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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-10-15
MRS. BENTLEY IS HELD
Wo,7nn Who Revealed the NIllcF
Murder Now Changes OctniiS
of Her story.

Holden, Mo-, Oct. Mrs. Anna j.
Bentley, who revealed the dead body
of Carl Miller to officers here, claiming
that she did SO as soon as she could
escape from Robert Sassaman, who
she alleges killed Miller. has admit
ted that Sassaman had lived for six
weeks in Topeka, Kas., while she lived
in Kansas City, and that she has not
seen him for the last two weeks.
She intimated that he had deserted
her to go with some other woman, and
it is thought that the motive for her
revealing the Miller murder is re-
venge
Mrs. Bentley received letter from
Sassaman September q. This, with a
picture of the missing man, she gave
TO Sheriff Kock Thursday. She gave
vague hints that Sassaman might now
be in North Dakota or Minnesota.
The coroner's jury Wednesday night
visited the well where Miller's body
was found, and, after again hearing
Mrs. Bentley's story, gave the verdict
that Miller came to his death from the
bow of an AK in the hands of Rober
| Sassaman.
Mrs. Bentley said that she had LIVED
in St. Louis with Sassaman at No
1884 Marine avenue. at No. 2009 Usage
street and at No. 2237 Maiden lane
She claims to have known him for sew
eral years.
Mrs. Bentley visited the well will
officers, and as her story differs in 81
many details from what she toll Wed
nesday. she has been placed in thu
Warrensburg Jail for safe-keeping.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-10-15

Sturgeon, Mo-. Oct. Miss Anna
Cornelson, SO years old, who lived
south of Sturgeon, and Albert Cornell
son. her cousin, Sc years old. died e
the same hour. They were near neigh
bors.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-10-15

no. o. Sleepers Birmingham TO Atlanta
Atlanta TO Jacksonville and Brunswick
No Is carries Pullman Sleeping cars hlrm'
nRham TO Atlanta and Atlanta TO Macon
No. o. Pullman Sleeping car between BIZ
minRham and Atlanta.
All trains run daily.
G II. ACKERT, G. M, Washington, u. =. =
W. H. TAHLOE. O.P.A., Washington. u. G..
C. A. BENSCOTER.A.G.P.A.C CHATTANOOGA Tenn
= n HARRISON. D. r. A, BirminGham, Ala
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-10-15

No Ss Pullman Sleeper Greenville TO Blrm-
fnRham and Birmingham 10 New orr. az
Observation car Alfalfa, Ala, to Radtord va
No, IS carries Pullman Sleeper Birmingham
70 Chattanooga connecting at Chattaho pRa
With train carrying Sleeper ana Day CoAeIes
Chattanooga 10 salisbury Without change' Ais0
Sicener Salisbury 10 New York.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-10-15

Co. Until further notice The
Steamers Belle Of the Bends
and City OF Wheeling will make four
trips per week.
BELLE OF TIE BENDS, will leave
VicksburR every Monday ano Thurs
DAY at 3 D. m. Returning will leave
ereepVille every Tuesday and Friday
" pm.
CITY OF WHEELING, will leave
Vlcksburg every Wednesday and
Saturday at 3 D. m. Returning will
leave Greenville every Thursday and
Sunday 1T p. m
FiTst-class passenger and freight 40
uommodations.
Boats brilliantly lighted throughout
With electricity Light In every state
nom.
IL. POWERS, President.
&c. WATTS. Superiniandent.
LYME DARLING. ARk a18sngills
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-10-15

NIuskogee. |. r., Oct Jack Ellis
ard Walter Reidy, who lived near
HoldenviIle, l. T., were shot and killed
at their respective homes by Billy Fix
cat. fullblood Indian. The weapon
used was shotgun. Fixcat is said to
have been intoxicated.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-10-15

No. 49, Pullman Sleeper Greenyilie to Bit
| minQham and Birmingham TO Cincinnati With
put change.
No 50 Pullman Sleeping Cars Birmingham 70
Cincinnati Ind Chattanooga TO Louisville
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-10-15
Trains 81 and 80 carry Pullman Sleeping Cars
hetween G reenville and Birmingham.

No, IS washington g. Southwestern Linn
ted Solid Pullman Vestlbuled train Atlanta
Rirn1inqham to New York Dining car east of
Atlanta Pullman Library Observation car AZ"
| ianta to New York, Pullman Club car Atlanta
| TO Washington.
| Birmingham to Richmond and Atlanta 10 new
York Dining ear Spartanburg 20 Washington.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-10-15

London, Oct. An equinoctial gale
of some severity visited the English
coast during the night, but up to the
present no serious damage has been
reported A few fishing boats have
been wrecked, and four men were
drowned.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-10-15
nelnyed Trnins Arrive.

Topeka, Kas., Oct. flight Santa
Fe east-bound passenger trains,
which we're delayed by the western
floods, reached here Thursday night
Traffic is gradually resuming its norm
Al condition
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-01-16
Attne Play.

The production of "The Runaway
Wife at the opera house Thursday
night Which will be lhe trst of thFee
- ho given by the
Irving kreueb Company ts described
a. present dav soeistV drsHs e
eb9uuding with Intensely dramatic
situations and cheerful comedy af
the ilyelieat description later
w0veu wlgh Al tae tenderness aad
pAtbos of q beautiful love story
speelalsles ell to iintFodaeea aur-
lnK tAe aetion of the pleee ~ Ne.
A illan aud tray, travessy sketch
artists Frank Dana aaonaloguisg
Cart Jones', baek land wins and SO
eantfle aaaeiag, HARRY Rose ia IL,
laslsatsa sengs and several atheFs
rfleas h, - Aaa Al eeula Ladies'
fFse opaaias nlght onlY Il accom-.
paulssi ~ ghe hoisief 81 one paid d
eant tiakst seaka nQw ou sale A
a8Mal plAea.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-01-16

The new proprietors of the Greek
Candy Kitchen are having quite a
number of improvements made
which includes new shelving and
new mirrors. They say that when
they have everything arranged in
applepie order they will set apart a
few hours some day in tho near flu
ture To serve cold drinks and ice
cream free To- the public,
Fx-County Commissioner q. A.
Finley, who lives four or five miles
west Of Waxabachie, was in the city
yesterday aud sold 100 bushels Of
yam potatoes which he said be gath
cred from "a half acre of land. Mr..
Finley is one Of Ellis county's most
successful farmers. He makes has
living az home and bias a surplus Of
farm products for sale every year.
For typewriters see j B. Blatfer.
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-01-16
SINAI. SHOTS AT THE NEWS

AiLT HAPPENINGS or THE
CITY BRIEFLY TOLD

AA@A~AA 9@@@~@
We have two good houses for rent.
Ellis County Collecting Agency. tt
A baby girl was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. @. r. Willis, at Forreston last
Thursday night.
Why pay your money down for a
suit when you can get it for $l.OO q
week at Lackland's Misfit Parlor. 90
We buy, sell, rent and exchange
your property. Ellis County Col
lecting Agency, R. Nveal Reagor,
Manager. v u
p. ]. Roach, who has been acting
as route agent for the American
Express Company, is here to spend
a few days with his family. Mr..
Roach has been made agent for the
company at Muscogee, /. 7.
/ J. T. Spencer has just completed
a handsome little cottage on West
Main street, just west of the resi-
dence of Muncey Campbell. Mr..
Il Spencer will move into his new
home in few days
Do you want your money? If so
bring your notes and accounts to the
Ellis County Collecting Agency.
Odd Fellow building. old phone
! 1903. tt
/ The Young Ladies' Auxiliary of
/ the Cumberland Presbyterian church
will give a George Washington tea
on the afternoon and evening Of Fen
ruary % The place will be announc-
/ ed later.
/ Work is progressing quite salts
/ factory on the new church being
erected by the Cumberland Presby-
terians. The masons are now laying
brick on the first story above the
basement. The outside wall will be
constructed Of white, thus making a
very pretty building.
Mr.. Chalmers Mcpherson an
nouuces In our church column that
the subject Of tomorrow mornings
sermon at the Main Street Chris
tiau church will be IF Christ should
come to Wsxahachie. 80 This ques
! ton has something In IL that We
may all stop to think about.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-01-16
Pc r 8 o ~ A l. s


Deputy Sheriff Forbes was in En-
mis- today
Prof A. c. speer Of Ferris was in
the city today.
7. J. Rocket was passenger 10
Dallas this morning.
Mrs c. W. Morgan returned last
night from visit To Corsieaua.
Mrs Chester Cleveland, who has
been visiting Mt Corslcaua, arrived
bone last night.
Little Miss Agnes witt IT Dallas
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. A y.
Bedford, ON Monroe street
George Penteeost, travelling pas
ssnRer agent OF the Rock Island
Route, was IN the city yesterday
afternoon.
MissIIVictoria Eason, who has
been the guest - the family 90 "a
f.. Pickett, retained 30 her home AZ
Dallas this morning,
j. W McMauus leav - tonight
for Kansas city and other northern
markets 60 purchase bis spring
stock 81 vehicles and other goods
for 1894
District CLERK Barlesou, County
Clerk Hendricks, Hon. Marx smith
and } " Martin went 60 Dallas
this morning 60 attend a meeting If
the Woodmeu Of the World
MF f.. ChRska ~ tbis ct1y aud
sam Jolesch % Ennis will leave to-
night for New York where thew will
speed several weeks buying spring
and summer goods for their Ellis
county hoases,
Va j Warner, representing kohier
Manufacturing Co. If Baltimore,
Md. gave as a call to-day, aad pres
vuted the force each wish 4 paek
axe 90 K0hisr's Anudote. for head
Aele and neuralgia.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-01-16

Bes Carlisle y h Martin. T. T. 10
Wavwfiy. Texas, writes "0f a
morning, NNeu arst rising, I often
nnd Troublesome eallasttan 1T
phlegiu. which produces cough
Ahd il very hard a. disl0dNs hat =
small quantity 81 Ballads H8re-
hound syrup wili at once disiodge
IT., aud tile tF0ubie - ever know
IT uo medicine that ia equal Ga "a,
and 10 IL So pleasant fU take. can
most cordially recommend 70 tu
all persons needing q medicine for
throat ar lang troubles F. Prices
Pie 0e. 81 q bottle "a Hood 4 Mar
t4ats
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-01-16

e0R aALk 0la aawapapaEs "A Aaa
Daily Llani asiaea. 81
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-05

The Indiana senator's, Fairbanks and
Beverage, are adding to the gaiety
Of the campaign. Senator Fairbanks
doesn't mean to do anything so undig-
nifed, of course, but he is making
people laugh just the same. His pom
derous seriousness and self-apprecia-
ton naturally predispose his hearers
to exclamation. but he apparently
doesn't knon it. And when in funereal
tones he makes some ludicrous
break" the people hold their sides
and howl.
That is what occurred at Auburn.
in DeKalb county, Indiana, the other
day. The senator-candidate was laud-
ing the Republican tariff policy
Pointing dramatically to a group of
brick factory buildings. the senator
declared slowly and impressively:
Those factory buildings, my friends,
speak in grander sentences Of Repub-
lican prosperity than l could possibly
do were 1 to talk to you all day. They
tell Of men being employed at good
wages, of children we'll clothed and
fed, of comfortable homes and of in
centives for honorable emulation that
come from the American system OF
protection without which that factory
would be idle as so many were un-
der the last Democratic administra-
ton"
The crowd grinned, Uttered and final
ly broke into guffaws. Fairbanks had
pointed to a factory that had not turn.
ed wheel or employed a laborer ir
two years, and was In the hands OF
a receiver. There was his example OF
the benefits of the Republican polio,
of protectionl
There has been some comment on
the fact that Senator BeveridRe has
not appeared on the stump with his
colleague, Fairbanks, TO give him a
boost along. A correspondent a DAY
or two ago asked Senator Beveridg,
the reason why. and got this candid
reply: Because I'm going to look out
for myself. Fairbanks looks out for
himself all right. He was not game
enough to resign and inspire the Re.
publicans OF Indiana with confidence
He had a right to resign and give thu
same example that Parker did. As
IL Is, he is all right for three year,
more even IL the national ticket I.
beaten. He will still be in the Senate
His action has caused much OF the
doubt and trouble there is existing ir
the party"
Thus do we get an echo OF how tn,
attenuated and dignihed senator-oan.
didate Is making his whirlwind cam.
paign In his home state.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-05
WACHES USED IN OLD DAYS.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

SAAA NAO OAAlS66O
There is uncertainty as to when the
portable watch, as we understand it
to-day, came into use. 1t was proba-
bly, at the close of the sixteenth cen
tury. Queen Elizabeth owned a large
number of watches. Mary Queen Of
Scots was the possessor of a skull
shaped watch. In fact, the death
head" pattern was at that time much
in vogue. Endless were the styles,
for their were watches shaped like
books, pears, butterflies and tulips.
The Nuremberg egg was a special
shape and was first made in 1900.
Those queer shapes of watches pre-
vented their finding a place in the
pocket. When was the fob first
used in the dress Of man? The Ger
man fob is 'fuppe" and 1t is believed
that it came from Europe through the
puritan, whose dislike for display
may have induced them to conceal
their timekeepers from the public
gaze"
This conjecture is strengthened by
the fact that a short fob" chain at
tached to a watch of Oliver Crom-
wells in the British Museum is, in
point of date, the first appendage of
the kind known. The watch is a small
oval one in a silver case, and was
made about 1925 by John Midnall of
Fleet street
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-05
FANCIES in SUICIDES.
From the washington Star,


Whether or not there is an increasing
determination on the part of the peo-
pie to live right, there seems to be
an increasing determination to die in
the most becoming manner. Men and
women, not particular as to the way
they live, become particular as to the
way they shall die. Many suicides with
unusual features are reported in the
press every day.
At Montreal, Ind, a woman before
committing suicide sent to the under
taker a check for her burial expenses.
1t was not honored by the bank at
Which the woman had a deposit because
it was not received by the undertake
er till after the woman's death, the
bank holding that then the deposit be-
longed not to the woman who killed
herself, but to her heirs.
In New Philadelphia, o., a girl clos
ed her life by drinking carbolic acid
She left a note bidding her friends
good-by and asking that she be buried
in white satin and with her hair fluff
fed" The poor girl was mindful OF
her appearance to the last. She want
ed to look her best in her final exit.
man in Vienna recently played q
dirge on the piano and then shot him
self. He did the best he could to
furnish the music for his own funeral
Perhaps the character of the music
might have prompted the rash deed
but even in this event it would have
been more fitting had he been shot by
some one else
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-05

English as "She is Spoke"

While on a trip through the sparse
ly settled districts of Georgia a North
erner hired a colored native to guide
him across country to his destination,
says the New York Tribune. Reach
ing the banks of a swift flowing, I'M
bridged stream. the Northern man
spotted a boat moored at the edge,
and asked the negro if he could row.
"Ro', boss? No, sub, All KANT ro',
nohow."
WELL how can I get across, then
There isn't any bridge"
wy boss, Ah'll take yo' acrost in
no time in that ere punt" answered
the negro.
But thought you said you couldn't
row."
mo, sub, All KANT ro'," answered
establishment; but All kin git yo'
acrost de ribber all right, suh''
The Northerner with some trepida-
ton and considerable curiosity stepped
into the boat, and the negro rowed
him swiftly and surely over the turbu-
lent stream to the other side, proving
himself an experienced oarsman.
why, Sambo, what did you mean
by lying to me?" asked the perplexed
traveller. II thought you said you
couldn't row a boat?"
Sambo opened his mouth in a grin
SO wide that he appeared to whisper
in his own ear as he replied: IVY.
boss, All suah thought you meant ro'-
ro' like a lion!"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-05
knew His Anntnmv.

That picturesque figure, Francis w.
Cushman, Of the state of Washington,
has breezy and original mode of ex-
pressing himself at times, according to
the New York Herald.
A year or two ago Mr.. Cushman, who
was extremely DESTROYS of reaching
Washington in order to attend an ex-
ira session of Congress, experienced
considerable delay in reaching his des-
tination. When he did the session was
about at an end. The delay had been
occasioned by a lawsuit in which Cush-
man was interested which necessitated
his going to Alaska. He estimated
that, counting the trip to Alaska from
the state of Washington and back,
the journey to Washington had caused
him to travel more than seven thou
sand miles. So when Mr.. Cushman
arrived at the national capital he was,
as he himself confessed, bit cross.
In reply to a question by a friend
whether, after the long and rough
journey, he was not sore" the Wash
ington man said:
sore! l should say l was! am
sore from the umbilicus to the Eu-
pirates and from the home base to the
equator!"
And as he gave vent to this remark
able expression the representative in
Dictated by sundry gestures the por-
tions of his injured anatomy presumed
to correspond to his description.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-05

ITO become a political leader and
to retain the post successfully re-
quires eternal vigilance said a we'll
known politician who is intimate with
Mr.. Durham, according to a contem-
porary. I'm the thickly settled sections
of Philadelphia the leader becomes a
sort of unofficial Mayor, guardian and
father of his constituents. He can
never ignore a request; to do so is to
offend not only the individual who
makes it, but all his relatives.
"One woman asked the leader recent
ly to take her baby into his family
while the mother went out of the city
for a weeks visit. Again he was call
ed up at o'clock in the morning by
two men who had dispute and wanted
him to arbitrate. He was expected to
see that the poor had coal; to bail
out those who were arrested; to secure
work for those out of employment; to
have police fines RENTED, and to at
tend marriages, picnics and funerals.
"One family of voters renounced him
permanently because he did not call
when the seven-year-old son, Thomas
broke a leg.
But I didn't know he had broken
his Leg the leader protested.
Sure, and you should have known
it, was the reply.
But 1 didn't even know you had
a son Thomas
I" That settles it, exclaimed the faith
er, who, taking up his hat to leave
remarked Charlie Donnelly would
have known it, Niver meal have you
ate in me house. I"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-05
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Philadelphia Record DemO
says: Millions of Christian mothers
are trying to bring UP their sons to
avoid fighting; even to put up with
some annoyance rather than resort to
their fists. There is a widespread i'm
preston that there is some authority
for this in the New Testament But
to the New York Assembly of Moth
ers, Oct. Is, 1899, Gov. Roosevelt said
A boy that won't fight is not worth
his salt He will be no use in life
and is a coward What have we to
do with the old-fashioned Gospels? In
the Roosevelt regime we are living un-
der the gospel OF force"
The Galveston Daily News (Dem)
says: Foreign trade cannot be won
by a people which consents to put it.
self into the leading strings of a Sec
ond childhood. 1t cannot become the
heritage of manufacturers who must
be paid a bounty in order that they
may mulct their own countrymen. 1t
is not to be won by selling at home
at prohtbitive prices, which check con-
sumption and thus lessen production,
merely that products made by the
same workmen in the same factories
may be sold with freight hundreds OF
miles away for a fifth, quarter or a
third less. We are approaching the
parting of the ways"
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
Qnd) says: "Mr. Shaw has similarly
stated and restated many times over
that this benignant tariff has not only
given work and wages to the toiling
millions of his countrymen, but has
increased their wages far and away
beyond the increased prices of livina
which the tariff protected trusts have
arbitrarily decreed and exacted. Mr.
Shaw, IL his speeches denote him
truly Is one of the most accomplished
and most conspicuously inexaot eco
nomic theorists now upon the stump
Facts are not considered by him, and
his fancy being thus free and uncon-
fined, he has been enabled TO make
statements az which the truth has
staggered"
The Norfolk Landmark CDem.) says:
The fact that nothing has been pub
lished since the Department of Com
merce and Labor began work. where
as the whole mass Of collected data
may be published the day after the
campaign n Mr.. Cortelyou and the
President see At, makes Il plain that
the trusts are In the condition of a
man OF means AZ whose head a visitor
holds a pistol 10 emphasize a request
for financial assistance. The man OF
means does not generally bother him
self 10 exact from the visitor prom
ise not 60 shoot n the money IL forth
coming. The man OF means decides
quickly whether or not he Is willing
10 risk hm life for the sum OF money
requested n he a. willing 10 risk
a. he refuses the request and takes
be ohnrces. n he IA MOI. he gives
The sum, and the visitor does not
shoot"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-05
No GOD in Washington.

This story told by a Tennessee Con-
gresham to the Washington Times,
the relator says, taught him a lesson he
will never forget:
when 1 came to Washington
shamefully confess that I deviated
from the straight and narrow path.
My wife and children joined me here,
and at our rooming place I managed
to find that it was not convenient to
hold little service of prayer before re-
firing at night, a thing which was
never neglected at home. My good wife
prodded me several times about this
neglect, but seemed hard to get down
to the practices and habits of home.
when we returned home l began
these family services. One day my little
ix-year-old child was found engaged
in prayer. Why are you praying, dear?'
asked mother. oh, mamma came the
reply, i thinks 1 mus pray all I tan
cause dere amt no bod in Washington
to pray to-"