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Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-05

The question was asked in '5s Are the good things and the brave things, all past things?' We now stand look
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-05

"TCE CREAM" anywhere in this city, free of charge Now is the time to get in your order and here is the place to order it. All favors. in pints, quarts, gallons The best in the city.
 THE BOSTON CANDY KITCHEN, Tel 56 Franklin St. je30d
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-05

ing back over half century which has more '.Brave things and good things than any half-century that ever preceded it.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-05

Describing Ancient Norwich, 'Ik Marvel wrote: And of a Sabbath morning, while the dew is sparkling on the grass and on the treetops. the church bell from the rocky height yonder-tone after tone-tone after corresponds it's sweet gushes of sound over the roof of the farthest settler" Meeting House rocks are still looking down upon us, though the bell is si- lent and the site blank.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-05

PLUMBING AND eAsFiTTiNo.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-05

The world has nothing to bestow- From our own selves our joys must
 flow, And that dear hut, our home!"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
To Penalize Banks.

State Auditor Smith has received
statements from the various State
banks under call recently made for
report of condition at close of busi-
ness June 2. All except the Bank of
Sturgis, at Sturgis, Oktibbeha coun-
ty, have reported, and Auditor Smith
announces that he will proceed un-
der the statute to penalize this bank
for refusing to report after urgent
notice. The penalty is SIS per day
for each day Of failure. At the same
time the State banks were called up
On the auditor requested the nation
al banks of the State to report as a
courtesy, and ell but one complied.
Heretofore there have been some
banks late in giving in reports, but
they had excuses showing no will
full delinquency. In the Sturgis
Bank case, Mr.. Smith says he urged
the bank by wire to file, but his
telegram was ignored. The occru-
ed penalty against this institution is
over $500.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
Half Million in Treasury.

State Treasurer Edwards reports
that his cash balance is still lowering
around the half-million mark, and
this in view of the fact that since
the first week in June began there
has been paid out on account of com
mon school warrants over $350,000,
of the 1855 subject to that ap-
preparation. The privilege tax pay
ments have been coming In about as
fast as warrants were being cashed,
which has kept the cash balance at
about 100000, and altogether the
state is in pretty good condition, with
the prospect OF turning over quite a
nice surplus to the next bienniel ac-
count.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
PARIS RACE TRACK RIOT.
Trouble First Started by Stable Boys
Union.

Partisan occurrence unprece-
denied in the French turf almost
prevented the running of the Grand
Steeplechase of Paris Tuesday at the
Anteuil course. The meeting was
disorganized and serious riot oc-
Cured in which several persons were
injured and many arrests were made.
Inspired and aided, it is said, by the
Pataud and other revolutionary lead
ers, forty militant members of the
Stable Boys Union, which was or
ganized at the time of the postal
strike, armed with revolvers, am
pushed the vans conveying the horses
from Maisen Lafitte, their training
quarters, cut the traces and forced
them back to the stable. Among
them were several American horses
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
AUDACIOUs WAS ASSAULT
Made Upon a Young Lady of
Pine Bluff, Ark.
SCOUNDREL PLANNED CRIME WELL
Little Rock Citizens Aroused and
Talk of Lynching is Heard.
Police Force Busy Search
ing for PerpetratoP.

Little Rock, Ark.-Miss Ray Burk-
halter, OF Pine Bluff, aged 20 years,
daughter of Elias Burkhalter, a
school teacher at Pine Bluff, who has
been attending local business col
lege here for the past two months,
was the victim of an assault at the
hands of an unknown white man,
about 20 year old, in the heart of
the business district of Little Rock,
The assault is one of the most aud
acious in the history Of the state and
has aroused the entire city The per-
petrator of the assault has escaped,
but the police force of the city are
we'll combining in the search for him.
Miss BurkhaTter was called from
the school room to the office where
the crime was committed. She in
tended to take some clerical work
in order to pay her way through
school and was called over the tele-
phone this morning and told to ap-
ply at an Office in the building at
Fifth and Main streets. She was
told that there was clerical work
there for her to do.
She answered the call, but was I'M
able to find the office where she was
wanted and returned to the school
A second call came and she was gil
ven directions how to find the Office,
which proved to be a small ante
room of a lodge. She found the. Of
flee the second trip and was greeted.
by young man who told her that
her employer-to be would return in
a few minutes.
According to the girls story, the
young man suddenly wrapped her
head in a black cloth and committed
the assault. She was bound and
gagged and left bruised and helpless
on the Office floor. She says that
the young man was standing over
her when she recovered conscious
ness and said: You ought to be
thankful that you're getting out Of
here alive" He then left her. She
finally freed herself from her bonds
and called a doctor. One eye is black
and the other cut. Her throat is
covered with marks, where she was
choked. Her shirt waist was bloody
and her condition is serious.
There is talk of lynching, If the
man is found.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
PAUL JONES' LOG FOUND.
Tells of Doings of the First Trip
OF the Ranger.

Boston.-Quite an accident there
has been discovered among relics left
by the late Erastus Perry Jewel, a
Laconia, N. H., lawyer, scholar and
collector the of John Paul Jones
first trip, the Ranger. The find is
one of the greatest historic value.
Ex-senator Chandler has taken steps
to secure it for the archives Of the
Navy Department. The beginning of
the log appears to be in the hand
writing of Paul Jones himself, and
shows that before he went to France
he made several trips to clear the
Northern Atlantic of British priva-
teersmen and to do little priva-
teering himself. Lieut.. Elijah Hall
of the Ranger, in the log. gives a
graphic description of the Ranger.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
Normal Attendance Good.

According to the figures obtained
at the Department of Education the
attendants at the several state nor
mails, now in progress, has reached
a high mark, and is fully up to the
expectations, especially so In regard
to the two in south Mississippi, at
Broobhaven and Hattiesburg, where
nearly 600 teachers are in attend
ance. With the other four normals,
in the upper part OF the state, which
opened this week, the attendance has
also been satisfactory, the, reported
combined attendance being about 500
or upwards of 400 at the six points
of instruction, and the likelihood of
an increase.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
$4,000 Damage Sought.

T. K. Boggan, superintendent of
the Biloxi public schools, and w. K.
M. Dukate, w. A. White and Louis
r. Rowen, members Of the Board of
Trustees, were made defendants in
a damage suit for $4,000, filed here
by Mamie Bradford, a minor, by her
her mother, Mrs. John G. Bradford.
wife of ex-Mayor Bradford, who is
also a member of the Board of Trus-
tees of the public schools of Biloxi.
This suit was filed by the plaintiff s
attorney, Rushing and Guice of BIZ
loxi. The bill alleges that Miss
Bradford was illegally expelled from
school by the superintendent and
that the trustees illegally refused to
review the action of the superinten-
dent.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
POINT WON, BY THAW.
Hearing Will Be In White Plains But
Jerome Gets it Postponed.

White Plains, N. Y.-Harry X.
Thaw will have to wait in the Mat
teawan asylum until July 6 for
hearing to determine whether he is
now sane and in a condition to be re-
leased from the asylum. The case
came up before Justice Wills here
on a writ of habeas corpus ostained
by Thaw. 1,haw's counsel, Charles
Morsehauser, wanted 10 SO on with
the hearing, hut Mr.. Clark. repre-
sentative of the encouragement,
wanted to have the case transferred
to New York county, and District At
torney Jerome, OF New York, asked
that the hearing be postponed In or
der to give him an opportunity to
attend to other business.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
Body Found in River.

The dead body of w. G. Bridges,
a white man, who for several years
past operated a saw mill at Waverly,
Miss, a small town about seven
miles northwest of Columbus was
found in the Tombigbee River Satur
day. Bridges had been missing since
Monday, and for several days past
neighbors had been searching for
him. Mr.. Mcpherson, foreman of a
gang of laborers on the Southern
Railroad found the body Of the miss
ing man. Bridges hands were tied
behind him and heavy iron weight
was tied to his body, these facts
showing conclusively that he was
foully dealt with.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
CARRIED AWAY IN FREIGHT CAR.
Thirteen-Year-OId Girl Nearly Starv-
ed When Liberated.

Denyer.-While Mabel Warren,
aged thirteen, was playing in box
car in the Kansas City freight yards
Thursday she fell asleep. When she
awoke she found that the car was
moving; II was dark, and her
screams for help were not answered.
Then she cried herself to sleep. She
awoke again and heard rain on the
roof of the car when stops were made
but could not make herself heard
and was carried on West. The car
rolled into Denver Tuesday night
and yardmen heard faint cries for
help as they passed. They found
the girl nearly starved and sent her
to the police station, where she was
cared for until tonight, when she was
sent back to her grandmother in
Kansas City.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
.MIsTRIAL FOR CALHOUN.
Jury, Unable to Agree, Discharged
BY Judge.

DJ OuUSC.
San Francisco, Terminating
in disagreement of the jury with
ten men determined on acquittal and
two resolved on conviction, the trial
for bribery of Patrick Calhoun, of
the United Railroads, ended at noon
Tuesday. Five months and week
had passed since the wealthy street
railroad owner made his first appear
ance in court to answer to the charge
of offering a bribe Of $4,000 to- SUI
pervisor to obtain an overhead trolley
for his corporation. Not until each
juror had pronounced as hopeless
the prospect of a verdict was the or
der for their dismissal made by
Judge Lawler, prosecution and de-
Tense giving assent to the discharge.
The trial ended quietly. The defend
ant and his attorneys, as We as the
chief officers of the prosecution, re-
Trained from comment on the dis
agreement
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
MORSE GETS HIS LIBERTY.

New York-Chariss w. Morse,
the former banker and promoter OF
huge enterprise, won hts long fight
for release from prison on bail. He
was Immediately released by order
of the United States court after
bonds signed by twenty-five of his
friends giving $125.0e0 In securities
were rendered to the court. Morse
appeared for new trial Is still pend
ing. the court today reserving deci-
Eion on that point. -
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
Latest News BrevitieS

James Sharp, Adam God,' was
sentenced at Kansas City to twenty
five years in the Penitentiary for muir
der.
Unable 10 agree, the jury in the
trial of Patrick Calhoun in San Fran
cisco was dismissed and mistrial en-
tered.
Banker Charles Lanier. of New
York, who saw E. H. Hartman in
Paris, said he found the railroad man
looking i'll.
One man was killed and three
other persons were, injured when an
interurban car struck an automobile
near Anderson, S. G.
Ten persons were killed and forty
others injured, many seriously in the
collision of two electric cars near
Michigan City. md.
Rather than be taken home by the
police two eighteen-year-old girls
carried out a suicide pact in Spring
field, ILL.,, by taking poison,
FREDERICK De Martens, rate profeS-
sor of International Law at the Uni
versity of st. Petersburg. died sud-
denly in the railroad station at Walk,
Russia.
There was serious rioting at the
AuteuiI race course IN Parish, and
a demonstration at the Faison La
fitte training quarters by the Stable
Boys Union.
A. W. Falls, a cotton factor, shot
four time at r. Ripley of Spartan
burg, s. c., when he found the lat
ter at his home at Admission, Ala, in
company with Mrs. Falls.
Tom Mowen, a prison, was cremat-
ed when fire destroyed the Kirby
vile. Tex, jail.
Chicago police gained information
that the Chinaman wanted for the
murder in New York of Elsie Sigel.
accompanied by another Celestial.
passed through Chicago on railroad
ticket TO Vancouver p. G.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
OBJECT LESSON.
None Need Fear the Boil Weevil
Other Crops Besides Cotton.

w. M. Curry, a farmer who set
tied here several years ago, coming
from the Western country, is giving
his neighbors an object lesson in
farming, in the way of showing them
that there are other crops than cot
ton and the boil weevil need not
brighten any farmer who proceeds
upon that idea. Mr.. Curry sowed a
hundred-acre field in oats, which
some of his neighbors strongly depre-
Gated, but since he recently turned
magnificent threshing machine
loose in his oat field farmers from all
the country around have been visit
ing Mr.. Curry's place to see the
thresher at work and to see what sue
cess has been made of the oat crop.
While the thresher is nothing new in
it's line, the sight of such a machine,
run by gasoline engine, is a decided
novelty in these parts. 1t threshes
out the oats and bales the straw at
the same time and is served by eight
hands, four of them being boys. The
machine threshes ninety bushels per
hour, the yield of about three acres
Of land. Mr.. Curry feels satisfied
with his experiment in oats and says
they come up to standard, being as
fine as can be raised anywhere. He
declares that he will put in four or
five hundred acres in oats next sea-
SON. The land on which the oats were
grown will be sowed down n peas.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
Want SENATORS ELECTED
May Amend Constitution for
Popular Vote.
PETITION OF TWENTY SEVEN STATES
II Four More Join in Request Con.
vention Will be Called Tinker
ing With Organic Law Would
be Dangerous Now.

Special from Washington says:
Although President Taft has recon-
mended that steps be taken to sub
nit to the people the question OF
whether sixteenth amendment
shall be added to the Constitution,
the venerable instrument is in dan
ger of attack from another quarter.
1t is known that twenty-seven states
have formally petitioned congress to
convene a constitutional convention
to change the method of electing
Senators. If four more States, or two
thirds in all, shall ask HNr such a
convention, it must be called, as re-
CURED by article 5 of the Constitu-
ton. The twenty-seven States
which have gone on record in favor
of convention are as follows;
Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kan
sas Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana,
Nebraska Nevada, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,
Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and
Wyoming.
The Legislatures of all of these
States have passed resolutions re-
commencing a change in the present
methods OF electing United States
Senator's and demanding that the
Constitution be so amended as to
bring about the selection of these
officials by direct vote. The twen-
ty-seven resolutions are now neatly
fled away in the Office Of the secre-
tary of the Senate. Charles G. Ben
nett of Brooklyn. If four more states
shall take similar action there will
be no alternative but to issue a for
NAL call for the election Of delegates
to a constitutional convention.
OF course, 1t goes without saying
this is something which none Of the
members Of the Taft administration
wish. They realize that there are
untold dangers lurking In sugges-
tions to thinker with the Constitu-
ton by an assembly called together
for that purpose. Nobody would be
able to say what the Constitution
would look like If amended along
the lines advocated by the. radical
politicians of some of the Middle
Western and. Far Western, States. 1t
is safe to say that the Taft admins
tration WI make no move in the
way of encouraging four of the
States not included in the foregoing
list to fall in line.
Save for the three amendments to
the Constitution growing out of the
civil war, that instrument has re-
manned unchanged for more than
one hundred years. OF the fifteen
amendments, ten were proposed by
the First Congress to meet after
the Constitution had been formally
adopted. The First Congress propos-
ed ten amendments to the Legisla-
lures of the various States on Eept.
25, 1889.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
HAPPENINGS IN MISSISSIPPI
]. III. Gillespie Appointed Land
Commissioners.
STATE AUDITOR TO PENALIzE BANKS
For Failing to Report. Biloxi Sup
erintendent and Trustees Are
Sued for $4,000 for Expell-
ing Young Lady.

Gov. Noel has appointed James L..
Gillespie of Greenwood Lefore
county, as State Land Commissioner
20 succeed the late e. H. Nall. The
announcement of Mr.. Gillespie's APP
Dointment seems to have been COM
plete surprise, as much SO to Mr..
Gillespie as anyone else. He was
not candidate for the place and
had never for a moment thought of
applying.
, James L. GILLESPIE is one of the
oldest newspaper men of the
state, in point of active service, and
Is at present proprietor and editor
Of the Greenwood Commonwealth
He was born in 1866 at Pontotoc,
Miss, and has devoted his life to
newspaper work, beginning as boy
In a printing Office in which he re-
ceived mo of his education. When
eighteen years old he published the
Pontotoc Democrat with Capt. Tho
mas Crawford, and a short time Ia
ter went to Oxford, where he pub
lished the Falcon. Thence he moved
to >Tupelo, Lee county, and establish
ed the Tupelo Ledger, which he
published for five years. In 1890
Mr.. Gillespie was elected to the low
or house of the Legislature from
Lee county, being the youngest
member Of that Legislature. Moving
to Memphis, he spent a year with
the Avalanche, and from there went
TO Greenwood, where in partnership
with James X. Vardaman, he estab-
lished the Enterprise, two years Ia
Ter buying Mr.. Vardaman's interest
and running the paper three or four
years, when he retired. He after
ward bought the Greenwood Com
mondealth, which he still owns and
will continue to publish.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
VETERAN 1O1 YEARS OLD.
Fought in Both the Mexican and
Civil Wars.

Bristol, Tenn.-Robert n. Dennis,
q veteran of both the war with Next
CT and the Civil war, who is now
able to furnish proofs that he is
101 years old, was this week admit
ed to the National Soldiers home at
Johnson City, Tenn. His home has
been at Fries in Grayson county,
Virginia. He served in Massachu-
sets regiment during the Civil war,
but moved to Virginia some years
ago. For man of his years, Dennis
is possessed of unusual vigor, his
only serious trouble being an affec-
ton of the eye.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
TRYING TO HELP FATHER.

Waco, TEXT was trying TO
cook supper for you papa" was the
explanation given by seven-year-old
Allen Pierce of South BesQue, as he
lay dying from the explosion of gaso-
line. His two-year-old sister, Fran
els Pierce, was instantly killed by
the explosion of gasoline. His two
Pierce is q farmer living ten miles
west OF this city. His wife died
several months ago and he has since
been doing the homework, assisted
by the children. He was at work
when the accident happened. the
childrea beinH left alone.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
Attractive Excursion Rates,

Commencing Sunday June goth,
1909 the Gulf and Ship Island Rail-
road Company will MAKE excursion
fares of $200 from Jackson to
'Gulfport, Miss, continuing through
the season until further advised.
Tickets good only on Sunday trains
into Gulfport and returning leaving
Gulfport on first train out Monday
morning following. These excur-
sion fares give all the patrons of
the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
Company an opportunity to visit the
Gulf and enjoy the soft breezes of
the Mexican Gulf. The Pavilion at
the sea-end of the Great Pier will
be open each Sunday, affording am
pie facilities for the accommodation
of hundreds of excursionists.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
Merchant suicidesN stabbing.

b. p. Brown, one of the most prom
lnent citizens and business men OF
Byhalia, died here as the result, 1t is
said, of a knife wound inflicted Dy
himself. Mr.. Bowen had been in Ill
health for some time, and for the
past two weeks, 1t Is claimed, had
been respondent. Mr.. Bowen Is said
to have taken an opiate with the In
tention of ending his life. but the
prompt attention OF physicians saved
him.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
Noel Not a Fifth Wheel"

Gov. Noel was much chagrined at
receiving a notice supposedly from
the sanitary authorities relative to
cleaning the mansion premises. He
gave good, strong reply, saying that
he is to give and not receive instruc-
tons from various departments. The
city sanitary authorities deny, how
ever, that notice was sent to him, and
it is believed that a joke has been
played.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
CHOSE DEATH TO HOME.
Two Illinois Girls Carry Out Sui
eide Pact

Springfield, Ill.-Rather than be
taken home by officers on complaint
of their parents, Misses Catherine
Bender and Jose Cole, both aged
eighteen, carried out a suicide pact
by drinking carbolic acid. The girls
had prepared the potion in two wine
glasses and when they saw an officer
coming to arrest them drank the acid
Both girls ran from their room to
the front porch of their boarding
house aT>l died in a few minutes.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
PEARLS or THOUGHT.

m isn't always the most attrac-
tive persons who attract the most
attention.
The temple of debt has more en-
frances than exists.
Too many friends win put man
In the poorhouse.
Many q man stick TO the right on
II 20 and that he In left.
Don't ask . candid man TOR hts
honest opinion unless you are pre-
pared for JOLT. s..1...-u...,z,,.,..
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
sTENOGRAPHER sLUGGED.
Rewards of SCI, 600 Offered For Wo
mans Assailants.


Kansas City, Mo.-Although the
police and city detectives searched
diligently for the assailant of Miss
Annie L. Owen, stenographer to the
Police Board, who was slugged while
in her Office, they made but little
progress. There was no clew on
which to work. At the hospital II
was said Miss Owen would recover
unless complications should arise.
She suffered conclusion of the brain
and is in semi-conscious condition
part of the time. Rewards aggregat-
ing $21,500 have been offered for the
apprehension of the criminal. She
was attacked in her Office here last
week and the records of the police in
vestigation stolen from her.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
Serious Charge Against Youth.

The Lincoln county grand jury, in
session at 'Brookhaven, returned a
Irue bill against Lockride Byrne, a
white youth of about 20 years,
charging criminal assault of negro
girl. Two years ago a charge of at
tempting similar crime was made
against him, but he was not indicted.
He has paid fines for several minor
attractions of tho law since.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-24
Mad Dog Runs Amuck.

News comes from Hampton that on
the Alps Plantation one rabid dog
has bitten and given hydrophobia to
fifteen head of cattle. The planters
of that section are worried over the
situation and will stir up movement
to tax all dogs, in the hope Of doing
away with some of the worthless
ones.