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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1907-06-20

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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1907-06-20

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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1907-06-20

Sm Snnern bon Ramerun, ber
beutf9en aolonie an Der Mefttiiite BON
Mfrita. 1T es. tpie Der aDlnifden Set
tuns mitsetbeilt pirb, mod INNER ni4t
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The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
A $5O,OOO,OOO GIFT
ROCKEFELLER PLANS FUND FOR
UPLIFTING OF CHINESE.
1T WILL Be HIS GROWING WORK
To Establish Institutes to Teach
Western Civilization to Entire
Chinese Population.

Washington, March 16.--John d
Rockefeller is planning to establish q
fund Of $50,000,000 to lift the Chinese
In their own country to the plane OF
civilization of the American people
Knowledge that Mr.. Rockefeller In.
tends to give this enormous sum to
turn the Orientals into the paths OF
Western civilization has been made
public by men who have been consult.
ed by the intending donor as to the
best methods to be employed to make
the money useful in the highest de-
gree.
This is what Mr.. Rockefeller meant
when, Immediately following his mag
nificent gift of 1872, 100000 to the cause
3of general education, he said that he
hoped before long to have something
to announce which might be Of still
greater interest to the public. This
is to be his browning effort in behalf
of the world. The sum which the
Standard Oil chieftain will give for
the benefit of the Orientals is the
larges sum ever given singly for the
carrying out of philanthropic pur-
pose. The effect of the gift, 1t is Mr..
Rockefeller's hope will be to give light
to nation that has sat in semi-dark-
ness. IT the purpose Of the giver is
realized, fully new and an enlight-
ened power will be added to the
worlds nations.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
STOCK GOING DOWN
WEDNESDAYS SLUMP IN WALL
STREET CONTINUES.
BIG BULLS ARE HIT FOR MILLIONS
Market Opened Thursday Extremely
Weak and Action From WASH
ington Is Looked For.

New York, March 14--Notwith
standing the low points hit as a result
of Wednesdays slump in the stock
marketand the points wore the low
est since the panic of May 3, 1901
there was no great excitement in. the
street early Thursday.
Hard blows were struck Wednesday,
but it Is the big fellows who were
punched, some Of the most active spec
ulative interests and some of the lead
ing figures in the banking world
Walls were not to be expected from
those quarters and the bleating lambs
had most all been shaken out of the
marke.. before Wednesdays sossef D
came. 49, II
BY 1926 the market had develop d
extreme weakness Reading fell rs
from high figures. Northern Pacific,
az; Union Pacific, 3 and other losses
In proportion.
The declines were in part attributed
! to fresh selling orders for foreign ac-
count, and the execution of sales in
default of response to remargin calls
sent out Wednesday night.
1t is believed the market will be
somewhat shaky for several days to
come.
1t is known that the federal govern
ment is keeping close eye on the
ticker and there is geenral belief in
the street that some important action
from Washington can be expected in
event of further unsettled conditions.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
37-F0OT STAGE FOR MEMPHIS
Estimates for Other Points on the
Mississippi River

ls mls6lsslppl River.
Washington. The weather bureau
tonight issued q special flood bulletin
announcing . crest stage Of 62.1 on the
Ohio river at Cincinnati .onight and
serious flood warnings in various water
sheds In Ohio, West Virginia and else
where. The bulletin follows:
1.-THE Ohio river at Cincinnati reach
ed crest stage Of 62.1 feet Tuesday
morning and is now falling slowly, the
gauge tonight registering 61.9. AT
Louisville the stage was So. 8 feet, a rise
Of = foot since Monday night. Little
or no further rise will occur and the
river should begin to fall during We'd
nesday. No changes have been made
In previous forecasts for the district
below Louisville.
In the lower Mississippi river stages
as follows are indicated from the water
now in sight: Memphis between SO
and a. feet between March 26 and %;
Arkansas City, 46 feet by the last Of
next week; Vicksburg, As feet about
April 3; New Orleans between l6.5 and
II feet by March 90.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
Were Not invited.

Washington, March 16.-Fr8siLSsnt
Roosevelt has received no word from
the four railroad presidents, who were
suggested by ]. Pierpont Morgan on
the eve of his departure for Europe
as conferees to discuss with the presi-
dent the railroad situation, and to urge
Mr.. Roosevelt to take some action to
ALLOW the public anxiety" to the ad-
ministration's attitude. The president
will not invite Messrs. McCrea, Hugh
lit, Newman and Mellen to the Whiet
House, but If they ask for an appoint
ment, the president will be glad to
receive them.
Gov. Deneen to Visit President.
Gov. Deneen and Atty. Gen. Stead
of Illinois, who were invited to Wash
ington by President Roosevelt have
arrived and will call at the White
House. While Gov. Deneen refuses to
discuss the object of his conference
with the president, it can authorita-
lively be stated that the Chicago G
Alton deal and ether disclosures
brought out at the recent Hartman
investigation will be discussed and
the situation in general will be gone
over.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
TWO NEGRO WOMEN LYNCHED
In Arkansas for Using a Razor on
a White Woman.

4 Stamps, Ark. Two colored women
were shot to death by a mob last night
at Mechanic, village six miles south
of here. The town has no jail, and the
women had been locked up in the
schoolhouse and q guard put in charge
of the building. They were charged
with using razor with probably fatal
effect on Mrs. Ella Rheton, white
woman, and her daughter, and kicking
Mrs. Kheton's little son. 1t seems that
the Rhetons net the colored women on
b pneiic russsl, and, according to Mrs.
Rheton, the negresses showed her out
of the road and kicked the little boy.
Mrs. Rheton told them to quit kicking
the child, and they then attacked her
and her daughter, Beulah, with razors.
Mrs. Rheton claims she had never met
the colored women before, and that
they had no cause to attack her and
children. The men guarding the pris-
oners in the schoolhouse made very lit
tie resistance to the lynchers, who soon
overpowered them and then shot the
women to death.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22

San Francisco, March president
Walsh, Of the board of education, re-
ceived message from Secretary Root,
saying: Il thank you for your telegram
and am gratified to learn Of the pas
sage Of the new resolutions BY the
board Of education. The president has
signed an executive order under the
Immigration act Of Feb. 20, 1907. and
ing that the Indirect immigration Of
Japanese laborers via Hawaii. Meysco
and Canada is detrimental To fsDor
conditions In the United States and
refusing entrance to such laborers."
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
JAPs sWARMINe INTO TEXAS.
They Are Replacing Mexicans as
House Servants.

Ell Paso, Tex, March $3.50 great
has been the influx of Japanese
through this port that hundreds have
stopped in FL Paso, readily securing
employment as house servants, dis
placing Mexican help. The result is
that the Mexican authorities are TAX
ing cognizance of the matter and pro-
lection looking to the abatement of
immigration unless the new amend
ment to the United States immigration
law brings relief. An immigrant in
spector stated that every vessel from
the continent and the Hawaiian islands
arriving at Manzanillo, Mex, brought
from 500 to 1900 Japanese, and that
since Mexico had facilitated the entry
into this country 1t was not a matter
of much surprise that they should SUI.
fer inconvenience.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
Skin Grafting operation.

Annapolis, Md.--A successful opera
tion Of skin grating was performed on
the leg of Midshipman A. H. Douglass
of Tennessee, captain of the navy foot
ball team for next season, at the Johns
Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, and he
has returned for duty at the naval
academy. Douglass broke his leg in a
game against Princeton over two years
ago, and the unskillful setting Of the
splInts caused awound which has given
him great trouble. II is now believed
that . permanent cure has been
effected.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
THEY WON'T COL
RAILWAY PRESIDENTS NOT TO
VISIT CHEF EXECUTIVE.
LACKING TIE PROPER MANDATE
Thomas r. Ryan Believes Visit, Fol-
lowed by Others, Would Do
Much Good.

New York, March 16.-Messrs. Nc
Crea, Mellen, Hughitt and Newman,
the four railroad presidents for whose
visit to the White House j. Pierpont
Morgan arranged before his departure
for Europe, held conference here
Friday The whole situation was can
yassed with great care and it was
finally decided not to go to Washing
ton.
1t is understood the reason for this
conclusion was that the railroad Of
fcialS did not feel they had any proper
mandate from the railroad corpora
tons to represent them. They felt
that they could not assume the posi-
ton of self-constituted commission
to formulate or present the views of
the hundreds of railroad companies
which, in turn, are owned by thou
sands of shareholders. They recog-
nized that the railroad managers of
the United States are not themselves
in perfect accord, and that until some
method could be adopted for securing
a consensus of opinion, visit to the
president would be idle. At the con-
clusion of the conference the four
presidents left for their homes.
Thinks Visit Would Do Good.
Thomas F. Ryan, when asked his
opinion about the proposed meeting
of the president and the heads CT the
great railroads, said:
II believe, If Mr. Morgan's visit to
the president is followed up as it
should be by all of our great business
interests, it will do much good.
Il also believe that the presidents
attitude toward corporations is mach
misunderstood by the general public.
1t is unfair to assume that it is his
desire to hamper the business inter-
ests of the country. l am, however,
convinced that he purposes to enforce
the laws as he finds them upon the
statute books, and l think the sooner
the business interests of the country
conclude to go to work to aid the
president in solving the difficult prob
lens that confront him every day,
the sooner confidence will be restored
and the business of the country move
on without interruption. So far as
general business is concerned, the only
fault to be found with it is that 1t is
too active"
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
CONSCRIPTING MEN,
Fruit Companies in Central America
Can't Get Laborers.


Mobile, Ala. The steamer Mercator
arrived here today from Puerto Cortez,
Honduras, four days out and reports
that within the past two weeks the Hon
duran government has conscripted 500
men at that place, and as result the
fruit ships have been unable to obtain
only small cargoes, and if the work of
conscripting continues the companies
will lose thousands of dollars. The
officers report that big detachment of
men, numbering nearly thousand, were
sent inland.
When the Mercator left Puerto Cor
tez what men were left, aided by some
women, were throwing up entrench-
ments to protect the place from re-
ported attack by the Nicaraguan navy.
The breastworks were OF the poorest
kind of construction and the men who
came on the vessel said that one solid
shot would wreck the whole business.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
THE MARKETS.
Livestock Markets,


ST. LOUIS-Cattle-F native
steers, s6.15@6.75; good to choice
steers, $5.25@6.10; choice to fancy
heifers, s4.75@5.25; choice to fancy
cows, $4.25@4.75; veal calves, $4,000
$50. Hogs-Top, 800; bulk of sales,
$6.92A@6s71z; heavy, s695@ 700;
packers, s6.s5@700; pigs and lights.
s5.S0Q6.90. Sheep-Native lambs,
$7.25; native sheep, $5.50@5.75.
CHICAGo-Cattle = Plain to best
steers, s4.25@6.s5; heifers, $3.50
5.25; cows, ss.2595.00; calves, $500
7.25; stockers and feeders, S2.50@5.25.
Hogs-Choice heavy shipping, $1,000
1.05; light butchers. $1,000
fight mixed, s6.s5@7.o0; packing, $3.50
QZoo; pigs, s4.5OQ6.sO; bulk of sales,
S6.9597.00. Sheep = Sheep, 5000
6-25; lambs, s71597S5.
KANSAS C1TY-Cattle-Choice ex-
port and dressed beef steers, $500
$40; fair to good, 4.5oQ5.30; native
cows, s2.25Q4.6o; native heifers, $3.50
G5.4o; calves. ss-25Q7,oo. Hogs
Top. $685.; bulk. s6.75@6.s21k; heavy,
se.s0Q6.s5; packers, $6.7596.s2h.
sheep-Lambs, s12s016o; ewes and
yearlings. s5.o0@5S5.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22

Colon. March 1S.-The members Of
the United States congress who came
here on board the steamer Panama to
inspect the work on the canal sailed
at noon Sunday They will stop at
Kingston, Jamaica. and Port au Prince
before returning to the United States.
The steamer Butcher, with Speaker
Cannon and his party, is expected to
arrive here i4arch rs.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
SSAULTSWOMAN KILLS BABE
Negro Brute Commits Horrible Crime
at Fairmont, Ga.

Gainesville, Ga. Mrs. Tolbert, wife
Of former Mayor Tolbert Of Fairmont,
was brutally assaulted and her two
months-old child was murdered by q
negro at their home last evening. The
negro, who approached the house when
Mrs. Tolbert was alone with her child,
demanded $50. Being refused, he said
he must have the money or her life.
Then began struggle, in which he
followed her from room to room, until
she escaped and ran to her husbands
store, some distance away.
When she returned with party the
baby was found with its head nearly
severed from its body and the negro
was missing. A posse Immediately set
upon his trail. A negro, said to be the
sassailanI, was located near Gainesville
late today, and his capture is believed
to be certain within short time.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
Ohio River Recedinu.

Wheeling, w. Va, March 1s.-The
Ohio river is rapidly receding. The
losses from fires following the flood
aggregate nearly $S,O00.00O, while the
flood damage amounts to $4,000, 900
There is much suffering. and relief
headquarters were opened at the Y.
M. G. A. and food and clothing were
distributed to several hundred people.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22

Accident to Another French Warship.
Brest, March 15.-There was another
accident to French warship off this
port. During torpedo exercises the
coast-defense ship Fulminant was
struck and seriously damaged on the
water line by torpedo. Collision mats
were at once applied in the vessels
side, and she was towed into port in
sinking condition.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
SUIT AGAINST HARGISEs
Cox Guardian Asks 100000 of the
Alleged Slayers.

Lexington, KY. March 13.-Suit to
recover 100000 damages was filed
last night in the Fayette circuit court
against James .Hargis, Edward Gala
han and Ebert Hargis by T. P. Card
we'll, Sr., guardian for Edward Cox,
Lucie Cox and Brackie Cox, children
sof T'r. D. B. Cox.
Ii the petition it is alleged that
these defendants, who are awaiting
trial for completely in the murder Of
DR.. Cox, conspired with each other,
John Smith, John Abner and Asbury
Spicer and others, whose names are
not known, to murder DR.. Cox.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
Two Killed In Arkansas Wreck.

Little Rock, Ark, March 16.-An
eastbound Rock Island passenger train
ran into an open switch and was
wrecked at Cuneo. three miles west of
Little. Engineer Killcoyne and Fire
man Currier, Argentina, Ark, were
killed and two mail clerks, an express
messenger, the porter and four negro
dining car walters were injured. An
investigation disclosed that the wreck
was the work of train wrecker.
None of the passengers was injured.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
BURToNs RELEASE ARRANGED.
Former Senator Leaves jail at Ironton,
\ Mo-, March 22.

Abilene, Kas., March 16.-A message
received from Ironton, Mo-. where he
is in jail, says that former Senator
Joseph r. Burton was officially mott
fed that he will be released on March
%. He will, he wires, be in Abilene
on the day following.
It was stated that Mr.. Burton would
be held in Jail an additional month In
view of the fact that his fine Of 81, 500
had not been paid.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
HARMAIDs GET A RESPITE.
English Bill to Abolish Them Has
Been Abandoned.

London, March 13.-The barmaids
Of Great Britain have received re-
spite. Necording to an announcement
made ,s,,,ant1 to do away with the
60. "a s'n 81 women as barmsids
wiIJhot be introduced at this session
OF parliament. Instead, Home Secre-
tary Gladstone has promised to deal
with the question in his forthcoming
general licensing reform bill. The
barmaids, however, decided to con-
tinue their defensive agitation, as they
expect no concessions in Mr.. Glad
stones measure.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
TWO DROWN IN scloTo RIVER.
PiIedriver and Engine on 9. & S. W..
Breaks Through levee.

Chillicothe, o., March ia pile
driver and engine on the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern railway went
through the levee here into the Scioto
river Friday night. Seven men were on
the piledriver and three on the engine.
Eight of these were rescued. Brake
man John Long, Olney, Ill, and Thos.
Wheeler of this place were drowned.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
WILL co TO BROWNSVILLE
Senate Committee to Take Evidence
in Texas Town.

Washington. 1T has practically been
settled that the senate committee on
military affairs will go to Brownsville,
Texas, in prosecuting the investigation
into the shooting up of that town by
rnffians, believed to have been negro
soldiers of the Twsnty-fifth infantry.
While no date has been fixed for the
trip, it is understood that the commit
tee will leave about the middle of April.
The committee desires to personally
inspect the situation there to get, an
idea of how the shots were fired on the
night of Aug. Is and to locate the
houses which were fired into during
the rioting. The testimony of eye
witnesses will also be taken.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
REPORT MERRY re. BE ousTeD.
Claim Made He Exceeded His Author
ity In Nicaragua.

New Orleans, March 13.-The New
Orleans Picayune says that, from in
fo1naation received by that paper, the
state department at Washington will
probably place United States Minister
Merry on the toboggan slide, and dump
him out of. the diplomatic service. An
excuse has been found by Secretary
Root for throwing Mr.. Merry over
board, according to information re-
ceived by the Picayune. 1t is claimed
Minister Merry exceeded his authority
in Nicaragua.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
Greater plttsburo-

Pittspurg, Pa, March 13.-The state
supreme court has affirmed the judg-
ment of the superior court permitting
the consolidation of Pittsburg and Al
legheny City. The greater city will
have population Of about $4,000 and
an area of IS. square miles.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
Fire and Death in Missouri Town.

Birch Tree, Mo-, March ia block
of business houses in ruins and a
little child burned to death is the re-
suit of fire started by children play.
ing with matches in the warehouse OF
Cvercsst's store. A 3-year-old boy Of
Mrs. Lee Overcast was burned 70
death.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
Japanese Laborers for Iowa.

Kansas City, Mo-, March ia
party of 800 Japanese laborers ar
rived In Kansas City Sunday morning.
They travelled on special train from
San Antonio, Tex. At Kansas City
they were transferred to Burlington
train for Sioux City, Ia. They viii
work ON railroad construction IN Iowa.
The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22
Miners Get Raise.

Bisbee, Ariz., March is. The mining
companies operating in this district
have posted notices Of new wage
scale, raising the wages Of miners
from $3.75 to 81 per day and adding
25c to every man connected with the
operation of the mines who has here
tofore been receiving as much as $3.50
per day. The increase also extends to
the men in the smelters at Douglas.