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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
ARE MANY VERY
LIVELY PROTESTS
PEOPLE OF MISSISSIPPI DON'T
WANT RATE LEGISLATION.
and Urge the Commission Not to
Reopen the Matter at the Meeting
on May 18th.

JACKSON, Miss, May 10.-Petitions
are pouring in at the office of the Mis-
sissippi Railroad Commission protest.
ing against any change in the passen
ger rate in this state, and when that
body meets on May 18th to again take
up the question it is likely that doc1-
ments of this character from every
board of trade and commercial organ
ization in the commonwealth, togeth-
er with many similar documents from
small towns where no organization of
this character are in existence, will be
on file.
That public sentiment in the state
is strongly opposed to any interfer-
ence with existing traffic arrange
ments, is evidenced not only by these
petitions, but by editorial expressions
in the Mississippi press. Thus far
only two papers have spoken out in
favor of a two-cent rate, while on the
other hand practically all of the influ-
SAANAOA JSN4 AAoAo ehAS oAl5hCN Oh lLO Olu-
er side of the proposition, believing
that the commission should 'let well
enough alone" and that any attempt
at rate regulation at this time would
seriously cripple business interests,
destroy prospects for the building of
new roads, and bring about more or
less industrial Generalization.
One petition just received by the
commission bears the signature Of
every business and professional man
in the town of Goodman and Pickens
and many signatures of farmers and
private citizens urging the commission
TO drop the question.
The railroads have submitted their
data seeking to show that reduction
of the rate at this time would be un-
just and unreasonable, and the oppor-
sition manifested is so strong that
there are good grounds to believe that
the commission will dismiss the sub
ject at its next session.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
SENATOR Smith
CHANGES Mind
SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR WILL
oTE FOR FREE LUMBER.
Thinks More of the Democratic Plat
Lumber Interests in His State.

COLUMBIA, May 10.-Senator E. D.
Smith has changed his mind about
voting for d duty on lumber, so the
South Carolina delegation in the SEN
ate will be solid for free lumber, Sen
ator Tillman having already eA,
pressed his views. Senator Smith
says he is convinced after studying
the Democratic platform more care
fully that it is mandatory upon him to
vote for free lumber.
AS far as the preservation of the
forests around the head, uarrers OF
the streams is concerned, Senator
Shmith is convinced that removal of
the duty On quebracco, a kind of
juice used in tanning, would be more
effective than free lumber, at least
for the protection of Southern water
sheds. The standard tanning juice
comes from the bark of the chestnut
trees, and it is the barking of these
trees that tends chiefly to denude
the forests.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
TWO NEGRO WOMEN
WANTED AT COLLINS

Sheriff B. f. Lott reached the city
this morning from Collins, Covington
county, to get two negro women held
in the. city Jail.
Sunday night telegram was re-
ceived by the police department re-
questing the arrest of the two women
on the arrival of the $3.50 p. m. Gulg
and Ship Island train. The arrests
were made and at police headquarters
they gave their names as Lucy Ele-
phant and Zella Garner.
This morning Sheriff Lott said the
woman were wanted on the charge of
larceny from a commissary of lum-
Der camp near Mish a station on the
railroad line where the women board
ed the train.
The arrest of two men was also re-
quested, but the men did not show up.
The two were wanted for gambling
and also for knowing something Of
the hold-up of a negro by another
negro, known as a "rounder," one of
class who make it a business of
robbing other negroes on pay day or
one lucky enough to carry off the
stakes in crap or skin game.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
Fathers And DEALERS;
CONCEALED WEAPONS
Fire Escapes and Fire Protection, En-
bezzIement, Vagrancy, Gambling,
and "BIind Tieersr and tho Oaths
of the Grand Jurors DWelt Upon.

The circuit court Of Forrest county,
Hon. w. II. Cook, judge, jresiding, con-
vened in regular session this morning
with the officers of court present as
follows: District Attorney D. G.. Nc
Laurin Official Stenographer G. H.
Hardin, Sheriff J. C. Magruder and
Circuit Clerk Z. J. Nixon.
The names of the jurors for the
week, including the names Of those
who were drawn to serve as grand
jurors being reported to the court.
The grand jury was drawn and sworn
in as follows:
D. X. Hemeter, foreman, s. l.. Hud-
dlebury, r. NJ, Hendrix, j. d. Pool, l..
W. Sexton, l.. D. McMicheal, w. s..
Stapleton, jeremiah Ladnier, d. r..
Huff. J. a. Burke, j. e. Barrow, A. D.
Bradley, y. w. Lawson, ]. ]. Hibbett,
c. P. Dubose V. b. Brown, S. n.
Lowry, D. L. Day
w. r. Windham was sworn in as
bailiff of the grand jury.
Judge Cook charged the grand jury
at much length especially so upon
certain sections Of the code with
which the jurors Wero not possibly
familiar and dWeit with specific em-
phasis on sections and phrases of sec
tions to which the minds of the mem
bcrs Of the grand jury were directly
drawn.
First, calling the attention of the
grand jury to the grave and serious
responsibilities which rested upon the
judge, the district attorney, the shar-
if, justices of he peace and the petit
iuries. the court said the gravest of
all rested upon the jury, the very
foundation of The judicial system,sa
ins if the grand jury-failed in the en-
forcement of the law the whole sys-
TEN would be a failure, and cited as
illustrating this idea of what had been
the experience Of one county which
had suffered from the prevalence of
crime for twenty years because red
handed murderer had been turned
loose in that county twenty years ago
without a cause.
The court read the oath taken by
the grand jurors pointing out provis-
. ions which especially affected the
grand jurors personally, in taking the
obligation to make due and intelligent
inquiry into all crimes coming to their
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
BIG COMBINATION
OF Phone Lines
NEW COMPANY WILL OPERATE
FROM KANSAS CITY TO
BOSTON.
Six Thousand Business Firms in Diff
ferent Cities Said to Be Ready
to Take the Service.

PITTSBURG, May 10.--A $2O,OOO,-
600 combination of interests connected
with long distance telephone work
from Boston to Kansas City, taking in
all intermediate cities, has Just been
practically closed here by officials of
the Pittsburg and Allegheny Telephone
company in a meeting with prominent
men from other cities of the country.
NJ. ]. Koehler, of st. Louis, led the
meeting which was held in the office
of President John Splan, of the local
telephone company, and another meet
ing was to have been held in Chicago
tomorrow, bue as the Pittsburg peo,
pie were not ready to start the meet
ing was postponed until some day
this week.
Up to date 6OOO business houses in
Boston, New York, Philadelphia. Buff
falo, Cincinnati, Pittsburg. Cleveland.
Chicago st. Louis and Kansas City
have announced their readiness to
take up the matter and VIII back the
long distance telephone with much
money. Up to date 100000 has been
expended in options in the different
cities. 1t is the purpose of the new
concern to handle long distance work
only.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
MANY MILLIONS
FOR RAILWAYS
NEW YORK CENTRAL AND PENN
SYLVANIA WILL MAKE EXTEN-
slVE IMPROVEMENTS.
The Combined Expenditures Will Ex-
ceed $22, o,oOo-Fourth Track
Track at Some Points.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. May 10.-The
New York Central lines and the Penn
sylyania system have authorized i'm
provements on their roads between
New York and Chicago that will mean
total expenditure of S22,000,000.
The Lake Shore and New York
Central lines will spend $11,500,O0 on
improvements at once. OF this S5,-
100000 will be spent on the Lake
Shore. The improvements will con-
sist of extension of the lines third
and fourth track systems at various
points between Chicago and Buffalo.
The new track will total about 90
miles. New freight and passenger
equipment will be purchased.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
MANY SPECIMENS
Being MOUNTED
The NaturaIists With the Expedition
Are Kept Busy skinning and Mount
ing the Victims of the Ex-President
and Son.
and Son.

NARROBI, May 10.-A bulky bull
rhinoceros was killed by Theodore
Roosevelt, in a jungle near Machakos
together with big bag of other large
game, according to native guides. The
rhinocros charged directly at Roose-
velt, who killed him at fifteen paces
The naturalists are kept busy prepal
ing the skins of animals killed by the
ex-President and son. Already forty
five skins have been mounted.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
COUNTY OFFICERS
FOUND NOBODY
Robbers Tried to Pull the Operator
Out of the Window With a Pike
Pole, But Were Forced to Flee for
Their Lives.

The thrilling story of an attempted
robbery of the station office of the
New Orleans and Northeastern rail
road at Eastabuchie, Miss, early Sun
day morning was brought back Sun
day by Deputy Sheriffs McGilvary
and Riley and Constable Riley, who
had visited the scene.
At about 1870 Sunday morning word
came from the office of the chief dis
patcher at New Orleans to the Hatties-
burg office to get officers and send
them to Eastabuchie. The local office
telephoned to the Forrest county jail
for officers and the three officials re-
sponded, being taken to Eastabuchie
on a freight train bound north.
The story of the trouble as told. is
to the effect that at about midnight
third trick operator, Frank Caraway.
at Eastabuchie was taken by surprise
by two men. whether negroes or white
he could not say, who, standing out
side the office window with leveled
pistols demanded that the window
sash be raised.
Instead of responding to the demand
the operator, who was sitting down,
fired at the masked men through the
nf tha wi ~,
the shot the heads of the would be
robbers disappeared from sight and
the operator thinking they were gone,
rushed to the window, threw up the
sash, the window being protected on
the outside by iron bars.
The operators intention was to fire
again, but just as he raised the win
cow sash he was caught in the sleeve
Of his shirt with an iron hook, one
of the kind said to be used in drawing
lumber, that is long iron bar with a
strong hook on one end of it.
This attempt to pull the operat OF
against the barred window resulted in
the tearing off of the sleeve of the
operators shirt, but did not prevent
his firing again. The robbers, after
the failure to hook their man. tool,
to their heels without being hit so far
as is known
Operator Carraway then went olt-
side and fired four or five times at
the fleeing robbers or in the direction
they were going. Evidence of one Of
the shots was found in a crosstie
where a bullet had struck the tie.
The Forrest county officials return
ed without being able to get a trace
Of the hold up men. The attempted
crime at the depot was just across the
Forrest county line in Jones county,
and outside of that part of Easta.
buchie which is in Forrest county.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
MILL AT ORA ALMOST
READY FOR OPERATION

Information from Ora, Miss. waa
given the News today that work is be-
ing raidly pushed on the big band saw
mill at Ora of the Easterling Lumber
company, and it is believed that the
mill will be in full operation by the
18th of this month.
This mill has daily capacity of
100000 feet and when it begins opera
ton it will be run to its full capacity
both day and night.
The Easterling mill at Mish, Miss
near Ora, it was said, would not be
again put into operation.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
NEW RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES IN
SPAIN.

WASHINGTON. May 10.-Former
Minister Collier reports to the state
department today the conditions un-
der which non-Catholics may worship
in Spain. The laws forbid any cere-
monies in public except the Catholic
religion. No cross or other religious
design will be allowed on Protestant
churches. The report was completed
in 1906 but was only published today.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
NEW ORLEANS WOMEN IN
NEW YORK PENNILESS

NEW YORK, May 1O.-Mrs. Lottie
Mccall, a widow and daughter, Eliza
beth, who came here from New Or
leans TO collect a legacy lost her purse
on the train were driven to ask aid
at the municipal lodging house last
night. She was unable to locate her
attorneys so she wired her son but
received no reply.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
PISTOL BALL
HIT negro
ACCIDENT AT SUMRALL SUNDAY
MORNING WHILE EXHIBITING
The Wound Was Not Serious and the
Authorities Decided That No One
Was to Blame for the Accident.

Sumrall, Miss, May 1O.-Sun-
day about noon, while exhibiting
pistol, G. w. Williamson, a white
employe of the Newman Lumber COM
pany shot and painfully wounded Bill
Mcleod, colored operative of the
same company. The wound, while
painful is not considered dangerouo,
the bullet entrred the left side just
above the nipple and lodged in the
back just under the shoulder blade.
The shooting according to the state
of both the injured as well as the eye
witnesses was purely accidental. Mr..
Williamson was exhibiting an old fash
ioned Colts revolver and as he was
showing the crowd of interested spec
tators the firing mechanism, Mcleod
stepped in front of the barrel. Mr.
Williamson's finger slipped and the
gun fired. Being in so close range is
all that saved the negro.
Mr.. Williamson Immediately surren-
dered to Constable A. G. Lott and will
be given a preliminary trial Monday
Mr.. Williamson is a trusted employe
of the Newman company and has
been for the past few years. The man
who was shot has been working under
Mr.. Williamson for two or three years
and none regret the affair more than
Mr.. Williamson.
At the preliminary trial no case
could be made out and Mr.. Williamson
was dismissed.
After school Sunday morning Mr..
Van Hogan and Miss Lula Sanford
were united in matrimony at the home
of the brides mother on Main street,
Justice of the Peace R. L. Walker Off
ciating.
Mr.. Hogan is a young man of ster-
ling qualities and is one of our best
young business men. He is the junior
member of the firm of Hanberry &
Hogan.
Miss Sanford is a very charming
young lady of rare beauty and accom-
plishments and numbers her friends
by the score who wish for her their
heartiest congratulations, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hogan will make their home on
Main street.
Col. J. E. King will leave today to
attend the session of the grand lodge
X. of p, to be held in Meridian. Col.
King goes with a good report IRON
Sumrall lodge. Even though this
lodge has hardly recovered from its
fire, yet the lodge is growing all the
while and by the way the horn blows
(some say it's the goatO some of the
local boys are of the opinion that
business is picking up with them.
Quite a number of young men have
been recently initiated and several
more are on the string.
Mrs. r. T. Dorsey though still quite
i'll, is much better and her physicians
hope that she will soon be GONZALES
cent and her many friends are glad
to hear of her continued improve
ment.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
PROBABLE MURDER NEAR LAKE
CHARLES.

LAKE CHARLES, La, May 10
Mrs. Joseph Vincent, wife of a promi-
nent planter, was found dead at her
home at Vincent, La, near here when
yesterday. There were sevral gunshot
her family returned from church
yesterday. There were several gun
shot wounds about the body and mur
der is APPARENT.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
GENERAL PASSENGER AGENTS IN
SESSION.

y ALEXANDRIA, La, May 10.-Gen-
eral passenger agents representing all
the lines operating in Louisiana met
here today, J. S. Hannegan, of st.
Louis, was elected chairman. Only
executive sessions are being held and
nothing is being given out.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
AT THE NEW
PASSENGER STATION
Falling Piece of Steel Struck Work
man lnfIictine Serious Injury.

At the time of going to press a work
man employed on the new passenger
station was struck on the head by a
falling piece of steel and seriously
injured.
1t was impossible to learn the name
of thei INJURED man, but he was the
foreman of the steel gang.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
ANOTHER FEDERAL JUDGE AP-
POINTED.

Washington. May 10.-President
Taft today sent to the Senate the NOM
ination Of Henry Groves Conner, a
Democrat, to be United States Judge
of the eastern district of North Caro-
lima.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
INVESTIGATING GOV. HASKELL
AGAIN.

TULSA, Okla, May 10.-The Fed
eral grand jury took up the investiga-
tion of the Muskogee town lot frauds
today in which Governor Haskell and
others are involved.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
TodaY's Games.

New Orleans at Mobile.
Memphis at Little Rock.
Atlanta at Montgomery.
Birmingham at Nashville.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10

Mr.. A. M. Sample left Saturday
night for the bedside of his sister Mrs.
Drunkard, of Bellamy, who is Gerry i'll
with peunomia.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10

Nervousness is often, very often
caused by eyestrain which can be cor
rected by DR.. w. A. Sharpin, Garter
building. $3.50
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
oday's Games.

Washington at Chicago.
Philadelphia at st. Louis.
New York at Detroit.
Boston at Cleveland.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10

MOBILE, Ala, May 10.-The re-
mains of Mrs. Augusta Wilbon were
inferred in Magnolia Cemetery today.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
BASEBALL
YESTERDAYS GAMES,
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Yesterdays Results.

Mobile 10, New Orleans 0.
Little Rock-Memphis-rain.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
AMERICAN LEAGUE,

Yesterdays Results.
Chicago 4, Cleveland >.
Cleveland 4, Chicago l.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Yesterdays Results.
st. Louis 5, Chicago 2.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-10

Today's Games.
New York at Boston.
Philadelphia at Brooklyn.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-01
OLD THAMES RIVER BOATS
Two Interesting Stories Suggested by the Recent Steam boating Article-lhe Thames and The John Hancock.

latter had sufficient discernment to know the Harlem was not only navi- gable for small craft, but for steam CTS also. a fact which could be dem- onstrated. And where could more suitable boat be found than the brought up from Norwich to New York, wisely keeping in shore, and laying by at nights. thus saving the expense of, extra hands and the r1e- cessity of carrying lights. On the third day, she entered and passed tri- umphant1y through Hell Gate, just taking the tide in the affairs of boats as well as of men, which lead to for tune Regular trips were advertised from the mouth of the Harlem to the head of tidewater, far above Macombs Dam to Spuyten DuyyiL The mayor, aldermen and common council of the city were on one occasion advertised as invited passengers for an excursion and as none of them attended the ex- pertinent was perfectly successful! The river was found navigable even immortal honor of John B. Jervis, the engineer of the Croten aqi1educt, the water commissioners ordered the erec- tion of the High bridge
 N. B.-It is said the boat could only hold one New York alderman"
 Nearly a Century Ago.
 Inspired by the same story, the following account of the explosion of the steamer John Hancock on her passage from Norwich to New Lon don in 1877 has been sent to The Bulletin, the account having been in- cluded in the steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States as published by s. A. Howland in Worcester in 1S40:
 The most singular steamboat explo- sion, perhaps, that ever occurred. took place in Connecticut in 1877 and is related by that veteran steamboat commander, Capt. Elihu S. Bunker in his reply to the collector of New York asking for information to be trans mitted to the treasury department.
 Gilhert Brewster, Esq, of Norwich fancied he was in possession of a plan for building a steamboat that would prove superior to that then in use; and accordingly built a small boat (which I think he called the John Hancock), into which he put a small engine and wooden boiler.
 He prepared her for an excursion from Norwich to New London at the time that President Monroe visited that section of the United States. Fifty gentlemen went on board and they proceeded down the river from Norwich. They were all, together with the cook Ga colored man), in the cabin abaft the boiler, when approaching New London it was announced that the Fulton, which had the president on board, was in sight.
 The gentlemen went on deck as fast as the gangway would permit them to move, the cook being the last at the foot of the stairs.' When he was halfway up stairs the end of the boil CT was blown out and his left leg was slightly scalded.
 The force was so great with which the end of the boiler flew that it swept everything before it-tables, chairs the partition between the gen. tlemen's and ladies' cabin-all went out at the stern of the boat. In one minute more. if they had stayed in the cabin, fifty-one would have been swept into eternity.