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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
RIOTS IN CLEVELAND
Strikers and Police in Two or
Three Serious Clashes.

One hundred policemen, summoned
to the scene of a riot between strik-
ing garment workers at Cleveland, O..
and non-union workmen, charged on
the strikers. One man was shot and
at least half dozen seriously injured
Scores suffered battered heads and
body bruises.
About Geo men and women gathered
in front of Printze, Biederman & Co. IS
branch factory on West Twenty-Fifth
street as the non-union workmen were
about to leave the building. A brick
hurled into the crowd caused the riot
When the police arrived the strikers
and non-union men were hurting
bricks, clubs and stones.
Patrolman John Becker was strucl,
on the head. He shot Roselli Doloun
go. striker, in the thigh. Another
man receive ed a cash in the throat.
Later a crowd of strikers gathered
at the plant of the Lattin-Bloomfield
company, West Forty-Sevsnth street
to force out the non-union workers
Windows were broken and some of the
strikers rushed upstairs on fire es
capes and entered the building. Many
of the men workers inside then
Joined the strikers, but $50 girl work
ers refused. The strikers and their
recruits then started in a parade down
the street. Another riot call brought
a squad of police and the crowd was
dispersed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
FIRST PRIMARY AUGUST /.
Only White Democrats Will Be Allowed
to Vote,

Jackson.-Pursuant to call of Chair
man Lomax of the state Democratic ex-
ecutive committee, that body met Mon
day in the senate chambers of the capitol
building. There was not clash or dis
cordant not perceptible. The most i'm
portant action was that fixing the date
for the first nominating primary, which
will be Tuesday, August 1, the earliest
date possible under the general state pri-
mary law and the final round on Tues
day three weeks later, or August %. The
qualifications of voters are as usual in
addition to those written in the law, the
prime conditions being that those partici-
pating shall be white Democrats. 1t was
further decreed that all candidates who
are unopposed are to forward $40 to the
secretary OF the committee in order to
defray the expense of the committee. In
order to give all interested all the time
possible in the event they should desire
to enter any race the committee leaves
the lists open until July /. At the next
meeting, July II, the committee will de-
clare as nominees such candidates as
may be unopposed at that time.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
cHAs. SCOTT GOES TO JAPAN.
physicians Advised That the Sea Trip
Would Benefit Him.

Jackson.-It will be news to great
many people in Mississippi to know that
Hon. Charles Scott of Rosedale is now
on the high seas en- route to Japan in
search of health.
For some time he has been in a low
state Of vitality and suffering from a
persistent throat trouble. This is the
real reason that he did not enter the race
against Hon. Earle Brewer for governor
his physicians absolutely forbade his
doing so or engaging in any occupation
which would worry him. He has dis.
posed of most of his Delta planting in
terests to syndicate of English cotton
spinners, and relieved himself of all
business cares.
Now he is hunting for health and
strength, and on the advice of his med
ical man, he has gone to the Flowery
Kingdom for an indefinite stay.
Mr.. Scott has many friends not only
in Jackson, but all over the state, who
will sincerely wish him a speedy recov.
cry and complete restoration to health
He is one of type of gentlemen orna-
ments to Mississippi, and Inspirations to
all who know them. The state never
had better citizen than Charles Scott
of Rosedale, and there will be many fer
vent prayers ascending to the throne of
the Most High that he may be spared
to reflect credit upon Mississippi for
many years yet.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
LEAKEsvILLE, GREENECOUNTY MISS, FRIDAY
| STATE NEWS NOTES
Weekly Budget of News Items Gathered by Our
Special Correspondent at Jackson.
TOMATOES WEIGH TWO POUNDS.
Remarkable Crops Grown on Farm at the
State Hospital.


Jackson.-"If crazy people can raise
tomatoes weighing two pounds each,
what sort of tomatoes ought sane peo.
pie raisef'
This is not conundrum but ques-
tlon asked in good faith by DIR. Nolan
Stewart, superintendent of the Missis-
sippi Insane Asylum, and thus far he
has not received satisfactory answer
thereto.
On the insane hospital farm, in the
northern suburbs of jackson, the most
phenomenal tomato crop ever raised in
Mississippi is now being harvested.
On six-acre tract the hospital pa
tients whose mental ailments do not
prevent them from working have raised
tomato crop averaging from $50 to 300
bushels per acre. In fact, it is hard to
tell just what the total yield will be, as
the plants are still covered with small
green tomatoes, and the daily picking
is more than ample to supply the 1900
inmates of the big institution.
DR.. Stewart brought to the city four
tomatoes grown on the hospital truck
farm, each being two pounds in weight,
and he says that there are some in the
field even larger than these that have
not yet ripened.
The six-acre tract was planted in the
Royal Pink species, and the yield has
been so prolific that DR.. Stewart has pur-
chased a small canning plant and the
N1rta ho
coming winter.
The truck farm at the hospital is pro-
nounced by experts to be unquestionably
the finest in the state, and it has UNI
questionably made remarkable showing
this year, especially when the fact is re-
garded as a fertile tract.
In the garden proper about sixty acres
We're planted, especially the beans, peas,
cabbage, parsnips, lettuce, caulilower,
kohlrabi, etc. The bean crop was so
large that all of it could not be picked,
while the cabbage patch yielded 10000
head, which were consumed by the in.
mates of the institution at the rate Of
500 per day.
The hospital farm is likewise record
breaker, 1875 acres being planted in corn,
1875 in oats, 10 acres in sweet potatoes,
Is acres in ribbon and Louisiana cane, 20
acres in peanuts, and Is acres in cotton.
The yield of the latter crop will be used
for facing the mattresses used in the
wards, and small factory has been in
stalled for this purpose.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
DIRECT, VOTE FOR U,
S. SENATORS Wins
censte Passes Resolution fo4
Constitutional Amendment.
resolution as Adopted Carries with n
So-cal!ed 5ristow Amendment,
Retaining Slight Fed
eraI Control. a.!

An amendment to the constitution
pTo2ld'ng for election of senator's by
Greet vote is proposed by resolu.
ton which the United States senate
has passed.
The action of the senate marked the
successful elimination of an effort
that has extended over more than a
quarter of a century to bring this
question before the state legislatures.
The resolution was passed by the sen.
ate by vote Of Ga to "a, two-thirds OF
those present, or SO, being necessary
to carry the proposition.
The resolution as adopted, however.
carried with it the so-called Bristow
amendment which necessitates it's re-
turn to the house of representatives,
which had already passed it. II the
house acts favcrably upon the resolu.
ton in its amended form, which seems
likely, it will go to the states for rati.
ncation as an amendment to the Unit.
ed States constitution.
The Bristow amendment aims to re.
tain in the federal government power
to prescribe the manner, time and
place of holding elections for United
States senators. The southerners op-
posed the amendment on the ground
that it would give the federal gov.
ernment power to interfere with the
so-called grandfathers clauses IN the
constitutions of the southern states.
The vote on the Bristow amendment
was tie, "A to AZ, and Vice President
Sherman cast the vote which tackled
the amendment to the resolution.
Upon the vice president alone may
eventually rest the responsibility for
the failure of the resolution, for south
ern senators declared that 1t would
never be accepted in it's present form
by the legislatures Of southern states.
These are the senators who voted
against the resolution on the final
passage: Bacon, Bankhead. Brande-
gee, Burnham, Crane, Dillingham;,
Fletcher, Foster Gallingcr, Hepburn,
Johnston, Lippitt, Lodga Lorimer, Oil.
YER, Page, Penrose, Percy. Richardson,
Root, Smoot, Terrell, Williams and
WetmOre.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
SUGAR TRUST PROBE
investigation Is Begun by Special
House Committee.

The house inquiry into the sugar
business of the country, conducted by
a special committee, began formally
in Washington.
The committee first took up the
American Sugar Refining company to
determine whether the corporation is
operating in violation of the antitrust
or inerstate commerce laws.
James M. Beck, former assistant at
torney general, appeared as counsel
for the refining company, and Edwin
F. Atkins of Boston, vice president and
acting president of the American Su
gar Refining company, was the firsl
witness examined.
Mr. Atkins swore the American Su-
gar Refining company conducted its
bueiness until two years ago with such
secrecy that he himself could not learn
how much business it was doing or
whether shareholders got all dividends
to which they were entitled.
The sugar tariff, according to Mr.
Atkins, enables the Pacific coast
sugar refineries to make a larger mar.
gin of profit than the eastern refner-
les. Replying to Representative Ra-
ker of California, Mr.. Atkins said the
price of sugar was the same on the
Pacific and Atlantic coasts, but the
Pacific manufacturers are able to sell
as far east as Chicago, while the east
ern refineries cannot ship further
west than Kansas City and Omaha.
THE reason is that the Pacific
coast has free raw sugar." said Mr.
Atkins. THE refineries there get the
Hawaiian nd Philippine sugars with
out duty, while we have to pay $1.34
duty on each hundred pounds of Gu
ban sugar"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
: CRIMES and CASUALTIES


At Ossining, N. y, Monday two men
were put to death in the electric chair
in Sing Sing prison. Frederick Geb-
hard, convicted of killing Anna Luther
in the woods at East Islin, L. l., in
April, 1909, was executed first He
collapsed when the guards told him to
get ready. 1t was necessary almost to
carry him to the execution chamber
Thomas Barne, a safeblower, known
as Bangor Billy" who shot Jack
Leonard, went TO death after the exc
cution of Gebhardt
Mrs. Edith Culberson, candidate for
superintendent of the Denver county
schools at the last election, shot and
killed herself at her home in Denver
Mrs. Culberson left note in which
she evidently wished to make it clear
the wound was self-inflicted. Mrs.
Culbertson was thirty-six years old,
was a graduate of Vassar and was
born in Columbus, o.
At Palmyra Mo-, Saturday, a cup of
hot coffee led two men to their deaths
Walter Rightmire, sixty years old.
killed BENJAMIN Holman, aged fifty,
and then committed suicide. A quar-
rel, which eliminated when Rightmire
threw a cup of hot coffee over Hol-
mans hand, preceded the murder and
suicide.
ATpr 14r 1f hr.I
of five days, received injuries from
which she died without recovering
consciousness, and nine other persons
were hurt when the observation car
on the Short Line train from Cripple
Creek left the rails in rounding a
curve in North canyon and was over
turned.
At Albany, N. Y, John V. Nc
Stea, theatrical man from New Or
leans, shot and killed Arthur Brown,
first baseman on the Albany baseball
team, whom McStea found in tine com
four times and died at the HomeC
pathic hospital.
Aspinwall dam in the Allegheny river.
rem, a saloon keeper at 251 North
Paulina street, was fatally shot while
preparing to close his saloon by one
of two negroes, both of whom are un-
der arrest, who, it is alleged, tried to
rob him.
ear Pittsburg, Pa, Joseph Alt
meyer, a hotel proprietor of Sharps-
burg, suburb, and two unidentified
men were drowned when launch in
which they were riding went over the
At Chicago Thursday Harry ]. Noh-
Near Jackson, Mich, Eddie Dal-
ton and Leo Ross were drowned by
the capsizing of their canoe.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
The UNION MAY FIX PRICE.
Mississippi Likely to Join Texas and
Oklahoma For 15c Gotten,

Jackson.-Just what the attitude of
the Mississippi Farmers Union will be
toward the movement originating in
Texas and Oklahoma, in the warehouse
system of the two stetes, to fix min
lmum price of Is cents for middling cot
ton the present season can not be de-
finitely stated until President G. X.
Hightower of the union, and also the
Farmers Warehouse company, returns to
this city.
President Hightower has been in
Barcelona, Antwerp, Liverpool and other
spinning centers, and attended the
Master Spinners Association at BARGE
Iona, endeavoring to establish direct
trading connections for the Mississippi
cotton growers, to sell to the manufac.
turers without the Intervention of mid.
dlemen, and from letters received by
him, his mission has been very salts
factory.
If the Mississippi Union does throw
its weight into the move to hold cot
ton for the minimum of fifteen cents it
will be considerable one; for the
Farmers Warehouse company of Jack
son, an offshoot of the union, controls
63 warehouses in the state of Missis-
sippi and can handle and finance many
thousands of bales. Additionally Geor-
gia and the Carolinas are well organ
lied and the farmers of the south are
in better position than they have ever
been to force the price for their cot
ton.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
TRAIN BANDITS ROB
MAIL CAR IN OREGON
Shasta Limited Is Held Up by
Two Desperadoes.
One Of the Robbers Covers the Clerks
While the Other Rips Open the
Sacks and Ransacks
Their Contents.

The Shasta limited, which left Port.
land at o'clock at night, was held
up and the mail car robbed by two
highwaymen at 11:15 p. m. between
Drain and Yoncalla, Ore The robbers
entered the mail car, held up the
clerks and looted the car. They stop
ped the train at Yoncalla and made
their escape.
The mail clerks found themselves
helpless before the weapons of the
highwaymen. One held them covered
while the other ripped open the mail
sacks and ransacked their contents.
1t is not known how much booty the
desperadoes secured.
AS the train neared Yoncalla one of
the highwaymen pulled the emergency
signal and the train stopped. The
robbers then leaped from the mail car
and disappeared down the village
street The conductor is positive that
the men boarded the train at Drain
but whether they crawled on the roof
or swung to the platform he could
not say.
The first intimation the mail clerks
had of the attack was when the dool
of the car swung suddenly open and
they found themselves faced by the
highwaymen. None attempted resist
ance as the intruders proceeded to the
looting of the sacks.
The conductor and engineer of the
train had no inkling Of any trouble
until the signal to stop at Yoncalla
was sounded and the mail clerks
raised the alarm.
officers here and Sheriff George X.
Quine at Roseburg were notified and
posses were Immediately started in
pursuit of the robbers. The mail car
was the only one disturbed by the
robbers. The passengers and train
men were not molested.
Both robbers are described as about
five feet seven inches tall, smooth
shaven and dressed in dark clothes
They wore black hats; neither wore a
mask They were about twenty-eight
years old. They were armed with
automatic pistols and revolvers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
DARING R0BBER SHOT
Man Who Thought Chicago Rob-
bers' Paradise Captured.

Revolver shots fired at fugitive in
Chicago Friday following a daring
robbery at the Jackson Jewelry com.
psny store, 142-44 North State street,
startled pedestrians at $3.50 a. M, doz-
ems Joining in the chase, which ended
only after the thief had been shot in
the leg and ran for more than block,
leaving a trail of blood and stolen jew
elry behind him.
The prisoner gave the name of Bon
fact Moncuse and his age as twenty
one He told the police that he had
come from Denver only six hours be.
fore, and that after reading the news
papers he was convinced Chicago was
a robbers paradise.
According to the police, Moncuse was
walking through State street when his
attention was attracted by the jewelry
IN the windows of the Jackson COM
nany and, picking up an iron standard
he sent it crashing through a plate
glass window, making hole two feet
In diameter
Reaching in he took thirty band wed.
ding rings from tray and started on
run south on State street.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
esesssoeseessssssee .
SPORTING AFFAIRS
sessesessosssssssssssssss

The long-winded water athletics of
the Missouri Athletic club of st. Louis
already have begun training for the
fifth annual national A. A. U. ten
mile swim, which will be held this
year on August 10. instead of Labor
day. In 1907, 1908 and 1909. II. J.
Handy of Chicago won the event,
which has come to be known as
Americas swimming deroy, while last
year Bud Goodwin of the New York
A. C. copied leg on the $1,000 tro-
ply.
James J. Jeffries is in Paris. When
asked if he was having a good time,
.Jeffries said he never really enjoyed
himself away from Los Angeles. He
is not going to the coronation, he
said, because he hates crowds and not
because of the fact that Jack Johnson
who efeated him at Reno, is in Lon
don
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23

A bomb exploded in the Plaza Ori
nete, adjoining the royal palace il
Madrid, revealed plot to assassinate
King Alfonso.
The great entrance to the cathedral
was shattered and several adjoining
buildings damaged. No one was in
jured.
The bomb was buried during the
early hours of the morning as hun
dreds crowded the cathedral to wor-
ship. 1t is though the assassin plan
ned the attack with the belief that
the king was at worship.
Palace guards Immediately surround
ed the scene of the explosion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
CAN'T FURNISH DETECTIVES.
Gov. Noel Besieged With Requests for
Sleuths


Jackson.-Gov. Noel is in receipt, al
most daily, of requests for the furnish
ing of detectives in different parts of
the state, to assist the local officers in
ferreting out crimes of various kinds
from liquor selling to assassinations. In
some cases it is reported to him that the
local authorities are active, but need help
of detectives. In other cases, it is re-
ported that the local authorities are too
corrupt, or incompetent, to perform their
duties, leaving the enforcement of law
to the private citizens and to the circuit
courts. Out of the $1,000 contigent
fund, the governor is required to pay for
postage stamps, telephone and telegraph
charges, expenses, stationery and other
like items of daily office expenditure,
sometimes aggregating $50 in day in
the ordinary course of affairs, besides
typewriters, office furniture and fixt-
ures, and his travelling expenses. Only
about 81 500 or $4,000 is available for
rewards and detective purposes and the
governor has expended and contracted
already for that much, leaving him un-
able to respond to further calls for de-
tective service.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
NO TROUBLE EXPECTED.
Clerk Noseley Thinks Merging of Fed
eral Courts Will Be Easy.

eral Courts Will Be Easy.
Jackson.-Hon. L. b. Moseley, clerk of
the United States district court for the
Southern district of Mississippi, United
States commissioner and federal patron
age co-referee in Mississippi, returned
after weeks absence at the national
capital
During his stay in Washington Mr..
Moseley looked into affairs pertaining
to the Forthcoming passing of the United
States circuit court system of the United
States government, and the merging of
the latter into the district courts, which
will be effective next January. While
Mississippi is divided into two federal
court districts of several divisions each,
there is but one circuit court in the
state, and hereafter, as in other states,
all the business of the circuit courts will
be transacted in the district courts.
This move is due to the general policy of
retrenchment in the matter of public eX-
penses as much as possible, and Clerk
Moseley does not anticipate any COM
plicatons as a result of the change.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
MISSISSIPPI NORMAL BEGINS.
Many Take Advantage of the Summer
Courses at Oxford.

Oxford.-The summer term of the Uni
versity of Mississippi and the Teachers
Normal opened here with very large
attendance. Preparations have been
made for the best course of study in the
history of the summer work at the insti-
tuition, and it is believed the attendance
will be larger than for several years.
Specialists of national reputation are in
each department, and the campus OF the
university is probably the most attract
i've summer resort of the state. Every
convenience for the comfort OF the
teachers has been provided and the
weather has been delightfully."- cool on
this opening day. The lecture course will
be especially attractive this season and
entertainment of various kinds has been
provided.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
KNOX BEFORE COMMITTEE
Secretary Throws No Light Upon
Day Portrait Voucher Case.

Secretary Knox was before the house
committee on expenditures in the state
department. Secretary Knox testified
concerning the so-called Day portrait
case He thereupon laid before the
committee the long-lost voucher for
$2,450 and other documents in the
case that have mysteriously reap
peared after having been missing for
five years.
The documents submitted by Secre.
tary Knox throw no definite light
upon the final disposition of the 81,
coo that was paid out by the treasury
on the voucher over and beyond the
$3.50 charged by Albert Rosenthal, the
Philadelphia artist, for painting the
portrait of William r. Day, then secre
tary OF state and now associate justice
of the supreme court.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
SIX LABOR INDICTMENTS
Chicago Grand Jury Charges Con-
spiracy with Intent to XIII.

At Chicago six men have been in.
dicted as labor sluggcrs by the grand
jury on evidence given by John RAM
Ter, shot during a raid on the Heisen
building, Dearborn and Harrison
streets.
The men indicted are Red" Con-
nors, Maurice Enright, Edward Stor-
gaardt, Harry Higgins, John McCabe
and Joseph Kane. They are charged
with conspiracy with intent to kill.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
Crops Not Hurt by Heat.

Jackson.-While the present unprece-
dentedly heated term continues to be a
hardship and burden on man and beast,
and in some instances has been known
to drive workers from fields and outdoor
jobs, the consensus of report and opinion
is that the crops were never better, de-
spite the absence of earth-softening and
tempering showers. There are boil wee
wills, and they are expected, but these
are about in spots, and aside from ths
mere casual mention of the fact occasion
ally they are not causing much comment
or concern.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
MORE POSTAL BANKS NAMED
Incomplete Reports Show 100000 on
Deposit in These Institutions.

Chicago Heights, ILL.,, is to have a
postal savings bank. 1t is among the
fifty postoffices designated to have a
depository on July 13. Among the
other offices selected are Granite City
and Madison, ILL.,; LaPorte and Whit.
ing, Ind; LeMars and Waverly, Ia,
and Hancock and Ishpeming, Mich.
Incomplete reports received at the
postoffice department indicate that on
June l the deposits in postad saving
banks in the ninety-three Offices then
in operation were approximately $40?.
000 This is regarded as a remarkable
showing. in view of the fact that all
the offices were in small towns.