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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
Relief of Copiah County.

The House Committee on Claims has
made favorable report on Represent.
tative McLain S bill for the relief of
Copiah county. Copiah county is
greatly interested in the progress of
this measure, for it will reimburse the
county several hundred dollars paid
as costs in suit which was decided
against the government ssszz -
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

Paris. In consequence Of an off,
cial denial of its statement. that For
eign Minister Delcasse is seeking,
through an influential Catholic bishop,
an audience of the Pope when he ac-
companies President Loubet to Rome.
the Figaro reafirms that this was the
minister's original intention and adds
that he has yielded to the objections
to his purpose made by Premier
Combs.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
Hunt Gets the Job.

Helena, Mont. Advices haye been
received here that it is the intention
Of President Roosevelt to appoint Gov.
w. w. Hunt, of Porto Rico, as sue
cessor to Judge Hiram Knowles, who
recently rendered his resignation as
judge of the United States District
Court here. Judge Knowles resigna-
tion is to take effect April 18th. He
resigned because he had reached the
age limit.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
Sent to the Asylum

John B. Buchanan, the Mississippi
negro who has been writing letters to
President Roosevelt and appealing
personally to Senator McLaurin, and
who was arrested in Washington as
crank, has been sent to st. Elizabeth
ASYLUM.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
Industrial Peace.

Chicago Industrial peace is assur-
ed in the brick manufacturing busi-
ness Of Chicago for the coming year.
An agreement has been concluded be-
tween the various brick yards and the
brickmakers' union, embracing
about 1000 men, which embodies the
closed shop, last years wage scale to
continue another year, the eight-hour
day and other provisions satisfactory
to the men.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
War Stimulates Trade.

Seattle, Wash.-That the war in the
Orient has had a stimulating effect on
various kinds of trade in the Pacific
Northwest becomes apparent as sta
tistics Of japanese purchases here
come to light It is learned that one
local firm has held draft of $780,
900 placed with it by representatives
of the japanese government to be
used in the purchase of supplies, and
Oriental business generally has in
creased.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
Railroad Bonds.

New York.-The Richmond Wash
ington Company has sold to Kuhn,
Loeb & Co., $2,500,O0 of its collateral
trust 4 per cent, bonds, the total is
sue of which is $11, 100000. The Rich
mond- Washington Company operates
a railroad from Washington, D. c., to
Richmond, Va. 1t is jointly owned by
the Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio,
Southern, Sea Board Air Line, Attain
ii, Coast and Chesapeake g. Ohio.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
Fatal Earthquake.

Vienna. According to dispatch
to the Neue Freie Presse, an earth
quake April 4th, killed twenty-five
persons, injured forty, destroyed l.
500 houses and caused great distress
in the villages Of Kossovo and Saloni-
ca. Macedonia.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

At special meeting of the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen of Hattiesburg
the following order was passed:
"That the city of Hattiesburg sell
100000 of bonds, or so much thereof
as is necessary, to build or purchase a
irst-class electric light plant
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
In Marine Service.

DR.. j. H. Purnell, for years a resi-
dent of Vicksburg has left for San
Francisco, where he has been appoint
ed to serve in the United States Ma
rine Hospital Service.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
Denver, Co.'s. D. Wavcaster. for

merly of Asheville, N. G., shot and
killed his wife and then attempted sui
eide by shooting himself in the neck
He is now at the county hospital and
has chance for recovery. Waycaster
who was out Of employment, quarreled
with his wife and mother-in-law sew
eral days ago. Afterwards he return
ed and told his wife that he was starv-
ing and asked her for money to buy
food. This was refused him. The
shooting followed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
winona Suffers From Flames.

One-half of the business district of
Winona has been destroyed by fire.
The flames started in the Times print
ing office and destroyed the finest
buildings in the town. The loss is es-
timated at 100000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
New Treaties Signed.

Paris. The Associated Press learns
through private advices from London
that the Anglo-French colonial treaty,
including the agreements relative to
Morocco, Egypt and New Foundland,
has been signed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
CHINESE MAY
ENTER COUNTRY
SAYS SENATOR PATTERSON IN
A STARTLING SPEECH.
IMMEDIATE ACTION URGED
Else Through the Denunciation of The
Exclusion Treaty of 1894, by The
Chinese The Chinks Can Flood The
Country.

Washington. Mr.. Patterson ad-
dressed the senate on the denuncia-
ton of the Chinese exclusion treaty
Of 1894 by the Chinese government,
He announced his conviction that un-
less additional legislation is had before
congress adjourns every barrier
against Chinese immigration that has
been built will be removed on the 9TH
Of December next, and the ports of the
country thrown open to the unre-
stricted coming of the Chinese hordes,
whose invasion of the United States
was arrested twenty years ago. This
opinion was based upon China's de-
nuneiation of the treaty of 1894, max
ing it of no effect from December 7th,
next. He traced the prospective trou
BILE to the failure of congress in its
vote of 1902 to duplicate the act of
1892, continuing in force for ten years
the exclusion act of 1892. "Had Chi
ia not denounced the treaty." he
said, "there would be no trouble now
with the exclusion laws, for the act Of
1902 would have kept them all in
force, but with the 1894 treaty out of
the way, under the act of 1902 our
exclusion laws will all fall to the
ground on the coming of the 7th of
December. The cause of this is the
usual wording of the 1902 act. For
the first time in this Chinese legisla-
tion the validity of exclusion laws was
made to depend upon the terms of
treaties with China" In conclusion
Mr.. Patterson said: The legislation
that must be compared with this trea-
ty of 1880 is the act of 1902. The
acts of 1882 and 1892 each suspended
immigration for ten years, but the act
II 1902 absolutely prohibits it, and is
therefore not in conformity with the
treaty of 1880, and necessarily falls
10 the ground.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
Gammons Surrenders.

Edward Gammons, who committed
double murder at Water Valley, has
surrendered and was taken to Jack
son.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
Another Wreck.

Louisville, Ky.-One man trainman
was killed and three employees injnr-
ed in wreck on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, near Middlesboro
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
DR.. Payne Won.

DR.. w. w. Payne, of Meridian, was
awarded $4,000 damages against the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

Albert Baldwin, the negro who was
twice guarded by state troops, and
who was convicted at Sumner of the
murder of Engineer Fogarty, and SEN
fenced to hang, is again in the Jack.
son Jail.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
Left barcelona.

Barcelona. King Alfonso has left
Bavcelona on a visit to Corona. lie
will return to Barcelona Saturday.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

James R. Parsons, Jr., will be nam
ed as Consul General in Mexico, to
succeed Barlow.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

Boston The curtailment in the
Fall River, Mass, cotton mills affects
$4,000 operatives.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

The port of entry of the port Of
Pearl River has been changed from
Shieldsboro to Gulfport.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

A resolution has been adopted ac-
cepting from Polish citizens a statue
of General Thaddeus Koskiusko.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

T b e House Committee reported
against the repeal Of the Desert Land
Law.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

Bourke Cochran, in a speech in tht
House, attacked the special pension
order of the President, and urged the
House to maintain its independence
He said that if President Cleveland
was the first offender he should be
condemned also. He asserts that
Congress has lost caste and the Sen.
ate has oyerridden it. His motion tc
inquire into the authority for issuing
the order was defeated by a vote Of
103 to 100.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

The Washington Star proposes
John Sharp Williams for Chairman of
the Democratic National Committee.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

The United States Weather Bu-
reau has issued special bulletin, Civ
ing forecast of the stage of the
river. The Bureau predicts that the
Mississippi River below .Vicksbure
will continue to rise, and will reach
the danger lire of 16 feet at New Or
leans in six or eight days; that the
Atchafalaya, having reached the dan
ger line of 81 feet at Melville, will
continue to rise slowly for at least
ten days.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

Representative Ransdall explains
that he opposed Mr.. Edwards for Con-
gressional Secretary because a North
ern man was needed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

The State Department has decided
TO find temporary employment for
the persons recently appointed to con-
uular offices in Manchuria and will
make no effort to place them at their
designated posts pending the issue of
The war between Russia and Japan.
Mr. Cheshire, who is nominally United
States Consul to Mukden. will be at
tached to the United States legation
at Pekin. Mr.. Davidson, who was
named as consul to Antung, on the
Yalu river, will be sent instead to
New Chwang to serve as an assistant
10 Mr. Miller, the consul at that point.
Edwin Morgan, who was to have been
consul at Dalny, will be sent to Shang-
nai as assistant consul.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

The trial of Tyner and Barrett will
be commenced May 2.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

Congressman Davey is Chairman of
a committee to report on bill to pre-
vent introduction and dissemination
of insect pests and plant diseases.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

The Senate has agreed to the
House amendment on the Philippine
Shipping Bill, which passes the
bill. 1t goes into effect July l, 1906
In the discussion on the appropria-
tion for the postofice, Mr.. Spooner
took occasion to defend Postmaster
General Payne and praise Charles
Emory Smith.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

The Senate Committee on Education
and Labor has given a hearing to
Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, and Vol
ney N. Foster, on the latter's bill for
a government arbitration board. Both
gentlemen were asked what the effect
would be if workmen would not arbi-
trate, and they said that public senti-
ment would be against either side that
refused to submit differences to arbi-
tration.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

Through the influence of the Presi-
dent, the Swayne impeachment case
will go over until December 13.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

The Senate concarred in the Port
land Exposition Bill.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15
G -3Ifport, Miss.

The coming port proposition
offer that b, exld sole
OF of the beat speculative adjacent aport
have addition develop TRACK AD
DIION This lies mile from the Town intend
Street Railroad value
within lot sold that this
Railroad will b operation within Backed By
s bond sufficient build and placing the M 100
lots the S5
thereafter There
Of S. 90 One Hundred lots sold
each.
payments per
each lot with deferred payments
instalmen will
started Standard Land Addition Gufport
Of which be bought today for 10000
road connection.
Get in while cheap Buy lot for chldren the
giving good opportunity you
have pgan
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

An information bureau is to be es-
tablished at Ellis Island to inform
immigrants regarding the different
desirable localities for settlement.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

The subject of rental of canccllin2
machines has been discussed in the
Senate and charges made that there
was an attempt to ''give Beavers a
bill cf health" Mr. Patterson ar
gued that the Chinese exclusion laws
would cease to operate on Dec. Z, and
there would be no barrier to the en-
try of Chinese, but the position was
controverted by others.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

The House Committee on Labor has
decided to refer the eight-hour bill to
Secretary Of Commerce and Labor,
Cortelyou, with a request for a report
Dn the following points to be made to
the Committee at the next session of
Congress. First-What would be the
additional cost to the United States
under the bill on articles which it GUS
tomarily obtains by contract. Second
What damage would it inf1ict on the
manufacturing interests Third
Would contractors who now supply
the government continue to contract
with the government? Fourth-What
effect would it have on the shipbuild-
ing interests? Fifth-What effect
would it have on any export trade I?
Sixth-Are laboring people willing to
have taken from them the right to
labor more than eight hours 6 Seventh
What effect would it have upon the
agricultural interests?
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

The House has passed the Philip
pine Shipping Bill, making it opera
tive July 1, 1906. 1t also passed the
bill appropriating $475,OOO for the
Exposition at Portland.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

By vote of s to 3 the House com.
mittee on irrigation of arid lands de-
feated the bill to repeal the desert
land laws. The vote was taken after
protracted hearings.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

1t is unlikely that any better Chi
nese exclusion treaty, as far as China
is concerned, can be adopted, and if
none is, the Geary Law, which is
harder than the present treaty, will
Ge enforced.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

Adjutant General Fridge has or
ganized new military company here,
several of the members of the defunct
company enrolling their names as
members Of the new. 1t is understood
that John Shields will be captain, but
the election Of officers has not yet been
had
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-04-15

The House Committee on Military
Affairs has authorized favorable re-
port on the Parker Military Park
Commission Bill which provides for
the termination of the existing Ma
tional Military Park Committees
Chickamauga, Gettysburg, Shiloh and
Vicksburg-and the creation of a
commission to consist of five men, to
be known as the National Military
Park Commission. Those appointed
within the next ten years shall have
actively participated in the Civil War,
and two Of them shall have served in
the Confederate Army. The first mem
bers of the commission shall include
one member of each of the existing
commissions and an officer of the
Army, active or .etired.
The Census Bureau estimate of pop
nlation for the United States, exclu-
sive of Alaska, is 79,9OO,3S9. New Or
leans has just passed the 300,000mark.
Thine President will nominate James
r. Parsons, Jr., as United States Con-
sui General to the City Of Mexico, vice
A. D. BarlowH signed. This is per-
sonal appointment on the part of the
Presidents Sr. Parsons is a distin-
guished educator, AZ years Of age, and
a native of Albany, N. Y.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-31
PRETTY WIFE WITH TWO
PIGS OFFERED FOR SALE
Farmer Willing to Accept Fifty
shillings for the Lot Man
Perfectly Sane.
SPOUSE HAD BEATEN HIM

ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 3o.-A peasant
living in the village of Petrowka, near
Irkutsk, Siberia, has tried a novel method
to disturbances himself of his wife, who
apparently. has strong views on the temper
ance question. According to the Wostots-
chy Westnik newspaper he sent the follow
ing letter TO the police authorities at
Irkutsk:
Il have the honor to ask you to kindly
make 1t publicly known that in the village
of Petrowka l have a young wife. twenty
years old, and two pigs for sale. The price
for all three is only GO los. My wife is very
pretty and young. but of somewhat quar-
relsome and capricious disposition. The pigs
are fat. If any one thinks of making the
purchase i shall be glad to send all three
on receipt of cost Of carriage"
The police. when they received this COM
munication, thought at first that they had
TO deal with a mailman or at all events a
person OF weak intellect. But they sought
out the peasant, questioned him, and found
him 10 be perfectly sane and of average in
telligence. though living in poverty His
Wife frequently beat him on account of his
drunken habits. In order to get rid of her
he had written this strange request TO the
police, and threatened her that unless she
altered her attitude towards him she would
be sold. The pigs apparently were thrown
I'm as n special inducement to any would-be
nurCh0sqr
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-31
SOLDIERS WIVES WILL
JOIN THEIR HUSBANDS
British War Office Becoming
Alarmed Over Discomfort
in South Africa.
BAD TOMMY ATKINSES

LONDON, Jan. 30-The War Office has is
sued a very timely order and one that
should go far to remove a prolific cause of
discomfort among the married portion of
the soldiers in South Africa.
Many of these men have been separated
from their wives and children since the be-
ginning of the war, nearly four and a half
years ago. The War Office now notifies the
fact that the rank and file wives and fam
lilies will be permitted to go to South Africa,
though it is to be distinctly understood that
they may have to live in tents.
The shipment and building of portable
hutments are going on apace. though the
garrison will have to be considerably re-
duced before any large proportion of the
troops enjoy the shelter of a roof. The mail
brings plenty of support for the statement
that much discomfort is rife in the South
African garrison.
A very unsatisfactory increase is apparent
in the number Of courts-martial for
homeward-bound troopship lately has
brought home men for discharge with
ignominy'' as ''incorrigible and worthless
or for misconduct" or TO undergo impris-
onment.
AS sentences of any length are generally
carried out in the home prisons, many of
the crimes are obviously committed by men
who willingly undergo Imprisonment for
the sake of getting away from South Africa.
The authorities are becoming wary of this
ruse, and in many cases add to the sentence
the words Ito be undergone not in the
United Kingdom or Sentence TO be carried
out in South Africa.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-31
BROKEN LEGS NO LONGER
BARRIER TO WALKING
Continuance by Which a Person
Can Walk About While Broken
Leg Is Healing.
GREAT BOON TO HUMANS

LONDON, Jan. 30-An apparatus has
been tested at the London" and other
hospitals which turns a man with broken
leg into an active man while his bones
are still fractured. The device has been in
troduced into this country by Mr.. Hefftcke
a continental maker Of surgical appliances,
and already number of patients have had
reason TO bless his enterprise. 1t was de-
signed by a German doctor named Hes
sing, but Mr.. Hoefftcke has modified it.
The apparatus is a strong steel frame
work on which leather shaped on a cast of
the patients injured leg is stretched and
dried. Stout elastic bands, acting as mus
cles, give enough fexibility TO the appa-
ratus to enable the patient to walk The
framework entirely relieves the injured
limb OF the weight of the body
n day or two'S practice will enable a
patient to walk and lead a comparative
ly active life while the fractured zone is
insures that the limb is neither stretched
nor cramped, thus avoiding all danger Of
shortening.
In case OF emergency the apparatus
can be made from a plaster cast of the
injured leg within two DAYS of the acci-
subsidized and the patient has become ac-
customed To the apparatus there is nothing
10 prevent immediate activity.
Still more wonderful results are obtained
in the case of paralytics. The absence of
strength in a paralyzed limb is the chief
obstacle 10 walking naturally but Mr..
Hoefftcke's apparatus supplies both the
strength and movement.
One patient after a few visits 10 the hos
pital walked away, leaving his crutches
behind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-31
PELLET OF PAPER TRAMP
CHEWS MAY CONVICT HIM
Jail Warden with Presence Of
Mind Receivers Paper Which
Reveals Murder.
OUTRAGES ON CATTLE

LONDON Jan. 30.-A sensational Incl
dent in Lincoln prison has resulted in the
arrest of a tramp named Fisher in connec-
ton with the hitherto unpublished crime
which was committed near Kidderminster
three months ago.
The hop-picking season, it will be remem-
bered. was in full swing when a woman
named Mary Swinburne was found lying
butchered on the roadside Her head was
half severed from the body. and the MUIR
derer had evidently knet down and DELHI
erately slashed his victims chest
The knife an ugly weapon, which still
lay by the woman's side, had been thrust
a dozen times into her face, rendering iden-
LITIGATION almost impossible. 1t was the
period of the cattle manning outrages, and
the fiendish nature of the murder led TO the
belief that the cattle manner and the muir
derer were one and the same person. No
clew could be obtained. and the matter re-
NAMED a mystery.
A tramp was being admitted into Lin
coin Gaol a day or two ago, when he tore
a sheet out of a notebook and hastily
crammed it into his mouth. With great
presence of mind, the warder pretended to
take no notice of the incident. with the
result that the man, instead of swallowing
the paper. simply chewed it into a pellet
and elected it,
The werder quietly secured the pellet,
and carefully unfolded it, Then before
him lay references to the Kidderminster
tragedy, and words TO this effect:
Il murdered her. God help me. Murder
will out"
The Worcestershire police believe that
their prisoner is a man with whom the
woman seen shortly before she was
murdered. He is about forty-five years
old. short of stature and typical tramp
in appearance.