those who at
tend the dinner, as the committee of
arrangements has been very industri-
GUS. The dinner is to be held IN the
great dining room of the hotel, which
Of the hotel, which is to be adorned
with flowers and shrubs and flags and
bunting. There is to be great band,
and there will be many interesting
speeches, besides songs and other things
which will be rememb ered many Gay
by the guest of the unique organiza-
bion.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
HUNDREDS OF HOUSES
To Be Built at Sharon---Town
ENJOYING a Boom.

Sharon, Pa, April 4.-This place
is enjoying the greatest boom in its
history In the entire town there are
no houses vacant, and travellers in
tending to stay at the hotels are
obliged to make advance applications
for accommodations
The Sharon Steel Company is pre-
pairing to build 400 more houses in
South Sharon to accommodate the en-
ployes of the sheet skelp, tube and
universal mills when they 80 into OPP
grafton. In the same locality the Sha-
ron Steel and Tin Plate Company owns
500 houses and is contemplating the
building of many more.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
MANUFACTURERS MATERIALS
Decrease in Quantity Imported In
to This Country.

Washington, April 4.-The Bureau
Of statistics has prepared a report
showing the principal articles which
made up the class known as "manu-
facturers materials" and comparing
the quantity imported during the pres
elt fiscal year with the same months
of the preceding year. The COMPARE
son shows material decrease in man
ufacturers materials per unit of guam
tity. In many cases raw cotton, silk,
wool fabrics, tobacco, hides, rubber,
wood, tin, copper and chemicals form
the bulk Of raw materials imported
for use in manufacturing.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
New York M. e. Conference.

New York, April 2.-The New York
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church begun its annual session today
in Grace Church with Bishop Fowler
of Chicago presiding. The session of
the conference will continue one week,
and at its close about 300 pastors will
be assigned to work. Rumor has it
that many changes will be made.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

There is a newspaper in Kansas
whose motto is Lie, steal, drink and
swear" and it is thus explained by the
editor: when you lie, let 1t be down
to pleasant dreams; when you steal,
let it be away from immoral associates;
when you drink, let it be pure water;
when you swear, let it be that you will
3atronize your home paper, pay your
subscription, and not send your Job
work away from home"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
To Increase Capital Stock.

Meridian, Miss, April 4.-The
stockholders of the Meridian Light
and Railway Company held meeting
in the Office of the company in this
city today and voted to increase the
capital stock of the company from
1925, 900 to $500, 000
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
To Irrigato in California.

Baltimore capitalists. headed by
General John GIl, president of the
Mercantile Trust and Deposit Com
pany, are to organize company to de-
velop an irrigation system to Califor-
mia. 1t is said that 100000 has al
ready been put up and that a tract Of
1000 acres in the Rialto Plateau,
San Bernardino county, has been Sc
lected for working.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

Dr. Gilman, who has been elected
president of the great Carnegie insti-
tuition in Washington, is 20 years old.
In the realm of high thought and vast
enterprise this is not yet exclusively
"the young mans age"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
Good Roads Association.

Washington, April "a special
train of seven coaches went today via
the Southern Railway for Charlotts-
VILE, Virginia, to attend the NationaI
Good RoadsAssociation.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
President of Big Trust.

New York, April 3.-Ex-Secretary
OF the Treasury Gage, was elected
President of the United States Trust
Company this afternoon at a meeting
of the Board of Trustees.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
NEWS IN
MINIATURE
Doings of a Busy World Told in
Terse Paragraphs.
NEWS CONDENSED
Happenings of interest Over
Land and Sea IS Personal
and Notes.

| O6Cll hHOue5 Will CAOApOA 0hooN"sA
interest in London.
The spinners' strike in Rhode
Island is spreading.
Safe blowers robbed the State Bank
at Ruskin, Neb., of $4,000.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is seeking d.
plomatio appointment.
The suffrage cause has been adopted
| by the Virginia convention.
Five persons were injured in rail
way collision at Coney, N. @.
The Bank of Pennville, at Penn
Vile, Ind, was robbed of 81, 900.
Charles Draper of Jennings, La,
was found dead in boat in Lake Ar
thur, La.
Oberlin M. Carriers condition is i'm
proving at Fort Leav enworth, Kas.
The Atlantic Coast Line will take
over the control of the Plant Railroad
and Steamship Lines.
Notices have been posted in the oil
fields at Beaumont, Texas, warning
negroes TO leave.
A new railroad merger is Matching
in New York and an important an
nouncement is expected in a few
days.
The judiciary committee of the
house will report bill to amplify
and perfect the existing bankruptcy
law.
The sixth annual meeting of the
American Academy of Political and
Social Science has begun at Philadsl-
phia
Prominent men urged the i'm
portance of good roads at the Good
Roads convention at Charlottesville,
Va.
Chicago and New York capitalists
will establish q model plantation of
10, 900 acres in Coahoma county, Miss.
Michael J. Bennett, Chicago turf
man, was held up in Memphis and
robbed of $500 and jewelry valued at
81, 300.
The Democratic members of the
United States senate will oppose the
Cuban reciprocity bill.
Half million cups are being made
in London "to dine the masses" at
King Edwards coronation.
Twenty five persons were killed
and many were injured by the col
lapse of pavilion on football field
at Glasgow.
The Plus claim between Mexico and
the United States will be submitted
to The Hague conference for settle
ment.
Citta Felt, fifteen-year old boy of
Salt Lake, has confessed that he cut
an old mans throat because the old
man insisted that it be done.
A mother and her babe were fatally
burned by the explosion of an oil
lamp at St Louis, and the father and
a small boy were badly burned.
The Russian government has not
asked the assent of the United States
to the Manchurian convention.
Frank Sergeant has been rendered
the post of Commissioner General of
immigration.
Stanley E. Adams was arrested at
Shreveport, La, charged with com
plicity in bank defalcation at Full
ton, Mo.
George J. Stouts of New Orleans,
was robbed Of jewelry valued at s76
at the Seashore Camp Grounds, near
Biloxi, Miss.
The body of the last victim of the
Nelson, Tenn. mine disaster has been
recovered.
The fund of 800, 900 to found a
chair of economics at Washington and
Lee University has been secured.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

The objects which great interna-
ticnal enterprises find in their way
the not men, but interests. And inter
ests are even more Tneless than cor
porations, which are said to have no
souls, reflects the Christian Register.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

There is burglar, or set of bur
glars, in Paris with knowledge of the
classics, and making good use of the
episode of the wooden horse. A
series of the mysterious burglaries
that puzzled the police were found or
Investigation to be more or less con
nected with a wooden horse. The
horse was one of those frequently
seen in harness shops for display
purposes. Its owners generally fixet
on a promising location, and persuad
ed the porter of the place to let the
horse remain in his stable or court
yard until morning. During the nigh
the robbaries would occur. Strange
as it may seem, this horse was used {
dozen or more times before the pol
ice decided to watch it. When they
did they found concealed in it a young
rascal, who, at the appointed time
would creep out and let his confeder
ates into the premises. Once caught
the men confessed that they had stol
en- the horse for this purpose.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

Ants commonly are regarded as
huisances, yet they have their uses.
If you dig up nest of common brown
ants, you will notice, by putting your
face close to the hill, a pungent odor
arising. This is the vapor Of formic
acid. the principle OF ant poison. Now,
formic acid has the property of max
ing plants grow as hardly anything
else will Therefore the mold of which
the ant nests are composed makes a
valuable dressing for the market gar
den when spread on while it is fresh.
Another little known benefit to be de-
rived from ants is the collection of
their eggs for fish food In the late
summer a good many people make a
living by gathering ant eggs in the
pine woods of Surrey and Berkshire,
Eng, and selling them to the London
fish dealers.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
A Boston swimmer issues a ch2I
lcnge for "a mile dash" Wouldn't "a
mile splash" be better?

Unstable as Central and South
American republics may be, Zelaya
has been inaugurated president Of
Nicaragua for the third time.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

A mine explosion in Mexico has
caused the death of more than 100
explosions of every sort have been
amazingly frequent and destructive.
It is painfully evident that long ia
miliarity with the storage and hand
ling of dangerous compounds has in
many countries bred contempt
which has been followed by distress.
full calamities.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

To solve the problem of keeping
young people from fiocking to the ci
ties, tne Great Round World cites
the modernized Village Hail." as {
centre for the social interests of the
community and says: The presen.
tendency OF the younger generation il
rural communities to seize the EARL
est opportunities of finding homes il
the larger cities, is due in considera
BILE part to a sense of social needs
Existence becomes monotonous where
there is no social variety, and asii,
from the desire for larger business
profit and for making more of ;
name, the longing to know more PEG
pie, to see more sights and to ge
more closely into touch with affair!
is a persistent pull on the content O.
the average rural young man or WON
an. 1t is quite evident, therefore
that II the young people are to bt
kept in the towns and villages, some
thing must be done to improve tneil
social surroundings. Their need mus
be met-and met wholesomely ant
as completely as possible. At tn,
same time such an effort, properl,
carried out, is certain to bring educa
tional results of other values, for t.
make the community desirable to tn,
young it must be modernizei, it mus
be knit more closely together, it mus
be brought into nearer relation will
the world outside All this can be ac
ccmplished only by emphasizing the
points of agreement among the inhab
itants."
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

Odors as an assistance to diagnosis
is a new branch of medical science.
The Medical Record is authority for
the statement that the odor of new
mown hay is an indication of pyaemia.
typhus is indicated by an ammoniac
smell, jaundice by musky one, vel.
low fever by the odor of a gun barrel,
hysteria by suggestion of violets OF
pineapples, intermittent fever by the
smell of fresh baked brown bread
and measles by one like fresh picked
gruous that the smell Of the plague
resembles honey.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

The Denver Republican states that
the fact that Germany and the Unit
ell States are drawing near to each
other need not have the effect Of
estranging any other friend from the
Americans. There are considerations
that suggest that Great Britain AMI
the United States should always be
warm friends, whatever the relations
between this country and any Other
power and in like manner we may
maintain relations of the most friend
ly character with Germany. France
Russia and each of the other powers
o. the Old World.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20

acting coroner, viewed the remains.
From the position of the body and
the Surroundings when the discovery
was made, Mr.. Keplinger was leaning
against the bath room door, support
ing himself with one hand, when he
drew the knife across his throat.
After he inflicted the wound, the
man evidently slipped to his knees and
then fell over backwards as his
strength left him. Blood was splatter-
ed over the door, the end Of the bath
tub and big pool Of blood had col
lected on the floor.
Many people noticed that during
tie past several months that Mr.. KEEP
linger's mind was failing and the
trouble became more pronounced dur
ing the past few days. ]. l.. Higley
formerly Of the firm of Higley, Kep-
linger and company, the predecessors
of the Metropolitan Brick company
who was associated for many years
with Mr.. Keplinger, said that he no.
ticed the failing of Mr.. Keplinger's
mind during the past several months
and that this caused him and the rel.
atives much anxiety.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
DECLARED A NUISANCE.
FIndIsy Religious ZeaIotJs Too
Noisy and Neishbors ,e
Wan Relief.

Findlay, o., May 1.-Two weeks
ago Mrs. Amanda James, religious
zealot, started to build church in her
back yard. she actively assisting the
carpenters and builders. Last week
her relatives asked for guardian for
her, alleging insanity. She was re-
leased, and she and her followers sang
hymns in the court room until elected.
Now neighbors threaten to invoke
tho aid of the police, to have her and
her church stopped as a nuisance and
disorderly place, on account of the
stontorian prayers and vigorous into
nation of the sacred songs that issue
forth, both day and night, to the utter
discontinue of the people living with
in radius of two blocks.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
WANTS $4,000
Damages From the L.
E, & w,

Edward G. Spring, of near Alliance,
has sued the Alliance Lake Erie e
Wheeling railway for $4,000 damages
for injuries received while in the en-
ploy of the company. The petition
was filed Saturday in common pleas
court.
The plaintiff alleges that on Feb
ruary 20, 1902, he was working as a
carpenter for the company at the tun-
mel near Paris, Stark county, and that
he was ordered by the foreman to
leave his regular work and do some
digging with shovel at the base OF
the tunnel. While he was thus en-
ployed, the foreman directed other
workmen to do some digging at the
top of the tunnel, 20 feet above where
Spring was working, without notify
ing him Of the fact.
The workmen above loosened ;
large mass of frozen earth which fel
and struck the plaintiff upon the head
rendering him insensible. Since thai
time he has been unable to work, ha'
fits and fainting spells, is subject t.
dizziness, spits blood, and his eyesigh
is not good. He alleges that the ac
cidert was due entirely to the careless
ness of the company's foreman.
Attorneys Craine & Snyder are coun
sci for the plaintiff and filed the pc
! titiOn,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
AFTER LOST BONDS.

gainesville, O., May 16.-.While Wis
iting in Elyria some weeks ago Miss
Ellen Flynn, of Painesville, was rob-
bed CT her purse, containing her bank
book and record of government
bonds OF considerable value, which
we're securely fastened in her pocket.
A letter received Wednesday by Miss
Flynn from a newsboy deepens the
theory of the robbery. The letter ran:
Il, poor newsboy, found your govern
ment bond book on the streets of New
York" 1t was signed by Luis Keller,
and asked Miss Flynn to come to New
York to claim her property. She left
yestel day.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
TELEPHONE PLANT SOLD.

Bellevue. o., May 16.-The Huron
County Telephone company which was
owned by Bellevue parties, was sold
Thursday to Hon. ]. F. Laning, Of
Norwalk. The property includes the
exchanges at MonroeVille, Chicago
Junction, Plymouth and New Wash
ington. The price paid is $4,000. He
also endeavored to purchase the Bel
levue Home Telephone property and
offered $4,000 for it, but some of the
stockholders declining to sell, the deal
fell through. Mr.. Laning is the Or
ganizer and promoter of the local tel
ephone company, whose object is to
consolidate the telephone properties of
Huron county into one company.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
RIDGE OIL COMPANY.
(Stan Specially

Massillon, May 1.-THE Ridge Oil
company was incorporated at Colum-
bus oday with the following incor-
porators, all from Massillon: S. II,
zimmerman, ]. G. Tullis. T. q. Drake,
II. T.. DeWeese and JsS. Sonnhalter.
The comp,sly has leases on a forty
FIVE acre tract in the heart of the oil
district in Van Vert county. One well
has been drilled and is producing and
another is now being put down. The
capital stock Of the company Is 81. 900.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
commencement.
(Stan Specially

Navarro, May 1.-THE eighteenth
annual commencement of the Navarro
high school was held Friday evening
and ten students received diplomas
from G. A. Sisterhen, the president
Of the Navarro board Of education.
Several Canton people attended the
commencement Pof ]. w. Guthie, OF
Alliance, who Is a member of the
Stark county b6ard Of examiners, de-
livered the class address. Edwin II.
Carver delivered an address on the
Heroes in Humble Life" Another
oration which received much comment
was that of William Wagner, who
spoke on "William Mckinley"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
SISTERS NECK BROKEN
BY Boy In Playful SeutfIe.

Oregon, Wis, May 16.-lWhile en-
gagged in a playful scuffle with her
brother Miss Pearl Netherwood had
her neck broken. The young man
caught his sister around the neck and
tipped her head back.
She made some sort of outcry for
him to stop, but he supposed it was
all in play and paid no attention for
the moment
When he did let so his hold his sis
ter's head dropped to one side and he
found she was unconscious. A physi-
clan was summoned, when it was
found that Miss Netherwood had sus-
tained a partial fracture of the neck
1t is feared she will not recover.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20

AT WORK
Armed Guards Prevent
Wholesale Lynching
at St. Pierre.

News-Democrat Leased Wire Servtcsl
Ft de France, May 1G.-An attempt
of ghouls to loot the dead in st.
Pierre came near resulting in the
lynching of so people. Armed guards
prevented the killing.
The authorities are taking severe
measues to stop vandalism.
Washington May 16.-The follow
ing cablegam was received by the navy
department this morning from Capt
Mclean, of the U. s. S. Cincinnati:
st. Lucia, Nav Is. Six thousand
refugees have com" into Fort de
France; 5000 have come into Kings
ton.
THE northern portions Of Martini
ique and st. Vincent very many peo-
pie have perished. Others are suf-
fering for food and water. II is very
great difficulty in relieving and saw
ing so many people scattered over
large areas. The number of the people
10 De Ieu ana cuTeu lot is sdlu tOsUo
reduced by mortality. viii return to
Fort de France and st. iPerre today
Il will eadeavor to recover the rec
ords of the American and British con-
sulates at st. Pierre. If the remains
of the officials are found will bury
them with military honors."
London, May 16.-Gov. Lleweyllyn,
Of st. Vincent reports no important
residents or officials killed by the
eruption. The bodies found and
buried, total, 1900.
! All the immediate wants are sup
piled by generous aid from neigh
boring colonies. There are 5000 peo-
| pie on the relief list and must stay
there some time.
St. Pierre, May 16.-One Of the re-
! suits of the eruption was to wipe
out practically the last remnant Of tho
Cairrb Indians, discovered by Colum-
| bus.
This aboriginal tribe has long been
extinct in the Greater Antilles, but z
few still lived on Martinique.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
FRENCHMEN ARRIVE.

New York, May 1.-THE Frenchmen
who came on the steamer La Tauratno
to assist in the unveiling Of the Roch-
inbeau statue at Washington arrived
this monring.
In tn party ar Count and Countesf
Rochhambeau and Viscount De ChAnkS
brum, the great-grandson Of LafayettA,|
They will remain at the Waldorf Aq3
toria till Tuesday when they 50 ~
Washington. .--,@
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
SIMPSONS WILL.

CNews-Democrat Leased Wire Service.l
Washington, May 1.-THE will Of
Admiral Sampson was filed today.
1t gives practically all of the estate,
aggregating less than $4,000, to his
widow.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
SWALLOWED A TADPOLE.

Fredericktown, o., May 16.-Doctors
succeeded in relieving Fank Wilson, a
young man OF Monroe township, Of a
wriggling tadpole which had nearly
reached froghood today Wilson took
drink at a spring run Sunday night
after dark, and swallowed the tadpole.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
CAUGHT ON LIVE WIRE

Columbus, May 17.-Ross Puisell, a
trolley line repairer, fell across live
trolley wire at State and Scioto streets
this morning and hung burning and
Unconscious there nearly ten minutes,
when the body slipped to the ground
Though frightfully shocked and
burned he may live.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
BURIED FINGER PANIED HIM

Chillicothe, O., May 16.-Jasper Dix
on, an employe of the Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern shops, had fin
ger taken off the other day. Yester-
day he came to the shops and asked
where it was buried, saying he had
constant pain and that it must have
been buried crooked. The finger was
dug up and Strengthened and the pain
ceased
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-20
INDICTED A DEAD MAN.

Springfield, o., May 1.-two out OF
the twenty-nine saloonists indicted by
the grand jury for Sunday law viola
tions were fined this evening by Judge
Mower, one $50 and the other $25. 1t
developed that one man, Andrew Leon
ard, who has been dead six months
was included among those indicted.