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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-08-06

The boil weevil has not as yet made
its appearance in Mississippi. Quite a
number Of suspicious (?) bugs have
been sent the a. & N. College, but
the bugoloGiet up there pronounces
them not the genuine weevil. 1t is
estimated that the weeyil only travels
fifty miles per year, and at that rate
it will take them several years yet to
get here. Before that time it is to be
hoped that some remedy for the evil
will be discovered and put in practical
operation.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-08-06

The Popuarville Free Press an
nounces that $50 bales Of cotton VIII
be raised inside the incorporation OF
PoplarvilIe this year. which is more
than was marketed in the town last
year. It seems that the piney woods
country is taking to cotton right we'll.
Besides the excellent record being
made in trucking, cotton is becoming
an important crop.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-08-06

Reports already received from the
various assessors indicate that the per
sopaI assessment roll will be increased
about ten million dollars over that OF
last year. This is an indication Of
prosperity.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-08-06

TO the home-seeking, home-making
multitude, Mississippi extends q wei.
come lacking in nothing. and where a
small amount of capital and intelligent
industry is added to its natural and
business advantages, it will in a short
space OF time make Of this fair land
one OF the most populous and wealthy
sections of the United States.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-08-06

Mississippi is exporting peaches in
enormous quantities this year, and
threatens ere long to be a formidable
rival Of Delaware and Georgia in the
production anG export of this luCious
fruit,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-08-06

The Aberdeen Examiner p:edicates
the present corr crop at fully 60
900. 900 bushels. as compared with that
of 1900. which the census gave as
rs 1885. 800 bushels. Great Is Missis-
sippi.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-08-06

Mississippi's prosperity has not yet
reached high tide, The resources OF
the State are as yet practically III.
touched, and the full measure of the
States greatness will not be known
until the virgin forests, now untouched
by the woodlands axe, are converted
into fertile fields. The time is coming
on apace.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-08-06

Egertsville. on the New Orleans K
Northeastern, in Hancock county, Is
becoming a lively town. Many i'm
movements are being made and others
Of equal or more Importance are con
temDlated.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-08-06

Jackson contractors We're awarded
the contract to erect an $4,000 bank
building at Hazlehurst a few days
since. Hazlehurst is doing well and
n number of excellent buildings are
going up.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-08-06

The hustling little city Of P0n.otoc
IS still doing things. The town is
showing a phenomenal growth since
the extension OF the railroad and
broadening the guage. Tie people are
determined that it shall be one of the
best In the State.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-08-06

Although agriculture is Mississippis
leading industry. manufacturing in its
various branches seems likely to sur
pass 1t in the lear future. In 1880 the
value Of manufactured products was
only II per cent Of that Of agricultural
products. while in 1900 this ratio had
increased to 40 per cent. As this indi-
Gates, the growth Of manufacturing in
Mississippi has been very rapid.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-08-06

Push Mississippi" when occasion
affords.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
WIFE FALLS EIGHT
STORIES TO DEATH
Had just Written 81 am Get
ting Dizzy" When She Faint
ed at a Window.

NEW YORK, March 12.-I am get
ting SO blind and dizzy that must
call Josephine to open the window"
Mrs. David Crutchfield, the young
wife of a cotton broker, stopped at this
point in a letter she was writing to her
aunt just before noon yesterday Then
she left her writing desk in the dining
room of an apartment in the Barnard,
No 1017 Central Park West, and passed
through the kitchen adjoining to the
window of that room
AS she stood at the open window to
breathe the reviving air she was seized
with faintness again and toppled for
ward. The sill of the kitchen window
is only fourteen inches from the floor.
The young woman plunged out and
fell eight stories to the ground on a
vacant lot on the SEVENTEEN street
side. Her body struck a barrel with
such force as to smash it. DR.. George
w. Jarman, of No. 81 West Seventy
sixth street, who was summoned at
once. said she had been killed instant
ly.
Mr.. Crutchfeld, who has offices in
the Drexel building, No. Broad
street. was summoned home at once.
Ills IFl0LU, Y. Il. GOIk, u NASHVILLE,
Tenn, who also went to the house,
made this statement to World re-
porter:
'Mr. and Mrs. Crutchfield were mar
ried fifteen months ago at Little Rock,
Ark. He was then prominent lawyer
in Nashville. She was Miss Ada
Thompson, daughter of the late Capt.
William J. Thompson, banker of Lit
tie Rock. Their engagement had ex-
tended over several years. Mrs.
Crutchfield was a beautiful woman,
thirty-one years old. On their mar
riage they came to this city and took
up their residence at the Barnard. Mr..
Crutchfield opened his cotton broker
age business at the same time.
"a more devoted pair was never
seen. For several months Mrs. Crutch-
field had been subject to fainting
spells, and was being treated by Prof.
Coe and DR.. Jarman. She had the best
of reasons for wishing to live. A nurse
was in attendance upon her.
She was in cheerful spirits when
she babe her husband good-by as ne
started for his office. The nurse had
just brought some lemonade to her
where she was writing, when, as the
letter shows, she felt one of her faint
ing attacks coming on and went to the
window for air.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
~ Human interest STORIES IN THE CONTEMPORARY news OF THE COUNTRY ~

drivers. and in the extreme front of
the. engine is a pair of pony wheels.
Before leaving the Baldwin shops the
ten great. locomotives will probably be
inspected by representatives of several of
the Eastern railroads.
The other forty locomotives will be of
the balanced compound type, similar in
many respects to the French engines. The
drivers will be IS inches in diameter and
the cylinders Is and % inches, with 26-
inch piston stroke. They are designed
to attain a speed of eighty miles an hour
and will be- used exclusively for pas
senger trains. Each will weigh about $780,
geo pounds, including the tender: Ship,
the last will leave the shops in May.
While work on these engines is rapidly
progressing, a rush order for twelve loco
motives from the Japanese government
is being pushed with all the expedition
possible They are for the military roads
in Korea and will be started for the seat
Of war early next month. Six of the en-
gineS are of the standard gauge and SIX
of narrow gauge.
Owing to the fact that Russian loco
motive plants are small concerns, it is
thought by many railroad men that a large
order for locomotives may at any time be
placed with an American plant by the
Russian government. Officials OF the
Baldwin company said yesterday that
they had received no order yet. nor to
their knowledge had any other American
firm.
Vice President Gross. of the American
Locomotive company of Dunkirk, N. y,
was in this city last week. He said that
while the Russian government has for-
hidden the importation of locomotives, 1t
is only as a protective measure and not
because of tariff, and that If the gov
eminent should require any large add
ton to its motive power, BIDS from OUT,
side firms would Undoubtedly be called
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
ENGAGEMENT RING
IN AN EEL'S STOMACH
Loss of Diamond Caused Tragedy in
Two Young Lives.

NEW YORK, March by spearing
an eel through Ct hole liz the ice in the
Hackensack river Henry Clements re-
covered a diamond ring worth 800,
which had been lost since May, 1899.
The owner of the ring is Miss Louise
Corey, who lives with her parents on
the Paterson plank road, near the west
side of Jersey City Heights, and the
jewel was restored to her.
When Clements got home he told his
wife of his find, and she exclaimed:
why, 1 know the girl who lost this
ring. l was a maid in her father
house. She is the daughter of George
Corey"
Mrs. Clements told how Louise Cor
rey became engaged to John Harper, a
clerk in big store in New York city.
A few days after receiving an en-
gagement ring Miss Corey went row.
ing with young man who had been
Harpers rival. While in the boat she
lost the ring. She had promised Har-
per not to go out with this young man,
and Harpers belief that she had given
him the ring could not be shaken They
quarreled and separated. Harper went
to the Philippines and died within a
year. Miss Corey has since been in
delicate health. When Clements took
the ring to Miss Corey today she
tainted.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
chance and, following all the rest, he,

chance and, following all the rest, he,
too, refused.
Then Mr.. Morrissey retired from the
fray and Mr.. Grau undertook to play
Jason, and, in theatrical parlance. he
made good" After this Mr.. Morrissey
was asked to resign his job. With rare
business acumen he refused. AT length
he was forced out, he declares. After
this the company, Robert Grau, moor
porated, was formed, with B. w. VIII
son as president; w. e. Woodend, the
broker, vice president, and Louis j.
Bruck as treasurer. This organization.
says Mr.. Morrissey, has informed him
that Mr.. Grau has no longer any con-
nection with the Patti tour, and they
are therefore made defendants in the
suit
Meanwhile Nine. Patti is rushing
about the country for all the world as
though she were attempting TO outdo
The Flying Dutchman" or Phlleas
Fogg, leaving behind her trail OF
turbulent sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and
.constables. One of her company, VINO
returned to town yesterday, said;
1.-The tour was successful all right
the first time around, but when they
tried to repeat it it went to pieces.
Everybody wanted to see Patti once,
but the way to make them come twice
was to give them exceptional singing.
Poor Patti could not do this. She can
not sing like she once could, andsshe
realizes this perfectly. But she also
realizes that she is siXty-four years
old. SO she wants to make all the
money she can for her husband. Baron
Cedarstrom, to spend. That is the Sc
cret of her tour. She is in love with
her husband, and wants to support
him in the fashion to which he is ac-
customed"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
MORGAN WOULD NOT
BE PATHS "ANGEL !"
Flnancier, United States Sen.
ator and Gambler Asked to
Promote DMa's Tour.

J. Pierpont Morgan has no desire to
be theatrical angel" AS the comic
opera comedians put it, He came near
it. though Robert Grau asked him,
and he refused.
Such is the declaration of James w.
Morrissey, formerly business manager
for Mr.. Grau's tour of Adelina Pattl.
incidentally Mr.. Morrissey brought suit
yesterday against Robert Grau, incor-
porated, for $1,700, alleging breach OF
contract. He also declares he will bring
suit for $4,000 against Grau personally
for defamation
The latter amount Mr.. Morrfssey de-
clares he never hopes to get; still, he
says, he is going to sue, because his
intelligence demands that he do so.
In the trial of the former case, Mr..
Morrissey declares, much of inside his
tory of the present farewell tour of
Mime. Patti will be revealed. Accord
ing to his story, before the departure OF
the diva from England. her husband
cabled to Robert Grau that under no
circumstances would she undertake the
trip until $4,000 passage money and
$4,000 as a guarantee were given into
ner Keeping.
Mr.. Grau was entirely willing to do
this, says Mr.. Morrissey, only he did
not have the money. Thereupon, Nor
rissey says, he was made ambassador
plenipotentiary to raise the required
amount. He succeeded in securing
$4,000 from Steinway & Sons, the piano
manufacturers. for advertising privi-
leges. Then, like a modern Jason, he
set sail for Wall street to secure the
remainder.
He called on ]. Pierpont Morgan and
requested that he back the tour. Mr..
Morgan refused. Then he called on
Gen. 'Thos. L. James, president of the
Lincoln National bank; Tyson & Co.
and Fred Rullman, the ticket brokers'.
the Bank of New Amsterdam and the
Equitable Trust company, but they all
gave similar answer.
canfieId-No Patti Angel"
Then Richard A. Garfield, the gam
bier, was appealed to. 1t was too long
chance for him to take, so finally a
mysterious individual, referred to with
much ffnpressiveness by Mr.. Morris
sey. as "a wealthy United States sena-
tor, who requested that his name be
withheld" was given an opportunity
toa invest in Mr.. Grau's enterprise.
Strangely enough he threw away the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
MANS HEART REMOVED
AND SEWED UP AGAIN
Remarkable Operation on coIored
Man Who Had Been Stabbed.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March Il
Thomas Emerson, colored man who
was stabbed in the heart Monday by
his sweetheart, has been the subject
of an unusual operation. His heart
was lifted out of the body and six
stitches were taken to close the big
cash made by the negress' knife. The
organ was replaced and Emerson is re-
covering.
After the assault Emerson walked
without assistance to the hospital,
distance of five blocks, and was put un-
der the influence of ether as soon as
the wound had been examined. On
the operating table the heart was eX-
posed by a long incision which neces-
STATED the breaking of several ribs.
The operating surgeon inserted two
fingers and lifted out the heart. 1t
was drawn clear from the trunk. Yet
it went on with its work with almost
normal steadiness and regularity. The
cut was large one and required six
stitches. The pleura was opened and
a gathering of blood removed.
After the wound had been dressed
Emerson was extremely weak, but is
rallying slowly and the surgeons be-
neve he will recover.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
BR|TAIN'S SURFACE
IS HON[YCOMBFD
Centuries of Digging Have I'M
dermined Many Districts and
LandsIides Often Occur.

LONDON. March 12.-How many of the
millions of inhabitants of this tight
little island realize that danger turks
hidden and unsupported beneath many an
apparently firm and rigid city pavement,
beneath many a smiling green field, and
even beneath the back gardens which they
cultivate with so much assiduity and
pride?
That may. perhaps. appear to be
somewhat alarmist way of putting it;
but it is, nevertheless, justified by hard
fact.
Britain is honeycombed in many dis
tricts to an extent which places the lives
of large sections of the population in
jeopardy.
Centuries OF delving for coal and salt in
the bowels of the earth have, in parts of
South Yorkshire, Lancashire, the Mid
lands, Cheshire and South Wales, left
nothing but finnish crust between the
vault of heaven and the cavernous depths
below.
This has led to subsidences of the earth.
which have SO recently as the past month
or two been attended with loss of life and
damage to property in the shape of coll
lapsing houses and sinking, undulating
streets.
Another source of danger is to be found
in the numberless disused wells that have
become covered up with a slight caking of
soil and a treacherouS growth of weeds,
and which from time to time claim I'M
suspecting victims.
London Is Burrowed.
London to take the supreme example, is
being burrowed from end to end with
tubes and underground railways. 1t
may be contended that these tubes" are
constructed at depth so great as to pre-
clude all possibility of danger; but already
we have seen in the case of the Central
London railway bitter complaints of vi
bration and damage to property on the
part of people living in houses Immediate
ly above the tube
This cause of complaint and other
troubles still to be revealed will be multi
piled as tubes increase in number.
A coal mining expert Informed an EX-
press representative yesterday that some
150, 000, 600, 900 tons of coal remain to be
extracted from the earth in Great Britain,
and that as the enormous yearly extrac-
tions continue earth cavities will have to
be made of such huge dimensions that an
extensive system of underpinning must be
resorted to in order to make the surface
even tolerably safe for the people
A correspondent who occupies cottage
in Kent writes to the Express a letter
which relates a remarkable story.
He says that he and his wife and chill
dren were returning from a ramble in the
country when they noticed a circular de-
preston in the vegetable patch clOseit4 the
cottage The earth suddenly began. to
move, and the mother, in deep anxiety,
snatched her children away just in time
to see the earth sink and reveal disused
well, which, when measured, showed a
depth Of eighty feet teg11r
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
WILL BUILD TEN
GIANT LOCOMOTIVES
Baldwin Works Constructing
Machines That Could Haul
Big BattIeships.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 12-Ten
monster locomotives, the largest in the
world, are in process of construction at
the Baldwin works. Each will be capable
of pulling a greater weight than ever be-
fore accomplished by single locomotive
These machines are part of an order
for fifty placed by the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad company, and the
work of construction is being rushed for
an early delivery. 1t is expected that this
locomotive will prove the beginning of
an epoch in railroad freighting which
may result in the abolition of thousands
of smaller and weaker engines of this
and other countries.
They are the product of theory that
one gigantic locomotive, having the pow
er of two of the present average type,
can be operated more cheaply than two
small ones.
The ten locomotives will be able to pull
$4,000 tons of dead weight on a level
grade. If the first -class armored steel
battleships Vermont, Connecticut, Kan
sas and Ohio were placed upon wheels
on level track it is safe to say that
they could be pulled across the continent
by the ten locomotives. A string of fif-
teen or twenty of the ordinary type of
freight engines would be required to pull
similar weight.
Engine VIII Weigh $50, 900 Pounds.
The weight of each engine complete
will be about 2S0, 900 pounds and that of
the tender about 100000 pounds Their
speed will be much greater than that of
freight locomotives now used in pulling
the ore trains of the Santa Fe road
and their cost will probably be at least
third more than that of the best freight
engine now on the road
From the time the first cast was made
until the first shipments shall start over
the rails for the Southwest fifty days
will have elapsed. A force of about 49,
600 men assist in the construction of
each of these engines, the thousands of
pieces of iron and steel being directly
handled by at least half that number.
Although of the same width of the
smaller engines and adapted to the same
tracks, the new type is much longer and
higher than the others. and when placed
beside one of the old style locomotives
the latter appears a plgmy indeed. The
most distinguishing features besides the
size are tandem cylinders and the i'm
mense driving wheels. The high pressure
cylinders are placed we'll forward and
just back of them are the low pres
sures. A man of average height standing
beside one of the great driving wheels
would not reach to the top rim, for each
of the drivers is about eighteen feet in
circumference. There are five pairs OF
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
CONDITIONS OF OUR OFFER
FOR THE COUNTRY

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
GIVE BLOW FOR BLOW
Brooklyn Parents Threaten
Teachers Who Whip Children.

BROOKLYN. N. T., March 12.-With
the motto, The teacher who can whip
my child must be bigger man than
T. number of Brooklyn parents have
organized themselves into a society.
This agitation is the result of the peti-
ton to the board of education from
the Brooklyn Teachers association, re-
questing the re-establishment of cor
poral punishment in the public
schools. Letters protesting against the
system. which is now under considera-
ton by the board of superintendent,
have reached the board Of education.
One from Henry w. Fischer mentions
the motto of the parents organization
and tells of twenty-five different all
ments which may result from corporal
punishment. He says:
IF the advocates of brutality insist
upon making good their threats, the
proposition to give blow for blow may
act as a check to the ambition of the.
Whippers. The foremost of the advo-
Gates OF organized brutality toward the
weak and helpless furnishes a descrfp-
ton of the official instrument of tor
ture, strip of rubber hose, carrying
an unmistakable sting that will last
from ten to fifteen minutes.
According to the foremost medical
authorities it is responsible for most
of the following constitutional ailments
that prevail in the countries where
teachers have a constitutional right to
pummel children:
Commissions. crushing of the skin,
weakening of the muscles, injury to
the nerve f1bers stoppage Of the cir
culation, Inflammation, fostering and
ranking pustules, sometimes going
deep enough to affect the muscles;
gangrene, destruction of the cellular
textures, alterations on the parts
where the whip is applied; tanning of
the lower extremities; nervous affec-
ton of the heart, commissions of the
chest, serious affections of the nerves,
inflammation of the chest and blood
splitting.
ITO one or more of these ailments
the American parents are asked to sub
NIT their children, because dozen or
more teachers are confessedly ineapa-
bic of performing their duties without
| resorting to physical brutalities.
s9The rod, then, is the last alternative
| of the famed American school sys-
tent"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
Radinaae of HrIaandaae.

'sUnhand me. wretch." exclaimed the
fair captive.
Not until we get your husbands ear
and he foots the bill for the ransom" re-
torted the brigand.
Biding her time, she waited until she
caught the eye of the assistant chief of
the brigands. BY cunning words she dis
armed him of suspicion and made her
escape. This explains why the brigand
old not succeed in becoming well heeled
Judge.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-12-08
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