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The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
Copyright. 1900
DROPPED 5000 FEET
BALLOONlST FORGOT TO STRAP
HIMSELF TO TRAPEZE.
Descent So Terrific That He Broke a
Six-lnch Limb as CIeany as If 1t
Were Cut by Knife.

Asbury Park, N. J.-Hurtling out of
the evening sky over the aviation field
at Inter Laken, from the frightful al
titude of 5000 feet, Benjamin Prince,
a parachute jumper, was mangled so
horribly when his body struck the
ground that it could hardly be recog-
nized when it was taken to the
morgue.
The velocity of the unfortunate aer-
Onaut's descent was so terrific that
when his head struck a bough of an
apple tree six inches thick the impact
broke the branch as if it had been
shorn off with a keen-edged knife.
The accident was due to the youth s
own carelessness. Before swinging
off the ground under the huge hot air
ball in company with his team mate,
James Fleming, Prinz forgot to buckle
his safety belt to the trapeze bar of
the parachute. He was scheduled to
make what is known as double para
chute drop. When the first parachute
opened, after fall of 100 feet, the jar
of the sudden check was so abrupt
that the boy was thrown from his
scant perch and came hurting earth
ward simultaneously with the second
parachute, which he cut loose in his
agonized effort to grasp the bar.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
VENDING BEHIND IRON BARS
Detectives Covered $4,000 Miles in the
Hunt for Alleged Murderer.

Detectives Covered $4,000 Miles in the
Hunt for Alleged Murderer.
Louisville.-Joseph Vending, who
was returned to Louisville Friday, af-
ter a remarkable chase, to stand trial
on the charge of killing little Alma
Kellner, is prisoner of the common
wealth of Kentucky.
The return OF Vending to Louis
vile marks the end of probably the
longest chase in detective history. The
return trip from San Francisco to Lou
isville stretches the real hunt of about
1900 miles to total of over $4,000
miles.
Four months previous to the discov-
cry of the body Vending had left
Louisville quietly, not even letting his
wife know that he was going away.
When bloody clothing was found in
Weddings room he was charged with
the murder, and the wheels of the
continuous search for Vending were
set in motion.
The evidence against Vending will
be purely circumstantial, according to
Edward Tierney, of the board of pub
lie safety
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
Cotton Exports eIut Shipments.

New Work-Judging from the scare
ity OF freight space aboard outgoing
European Sseahships, the export trade
is remarkably large. This applies es-
pecially to cotton shipments, the con-
gestion OF which in the ports of ship
ment and on every outgoing steamer
is causing much annoyance to export
ers Of other freight. About 5000 bales
of cotton belonging to James A. Pat
ten, the Chicago Spectator, is await
ing shipment, and it has been found
impossible to gst freight accommoda-
tons for this big shipment
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
Pythians' sanitarium.

Milwaukee, Wis. = The supreme
lodge knights of Pythias has decided
not to take over the Las Vegas, N. M.
sanitarium for tubercular patients,
now under the jurisdiction of the
knights of Pythias of New Mexico.
A committee had been appointed to
pass upon the matter. 1t reported
that the work of alternating and cur
ing tubercular cases was still in the
experimental stage, and declared that
the organization was not justified In
such a responsible undertaking
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
Old Man Tarred and Feathered.

Atlantic City, = Joseph Vaughan.
Charles Quinn and Jacob Sears, three
residents of Mckee City, charged with
being implicated in tarring and feath-
ering Frank Sichert, a farmer living
near Cardiff, because of his alleged
attentions to widow, were held in
$4,000 bail each on charge of afro
cious assault and battery. Sichert,
who is over 60 years Of age, described
how he was dragged from his wagon,
loaded with garden truck, which he
was taking to Atlantic City, and tied
SO tightly that the ropes cut into the
flesh.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
FOUR RIDE IN AEROPLANE
Flight Accomplished With Apparent
Ease.

New York.-A feat in aviation I'M
paralleled in this or any other coun.
try was successfully performed on
Hampstead Plains near Mineola Sun.
day when Charles F. Willard took his
biplane into the air carrying three pas.
sengers besides himself. Willard took
his three friends distance of quar-.
ter of a mile at an average height OF
twenty feet. Willard called for vol.
unteers and R. G. Patterson, Archie
Albin and H. M. Willard signifed their
willingness to take a chance.
Willard tucked them away in all
sorts of positions and finally took his
seat He started the motor going full
power and after running about fifty
feet turned his forward planes up. The
machine shot into the air distance
of about twenty feet and then ahead
on an even keel for about quarter
of a mile, when Willard came back to
earth. Apparently the feat was per.
formed without the slightest difficulty.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
Improxe Indian Cotton.

Washington, y. difficulty is ex
perienced by cotton growers in India,
bith with staple and yield. Many ex-
periments have been made with the
object of improving both, but this far
with indiffedent success. Egyptian
and other exotic varieties have been
Introduced from time to time, but the
results have not been encouraging.
Under garden culture the finer staples
have responded well, but tried in the
fields they have failed to produce the
results they show in their native soils.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
MAYOR GAYNOR SHOT
BULLET ENTERS NECK, LODGES
UNDER THE TONGUE.
Man Who Was Dismissed From City
Service Fires Three Shots at the
Mayor.

New Work.-Wm. J. Gaynor, mayor
of the city of New York, while say
ing the last farewells to a group of his
friends on the promenade deck OF the
North German-Lloyd steamer Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse at 9:40 o'clock
Tuesday, was suddenly attacked from
behind by an armed man who sent a
bullet into his neck and another into
his back before he was stopped. The
mayor has chance to recover unless
blood poisoning develops.
His assailant is James ]. Gallagher
a discharged night Waterman form
erly attached to the department OF
docks and ferries. He is So years old,
and man of prodigious strength. 1t
took a dozen men to subdue him after
his assault on the mayor, among them
big Bill" Edwards, commissioner OF
street cleaning and former Prince
ton football player; Archibald Wat
son, corporation counsel; Ralph Bloo-
mer, who was also prominent for his
football feats at Harvard as Edwards
was at Princeton, and the mayors
secretary, Robert Adamson.
Gallagher made the following signed
confession of his act to Robert W.
Bell, acting chief of police of Hobo
ken:
Knowing that Mayor Gaynor was
going to Europe this morning to enjoy
himself after depriving me OF my
bread and butter, not porterhouse
steak. was irritated to the point OF
committing the act.'
Three shots were fired at the mayor.
Two of them missed, and the third
lodged in the feshy portion of the
left side of the neck. Blood gushed
from, the wound, and the first hasty
examinations led to the belief of seri'
Gus and perhaps fatal consequences.
The mayor retained consciousness,
and later examination by physicians
when the mayor was taken to the
hospital gave a hopeful outlook.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
STEEL TRusr AS CAT BUYER.

A rat got tangled up in one of the
sdypafnos which supply power for the
Feat blast furnace mill Of the United
State steel corporation at Gary. Ind.
says Louisville Courier-JournaI. 1t re-
Nuired several hours to separate the
rats remains from the dynamo and in
the meantime the corporation was los
ing money at the rate of thousand
dollars minute. Now the steel trust
Is advertising for cats. Advertisements
have been inserted in the Gary news
papers, Offering so cents apiece. with
NO limitations as to age. sex, size.
pedigree or character. Fifty cents a
head is good price for cats and the
officials of the steel trust are likely to
have to contend with an embarrass-
ment of offerings. When the news per
colates to all the cities and small
towns of Indiana there will be rush
Of feline shipments to Gary and the
steel trust win find itself with sur
plus of cats scarcely less troublesome
than the overplus of rats with which 1t
has been contending heretofore. Hun
dreds of Indiana families will willingly
part with all their feline possessions
at compensation Of so cents per cat
Some thousands of small boys will ex
plore the alleys and woodsheds until
the last backyard fence is denuded.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

A speaker at meeting of medical
society in New Jersey declared that
some Of the greatest surgeons living
had left sponges. forceps and other in.
struments in the abdominal cavities
OF persons operated upon, and that the
practise was "inexcusable." This
makes cheerful reading for the lay
public. especially that portion of 1t that
has hospital experience In prospect;
but the statement of the existence of
this practise is also puzzlfng from the
fact that 1t must be more or less ex.
pensive practise to the surgeons them.
selves to be SO careless about losing
good instruments.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
INDIANS PAY IMMENSE FEES
100000 Now Observation-Disclosures
Has Contracts for This Amount.

100000 Now Pending-McMurray
Has Contracts for This Amount.
Sulphur, Okla.-Lawyers' expense
accounts, running as high as 100000
single fee already paid, amounting
to $750,000, and contingent fees still
pending that would aggregate about
$5,000,000, figured in the investigation
of the Indian land affairs by the spe-
cial committee appointed by the house
of representatives.
1t was pointed out that the Indians
never had secured large amounts of
money due them without having to
.'come across" in the shape of fees,
and although they employed regular
lawyers on yearly salries, extra fees
were constantly paid for the employ
ment of special counsel. The special
fee of $750,000 was paid several years
ago to J. F. McMurray and his part
ners, after they had prosecuted what
are known as the citizenship cases"
which, it was stated, kept off the rolls
$4,000 persons who wanted to partici-
pate in the claims against the govern
ment.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
Hexburn plsIIkes Apixie.r

Seattle, Wash.-Senator w. B. Hey
burn of Idaho created sensation at a
reception given to Congressman T. r.
Hamer by stopping the orchestra
while the musicians were playing
Dixie Col Hamer had just finished
his address and the orchestra had
started laedley of well known airs.
About the sixth number in the medley
was Dixie" The senator leaped to
his feet. strobe across to the must.
clans and cried out: This is Repuh-
lican meeting. We want no such tunes
here"
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
GRAF TIERS PAY Cash
MEMPHIS CAR COMPANY is TO
PAY RAILROAD 100000.
It Is Announced That This VIII Be
No Bar to Criminal Prosecutions,
Which Are to Be Begun.

Chicago, Ill.-A settlement has been
arranged between the Illinois Central
Railroad and the Memphis Car Com
pany, whereby the latter is to pay
back 100000 of the 100000 of what
it is alleged to have defrauded the
railroad in repairing freight cars.
The suit against the Memphis Car
Company is in the chancery court at
Memphis and the bill charges that
the Illinois Central, through the con-
spiracy of four of it's former officials,
paid the car company approximately
100000 in excess of the money legal
ly due for the repair of cars.
1t is stated that some or all of the
former officials who were implicated
in the frauds have voluntarily paid
back to the Illinois Central all of the
money they received as their share
of the conspiracy, making a grand
total received by the company of
about 100000. Accordingly the for
mer officials have returned to the
company fully $1S0,000. This money
mas been paid by them, 1t is declared,
without any promise Of immunity from
criminal prosecution.
The return of the money, however,
will not cause any change in the plans
of the Illinois Central officials, who
will, it is stated, file information with
the municipal court which will lead
to the arrest of the offenders and their
examination before the
oOnrt
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
COTTON LADING CONCESSIONS
Returning New Orleans Banekr Ex-
presses His Confidence.

New Orleans, La-That there may
be some concessions on the part of
the English bankers in regard to their
demands that American bankers guar
antee bills of lading on cotton, is the
opinion of S. j. Wexler, New Or
leans banker, who has just returned
from Europe, where he attended the
conference held to discuss this sub
ject.
"The new rule does not become eff.
fective until October 81" said Mr..
Wexler. Il am hopeful that the con-
ference to be held in London Sep
TENDER 5, between American bankers
and English financiers, will bring
about notifications of the demands.
On no commodity except cotton do
they make such demand. Further
more, the plan obtains only with ref
erence to cotton from America, and
from no other country"
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
A New versIon.

Lawyers have a peculiar system Of
abbreviation, such words as trustees,
executors being cut down to trees,
exors. and admors. This practise led
to an amusing slip on the part of a
solicitor, who. somewhat late in life,
abandoned his profession and entered
the church. A few Sundays after his
ordination he startled his congrega-
ton while reading the lesson by deliv-
ering one of the passages as follows,I
Il see men as trustees walking"
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18
Lee Christmas Captured.

Guatemala, via Galveston, Texas
Gems. Manuel Bonilla AMI Lee Christ.
mas, with sixty men, have been cap
tured by the Guatemalan troops. The
capture took place off the Guatemalan
coast, whence the remnants of the
Bonilla forces fled in lighters after
their defeat in Honduras.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

A New York woman was fined five
dollars for getting drunk in public
and using the large I'D" to a police.
man. New York seems to be doing
something to keep the cost of the
necessaries of life ON the Great White
Way within reason.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

Down in Pittsburg the overcoat ma
kers have gone on strike. This may
pc the psychological moment for an
pvercoat strike. but who'd have
thought 1T
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

An Englishman has paid $500 for
600-year-old alphabet. He could have
got a new one for nothing. but these
Britons are SO conservative!
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

Some one has discovered $1,000. 900
germs in malaga grape. Still, for all
that, malaga grapes are pretty good
eating.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

st. Louis is bowling for a barrel OF
free ice water at each corner. VIII
ice cool that concrete composition
fondly thought to be water in St
Louis?
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

Staten Island has seen the first sea
serpent, and now the lid ought OF be
put on s. |.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

Awaiting and ballooning kill a man
every day or two just to prove that the
hir Is long way from being conquered
yet
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

Doctor Wiley says that there's moth.
ting especially dangerous In kissing
Except the prospect of marriage, we
presume.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

Even in hot weather some self-sac-
rificing, Woodworking correspondent
manages to sweat out war scare.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

An eighty-three-year-old Pennsylva-
mia dame takes her first ride on a
train. She couldn't learn any younger.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

Two Dreadnaughts will cost $23, ooo..
900. but that can't scare a dread.
uaught.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

Forty-four scrubwomen have been
laid OF by the city Of New York. New
FORKS economy fad knows no bounds.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-08-18

Excellent hot weather exercise Il
lWatchtng tennis match.
The log cabin Democrat., 1910-04-06
TWO THOUSAND
 IN ATTENDANCE EDUCATION CONFERENCE
OPENS IN LITTLE ROCK WITH MANY NOTED EDUCATORS
 IN ATTENDANCE

Little Rock, April 6.-The Confer ence for Educatio nof the South, the largest educational gathering of the south, with about 2,000 delegates in attendance, opens here this afternoon with Robert c. Ogden of New York presiding. The delegates to the con- vention began to arrive yesterday morning and every train from that time has brought dozens and the trains today are bringing hundreds. Nearly every town in the state is rep resented by several teachers, which is gratifying to Superintendent George B. Cook, Prof. B. W. Torreyson and the other Arkansas educators, who have worked so hard to make the con vention a success.
 The first meeting, one of the eXecu- tive board for the transaction of busi- jess, will take place in the auditorium of the Hotel Marion this afternoon at o'clock. The opening session will take place at the Capital theater to- night. The address of welcome will be delivered by Goveronr George W. Donaghey. This will be followed by the annual address of Robert C. Og- den, president of the conference. Thursday morning the session will be- gin at 10 o'clock in the Capital thea ter. This will be the session of the Association of Southern Superintend- ents, after which the farm school will be taken up.
 In the afternoon the delegates will be taken for an automobile ride over the city, starting at 2 o'clock and re- turning two hours later. From to ' the club ladies of Little Rock will tender an informal reception to the visiting ladies at the Hotel Marion.
The log cabin Democrat., 1910-04-06
HABEAS CORPUS
 PETITION DENIED

After spending nearly all after noon in hearing evidence on the ha- beas corpus petition of Mrs. Cora Will son of Wilson township, who sought to regain possession of two of her chil- dren, Judge J. A. Lea denied the pe- tition and set down the case for hearing at the second day of the next ter moi probate court, April 19.
 Mrs. Wilson is the mother of six daughters, children of the late James Hooks. Since his death, about two and a half years ago, it is stated that she has turned the children over to relatives of her deceased husband, who claim that she deeded to them her life estate in James Hooks farm prop erty as a consideration for the care of the children. J. R. Hooks was ap- pointed by the probate court last Jan
The log cabin Democrat., 1910-04-06
HENDRIX 10 PLAY
 UNIVERSITY HERE

Arrangements were completed this morning for a ball. game between Hendrix College and Arkansas Uni versity, which will be played at Hen driX park tomorrow afternoon, begin ming at 3 80. Several local fans sign ed up for a sufficient amount to guar antee the expense of the game, and Manager M. J. Russell this morning wired Coach Hugo Bezdek to stop here with his team tomorrow for a game with Hendrix before playing the Pi- rates at Little Rock Friday.
 Coach Wilbur of the Hendrix team said that he believed the game would be an interesting one, despite the fact that the varsity team has had hard practice for a month and ahs al- ready engaged in several intercolicgi- ate games, while this will be Hen driX's first game of the season and Coach Wilbur ahs been able to coach the team only four days since he has been here.
 The admission to the game will be g cents, which includes seat in the grandstand, and there will doubtless be a big attendance.
The log cabin Democrat., 1910-04-06
ELECTION RETURNS
 EXTREMELY SLOW
ONE RACE STILL IN DOUBT
SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMMIS. SIONERSHIP HAS NOT YET
 BEEN SETTLED.

Little Rock, April 6.-Never were the returns so slow in coming in for a state primary as they have been on the state primary of last week. Several counties have failed to make any sort of a report, and which can didates carried these counties IS prob ematical. Though it has been an nounced from time to time that Don aghey carried "A counties, White and Johnson counties have never made any official returns and it would not be surprising to see both of these counties come up for Kavanaugh in the end.
 The official results of the primaries are now being received by k. r. Mil wee, chairman of the Democratic state central committee, at his home in Clanendon, and will not be opened until the committee meets next month to canvass the returns. Until then the candidates will have to estimate the exact vote received by them.
 Earle w. Hodges has returns from all but three counties in his race showing he is leading about 5000 with a probability that the counties out SCdHu!hS Will come up III HIS IdNoi.
 Senator W. F. Mcknight, the lead ing candidate in the Southern district arrived in Little Rock yesterday and will remain until it is finally determ- ined whether Felsenthal or Mcknight is elected to the railroad commission Mcknight IS leading by about GOO in the counties so far heard from, but Felsenthal is supposed to have re- ceived majority of the votes cast in the missing counties, so the result will remain in doubt probably until the end of the week, by which time al townships should have reported.
The log cabin Democrat., 1910-04-06
VOTE IN CLARK COUNTY.

The official vote of Clark county is shown in the Okolona Messenger of this week. This is the home of Prof. J. H. Hinemon, who opposed Governor Donaghey and declared himself in favor of Kavanaugh. The tabulated vote shows that Donaghey carried all of the 30 precincts in Clark county except one, which went against him by a vote of p to IS. Two of the wards in Philadelphia, MT. Hinemons home, voted six to one in favor of Donaghey, the vote being 66 to Il and 102 to IS. The other ward was also for Donaghey, 175 to 40. The total in the county was, Donaghey 1S49, Kavanaugh 499.
The log cabin Democrat., 1910-04-06
232 VOTES CAST
 IN CITY ELECTION

Although little interest was mani fested in the city election yesterday about half the normal vote was boiled a total of 232 votes being cast in the three wards The ticket elected was as follows:
 Mayor-W. II. Duncan.
 Recorder-Opie Hartje.
 Treasurer-C. H. Newborn.
 Marshal-W. E. Clibourne.
 Aldermen-First ward, Wm. J Drummer and Frank E. Robins; Sec. ond ward, w. D. Cole, Jr., and Dr. G D. Dickerson; Third ward, N. c. Mar tin and w. R. Haiston.
 In the First ward 5 votes were cast, and each of the six nominees for aldermen were scratched once.
 The Second ward boiled 73 votes fol each nominee, except the aldermen o1 the First and Third wards, who re ceived 72.
 The largest vote was at the ThirC ward, the most conveniently located in the city, 104 being boiled. Recorder Opie Hartje, Marshal w. E. Chbourne and Alderman Frank E. Robins each got one scratch in this ward.
 The new municipal officers will be sworn in next Tuesday night, follow ing an adjournment of the old city council.
The log cabin Democrat., 1910-04-06
SHRINERS IN SESSION.

Hot Springs, April GA special train laden with Mystic Shriners ar rived here shortly after noon today and soon thereafter the streets were lined with curious crowds watching the Shriners parading toward the Ar lington hotel, where the ceremonial session will be held It is said that the function will be one of the big gest ever arranged by the Sahara Temple, Mystic Shrine. A large num- Der of novices will burn their feet in the hot sands tonight and the tradi- tional banquet will follow. Many of the nobles and novices are accompa- nied by their ladies. The meeting was to have been held in Fort Smith but was changed on account of lack of railway rate concessions.
The log cabin Democrat., 1910-04-06
WEATHER FORECAST.

New Orleans, April 6.-Tonight and Thursday, fair; warmer.
The log cabin Democrat., 1910-04-06
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

J. w. Patton, 45, and Mollie Wad- kins, II, Mayfower.