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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
CHOLERA KILLS
MANY III ITALY
Mobs Burn and Torture as the
Plague Spreads in Towns. .
tourists Fleeing from the Genocse
Riviera by Thousands-Dead
Are Left Unbured for
Lack of Men.

With 5o3 deaths from the dreaded
plague cholera in seven days Officially
reported by the government at Rome.
many of the dead lying unburied in
the streets of 500 Italian towns and
villages where the disease is raging.
the French government has become
alarmed over the situation in the
neighboring state. In some places Ital.
fire TO public buildings.
Latest reports were that tourists
were fleeing from the Genoese riviera
by thousands and chat the Italian pop-
ulations of many stricken towns were
Geserting their homes for the country
districts.
Newspapers of Milan quoted Giovan-
nj Ciolitti. the premier, as admitting
that 500 TONS and villages were af-
fected. they also said that three
fourths Of the population of Leghorn
had fed. That city had asked the gov
eminent for 100000 to relieve the dis
tress.
Seems like these enacted in verbica.
ro several days ago, when officials
We're killed, are icing enacted or
threatened. The reasants are con-
vinceG the government is poisoning the
wells ana are preparing arms in deter
mination to wreak vengeance
When ii was reported there were
eiehty-two new cases of cholera in
Verbicaro the populace angered at the
spread of the plague and the inaction
of the mayor and other dienitaries, set
fire to the municipal buildings and shot
and killed magistrate sent to calm
them. Then they seized the mayors
secretary. Agcstino Amorosi, and after
subjecting him to torture, cut eff his
head and raradcd it on n pole
The mayor ESCAPED a like fate by
shutting himself up in his house
Tho eridemic is severe in Liguiria
and the Ge"cese riviera. 1t has be-
core worca IN TIE province OF Venice
There are 2G0 cases at Chioggia. Con-
diti0ns in Calabria and Sicily are rep
resented as serious.
In Naples there we're 104 cases and
forty-six deaths; in the province of
Gecna eighty-eieht cases and nineteen
deaths, and in tie province of Palermo
thirty cases and nine deaths There
are many cases in Rome
In a report made by the Italian gov
ernment it is sad there were 1,635
cases of cholera and 593 deaths in Italy
between Arg. 20 anu &c. Reports cuIn-
ing IRON liaiy by mail indicate these
figures are too low.
The Italian government is maintain
ing a s'rict censorship over kilograms
and It appears almost impossible to
learn the exact conditions.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08

SPORTING AFFAIRS


Entries have closed at Kansas City
for the James Gordon Bennett inter-
national balloon lace, which will start
from Kansas City Oct. 4. Nine bal
looms are entered, the pick of the
three nations ranking highest in the
ballooning game. The contestants
will be; United States-Lieut. Frank
P. Lahm, U. S. A., Capt. John Berry
and William +. Assman of ST. Louis.
Germany-Lieut. Vogt, Ingenieur Ge-
ricks and Freiheer Won Pohl France
Emile Dubonnet, Alfred lie Blanc
and Welby Jourdan.
Fred Gilmore of Chicago has closed
four matches for members of his string,
Spike Kelly. the welterweieht, will
hook up with Morrie Bloom in sched-
ule ten round bout at South Bend, Ind,
on Sept. 26 Hank Herring meets Jack
Dillon at indianapolis on Sept. IL.
Jack White fights Tommy Dixon at
Dayton. O., Oct. 4, and Billy Wagner
mixes it with Paddy Kellar at Quincy.
ILL.,, on Sept. IS.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
VARDAMAN IN CONTROL.
Followers of Successful Senatorial Can
didate Claim 100 Votes Out of
Total of 1So.

Jaekson.-Just what the terms "Pro-
Vardaman' and "Anti-vardaman,' as
they apply to the legislatmc-clect, as
designating the leanngs of the individ-
uals who will make up that body, or
who were nominated in the recent Dem
ocratic primary, will signify Oh assembly
and organization. are for the future to
determine.
There are those at the capital who ap-
pear to have kept close eye on the
different contests, and who profess to be
in position to name off the house
members and senators-elect according
to factional alignment According to
these authorities, who have studied the
nominees and have heard from their re-
spective strcngholds, from sources pre-
sumed to be reliable, it is possible to
approximate their leanings-that is to
classify them into two general groups.
Taking the senate, with its forty-fvc
members, there are reputed to be in the
body, as nominated at the August pri-
marics, ten who are out and out anti
Vardaman, thirty-one who are counted
an as in line with the pro-Vardaman
leaders and four not yet classified. Out
of the house membership of 1875 the Var
daman leaders estimate that there are
about eighty-eight who can be set down
in their ranks first and foremost, with
twenty-three who are positively anti and
f,vonf fo,,r ,,rofscriGoJ
AT any rate, there ere enough as un-
derstood to effect organization without
trouble, and in the event that sena-
torial election is thrown into the legis-
lature, supposing that Senator Percy adj
heres to his determination to resign, to
put through the candidate of their choice
without much pause or lcng-delayed ball
loting. As it looks to the pro-Nardaman
contingent, there appears now to be a
Joint ballot strength of about 1870, and
at any rate anywhere between that and
100, which would mean approximately
two-thrds, with others to be placed
by the dopesters.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
TO FLY ACROSS CONTINENT
TWO CT Three Eviators to Make Al
tempt, Starting Sept. 10.

The greatest of all long aero
plane journeys ever undertaken is
scheduled to start Sept. 10, when Rob
ert c. Fowler, a former auto racer;
Gale Rogers, winner of the endurance
rrize in Chicago, and possibly Harry
N. Atwood will leave San Francisco
with the intention of flying to the AT.
lantic coast. Other aviators have
tentatively promised to compete.
For this fight the newspapers have
offered $50,0C0 in prizes and in addi-
ticn the flyers will share in the ex-
hibition money obtained along the
route, as well as in prizes offered by
a western automobile company. Fowl
er, who is here to receive his Wright
machine, says he has already selected
his route across the Rockies. he
conditions are that the flight must bo
completed within a month.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
STANDARD OIL CO.
QUITS BUSINESS
New Jersey Company 0beys
Court and Closes Books.
Corporation Has Long Eeen Storm
Center of Antitrust Agitation
Throughout the Country
for Years.

The Standard Oil company the cor
poration which has been the storm
center of antitrust agitation through.
out the country for years, has passed
out of existence, so far as it's present
form and functions are concerned.
This famous corporation has official
ly ceased to carry on it's operations as
the head OF a vast organization whose
activities extend into almost every
part Of the world. In obedience to the
decree of dissolution OF the supreme
court it relinquishes it's control of the
subsidiary concerns.
With the eLd of the business day
the companys transfer books, contain
ing the list of stockholders, closed and
stocks of its subsidiaries were distrib.
uted among the stockholders in the
parent organization as on record at
that time
The work of appointing the com
pany's holding OF the stock of more
than thirty subsidiaries will occupy at
least three months, it is expected, so
that the readiustment will not be COM
plete prior to Dec. /.
Standard Oil stock was traded in at
aboutS625 per share, transactions being
restricted to cash dealings of the ne
cessity of eflecting transfers imme-
diately A bid of 1910 per share for
Standard Oil "eX-subsidaries" or with
out rights to participation in the dis
tribution of subsidiaries, was made by
venturesome trader Dn the curb,
but as no intelligent appraisal can YET
be made of the worth of the stock
when di1ested of its outside holdings
the offer was not accepted.
Tine Now Jersey company, in adGi
tion to acting as the holding corpora
ton, conducts a large oil business and
has extensive property holdings. The
company however, has never made a
public report, and no opportunity has
neen afforded for eauaing the value of
lis business and of its tangible assets.
An official of the company said that
the only element Of doubt as to the
general effect of reorganization uron
the present stockholders lay in the
ability of the constituent companies
operating indcrendontly to produce as
large a total of profits as has been pos
sble under the present form of man
agement. AS to whether this can be
DONE he said, only the future will dis
close
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
NITROGI FOUND
Vacant House in Muncie, Ind.
Yields Much Explosive.
Exhibit for Mcnamara Trial In Les
Angeles Revealed in Building
Rented by McManigal.

A large amout of nitroglycerin,
believed by detectives to have been
purchased at Portland, Jay county, by
Ortie McManigal, has been found in
an old house in Munice, Ind, by
detectives CT the Burns agency and
will be one Of the exhibits at the trial
of the McNamaras at Los Angeles.
The explosive was found in a house
rented by McManigal, and Mayor
Guthrie of this icty has been informed
of the location, but refused to give
any information respecting it,
The find consisted of 100 quarts Of
nitroglycerin, which was bought of NJ.
j. Morehart, agent of the Independ-
ent Torpedo company of Portland.
McManigaPs photograph has been
recognized By Morehart as the picture
of the man to whom he sold the ex-
plcsive and it is believed that the stuff
found in the vacant house was left
there when a part of the purchase was
taken to Peoria, ILL.,, and used in the
destruction of bridge there.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
MAY HOLD COTTON
FOR BETTER PRICE
UNION OFFICIALS SAY BETTER
PRICES ARE COMING.
Will Have Effect of Holding Up
Marketing of Fleecy Staple.

Jackson.-Reports received by the
Farmers Warehouse Company of this
city, which operates sixty seven ware
houses over the state of Mississippi and
is the state selling agency of the Farm
ers' Union in the state, indicate that
the deterioration of the cotton crop in
the last thirty days has been most
startling and rapid.
The incessant rains, dense, rank,
weedy growth of the plant, and lack
of dry, sunshiny weather, is causing
the bolls matured and almost ready to
open, to rot and fall from the plant.
Then the plants are shedding at great
rate. Additionally the weevils are most
active and virulent, more so than they
have ever been noticed in this territory
before, and reports from all sections are
to the effect that the weevils have pune
tured nearly all the available squares.
and are now going after the matured
bolls, thing about which there has
heretofore been much controversy. 1t is
now an undeniable fact, and bolls riddled
with the weevil holes have been brought
into jackson from several localities oi
Kinds and adjacent counties.
President G. r. Hightower of the
union, and also the Warehouse Company,
stated that lie doubted, in view OF The
rapid deterioration of the crop, whether
it would equal that of last year now
At the outset of the season and up tc
the period the rains began the outlook
was most flattering, but since then cot
ton has shown steady deterioration
which has increased as the season ad
vanced. He stated he had as yet heard
nothing official from National President
Charles H. Barrett of the Farmers
Union regarding a 13-cent minimum hold
ing movement.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
URGES CONVICT PAROLE SYSTEM
Believes Would Reclaim Many Convicts
to Ranks Of Good Citizens.

Yazoo City.-Dr. j. G. Gathings, su-
perntendcnt of the pententiary, will
make an effort to establish the grade
and parole system for the convicts of
this state. The superintendent has been
giving the matter considerable study
since his appointment, less than a year
ago, and has the system pretty well
worked out in his own mind.
He realizes there is difference in con-
victs, just as there are i'll the various
walks of life, and believes such a system
would do more to reclaim violators of tho
law as good citizens than any other step
that could be taken. He proposes % ask
the legislature to enact the necessary
laws at the Forthcoming session next
January, and hopes to have the new sys-
TEN in operation before June, 1912.
While DR.. Gathings did not go into de-
tail in the matter his plan is to have
three grades-Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Grade
No. would be those convicts against
whom nothing has been charged since
going into the penitentiary, while No. 2
would be the intermediate grade, and
No. what would be known as bad men.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
Big Increase for Adams.

Natehez.-By adding an even $500
head OF cattle and a large number of
hogs to the assessment rolls the Adams
county board of supervisors completed
the equalization of the personal assess
ment rolls with an increase of $S3 1914
over the totals of last year.
There was an increase in other de-
partments, but the greater part was
brought about by adding the live stock
and more would have been added but
for the fact that wherever there were
twenty-five head of cattle and four or
five members of a family each member
claimed ownership of two cows and two
calves, which kept the total down to
$500 over the number reported by the
assessor.
The exempt column shows 1,245 cows
and calves in Adams county. The great
increase in the number of cattle has
been brought about by the erection of
the Natchez Packing plant.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
PUBLICITY LAW DEFECT
Fatal Flaw, Jcke or Otherwise is
Discovered.

Primary election statements of ex-
pense from Snators Martin and Swan
son of Virginia, the first to be flied
under the new publicity law that went
into effect Aug. 10, reached thee Office
Of Secretary Bennett of the senate.
In tie absence OF Secretary Ben
nett, officials Of his Office declined to
make them public.
Following this declination a care
full examination of the new publicity
law resulted in the startling disclosure
that in the act, presumed to lie most
drastic, there is no requirement for
publicity of the individual statements
filed by candidates for The senate or
the house of representatives.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
LEAKEsVILLE GREENE COUNTY
STATE NEWS NOTES |
Weekly Budget of News Items Gathered by Our
Special Correspondent at jackson.
MEMPHIS-MERIDIAN RAILWAY.
Gov Noel Approves Application for
Charter.


Charter.
Jackson.-Gov. Noel has issued his
proclamation formally approving the ap-
plication of promoters of the Meridian
and Memphis Railway Company for a
charter under which they may begin
operations, which they aver and profess
to be- ready to do at once. The appli-
cation is brief and couched in the usual
formal phraseology, seeking authority to
run surveys, secure rights of way and
undertake construction of a line of twin
steel rails which is aimed to connect
ultimately the metropolitan cities of two
states, Meridian, Miss, and Memphis,
Tenn.
Application is made by S. A. Neville,
Charles 5. Schciield and w. c. Stowell,
all of Meridian, who set forth that they
propose to start operations and hope to
have the line between the terminals com.
pletcd within three years from August
-, 1911. The eastern terminal is to
be within the corporate limits of the
city of Meridian, the route to extend in
a northwesterly direction until connec-
ton is made with the Illinois Central
main line.
The proposed lines is through Lauder.
dale, Newton, Neshoba, Leake, Attala,
Carroll, Montgomery and Genada coun-
ties, the northerly terminal to be at OF
near Winona, in Montgomery county
The prospective territory is one which
is at present about us sparsely rail.
roaded' as any in the state, and if it is
carried through will carry to the Car
thaginians and Others of Leabe county
the fulfilment of hope very long de-
ferred.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
TOGO Is SOUVENIR LADEN
Admiral Has Everything from Safety
Razor to Stallion.

Admiral Togo when he departs on
the Tambu Maru will take with him
hundreds OF souvenirs of his trip to
the United States. They range from
:. -@heron etallion, the gift of F. J.
Keisel of OGDEN to daiiity sachet pow
ders for Nine. Togo
Wherever the admiral has visited,
and more especially in the larger cities,
he has been given mementoes Of his
trip. The gifts include practically every
kind Of goods manufactured that
would permit Of easy packing
and handling In the list are safety
razors, pocket knives and edged tools,
soaps, breakfast foods, motorcycles,
books, firearms, ammunition. shoes,
candies. cookies, flour, automobile ac-
accessories and collars and neckties
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
LAFOLLETTE is "WILLlN' i"
Acknowledges Re Desires to Be Pref.
dent of United States.

Speaking before the many farmers
who attended the Interstate Granger's
picnic at Williams Grove, Pa, Sena-
tor Robert NJ. LaFollette, OF Wiscon
sin. announced his desire of becoming
president of the United States and his
ambition to inaugurate the policies Of
government of which he is the cham
pion.
In so doing he cast reflection Oh
the administration of some men who
have been president" but made no Gi
rect reuly to the criticisms made BY
President Taft in his Massachus etts
Gneefh last Saturday.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
VALUABLE INDIAN RELICS.
Doctor Rowland Anxious for State to
Buy Interesting Collection.

Duy interesting ColieSsioh.
Jackson.-"Thcre is no doubt in koy
mind that the Butler collection of Indian
relies and antiquities is the most com
piete and at the same time the most
remarkable collection in the United
States
DR.. Dunbar Rowland, director OF the
Mississippi state department of archives
and history, made the above assertion
yesterday upon his return to jackson
from Lake George, twenty-one miles i'll
the interior of Yazoo county.
DR.. Rowland is a connoisseur of art
and a student of historical collections,
and his estimate of the collection which
is said to consist of more than 14,000
specimens of the art of the aborigines
is valuable. 1t would be well, in the
opinion of Mississippians interested, that
the state make an effort to get the
collection which would add greatly to
the historic wealth of the country.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
SERIOUS FINANCIAL PROBLEM.
Legislature May Be Forced to Increase
the State Tax.

Jackson.-The decrease in personality
and realty assessments i'll II goodly num-
Der of counties, as revealed in the du-
is causing considerable mrasiness among
state officials who are concerned with
the states finance.
While few counties have shown
increases in both personality and realty,
the rolls thus far filed reveal decided
decrease as compared with the assess
ment totals of last year, and the fear
is being expressed that this may make
it necessary for the legislature to order
half or one mill increase in the state
tax levy for the ensuing two-year period.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
Two Entire Companies Ill.

Natchez.-SiXty men of the 81, in
cluding officers and enlisted men of
Companies b and c, Third regiment.
Mississippi National Guard, who at
tended the state encampment in July
at Vicksburg, have been sick since their
return, the illness battling the skill OF
the physicians, who say it is one of the
most peculiar diseases they ever saw.
The officers and men attribute the
sickness to the water on the rifle range,
and stale bread.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
VIOLATES POSTAL LAWS
Letters Bearing Mcnamara Stamp,
Are Returned ty Authorities.

A bundle of letters sent out by Gin
cinnati labor unions were returned t.
senders, it has developed, by the post
Office department as they had McNa-
maras defense stamps affixed in VIC
lation of the new postal statute
against stamps resembling in shape
and size regular postage stamps.
The Mcnamara defense stamps are
being used by HI indreds of labor or
ganizations throughout the country on
the same principle as the Red Cross
stamps are used during the Christmas
season to aid in the fight against tn.
berCuiOSiS.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
MADERO is NOMINATED
Named for President of Mexico by the
Constitutional Progressive Party.

At Mexico City, Mex, Francisco /.
Madero has been nominated fer presi-
dent of Mexico by the Constitutional
Progressive party. General Bernardo
Reyes and his friends have started a
movement to have the national cleo
tons postponed, declaring that the
country is not ready to vote.
General Reyes declares that too
many sympathizers of Francisco l.
Madero are under arms for the election
to be fair. Madero declares he will not
stand for postponement
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
T. A. EDISON NEAR DEATH
Inventor and Family Have a Narrow
Escape When Auto Runs Away.

That Thomas A. Edison and his
family narrowly escaped being dashed
over an Alpine prccipicc near the vii
lage Of Tubois became known when
the party arrived at In erlake, Swift
zerland, from Geneva. The driver
of The inventors automobile attempted
to turn around On narrow road while
ascending q steep hill.
lie lost control Of the machine and
it started down the incline With the
rear wheels on the very edge of fifty.
foot abyss the chauffeur managed to
whirl the steering wheel about as to
prevent the cars progress.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
Cotton Condition Bad.

Vicksburg.-Peter p. Gluck, one of the
leading cotton men of the South, from
New Orleans, who is on general inspec'
ton of the cotton throughout the state,
said: 81 find conditions much worse than
has been generally reported to the cot
ton trade Owing to recent rains the
boil weevil has become a great menace
and has spread over far greater area
than is supposed in cotton centers. The
rains have retarded picking, and, in con-
sequence, the movement in cotton will
be delayed"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
Build Packing Plant.

Hattiesburg.-IIugh McWiliams, man
ager for Swift g. Co. at Hattiesburg,
received from the company plans and
specifications of building soon to be
erected by said company at cost OF
about $4,000. With the federal build.
ing just about complete, work on the
$4,000 school building just beginning
and contract awarded for $17S,591 OF
normal school buildings, together with
two residences under construction that
will cost jointly $4,000, brick masona
and carpenters are busy.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
Hookworm Fight.

Ellisville.-Dr. w. Fl. Rowan, assist.
ant director of public health and sani'
tation in Mississippi, will begin cam
paign against the hookworm disease in
Jones county on September 18th. DR..
Rowan will begin his operations at this
place and free clinic will be opened
for the benefit of those who make ap'
plication for treatment. There will be
no cost attached to the treatment or the
necessary medicine fer the disease. All
physicians are asked to cooperate in the
work. DIR. Rowan will probably make
lectures in several Zortr ~f the county.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08
A GOOD MAN is GONE.
DR.. ]. w. Johnson of University Fac
ulty Expires Suddenly.

Jackson.-The sad intelligence has
been received in this city of the death
of DR.. j. w. johnson of the University
faculty at Oxford DR.. johnson has
been connected with the university for
the past thirty-fve years, and some OF
the best citizens of the state have been
educated under him. He taught the de-
Iartment of astronomy and physics, and
is known by the loving nickname OF
prep" johnson.