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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
Isthmanian Canal Apprepriation.

Washington.-A quarter of billion
dollars will have been appropriated
by congress for the purchase and con
struction of the isthmian canal if the
estimates for the expenditures in ca
nal material for the fiscal year, be-
ginning July /, 1910, are agreed to by
congress next winter.
These estimates, amounting to
about $65,OOO,OOO, have just been re-
ceived in Washington from the canal
zone, and are being reviewed by Sec
retary of War Dickinson
Already there has been appropriat-
ed for the purchase of canal rights
from France and Panama and for con-
struction, total of $210,060,000. Sec
retary Dickinson finds it very difficult
to reduce the estimates, and congress
itself has learned that a reduction of
the estimates merely invites a def
cheney appropriation later. The esti.
mates for the canal are sent to con-
gress independent of the appropria-
tfon for the military establishment
proper.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
New Ereinht Rates.

Montgomery, Ala.-The freight
rates of the Alabama legislature, the
first adopted and enforced by law, will
be installed on all the lines of the
state vita The two and one-han cent
passenger fares. The installation is
for the purpose of testing the charges
to see if they are confscatory, as
charged by the railroads. After the
supreme court of the United States
refused to interfere with the ruling
of the circuit court of appeals, the rail
roads secured a stay of the mandate
until the first of June to give time
to get the new tariff sheets made up.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
Four-cornered Duel Has Fatal Ending.

Charlotte, n. C.-Arthur and Andy
Franklin were shot to death in Lau-
rel township, a remote section Of Mad
ison county, in a four-cornered duel,
in which the Franklins were arrayed
against the Tweed brothers.
Robert Tweed and Arthur Franklin
met at the store of Arthur Franklin,
and, resuming a quarrel several days
old, both opened fire. Andy Frank
lin endeavored to stop the fight, but
Major Tweed interfered, and, both
drawing pistols, the fight became gen.
eral Andy Franklin was instantly
killed; Arthur Franklin died of his
wounds, and Major Tweed received a
serious wound in the thigh. Beverly
Stanton, bystander, was shot in the
thigh.
No arrests have been made. The
persons concerned were among the
best citizens of the county.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04

Petersburg, Va.-After the most
bitter and hardest fought local option
contest in the history of this Old city,
Petersburg voted wet by a MAORI
ty of SIS, in a total vote of 1892
The result was a decided defeat for
the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia,
which made a most aggressive fight,
even going to the extent of importing
speakers for the temperance cause.
The Business Mems Association
lined up strongly with the ''wets."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
Widow of b. 3. Plant Dead

New York.-Mrs Margaret J. Plant
Graves, widow of Henry B. Plant,
founder OF the system of railroads,
steamships and hotels in the south,
died here from interio-soIerosis. She
lad been i'll for more than a year.
Mr. Plant died in 1899, and Mrs.
Plant married Robert Graves in 1904.
There was a contest over the Plant
VIII, which the widow finally won, aRd
by her death she leaves a fortune
estimated at $SO0O,OOO.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
Can Ship Liquor Into Dry Counties.

Can Ship Liquor Into Dry Counties.
Washington.-The supreme court OF
the United States decided the
case of the Adams Express Company
VS.. The Commonwealth of Kentucky
involving the right of the express
company to ship liquor into a local
option county, contrary to the law of
the state, in favor of the company.
The case involved the shipment Of
whisky from Indiana and Tennessee to
Bonneville, in Hart county, for which
the company was fined $50 for each
offense by the circuit count of Hart
county. The opinion of the supreme
court was handed down by Justice
Brewer, and reversed the verdict Of
the Hart county court, on the ground
that the transaction was interstate
commerce, and, therefore, not subject
to interference by the Kentucky au-
thorities.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04

Birmingham, Ala.-Robert Sharp
white, pleaded guilty to counterfeit
ing before Judge Grubb in the federal
court today, and was fined l cent and
sentenced to two years in the peni
tentiary. Judge Grubb is inclined to
be lenient in his sentencing.
Woodbury., Ga.-Woodbury was Wis
tied with the severest rain and hail
storm in its history. Hail fell as
large as eggs, breaking glass from
houses and damaging the peach CROP
tremendously.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04

Montgomery, Ala-Major C. R.
Howard went to Andalusia to plead
the cause of his son, J. Finley How
ard, who is Ill at the family home at
Shorters. The words of the old gen.
tleman were so effective that the trial
was passed over to fall. Young How.
ard killed a man at Andalusia, for
which he is under sentence of fifty
years. The supreme court recently
gave him a new trial. There is much
sympathy for him in all parts of the
state.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
Rumored Reorganization.

Baltimore.-A plan for the reorgan-
ization of the Seaboard Air Line rail-
way has, according to a story printed
in The Baltimore News, but denied by
a member of the committee, been
practically agreed upon, and will be
promulgated by the company about
June IL The article says some minor
details remain to be worked out
though the general terms have been
approved by the reorganization com
mittee.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
Georuia Bar Association

Macon, Ga.-The Georgia Bar Asso-
citation meets for its twenty-sixth
annual convention at Warm Springs
on Thursday, June 8, 1909 The pro-
gram for the meeting, which has al
ready been very generally published,
has a number of strong features. Hon
Hannis Taylor, OF Washington, D. c.,
delivers the annual address.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
More convicts for Cherokee Road.

More ConVicts for Cherokee Road.
Canton, Ga.-Cherokee's short ex-
perience in the working of convicts
on the public roads is so satisfactory
that Ordinary Webb went to Atlanta,
Saturday, to file an application with
the prison commission for fifteen more
negroes. Since April 1st the county
has had So convicts employed upon
the roads.
The work is giving such general
satisfaction that the ordinary and
county commissioners have decided to
increase the force, and Judge Webb
was accordingly instructed to apply
for Is other negro convicts.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
Tobacco Plants Ruined.

Cynthiana, Ky-News has reached
here that the tobacco pla1t-beds of
Denny Washburn, of the Claysville
neighborhood, were ruined by night
riders. WashbHrn has been a strong
Independent grower, but had express.
ed his willingness to join the pool.
About a year ago he was whipped
by night riders for delivering his crop
to the American Tobacco Company
here.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
To Defend Coast Points

Washington.-For the purpose OF
providing a defense for Atlantic and
gulf coast points, Representative
Weeks, of Massachusetts, has intro
duced a bill authorizing the construc-
ton of eight submarine boats at a
cost Of not to exceed $4,000,0O0, of
which the measure appropriates ST..
O0O, 1000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
To Examine Rivers for Lock Systems.

Savannah, Ga.-Colonel Dan c. King
man, of the United States engineers
Office in Savannah, went to Macon,
where the United States snag boat
"Oconee" is awaiting him. Ir com.
pany with Captain w. P. Stokey, his
military assistant, and Assistant En-
gineer E. R. Conant, Colonel Kingman
will make a preliminary examination
of the Ocmulgee and Altamaha rivers
from Macon to Darien.
He will also study the Ocmulgee
river from Macon to Hawkinsville
with a view of recommend Ions to
the war department concerning a sys-
tenn of locks and dams as provided in
the last rivers and harbers act. His
report will be submitted to a board OF
engineers of the war department,
which in turn may order preliminary
survey upon, which can be based the
approximate cost of the proposed i'm
provements.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
Zeppelin Breaks Records.

Berlin n-Count Zeppelin, whose re-
narkab1s performance in his first air.
ship brought unbounded honors to the
inver Tor, has accomplished the most
striking texture in his career. He
guided his Zeppelin II from Fried
iichskafengfD Bitterfia& a distance a
more than 456 miles. w&.heut landinA
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
"unwritten Law" Scores Victory.

"UnWritten Law" Scores Victory.
Hattiesburg, Miss.-Unwritten law
scored a victory here in the case of
G. L. Crosby, charged with the muir
der of j. R. McShan. The jury
brought in a verdict of not guilty.
Crosby found McShan in the woods
with his wife, and is alleged to have
killed him with a shotgun. Crosby
was cheered as he left the court
house
Following the killing Crosby sur
rendered. His wife then gave herself
up, and declared that it was she and
not her husband who had fired the
shot. She is held In bail of $1,000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
FATAL WRECK ON M. G. o.
Train Runs Into Washout and Three
KfIIaN

Train Runs Into Washout and Three
Persons Killed.
Mobile, Ala.-An extra freight
engine and caBoose on the Mobile and
Ohio railroad ran into a washout
about mile north of the city on the
line of the Mobile, Jackson and Kan
sas City railroad, over which line all
Mobile and Ohio trains are now run
ming, owing to the high water.
The engine and caboose turned over,
and Engineer ]. H. Albright and the
colored fireman, both of, Meridian, and
Conductor w. F. Carter, a Mobile,
Jackson and Kansas City read man,
Of Mobile, were buried under the
engine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-06-04
TORNADO KILLS 81
Texas and Oklahoma Swept by
Destructive Storms.
MANY PERSONS WERE INJURED
Storm Struck Town of Zephyr, Cut
ting Wide Swath, and Leaving
Death and Destruction In Its Wake.
Oklahoma Towns Suffer.

Brownwood, Tex.-A tornado of
great fury struck the little village of
Zephyr, in the eastern portion of
Brown county, and left a path of
death and destruction seldom paral-
leled. The death list has reached a
total of 32 and the number of seri-
ously and fatally injured will reach
so.
The storm formed half a mile south
west of Zephyr, and swept down upon
the village, cutting a wide swath di-
rectly through the residence and bust
ness districts.
Nearly fifty houses were entirely
demolished. Lightning struck a lum-
ber yard and started d cOnfiagration
which destroyed one entire business
block No effort was made to fight
the fire, as the care of the dead and
wounded victims demanded all atten-
ton.
Hundreds Of persons directly in the
storms path saved themselves by tax
ing refuge in Storm cellars.
Oklahoma City, Okla-Fifteen and
perhaps more persons were killed in
a tornado that devastated the Okla
homa towns of Key West and Depew.
Forty or more injured.
AT least ten were killed in Key
FTest. That figure is confirmed by a
number of people who fled just before
the storm. Five are dead at Depew.
The tornado covered a wide area of
farming country. Wires are down and
many rumors of death and destrurtion
at isolated points could not be con-
firmed
Following the wind came a deluge
Of rain. Floods then added their ter
rors to the situation. The wreckage
OF Key West was soon swept away by
the rising waters. Practically moth
ing was left of the town of 200 in
habitants.
Depew was destroyed by a double
twister that was formed from that
striking Key West, travelling in a
rortheasterly direction, and another
coming from the east The tornado
wiped out Depew, then pushed north
east.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15
BOMB THROWERS
AFTER LORD MINTO
Two Bombs Were Thrown at His
Carriage but he Escaped by
Reason Of Officers Prompt
ness.
MANS HAND SEVERED
Innocent Bystander Was the Only one
Hurt When the Attempt at
Assassination Was
Made.

ATIMEDABAD, British Indian, Nov.
15.-Lord Mimic, the viceroy of India,
and Lady Minto, had narrow escape
from being killed by bombs. They
were driving through one of the
streets when. without warning, two
bombs were thrown at the carriage. A
dragoon who was riding alongside,
spurred forward and, with outstretch-
ed saber, intercepted the first bomb,
hurting it some little distance into
a sand heap The second bomb struck
the viceroy's jemidar, a native lieu
tenant holding an umbrella over
Lady Mimic. and fell harmlessly to
the ground.
Neither bomb exploded as the soft
sand acted as buffer. On examina-
tion they were found to contain pitric
acid Just prior to this as the car
rage passed through one of the
streets bomb exploded some little
distance away. Police and others
attracted by the explosion, ran W
and found a man on the ground with
his hand blown off. He proved 10 be
an innocent bystander. The bomt
throwers made their escape in the ex
citement, and as yet no arrests have
been made.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15
GrandeFild OF Henry Ward Bcechor
Declares That She was Taught
to Look up 10 Mrs. stets.
son as Her Leader.
N. Y. CHURCH CONTROL
Mrs. Eddy expected to Send Per-
sonal Representative to Attend
the Monday Meeting Of
the Church.

NEW YORK. Nov 15.-In signed
statement, given out by the New
York representative of the Chris
tian Science. mother church.
Margaret Beecher White, grand
daughter of Henry Ward Beecher,
and for years pupil of Mrs. Augusta
e. Stetson, declared I'VE were
taught that the directors of the moth
er church in Boston We're the enemies
of Mrs. Stetson, therefore our en-
emies. We were taught that Mrs.
Stetson was Christ, Truth, and that
we we're her disciples
Last June, before our communion
we were invited to what was called
the Paschal meal in Mrs. Stetson's
house. We stood in a circle while
she passed fish, bread and lemonade,
colored with raspberry shrub
Mrs. Whites statement was one OF
several solicited by the adherents of
Mary Baker Eddy In the factional
fight for the control OF the entire
membership of the first church OF
Christ Scientist In New York City.
The anti-Stetsonites declare the real
motive for Mondays meeting is the
removal of Virgil o. Strickler, first
reader and friend OF Mrs. Eddy.
Mrs. Stetson's only reply came to-
night In the shape of typewriter
letter of several thousand words
which she said contained "a clear
statement of my teaching on certain
i powers now much controverted." 1t
3 repeated her oft expressed allegiance
. to Mrs. Eddy and acknowledged the
supremacy Of Mrs. Eddy's reports.
Mrs. Stetson's letter since 1t was
composed three years ago completely
Ignores the recent charges Of mes
| merism, malpractice, personal control
and insurbordination of authority
4 Christian Scientists generally pre-
dict that Mrs. Eddy will send per-
sonal representative to Mondays
meeting The likelihood CT a scandal
J. in reference to the finances Of the
local church adds another element OF
uncertainty to the meeting.
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sixty-one Were Saved and About one
Hundred Lost Their Lives
in The Rriny
Deep.
SHARKS WERE PRESENT
Shoals Of Sharks Were About the
Wreck and Attacked the Vic
Tins While In the
Water.

SINGAPORE, Nov. 15.-The mail
steamer La Seye, of the Messageries
maritime service, running between
Java and Singapore, and on her way
to this port collided early Sunday
morning with tle Onda of the British
India line and sank within two min
utes. Seven European passengers, in
Guiding Baron and Baroness Beniczky.
the captain Of La Seye, five European
officials, and lightweight others, COM
prising patiyes and passengers and
members of the crew, ere drowned.
The rescue of sixty-one persons, prac-
tically from the jaws of shoals OF
sharks, formed thrilling incident
of the wreck.
The accident occurred about 4
o'clock in the morning in a thick haze
The vessels were steaming at good
speed and the La Seye was cut almost
in half.
There was no time for panic, nor fol
any attempt on the part of the officers
of the foundering steamer to get out
| the boats. The majority OF those
on board were caught in their berths
and carried down with the vessel.
The force o. the collision brought
| the Orda to almost dead stop, ane
her engines were at once slowed ant
4 boats lowered. The rescue wor,
proved thrilling. for not only were thu
rescuing parties impeded by the dark
ness, but shoals Of sharks We're al
ready attacking those clinging t
i pieces of wreckage in the water.
Sixty-one persons from the ill-fatet
steamer were finally dragged into thu
boats and brought by the Onda to Thu
port . Many of them had been bit
ten by SHARKS and several are severe
" injured.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15
Weather Conditions.

Another disturbance has developed
in Western Texas, and its eastward
movement is expected to cause unset.
tied weather, with rain or snow In
this section tonight and Tuesday.
The southwestern disturbance has
passed rapidly to the Lower Lake Re-
gion, attended by snow on the north
ern and rain on the southern portion
of it's path. and rising temperature on
its front over the Eastern States.
The northwestern field of high pres.
sure, with its attendant low temperas
ture. extends from the Northern Pla-
teau Region to the Upper Mississippi
Valley, and the minimum temperature
in the West ranges from 16 below
zero in Montana to &c above at Dodge
City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15
Organized Labor Claims to be Doing
More for the Promotion Of Tem.
perance Than Any
Others.
MINE WORKERS ACTIVE
One Union Prohibits the Selling of
lntoxicants at the Pcnics
Given by the orsaniza-
tion.

TORONTO, Ont, Nov. 15.-The
question of labor and the saloon was
discussed Sunday Afternoon by promin-
ent labor leaders at big mass meet
ing in Massey Hall. Rev. Charles
Stelzle, a fraternal delegate to the
convention of the American Federation
Of Labor from the Federal Council of
the churches of Christ In America,
presided and made the principal ad-
dress. The other speakers included
Vice President John Mitchell and
Treasurer John B. Lennon of the
American Federation Of Labor and
President Thomas l.. Lewis OF the
United Mine Workers of America.
| Mr.. Mitchell declared that organized
labor in its fight for better conditions
for the wage-earner is doing more to
promote temperance than any other
organization. He refuted the CON
tention that shorter hours OF labor
and increased wages result in added
profits to the saloon.
Mr.. Lennon said the liquor business
| lowers the standard Of efficiency oi
/ the working man and prophesied that
the time would come when the forces
of labor would be arrayed against the
saloon.
The United Mine Workers, Mr.
Lewis said, have prohibited their mem
bers from selling intoxicants ever
at picnics. Education of the masses
,lthe argued, would go a long way to
ward eradicating the liquor traffic
I Mr. Stelzle. in his Introductory ad
a dress, declared that the saloon ant
the labor hall must be divorced.
IN too many cities of tae country,
he said, trades unionists are com
g PEELED to pass through the saloon II
order to get to their meeting places
and woe betide the man who doesn'
stop to take Q drink. Many OF th'
worlingmen of America are helpless
1y in the power of those hall owners
1T is tae duty of the municipalit,
to provide centers which may be use,
for the gathering places of the peopl
in their organizations. In many in
stances workingmen themselves hav
8 taken the matter in hand and in som
of the leading cities they have erect
ed labor temples, which they used 70
social, physical, intellectual and mora
Iuplift of the people.
ITO the task of labor temple build
ing organized labor may well direct II
self. The work should be entered III
on with programme which include
1.-THE entire American Continent. Sue
movement would give organized la
Dor dignity not yet achieved in ou
American life.''
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15
STEINHEIL CASE
STILL INTERESTING
Sweeping Changes are Expected to
be Made in Process of
Future Trials.

PARIS, Nov. 15.-With Madame
Steinheil and her daughter safely in
hiding today in a country villa near
Paris, sweeping charges are expected
against French judicial methods in the
attempt to find the woman guilty. 1t
is believed that wholesale changes
will be made in the present system
employed by the courts and detec-
tive bureaus. The demonstration
which greeted the acquittal, is be-
lieved to have been prompted not SO
much by sympathy for the woman. OF
belief in her innocence, but as a
demonstration against court methods
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15
KILLED INSTANTLY
UNDER THE WHEELS
centerviIIe Tragedy Witnessed by
Victims Brother and Several
Railroad Men.

CENTERvILLE, Iowa. Nov. 15.-
While Tipping switch engine in the
Iowa Central yards, Archie Brown, a
ten-year-old colored boy, had his head
split open and his leg crushed under
the engine and died almost instantly,
within sight of his home and his
brother, who was one of the party Of
boys with him. The tragedy was wit
messed by many railroad men and pas
sengers from the depot platform.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and Vicinity. Rain or
snow tonight and Tuesday
For Illinois,. Unsettled weather
with rain south portion tonight and
rain Or snow north portion Tuesday.
For Iowa: Increasing cloudiness
with snow or rain late tonisht and
Tuesday Warmer northwest portion
tonight.
For Missouri: Rain or snow to-
night and Tuesday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15

stands the name of Ralph Eddy, and
1S-year-old youth, employed as a fire.
man at the top of the mine. When it
was found that the mine was on fire
young Eddy and several other brave
fellows volunteered to do down the
smoke-flled main shaft and rescue the
men who were blindly CROPPING theil
way toward the elevator cage from
the far reaches of the mine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15
pidn,t Want to Miss SIGHT.

Little Ethel Mother, come quick!
Nurse told me that Nora had spit
curls, and maybe she'll do it again.
| Success Magazine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15
Reach Gaze In Safety.

when within 100 feet of the mine
mouth ] began to grow faint from the
effects of the smoke and exhaustion.
The smoke was growing more dense
every foot progressed. and my cour-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15
crawls to Safety.

William Vickers, who was at work
at the face of the coal mine, was one
of the few who came out alive. For
over 200 yards he crawled in The dark
on hands and knees, using the rail an
a guide to the bottom of the shaft.
At one point he says he met abou.
sixty-f1ve miners sitting up in row
along the road, who had given up the
struggle and were waiting resignedly
for death.
II and my buddy (partner) were at
work on the second vein level whe,
the alarm of fire was sounded saia
Vickers.
1--WE started for the bottom. but had
gone but few feet when our lights
went out The entry was fast filling
with smoke which filed our eyes and
made us gasp for breath.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15
Many Heroes.

Heroes-real heroes-were among
the hundreds of miners who fought for
life in the fame and smoke at the
bottom Of the st. Paul Coal company's
mine. Some of those heroes died in
the service OF their fellows; Others,
equally brave, lived to tell the mar
rowing tales OF their awful experience.
AT the head OF the roll of honor