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The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
LOST HER $50 MERRY WIDOW
hung It Over a Jardiniere and It
Got Watered.

Pine Bluff, Ark.-Miss Victoria Har.
rel, one of the most prominent society
girls in this city, sustained the loss OF
a 500 basket hat because the piece of
headgear SO much resembled a pot of
flowers.
Miss Harrel sang at a fashionable we'd
ding in this city, and hurriedly re.
turned home to enjoy an auto ride
with friends. When she reached her res.
idence, the party was in waiting, and
Miss Harrel placed her hat over a jar.
diniere, in which were some small ferns,
and which were hidden from view in a
corner of the front porch.
After Miss Harrel rode away in the
automobile her mother came out of the
house and proceeded to sprinkle the flow
ers. OF course, the covered jardiniere
came in for a share of the wetness, and
when Miss Harrel returned she found
the hat and its costly trimmings wilted
and ruined.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
ASK RETURN OF FUNDS
WILL PRACTICALLY WIPE OUT
GOVERNMENT DEPOSITS.
Business in All Repositories Will
Be Reduced to the Lowest
Possible Amounts.

Washington. A call on national
depository banks for return to the treas.
ury of government funds aggregating ap'
proximately 25,0oo,oo0 was made Tues.
day by Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh. OF this amount SO, 0 600 has
been called for July Is and ~$16,000,000
for Aug. Is.
Balances in all active repositories are
uniformly reduced to the lowest amount
which the daily needs of the government
will permit.
This call will practically wipe out all
of the deposits of government funds in
national banks subject to check by the
treasury, except about $37,000,000 which
is held in active account and necessary to
meet checks of government disbursing
officers and 81, 900 600, which will be al
lowed to remain in 81 1000 lots in such
of the 1000 smaller national banks as
desire to retain their designation as ma
tional bank repositories.
The working balance today is more
than $43, 900, 900, which will be increased
by the call to approximately SOS, 900,
600. The low state of the government
working balance made its strength nee
essary, and thus augmented, the treas
ury department will have ample funds
for at least some months.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
MEssINA FEELS EARTHQUAKE
Walls of Ruins Overthrow and City
Enveloped in Dust Cloud.

Messina.-Messina experienced two
terrific earthquakes Thursday morning,
which were accompanied by roaring
sounds, and are said to have had a
stronger anu more undulatory movement
than the earthquake of last December,
which destroyed Messina, Reggie and
other cities, laid waste many villages in
Calabria and killed 100000 people.
Although the shocks had no such ter
rible consequences, the $4,000 residents
of the city were thrown into a state
of terror. They ran into the streets
panic-sricken, and nearly the entire pop
ulation is encamped in the open places,
fearing to return to the structures which
have served them as homes since the
city was destroyed.
The broken walls of the old ruins
were thrown to the ground, and Messina
was for a few minutes smothered in a
cloud of dust.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
$500, 900 GIFT FOR DR.. ELIOT

Graduates of Harvard Present This
Sum to Retiring President.
Cambridge, Mass.-Coincident with the
announcement tonight that DR.. Charles
William Eliot had been made president
emeritus of Harvard, came the unofficial
statement that the venerable ex-presi-
dent of the university would be pre-
sented tomorrow with a fund of nearly
100000.
The creation of the fund as a mark of
appreciation of DR.. Eliot as a man and
educator, has been in progress since a
few weeks after the president had made
it known that he was soon to resign,
but there has been no hint as to the
large proportion that it was assuming.
The subscriptions, it is understood. are
entirely from graduates and undergrad
yates of Harvard.
Another report says that the present
would be a trust fund of $150,000 con-
tributed by more than 1000 Harvard
men, thirty of which gave $1,000 each.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
COTTON UP 81 POINTS
INDICATED PRODUCTION ABOUT
12,26o,O0o BALES.
All Futures Above IL Cents-Enor
NOUS Profits by Successful
Spectators.

Memphis, Tenn.-In the most active
and excited market of the year cottor
prices yesterday advanced "a points, fol
lowing the PRONUNCIATION of the report
of the United States Department of Ag
riculture, which placed the average con
dition of the crop at TAG per cent. of q
normal as of June rs. With one excep
tion, hat of 1907, when the figure wal
~ per cent, this is the lowest condition
on record for June. Assuming that the
yield this year will be 12,5O0,000 bales.
there was added in the five hours OF
trading on the New York Cotton Elk.
change 33,75O,00o to the prospective
value of the crop, which is something
more than 81 for every acre under cul-
tivation. At the close October sold at
12.14 cents, the highest price of the
day and of the year, and predictions OF
IL 1-2 and 10 cents were freely made
for next week.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09

President Northrop of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota probably would not
feel qualified to enter a Marathon
race. But he has shown himself pos
ssssed of good qualities as a sprinter,
even at 6S years of age. He saw two
students smoking on the campus, and
as that was against the rules the
president started toward the young
men to admonish them. The offend
ers took to their heels, and the pres
ident took after them. What was
more he caught them, and gave it to
them" good and proper.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
DUsKY MONARCH "EAsY MARK"
Wlles Of Beautiful Captive Proved
just the Thing When Elmer.
qency Came.

The beautiful young captive retained
her presence Of mind, however, and
when 1t came her turn to be taken
before.the cannibal king, she marceled
herself very carefully.
"Ain't / sweet, thought" she ex-
claimed, archly flirting her handker-
chief at the monarch.
His majesty at once fell into the
trap.
You're simply I'll" he replied cor
daily.
well sweet things are terribly fat
tening."
"Ah!"
20, terribly. And there's nothing so
~hopelessly out of it as to be fat, these
days!"
.Whereupon the king was greatly
shaken and commanded her instant re-
lease.
People used to blame me because
/ knew / was pretty, but all the time l
felt sure the knowledge would come
handy some day." commented the
lovely creature, as she was led away.
Puck.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
The Marital Grasshopper.

What is a grasshopper? The latest
definition comes from western Aus
tralia. Domestic servants are almost
unprocurable there, and wives have to
do nearly all their own household
work. The consequence is that they
are compelled to recuperate at the sea
side in summer. In their absence the
husbands have to prepare their own
meals and do domestic duty generally.
Husbands so engaged have come to be
locally known as "grasshoppers." No
doubt the word is the husband of the
more familiar grass widow."-Lon-
don Chronicle.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
MENINGITIS Is Cured.

Chicago.-The first entirely successful
cure of spinal meningitis ever recorded
in Chicago became a matter OF fact
Thursday, when Edward Herzog, 1-2
years old, was able to leave his bed,
where he had been confined for four
weeks, and walk out Of doors, pro-
nounced cured. The child was saved as
the result of a discovery of a new serum
by scientists in the New Rockefeller In
stitute at New York, which was founded
a short time ago for the purpose OF
searching for and perfecting a cure for
spinal meningitis.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
HEAT CAUSES WIFE BEATING
Seven Men Make Same Plea at
Whiting, Ind.

Whiting, Ind.-Seven men in Jail here
for beating their wives pleaded in court
that the hot wave drove them to assault.
James Brown threw a shoe at his wife
and tore off one of her ears. He was
arrested and fined $25. Returning home,
he beat his wife SO iercely that she prob
ably will die. He said his anger against
her had been heated to the frenzy by
the weather.
Thomas Bossock knocked his wife
down and kicked her in the face. John
Bressina entered while the two were
fighting. The oma hurried to the
police station and swore out a warrant
for Bressina charging him with assault
ing her husband. In her absence, her
husband whipped her would-be protector
into Inconsistencies. Bossock said he
was crazy from the heat. Two more
men charged with assaulting their wives
also ascribe their assaults to the hot
weather.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
END or WOODIL CASE
EASTMAN WAS PRINCIPAL Oh
ACCESSORY TO MURDER.
Mrs. Eastman Visits Grave Of Hus-
band, Upon Which Tomato Vine
Had Boon Planted.

st. Michaels, Md.-With the com
promise verdict of the c~oroner's jury
that Robert E. Eastman either KILLED
or was accessory to the murder of Edit
May Woodill," and the declaration OF
States Attorney Taylor that he was
through with the case, the strange dual
tragedy which had for nearly a week TO
cused the eyes of the entire country upon
this little, out-of-the-way hamlet Of
Maryland's famous Eastern shore became
. closed incident Monday.
The jury sat for a time IN the lonely
bungalow, within sight Of Eastman's un'
marked grave, not fifty feet away. Mrs,
Eastman had visited the place earlier in
the day and had stood dry-eyed for .
time beside the new-made mound. Some
one, with ill-judged humor, had planted
= tomato vine on the grave. Mrs. East
man, thinking the vine a native flower
asked what it was. No one had the
temerity to tell her.
the jury was deeply interesting, and
made clear many points in the tragedy
which heretofore have been matters OF
conjecture.
The final theory of the authorities Is
this:
"That Eastman was in need of money
that he probably had been getting money
from Mrs. Woodill for some time; that
he undoubtedly knew something of her
past life, and that he had been black
mailing her; that he attempted to con-
tinue this practice, and that the woman
rebelled, intimating that she, too, had
found out certain things about Eastman
and that if driven to it would expose
hsr, -
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Mrs. Tucker Gets Divorce.

Chicago.-Mary Elizabeth dolly Lo-
gan) Tucker Tuesday was granted a
divorce from Col. VIM. F.. Tucker, Y.
S. A., retired, on grounds of desertion.
The matter of alimony was settled pri-
vately. Col. Tucker did not contest.
Mrs. Tucker was given the right to re-
sumo her maiden name. There were but
two witnesses, Mrs. Tucker and her
mother, the widow of Gen. John r.
Logan. Both testified that the parties
to the suit had married in 1877 and that
Col. Tucker had deserted the complain
ant in 1906.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09

An interesting outcome of Ii Sum
Ling's visit to Pekin is the formation
of a China-American Friends associa-
ton. The modern tendencies of the
Celestial empire are illustrated by the
fact that this movement was the cdl-
mination of a banquet given to the
Hongkong newspaper proprietor by
leading Chinese journalists" They,
with many officials, listened with ap-
probation to the story of their guests
experiences in the United States, and
toasted President Taft as a warm
friend of their country.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
THINK LING'S BODY FOUND
Body Was Nude, Except for Silk
Undershirt.

New York.-Although complete iden-
tifcation was impossible, there appeared
to be a strong probability that the body
of a Chinaman which was found floating
in the Hudson river in the upper part
of the city Thursday was that of Leon
Ling, or VIM. L. Leon, the murderer of
Elsie Sigel. The mans height, weight
and general appearance tallies with that
of Leon Ling, but, as the body was
nude, except for a silk undershirt, and
had peer in the water for more than q
week, a thorough examination will be
necessary. Coroner Mcdonald, who was
the first to inspect the body, believes
that it is Leon, as do a number of po-
licemen, but until measurements and IA
cial characteristics are carefully gone
over the Identification will remain in
Doubt.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Railroad Casualties Increase.

Washington.-An increase of 344 in
the total of railroad casualties, but a
decrease of IS in the total of persons
killed, as compared with the figures for
the corresponding quarter last year, is
shown for the months of January, Feb
ruary and March, 1909, by accident bull
letin No. 81, issued Tuesday by the
interstate commission. Dur.
ing the months named 663 persons were
killed and 1922 were injured. The
number of collisions was 1,042.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09

ache, rheumatism, dizzy and fainting
spells, urinary disorders, dreadful
bloating of dropsy and finally a COM
plete prostration that defed medical
skill and caused her to be given up.
Through the use of Doan's Kidney
Pills Mrs. Kessler is a well woman
and is willing to tell about her case
to anyone who cares to inquire.
Sold by all dealers. so cts. a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Law Men Power Generators.

Learned Justice Belts of Kingston,
N. Y, says: Lazy men have a right
to live" Our lazy men are our most
potent. History shows that as a rule
with a rules exceptions, our greatest
men had either indolent Or shiftless
fathers, as fathers of Shakespeare,
Lincoln, Napoleon, Bismarck and other
worthless indicate. On the other hand,
great mems children are few and
far between. Power In a lazy man is
accommodating, as in a coiled spring,
but the great man has little or nothing
left for offspring.-New York Times.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09

The athletic girl and the baseball
bat make a combination which, like
the great American game itself, is
hard to beat. A burglar out in Seat
tie, Wash, found that out. While en-
gagged in the interesting occupation of
burgling the home of a resident of
that city he encountered the girl and
the big stick. The result was the
knocking out of the burglar, who
dropped several thousand dollars
worth of plumber and was glad to es-
cape without broken bones.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Hartman Unnourished.

Semmering.-Mr. Strempell made an
other visit to Mr.. Hartman Monday and
announced that the distinguished patient
was unnourished, as he weighs only Ia
pounds. The physician directed him to
take the fattening cure, plenty Of cereals,
milk, meat and malt beer. Mr.. Harri-
man, upon receiving this advice, laughed
md explained: Il can now say thas
everywhere there is bread and nc Eun-
ger" Mr.. Harrison is to remain here
until July Is, when he leaves for Ban
Taste to take the radium baths.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Cotton Condition res.

New York.-Replies from 1910 special
correspondents OF the Journal of Com
merce, of an average date Of June %,
makes the condition Of cotton 1858, az
compared with S1.4 last month, a de-
cline Of So points. A year ago at this
time condition was 81.4, in 1907 it was
74.2, in 1906 it was SGT; average for
nine years, 79.4. The chief u Of de-
t~erioration was excessive precipitation,
preventing cultivation and e~nveloping
almost the entire crop in grass, Texas
and Oklahoma excepted
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
CORPORATION TAX PASSED
Many Democrats Voted in Favor OF
the Measure.

Washington.-The corporation tax
amendment, which was suggested by
President Taft, drawn by Attorney Gen.
eral Wickersham and presented to the
senate by Mr.. Aldrich, chairman of the
committee on finance, is an integral part
| of the tariff bill as that bill now stands.
After much tribulation the Senate
reached a vote on the proposition FRI
| day, and the amendment was agreed
to by the large vote of 60 to IL. With
all modifying amendments disposed of,
many Democrats voted with most of the
Republicans for the amendment. Only
three Democrats voted against the pro-
vision on the final vote, but some re-
Trained from voting at all. The test
vote was on the substitution of the cor
poration tax amendment for the income
tax proposition, and OF that vote As sem
ators cast their ballots in the affirma-
tive and 81 in the negative. On this bal
lot all the Democratic votes were cast in
favor of the income tax, which also re-
ceived the support of a number OF in
surgent Republicans.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Ninety-six at st. Louis.

st. Louis, Mo.-Friday was the hot
test day Of the season thus far, the
mercury registering 90 degrees in the
shade at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Three
deaths and three serious prostrations
were recorded during the day on account
Of the excessive heat. Henry Guth, 9
painter, was killed by falling from 9
scaffold when rendered dizzy by the heat
Mrs. Anna Randall and Mel Bechman
died from heat. Otto Ziegler, John OBJ
ermeyer and John Barry were seriously
prostrated. At 8 pm. the mercury req
istered 81.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Unexpected Prize.

With a dizziness acquired by long
and patient practice the pickpocket
extracted an old but well-flled wallet
from the hip pocket of the unsuspect-
ing old gentleman with the beaming
countenance against whom he had
carelessly brushed when leaving the
street car, and on reaching a secluded
place he opened it.
The contents had been wrapped with
great care in numerous thicknesses OF
blank paper. Removing the wrappings
one by one, he found in the center of
the package a card with this inscrip-
Your Career of Crime! Nothing
In IT."
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
An Anatomical Wonder.

Senator Beveridge was criticising
the ludicrous speeches of a certain up
right but hot-headed congressman.
He does make queer plumbers,
doesn't he?" said Senator Beverage.
Have you heard about his latest?
well it seems that a constituent,
visiting him recently, complained OF
the %shabbiness of a pair of ink
stained crash trousers that he had on.
GA man of your position said the
constituent, reproachfully, ought to
wea handsomer trousers than those.
The congressman, offended, an
swered reproachfully:
my trousers may be shabby, but
they v a warm and honest heart "
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Charleston Goes Dry.

Charleston, w. Va.-For the first time
in half a century, West Virginia's state
capital became wholly dry at midnight
Thursday by the refusal of the Charles
ton city council to grant a renewal of
saloon licenses. The ringing of church
bells at the midnight hour marked the
closing of the forty-nine saloons and six
wholesale liquor houses in this city. Al
together 142 saloons in the state closed
at the same hour because of action
taken similar TO that in this city.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
mead Over Fourth Fatal.

Akron, O.-Gustav THESE, a civil war
veteran, who some time ago predicted
his death would occur between July .
and 6, died Thursday as a direct result,
his physician believes, of his dread OF
the coming Fourth of July celebration.
Some time ago Theiese wrote q letter
to the Akron w. C. T. U. begging that
body to use every means to secure a
a fourth. II know I cannot live
through another fourth" he wrote, III
there is SO much noise and life is in
danger. It will be impossible for me to
stand it,"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Simnle Life for Hartman.

semmering, Austria.-E. H. Hartman
today feels much better. His appetite,
under the ssbread and butter regime, is
heartier, he eats with zest and he is
much pleased with the effects Of the
electric baths. Mr.. Hartman had ex-
pected to 60 to Baddastein July IS. lie
has leased eleven rooms in the Hotel
Europe. There is a hot radioactive
spring bubbling directly into his bath
room. Mr.. Hartman will stay at Bad
dastein four weeks, and intends TO re-
turn to New York early in September.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Walsh Paws Interest.

Chicago.-John R. Walsh, convicted
bank wrecker, whose appeal is pending
before the United States court OF ap-
peals, Thursday paid $4,000 to the First
Trust and Savings bank, as interest to
the various banks of Chicago ON the
railroad bonds deposited to secure the
banks for the $~7,2o0,0oo loan they made
to pay the depositors of the defunct
Walsh institutions. If the money had
not been Forthcoming the bankers could
have foreclosed on Walsh's railroad prop
critics.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
obiection to Women Golfers,

Farmers don't mind renting their
fields to golfers, but they are strongly
opposed to women"
"Why?"
Because woman golfers are always
losing hairpins and hatpins and stick
pins in the grass. Follow the trail of
a woman's foursome with a pincushion
and I'll guarantee you a cushionful of
pins at the end of the ninth hole"
But why does the farmer mind
that?"
Because afterward when his sheep
and cattle Craze in those fields they
swallow pins. Pins, / needn't tell you,
are injurious to the health"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09

Automobiles are a necessity of mod
ern life, and their general use ought
to be encouraged, but there is no rea-
SOL why they should not be used with
due regard to the rights of nonusers,
who are an overwhelming majority of
the public. Those who have at heart
the progress of automobiling as an in
dustry, a sport or a e of trans
portation will find it to their interest
to suppress the many reckless driv-
ers who bring their own occupation
into d%isrepute.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Discharge Kirby Receivers

Houston, Textile United States
Court here ordered the discharge of the
Kirby Lumber Company from receiver.
ship. The Kirby Company went into
the hands OF receivers February LIST,
1904, on application Of the Maryland
Trust Company, holding large securities
in the shape of timber certificates. AT
that time liabilities were stated to be
So. $780, 900 and assets ten million dol
lars. Receivers made a profit of $3,50O,-
BOO. One million was put in improve
ments and the present Indebtedness is
$4,000. 900.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Silver

Washington.-The price of fine silver
in the markets of the world has declined
during the last year 1878 cents per fine
ounce, and during the last three months
there has been an increase OF l.079
cents. These statements form the basis
of an announcement made by the direc-
tor of the mint as to the value of for
eign coins.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
MEXICAN FLEAS APPEAR.
Doing More Damage Than the Boil
Weevil.

Logansport, La.-Farmers report that
a pest known as the Mexican flea has
appeared in great numbers in their fields
and that they are doing more damage
to the cotton than the boil weevil. 1t
attacks the new squares on the cotton
plants and causes each me that it bores
into to drop off. The name flea is given
it for the reason that when it moves it
hops like an ordinary flea, only it can
hop a much greater distance. Very lit
tie is known of the origin and habits OF
this bug. From reports received from
the farmers who nave discovered the
feas in their cotton crops, the indications
are that it will prove to be equally as
destructive as the boil weevil and equally
as hard to exterminate.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Ten DAYS Underground Alive.

st. Gall, Switzerland.-A young
woman who ten days ago was caught in
a cave-in of a railroad tunnel, was FRI
day dug out alive. She suffered agoinies
of cold and hunger during this period,
but managed to sustain life by sucking
moisture from her clothing, on which
water occasionally trickled. She con-
tinued calling for help until she finally
was heard and rescued.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Cuba Paws for Cannon.

Madrid.-It is announced here Off
cially that Cuba has paid over to the
Spanish minister at Havana, Senior de
Ayala, the first of the three annual in
stalments of the $3oo, 900 for Spanish
cannon left in the fortresses of Cuba,
and claimed by Spain under the terms
of the peace protocol.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09

The German boyle man will not
catch England because the brave,
bold Britons are net watching out.
Every now and then the very mention
of a German invasion throws them
into a panic. But, then, we had some
of the same nervous feeling ourselves
about that Spanish phantom fleet
which invisibly ravished our coast.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-09
Iohnson for Woman Suffrage.

jackson, Mich.-Gov. johnson, of Min.
nesota, delivered an address here Thurs
day night. He said: Il hope to see
the time when women will join with
their husbands in political affairs. Where
woman is the atmosphere is better, and
politics would be better with her refining
influence"