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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-01
Game OF Graft.

When a foreign-born domestic maid
was recently engaged by Mrs. Smith
of Lexington avenue, the servant ex-
planned that her former mistress had
frequently paid her premium money
for holding her peace in the matter
of reporting to the matron's hubby
certain goings on in the home during
his absence.
short time afterward Mrs. Smiths
brother CHANGED to be his sisters
guest on a certain afternoon. After
he had gone the maid asked Mrs.
Smith: How much will you give me
not to tell your husband about that
man calling?"
Nlilady replied: Katie, I'll give
you your walking papers right now,
and no reference"
When Mr.. Smith came home for
dinner Kate was packing her trunk.
lie scared the girl out of years
growth by threatening to have ner ar
rested for attempted blackrlail.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-01
IS GOAT FEVER in CHIC leo?
7eaith Commissioner and Assistant
Lead - Effort to Find Germ
Causing Disease.

Chicago.-Danger of the spread of
goat FEVER, a disease recently discov-
cred In America, through the use of
goat milk is to be investigated by DR..
w. A. Evans. city health commission.
er, and DR.. Karl Konrad Koessler of
Rush Medical college.
Reports from Salt Lake City that a
mysterious fever had appeared there
and that the Utah doctors were in
pursuit of an unknown germ under
suspicion Of causing the epidemic were
brought to the attention of the two
doctors.
When informed that the germ was
supposed to be spread by goats, Dr..
Koessler said: THE disease is I'M
doubtedly Malta fever. 1t is trans
mitted by contact with goats, whose
milk in ten per cent of cases con-
tains pure culture of the fever
microbe, known as mcrococus NELL
teasis."
Il will look into goat fever in Chi
cago," said DR.. Evans. IF we find
goats are spreading disease, We'll tree
the goats"
Micrococus meliteasis is said to be
one of the smallest germs in existence
If DR.. Evans finds it in goat milk
he will start search for goat fever in
Chicago.
1t is estimated at the stock yards,
where goats are sold, that there are
about 1000 of them in Chicago, and
that goats milk is extensively used,
much of it being brought from outside
places. Many physicians are said to
prescribe it for infants and invalds.
Should the discovery be made that
the milk is infected with micrococus
melteasis the sale may be restricted
and precautionary measures ordered.
No case of the disease has yet been
reported in Chicago, but physicians
will be warned to be on the Lookout
for it.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-01
BIG MONEY ORDER PURCHASE
Roumanian Interpreter and Boarding
House Keeper Sends Home Six
Years. Savings.

Waynesboro Pa.-John Padura, a
Roumanian, who is an employee in one
of the local shops, an interpreter and
the keeper of a large board
ing house for his fellow Roumanians
employed here, sent postoffice money
order to AIRED, Hungary, for $4,000.
To be exact, he sent Al money or
ders, because the postofiice depart
ment will not issue an order for more
than 500.
The Roumanian saved this money
and $500 more during six years here.
He made fairly good wages as inter-
prefer and as a workman, but the
greater part Of this sum he saved
from the boarding house operations.
sometimes having as many as 40
boarders.
The money was sent to Europe to
buy farm, which Padura's father and
mother will manage.
The money is the largest amount
ever put into single money order
purchase in this valley, it is said.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-01
PER CENT OF THE POPULATION
OF THE U. S..

live in rural districts remote from ply
sicians or drug stores and they arc
obliged to depend upon proprietary
medicines to very great extent
To the women in these homes UGH
standard remedies as Lydia L. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound come as a
boon and a blessing. Records show
that it has erred more women of those
dread feminine ills than any other
remedy
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-01
GENERAL GRANT
MAKES REPLY
says Chicago Parade Was i Demon.
ctraticn in Favor OF Good
Government.
Blu ASSOCIATED Press


WASHINGTON, October lit
was not a temperance parade, but a
demonstration in favor OF good gov
eminent and law and order, and !
should have been derelict in my duty
If | had not, when requested, headed
the parade as l did, and shall con
tinue, until prohibited, to do the same
thing wherever l deem it necessary
to advance the cause of good gov
eminent"
This is the substance of a statement
made by General Frederick d. Grant
IN answer to letter sent by W. R.
Michaelis, of Chicago, a member of
the executive board of the United
Societies for Local Self Government.
to the secretary OF war, criticizing
General Grant for having appeared in
full uniform in a so-called temperance
parade in that city last Saturday Gen
eral Grant added that there was no
law written or unwritten, or regu-
lation, that in any way abridged his
right to wear his uniform on any &C.
casion he saw fit, and he assumed thai
10 official action on the part of the
war department would be taken in
the matter.
J. General Grant is here, en- route to
Chicago.
Secretary Dickinson Spared.
The war department was spared the
embarrassment of taking sides in the
dispute of his fellow citizens in Chi
cago as to whether or not Gen Grant
was justified in appearing in the uni
form OF his rank in the United States
army, in the so-called temperance par
ade in Chicago last Saturday. The
mails failed to bring the open letter of
protest from w. r. Michaelis, of the
executive board of the United Socie-
ties for Local Self Government, and
the secretary did not venture into a
neighbor's dispute until compelled to
do SO.
1t is known here that General Grant
has decided views in regard to the eff
partment, he commented on the court
feet of liquor in the army. In his an.
up sgl OF p7ll!uqns lsnr 'lIod9I IBuu
martials by saying:
"A glance at the report of the Judge
advocate clearly shows to my mind.
that liquor was the cause of most Of
the troubles among the soldiers"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-01
Wanted In jackson, Tenn

BRISTOL, Tenn, October IA well
dressed travelling man, giving his
name as 5. b. Adams. has been ar
rested by the police here upon adj
vice from the officers at Jackson,
Ienn., on charge of forgery. He is
in jail in Virginia and is being held
pending requisition papers.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-01
Fasts Fifty DAYS,

Lake Hopatcong, N. J-Dr. Otto
Schmidt, who has abandoned the
practice of medicine because he lost
faith in the efficacy of drugs. an
nounces that he has gone without
food for 80 days. While he has lost
weight he has gained strength, he
says.
He has gone without food before,
and once tasted for 23 days.
He prescribes starvation as a cure
for many physical ills.
He has now broken his 5O-day fast
ing by eating small plate of rice
soup. While fasting he went swim
ming daily and followed a course of
athletic exercises.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-01
OFFICERS PREPARING FOR
IT. THEIR NINETY MILE RIDE.

WASHINGTON. September 30
Army Officers are preparing for their
annual ninety mile test ride 1t was
hoped that President Taft would
modify the stunt, but he has not done
SO. So far as probable requirement.
of service are concerned, the test is
unnecessarily severe.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-01
Predicts Great Riches,

Sheffield, Eng-E. II. Gary, chair
man of the board of directors of the
United States Steel corporation,
spoke the other night at a banquet
of the Sheffield chamber of com
merce. He said:
The outlook in America is exceed
ingly bright. | think we are going to
see the greatest prosperity the coun.
try ever has known"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-01

Hicks capudine Cures Sick Headache
Also Nervous Headache, Trave.e'.
Headache and aches from Grip. Slon
ach Troubles or Female Troubles. Try.
Capudine-it's liquid-effects lmmedi.
ately. Sold by druggists
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
GREAT FLOOD IN SPAIN
From Five to Six Hundred Per-
sons Lose Their Lives.

Medrid, Dec. 27-Incomplete re-
turns from flood swept provinces of
Spain indicate a minimum dead of
from 500 to 600, with the possibility
that the complete story will greatly
swell this number.
Freezing weather has followed the
flood and the distress in the devas-
tated towns is acute. The government
is doing everything possible to relieve
the suffering, but owing to the de-
struction of many miles of railroad
tracks it will be days before some of
the isolated places can be reached.
The provinces of Galicia, Seamora,
valladolid, Burgos, Toledo and San
lander were the worst sufferers, the
property loss there running into the
millions.
The banks of the Guadalquiyir river
are strewn with corpses. One of the
most serious features of the loss is
the destruction of live stock on hun
dreds of farms, necessitating the Inn
portation of herds OF cattle and sheep
to replace those that were drowned.
Dispatches from Portugal say the
damage there is almost as great as
in Spain. King Manuel has visited
the desolated districts.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
WARPED BY FALSE REPORTS
Zeiaya Expresses His Opinion o
knox's Judgment.

Salina Cruz, Mex, Dec. 2S.-Declar.
ing that the attitude of Secretary
Knox toward him could not fail to be
disapproved by all fair minded PEG.
pie, and that he believed the secre-
tary's judgment was warped by false
reports of conditions in Nicaragua,
made by the American vice consul at
Managua, to whom he attributed much
of his woe, former President Jose San
tos Zelaya endeavored, in an interview
to justify his treatment of the Ameri-
cans, Cannon and Groce, as an act
which any one in his position would
have committed
Zelaya debarked from the Mexican
gunboat General Guerrero and left
soon afterward for Mexico City in a
private car attached to the regular
passenger train.
81 am going to Mexico City to re-
main for six months" he said eff the
climate agrees with me, will send or
go for my family. If it does not agree
with me I will go to some place in
Europe. l am going to Mexico City to
thank President Diaz and the Mexican
officials for their kindness to me-"
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
The Cocoa Bean.

The cocoa is a native of Venezuela
It is a pod bean the size of the first
joint of the finger. six or eight Of
these beans to the pod. The wet beans
are shelled from the pods and then
fermented in heaps for six days until
cured. During this ferment heat is de-
veloped that will cook an egg. so they
say. The cocoa bush begins bearing at
Eve years, grows into tree thirty
feet high. and, like the olive. the older
the tree the better. The beans hang
from the trunk and the under side Of
the limbs. sticking out on stems.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
THOUSANDS CLEAN STREETS
Immense Force of Men at Work in
New York City.

NV" VI ~ wy
New York, Dec 27.-With 10000
men aiding the regular force of $500
white wings" in cleaning up the
streets and sidewalks New York is
rapidly recovering from the blizzard
and snow storm.
Commissioner "BilP' Edwards, who
is in charge of the street cleaning de-
partment, declared he could not get
within 10000 of the number of men he
needed to make the hurry up job of
cleaning up.
He estimated that it will cost the
city 100000 to clean up.
AS a result of the blizzard it is an
nounced by the police that fourteen
lives were lost in New York alone,
while great suffering was entai1ed, oc-
casioned by the tying up of traffic and
the impossibility of carrying food and
clothing to the needy poor
No trains are arriving in New York
on time except the short haul COM
muter ones.
Trains from the east, west and
south are from one to five hours late.
Ocean liners and freight steamers
which are putting into port are COW
cred with ice.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
TRIES TO CREMATE CHILDREN
Neighbors Prevent Murderous Deed of
Insane Mother.

Cincinnati, Dec. 2S.-Mrs. Mary
Lipp, aged thirty-eight, attempted to
cremate four of her eight children.
The lives of the tots were saved by
neighbors. Mrs. Lipp suddenly be-
came crazed. She set fire to an out
house and hurled into the blaze a dog
and many chickens. Next she seized
two children and attempted to club
them into the fire. She felled the first
rescuer with chair, but was over
powered
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
EIGHT KILLED IN EXPLOSION
Lives Of Hundreds 81 Other Miners
InnArifed

Lives Of Hundreds Of Other Miners
ImperIfed.
ST. Louis, Dee. 24Eight men were
killed and the lives of 400 others were
imperiled by an explosion Of gas in
mine "A" of the Chicago and Carter
vile Coal company at Herrin. Ill.
Open lamps carried by the mines
engine or and his assistants caused the
disaster.
Prompt action resulted in the safe
exit of the hundreds of men. Within
five minutes of the first report of the
explosion the miners in the vicinity of
the accident were started toward the
surface and on the return trips of the
cages rescuers were lowered to entries
No. and No. 8, where the catastro-
phe took place.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
Many Lives Lost and Property
Damage Immense.
CHELSEA, MASS, IS FLOODED
Tidal Wave Sweeps Town, Rem.
dering Many Homeless.

Boston, Dec 27.-News dribbling in
to Boston makes it certain that at
least dozen lives are lost and a mil
lion in property damage occasioned
by the huge fall of snow and the ter.
rife winds which prevailed in the New
England towns
In Chelsea, where a tidal wave
swept the town, making 1000 home
less, Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Harkins
were drowned in their beds and Mich
ael Callahan, an aged man, died OF
shock while being taken from the sec
ond story of his flooded home Half a
dozen people are still missing and it
is feared some of them have persisted
Never in the history of Massachu.
sets has more severe storm swept
the coast. The gale in most places
was only about forty-four miles an
hour, but along Cape Cod it ragged at
an eighty-four-mile speed and huge
waves were swept before it, carrying
death to any vessel out of shelter
What the total loss along the coast
will be no one at present can estimate
From Portland, Me-, down the whole
coast to Rhode Island, each and every
village and town has its tale of ruin
Hundreds of people have lost their
homes and the damage is so wide.
spread that any attempt to particular.
ize would be in vain. Nowhere, how.
ever, was there such great damage as
in Chelsea and in the other towns
along the shores of Massachusetts bay.
The total damage in Chelsea will
reach more than $25O,00O.
In Boston proper there was less suf.
fering, but the damage will be heavy
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
ELECTRIC LINE TO BE PUSHED
VIII Connect the Twin Cities With
Head of Lakes.

what is taken to mean the early
completion of the proposed electric
line between the Twin Cities and Du-
iutn and Superior was shown in the
ming OF a trust deed with the state
by the Twin City and Lake Superior.
Railway company.
The deed is mortgage for $4,000.
UOO and is executed by the company
TO the American Trust and Savings
bank of Chicago. OF this amount
$4,000 in bonds is to be issued at
once.
Inc total length of the proposed line
10 $50 miles and, according to officers.
or the company, over half of this
amount is now graded 1t starts at
the belt line in the Midway district
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
DENTAL COLLEGE IS BURNED
State University Suffers Heavy Loss
by Fire.

Willard hall, the home of the col.
lege Of dentistry and part of the
college of medicine at the University
OF Minnesota at Minneapolis, was al.
most totally destroyed by fire. The
total loss to the state and the students
will reach about $4,000, rs per cent
being approximately the amount of in.
surance.
Two hundred dental students will be
deprived of their class for the time
being, seventy-five freshmen and 125
juniors and seniors. The dental col.
lege has been the most crowded OF
any of the departments, about sixty.
five students being refused entrance
owing to lack of space.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
SWitchmen Reject Offer Of Rail-
road Companies.
LATTER PRESENT ULT|MATUM
Refuse to Reinstate All Old EN-
pIoyes at Once.

St. Paul, Dec 27.-All hope OF
bringing the railroads and striking
switcAnen together was abandoned
when the railway department council
of the American Federation of Labor
refused to accept a proposition made
by the railroads of the Twin Cities
after a conference with Governor
Eberhart in the governors Office at
the capitol.
The fight Of the railroads is said to
be against Frank T. Hawley, president
of the Switchmen's union; that with
Mr. Hawley eliminated the strike
would have been settled before this.
The railroad officials representing
the thirteen lines running into the
Twin Cities first went into conference
with Governor Eberhart. They pre-
pared a statement which was their
ultimatum. The members of the fed
Grafton council were then ushered into
the governors Office and the state
ment was read to them and, through
its counsel, the federation refused to
accept the terms of the railroads.
Every possible argument was
brought to modify the disagreement
but nothing that was said had the
slichtest effect on the railroad posi-
ton and the federationists, who COM
planned bitterly that they had con-
ceded everything and that the rail-
roads had conceded nothing, refused
to consider the terms further.
Position of the Strikers.
After the railroad officials left H.
was stated by one of the federation
conferees that nothing would be &C
cepted from the railroad side of the
argument that did not include an i'm
mediate or reasonably soon reinstate-
ment of the men in their old positions,
the question of wage scale and hours
to be settled on the Chicago basis"
The railroad officials, in their ulti-
matum, declare that they believe they
have met the governors recommends
ton in full by agreeing to abide by
the terms Of the Chicago conference
settlement, together with the rein
statement of striking switchmen as
there may be places vacated for them.
The officials refused, however, to
reinstate any strikers at the expense
OF others who have done the work
since the strike was declared on Nov.
80.
E The railroads also refuse to reduce
in rank those employees who have
been promoted to fill places vacated
by strikers.
The railroad officials say that many
of the old err ployes can be given their
old positions, but they refuse to offer
any guarantee or to state any time
within which all or any number of the
strikers may be returned to work
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
WOUNDED BY HER COUSIN
Little Girl Probably Fatally Hurt at
Lake City.

Ruth Mitchell, f1ve-year-old girl OF
Lake City, was shot accidentally by her
cousin, Ralph Smith, and her injuries
are likely to prove fatal An older
brother had been out rabbit hunting
during the day and, coming home at
noon, he placed the gun against the
wall while he got ready for dinner
Ralph, eleven years old, saw the gun
and, in playful mood, seized it and
aimed it at his little cousin Ruth
across the room. The gun was dis.
charged, terribly mutilating the child's
jaw and tongue and severing the jugu-
lar vein. Physicians were summoned,
covery.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
ITALIAN LABORER KILLED
Attempted to Slide Down Cable From
Hiqh BUILDING.

Tony Viloa, an Italian laborer en-
ployed on the fifteenth story of the
Alworth building at Duluth, fell four
teen stories to his death as he was
quitting work +.
With spirit of bravado he ignored
the usual method of descending the
ladders and grasped the steel cable
which is used for hosting material to
the top of the building to slide down
it The cable is kept oiled all the
time to prevent it wearing rapidly and
the moment Viloa gave his weight to
1t he went down like a shot. He
could not check his descent percepu-
IDLY and arrived at the ground with
q crash that killed him instantly.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
Hymns at $500 : Yard.

A musical composer once said to Mr..
Sankey with more frankness than
courtesy that he could write such
tunes as those of the Gospel Hymn
BOOK by the yard If he were willing
to come down to it. Mr.. Sankey quiet,
~ replied. We'll. sir. all have to say
Is that ] am willing to pay $500 yard
either to you or to anybody else for
all the tunes you can bring me lika
those In our Gospel Hymn Book.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
AFTER WARNING WIFE TO RUN
Minnesota Man Blows Himself Up
With DYNAMITE.

Oscar Erstinea started with his wife
to attend holiday doings at the Fin.
nish Temperance hall at Virginia. He
stopped on the way to blow himself up
with dynamite cap.
He had the grace to warn his wife
and she escaped by running from him.
Erstinea was instantly killed.
He deliberately lit match and ig.
nited the fuse, holding the deadly
charge in his hand until it exploded
He was thirty-five years old and, in
addition to his widow. there are four
children.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
Blacksmith Ends His Life.

William Hosking of Eveleth COM
mitted suicide by hanging in the fuel
shed near his dwelling. He leaves a
widow but no children. Hosking was
a blacksmith in the employ of the
Adams mine. His shop was burned
recently and he had not been work
ing since.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
MISS JEAN CLEMENS DEAD
Daughter Of Mark Twain Expires Sud.
denly in Bathtub.

Redding, Conn.,, Dec. 24.-Miss Jean
Clemens, daughter of Samuel L. Glenn
ems mark Twain) was found drowned
in bathtub in Mr.. Clemens home
here.
It is believed that Miss Clemens
suffered from an attack of epilepsy
while in the bath and was drowned
while in CONFUSION. She had suf-
fered from epilepsy for number of
years.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
Homer Davenport Is eIII.

San Francisco, Dec. 29--Homer C.
Davenport, the cartoonist. is seriously
iii at the home of friend In this city
He is suffering from complete nerv.
GUS collapse and his physic ars regard
his condition as serious.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
strikebreaker Killed at Staples.

Charles Messick, a strikebreaker,
whose home is in Wilmington, Del,
lost both his legs while at work in the
Staples yards. He died soon after the
accident. No one saw the accident
and just how the man met his death
will never be known.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
NO HOPE FOR HIS RECOVERY
Death of Cardinal SatoIli Expected
Within Few Hours.

Rome, Dec. 27.-The condition OF
Cardinal Satolli shows a slight i'm
provement, but the doctors say there
is no hope of his recovery and that
death is likely to ensue within the
next forty-eight hours. The cardinal
has few conscious moments.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
CHINESE REGENT is STABBED
Father of Boy Emperor MurderousIy
Attacked.

Peking, Dec. pa Manchurian, for
merly a cook in the imperial palace,
made murderous attack upon Prince
Chun, the regent and father of the
boy emperor Chun was stabbed as
he was approaching the palace, but
only slightly wounded. His assailant
wac arroStn6
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
Frederic Remington Dead.

Ridgefeld, Conn, Dec. 27.--Fred.
eric Remington the artist, died at
his home here from heart failure and
shock superinduced by an operation
for appendicitis. He was forty-eight
years Of age.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
ICE GORGE LOSSES FERRY
Sixty Passengers Spend Night of Hor.
ror on Ohio River.

Bridgeport, O., Dec. 2S.-Sixty pas.
sengers, thirty-five of them women,
spent night of terror aboard the fer
ryboat Charon, from Bellaire, O.. on
the way to Benwood. w. Va.
The boat caught in an ice gorge in
the Ohio river at p. M, and fioun-
dered around until 5 q. m. Uninjured,
however, all the passengers were land.
ed by small boats at daylight.
Morris tribune., 1909-12-31
Storm at National Capital.

Washington, Dec. 27.-Not since last
Inauguration day has the national cap
ital been the victim of so severe a
climatic disturbance as ragged here
during the past forty-eight hours. The
city was practically cut off from COM
munication with the North. The biz.
zard put both the telegraph and tele-
phone wires out of business.