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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-16

Mecklenburg- Schwerin has followed
the example set by Reuss of the elder
line. and adopted law imposing an
additional tax upon unmarried males:
Unlike Russia's law, however, which
taxes both men and women, the Meek
lcnburg law applies only To bachelors
Unmarried men above thirty will here
after pay an addition of twenty-five
per cent to their regular tax, unless
they support dependents.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-16
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BY MFil or Carrier.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1911.

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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
DENHAN & co.
ROBBED OF $500
Two White Men suspicioned-Money
Was Taken From the Safe at
Noon Hour.

Thieves entered the store of Den
ham & Company about noon Monday
and stole $500 in ten and twenty dol
lar bills from the safe.
There is no clue to the identity of
the robbers further than that two
suspicious looking white men were
noticed hanging around the store
during the morning.
The money was being held in the
safe for a specific purpose and the
robbers no doubt saw it placed there.
1t is thought the robbery was done
at noon, when all were at dinner eX-
cept a clerk. who was in different
part of the store from the safe.
The box containing the money was
found on the outside of the building
empty. The police were notified OF
the robbery and are endeavoring to
apprehend tie thieves.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
Pine ASSN. IS
IN SESSION HERE
All Looking Forward To The Big Ban
quet Tonight-Many Hoo-Hoo
Men in City.

The Mississippi Pine Association
met this morning at 10 o'clock at the
Hotel Hattiesburg.
The attendance is not as large as
was expected, on account of the heavy
downpour of rain early this morning,
which prevented a number of the lum-
bermen in this section from reaching
the city.
The morning session was devoted
principally to routine business. Sew
eral are expected to make addresses
this afternoon and new officers will be
elected.
A large number of the members of
the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo
are in the city and a meeting will be
held tonight, at which several will be
initiated. A banquet will follow at
the Hotel Hattiesburg, commencing at
II o'clock. Great preparations are
being made for the banquet and it will
be an elaborate affair. Dancing will
follow the banquet.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
CASES
HAVE BEEN DISMISSED

Jackson, Miss, April 11.-By over
ruling the suggestion os error IN the
Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph
Company's case from Prentiss couaty.
known as the Bonneville case, the su-
preme court has finally disposed Of
all litigation Of that character against
the Cumberland Company.
If the Cumberland had lost these
cases. five in number tho penalia.
would have run Up to several millions.
and tie company would have been
subjected to a penalty for connections
with every local exchange under the
existing contract, making that cor
poration liable for damages to the
state and individuals aggregating
existing contract.
Being rid now of this dangerous and
expensive litigation, the Cumberland
has announced that it will begin max
ing improvements in Mississippi by
way of extending its service to all
parts OF the state.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
BOILERS BLEW UP AS THE
STEAMER WENT DOWN NEAR
VANCOUVER.
CASUALTY LIST is QUITE LARGE
Men And Women Struggle For Their
Lives In the Sea strewn With o.
Wreckaee.

Victoria, b. c., April lit is be-
lieved that twenty lives were lost
when the little wooden steamer Iro-
quois, plying between Sidney. Van
couver Island and the islands of the
Gulf of Georgia, capsized soon after
leaving Sidney yesterday.
The purser, who had record of fares
collected, is among the Dead and it is
not likely the exact number who per-
ished will ever be known. Four pas
sengers and seven members of the
crew were saved and four members of
the crew and probably sixteen pas
sengers were drowned.
The disaster was in some respects
similar to the loss of the steamer Sc
chelt, with twenty six lives, off Beachy
Head, Vancouver, March "a. The pas
sengers saved yesterday drifted ashore
with life buoys and were almost in the
last stages of exhaustion.
When the Iroquois foundered part of
the upper works was left above water,
and persons ashore could see the sur
vivor clinging to the wreck. The
swirl of the waters soon torn off the
deck house and the sea was covered
with wreckage, among which men and
women struggled for their lives. Of
the bodies which drifted ashore, many
were equipped with life belts. A num-
ber of launches put off, but were un-
able to get near the wreck.
The first survivors to be landed was
Capt. Sears, who, with the first mate
and two members of the crew I'm
dians), was towed ashore. The Iro-
quois foundered fifteen minutes after
leaving Sidney. Her cargo. shifting,
she swung over her port side, circled
around as if about to came back to
port, partly righted again, went Oh
her beam ends and, apparently filling
with water, foundered in comparative
| ly shallow water Her boilers blew up.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
YOUNG WHITE Boys
RELEASED RY Justice

The five young white boys arrested
a few days ago on the charge of
burglary, were given a hearing before
Justice J. W. Bolton Monday.
Attorney II. o. White appeared to
defend the boys and entered a plea of
guilty, asking the mercy of the court
for Leonard Smith, Ely Donald, Eu-
gene McGregor and Ray Griffin.
Albert George denied his guilt and
as no evidence was presented to i'm
plicate him in the robbery, he was
dismissed.
On the plea of friends, Justice Boil
ton agreed to let the other boys off on
$40 being paid for the stolen goods. A
sentence of fifteen days on the county
farm was placed on each, but he sen
tence was suspended on the good be
havior of the boys.
The fine was paid by friends, and
the boys were released.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
MR. STICKNEY PLEAD
GUILTY TO CHARGE

Mr.. Link Stickney appeared in
Mayors court this morning and plead
guilty TO the charge preferred against
him for violating the Sunday observ-
ance laws. As was stated in The
News NordHy, the case grew out Of
Mr.. Stickrev receiving the base bah
news by wire Sunday at his place of
business and charging an admission
fee to those present.
Mr.. Stickney was fined $3.50 and
costs. which made $3.50. Mr. Stick
ney paid the fine at once, but friends
raised several dollars for the purpose
and insisted on being allowed the
privilege of reimbursing him. Mr..
Stickney thanked his friends, but de-
clined their offer.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
ANOTHER RURAL
ROUTE JUNE |
Will Serve Population South of Town
--Richburg and Other Offices
May be Abolished.

Hattiesburg is to have another ru-
raj free delivery route, making the
fourth going out from the city. This
information was received by Postmas-
ter w. A. Collins from Washington
Monday. Service on the route will
be started June /, and it will traverse
thickly populated and prosperous
section.
Starting at the postoffce here. the
route will proceed northwest to CO.
lumbia street; thence west to the
Horn residence; thence east to Mon
tague's corner; thence south and
southeast to SeXton's corner; thence
east, southeast and northeast to the
postoffice. The total length of the
route is twenty-five and a half miles.
The establishment of the new route
will doubtless cause the postoffices
at Richburg and one or two other
points to be abolished.
The route will be daily except Sun
day, and the salary paid will be 1854,
including horse hire.
Route No. 3, authorized some time
ago, will be started May /. This
route will be south from the city by
way of Irene chapel.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
J. H. MILLER STILL IN JAIL.

Aberdeen, Miss, April 11.-Judge
Niles re-convened court yesterday af-
ternoon at 2 o'clock and Immediately
adjourned until $50 on account of
the Mobile & Ohio train being several
hours late. There were a great many
people connected with the Steele
Miller Co. case who expected to ar
rive in Aberdeen on this train.
Mr.. ]. II. Miller is still in Jail, moth
ing having been done as to his giving
bail.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
AND TEN OTHER RESI-
DENTS TsKiLLED-INsURREcTos
ARE VERY ACTIVE.
FAILED TO CAPTURE The TOWN
lnsurrectos Entered zacatecas And
Shot Up Town indiseriminately
Forty Killed.
(BJ Associated PreSs.)

El Paso, Texas, April 11.-Advices
from Guadalajara, state that bandits
from Topec raided Palos Verdes, a
small town in the Mascota district of
Jalisco, killing Judge Jose Monies
Deoca and ten other residents. The
bandits secured money and supplies.
Gendarmes were sent in pursuit. A
special message from Merida, capitol
Of Yucatan tells of insurrecto activity
in the states of Campech and Yucatan.
Plantations are being raided and the
aggregate loss is heavy.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
DR.. HYDE GRANTED
new TRIAL BY COURT
(By Associated PrPSS.)

Kansas City, Mo-, April 11.-Dr. B.
Clark Hyde, who vas convicted after
sensational trial for the murder of
Col Thos II. Swope, the millionaire
philanthropist, was granted a new
trial by the Missouri supreme court
at Jefferson City. DR.. Hyde has been
in the county jail at Kansas City for
nearly a year, following the sentence
to a life Imprisonment.
An important point in the courts
decision granting DR.. Hyde a new trial
was the opinion that Trial Judge Lat
shaw's action in ordering Hyde locked
up during the progress of the trial
was improper and unjustifiable."
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
Did Not Capture Town.

Zaeatecas, Mexico April 11.-Louis
Moya's attempt TO capture Zacatecas
yesterday failed.
Fleeing northward, he and his band
of more than 400 revolutionists are
being pursued by a small detachment
of Federals under the command of
Lieutenant Colonel Luis G. Pardillo.
Forty dead and wounded rebels were
left in the streets of the city.
Sunday afternoon desultory firing
was kept up both by the Federals sta
toned in the cathedral towers, on the
roofs of all the higher buildings and
from every point of vantage, and by
the rebels stationed on the hills, and
on another eminence. At o'clock
yesterday the rebel chiefs Moya and
Auala, gave the command to retreat.
They left over the Fresnillo Road, in
the direction of Vetna Grand.
Learning of their retreat, Colonel
Pradillo and small force, bearing two
machine guns, started in pursuit.
During the night 300 reinforce
ments with artillery, arrived here. and
it is thought the rebels, learning of
this, decided not to push their attack.
In making their attack yesterday 100
of Moya's men were sent rushing down
the sides of the hills into the city.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
AMMUNITION FoR REBELS.

New Orleans, La, April 11.-Twen-
ty thousand dollars will be paid for
the delivery in Mexico, at a point be-
tween El Paso and Chihuahua, of a
consignment of $4,000 worth of am
munition for the Mexican revolution
lists. A prominent New Orleans bust
ness man today was appealed to by a
member of the revolutionary junta
to devise some way of guaranteeing
the delivery of the big shipment of
ammunition, which is said to be wait
ing on railroad sidetracks in Pennsyl-
vania.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
STATE DOCTORS
ARE IN session
The Attendance Large-An Interest
ing Program Carried Out Today
Lively Scramble Expected.

Jackson, Miss, April 11-With |
nearly 800 members in attendance,
and others due to arrive on afternoon
trains, the annual convention of the
Mississippi Medical Association was
called to order by President ]. w.
Young, of Grenada, in Pythian Castle
Hall at nine o'clock this morning.
The opening prayer was delivered
by DR.. A. w. Smith, pastor of the
First Methodist church, after which
the medicos settled down to business
with the reading and discussion OF
papers.
The days program consists Of pa
pers and pediatries, hygiene, bacteri-
ology, physiology and pathology,
about twenty physicians presenting
their views in written form, each be-
ing followed by a brief discussion.
Tonight at eight o'clock the formal
exercises of welcome will take place
and there will be a full attendance of
the members of the Kinds COUNTY
Medical Society, about fifty in num-
Der, to extend greetings to the visit
ors. Mayor Crowder will welcome
the physicians on behalf of the city,
and Hon. w. H. Watkins will act as
spokesman of the Kinds County Medi-
cal Society. The responsive ad-
dress will be made by DR.. y. NJ.
Folkes, of Biloxi, after which Presi-
dent Youngs address, reviewing the
progress of medicine and the worl, OF
the association during the past year
will be read.
| There will be a lively scramble
during the convention for the five
places on the state board of health
to be recommended by the body. It
is expected that the names of about
twenty prominent physicians will be
presented. This matter. however.
will doubtless be disposed of in eX-
ecutive session, as will also the cleo
tion of officers for the ensuing year.
A large number of surgical instru-
ment supply houses are making eX-
hibits in the convention hall. No pro-
gram of entertainment has been ar
ranged for the visitors, it having been
the implied understanding for many
years that the doctors come to Jack
son strictly for business and exchange
of professional ideas, and have no de-
sire to attend receptions or banquets
in their honor.
Among the physicians taking part
in today's program were the follow
ing: DR.. S. R. Mclean. Jackson,
secretary of the state board of
health; DR.. A. X. Barrier. Rolling
Fork; DR.. B. Fl, Booth, Drew; DR. S.
S. Caruthers, Duck Hill; DR., Robert
Donald, Hattiesburg; Dr. l. w. Coop
er. Newton; Dr. w. B. Dickins
Greenwood; DR.. L. Kohlheim, Can
town; Or. J. o. Courtney. Tupelo: Dr
w. A. Evans, Chicago The rcpar-
read by these members Of TIRE pro
fession were discussed freely, discus
sions covering intervals CT from ton
TO thirty minH,es eecH.
Wednesdays sessions viii be de
voted to the sections on materia
medica and therapeutics. diseases of
the eve. car. nose and taroat, obetot-
RIGS and gynecology and surgery.
Final adjournment will be reacher
Thursday afternoon,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
HOUSE DESTROYED
BY LIGHTNING
fBn Associated prcss.l

Bassiield, Miss, April 1.-THE resi-
dence of Garraway Brothers of this
place, was struck with lightning this
morning about four-thirty O'Clock. de-
stroying the house with fire. The
father of the Garraway Brothers re-
ceived a very painful wound on the
head when going through glass door.
Other parties are minjured, and the
damage is estimated at two thousand
dollars.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
tom |. JOHNSON
YIELDS TO DEATH
He Was Noted Man In ohio Politics
And One of The Best Known
In Country.
by Associated PreSs.)

Cleveland, O., April 11.-Tom l..
Johnson, twice congressman from the
21st Ohio district, four times mayor
of Cleveland, champion of three-cent
railway fares and prominent advo-
cate of the single tax theories of the
late Henry George, died at S;45
o'clock last night after a long illness.
He was 81 years old. Death was
caused by cirrhosis of the liver.
Johnson referred to himself as
Stormy Petrel," and the metaphor
aptly described him, and indicated the
course of his career. From the time
he entered the offices of the Louis
vile Street Railway Company until
his defeat for fifth term as mayor of
Cleveland he was ever in the center
of the storm, political or financial.
He was born in Georgetown, KY, July
IS, 1854. AS a youth, he secured back
ing and bought a controlling interest
in the Indianapolis Street Railway,
came to Cleveland in the eighties, and
became interested in the street car
| consolidation. He also entered the
steel manufacturing business at Johns
town, Pa, and Lorain, Ohio. In April
1901, he was elected mayor of Cleve-
land. After a hard fight with the
street car company in which he was
triumphant, the traction lines passed
into the hands of the Municipal Trac-
tion Company. After six months of
trial operation of three-cents fare peo-
pie voted out the franchise company
and it passed into the hands Of a re-
ceiver, and remained there until Feb
ruary, 1910.
Johnson made another attempt to Sc
cure the passage of three-cent grants
but the proposals were rejected al
the election August, 1909. His own
defeat followed three months later
and he surrendered the reins of office
to Mayor Baehr in January, 1910. Two
months later three-cent fare was es
tablished as a result of Johnson's eff
forts.
Johnson was nominated by the dem
ocrats for governor in 1908, and was
defeated. Besides his wife, Johnson
is survived by son and daughter.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
THE MARKETS.

New Orleans, April 11.-cotton
closed easy, six to fifteen points down.
Chicago, April 1l.-No grain mar
ket on account of the primary cleo
tions
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11

BODIES TAKEN
FROM THE Mine
NO OFFICIAL STATEMENT AS TO
CAUSE OF EXPLOSION IN
BANNER MINE.
BODIES HORRIBLY MUTILATED
Five White Men Taken out-Number
OF Men In Mine Thought To
Have Been 1923.
(By Associated PreSS.)

Banner, Ala, April 11.-A total of
eighty-five bodies had been removed
from the Banner mines this morning
Dr. j. A. Holmes, chief of the Bureau
of Mines, at Washington, remained in
the depths nearly all night. No official
statement as to the cause of Saturdays S
explosion will be made at this time.
There was considerable delay in the
rescue work yesterday because of the
change in the air supply ordered by
Mine Inspector Hillhouse. He decided
to convert the fan from an outlet to
an intake, in other words, to push the
air in instead of pulling it out. This
work began at 10 o'clock and required
several hours and when it was finished
the experts from the federal rescue
car went down for an inspection, so
that it was late before the workmen
could resume the removal of the bod
ieS
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11

a tribute paid by the cotton farmer to
the bagging trust.
But the bagging trust is not satisfied
with its share of this impost. 1t de-
sires to raise the duty to a figure
which will not only prevent the gov
ernment from receiving any revenues
therefrom, but will enable the trust to
take from the farmer four times as
much as it has been able to take here
tofere. This trust has recently made
technical test case based upon a
question of chemical analysis, and has
secured a ruling thereon from the
Board of General Appraisers in New
York, which will change the duty of
imported bagging from the present
rate, which amounts to about .05 IA
cents per bale, to an ad valorem duty
which will amount to about 21 cents
per bale. This means an increase
from $63O,O0O on the crop to practically
50, SOC, 900, all of which the trust will
collect from the farmer without any
division with the government.
Thus under the Payne-Aldrich law,
as heretofore interpreted, the cotton
producer has borne the burden of a
$950,000 yearly tax on bagging and
| ties, and if the chemical interpreta-
ton holds, he will hereafter be
mulcted in the yearly sum of $2,S00,OO0
for his baling materials, all of which
will go into the treasures of the bag
ging and tie trsuts.
Inequitabe And Wrong.
! From the reasons stated it will in
contestably appear that not only the
proposed outrage but the present tax
on bagging and ties is inequitable and
wrong and because the Western farm
er has now and has had for more than
fifteen years, his binder twine on the
free list, the tax upon the Southern
farmer stands condemned of the addi-
tional vice of discrimination.
1t is respectfully submitted that the
making power rests under the
compulsion of two-fold duty in the
premises. Bagging and ties should be
allowed to come in free, not only as an
act of justice to the cotton producer
but as a peanlizing rebuke to the
cupidfty of the manufacturing comb.
nations which have preyed upon him.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11

An automobile savings bank in
France makes regular rounds among
a large number of clients, who are
scattered over wide spread of terr.-
tory.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
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THE WEATHER. I:

:: Washington, d. c., April IL !:
I: Unsettled, with showers tonight :
: or Wednesday. =
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
Powder Caused Explosion.

The belief still prevails that pow
der caused the explosion, the accident
possibly resulting from careless hand
ling by bringing it in contact with an
exposed lamp.
Mine officials still maintain that
there were 12S men in the mine, al
though there are rumors that ten or
fifteen in addition to this number
might be found. There has not been
the least difficulty in getting workmen
to aid in the removal of bodies. Miners
are here from Bessie, Flat Top, Sayre,
Palos, Porter, Mineral Springs, Jett,
Baby and other mining camps offering
their services.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
Shifts Change often.

Shifts of men working to bring the
bodies out have to be changed often,
owing to decomposition having set in
in the bodies of men and animals,
rendering the air in the mines very
foul.
Claims for a few bodies have been
made by relatives in various parts of
the state, but it is probable that the
greater portion of them will have to
be buried in the big trench dug near
the mine.
The bodies of the following white
convicts have been removed from the
mine: Ed. Carney, John Wright,
Prentice Johnson, John Howard, Sid
ney Dunn, Tom Powshow w. G..
Browner, F. Williams Charles Nc
Donald and Frank Ladra.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11
THE NEWS

Gives the news, general, state
and local. Give the circulation
man your subscription.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-11

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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-31
EAGER MAY SIGN MICHIGAN
Definite Proposition is Now Being
Considered by Management.
QUESTION OF A GUARANTEE
Alumni In Omaha Think Eager should
Have No HesItancy in Arranging
Big GridirOn Contest, as
IL Would Pay,

Michigan alumni in this section Of the
country are anxious to have Manager
Eager of the Cornhuskers close the deal
whereby Michigan will play Nebraska this
fall at either Omaha or Lincoln.
Negotiations have been going on for some
time and It is said to have reached point
where 1t is but question of the guarantee.
Michigan wants Nebraska to assure the
management that the receipts for it's share
will be 5000. This Eager is hesitating
to do.
Michigan alumni of oman think he
should not hesitate for a minute to make
the guarantee II the game Is to be played
In Omaha for It is quite certain that
crowd which would pay at least $4,000 for
the game would be on hand to see the
great wolverine team play the Corn
huskers. .t
Omaha paid over $1,000 to see the last
Nebraska-Ames game which was played in
Omaha and an equal amount to see Ne
braska, and Minnesota play here and 1t
seems certain a. larger crowd could be had
to see Yost's proteges, as the Michigan
team is one Of the beste advertised in the
country. In addition to this, Omaha is a
strong college city with a strong Michigan
Alumni association, and the Nebraska fol-
lowers are numberless
Manager Eager is being urged on all sides
to schedule the game and 1t is quite prob
able that he will do so this week.