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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-26

! The Baltimore Evening Sun, which is eminent
fly lady-like seems to have a perfectly natural
dislike of dogs In the course of lengthy edi.
torial, it says:
Every time some one proposes that
all the dogs in Baltimore be muzzled
there comes loud and eloquent pro-
test from the professional sentiment
alsts-and every summer by the same
token, dozen or two mad dogs run
amuck in the city and from % to so
Baltimoreans are bitten. This sum-
mer S performance began yesterday,
/ with q record of IL injured All of
these folk, it is probable, will recover
safely, for the treatment administered
at the local Pasteur Institute is Won
derfully effcacious, but they will be in
agonizlng fear and danger for six weeks
or more, and it will cost, in round fig
ures, about 81 800 to save them from
horrible deaths All of that agony and
all of that expense would be saved if
Baltimore had an efficient muzzling
law"
The Sun continues, dealing eopionsly with
statistics tending to show the prevalence of
mad dogs and claiming that the muzzle is
the only sure preventive of hydrophobia.
1t neglects to discuss, however, what is the
just preliminary to bringing a wholesale charge
Iof pernicious insanity against the canine popu
lation and that is, ''When is dog mad" and
II What is hydrophobia"G
We are aware Of the activity of the Pasteur
institutes, and appreciate that natural caution
which would lead one who had been bitten by
dog to take no chances" by having himself
treated at one of these sanitara But, to Civ,
the dog, well as the Devil, his due, it ough
TO be remembered that hydrophoba, admitted,
, one Of the rarest, has become one of the mos
common diseases. And the deduction from Thu
fact evidently is that many, the vast majority
Indeed, of cases treated are not cases of rabies a
all We doubt if a reputable physician can b.
|, found IN this country who has either known OF
, heard of a well authenticated death from hydro
phohia. Death by commissions is caused in ,
, score of different ways; yet let such deatl
!, disclose the history of dog bite, and the igno
. rant diagnosis is hydrophobia without more
ado
We do not advocate large and irresponsible
canine populations, any more than We woul,
advocate unrestrained immigration Dogs how
ever suffer men suffer. They become ir
rrtabfg men become irritable. When they ar
sick, they are apt to be chased and harried. /
is then, and usually then only, that the nor
mally friendly dog will turn and snap in hi
J torment-even without discrimination A man
similarly situated, would act equivalently. r.
muzzle setf-respecting dog, especially in no
weather, when he needs greatly to keep hi
mouth open and his tongue cool "a dog per
spires through his mouth) is species of cruelt,
that ought not to be lightly entered upon OF
false premises. To treat a dog in such a man
no IN
thing will
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-26

President Taft Is praised for standing by his Do.
litica friends But he is also being judged by the
kind OF political friends he picAs out-Greensooro
Telegram.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-26

1t liz a dangerous thing to lose friends by helping
on friend get public Office. II. after been in
for years you should intimate that he should no,
demand a life tenure with power will the office
to his children. you may not only lose a friend but
see him converted into enemy.-News and OBJ
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-26

The Harvard professor who claimed that the couetu
tail was vacuum Is probably claiming that ne
knew there was nothing In A--Norfolk Ledser-Das-
match. -
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-26
Past the Fight Limit.

Those Raleigh democrats" remarks the Durha m,
iaeTald, cannot carry IL much further without
Ing the fighting word" To people IL appears
that they have already passed that stage, so they
can now &C Just as far as they Hke--WlIrningtan
Dispatch.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-26
New Brand of Train jumpers.

Yesterday, while Officer Lennon. OF Eagle Rock,
was bringing Ben Fioken to Wake jail, the prisoner
jumped from the moving train succeeded In
escaping.
t7ck6n. White man, had been bound over to
court for larceny and he could give the hond
ne was placed in Oicer Lemons hands brought
TO jail The prisoner who hanaeuaea and rope
tied. was sitting in the just behind Mr.
IN some manner he worked free from Tin. rope
TO the door and sprang from the moving train. He
landed right-side and hit hot trail for piece
OF woods The train WAS stopped and the officer hur-
rfed after the fleeing who Disappeared ins
WOODS ana that In the last that has been O
him Ar. Lennon walked into Raleigh yesterday af-
ternon and reported the loss OF his prisoner.
This fs the second prisoner that has escaped Mr..
lennon recently by timfshg from moving tFsn.--
Raleigh Evening Times.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-26
Drew Knives. hut Used Tongues.

These Sunday afternoon hrawls at passenger
station Just before the arrival or the trains
coming to be nuisance. Last Sunday afternoon
TWO young men had become engaged In some diff
sulty on the previous day met there drawn
knives prece aded to OF the vilest language
known TO pe>sple OF that class New Bern Journal
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-26
A Word for the Dog.

The Baltimore Evening Sun, which is eminent
ly lady-like, seems to have perfectly natura
dislike of dogs, In the course of lengthy edi
torial, it says:
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-26
A Theme for Scott or Byron.

"A 1heme for Scott Byron.
Tnat deciaafners contest which the Asheyitle High
School held continues re-echo and reyerberata in
the mountains. Every mountain between Asneytle
and -Hefadersonvtfe has found tongue. From peak
10 peak. the rafting crags among leaps the live
thunder. Somewhere upon the gusty SUBMITS sits
MT Locke Craig, who did not find any tree high
enough when contention his award began, with
Ashevfe's fair sex and Hendersonvile's ditto as the
contending parties
1t will be recalled ait-peFsens- fa,ff4iar-vtry,
current history that the three judges unanimously
awarded the handsome silver to Miss Motz,
OF Hendersonvtlle The judges decision says the
very promptly. for there was no possible question
In their minds as to the superiority of Miss MOTIFS
effort The Mars HILL Weaverville Waynesv,le and
Ashevile competitors did very well, but they were
ing Of the Hendersonville girl. The announcement
OF the award was followed by a which has
never been paraleied in this section" Ii was in
deed. like the scene which the urnpira
called first strike Casey, only there was no casey
to still the maddened tumult. Kill himi- XIII the
umpire"' must be termed mild expressions by COM
parison. Lynch him. was the least strenuous da-
nunciaton which the Asheville hurled at their
distinguished townsman. They crowded threa tening-
ly around the unfortunate judges We assume
though there ls no mention Of this In the published
report that hatpfns were drawn. Mr. Craig, who was
held to be the causing the decision against
the home team reflected upon his life insurance
with consolation. But happily the worst did not
come to the worst Watching his chance ere any
Hendersonville Times prints picture which shows
him In headlong flight through the mountains ON
horseback. staying not for brake stopping for
stone.
remains long refugee, however Hendersonvie may
be trusted to furnish him with wood and watarv
meaning safe place to hide out. until Asheve has
simmered down We regret that agreeable a
but the lesson for every public cannot be mis-
taken.-Charlette- Observer.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-26
feesifns a Tarf,e,r, Ex,,,ar

What business has a newspaper In this part
or the country Enipx To New York. He
element and is a prey TO sharpers Mr. al G. Dock
cry of the Rockingham Post has been on a trip to
the big town and talks like he could hardly get a
decent meal for less than the price OF a suit Of
clothes, "One service Of shad he says, cost So SO
small steak mutton chops SI50; no eggs or
chicken on the bill OF fare. guess they are watt
ing for shipment from the goat farm or the Big
Oak poultry farm. Terrapns quoted at STA
half portion IS. one portion $3.50 Two frogs legs
slha Poor folks here can't eat them. and with US
they won't eat them. At home Brother Dockery
gets whole shad for about a quarter and he gets
II fresh No wonder he sQueas But what business
ming around,
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IN HIS MACHINE AND CIRCLES THE AVIATION FIELD
 TWO TIMES.
Clifford Harmon Announces That He Will Try to Break the Worlds Distance Record, Starting
 from San Antonio.

Aviation Field, Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 13.-While Louis Paulhan of France did not do anything so won. .derful today as flying nearly mile high, he took up Miscarol and Mais- son, his assistants and circled the field several times with them in his aeroplane and cut "cross lots" in what was said by some to be an attempt to slow down lem Curtiss, who was fyiny the regular course at the same time for a ten-lap speed record. The passengers were landed safely.
 Curtiss manager protested against Paulhan getting in the way of the Curtiss machine and contest may de- velop, Curtiss' total time was 24 min. utes, 54 2-5 seconds, not a record Later Paulhan tried to beat this but failed by five seconds.
 Earlier in the day. with his wife as passenger Paulhan made three laps of the course in S:16 1-5. He flew over the judges stand after circl. ing the feldl- and alighted easily in the starting square
 On another flight of seven minutes. he had Mrs. Dick" Ferris as a pas senger. He cut corners, flew over the stands and she seemed to enjoy his pranks.
 Other chief features of the day:
 Paulhan set the mark at s:16 IS in the official trial for three laps in the passenger carrying contest. with Mine. Paulhan as his passenger.
 Curtiss failed to lower the three lap record, which he set yesterday.
 Hamilton, Paulhan, Curtiss and Will lard qualified in three lap flights for all events, flying around the course once and landing in a measured space of twenty feet, winning a prize of s2o0.
 Charles K. Hamilton, in a Curtiss machine, tried for the ten lap speed record, but landed on his third lap because of engine trouble.
 Charles K Hamilton today made a flight with his rudder wheel tied to show that the Curtiss machine could be operated without the Wright pat ents.
 Clifford B. Harmon of New York an nounced that he would attempt in the second week of February from San Antonio, Texas, in the balloon New York, to break the worlds distance record of 1900 miles. Harmon also will try to lift the Lahm cup, now held by A. Holland Forbes. who made 693 miles in a straight line.
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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE IS AS FAR FROM REACHING A DE-
 ClSIoN AS AT START.
Tn the Event No Senator Is Named by January 1s a Vacancy is De-
 clared and Election Is Held.

Jackson. Miss. Jan. 13-The first ballot in the senatorial caucus today resoulted as follows:
 Vardaman, 60; Percy, 23; Ander- son, 23; Alexander, 20; Byrd, IA Kyle 13; Longino, 5; Critz. 4 Whitfield. 1; McGehee, 1; c. E. Hooker 1; W. A. Belk, l. Total, 175; necessary to choice, SS.
 The second ballot resulted as fol lows:
 Vardaman, 60; Percy, 26; Alexan- der, 20; Anderson. 20; Byrd, 15; Kyle, 14; Critz, ?; Street, ?; Longino. l.; Whitfield, ?; Belk, ?; Watkins, 1. Total, 174 necessary to choice. SS.
 Adjournment was taken until to- morrow at D. m.
 The senatorial situation shows no material change. As heretofore Var daman leads with his usual number of votes, though he lost four on to- days balloting, receiving 69 on each of the two ballots taken, and the oth- CT candidates trailing along with prac- tically the same vote they had been receiving.
 There were more scattering votes today than ever, showing that the legislators are growing restless and are looking for an opening to end the deadlock.
 It is declared, however. that no dark horses will ever be seriously considered and there is a sentiment with many members to elect one of the men now in the race, or adjourn without a senator.
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COUNCIL COMMITTEE AT ATLAN- "A FINDS REASON FOR CROSS
 CRUELTY CHARGES.
Men Confined Were Regarded Only as Source from Which Money Could Be Derived to Ad-
 vance Politics.

Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 13.-The council committee which has been investi- tigating the charges of cruelty and abuses at the city stockade, or prison, reported to the council this evening that many of the assertions'were sub-
 :tantiated. Sweeping charges were
 recommended.
 The report begins with the asser ton that without attempting to fix the blame. conditions at the stockade are very bad"
 The attempt to operate the prison as a revenue producer Is asserted to be responsible, each administration trying to make more money than it's predecessor. This resulted in the per- neious custom of resentencins pris- oners for infractions of prison rules The food is pronounced wholesome but it's preparation filthy The sani- tary conditions are declared vile. The charge that prisoners were shackled so that their clothing could
 not be taken of for the term of their sentence, sometimes forty days, was sustained
 Whipping was declared necessary only in extreme cases. The iron rings to which young women were hanged by the wrists for hours, were declared less brutal than whipping, unless the one suspended were of small stature" Money from the sale of vegetables
 was misappropriated the committee found, but Commissioner of Public Works Collier had no knowledge of this. He was held responsible for conditions. however, although 1t was urged in extenuafion that he had too 'much to do.
 f "He was only part of vicious sys-
 tenn for which all of us are <>ssQn; sible," the report declayed.
 A separation of fhE departmssg
 from that of public Works is recom- | mended and generous appropriations
 tc remedy the vile sanitary conditions
 are urged.
 The report of the committee fol-
 lows close upon the conviction of Su- perintendent vining and Guard Cor nett of the stoekade, who were charg-
 ed with cruelty beating negro pris-
 oner.
 l The men were sentenced to pay l fine of $50 and s100 respectively or
 to serve six months imprisonment.
 They appealed.
 It was their indictment and a sting ing report by the grand jury on con-
 aitions as the grand jury found them
 that led to the investigation.
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MALvERN's s2o,ooo FIRE.
Originating in Carpenter Building, 1t
 Spread to Neighborine Building.

Malvern, Jan. 12.--A $2O,OOO fire oc- cured here this morning shortly af- ter midnight.
 About o'clock fire broke out in the second story of the Carpenter building on Main street, and spread rapidly. The structure was complete ly gutted, and the fire then spread to the Mcoonald X Barnett building, which was also destroyed. The Leip- CT building adjoining was badly dam. aged. The stocks of merchandise in the various buildings are almost complete loss.
 The total approximate loss is about s20,000 and insurance was carried as follows: Carpenter. $2O0O; McDon- aid, $l.o0O; E O. Barnett Bros, $6,0O0 George Roberson. $6,000; Baker & Edwards, $700; J. A. Burch, $500
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Elk Park, Small Town in Tennessee,
 Is Destroyed.


 Is Destroyed.
 Bristol. Tenn, Jan. 13s-Elk Park, a town of 1900 in Mitchell county, N C., was swept by a destructive fire this afternoon Twenty buildings in the center of the town are in ashes, Sith an estimated loss of $75,000. The burning building, all frame, in- cltde a bank, the railway station, number of store and several dwell ings. Elk Park is without any fire protection and for time the entire town was threatened with destruction. With apparatus sent from Johnson City, Tenn, on a special train, the flames were finally brought under con trol.
 There was comparatively little in surance on the destroyed property.
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mittee to take up the subject of abol- ishing the present style of spikes.
 We have inspected several devices to supplant the preesnt spikes said Johnson, but have found none of the devices satisfactory. There has been some complaint concerning spikes, but in the estimation of Comiskey and myself there is nothing that will the place of the good old spikes"
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REED INFLUENCES ELIMINATED.

New York, Jan. 1S.-S. B. Chapin X Co have been punished Daniel G. Reed resigned today as chairman Of the executive committee of the Chi cago, Rock Island and Pacific, and now, out of the mass of rumors, which have cropped up since the recent sen sational rise and fall in Rock Island common, comes the apparently au- thentlc report that the control of the Rock Island company is to change and that the Reed influence will be elim. mated.
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SEARCH FOR BODY.

Pensacola, Jan. 13.--Search is be- ing mase today for the body of liar old Belcher, F years old, a passen- ger on the British steamer Manches- ter Merchant
 The boy was walking on the wharf last night and disappeared about the same time that something was heard to fall into the water.
 He was en route from London to New Orleans by way of Pensacola. He expected to visit the ranch of an uncle in Texas. where his family is well known
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so.2O. This was cashed and Helgelien was given to understand he was noth- ing more than a farm hand.
 Lamphere was sent on an errand to Michigan City to remain all night. He returned to the Guinness homo and through a hole in the floor heard | Helgelien groan in distress. He was begging Mrs. Guinness to send for a doctor.
 1t was chloral she had given Hell gelien, according to Lamphere. Pre- sently Helgelien fell to the floor and Lamphere said he saw Mrs. Guinness strike the prostrate form and end the mans life.
 Lamphere the following night bur jed this body with Mrs. Gunness' as- sistance.
 shortly after Mrs Gunness and Lamphere quarrelled over money and he was ordered off the farm. She put her money in the bank the afternoon before Lsmphere chloroformed every one in the house.
 Lamphere said he was drunk the night he visited thep lace He thought he would find $500.
 He said the chloroform he used was part of the quantities he bought for Mrs Gunness.
 Ray Lamphere did not desire the death of the Gunness children and Jennie Olsen. His first question when he was arrested was whether the chil- dren had escaped. He did not even intend to kill Mrs Gunness.
 Although he confessed to greater crimes, he did not admit that he in- tentionally started the fire in which Mrs. Gunness and the children perish ed. Once he was willing to enter formal court plea of guilty to that charge in the hope of lenieney, but when hel earned that in the confes- sion of arson would be involved confession of murdering the family, he refused.
 Lamphere in his confession gave the names of the two men who, be- sides Helgelien. were murdered while hel ived at the Gunness house, one of whom married Mrs. Gunness. but the man who received his confidence has forgotten the names.
 The confession was put into writing at the time it was made, but to the extent of only one copy, which was left with Lamphere. According to the custodian of Lamphere this copy was not found among his possessions. It Is possible he destroyed it or gave it into the custody of somebody who may elect to make it's phraseology public later.
 Lamphere went to work for Mrs. Gunness in 1907 and tarried there to WOO, or rather, according to his story, to be wooed, for it was she, he said, who sued for his favor
 For time he held an assured posi- tion at the house on the hill and en- ioyed a propriety he had not known before At first he resented the com ing of the cousins, but as he received money frem Mrs. Gunness he was sat isfed when she drove him from the farm.
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FIGHT FUTURES SPECULATION.

Washington, Jan. 13.--A conference looking to the renewal of the fight on gambling in futures was held at the White House late today. when President Taft took up thes ubject with Representatives Scott Of Kan sas, Lowering of Massachusetts and Burleson of Texas.
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CHILD LABOR coMMlTT6@

Boston. Mass, Jan. 13r-Dr. A. J. McKelway of Atlanta today opened the first session of the annual con ference of the National Child Labor Committee. with an address review ing the work in the southern states. The general topic of the present meet ing is "Child Employing industries with broad scope in the addresses and discussions.
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FIVE BURNED TO DEATH.

Mister, Okla. Jan. 13.--Five uni dentitiea tramps were burned to death h wreck of oil and acid cars on the ~.ieago. Rock Island and Pacific. ten miles east of here last night.
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JACK JOHNSON FINED.

Boston, Mass Jan. 13.--Jack John- son, the heavyweight boxer. naid a fine of S2 in the municipal court to- day for operating an automobile with cut license and over-speeding
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SPIKES RETAINED.
Nothing That Will Take Their Place
 Say Maqnates.


 Chicago, Jan. 1S.-The old fashion ed baseball spikes will be retained in the American League, according to a decision reached at conference with B. B Johnson, president of the league, held here today with Charles A. Co miskey, president of the Chicago Americans.
 At the last meeting Johnson and comiskey were appointed as com
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ICE JAMS GO DOWN.

St Louis. Jan, 1s.--The last of the ice gorges in the Mississippi river went out late this afternoon. bring ing high water and an avalanche of ice down upon local shipping.
 The loss alneadx exceeds SI60 neD. and many boats are in great peril. \
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DIR. A. M. MOORE DEAD.

Naples. Jan. RIA NJ. Moore, sur seon in the United States Navy. re. tired. died here today Of pneumonia.
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Washington, Jan. 1S.-Forecast for Arkansas Fair Friday; Saturday, in. creasing cloudiness and warmer.
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FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT Over Leased Wires. But Two Papers in the State Have
 This Service. The News While It Is News.