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The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
four STATES QUAKE
ILLINOIS, MICHIGAN, WISDOM
SIN AND IOWA TREMBLE.
Big Chicago Skyscrapers Tremble
Like Human B~eings-The
Panic Was Widespread.

Chicago.-Chicago and four states
were rocked by an earthquake Wednes-
day morning, throwing at least half of
its inhabitants into a mortal terror.
Every city; village and hamlet in
Northern Illinois felt the shock and the
panic was widespread. Iowa, Michigan
and Wisconsin were also in the path of
the trembler. Thousands of persons were
aroused from their slumbers, and in the
foreign settlements of Chicago, particu'
larly where Italians and Sicilians con
gregate, there was alarm which gave rise
to waiing and prayers as the inhabi-
tants thought that they were about to
suffer the same fate which destroyed so
many thousands of their countrymen.
Big skyscrapers in the downtown dis
trio trembled like living beings with the
ague. Many dilapidated old structures
collapsed in different parts of the city,
dishes were thrown off the shelves and
broken, windows were cracked in many
portions of the residence districts of May
wood, Evanston and other suburban
towns, and many residents were so
frightened that they ran into the street
fearing that the roofs were about to fall
over their heads.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
WORST FLOOD IN YEARS.
Trains on Three Railroad Systems
Indefinitely Annulled.

Meridian, Miss.-Three more inches of
rainfall were today added to the record
breaking downpour of Monday night and
yesterday, and tonight all of the large
streams south of Meridian are reported
still rising. The rise, too, has passed all
previous high-water marks, and the dam
age will not be known until the water
recedes.
All trains south and west of Meridian
on the Alabama and Vicksburg, Mobile
and Ohio and New Orleans and North
eastern roads have been indefinitely an
nulled. Each road is reported to have
suffered the loss of many miles of road
bed and numbers of t~restles. The Mobile
and Ohio, Alabama Great Southern and
Southern Railway are maintaining trains
north of Meridian, but are slow sched-
ules.
Tonight it is reported from the local
weather bureau that Enterprise and Shu-
buta are in the grasp of the worst flood
in history. The water in the business
district of Enterprise being almost to
the second stories of some business build
ings, and Shubuta being an island, en-
tirely cut off from the outside world ex-
cept for telephone and telegraph commu-
n~ication, which are yet intact. At En-
terprise stocks of goods have been moved
from lower to upper floors, and it is
thought the damage to them will not be
SO great. People are moving about the
town in skiffs.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
JAPANESE MAY ATTACK US
Activity Expected Six Months Be.
fore Opening of Canal.

Washington.-War college experts who
have been paying special attention to
international relations have reached the
conclusion that if Japan makes a dem
onstration against the United States
land it is expected), her activity will
begin six months before the completion
of the isthmian canal.
Secretary of War Dickinson and Gen.
Franklin Bell, chief of staff, U. S. A.
have made special observations looking
to the realization of the Notifications
on the canal as mapped out by Presi.
dent Taft when he was secretary of war.
The canal cannot be finished until
January 1, 1915, but the wal department
and sixteen-inch guns and construction
of emplacements, establishment of fire
control and placing of searchlights can-
not be realized for three or four years.
In other words, it is necessary to be-
gin on the specific plans for the placing
of the modern high power guns which
are to take the place of treaties"
"It is manifest that there is no hope
in the obligation of treaties; the power
that proposes to keep the canal open
must be able to deal not only with one
aggressive enemy, but with a combina-
ton of enemies. Otherwise, fertilization
would be vain.
"This is the n question of the high
est local and international Importance
with which the United tSates has to deal
now, and will have to deal continuously
for the next three or four years"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
BREAKS SPEED RECORD
BATTLEsHIP MISSISSIPPI GOES
2o7 MILES IN IA HOURS.
On the Way to Horn Island, Where
Presentation Of Silver Service
Will Be Made.

New Orleans.-Several hours ahead o!
her schedule, and having broken all rec
ords for speed, the big battleship Missis
sippi reached the navy yards off here
at Z o'clock Tuesday evening. Having
left Natchez at 5 o'clock, the trip, a dis
lance of 297 miles, was made in the
marvelously short time of IA hours.
1t was fitting hat the finish of the
cruise of the battleship to the state aftel
which she is named should be a RECORD
breaker. The cruise itself broke all rec
ords-records for the size of the vessel
for the hospitality of the people and fol
the interest excited and the good the
trip has done.
So, when the big warship got under
draft and was headed down the stream
Capt. Fremont decided to "let her out q
little" Aided by the current, and headed
in to a wind which helped the draft
of her boilers, she soon made a speed Of
% knots al hour, which, Commando,
Cluverius laughingly remarked, make:
her the fastest battleship of this o. Of
any other navy"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY MADE
United States Has Been System
atically Robbed.

New York.-A handsome big French
steamer trunk, brought into port by a
wealthy Boston woman, has revealed tc
the customs men not only $4,000 worth
of struggled gowns concealed under a
false bottom, but also the fact that such
trunks are being regularly manufactured
by a firm in Paris, especially for the
American trade" F..
In other words, Smuggling trunks
are a staple commodity in the French
capital.
The Struggled goods were regarded as
a big haul for the keen-eyed inspectors.
But the discovery of a red leather label
on the trunk, reading "Aux Etats Unis'
flor the United States), really meant
much more. The customs representa-
tives on the other side of the water have
already begun looking for the manu-.
facturer of the false bottomed boxes.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
A UNSUITABLE EXPRESSION.
Women to Fight tuberculosis.

One million women, representing
cities, towns, villages and isolated
rural settlements in every section OF
the country, are to-day enlisted IN q
campaign against tuberculosis, accord
ing to a statement issued by the Ma
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis. In legis-
iatures, in congress at Washington, n
society gatherings, in churches and
clubs, through speaking and writing
in every possible way, the women OF
the country are pe~rsistently fighting
consumption.
With an organization established in
every state of the country, under the
direction of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, and with associated
clubs in Alaska, the Hawaiian islands,
Porto Rico and the canal zone. the
women of the country have entered a
systematic crusade to carry the mes
sage of the prevention and cure OF
tuberculosis into every American
home,
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
IS IN CONTEMPT
SHERIFF HELD By FEDERAL
SUPREME COURT.
Five Others in Same Boat-Grows
Out of Lynching Of Negro
Prisoner.

Washington.-For the first time in SO
serious a case, the supreme court OF the
United States will undertake to mete
out punishment for the crime of con-
tempt Of the court itself, ard the inn
portance of the occasion will be en-
HANGED by the number of defendants.
The proceeding will take place in con-
nection with the cases of Sheriff Ship
and Deputy Sheriff Gibson, of Hamilton
county, Tenn, and of four other resi-
dents of that county, named, respective
ly, Williams, Nolan, Padgett and May.
of an act of contempt in combining, in
1905, in a conspiracy to lynch a negro
named johnson, who had been sentenced
to death by the local court on the charge
of criminal assault, and in whose case
the supreme court had interfered to the
extent of granting an appeal, which had
the effect of a supersedeas. On the
night following the announcement of the
courts action, johnson was taken out
of the Jail in Chattanooga by a mob and
lynched. There was no resistance on
the part of Jail authorities, and Ship
and a number of his deputies, as well
as about twenty citizens, were proceeded
against on the charge of contempt of the
federal court.
The sentence may be either fine or
imprisonment, or both.
The case is regarded as of exceptional
interest because it is practically the first
time that the supreme court has ever
undertaken to assert its dignity or to
resent acts or words reflecting upon it.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
PREVENT NIGHT RIDING
SENATOR BRADLEY SAYS FREE
TOBACCO rs REMEDY.
Oppression Of Growers by Tobacco
Trust Has Caused ALI
the Trouble.

Washington.-That the outrages o.
the. night riders in Kentucky and Ten
nessee resulted from the oppression OF
the American Tobacco Company and that
unless the internal revenue tax on leaf
tobacco in the hand is repealed, these
outrages will again occur, was the dec
l~aration made by Senator Bradley OF
Kentucky in urging the adoption of his
amendment to the senate bill.
This amendment proposes to restore
in the tariff bill the house provision for
the free sale of leaf tobacco by the farm
er, which was stricken out by the finance
committee of the senate.
After reviewing the growth of the
American Tobacco Company, Mr.. Brad
ley said that, not content with destroy.
ing all competition in the United States,
this concern drove the Imperial Tobac-
co Company of Great Britain, its chief
competitor, to a compromise and OBJ
tanned an agreement by which the I'm.
perial yielded up all competition in the
United States.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
FREE LUMBER DEFEATED
Democratic Division Gives Aldrich
Some Hope.

Washington.-Free lumber met its
waterloo in the senate Monday. Senator
McCumbers' amendment putting rough
lumber on the free list was defeated by
o vote of SO to rs. Senator Johnston's
amendment making all building mate
rails free was lost by the more decisive
vote of "a to IL.
This vote on lumber was the second
test of the Aldrich protective policy
strength in the senate. The first test
came on the vote putting a duty of 25
cents a ton on iron ore. The votes on
the lumber and iron ore schedules were
the same practically. 1t is this vote
that will enable Senator Aldrich to see
his bill through the senate-a coalition
of the protection demands of the South
and of the Republicans of the East and
West against the Republicans of the
Middle West.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
NE PUZZLED THE BRITIsHER
Evidently Doorkeeper Had Never
Heard Of the Lord That AmerL
can Minister Served.

Judge George F. Lawton of the. Mid
dlesex probate court told me a story
the other day of an American minis
ter who was spending his sabbatical
year travelling abroad. Arriving In
London, he made every effort to get
ar intimate view Of the two branches
Of parliament in session. OF course
nj stranger is allowed on the floor Of
the house of lords. but the minister
not knowing this, and with the usual
amount of American push, tried to
make his way in. There is a rule,
however, that servants of the various
lorSs may be admitted to speak to
their ministers. Seeing the minister
walking boldly in, the doorkeeper
asked:
what lord do you server"
What lord?" repeated the aston
ished American, "the lord jehovah"
Fer a moment the doorkeeper hesi-
tated and then admitted him. Turn
ing to an assistant standing near. he
said:
"He must mean one of those poor
Scotch lairds."-Boston Record.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
COTTON CROP is RUINED.
Too Late Now to Replant the Overlooked
Lands.

West, Miss.AA heavy downpour of
rain has been falling since about II
o'clock last night. This, in addition to
the heavy rains of Monday and Monday
night, which caused the Big Black river
to overflow all the lowlands, will make
the river higher here than it has been
for the past twelve months. Thousands
of acres of land, IN which cotton and
corn are now up and some OF it worked
out, will be inundated. By the time the
water recedes, it will be too late to re-
plant much of this land in cotton. Some
farmers will lose almost their entire cot
ton crop. There have been a number of
small washouts on the Illinois Central
railroad, but with a big force of men at
work, trains are kept running with but
little delay.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
TEXAS MOB LYNCHES NEGRO
Beat Jailer Insensible, Shoot Black
in His Cell,

Abilene, Tex.-After an hours des-
perate attempt to break down the doors,
windows and ever walls of the county
Jail, a mob armed with shotguns and
revolvers, fired into the cell of Tom
Barnett, shooting him to death. Bar
nett was convicted a short time ago of
numbering Alex Sears, who was a prom
inent and rich cattleman of West Texas.
The mob formed at 1 o'clock and
marched to the Jail, where the immediate
surrender of Barnett was demanded. The
guards fatty refused to let any one en-
ter the cell and refused to turn over Bar
nett. Then followed the attempt to
break into Barnett's cell. The author
tiles were caught because of
the hour when the attack was made, and
by the time sufficient forces gathered to
cope with the mob, Barnett had been
shot to death.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
GEN. TAYLOR'S MEN EXHUMED
Bodies of 1877 Soldiers Removed to
Fort Brown.

Brownsville, Textile bodies of 157
of Gen. Zachary Taylor's soldiers arrived
here Friday for burial in the National
Cemetery at Fort Brown. These bodies
were unearthed from the old e%arthworks
built at Isabel by Gen. Taylor.
A few bones of these soldiers were
found a few months ago where the rains
had washed the earth away. United
States army buttons found with them
identified them as soldiers remains. The
government sent a representative to in
vestigate, resulting in an order to re-
move the bodies to Fort Brown for
burial.
The excavation uncovered the number
named. They were cofined and shipped
to Brownsville and will be buried in the
National Cemetery at once.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
BAPTIST TRI-STATE HOSPITAL
Work on $500, 900 Building to
Begin in the Fall.

Memphis, Tenn.-In early fall ground
will be broken for the new Tri-State
Baptist Hospital, which will be erected
on Madison avenue, east of the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, at a cost of
100000.
Already. $175,ooo has been raised for
the hospital, and subscriptions are being
received daily from generous donors of
Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas.
Members of the building committee
will visit hospitals in the larger cities of
the United States, and one member of
the committee will leave soon for Eu-
rope, with the view of visiting hospitals
of the most modern design and construc-
ton, after which the new Tri-State Hos
pital will be patterned.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
Rogers Leaves Wealth to Kin.

New York.-The will Of the late Hen
ry H. Rogers, the Stanadrd Oil million
aire, was admitted to probate Friday.
Practically the entire estate, valued at
between $50, 900 900 and SIS, 00o, 900, will
ultimately be divided among the four
children and their heirs. Half of the
equal shares into which the residuary es-
tate is divided will be given to the four
when they reach the age of 40 years,
while the remaining half they may dis
pose of only by will, continuing, however,
to Mo the income until their death.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04

Examination of the premises occu.
pied by a Los Angeles private bank,
lately closed for lack of funds, showed
that the supposed vault was a big door
without any opening behind it. The
door was of steel, with plate glass
knobs, shiny combination dials and
all the features of an imposing safe
protecting quantities of money. Just
how such a sham affair could be put
in without becoming a matter of com.
ment is hard to see. Or do workmen
set such doors often enough not to be
surprised by them?
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
Governor Uses Veto.

Austin, Tex.-Gov. Campbell vetoed
appropriations to the amount of $2,251,-
4s1. which were contained in the gen
eral appropriation bill passed at the re.
cent special session of the legislature.
One of the items vetoed was the appro-
priation of s1,o6s,oO to pay off the
State bonds that are due on July !. This
sum was to have come out of the Wa
ters-Pierce Oil Company fine. The bill
as approved by the governor carries an
aggregate appropriation Of $685., 900 fol-
the ensuing two fiscal years.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
For a GUN Sum.

"How did Smith get on with that
new apartment house he built?"
ut is a fiat failure"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
Mutual Surprise.

A mission worker in New Orleans
was visiting a reformatory near that
city not long ago when she observed
among the inmates an old ,acquaint-
ance, a negro lad long thought to be
a model of integrity. "Jim!" ex-
claimed the mission worker. rs 1t
possible l find you here?" "Yassum,"
blithely responded the backslider. rs
charged with stealin' a barrel O. sweet
pertaters." The visitor sighed. You,
JIM" she repeated. Il am surprised"
"Yassum," said Jim. $50 was / or l
wouldn't be here!"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
ADJUTANT.GENERAL RESIGNS.

Frankfort, Ky.-It is reported here
that Adjt.-Gen P. P. Johnston has writ
ten a letter of resignation to Gov. Will
son. The governor says he knows no
reason why Gen. Johnston should re-
sign. The latter left Saturday to visit
his orange plantation in Florida. The
report is that he objected to alleged in
situations regarding his handling of the
states military fund, and SO expressed
himself in a searching letter to the gov
ernor, which he showed to his depart
ment officials before mailing.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
Homemade Names,

That little girl" remarked the
druggist to the doctor, was just in
for ten cents worth of tincture of ben
zine. But I've had it before and gave
her benzoin."
THAT was easy" answered the doc
tor. This morning on a diphtheria
case the woman wanted to know If I
administered ~antitoxin with an cpl
demic syringe"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
Plans for Knoxville Assembly.

Hamilton, Ohio.-At the session of the
general committee on missions of the
United Presbyterian Church here, it de-
veloped that at the session of the
United Presbyterian General Assembly,
steps will be discussed for the union of
the Presbyterian and United Presbyte-
rian Churches of America. The chief
obstacle has been the unwillingness Of
United Presbyterians to abandon the ex.
elusive singing of psalms, and it is be-
lieved that a compromise will be reached
on this point.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
ENTERPRISE UNDER WATER.
Train Service on Mobile and Ohio North
of Quitman Abandoned.

Quitman, Miss-As a result of the
heavy rainfall Tuesday, the Chickasawha
river is out of its banks and is still ris-
ing, and it is believed that it will equal
the 1900 high water mark.
Train service on the Mobile and Ohio
north of Quitman has been abandoned.
Train No. 2 is tied up at Enterprise and
cannot move either way. The people at
Enterprise seem to be suffering the most.
There is five feet of water in the bust
ness portion of the town, and all the
stores and many of the residences are
under water. People can navigate only
by boat there.
The crops in the lowlands will be a
complete loss, unless %replanted. Many
people rushed into the swamps and drove
their cattle to high land.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
FOUND HIS WIFE DYING.

Mayfeld, Ky.-While Charley Culver
sat in the Gem Theater, witnessing the
death scene in a moving picture, a friend
hurried down the aisle and informed him
that Mrs. Culver had just dropped dead.
Culver was soon galloping toward his
home, twelve miles east of here. Upon
his arrival, shortly before midnight, he
found his wife still alive, though in a
diving condition. Mrs. Culver was pois-
oned with poison oak.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
Good Roads Car Off.

New York.-The good roads scout au.
tomobile, under the auspices of the New
York Herald and the Atlanta Journal,
started Tuesday on a trip from Herald
Square to Atlanta, Ga. Maj-Gen. Leon
ard Wood, U. S. A., commanding tho
Department of the East, and a number
of prominent automobile manufacturers,
witnessed the departure. R. H. johnson
will drive the car.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
a plea for Ranheinrs

There are few people in the com.
munity more generous, according to
their means, more unselfsh, and more
self-denying than the much-maligned
bachelor. class. Why, then, should it
be taxed? If a tax is required, let it
be levied on the pampered. petted.
over-indulged. usually ungrateful mar
ried man.-London Daily Graphic.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04

The best that can be said about the
American passion for ancestors is that
it provides a living for a number OF
professional genealogists, and that it
is, in itself, comparatively harmless.
Every one is perhaps entitled to some
little form of vanity and self-indul-
gence. Ancestors cost no more than
poker, and the search for them unites
families in a common interest where
such vanities as drinking and gam
bling tend to separate them.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04

1t seems that in baking beans Bos-
ton turns Is, 000, 900 quarts into 32,000.-
600 quarts, and the finished product is
still admirably filling. The genius
that can make two quarts of beans
materialize where there was but one
quart has mastered a great point IN
dietary science and political economy.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
Confederate Gets Appropriation.

Springfeld.-Senator Hearn, an ex-
Confederate, made q speech in the SEN
ate advocating the appropriation of $780,
600 for a monument at the battle-ground
OF Kennesaw mountain in commemora-
tion of the charge of the Fourteenth
army corps, Army of the Cumberland.
The bill was passed 40 to Q.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04

Cleveland reports a man who wakes
his wife up in the middle of the night
to tell her how his first wife committed
suicide. 1t will be but a short while
until he will be able to tell his third
wife the same story about his second
wife. He is sure to drive the poor
woman to it by such tactics.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
Iron Ore Fields In Finland.

Though Finland has been regarded
up to the present time as being ex-
tremely poor in iron ores. recent re-
search has proved the existence of ore
fields in South Finland (Nyland), and
above all in the Ladoga lake district.
which seem to be worth the expense
of mining. For research purposes q
company has been formed.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
Continual Doubt,

How many children have you?"
said the tourist, affably.
q" dunno exactly" answered the
tired-looking woman.
"You don't know"
mot for certain. Willie's gone
fishin', Tommy's breakin' in a colt,
Georges borrowed his fathers shot
gun to go hunting an Esmeralda Ann
is thinkin' of elopin'. l never know
how many I've got till supper time
comes, SOS l can count EN-"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04
VICE OUTBREAK IN HAVANA.

Lid Has Been Taken Off Since Amer
leans Left.
Havana.-There has been a marked In
crease in immoral performances at the
theaters of Havana, accompanied by a
general spread of vice and an outbreak
of gambling since the American occupa-
ton came to an end. In order to coun-
teract these vicious tendencies a meet
ing was held Friday night at the resi-
dence of Bishop Estrada. Many promi-
nent citizens were present and a society
for the prevention of vice was formed
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04

The most peculiar phase of the pres
ent hat situation is that the majority
of women who wear the unsightly
things cordially detest them, but plead
that there are no others for sale, and
that to wear last years hat is to be
almost as freakish as to this
years. Right here is a chance for
women to demonstrate their ability to
take a part in the government-let
them regulate the styles instead of
being regulated by them.