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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
Piueon Fancjers Meet.

Cleveland, O., January 12.-Members of the International Federation of Homing Pigeon Fanciers, representing over 100000 birds, met here today and elected of- hcers. big western race, similar to the eastern looming contest, for next July was arranged. Pigeons from 50 western cities will participate. The race will start at Knoxville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

in an explosion. Today's horror is the most dsasterous that has occurred since.
 The mine is owned by the Pocahontas Consolidated Colliery company.
 At 10 o'clock 10 bodies had been taken from Lick Branch mine. None Of them have been identified.
 An old carpenter shop has been turned into a morgue and the bodies have been placed there with the expectation that identification can be accomplished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
ROCK THROWN
 AZ LADY IN THE IUNNEL>

It was learned yesterday that another rock had been thrown into the tunnel at the union station Monday afternoon and came dangerously near striking we'll known lady who was passing through In an automobile. The lady states that the rock appeared to come not from the street but from a building near the tunnel. It was hurled with great force and passing directly in front of her face struck the interior of the car. Considerable indigna-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

tion has been expressed at the fact that 1t has become unsafe to pass through the tunnel. Sunday afternoon lady was struck on the head with rock and rem dered temporarily unconscious from the force of the blow. The rocks appear to be all thrown into the west end of the tunnel and it is believed that there is an organized gang of some kind about the station which wishes to make it un- pleasant for automobilists driving through.
 
 of President Roosevelt, whom he charac- terized as "frenzied, capricious, self-cen- tered and self-exalted."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED
 HUMAN LIVES ARE LOST IN
 FEARFUL MINE EXPLOSION
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region and all, 1t is said, expressed the opinion that it was safe.
 No Bodies Recovered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
Roosevelt Is Criticised.

New York, January 2-Tonight at banquet at the Hotel Astor, former Uni ted States Senator Charles A. Towne de- voted his speech to a severe arraignment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

None of the bodies has been recovered.
 It is expected that a part of the mine in which eight men were at work will be reached before morning.
 One rescue party came in sight of six bodies, but were forced back. The latest estimate of the number of men entombed is more than 10O That all of them are dead, there can be no doubt. The fire In the mine and the deadly gases, to say nothing of the awful force of the explo- sion, precludes any chance of rescuing any of- the men alive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
Mine Inspectors at Work.

State Mine Inspectors Phillips and Nicholson are at the mine, and are di- recting the work of rescue.
 Crews have been formed, and are ven turing in as far as the air Is pure enough to breathe, in their efforts to reach those entombed.
 Bystanders at the time of the explo- sion say that immense clouds of soot and smoke gushed from the mine almost simultaneously with the detonation, and immediately were sucked back in enor- nous volumes into the mine.
 On the Tug river side, four miles from the main entrance, the smoke and flame gushed from the entry, burning the twigs and small limbs from trees that grew near. The damage to the mine cannot be estimated.
 The explosion was the most terrific that has ever occurred in this region. In 1884 at the Southwest Virginia Improve ment company's mine 360 men were killed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
Charged With Murder.

Monroe, La, January 12.-A telegram received here from Governor Sanders to- day directs the sheriff to hold Jordan Swain, charged with murder, awaiting requisition papers forwarded by the gov ernor of Georgia. Swain, it is alleged, killed the father of a young woman in whose company he was at the time of the tragedy, which occurred some time ago at Adrian, Ga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
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The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
GILLIAN BANK ROBBED
Safe Blowr and S1,500 Taken While Marshal and Others Are Held
 With Guns.

A message from Gillian to Chief of Police Joplin las, Ss'ur- day stated that the bank al Gill- ham had been robbed during the night and requested the Mens police 10 look out for the men who did the job.
 It is said that $l.500 in money was carried away.
 It is learned from other sources that the explosion ip the bank aroused the marshal, who hasten Ing to the spot was met by a stranger, who presented Il mug gle of revolver to his face and suggested that he go back and go to sleep.
 A night telephone operator. who was similarly aroused, stuck bis head out of window, but or shot being fired close to him, got back inside and kept quiet.
 The robbers are said to have ridden away on horseback.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
se CysiHsYW -ssin .s==ssylavi 76rI<sxxuna WlCKERSHAM WOULD AMEND
 INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAW
Federal Attorney General Speaks of Trusts at Kansas Citys
 Annual Banquet.

Kansas City, Nov 2l.-George Wick ersham. Attorney General of the Uni ted States. in address at the banquet of the Commercial club at the Hotel Baltimore suggested modification of the interstate commerce law to secure reasonableness of railroad rates and fairness of practices in operation of the roads. He also urged legislation by congress to regulate holding cor porations.
 Mir Wickersham said that one of the fundamental objections urged to the present organization and functions oi the Interstate Commerce commission is that 1t combines legislative, admins trative and quasi-judical functions. The present system, he said, involved constant reversal by the courts of or. ders by the commission, conflict of decisions between the differer! courts and much uncertainty iE the law. Other objections which have been Charles S. Deneen of Illinois, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of the Free Synagogue of New York City, and w. T. Bland. president of the Commercial club. The dinner was tho annual ban quet of the club to celebrate the an niversary of the signing of the com mercial treaty between the United States and Great Britain. the negotia- tions for which were carried on for America by John Jay.
 Dr. Wise spoke in part as follows:
 "The real enemy of the American democracy does not live in Japan, nor in China, nor in Russia, nor in Ger many, nor in France. The most dead ly enemy of the Republic, who must be met and overcome. Is the city grafter, the municipal corruptionist. If we must have bigger navy and a bigger army. these ought 10 be em- ployed. not against imaginary foes across the seas. but against those real made were mentioned.
 The other speakers were Gov enemies Of the Republic who are tiff doing the work of the fathers and bHghting the hopes of democracy by demoralizing and degrading the civic life of the Nation.
 "The Nation must learn 10 honor It's civic heroes, it's civic leaders of character and worth. But 1t must also learn to depise and to smite ifs civic criminals. its civic bandits. Instead of erecting statues 10 dead criminals as has lately been done by Pennsyl vania in its state capitol, we must learn to enfore the statutes against living criminals.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
NOTED MURDER TRIAL
Trial of W. Y. Ellis, Who Killed N. P. Willis In the Court Room at
 Little Rock, to Be Held.

Little Rock, Nov.- 20.-One of the most interesting criminal trials in the history of local courts will open here Monday, when the case of the state against w. Y. Ellis, under indictment for mur- der in the first degree, for the killing of N. P. Willis last sum- mer, will be called.
 There is little doubt but that all will be in readiness to proceed with the case. Attorneys for both sides of the case have been in the city during the week, get ting in shape for the opening. The selection of jury will prob ably be a matter requiring consid- erable time, on account of the notoriety that has been given tn e case through the press, the killing of Willis in Judge Fulk's court room while the judge was deliver ing a decree in the case having been one of tue most spectacular tragedies recorded here.
 Even a member of the counsel for the defendant is witness in the case, MT. Austin, of the firm of Austin & Danaher, who are to defend Ellis, having been pres ent at the shooting. Austin X Danaher are to be assisted by Judge E. A. Kerwin of Pine Bluff, and others. Judge kerwin spent several days here this week, but returned to Pine Bluff Friday night.
 Among those who will assist in the prosecution of the case is For mer Lieutenant Governor John- son of Missouri, who has been here for the entire past week.
 Ellis is an officer iu the Arkan- sas State Guard, and resolutions of sympathy for him and Mrs. Ellis were passed by the associa- tion at it's meeting Thursday.
 
 The tragedy which forms the basis for the charge against Ellis grew out of an effort on the part of Willis, former husband of Mrs. Ellis, to secure possession of their ten year-old daug ghter, Mary, the custody of the ctild having regu- larly been award to Mrs. Ellis. Judge Fulk had just entered a decree allowing Willis to take the child for few days, under g S5. GOO bond for her return to the custody of the mother, when Eli: arose Tn the court room and be gan firing at Willis, the secone shot proving fatal.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
L0CHRIDGE DRY GOODS COMPANY.
IL uRaIA MISSOURI SWAMPS
overnnent Engineer Plans to Re. claim 2.oC0,oco Acres of Land
 Aiong the Mississippi.


 Washington, Nov. 2l.--S. G Elliott.
 aiet engineer or the division of drain
 ge of the department of agriculture,
 as completed plans for the reclama- ion of more than 100000 acres of and along the Mississippi river in Mis-
 ouri and Arkansas. The project Is said Q be in such shape that the f. nancng of il is assured. The land will rustain 100000 people. including farms and towns It is estimated that in Missouri alone the work will add 10 per cent to the assessed valuation If the property in the state.
 The land lies along the Mississippi south from Cape Girardeau to point in Arkansas opposite Memphis. The estimated cost of this reclamation is s7 and acre. making a total of s14,000, 900 for the 2,oO0,000 acres. Ditchins Is the method to be employed.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
Spraying Saved His Apples.

Topeka. Mayor F. F. Greene of Olathe is one of the few fruit grow CTS in Kansas who raised a crop of apples this year, and he has 10000 bushels of fine fruit when few grow CTS had any apples at all. The secret of his success was that he sprayed his trees twice before the apples began to make their appear. ance. He sprayed five thousand trees before the blossoms fell. Ii cost him three cents tree to spray and the whole orchard averaged two bushels of apples to the tree To prove that spraying was respon sibIe fer his apples he pointed euI the fact that he had another orchard which he did not spray and it did mol produce matured apple.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
B STUDENTS TO
 BE MISSIONARIES
Ouachita Collegians Make Public Dec laration at Meeting of Baptist State Convention Ceremony
 Is Impressive.

Philadelphia, Nov. 2l. - The feature of the meeting of the Bap- tist State Convention today was the public declaration Of IS stu dents of Ouachita College to go to foreign lands as missionaries. This declaration followed an ad- dress by W. H. Smith of Rich mond, Va., secretary of the For eipn Missions Board. The stu dents advanced to the platform on which the speaker was standing, aud the audience stood with them' the whole ceremony being very impressive.
 The pulpits of Philadelphia churches today were largely hlled by the visiting ministers.
 At the meeting tomorrow the location of the Baptist sanitoriun will be definitely decided, as Will also he the location of the Or- phaus' Home. The reports on notifications, work among the ne- groes, temperaffce, women's work and nominations also will be heard. The location of the next convention will be decided upon and if is probable that au adjourn ,,ent will be taken late tomorrow
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
Andrew Reeves Dead.

Andrew Reeves, aged 5S, the invalid brother of F. M. Reeves, died Saturday afternoon about 3 o'clock at the home of his brother on Miller avenue. He has been aa invalid for nearly five years and bis death was caused by stomach trouble. Mrs. Sarah J. Reeves, his mother, and his brother, F. M. Reeves, survive him. He was unmarried. The remains were buried Monday af- ternoon 3:30 o'clock in the Odd Fellows cemetery.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
TAG GIRLS MADE
 A HIT SATURDAY
The Mena Public Library Received a Nice Boost Through Efforts of Young Ladies. Backed by
 Literary Club Committee.

The Woman's Literary Club, winch is both responsible for the existence and the maintenance of Mena's Public Library, some time ago facing the necessity of securing funds, allotted the work to the members iu committees ot five, and each committee is try ing in it's own way to secure as much as possible.
 The last committee 10 take up he work had the field Saturday, and adopted the plan of haying citizens tagged" by young ladies at 10 cents per tag.
 The day started out cloudy and bad and the work did not be gin until after noon, but the workers started in with a will to make up for lost time.
 Tag day" was a new thing iD Mena, and some were approached by the smiling girls who did not quite understand, hut when the nimble fingers had fastened to the coat lapel the little tag indi- eating that the wearer had made a small contribution for the city's public library, and the purpose was explained, no one but an active candidate for the position of the "meauest man" would re- fuse the dime and have the "tag" removed.
 The efforts resulted in an addi. ton of $54.50 to the library fund.
 The committee directing the work was composed of Mrs. E. T. Roach, chairman; Mrs. H. w. Card we'll, Mrs. M. A. Stratton, Mrs. A. w. St. John and Mrs. K. K. St. John.
 The young ladies were Miss Mayme Gilmore, Miss Olive Payue, Miss Anna Elizabeth Lochridge, Miss Gladys Nall, Miss Alice Webster, Miss Blanche Green. Mss Wiuifred DeLongy, Miss Alice Gallagher, Miss Lou Clark. Miss Frances Lewis and Miss Beulah Hull.
 The committee and the young ladies, together with young men friends, were in the evening fol- lowing entertained al dinner by Mrs. Roach.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
Bank Failure Caused It.

Kansas City. Nov. 20--An indirect Life Insurance company and the peti- ton filed in the circuit court asking for the appointment of receiver was the failure early this fall of the Colum- bia Bank and trust company of Okla. ho1s City. The local insurance com pany lost $15,000 in this bank. and many of those interested in the Ok iahoma institution were stockholders in the Union Life.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
Interest in the Child.

Miss Josephine. M. Griswold, secre- tary of the Connecticut Children's Aid society, said in recent report that ii decided interest in all quarters is manifested in the care of the chil- 1ren. Conferences aud meetings are being held everywhere to try to get as much light on the subject as pos sible A new child study bureau has been instituted at Clark university In .Ioven. Der there will be held at Hart ord conference of physicians and philanthropists upon infant mortality end kindred topics. which will bring together specialists from all over the country. The Connecticut society aims to pince children in good homes on the theory that every child is bet ter for the influence of a home rather than the false and unnatural condi- lions of institutions, however well they may be managed.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
Need Money to Save the Hoes.

Topeka. Nov. 20.--J. H. Mercer, state live stock sanitary commissioner. would like to have special session of the legislature to make an appropria- ton with which to s,aD out hog cholera in Kansas "If we could get an appro- priation Of six or seven thousand doi- lars for the agricultural college or the state university so they could mann- faeture this hog choelra serum in suffi- eient quantities we could drive this disease out of Kansas" says Mir. Mer- cer. Every year the farmers lose thousands of dollars through the death of their hogs.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
SPENDS $lOO,OOO
 FOR WHITE CLIFFS
Local Holding Corpation. Capitalized at $3,000, ,000, Will Resume Cement Manufacture in
 Arkansas.

Little Rock, Nov. 20.-The celebrated White Cliffs in Little River county has been purchased by Frank B. Lane aud others of Little Rock aud Texas for $l00,- 900 and company with capital stock of &, 900. .0c0 is to be organ ized in the near future for the purpose of operating the property, the company succeeded the White Cliff Portland Cement Company and to engage in the manufacture of Portland cement at White Cliffs.
 A modern manufacturing plant with capacity of 5000 barrels of cement per day is to be estab- lished by the new company. The property, which consists of a tract of 2,50O acres, of which 500 acres is chalk formation in bluff form, was purchased from tho Fiji delity Trust Company of Kansas City. The latter company pur- chased the property at receivers sale after the fiist White Cliffs Portland Cement Company had failed.
 Mr. Lane and his associates have organ;z d holding com pany and an operating company will be organized later. MT. Lane stated yesterday that the operating company will issue Sl,- 500, GOO worth of common stock, I$i, 500,G ,G09 worth of preferred stock and Sl 800, GOO worth of 5 per cent bonds. He also stated that 1t would probably be year before actual operations will be resumed at White Cliffs, as entire Fly new machinery IS to be in- lstalled.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
RAPTISTS RAISED
 s1s,O0O IN 2 HOURS
s,,te Convention at Philadelphia Goes Hystsfical When Announcement of Txpunging College Debt
 Is Made.

A ssdelphis. N ". 20. What p,.saiaa W E Atkinson of the R D lsl slate convention, ne~ in sion her, declared to be the .reA test hour he had witnessed in 4b years of missionary work f,l!ew d he plet of Rev. K. C.. R,wr, whcn $23 900 was sub rbed d by nearly hystericsl COT : ven,,on to expunge the indebted ness ot the Ouschlta college st Arkade phia and Central College at Conway, Ark, today.
 When the chairman of the con- vent,on announced that the fund had been completed, the l,5C0 spec,ators who had watched the shouting of donations from the A,rol the convention for nearly two hours, went wild. The meeting was adjourned and a W mirutes later the streets were filled with students from the Olachita College, headed by a brass baud, who held high carni- val about big bonfres into the early hours of morning.
 There was also great rejoicing among the Baptists this morning when Rev. ]. $ Rogers, secreta- " of missions, read his annua report showing that the Baptists have had the best year of mission work in their history.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
surest csusacIans Alive.

Cleveland, Nov. 20.--On the ground that the natives of Syria are the pur- est existing branch of the Caucasian race, the wealthy Cleveland Syrian colony, the second largest in the coun try, has organized to fight against their exclusion from rights of citizen ship under the so-called Chinese exclu sion act. Amin Yusuf. leader of the colony, heads the movement here.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25

course of study into rural schools without recognizing the judgment of the people have thus far been fail ures. State authorities have issued well devised and practical courses of study, but there was no provision for the people to apply the test, and they died, or fell into disuse; county authorities have tried the same thing and have failed; then, just in proportion as the people have been recognized have these undertakings succeeded; those succeeding best where the decision has been left wholly to the judgment of an impar- tial public.
 A course of study for rural schools, in order to succeed. must be so spe- cific in its details that the children themselves shall know and under stand when it's provisions are not carried out; it must be made so plain and so practical that the masses of the people shall understand it's most intricate workings; it must be so compre hensive in detail that the mediocre among the teachers shall know and comprehend its import. Without all these it must fail in the future.
 Thus it is that the brief course of study, as usually published, is not understood by even majority of the teachers; certainly not by the chil- dren, and by but few of the patrons. It can only be understood by having it's veriest details in the plainest lan- guage, hence the absolute necessity of a complete detailed outline of study embracing the branches to be pursued.
 The teacher must know how much he is expected to do within a given time, as well as to know how to &C., complish it. Che supposition is that he knows how @ to do the work when he sets out to teach). The pu- pil must know how much he is ex- pected to do within this given tune, as well as know(?) how to study. (This last statement is based on the presumption that the teacher shows the pupil how to study. The pupil must know when he has completed this required work, as well as the teacher. The parent must know just where his child stands in his work in order to test the product of the school. Knowing this, the pub lie readily recognizes inferior or su- perior products and can award the teacher proportionally for his ser vices. There can be no mistake con- cerning this; it is both reasonable and has been definitely proven to be entirely practicable by the actual ap- plication of the principle for a term of years.
 The only pretension to originality in any of these theories is the put ting together of the theories and practices as taught and propounded by others in the past and profiting by their successes or failures, elimi- mating the curricula and substituting the course of study in detail with a system of enforcing data to be used by teacher, pupil and parent or guardian.
 l -(To be contInued)
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-25
Knew Their Value.

s.sir." yelled the first mate. above ,be howIing of the storm, the ship is iikely to sink at any minute"
 q know replied the terror-stricken nassenger. there is no hope for us. 7
 Then why don't you put on life preseryer?"
 I'm manufacturer of them. Catholic Standard and Times.