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The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
FINE AND IMPRISONMENT
GREENE AND GAYNoR SEN
FENCED AT SAVANNAH, GA.
fenced to Four Years linz
p~risOnment Each.

Savannah, Ga. - Benjamin d
Greene and John Gaynor were fined
$575, 649 as a firm and were given four
years each, by Judge Speer, Friday
morning, following their conviction
Thursday, on the charge of conspirina
to defraud the government.
Greene and Gaynor were members of
a contracting firm which did most Of
the great government harbor work at
Savannah, Ca, beginning in 1884. The
work consisted of deepening the har-
Dor and building a mammoth break
water and two %jetties. Their convic-
ton finds them guilty of conspiring
with Capt. Oberlin M. Carter, the rep
resentative of the government, to de-
fraud the United States out of vast
sums of money.
Carter served five years in the fed
eral prison at Leavenworth, Kas., for
his connection with the conspiracy, be-
ginning his sentence in 1899. The SEN
tence included, besides Imprisonment,
dismissal from the army, the publica-
ton of his disgrace in his native town
annually for five years, and all army
officers were forbidden 20 speak to him
ever.
Greene and Gaynor were indicted In
1902, and after fighting extradition pro-
ceedings in New York fed to Canada.
After lengthy proceedings there. they
were finally extradited and brought to
Savannah for trial.
At the trial it was brought out that
by a manipulation of the specifications
and bids Carter had managed to throw
most of the government work to
Greene and Gaynor at prices over ST.
0O0, 900 in excess of it's Just cost.
The increased sum paid by the gov
eminent was divided between the con-
spirators.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
The vESUvIAN CATASTROPHE
NEW EVIDENCES OF IT'S MAG
NITUDE EVERY DAY.
Hundreds of m Lives
Have Been Lost.

Naples, Italy.-Every day that
passes gives new evidence OF the mag
nitude of the Vesuvian catastrophe.
Thursdays visit of King Victor EN-
manuel to Ottajano revealed new
tragedies. At a certain point his maj
esty was obliged to abandon his motor
car and went forward on horseback
amid constant danger, his horse foun-
dering through four feet of ashes, stum-
bling into holes, blinded by the fall
Of large cinders and the target for fall
ing basaltic masses. In the presence OF
the king. 129 more bodies were extri-
Gated from the ruins, the white and red
sand falling as though they were de-
termined not to relinquish their vic
tins. The dead at Ottajano are said to
number $50.
The latest reports show that 243
houses have been damaged at Portici,
1875 at San Giovanni and Teduccio, 432
at Resina and 1000 at Tore del Greco.
1t is impossible to determine the exact
number of buildings demolished at Tore
A%nnunziata. 1t is estimated that about
5000 houses in all have been partly or
entirely destroyed. In the villages N
the Ottajano side of the mountain all
the houses are damaged. At Nola des-
olation reigns, the place having been
almost entirely abandoned.
Showers of ashes and sand are fall
ing on Capri, 10 miles from Vesuvius,
where many wealthy foreigners own
villas. Everybody is fleeing in terror,
and the beautiful country homes and
luxurious city hotels are practically
deserted.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
A.BlG BUNCH OF ToRNADoEs
Seven Were Observed East and
North of Great Bend, Kas., in One
Day, Doing Much Damage.

Topeka, Kas.-Not less than seven
en- tornadoes- were seen east and north
of Great Bend, Barton county, Thurs
day afternoon. The school house in
district No. 2, vacant at the time, was
demolished and a threshing outfit de-
stroyed. No other damage reports have
come in. Some rain and hail fell.
Three years ago a number of tornadoes
occurred in the same neighborhood, do
ing much damage to property.
Twister at Stafford, kas.
Wichita, Kas.-A terrible tornado
struck at Stafford, Kas., at five o'clock
Thursday afternoon, resulting in in
jury to several persons and demolishing
several houses. The storm came from
the southwest, passed over the business
part of the town without damage, first
striking two blocks east OF Main street.
Here the home of Fred Tanner and the
parsonage of the.C Congregational church
were demolished. The Quaker church
was blown down, the debris falling up
on the home of Mrs. Ella Granger,
which was also destroyed. Mrs. Gran
ger was injured, but not seriously.
Another tornado is reported at Bush
ton, so miles north of Stafford.
Fatal at Briggs, Tex.
Bertram, Textile little town
of Briggs, about Is miles north of here,
was swept by a tornado about five
o'clock Thursday afternoon and almost
entirely destroyed. Two persons are re-
ported killed and 80 injured, six IA
tally.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
TOOK LONG DROP
Five res Into East River From
Williamsburg Bridge.

New York.-Nathan Isaacs. living
at sc Rivington street, this city,
Wednesday jumped from the middle of
the center span Of the new Williams
burg bridge into the East river, 135
feet, and was quickly taken out of the
water by the crew Of a ferryboat.
His clothing was torn to ribbons, his
shoes were torn from his feet, and he
was terribly bruised by the impact Of
his body upon the water. He was I'M
conscious when rescued, but soon re-
vived, and may O
Isaacs made the leap at an hour when
the morning rush Of Brooklyn people
to their stores and offices in Manhat-
tan was at its height, and scores OF
persons witnessed his drop into the
river
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
RUMoR

The New York federation of church
es, which has been in existence for ten
years, is out of debt for the first time
in it's history. 1t is spending more
than SIG, 900 a year in it's work.
Indianapolis will have the interna-
tional meeting of Young Meas Chris
tian association societies, which brings
together between 800 and 1000 workers
from the United States, Canada and
Mexico, next May.
Native Protestant Christians in In
dia have formed a national home mis-
sionary society to evangelize their W
country. The society will be admins
tered wholly by Indian natives, in har-
mony with existing Christian churches
in that land.
The Congregationalists are raising
now about $780, 600 a year for church
extension, but not satisfied with that
are starting a movement to insure
$4,000 being raised. There are 500
congregations of their denomination in
This country.
There are more than 1000, 900 negro
Baptists in this country, with so insti-
tutions of learning and As denomina-
tional papers. They have a national
organization, with boards for missions,
home and foreign, education, publica-
ton and the young peoples societies.
The Armenian church in Fresno,
CAL, under the lead of the Rev. H. K.
Lantikian, on a recent Sunday made a
free-will offering of the people for the
building fund. The amount contribut-
ed by 81 members of the congregation
was 5 1,340, which they expect to raise
to 81, 900.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
impending Crisis i'm servia.

London.-Belgrade (Servia) tele-
grams give official denial to the state
ment that King Peter intends to alb.
dictate. The denial, however, does not
counteract the general belief that a
serious Servian crisis is brewing.
April rs is named as the day On which
the king will be dethroned and ex-
PEELED, unless he abdicates before
hand. A strong party is reported to
have been formed against King Peter,
in favor of his cousin, Prince ARISEN
Karageorgevitch, who is now an off,
Ger in the Russian army.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20

Perhaps the most remarkable fea-
ture of commercial progress in the
United States is the wealth which its
copper mines are yielding. Last year
the output of American copper mines
was nearly one billion pounds. This
was worth $150,000, 900. The output
of the copper mines of the country
alone, to say nothing of the gold and
silver mines, was nearly four times
as great as the dividends of the Stand
ard Oil Co., which controls 70 per
cent. of the oil industry of the United
States. Just 81 copper mines paid in
actual profits to stockholders the huge
sum of $50, 900, 900.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
GEN. CASTRO STEPS ASIDE
The President Of Venexuela Gives Up
the .Reins, Temporarily, to
Vfce-Prcsident Gomez. h.

New York.-President Cipriano
Castro has retired temporarily from the
presidency of Venezuela. Gen. Juan
Vicente Gomez, first vice-president of
the republic, is the present executive
head. This information was contained
in an official cable dispatch received
from Caracas by Carlos Figueredo.
Venezuelan consul general in this city.
The official announcement gives as
Castro's reason for resigning that "he
desires to retire to restful private life
for some time, owing to the strenuous
work his position exacts and which he
has so successfully carried on for sew
eral wears. ,
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20

Our idle rich, who have taken up
the fad of s%corching autos to furnish
a novelty in lives otherwise doomed
to ennui, have recently made enough
excitement for themselves to satisfy
the most exacting. What with a jail
sentence in France, the experience OF
a scion Of the noted house of Shep-
pard, and the attacks of ar italian
mob on w. X. Vanderbilt, jr.,it would
seem that Europe is a good place to
be summed by speeding autolsts.
Here the laws are more elastic, and
fye-dollar fines are only an incident
hardly worth noting in the speeder's
diary.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
Franchise Restored.

When little Johnnie T. Lewis OF
Webster county stole a watermelon In
the summer of 1897 he stumped his toes
against the constitution of the State
of Mississippi, and the house of repre-
sentatives spent half an hour trying
to set things right for Johnnie. Under
section 253 of the constitution, any per-
son convicted of a m~isdemeanor involv-
ing moral turpitude can not vote, The
watermelon incident barred Lewis from
the privilege of voting, and his only
hope of being permitted to vote was an
appeal to the legislature. The appeal
was granted, the house finding that
Johnnie did not actually steal the melon,
but took it in a spirit of mischief, al
though the bill recites that Johnnie was
convicted.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
A WOMAN DOCTOR
Was Quick t. See That Coffee Poison
Was Doing the Mischief.

A lady tells of a bad case of coffee
poisoning and tells it in a way so sim
pie and straightforward that literary
skill could not improve it.
Il had neuralgia headaches for
IL years. she says, "and have suffered
untold agony. When / first began to
have them 1 weighed 140 pounds, but
they brought me down to ITO. 1
went to many doctors and they gave
me only temporary relief. So / suf-
fered on, till one day in 1904, a woman
doctor told me to drink Postum Food
Coffee. She said l looked like I was
coffee poisoned.
$50 began to drink Postum and
1 gained Is pounds in the first few
weeks and am still gaining, but not
30 fast as at first. My headache began
to leave me after / had used Postum
about two ~weeks-long enough ex-
pect to get the coffee poison out Of my
system.
Nov that a few months have
passed since I began to use Postum
Food Coffee, l can gladly say that !
never know what a neuralgia headache
is like any more, and it was moth
ing but Postum that cured me. Be-
fore I used Postum l never went out
alone; would get bewildered and
would not know which way to turn.
Now / go alone and my head is aa
clear as 2 bell. BY brain and nerves
are stronger than they have been for
years." Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book, "The Road to Wellville." In
pkgs.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
TYPHOID AT P%ITTSBURG
1t is Apparently Decreasing, But II
Spreading to Surrounding
Towns On the Ohio.

Pittsburg, Pat seems that Pitts
burg's epidemic of typhoid fever,
while apparently decreasing in the
daily number of cases reported, ap-
pears to be spreading to the surround
ing municipalities. Twenty-one cases
were reported Friday. Towns along
the Ohio river below Pittsburg are
beginning to report typhoid fever
cases in alarming numbers and in
structions have been issued by the
various local boards of health in
these places to use nc water out OF
the Ohio river for drinking purposes
unless it has been boiled.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
MEN AND MATRIMoNY.

When a man strikes bad luck he in
dulges in the most glowing of good
resolutions.
The engaged girl takes delight in
telling how long she will be away on
her bridal tour.
Men are ~extravagant to the verge
of recklessness for at least three
months after the marriage ceremony.
Conspicuous among the adornments
of the bridal feast in Brittany is an
artistic and elaborate butter structure,
as fanciful and elegant as the most
beautiful bridal cake, and into this
structure the guests stick split sticks
bearing coins Of gold or silver.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
Emperor William receives e6OO,o 900

Emperor William receives 100000
a year-the biggest allowance made to
n constitutional monarch. King Ed
ward receives 9470,000 a year, al
though a separate grant of 100000 is
made to the Prince of Wales, n OF
10000 to the Princess of Wales and
another of e1,S00 per annum to each
of the kings three daughters. The
king of Austria Hungary figures high
on the list of handsomely paid rulers,
receiving &382,202 a year.. King Al
fonso, boy though he is, disposes OF
a33S,O 900 annually, and even Belgium
spares s132,0O a year for the glory
OF being a monarchy.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
TO TESTIFY IN COLL CASE
Frank G.. BigeIow To &C to Milwau-
kee to Testify on Behalf OF
His Assistant Cashier.

Leavenworth, Kas.-Convict Frank
G. Bigelow, ex-president of the Mil
waukee First national bank, who is
serving a ten years term in the federal
prison, will leave here Saturday after
noon for Milwaukee in charge of War
den R. w. McClaughrey, to testify on
behalf Of Henry Coll, the assistant
cashier, who is TO go on trial there
Monday. Bigelow does not like to go,
but now that he has been ~subpoenaed
he will give all the testimony he is
called ON for.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
A FALLING BRAKE BEAN
Wreck of a Frisco Train at LOrena,
kas.-Severnl Injured-Relief De-
Iayed BY a Collision.

Wichita, Kas.-The st. Louis &
San Francisco passenger train No. 3W,
the st. Louis and Oklahoma limited,
running 25 miles an hour, was derailed
by a falling brake beam at Lorena,
Kas., Wednesday afternoon. and several
persons are reported injured, but none
seriously. The engine remained on the
rails, two coaches being overturned. A
wrecking train and a special made up
here to go to the relief of the wrecked
train were in a rear-end collision before
leaving the Wichita yards, so that re-
lief was delayed for several hours.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
HOUSE.

Chairman StennlS Called up q DIii HAN
| ing the State tax for 1906 and 1907 SIX
| mills on the dollar and also authorizing
| that the governor be authorized to bor-
| row 100000 at 6 per cent. during the
year 1907, if necessary to the opera.
ton of the State government. Mr.
| George opposed the borrowing feature
| and said that the tax ought to be raised
| half a mill instead. His amendment to
| that effect was defeated. The bill was
then passed.
Mr.. Hicks reported a senate bill pen
alizing any one who purchased liquor
from an express office and failed to
| drink it within one hundred yards of the
place. Some witty remarks were made
about the bill, but the house passed it
by a vote of 60 to 26.
The motion to reconsider the vote on
the bill creating the department of agri-
| culture was called up, but the house
| declined to reconsider by a vote of 64 to
30.
The chapter on the University of Mis-
| sissippi was adopted with the senate
amendments. The interesting new feat
ures of this chapter are the sections Tor
a new board of trustees and one pro-
viding that the university may secure
for anatomical purposes bodies OF un
claimed persons who die at State hos
pitfalls.
The final act in the adjustment OF the
negro normal school at Holly Springs
was enacted when Chairman Eddins OF
the education committee offered a con-
current resolution striking all reference
to the defunct school from the new
code.
The following bills were passed:
Authorizing the East Mississippi In
zane Hospital to sell and purchase GER
tain lands.
Authorizing the chancery courts in the
delta to adjudicate cases arising in tax
ing property for levee purposes and pro-
viding for a jury to assess damages.
Requiring all persons or associations
doing an express business to incorpor-
ate.
Permitting cities over 10000 inhabi-
tants to issue bonds to an amount not
over is per cent. of the taxable prop
erty.
Granting a right Of way to the rail
roads over the State farms in Sunfl0wer
county in consideration. of the erection
Of a depot there.
Providing that all ex-Confederate sol
/ diers having an income of 5000 annual
/ ", or owning $1,000 taxable property.
shall not be exempt from the usual priv
ilege tax.
Authorizing the governor to borrow
5000. 900 in case of yellow fever any.
! where within the State in order to prop
erly protect the State.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20

Salvatore VinciaI0, a gallant Ro-
man, wooed and won Paolina di Ponta,
q beautiful Roman girl, after the most
ardent, strenuous and desperate court
ship on record. For love OF her ne at
tackled her with a razor, blew up ner
home with dynamite stabbed her with
6 stiletto, and then shot off two OF ner
fingers. incidentally he spent three
years and three months in prison e.
a result of his loving attentions. Sucn
sacrifice, ccnstancy and devotion az
last conquered the heart of the beau
tiful Italian girl and recently she maj.
ried him, in Rome.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
Bio Land Deal.

Fred Herrick of Lac du Flambeau,
Wis.,, purchased of Foley & Larson $4,000
acres of timber land in Scott and Rankin
counties, paying the sum of 100000
therefor.
Mr.. Herrick is one of the men behind
the Pearl river railroad, and it is as
serted that it is his intention to run the
new railroad from Jackson to Scott and
Rankin counties and passing through
three or four other counties up to Col
umbus, in Lowndes county. The road,
as will be seen by the latest map OF
the railroad commissioners, touched a
territory that has been without ship
ping facilities and will be a great factor
in the further development of the State.
It is rumored that the Illinois Central
is in some way interested in the con-
struction of the new road. The new road
will no doubt be a valuable tributary to
the Illinois Central.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
Legislative Session Extended.

Gov. Vardaman issued a proclamation
extending the present session OF the
legislature until Saturday, April Fl, one
week from the original date set for final
adjournment.
Some question has arisen among the
LAWYERS as to the governors right to
extend, but at least one judge of the
Supreme Court has given an opinion that
the governor had the authority to 90 SO,
citing several presidents.
The only other alternative would nave
been to call an extra session, but this
would have involved so much heavier eX-
pense to the State that the governor
finally decided, after consultation with
LAWYERS, on an extension.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
Paving Contracts Let.

The contract for paving the streets
of Hattiesburg was let to the Southern
Construction Company of Chattanooga
for the uptown business streets, while
the residence street will be paved with
Warren's bitulithic, for which the con-
tract went to the Southern Bitulithic
Company of Nashville. The amount OF
these contracts is about 100000, nj
other contracts for curbing, guttering,
sewers and water extensions bring the
total up to 100000. All the paving
ia to be done under a ten-year guaran-
tee. and the work is to be finished in six
months.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
WITH THE DEATH PENALTY
Harrison Clarke, he Negro Who
Shot and Killed Conductor FURY
in Omaha, Convicted.

Omaha, Neb.-The jury that tried
the case against Harrison Clarke, col
ored, returned a verdict of murder in
the first degree with the death penalty.
Clarke, with two colored companions,
on the night of March Z, attempted to
hold up a street car, Of which Edward
FURY was conductor. FURY resisted
and was shot. On March Is, the day
on which FURY died, the sheriff, by re-
moving the prisoners from the city, de-
feated the plans Of a mob to lynch the
colOred men,
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20

The only really perfect diamonds
which are to be found on this globe
are those which fall from the sky in
meteorites; all diamonds which are
mined in the diamond fields of the
world are only fragments of gems.
That is a startling statement, but a
still more startling one is that all the
diamonds to be found on our planet
have fallen on our earth from the skies
and have not, as most of us thought,
been produced here like coal and other
mineral products.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN
Nitro-Glycerine Mt a Fast
Train On the Frisco Railway
In Kansas.

Columbus, Kas.-What was a SEEM
ingly diabolical attempt was made to
wreck the Meteor, the Frisco's fast
southwestern train, here Tuesday night
with nitroglycerin. The powerful ex-
plosive was thrown at the train from
a high embankment as it passed at
great speed.
The explosion tore up the rails, but
the train passed safely. No clew to
the perpetrators has been discovered,
and no reason has been assigned for
the attempt at the trains destruction.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20

In his 20 years at the bar, hincoln
had NO less than 100 S before the
highest court of Illinois, a record un-
surpassed by his contemporaries; he
appeared before the United States cir
cult court and district courts with
great frequency; he was the most In
defatigable atten dant on the Eighth
circuit, and tried more cases than any
other member of that bar; he was at
torney for the Illinois Central railroad;
he was also counsel for the Rock Is
land railroad and other corporations
and individuals with important legal
interests at stake.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20

When the steamship Philadelphia
arrived at Boston, the other day, she
brought among the other things in her
cargo a consignment of elephant tusks,
or teeth, as they are called in the
ships manifest. There are about 300
tusks in the consignment, and in
weight they run from about rs pounds
to the weight of an ordinary man.
Few of them are less than a yard in
length, and one is fully eight feet long,
having evidently been the property at
some time of an elephant that would
rival the famed Jumbo in size.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20

Cronies from infancy, the Finley
twins have been, and although to-day
beyond the allotted span of life, being
more than four score years of age,
they are as inseparable as they were
when they were playing with the pa
pooses in Southwestern Michigan.
They are William and Archibald Fin
ley, of Schoolcraft, Mich. and they
we're 81 years old November last.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
Meridian Cyclone Funds.

The relief committee appointed incl
dent to the cyclone at Meridian on
March 2 had a meeting and practically
concluded it's labors. The total amount
received was something lover $4,000,
and most of the cases Of urgent need
have been met. It was determined to
appropriate what was left OF the una 70
the rebuilding of the churches destroyed
by the storm, pro rating it according TO
the value of the property. destroyed.
Two white churches and three coiored
churches were swept away.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20
Bonus for Masonic Home.

A committee has been appointed by
the Masons of Meridian to solicit sub
scriptions to the fund to secure the ioca-
ton of the projected Masonic Widows
and Orphans Home. The Masonic ocd-
les of the city have themselves contrib
uted $4,000 to this purpose, n TINS
committee is appointed to get additional
subscriptions to constitute a bonus that
will be offered for the location OF the
home in Meridian.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20

Edward Crossman, of Ely, Mimi,
owns n of the oldest teams in
America. He has succeeded in the I'M
usual task of breaking a pair of moose
to drive in harness. In his sleigh Mr..
Crossman spins about as rapidly be-
hind these animals as if drawn by q
prancing span of horses.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-20

Scotland and Wales are in the mar
ket for American copper and wire in
huge quantities. Germany also will
greatly increase her purchases. This
year will see all previous records
eclipsed in the demand for copper, GER
tainly by millions of tons.