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Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-07-15

BATH TOWELS WORTH 25c NOW 15c.
One case 60 Dozen just arrived great big Bleach
Bath Towel, worth Csc, this lot only, each. ..15c
COTTON BATS WORTH 45c NOW 3ec.
One case Cotton Bats just come in; comes in three
pound rolls, and a roll is big enough for comfort;
make the price only roll ................39c
COTTON CHECKS WORTH >1-2c NOW 12c.
We have two big bales of this CLOTH and it's good
and wide; we make the price only, per yard. .415c
MEMS BLUE WORK SHIRTS WORTH Soc AT 43c!
% dozen best quality Work Shirts two pockets all
Sizes the best SOC Shirt on the market; all you
want of this lot at only each ................43c
LADIES' WHITE FOOT HOSE WORTH 15c AT 1oc.
20 dozen in this ot-we think it's one of the best
values had at 15c but we are going to close
out this lot at only, per pair ...............lOc
LADIES' HOSE WORTH 25c NOW 1ec.
We took several lots of these in order to get this
price; have already sold two lots; this is
another one just come in every pair worth 25c, we
make the price only ........................I9
They are Plain, Isle and Drop Stitched.
MEMS UNDERsHIRTs WORTH Soc NOW 25c
16 dozen Mems Crossbarred Muslin Undershirts and
Drawers short sleeve regular SOC value just to
give you something extra we make the price on
this lot only per garment .........--...-... 25c
MEMS SHIRTS WORTH s1.oo NOW 89c.
new worth $780, now only ...............SQc
MEMS $3.50 SHIRTS NOW s1.1o.
II to 10 dozen Mems Fine Dress Shirts nice pat
terms, $1.5O value, to close the lot we make the
price ohly' each .-....--.-..... .......... Sl.1O
MEMS SHIRTS WORTH Csc AND SOC NOW 47c.
Big stock of these great Shirts all brand new and
of choicest patterns; the price now only ....47c.
LADIES' SUMMER SUITS AT ONE QUARTER
OFF THE PRICE,
Our entire line of Ladies' Suits lingerie linene net
and silk Suits all at discount of one-Fourth Off
LOW CUT SHOES AT A BIG DISCOUNT.
All Mems Low Cut Shoes at a Discount
All Ladies' Low Cut Shoes at Discount
All chiIdren's Low Cut Shoes at Discount.
$3.50 Shoes now ............... - GO IA
$500 Shoes now ............. 60 go
$3.50 Shoes now ............... 60 %
$500 Shoes now ............ ...... eT 70
$3.50 Shoes now ............... ....S 1 IN
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-07-15

COTTON CHECKS WORTH >1-2c NOW pc
We have two big bales of this CLOTH and it's good
and wide; we make the price only, per yard. .415c
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-07-15

CAMBRAY WORTH 10c NOW 1-2c.
About 20 pieces real Manchester Chambray all
shades; you know the value of this has never been
under 10c while the lot lasts will sell it to you at
only per yard ................. ............61 C
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
ADVISES EVASION
 OF NEW TAX LAW
GENERAL COUNSEL TELLS MANU- LECTURERS TO GIVE No VOL uNTARY REPORTS ON THE NEW FEDERAL TAX PLAN.

s Chicago, October 2S-Dissolution as cor porations and reorganization as co-part- nerships was advised as means of evad- ing the present corporation income tax be- fore the National Association of Agricul- tural Implements and Vehicle Manufac- turers in session here today, in report from its general counsel, c. D. More.
 .'There is but scant doubt reads the report, that the present income tax on corporations doing business above $50O0 profit year is unconstitutional, and will be so proven If carried to the United States supreme court.
 1T would advise that this association join with the Illinois Manufacturers as ociation and the National Association of Manufacturers in protest against the law, and that every step you take in com pliance with the law be done with pro- test.
 You should make no voluntary reports, no voluntary statements. no voluntary payments. Have the law enforced and then comply under protest l would advise that you surrender your charters as cor porat tions and form partnerships as the best means of evading this unjust law. If you do that 1t will show the inconsistency of the law and probably be the means of its dissolution without going to court"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
GEBHARDT IN RAGE.
 ABOUT HIS WIPE
WOMAN SAYS HE TOLD HER HE HAD KILLED SEVEN WOMEN AND THREATENED TO KILL HER.

New York, October 2S.--Frederick Geb- hardt, who married Anna Luther under the name of Otto Mueller, and confessed that he killed her when he tired of her. is positive that they cannot send him to the electric chair. "They can't prove more than manslaughter, he mumbles, and then breaks into rage against his As- toria wife, who has now turned complete ly against him.
 II sstid the other ,isI.' Alist Gebhardt told the police today. that woman I did not know had told me Fred had killed seven other women That was not true. Fred told me that himself, as a warning, when became curious about his odd behavior.
 "One morning I said to him: Fred, what makes you cry out such wild things in your sleep? Instantly he was like a wild man. He seized me by the throat, threw me against the wall and cried out: What was it I said. tell me? 1 lied to him. for I was frightened. He said very slowly, 'I have killed seven women in my time, and if you ever speak a word of this I will kill you, too.' '
 conjecture that Gebhardt, or Mueller, might be the Paul Mueller who in 1896 killed a farmer, his wife and their daugh- ter in the neighborhood of Worcester, Mass. is said to be refuted by the prison records, which the police are informed show that Gebhardt at that date was safe in Sing Sing prison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
NEGRO MURDERERS CANNOT BE FOUND Four Believed to Have Been
 Lynched CUT PEDDLER'S HEAD OFF Syrian Was Displaying Wares in Kem- per county, Mississippi, When
 One Negro Attacks Him
 With An AK.
CUT PEDDLER'S HEAD OFF

Meridian, October 2S.-(SpeciaI )-News of the murder of a Syrian peddler in d. most brutal manner by negroes and the supposed lynching of the murderers reached here today from Kemper county.
 It is stated that the peddler stoT d with his wagon of wares at a negro use seven miles from Dekalb and sY .ad his goods out for inspection by tY negroes While the inspection was inf progress if is said two other negroes crept up behind the Syrian and severad his head from his body with an axe. The headless corpse was then placed in the seat of the wagon and the horse was headed down the road The head was placed under the seat of the wagon
 After going several hundred yards down the road the lifeless body was discovered by some white men. who stopped the horse and began an Investigation 1t was ghastly sight which met their eyes A crowd of men gathered on the spot and began search for the murderers. Going back in the direction from which the wagon came the men came to the house where the crime had been committed. It was easy to establish this fact. for blood spots were plainly in evidence. Going into the house the men found the four negroes huddled on the floor dividing the contents of the peddler's pack among themselves. The four negroes have disap- peared and it is stated that they were put to death. Their bodies. however have not been found.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
KENNEDY MEETING.
Judge Weakley Refuses to Divide Time
 With Tate.


 Kennedy, October 2S.-(Special. )-Y ester day was a great day at Kennedy It had been well advertised by the amenders that Judge S. D. Weakley would speak at Ken nedy at D. m The circulars stated that a division of time would be granted the defenders, and as a consequence there was quite a crowd present who expected a joint debate.
 Upon the arrival of the Il o'clock train Judge Weakley arrived for the amenders and F. Lloyd Tate of Wetumpka to repre- sent the defenders.
 The committee for the defenders, con sisting of W. F. Clarady and John T. Hill, went to confer with the amenders' com mttee as to arrangement of time, etc.. but Judge Wea<ley hatly refused to divide time, stating that he did not propose to draw a crowd for others to speak to. and that while the committee of the amenders might have agreed to divide tlme they certainly could not do so unless he con sented, and that he proposed to use all the time in making his own speech.
 So there were two speeches, Judge Weakley speaking to a crowd of T2 men and about 20 ladies and boys from the porch of the hotel, while MT. Tate spoke to a crowd of 120 men in front of E. P. Phillips store.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
800 SPEAKERS IN
 NEW YORK FIGHT
WITH ELECTION THREE DAYS OFF MEETINGS WERE HELD ALL OVER NEW YORK LAST NIGHT. HEARST TALKS.


 New York. october 2S.-with New Yorks municipal election only three working days distant. there was a gen eral summing up of issues tonight by the 800 speakers, who presented tn c cases of Gaynor, Barnard and Hearst to audiences in every corner of Greater New York. Gaynoi speaking four times to audiences Brooklyn, Man haitian and the BronA returned to his plea for greater personal liberty, the abolition of police "czarship' and lib erality in the enforcement of minor laws.
 Barnard, the republican candidate, told seven mass meetings in New York and Brooklyn that he stood first, last and all the time for a business admin istration in a Tammany-free city" In cidentally. however, the republican can didate took up the cudgels with MT. Gaynor on the personal liberty ques- tion.
 q do not come before you to recom- mend the violation of laws or to coun- tenance the violation of laws, and if personal liberty means any such things as the overriding of law, am firm against that. I am no crank and I stand for no oppression or refinement of puritanism. If l am elected mayor, I want 1t understood that people of all creeds, races, colors or political beliefs must alike observe the laws but that these will be enforced, not progressively but with sympathy and toleration.
 Beware of the candidate who tells you that he will not enforce the laws. He is dangerous demagogue, and his position in this matter is bound to lea1 to grief of the worst and most wide spread character"
 Hearst, the third candidate for the mayoralty, was silent tonight, but his followers, in 10 mass meetings, kept the fires burning. At each meeting a long banner which hung above the stage bearing the words Down with the basses of both parties" furnished the text for the speakers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD.

1-Rockefeler gives S1000000 to fight hoolxworn in south. Taft party split by failure of river
 boats.
 Cook defends record as climber of
 Mt. Mckinley.
 Four negroes thought to be lynched in Mississippi. 2-Suffragettes using acid test. Education in the Wisconsin schools. 3-Missionary council to meet. Presbyterians vote on amendment and storm is stirred.
 Endemic at Athens school under con trol. 4-Editorial. 5-Weil predicts defeat of amendment. Legislature to blame for disfranchise- ment.
 Charles NJ. Schwab pays second visit to Birmingham.
 Chairman Long very confident Bold robber at local freight house s-Crowded house greets orators at Selma.
 Itos remains en route to Tokio 7-Society.
 Dolly Dalrymple's gossip for women. 9-Meridian bank in courts. e-Wheat market nervous. Stocks show dulness. Cotton market has banner day. 1o-Value of roads in Mississippi Maryland boss in serious hole Black belt voting strength Is gonA.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
TELLS soRDID STORY.
Girl Takes Witness Stand in Fath-
 CTS Trial for Murder.

McRae, Ga. October 2S.-Seventeen- year-old Elizabeth Miller told on the stand today in the trial of her father, w. A. Miller. charged with the murder of her sweetheart. w. Thomas Poole, the story of the killing and admitted, as she wept bitterly that her relations with the young man were improper. She was the only witness to the tragedy. She with held nothing In her pitiful story but made, as she declared. "a clean breast of all of fl"
 She stated that she had carried on a secret correspondence with young Pools. and on several occasions had met him clandestinely.
 Poole was killed June 1, this year. five miles from this place. in the public road Miller and his daughter. in a buggy, met Poole driving in the opposite direction Miller, 1t is said. fired twice at Poole with a shotgun. killing him instantly. Mll- Ter admits the killing. but declares he was justified.
 The court room was crowded today when the girl, who was the cause of the killing. took the stand and told her sordid story.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
INDEPENDENT LINES.
Concern Expects to Have System from New York to Omaha.

New York, October 2S.-Officers of the Continental Telephone and Telegraph company, recently incorporated institu- ton with an authorized capital of s50,- GOO, GOO, announced today that they have purchased the property of the lndepen- dent Union Telepnone and Telegraph com- pany which operates telephone lines Tn n territory reaching from Newburgh, N. V. on the east, to Erie. Pa., on the west
 The Continental company announces that 1t expects to take m several other independent lines between New York and Omaha. and plans to handle tele- graph as well as telephone business over all their long distance wires Capitalists from St Louis, Wheeling. Pittsburg and New York are said to be backing the enterprise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
Another school Epidemic.


 Atlanta. October 2S.-Forty stu dents of the Georgia Military academy, located at College Park, eight miles from Atlanta, were rushed to the city today suffering from an illness which has struck the school in epidemic form. The boys have been placed in the Wes- ley Memorial Tabernacle infirmary and other hospitals.
 The characteristic of their iH- ness cannot be learned.
 Informa ton concerning the ill., ness of the cadets is refused by the college auth critics and the hospitals. President Woodward in reply to a request for information concerning the reported epidemic, said:
 q have no statement for publi- cation at present. The parents of the boys have been advised of their Illness by telegraph and the telephone, and that Is sufficient. l hope the newspapers will pub fish nothing concerning the mat ter until an official statement is given out. It has not yet been determined what the sickness is' '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
Lxnchbura Raises $1o,ooo.

Lynchburg, Va. October 2S.-Lynchburg today subscribed approximately s10,0O0 to the fund to restore the girls cottage at the Presbyterian orphanage, which was burned Tuesday This fund Is to be added to $20,0o0 to be raised by the South ern presbyterian churches in Virginia, the Dristrict of Columbia and Maryland The five victims of Tuesdays fire were in- tered today, great crowd attending the funeral
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
JOHNSON ACCEPTS CALL.
To Pastorate of St. James Episcopal
 Church, EufauIa.

Eufaula, October 2S.--(Special.)-,A tele- gram received here this afternoon from the Rev. T. H. Johnson. archdeacon of Florida. signifies his acceptance of the call recently extended him by the vestry to serve St. James Episcopal church here for the period of the ensuing year. An effort will be made to have him here and in charge by the time the bishop visits the parish. which is announced for No vember B.
 to convert him, if he Is not already con- verted.'
 pr. Cook cabed Dr. Egan as follows
 Many thanks letter and appreciate kind words her majesty of England"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
TOO MUCH LuRID LITERATURE
Boy of 16 Years Tells of Robberies
 Committed in Many States.

Pittsburg, October 2S.-Herbert Boyd aged 16 years, of Joliet, Ill, who frank ly confesses to having robbed stores and private dwellings In four states, was held for higher courts today on charges of entering building with intent to com init felony.
 Young Boyd was arrested while in the act of breaking into a wholesale cloth ing establishment early today with two huge revolvers in his possession
 In the court hearing the lao testified that he had left his home three years ago after the death of his mother and within month robbed a hardware store in Indiana. He also told of robberies in Illinois. Indiana, Ohio and Pennsyl- vania, and related how. in one haul. he got away with $500 worth of loot
 The police believe young Boyd is d. victim of lurid literature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
LAPS ARE PLEASED.
Prince and Princess Thankful for Re-
 ception Given in America.

Washington. October 2S-The Prince and Princess Kunf of Japan have communi- cated to Acting Secretary of State Will son, through Mir. Matsui the Japanese charge d'affaires. their thanks to the American people for the generous hos pitalty which they received while in this country to attend the Hudson Fulton cele- bration in New York.
 In his closing letter to Acting Secretary Wilson MT. Matsui says:
 Tt will always be a source of sin cere qualification to the prince and princess to remember the happy days which they have passed in this eoun- try"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
FOR KILLING HUSBAND.
Woman Believed to be Mentally De- ranged as Result of Mistreatment.

Warren, Pa, October 2s-Mrs. F. O. Anderson, who is alleged to have killed her husband last F1day. and who then nlysteriously disappeared, was arraigned and formally charged with murder today. A plea of self-defense and temporary in- sanity will be entered in her behalf, it being alleged she was the victim of brutal treatment.
 The Andersons lived three miles from here. Last Saturday, Elmer, a son, re- ceived letter from his mother, saying she had killed her husband ana was going to commit suicide. The body of Anderson was later found with knife and gun wounds in the back. Mrs. An derson was taken into custody last Tues day, after alighting from an eastern train She could not tell where she had heen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
$1,o00, 900 FOR SUFFERERS.
Mexican Government Will Aid in Re
 fleving the Corn Famine.

Mexico City, October 2S.-The govern ment will advance $1 600, 900 to alleviate the suffering caused by the corn famine among the poorer classes, $50,000 of which sum will be put to immediate use by the special junta
 The department of the interior has sent out a new general circular to the governors of the various states where the crops suffered from the frosts, tell ing of the appointment of the special governmental committee to have charge of the distribution and asking for new details as to the needs of the states
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
Down With Rats.

Nashville, October 2s. = That pompadours interfere with the duties of telephone operators is the opinion of w. N. Byers, local
 manager of the Cumberland Tele-
 phone and Telegraph company.
 who has issued request" that
 they discontinue the use of big
 rats in the cultures of the girls.
 The request does not meet with the approval of the girls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
Wind stops Practice Ellahts.

College Park. Md, October 2s.-A brisk wind lasting from early morning until sundown prevented further practice today with the Wright aeroplane which was not taken from the shed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-29
MT. RockefeIIers Letter.


 "New York, October 10, 1909. ''Gentlemen-For many months my rep resentatives have been inquiring into the nature and prevalence of hookworm ds- ease and considering plans for mitigating it's evils. I have delayed action in this matter until the fact as to the extent of the disease could be verified and the eff fectiveness of its cure and prevention demonstrated.
 fleets of this malady, particularly In the rural districts of our southern states, first pointed out by Dr. Charles Wad- dell Stiles of the United States Public Health and Marine hospital service, have now been confirmed by independent ob servation by other distinguished investi- gators and physicians as well as educa- tors and public men of the south. Knowing your interest in all that per tains to the well being of your fellowmen and your acquaintance with this subject, I have invited you to a conference in the hope that 1t may lead to the adoption of well considered plans for co-oper- ative movement of the medical profes- sion, public health officials, boards of trades, churches, schools, the press and other agencies for the cure and preven tion of this disease.
 ''If you deem it wise to undertake this commission I shall be glad to be permit ted to work with you to that end and you may call upon me from time to time for such sums as may be needed during the next five years for carrying on an az gressive campaign up to a total of one million dollars &1,00000O.
 While it would be a privilege to act in any movement which offers assurance of relieving human suffering, it Is a pe- culiar pleasure to me to feel that the principal activities of your board will be among the people of our southern states It has been my pleasure of late to spend . portion of each year in the south, and have come to know and to respect greatly that part of our country and to enjoy the society and friendship of many of its warm-hearted people. It will, there fore, be an added qualification to me if in this way may in some measure ex- press my appreciation of their many kindnesses and hospitality. Very truly,
 JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER."
 Reply to Rockefeller.
 The reply. signed by all the members of the commission, was as follows:
 New York, october 26. 1909. t'Mr John D. Rockefeller, New York City.
 ''Dear Sir: Your generous offer to pay
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