The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-05-28
Prime Minister Asquith took .
long step Wednesday in the direction

OF encouraging the claims OF women
for enfranchisement when he replied
to an important delegation of radical
members of the house of commons,
who were reputed to obtain his views
on this matter. He declared that the
government intended before the close
Of the present parliament to pass a
comprehensive measure of electoral
reform. He said he was not himself
an advocate of woman suffrage, but
he had an open mind on the subject,
and if an amendment was introduced
to the projected reform bill favor
ing women suffrage on Democratic
lines, the government would not OPP
pose it.
at is my verdict that the body so
viewed is that of Mrs. Belle Guinness,
and she came to her death through
felonious homicide and that the per-
petrator thereof is to me unknown.
(Signed) C. S. Mack, Coroner"
Such was the verdict rendered late
Wednesday afternoon by Coroner
Mack. The official declaration that
the body of the adult female found
in the ruins of the fire of April 20,
which destroyed the home of Mrs.
Belle Guinness, was that of Mrs.
Guinness, is the sequel to the report
cf DR.. l. P. Norton, Mrs. Guinness
dentist, that the bridges holding
various false and gold-flled teeth,
were those of Mrs. Guinness.
The body of an actress known as
Mrs. J. M. Ramsey was found
Thursday in a small lake near Gaha-
gan, La. she had been several
months at Gahagan, to which place
she and her husband came with a
small show. The appearance of the
body indicated that she had been
struck over the head and shoulders
with a blunt instrument. She was
last seen Saturday. Her husband left
Gahagan Sunday and is now sup
posed to be in Alexandria, La. Let
tiers found on her person seem to
have been written by relatives in
Broken Arrow, Okla. The signature
of these have been blotted out.
A compromise has been agreed on
practically in the Hollowell night
rider damage suits at Paducah, Ky.
1t is reliably reported that the de-
PENDANTS will pay the plaintiffs $780,
900 and all costs. The plaintiffs
asked for $4,000. John G. Miller,
chief counsel for the plaintiffs went
to Evansville, Ind, to confer with
his clients, and it is reported he will
recommend the above settlement.
Not a railroad in Oklahoma was
in operation Sunday night as a re-
suit of heavy rains and cloudbursts,
which occurred the past three days.
The last road to suspend operations
was the Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
which was forced to quit at noon
Sunday, when the bridge on the main
line at Eufaula, went down.
Mrs. Emma Moore Barret of Aus
tin, Tex, announced at the natios-
al Sunshine convention at Houston
donation by her of a ten-acre tract
of land on the Palisades of the Colo
RADIO river, near Austin, for home
for Predetermined children. John H.
Kirby has donated lumber for the
building.
Georgia's first carload of peaches
was shipped from Montezuma Friday
night and goes to New York markets.
1t is predicted that this seasons out
put will be between 5000 and 5000
cars, the largest in the history Of
Georgia, and it is estimated the crop
will be worth $3,000,000.
Unless the state department of the
United States interferes, the eXpe-
dition sent by Yale University to
recover the remains of prehistoric
CLANS on Desolation islands, in the
Antarctic ocean, will be contiscated
on its arrival at that place by the
French government.
T. O. Durham was shot through
the heart and instantly killed while
in DR.. Casey's drug store at Gle
burne, Texas. Mart Black, an en-
nloyee of the Santa Fe railroad, and