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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
Suit for Divorce Follows.

Evansville, Ind, March IA. = Mrs.
w. p. Robb has brought suit against
her husband for divorce, laying claim
TO $4,000 alimony, with $1,000 a year
for six years. for the education of
her daughter and an allowance for her
son who is a minor. She alleges i'll
treatment. Mrs. Keyekordes, wife of
the county recorder, is a sister, and
Wednesday night while Mrs. Robb was
entertaining Mr.. and Mrs. Kevekordes.
Robb entered the house and assaulted
Mrs. Kevekordes. He was knocked
down by her husband and the police
were summoned.
Burglars Got All There Was.
Evansville, Ind, March IA. - Bur-
glars broke into the p~ostofice at How
ell. broke off the knob of the safe with
a monkey-wrench and took all the con-
tents, including $145 in cash and SO
in stamps. There is 10 clew to their
identity.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
Baby Costs Toe Much

When the price paid is the mothers
health and happiness. The father
doesn't realize as he romps with the
child what years of wifely suffering
must be set against the baby's laughter.
Chronic invalidism is a high price to
pay for the painful JOY of maternity, yet
It is at such a cost that many a woman
becomes a mother. Such a price is too
much because it is more than nature asks.
BY the use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription maternity is made practically
painless, and a quick convalesence IS
assured in almost every case.
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1904-07-09

build, with hair that delights in
standing out from his head--but
stands out more sometimes than
others and of q length that sug-
gests he may have studied music
or played football in his youth.
He generally has had . shave of
day before yesterday, and is not
worried if a button is missing from
his vest. Now and then he makes
a classical allusion or quotation
in debate, and on one 0ccaci0n
gave the House few lines Of Ger
man for it's delectation and to
make a point and adorn 9 tale.
From his travel, culture and ap-
pearance you might expect him
on any holiday occasion to de-
clare for lone flag, one country
and zwei BEER with the accent
on the last syllable.
0"Every member on bOth.sides OF
the House likes John Sharp Will
Jams, and we af the North might
almost adopt him and take him
away from his Southern environ
ment, but we know the people OF
Yazoo county would rise up as
one man and cry out as in one
voice.
"Linger not long, home is not
home without thee"
And SO we desist. To analysis his
! popularity is not SO easy. But it
can be safely said that it is not
his beauty which first attracts
one, for his pulchritude is one of
the singed-cat variety. John is
somewhat swarthy and has a sort
of compromise complexion on
which his party ought is be will
ing to get together but it il
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1904-07-09

The State Business League re-
Gently in session at Jackson com
pleted its labors, then adjourned
for the second annual session af-
tor having elected the following
officers:
r. Griffith, Jackson, President:
w, T. Adams. Corinth, j. T Bags
CERT, Senatobia, s. r Weems,
Greenwood, j. P, Broadstreet,
Grenada, K. Threefoot, Meridian,
J. w. Stewart, Moss Point. J. w.
McG Grath, Brookhaven, A. Enocha,
vicksburg, Vice Presidents. Dan
M. Mayors, of Hattiesburg, was
elected secretary.
The League adopted resolu-
tions insisting that the next Leg
islature enact a law establishing
an agricultural and statistical bu'
reau which shall collect and dis
tribute information Of a statisti
cal nature. The League also. en-
dorsed proposition for a general
tour of the country by party OF
business men who shall be armed
with data and statistics advertis~
| ing the various resources of the
State. CLARION Ledger.
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1904-07-09

points exposed. Thus he has made
the most of the minority side OF
the case in the Fifty eighth Con.
gress, He is moderate, sensible,
beloved.
nVeteran members assure me
that not in years has there been
so interesting a session of Con-
gress as the one just closed, and
they attribute this fact very much
to the aggressive and virile mi
nority leadership of Mr.. Will
iams.r
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1904-07-09
The Democratic House Leader.

Hor. John Sharp Williams, OF
Mississippi, Democratic leader in
the National House of Represent
tatives, is thus described in Less
lies Monthly for July by Hon. j !.
Adam Bede, member of Congress
from Minnesota;
ssHis father settled in North
Carolina at an early day, and la.
ter pushed westward to the banks
of the Mississippi Here, unlil
the Civil War broke out, all went
we'll with them, and the young
lad found himselfin q world filed
with alluring prospects. But, his
father, who was q Confederate
Colonel, was killed at Shiloh in
1862, and his mother having all
ready died, he was taken to his
mothers family estate in Yazoo
county, Mississippi. After alb
eral education at home and some
years of study and travel abroad,
including two years at Heidle.
burg, he read law and soon set
tied down to the life of a lawyer
at Yazoo City, where he still re-
sides.
John Sharp Williams is the link
between the old and the new. He
is q man of books, Of travel and OF
education, but he wears no frills
and is one of the plainest mem
bers OF the House, for though a
man of numerous family he has
all the instict and outward ap-
pearance of a Bohemian. He is
as easy as aid shoe.
''In personal appearance he il
of medium height and slight
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1904-07-09

healthy and natural. He has
never used any skin food or graft
ing.
There are many able and some
bailiant men on the Democratic
side, but none so well qualified in
every way for the leadership on
the floor az John Sharp Williams.
FIRST of all, he is a man of tenn.
perate thought, a qualification OF
the highest order just now in the
leader of . great party which has
been so torn by factions and so
intoxicated with novel ideas that
it has hardly had its hat on
the right way for eight years.
Then, too, he is widely read and
illumines his remarks with side
lights that attract the attention
of Republicans no less than that
of his own side of the house.
Again, though not the most elo.
|quent of the Democratic mem
hers, he is the readiest and most
versatile debater on the myriad
subjects that come unexpectedly
before the House, and is alert to
every opening in the Republican
position. As he is now serving
his sixth term in Congress, he is
ripe in experience, has a familiar.
|ity with parliamentary law as
used in that body, and is quite at
home on the floor. His voice,
which has a slight rasp in it,
grows pleasing to the ear, and
has good carrying qualities, which
make him readily heard when
there is not rough house. Above
all, he has the good will Of every
member, never loses bis head in
debate and leaves no vulnerable
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1904-07-09
Work for Your TOwn.


The Ackerman Plaindealer has
this to say OF every individuals
duty to his homo town:
sNo man can afford to neglect
his town and those things which
are important and necessary to
it, any more than he can afford to
neglect his home and things inn
portant and necessary to it.
There is duty owed by every
man to his community as well as
to his own home, clean, pros
porous and progressive town is a
credit to it's citizenship, aud In 1T
every citizen should take pride.
1t is not only through the efforts
of the biggest and best men that
towns can be made and kept clean
and prosperous and progressive,
but it depends upon every citizen
in every walk of life to make a
town, There. is none so small but
that his assistance is important in
making town prosperous. Get
busy, and if you haven't enough
business to keep you busy, adver'
tise.'
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1904-07-09
The Negro Plank.

The negro plank in the Repub-
lican platform adopted at Chica-
go, which is virtual demand for
the cutting down of congression'
al representation of those States
that have taken constitutional
measures to purge their elector-
ate, means the throwing down of
the gauntlet for the renewal OF
the old struggle to bend the neck
OF the proud South.
The South must prepare to
meet the issue, and will insist at
the st. Louis Convention on the
insertion in the Democratic plat
form of a plank that will meet
the case, opposing the practical
intelligence of Southern Democ-
racy against the sentimental va
carries of the Northern negro
phlltes -Hattiesburg Progress.
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1904-07-09

If the Old Line Republicans
don't quit Trying to cut downs the
representation of the South, the
Republicans of the South will
soon have no more votes in the
National Conyention than they
have in the electoral college.
WessOn Enterprise.
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1904-07-09
illinois Central r. r.

BEST or TRAIN SERVICE.
with Dining, Buffet, Library, Sleep
ing and Reclining Chais Cars on
through traihs direct to the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10
PARDON QUESTION
Judge Wood Made it Feature in Vic.
toria Joint Discussion.

Victoria, Jan. 9.-Judge Carroll d.
Wood and Governor Jeff Davis, candi-
dates for governor, addressed a large
audience here yesterday. Judge Wood
his remarks to a discussion of Cover
nor Davis official career, taking him
to task for what he deemed too free
exercise If the pardoning power, es-
pecially in such eases as those of
Pomp Brown. the Conway county ne
gro, and DR.. Lee Johnson. judge Wood
outlined the policy he would pursue as
governor. His speech was attentively
heard, this being the first opportunity
of hearing him many cf those present
had enjoyed.
Governor Davis followed in a speech
OF an hour and a half's duration. He
had been Slightly i'll for several days
but he felt able to make one of his
characteristic speeches, dealing large
ly with the antitrust question and his
trouble with the last legislature.
Judge Wood had a rejoinder cf fiji
teen minutes, but Governor Davis did
not wait to hear it. He left at the con.
clusion of his own speech and was
followed by few of his friends.
The candidates left for Ell Dorado.
where they spoke today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10
Free E'nsSes and Tax Dodgers.

While HI" most of us walk OF pay our
own e@ti' t-.;as 10 GET home to vote. tl,.
Hcpublitau a..'drrs all rlc on free rail
road passf~ er, Is ia the ease OF rrt.>
lent Roosevelt. are supplied by the
rnitroaG> v..eta special trims 70 enable
them - p"&torm tl.0 patriotic duty
Il is oa!9 'e'5,~afGjfls. tlIat these 50 fl
vor"d Should 6e tou1d voting III tho
last "le,.;s5n for tle maHo5otT interests.
He W 10 receives the @ffts of=tHfuG4i OF
The coepor:'toGs is "Npretrd to make
return teaatitS IL thnnf THUS we have
lr@isiat n i.sal leads to unjust taSatfon
in kep1lhtjI.4a states. ia many of " hirh
the col, of.'tfls and other taN dodgers
only Fay Il ~fHatl proportion 0f Tie
Ia Xe> }!,at should rj@H;tulIy bo assessed
against theA l.lr time las come
A'inn h"i4"1y - railroad passes must
be abolished in both state and nation
IL! s"u.-sl Fi-Ht>, tn all spocta5 priv
.irgr>. 10 uGH.'. ia" DoEocratie prtu
''ipie, b'.eolhn tie law of the land.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10
FROM MANILA
Pine Bluff Boy Writes to the Daily
Graphic.

The Graphic has received a letter
from Mr.. B. |. Johnson of Pine Bluff,
who is now member Of company c..
Twenty-second infantry, United States
army. The letter was written at Ma
Mia Philippine Islands, on December
/. 1903. He writes that his regiment
had a pleasant trip over to Manila,
and would leave on that day for Min
dano, where the heaviest fighting on
the island IS going o. The Twenty
second regiment relieves the Twenty
eighth. Mr.. Johnson sends to the
Graphic copy Of the Manila Cable
News, a newspaper which would be a
credit to most any city in the states.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10
MlkADo REVIEWS TROOPS
The Occasion is Regarded as a Posi-.
BILE Leave-Taking.

Toxic, Jan. 9.-The emperor inspect
ed and reviewed the imperial guards,
constituting the first division of the
army, togethere with some cavalry
regiments and brigades cf artillery.
numbering in all $4,000 men. on the
Aoyama field yesterday. 1t is expected
these troops will constitute the third
contingent in the event of war being
declared.
The occasion was regarded as a pos
sible. leave taking between the emper.
or and his soldiers, and the scene was
most impressive Enormous crowds
lined he route from the palace and
surrounded the grounds. The emperor
rode to the Aoyama field in the state
coach, but was on horseback when in.
specting and reviewing the troops. His
staff included all the foreign attaches.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10
COURTS WILL DECIDE
Not Known Who Won in Rotous Mem.
phis Election.

Memphis, jan 9.-Although forty
eight hours have passed since the polls
We're closed in the city election held
Thursday, tae result is still in doubt,
and legal contests for several of the
offices are practically assured. Late
developments show that the election
was signalized by the most irregular
and riotous scenes connected with any
local political contest of recent years.
In the Ninth ward the ballot box
was stolen, the ballots burned and
two men were shot. one seriously, in
a riot within the room where the bal
lcts were being counted. Gross irregu-
larities are alleged in the Fourth and
Fifth wards. and many minor shooting
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10
NEW ARKANSAS POSTOFFICES
One Established in Sewer and One in
White County.

A pOstofice has meen established at
Dilwcrth, Sewer county. Moody r.
beauchamp is postmaster.
The site of the postoffice at Cowel1,
Newton county. has been moved one--
half mile southeast.
A commission has been issued to Eu-
dora Carolan as postmaster at Rich
mond. VIM. J.. Key has been commits
stoned postmaster at Saline, and Benz.
F. Justiss at Shuler.
The site has been changed of the
postoffice at Ida, Cleburne county.
A postoffice has been established at
Evert, White county.
The New Lewisville, Ark, and Sreve--
port, La, r. p O. will hereafter be
known as the Lewisville, Ark, and
Shreveport, La, r. P. o.
Effective January 3. postal clerks
began service in Memphis and South
NcAlester tran No. 5, between Mem
phis and Little Rock, daily
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10
FIRST SPEAKING
OF Campaign for County Officers at
RedfieId Saturday.

The first political gun in the Jeffer-
son county campaign was fired yester-
day afternoon at Redfield when the
candidates consumed the entire after
noon telling what they would do and
they would not do if elected to Office.
Many people gathered to hear the
speaking and greeted their choices for
office with cheers. Among those who
attended the speaking were: Jesse R.
Core and L. T. Sallee, candidates for
county clerk; Creed Caldwell and E. J.
kerWin, for county judge; Kemp Toney
Tor senator: S. j. Hunt. A. H. Rowell,
Tor representative, and V. O. Alexan-
der, for treasurer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10
MONEY FOR FIGHT ON WEEvlL.
Bill Appropriating 1t Will Be Consider.
ed Today by the House.

Washington, Jan. S.-The house was
IN session yesterday but twenty min
utes. Mr.. Hemingway, chairman of
the committee on appropriations. OBJ.
tanned unanimous consent that cne
hour be devoted to the opening of to-
morroW's session to the consideration
OF bill amending the act appropriate
ing $5oo,ooo for the eradication Of foot
and mouth diseases among cattle so
as to make s25O,O0O of that amount
available to meet the emergency caus.
ed by the Mexican boil weevil. The
bill was favorably reported.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10

and cutting scrapeS are reported from
all parts of the city. All manner OF
wild rumors are current, but the more
conservative are inclined to think that
no further violence need be anticipated
as it is believed that the candidates
will quietly submit to the official can
vass # the vote On Monday by the
election commissioners, and, where the
situation seems tc, warrant, resort to
legal contests. Last night the city was
quiet, although partisan feeling is run
ming high.
The tally sheets in the Ninth ward,
showing count of the majority of the
ballots, were saved by the judges, and
an effort will be made by the inGepen-
dents to have this incomplete ycte
counted and have the vote in the
Fourth and Fifth wards thrown out.
The administration forces will, it IS
said, oppose the efforts
c. Simon, who was shot in the riot
at the voting place in the Ninth ward
IS at st. Joseph's hcspl.al His condl-
tion is considered grave, and his ply
sicians will not permit him to be in
terviewed
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10
FIRE LOSES FOR 1908
ONLY $4,000 FOR THE CITY, AND
SPEAKS WELL FOR THE FIRE
DEPARTMENT.
Biggest Loss in CITY Was at cotton
Belt Stops, and in Country. Was
a Redfeld
a. Redfeld.

Tie efficiency Of The Pine BtIf fire
depaftMeu is marked BY the statistic,
which record damages By fire laa5 year
10 the extent of only $1fo0o.
There We're really but three dezfrae-
tive fires during the year, those Of tho
Cotton Belt yards. Lou f. Ovens
cafe and saloon and the Joe G. Meyer
bakery. In every instance promp and
efficient WGrk by the fire department
saved much greater loss l. adjoining
property. The big fire which occurred
al the Cotton Belt shops on the nisht
Of December L might have destroyed
the entire plant bat for good work
The Joe c. Meyer bakery is another
instance where an entire block was
threatened with destruction, but the
fire was confined to one building and
that was not completely burned. The
fire record does not include smaller
fires in private homes, where the dam
age was slight and could not be CT
rectly estimated. but these will not
reach over $4,000 The record shows
that Pine Bluff is amply protected
from dsasterous fires.
Out of the most destructive fires
of the year in Jefferson county
occurred when nine business houses
at Redfield We're destroyed. The rec
ord If losses is as follows:
Cotton Belt oil house and coal
chute ......=.#.#.=.=..z... -. .$2o,0UV
Joe C. Meyer bakery and Off
GeS o,oo'
Lou e. Owens saloon ...... 5000
Joe Dixon's grocery store 1000
Percy Parker, residence, -. 800
Residence on West Third =. ! 500
Mrs. NJ. f. Curlin residence. 2,o0U
Citizens Light and Transit Co 1000
George Barnett, residence -. 800
Residence r. A. Ware damaged 500
Business houses at Redfeld.. 80, 600
oldi : - = % '.ooo
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10
Senator Lodges Fake TnriG NiiI

TIE demand for fra hides has be-
come so strong in NeW England that
Senator Lodge has apparently broken
loose trera the stand paitrrs' and has
free list Nobody knows better than
does Senator Lodg" that all bills af
fecting the revenue must have their
origin III the house. This fact is sufti-
cient to establish the fakiness OF the
bill even if Senator Lodge did not
know that the fiat Of the stand pattcrs
is to hold fast and to touch no tariff
schedule until after the presidential
election. Under these conditions the
willy senator considered 1t perfectly
safe to introduce his little bill at the
wrong end Of the capitol.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10

executive Mt his command, not only
refuses to aid In reforming the vicious
protective system. but il STANDING
pat with the tariff haronS aHd in
league with the trust maEnates 10 con
tinur the harmful prartire. Political
ambition makes wonderful difference
in the Way vicious and harmful lc4is
iatinit iS viewed. and the eyes Of Pres!
dent Roosevelt are not the first that
have been blinded by the hunger for
fame and power
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10

In justice to Mr.. Dilley and others Of
the baseball association, the Graphic
will say that the statements of which
Mr.. York complains We're not printed
in the Graphic and no such statements
were made to the Graphic by Mr. Dill
ley or any member of the baseball as
sociation. The only objection offered
to Bell park was its distance from the
city, and the time it requires to get
out to the park and to return.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10

ated, and that Is by striking at the
wages of tabor.
Already we hear statement that
the wages of labor are too high, that
they must be reduced if industry is to
remain prosperous. Now, my friends,
there is but one test Of prosperity any
where in the world. and that is the
rate of wages paid to labor. | have
said that often; repeat it now. There
is no way that the rate OF wages can
be made high except where the prod
uct Of labor is extensive. and where
the product of labor is extensive com.
modities must be abundant; where
commodities are abundant they must
be cheap. and therefore. You cannot
have genuine prosperity unless two
things concur-trst. wages must go
up, and the price of commodities must
go down.
Democrats believe that the founda-
ton of prosperity is the extensive en-
ployment of labor upon the bosom of
the earth, the increase of the volume
of commodities available for the wei
fare of man. Republican grafters be-
lieve that prosperity is to be found in
smaller product. IL larger profit to the
employer and Il lower and smaller en-
plOyment of Dor and therefore lower
wages One is the result of graft: the
Democrats stand for patriotism, and,
standing for patriotism. they stand for
labor They stand for honest industry
The Republicans stand for graft, for
plumber. for corruption, for restricting
the production and increasing the prof
its of the employer
There is nothing which Il govern
mcnt has which must not be produced
by human labor. If it undertakes to
benefit one person it must rob another
in order to give him the thing which
enrches him.
l say, my friends. we find that,
starting with the vicious example in
Washington. Republican graft reaches
down through every channel of life.
This is what ! complain of as the
chief injury of the system. Against
this Democrats owe a sacred duty. 1t
Is true that Democrats at least profess
hostility and opposition to plumber and
to graft. Republicans only oppose it
when it Is small and insignificant.
Democrats have undertaken to plum
der. but they have always done it
bunglingly. Republicans are always
plundering. and they are doing it ETH
GENTLY
When q Democrat undertakes to deal
in graft he goes to Jail or into exile.
while Republican CRATER lands in
the United States senate and becomes
candidate for the presidency. Tweed
divided about $6OOO,O0O among his fol-
lowers which he took from the city
treasury, and he died in ii prison cell,
an object OF universal infalny
But Mark Hanna proposes to take
more than that sum every year from
the federal treasury for thr benefit OF
watrrlogg"d trust, and he is today
the idol, the leader. Of the Republican
party He would be- it's standard hear
er next year if the real dSpDSit:na OF
the members found expression in TIE,
convention.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-10
TRANSIT COMPANY SAYS THAT
OF STATEMENTS TO THE
EFFECT
That the Company Has Refused to
Render Ball Association Finan-
caI Aid.

The following communication to the
Graphic from Mr.. J. B. York of the
Citizens Light and Transit company
explains itself:
A. D. Foster, F. NJ. Dilley-Dear
sirs: Our attention has been called to
articles in our daily papers regarding
the baseball situation the papers stat
ing that they are informed by baseball
people that the Citizens Light and
Transit company refuse to give any
financial aid towards this enterprise
and as such statements might preju-
dice some people against the street
car company, We ask if you will not
have these statements corrected, for
you know that We offered to give you
1915 in cash or the free use of the
park, including the summer theater
and other buildings, which the COM
pany considers should bring in a rev
enue of at least $500, and taking the
financial difficulties with which the
street car line has been contending, it
occurs to the officers of the street car
company that this cffer is as large a
donation as they can afford to make,
and taken in connection with the per
sonal donations of the stockh elders of
the company, would amount to consid-
erably over $500, and We feel that an
injustice has Deen done us in allowing
the papers to publish the articles men
toned Yours truly.
CITIZENS LIGHT & TRANSIT co.
By ]. B. York.