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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
BIG POSSE IS
 AFTER NEGRO Attempted Assault In
 Butler. NEIGHB0RS ARE AROUSED Young Black Entered Room of Miss
 Watson. Bloodhounds Are Called For and the Fiend Is surrounded In swsmps ; Near Georsiana--Lynehing
 Is Very Probable.

Georgisna, Aug. is-(special.l-- Great excitement prevails at Avant. three miles east of Georgiana. over an attempt to rape.
 At { o'clock this morning. John Y. Watson aroused a negro boy who is working on his place and had him make fire In stove to cook breakfast Miss Brown. who is engaged as a housemaid, had gotten up and was getting break fast. Miss Brown and watson,s 1s-year- old daughter occupy a bedroom togeth- CT. adjoining Mrs. watson's room
 when Miss Brown went to the store room this negro boy stole around and entered the bedroom through the win dow and was in the act of crawling in the bed where the ls-year-old girl was lying asleep when Mrs. Watson saw him through the door between and gave the alarm
 The negro escaped through the win dow where he made entrance and ran to the woods. pursued by Mfr. Watson. father of the child.
 The alarm was given generally and the neikhbors were soon in hot chase.
 The negro went in the direction of Mckenzie and passed through that place about o'clock. The crowd of pursuers had grown to some twenty five or fifty. who are bent on hIs cap ture. They had gotten bloodhounds at o'clock and had the negro surroundsa in the swamp near shreves.
 1T captured he wiil die by the unwrir- ten law.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
: ARMED POSSE HUNTS
 FOR SLAYER OF WOMAN

Newago. Mich, Aug 1s.-A posse of fifty armed men Is securing a swamp near here. having been led to the place by bloodhounds started from the farm house where Mrs. Minnie conley was found stabbed to death yesterday.
 For sixteen years the woman had been known as Mrs. John Conley. but 1t seems she had gone to live with Con- visit of John Ward, who deserted her twenty years ago at White Hall. Mich, and the disappearance of Ward since the murder adds mystery to the trag- edy
 Letters in Wards coat pocket indi- cated, that in November. 1905. he had a wife, Ella Conley, in Jacksonville, Fla. .-..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
MISSISSIPPI MERCHANTS
 FIGHT 4 FATAL DUEL

Robinsonville. Miss. Aug 1s-H. B. Suber and J. H. Gilmore. rival mer- chants, fought a duel with pistols in front of the store of the former here tonight. ea'
 Suber was shot in the breast His pistol failed to explode, but he re- treated to his store and seizing a shot gun, emptied the contents Into Gil- more's back as the latter was leaving the scene 4 special train was at once ordered and both of the wounded men were conveyed to Memphis hospitals
 Little hope Is entertained for the re- covery of either of the men.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
PROF. PARKER DEAD
END COMES TO A DISTINGUISHED
 EDUCATOR.
He Had a Chair at the University of .. Alabama FOrty-three Years .5 Dies in AshvflIe,

Tuscaloosa. Aug. (special)- William Asa Parker. forty-three years a professor at the University of Ala bama, died this morning at g o'clock at Asheville, N. c.
 pr. Parker had been In, Ill health for some weeks and had gone to Ashe- vile, thinking the change would do him good. Reports from him were not very encouraging and the news of his death was received here today
 His body will arrive here tomorrow The funeral will occur In this city.
 pr. Parker had wide acquaintance. He reared large family and several of his sons are prominent men.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
FEAR RACE TROUBLE
 IN TEXAS COMMUNITY

Palestine. Texas. Aug. 1s--The situa> ton in the community three miles west of Palestine, Anderson County. is caus- ing great apprehension.
 Yesterday a large party of mounted farmers severely whipped a negro whom they claim made improper re- marks to a white girl. Other negroes learning of this. held meeting at which threats of retaliation were made and the farmers gathered and equipped themselves for any emergency
 The ringleaders were arrested today and tried before a justice of the peace charged with disturbing the peace and holding an unlawful meeting and were heavily fined.
 While tonight everything is quiet, tilS situation is considered serious. Gov ernor Campbell is now spending his vacation here.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
Mop aIEMBERs FINED.

Norfolk, Va, Aug. 19. Ten of the fourteen, men charged with participat- ing in the attack made ,pn the county Jaii last week by a mob that sought to lynch the negroes. Henry Smith and Brack King. charged with criminal as- sauit on aged Mrs. Powell, were to- caysfined $f00 and costs with sixty days in fall. The others were discharged.
 All of those convicted appealed and were bailed. , sl ,3s,ss esy q, 5s
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
TWO NEW BA1.rLEsHlPs.
est For vessels Will Be Co,
 uleted Soon.

pleted SO0n-
 lington, Aug. 19.-Designs for u new battleships authorized at the last session of Congress, probably will be completed and approved by September 10th.
 The plans for the vessels are now being completed in the light of the developments of the recent conference of naval officers at Newport. Some suggestions of changes were made at that conference and the changes now are being incorporated in the designs.
 It is said that the changes are not radical. but in the view of the naval constructors, are material to the new ships.
 Upon completion of the plans they will be submitted to President Roose- welt for approval and 1t is expected that by the middle of September. pro- posals for the construction of one of the ships will be advertised for The other ship Is to be constructed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard by the govern ment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
wim. Rednce cotton sinr. wages.

Manchester, Aug. ls.-The Lanca- shire Federation of Cotton Spinners has decided to reduce the. wages of operatives per cent. If the men de- cline to accept the reduction, they will be locked out for a month. Notice to this effect will at Jonce be given to the operatives. 100000 of whom would be immediately affected in the event of a refusal to accept the demands of their employers. If the spinning operatives should be locked oEt, the weavers also would be compelled to cease work, which would greatly increase the num- Der affected.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
Feellne ef. UneaaIness.

Birninghan1. Aug. 1g LA special de- tail of deputies was sent to Pratt City late tonight where it was reported that trouble seemed to be brewing along the drift slope of the mines there.
 At Columbfana. Ala. in shelby coun- ty to-day fifteen men were held with out bail. charged with the dynamitpg at Acton in which one man was killed. Two of the men held are officers In the miners union ct Acton.
 While there is a feeling Of uneasi- ness tonight because of last nights outraees no cases of violence have been reportsd.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
FOUR MEN ARE HELD
They Are Accused of IneitinK a Rae. YXan-

They Are Accused of IneitinK a Race
 War.
 Knoxville. Tenn, Aug. i9-Four of the five men arrested Tuesday night by Sheriff Hughes. of Campbell County, Tenn. for melting the race war in tho Jellico mining district. were arraigned at Tazefell for their preliminary trisI today. The four men, John Powell, George N. Souders. and Morgan and Tom Lloyd. were bound over to court, and also bound to keep the peace.
 The mountain band appears to have dispersed on the arrest of their alleged leaders, but officers fear the release of the leaders will be the signal for an- other outbreak.
 Work was resumed at Anthras Mine today. but the camp continues under guard.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
MINERS MEET OPERATORS.
Conference on Wage Scale Held in KuoxvfIle

COnference on Wage Scale Held In -f Knoxville.
 Knoxville. Tenn. Aug. 1s.--The an- nual joint conference between union miners and coal operators of District No 19 opened here today.
 Both sides presented propositions for wage scale for the next year. The miners demanded a continuation of the present scale with an eight hour work day and the adoption Of the rufl-of-nine basis. also uniform yard age scale and a revision of the con- tracts.
 The operators offered to make new one.year scale at 10 per cent reduce
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
Bull and Tiger Flight.

Marseilles. August l9.-A savage exhibition was witnessed on private estate near here to-day. A tiger and a bull were placed in stout cage and goaded to combat by the spectators, The bull wounded the tiger in the first encounter. but at this point the police made a descent upon the crowd and broke up tho spectacle
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
WEATHER FORECAST.
 WashfnR1on. Aug, l0s--Forecast. Alabama Rain and cooler Thursday; Friday show CTS; fresh south shifting to north winds.

.tion on the present mining rate and day labor. or a renewal of the present contract If the miners will agree to sign Tor it's continuance for two years.
 Most of the non-union operators who are in the majority In this district have signed up new scales for year at an average reduction of 10 per cent
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
cnnst Line ordern Cnrn.

Baltimore, Md. Aug. 1s.-The Allan tic Coast Line Railroad Company has awarded to the South Baltimore Steel Car and Foundry Company. a con tract for five hundred steel under frame box cars. The order involves an expenditure of $50o.O0O.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
OVERCOME BY GAS.
George Bell Falls Back Into We'll and
 Dies


 Dies. Knoxville. Tenn. Aug. 1s.-over- come by the gas and fumes in a well he had entered to clean. George Bell, aged 30 years, met death on McDon- aid's farm. near here, today.
 Being affected on reaching the bot tom, Bell called to those at the wind lass to draw him out. but before he had been hoisted ten feet. he was overcome and fell to the bottom. His body stuck in the narrow base of the well, and 1t was four hours before 1t was removed. 4 line tied to his wrists tore loose the hand. A fellow workman lowered to assist Bell, was overcome and narrowly es- caped death.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
pranuan Csoes to pfIIwanEee

vicksbt1rg. Miss. Aug 1s.--outfieIder George Manush of the local Cotton States League team has been sold to the Milwaukee American Association Club and left today for that city. The purchase price cannot be learned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
f,I.r,r ahoot. Rurriarn :

Lake Charles. La.. Aug. 19.--while two, negroes were endeavoring to break into a drug store In Suiph UT. La early today. F. L. Bourg. the clerk. opened fire, fatally wounding one of the burglars. The other was captured later today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
srr.. Nardtell E E.caper.

Tombstone, Ariz., Aug. I9.--Mrs. Wardwe1I. fise quarantined ieper. widow of General Wardwell.. escaped from her quarferS about midnight last night and is supposed to have boarded Southern Pacifc train from California.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
BLOODY ANARCHY REIGMS
 SUPREME IN JEFFERSON

had been SO busy as not 10 be able to read the statement and would there-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
Li.bon Approves Treatiea.

Lisbon, Aug. 1s.-The Chamber Of Deputies today approved arbitration treaties with the United States and several other countries.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
CONDITION or POPE.

He Has Cola and Audiences are Sus-
 pended.
 Rome, Aug. 19.-The Pope today Is slightly indlsposed. having caught a cold which has affected his gout His physicians have ordered that he take a rest and consequently audiences have been suspended.
 Dr. Petaire. the private physician to the Pope and Professor Marchiafava, his consulting physician, visited the PontiR today Both declared that tue indisposition was insignificant.
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Motive of Hains.

Boston, Aug Is,--A po5ltIYe motIV for the killing of William E, Annis a
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-02-27
Trees Planted by Insects,

The uses of worms in wood and
field have been discovered by G.. A.
Andrews. It has long been known
that squirrels aid the forester by
burying nuts, of which some sprout
and ultimately develop into trees, but
that also he is indebted to earth
worms for like services is knowledge
new. 1t appears that the dry fiat
fruits of the silver maple are frequent
ly used by worms to plug the aper
lures of their burrows in the fashion
long since described by Darwin. In
districts too dry for them to germi
nate under ordinary conditions a Ger
tain proportion of maple seeds thus
drawn into their holes by the worms
were found to sprout and grow into
seedlings, and, although these ulti.
mately persisted under the influence
of the late summer drought, Mr.. An,
drews thinks that under less ~unfavor
able conditions a certain number
would survive. He believes that by
planting trees worms more thar
amend the damage with which
they are credited through destroying
seedlings in the gardens.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-02-27
WHEN A WIFE NEED NOT KISS.
Court Holds That Liquor on Hubby,
Breath Is Legal Excuse.

Toledo, O.-Neither morally nor le-
gally is a wife bound to kiss or &C.
cept kisses from a husband with the
smell of liquor upon his breath. There
may not be a specific ruling upon this
question in the law books. but Police
Judge Austin established a precedent
when he handed down such a decision
in the a 8 Of the state of Ohio against
Thomas Morrey for disturbance.
Morrey confessed in court that ho
had "acted up" the other night when
he was drinking, but he claimed prov
ocation in that his wife refused to
either kiss him or accept his caresses.
1t happened that Judge Austin knew
the prisoner personally and, after in
forming him that his wife was not
bound to kiss him when he was intox-
icated or had been drinking, he said:
ut doesn't require any great
stretch of Imagination for ME to see
what a herculean task it would be for
any woman to get within a rod of you
when you are drinking, let alone to
kiss you"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-02-27
BOSTON IS TOO oscULAToRY.
Western Maid Says Hubites Are Given
to Promiscuous Kissing.

Boston.-Boston, long known as the
city Of p%uritanical ideas, Of culture, of
all good things ad inf1nitum, has been
weighed in the balance and found
wanting, and Miss Martha Nangle, the
fair weigher, a handsome yet unkissed
girl of 20 from the golden west, who
is forced to stay here while complet-
Ing her course in music at one of the
local institutions, doesn't approve of
it, its girls or their compilations one
bit.
Promiscuous kissing and the use of
cosmetics are the charges that she
lays at the city's gates. Out in Great
Falls, Mont, where she halls from, the
kissed girl is the exception; over in
South Boston, where she now lives.
and throughout the city, in fact, the
unkissed girl is the exception.
Miss Nangle has pedestrian tenden.
cies, and every morning takes a ten
mile stroll through the suburbs, a la
Weston. Walking is conducive to
thinking, she declared, and evidently
she has thought much about Boston
during these short walks-and she is
not the least bit backward in saying
what she thinks.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-02-27
"HELLo" GIRLS WE'D QUICKLY.
Washington Telephone Company Grip
Piled by Numerous Marriages.

Wenatchee, Wash.-"Wanted-The
name and location Of some old maids
home"
This advertisement has not yet ap-
peared in the newspapers, but it soon
will, If the directors of the Farmers
telephone system here do not find
enough girls to operate the lines.
The company has been having trou-
BILE getting girls and keeping them
for over two years. Most of the peo-
pie in this. vicinity are newcomers, and
girls of the right age are scarce.
In two years 81 girls brought to
Wenatchee have left the company,
after staying from three weeks to four
months, all of them getting married.
The inducement to become the wives
OF ranch owners was too great.
Then the company offered a prize
to all who would stay a year. A dozen
girls started in the race, and one was
left at the end of a year. She got her
prize and then resigned to get mar.
ried.
Now the managers suggest that the
company find an old maids home and
make a raid on it. They want to run
a telephone line and not a matrimon.
ial bureau.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-02-27
STOCKING As HER SAFE.
Aged Dead Woman's Hoard Of 1922 All
Found There.

Reading, Pa.-Mrs. George F. Mich
OILS. aged about so years, was found
dead in the bathroom at 638 Wash
ington street the other day. When an
undertaken took charge Of the body
he found $422.10 stuffed in one of her
stockings.
1t is known that the m was
born in England, and that she lived
at various times I'M New York, Brook
Ign and Allentown, but beyond this
nothing is known about her.
Coroner strasser opatkned her trunk.
ans watch, rings, jewelry, a locket
with two photographs. silverware and
several testaments, in one of which
was written Mrs. George F. Nichols.
from grandfather, 1874" The cor.
oner issued a certificate of death due
to apoplexy.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-02-27
ALL USED WOODEN TRENcHERs.
Substitutes for crockery Ware Nearly
Two Hundred Years Auo.

Our readers may like to be remind
ed of how comparatively late in our
history the absence of cheap crockery
kept the wooden trencher in use. In
the eighteenth century, silver in the
dining room and pewter below stairs
were abundant for all dinner table use
In large and wealthy households.
But that the number Of metal plates
and dishes was insufficient to meet
the requirements of extraordinary &C.
casfons is seen in a description of a
dinner given by Lord Nation to his
tenants in 1888.
1t was at Woodhouse that the feast
takes 'place at which we hear that
its an out Of the way thing, the
people are to dine upon wooden dish
es; they cut down wood on purpose
to make them Of"
One of the company describes the
affair in a letter to the Lord STRAIT
ford OF the time, Lord Nations neigh.
Dor at Wentworth castle.
There was in the prayer hall six
tables made of deals with benches,
such as in the tents att Boughton
fair. Att four of them there might be
about 81 people, the other two some
thing above half the number, the
tables being less.
Our dishes stood single, the table
allowing no more; first dish, roast
porke; End, turkey; 3rd, venison pas.
ty; 4th, cold beefe, roast; 9Th, fruit
pudding; 9Th, a goose; 7th, APPLE pye:
9th, a hogg's head in souce; 80 then
the course began again, and kept in
this forme to every table.
1--WE cate upon trenchers and wood
dishes, and drunk in horns; my lord
did the same. The horns held near
pints and the punch was made strong
and the common people drunk full
horns just after dinner that 2 or 3
horns would make them drunk o,
sick"
1t Is noticeable that ale was drunk
at my lords table, but as he was re
puted not to keep ANY great stock
of malt drink" punch was served al
all other tables as being the cheap
est liquor to make treat Of"
"A treat" meant taking too much
and this was so successfully accom-
plished that there was one ma
found dead, supposed to be choaked
with punch."-Country Life.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-02-27
Talented German Empress.

Empress Augusta Victoria is a thor
oughly womanly woman, but she is by nc
e the mere hausfrau that she is
often supposed to be. In fact, she
has decidedly artistic tastes and Is
= sculptor and painter Of no near
ability. In her husbands study al
Potsdam there is a lifelike bust OF
the emperor in bronze and several
Of her sons have been portrayed by
her in marble. Her majesty Is very
fond of beautiful fans and she has
some valuable specimens Of them
Many were gifts from the emperor
and m vas made of feathers of the
grouse that fell to his gun. Some
others, beautifully painted, bear the
signatures of great artists.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-02-27
discriminating Head Hunters.

All efforts to subdue the "head
hunters" of Formosa having been un.
successful, a campaign of extermina,
ton has been entered upon, and now
when a company of head hunters il 10.
Gated the place is surrounded by q
wire fence. The wires are charged
with electricity. The soldiers begin
to shoot; the savages stampede, and
then the deadly wires get those that
the bullets miss. There are about
loo, 600 of these head hunters infest
ing the eastern coast of the island
and all efforts to make them desirable
citizens have failed. They recently
lured a party Of 300 Japanese and
Chinese into an ambush and killed
them all but three, for the mere pleas
ure of killing.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-02-27
JOPLIN MINES ARE OVENS.
Heat Caused by Chemical Action
Drives Out Workmen in Shafts.

Joplin, Mo.-Chemical action caused
by a mixture Of iron sulphite and wa
ter has created unusual conditions in
the mines of the Bankers Land Com
pany, near this city, and the atten-
ton of assayists and chemists over
the entire district has been called
to the phenomenon.
In some of the deeper drifts the
ground has become so hot that pow
der placed upon it will smolder, but
will not explode. The temperature Of
many Of the drifts is so abnormally
high that a man cannot work in them.
In some places the walls and floors
of the drifts are so hot that a per-
sons hand cannot bear the touch of
the rock.
About six months ago the pumps
on this land were discontinued, and
since then the water has gradually
risen until the lower levels are filled.
Prior to the removal of the pumps
the water was cold. Since it has &C
cumulated it has not only become
very hot, but the action of the chem
1cals in the stagnant liquid is injurious
to pumps and an iron pump is eaten to
pieces in a few hours.
Because of this condition the land
will not be drained. A member of the
Bankers Land Company asserted that
to drain the land now would mean the
expenditure of 100000.
The iron sulphite in the ground Of
this property is more. plentiful than
at any other place in the district. The
sulphite is commonly called fools
gold" owing to its resemblance to the
precious yellow metal.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-02-27

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