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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31
TRAINS RUNNING
ON ALL THE ROADS

Trains on the New Orleans and
Northeastern, the Mississippi Central,
the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City
railroads are running without interrupt
ton from high waters, but just what
the day may bring for the somewhere
is something yet to develop.
The Gulf and Ship Island line is
running trains as far north as Flor
ence, Miss, twelve miles south Of
Jackson. At this point trains come to
a stop because of the overflowing con-
dition of the Pearl river.
The Gulf & Ship Island bridge
across the Pearl is intact, but the long
approaches which were filled in up to
the previous high water mark, are un-
der water for mile or so on each side
of the bridge too deep to permit
trains to reach the bridge.
The Pearl river is now four feet
higher than ever known befor eaccord-
ing to the best recollection and is
four feet above the highest recorded
high water mark Just what effect
the rains of today will have on the
Pearl cannot be known until the ex-
tent and character of the rains north
of Hattiesburg become known. The
Pearl is a stream which possesses the
characteristic of falling very slowly
and the Gulf & Ship Island will have
to wait on this process. The trouble
was first felt on last Friday.
The Alabama and Vicksburg from
Meridian to Vicksburg has overcome
its trouble at Chunkey Creek and is
running through trains.
The Mississippi Central bridge
across the Pearl is about forty miles
west of the Gulf & Ship Island bridge,
measured by the river, but as this
bridge crosses the Pearl at bluff. Of
ficers of the road, claim that this
bridge can stand eleven feet more of
water in the Pearl. There is nothing
in sight now, it is said to cause ap-
prehension on this score.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31
RIVER SECTION
WAS THE CENTER
Houses Unroofed, Crops Blown Down,
and Navigation Seriously Interferred
With.-commuication by Telephone
and Telegraph Cut Off,

NEW ORLEANS, May 31.-Reports
of storm damage are being received
here from many points throughout
Louisiana today.
The wind and rain appear to have
swept across the state in a southeast
erly direction and the principal points
reporting damage are in AvoyelIes,
Rapides Point, Coupee, the Baton
Rouge and Livingston Parishes. AL
eXandria reports that in that neigh
Dor hood several houses were unroof-
ed, trees blown down and COM
munication by telephone and telegraph
seriously interfered with. High winds
and heavy rains prevailed for several
hours around Baton Rouge and con-
siderable loss is reported along the
river front. Fences were blown down
and houses unroofed. Bayou Sara re-
ports some damage Throughout that
section and navigation was interfered
with on Lake Pontchartrain.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31
NO STRIKE ON
AT NEWMAN MILL
SOME MILLWRIGHTS QUIT WORK
OTHERS CONTINUE.
The Force of MiIIwriehts to Be Double
as Fast as Possible and the Mill
Hurried to Completion by July I.

The Filler & Stowell Company, of
Milwaukee, Wis, building the steel
saw mill for the J. j. Newman Lumber
Company, are to at once double their
millwri8ht force on the mil to hurry
up its completion by July l.
This is one of the results of an
investigation made this afternoon on a
report current in Hattiesburg that the
mill wrights had struck because of a
cut in wages and work on the mill had
been stopped.
1t was learned on the ground from
Mr.. G. L. Harman in charge of the Fl.
Ter & Stowell office; Mr.. ]. j. Mona
CHAN, representing the Milwaukee firm
and from Mr.. c. H. Williams, superin-
tendent of the work, that only part
of the millwright force had quit work
and this was becauhe their wages h2G
been cut from 40 cents an hour to 81
cents. All were being pald 40 cents.
The non-striking part of The force
continued at work and were busy ut
1t.
Mr.. Monaghan, who is here repre-
senting his firm, said that the wages
paid at the Newman mill were as high
as that paid anywhere in the South,
and in some instances higher. This re.
suited in paying all the men alike,
the less competent as much per hour
as those more competent
Mr.. Monaghan also said instead Of
their being delayed in competing the
mill it would be hurried as the mill
wright force as repidly as possible
will be doubled, men having already
been engaged, and that when this is
done his company will be paying from
So cents to so cents an hour for work.
men; the highest figure representing
the men whose work requires high
class of skill.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31
CEREMONIES WILL BE
ATTENDED BY MANY
Governor Noel, John Sharp Williams
and Many Other Notable Men of
the State Present.-Governor s.n.
ders of Louisiana Also Takes Part

PASCAGOULA, Miss, May 31.-Au
is IN readiness for the presentation of
the silver service to the battleshin
Mississippi, which takes place at Horn
Island tomorrow. The ship arrived
from Pensacola yesterday afternoon
at o:l5 and dropped anchor.
AT AIS the battleship was sighted.
and at 4:45 the Pascagoula was along.
side, blowing her whistle, which was
answered by the battleship.
The tugs Bessie H. DantzIer to the
right and Gladys to the left, with the
Pascaoula following, steamed slowly
until the battleship dropped anchor at
o:l5 about one mile southeast of the
whistling bouy at the entrance to the
pass, in six and one half fathoms of
water.
The committee on reception board
ed the Mississippi, which lies ten miles
from the mainland. The cimmittee
was cordially received by Capt. Ere
mont, and C. H. Wood, on behalf of
the people of Pascagoula and Biloxi.
most heartily congratulated them on
their phenomenal trip up the Missis-
slpp1 river as far as Natchez and fin
ally to Pascagoula harbor.
Governor Noel and Governor San
ders have arrived to take part in the
In Governor Noa1,s
party were the following:
J. B. Stirling and son, P. H. Shields.
Judge T. NJ. Miller, Major Carl Will
hams, Lieut.. B. H. Wall, Miss Ruth
Coleman, Miss Mollie Hoskins, Miss
Z Sudder, Mrs. E. M. Lockwood, Mrs.
W. }. Armstrong, Major and Mrs. E. V.
Seutter, Miss Edna NJ Wilburn, L. n.
White and J. M. Power.
The town is crowded and the beau
-iful silver service which is to he
presented Tuesday is being gazed at
oy hundreds in the window of one of
he leading local jewelry establish
nent.
John Sharp Williams, Private John
Allen and other noted people have ar
'lved. On the governors staff for the
will be Lieutenant J. NJ.
1nochs, U. S. N, of the battleship
Kansas. Mr. Enochs is a Mississip-
'ian and was specially detailed by the
government.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31
FIDDLERS CONTEST
FRIDAY NIGHT
POSTPONED ON ACCOUNT OF THE
VERY BAD WEATHER.
Col. Beal Has His Music Making Ma.
chine in Cold Storage So That 1t
Will Not Spoil.

On account of the inclement wealth
er 1t has been decided to postpone the
Old Fiddlers' Contest until next Fri
DAY night and in the meantime Col
Beall has put his universal music
making machine in cold storage so
that it will be in fine shape. The old
fiddlers will also be kept in fine fet-
tie and will have a full dress rehear-
sal on Thursday night at the residenc
of D. B. Holmes. AS a number of the
fiddlers live out in the country it was
impossible for them to come in tonight
and it is hoped that by Friday night
the weather will be better.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31
IN READINESS TIS PRESENT
SILVER SERVICE TO SHIP

All discharged brotherhood firemen
will be reinstated.
Three other points are yet to be
decided, as follows:
First-Whether negro firemen shall
be eliminated from the road?
Second-If not eliminated, what per-
centage Of negroes there shall be?
Third-Seniority of negro firemen
over white firemen.
Strike Lasted Thirteen Days.
The strike commenced on May IT
and lasted - days. 1t was caused by
the attempt of the company TO put
negro firemen on the best runs in the
place Of white firemen, who were Civ
en- inferior runs or made subs. The
men presented a new agreement to
General Manager Scott demanding
that he recognize the seniority of the
white firemen over blacks and thus
do away with the negro in
the cabs. Mr.. Scott refused, claiming
that he had no authority to sign such
an agreement. The men looked in
vain for some official who had author
ity and failing to find one, struck
General Manager Scott, retailiated by
practically annulling all trains and
thus tieing up traffic. After a few
days the situation became grave in
some communities.
Food supplies ran low and no new
stocks could be secured. The few ne
,essaries of life were halued in wagons
and automobiles. No mails were sent
prevented.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31
Goes Btck to Jail.

Crosby spent Saturday night in jail
not as a prisoner, but because he had
no other place to go, and neither did
he want to leave his wife. He left
Sunday morning at 7 o'clock telling
Jailer Giles that he was going to his
home in Petal to look after his child
rem. He left him wife feeling much
better, and in good spirits.
"Daring, Am Free"
Crosby was the first person to tell
his wife of the acquittal.
Darling, | am Free were his first
words to her through the bars of her
cell when he was brought back in the
Jail after hearing the verdict of the
jury.
"Oh, am so glad" answered the
girl wife throwing her arms through
the bars and embracing her husband
about the neck.
Crosby and his wife were allowed
to talk few minutes more, and then
he went to bed in his cell and fell to
sleep in a few moments.
History of the Crime.
On the evening of April 81 a head
less dead body was found by Mr.. D.
W. McDuff in thick wood near Bouie
river bridge about one mile north east
of the city, which was identified by
several persons as being that of J. r.
McShan, a young brick layer, who had
disappeared from his board
ing house on Easter Sunday morning
after intimating that he was going to
meet woman at the bridge.
The body showed every sign of vi
olence, and upon a clue procured from
several letters found in McShan's room
one note signed Minnie Jones, G. L.
Crosby, saw filler, and his young wife
md Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Woodruff, sis
.er and brother in law of Crosby were
arrested that afternoon on suspicion,
here being some intimation that Nc
Shan and another man had been seen
(COntinued nm Papa FivaN
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31
PRESIDENT TAFT Is
AT THE CEREMONY
The Shaft Erected to Memory of He.
roc Federal Soldiers is Turned Over
to the Battlefield Park Commits
sion.

GETTYSBURG, Pa, May 81
Standing in the presence of the Presi-
dent of the United States on the bat
tlefield of one of the greatest conflicts
between the North and the South, Sec
retary of War Jacob NJ. Dickinson, a
Southern man by birth and breeding
today turned over to the Gettysburg
National Park Commission, on behalf
of the people of the United States, the
handsome monument erected here by
congress to commemorate the heroic
services of the union soldiers, who
surrendered their lives on the same
field.
President Taft came in on a special
train from Washington and was given
great ovation by the immense throng
gathered here today.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the
President, pulled the silken cord which
released the covering on the monu-
ment.
President Taft also addressed the
assemblage. He confined himself to a
review of the deeds of the army. He
said that the founders of the repub-
lie had fought against the idea of
large standing army, and that the
army now, in proportion to the popula-
ton and wealth of the country was no
larger than it was then.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31
APPLICATIONS
FOR PENSIONS

Confederate veterans of Forrest
county who have applications to make
for pensions, no doubt will be glad to
learn that Chancery Clerk T. E. Bat
son has received the application
blanks and from now on the Confed-
crate pensioners may apply at the
chancery clerks office for such blanks
as apply to their cases. The appli-
cation blank framed under the pension
law reads as follows:
Pensioners now on the list are not
required to make new applications. but
the chancery clerk must certify their
names to the auditor of public ac-
counts"
This certifying to the names means
that the chancery clerk so certifies
after the county board of pension COM
mlssioners has passed on the names of
those who have made application.
The application blank also reads:
This application must be filed with
the chancery clerk on or before the
first Monday in September. No apnli.
cation will be entertained If not on
the printed form.
The applicant must make answer
TO all the questions on the blank and
nave the answers written out plainly
in ink"
It will be noted that applications for
blanks may be made at any time but
not later than the first Monday in
September.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31

G. L. Crosby, whose trial for the
murder of J. R. McShan, lasted from
Tuesday morning to Saturday was
given verdict of acquital by the jury
late Saturday night after little over
three hours daiiberation. The news
that a verdict had been reached quick
Iy spread over the city, and there
many expressions of surprise that an
agreement had been reached so quick
ly, as many thought that the Jury
would be until Monday morning arriv-
ing at a verdict.
1t took four ballots to reach an
agreement, The first ballot stood
nine for acquital and three for con-
ylction, and one juror went over each
vote until the twelve were a unit. The
members of the jury would not say
which ones wanted a conviction at
first,
Jury Reached Verdict at O'clock.
At about o'clock Saturday night a
rap on the door of the jury room
wherein the Crosby jury was locked
called Baillf Davis to the door and to
linn, who had been on constant duty
day and night at the jury room door
with Bailiff L, B. Geigher, The vel
come news was given that the jury
was ready to report and asked that
Judge Cook be sent for.
The court house was about as quiet |
as the proyerbial graveyard, except !
ing the presence of two long stayers
on the rear steps of the court house.
Judge Cook was at once summoned |
and within a few minutes he had |
reached the court room ahead of any |
OF the attorneys and with less than
a half dozen stragglers who had |
dropped in to see what was doing,
awaiting the appearance of his honor. i
In the meantime the fact that Judge
Cook had been sent for by the jury
came noised abroad and with the in
coming OF the attorneys for the state
and for the defense and others there
vas soon a fair-sized crowd in the
court room.
The sheriff's officers had gone to
he Jail to bring in the defendant,
5rosby, but his coming was
delayed until his attorneys had ar
'iyed Crosby came into the court
Dom with an air and confidence of
nan who felt that his lawyers had
made out a good case for him and he
lad nothing to fear.
Soon after he was seated he began
o show an active interest in his sur
and to take part in a genial
nd smiling way in the good humor
( the talk indulged in by those who
losely surrounded him. To an out
der it appeared to be rather CHASTITY
} indulge in jokes in the hearing Ut ,
man charged with murder and at the
me waiting for the coming in of the ,
velve men who had pronounced their q
and had in hand ready to +
md to the court.
The prisoner and the attorneys for
'th sides being present in court his
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31
MRS. CROSBY TO secure
$4,000 BOND IN Jones
Members of Jury Refuse to Say Which
Ones Wanted to Convict the Accus-
ed.-Four Ballots Taken to Reach
An Agreement.
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:. HOW THE CROSBY :.

= JURY BALLOTED. :
= First ballot: nine for ncquital =
y and three for conviction, two of :.
= those voting for conviction being :
= for a verdict of manslaughter =
:. only. :.
= Second ballot: Ten for acquit- :.
= al and two for conviction. :.
= Third ballot: Eleven for ac- :.
= quital and one for conviction. :.
= Fourth ballot: twelve for ac- :.
= quital. :.
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31
Crosby Smiles.

When the words not guilty"
reached the ears of Crosby the change
in his counteance was remark
able in the quiclxness of the transition
from the sternness of doubt to that of
unalloyed relief. His mouth opened
wide and smiles overspread his face
with an energy and rapidity that need
ed only the articulate sound to COM
plete the transition to an expression
of joyous relief.
The sound Of Clerk Mixon's voice
had scarcely ceased when most of
those inside the bar began extending
their ngratulations to attorneys for
the defense, and to the jurors and
Crosby himself was not forgotten las
he came in for handshakes. Then his
time come and he gladly took the 6p-
portunity to extend his hand to the
jurors and express his thanks to them.
Thus came the end of a trial for
murder which had gained widespread
notoriety abroad and intense interest
in the county of Forrest.
Shortly after the reading of the yer
dict acquitting Crosby of the crime
charged against him than Attorney B.
w. SCARBOROUGH, Of Laurel, counsel
for Mrs. Minnie Crosby began to make
for a move in behalf Of
his client, the wife of the acquitted |
defendant
A brief consultation between Judge |
Cook, District Attorney McLaurin and !
Mr.. Scarborough, Judge Cook admitted
Mrs. Crosby's release on bond in the
sum of $5,000
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31
CROSBY, FREE, WAS FIRST
T0zBREAK NEWS To WIFE

honor notified the bailiffs to bring il
the jury.
1t was but matter of a minute be
fore the jury made its appearance, anC
instead of being conducted to theil
seats as the jurors were lined up in
front of the judges desk.
All in the court room rose and
crowded near the Jurors to hear their
verdict read by Circuit Clerk Nixon
who stood at the left of the judge to
receive from the court the. written doc
ument.
Crosby had risen as the jury came
in, and with his face set and serious
and his head poised as if prepared for
a shock, he awaited the reading of the
verdict.
With the paper in hand on which
had been endorsed the fate of G. L.
Crosby, Clerk Nixon read in a clear
voice:
eve, the jury, find the defendant
nor gIilt1, &C obaroad
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31

Continued on Page Four.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31

FIDDLERs' CONTEST POSTPONED.
On account of the very bad weather
it has been decided to postpone the
Old Fiddlers' Contest until Friday
night.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31

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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31

eve, the jury, find the defendant
not guilty as charged"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-31

CONTINUED on Page Five.l
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-07-31
LEADING PORTLAND PHYSICIAN
KILLED BY JEALOUS WIFE
Temporary Mental Alteration Of
Woman Brought on by Unfoundsd
Jealousy, ImpsIled Crime.

Portland, Ore.-One of Portland's
leading physicians and surgeons, DR..
Roy M. Collins, was shot and in
stantly killed by his wife, bride Of
six months, on Saturday morning, the
tragedy occurring at the residence Of
Major ]. A. Sladen.
The only motive advanced for the
crime Is that temporary mental aber-
ration, brought on by unfounded jeal-
ousy impelled the woman to commit
the deed. Mrs. Collins is alleged to
nave confessed the crime to DR..
Charles B. Frisbie, friend Of DR..
Collins. who was summoned imme-
diately after the shooting. When DR..
Frisbie reached the scene DR.. Collins
was dead. Mrs. Collins was arrested
and taken to the city prison.
1t appears that Mrs. Collins has for
some time been insanely jealous Of
her husband, but so far as any of
her friends know there was no foun-
dation for her suspicious. Mrs. Col
Inns was formerly Mrs. Van Wrinkle
and Is OF a prominent Portland family.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-07-31
TORRENT SWEPT
DOWN CANYON
Cloudburst in Colorado Causes the
Death Of Two Members Of a
Picnic Party.
Walls OF Canyon Were Precipltous,
Making Escape From Flood More
Difficult.-victims Gave Their
Lives to Save Others.

Boulder, Colo.-As the result Of a
cloudburst that deluged Two-Mile can.
yon. north of Boulder, on Friday,
Verne Carlisle, aged 10, of Robinson,
Ills, and Arthur Dickerman, aged %,
OF Greeley Colo, were drowned. Mrs.
Vergie Abbott, of Garden City, Kans.,
and Zera Carlisle, of Robinson, Ills,
were seriously injured.
The dead and injured were members
of picnic party being entertained at
a family reunion by Mrs. A. Gumaer
of Boulder. When the rain began to
fall the party sought shelter under a
huge boulder. Presently the roar of
the approaching torrent as it swept
down the canyon to depth of two
feet, was heard The picnickers mad 2
wild scramble for safety. The walls
OF the canyon were precipitous. and
1t was with great difficulty that they
found places of safety above the crest
of the food. Six we're able to gain
shelter, but in aiding their COM
panions Arthur Dickerman and Verne
Carlisle forgot themselves until too
late and were swept to their deaths.
Mrs. Abbott and Miss Carlisle were
also caught by the flood and sustained
serious injuries They were brough.
to the hospital here.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-07-31
CROSSED CHANNEL
IN AN A|RSH|P
French Aviator Makes Trip From
Calais to Dover Without Mishap
in Small Monoplane.
His Speed Averaged Forty-five MlIes
an Hour, Making the Trip Twice
az Swiftly as the Fastest Mail
Boat--WIns Prize Of $1,000.

Dover.-Louis Bleriot, French.
Ing the English channel in an airship.
This sleepy seaport town expert
enced the keenest thrill known in a
generation, when at sunrise Sunday a
white-winged, bird-like machine, with
loudly-humming motor, swept out
from the haze obscuring the sea to-
ward the distant French coast, and
circling twice above the high chalky
cliffs Of Dover, alighted on English
soil.
Bleriot left Les Barreques, three
miles from Calais, about 4:30 a. m.
on one of the smallest monoplanes
ever used. He crossed the channel in
less than half an hour, twice as
swiftly as the fastest mail boat. His
speed averaged more than forty-five
miles an hour, though sometimes It
Appropriated sixty miles. He kept
about $50 feet above the sea level,
and for about ten minutes in mid
channel was out Of sight of both
coasts and the French torpedo-boat
destroyer, which followed him, with
his wife and friends aboard.
The wind was blowing about twenty
miles an hour, and the sea was chop
py. The aviator was swatfied in a
single garment Of drilling impervious
to the wind, which covered him from
the top Of his head to his feet. only
his face showing. He wore also a
cork life-belt
BY his achievement. Bleriot won
the prize Of $4,000 offered by the Lon
don Daily Mail for the first fight
across the English channel and stole
a march on his rivals, Hubert Latham
and Count de Lambert. both of whom
had hoped to make the attempt on
Sunday
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-07-31
PRoPHEsIEs NEW RELIGION.
Or. Eliot Says II Will Not Be Bound
by Dogma or Greed.

Cambridge, Mass.-Charles w. Eliot,
president emeritus of Harvard, In an
address before the Harvard summer
school of theology, on Thursday,
prophesied the advent Of new re.
ligion.
1T will not be bound by dogma or
creed" he said. Its workings will
be simple, but its field of action linn
itless. It's discipline will be the
training in the development Of coop
erative good will. 1t will attack all
forms of evil. There will be no SUI
pernatural elements; 1t will place no
reliance on anything but the laws of
nature. Prevention will be the watch
word and skilled surgeon one of it's
members. The new religion will not
teach that character can be changed
quickly. 1t will not deal with sorrow
and death, but with Joy and life."