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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
No Shots Were Fired.
TO BUILD BIG WARsHIP.
Is Is To Be Named "Grand Army of
the Republic"

Marion, o., Aug. "A movement
to raise money by popular subscrip-
ton to build a mammoth United States
battieship was inaugurated by Owen
Gray Post, Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, at Larimie, this county.
The only request to be made of the
national government, according to the
resolutions adopted by the post, is
that the battleship shall bear the name
Grand Army of the Republic, as a
memorial to the veterans of the civil
war.
1t is expected that every grand army
post in this country will take up the
movement. Contributions of one dol
lar or more are to be received from
all citizens.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07

seThey speak too late. 1ney have
sinned away their day of grace. Their
repentance comes after the clock has
struck IL.
''For the moment we believe that
they would be willing to do a little
temporary housecleaning If by that
means they could check the overwhelm-
ing wave of the peoples indignation.
But their past proves that this means
only that
''The devil was sick. the devil saint
would be.
The devil got well: the devil a saint was
he.''
Or when the Milwaukee Journal says
June 10:
IF those brewers had awakened al
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
Central Railroad Moves offices

Atlanta, Aug. &c. C. Williams,
of Macon, secretary of the Central
Railroad of Georgia, has arrived in
the city, and is busy in the establish
ment of the offices of the official force
of the railroad in the Gambler build
ing. Major J. F. Hanson, presi-
dent, will arrive in the city about the
10th of August
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
Pirates Rob Fish Trans.

Bellingham, Wash, Aug. a.-Two
armed pirates rode up to fish trap
at the Alaska Packers association,
just south of Point Roberts, Friday,
disarmed the watchman, bound and
gagged him and made off with 5 900
salmon worth $4,000 Beside the fish
they stole, they allowed %, 900 more
fish to escape.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
one.cent Stamp Caused KiIIinq.

Wharton, Tex, July 2s.-R. P.
Pointer shot and killed G w. Jack
son at Pierce, Tex, Wednesday, The
men quarreled over one-cent postage
stamp. Jackson had mailed letters
with only one cent postage and Point
er who had charge of the postoffice,
called his attention to the matter. A
quarrel ensued resulting in the shoot.
ing
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
Brewers
'' Saints
Would Be- .
!,
Nations BeermakerS Confess
themselves LaWbreakers, but
Plead another Chance"
WOULD FEED BABIES BEER"

MiIwaukee's Notorious Mayor We'll
comes Drunkard Makers With Beery
EIoquence-While Convention Is De-
cIaring ."Prohbition Fake" More
Than 200 Carloads of Saloon Fix
lures Returned From New Made
Prohibition States Lie Stored In
Warehouses.
Especial Correspondence
Milwaukee, Wis.-While floods of
beer fed eIoquence and alcoholic assault
upon Prohibition filed the halls and
corridors of Milwaukee auditoriums
few days since. one of the most i'm
pressiye proofs that Prohibition does
prohibit lay concealed in the mammoth
warehouses of the local beermakers.
Prohibition is a fake, a failure and
never did prohibit" was the vociferous
text of every session. and yet in the
current number of the American
Brewer Der Amerikanische Bier
brauer. copies of which were in cir
eulation at the convention, and which,
as bsilfJlfshed in New York, is "desig-
mated by the United States Brewers
association for the publication of Of
fetal communications" there occurs
the following editorial, which throws
a. startling light upon all the fair
words. of the sugar coated appeal to
the public" issued by this convention.
This editorial in the American Brewer
Is MS. follows:
Some Effects of Prohibition" as Seen
by the American Brewer.
milwaukee, and Wisconsin have Suf-
fered more serious injury from the
Prohibition movement than the aver
age citizen of that state realize. Thou
sands of woodworkers. glassblowers,
skilled artisans and common laborers
have been thrown out of employment.
The Prohibition agitation has even af-
fected the cigarmakerS Within the
past six months four large cigarmak-
ers' unions in Wisconsin alone have
been disbanded as a result of the eco
nomic conditions growing out of the
enforcement of Prohibition laws
"Milwaulee breweries have been put
TO the necessity of recalling close to
200 carloads of fixtures from different
Eections of the United States where
Prohibition has been pct into effect.
''According to Colonel Gus G. Pabst,
the average expenditure per annum is
S20000.000 by breveries and distiller-
les for new buildings. machinery i'm
provementS and repairs The present
year will. as he says. see not to exceed
S500,000 expended in this direction if
the first three rlo.ths can be taken as
an index to what will be done in the
last three-auarters of the year.
What the American Brewer Forgot to
Say.
OF course in this connection the
American Brewer forgot to refer to
the hundreds and thousands of work
men who. once victims of these brew
ers' saloons. but now freed from their
temptation. have at last begun to Sc
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
Racing Association Indicted.

New York, Aug. 1.-The Brighton
Beach Racing association which con-
cluded a racing meet at the Brighton
Beach track on Wednesday was indict
ed by the Kings county grand jury on
charge of aiding gamblers to violate
the new anti-gambling laws.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
Gov. Little in sanitarium-

St. Joseph. Mo-, July 31.-Gover
nor John S. Little, of Arkansas, mas
been placed in sanitarium here He
has been suffering from a nervous
breakdown. almost ever since his elec.
ton, which has developed almost
acute melancholia. His condition is
not encouraging.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07

Rome, Aug. cardinal Gibbons,
of Baltimore, was received in private
audience by the pope Saturday morn
ing. The pontiff was cordial and held
mis- guest in conversation for a long
time.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
Death of c e, BIount

Wrightsville, Ca, Aug. &C. e.
Blount, assistant cashier OF the Bank
of Wrightsville, died at his home in
this city Sunday morning after an i'll
ness lasting about one week. Mr..
Blount had been in bad health for
some time.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07

Atlanta to become night editor of the
'Constitution when 81 years of age, and
two years later was promoted to the man
aging editorship of that paper-a distinc-
tion probably unprecedented for a man
of his years in the history of Southern
journalism. He is the author of play
soon to be staged by Nixon & Zimmer-
Fman, and has written a number of short
stories, descriptive articles and essays.
He is his fathers literary executor, ana
not only are "Uncle Remus's" last writ
ings in his possession, but through his col
laboration with his father on two impor-
tant unpublished works-which will be
given to the public during the year-and
his intimate acquaintance with the pur-
poses and ideals of his father, he is emf
nently fitted to carry out the cherished
plans of the founder of the Magazine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
Feudist Captured and Jailed.

Lexington, Ky, July 31-Henry
Tharp, the Breathitt county feudist,
who caused reign of terror on last
Wednesday when adjudged insane by
arming himself and defying arrest,
was captured and placed in an asylum
here Friday
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
Ieander Crew Won Race

Henley, July 31.-The Leander crew
beat the Belgians in the eight
Dared race held here in connection
with the international Olympic regat-
IA Friday.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07

Nashville, July 29-At Decatur, Ala.
Carl Cartwright, prominent Athens,
Ala. merchant, was run over by a
Louisville and Nashville freight train
and both legs mashed off. He was
taken to Athens, where he died soon
after his arrival.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
GRAVES WILL STUMP STATE,
independence Party viii Oppose Joe
Browns Election.

Browns Election.
Atlanta, Aug. lit is stated that
John Temple Graves, who was nomin-
ated for vice president and as run
ming mate with Thomas l.. Hisgen,
nominee of the Independent party for
president, together with other lead
ers, will arrive in Atlanta within few
days for the purpose of organizing for
the sixty-day gubernatorial campaign,
and for naming candidate to oppose
the election of Governor-elect Joseph
NJ Brown.
The campaign managers hope to Sc
cure Hearst Tor four campaign speech
es in Georgia; Howard, of Alabama
vice chairman of the national conven-
ton, has promised to deliver six stump
speeches and John Temple Graves
will stump the state. 1t is stated that
the Independent party confidently ex-
pect to carry Georgia for governor.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
Hot Day in CHICAGO.

Chicago, July 81. Thursday was
the hottest of the recent torrid wave.
the thermometer at 10 o'clock regis
tering 81 degrees. Up to That hour
one death and several prostrations
had been reported.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07

Montgomery, Ala, July 90.-Rev.
George j. Mason, oldest Methodist
minister in the state, was buried at
Columbiana Wednesday. He was past
ninety-two years of age.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
Personal Liberty.

The worst thing about sowing Of
wild oats is that they take root in
other peoples fields. = Western Re-
cOrder
Does your vote go for the HER
AIDS S success?
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07

Why is Prohibition sweeping the
country? Some definite answers to
this question will be sent any one who
incloses a two cent stamp to Charles r.
Jones. 90 La Sale street, Chicago.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
ated in public places under liquor
licenses. but we offer no remedy"
What the Daily Press Thinks of the


That was the situation nineteen
years. ago, and the liquor traits was
then making the same kind of ZAP
peals to the public" and pledges of
reformation which now fill the hour
with its clamor
Is 1t any wonder that, in view OF
these unfulflled promises and broken
pledges to state and nation. the daily
press should voice public opinion on
the. subject. as does the Philadelphia
North American when it says editori-
ally June u:
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
DISPATCHES IN BRIEF
Summary Of a Weeks News sl's q
the World. j
CULLED FOR BUSY READERS
condersation Of TeIegraphic Dispatch
- -
es Or rhe Ready Perusal of Thcse
Too Busy to Read the. Longer Az
counts.

w. H. White, Sr., pioneer citizsn
of Atlanta and confederate veteran.
Is dead. He was sixty-four years of
age. .s A.
Eight additional deaths: :frussa--- ehol,
era nave been reported frop Tsarit
syn and seven from Astrakhan, Rus
sia.
Will Fits, aged twenty-four,. was hit
on the neck with. a-bat. while playing
ball at Oenaville, Tex. ). CAUSING. his
death a few hours. later. ss.t$e y..5
Dorando, the:Ital1an7 runner who cpl
lapsed in the Marathon race, makes
the statement that he will in the fu-
ture run as a professional in shorter
distances than the Marathon. -
Invitations have been sent to Will
liam H. Taft and William J Bryan,
the rival presidential candidates, TO
attend the interstate fair and exhibit
ton in Denver in September and de-
liver addresses.
REPRESENTATIVES Llewellyn Powers,
of the fourth Maine Congressional dis
trict, died of Bright's disease. Mr..
Powers served as governor OF Maine
for two terms and was serving his
sixth term in congress.
The young Turk committee at Salo-
niki has requested the Austro-Hunga-
rian and Russian civil agents to
leave Macedonia, asserting tnat un-
der the new constitutional regime in
ternational supervision in Macedonia
will no longer be necessary.
Chairman Mack, of the national
democratic committee, has announced
that branch headquarters with JonD
e. Osborne, national committeeman
from Wyoming, in charge, will be
opened in Denver the last month of the
present campaign.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
Killed by Sting of BumbIebee.

Mansfield, o., July S1-Laban
Pollock died here from the effects of
being stung by humble bees. He was
about seventy-one years of age.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07

San Francisco, CAL, Aug. Ma.
jor General Hamford. paymaster of
the Southern Pacific Railroad compa-
ny, has rendered his resignation, to
take effect Aug. 4, on which date he
will have completed his fortieth year
of service In the company's employ.
His action Is entirely voluntary
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07

A series of terrific Thunder and rair
storms have caused destruction and
heavy loss of life in the Austrian
Tyrol.
After suffering for nineteen years
from elephantiasis. Mrs. Anna E.
Lynch died at her home near McKees.
port, Pa. At her death she weighed
$40 pounds.
The body of the drowned man at
Gravesend Bay, which was supposed
to be that of Harry Cornish, has been
identified as that of Owen Mccarthy,
foreman of a box factory in New
York city
Fire at the plant of the E. b. Jones
Steel Bali Bearing company, a short
distance outside the city of Buffalo,
N. Y, caused a loss of $3.50, 600,
partly covered by insurance.
The international Olympic regatta
came to an end Friday with a.sweep-
ing victory for the United Kingdom
oarsmen, who have defeated all the
continental rowers who participated In
the races. -.
Mike Scrack, of Cincinnati, and Jack
johnson, the negro heavyweight; have
been matched to box twenty rounds at
the National Sporting club in Lon
don, on Oct. 10, for the worlds cham:
pionship for neavyweights.
l.. N. SCOTT, of ST. Paul, and A .
Leo Stevens, the we'll known aeronaut
have completed the preliminary ar
rangements for a balloon race to take
place from st. Paul, or Minneapolis
about Sept. 1. The race viii be open
to all corners and. suitable prizes will
be offered.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
WHOLESALE...HANG|NG
-Four Negroes Lynched at Rus
sellviIle, Ky.
BY A MOB OF FIFTY MEN
The Lynching Was Quietly Accom-
pIished, No One Knowing of II un-
til Bodies Were Seen Dangling from
Trees the Following Morning.

RusselIville, KY, Aug. -Four
cegroes, Virgil, Tom and Robert Jones
and Joe Riley, were taken from jail
mere early Saturday and hanged to a
tree on the edge Of town.
No shots were fired by the mob.
which was composed of about fifty
men, and the people of the town knew
nothing of the affair until daylight
revealed the four bodies dangling from
a tree Just outside Russellville on the
Nashville pike. The following note
was pinned on one of the bodies.
Posted Warning.
Let this be a warning to you mig.
gers to let white people alone. or you
will go the same way. Hugh Rogers
better shut up or quit.
The negroes who were lynched were
members of lodge and at meeting
recently, it is said. they approved OF
the murder of James Cunningham,
white farmer, by his negro tenant, Ru-
fus Browder.
The Cunningham murder occurred
IN the southern part OF Logan county,
and it is supposed that the mob was
made up of men from that part of the
country.
The negroes had been in Jail for
several days, and while there had been
considerable unrest since the attempt
on the part of the mob to take Brow
der, the slayer of Cunningham, from
the jail, some nights ago, no real trou-
bic was anticipated, and there was
no guard around the prison.
The effort to get Browder failed,
owing to the fact that he was spirited
out of Jail by the sheriff and sent to
Bowling Green and later to Louisville,
where he is now confined, awaiting
trial
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
Mob Came Quietly.

The mob came into town so quietly
that not one of the residents of the
city was awakened from their slum-
ber Proceeding at once to the coln-
ty jail, the jailer, Jake Butts, was
summoned to the door, his residence
being directly connected with the pris-
on. When he made his appearance
he found himself covered with rifles
and shotguns and was given the COM
mand to turn over the keys of the Jail
or be shot down.
After short parley with the men,
bers of the mob in which he tried to
persuade them to go away without
doing any violence, he was finally
forced to nand over the keys.
The mob then entered the Jail, and,
finding the four negroes, forced them
to go with them. Two of the men,
not being given time to dress, were
taken along in their night shirts, and
the. whole party proceeded at once to
the tree on the outskirts of he city
on the Nashville pike, where the ne
groes were strung up in row.
No Shots Were Fired.
Contrary to the usual custom of
m0bs no shots were fired at the swing
ing victims, and the mob dispersed
as soon as it had finished it's work
There is no clew to the members
of the band, as the jailer, the only
person who saw them, failed to get
a good look at them and would not
recognize them.
The bodies of the negroes were cut
down during the morning.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07

Beaufort, g.. c.. has voted bonds for
an electric lighting system.
Andrew Kiser, a well known bro
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07

s1airing word OF the convicted crlrr11s==z-..
before the sentence of doom is pro-
nounced at the ballot box.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07

An 100000 fire has occurred in the
business section of Quanah, Tex.
Americus, Ca, has received ner
first two bales of the new cotton crop
The trademark and copyright treaty
between America and Japan has been
passed by the privy council
Caterpillers have appeared in
southwest Georgia. There is much
uneasiness among the cotton Planters,
Charles E. Meyer has been re-elect-
ed president OF. the Western Fedora
tion of Miners at the Denver eonven-
ton.
T. A. Mcintyre & Co., a prominent
stock exchange house of New York,
Is reported to have failed for over
a million and half dollars.
A riot occurred among native and
foreign miners at the Providence coal
mines in Belmont county, Ohio. Off
GERS quelled the disturbance.
Former Governor Lanham, of Tex
as, died at his home in Weatnerford
after an illness of several weeks,
aged sixty-nine years. He~.-was a
native of South Carolina.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
in the United States district court in
Nashville, against the Empire Coal
company, whose mines are located in
Western Kentucky. The petition al
leges that the company is insoivent.
A special to the El Paso Herald
from Del Rio says it is epcrted~there
that Mexican troops and revolutionists
had an engagement IN Mexico opposite
Comstock, Tex, and chat two Ameri-
can residents of Mexico were Xxi. ID.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-08-07
TSnecial Correspondence.1

OF course in this connection the
American Brewer forgot to refer to
the hundreds and thousands of work
men who. once victims of these brew
ers' saloons. but now freed from their
temptation. have at last begun to Sc
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-23
Starfish Has Habits.

Professor II. S. Jennings Of Johns
Hopkins university, who has been con-
nected with the University of Cali
fornia in a number of experiments OF
several months duration at the uni
versity's marine biological laboratory
at La Jolla, has discovered that no ami
NAL known Is so low as the startish.
He has demonstrated that the animal
Is at the very bottom Of animal species.
The starfsh is shown to have com
plicated life and many extraordinary
ways OF helping itself On its back II
bears about %. 600 small jaws, or hands,
arranged in rings and bands. These
attack fercely any creature that mo-
Tests the startish. They seize and
hold crabs and other creatures TIL they
die. Ply their aid the starfish captures
many animals for food. Even quick,
active fish of considerable size are sur
prised by these jaws. seized. held and
eaten. No animal so low as the star
fish has before been known to form
aabits-to learn to do things in q err
tain definite way. To test whether the
starfish can DO this number OF speci-
mems were trained for laUr time to
right themselves in certain definite
ways BY this method 1t was found
that the startish very readily acquires
what may be called temporary habits.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-23

played"
Matthews evaded the question. II
seen one of the Clark outfit" he con-
tinued land tried t. git him t. bother
old limpy. Says I, 'They's stealth
your slow elk down there Wasn't any
use. 'Thunderstlonv says the COW
punch. You mean that bull7 He was
a yearlin' when he come to 'em. That's
maverick age"
Brnden sneered. Such a kidw he
murmured. "why didn't you lay low
and not 80 butting down their door
why didn't you lose the old man and
snub up one Of the glrls-marry her I
Big ones a rip snortin' beauty; pert,
by lingo, as a prairie dogw
"she'd send me aHyin'," urged Mat.
thews. But TIL little one
Sure. You're a good looker-hand.
someif you'd fix yourself up some"
"If could git rid OF the old man! II
I could Aw, come t. think, what got
that lout Of a brother for? Easy-with
Indians to lay It on. Blaze the way fol-
'Ba'be'--hes a saphead--but he knows
enough to follow spotted line"
Go careful"
'T'll try to scare EN- Off"
Huh! Folks that amt afraid to
come this far in a schooner, Indians OF
no Indians, amt likely to stampede at
one white"
you don't know how mean"
GO ahead. No use our brayin' like
starved jackasses. DO somethin'. You
was a fool to ever let 'em winter"
Matthews clinched his fists WELL"
he said. they won't winter again.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-23
ITO BE CONTINUED.)
Jsps Taking Up CoHinq.

A. NJ Loughncy. an athlete. who has
been studying jim iitsu in Japan. say
that the ,Japs are beginning to take :,
great interest in American boxing ana
that great prize tighter will uniOuht-
eddy be turned out by that country
some day.
THE Jap" says Longhney. "is by ma.
ture n fighter. If he turns to priz,
fighting he would be more of fighter
than boxer. His head and jaw are
shaped like n lighting animals, and he
has what pri2" fighters call the heart
He can fight II losing battle like ~
lrishman. In studying jiu jitsu | have
found that the Japanese are not near,
as susceptible to pain as we are. in
jitsu Is terribly painful and dangeroua
II they can stand that. they could
stand prize fighting and not mind the
punishment.
II taught number how to box Will,
in Japan. They know very little about
II. but learned with remarkable quick
ness on account of their much nor,
rapid sword play, Their main disad
vantage IL in the shortncss Of thclI
each. "-Baltim0rc News
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-23
Childless Hores.

Mrs Frederick Dent Grant. Mrs.
Clarence Burns. president Of the Little
Mothers Aid association; Mrs. william
Dowell, the Chicago settlement work
er. are cooperating in a plan 10 bring
the 10000 homeless children of this
country to the attention of the 2.0W-
600 childless homes thai are said 70 ey-
list. short histories and photographs Of
the children who are candidates for
adoption will be published In n popular
magazine, and the women who are ~
teresting themselves in the work ha-
lleve that homes will be found for most
of the homeless little ones.