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The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1909-02-26
SELF CREEK ITEMS.
By Brown Eyes.

Upon the pane, with pencil free,
The frost has brought the bloom;
OF one sweet hour of memory
And summer in my room.
/ trace the lace-iike picture DER,
With fancy's kindly aid;
1 zee cottage, whose white door
Droops honey-suckle shade.
There on the porch fair girl stands,
To love-light from whose eyes
While / so fondly clasped her hands
My own with love replies.
Too eagerly Io'er it lean,
That picture on the pane;
My needless breath has changed the
l seek for it iE vain.
A wintry, waste all still aud lone,
The view that meets my eyes;
The graveyard, and the cold, white stone
Meath which my loved one lies.
The frost-linned pictures on the pane,
Eacn OF my HE part
Are young love that ne'er comes again
And winter of the heart.
Plenty of rain all along the
line.
The Pine Forest community
are enjoying fourishing Sab
bath school.
Mrs. Bessie Edwards spent
the day (Tuesday) with aunt
Katherine Freshour.
Messrs Charlie Templeton aud
John Lewis. of Emeline, were
in here on business last week.
Messrs Gus aud Melvin Tom,
son. made flying trip to Stark
vile Mondsy.
Mrs. Matte Phelps and Mrs.
Flay iHussey, visited Mrs. Fan
| ny Sherman recently. The lat.
ter is an invalid having been af-
fIicted for some time.
DR.. Mason, wife and sweet lit
tie twin tots, visited Mr.. Shelton
Ramsey, near Mathiston last
week.
Miss Evie Winfield visited her
| father at Emeline, Sunday.
The first ball game of the sea
son was played last Saturday,
Blue Doors, VS.. Pine Forest.
Both sides claimed the.yictory.
Rev. Mr.. Worley has been call
ed to the pastorate of of the Pine
Forest Church. The people of
that community made a good se-
lection. =.
Mr.. G.. A. Robinson and wife
visited the formers parents at
Osborn. Saturday and Sunday
| Misses RAIDER James and Mel
dy Fulghum, two sweet young
ladies, OF. Emeline, were the plea.
SAINT guests of Mrs. Flay Hussey
Saturday night. Sorry we didn't
see them.
Mr.. Joe Reed and family, of
Choctaw County, visited in the
| family of Mr.. Will Rushin last
week.
Mr. Marion Phelps, and fam
| lily visited Mr.. Rafe Gregg in
the Henry School House settle,
ment last Sunday.
i Mr.. ). S.. Hannah assisted in.
the survey Ola piece>of land, in,
dispute between Mr.. Ben Azell
| and Mr.. Turner.
I Rev. Mr.. sWorley preached two
forcible sermons last Sunday /,
In the morning at Steele Milla
and at Pine forest in the. eTen7
ling. The evils OF pistols aud
|IliQuor drinking were the gist of,
s
his themes,
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1909-02-26

Mrs. Tom Grow, of near Brad
ley. spent Saturday in attendance
upon the county teachers asso-
citation.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1909-02-26

Mr.. w. FL. N. Seitz, one Of
Longview's most enterprisings
citizens, was looking after busi-
ness here Tuesday afternoon.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11

Mrs. windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the gums, reduces In
aammation allays PAIN cures wind colic Csc bottle
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
FATAL DUEL AT THE POLLS
Election in Breathitt County, Ken
lucky, Brings About a Dramatic
Shooting Episode.

Jackson, Ky. Predictions made
on the streets that "only man
or two" would be killed during the vot
ing in Breathitt county were justified
in the Spring Fork precinct, and in a
dramatic manner
Here Tilden Blanton, with a left
hand shot, instantly killed Demosthe
mes Noble, after Noble had crippled
Blanton's right arm with bullet. No
BILE had previously, according to Blan-
ton, placed a pistol at the breast of
two of Blanton's brothers. Noble was
member of powerful feudist fam
lily, a former employe of Judge James
Hargh, and complications are ex-
pected.
Blanton, whose father was a Demo
cratic candidate for county attorney,
was acting as challenger, and his
story is that Noble was induced to
raise a disturbance by discounted Re-
publicans.
Two shots were fired while Blanton
was leaning from the window of the
voting place. He was carried into
Jackson to the home of his father, and
there tacitly arrested. Blanton's father
is the famous Breathitt county charac-
ter who last year on horseback took
the ballots to the Crockettsville pre-
cinct, when no other man dared make
the trip, for fear of an assassins bull
LET
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
SPECTATORS IN RIOT
PANDEMONIUM REIGNS IN STEIN
HE'LL MURDER TRIAL WHEN
DEFENDANT TESTlFIES.
WOMAN MAKES GRAND FIGHT
Man Creates Sensation by Confessing
That He Is the Real Slayer
He Is Arrested - Faure
Scandal Revived

Paris.-While Mrs. Marguerite Stein
he'll, in the midst of the agonizing or
deal of her grueling examination,
broke out in angry denunciation of
Presiding Judge de Wales, the crowd
ed courtroom burst into an uproar
and before the municipal guards could
grasp the situation the SPECTATORS
were rioting.
Extra police were rushed to the
scene. but it was many minutes be-
fore the violence was quelled
The outbreak came when Nine.
Steinheil, historical under the attack
of the court, which had finally be-
come a torture, raised her hands and
cried out angrily that the attack on
her story of the murder of her hus-
band and her stepmother, Nine. Japy,
was without warrant
Il have told the truth! / swear my
story is the truth" she cried in a
frenzy of anger at the taunts cast at
her by the presiding magistrate, M. de
Wales.
A second scene of wild disorder was
created when a man, who gave his
name as Lefevre, arose from his
place in the audience and loudly pro-
claimed that he, and not Nine. Stein
he'll, was the slayer of M. Steinheil
and Nine. Japy Nine. Steinheil con-
fronted Lefevre, but said that she was
unable to recognize him as one of the
murderers whom she had described.
Judge de Wales ordered that Lefevre
be placed under arrest and an investi-
cation of his statement be made.
Mrs. Steinheil's examination on the
charge Of numbering her husband md
stepmother, Nine. Japy, was conclud-
ed in the assize court. She made a
wonderful single-handed fight for her
life. She displayed as much skill in
confounding the judge as she had in
battling the police.
The old scandal which grew out of
the fatal illness of Felix Faure, presi-
dent of France, at the prisoners home
and which a section of the press is
anxious to revive, has not yet been
mentioned at the trial, although Judge
de Wales announced that it was not
intended to shield anyone.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
KNEW THE WAYS OF WOMEN
Mean Trick of BaIantine That Prob
ably Made Much Trouble for His
Friend Blank.

Capt. j. F. Chase of Veteran City,
Fla, was in Washington last month
to register his forty-seventh airship
patent. Capt Chase is best known
as the inventor of the hoop-skirt.
Discussing the hoop-skirts remark
able success, Capt. Chase said to
reporter:
"The success was due to the
skirts strangeness. Women like
strange things. BY catering to wom-
en-, by studying their taste man can
twist them around his finger"
The veteran officer smiled
"Ballantine," he said, "came in
late to a song recital in Palm Beach,
and there wasn't vacant seat in the
house.
''Ballantine noticed Mrs. Jerome
Blank. Mrs. Jerome Blank, he knew,
had a very handsome husband that
she kept strict watch oversize didn't
like him to associate with any of the
fasr sex
"Ballantine. edging near to Mrs.
Blank, who had an excellent seat, said
in loud voice to friend:
"'Who was that uncommonly pretty
girl saw Jerome Blank talking to ON
the pier?'
In about four seconds Mrs. Blank
was gone, and Ballantine was seated
comfortably in her chair.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
Mistake Somewhere.

A story comes from a Kentucky
town that is worth repeating. There
lives there a woman who says that
she has immediate communion with
the Almighty, and now and then de-
livers to those of common clay a mes
sage that she has received from on
high. The fact that these messages
sometimes take on very Waterfalls
tic hue does not alter their effective
ness, in her opinion.
One day she went into the office of
O we'll known attorney and approached
him solemnly as one about to reveal
an awe-inspiring secret.
1.-The Lord sent me to you for $25, -
she announced.
The attorney looked up and smiled.
THAT must be mistake" he re-
piled, blandly, because the Lord
knows l have not got it,"
Celestial communication was there
upon broken off.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
WoMAN's CRUELTY TO WOMAN.

II is often said that women are moro
cruel In their judgments of women
than are men. The sophomores of
Barnard college, New York, have evil
IDENTIFY undertaken to show that the
sex can be as cruel in action as in
Judgment. Only women will fully ap-
preciate the terrific cruelty of the
edict of those girl sophomores that
the girl freshmen must on no account
Rdorn themselves with rats or puffs
Or braids during the present college
term. But the man of average Obser-
walton will get at least hint of the
tragedy of the situation. While tbs
sophomores are going about adorned
in the glory of mountainous false hair
the freshmen will have to be content
with those simple coiffures at once SO
becoming to the faces of young girls
and SO out Of style at present, says the
Chicago Inter Ocean. Think of the
horror Of that to girls who are just
beginning to understand the inexor.
ableness Of fashion! And when they
walk abroad for air or exercise what
sudden, sad reminders of their forlorn
condition the windows filled with
abundant hair goods Of all shapes and
arrangements are sure to be! What
pangs Of hopeless desperation and re.
volt will wake to mar their pleasUrel
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
SUICIDE RATE is GROWING
Figures for 1908 Show Sensational
Increase in SeIf-Destruction
Throughout the West.

New York.-Suicide mortality sta
tistics, compiled here, show that
the increase in the rate of self
destruction over the increase in
population has become so alarming
as to attract serious notice throughout
the country. There has been a gen.
eral increase in nearly every city of
65 of the nations representative
municipalities. The increase in Oak
land, Cal, was the highest, with 1876,
while the lowest was Oh, in Buffalo,
N. Y.
The increase has been most alarm
ing in the west. With a total of 665
self-inf1icted deaths in the tabulated
western cities for 1908, the rate has
increased 81. The rate is 1913, while
it stood only 277 for the decade end
ing 1907. The greatest advance in
the rate was shown in Salt Lake City,
Utah, with rate of 1877 over the fig
ure of 1873 for the entire previous de-
cade The increase in all the cities
of the Pacific coast was great.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
LABOR LEADERS FACE JAIL
COURT DECIDES AGAINST COM
PERS, MITCHELL AND MORRISON.
Officers of the American Federation
Lose Appeal in the Buck Stove
Contempt Case.

Washington.-The decree of the SUI.
preme court of the District of Column
bia adjudging the American Fedora
ton of Labor leaders, Samuel Comp
ers, president; John Mitchell, vice
president, and Frank Morrison, secre-
tary, guilty of contempt of court in
the Buck Stove case was affirmed by
the district court of appeals Tuesday.
Chief Justice Sheppard dissented
from the opinion of the court on con-
stitutional grounds.
The effect of the decision will be
that Mr.. Gompers and the other de-
PENDANTS will have to go to prison.
The fate of the labor leaders was
fixed December 23, 1908, when Com
pers was sentenced to 70 months i'm
prisonment, Mitchell to nine months.
and Morrison to six months.
The case grew out of the alleged
boycott of the company's products and
the putting of that company's prod
ucts on the unfair list, and the fedora
TONS alleged violation of Judge
Gould's recent mandamus has attract
ed wide attention.
The sucks company's prosecution
of the officials of the federation began
in August, 1907. The original action
was test case, wherein it was sought
to enjoin the labor unions from using
the unfair" and 1--WE don't patronize"
lists in their fight against firms and
individuals.
Judge Wrights decision last year.
sentencing TIE three to prison, was a
scathing denunciation of the defend
ants. He recited the conditions ante
ceding the injunction and referred to
the fact that for % years the Bucks
plant had operated a ten-hour shop
cld always had maintained an open
shop"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
PRESIDENT AT BIRMINGHAM
Has Busy Day-Reviews Big Civic Pa
rade-Makes Address in
Capital Park.

Birmingham, Ala.-President Taft
and party put in busy day here. AT
$3.50 o'clock Wednesday the president
was driven to the Country club, where
breakfast was served, simple affair
with no speechmaking.
About noon began the parade, one
of the largest ever seen in Birming-
ham, composed of commercial, civic
and fraternal organizations, school
children and 800 automobiles.
After luncheon at the Southern club
the president addressed the people in
Capital park.
For an hour or more before leaving
Jackson the presidents special train
was parked in the railroad yards i'm
mediately alongside one of the sleep
ing cars of three-ring circus which
played in the Mississippi capital as an
opposition attraction to Mr.. Taft.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11

Omaha dealers are said to be rush
ing butter to the cold storage ware
houses and predicting that consumers
will be paying so cents a pound for
the product before Christmas. 1t does
not require long head, nowadays, to
see that butter will be higher in price
in winter than in summer; in fact,
from time immemorial butter has al
ways advanced during the winter
months. But when there were no cold
storage warehouses the prices of but
ter were lower at this time of the
year because there were no speculat
ors buying the product up, right and
left, rushing it to the cooler, and pre-.
dieting tremendous advances during
the winter. The cold storage ware
house is beneficent in many ways, but
the speculative feature of it's utiliza
ton has raised the summer prices of
butter and eggs and poultry, and also
boosted the winter rates for these
products. None of these products will
ever again sell long at low prices, be-
cause the moment the prices ease a
little the speculator jumps in and
clears the market of the surplus.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
PEARY Is AWARDED MEDAL
National Geographic Society An
nounces II Accepts Evidence
of His Success.

Washington. - Commander Robert
e. Peary was voted a gold medal
by the National Geographic So
ciety for having reached he north
pole. The board of managers of the
society at a meeting accepted unani-
mously the report of its subcommit-
tee of scientists, who had examined
the explorers records and proofs, and
found them to be corroborative of his
statement that he had reached the
pole.
The society adopted a resolution
that the question of whether or not
any explorer reached the north pole
prior to 1909 shall be referred to a
subcommittee of experts with authori-
ty to send for papers or make such
journeys as may be necessary to in
spect original records. This indicates
that the society proposes as soon as
possible to pass upon the records of
DR.. Frederick A. Cook.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
WILL STORM WHITE HOUSE
Waterway Convention Selects DeIega-
SIon of 500 to Visit Washington
in Interest Deep Channel.

New Orleans.-The lakes-to-the-gulf
waterway convention came to an end
Tuesday with the selection of Presi-
delegation of 500 that will go to Wash
ington December to storm the
White House and congress in the in
terest of the 14-foot channel.
The committee of 500 will endeavor
to induce the national assembly to
produce funds for the project. But
If it does not, then the executive COM
lied to select the place of meeting of
the next convention and fix the day.
The closing session was marked by
enthusiastic expressions of faith in
an attainment of IA feet through the
valley" further pledges of support Of
the movement and additional esti-
mates of benefit to result from the
movements realization.
Participating in the program were
representatives of several of the
Latin-American countries which will
be directly affected by the construc-
ton of deepened channel.
Through a set of the most warmly
worded resolutions ever adopted by a
non-partisan organization the 5000
delegates to the deep waterway con-
vention, representing every state in
the union, pladged themselves to sup
port no candidate for public Office
hereafter who is not committed in
plain language to the policy of imme-
date action on the lakes-to-the-gulf
project.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
Arrested for Big Fraud.

Berlin.-Martin Kaufman of New
York was arrested by former United
States Post Office Inspector Henry
C. Hill on the charge of fraud amount
ing to 100000 in connection with the
Cotton Goods Convertets Company of
New York. The case has many rami-
fications. Kaufman was for a long
time considered one Of the most wor-
try business men of New York. His
partner, NJ A. Isaacc, had such i'm
plicit confidence in Kaufmann's in
tegrity that, according to Hill, he in
duced a number of his friends to take
shares in the business.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
CUNM|NS REPLIES
SENATOR FROM IOWA DELIVERS
HOT SPEECH IN
CHICAGO.
HE is STILL A GOOD REPUBLICAN
Hawkeye Statesman Ably Upholds
Cause of Congressman Who In
sist on a Real Revision of
the Tariff.

Chicago, Illinois-Albert B. Cum
Minis, United States senator from
Iowa, as chief speaker at the banquet
Of the Marquette club, made his an
sWer to Speaker Canon's recent at
tacks on him and the other "insur-
gents" Senator Cummins' address
was lively from start to finish, and
a vigorous defense of those senators
who refused to vote for the Aldrich
tariff measure. In part the Iowa
statesman said:
Mr.. Toastmaster and Gentlemen: In
view of some things that have hap
pened since accepted your invitation,
you will not look upon it as either
strange or inappropriate, am sure,
if 1 am a little more personal than is
my habit. This is a Republican club,
and it has borne high and honorable
part in giving expression to our faith
and In giving strength to our organi-
zation. 1t is therefore peculiarly we'll
fitted to consider an interesting con-
troversy that has recently arisen with
in the party ranks. For that reason,
and because l am deeply anxious to
preserve the party strength, | have
chosen this occasion to speak of the
dispute in hope that better under
standing may follow fair and candid
discussion of our differences of Opin-
ION.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
SANDBAG EXPRESS CASHIER
Robbers Steal $14,156 from Station
While Employees Go Out to Meet
Incoming Train.

Niagara Falls.-William Dobson,
cashier of the Canadian Express Com
pany here, Thursday was sandbagged
in the company's office at the Grand
Trunk station and a package contain
ing $14,156 taken from him by two
unknown men.
The robbery was committed in
broad daylight. Dobson was alone at
the time. The two men entered the
office and one asked if trunk had ar
rived for him.
AS Dobson stopped over to get his
ION hand" book one of the men
reached over the counter and hit him
behind the ear with sandbag or a
piece of gas pipe. Five minutes later
Dobson was found lying unconscious
on the floor in pool of blood
All the men working near Cashier
Dobson had something to do upon the
arrival of train which called them
out on the station platform.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
SIS, 900. 900 FOR CHARITIES
NEW YORKER LEAVES REQUESTS
TO MANY INSTITUTIONS.
Gift Is Largest Single Contribution OF
Its Kind Ever
Made.

New York. John Stewart Ken
nedy. one of Americas little known
rich men, who died of whooping
cough in his New York residence
on Sunday last, left requests of more
than $25, 100000 to religious, charitable
and educational institutions in his
will. filed for probate here.
The gift is the largest single con-
tribution of it's kind ever made and
the beneficiaries include educational
and church institutions, north, south,
east and west, in the country, and one
abroad, 60 in all.
Nearly half of the $25,O00,000 goes
to institutions connected with the
Presbyterian church, of which Mr..
Kennedy had been an active member
for many years. Other large benet1-
Charles include the American Bible So
ciety, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the New York public library, the
United Charities of New York, Colum-
bia university and Robert college, Con-
stantinople.
Aside from these gifts, Mr.. Kennedy
left approximately $35,000,00O to his
wife, his relatives and great number
OF friends and employees. The widows
share will be about $16,000,000. All
of the testator's employees received
gifts of from $500 to $4,000 each.
The charitable, religious and educa-
tiCnal institutions which receive the
largest requests are to share the
residue of the estate left after definite
gifts of approximately $12,OO0,00O have
been paid out.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
WEALTHY MAN is MISSING
Police Are Searching for G. j. Gosh
orn Who Disappeared Three
Weeks Ago.

Chicago. The Chicago police
are searching for E. ]. Goshorn,
a prominent business man of Charles
ton, w. Va, who disappeared from
his home on October 20 with about
$4,000 in his possession.
On the day he vanished Goshorn
wrote letters to his wife and several
confidential acquaintance stating
that he had left home never to return.
The letters were postmarked at Kan
sas City, and requested the missing
mans wife and friends to write him
there as "E. ]. West, general deliv-
cry"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11

The desertion at New York of 200
seamen of Admiral Seymour's fleet
repeats what occurred at Hampton
Roads on the occasion of the James
town exposition. The British Jack
Tar" finds conditions ashore in the
United States SO alluring that he is
tempted to abandon his ship and vio-
late the obligation incurred by the ac-
ceptance of the Queens shilling. !"
The French fleet lost only few men.
probably because of language difficult
ties which Britons do not encounter,
and because affiliations with them are
not so readily established.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11
North Dakota Fastest WarshIp.

Rockland, Me.-The North Dakota
is the fastest battleship of the Dread
nought type afioat, as well as one of
the two most powerful battleships in
the world. Her screw standardization
tests over the Rockland measured
mile course Thursday developed a
maximum speed of 1925 knots and an
average of 21.833. Both marks are in
excess of the best performances of
either her sister ship, the Delaware,
or the Bellerophon, the leader Dread
nought of the British navy In at
tanning this surprising speed the tur-
bine engines of the North Dakota
were forced to the development of
more horse power than has been
reached by any battleship afioat.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-11

Reports of 6,061 cases of appended.
tbs in Berlin during 1907 destroy a
foreign impression that this trouble is
an American disease" Detailed re.
ports on Berlin hospital cases bear
out the American surgical claim that
early operations reduce the mortality
rate. By such evidence from an old
world center of authority the alien
criticism should be still further modi.
fled that American surgeons are too
ready with the knife.