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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28

Two negroes applied at the homewood
sar barns for situations and were
chased away from the district No
arrests We're made.
Conveyances at a Premium.
Conveyances were early al "A pre-
MUM. Taxicabs did a stupmdous
business and were allowed to violate
the speed limits. .
At many churches the services
wero dispensed
The only attempt made to run any
cars was when the mai was run 10
the various branch postoffices. No
demonstration was made against the
crew
1t is known the company is nego-
tiating with professional strike
breakers to run the cars. II was said
that 200 foreigners were contracted
for to come from Latro0e to man the
cars. II is known that extra crews
were broken in recently on all lines
in anticipation of the strike.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
TAX
Up THIS WEEK
FEW TARIFF SCHEDULES TO BE
coNsioEREp-wiLL BE
nd IN building up on od,sn nlore
all Local Druggists.
'SUPPUK1 tKS 0UNfTDrN |
That Tafts Plan viii Be Success
Bailey Will Present Income
Tax Amendment to .h
the Tariff BILL ..t

Washington, June 27.lThe cor
poration tax will have the senate's
attention during the present week
When IL will be taken up must de.
pen upon the time devote to the few
tariff schedules to be considered. The
frierds Of the bill believe these will
be dispose of in short order. The re-
naming schedules include cotton. ties.
bagging and binding twine The south
ern senators will make adetermined
though probably losing fight, in favor
of free bagging and ties. contending
that If binding twine is to 60 on the
undutiable list TO satisfy the farmers
of the northwest, the whole list
should receive the same treatment to
crafty the farmers of the south.
There will also be a further effort
10 amend the provisions relating to
steel rails and structural steel.
With these items disposed of the
senate will begin consideration of the
corporation tax, which will come up
In connection with the income tax
amendment previously offered by
Bailey. Many speeches are promised
on these two subjects and they will
be jointly considered. The Taft cor
poration tax provision will be pre-
sented as a substitute for the Bailey
amendment.
The supporters of the administra-
tion are very confident of success.
They say that only eight votes for
the corporation tax will be lost from
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
STRIKERS SAY FIGHT WILL BE
LONG AND DHARD-COMPANY
TO IMPORT STRIKE
BREAKERS.
TAXICABS DOING A \ :,
HEAVY BUSINESS
All Conveyances at Premium-Two
Negroes Applied for Situations
But Crowd of Strike Sym
pathizers prove Them
From Car Barns.

Pittsburg, June 27,-Greater Pitts
burg walked today amidst the intec-
mittent thunder showers and the tor
rid sun. Since O'Clock this morning
only one street car. which carried
mail. moved in the city or the suburbs
On hastily provided suburban shuttle
trains on the Pennsylvania and the
Baltimore and Ohio, travel was ex-
tremely light and al noon the rail
ways substituted an hourly for a five
minute service.
At Union headquarters the strikers
predicted long, hard fought strike.
The companys officers planned all
day how to break the strike There
was only one clash between the union
men and the would,be strike breakers.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
ENGLISH WOMEN CAN'T TAKE
CHILDREN IN SALOONS, AND
MUST DRINK.
MOST INHUMAN MOTHER
Children Are Tied to Lamp Posts and
Left to Own Devices While
Mothers Guzxle-Thc
Law Defeated.

London, June 27.-when parlia
ment passed the childrens act, which
among other things prohibits children
from being taken into saloons by
their parents, and young persons un
der III from smoking cigarettes. II
was thought that a way had been
found for dealing with two great evils
which affilict this country. The act
has been in force for some months
and many magistrates and persons
who are interested in the welfare of
the people declare that the last state
of the youth of England is worse THAI
the first,
There are few laws through which,
is Dan O'Connell said. one can not
drive coach and horses. and this
seems to be a law with a big gate
way indeed. The enterprising Lon
don publican has alrdeay made it not
only dead letter but a farce. The
day after the law went into effect one
saloon keeper in a London suburb.
whose house is a favorite resort for
cockneys on Sundays and holidays.
cleaned out an old horse trough.
filled it with clean straw aud labeled
1t "Creeche". 4 small hoy was place
i'm charge and mothers were invited
tn leave their babies in II which they
themselves a few hours
Il
there was a fight In front of the sa-
loon between two intoxicated mothers
who could not agree on the ownership
Of a baby The boy. who in the best
froo.1uJ.1 80, rooo,I r.-oN
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
A DISTRESS SIGNAL
Sent Out by Wireless From Lake
Michigan Steamer Responded to
BY Two Other Vessels.

Chicago, June 27.-"C. Q. D., the
distress call of wireless telegraphy.
was sent out over lake Michigan to-
day by the passenger steamer City of
Racine, which lost its propeller wheel
off Fort Sheridan. The call was re-
sponded to by the steamer Chicago,
which was we'll on its course to Mil
waukee, and the steamer Iowa. which
was inbound off the Chicago break
water eight miles away The call
also reached the station on the top of
the Congress Hotel.
A strong wind was blowing when
the City of Racine found itself dis
abled and was Obliged to drop anchor
to keep from drifting on shore before
assistance came.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28

drove Leon and the trunk back after
its twelve hour rest in Newark, has
identified the trunk in which the body
was found as the one he carried, and
has picked out the Eighth avenue
restaurant in New YORK as the place
where he took 1t.
The New York cabby who took
Leon and the trunk and 10 Newark
has not been found.
The mystery of just .how Elsie
Sigel was killed was cleared up to
some extent today with the announce
ment of the results of the coroner's
autopsy, supporting in a way that the
murder was not premeditated. but
committed on the spur of the mo-
ment by the jealousy-craze China
man.
Sinei Girl Not Married.
DR.. O'Hanlon. of the coroner's office
said tonight there had been no rup-
tCantinueG on Second Page.)
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
AUTHORITIES ARE NO NEARER
CAPTURE OF MURDERER or
ELSIE SlGEl THAN
AT FIRST.
|ALL CHINATOWN HAS
UNDERGONE SEARCH
Csbbe Who Drove Ling and Trunk
to Newark Day of Crime Not
Yet Found-Believed Death
Was Cause BY AS
phyxiation.

New York, June 27.-On the ninth
day after the discovery of Elsie SigePs
body presumably the eighteenth after
the murder, the police admitted that
they are further from any clue of the
whereabouts of Leon Ling, who, il is
thought, killed her. Every house in
Chinatown has ben searched, no
laundry or restaurant being over
looked.
Information from Newark to the eff.
feet that Ling left the trunk in res
taurant there has ben substantially
confirmed. 1t appears that LII Sing,
restaurant keeper did accept the
trunk and kept it twelve hours, al
though he denied it,
Halstead, the Newark cabby who
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
WELLMAN DELAYED
Airship Shed Wrecked ~ Spitzbergen
May Take Month to Rebuild
One Man Killed.

Tromsoe. Norway. June 27-Ths
steamer Arctic. Of Walter Wellman's
North pole expedition. returned today
from Spitzbergen with the news that
Knud johnson. one Of the two men
who remained in the wellman camp
last winter. persisted on MAY l9 by
falling through crevssse in a pack
of ice. ami that the airship shed was
destroyed by storm on December IS
last year.
The roof of the airship shed was
carried away ard broken to pieces
and the remainder Of the building CO..
lspsed Rebuilding Of the shed al
ready begun. but IL will cause a de-
lay OF a month and it Is uncertain
it will be finished in time ~
make fhe voyage ncrthward this sum
nsr.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
FOUNDER OF THE c. A. r.
Remembered by Monument to be Un,
veiied in Washington on July
Taft Will Sneak.

Washington, June 27-One of the
greatest events in the history of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be
the unveiling on July Bird of a statue
erected in this city OF Dr Benjamin
Franklin Stephenson. founder of the
Organization. In connection with the
unveiling there will be a parade Of
all available U. S. military naval
forces. Taft will deliver an address
and Representative J. Hampton
Moore. of Pennsylvania, will be the
crater Of the day.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
BREAKS RECORD AGAIN
John Flanagan, lrish-American Ath.
letic Club, Throws rs Pound
Hammer 1870 Feet.

New York. June 27.-John Flana.
gan. the Irish-American Athletic
clubs Hercules. easily won the chief
honor at the annual games of the
New York Press club yesterday.
Throwing the i6-pOund hammer he es-
tabished a new worlds record. In
the first trial he sent the ball l79
feet, IL inches He followed this
with $50 feet. His best previous
throw was Ia feet f01R inches. two
weeks ago. He won special strophy
for breaking the record.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
RAIN
Came Down in Cioudburst in Iowa
Track Washed Away-Grest
Damage in Des Moines.

Des Moines, June 27.-A clOudburst
this evening swept half a dozen resi-
dences from their. foundations. flooded
cellars. overflowed floors in dwellings,
and tore up mile of the Chicago afd
Northwestern tracks at Vail
A livery barn was swept TO posi-
tion crosswise of the thoroughfaTe.
All wooden sidewalks were swept
away. In places the water is three
feet deep in the principal street.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
ROPE BY WHICH SHE WAS BEING
LOWERED FROM LOVERS
ROOM BROKE,
MAY Die FROM INJURY
Her Husband Broke In Door. Rushed
to Window to See Spouse LYING
On Ground Four Stories
Below.

| Atlanta, Ga, June 27-Caught by
her husband in n room with anothe,
man, Mrs. Nellie Jobson, a pretty bru
nette of %, married just six years
ago was lowered from a window by
a rope of sheets, held by Harry VOL
ford, the rope parting whcn she was
half way dnwl, pre cipilatrg her two
stories, breaking her back in the fall
While Wolford was making every
effort to contrive the escape of the
woman. her husband was pounding al
the door in vain effort to break Il
down. Just as the rope parted and his
wife fell to the alleyway below, the
door gave way and the husband rush
ed in.
A glance around the room Shove !
that his wife was not there, but look
at the open window solved the prob
lem. Looking down he saw helpless
lump four stories down. In the mean,
time officers had placed Wolford un,
der arrest the warrant having been
S"tih out ipi hlil NY lHe HUhudHu'
Both Prominent Socially.
Outside of general charge OF
disorderly conduct made by the po
lice. no information has been given
out. Wolford who Is In the police sta
tion, Mrs. Jobson at the hospital, and
her husband who Is by her side, hop
ing for her recovery, declining to
make any statements.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jobson are double
first cousins. They have heen mar
ried not more than six years, and
have a little baby. Mr.. Jobson is the
agent of the astoria lncandescen'
Light Company, and Is prominently
known in the business world of the
city, Harry Wolford is also business
man, and his wife is one OF the most
active church workers In the city and
has a wide circle of friends of the elite
of Atlanta
II Is understood that Mr. Jobson had
been suspicious for some time past
Hearing that Mrs. Jobson had accom-
panied Wolford to the office building
he went TO justice of the peace
court and swoTe out warrant for Woi
ford, charging him with a msdemean.
or. Then, with his brother and n
bailiff, he went 10 the building.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
Girls tainted.
PRISON MUTINY.

Wilma Russia. June 27.-Munity in
the prison court yard today led 70
the killing of foUr wardens. seven
conviets and the wounding of six
others.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
BUSINESS SECTION NEAR CLARK
AND WASHINGTON WRECKED
--TELEPHoNE LINE
CRIPPLED.
POLICE PUZZLED AS
TO ORIGIN OF DEED
Many Telephone Girls Faint---Seversi
Persons injured--Street Filled
With Dcbris--May Be One
OF Gamblers War
Bombs.

Chicago. June 27.-An explosion,
supposedly caused by dynamite, did
untold damage In the business dis
trict tonight, iniuring two or thres
persons severely. wrecking stores and
windows for block near Clark and
Washington street
The nature of the explosion re-
mains a riddle on account of the
great amount of debris thrown around
he alley where 1t occurred. II is
suspected to another in the series of
Ihirty gamblers war bombs" which
have mystifed the police for two
years, the last of which wrecked
saloon last week.
The center of the explosion was in
an alley near the Central Telephone
exchange. The exchange was unable
TO do any more business during the
night. Two restaurants facing Clark
street were blown practically into
the street, and food and dishes were
scattered over the car tracks.
| In this alley also was the rear en-.
trance to Powers and Gilberts' sa.
looms. headquarters for Martin p.
Madden and his associates who were
lately indicted in connection with
the building strikes.
Gambling Joint Wrecked.
The cash register store of Mont
Tennes, alleged conductor of ga,nb.
ling house, also opening into the al
ley, was damaged to an equal extent
to the saloon. Tenne's place hail
been raided frequently, and bomb
was exploded there year ago
Windows in the Boston store
block distant were broken. On the
opposite side of Clark street also
windows were smashed. The street
Is covered thickly with broken glass.
The iron gates fronting the alley were
bent by the force of the explosion.
which was heard for miles, and was
first thought to be thunder.
The police estimate the damage at
100000. One theory advanced is
that fifty electric installers who bad
been on a strike against the Chicago
'N'NBiitht COMPANY WHICH AbHRIbU
the greatest damage. may have been
behind the deed. Another is that the
gamblers who suffered loss through
the cooperation of the telephones
company with the police sought to
retaliate.
Fifty telephone cables were torn
and twisted and 25.0o0 telephones put
ont of service
Girls tainted.
Thirteen girl operators were at
work. Several tainted and others
fed. Several men in Powers and Gil
bcrt's saloon were injured by flying
glass. The cook in a nearby res
ta"rant was seyeraly injured, being
buried in the debris. Fifty persons
in a FIVE cent thcater rushed out in a
panic and two actors were injured
The walls IN the buildings on either
side of the alley moved in some
plunas
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
BOTTLE CONTAINING NARCOTIC
MIXTURE WITH TRACES
OF MORPHINE Is
FOUND.
SAD FUNERAL NEAR
SCENE OF CRIME
Lords Prayer and Few Other Words
Only Ceremony at Burial Of Muir.
derer of Mrs. Woodill--
Dead Woman's Mother
TaIks,

st Michaels, Md, June 27.-ThC
theory that Mrs. Edith May Woodi
was lured to Eastman lonely tunga
low without any knowledge of whert
she was going and was drugged and
detained there, was advanced TO-DAY
when further search of Eastman s
shack revealed small bottle which a
hastily examination shows contained a
narcotic mixture, with strong traces
of morphine.
The people of this community loved
the girl and rejected the idea that she
was involved in a drunken crgie. They
have contended that she lost her life
In repulsing the advances of a man
who acknowledged his guilt by sui
Ciding when the hands of the law
were about to grasp him.
Todays Investigations led the au-
thorities still further from the idea
that any one except Eastman had a
hand in the murder 1t Is inconceiv.
able that Eastman could have invited
friends from New York or elsewhere
to his bungalow in the half completed
condition that it was A single bed, a
table and a washstand completed It's
equipment,
Sad Burial.
Eastman's body was buried today
In grave not fifty feet from tht
scene of the murder. No man of the
church was there to offer last word,
no friends or relatives came near.
The undertakers and assistants, a lit
tie band of newspaper men and few
idle spectators were the only persons
at the grave. With barred heads they
repeated the Lords prayer Mrs
p Eastman. twelve miles away at Eas
ton, expressed no desire to attend
the funeral.
At $50 the casket was placed in a
country hearse and the little funeral
party left St Michaels on seven
mile trip to the bungalow. A night
burial had been planned, but either
to give Mrs. Eastman an opportunity
to be present, or because of the weird
ness of the scene. the idea was aband-
oned.
Buggies, wagons and other vehicles
were In the funeral line which pro-
ceeded to within sight of the unfin-
ished bungalow, which now stands as
a monument for Eastman's grave. No
church or graveyard was open to the
dead man. superstitious negro who |
would not dig the grave stood on the |
outskirts of the funeral party. Scrub
pines form background to the lonelya,
spot and the marsh leads away to tbs,
waters of Broad creek '.
Asked for Prayer.
When the casket had been placed |
on the planks stretched across the |
grave. the undertaken drew back the |
lid that all might see that il was East |
man. Then there was an awkward |
pause After the casket sank into the
grave, two diggers hesltated. One of |
the undertakers looking around uneas |
lily said: Gentlemen, it seems to me- |
someone should say little word of |
prayer. Won't one or you?
His glance falling upon James Sut-
ton, merchant, he added You are a
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
In Double Header With Pittsburg--
Browns and Cleveland Divide
Double Header, Also .Chica-
90 and Detroit.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
STANDING,
Cubs Lose Two,

Chicago, June 27.-ln both games
Cincinnati pounded the Chicago pitch
ers all over the field. The locals made
ten hits compared with the visitors
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28

Batteries-Pfiester, Higginbotham
Ragan. Brown, Kroh ard Archer;
Fromme and Mclean.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
An Even Break.

St Lotus, June 27--The, locals mada
four runs, driving Liefield from the
box in the first inning of the first
game, then scored four more. Pitts
burg won the second game easily
Score: X II u
St' Lolus ...-.. .s-t+-....-,....
Pittsburg ~ 4
Batteries--Lush and Bresuahan:
Liefield, Maddox, Adams and Gibson.
Second Game.
ot' LOUIS ..........,....... :
|flttsDufS ,.....,.. ......... I IA
Batteries-Beebe. Meter and Bres.
nahan; Willis and Gibson
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Standing.
p. w. l.. Pct.
Detroit ......61 Al 30 .G72
Philadelphia 80. 81 33 "a .5Sl
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28

Concluded on Second Pase)
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
AME RlCAN LEAGUE.

Concluded on Sixth Page.)
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28
Asked for Prayer.

tConcIudad on sixth Page,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-06-28

Continued on Second Page.)
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-03-26

PUBLIC NOTICE Is hereby given that
"ONEONTA," HUBBARD PLACE.
and REALITY properties OF Estate
A. Z. Newton, are posted against hunt-
ers, and trespassing is forbidden under
lSreSEDl Z. s. NEWTON.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-03-26
NON. JOHN M. PARKER
To Visit Natchez and Address the
hatcher Chamber of Commerce.

Secretary Davis, of Natchez Chamber
Of Commerce, has received letter from
Hon. John NJ. Parker, of New Orleans,
President of the Southern Commercial
Congress, accepting the joint invitation
of the Natchez Chamber of Commerce
and the Concordia parish (La.) Business
League to address joint session of the
two bodies at any date that may be set
between now and April 10th. The sub
ject of the address will be, 1.-THE South
ern Commercial Congress And Its Bear
ing On The Agriculture And Manufac-
tories OF The South"
The Southern Commercial Congress is
the organization founded a few months
ago by the leading business men of the
South at Washington for the advance
ment of the South at large in a CONNER
cial way. 1t has under way at present the
erection of a permanent exhibition build
ing at Washington for the display of
Southern interests and products of all
classes. 1t is the intention to erect a
building to cost in the neighborhood Of
seven or eight thousand dollars and the
placing therein of so varied and excellent
exhibits as TO make it one of the sights
of the capitol and to turn the eyes of the
world toward the resources of this sec
ton of the country. The Natchez Cham
Der of Commerce has plans mapped out
for obtaining space in the proposed
building for the purpose of advertising
Natchez and vicinity.
The date will be arranged, after con-
sultation with the Concordia parish or
ganization, some time this week and will
be announced through the papers.-Nat-
chez Democrat.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-03-26
the GAME LAWS
OF TINE STATE o. LOUISIANA.

PERMIT the Killing of the following
named game during the Seasons
noted here ONLY:
Doves. 49,. September LIST to March LIST
Snipe and Sandpipers (Chorook and Pa
pabotte). September LIST to May 18th
Geese, Brant, Wild Sea and River Ducks,
Rails Mud Hens), Coot (Poule
d'eau), Gallinules, Tattlers, Curlew
and Plover. October LIST to March LIST
Blue Winged Teal Duck. November LIST
to March 18th.
Wild Turkey, Cocks only November lsi
to April LIST.
Quail Bob White) and Wood Ducks. =.
November LIST to March LIST.
Wood Cock and Prairie Chickens. Pro.
tected at All Seasons.
Deer, Bucks only. Five Months a
as Provided by Police Juries.
All other Birds of Every Species, except
English Sparrows, Coopers Hawk
Duck Hawk, Sharp-Shinned Hawk
and Great Horned Owl. =. Protected
at All Seasons.
No Hunting between Sunset and Sun
rise. Limit of Bag Is Birds all Told
Two Deer may be Killed by Hunt
er on One Day, but No More thar
Six During the Season. All Hunter
Must Take Q License.
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROTECTION BINDS. 0Ao09 e18m
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-03-26
Trespass Notice!

ny PERMISSION Of the owners thereof the
Is following properties are posted and all
persons are warned not to trespass upon
them for the purpose Of cutting timber, hunt
ing or fishing. All trespassefs VIII be prose-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-03-26
.respass Notice.

Notice Is hereby given tisat hssntiag
and trespassing b not allowed -
warned under penalty Of tie lsw.
JNO. q. O'KELLEY.