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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
Children of the Confederacy.

Children of the Confederacy. Winnie Davis Chapter Children of tbe Confederacy.
 Saturday afternoon the members of the Winnie Davis Chapter, held a large and interesting meeting at the Carnegie Library.
 The members enjoyed a rare treat in the talk given by Miss Layrat upon Winnie Davis, the beloved daughter of the Confectionery, in whose honor the Chapter is named.
 feature also was the talk by Mrs. M. D. Bibb giving interesting recollec- tions of the Confederacy.
 The following officers were appoint ed:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21

unswerving obedience to a country's call. ever forget our martyred heroes, or our hearts cease to swell with pride and admiration at remembrance of the story of how they strove to up- hold our country's honor, and defend her rights?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
HISTORICAL.

"Reminiscences of the Escape of Lteu- tenant William T. Williamson of Co. c. Ist Alabama Regiment From Prison on JOhnsOn's
 Island, Lake Erie, Dur
 ing the Civil War.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21

Our Yeterans. They were the boys of the Sixties
 Who gallantly wore the grey. Where the battle ragged, they were ever
 In the thickest of the fray When swords were sheathed. and vic- tory dear Adorned another shield With sorrowing hearts, they hurried home To fight in another field. To redeem the South. to stand by her.
 In her days of dark despair. From the Vandals hand. to keep our land
 our land so rich. and fair
 Tn Dfxies land they, took their stand To live or die for Dixie. upward. onward, no retreat They struggled. they toiled, they conquered defeat ihose men with their locks now grey God bless our boys of the Sixties Our veterans of today Mary Heron Edmonson
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
Influencing Business

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 Shipments madein wooden boxes express charges prepaid H.. C.. perfect of blend. Whkes5 whskey that will It has rich oily that de favor Kentucky Whskey entire sat o be had. full ouars - S5 OO 75 50 12 full quarts II OO
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
UNITED DAUGHTERS
 OF THE CONFEDERACY

eracy-.Mrs. Mary c. Pickens, Green vile, Ala.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
The Prize Essay.

The Prize Essay.
 . The bitterness and resentment of the war belongs to the past" The situation of the U. D. C's Is most un- fortunate. The pity of 1t all rests largely. where? With the writer of the essay or the three distinguished judges? Did they read between the mes or on the lines? Which hurled the heaviest the blow to our Hero of the eonfederacy. and our South's intel iect? We can but feel a pity for the writer for she was misinforned and "densely ignorant"
 could not the judges illumined what was dark, raised and supported her on the wings of Knowledge? If 1t were true we were Intellectually lead" aehsely ignorant before the war" let the writer know we had Africans to nurse us and northerners to teach us The sentiments expressed sbou>a nave been condemned in letters bold ana not rewarded with the Tinted Daushters Of the Confederacy's gold.
 Belle Allen Ross.
 Associate Editor. The regular monthly meeting of the Mobile chapter. U. D. c. was held on Thursday. March II in the lecture room of the Y. M. c. A. building. with Mrs. Colston presiding. and the attend "NS fVtS boOd' nOIwltnStandtnR the very indictment weather. The min utes of the previous meeting were read and approved. The treasurer gave the usual monthly account.
 letter from the Selma Chapter asking for subscriptions to a paner at ten cents each. to be issued on the anniversary of the Battle of Selma was read by the secretary. and in re- sponse ten orders for copies were given, the proceeds to go to the Morgan Pettus memorial fund.
 Committees were appointed to ar range for Musical Tea. which Is to take place soon after Easter
 Mrs. E. W. Christian reported the be- ginning of work on the Lunette. which this chapter promised to the Y. M c. building.
 It was decided to pay the railroad rare of one delegate to represent our chapter at the state reunion in Hunts vile, and Mrs Christian was declared delegate by secret ballot
 Several pretty piano solos were rem dered by Mrs. Neanjer Crane. and very much enjoyed selections on the violin by Miss Loretta Schwalmmle. acom- panied by Mrs. John Moulton.
 Alter enthusiastic singing of "Dtxie" by the chapter. the meeting adjourned.
 J. M. Carrell.
 Secretary.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21

THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,, ATLANTA, GA.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21

The Clayton Chapter U. D. c. recent ly held a Baby Contest to swell the funds for Confederate monument
 It was grand success and a hand some sum was realized. One little tots voting strength being over s1o0 on Ihe monument is a certainty and will be in process of erection at an early date.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
.FOlLS ATTEMPT
TO HOLDUP CAR
MOTORMAN REFUSES TO HEED
ORDER TO STOP
Puts on Full Speed and Dashes Past
Two WouId-Be Bandits-Sher-
ifs Unable to Find
Robbers

Shortly after o'clock last night two
masked men attempted to hold up an
eastbound Boyle Heights car of the
Los Angeles Railway company near
First and Indiana streets.
The car was No. 242, in charge OF
Motorman G. o. Thompson and Con-
ductor f. 0. Green. When the car APP
preached Indiana street one of the men
stepped to the edge of the track, threw
a large rock in front of it and signaled
the car to stop Motorman Thompson,
seeing that the men were masked,
threw on full speed and ran by them.
AS the car rushed by the Two men
one of them attempted to seize the
hand rail at the rear entrance and was
thrown heavily to the ground. He got
up at once. however, and with ms
companion ran south on Indiana street.
The occurrence was reported to the
sheriff's office and the detective de-
partment and Sheriff Hammel and
Deputy Sheriff Woods and Detectives
Mcnamara and Zeigler went to the
scene in an automobile and made
wide search of the neighborhood, but
were unable to find any trace Of the
men.
Because of the dim street lighting in
that section of the city neither the
motorman nor the conductor of the
car >were able to give a good descrip-
ton of the men.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
SO. BROADWAY
BUILDING BURNS,
LOSS Is $125,OOO

Fire which broke out about O'Clock
this morning in the basement of the S
B. Bailey company, jewelers. and pho
tographic supplies, 35S South Broadway,
in fifteen minutes had practically ruin
ed all the stock in that portion of the
building.
The basement is filed with kodak
supplies, and at $3.50 o'clock this morn
ing the loss had reached at the lowest
estimate $5OOO
AT 2:35 the fire was not under control,
but the fire department We're confident
they could .confine the flames to the
cellar.
The estimated loss is fully covered by
insurance which it was said had been
placed on the stock yesterday.
At PAS o'clock the fire had broken
through the floor into the main store
room and extended beneath the store
of the Vienna Emporium, ladies' cloth
ing and furnishing goods. The base
m mt of both stores were packed with
goods, the value of which is estimated
at $4,000, and all of which will prob
ably be total loss.
Mr.. Bailey this morning at 8 o'clock
estimated his loss, if totaled would
reach $4,000.
The stock of the Vienna Emporium
was damaged by smoke and water and
the loss will exceed 100000.
The building is occupied on the sec
ond floor by the Hemenway photo
graph parlors and the Elite dressmak-
ing establishment. Both concerns suf-
fered loss from smoke, which will en-
tail a loss of $4,000.
The building is owned by Isaac Bros.
company, whose loss is estimated at
$4,000, which will bring the total loss
to about $4,000, with insurance COW
ering the greater part of it.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
MOTHER BROWNS
WITH CHILDREN
FAMILY BORNE TO DEATH IN
DISASTROUS FLOOD
Railway Bridges Washed Out, Train
Service DemoraIized and Crops
of Many Farmers
Destroyed

OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLA, May "a
Five persons are dead and a dozen
seriously injured, several thousand
acres are inundated and every stream
in the northern and eastern part OF
the state raging as result of almost
unprecedented rains during the last
twenty-four hours in Oklahoma. A
number of houses have been washed
away.
The dead:
MRS. w. w. Brown and three chill
dren of Foraker
Mrs. Matte Jones, negro.
Mrs. Brown and her children were
drowned in Salt creek while attempt
ing to escape from high waters. Mrs
Jones dropped dead from fright when
the waters of Boggy creek near Enid
surrounded her home. Railroad tracks
near Shawnee, HolmanSVille, Tulsa,
Pawnee, Vinita and oklahoma, aer in
undated and sections of tracks are
washed out. Bridges are unsafe along
the Arkansas, Cimmaron and Canadian
rivers and traffic is generally delayed.
The flood is the worst since 1872 and
the loss of crops will reach many
Near Miami, the Neosho river is out
of its banks and many farms are COW
cred with water. cloudburst al
Kremlin damaged houses and crops.
A small tornado struck Morris, de-
molishing the Methodist church and
several residences including that OF
Ernest Scott. He and his wife and
child were seriously injured.
Black Bear river is out of its banks
and hundreds of people are moving tC
higher lands AT Vinita the Grand
river threatens all lowlands and the
railroads.
In the oil fields four sixteen-thousand
barrel tanks were struck by lightning
and destroyed.
Lightning struck the school house at
attending services there.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
WOMAN fLEES IN
MALE ATTIRE TO
SAVE CHILDREN
MAGAZINE WRITER FIGURES IN
SENSATIONAL EPISODE
FEARS PURSUIT OF DESERVING
HUSBANDS AGENTS
Writes Story of Her Experiences in
Desolated House After Spouse
of Twenty Years
Left Home

NOLLOWING the alleged elopement
of her husband Wednesday with
Il married woman, Mrs. T. F. Mil
Ter, a magazine writer, living at 122
South Ditman street, donned male at
tire early yesterday morning and es-
capped to the house Of a friend,
where she secreted her two children,
in the fear that an attempt would be
made to gain possession of them by
agents of her husband. She believed
that the house was watched by men
employed by him, seeking to trail her
to the hiding place of the two chill
dren, and soon after midnight, wear
ing a suit of her husbands clothes and
"a long automobile coat, climbed
through cellar window of the house,
and skirting a nearby hedge in the
darkness, escaped without detection.
She went to the residence of Mrs. f. F..
Smith, All Ulysses street. where the
children had been hidden. Last night
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
WOMAN ALLEGED TO
HAVE TRIED TO BURN
FAMILY TO DEATH

Mrs. ]. Francisco was arrested by the
sheriff's office at 2:30 o'clock this morn
ing at the corner of Nadeau and Ala
media streets four miles southwest of
this city, near Compton.
The woman was charged with at
tempting to burn her husband and four
children by setting the house afre while
the occupants were sleeping.
Neighbors had notified the sheriff S
office that the woman was insane.
The house was totally destroyed and
the family barely escaped with their
lives, the husband and children all be-
ing more or less painfully burned.
The sheriff does not believe the wo-
man is insane.
Neighbors cared for the family, who
lost all of their belongings. The fire
loss is small.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
PLATT'S FAMILY AND
HIMSELF IN LAWSUIT
Former Senator from Control
of United States Express
Company

NEW YORK, May PA hot battle
is on, backed by the minority stock
holders of the United States Express
company, to oust former Senator
Thomas c. Platt and his sons from
control of that property.
A large number of the stockholders,
employing eminent counsel, seek to
force Edward r. Platt, treasurer of the
company, to permit chartered account
ants to examine the books of the cor
poration.
six members of former Senator
Platts family hold stock in the COM
pany, of which he is the president.
The minority holders contend that
their appeals for accounting from time
to time have been ignored by the
Platts
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25

salu over CudlnphBnc anu lObShch a Ia ANOh-
berg"
Family affairs are not raised over Persian
rugs"
"students for the ministry do not as a
rule get their early training by running
steam yachts"
Most of us. preachers come of humble
beginnings"
m HESE epigrams from a "hedgling
secretary" as he termed himself
4 caused the general assembly of
the Presbyterian church, as one promi-
nent divine said. ito sit up and take
notice" today. The speaker was DR..
Joseph w. Cochran, secretary Of the
Presbyterian board of education.
DIR. Cochran, who is from Philadel-
phia spoke in the afternoon on the
report of the board of education in
which he deplored in unmistakable
terms the lack of recruits to the MIN
istry.
The report was read by DR.. Edgar
p. Hill of Chicago, who stirred the
assembly to a high pitch by his word
picture of the ignorance among immi-
grants, due, he said, to the fact no
Protestant denomination, and surely
not the Presbyterian, had taken the
trouble to stir UP "a sufficient number
of ministerial recruits to work among
these people.
Scarcity of Ministers
The demand for more ministers was
then taken up by DR.. Cochran.
"Why can't we get the young men
to preach?" he asked. I'll tell you.
In the first place there is but little
Christianity in the home. If there is
any, it is gone by the time the young
man is ready for an education.
Does he go for his education to a
Christian school? A Presbyterian
school? No. He goes to a goddess state
university, and when he returns to his
home town he puts religion at low ebb.
And if you ministers find your
churches at low ebb. know where to
place the blame. This young man has
been educated where there is no Chris
tianity.
1.-THE need in this board of education
| is not more money, but more men.
| These young men must be taken in
\ hand when they are ready for an edu-
| cation. They must be started right.
Now. we cannot Christianize these
state universities, but we can put a
| shepherd in charge of the flock and in
| this way keep these boys in the flock,
although they are being educated at
goddess schools. ."
DR.. Cochran urged that Sunday
school teachers put before the boys the
ministry as a career.
There was a popular meeting tonight
| in Central Presbyterian church in be-
half of the freedmen movement, at
which a number of negro ministers
spoke.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
BOY ACCIDENTALLY KILLS
BRIDE WHILE HE HUNTS
Bullet Fired at Fluttering Cloth
Strikes Young Woman in the
Forehead

FLINT, Mich, May 24.-Arthur Mer-
ritt, ten years old, of this city, while
walking along the river bank with a
rifle Yesterday saw a white cloth flut-
tering in the bushes on the opposite
side of the stream and fired at it.
Mrs. Lizzie Atkinson, a bride of a
few months, received the bullet in her
forehead and died in a few moments.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
she left with the children for Palm
dale.
Husband Had Seen Kind

she left with the children for Palm
dale
Husband Had Seen Kind
Mrs. Miller declares that her husband
eloped with Mrs. Robert Richardson,
SIS East First street Belvidere, from
whom he recently had borrowed money
to engage in an amusement enterprise.
1t is believed that the couple went to
Mexico
'T have feared ever since my hus-
band first became acquainted with
Mrs. Richardson that this would re-
suit said Mrs. Miller last night, just
before her departure. ''He always had
been kind and considerate until this
other woman came between us.
81 fought against the suspicion that
he had been untrue to me, but the con-
viction became stronger every day, and
during the last few weeks l have wait
ed daily for the end. My only fear
was that he would attempt to take the
children from me, and l have guarded
them night and day. I will not feel
safe until I get them out of the coun-
try"
Leaves with Children
Mrs. Miller's two daughters, Beulah,
aged s, and Dorothy, aged 10, were with
her at the railway station as she told
the pitiful story of the breaking up of
the home. Little Dorothy sobbed and
clug to her mothers hand.
Mrs. Miller has for number of years
been engaged in writing magazine short
stories and newspaper articles. Her
husband, she says, has provided made
quately for the family since the begin
ntng of his alleged ENHANCEMENT with
Mrs. Richardson, and the proceeds of
her writing have been the main source
of income. In her present need of secur-
ing funds for her flight with her chill
dren she was compelled to make capital
out of the most tragic experience of her
life, and, alone in her desolated home
at midnight she finished the opening
chapter of a story which she was to
enact an hour later in the bitterness of
reality. The story is printed in another
column of The Herald.
Says Money Was Taken
Robert Richardson, the husband of
the woman said to have eloped with
Miller. accuses the departing couple Of
taking $500 in cash belonging to him. in
addition to 5000 worth of personal prop
erty, and of leaving an indebtedness of
$500, which amount, Richardson de-
clares. Miller borrowed before leaving.
IF l can find the man who ran off
with my wife 1 will kill him." said
Richardson yesterday. "All l want is
revenge, and some day I'll get it.
From what can learn 1 believe they
have gone to Mexico. Miller had been
in Mexico and I know he told my wife
romantic stories about the country.
'When Miller was sick 1 lent him
$500. l never had the least suspicion of
anything wrong until heard of their
going away together couldn't believe
at first that a man whom 1 had be-
friended would do such a thing.
'I trusted my wife so implicitly that
L had not the least suspicion of any
thing wrong"
Miller had so successfully concealed
CONTINUED ON Page Threel
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
SENATOR OWEN OF
OKLAHOMA ATTACKS
SUGAR COMBINATION

WASHINGTON, May 24.-The so
called sugar trust was the subject of
an attack in the senate today by Sem
ator owen of Oklahoma, who sent to
the secretary's desk denunciation of
lContinued on Pago Cwol
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
EASTERN

Senator McCumber's amendment to the tariff
for admitting lumber free IS defeated in the
United states senate by vote of 56 to 25.
Presbyterans in assembly at Denver deplore
the lack of recruits for the ministry.
Reverence given to fragment of a bone
said to be a part of the body of St Rita.
Is claimed to be a panacea for all ills,
whether physical mental or financial
Effort is being made to oust former Sena-
tor Thomas C. Platt of New York and fam
iv from control of the United States Ex-
press company.
Mother browns in an effort to save her
three children in the flood which RACES In
Oklahoma and which covers a vast terri
tory Estimated ten persons are killed,
Black Hand sends menace to Juror who
was a member of the tribunal which con-
victed the Mexican patriots at Tombstone,
A. T.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
FOREIGN

Merchants of Honolulu will strike to pre-
vent strikes and the Japanese merchants
organization have decided to deal more
Justly with their employees.
Bubonic plague makes temperance in
Venezuela.
Mexican court at Chihuahua acquts two
Americans accused of murder. an An
geleno.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
WATER OF SWOLLEN RIVER
PARTLY SU5MERGES TOWN

vINITA, Okla, May 24.-One of the
heaviest rainfalls in northwestern
Oklahoma in recent years has swollen
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST

For Los Angeles and vicinity: Fair
warmer Tuesday; light northeast
winds, changing to south. Maximum
temperature yesterday, 66 degrees;
minimum, 48 degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
LOCAL

Discovery of lunch box of Anna Poltera
adds to mystery surrounding crime.
Woman fees in male attire to save heI
children.
Motorman foils attempt to hold up street
car.
President Huntington of Pacific Electric
passes through Los Angeles on way tc
ranch.
Elizabeth Won Meier learns father is OF
noble blood.
Father and daughter arrive in Los An
gees en- route to China to resume mission
ary work.
Church federation honors departing pas
tor with banquet.
Money stolen from collection plates at St
Johns church.
Dog officers threaten to sue woman for
5000 O00 alleging libel and SANDER.
Property owners petition council for tun-
mel through Second street hill
Woman suing for divorce reads from note
book record of husbands alleged cruelties.
Woman who was married through pawn
broker must pay penalty for abusing justice
Americans in Los Angeles assist in cele-
bration of Empire day.
City council may purchase patent garbage
can for use in Los Angeles.
Domestic troubles cause insurance agent
to try to asphyXiate himself.