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Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-12
NEWSPAPER OFFICE
GUTTED BY FLAMES
Associated Press.

Louisville, KY, September 11.-Fire
broke out in the building of the
Courier-Journal and the Louisville
Times this afternoon, entailing loss
estimated at s25,O0O. The Times was
forced to abandon its last edition and
the Courier-Journal will be issued
from the plant of rival paper tomor-
row morning.
The same building was gutted by
flames a week ago and the two news
papers had just overhauled their
plants.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-12

/, TIE hovyafall of Letten will create a
81>ot sepI I1atlon among those who
knew bi(m. for he had always been
believe1 "a be the soul of honor. He
is 1 1on Of the late Charles Letten,
who was at one time recorder of the
Third District and high-toned and
honorable gentleman. The family at
that time resided in the Seventh
Ward. The missing clerk is man of
about IS years of age. He was for
years in. the United States bankruptcy
court, and when Mr. @. Harrison Par
ker became state tax collector was
appointed to position in the office
of the latter, serving there for twelve
years. When Captain Fitzpatrick sue
ceeded Mr., Parker Mr.. Letten was
so highly recommended to him tnat
he made him his chief clerk and his
confidence was SO great in Mr.. Let
tens integrity that at no time did he
require him to give bond.
Mr.. Letten,s habits were apparently
of the best, and it is a puzzle to Cap
tain Fitzpatrick and the employees Of
! the office. to understand what he could
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-12
SCHOOL APPQRT|ONMEN7
COMPLETED LAST NIGHl
By Bon 1i

An important meeting OF the schodN
board was held at the city hall last
night, at which the matter as to what
school the children in various parts
of the city should attend was set
tied.
Several other matters, not of any
public. interest. were also given at
tention at this meeting and Professor
Woodley reported his progress in
preparations for the coming scholas-
tic year.
It Is the wish Of the board in gen
eral and Professor Woodley in par
ticuler that parents and guardians
should see that the children are In
structed as to the school they should
attend, according to the information
herewith given,
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-12
BOOKS OF SOUTHERN RAILWAY |
TO Be EXAMINED BY COURT

Washington. September 1.-THE
books Of the Southern Railway will
be examined on September 1S in the
North Carolina rate case, a hearing
on which is now proceeding in Wash
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-12
DR.. sEMMEs ACQUITTED.

Meridian, Miss, September 11.-Dr.
Semmes, of Hickory, has been ac-
quilted at Quitman of the charge of
killing t. D. Lawson. who was shot
April IA. 1908.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-12
DELTA LAWYER
KILLED BY SALOON KEEPER

was done by double-barrelled shot
gun loaded with buckshot. The kill.
ing was the result of some trouble be-
tween the men last night, the nature
of which is not definitely known.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-12
Associated Press.

Greenville, Miss, September i'll.
M. Jayne, prominent lawyer of Le-
land, was shot today by barkeeper
and died shortly afterward. The deed
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-12
LOUISIANA STA TAX COLLECTOR /
Will refund $l 100000 STOLEN
By HIS DIsHOl ES7 Chief CLERK

. former lSSof Joh epat atxIek z
. state tai coIlsctor ne FIRST :
= district has disappa de-
. faulter to large a possi-
bly, reaching $4,000 shown
. by cursory examin MS
. books.
Letten held the 1or
. nineteen years, twelv hem
. under G. Harrison PaIS
. No bond had been qred
> of him. jbut The state. mot :
lose a cent by the al on.
Capt. lFitspstrick oas y - :
q the announcement 70 1, 8 =
= that every cent Of the y =
be paid out o Ms own. :
= the state. "
=: ,AI ~:
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-12
y y y y , y = . :
GETS SEVEN :
YEARS IN SING SING. :


sociated Press. .
TX. September 11.-w. .
paying teller of the .
rust Company, who :
stealing 100000 Of .
Is funds, was today .
seven years in Sing :
.ssssssssss
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25

years old, was a pioneer of Omaha,
and gave to that city the park which
bears his name.
d. yillis James, senior member OF
the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co. or
New York, died at Breton Woods. N.
H., aged 70. He was a director of the
Northern Pacific railway company
Mrs. Hannah c. Folsom, a cousin
of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, died at her
home in Minneapolis Her fathers
family was one of the seven which
purchased land of the Indians ard
founded the city of Minneapolis.
Randolph Guggenheimer of the law
firm OF Gugenheimer, Untermeyer &
Marshall of New York, died OF apo
plexy at his summer home in West
end, Long Branch, n. J. Formerly he
took a prominent part in the manage.
ment of the New York city schools
and was the first president of the
county OF greater New York under
the consolidat on. He was 50 years
old
Col. Robert Fleming, one of Wash
ington's widely known citizens, died,
aged 65 years. He was a native t,t
Virginia, and served during the eirn
war as a member of the Richmond
Fayette artillery Soon after TIL. war
he came TO Washington and had since
been prominently identified with
every movement to promote the
growth. prosperity and beauty of the
capital.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
POLITICAL

"A political canvas Of the New Eng
land states revealed the strength Of
Secretary Taft ike that shown in the
middle wes.
State department officials believe
that The anti-Asiatic rioting in British
Columbia will ~~nvince the Japanese
government that it mist inevitably
consent to an exclusion treaty.
Kansas democratic leaders are not
takiu gkindIy to the latest movement
for booming Governor Johnson or
: inrtsota for the vice presidential
nomination, fearing an anti-Bryan
scheme.
Wisconsin republican leaders an
nounce that all of tAe present con.
gressmen will seek denominations.
while fight Will be made to defeat
Mr. Murphy, democrat, in the third
Hard contests are expected in four
districts.
Governor Sheldon of Nebraska pro.
poses not to act on the demand II
State School superintendent McBrlen
for the removal OF Mrs. Frances
Knox, superintendent OF CHEYENNE
county. until e shall nave heard both
sides fully.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
THE HYLDREN LIRE TT
kENNEDY'S LAXATIVE
COUGH SYRUP
MINNESOTA w. c. T. U.

Northfeld, Mimi, Sept. 17-Several
hundred women wearing white rib
bons embiematie of the cause they
advocate, gather here today from. all
over the state to attend the thirty
first annual convention of the Mime
sofa Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. The sessions, which will be
bed in the congregational church,
Will be public and will continue for
three days. This afternoon there will
be a meeting of the executive com
mittee to prepare reports and ar
range the final details of the conyeu-
ton program. A welcome ban.
quet and reception are to be held
this evening and the regular order of
business will be taken up tomorrow
morning. Among the prominent
speakers who will be heard isv Mrs.
Katherine Lent Stevenson of Massa.
chlsetts.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
STILL AFTER THE SOUTHERN.
Hearing Will Determine Whether
More Suits Shall Begin.

F'Satth9 WIN determine WneInef
More Suits Shall Begin.
Asheville, N c., Sept. 18.-Whether
suits for the recovery of damages as
penalties of tie passenger rate law
can be pushed against the Southern
Railway Company pending the trial
of the other actions will probably be
decided today at a hearing to, be
given here by Judge Pritchard to all
the parties concerned. The hearing
is on an application made by the rail-
way company for an Injunction to
present the prosecution of an action
brought last week in the superior
court of Alamance county against the
North Carolina railroad company for
penalties for the sale of tickets at
more than "a cents a mile. The
North Carolina railroad company is
leased by the Southern. The plain
tiffs in the suit take the ground that
If North Carolina plaintiff sues
North Carolina company under a
North Carolina statute the federal
court has no jurisdiction. The de-
cision in the matter will probably
hinge on the question whether the
North Carolina railroad is an integral
part of the Southern system
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
WISCONSIN, NEWS.

Fire destroyed the uneompleted
residence Of Christ Tango. west OF Ra-
cine causing a loss OF $500.
Haro d Bruss OF BrtlHon. general
merchant, has purchased the stock Of
the Manitowoc Cooperative company.
At Appleton hornets nearly cost the
life Of c. ". Branerd, who attempted
TO burn them out Of their nest on the
roof Of his house.
At La Crosse Kaslmer Radomski. a
section hand employed on the La
Crosse division of the Milwaukee road
was killed
Deafness prevented Mrs. 5. Zahn
hearing a train at Edgerton and she
was struck, receiving Injuries which
will prove fatal.
Walter N. Britain president of the
Hyde & Brittan bank Of Beloit. who
was seriously injured ia the automo-
bile catastrophe will recover
Al Waukesha Henry Wolf. Nc wears
oid, son eff Mrs Heary Wolf was
kiliei while driving across the chi.
caEo 4 Northwestern track.
Mara Il ogilyie Of Evanston com
mitted suicide for the fourth time
He is a fast fellow, and gorger who
used TO live in Madison. It is thought
he has fed.
Near heWaskum Walter Braun. the
II year old son of George Braun, met
with a horrible death by being caught
In a revolving shaft IN his fathers
mill.
After years OF separation through
divorce, Miss Anna Jaeerson ann
John Hersinger of Neenah. elor to
Berlin in an automobile and we're
married again.
Joseph hiehie, living near wayside
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
General Obituary.

Christian Haase. leader in county
politics. aged 81 years, died at Nee
nah
John NJ. Turner writer. humorist
ACTOR and originator OF trick banjo
play ing, is dead in New York follow.
ing an operation for appendicitis.
John Whitworth, president OF the
Commercial bank and treasurer j
manager Of the American Cyron com.
Fany of Sandusky, Ohio, died of heart
disease.
A. ]. Hanscom Of Omaha. died from
pneumonia in New York. He was rs
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25

$685. 222-ipcrease, 564,S56; other
earnings from operation, including un-
classified items, s60,O04,
S7.6S4.s39. Gross earnings from oper-
alton per mile of line averaged $40
400. the corresponding average tor the
year 1905 being $500 less.
The income from operation or the
net earnings of the railways amour ed
to s7SS,SS7.S96 This amount exceeds
the corresponding one for the previous
year by $97 ,007,642 The net earnings
per mile of line for 1906 averaged
$S,54s; for 1905, sS,iSs, and for 1904,
s2,9sS
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
FOREIGN.

French troops surprised and routed
Moors after a sharp engagement out
side OF Casablanca.
The steamer SilYertown, having on
board 1890 miles of cable for the
new dfr9u New York-Havana cable
line, sailed from London.
Prince WIyieischi of Vienna, now
residing at Florence, was killed as
the result of his automobile striking
toe corner OF house. The prince at.
tempted u avoid crashing into an.
other car.
An insane man named Losseky. ar,
rested on suspicion that he was the
ripper that had murdered sevsrar
school children recently in Berlin, has
escaped from the observation ward of
the prison hospital.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25

Statistics showing the cost of car
ing for the insane atients in the
STATE of Wisconsin we're given out
yesterday at the once of the state
board of control The basis of ac-
counting is So per week for the main
tenance of each patient and also a
moderate charge for clothing. The
state pays half of this weekly charge
and the county against which each
p Gent is charged pays the other
Laif Careful account is kept by the
board of control and an annual set
Element is made with and between
the counties. Each county is charged
81 50 week per patient and a pro
portion of the clothing charge, wheth-
er its patient may be, in state
asylum or in the asylum of another
county Such counties maintaining
their own agylums care for many pa
tieats from other counties, and this
is true in fact, with every county
asylum excepting that of Milwaukee
which has SO many of its own pa
tents that it is unable to care for
any OF the patients of other coun-
ties.
This year the state paid counties
its share of the cost of maintenance
OF insane people the sum of s199,
203.S0. The counties maintaining
their own asXlums received $S5,1S619
from other counties for care of the
patients of the other counties, and
also s49.o13.29 from the state for
the state, but which cannot be
charged to any particular county al
though they have to be cared for,
and so it is done at the entire ex-
paase of the state. The patients
cared for in the county asylums are
! chronic cases or incurables. The
counties are also charged for then
| patients which are cared for in the
state hospitals at Mendoza and Win
nebago, at the same rate as for their
| chronic patients. The counties are
also charged for inmates of the in.
dustrial school for boys and the
home for the feeble minded. From
! these institutions the counties have
been charged by the state as follows:
For patients in state hos
| pital Mendoza ,.,....... $51,542.35
Northern hospital. Winnie
bago ......... ....... 60,25702
Industrial school for boys 1881. 68
Home for feeble minded 77.12124
Total $3.50. ..........$ 205. PEEPS
| Counties which do not maintain
their own county asylums are sub
| jected to special tax on account OF
their patients kept by other counties,
amounting to sl01, 477.S9. The To-
tai paid by the state to counties, as
specified above, for care of state pa
TENTS. for care of their own insane
ID for care of insane from other
counties is S339,4032S This makes
the total cost for the care of enron
ic insane S434.SS117 and the aggre'
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
500 Reward. 500.

The readers OF this paper will be pleased
TO lecrn that there Is at least one dreaded
disease that science has ben able to cure in
an It's stages, and that Is Gatarrh Halle
Satarrn Cure Is the Only positive cure now
being constitutional disease requires o
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure Is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
q the disease. and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing It's work. The
Rroprietors have so much faith in Its cura.
pvs powers that they offer One Hundred
Send for list Of testimonials.
ADDRESS ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o
Sold by Druggists, T5e
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL
DOMESTIC.

Illinois mayors adopted resolu-
lions fayoring a state trolley commits
sion
Sir Thomas Upton mailed a email
lenge for the fourth Americas cup
series in 1908
BY an explosion in a powder mih
at ton, H., one mau was killed and
another made crazy.
The hu, Nand of Nary wilkins, nov
elist, was Tested for shoe, ing craps
vita negro trih'srs.
Andrew C; negie win not pay New
YORK taxes u, il he has made court
fight Tor a reduction.
Edward Vanderbilt of New York,
who welded medium through spirit
Bright Eyes power, was adjudged
insane.
Walter Scott Hale of California was
was elected commander in chief OF
the Spanish War Veterans. at San
dusEy D.
Former Congressman Burton OF
Missouri was elected commander in
CHIEF at the O. A R. eneampment at
Saratoga.
j. Pierpont Morgan sent his check
tor SI.209 to The city OF New York
toI having the street in front of his
home repayed.
The Lusltania made the trip across
in the atlantic in 5 lays "a minutes,
beating the Cunards best time. but
failed TO lower the German record.
Stuyvesant Fish demanded expuI-
sion Of j. T. Hanrahan from the pres
idency of Illinois Central in a resolu-
ton which brought ON the first fight
August Is.
Theater- goers are not to see either
Forbes Robertson or his wife. Miss
Gertrude Elliott, tnis season. The
tour OF the Eng ish stars has been
cancelled owing to the ill-health Of
Mr. Robertson.
f. B. Ravens, OF New York, whose
bookkeeper operated an account with
E. B. Ravens " Co. in his wires name
and lost more than $3.50 600 charged
that the bookkeeper falsified his
books.
The wife of Lieutenant Rorsehach,
OF the cruiser Tennessee, was shot
dead at her home in Portsmouth. Va,
with her own revolver by an intruder.
who wrested the weapon from her
after she had twice shot at him
The man escaped.
Ferdinand Pinney of affinity" fame
has returned TO New York. He had a
brief encounter with the villagers or
Monroe. where his home is located.
when about to board train. Several
missl.es were thrown at lSm but the
artist escaped injury.
Eastern railroad magnates propose.
with the approval of the commerce
commission. to boycott lines unserup-
ulously using and holding freight cars
OF other systems and to eliminate the
reconsignment privilege declared
worse than the rebate.
Secretary straus of the department
Of commerce expects to cal! a meeting
within two or three weeks of the
trustees and eomEdttee who are To
establish oundatlon for the Promotion
OF Industrial Peace under President
Roosevelt Nobel peace prize award.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
Latest


Voliva fires the opening sbct at
Zion City in mis- battle to regain su-
premacy.
Hot weather will continue, accord
ing TO Forecaster Cox, who cougratu.
lates corn growers.
Principal officers of the Chicago
Federation of Labor are elected with
out opposition but rivalry exists for
minor places on the ticket
A woman in the Williamsburg Hos.
pital, New York, who was thought
hopelessly i'll of tetauus was cured
by injections of antitoxin.
Chicago association of Commerce.
starts campaign for a greater Chi.
cage by appointing a general man.
ager of its Industrial bureau.
William Brown of Rochester. New
York. risked his life at Coney Island
by climbing aiodg an electric cable
to capture one of The Worlds $40
balloons.
German crown princess chef, now
studying American cooking, is very
favorably impressed with clam chow
der, and will teach his countrymen to
like it.
William E CARTS writes that the
national government viii be asked to
take back Mackinac Island from the
state Of Michigan and add to, its at.
fractions.
Sons of the late Walter Scott fam.
ed as inventor and builder of nrint.
ing presses, viii continue the bnsi.
ness established by their father in
Plainfeld, II. J.
W. Newton Bennington. the former
race-horse owner, who was credited
with having accumulated a fortune
vas placed III d sanitarium. It is said
ne has little money left.
twenty-five persons are killed and
many are hurt in the wreck of an OK
curston train on the Boston and
Maine Railroad near Caanan. N H
the result Of flunder Of telegram
operator.
Paris mobs. composed chiefly NJ
women, parade the streets demanding
death for the murderer of a little
giri whose sentence was commuted Ia
life Imprisonment by President Fai
{ Heres.
Grover Cleveland. seen al hi,
I Princeton home. denied that he in
/ tended retiring from hts Office as In
surance araiter. He seemed not II
good health. bat in no such seriou,
! condition as was reported in a Sun
( dag paper.
Major Frederick Nice, of the Saliva
ton Army. denied the statement of p
! w Bnrwere, general agent of tn,
Society for Improving the Condition
Z Of the Poor, that nine-tenths Of Nev
FORKS charities were false or base,
on sentiment only.
heat values sustained considar
a3l" above last years level nv
hea ltay export trade and an unusuaIr,
strohg worlds position. The corn Gro,
Is rapidly escaping frost dangers
Oats are easier and largely abandone,
, by speculators.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25

gate cost for care of chronic insa c
and inmates of the asylums at Me +
dota Winnebago and the home for
the feeble minded at Chippewa Falls
and the industrial school for boys az
Waukesha is $64o, 1oo46
Milwaukee county gets from the
state $1T,Si4.21, the largest of any
county asylum.
Dane county gets s9,OS4.64 from
the state and $685. from other eoun-
ties. making total of s9.14U.99.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25

ing condition of the organization. An
address on 'low rates on public sery-
ice versus franchise taxation by Al
Ian Ripley Foote of Columbus, Ohio.
followed.
Secretary Mcyicker read : paper on
rates for franchise taxa
ton, prepared by Mayor Todd of jack
son, Mich, who could not attend.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
HNd0T For Indigestion.
an - ~ ~>'0s ~ - Relieves sour stomach,
of the heart. Digests what you eat.
LEAGUE OF CITIES IN
ANNUAL CONVENTION

Norfolk, Va, Sept. 19.-The seventh
annual convention of the American
League of Municipalities opened here
President Edward F.
Dunno, former mayor of Chicago, re-
spending to an address of welcome,
told of a large number of cities added
to the membership of the league dur
ing the past year, the largest increase
in it's history and the present flourish
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
FAT PLUMBER
BY ROBBERS

Spokane, Wash, Sept. 19.--Forty
thousand dollars, mainly in large
bills, is now declared to have been Sc
cured by the robbers who held up the
Great Northern train near Rexford,
Montana, September u. This money
is reported to have been shipped by
the Commercial National bank of CHI
cago to the National Bank of Spo-
kane. The banks were insured, so
neither bank will lose anything. No
trace of the robbers has been re-
ported.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
EARLY RTSERS
The famous little pills.
In Doubt.

In Doubt.
Hasn't Kloseman proposed to Belle
YETI"
mo"
why, I'm sure he wants to marry
her"
Eyes; but he's not sure that the
engagement ring he got back from
May will fit Belle.-Philadelphi
Press.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
HELP WANTED.

She bought a device to mix the bread.
And one TO stir the cake:
a hreless stove and "a coffee machine
Aud one to broil the steak.
And into her kitchen. so W TO date.
It's a pleasure, indeed, to look;
But the family's boarding while she
seeks
A machinist who can cook.
-Lppincotts
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
Sheriff Must Paw

Fond Gu Lac WIS. Sept. IA
ludsmett OF $l0o has been allowed
q } Gerke in his case against sher,e
Harenm, Mr.. Gerke sued the sber
III FOR 5000. alleging false imprison.
mems
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
DeWlTT'S GARBOLlzEC WITCH HAZEL
SALVE For Piles, Burns, Sores.
REJOICING IN oUTAeAMlE.
Country Schools Take 10 Per Cent Of
State Fair Prizes.

Appleton, Wis, Sept. 19.-There is
great rejoicing in the country schools
of Outagamie county, the pupils hay
ing been notified by Supt. E. A. Meat
ing that they captured 10 per cent Of
the cash prizes offered at the state
fair for school exhibits.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
COST OF CARING
FOR THE INSANE
ANNUAL STATISTICAL REPORT
GIVEN OUT.
STATE PAYS HALF EXPENSE

Counties Maintaining AsyIums Re-
ceive Pay for Caring for State
Charges and Also for Keeping Pa
TENTS Belonging to other Counties
Figures by Board of Control.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-25
r. ". EXERT, M. d.
Retreat, Wisconsin
Graduate Of Mil,itanknn Medical cnIlnAa

Will attend promptly all calls either
by day or night Telephone commun:-
cation with Office and residence. 0fics
at DIR. Mellen's old place, Retreat, Wis.