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The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
DID !. G. RAWN SHOOT SELF
President Monon Railway Killed In
His Home.

Chicago, I1l.-Suicide or murder?
Which shall be the last word writ
ten in the story Of the tragic ending
that came to the life of Ira G. Rawn,
president of the Monon railway, early
Wednesday morning in his summer
home at Winnetka? That he fell a
victim to the revolver of a house
breaker whom he had surprised fore
ing the side door of his residence at
an early hour is the positive declara-
ton of his family and his friends.
Strength is given this view of the
tragedy by the fact that Winnetka has
for weeks been infested with daring
burglars.
The police are working on a theory
that MI. Rawn killed himself. As a
basis for their suicide theory, the po-
lice advance the following reasons:
They point to the fact that MI.
Rawn was operating vice-president of
the Illinois Central railroad at the
time fraudulent car repair contracts
were put through, and that recently
he had been drawn into the Illinois
Central graft Investigation as a chief
witness. They say that the action OF
Mr.. Rawn's relatives in refusing to
aid the Chicago detective department
to search for the alleged murderer
Is suspicious.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
MEMBERS OF MOB ACQUITTED
Judge DepIores Sentiment Favor
ing Mob Law.

Cairo, Ill.-"We find the defendants
not guilty" This was the verdict rem
dered in the mob case, ending the trial
of the twelve men charged with the
attack on the Alexander county Jail
on the night of February II last.
The court room was crowded when
the verdict was brought in, and after
it was read Judge Duncan addressed
the crowd, stating that he found an
unhealthy sentiment in Cairo, many
believing that moi violence law is
sometimes justifable.
"That is wrong" he said, under
no circumstances does mob law better
conditions"
AS soon as the defendants and jul
rors left the court room there was an
exchange of congratulations, and then
the defendants piled into a big auto
mobile and paraded through the
streets to celebrate their acquittal.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
YOUTHS REVENGE
Tho Whole Family Victims Of Ex-Em.
pIoye's Wrath.

Princeton, N. J.-Emilio Bassi, an
italian boy 20 years old, who was en-
ployed by Miss Rose Norton of this
place, is confined in the county Jail
under suspicion of having poisoned
Miss North, her uncle, Mr.. Harper, E.
H. Newton and the cook of the Norton
residence.
Bassi, for disobeying orders, was
discharged by Miss Norton. The Ital-
ian became wild with anger and APP
preaching her, threatened to get ever
one way or another. Miss Norton gave
very little thought to the threats and
later at dinner she spoke of the
threats made by Bassi. The dessert
consisted of ~blackberries and cream.
All partook Of the fruit, and coon after
were seized with violent and burning
pains.
An alarm was given and a doctor
called, but before medical aid could
respond wild excitement prevailed in
the house by the discovery that an at
tempt had been made to wipe out the
work of the p~oisoner by fire. The
house was on fire in three places In the
attic, and for a time it looked as if the
residence would be destroyed. Fire
men carried the helpless victims to a
nearby physician, while other iremen
extinguished the spreading flames
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
TEDDY IS HANDS OFF
DECLARES He WILL TAKE NO
PART IN NOMINATIONS.
AZ Utica Col. Roosevelt VIII Make
First Political Speech, Defining He
Attitude.

Oyster Bay, N. Theodore Roose-
welt announced that he does not in
tend trying to dictate nominations for
the fall election.
Il want it distinctly understood that
i shall take no part in nominations
anywhere" was the way the ex-presi-
dent put 1t.
This announcement Of the ex-presi-
dent goes as to every state and ma
tional fight, even to the governorship
Of New York. In an interview last
week he was quoted IS saying that 4
shall pick the governor of New York
state" But Monday he laid emphasis
on his inclination to let the others do
the nominating. He will continue to
hold conferences with the state politi-
cal leaders and Sound sentiment, hut
as to picking out candidates, never, at
least SO he says.
When asked IL he had a candidate
in mind for the governorship, the ex-
president maintained q sphynx-like
silence.
"My brother-in-law, Douglass Robin
son, and his son, my nephew, Theo-
dore Robinson, were down to see me.
My brother-in-law is a member Of the
Herkimer county grange and is also a
member of the committee of the
grange which is arranging for the
grange picnic to be held at Utica at
the end Of August, and he came to ex-
tend to me the committees invitation
to speak at the picnic and | accepted"
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
MOST HEINOUS CRIME
BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY MuH
DERED IN WINSTON COUNTY.
Seized by One or More Men, Dragged
Into Bushes and Her Throat
Cut From Ear to Ear.

Louisville, Miss.-What is perhaps
the foulest, most heinous crime eveI
committed in the state Of Mississippi
by a white man has Mortified the PEG
pie OF Winston county. Great excite
ment prevails among all the people
and one home is plunged in the dark
est horror.
At Rural Hill p~ostoffce, on Thurs
day evening, a young girl was muir
dered in a most brutal manner. Miss
Jane Sharpe, the daughter of viii
Sharpe, went to the postoffice, about
q mile from her home, for her mail,
Failing to return before shutdown, her
people began a search for her, which
all the long night through proved un'
successful, but Friday morning at 7:3C
the girls body was found lying in a
skirt of woods, her throat cut from
ear to ear, her head bruised and man.
gled. She was a beautiful young wo'
man, and had a large connection among
the people in Louisville and McCool,
as we'll as the Rural Hill neighbor'
hood.
The facts, as nearly as can be as.
certained, are as follows: Suspicion
first pointed to a young man by name
of Permenter, who failed to join the
searching party, but advised the posse
that they need not look in the grove.
as he had looked there and the body
was not there. The searchers, how.
ever looked there and found the
body. Permenter, together with two
others, Cummings and Burkfeld, who
were in swimming during the after
noon were arrested and placed in the
jail in Louisville.
1t is believed all are guilty of hav.
ing accomplished her death. There is
but little, if any doubt, of the guilt
of the men. All are young men, q
OF. % years old, and Permenter was
once tried for assaulting a 7-year-
old child.
Was Engaged to Marry.
Miss Sharpe had refused his atten.
lions and also the attentions Of one
of the other suspected parties, and
was engaged to be married to another
young man in the neighborhodo.
Upon the news of the terrible crime
reaching Louisville, a party of rela-
tives of the dead girl, as we'll as the
sheriff and his deputies, went out to
the scene of the crime. Judge McLain
adjourned court and ACCOMPANIED the
sheriff's party. A large mob of coun-
try friends had gathered, and Judge
McLain promised speedy justice If
they would allow the law to avenge
the death of the girl. Fearing the an
CRY mob, they telephoned back to
Louisville for more help. They met
the sheriff's party with the three pris.
oners, followed by about seventy-five
armed men who were threatening to
take the law into their own hands
and have life for life.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
FATHER FOUND THE BODY.
His Neighbors Helped Him In the
Search


Kosciusko, Nissan angry mob is
filling the town of Louisville, in Win
ston county, threatening to lynch
Swinton Permenter, a young white
man, who was placed in jail there FRI
day, charged with numbering Miss
Jane Sharpe, a beautiful young daugh-
ter of William Sharpe, a planter resid-
ing near Rural Hill. He was arrested
on circumstantial evidence, and two
more young men living in that COM
munity are under suspicion. His shoes
fitted into the tracks leading away
from the scene of the foul crime, and
certain peculiarities in the tracks cor
respond with similar marks on his
shoes.
No more revolving crime was ever
committed in this state. Miss Sharpe
left home Thursday afternoon at 4
o'clock to go to Rural Hill for the
mail. That was the last her family
saw Of her alive. Friday morning at
2 o'clock her frenzied father and half
a hundred neighbors came upon her
dead body, lying 200 yards from the
road, her throat cut from ear to ear,
her form covered with her own blood.
Leading Of the Trail.
Mr.. Sharpe carried the body of his
child home and his neighbors contin-
ued the hunt for the wretches who had
murdered her. 1t was a lonely scene,
half a mile from the Sharpe house.
The young girl had been seized as she
was traversing a path through the
woods, a neal cut to the postoffice.
and the bushes. showed unmistakable
evidences of the frightful struggle
she had undergone to protect herself.
AS soon as daylight came officers
were on the scene and they began to
follow the tracks. One of the trails
led from the murder scene to the home
of Permenter, and the tracks fitted his
shoes so exactly, and his conduct,
under examination, was so strange and
convicting that he was at once ar
rested by Sheriff Hull and carried to
Louisville.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
COTTON LEADERS FIGHT
OUTCOME OF FEELING BETWEEN
BULLS AND BEARS.
Reaches Boiling Point When Hayne,
Bull Leader is Accused of
Deserving His Following.

New York.-There was q fist fight
between Frank B. Hayne, the New
Orleans bull cotton leader, and Lamar
L. Fleming, in Delmonico's Wednes-
day.
The fight was the outcome OF the
feeling which for some weeks past has
existed between the bull and bear
cliques on the cotton exchange. For
two years the two factions have been
having it out on the floor, with honors
almost entirely with the Paten-Hayne-
Brown-Scales combination, but the
good feeling that usually exists on ex-
changes held out until the bears went
to the department of justice with com
plants that the bull leaders were vio-
lating the Sherman antitrust act.
This complaint was followed by the
indictment of Messrs. Patten, Brown
and others on charges Of welching on
the part of their associates. There
have also been charges that the con-
fidences which are supposed to exist
between brokers and clients were vio-
lated by at least one Of the bear
clique, and talk Of what would hap
pen to one member should he decide
in the immediate future to visit his
Southern home.
The feeling between the two fac
lions has grown with the close Of the
old cotton months, which ends in Au-
gust, and the secret service means of
obtaining market information, charac-
teristic of all exchanges, has been de-
veloped to the point that both sides
now have what is a very elaborate
secret service.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
BURN NEGRO At STAKE
HAD AssAssINATED AN OFFICER
WHO WAS AFTER HIM.
Mob Dragged Him at Heels Of Fast
Horse-Poured Oil IN Nude
Body and Touched Match.

Bolton, Texas.-Henry Gentry. q ne
gro, who tried to enter the home
Of a widow here, was fired on BY her
daughter and later returned to the
place with a shotgun and killed Con-
stable Jim Mitchell, then fed into
the country, was captured by a posse,
brought to town in an automobile.
dragged through the streets and
burned at the stake on the public
square.
Friday morning about 2 o'clock the
negro, IS years old, attempted to get
into the home of Mrs. Lamb. a widow.
who lives with her daughter.
The daughter saw the negro, and
shot at him, missing, and the negro
ran away.
Neighbors telephoned to Constable
Jim Mitchell. He answered the call,
but could find no one. A pair OF
shoes and a hat were found beneath
a window. Mitchell then got blood
hounds to make a further search.
Apparently while he was away the
u6SIO udu lCtulnCu Will q oAOt60hs
The negro shot him from behind a
tree, hitting him in the back. Mitch
ell fell from his horse and lived only
a few minutes, but told before dying
who did the killing.
Word went out and all available au-
tomobiles were put into use and citi,
zens hurried to the scene, determined
on avenging the death of a faithful
officer, killed in the discharge of his
duty. A.
Sheriff D. G.. Burkes, his deputies
and 500 citizens surrounded the field.
They could not see the negro, but
closed In on the field and came across
him about half way across. He was
called on to surrender and refused.
Two well aimed bullets from the of.
icers' pistols caused him to surrender.
A citizen threw a rope around his
neck and he was quickly dragged to
the open. One Of the automobiles
rushed to the city, and some n fired
two shots as an indication that they
had him, and the crowd in town went
wild.
AS soon as he was brought to the
city and when the public square was
reached, another rope was thrown
around his neck and he was dragged
around the public square, nude, be,
hind a horse in a dead run to a spot
where wood, coal oil, etc., were in
readiness. The match was applied
and the negro burned.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
GOMPERs GETS AGREEMENT
Warfare With Buck Stove & Range
Company Ends.

Cincinnati, Ohio.-A peace pact of
great Importance to organized labor
and to the country Is well was ar
rived at here between officers of the
American Federation of Labor on one
side and members of the Stove Found.
ers' National Defense Association on
the other. The effect Of the agree
ment is to end the bitter warfare be-.
tween the Federation of Labor and the
Buck Stove & Range Company Of st.
Louis.
Whether the appeal of these men
from jail sentences imposed upon
them for alleged violation of an in
junction shall be fought to a finish in
the supreme court is said to rest now
with Acknowledgement Wickersham.
Until the meeting of the officials OF
the Buck Stove Company and labor Of
ficials in st. Louis, it will not be
known whether the company is to be.
come a union shop.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
Is Dentist a swindIer?

Detroit, Mich.-Charged with swim
ding a Brooklyn woman out Of $1.3-
500 and several valuable bonds, after
marrying her, DR.. Henry B. Keller,
said once to have been a prominent
Gotham dentist, was arrested in De-
troit. In company with him q woman
is held at police headquarters, who,
it is alleged, posed as his sister and
assisted in getting the money. Ac-
cording to the police, the authorities
Of America and Europe have been
searching the world ove for the pair.
The doctor came here for treatment.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
Mills Sell 5000 Bales.

Fall River, Mass.-It is stated that
FalA River mills have sold and shipped
to New York more than 5000 bales OF
cotton and that the receipts from
these sales will exceed 100000. This
move is unprecedented in the history
of the industry in this city, and only
an unusual combination of circum-
stances could have made the disposal
of so large an amount possible. Sew
eral mills had purchased enough cot
ton to run their plants to October or
November at a price which averaged
low in comparison with quotations.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
American Bar Association Meeting

American Bar Association Meeting.
The American Bar Association will
meet in Chattanooga August 30-31 and
September 1. This is the first time
the American Bar Association has
ever held a meeting this far South.
1t is a gathering In convention of the
most representative lawyers in Amer
lea, and a special effort is being made
to induce lawyers throughout the
Southern States to be present and
make this one of the largest in the his
tory of the association. The Tennes-
see Bar Association will hold their
business meeting on August 20, and
the other meetings will be held Jointly
with the American Bar Association.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
TAKES UP MAMMALS BURDEN
Big "Eddie" Green In New York 70
Help Aunt Hetty.

New York.-To assume direction OF
his mothers bushes affairs, Edward
Rowland Robinson Green, latterly
of Texas, is in town. He is the only
son Of Mrs. Htety Green, who has
been called the richest woman in
America.
Mrs. Green is in her 18th year and
is beginning to feel the burden of her
wealth and the pressure of duties in.
volved by her investments in many
companies. Mr.. Green is AZ years of
age, has lived the life of an active
man Of affairs and is thoroughly able
to take up the threads of his moth
er's business. He is president Of the
Texas Midland railroad, which has
been called admirably a model to all
other lines, on account Of its almost
perfect management.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
COTTON LEADS OUR EXPORTS
Statistics on the Amount of Our Ex-
ports Issued.

Washington, D. Cotton, copper,
Illuminating oil, wheat-these articles,
in the order named, formed the, most
important articles exported from the
United States during the fiscal year
just closed. The value of the cotton
exported was $3.50, 900, 900; of the cop
per, $S3,500,000; of the Illuminating
oil, $62, 5000, and of the wheat, SAT-
100000.
Other articles Of export ranked in
value as follows: Flour, lard, tobacco,
lumber, upper leather, corn, bitumi-
nous coal and lubricating oil.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
STEEL COMPANY INFLATED
Property Worth s7,e7s.sso, While Cap.
ital is $27,o o 900.

New Work.-A report of appraisers
showing that the assets and properties
Of the bankrupt Southern Steel Com
pany, capitalized at $27,00 900, are
worth $7,679,380 was filed In the SUI
preme court.
Moreau has denounced the $27.000,-
900 reorganization plan as ubiquitous
scheme" and has ask that 1t be set
aside as fraudulent void. He
claims that the s~tockhoIaers were in
formed that the assets of the old COM
pany were worth $27 1000. 900, but the
report of w. M. Drenner and w. W.
Shirling, the appraisers, proves the
contrary.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
shlred Ten Carloads,

Pontotoc, Miss Pontotoc Ridge
Fruit Growers Association Friday
shipped its last car Of Elberta peaches
for this year. The season has not
closed yet, as there will be consider
able business done in shipping a high
grade OF fruit by express but it will
not be in large enough quantities to
use whole cars. The car shipped Fri
day was the tenth, the crop having
been reduced considerably by the un-
favorable weather conditions. Grow.
ing peaches for the market Is q new
enterprise in this section
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
Money for Lynched Man.

Newark, Ohio.-George Boho1, pres.
ident Of the Mercer National Bank at
Harrodsburg, KY, and administrator
OF the estate of Carl Etherington, the
a~nti-saloon detective lynched here on
July 8, Tuesday made formal demand
on the Licking county authorities for
the $4,000 damages authorized by the
state to be paid by the county to the
estate of persons lynched.
Bohon stated that he would bring
suit in the federal court for $4,000
against former Sheriff Linke and his
hondsmen.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
ceorqlans Lynch Negro.

Sylvania, Ga.-Evans Roberts, a ne
gro, accused of having attempted to
criminal assault two white women,
was lynched Sunday night. The ne
gro was taken from Constable G. v.
Regis, and after being strung up to
the limb OF a. tree his body was filed
with bullets. Roberts accosted the
two women, who were driving along
the public road in = buggy. He drew
4 revolver and attempted to grab the
reins, when the horse dashed on down
the road. carrying the women to
safety
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29

The Cincinnati man who carries his
W street railway strap Is giving the
public of that city an example Of ultra
precaution in the battling of stray
germs. There are doubtless germs
without number on car straps. but If
the man with the individual strap
were to carry his precautions into all
of his daily activities he would be
very lonesome. However, a happy
medium in the struggle against germs
would doubtless soon reduce the mum
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
KILLED.
Shotgun Was Knocked Down, Both
Barrels Discharged.

Mize, Miss.-Mrs. Minnie Sullivan,
wife of A. M. Sullivan, was accidentally
shot and killed at their home, four
miles south of here. Mr.. Sullivan was
working about the house carrying out
a pair of bed springs. They were acct
dentally caught to his shotgun, which
fell, and two shots yer discharged,
both striking Mrs. Sullivan under the
shoulder, and she died in afew min
uteS.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29

There seems to be practically no
limit to the uses to which the auto
mobile can be put. The latest is the
automobile plow; an experiment on q
large scale in Indiana having demon
strated the value of the machine as a
saver Of labor and cost VIII the
next thing be blowing, sowing and
reaping by the aid OF an airship?
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29

A hasty glimpse at the children's
magazines shows that they are in
structing the youth of the land in the
method of making airships and wire
less telegraph outfits. At last the
boys are finding something to play
with that their fathers cannot show
them how to run.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29

A Judge having a speed maniac be
fore him, advised the prisoner to BEE
q doctor. But the Judge failed to give
his advice the fullest effect, since q
reliable prison doctor would be able
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29

A Long Island man who took the
unwritten law into his own hands was
convicted of murder. The sentiment
is growing against the right and JUS
tice Of allowing a man to be Judge,
jury and executioner in the case of
his own wrongs, especially In view Of
the fact that there is ground for mis-
takes in such hasty and one-sided a
ttoz.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
chicauo's Population.

Chicago, nl.-The population Of Chi
cago has passed the 2,000,0 900 mark,
according to estimates based on the
1910 school ensus. The total minor
population Of the city is 814,1i5, an
increase Of 66.67S over the census Of
1900.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29

The Zeppelin airship was exactly
on time at every station, perhaps ow.
ing to the fact that she was not com.
PEELED to wait anywhere for little
j~erk-water airships to make connec.
tons.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29

If the man In New York who now
has a jawbone of solid gold possesses
in addition a tongue of silver, an iron
nerve and a grip Of steel, he may apt
ly and accurately be described al a
man Of mettle.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
FOREST FIRES STILL RAGE.

Damage In Northwest Estimated viii
Reach Six Million.
Winnipeg, Manitoba-Twenty heavy
railroad and traffic bridges have been
swept away by flames in the Koote-
nay district. A dozen lumber mills
and yards burned. The timber loss
through forest fires is estimated at
from s5,0O9,000 to $6,000,O0O.
The mayor of Rainey River appealed
to Winnipeg for help to ave the town
from destruction by fire, and part Of
the local fire department was rushed
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29

The foreign professors at the I'm
perial university In Picking insist that
q chair of housekeeping be installed
If they are to continue in their posts.
Even the lore of the ages is the bet
ter for an occasional busting.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29

The sultan of Sulu, who Is coming
to visit this country, will be welcome.
and the people would be glad to see
the celebrated wizard Of Or at the
same time.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29

The average salary Of the American
preacher is but 1868 a year. This is
pretty small when you remember what
It costs the preacher to have dona
ton parties at his house.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
MONITOR STARTS UP RIVER
Leaves New Orleans for st. Louis
Via Mississippi

New Orleans, lathe arrival here
of the United States monitor Amphri-
tite begins the taking of this vessel
up the Mississippi river from New Or
leans to st. Louis, under the direction
of the Missouri State Naval Re
serves, a detachment of which is ex-
pected to arrive here Friday.
The Amphritite will be located as q
permanent training ship in the st.
Louis harbor.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29

If you take advantage Of this dis.
couraging spell and let yourself be
coaxed artfully, you can get a pretty
fair rate at the beach hotel or the
farm boarding house for the summer.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29
Gold From Mexico,

New York.-Lazard Freres received
$1,50O,OoO In gold bars from Mexico.
part of a total shipment OF ~$3.000.O00
gold bars addressed to them from
Mexico City. A movement Of gold from
Mexico caused surprise.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-29

Says a cable from Calcutta: Three
men are reported frozen to death. and
six killed by sunstroke in India, to-
day" India must be nearly as big as
Texasi