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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05
NEGRO DEFIES MOB
 BUT FINALLY YIELDS

Clark sburg, W. Va, March .4-With drawn rifles a company of deputy sher- ifs around Frank Johnson, negro mur- derer, in charge of Sheriff Flanagan, forced a way through a mob of 20oo neon1e who surrounded the county jail at o'clock this evening and the pris- oner was safely taken through the sheriffs residence to the prison. 50 ouickly was the prisoner hurried through the crowd that there was little opportunity for demonstration or the violence that had been feared.
 Johnson surrendered to Sheriff Elan agan in the middle of the afternoon by voluntarily coming out of the log harm on the Yates farm on sycamore creek nine miles from here and giving himself up to the big posse that had surrounded the place and held the ne gro in siege last night exchanging many shots with him. Tbree members of the posse, who were shot during tba attacks on the barn early In the day will recover. They are William Nfathenv a school teacher who was shot in the head; H. Cork, farmer who was wounded in the arm, ana James Wamsley, farmer who was also wounded in the arm.
 Johnson yelled defiantly to the posse all night and all day that he would not surrender and that he would die erst hut when the sheriff and his deo- uties began making preparations to blow the barn to pieces with dyna- mite the negro gave himself up. The Harrison county jail is the strongest in the state and 1t is not thought that an attempt will be made to storm It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05
DEMOCRATS SOLID
 FOR W. J. BRYAN All Nebraska Is Harmonious At
 Convention DEl.Nr'TES AT CONVENTION G. ,ryan Will Address the Conven- 70 lion and It Is Expected the Plat form Will Fully Reflect
 His Wishes.
DELMN'TES AT CONVENTION

Omaha, March 4.-Demoeratic leaders and delegates to the state convention which meets in Omaha Thursday have been arriving here all day today and every hotel is crowded. It is d Bryan" crowd from first to last and nothing but harmony prevails.
 Mir Bryan and his party will arrive from Lincoln tonight. Mir. Bryan has been suffering with a slight attack of la grippe, but Is reported in better condi- tion this evening
 The convention will be held in the Auditorium and arrangements have been made to admit the public as soon as del egates are seated.
 National officers of the Bryan Volun- teers arrived today and opened head quarters. The volunteers expect a great 'boost' al the convention tomorrow.
 So thoroughly is Bryan in the mastery of the situation that no arrangements have been made for officers of the con- vention nor Is word being said on the matter of platform. It Is recognized among the democrats that the platform will be just as Bryan wishes 1t and will reflect Bryans wishes as to the national platform.
 The convention will not be called to order until ? o'clock tomorrow afternoon and will continue through the evening, when Bryan will address the delegates. Every county is sending it's full quota of representatives and in many cases the who are not delegates are in the city also
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05
EQUAL TO EMERGENCY.
Secretary Straus Says Criminals Will
 Be Dealt With.

Washington, March 4.-Secretary Straus of the department of commerce and labor explained today that in the issuance of his order to immigration officials re- specting anarchists, 1t was his desire to insure a definite cooperation of those officials with the local authorities in va rious cities
 'tThe law as it stands today, Is quite ample to meet any emergency" says the secretary.
 Criminals and known anarchists now are excluded by the immigration off cials and criminals and anarchists of for eien birth who have been in this coun- try less than three years, will be prompt ly deported if they can be identified"
 Secretary Straus said there was no idea of endeavoring to secure an amend ment to the present law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05
Tribute To Elihu Root.

Washington, March IA warm trib- ute was paid Secretary Root at today's meeting of the governing board of bu- reau of American republics. The Hon duran minister brought up the Gues- ton of tic presentation by the board of suitable memorial to the secretary in the new home of the bureau about to be erected here as an evidence o' the appreciation of MT. Roots interest in the cultivation of closer relations between the American republics. A com nittee was appointed to take steps to put the suggestion into effect. IT. Is generally expected the memorial will be bust for the secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05
Havana Customs Receipts.

Havana, March 4.-The customs re- ceipts at Havana for February amount ed to only $1.e04,7So, which is the lowest figure since the Spanish evacu- ation of Cuba, except for September, 1906, following the revolution when tn @ receipts dropped to $1,579,563. In Jan uary, 1908. the customs receipts were s2,225,042 and for December, 1907, $2,- 221 900. The country merchants com plain that they have been compelled to curtail their orders owing to the refusal of the Havana bankers to ex- tend their credits. There Is disposi- ton here to attribute the situation to a lack of confidence In the America l declaration that a republic would be re- establish ed next February
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05

ture delivery of cotton on the New York exchange was between 90,000,000 and 100,- 100000 bales; that not exceeding per cent of these sales were in any way connected with the actual cotton transactions-that fully 95 per cent of all the sales of fu- lures on the cotton exchange in New York were purely speculative and would fall under the ban of the law, if the Bur leson bill was passed.
 He said the grades of cotton that were delivered on contracts in the cotton ex- change in New York were such as to offer premium on low grade cotton and that a large amount of unmerchant- able cotton had accumulated in the Nevs York warehouses. The effects of USs practice was to cause holders of @ . tracts of any particular month to sN E1 any prices, he said, before the mo delivery arrived, rather than taA is low grade, undesirable cotton that >3uld be used in no other way than re-delivery on some other future cotton contract.
 "The logical and practical effect. he declared. lis to depress the price of fu- lures for the nearest month, which in turn depresses the price of actual or spot cotton"
 He charged that by the successful manipulation of futures the actual price of spot cotton was controlled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05
DEED OF A MADMAN.
Young Man Kills His Bride and At
 tempts Suicide.

Norfolk, March 4.-Nathan Jacobs, news dealer and salesman, aged 30, in his apartments here today cut the throat of his bride of a few days and then attempt ed suicide by cutting his own throat from ear to ear. Temporary insanity Is sup posed to have been the cause.
 Jacobs escaped from a St. Vincents hospital ward. jumped through window, carrying sash and glass with him and fell 35 feet to the ground. Several ribs and his collar bone were broken and his face and hands horribly gashed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05
MlpsHIPMAN APPOINTED.
Son of Judge Disque' of Gadsden Gets
 the Vacant Place.

Washington March 4.-(Special)-Rep resentative Burnett of Alabama today appointed J. H. Disque, a son of Judge Disoue of Gadsden, a mdshipman at the naval academy, Annapolis. MT. Burnett has also been informed that the present representative from his district at An napolis, Mdshipman DuBose, has for infraction of the rules of the academy been postponed for graduation from June until October,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05
Convention NOminatss Full Ticket
 For the State
OVATION IS GIVEN BuRToN
Congressman Longworth Makes An Ad- dress Nominating Delegates To Ma.
 tienal
 Is Unanimously Adopted.

Columbus, O., March 4.-The ticket:
 Governor, Andrew L. Harris of Eaton.
 Lieut.. Gov. Francis W. Treadway of Cleveland.
 Delegates at large to national con- vention, Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati; Myron T. Herrick of C1eveland Arthur I. Vorys of Lancaster; Andrew L. Har- ris of Eaton.
 Alternates at large, Oliver l. Gunckle of Dayton; Arthur M. Orr of Miami county; c. E. Broadfield of Belmont county; A. H. Martin of Cleveland.
 Presidential electors at large, E. M. Huggins of Columbus; J. T. Carew of Cincinnati.
 Secretary of state, Carmi A. Thomp- son of Ironton.
 Auditor. E. M. Fullington of Marys- vile.
 Treasurer Charles c. Green of Co., lumbus.
 Attorney general, U. G. Denman of Toledo.
 Judges of supreme court. James L. Price of Lima, and John A. Spauck of Dayton.
 All For Taft.
 Unanimity for William H. Taft as
  President was the feature of the To- publican state convention which today selected four delegates at large to the national convention and instructed them to vote for MT. Taft until he Is nomina ted" The names of Cover nor Harris Former Governor Herrick. Arthur I. Vorys and Charles P. Taft as delegates at large, were presented to the convention by Congressman Mich olas Lon ngworth. whose memory failed after he started to deliver a prepared speech and he was compelled to fn- ish by reading from the manuscript. MT. Longworth was quick to recover from his embarrassment and was greeted with hearty applause at the conclusion of his address.
 Mention of President Roosevelt's name as well as that of MT. Taft was received with vociferous applause. notable ovation was rendered to Con gressman Theodore Burton of Cleve- land. chairman of the committee on res olutions. who presented the platform which was unanimously adopted. The platform indorses the policies inaugiir- sted under the administrations of Presi- dent Roosevelt and Governor Harris. The decla rations for revision of the tariff, by friends of protection at an extra session of Congress, a greater merchant marine and an adequate navy the speedy completion of the Panama canal, the enforcement of the civil and political rights of the negro, and that there be neither halt nor re- rteat sounded in the march toward better government" were among those features of the platform which were epplauded by the delegates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05
BRUTAL MURDER BY
 UNKNOWN PERSONS
FARMER IS KILLED AND WIFE FATALLY INJURED WITH AN Ax-TWo NEGROES CHARGED WITH THE CRIME.

Hawkinsville Ga, March 4.--W arren Hart, a farmer, living near Empire, Ga, was killed while going to feed his stock early today, and his wife was fatally in- jured while preparing breakfast in the kitchen of their home by unknown per- sons. Robbery is believed to have been the motive.
 Both Hart and his wife were attacked with an ax, Harts head being badly crushed. Excitmenet In that section is said to be at fever heat Two negroes have been arrested charged with tho crime and lynching may follow.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05
Populists for Bryan.

Omaha, March 4.-The populist state convention which meets in Omaha to- morrow will indorse William J. Bryan for President and If delegates are named fori the poptflist nat onal convention they will be instructed 1ntc for Bryan indolsernent. A full attendareee is ex- pected by those populist leaders who are already here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05
AWFUL HOLOCAUST BLOTS OUT LIVES
 OF NEARLY TWO HUNDRED CHILDREN
COTTON GAMBLING IS
 UTTERLY CONDEMNED

Washington March 4.-Declaring that the practices of the New York cotton exchange were intolerable and that the cotton growers of the south had deter mined to use all lawful means to end them, MT. Sims of Tennessee today in the House of Representatives advocated the passage of the Burleson bill prohibit ing the use of the mail, telegraph and telephones for dealing in cotton futures where the delivery and acceptance of actual cotton is not intended. He said if there was any good left in the New York cotton exchange it was so over shadowed by the bad as to make 1t de- sirable to wipe out the good rather than to longer tolerate the bad effects of its reprehensible practices.
 Mir. Sims asserted that there was no legitimate benefit to the cotton indus try of the United States in any form, growing out of transactions on the cot ton exchanges of this county as now con- ducted. Dealing in cotton futures was denounced as "an unmitgated evil,' with no compensating advantages. He said the largest crop of cotton ever grown in the United States was in round num- bers 13,500,0o0 bales, and in the same year this crop was grown the sales for fu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05

BACK poor Eocked.
 The statement that the back door or the building was locked is made by Walter c. Kelley, the editor of the sporting de- partment of the Cleveland Leader, two of whose children were killed
 As soon as the alarm was given Mrs. Kelley ran from her home, which is not far from the school house. to the burning building. The front portion of the struc- ture was a mass of flames and frenzied by the screams of the dying children which reached her from the death trap at the foot of the first flight of stars, and behind that closed doors, Mrs. Kelley ran
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24
TABERNACLE COURSE.
Season Tickets Are Selling
Rapidly.

We are having great success list
ing season tickets, all the old pat
rons subscribing, with many new
subscribers. From present indica-
tons the course this season will be
a big success. AS it is quite imposf
sible this year to make our usual
canvass, we are afraid some of our
regular season ticket holders may be
overlooked, and for this reason we
urge you to have your name in the
list, as the season tickets will be re-
served Monday morning at 10 o'clock
at the office of the Bank of Hopkins
Vile. We will reserve season tickets
here, as Anderson & Fowler's drug
store may be all torn up by the con-
tractors, who are to make extensive
improvements in this business house.
We hope to get back to our old
reserving place in the near future.
We are not selling season tickets this
season, with the old plea, the Tab
ernacle is in debt. or the Tabernacle
needs the money" but on the basis
that you get value received for your
money. This is such relief. We
hope this season to be able to place
some good comfortable opera chairs
in the Tabernacle, and the profits
this season will go to this end. We
are not little proud of the course
this season, on which will be three
men very much in the public eye
just at present: Hon. Joseph w.
Folk, Governor of Missouri; DR..
Jshn Merritte Driver, Of Chicago,
orator, traveller and world citizen;
Judge Willis Brown, Judge of the
Salt Lake juvenile court. We will
have four of the best musical num-
bers to be found in the lyceum bust
ness; The Rogers-Grilley Recitals,
these charming entertainers have
been together for Is years; The In
ternational Symphony Club, with
May Fay Sherwood, soprano, one of
the highest priced and best musicals
ever brought here; The Artist Trio
and the Four Great Musical Stars
Company. Everyone likes a good
first class magician. and this season
we have the best in Karl German,
who will have with him this season a
company of English society enter
tainers.
This completes the course, and we
guarantee that every number will
please. and that you will all say this
is the best course we have ever Of
fered.
Union Tabernacle Association.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24

The November Everybody's is an
election number. That is, three out
Of the seven articles in it are par
ticuiarly pertinent at this time
First Of all, a real national cleo
tion issue-"The independence of
the Philippines discussed by
William Howard Taft and William
jennings Bryan. while Eleanor
Franklin Egan contributes a plain
statement of the work that has been
done by the United States in the
Island.
William Hard's series "The Wo-
mans Invasion" has its first INSTALL
ment in this number. 1t really in
wolves, at bottom. the question:
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24
A sAFETY ENVELOPE.
Ingenious Device For Double Locking
Letter.

ingenious Device For Double Locking
Letter.
A new envelope made in Paris Is
proof against the thief or the meddler
who opens letter to extract or to read
its contents and then reseals it so clev-
erly as to hide any sign of its having
been tempered with.
The new envelope is really two en-
velopes, says the New York Sun. Each
is of thin paper, one q pronounced blue,
the other lighter in color and different
In texture. Each has a gummed flap,
The letter is first placed in the blue
envelope, which is slightly smaller
than the other. Instead of sealing this
it is placed in the outer envelope and
the inner flap brought outside and
gummed down on to the larger en-
velope.
The outer flap is still unsealed. 1t Is
much larger than the inner flap and
reaches down to good sized star
shaped opening, which shows through
TO the inner envelope, so that when the
outer flap is sealed it sticks not only
to the outer envelope, but also through
this opening to the inner one. The let
ter is thus practically locked and
double locked.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24
FoorwAYs FROM BELOW.

~ of the anchorage. In laying the ca
bles the wire will be drawn to and fro
across the bridge until the necessary
256 wires have been placed TO form
strand. At each anchorage and on a
series of wooden trestles, two on each
end span and five on the main span,
erected on the working platform, Is
series of sheaves or pulleys on which
the wire in making up strand is laid.
There are four of these sheaves at
each anchorage and on each trestle, so
that four strands may be in the proc
ess of assembling at the same time,
two being woven few feet to the right
of the main cable and two a few feet
to the left thereof. AS soon as a strand
is completed it will be lifted out Of its
set Of sheaves and transferred to the
main saddles, Of which there is one fo
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24
Old lime Favorite.

The success Of Tempest and Sun
shine" last season was the talk Of
the Theatrical profession and theatre
going public in general. The play
is dramatization Of Mary j. Holmesy
noted book. The stage mounting
which w. F Mann has given the t6sy
and the excellent company whichhe
cas- engaged for this season, will no
doubt eclipse the financial results Of
last season. Tempest and Sunshine"
will be seen at Hopkinsville on No
vember IL.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24

What is the effect Of four millions
Of workingmen upon this country,
upon men, upon children? And is
the working woman 3 success. phys
ically, economically, morally? This
is going, undoubtedly. to- be the
most talked Of series Of articles Of
the year.
Forward, Citizens. to the Firing
Linel" is Charles Edward Russell's
patriotic exhortation, embodying
three ways in which those who have
the common good at heart may rem
der practical good to the country.
1t is valuable and uplifting con-
structive argument.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24
Remains of a Mammoth In California,

Remains of a Mammoth In California
The remains of a prehistoric elephant
of mammoth proportions were I'M
earthed recently in the bed of small
creek in Puddingstone canyon, half a
mile north of San Dimas, by Professor
A. ]. Cook, head of the department of
biology Of Pomona college, California,
and Edward z. Terry, student. The
bone frame, which is in a fair state OF
preservation. measures twenty-six feet
in length and sixteen feet in height, and
what remains Of each Of the enormous
tusks is ten feet long. The parts of
the huge skeleton that could be safely
handled were removed carefully to
Claremont and are to be placed in the
museum Of Pomona college. The dis
covery was accidental The skeleton
lay diagonally across the stream with
only six inches of ground over it.
Scientific American.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24
srRINGING THE CABLES.
Preliminary Work on the Latest New
York Bridge.

The work of stringing the cables Of
the Manhattan bridge, the fourth to
Cross the East river New York, has
begun Before the stringing of the
cables could be undertaken II was nee
essary to construct footways, or work
ing platforms, view of which is here
with shown.
The weight of the four great cables
IN their completed condition will be
$500 tons. Each cable win be built up
OF thirty-seven strands. each three and
one-half inches in diameter. each
strand consisting of 256 wires. At the
anchorages the strands will pass
around sheaves. held by the massive
anchorage beams which are already
in place, firmly imbedded in the mason
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24
COOLING ships, Cabins.

Steamship men are much interested
In the latest innovation, made by the
United Fruit company, which has been
Incorporated in the ships built in Bel
fast and now on the New Orleans
Colon run. These vessels have refrig-
Grating plants with connections in ev-
cry cabin, and the passengers can turn
on cold air just as those in an apart
ment house turn on heat in winter.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24
Poultry Printing.

We have very large and COM
plete line of poultry cuts and are
prepared to do any and all kinds of
printing for poultry raisers at low
prices.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24

No Horses on Bolivian Farms.
No horses are to be seen on the
farms in Bolivia, bullocks or oxen be-
ing universally employed.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24

FOR rem cottage of five
rooms, near business section. In
quire at this office.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-24

each cable at the top OF the towers
and one at each abutment
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-04-30
LEMoNs KILL aERMs.

The hygienic properties Of lemons,
which contain citric acid, have been
we'll known for many years, but it is
only lately that scientists discovered
the acid was powerful enough to kill
the germ of typhoid fever in twenty
four hours. Some typhoid fever ha-
cilli treated with raw lemon Juice and
placed in the sunshine were killed in
two hours, the sunshine proving a
quick agent in connection with the
medicinal properties OF the fruit.
Lemons have been found beneficial In
the worst forms of smallpox and chol-
era. so 1t is well to know the medici-
nal properties Of a harmless yet pow
erful fruit acid.-Indianapolis News
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-04-30
EIeetrIo go Van.

Since Aug. /, two electrically driven
vans have been used in Hamburg for
collecting and carrying letters from
the outlying to the central ONCE. Ac
eording to the Rundschau fur Electro
technik und Maschinenbau the yehi-
cles carry a battery whose caapcity is
90 ampere-hours and two 25 horse
power motors. The standard speed IS
about ten miles per hour The reoep-
tacle for the letter bags extends from
the drivers seat 70 the rear axel II
Is provided With movable sides which
slide IN slots. and which. when remov-
ed, permit the rapid unloading or
loading Of the sacks, A small box
placed Immediately under the drivers
seat Is used for the conveyance Of
registered packages -Engineer.