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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
Human in Glass Cage to Test Foods

glass cage while the food energy is
recorded.
Around the inside of the calorime-
ter, which is a glass, air-tight COM
partment about the size of small
steamer stateroom, runs a system of
pipes filled with cold water. The tenn
perature of the water is carefully
noted, the heat generated by the body
in the process of assimilating the
food causing the water to become
warmer.
Only one kind of food is given to
the subject at time. One expert
ment requires several hours, accord
ing to the time required to digest tie
food.
The experiments so far have been
to determine the relative heat-produ-
cling energy of fatty and starchy foods
Several months will be spent in ma
king the tests
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
ALMA KELNER TRAGEDY.
Police Believe They Are On Track
of the Child's Slayer.

Police Believe They Are On Track
of the Chid's Slayer.
The most persistent questioning Of
Mrs. Joseph Vending, who is held
at the police station here charged with
having been an accessory to the MUIR
der of little Alma Kelner, the child
whose mutilated body was found in
a sub-cellar in st. Johns parochial
school, after an untiring search for
months, has failed to shake the wo-
man in her first declaration that she
knew nothing about the crime. She
adheres to her statement that a ring
and pin found in a trunk at her home,
both of which have positively been
identified as the property of the muir
dered girl, were given her by boy,
and further than her admission that
she has seen nothing of her husband,
who was janitor at the school, since
his disappearance January IA, when
he drew $50 from the bank, she will
say nothing about him.
Diligent investigation by the police
and detectives is weaving a strong
chain of circumstantial evidence
about the missing janitor, for the ap-
prehension of whom the police depart
ment set out a dragnet which will
sweep every part of the country.
Clothing which he is known to- have
worn bears numerous stains which the
detectives confidently pronounce ira
ces of blood.
The Kelner family has offered a
reward of $1,000 for the arrest and
conviction of the murder of Alma.
Mrs. Lena Vending was presented
in police court and her case continued
until June 8. Mrs. Vending denied
all knowledge of the murder OF the
little girl.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10

Whether women will be granted suf.
frage in Oklahoma will be decided at
the regular election 10 be held in
November. The last obstacle in the
way of the election was removed when
the state supreme court sustained the
action of Secretary of State Cross in
overruling the objections to- the petit
tion of the suffragists asking that the
question be submitted to the voters.
The proposition will now be referred
to Secretary of State Cross and to
Governor Haskell for a place on the
official ballot
The entire properties of the G. w.
Zimmerman Manufacturing Company,
in Clarke county, Alabama, have been
sold to the Smith-McGowin Lumber
Company for $S5O,0O0. The plant is
located at Jackson, Ala, and includes
80 miles of steel railroad.
The May Department Stores Com
pany, of New York, capitalized at
$20,0O0,000 has been incorporated to
conduct general department stores.
OF the capital stock, $5,000,000 is to
be Z per cent. cumulative preferred
and $15,O00,OOO common.
Following the refusal of the man.
agement of the Huntsville, Ala, Elec-
trio Company to reinstate a suspend
ed motorman, strike of the motor
men on the line was declared and all
but three of the men quit work.
The official count of the ballots
cast in the election of officers of the
International Typographical Union at
Indianapolis shows that James M.
Lynch has been reelected for presi-
dent, and j. w. Hays, secretary.
The Democratic congressional COM
mittee of the Fourth Tennessee dis
trict has formally declared Congress
man Cordell Hull as the nominee for
reelection. He had no opposition.
Commander Robert E. Peary has
been presented to King George at
Marlborough House, London. He re-
manned a half hour with his majesty.
John A. Dixon, of Washington coun-
ty, N. Y, has been elected chairman
of the Democratic state committee to
succeed ]. w. Corners, of Buffalo.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
T0N0S ARE WARNED.

imperial Yellow Posters Appear on
Streets Of New York's Chinatown.
Two posters Of the imperial yellow
with tie dragon stamped at the head
of each declaring that the tongs must
make peace and war no more, have
appeared on the streets Of New York's
Chinatown. The message which they
bore was from the voice Of authority
in Peking, spoken through the lips Of
Consul General Yang Yuo Ying.
To guarantee that there shall be no
more fighting between the On Leong
Tong and the Four Brothers, each of
the warning societies IL commanded
to select representatives of peace.
This committee will meet In conjunc-
tion with the consdl general and
some rational peace agreement must
be formulated. The representatives of
the On Leongs and the Four Brothers
must come empowered to sign 1t.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
FOLK OUTLINES HIS
PLATFORM FOR 1912
Principles on Which He Will
Seek Nomination.

Missouri Democrats of all factions
at a dinner here heard former Gov.
Joseph w. Folk announce the princi-
pies on which, it is said, he will seek
the presidential nomination in 1912.
The dinner was in charge of men who
have been promoting the boom of the
former governor.
THE doctrine of equal rights should
be made a living, vital and controll-
ing force in the government" said
Mr.. Folk after he had listened to
Democrats from all parts OF the state
tell the guests about the former gov
ernor they should endorse for the
presidency.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
DEATH TRAIL OF STREET CARS.

One Hundred and Ten Persons Killed
in Chicago In Past Eleven Months.
One hundred and ten human lives
were snuffed out in Chicago By street
cars in the eleven months from July
1, 1909, to May 81, 1910, according to
a report submitted to Corporation
Counsel Edward J. Brundage. BY City
Attorney John r. CsYerly. Fourteen
of these fatalities occurred during
May, In which month there were also
322 persons injured, many Of them
seriously. =! ;
Twenty Of the injured were Chill
dren under the age Of 10 years, who
were playing in the street when
struck. Thirty-niue were hurt be-
cause Of getting on or OF Of moving
cars, and 81 others were hurt In
crossing from one side Of the street
to the other after alighting from cars.
Some OF the most serious accidents
happened to intoxicated persons.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
GRIM ES

CRIMES Z az. lives were
AND LOST and several
CASUALTIES ships were wrecked
in a hurricane which swept the 10y
atty islands in March, according to
belated advices brought by the steam
ship Manuka from Australia to Vic
toria, B. c. All the houses on the
island were demolished and cocoanut
and banana trees and other vegetation
swept away.
Over half of the houses in Hyden,
KY, were destroyed by a fire, be-
lieved to be of incendiary origin. The
loss is estimated at $4,000. Hyden
academy was burned about a month
ago; it is believed, by the same pyro-
maniacs. Hyden is the seat of Leslie
county, the scene of a feud warfare
lasting for years between the French
and Eversole factions. 1t is far from
a railroad, and in an almost inacces-
sible region.
Six fishermen lost their lives when
the Brigantine Mauve, of Cancale,
France, struck ON Point Blanche while
entering st. Pierre in a thick fog.
Jockey Fred Langan, mounted on
Stalwart Lad, was instantly killed at
Gravesend when his mount fell in the
home-stretch turn in the closing race
The communication to life imprison-
ment at hard work was made by Gov
ernor Kitchens in the case of John
Allen Stackhouse, under sentence in
Scotland county, N c., to be electro
cuted June 10 for killing his wife un-
der what are now believed to have
been extenuating circumstances.
c. S. Hargrett, yardmaster for the
Atlantic Coast Line, was struck by
passenger train No 80, in the Tifton
Ca, yards of that road, and died soon
afterward. He was signalling the
the approaching train, which he did
not see, and stepped on the main line
After rescuing James Driggers, a
young companion, who was drowning
in the Washita river near Chickasha,
Okla, Gray Evans, IL years old, son
of City Treasurer Evans, of Chickasha,
was swept away by the swift current
and drowned. His body was recov-
cred.
One man was burned to death and
several injured when the home of
Iy1ino G,.o
at Middletown, N. Y. Fred Teets,
aged 81, was suffocated in his room
on the second floor while asleep and
burned to a crisp.
An official dispatch to the war
office at Paris from the French Sou
dan says that 100 Arabs have been
killed and 81 wounded and French
men killed and 10 wounded in a stiff
fight in which the French troops re-
pulsed 500 Arabs.
William J. Miller, aged 55, promi-
nent grain dealer of Nashville, Tenn,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head at his home. Poor
health is given as the reason for the
| act. He was native of Knoxville,
Tenn.
Mark Milon, a white man, was In
stantly killed two miles from Bran
ford, Fla, by freight train. He was
lying down, probably asleep. on the
track.
Three men were killed when a
freight train on the Mobile and Ohio
railroad was wrecked near Meridian,
Miss. Considerable rolling stock was
damaged. Traffic has been resumed.
The state bank of Unity, Wis, was
robbed of $4,000, the safe of the bank
being dynsmited. The robbers es-
capped. The bank was established in
/ 1905 with a capital of $4,000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
GOVERNOR BROWN
is AGAIN IN RACE
Announces Candidacy For a
Second Term.

Following the action of the state
democratic executive committee in
naming primary and convention
dates. Governor Joseph M. Brown, in
a brief statement, has announced
that he will be a candidate for re-
election in the primary of August %.
Governor Browns announcement
does not come as any surprise; his
friends and the public generally have
long expected it shortly following the
executive committee meeting.
Governor Brown delayed his an
nouncement until this time, because
he di not desire to put a political
campaign upon the people of the state
until the executive committees ac-
tion made time and occasion for it.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
RAIL BILL PASSED.
Democrats Favored Large Portion or
Measure.-Vote so to IL.

Democrats Favored Large Portion or
Measure.-Vote so to IL.
The senate passed the administra-
tion railroad bill. 1t had been under
consideration for more than 21 weeks,
and practically no other business ex-
cept appropriation bills were consid-
cred in that long period.
Only IL votes, all of these by Demo
Gratis, were recorded against the bill.
The practical unanimity with which
the measure was passed was due to
the radical changes made in the meas
ure from the form in which it was
drafted by Attorney General Wicker
sham, following numerous conferences
at the White House on the subject
Of amending interstate commerce
laws. All of the insurgents" who op-
posed many features of the original
bill, voted for it.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
FATAL EXPLOSION.

Seventeen Men Believed to Have Been
Killed In Utah.
Four hundred kegs of powder were
prematurely discharged in the quarry
of the Union Portland Cement Com
pany, near the Devils Slide in Weber
cannon, eight miles east of Morgan,
Utah. Seventeen laborers are miss
ing and it is believed all were killed.
A tunnel had been driven into the
hill above the cement plant and 400
kegs of powder had been placed there
in. The workmen were preparing to
sal the chamber, preliminary to firing
the blast, when the powder exploded
prematurely.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10

TO DETERMINE whether roast beef
i produces more energy in the hui
man body than cabbage, whether
baked beans in this respect surpass
potatoes, and so on through a long list
of foods, the department of agricul-
ture is conducting a series of novel
strumentality being employed is a ma
chine known as q calorimeter and a
human being who submits to the tor
ture" of being fed and sitting in
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
CHANNEL DISASTER.
French Boat, Struck BY Steamer, Do
Sent to Bottom.

French Boat, Struck BY Steamer, 20
Sent to Bottom.
Twenty-three men were drowned In
the English channel when the French
submarine boat Pluviose was struck
by the packet steamer Pas DeCalais.
The passengers on the latter were
thrown into panic. and the ship itself
was 80 badly damaged that she had
to put back to Calais.
The fighting ship was seudding
along partly submerged when the
steamer crashed into her. According
to the reports, the submarine spun
around for moment and then the
water began to pour through a big
rent In her plates. Before a man
could escape she had foundered In
one Of the deepest parts Of the chan
mel.
This Is the sixth serious accident
in the French submarine dotilla In
five years. =
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
GUARDS ARE BLAMED.
Coroner's Jury Returns Verdict on
Lucille Mine Disaster.

Coroner's Jury Returns Verdict on
Lucille Mine Disaster.
Charging that reckless shooting
and inhumane treatment on the part
of some of the prison guards did
much to enhance the terror of the
Lucille, Alabama, mine disaster, May
16, whereby twenty-seven negro con-
victs met their death, the coroner's
Jury which has been investigating the
disaster, returned its verdict.
The jury has found that an INSULT
cient number of guards was main
tained at the stockade; that criminal
negligence was displayed on the part
of a guard, that the fire was started
by three convicts, two of whom, Ed.
Porter and Joseph Mccoy are dead,
and George Porter, living.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
JEFF DAVIS HON0RED.
His 1920 Birthday Observed Through
out the South.

The South celebrated the one hun
dred and second birthday of Jefferson
Davis and paid tribute to the leader
of the Confederacy. Exercises in
schools and elsewhere were held in
every state.
The day is a legal holiday in Lou
isiana, Texas, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Ten
nessee A feature of the exercises in
most places was the bestowing of
crosses of honor on the veterans by
the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Services were held in every camp OF
the old warriors.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
PEDDLER LEFT HIM $4,000.
The Good Fortune That BefeII a
Kind-Hearted Farmer.

George White, a farmer and rural
mail carrier at Rea, Pa, has deliv-
cred to himself letter from lawyer
in a western state informing him
that one Patrick Sullivan has left to
him in his will 100000
White, who first took it as a joke,
has remembered that Is years ago he
Patrick Sullivan. He had often treat
ed him to meals or lodging.
White is now negotiating for the
$4,000 which is said to have been
left him by the old peddler.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
WHERE H0MLINESS COUNTS.
UgIiest Woman In World Paid $4,000
Per Week.

Mile. Polaire, said by her press
agent to be the ugliest woman in the
world, has arrived in New York from
France on the liner Savoie for a long
theatrical engagement at Hammer
STEMS.
Nile. Polaire sings and dances.
She says she works for art alone,
but is not averse to accepting $4,000
a week. She brought 100000 wors.A
of jewelry with her.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10

A Middletown, N. Y, dispatch says:
Mistaken for a burglar, Elmer Frost,
a wealthy resident of a suburban vii
lage, was shot and killed by the 12-
year-old son of G. w. Teed. Teed and
his son noticed a figure on their
porch, and thinking it was an intrud-
er, the boy fired his small rifle, in
tending to frighten the supposed bur-
glar away. The bullet pierced Frost's
forehead, killing him instantly.
Miss Mary E. Williams, of Phila-
delphia, and Howard Francis Bishop,
of Ames, Iowa, missionaries of the
board of foreign missions of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, were drown
ed while sea bathing in the Gulf of
Bombay, near Bombay, India. I've
bishop lost his life in attempting to
save his companion.
D. w. Rudolph was found dead in
bed at his boarding house in Phenix
City, Ala. The coroners jury said
death was from natural causes. Ru-
dolph went there from Griffin, Ca,
some months ago.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
GENERAL Hon. Tom Watson, 2
NEWS a letter received at AZ

GENERAL hon. IOm watson, u
NEWS a letter received at Az
NOTES gusta, Ca, is said ~
have declared that he will never be
a candidate for an office again He
also says, it is reported, that in COM
ing back into the democratic party,
he has abandoned none of his former
principles. He says that he will fight
for those principles by new method,
forced upon him by circumstances
over which he had no control.
A survey is being made for rail-
road from Decatur, Ala, to Falls City,
a new town at Clear Creek Falls in
Winston county, so miles south of
here. Civil engineers commenced the
survey at Bashams Gap for the pur-
pose of determining the best and
cheapest route over the mountain at
that point. AS soon as this is determ-
ined the road survey will be complet-
ed the entire distance from Decatur
to Falls City.
By unanimous vote, the Southeast
ern Cotton Buyers Association, in ses-
sion in Atlanta, expelled from its mem
bership the firm of Knight, Yancey
& Co., of Decatur, Ala, for it's alleged
forgery of bills of lading for cotton.
by which English and European firms
were defrauded of about $1,000 COO.
c. B. Howard, of Inman, Akers & In
man, made the motion that Knight
Yancey & Co. be expelled.
Tenders for four war vessels for the
new Canadian navy will be called for
shortly. The experts of the naval
service department are now working
on the specifications. These four ves-
sells are to De built in Canada and
will mark the birth Of warshlp con-
struction in this country. The arma4
ment will be purchased In Great
Britain.
George A. Rose, formerly connected
with the Producers National Bank.
Of Cleveland, has been released from
the Ohio penitentiary, after serving
ten years for violation of the bank
ing laws. His home has been broken
up, his wife dying in Cleveland some
years ago.
Kansas City, Mo-, advices state
that receivers for the Jones Dry
Goods Company, one of the largest
retail general merchandise concerns
in this part of the west have been
appointed by the federal court here.
The liabilities are placed at 81, 100000
and the assets at over $2,000,0O0.
w. l.. Manning, of Whitfield coun-
ty, Ca, has announced himself a can
didate for governor. He states that
he will not enter the primary, but
will run as an independer. candidate.
and desires to stump the state with
the party nominee. He is a farmer
preacher.
The International and Social Com
mission has been Incorporated at
Washington, D. c., to conduct a
worldwide campaign of moral, social
and political reform.
The government of Peru has indi-
Gated its purpose to W thd aw its
army from the Ecuador frontier.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
UNCLE SAM WATFUCHL.

Blue Jackets Go From Panama to Pro-
tect American Property in BuefieIds.
Two hundred marines from the
Panama canal will go to Bluefiads
within the next few days on the
United States ship Dubuque, which is
now at Colon.
They will join the hundred blue
jackets who have already been landed
in Bluefelds from the United States
ship Paducah to protect American and
foreign property. Their principal duty
will be to police the town and pre-
vent fighting.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
DEATHS OF
NOTED

TEOTEE nome at ASceOld,
Neb. For more than a year the ex-
governor had been suffering from ar
terial sclerosis, which finally caused
his death. From the first illness he
rallied but never recovered.
Joseph S. Harris, 1ormer president
of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
road Company, died suddenly at his
home in Germantown, a suburb of
Philadelphia.
Charles Kelly, of Knox, Ind, form
er state bank examiner, died at Fruit
dale, Ala, after an illness of one
week. He was a prominent Mason
of Indiana The remains will be sent
to Indiana for interment.
S. F. Sutherland, for many years
well-known San Francisco newspaper
man, is dead at his home in New
York. He had been in i'll health ever
since the death of William M. Laffan,
publisher of The New York Sun,
whose close. friend he was. Mr.. Suth-
erland came east at about the same
time as Mr.. Laffan, and had been con-
nected with The Sun ever since.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10

SPORTING Cornell has won the boat
AFFAIRS. race on the Charles from
Harvard by about half a length. OFF,
cial time: Cornell, 11:23; Harvard,
11:27.
Capt. Charles S. Rolls, the English
aviator, flew from Dover, Eng, to
Sangatte, France, and returned with
out stopping, across the English
channel This is an unprecedented
feat. Louis Bleriot and Count de
Lesseps crossed the channel, from
France to England, but never before
has continuous fight between Eng
land and France and return been
made.
In answer to overtures by the Mem
phis baseball club for the purchase
of Pitcher Benton, a South Atlantic
league phenom, the Macon club de-
clares that the twirler is not for sale
at any price. 1t is said that Cincin-
natl has already successfully diclEelUd
for Benton's delivery at the end of
the season.
Automobile clubs all over the coun-
try are interested in the plan now be-
ing tried by the Georgia State Auto
mobile association. The plan is to
place in every county vice presi-
dent and committee of five mem
bers to keep alive the general inter-
act in autOmOhi1inQ
Announcement came from the Aero
clubs flying grounds at Hampstead,
N. Y, that Mayor Gaynor, CT New
York, has accepted an invitation for
a flight with Clifford H. Harmon in
his aeroplane. No date has yet been
set for the flight.
Battling Nelson wants another
chance, it is said, at Ad Wolgast.
To prove his anxiety to get his con-
queror back into ring with him
Nelson has posted $4,000 to bind the
match, and now it is up to Wolgast.
Pitcher Rankin Johnson, secured
from the st. Louis Nationals, and who
has been under trial by the local team
of Memphis has been returned to St.
Louis.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-10
NOTES FROM
NATIONS
NA Dit Al

NATIONS Roosevelt is expect
CAPITAL ed to head a peace
commission provided for in a resolu-
tion which was favorably acted upon
by the house committee ON foreign
affairs. President Taft has indicated,
it is said, that he would appoint his
predecessor as chairman of the COM
mission in the event it was created
by congress. The commission would
be directed to visit the capitals in
all foreign countries, in the interest
of securing the limitation of armament
of nations and of preserving interna-
tional peace. Both houses of con-
gress are expected to act favorably
upon the resolution.
Justice Harlan, of the supreme court
of the United States has celebrated
his seventy-seventh birthday anniver-
sary. He is the dean of the bench,
ty-three years.
The Republicans of the house went
squarely on record for prompt pas
sage of the postal savings bank BILL
which is part of President Taft's leg
islative program. The bill was finally
agreed on at a four-hours caucus,
lasting until midnight
The nomination of Fred W. Carpen-
ter, secretary to the president, to be
United States minister to Morocco,
was ordered favorably reported to
senate by the committee on foreign
relations.