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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Chase Negro Horse Thief.

There was considerable excitement
a Meridian over a chase through the
business section of a young negro
lamed Walter Eddings. He had stolen
horse in Neshoba county, near North
Bend, from farmer for whom he
worked; also SIS in money. He was
taught and the horse recovered from
| stable, but he had spent the money
IN a new suit Of clothes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Prizes at Chrysanthemum Show.

The chrysanthemum exhibit given
the past week in the opera house at
Crystal Springs by the ladies of the
Floral Club has been pronounced one
Of the prettiest ever given by the
slub. The formal opening at 2 o'clock
found the hall filled with visitors.
Rev. R. Selby of the Methodist church
made the opening prayer. P. Angus
tus Lotterhos introduced the speaker
bf the occasion, Prof. HI. P. Todd,
whose address won him much ap-
plause. Mrs. (Dr.) Fortenberry and
Mrs. Robert Covington of Hazlehurst
tcted as judges.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
LEAKEsvILLE GREENE COUNTY, MISS, FRIDAY NOV 25 1904

Suit has been instituted in the Su-
preme Court of the District of Colum-
bia by Attorney j. B. Cotton against
the Secretary of the Treasury and
Gov. Bates Of Massachusetts to re-
strain the secretary from issuing a
duplicate warrant for ST. GIL 900 on ac-
count of claim of the State ofMassa-
chusetts against the United States
government. Cotton was employed by
the state AS attorney to collect the
clam, and, when it was allowed, the
Secretary of the Treasury issued to
him warrant for the amount involv-
ed. Cotton claims that his contract
with the state calls for the payment
to him as counsel of 10 per cent Of the
entire sum. The state authorities con-
slider the fee too large, and have asked
for settlement Of the matter by arbi-
tration. Before an adjustment of the
question could be reached the Secre-
tary of the Treasury had turned over
the warrant. Cotton's suit being for
the purpose of preventing the Secre-
tary from taking such action.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Bank Call is Issued.

Washington Secretary Shaw hal
announced call upon National Bank.
holding government deposits to th'
amount of 25 per cent of their hold
ings, 10 per cent to be paid on or be
fore January Is next and Is PEI
cent on or before March Is next. Thi.
the secretary estimates will bring int
the treasury about $25,O0O,O0O.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
George Cooper on Trial.

Parties returning from Franklin
ton bring the news that George Coop
er, who killed William Jones four
miles north of Zona during the pri-
mary election, Dec. Is, is again on
trial for his life. He was tried at the
spring term of court and sentenced to
the penitentiary for life, but was
granted new trial by the Supreme
Court.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Protecting Exhibits at Fair.

Atlanta, Ga-The Second and Third
Battalions of the Sixteenth United
States Infantry will leave for st.
Louis under command of Colonel But
ler D. Price and the officers of the
two battalions. The presence Of the
soldiers in St. Louis has been asked
for by the officials Of the Exposition
and granted by the War Department,
to protect tie Government and other
exhibits during the process Of disin-
tegration at the World . Fair.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Highwayman Attacks Ferryman.

A white highwayman attempted to
ob an old negro ferryman at the Or
nond Plantation, five miles above
1t. Rose. :. He first demanded money,
ind upon being told he had none, at
Ampted to strike the negro with a
zig stick. The negro warded off the
Ilow with his arm, receiving severe
INJURIES on the hand and fingers, and
hen began to yell, whereupon the
stranger made good his escape.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Officials Meet.

The mayor and boards of council
men and aldermen met at Meridian to
equalize assessments for 1904. The
only material reduction made was in
favor of the Mississippi Cotton Oil
Company, and was in the nature Of
a compromise. The company asked
for $4,000 reduction and was given
$35, 900 reduction. The grand total of
assessments as amended is $7,123,3 1928
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
TRACEY ESTATE.
Large Portion Left for Benefit of the
Unfortunate Poor.

New York.-The Right Rev. P. J..
Donohue, Roman Catholic bishop OF
Wheeling, W. Va, will receive the
major portion of the estate of Sarah
C. Tracey, valued at more than a quar-
ter of a million dollars. The will re-
quests that Bishop Donohue use the
estate to erect and maintain an indus
trial school for unfortunate poor in
memory of the testator's grandfather,
Edward Tracey.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Fair Officials Resign.

st. Louis.-H. II. Weatherwax,
Chief Draughtsman, and Philip J..
Markham, Chief Building Engineer in
the Worlds Fair Division of Works,
have resigned. The two experts. were
among the first men employed by the
Exposition three years ago, when the
planning Of the Fair structures was
begun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

Secretary Shaw has announced a
call upon national banks, holding gov
ernment deposits to the amount of 25
per cent. of their holdings, ten pei
cent. to be paid on or before January
Is next and Is per cent on or before
March Is next This the secretary es-
Inmates will bring into the treasury
S25, 100000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Cresote FACTORY DESTROYED. BY Fire.

The plant of the Mississippi Naval
Stores Company at Hattiesburg, COM
monty called the cresote factory, was
'otally destroyed by fire. The night
rev was on duty and the plant in op-
ration, when the upper part of the
building was found to be on fire. The
bss in plant, material and stock on
hand amounts to about $4,000, with
5000 insurance. The Company man
lfactured turpentine, tars and tar oils,
which includes cresote. The company
Expects to rebuild.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Fish Dealer and Wife Shot.

John Henley and wife were foully
murdered at their home near Horn
Lake Pas. They had been shot and
their brains beaten out. Their infant
was found almost suffocated under the
bed clothing. Henley was a fish deal
er, and it is thought, was murdered
by negroes for his money.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

General G. W. Davis, Judge Advo-
cate General of the Army, submitted
an opinion to Acting Secretary Oliver
in regard to the legal points involved
in the controversy over the award of
the contract for making soldiers
clothing at the Schuylkill Arsenal,
was Immediately forwarded to Pres
ident Roosevelt for his information
and guidance. The main question in
volved is whether the Quartermaster
General of the Army is authorized to
give this work to certain seamstresses
in Philadelphia and orphans of SOL
diers and sailors, at the rate Of rs
cents for each pair of trousers, when
the same work can be done by con-
tract for 81 1-2 cents per pair.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

Chicago. Twenty-Five gas tanks in
the big railroad gas charging station
at Seventy-third street and South
Chicago avenue exploded and eight
dead bodies of employees have been
recovered from the ruins, and it Is
said that at least ten or twelve more
employees are missing.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Depot, DESTROYED by Fire.

The depot of the Mississippi Central
Railroad at Prentiss, caught on fire
and was destroyed. People gathered
quickly and cleared the depot of all
its goods, and nothing except the
frame building was lost. The depot
agent has moved into another house
and is ready to serve the public.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

The government Of the Netherlands
has formally notified Secretary Hay
that it gladly accepts the suggestion
that the Peace Conference be recon-
vened at The Hague. So far no forml
acceptance of the American invitation
in its full breadth has been received,
but it is stated that nearly all the
European powers already have indi-
Gated that they accept the presidents
invitation in principle, leaving to fu-
ture negotiation the arrangement of
the programme for the conference and
the limitations to be placed upon its
work.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

The Navy Department is disposed
to encourage, so far as possible, the
practice with small arms, and to this
end intends to establish ranges at sew
eral accessible places along the coast.
Boards of officers are now engaged in
examining the available those
which are convenient to the landing
places of ships Of war, such as Patx-
ent River, Lynn Haven Bay, the
mouth of York River and Fox Island.
The range at the Naval Academy will
also be inspected with a view to i'm
proving it. 1t is planned to have such
a team of marksmen representing the
Navy at Fort Riley next year as will
insure keeping the Hilton trophy in
the corridors of the Navy Department.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Paid Her Election Bet.

Denver, Colo.-Driving her own
automobile and accompanied by a
quartette of well-dressed friends, Mrs.
Sadie Kennedy, a woman well known
in society here, went to the State Cap
itol and with scrubbing brush be-
gan cleaning the steps, paying an
election bet. Governor Peabody en-
tered the Capitol while she was at
work, and she told him it was all his
fault.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
War Minister Resigns.

Panama. Huertas, the war
minister, resigned this week and Pres
ident Amador by decree accepted
his resignation, leaving Huertas the
rank of general unattached, but with
a salary which is equivalent to pen
sion. The army will not be disband-
ed Just now.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Looking After Deaf Mutes.

Rev. o. J. Whildin of Baltimore,
Nd, who is the general missionary
10 the deaf and dumb Of the South
and an ordained priest Of the Prot
sstant Episcopal Church went to look
no the mutes Of Vicksburg. He held
al interesting service in the home of
one Of the afflicted ones, which was
well attended. He is on general
tour Of the South, and is on his way
10 Louisiana and Texas.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Memphis Newspaper Changes Hands

Memphis, Tenn.-It is reliably re-
ported that deal has been concluded
whereby S. P. C4rnes, T. K. Riddick
and Frank Jones, the former two be-
ing trustees of the Evening Scimitar
plant, have secured control of the
Morning News, and that both papers
will be issued from the plant.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Sold to Hunting Club.

Nashville, Tenn.-About $50 deer
and elk, now in park at Belle Meade,
the famous breeding establishment,
have been sold to a hunting club in
which Harry Payne Whitney and the
animals will be turned loose in the
60,000-acre game preserve they have
around Hickory Valley.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
w. G. p. Breckinridge Dead.

Lexington, Ky.-Col. VIM. Camp
bell Preston Breckenridge died a
II 40 o'clock Saturday night from |
stroke of paralysis sustained Wednes
day. The end came peacefully. HI
had been gradually sinking for 2
hours and for that length of time th'
case had been known to be hopeless
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Lady Burned to Death.

Houston, Texas.-The residence of
R. H. Wood, at Rockport, Texas,
popular summer resort, was burned
recently. Mrs. Howard, mother-in
law of Mr.. Woods, was burned to
death, and other members of the fam
lily had narrow escape. The origin
Of the fire is unknown. The loss is
$4,000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Indicted Man Discharged.

:. st. Louis Charles A. M. Schiller
holz, special timber agent of thu
United States, indicted more thar
three years ago on charges of embez
element of public money and extor
ton from an Arkansas lumber com
pany, was released when a demurrer
to the information was sustained BY
Judge Adams Of the United State,
Circuit court.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
vicksburg Park Commissioners.

The Indiana -Vicksburg Park Com
nissioners, after spending two days
1T Vicksburg, left for Wabash very
much pleased over their trip. The
commissioners will raise an appropri-
ltion sufficient to build individual
monuments to the twenty-eight or
Plantations of Indiana, and also to
srect a general state memorial to cost
Ibout $4,000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Woman Loses Arm in Gin.

Mrs. Lou Tyrone, three miles north
of Prentiss, while in charge of one of
her husband s gins feeding it caught
her right arm in the saws and man.
gled it so badly that amputation was
necessary.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Suffering at Adrianople.

Boston.-The American Board Of
Missions have received cablegram
from w. w. Peet, its treasurer at
Constantinople, announcing that the
people in the vicinity of Adrianople
in Macedonia by freezing and starva.
ton staring them in the face.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Wakefield Murder Trial.

James S. Wakefield of Cleveland,
was arraigned this week in the cir
cult court for the murder of Henry P.
Williams. This promises to be one Of
The hardest fought legal battles ever
witnessed in Bolivar county.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

One of the first nominations to go to
the senate at the opening of the ses-
sion will be that of William D. Crum
for collector of customs at Charleston,
S. C. The president is evidently in
hopes that the senate will take diff
ferent view of the matter now from
that taken heretofore, and vote its
approval, but he is as resolved as ever
that it shall either confirm or reject
the nomination.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Rice Warehouse Caves Tn.

About 25 feet of the east wall of the
new Planters Rice Mill warehouse at
Abbeville, caved in, causing damage
to the extent of about 81, 1000. Some
of the employees had narrow escapes,
but no one was hurt. The break is now
being repaired, and will cause no de-
lay in the operation of the mill.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Senator Money Buys Home on Beach.

Hon. Fl. D. Money, who has been
spending several weeks on the coast,
slosed deal for some handsome prop
erty situated on the beach, between
Mississippi City and Beauvoir. On a
part of the land is hnadsome home,
which Senator Money will occupy as a
residence. He will be- given posses
zion about Jan. l, and soon thereafter
will move his family to the coast and
make this their future home.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
President to. Speak in Texas

Beaumont, Tex.-Positive informa:
ton has been obtained that Commit
teeman Lyon has been notified by
President Roosevelt that he will visit
Texas early in the spring, making four
speeches, at Fort Worth, Dallas, Hous-
ton and Austin or San Antonio.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Bow Killed in Cotton Gin.

While playing on a shaft at the Beu-
lah Gin Company's gin the clothing Of
Tom Boyd, the S-year-old son of J. B.
Boyd, a prominent merchant of that
place, was caught and he was almost
instantly killed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

On the report of immigration In
spector Dunn at st. Louis the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor order
ed the deporta SON Of fourteen Geisha
girls and six Chinese who have been
employed in concession at the Louis
lana Purchase Exposition. The case
has been pending for several weeks
and hard fight was made by the rep
resentatives of the Geisha girls to in
duce the government authorities to
permit them to remain il this c3ua
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Crew of Fifteen Lost.

San Francisco.-A dispatch to the
Merchants Exchange from Victoria,
B. c., says that The bark Makaweli
has been wrecked off the west coast
of Vancouver island and that her crew
of fifteen is lost. The Makaweli is
owned in San Francisco.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Die Under Falling Wall.

Memphis, Tenn.-By the falling Of
wall of one Of the Oliver-Finnie
buildings which was swept by fire sew
eral weeks ago, James Perewitt, a ne
gro laborer, sustained injuries from
which he died later and Birge Kirby, a
white contractor, was probably fatally
injured.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

ney to the commission.
The annual report of w. S. Shallen-
berger, second assistant postmaster
general, shows that the annual rate
Of expenditure for all inland mail
transportation service during the last
fiscal year was $67, ,931, ,43O To this is
added $2,516,053 for foreign mails.
The largest items in the postal trans
poration figures are the star routes,
which number 18,743t and an annual
Erate Of expenditure of $6,03S, ,023; rail-
road routes 3,008 in number with 1885,
/ COZ mileage and an annual rate of ex-
penditure of $39,177,377; railway
postoffice carrier routes numbering
2S4 and an annual rate of expendi-
ture of $5,51S,234, and railway mail
car service, (ofice and clerks) H.
444 in number involving an expendi-
ture of $12,205,3 1873. In Hawaii the
star route and mail messenger service
at the various ports is now so arrang-
ed as to connect with mail steamers at
any time, whether the steamers are
running on regular schedule or at ir-
regular intervals. To indicate the
large increase in the volume of mails
carrier by the railroads, it is pointed
out that the expenditures for rail-
road transportation with railway post
office cars during the four-year period
19O2-O5, was $42, ,458, ,146, an increase
Of over IL per cent over the previous
four years period while the revenue
Of the postal service was $139, ,781, ,794,
an increase of over forty per cent
over the previous four years period.
The report says it is evidently the de-
sire Of the American people to send
parcels of small average weight
abroad and that our rate of postage
favor this practice.
A question has been raised as to the
date when the resignation of Pension
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

G. M. Priddy, of Oakland, was ia
tally injured by a freight train while
trying to cross the track and died. He
was about fifty-four years of age and
leaves large family.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

Kansas City, William P
Hayde, for many years county license
inspector here, killed himself at hii
home. Hayde sat up in bed next tc
his young son and shot himself in tht
head with pistol dying in few min,
utes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

Rome. Foreign Minister Titoni in.
forms Ambassador Meyer that he had
given instructions to the Italian am.
bassador at Washington to sign an
arbitration treaty with the United
States and France and France and
Great Britain.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
ALTON B. PARKER saws:
I Read the NEW YORK WORLD Every Day."
THE WORLD Elected Cleveland.

| ut may be said tCfthout reservation
/ that If the Democratic party in my
FIRST campaign had lacked the torcefuL
and potent advocacy of Democratic
principles at that time by the NEW
YORK WORLD the result might
haze been reUersed. ."-Grover Cleve-
lands Letter to The World, May 10,
1903.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Alleged Till Thief Arrested.

Carnley Tinsley, white man, who
is charged with having attempted to
rob the money drawer of Joe Campag-
MIA, merchant in Alexandria, was ar
rested and jailed to await trial.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

Peoria, Il.-The forest fire raging
in the Illinois bottoms, seven miles
north of this city, has now devastated
seven square miles of territory. The
country side is filed with small game
which have been driven from their
lair.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

The president has promulgated reg
ulations for the appointment of un-
skilled laborers in the civil service and
for the selection Of eligibles for such
appointments and has authorized the
creation of board to be composed of
a representation from the executive
departments. This board is to be un-
der the general supervision of the
civil service commission but will op-
crate on independent lines. 1t will be
required to make examinations for ap-
plicants for labor positions in the ser
vice and to prepare list of eligibles
from which all appointments are to
be made.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Mrs. Davis Coming South.

Theodore V. Wensell stated that
Mrs. Varina Davis, widow of Presi-
dent Jefferson Davis, Of the Confed-
sracy, would visit Natchez this winter.
She was married to Mr.. Davis in Nat
thez...
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
WASHINGTON
NEWS NOTES.
ITEMS OF INTEREST BRIEFLY
CHRoNICLED.
COMMISSIONER HECKEJ
Resigns on Account of the Climate of
the Canal Zone. The Nomination
OF crum Among the First to Go to
the Senate.

Washington. Frank J. Hecker has
resigned as member of the Panama
canal commission. Mr.. Hecker saws:
A stay of 15 weeks on the itsh-
mus during the past summer has con-
vlnced him that the effect of the eli
mate OF the canal zone is so unfav-
orable to his health that continued
periods of residence there, such as the
duties of the isthmian canal commits
sion make desirable if not imperative
would be at the risk of general
break down, both physically and eff
GENTLY of service. Accepted his res
ignation with extreme reluctance and
thanked him for the courtesy you have
have shown me in defering it so long
as he has. Stating that he appointed
him because he believed exactly the
type of business man we needed on the
commission. Mr.. Hecker is from
Michigan. President Roosevelt has
not considered the subject of a sue
COooOA W OOl. IlcChcI Ou tl6 COLUIulS-
sion. Indeed an intimation is given
that it may be some time before an
announcement is made as to his sue
cessor. The president regards the ap-
pointment of the member of the COM
mission of such Importance as to war
rant very careful consideration. Such
q man as he desires is not easy to be
obtained and as the preliminary work
Of the commission is we'll in hand there
is no absolute reason that the appoint
ment should be made Immediately.
The president has not minated to
anybody whether he has any man in
mind or not. There has been some
speculation regarding the successor of
Col. Hecker and several names have
been suggested, among them Senator
Cockrell, of Missouri, and Judge
Charles E. Morgan, who is now attor-
nav tn the commission
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25
Henry McRay Acquitted.

Henry McRay was tried in the dis
trict court on the charge of man
slaughter, and found not guilty at
Alexandria.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

Chicago. Announcement has been
made of the completion Of the fund of
$500, 900 for the eretcion of national
monument to the late President Nc
Kinlev.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-25

Secretary Hitchcock recommends
that legislation be enacted authoriz-
ing the sale of land held by Indians of
the five civilized tribes. Under ex-
isting laws only the Creek Indians
are allowed to sell their lands imme-
diately upon securing patents, and
in the other tribes such sales are post
poned for five years.