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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
Heads of Navy Are Annoyed By Women

minated in the court-martial of two
officers, illustrates the prominent part
women play in navy circles.
Almost everybody knows of the
mutual i'll feeling existing between
the navy women and the department
Every once in a while something hap
pens to widen this breach. Only a
few days ago Ensign Charles M. Aus
tin, son of Representative Richard
W. Austin of Tennessee. was deprived
of an especially desirable berth by the
navy department merely because he
got married. He had been detached
from the dispatch boat Dolphin at the
Washington navy yard and ordered
to Japan for duty as a student at
tache at the American embassy at
Tokyo for the purpose of studying the
Japanese language. On the way to
his new post of duty he stopped at his
former home in Tennessee and was
married to a girl he had known for
many years.
This was too much for the unro-
mantle departmental authorities, who
suddenly decided that a married en-
sign would not make as good a stu
dent of the Japanese language as a
bachelor. Accordingly his orders
were revoked and instead of spending
his honeymoon in Tokyo he will have
less interesting service at the naval
training station on the Pacific coast.
He will, however, have his wife.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12

Chinese Take to Smoking Cigarettes

growing enterprises, Consul General
James T. Dubois at Singapore, cited
as follows an instance to show how
the investing public is sometimes ta-
ken in in the exploitation of the rub
Der industry there:
An estate was sold to promoters for
$150,000. The syndicate got an old
planter who knew the estate to put
flotation value on it. He named
$250,000. The promoters were not sat
isfied. Another expert examined and
reported. His price was $350,0O0
British and American gold was pour
ing into the country and the get-rich-
quick spirit was born. Another expert
was called in. He was told of the for
mer valuations and that they were un-
satisfactory. He valued the estate at
$500,000.
Just at this time, rubber took a big
jump in the London and New York
markets and another expert was asked
to report and he placed the flotation
price at $750,000 and the syndicate in
order to have it in round numbers
made it an even $8O0.00O and floated it
at this price.
People fought for the stock, the
share issue was oversubscribed and
many of them Immediately sold at a
good advance. All this was done with
In few months without the slightest
Improvement on the property except
the natural growth of the few hundred
acres of Para plants which had re-
Gently been planted.
Trained white supervisors on the
rubber estates are in demand, the con-
sui general reports, and there Is a
scarcity of labor and consequent high
wages.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
POLICE ARREST CRIPPEN
Doctor and Miss lie NeVe Admit
Their Identity.

DR.. Hawley Crippen and Miss Ethel
lie Neve are in the hands of Scotland
Yard At o'clock Sunday morning,
Inspector Dew boarded the ship off
Fathers Point with the pilots and in
a few minutes the handouts were on
the man for whom the police of the
world have been searching for the past
three weeks. AS for Miss LIE Neve,
when arrested she tainted in her cabin
still dressed in bOy's clothing.
Crippen was taken to a cell in Que
bee and later was arraigned in the lit
tie court room of Justice Punet Angers
for the murder of his wife At the same
time Ethel lie Neve was charged with
being an accessory. Crippen was calm
and defiant and protested his inno-
cence.
Later friends came to his aid. Arthur
Newton, we'll known London criminal
lawyer was asked to take up the de-
fense of Crippen.
From the altitude of Inspector Dew
and others concerned in the case it is
thought that Crippen has confessed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
SPORTING AFFAIRS.


Jim Jeffries has fatty denied he
ever said he was doped at Reno just
before his fight with Johnson. Jeff
was shown newspaper which
printed an alleged interview with him,
claiming he was drugged. Jeffries
in a rage threw the paper on the floor
and said: 81 never said it. l never
said it,
Lottie Shsrbert, an S-year-old trot-
ting mare by Sherbert-Lillie Maid, by
Sir Knight, has been sold by Mooney
Waxel and 5. ]. Steinhart, joint own
ers. to e. +. Stotesbury of Chestnut
Hill, Pa, for $4,000.
ice Ja1s, former lightweight ring
champion, says he is going home to
Baltimore to die. He will he in Chi
cago for a few days on his way east
from Prescott, Ariz. He is i'll with
tuberculosis.
Charles lIerzog, the Boston Ma
tional league clubs third baseman,
who was suspended over a month ago
because Of a disagreement with Man
ager Fred Lake, has been reinstated
Pacing two heats in the 2:05 pace in
2:O2K and 2:C3 proved too much for
Geers' Vyalier W.. at Detroit and the
purse vent to Ross K, Chicago
horse. driven By Dick Mcmahon.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
WAR is INMiIENT
AT SAN SEBASTIAN
Situation Is Regarded Gs Very
Serious by Premier.

At Madrid so serious view
does the government take of the un-
rest in the Basque provinces. concrete
evidence of which is shown by the
plans for the proposed demonstration
at San Sebastian, that $4,000 troops
were rushed to the district.
Prime Minister Canalejas does not
conceal the belief that the reli-
gious agitation is being used Largely
as cloak to shield a political and
revolutionary movement. He reiter-
ated this view at a meeting of the
cabinet. He told his colleagues that
he was determined to pursue strong
policy and that he was confident of
the support of majority in parlia-
ment and among the people of all
shades of liberalism throughout the
country. He made a similar statement
to the newspapers, saying that the
present movement which was ostensi-
bly, religious one, was purely an at
tempt at a revolutionary reaction on
the part of the Carlists
81 shall be at San Sebastian Sun
day with two Of my ministers, while
the remaining members of the cabi-
net will remain in Madrid to form a
council for the purpose of taking such
measures as may be deemed advisable
or as events may call forth. A strong
force of civil guards concentrated at
San Sebastian.
Senor SagastaS, minister of the in
terror, talked similarly. The minister
was quoted as saying: eve know
now that the clericals have bought up
allthe weapons and ammunition in the
shops at San Sebastian and the gov
ernment fears that it will be COM
PEELED to use extremely violent meas
ures to suppress the trouble. We
have enough troops, however, to en-
force order"
There is an unconfirmed rumor here
that Don Jaime, the Carlist pretender,
is at Biarritz awaiting events ard
with the belief that Sunday night will
see the basque provinces afame with
revolt
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
. Q Q 0 Q Q . . Q . . Q Q . o o,
!; CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
. 100000 eseesseesesssees

Three little boys Who had teen
searched for high and low since they
were missed from their homes in
Brooklyn were found dead in a vacant
lot, where a sand embankment had
fallen upon them while they were at
play. The presence of the todies in
the sand pile was discovered by dog
playing with boy in the lot TIE dead
children were Alfred Sohn aged 9, his
brother John, 6 years old, and Harold
VeTh2s, 9.
At Chicago Leo Pierson, IL years
old, is reported to he dying at the
Passavant hospital as the result of
prank Tlayed by several of his compan-
ions. After Pierson had climbed into
a wagon his companions started the
horse suddenly and the 10y fell to the
pavement. Wheels of the wa"on passed
over him and he was injured internal
ly.
Harvey Kanney, wealthy stockman
of near Kingman, Ind, is dead at
Kingman Of injuries received. He was
standing in front of team of horses,
hitched to a farm wagon, when they
started. the tongue of the wagon st~ik-
ing him in the stomach, and pinning
him to a tree
Two children of Michael Casper and
one son of John Burg, aged 2, were
burned to death when Mr.. Burg's barn
near Lena, Wis, was destroyed by
fire The children were playing in the
barn, and + is believed they set the
fire.
Not knowing it was loaded, doc"
Johnson of Athens, Ga, 6-year-old
boy, leveled a shotgun at his baby sis
ter and pulled the trigger The baby's
head was Blown off. A coroner's jury
held that the boy was irresponsible.
While mixing nitroglycerin at the
Dupont Powder company's factory near
Howard Junction, Pa, John Sloan was
blown to fragments and all that marks
the site of the factory is large hole
in the ground.
AS "a result of a family feSd Joe
Hensen, a mountaineer, living near
Wood n. NJ, was shot and killed by
Rev. w. R. Wright, Baptist minister
of Alamo Gordo
In a wrestling match at Pittsburg
Harry Coleman broke his cousin neck
and is in jail awaiting hearing on a
formal charge of murder
At Kansas City a policeman and an
undertaken were shot in burglar
chase. Neither will Gle az / the bur-
glar escaped uninjured.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
BOYCOTT ON U. S. GOODS
Chinese Object to the Detention
Sheds on Angel Island.
SeIf-GoVernment Society of Canton
Conducting Plan of China for
Chinese-Ask Cooperation.

A boycott Of American goods and
merchants on similar lines to the one
which several years ago caused mil
lions of dollars damage to American
trade in China, has been proclaimed
in Canton in response to complaints
of the treatment of Chinese In Amer
lea.
The specific cause of complaint on
this occasion is the objection of the
Chinese of San Francisco to the deten-
tiOD sheds on Angel Island in San Fran
cisco bay, which they have been en-
deavoring for some time to have re-
moved to San Francisco proper in or
der to secure better treatment for ar
irving Chinese.
The boycott is proclaimed by the
Chinese Self-Government Society OF
Canton, an organization conducting a
propaganda of China for the Chinese"
and for governmental reform to which
Chinese in San Francisco appealed y
letter
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12

TOHN HAY had a saying that the
~ ideal diplomatic service-if any
government ever succeeds in having
one-will be composed exclusively of
unmarried men. Mr.. Hay had no ex-
perience in naval matters, or he might
have included the navy in his maxim
There probably is no branch of the
government service, the Washington
Post says, where petticoat influence
is so strong as in the navy Ask any
ex-secretary offthe navy about it and
he will tell you how the navy women
in a thousand different ways, some
times unconsciously and occasionally
deliberately, annoy the navy depart
ment. He will tell you how they
scheme to obtain desirable posts Of
duty for their husbands or sons and
how they annoy the department with
requests for change of orders when
their husbands are transferred from
an easy job in Washington to sea duty
on the Asiatic station or some other
far-away tropical post. The recent row
at the Boston navy yard. which cul-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
seven PERISH IN
LONG ISLAND FIRE
Two Are Fatally Hurt and Ten
Others Are Injcred

Seven persons two of them women
were suffocated to death, two were
fatally hurt and ten others were less
seriously injured, when an lncendiary
lire destroyed a lodging house in
Jamaica, n. Y. But for the heroism of
one OF tth occupants, who was fatally
hurt while attempting to save others,
the loss of life would have been greater.
This man, Stefan Marzorswaski, was
awakened by the barking of dog. The
dead
STEFAN CANIENKROWZ, -ged 80.
FRANK NITKO, is.
JOHAN CONGRATZWI, 26.
LAWRENCE HONEST, Sc.
MARTIN MARSCHALL, 81.
AGNES SZURSRYTO, 27.
NELLIE SZUDICK, 25.
Fatally njured-Bladimar Pagawski,
80, tLcned and internally injured. Ste-
fan Marzorawaski, 35, right arm frac-
tured, internally hurt.
In the building when the flames were
discovered there were forty-five per-
sons, all asleep. Almost without ex-
ception they were immigrants recently
from their native lands and seeking
employment.
The dead were overcome by smoke.
They were dead when. taken out Both
of the men fatally injured were hurt
when they leaped from the top of the
three-story house, where they had been
trapped.
When the second alarm was turned
in three ambulances were called from
st. Mary's hospital. Nearly the entire
staff of Jamaica hospital also went to
the scene with another ambulance.
Field hospitals were established be-
yond the fire lines.
A big Russian bloodhound gave the
alarm. 1t was this dogs barking that
awoke Marzorawaski and sent him
yelling through the smoke-filled halls
from floor to floor.
From the position of several bodies
it was apparent that some of the vic
time had struggled to find exists
Neighbors attempted rescue work.
but were driven back. Marzorawaski
carried out three women and two chill
dren before his clothing caught fire.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
Girls Good Looks Are a Bar to Work

QST.
''Yes." she said, half-angry and half
amused, II have been overwhelmed
with offers of marriage as we'll as of
employment. But these offers do not
appeal to me. Most men forget that
have my own sweetheart. and if
were inclined to consider a second
time it seems that mine should be
the privilege of inviting his attentions
without having them thrust upon me.
"At first l did not take such things
seriously, but since then have known
other girls who have shared the same
fate, merely because they are more
beautiful than their colleagues.
Il have worked in offices where
there were II girls, and by the end
Of the third week l was embarrassed
by repeated offers of company, pleas
ures and the like by various men in
the Office. This gave rise to some
bitter passes between some of the
other girls and myself
II hope to be married by the autumn
of next year, but until then wish to
do something"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
SLAY IN MINE RIOT
One Dead and Scores Wounded
in a Desperate Conflict.

In desperate hand-to hand conflict
near the Export coal mines, ten miles
from Greensburg, Pa, a striking coal
miner was shot and George Davis of
Wilkesbarre, Pa, a member of the
Pennsylvania state constabulary, was
wounded seriously Nearly a score of
the others received minor injuries.
The battle between the strikers and
authorities was the result of the ef-
forts of the law officers to arrest sharp
shooters, said to be strike sympathiz-
ers, who, nightly for the past week,
have endeavored to shoot out search
light placed on the tipple of one of the
mines, where strike has been in
progress fer three months.
The body of the dead striker, who is
unidentified, was brought here. The
wounded trooper lies in a local hos
pital His condition is serious.
The strike situation in the coal
mines of this section is extremely
grave Rioting and the presence CT
state troops and deputy sheriffs are
the result, it is said, to unionize the Ir-
win district
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
DOOR Lo has suffered many priva

ID DOR Lo has suffered many priva-
tions at the hands of the national
government in the process of civilizing
him, but the hardest blow yet must be
no more fire water" sold on the ceded
lands of Minnesota. Lo will take his
seat on the water wagon at once.
The order includes several counties
and If carried out to the letter would
even prevent the sale of liquor in st.
Paul and Minneapolis. which stand on
ceded lands.
Under state laws the counties en-
braced in the order-Becker, Cass,
Clay, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Norman.
Beltrami. Itasca. Polk, Clear Water,
Red Lake, Grow Wing, Wadene and
OttertaIl-have enjoyed the license
system OF the state and Lo, who dear
ly loves his fire water. has been able
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
RIDERS ATTACK
79 YEAR RECORD
Two Hundred Miles Horseback
In 8h. Ann. Still Stands.
SQUIRE SET MARK IN 1881
English Sporting Men Hope. to Break
Changed Hands When OsbaIdeston
Turned the Trick With Fifty Stop.
pages and Twenty eight Horses.

An attempt is to be made under the
patronage of prominent English sport
ing men to break the extraordinary
record for long distance horseback
riding made on Nov. 8. 1881. by Squire
George Osbaldeston on the Newmarket
round course. Including fifty stop
pages and quarter of an hour for re-
freshments. the squire won 1000 guin-
cas- in stakes and large sum in his
own private wagers by riding 200
miles in hours and 40 minutes
He covered the distance in a cold
rainstorm, starting at Z a. M, weigh
ing in at 157 pounds. including saddle
and bride, and taking the full round
course of four miles at each lap. Fifty
times he circled it. and as many times
he changed horses.
Bet Started Famous Ride.
The famous ride was taken as the
result of bet by General Charlie that
the 200 miles could not be covered in
ten hours even with an unlimited num-
Der of horses. One nobleman bet 1000
to / the squire could not do it in nine
hours.
The squire had twenty-eight horses
at his disposal, and he covered the first
100 miles in little less than four
hours and twenty minutes. Then he
rested for fifteen minutes. refreshing
hfp1coIf rr-ifh OnI6 rtr on6 Il
glass of sherry. The whole distance
was ridden in seven hours, nineteen
minutes and four seconds. the rest of
the time being spent in stoppages to
mount and dismount. His best horse
was Tranby, which he rode on four
separate laps, the time being:
First lap-Eight minutes ten seconds.
Second lap-Eight minutes fiat.
Third lap-Eight minutes fifteen seconds
Fourth lap-Eight minutes fifty seconds.
But One Bad Horse.
Favey did a lap in eight minutes
eight seconds and Ipsala in eight min
utes twenty seconds. On the other
hand, the horse Ikey Solomon took
twelve minutes and was the worst of
the lot. 1t had to be whipped around
the course, and Osbaldeston had to
dismount once on the stretch.
The squire was forty-fve years old
when he accomplished his historic
sporting feat His training for the
event had consisted in riding siXty-fve
miles each morning in two and a half
hours and walking after partridges the
rest of the day to harden his muscles.
1t is said the horse Tranby was the
son of Blackjack out of an Orville
mare sent to Virginia in February.
1885
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
HAS NEW INDEPENDENCE DAY
Lawyer Celebrates AcquittaI of Editor
In 1875.

IN IIoOs
John f. Geeting. an attorney, re-
Gently draped his Chicago home with
flags In celebration of the anniversary
of what he considers the real birth of
the Declaration of Independence. be-
cause John Paul Zenger. editor of the
New York Weekly Journal. was ac-
quilted after a memorable trial for
criminal libel on Aug. 4. 1875.
Mr.. Geeting believes that except for
Zenger's acquittal after Alexander
Hamilton. then leader of the Ameri-
can bar, had told the jurors to follow
the dictates of their conscience. in spite
OF the instructions of the court. the
historic document of July 1. liIG.
might never have been written and
signed
Zenger. Mr.. Geefing says. had in
CURED the enmity Of the government
by his fearless criticism. Grand juries
had failed to indict him. and finally
prosecution was begun by information
The journals. was acquitted. though
the judge had instructed the jury to
return q verdict of guilty.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
APPENDICITIS CAUSE FOUND?
Modern Methods of Grinding Flour
Are Blamed.


Sir Lauder Brunton. one of Eng
lands most eminent physicians. told
the public health congress that met
at Birkenhead that he believed the
large increase of appendicitis during
the last twenty years was due to mod
ern methods of grinding wheat into
-four
Explaining his hypothesis. Sir Lau-
der said that years ago wheat was al
ways ground between two millstones.
but today it was ground between steel
rollers, which really acted like scis-
sOrs, the wheat being cut up. Wheat
ground in the new way would be diff
ferent under the microscope from that
ground under old fashioned conditions,
and there might be a different tend
ency attributed to this.
He had seen an extraordinary re-
port on endemic neuritis in America.
which. it was stated, was produced by
polished rice. If the patients ate the
rice without its being polished they
got we'll This showed how minute al
terationS would produce extraordinary
changes in the individual.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12

A FTER losing four positions within
"A year just because of her beauty,
Mary Todd has left Washington and
will try her fortune elsewhere. Miss
Todd set out to be a stenographer.
Her employer got mixed up in his die
tation and included phrases that could
not have been part of the correspond
ence. AS a shopgirl the floorwalkers
strolled too often near her counter. AS
a milliner she aroused the envy and
jealousy of customers.
Miss Todd has been living in George
town for a little more than a year.
She came here from a small Pennsyl-
vania town, well equipped to work,
with money enough to wait until a
reasonably good position was open to
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
CONVENTION OF SOLDIER BOYS
In Big Parade G. A. r. and Spanish
War Veterans Participate.

The New York Department of
Spanish War Veterans now in ses-
Sino in Saratoga, N. Y, voted to
present the name of Representative
William Sulzer of New York, who is
seeking the Democratic nomination for
for election as an honorary member
of the order.
In a parade the Spanish War Veter-
ans and Grand Army men marched
side by side. In connection with the
encampment, the ladies' auxiliary, the
Order of the Serpent and the Order
of the Dragon, composed of soldiers
who. climbed the big wall at Pekin, are
holding reunions.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
SUE STANDARD FOR $3.50, 900
Independent Oil Men Ask for Damages
Because of Monopoly of Trade.

Thomas c. Kelley, A. J. Steele and
Terence McMannes of Findlay, O., have
begun suit for $3.50, 900 damages against
the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey, the same company of Ohio,
and John D. Rockefeller.
They charge that the oil COMPANY
through its monopoly of business row-
cred prices, making competition i'm
possible and causing them losses ag-
gregating the amount sued for.
Kelley and Steele ask 100000 each
and McMannes $150,000. The three
we're formerly large producers. II
Storm Sweeps Lake Como.
At Milan, Italy, several large boats
have been wrecked in a storm which
swept Lake Como, and it is feared
there has been heavy loss of life.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
Sad Red Men Must Ride on the Wagon

| to procure it without restriction By
the new order he will have to go dry.
The provisions of the treaties by
which the lands were ceded prohibit
the introduction of intoxicating liquors
in the whole northern part of the state,
except by consent of congress or the
president but up to the present time
the provisions have not been enforced
population, which vastly outnumbers
the reds
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-12
PLOTTO KlLLDOWAGER QUEEN
Man Chosen for Assassination Tells
the Details and Then Kills Himself.

At Milan, an anarchist plot to
murder the Dowager Queen Margherita
has been discovered, the tenth ami
versary of the assassination of her
husband, King Humbert, who was
slain at Monza on July 20, 1900. me
man who was chosen to execute the
decision of the revolutionary group
gave himself up to the police, and aft
er confessing his part in the plot COM
mitted suicide in prison.