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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
MUST serve
LIFE SENTENCE
CHARLES SMITH, THE LOWNDES
COUNTY MURDERER, MUST
FACE CONSEQUENCES
Suggestion of Error Filed BY His At
torneys overruIed BY the Su-
preme Court.

JACKSON, Miss, July 23.-Charles
Smith. slayer of E. A. Laurent, the
Nashville drummer, at Artesia, six
months ago. must serve his life term
in the Mississippi penitentiary, or on
the state farm, as per the verdict of
the Lowndes county circuit court.
This case was appealed to the Su-
preme Court and the judgment of the
court below affirmed several weeks
ago. The attorneys for Smith then
filed a voluminous suggestion of error,
their brief covering more than $50
pages of printed matter.
The Supreme Court had adjourned
or taken recess for the summer, but
they got together yesterday went over
the suggestion of error and reaffirmed
their former decision, which is that
Smith must spend the remainder of
his days on the convict farm at hard
labor.
The court was divided on the sug-
gestion of error just as it was on the
original decision-Chief Justice Whit
field dissenting, thinking the defendant
(the appellant. entitled to another
trial. Insanity of one kind and an
other was the defense, but it did not
work.
Mr.. Smith is a wealthy planter and
business man If Lowndes county and
his family is one of the most promi-
nent in that section of the state. It
was never believed when the trial was
begun that he would be convicted but
as the facts came out sentiment turn
ed against him, and the verdict Of the
jury was very generally endorsed,
though there are a great many who
claim that he comes from family
that is badly tainted with insanity
and that he has frequently been sus-
pected.
Unfortunately for the defendant his
first defense was the "unwritten law"
he charging that Laurent had insulted
or debauched his daughter. This the
daughter, an only child of about 25
years of age, Indignantly denied in
spite Of the fact that such denial
might have sent her father to the gal
lows, and the sympathy of the public
was with the young woman. When
Smith had had time to think over the
matter and to discuss his chances of
acquital with his attorneys. the 'un-
written law" dodge was abandoned
and the Insanity" plea entered.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
FoReER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

NEW ORLEANS, July 2S.-FolloT-
ing the alleged discovery that he had
forged mortgage notes to the extent of
$1,000 or more, Joseph Q. Gowland,
notary and attorney, attempted to
commit suicide today by swallowing
the contents of a bottle of cyanide
of potassium. He was restrained by
his accusors before he could get the
bottle to his lips. \ patrol wagon
was backed up to the elevator door Of
the New Orleans National Bank build.
ing, where Gowland had his office
and the young attorney his books and
accounts were dumped into the wagon
and taken to Jail This is the third
notary to go wrong in New Orleans
within the last eight months. Cow
lands alleged forgeries, however, are
small compared with the others which
aggregate several hundred thousand
dollars.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
novel LAWSUIT
IN LOUISIANA
CITIZEN WANTS SHERIFF TO PAY
$4,000 FOR DAMAGE DONE BY
A MOB.
Outgrowth of italian Riot at Natal.
bany a Year Ago.-Alleees That
Sheriff Neglected Duty.

NEW ORLEANS, July 23.-1'ne
question as to whether a person suf-
fering mob violence can recover dam
ages from the authorities of the par
ish in which the violence occurs has
been raised in Louisiana. Calagero
Parimo, merchant of Notalbany, La,
filed a suit for $4,000 against Sheriff
Saal, of Tangipahoa parish, in the
federal court here yesterday. Parino
AYERS that his store was dynamited
and that he was hauled through the
streets of the town during near riot
between Americans and italians in
July, 1908. The petitioner asks that
he be recompensed by the defendant
because he contends it was the duty
of the sheriff to suppress the mob al
legged to have caused the trouble.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
LEW DocKsTADER BRINGS SUIT
Objects to Levy on Box Office Re.
ceipta Four Years Ago.

PHILADELPHIA, July 23.-Lew
Dockstader, the minstrel, filed a
suit through Eugene Raymond in CON-
mon pleas court yesterday against
Florian Pincus, a theatrical manaer
and promoter, to recover damages for
an alleged illegal levy made on the
box office receipts at the Grand Opera
House while Dockstader was filling
an engagement there four years ago.
Mr.. Pincus obtained an attachment
against Dockstader in a suit for an
ALLEGED violation of contract, and de-
spite the contention of Dockstader that
the contract had never been consum-
mated the box office receipts were
attached.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
GEORGIA'S latest
PROHIBITION Bill.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 23.-Determ-
ined to make Georgia so dry that even
fruit syrups in which there is a trace
of alcohol will be contraband in this
state, Representative Hooper Alex
ander, of Dekalb county, introduced
real prohibition measure in the house
yesterday. It not only forbids the
manufacture and sale Of near-beer
now sold. but it expressly provides
that all beverages containing even
trace if alcohol shall not be sold in
the state.
As a result the soft drink people
are alarmed as all fruit syrups show
very small percentage of alcohol.
If the bill passes It is feared that
eeven the drugstore soda fountain
will be put out of business.
The measure aims mainly at what
is termed the ''near-beer" dealers.
When the prohibition law was passed
two years ago it put under the ban
only Intoxicating liquors." Some court
held that a liquor was not intoxicat-
ing unless it contained more than 4
per cent. of alcohol. Nearly all the
domestic beers, it was discovered con-
tanned less. Hence, they have been
sold freely all over the state, and a
license of $3.50 a year assessed
The new bill sets out, Whereas,
the keeping or selling of alcoholic bev-
erages is hereby adiudged to be dan
gerous to the peace and safety of the
state" and proceeds to make it unlaw-
full to either buy orsell or even have
in ones possession any such bever-
ages. The bill does not fix the pen.
atty, merely providing that those con-
victed of its violation shall be guilty
of misdemeanor.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
ANOTHER BODY
found IN TRUNK
SIcKENING DISCOVERY MADE IN
A LYNN, MASS, LODGING
HOUSE.

LYNN, Mass. July pa body fully
clithed and believed to be that of an
Armenian was found packed in a
trunk in lodging house at No. las
Liberty street yesterday. The
was mutilated and there was a bullet
wound over the heart.
In a pocket a handbook was found
bearing the name of NIinas X. Mori-
jan. The room was rented eight
weeks ago by Frank Jones, shoe
factory workman, who, it is said. had
not occupied it since last Monday.
The body was discovered by Mrs.
Bessie Rollins, the lodging-house-
keeper and her husband, who had
found a stream of blood trickling
from the bottom of the trunk. The
police were notified and a search was
begun for Jones. On May 80 a new
trunk was brought to the house for
Jones. In the handbook was note
which said
IF anything happens to me notify
L. B. Adams. 3SS Center street, ia
maica Plains"
How long the body has been in the
trunk is not known.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
A FATAL
ACCIDENT
YESTERDAY
GEORGE OLIVER FELL THIRTY
FEET, SUSTAINING INJURIES
WHICH PROVED FATAL.
Was a Painter Employed on the
New Main Street Methodist
Church.

While working on the ceiling of the
new Main Street Methodist church
about o'clock yesterday evening,
George oliver, a painter living on
Oak street, stepped upon a defective
plank and fell over thirty feet to his
death.
It was the first day that he had
been employed in the church and he
had been doing good work, moving
quickly and freely upon the scaffold,
till he chanced to step upon the defec-
tive plank, which had been previously
used by plasterers and in which a
large knot extending almost entirely
across it was so covered by plaster
as to have been unoticed. The plank
broke when he stepped upon it and
he fell to the floor, more than thirty
feet below, shattering the bones OF
his right hip and thigh and sustain
ing several internal injuries.
He was removed to the South Mis-
sissippi Infirmary, where he died
about two hours later, retaining con-
sciousness until put under the influ-
ence Of an opiate to relieve his suf-
ferings a short while before he died.
The funeral services will be held
by DIR. A. F. Watkins at Ramsey's
Undertaking Parlors, on West Pine
street and interment will be at Palm
er's Crossing.
The deceased was an Englshman,
fifyt-four years of age, who had been
in this country for several years, and
though there are no living children,
he leaves a bereaved wife, daughter of
Mr.. II. C. Solely, a resident of Nc
Swain street.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
GALVESTON STORM CASUALTIES

GALVESTON Tex, July 23.-With
nothing more definite from the storm
swept regions of Texas it is now
pretty certain that the death toll OF
Wednesdays hurricane will not ex
ceed the figures given out by the
compilers last night The latest last
night was a statement that probably
twenty lives had been lost. Some
people now recorded as being dead
may possibly show up and it is barely
possible that some few remote points
may yet send in a list of casualties
not reported before, but the final an(
complete list viii not be either mucl
above or much below twenty. Relic
work is going on steadily and Ba,
CityNand other small towns south q
Galvs sston are being cared for.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
NEWS FROM RIcHToN.

RICHTON, Miss, July 23.-The
mavor and board of aldermen at a re-
cent session rescinded their action of
several months ago creating a sep
arate school district and instead have
levied a special tax of 2 mills, which
is deemed sufficient. Plans are being
discussed for a modern school build
ing
Two candidates, G. e. Marlborough
and A. r. Shoemaker, are in the field
for Justice of the peace in this dis
trict to succeed c. c. Smith, resigned.
The election will be held on the 30th
inst.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
200 PIGS GIVE FIRE ALARM
Theis SqueaIs, When Barn catche.
Attract arm Hands.

PHILADELPHIA, July 23.-F1rd
started yesterday on the farm Of Vi
Weissenger, at Stonehouse lane and
Oregon avenue, and 200 pigs really
gave the alarm, their squeals being
heard by Weissenger and his assistant
working nearly a quarter of a mile
from the barn in which they were
penned
Van Leer burst open the door OF
the barn and was knocked down and
trampled upon by the pigs. One pig
victim of the smoke was left with
IN to roast
The fire consumed the barn. but
was prevented from spreading by a
busket brigade. Fire engines were
useless, there being no water connec.
ton within a quarter of mile. Tho
loss is estimated at $500.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
PAVING COMMITTE
met LAST NIGHT

The committee of the city council
appointed on last Monday night to
act upon the paving of Bouie street
and River avenue, and composed if
Aldermen McGrath, Mckenzie, Powe
Lasseter and Cameron, met last night
at the city hail.
In the absence Of Afderman Lasset.
er, Mayor Donald was invited to take
the chair. The committee discussed
ways and means of paving these
streets to some length with chief re-
gard to prospects of legal aid from
the county.
Aldermen McGrath and Mckenzie
favored immediate action by the city
on one of the streets and letting the
county help, if it would on the other,
but Aldermen Powe and Cameron
thought that the city should be GER
tain of what aid could be expected
from the county before it began is
work.
Mayor Donald voting with the latter
it was decided that the committee
should go before the board of SUPER
visors at its next meeting, the first
Monday in August, see what help the
county will give and then lay its
plans before the city council at the
meeting following.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
ESCAPED CONVICT
RUNS AMUCk
DESPERATE is ARMED WITH
SHOT GUN AND TWO BOXES
OF CARTRIDGES.
Is Terrifying the Natives in the Vi
cinity of Montgomery
Alabama.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 23.-Eu
gene Brooks, a negro convict, who
recently escaped, is terrorizing ne
groes on the Cochran place, twenty
four miles from Montgomery Rosa
Lee, a negro girl, was criminally as
saulted by the negro while she was
working in the field. He said h.
would come back and kill her if she
reported him. She avs that the ne
gro had shot gun with two boxes
of shells which he must have stolen
since getting out of Jail. Sheriff Hood
has posse out searching for the ne
gro, and he will probably be killed
or captured before nightfall.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
EXERCISE
MOST RIGID
CENSORSHIP
TRANSMISSION OF DISPATCHES
BY COURIER is AGAIN MADE
NECESSARY.
Newspaper Confiscated Because 1t
Criticised Governments Policy in
Morocco.
MADRID, via Badajos, on the Po

MADRID, via Badajos, on the Por-
tuguese Frontier, July 23.-The Span
ish authorities are exercising vigor-
Gus censorship over the press dis
patches again and the transmission
of news over the Portuguese frontier
is necessary for the second time. The
local newspapers are also being rig
idly censored and one republican news
paper, El Pasajuas, was confiscated
today because it criticised the policy
of the government in the war with
the Kabyle tribesmen of Morocco. A
editor who speaks his mind too treel
is liable to find himself in Jail at an
moment.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
ORGANIZED
PROSPERITY
MOVEMENT
IN THE STATE OF TEXAS. -.
An Example Which Is Worthy of EN-.
ulation by Mississppians.

FORT WORTH, Tex, July 23.-Ev
cry citizen of the state who is willing
to study, talk and work for Texas is
entitled to membership in the Texas
Prosperity Club that is now being
launched as an adjunct of the Texas
Commercial Secretaries Association.
The club is being formed for the pur-
pose of forming an association of all
persons who desire to study the state
and are willing to work for its up
building. In order to make this pur.
pose possible the club will endeavor
to raise interest and enthusiasm in
behalf of the better development OF
the state among all classes of citi-
zens.
The basis for the study of Texas
will consist in a series of publications
which the association is publishing on
the latest resources and possibilities
of the state. These pamphlets anu
books are full of information about
every interest and indGstry Of the
state and will be furnished free tC
every member of the club. This is
contingent upon the payment of the
dues-$5 per annum in advance-and
all publications Of the Commercial
Secretaries Association will be fur
nished the members also.
To keep one in constant remem
brance of his pledge to ytudy, tall
and work for Texas all the time 6
beautifully printed covenant to tha
effect is furnished each member, along
with a certificate of membership
worded as follows: "This is to Ger
tify that - is a progressive cit
izen and a member in good STANDING
of the Texas Prosperity Club. He is
well qualified to talk Texas ana is
authorized to develop the state.' a
prosperity button in the association s
colors of green and gold-tha green
representing the growing crops and
the gold the ripe harvests-is furnish
ed members, too, along with a beau-
tifully illuminated Texas sta" The
five points of the star indilts the
states most urgent needs of more
farms, mines. factories, railroads and
statesmen.
The literature of the club is espe-
cially adapted to the needs of persons
going away on vacations. as It con-
tains just the information about the
resources that they will need to use
in telling others about the possibili-
ties Of the state. The cover of each
booklet illustrates the contents. and
the mechanical work IS triumph Of
the brin,ers art. Complete organi4a-
tion Of the Prosperity Club VIZ be
perfected IT. this city August = at the
training Institute for commerc.a, sec
retaries that will be held her. that
week. The school viii be addressed
by Prof Elmer S. Baterson, of Chi
cago the foremost instructor IN city
development in this country.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
IN THE BEGINNING.

Rye came from Siberia.
Peas are of Egyptian origin.
The citron came from Greece.
The onion hailed from Egypt.
The chestnut came from Italy.
Celery originated in Germany.
The sunflower came from Peru.
Tobacco is a native of Virginia.
Oats originated in North Africa.
Parsley was first known in Siberia
Spinach was brought from Arabia.
Cucumbers came from the East In
dies.
The mulberry trees originated il
Persia.
Walnuts and peaches came from
Persia.
The horse chestnut is a native o
Tibet.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
POLICE WOMEN NEEDED.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, July %
That Minneapolis needs 100 women
policemen is the opinion of DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw, president of the Ma
tional Woman's Suffrage Association.
who yesterday addressed the students
in the chapel of the University Of
Minnesota. Said DR.. Shaw:
"The criminal needs 'mothering'. If
women were on the police force their
watchfulness, care and attention to
people who need their wholesome in
fluence, backed by authority would
prove most useful and uplifting
measure.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
LUMBER GETS SIPS SCHEDULE.

WASHINGTON, July 23.-Indica-
tions this afternoon are very strong
that the tariff conference committee
will report favorably the following
rates on articles which have been
causing much controversy:
Lumber $1,25 per thousand, hides z
cents iron ore 25 cents per ton, coal
40 cents per ton, petroleum free.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23

BOSTON, July 23.-L. B. Adams, to
whom reference was made in a note.
found in the pocket of the victim of
the Lynn trunk murder is a newspa-
per photographer in this city. Mori-
jams sister was the wife of Adams
relatives. The couple quarreled and
Morijan is reported to have taken the
side of his sister, and it was reported
this afternoon incurred the husbands 5
enmity. sei -sSgysS
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
KILLED WHILE WALKING.

CHICAGO, July 23.-While taking
one of the daily walks to which she
credited her long life, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hacker, SO years old, was run down
and killed by street car yesterday.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON. July 2S.-For Mis-
sissippi: Fair in north, showers in
south portion tonight or Saturday.
cooler in central portion tonight.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
PELLAGRA IN EAST TENNESSEE

NASHVILLE Tenn, July 2s.1
pellagra problem again presente
itself for solution yesterday when
communication from DR.. James
Heffernan of ellico, Campbell count
informed the state board of healt
that there are two cases in that So
tion of the state. The doubt of Il
existence of the disease in Tennessd
has all been cleared away by the u
animous diagnoses of so many oh
sicians. How to treat the maladv al
how to deal with the patients und
the health regulations are now que
tions that vex the medical fraterni
and the health authorities.
There is a persistent belief amor
majority of the doctors who haI
studied pellagra that it is neither co
tagious nor infectious and for til
reason it would only be folly to qua
antine those who become -afflict,
with it. In the face of this comes Il
history of the diseases spread at Il
Baptist Orphans Home in West Mas
vile. Beginning with four cases fro
lone family of children from Newpoi
Cooke county, it progressed for fol
years at the orphanage until the
had been seventeen cases while
the other institutions of the sta
there has been found 80 highs of Il
disease.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23

George L. Pace has returned from
a visit to Mobile and other points.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-23
Authorities Hesitate.

This alone has caused the author
ties to hesitate about allowing the De.
tients now confined to be placed bacf
in the orphanage with the other child
ren. A letter has been mailed by Di
J. A. Albright, secretary of the boar
of health TO Newport, asking Count,
Health Officer DR.. R. C. Smith to in
vestigate the family and neighborhoo,
from which these first cases came ant
submit any other information 70 b,
had about the disease in Cooke couu
ty Circumstances, it is thought, viii
necessarily work themselves, to
place where the medical authorities
will have to rule one way or the otheI
as to the confinement of pellagra a,
signs are out that there will be man,
discoveries of the strange malady',
ravages through the state.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-07
EAGLES DRUM CORPS
 COMING HERE

Hot Springs, Ark, Oct. 6.-The grand opening of the Arkansas State Fair on October II will surpass all other opening days days and the Fra ternal Order of Eagles open their state convention in Pine Bluff, Ark, on October 19, which will be the grand est state convention ever held. There will be special train leave over the Hot Western on the morning of Octo- Der 19 through to Pine Bluff, for three days of fun and frolic The To- cal aerie will furnish music with their drum corps under the leadership of J. A. GOOdine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-07
ODD FELLOWS
 ENJOY A SMOKER

Tuesday night the members of the local order of Independent Order of Odd Fellows held their regular meet in a delightful smoker, at which many good cigars passed freely. Besides the regular routine of the lodge busi- ness, one new member was initiated to the second degree and committee of five was named to prepare the ar spread two weeks from Tuesday night Tuesday evening October 19 At the next meeting next Tuesday night, one member will be initiated
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-07
THAW CASE ARGUED
 IN SUPREME COURT
Gov. Black Says Stanford White $
 Slayer Was WrOngfully Committed to MatteWan.

Albany, N. Y., Oct. 6-Mrs. Thaw and the Countess of Yarmouth listened fore the court of appeals by Governo; Black in an effort to have Harry k Thaw released from Mattewan. Black a jury on the ground that he was in- sane at the time of the commission of the homicide and that the order committing him to Mattewan was wrongfully based upon Thaw's con- dition at the time of his acquittal. As sistant District Attorney Robert C.. Taylor, of New York appeared for the state and District Attorney Jerome.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-07
Back Numbers.

William. said Mrs. Van Gelder to the man of all work. "I want you to clean out that large closet ill the hall just outside the parlor. Burn all tue old newspapers. waste paper and any other rubbish you may find there.'
 After a short time she met William in the ball carrying in his arms huge pile Of sheet music. the property of her eldest daughter.
 What are you going to do with Ma bel's masic?' she asked
 Why. burn it. sure. as you told me to It was in the closet there with the ot her rubtish.'
 But didn't mean the music. Put it Lack gt ouce'
 Noting his mistress displeasure, Will. liam inquired in surprise:
 "Why. hasn't she played it al:'