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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
FARMERS union PROGRAM
A Thousand Delegates Elk
pected at Convention.
NEGRO ASSAULTED aged WATCHMAN
Number of Educable Children In Mis-
sissippi Is 7ff,749, According
TO State Educational De
partment.

President G. X. Hightower, of the
Mississippi Branch Of the Farmer s
Educational and Cooperative Union,
With the advice of the Executive
Committee, has completed and given
out the programme for the state con-
yention, to be neld here Jan. IL, II,
and IL. 1909. The Convention is to
be held in Representatives Hall, in
che state capital, and the outline OF
ahe features marked out is as fol-
lows:
First Day-Morning session !:
Prayer by the Chaplain; opening ad-
dress by Hon. j. N. Powers, state
superintendent of education. to be
public; organization, committees APP
pointed. After session: Executive;
reports by heads of departments;
discussion of reports. Night session:
Public address by Hon. Oscar New
ton, of BrookLavcn, President Mis-
sissippi Bankers Associat on; ad-
dress by Rev. A. n. Wilson, o. Bates
Vile.
Second Day-Morning session:
Executive; reports of committees !;
discussion of reports; election of of
&cers. Night se-si~n: Warehouse
meeting; address by w. X. Norris,
of Alabama; address by j. T.
Brooks, of Tennessee; address by v.
Otis Robertson, of Jackson; bust
ness of warehouses.
Third Day-Morning session; Elk
ecutive; final session of the state
Wnion.
LII is estimated that if there is one
member of the Farmers Union on
hand at the opening as a delegate
there will be upwards of thousand
and the convention is expected to be
very interesting and to be followed
mp by fruitful results.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
DISASTROUS BLAZE.
Fire Destroys Several Buildings
Loss, $4,000.

Fire crackers are supposed to
have been the origin of one of the
most destructive fires this town has
ever known, which broke out in the
drugstore of c. =. Hays, and did dam
age amounting to $4,000. The
blaze was first discovered in the
drug store Of Hays, and, travelling
north. burned DR.. Pierce's Office, w.
B. Wooten's genera merchandise
store, Ogletree's barbershop, DR.,
Britt's office, Dock Dupree Grocery,
the Bank of Como and the general
store OF Mrs. Fulger. Schawrtz Bros,
stock was damaged by water, the in
surance on the building being $4,000
and the insurance on the building is
$500. Mrs. Fulger's loss was great,
but she carried $3.50 insurance.
he Bank building was insured for
$1,000. The less on fixtures was
$4,000.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
New Jail Almost Completed.

Work on the new $4,000 county
jail now in course of construction
at Hattiesburg, has been suspended
until after the holidays The big
building is almost completed and
the contractors would probably have
had to wait anyway on the arrival
OF the eighteen steH cages, which
must be placed before the finishing
touches can be made on the interior.
The most gratifying thing in con-
struction of the building is that it
will cost 100000 less than the es-
innate of the architect and that a
snug sum will be returned to the
county from the bond issue floated
for the purpose
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
ALLEGED KU-KLUX BAND.
Twenty Tennesseeans Held on TIL
Charge of Withdrawing.

Nashville, Tenn.-On an inaict-
ment from the court of Humphreys
county, six men were brought to this
city and placed in jail, charged with
whitecaping and ku-kluxing. The
order for the men to be placed in Jail
was signed by the clerk of the Hum
phreys county circuit court. Besides
these six. fourteen more men were
arrested, charged in Humphreys
county with. whitecaping and ku-
kluxing.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
NEWSPAPER MAN DEAD.

First To Receive Presidents Mes
sage by Telegraph.
Kansas City, Mo.-Charles West
Spanding, pioneer newspaper man
Of Kansas, died at the home of his
son. in kansas City, kas., aged sew
-nirc. Mr.. Spanding was man
of4lnfany attachments. lie is said
to#have been the first man to re-
eeive a presidents message by tele-
graph, having been employed at the
time as an operator in Chicago.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
Suicided at Ropes End.

Wrecked in spirit and without
funds in a strange city A. p Tan
ner, fuel agent of the New Orleans
and Northeastern railroad. who lives
at Meridian, iss., committed suicide
in New Orleans by hanging himself
In his room At the Commercial Ho-
tel. A letter found on table in
the room indicated that the unfortn-
nate fellow conte mplated ending his
life, but gave no reason.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07

Flying Bullets Kill One Negro and
Wound Two.

Fort Smith, Ark.-One negro was
ed during fight in negro coach of
ST. Louis Iron Mountain and South
ern railway excursion train between
this city and Cherokee Junction, Ok
lahoma Four other negroes who
plunged through the car windows to
escape the bullets cannot be account
ed for.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
POSTAGE STAMP MACHINES.
Postoffice Department. To Make d
Popular Feature of this Service.


Washington.-If one can drop a
coin in a vending machine and OBJ
tain piece of chewing gum or a
handful of peanuts, why not a post
age stamp? That is just what the
Postoffice Department wants to
make popular feature of its ser
vice, and in an order issued an
nouncement is made that the de-
partment is prepared to issue linn
tied quantities Of postage stamps in
rolls of from 500 to / 900 for use
in stamp vending and stamp affix-
ing machines. Postmasters desiring
to try the new proposition arc re-
quested to make requisit;on to the
Department.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
A MURDER MYSTERY.
Two Killed and Third One Stabbed
Sixty Times.

Paris, Tex.Whether three Ital-
ians living in railroad boarding
house at Cooper, Oklahoma, were
murdered and the body of one hid
den and the others left weltering in
their own blood as they were found !;
or the third killed the two and es-
capped with their money, is the prob
lem on which the authorities in that
section are now at work, following
the finding of the two bodies one
shot and the other showing sixty
knife wounds,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
NOTHING DOING FROM teddy
Presiden Says He is Powerless
to Intervene
IN The CASE OF LABOR LEADERS
Court Must Finish Before Roosevelt
Can Exercise Clcmcnry--As
Long AS Appeal Is Prose-
cuted He is Hands OF.

Washington.--In an official state
ment issued at the white house in
regard to presidential interference
in the cases of President Gompers,
Vice President Mitchell and Secreta-
ry Morrison, OF the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, now under sem
tence for contempt of court, atten-
ton is called to the fact that the
cases are still before the court and
that no matter what the presidents
opinion may lie as to tie justices Of
the sentences imposed. he oa.not
take any action looking to pardon
or express any opinion as to the mer-
it's of the cases.
The text of the statement fol-
lows:
Various appeals have been made
to the president to interfere by par
dons in the case or Mr. Gompers
and his associates. Those making
the appeals are unaware of the fact
that the matter is still before the
courts. 1t is civil suit between
private parties and there has been
no way by which the government
could have interviewed even if it had
desired to do so. Whether the pres
ident does or does not think the sen
tence of Mr.. Gompers and his asso-
ciates excessive is not at present OF
consequence because he cannot take
any action or express any opinions
while the case is pending before the
courts. When the decision is made
then the president can promptly con-
slider whether the terms of imprison-
ment are excessive or improper. But
is of course impossible for the
president to act while an appeal is
pending for he has nothing what
ever to act about.
The courts must finish with the
case first, and the defendants are at
the present moment at liberty on
bail. If the defendants see fit to
abandon their appeal, the matter will
then, of course, be brought before
the executive in which case, it will
receive immediate and Nest careful
consideration. But the defendants
have a perfect right to prosecute
their appeal and if successful in the
final court then ask for pardon Or
communication. But as long as they
are prosecuting an appeal the pres
ident has nothing to do with the
matter. The president has already
instructed the department of justice
to keep him fully informed as to the
progress of the case SO that in the
event of its becoming proper for
him to act, he may have at his dis
pCsal all of the facts which will en-
able him to- decide whether there
was justification Of the sentence and
whether if there was justificati0n fer
some punishment, the serteIce is or
is not altogether too N
But at present theS
no more to do with trrs 3sl
with the case Of the Sey.0O0,uvO.
fine imposed by Judge Lands on tho
Standard Oil Company, which is al
so on appeal and concerning which
the president has also been repeated
ly asked to interfere by well mean
Ing persons who did not know that
he could not interfere while the mat
ter was still before the courts on APP
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
GEORGIA PROHIBITION LAW.
Federal Cont Refuses to interfere
With Its Operation.

Atlanta, Ga. State prohibition
won a victory in the United States
Circuit Court here, when a decision
was handel down by Judge w. T..
Newman, disnissing a petition at
lacking he constitutionahty Of the
Georgia prohibition law Judge New
man did not pass upon the consti-
nationality of the law, but dismiss
ed the petition on the ground of
non-jurisdiction, holding that it was
matter for the state courts. and
could reach Federal courts only by a
writ of error from the state supreme
court
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
Prominent Physician Assassinated.


DR.. T. S. Richardson, prominent
physician of this place, was shot
through the right breast and instant
ly killed by an unknown man. DR..
Richardson's store was dynamited
on the night of Dec. p and the en-
tire front blown away. The next
day a man living here admitted do
ing the deed, and said he was proud
Of it. There had existed ill-feeling
between tn two for some time, al
though the cause is not known. This
man has not been seen since. At
his door Is laid the death Of DR..
richardson. The dead man is one
of the most prominent physicians
in the state, being member of the
state board of health
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
SAD ACCIDENT.

Youth Loses Eye in Fireworks Ex-
ploslon.
Biloxi Miss. While in the act of
firing off a roman candle Herman
Klare, the 12-year-old son of G. H.
Klare, a real estate and insurance
agent of this city, was struck in the
eye by the bursting Of the candle. and
the sight of the eye was totally de-
stroyed.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
BEACH HARGIS ....STRIAL.
Nine For Acquittal, Three For Con-
victiOn.

Nine FOR AcGuittai, Three For Con-
victiOn.
Irvine, Ky.-With the jury stand
ing nine for acquital and three for
conviction, and declaring that it
would be impossible to reach a ver-
dict the case of Beach Hargis, charg-
ed with the killing Of his father,
Judge James Hargis ended in a mis-
trial. As told in the trial, Beach
entered his fathers store and after
a few words with the Judge, engaged
in grapple with him. They fell to
tie floor, Beach on top, and with
the judges pistol, the boy fired sew
eral shots into the body of the pros
trate man.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07

Stabbed, beaten into insensibility
and then robbed by a negro, T. w.
Musgrave, the aged Waterman at
Laurel, recovered in time to give
the alarm to this city and to Ellis
vile. with the result that a negro
suspect was picked up in Laurel just
as he was about to take a train for
Hattiesburg. The negro in jail is
Bruce Edwards. He was viewed by
Musgrave after his arrest, but Mus
grave was unable to identify him
positively. The robber used knife
and club, and Musgrave bears
wounds on his hands, eyes and skull
Musgraye is a Confederate veter-
an. --4e is not dangerously hurt.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
COWARDLY DEED.
Assassinated While Crossing Branch
With Torch in Hand.

With Torch in Hand.
Waynesboro, Miss.-Last Saturday
night fourteen miles west of Way
nesboro, near Whistler, Miss, George
Cooley was killed by some unknown
party as he crossed a branch with a
torch in his hand. He was shot with
q shotgun with all kinds OF shot,
some Of the home made in old-fash-
Toned bullet molds. 1t was known
that Jim Arlington had some OF
these homemade bullets in his pos
session. He was also heard to make
threats against Coley the day before
the later was killed. Arlington is
now in Jail awaiting preliminary
hearing
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
Bride Succun,bs to Wound.

Mrs. Cora Poole Graham, the
bride of few weeks, who was acct
dentally shot by her husband while
watching him hunt rabbits week
ago, died at the South Mississippi In
Urinary in Hattiesburg.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
Allowed to Increase Its Security.

The State Depository Board has
accepted the application of the
Bank of Summit TO be allowed to in
crease it's security as a depository
by the filing of supplemental sure
ty bond, in order to he able to meet
expected excess of deposits Of pub
lie funds of the state. The matter
was passed upon by Gov Noel and
Attorney General Stirling, Treasurer
Edwards being absent, owing to in
advertent overlooking OF the APP
board allowed the Bank to file a
bond for SIT 600 addit onal to the
security already on deposit with tho
treasurer.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
= = -
TROUBLE At OSYKA.

FOF-NVF TOWN. NiuFE1lHI 6nOt ana 6ts
riously Wornded.
Osyka, Miss A difficulty occurred
here in which L. NJ. Spears, ex-mar-
shall Of this town, was seriously II
not mortally wounded by Archie 4.
varnado. Two shots were fired by
Varnado. both taking effect One was
in the fleshy part of the arm and the
other through the right lung. Spears
Is resting easily at this writing var
Rado is at large.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
HON. X. G. DAyEl DEAD.
Congressman From Second District

Of Louisiana Is No More.
New Orleans Representative r..
c. Davey, of the second district of
Louisiana, died here aged SIS years,
his death being the result Of COM
.plication Of diseases Mr.. Dayey was
first elected to the fifty-fhird con-
gress and with the exception of the
fifty-fourth, when he declined NOM
Iinations has served in each succeed
ing congress.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
WHILE HUNTING.

w. w. Cochran is Accidentally Shot
and Killed.
Leakesville, Miss.-W. w. Coch-
ran, a prominent citizen nine miles
from this place was accidentally shot
and Killed by Joe Peacock while
hunting.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07

Sixteen people were hurt, five Sc
riously, in wreck on the Lake
Shore Road near Angola, Ind
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07

Harry E. Campbell, a policeman
at Columbus, Ohio, was killed by
Harry Hilliard. a boy of Is.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07

One person was killed and four
seriously burned in New York
tenement house fire.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
Hunter Finds Wife Dead.

Lee Byram, who lives across Bear
river east of Belmont, returned from
n squirrel hunt to find his wife
dead and her 3-month-old baby Sc
Eiously burned. 1t seems that she
died suddenly, slipping from her
chair on the hearth in front Of the
ere. The baby fell almost into the
names.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07

A $4,000 contract has been plac-
I'd with the Bankers Construction
Company, of Cincinnati, to enlarge
the Citizens National Bank, of Me-
ridian.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07
Exodus OF Negroes Causing Trouble.
II seems that Adams and LETTER.

1t seems that Adams and Jeffer-
son and other southern Mississippi
counties are not the only ones in
which the negro exodus is giving the
rIanters trouble The Mayersville
spectator. reports that never before
I m there been as much moving by
lie negroes as ID new In. progress In
gzssquena, at times simply moving
sbout from place to place In the
county. though many are leaving the
rounty altogether.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-07

fine imposed by Judge Lands on the
standard Oil Company, which is al
so on appeal and concerning which
the president has also been repeated
ly asked to interfere by well mean
Ing persons who did not know that
he could not interfere while the mat
ter was still before the courts on APP
peal
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-23

When little Dorothy Walworth was
introduced to her baby brother in the
First Methodist Episcopal Parsonage
In Yonkers, n. Y, she manifested in
tense interest, but was not astonished.
Il knew he was coming" she ex-
claimed; Il knew it"
Pressed for an explanation. the five
year-old said: Il was down to the
Bronx ZOO the other day and saw
the stork in his cage. | recognized
him by the black stripes on his wings
that papa said were there. Well, when
the stork was standing alone on one
leg, went close to him and whispered
in his ear that | wanted him TO bring
me baby brother or sister. He didn't
say anything, but l knew he would do
it, because he bent his head toward
me and winked an eye"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-23

months use of them. Mrs. ). A.
WILLIAMS, r. F. d. No. IA, Box 80,
Gardiner, Me.
No woman should submit to a surg1.
cal operation, which may mean death,
until she has given Lydia E. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound, made exclusive
ly from roots and herbs, a fair trial.
This famous medicine for women
has for thirty years proved to be the
most valuable tonic and remover OF
the female organism. Women resld'
ing in almost every city and town IN
the United States bear willing teSti-
mony to the wonderful virtue OF Lydia
d. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
It cures res female ills, and creates radi-
ant, buoyant female health. II you
are i'll, for your own sake as well as
those you love, give it trial.
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Her advice Is free
and always helpful.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-23
Bumper Ginseng Crop

4 + nvtuucq and Sons OF West
ncnd who have successfully grown
Einscng for number OF years, had a
very good season this year They
gathered s. pounds of green roots
from their four beds. eot lla bushels
of seed aud also SOLD $4,000 tops
The tops We're until this season con,
Aiercd worthless, but concern At
Milwaukee has gone into the manurac
turv ~ ginseng syrup and is now buy
ms an the tops it can get DetunCq
and Surs have been making big
money TN growing ginseng aud are
now getting ready to put down quite
a number az now beds
Louis Syhrcthvr has also grown gin
sruE for several years. but as he has
not su''ciyn, room he cauot 40 into
the growing 20 IL Very extensively
prN g,usrua NOW brings about st25
prr pound while the seed ia worth
$50 per puaud rud even at that high
price ID ts.lu great demand
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-23
A BANKERS NERVE
Broken by Coffee and Restored BY
Postum

\ banker needs perfect control of
the nerves, and clear, quick. accu-
rate brain. \ prominent banker of
Chattanooga tells how he keeps him.
self in condition:
Up to Il years of age I was not
allowed TO drink coffee, but as soon as
| got out in the world | began to use
1t and grew very fond of il. For some
years ! noticed no bad effects from it's
use, but IN time it began to affect me
untayorably Ny hands trembied the
muscles OF my face twitched. my men
tai processes seemed slow and in other
ways my system got out of order.
These conditions grew so bad at last
that had to give up coffee altogether.
My attention having been drawn 20
Postum, | began its use on leaving of
the coffee, and il gives me pleasure 10
testify TO its value l find it a delicious
beverage: like il Just as we'll az did
coffee, and during the years that
have used Postum l have been free
from the distressing symptoms that &C.
compan!ed the use Of coffee. The nerv-
BUSINESS has entirely disappeared. and
! an q steady Of hand as a boy OF
.. though | am more than g years
Old ! owe all this to Postum
There's a Reason" Read the little
2ook Iae Road to Wellvilie." in
1kgs Grocers sell.
Ever read the above letter. 4 new
ono appears from time to time. They
arc genuine, true, and full of human
interval
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-23
The Soft Answer,

At dinner in Bar Harbor Boston
woman praised the wit of the late Ed
ward Everett Hale.
Walking on the outskirts Of Boston
one day" she said, 'he and inadvert.
entity entered a field that had a No
Trespassing sign nailed to tree.
Soon farmer appeared.
'Trespassers in this field are prose
cuted,' he said in a grim tone
DIR. Hale smiled blandly.
but we are not trespassers, my
good man. he said.
what are you them asked the
amazed farmer
Were Unitarians,' said Dr.. Hale"
Washington Star.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-23
Fer Game Law Violations,

That that portion Of the statute
chapter J25 Of the laws Of 1903, Whlch
rcouires that one-third OF the hneS
imposed and collected under the laws
regulating the taking, killing, etc. OF
fish and game. shall be paid by the
MAGISTRATE to the county treasurer Is
unconstitutional is held in an opinion
bv Attorney General Gilbert to Game
Warden George W Rickeman
In the same opinion 1t Is held that
neither game Wardens, sherins or dep-
MY sheriffs are entitled 10 be consld-
cred as informers under the law,
which provides that onc-third OF the
fines collected shall be paid to the in
former
The attorney general holds in form
that share OF the fines may be
given TO the informer. that the in
former must be other than the deputy
game warden, sheriff or his deputies,
and that one-third Of the amount Is
not an unreasonable amount 10 be
paid such informer; that no share OF
the fines can be paid 10 those whose
duty 1t Is 10 enforce the game laws
and prosecute Wolators thereof. that
no part of the fines so imposed for a
breach OF the fish and game laws can
be paid TO counties, that being forbid
den by a constitutional provision
It Is held that because part Of the
statute is unconstitutional It does not
follow that the whole section is in
valid The remainder of the statute
may stand, Notwithstanding the in
validity Of the portion relating to the
payment Of one third the fine TO the
county"
The state constitutiin provides that
the proceeds Of all fines collected in
the several counties shall be Sc, apart
as a separate fund to be called the
school fund, etc