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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-17
.GUNNERY Of THE
BATTLE SHIP
MISSOURI
Officers and Men Hope to Secure
the TrOphy--Remarkable Work
With Big Guns.
specia; 10 Tine journal.


Washington D. C., May 16.-High
hopes are entertained by the officers
and men of the battleship Missouri
that the trophy for gunnery will this
year pass to that vessel as the record
of the ship is excellent.
Without a single miss, eighteen
shots were fired from the Pinch guns
of the forward turret and seventeen
from the guns of the same calibre in
the aft turrst The target was 81
feet long and II inches high and the
range was 100 yards. The ship was
steaming 10 knots.
To illustrate the accuracy of the
gunners OF the Missouri it was stated
that from the aft tuTret ten shots
were fired in less than minutes, each
shot hitting the target. Of the Sc
men composing the crew Of the aft tur-
ret their average age is 81 years and
they represent twenty-on of the states
of the union. The MissOuri's torpedo
firing record is also very good.
In the recent examinations held
throughout the country for candidates
for admission to the Naval Academy
eightytsix passed and ninety two failed
on account Of mental examination. On
On June 10 an examination will be
held at the Naval Academy when the
department hopes that larger num-
Der will pass, there being over 800 va
cancfes to be filled.
The Navy Department has decided
to strike the supply ship Culgoa from
the navy list and to sell her. 1t has
been found that the vessel does not
warrant the large expenditure neces-
sary to repair her and make her fit
for service.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-17
NOTICE..

Notice is hereby given that the I'm,
dersigned owners of the following yes
sells will not be responsible for any
debts contracted in the name of said
vessels unless first authorized by 4
written order signed by US. The above
notice refers to the following vessels:
Schooner Althea Franklin, Caldwell H.
Colt, Mary L. Harry, Amy WixOn, En-
ma Jane, Osceola, AriOla, Francis &
Margery, Silas Stearns, Algoma, Hal
cyon, William H. Warren, Clara P.
Sewell, Isabelle.
WARREN FISH COMPANY.
Pensacola, May 18th, 1906.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-17
Born That Way.

A member of the house from New
England tells Of an occasion when
he overheard an amusing colloquy
between the late Thomas B. Reed
and a darby barber.
The "tonsorial artist" was in
clined to be laxative, but to all his
efforts at conversation the big man
from Maine returned only a mono
syllable or a grunt.
Finally the barber patted the
Uranium of the speaker, wherein re-
posed one or two stray locks, saying:
ode hairs gittin' pretty thin, sab
Been that way long?"
Il was born that way" dryly re-
turned Reed.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-17
Cream Sandwich.

Quarter of a pint of good cream,
three teaspoonfuls of salmon or
shrimp paste, half a teaspoonful of
chopped parsley, salt and pepper,
thin slices Of brown bread. Whisk
the cream until it is quite stiff. Stir
the fish paste in lightly, add the
parsley and season the whole well.
Spread this mixture on the slices of
1nbuttered bread, putting two slices
together.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-17
10 Clean Shndaa.

Use block Of the best quality of
magnesia and rub it long and well
into each threads of the shades after
having taken them down and laid
them on a table. Treat both sides
thus, roll up carefully and lay away
for two days before brushing out the
powder.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-17
SAILING LIST OF THE
GULF TRANSIT CO.

Following is a list of steamers sail
ing from Pensacola, consigned to the
Gulf Transit Company:
For Nverpool-Ida, in port; Gracia
May II; E. c. Saltmarsh, June z; Wv
ina, July.
For Runcorn-Teodoro de Larrina
ga, May Is.
For nchester-TeOdoro de Lar
rinaga, May Is.
For Venice-A steamer. May.
For Spezzia-A steamer, May.
For Genoa-A steamer, May-June.
For Barcelona-A steamer, May
June.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-17
Fish Chowder.

At the popular bathing resort of the
East Hill Boating and Bathing Club,
Tuesdays and Fridays at to p. m,
hot coffee, lunch and cold dishes daily
q NJ. A. SCHOTZ, Mgr
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-17
SIS. purely VEGETABLE

The fact that S. s. S. purely vegetable preparation containing
absolute
Of the
condition of
Medicines
and
that the
the disease has been left
danged and weakened condition 0n0
the health permanently S
distinction Of NOT PURELY
medicine the market does ont
mineral property some form Being made VEGETABLE f..
OntiTely herbs s
harmless the and while disease adds
S s.
The King blood purifiers S all
tSuics. NE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA Ga
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RESTORED
BY YOUR RITTERS

is the gist of the thousands of testi-
monials received from grateful peo-
pie With such proof to back it there
is no logical reason why any man or
woman should remain sickly. Get a
bottle Of
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-17

ALL DE- ALERs
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
FAMILY ALMOST WIPED OUT
Crime Supposed to Have Been Com
mitted by Negroes.

Charlotte, N. C.-The family of Isaac
Lyerly, was practically exterminated
at midnight last night. Isaac Lyerly
and his wife, John Lyerly, a son aged
10, and Alice Lyerly, a daughter aged
5, we're murdered with an AK as they
slept.
Mary and Addie Lyerly, aged IA and
9, respectively, were sleeping on the
second floor of the home and escaped
the wholesale slaughter.
Suspected of being guilty of the
crime, five negro tenants on the Lyerly
farm have been jailed.
The Lyerly family retired at the
usual hour last night. Shortl, after
midnight, Mary, the eldest girl, de-
tected smoke in her room on the upper
floor, and calling her sister Addie to
accompany her, she descended the stairs
for the purpose of ascertaining the
trouble.
The scene which met their gaze when
they entered the room of their parents
is indescrible. On one bed lay the
father and brother, both cold in death,
their foreheads having been crushed by
a heavy blow from an ak. In another
part of the same room lay the lifeless
form of the mother, her skull likewise
crushed with the same heavy weapon.
On the bed with the mother lay Alice,
the baby, her brains oozing out from a
deathly wound in the forehead.
To add to the horror of the scene the
bed on which Mrs. Lyerly and the child
lay was in a blaze, the bed having been
saturated with oil and fired by the muir
derers in an effort to burn the house in
order to hide their crime. Both bodies
were badly burned before the flames
could be extinguished by the w girls,
who fought bravely to save the lifeless
remains of their loved mes.
Suspicion Immediately fastened upon
the tenants on the farm, who had
threatened Lyerly because he had har-
vested his wheat crop after it had been
neglected by them.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
MOTHER MURDERED
WITH BABEIN ARMS-TRAGEDY
AT BONNEVILLE, MISS.
Jim Graham Shoots Down Mrs. Love-
less-Claimed She Got Him in
Trouble With His Wife.

Bonneville, Miss.-Jim Graham shot
and killed Mrs. Sam Loveless at the
home of her father, Joe Barnett, his
near neighbour; went Immediately to his
own home and attempted suicide with
laudanum, and after being revived by
physicians was brought here and sent
on to Corinth to escape the vengeance
of a mob that was quickly forming to
lynch him for his terrible crime.
Graham went to Barnett's and asked
permission to use the telephone. This
being granted him by Mrs. Barnett,
Graham tried to call the exchange, and
failing, hung up the receiver, saying:
II can't get anyone"
Mrs. LOveless was seated on the
porch nursing her young baby, her
elder child playing about her knees.
AS he passed out of the house Graham
spied her, and walking to where she sat,
drew his pistol and shot her through
the heart, exclaiming: "You have been
telling lies on me, d-n you, and got me
in trouble with my wife; I'll nix you SO
you won't lie on anyone else"
The first shot killed the oma in
stantly, and as she fell and rolled to her
side, gasping in death, Graham fired
into her body again.
Miss Barnett, who is about grown,
came out of the house at the sound OF
the first shot, and started towards Ora
ham, who turned on her and fired. the
bullet going wide of it's mark She ran
from him, and the household being now
aroused and rushing to the scene, he
fed to his own home. AS soon as he
arrived he swallowed the contents of a
bottle of laudanum, but there was not
enough of the drug to kill him. Physi-
clans were Immediately summoned from
Bonneville, and in a very short while
they had restored him to normal con-
ditiOnS
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
200 RESCUED FROM SINKING BOAT.


st. Louis-No lives we're lost in the
wreck of the steamer Quincy of the
Diamond 10 line, which struck a snag
in the Mississippi river ear Winona,
MIMI, at 1920 o'clock at night, and
sank in IS feet of water. The passen-
gers, numbering more than 200, were
taken off in steam launches and row.
boats, and were cared for at Winona,
La Crosse, Wis, and st. Paul.
The steamer, with all her lights
burning, was blowing through the
water a hundred yards from the shore.
The decks were filed with passengers,
who were enjoying the breezes. Very
few had retired.
Suddenly there was a shock, and the
boat trembled and shivered from end
to end, and came to a stop. The pas
sengers did not know what had hap
pened, but the violence of the shock
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20

showed them that damage had been
done, and for a time there was con-
siderable excitement. Capt. Killeen and
the ether officers, keeping perfectly
cool, went among the passengers, as
surfing them that there was no hanger
and begging them to be calm.
Life p%reservers were placed in the
hands of all the women, and as the
boat headed toward the shore the pas
sengers hurried to the upper decks.
Within a few feet of the shore the
boat sunk, but the water on the shore
side was so shallow hat the boiler
deck on that side remained above the
water. The boat listed, and the oppo-
site of the boiler deck sank under the
water.
Launches were sent from Wfnona,
and by 6 o'clock every passenger was
removed. No lives were lost.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20

Many birds are provided with nat
ural spectacles, a transparent mem-
brane called the third eyelid. This
third eyelid lies folded in the inner
corner Of the eye. Two muscles work
it, spreading it over the cornea, or
folding it up again much more clever
ly than a man can put on or take off
his spectacles. But for this third eye
lid the eagle could not look at the sun.
The specialized bear belongs to Chile.
Its Latin name is Ursus ornatus. It is
black, and around it's eyes pale rings
are drawn which have exactly the ap-
pearance of a pair of goggles.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
ASSASSIN KILLS AN ADMIRAL.
Commander of Black Sea Fleet Shot
Down in His Garden.

Sebastopol-Vice-Admiral Chounkin,
commander of the Black sea fleet, who
was shot, supposedly by a sailor of
the b%attleship Otchakoff, died without
having regained consciousness.
Chounkin was shot in The left lung
by an assassin, who hid in the bushes
and fired upon him as he Vas walking
in the garden of his villa.
The assassin leaped back in the
shrubbery after firing the shot and es-
capped. Several persons witnessed the
attempted assassination, but could not
prevent him getting away.
Vict-Admiral ChoInkin had been
blamed for his severity, and it was
to his treatment of The crews of the
ships under his command that the
mutiny on board the battleship Kniaz
Potemkin, in June and July last year,
was attributed. The admiral dis
played considerable activity in at
tempting to capture the mutineers at
that time, and in suppressing the sail
ors' mutiny at Sebastopol in Novem-
Der last.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS,
Investing in Mississippi Dirt.

A party of Illinois homeseekers and
capitalists have just made an extensive
trip through the Mississippi delta and
the southwestern counties of the State.
It is understood that members OF the
party made quite a number OF realty
deals during their tour.
Parties of homeseekers and capital
lists have become so common in the
State during the past year that they
attract very little attention. Especially
in the delta counties are heavy invest
ments being made in timber and farm
ing lands, and within the next year
many thousands of acres OF wild tim
bered tracts will be placed in shape for
cultivation. In the piney woods coun-
ties the purchases of timber tracts are
less frequent than formerly, owing to
the disinclination to sell during the era
Of HIGH nricaS.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
CORNER SENDS PORK UP.
Advanced Three Dollars Per Barrel
Since June I, and May Go
to Twenty-Five.

CHARACTERISTIC The fight which
the public and the government is max
ing On hog products, Swift & Co. have
cornered July pork in the provision pit
on the board of trade. The prices have
advanced So a barrel since June 1,
and is now selling at $19 a barrel.
The advance in two days was almost
$3.50 a barrel. The trade figures the
short interests at 5000 to 0 900 bar
rels, all owned by Swift. Stocks here
are $4,000 barrels of regular pork, and
none is being made.
The run of hogs has been light for
four months. The price is the high
est in four years, and it is believed
that $25 a barrel may be seen before
the month closes.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
Government Will
FIGHT YELLOW fever
TAKING CHARGE OF STATE QUAR-.
ANTlNE STATIONS IN THE
SOUTH.
South Carolina Has Already Turned
Stations Over to Government, and
Louisiana Is Following After-The
States to Cede Jurisdiction Before
Compensation 10 Paid.

Neutrality-suspicious. the act passed
by the last session Of congress, the
secretary Of the treasury, through the
public health and marine hospital
service, is negotiating for the transfer
Of quarantine stations ami sites to the
federal government by the states OF
he Atlantic and gulf coasts.
The South Carolina legislature has
already turned over sits stations to
the governmental least, 1t has au-
thorized the state board Of health to
make the transfer.
The legislature Of Louisiana has
passed a joint resolution authorizing
the governor to make the necessary
arrangements with the secretary OF
the treasury for the sale or lease OF
the quarantine station at the mouth
Of the Mississippi river, the most i'm
portant in the service, and which pro-
tects the Mississippi valley. This is
a state plant.
Texas has two quarantine stations,
at Galveston and Port Arthur, ana it
is believed these will be relinquished
to the government o
The government now owns all OF
the gulf stations except those OF
Texas, Louisiana and in Mobile bay.
The other stations are New Orleans.
Ship Island and P~ascagoula, the two
latter in Mississippi; Pensacola, Apa-
lachicola, Carrabelle, Tampa Bay,
Boca Granie and Key West.
The secretary of the treasury is au-
thorized to pay a reasonable compen-
sation for the sites and plants owned
by the states, if, in his opinion, their
purchase is necessary to the United
States for quarantine purposes, and
the quarantine stations established by
authority of this law are to be used
to prevent the introduction of all
quarantine diseases.
Jurisdiction must be coded by the
state, however, before any compensa-
ton is paid. A half-million dollars
was appropriated for the purchase OF
the stations.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
Suit for Damages.

Suit has been brought at Jackson by
Hannah Jefferson against the Illinois
Central Railroad Company for damages
in tho sum of $1,000. The plaintiffs
declaration AYERS that she was a pas
senger for Terry, the train passing that
station about 2 am, but that owing to
the short stop she was not able to en-
bark, but was put off two miles below
the station and had to walk back to
the town, over a lonely road.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
INDICATED
SUPREME COURT OF FRANCE AN
NoUNcES DECISION.
Entitled to Restoration of Rank as
Though He Had Never
Been Accused.

Paris-The supreme court has an
nounced it's decision annuling the con
domination of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus
without a retrial. The effect of the
decision is a complete v~indication OF
Dreyfus, emitting him to restoration
to his rank in the army as though he
had never been accused.
The court-martial Of Dreyfus began
September 10, 1894. He was found
guilty December % of the anne year.
He was degraded on January 5, 1895,
and under a law passed for the pur-
pose, he was deported to Devils
island, off the coast of Guiana. There
he was kept until brought back to
undergo a new trial ordered by the
court of cessation.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
, kilograms Say That

Denver making great preparations
to receive Elks.
Gotham ice trust will raise prices,
claiming shortage.
Total bank clearings Of country past
week, S2,S44, 129, 002.
Ohio laundry trust indicted at Gin
cinnati.
Mexican dollars are quoted at sou
cents.
Plan to celebrate st. Louis centen-
NAL as city in 1909.
Mississippi river water will be used
to christen Duke of Manchester.
Roosevelt family go on picnic; pres
ident rows skiff ten miles.
Harry Thaw's mother must provide
funds for his defense.
Interstate commerce commission
starts grain rate probe.
Northern Mexico has floods of al
most unparalleled severity.
Nearly 20 militiamen overcome b.
heat on march at Springfield, III.
Bradstreet says volume of future or
ders unusually large for season.
Judge Reinhart, vice-president OF
Indiana state university, dead.
Crude petroleum. found d%isinfectant
in India's plague.
T. M. Campbell broken down in
campaign for governor Of Texas.
Chicago brokers propose giving
Equitable trust new start.
Rev. DR.. Charles Gross. ~, died at
Fort Wayne, Ind.
|. Indian territory Indians will vote
for delegates to. constitutional conven-
ton.
Registration for Shoshone lands be-
gins July 16.
Heavy rains wash out railroad
tracks near Shawnee, Okla.
Cullom and Yates confer with lieu
tenants in Chicago.
Former Mayor Bidaman, Of Terre
Haute, fined l cent for contempt.
At Mulhall. Okla. mule kicked Karl
Norris, II, of st. Louis. to death.
Lincoln republicans and democrats
fuse in Pennsylvania.
United States Senator Wetmore,
Rhode Island, wants reelection.
Henry Henderson, Montgomery.
Ala, killed wife and her defender.
Men who killed wdfe-beater at
Evansville, Ind, to be prosecuted.
Father Sherman says co-education
Is nothing short of CHASTITY"
j., M. Briggs, Guaymas, Mexico, will
spend $4,000, 900 to cure self Of leprosy.
The st. Louis school board scores
book combine.
Forsythe. Mo-, will get q Southern
Presbyterian college.
Rev. R. ]. Pry, Lawton, Okla. killed
his brother-in-law. Deb Stephens.
Harry Thaw, slayer OF Sanford
White, insists that ne Is sane.
Brazil has reduced its duty on
American -four.
England investigates jam factories;
bad as United States packing houses.
Ten roads will construct terminal
facilities at Kansas City.
At San Antonio. Tex, a live wire
killed Miss Saledad Valdez.
]. 8. Studebaker heirs, L~ogansport
Ind. Dunkards. settle out OF court.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20

The Garden of the Gods is a remark.
able freak of nature, partaking some
what more Of the grand and imposing.
1t is a secluded spot, hemmed in by
great rocks stood up on edge and on
end. They are some of the more
marked of the numerous evidences on
every hand Of a grand upheaval some
time in the past. Imagine tremendous
fiat rocks, large enough to cover a
quarter of an acre, standing up on
edge, $50 feet high, and you will have
some idea Of what forms the chief
wonder of this garden.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
C. O. d. Fight Renewed.

In the amended bill filed with Judge
Niles of the Federal court, BY tho Har-
vest King Distilling Company, renew
ing the fight for a mandatory %injunc-
ton to compel the American Express
Company to accept and deliver G. o.
d. liquor shipments, the court is also
asked to pass on the validity OF that
clause of the Mississippi privilege tax
law imposing a privilege tax Of $1,000
on each local express Office handling
G. o. d. liquor shipments. This is
aimed at the main defense of the com
non carrier, shipments of liquor hav-
ing been refused chiefly on the ground
that the express company is so heavily
penalized by the State that it cannot
afford to deliver c. o. D. liquor in this
State.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
Pardoned by the Governor.

The governor issued apardon to Will
Rutland, a young man, and a life term
convict, sent up from Lincoln county in
1899 for murder. Rutland was still in
his. teens when he killed another young
mar of about his own age, and the cir
cumstances were such that he was in
dicted. found guilty, and received the
life sentence. He is just past q, and
the prison officials report him to have
been one of the most exemplary and
willing men of the prison population.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
Seven YOUNG Girls Drowned.

Cedar Rapids, Ia.-Eight children
at a picnic on the river. bank only
three blocks from home went wad-
ing. The smallest one slipped into
a deep hole in the river, and in try
ing to rescue her six others were
drowned. The Dead: Lucille Sweed-
ing, aged Z; Hazel Sweeding, aged
IA; Gladys Sweeding, aged 10; Josie
Sweeding, aged ~; Ruth Coyle, aged
II, Sioux City; Cora Coyle, aged 9,
Sioux City; Clara Usher, aged 16.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20

Real tact II the twin sister of unset.
fishness. The tactful girl makes every
one more comfortable. She has no
angles and no grudges. She remem-
bers and repeats pleasant things in
stead of ~disagreeable ones. Such a
girl recently met one OF two friends
who had quarreled. Ignoring the fact,
she repeated to her a very pleasant
compliment that the other friend had
paid her some time before the quarrel
took place. 1t revived the old feeling
of liking, and peace was soon made.
Sympathy, intelligence, u~nselfishness.
all meet in tact.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20

1t was a little, newly arrived sister
that nurse held in her arms. and sew
~en-year-old Robbie stood jealousy in
specting her. To his mind she looked
smaller and less attractive than any
little sister of the other boys that he
could remember, and he felt a keen
thrill of disappointment. So he put
his hands deep in his pockets like
papa, wrinkled up his nose, and, re-
garding the new acquisition savagely,
said: well, l call that pretty near
q failure"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
HE MET THE vIcE-PREslDENT
Mr.. Fairbanks Left "lmpressions"
On Joe D%ougherty, Of Illinois

Danville, Ill.-The automobile bear
ing Vice-President Fairbanks and
party from this city to Champaign,
crashed into a buggy driven by Jo-
seph M. Dougherty, a prominent dem
ocratic politician. Mr.. Dougherty vas
thrown out and painfully bruised.
When the injured man had regained
his feet the vice-president's party
alighted. Mr.. Fairbanks approached
his victim smiling and apologizing.
After an exchange of greetings the
vice-president resumed his journey.
Mr.. Dougherty's hurts are not serious.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
ARkANsAN KILLS soNIN-LAW
He Then Resists Arrest, and 10
Slain BY a Deputy
Sheriff. .

Blytheville, Ark.-Returning to the
home of Joseph Woods, whose daugh-
ter he had married a few hours before,
without parental consent, Joseph
Vaughan was shot and instantly killed
by his fatherin-law. The bride wit.
messed the tragedy. Woods fled to
Dell, ten miles west Of Blytheville,
where he registered the attempt Of
Deputy Sheriff James Willis to arrest
him, and was shot by the officer and
killed.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-20
MOVING TOWARD RIO JANEIRo.
Instruction in State of Matte Crosse
Reaches Huge Proportions.

London-The Leaders correspond
ent at Lisbon says that, according to
intelligence received there, the insur
rection in Matte Crosse, Brazil, is
swelling to huge proportions.
The insurgents, 1t is reported, have
organized a large army, and are
marching on Rio ~Janeiro, and already
have captured several cities. Gen. Ri
berio, with 10000 federal troops, has
been sent against the revolutionists.
Fearful carnage is reported, and
the killed are said to be already more
than 1000