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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
fine CAPITOL
IN new YORK A
PARTIAL WRECK
BUILDING COST TwENTY-sEvEN
MILLION DoLLARs-DAMAGE
TEN MILLION DOLLARS.
WAS SMOKED and DRENCHED
Both Houses of Legislature in Session
Investigating cause-seven
Firemen Hurt.
WAS SMOKED and DRENCHED
tBy Associated Press.)

Albany, N. Y, March 29.-Fire
swept, smoke stained and water
drenched, New York states magnifi-
cent twenty-seven million dollar capi-
tol, stands this morning partial
wreck by the flames that started in
the assembly library and burned away
/ ( entire west wing. The damages
"a u estimated at ten million dollars.
Both houses of the legislature met
in the city hall at noon today in re-
sponse to the call by Governor Dix.
1t is expected that the legislature will
take up rigid probing of the report
that an electric push button reported
out of commission by the watchman
yesterday and not repaired was re
sponsible for the conflagration.
Starting afresh in the northwest
angle, the flames got away from the
firemen at ten o'clock this morning
Several firemen were knocked uncon
scious by falling debris. -
The firemen brought every possible
line of hose to bear on the west wins
shortly before ten o'clock and within
an hour had the fire again under con
troll. Among the departments de
stroyed was the state library, contain
ing four hundred. thousand volumes
among them the most priceless gene
illogical works in the United States, t.
{ gether with numerous relics and price
I 1sS documents of early history. TIL
frerhen had many narrow escapes
Several we're trapped in the flames i
the corridors and rooms, but got safel
out.
State Architect Ware has issued
statement that the loss by a rough es
timate would be about five million do
lars exclusive of the valuable record
in the library which cannot be r.
placed.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
ANNUAL Meeting
OF LUMBERMEN
A Tentative Program Has Been Ar
raneed-occasion Will Be Of In
terest as Well as Pleasure.

Preparations are being made for
the annual meeting of the Mississippi
Pine Association in Hattiesburg on
April II, and the meeting is expected
to be one of the largest ever held by
the association.
A tentative program has been ar
ranged for the business meeting.
Among the speakers will be L. M.
Nolan, of Kola, Miss, who will speak
on the Sale of Lumber" Press
Haynes, of Lumberton, will talk on
Logging" and j. A. Kirby, secretary
of the association, will present his
plan of colonizing the cut-over lands
of the state.
The election of officers will follow
the program, and at night big Hoo
Hoo Concatenation" will take place al
the Hotel Hattiesburg.
The meeting will bring number o.
prominent lumbermen to Hattiesburs
and the local members of the pine as
sociation expect to show them a goot
, time.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
Prisoners at State Farms
Largely on the Increase

Jackson, Miss, March 29.-Hinds
county has 95 prisoners in the peni-
tentiary, which is the largest represen-
tation of any county in the state, and
of this 80, So of them have been con-
victed and sentenced since the act
creating the county attorney became
effective July 1, 1910.
In addition to the large number of
convictions at the two terms Of court
since last July, over $4,000 in fines
have been collected, which is proba,
bly, the best record of any county in
the state, as far as the enforcement
is concerned
OF the 95 state convicts from Hinda
county, 20 of them are life-termers
Two of them are doing time for at
tempted criminal assault, and the 9th
er is for taking human life. There are
also several TO-, 15 and 20 year convfct'
from this county
There are five counties with ONLY
! three convfcts each on the state farms
These are Calhoun, Ttawanba, Scott
Tfppah and Tishomingo. Most o
these are what are called hill counties
and the negro population is rathe
small, but in some Of the delta cour
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29

ties, where the negro population out
numbers the whites, the prisoners
sent to the penftentiary shows but a
small list.
Washington county which, at one
time, led, has fallen back to second
place. Tunica is second in number of
state convicts, with Washington third
and Coahoma, which also had the dis
tinction of leading in the number OF
prisoners at one time, running a close
fourth.
Most counties of the state show an
increase of convicts over a year ago
while the total number of prisoners a.
the several state farms is the, Iarges
in the history of the state Three
years ago the total was little owe
1900, but the next monthly report viii
! show something over 1900. which
shows the law is being more rigidl!
enforced all over the state.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
SMALL BLAZE AT
MURPHY'S GARAGE.

It's the same old story, gasoline and
matches do not get along well togeth-
er. Murphys garage on East Pine
street, caught fire this morning, for
the second time in less than two
months; the same car, Maxwell 80,
that was being worked on, caught fire
for the third time. Scott Rodgers, age
20, machinist, was slightly burned about
the face and hands. Very little dam
age was done to the car, no damage to
the building, The fire department
made a quick response and got the
blaze under control before it gained
much headway
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
Barge Line BY May I the
Latest Promise of Company

sured fact remarked Mr.. Odendahl,
commenting on the progress. 1T now
remains for the Western produce men
to support this undertaking by giving
it the best possible support in the
shipping of their freight and thus en-
courage the new line for quick and
prompt expansion in the way of addi-
tional barges."
The statements of Mr.. Mathews con-
tain good news to Hattiesburg stock
holders of the Mississippi Valley
Transportation Company, but there is
a more or less general disposition cum
grano sails.
The company has made many prom
ises before that have not been kept,
and before others are accepted as true
those interested in the matter in this
section will have to see the promised
barges plying the river and reap some
benefit from them.
1t has been about year since the
Mississippi Transportation Company
sold stock in the company to some OF
Hattiesburg's most prominent bust
ness men. These gentlemen have
been waiting patiently ever since fol
some evidence that they were not bun
coed.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29

According to the New Orleans Picay-
une, Mr.. John L. Mathews, secretary
of the Mississippi Valley Transports
tion Company, on Monday gave out an
interview as follows
"You will be pleased to know that
the first barge was to have been and
probably was launched today March
24) at Ambridge, Pa, and now rides in
the water there with the name of the
Mississippi Valley Transportation
Company blazoned on both sides. This
is fine steel barge, which will be the
first of our feet and will carry 400
tons. We hope to have her arrive in
New Orleans some time before May
/, on her first trip, carrying package
freight.
"As fast as we can duplicate this
and extend the services we will carry
grain and other commodities in larger
quantities, and If you. people give us
good support we can secure two more
of these barges at least for summer
use, about June 1, ~
Let us know how you are getting
| along, and if necessary, We will sent
some one down there to assist
"This enterprise now seems an as
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
LAND TITLE SUIT
REACHES HIGH court

Washington, March 29.-Twenty
years on the way, the suit of Mary
Scott Woods and others against A. NJ
Chesborough and others in Marion
county, Miss, yesterday reached the
supreme court of the United States.
In 1891 suit was brought in Ma
rion county courts to determine the
title to several parcels of land. The
litigation was continued from term to
term and finally decree was issued
in the case in 1896. The immediate
object now sought is to have this de-
cree reviewed 1t will be two or three
years yet before the supreme court
will reach the case on its docket.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
OPERATORS MAY STNIKE.

Chicago, March 29.-Returns are
coming in today from the strike vote
taken by the operators in the employ
of the Illinois Central railroad, be-
tween Chicago and New Orleans, and
indications are that the men will quit
work unless their demands are grant
ed. The complete returns are expect
ed by Saturday. The operators asked
a 25 per cent increase in wages, with
80 cents an hour for overtime. The
company refused the demand. and the
strike vote followed.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
EXPERTS testify;
CAFFEINE POISON
Chicago Physician and Professor Says
Tea and Coffee Users Take
Chance.

Chattanooga, Tenn, March 29.-On
account of yesterday being an election
day in Chattanooga, the federal court
in special session hearing the cause Of
the United States government versus
forty barrels of coca cola adjourned at
noon for the day.
The court announced that certain
taxes on tea aud coffee submitted by
| the government had been read and
found immaterial as to caffeine poison
ing and therefore would be excluded.
| Attorney Miller, for the government,
excepted.
/ Dr. I. r. Leconte, professor of path
ology in Rush Medical College, Chica-
go, was called He had heard read
Monday afternoon several dispositions
as to the accidental and sudden deaths
in Chicago. He said the cases showed
evidences of caffeine poison from tea
and coffee drinking.
DR.. Ludwig Hektope, of Chicago, the
next witness. had made post mortem
examinations of guinea pigs on which
caffeine experiments had been made.
Witness had also participated in post
mortem examinations of the five hui
mans referred to by DR.. Leconte. His
opinion was that no structural changes
in the organism result from caffeine
as in tea and coffee.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
RECENT REAL ESTATE
DEALS CONSUMATEn

Deeds filed in the office of the chan
Gerry clerk, show real estate deals
made during the last few days as fol
lows:
$2,700-T. E. Batson ct al to c. o.
Eure, lots l, and 8, of block 143 Of
the Hamper & Winery survey of
Hattiesburg.
5000. M. Corley and wife to ]. S.
Turner, Jr, lot on the corner of Main
and Seventh streets. running north
westerly along Main street one hun
dred feet; west 1870 feet to point Is
feet from Seventh street; south 70
| feet to Seventh street. east along
Seventh street 200 feet to point of be-
ginning at the corner of Main and
Seventh streets.
$210-E. f. Anderson and M. j. An
derson to j. c. Griffin, northeast quar-
ter of southwest quarter, section 10
township 1, north of range IL west.
$40 and other valuable consideration
Henry N. Blount to N. B. Blount
lots 10 and 20 in block 161 and lot II
in block 165, according to the Critten
den survey of Hattiesburg.
1,500-H M. and M. A. Norsworthy
! to Mrs. A. ]. Courtney, part of blocl
2, according to the d. H. McInnis SCI
ond survey and part of block 81 ac
cording to the Hardy and Scott survey
of Hattiesburg.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
ONE-LEGGED men
PREPARE FOR RACE
(By Union Associated Press.)

Minneapolis, Mimi, March 29.-NeXt
Sunday has been set apart for the
start of the race of one-legged men
from this city to st. Louis. Harry
Meyers, of this city, originated the
idea and challenged all one-legged men
of the country to compete against him
in the long endurance contest 1t is
understood that several have accepted
the def and have put up side bets of
$1,000 each. There are to be no handi-
caps and no strict rules, except to see
that no contestant rides any part OF
the distance.
Meyers has been trying out an arti-
fetal racing leg and he believes that
he will establish a resord from Mime
apolis to st. Louis that will make any
two legged man hustle to beat it.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
sANlTARlUM FOR PREssMEN.
(8y Union Associated Press. }

Rogersville, Tenn. March pa site
near this place has been selected as
the location of a 100000 sanitarium
to be built by the International Union
of Printing Pressmen, The structure
will not only be a refuge for the sick
and aged members of the union, but
will include technical school where
in press work will be taught and in
which a correspondence system will
be conducted. The school will have
machinery which will cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000 A hotel will
also be built upon the grounds and this
will be open to the public. the profits
to be applied to the sanitarium fund.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
DISPLAY ADS FILLED
new YORK CHURCHES

An advertising campaign OF one
day in the newspapers increased the
attendance at number of churches
of Binghampton, n. Y, last Sunday
about 35 per cent. All the Protestant
churches of the city participated in
the scheme.
On Saturday nearly all the mer-
chants by agreement gave up their
regular advertising space in the news
papers to the city ministerial associa-
ton, which filled the papers with dis
play advertising. urging the public to
attend church. AS result every
church was filled to overflowing Sun
day.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
MADERO Will
LIKELY DICTATE
Terms OF PEACE
SUCH VIEW is HELD BY THE IN
sURREcTos JuNTA-ovER-
TUREs EXPECTED.
PLACE FOR THE NEGOTIATIONS
Washington Diplomats Expect Mexi-
can Cabinet Changes To Have
Important Effect
PLACE FOR THE NEGOTIATIONS
(By Associated Press.l

Ell Paso, Tex, March eff any
peace proposals are being formulated
by the Mexican government, il is be-
lieved the insurrectos junta heTe that
they will be delivered to Francisco |.
Madero, insurrectos president, in the
form of official overtures. Madero.
according to reports, is less than one
days march from chihuahua.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
HAS GLASSES OF
PRESIDENT ADAMS

DR.. w. A. Charping possesses a pair
of spectacles worn by John Quincy
Adams, the third president of the
fVnited States.
$9These glasses are especially priced
by DR.. Charping, as the illustrious
president was his cousin. DR.. Charp-
ing4secured the glasses from Mrs. N.
J. Fuller, of Hattiesburg, also cousin
of President Adams. Mrs. Fuller re-
ceived the glasses from her mother,
who was Miss Clurissa Adams, a
daughter of John Adams, who was a
son of President John Quincy Ad-
ans Dr. Charping's relationship to
President Adams was by the Hay
woods, the mother of the president be
ing Haywood. -
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TO MEET IN SOUTH.
(ey Union Associated Press. }

Atlanta, Ca. March 29.-Preliminary
preparations will be completed this
week for the thirty first annual conven-
tion of the American Federation of
Labor, to be held in Atlanta next No
vember President Gompers and 9th
er national officials have been con-
ferring with local labor leaders and
the plans complete the biggest gather
ing in the history of the federation.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
Place For Negotiations.

San Antonio, Tex, March %
Where the peace negotiations between
the Mexican government and represen-
tatives of the revolutionary party win
be held could not be ascertained def
nitely today. Chihuahua would have
great advantage, as the meeting
place, being near the fighting forces
of both sides.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
ORDERS JOHNSON JAILED.

San Francisco, Cal, March 29.-Su-
perior Judge Mogan denied late yes
terday Champion Jack Johnsons ap-
peal from twenty-five days Jail sen
tence for speeding his automobile, for
feited his bail and ordered him taken
into custody Johnsons attorney gave
notice of an appeal.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
METHoDisTS MEET.
(By Union Associated Press.)

Clifton Forge, Va, March 90
Several hundred ministers and laymen
are in attendance today at the annual
meeting of the Baltimore conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church
South, which includes Maryland, the
District of Columbia and portions of
Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsyl,
Yania The conference represents a
church membership of 10000 and
rbNes a half million dollars annually
f6H church purposes.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
SENATOR PERCY OFF
SOON FOR WASHINGTON

Jackson, Miss, March 29.-Unitedl
States Senator Leroy Percy brought
his campaign temporarily to a close
today at Byhalia, Marshall county. He
will spend Thursday and Friday at his
home in Greenville, winding up some
personal business affairs, and leaves
on Saturday for the national capital
to be present at the opening of the
extra session of Congress.
The length of Senator Percy's alb
sence from the state depends upon
developments in Washington.
Hon. C. S. Alexander is waging his
campaign this week in the northern
section of the state, and Ex-Goy. var
ss@ss ''s ss.as { ! ||I1| ssss' ss's
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
JOE BRACEY NOW
BEHIND THE BARS

Joe Bracey, colored, accused of be-
ing an accomplice of Charley Norman
in numbering another negro named
julie Morrison, at Epps, Miss, about a
year ago, was arrested by Deputy
Sheriffs j. T. Giles and w. A. Robin
son at Make few days ago and is
now in the county jail. Bracey de-
mics his guilt.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
WASHINGTON WILL
PROSECUTE ASSAILANT,
(By Associated PreSS.)

Tuskegee, Ala, March 29.-Booker
7. Washington returned here yester'
day after his eastern trip. Asked con
cerning the report that he would drop
the prosecution of Albert Ulrich, who
attacked him in New York, he de
clared it had no foundation. He in
timated the case would be pushed.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
NEGRO SWORN INTO OFFICE,

Washington. March 2S.-William H.
Lewis, the Boston negro recently
named by President Taft for the posi-
tion of assistant attorney general of
the United States. was formally sworn
in yesterday. Lewis nomination
failed of confirmation by the senate
and Mr. Taft gave him a recess ap-
pointment,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
REPLY OF CHINA is SAT-
lSFACToRY TO RUSSIA
(By Associated PreSS.)

St. Petersburg, March 29.-The
Russian foreign office has telegraphed
the Russian minister at Pekin, China,
that the reply to Russias ultimatum
is satisfactory and expressing the
emperor's qualification at the happy
termination of the negotiations.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29

of heavy silver and contain enough
of the metal to make several pairs of
frames for glasses as they are now
made. The frames are of the slip joint
variety and the lenses considerably
smaller than those of the modern eye
glasses.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
AVIATOR KILLED.;
HE FELL 1000 FEET,
OH Associated Press.l

Paris, March pm. Gel, aviator,
was killed yesterday afternoon in at
tempting fight over the Seine at Pu-
teaux at a height of two thousand
feet. He lost control of the machine,
which crashed down and the aviator
was picked up desperately hurt and
died in few hours.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
EUROPE'S OLDEST
LIVING MONARCH
(By Union Associated Press

London, March 29.-Europe's oldest
monarch, the Duke of SAKE -Meiningen,
will celebrate his eighty fifth birthday
next Sunday and will be the recipient
of eongratulatory messages from many
other rulers who are advanced in
years. Next to the doyen CONES En-
peror Franz Joseph of Austria-Hun-
gary, who will be eighty-one next Au-
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
Y. w. c.. A. SESSION..

Indianapolis, Ind, March 29.-The
National Young Woman's Christian
Association convention will be held
this year in Indianapolis, opening three
weeks from today. April 10.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
EARLY PEACE
NOW ASSURED
FOR MEXICANS
PRESIDENT DlAz WILL BE AL
LOWED TO "sAvE HIS FACE"
AND RESIGN LATER.
BASIC CONCESSIONS GRANTED
San Antonio viii Probably be the
Scene of the Peace Negotiations
The Demands.
BASIC CONCESSIONS GRANTED

San Antonio, Tex, March 29--Ex-
planation of recent governmental
changes at the City of Mexico; the
recall of Senior Limantour from
Paris; the arrival of Francisco /.
Madero, Sr., and his son Gustavo at
this city; the departure of Senor De
La Barra from the ministerial man
sion at Washington for his new posi-
tion at the Mexican capital-all have
been explained in interviews with Don
Francisco and Don Gustavo Madero.
Tentative peace propositions have
been made, and, on the administration
side, have been accepted. According
to Don Francisco, peace is assured; il
not within ten days, then, at the fur
thest, within a month. Diaz, it is re
ported in a message to the Mexican
congress will insist that peace be con
cluded.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
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Basic Concession.

The basic concession, which it is be-
lieved will be ratified later, including
the resignation of the Diaz cabinet and
the appointment of younger men to
their positions. which already has been
accomplished. The next is the resig-
nation of Diaz an dthe holding of an
election where the suffrage shall be
unconstrained and free. This arrange
ment includes the elimination of Vice
President Corral, a sick man. Corral,
already out of the cabinet, will resign
the second highest office in the land.
Limantour, minister of finance, or De
La Barra. the new foreign minister
pro tempore, will exercise the func-
tions of his office. The insurrectos do
not consider De La Barra strong
man, and the inference was plain, in
the interviews. that Limantour was the
leader relied upon to carry out the
government guarantees.
Diaz, according to programme. will
remain in office with his new and
somewhat unsatisfactory cabinet
about him, until the country is at rest.
When factory wheels are again turn
ing and railroad trains running with
out fear of being wrecked at destroyed
bridges, the iron man will then ster
down and out, it is believed
Limantour or De La Barra will ther
become acting president, and within
sixty days will call an election.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-29
The First Step.

Limantour moved first. The resig-
nation of the aged Diaz cabinet fol
lowed his first interview with Presi-
dent Diaz. In itself, it was not i'm
portant; as a concession to the public
/ opinion, it meant little.
| Senior Madero and his son arrived
in the city yesterday. They asserted
positively their belief that real peace
/ is at hand in their war-ridden land.
They intimated also that the formal
negotiations would occur in this city.
"With only the resignation of the
cabinet as an evidence of good faith,
would you care to trust yourself on
Mexican soil to take up the question
of the cessation of warfare?" Don Gus
tavo was asked.
"Well. scarcely" smiled the latter.
On this point nothing more definite
was obtainable, but the inference was
left plain that San Antonio is destined
to be in less important way, another
Portsmouth.
President Diaz, those being inter
viewed said, borrowing a phrase from
the Chinese, will be allowed to save
his face" The man who more than
any other has regenerated his country
with the white hairs of his eighty-three
years upon his head will retire with
all the honors due his distinguished
services.
Basic Concession.
The basic concession, which it is be
lieved will be ratified later, including
the resignation of the Diaz cabinet anc
the appointment of younger men tc
their positions. which already has beer
accomplished. The next is the resig
nation of Diaz an dthe holding of al
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