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STORY OF TRAGEDY
Said That Woman and Hard Luck Had Caused Him to Lose His Money

The reported tragedy has developed some of the most remarkable compli cations that have come to public at. tention lately It was originally re ported that Dr. Burns returned tc his home after II o'clock Thursday night from making a professional cal and that some time during the night g party of probably six men came to tin, house and beat out his brains with al axe. The body, it was then report. ed, had been placed in a wagon an taken away. Saturday morning neighbors who went to the house to investigate found Dr. Burns bed sat. urated with blood, with pieces ol brain and skull lying nearby. They followed the bloody trail of the wagon for six miles and it was then lost A message to the Commercial-Appeal from Davis, Okla, says:
 Tt was not Dr. S. l.. Burns who was killed at the home of Dr. Burns at Hennepin last Friday night, if ;u- deed a human being was killed, unless a telegram received by A. o. McCord the Santa Fe station agent at Davis from Seligman, Mo-. was from another person than Dr. Burns. The messa ge read:
 '' I see account in papers of my death. am visiting relatives in Ar kansas and am we'll and alive. Wire Meeks Bros. at Hennepin will be home January ?.
 Another telegram from Burns ia ther at Harrison, Ark, says, ,Dr. S. l.. Burns will arrive in Harrison to, night
 ssDispatches sent out from Henne- pin on Saturday were in error in stat ing that the body of Dr. Burns was found. No body has been found, ard the affair remains as deep 9 mys- tery as at first; in fact, deeper. since Dr. Burns is alive. Dr. Burns is said to have been married in Missouri sev- eral days ago.
 .sDr. c. S. Burns. brother of the missing man, who has offered re- ward for the finding of the body, be- lieyes that the telegranls received to- day are fictitious and that his brother was murdered.
 'sDr. Burns, the missing man, said ten days ago that he expected mur-
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His Experience.

Jasper" said Mrs. Grigson. who was looking over the morning paper. there's story of a woman who was robbed on street car in broad day light, and yet the thief got away un- suspected"
 Mr. Grigson said that he had seen the item, but that it was either typo graphical error or else the story was pure invention.
 "Why do you say that?" asked his wife
 Look at the item again It says her purse contained $100 in currency. does it not?"
 "Yes'
 "It says there was also a receipted bill for five dollar hat. does it not ?''
 "Yes"
 Well. no woman with $1OO in cash in her possession would buy five dol lar hat. at."-Youth's Companion.
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MARRIED BUT
 NOT MURDERED Did Dr. Burns Hoax Off
 cers-Remarkable
 Complications. ARE TELEGRAMS TRUE Was to Have Been in Court Last Sat urday-Strange Report is Sent Out.
ARE TELEGRAMS TRUE

Harrison, Dec. 27.-Dr. Sab Burns reported to have been most brutal!y murdered at his home in Hennepin Okla., Thursday night, is alive and well at the home of his father south of this city. He declares that the re- port of the assassination is most cer- tainly untrue and that he had no in- timation of the reports until he reach- ed Seligman, Mo-, yesterday.
 pr. Burns, who was educated ir the public schools of this city, is we'll known here and has been located in Oklahoma for several years engaged in the practice of medicine. He mar ried Miss Willie Co,ffey in this city and they were divorced about two years ago. She is now with rela- tives in Canada and their eight year old son is with his grandfather near here
 Dr. Burns says that he left Henne- pin Friday morning, going to Davis, where his brother. Dr. Charles Burns, is located. With a friend he went to Fort Worth, Texas, thence to Shreveport, La, and to Fort Smith, where on Sunday he was married to Mrs. Frances Mays. As soon as he reached Seligman on his way to Hac- rson he communicated with his fath- CT, also with his brother, notifying his safety.
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TENNESSEE T0GA
 COMBAT IS ON
Senator Frazier Making Strong FigLt to Retain His Place, EX-GOy. Me. Millen Claims Nomination and Patterson, Wright, Tyson and
 TempletOn.

Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 27.-In just one week from yesterday the Fifty seventh General Assembly of Tennes- see will convene at the State Capitol in this city In addition to choosing a United States senator the coming gen. eral assembly will elect state treas urer and state comptroller, will re- district the state and decide whether six amendment shall be submitted to the people.
 These amendments provide for a four years term for the governor, sheriff, and county trustees: that the secretary of state. comptroller and attorney general be elected by popu- lar vote. and that the August and No- vember elections be merged. In the redistricting the constitutional limit eff 99 members for the lower house cannot be transgressed.
 Chief interest is displayed in the United States SenatorShip Senator Frazier is making a strong f1ght to hold his place, while half dozen others are Quietly corraling their forces in the legislature with view fo deadlocking the proceedings, Ill case ho one candidate has a working ma jority on first roll call.
 Ex-Governor McMillen claims his nomination by the June primary, which was, however, practically ignor- ed by the other nominees. Cover nor Patterson and Hon. Luke E. Wright of Memphis are strongly tip ped off as being ready to contest the McMillen claims, should the prospect look at all favorable to the candidacy of either.
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SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Delivered By Carrier
A DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR.

A cowardly mob at Hot Springs celebrated Christmas with a lynching, when they riddled the body of Oscar Chitwood with bullets to avenge the death of Sheriff Jake Houpt, whom he killed in a battle with the sheriff and his deputies some months ago. The murder of Chitwood will give Hot Springs added reputation Of law lessness from which it will take years to recover. The lynching was dome under the cover of night and at the time that deputies were preparing to return him to the State penitentiary at Little Rock.
 The work of the mob leaders. who fired the bullets into Ch:twood's body was cowardly. It was not the deed of brave men. No brave man will cover his face and sneak out into the dark and deliberately take human life.
 Chitwood had been arraigned for trial and had asked for and was granted change of venue. The law was gradually taking It's course and he would have undoubtedly been sen tenced to death by jury of his peers. The lynchins that came at a time when the State was using every effort to inflict npon the desperado the pun 1shment he @ justly deserved. was anything but lair to the prisoner and by no means sa.r to the State.
 It was an assaeE.nation Of the law and every man who took a hand in the disgracefal anfair should b> hrought to justice. No man who has
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His Critic.

''The greatest compliment that ever received" says Opie Read. twas crit icism. Several years ago went to Arkansas and visited the scene where one of my stories is laid The landlord of the little hotel said to me:
 "'Here comes little old fellow to whom loaned copy of your book. He can't read. but his wife reads to him. Let's see what he says about the book. nA
 "Hello. Jason. did your wife read that book to you?"
 "Mawnin'. !sah. Yes. she done read it to me
 "'"Well. what do you think of t?''
 "'"Huh: That ain't no book at all. I done lived hear fo' fo'ty yeahs an done hearn folks talk that away all tn time" '-Cincinuati Inquirer.
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Wants To Help Some One.

For thirty years J. F. Boyer Of Fertile, Mo-, needed help and couldn't find it. That's why he wants to help some one now. Suffering so long himself he feels for all distress from Backache, Nervousness, Loss of Appetite, Lassitude and Kidney dis orders. He shows that Electric Bit ters work wonders for such trouble "Five bottles," he writes, wholly cured me and now I am we'll and hearty" It's also positively guar anteed for Liver Trouble, Dyspepsia Blood Disorders, Female Complaints and Malaria. Try them. 5oc. al all Druggists.
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LIBERTY BELL.
It's Connection With tho Declaration of
 Independence.

Independence.
 The famous Liberty bell was cast in London in 1752, brought to America and subsequently recast in Philadel- phia It bears the inscription, "Pro- claim Liberty Throughout the World and to All the Inhabitants Thereof" It was cracked while being tolled after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1885. It is kept on exhibition in h. dependence hall. Philadelphia. 1t has had fictitious importance owing to the popular belief that its ringing pro c.cimcd the adoption of the Declara- tion of Independence on July 4. 1I76. Concerning this belief. however. Fried enwald in his Declaration of fnde- pendence" Q90N says:
 ssThere is no shadow of authority even for associatilg the ringing of the bell with the announcement of the
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THE REsSlANs.
They Were Good Soldiers, and Some
 Became Good Americans.

They We're Good Soldiers, and Some
 Became Good Americans.
 There is popular belief among some people that the Hessian mercenaries brought here by the British govern ment to fight the Americans remarked here after the war was over and t!:at their descendants constitute a consid- erable element of the Pennsylvania Germans of today. Comparatively few remained here after the war, because the British government was under con- tract to return such as escaped the casualties of the war after it was over. The few that remained made good citi- zens, as they made the very best sol diers against the Americans, and whenever it was practical to do so they were put in the most responsible places by the British commanders.
 The intense hatred at one time against the so called Hessian soldiers, some of which still fingers with the present generation, is very unjust, be- cause they did not volunteer to fight against the Americans, but they were forced into the British service by the impecunious German princes who sold them to the British like so many slaves. The Hessian soldiers would sometimes take a notion to desert. and they invariably found refuge among some of the German colonists. con- siderable number of them were left behind from time to time on marches. on account of sickness or wounds. These always found a ready welcome among German settlers; few of them ever found the way back to their na- tive land-"Pennsylvania Germans" by William Beidelman.
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Love and the Laundry.

The only thing find to say agains, you is that your washing bill is far too extravagant. Last week you> had six hlouses in the wash Why. Jane. mr own daughter never sends more than two.' sd a
 "Ah. that may be. num- replied lane. but I ave to! Your daughters sweetheart is bank clerk. while my young man is a chimney sweep. It makes difference. mum."-London Tit-BitS.
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agreement upon independence. The mythical legend of the blue eyed boy waiting outside the door to give the
 signal to the nsan in the bell tower is the product of the fertile imagina tion of one of Philadelphia's carly TO- mancers. George Lppard. who first gave currency to 1t in his appropriate ly called Legends of the Revolution This book was published in 1847."- New York American.
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GROOM WAITED AS
 SHE WED ANOTHER

Dublin. Ga. Dec. 27.-While Coll CT Walker, of Atlanta and some of ms guests waited here yesterday for tie arrival of Walkers bride-elect, MISS Olive Leonard, a telephone message came from Wrightsville that she had married Thomas Beall of this city on Sunday. Beall was to have been one of the attendants at the wedding ana it was he who few days ago secursd Walkers marriage license at the lat ter's request. ssf,,s
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der in Hennepin before the holidays were over. On December l he maae will, in which he bequeathed hts estate, including $13,00O insurance money to his young son. In tne VIII is this statement:
 .' sWomen and hard luck nave caused me to lose a big part of my money"
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Other Possibilities.

Knoxville, Tenn, Dec. 27.-Col. l.. D Tyson and Jerome Templeton cf Knoxville are also included in the seatorial possibilities MT. Temple ton has formally announced, and Col onel Tyson :s being urged to enter the race.
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The fight to dissolve the Sugar Trust has begun. It ought to get fierce about the time the next pres idential election is held, but at the present time the Government has undertaken to dissolve it in glass of water.
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The anti-Diaz newspapers in Mexi- co are being suppressed as fast as they turn up. There's nothing so im- portant to the old man now as hay ing unanimous support of the press.
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The National Cloak and Skirt Man ufacturers' Association says the hob ble skirt is doomed, but not word about the women that try to wear them.
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It costs the New York Democrat,c State Committee $32S,S7O to erect the state ticket. Gee, when was so much ever before got for so small an out lay.
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O|sn

The man in Hot Springs, Ark, who has lived thirty-two days without eat ing is probably trying to solve the high cost of living problem Also he is in a fair way, no doubt to solve the problem of the low cost of dying.
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Cleaned Thana Ont

5 First Girl-Was your bazaar great success? Second Girl-1l should think go. All the gentlemen had to walk
 home. They hadn't even. penny in their pockets to pay, their tram fares. London Tit Bits. 55sn %
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My full name," says Champ Clark the next Speaker of the House, ''is Beauchamp Clark Shake, Beau, you curled Democratic darling.
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The recurrence of floods in France and in our own Western States Is enough to confuse the scientist who insists that the earth is drying up.
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Every Insurgent in Washington has so far, shown himself absolutely i'm pervious to pie.
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Fortunately, Governor Harmon likes
 the looks of the White House.
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The disinterested patriots,' who combined themselves with the Demo- crats are becoming greater with each passing day.
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Ind, the inquest showed that Senator Beveridge has been shot both in the front and in the rear.
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If Colonel Bryan really wants the Democrats party to win in 1912. wh.' doesn't he let it alone?
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Mrs. R. E. Spillman and Saby spent
 yesterday in Little Rock
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sTRAYED-From stable of MT. W. ;. shepherd, in Pine Bluff, Friday sn'' one pay mare years old, white star m forehead. wire cut on right .ront loot. $500 reward will be pai, tol return Of same to J. A. clem- Ark. '''s nns up the Amer1can-rxce = =. oo' when you have some clothes 70 clean and press.
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According to Governor Marshall. of
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,.. .'sona contemplating the srec'
 s.., 2. or o any builans should consult vl'n Mitchell selismaa. .rchtt.ct c,t,. sen' Bank Buildins. ;,
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. - car of White Crest flour lust Sr ..ee. "Bfst Flour Msde."-
 e.o' oo' 1a 2 IF.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-31
GENERAL ORDER ISSUED
 FOR THE SONS REUNION

i veterans, Max Hamburger, Jr., chair. man.
 Reception and entertainment of spon- l sors and maids of honor, Adolph D. l Bloch, chairman. Hotel accommodations, Charles B. Her vey, chairman. Lodging and eating, other than hotels Harry T. Hartwell. chairman. Information, Henry Hess, chairman. Parade and review. Albert s. Lyons, chairman.
 Horses and carriages, Frank W. Cren- shaw, chairman. HEADQUARTERS The Headquarters of the commander-in-chief and staff and of the official sponsors and maids of honor will be at the Cawthon hotel, To- cated at the southwest corner of Con- ception and St. Francis streets. All com rades are invited to report to headquar- ters immediately upon their arrival. Tick cts for the various social functions will be supplied on application at headquar- ters.
 All formal sessions of the reunion con- vention will be held at the German Re- lief hall, located at the southeast corner of St. Emanuel and Cont streets, two blocks from the Cawthon hotel.
 8. Section 2, article VI of the constitu- tion requires the department commanders to forward their annual reports to the commander-in-chief one month before the annual reunion.
 Section 29 article VI makes the follow ing requirement of the division com manders: 'One month before the annual reunion they shall make written re- port to the commander-in-chief."
 Sections s1-37, article VI provide for the annual reports to be submitted by the staff.
 Section 10s article XVII in part is as follows:
 Reports of committees shall be sent to the commander-in-chief one month before the annual reunion.'
 Department and division commanders, staff officers and committees are hereby ordered to follow the constitutional re- quirements.
 CONFEDERATED SOUTHERN ME- MORTAL ASSOCIATIONS. At the re- quest of its president, Mrs. w. J. Behan. the commander-in-chief takes pleasure in ern Memorial association will hold it's eleventh convention in Mobile on the same date as fixed for the reunion. The open ing feature of the convention will be the usual Jefferson Davis memorial service.
 STAFF-1c- The several members of the staff of the commander-in-ciiief are ex- pected to be in attendance upon the re- union. They will report for duty as soon as possible after arrival in the city.
 APPEAL-11. It is tho earnest desire of the commander-in-chief that this reunion be the most successful in the history of the organization. Matters of great importance will come before the conven- tion, and all visiting sons are urged to be present and take part In the business meetings. All camps should elect dele gates at once.
 Department, division and brigade com manders are expected to cooperate with headquarters, and to give publicity to this order.
 By order of
 CLARENCE J. OWENS, Chief. Official:
 NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-31
HORSES GUT INTO BOASTS AND STEAKS

Chicago, January so.-In an official re- uort to the Illinois state food commission, made public today, State Inspector Hoey declared that horses are being slaughtered by the wholesale in Chicago and the meat is being sold and distributed for human consumption. The meat, he says. Is be- ing cut into roasts, steaks and sausages, and is being sold to free lunch vendors in Chicago and to some farming districts and mining camps, where foreigners are em- ployed. Hitherto, says the report, It was the general belief that all horse meat prepared in Chicago was for shipment to Copenhagen, Denmark and the fact that it is being put up for home consumption the report adds, is looked upon as neces- sitating a new state law regulating the killing of horses.
 All the horse-killing establishments, it was reported, are smaI slaughtering houses operated in obscure parts of the city. In one place it was found 15 horses a week were killed The product of this place went to points in Wisconsin, says the report, and some to Illinois. At an- other place castings for sausages were found but the proprietor declared they were for shipment to Denmark.
 Most of our meat goes there," says the report. Denmark Is the best horse meat market in the world.''
 Inquiry in cheap boarding house dis- trict disclosed that meat was purchased at cents a pound when the butchers were asking cents for their cheapest meat, says the report
 A rigid investigation of conditions is recommended in the inspectors report.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-31
Knew His Man.

Ex-Governor Waller of Connecticut once wanted to obtain charter for a new corporation which he represented. and the opposition called James G. Batter son. an insurance president, as it's star witness. He was asked by his own side only two questions.
 You have lived in Hartford great many years. MT. BattersonT'
 ''Yes sIr."
 Are you in favor of granting this charter?''
 "No sir
 Here his lawyers rested. leaving the rest to chance, knowing that Mir. Batter son could keep his end up in any verbal battle with ex-Governor Waller. The lat ter began by asking:
 MT. Batierson. you have lived here many years?"
 1T have"
 well. sir" added Governor Waller, 1t is my wish that you may live in Hart ford many more years. That is all. sir"
 Thus was MT. Battersons opportunity to talk shelved. Governor Waller knew his man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-31
GI0h'ing Outlook For
 5. 4. 4. v. Spring Neet

The athletic committee of the Athletic club held a meeting yesterday morning and heard the most flattering reports on the preparations for the spring meet of the Southern Amateur Athletic union to be held in Birmingham May and 2.
 This is the first time the southern meet has been pulled off in Birmingham since 1905, and it promises to be the greatest ever held. The club is in receipt of let ters from Auburn. Alabama, Vanderbilt, University of Texas. University of Ten nessee, A. and M. of Mississippi, Sewanee, 
 Clemson and a number of other colleges indicating that the college feature of the meet will be very strong.
 It will be dual meet the college scores being kept separate as well as col lectively, and trophies and medals awarded in both classes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-31
CARACAS CONDUCT
 CHURCH SERVICES
sCoNTINuED FROM PAGE s.)

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5.) 
 Baraca class, the Philathea movement was begun sister work. The idea spread so rapidly and MT. Hudson became 50 enthused over the idea of a world wide movement that he gave more and more time to the work. and begun to close out the crockery business. He sold his three stores and is now giving his entire time to the effort.
 Nearly 20 years have elapsed since the first class was organized, and the orig inal 19 have grown into Baraca broth erhood of over 36O,0O0. MT. Hudson is la- boring for and Is expecting to see the movement numbering 100000 men. The Philathea has likewise been successful and today numbers over 150000.
 As we consider these enormous figures the question arises, What Is there in the nature of the organization that has brought about such results?'' MT Hud- son sums up the answer In two significant words, Sympathy and others
 Sympathy"
 Sympathy does not mean a world-be pious, canctimonious attitude available only in hours of sickness and death. It another's life and having fellowship as comrade. Hudson realized that we must know men as individuals and have regard for their likes if we would win them personally. So his class organiza- tions were planned for men of every con ceivable taste. When d violinist came
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-31
CHARGES BROUGHT
 AGAINST BISHOP

Little Rock, Ark. January 30.-Com-- municants of Trinity Cathedral of this city met today in opposition to the eff forts of Bishop William Montgomery Brown of the Episcopal diocese of Ark ansas to depose Rev. John Hartley as dean of the cathedral and archbishop of Trinity parish. Dean Hartley declared it was his intentions to lay his case before Bishop Futile of St. Louis, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal church k the United States, in an effort to re- tain his pastorate.
 Dean Hartley charges Bishop Brown with ''misconduct'' in dealing with the Trinity cathedral parish. He alleges that his adverse criticism of volume on Church Unification,' written by Bishop Brown Is the cause Of the trouble.
 At the meeting today following an ad- dress by Dean Hartley, resolutions were adopted condemning Bishop Browns ac- ton in abolishing the parish and deposing the dean. Dean Hartley was indorsed and a. committee was empowered to lay his charges before Bishop Futile.