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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
WOMAN'S DEADLY AIM
KILLS PROMINENT SOCIETY MA.
IRON BY ACCURATE FIRE.
Well Known Fort Worth Woman Kills
Divorce in Department Store.

FIT. Worth, Tex.-Shooting with the
GOODNESS and skill OF a native born
Texan. Mrs. T. NJ. Brooks fired five
bullets into the body of Mrs. Mary Bin
ford, head of the alteration department
of the largest fashionable womenS
stores here.
Because of the GOODNESS and remark
able craftsmanship of Mrs. Brooks the
affair has created a sensation here,
where all the principals are well known
and popular
Mrs. Brooks inquired for Mrs. Bin
ford, who came from the alteration de-
partment to meet her. From her muff
Mrs. Brooks drew the big-Old-fashioned
revolver and a moment later the wo-
men grappled.
Mrs. Brooks showed her victim back
against the wall, but in so doing the
gun was discharged and the bullet
ploughed its way through Mrs. Bin
fOrd's left hand. Mrs. Brooks then
stepped back and fred four times with
the rapidity of a machine gun each
time aiming for her victims head and
missing by only a few inches.
The second ball struck Mrs. Binford
in the left shoulder, the third one inch
higher, the fourth struck at the base
of the neck, breaking the spinal yer
tebrae.
The waist worn by the dead woman
caught fire from the flashes from the
revolver muzzIe and the body was bad
~ burned before clerks extinguished
the flames.
Before securing a divorce from her
husband about two years ago, Mrs. Bin
ford was wealthy and popular.
Both Mrs. Brooks and her husband
decline to make any statement that
would throw light on causes leading up
to the tragedy.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
CORNER ON FOOD FAILS
BELIEVED BIG DROP IN PRICES
WILL BE THE RESULT.
Thirty-Two Warehouses Hold $4,000,
600 Pounds of Food Products.
Prices Will Tumble.

ChicagO.-MilliOnS Of pounds Of but
ter, eggs, cheese and poultry, held in
cold storage warehouses here, will be
thrown on the market before May l,
and a general tumbling Of food prices
is expected at once according to com
mission merchants. Numerous Chi
cagO commission men are said TO be
facing failure as a result Of their eff
forts to maintain an artificial price on
the necessities of life. The inability
further to uphold this price is said to
be due to a combination Of circum-
stances, chief of which are the open
winter of 1911 and the banner crops OF
1910.
Three commission men failed in the
last week as a result of holding great
quantities of butter, which they pur-
chased at an average price of 81 cents
a pound and are now unable to market
for more han q or % cents a pound.
While the wholesale prices of but
ter and eggs have dropped decidedly
within the last few weeks, there has
as yet been no decline in retail prices.
Much of the produce which is to be
unlOaded on a falling market has been
in the warehouses for as long as five
years. BY means Of cold storage, COM
mission men nave been able to main
ain an artificial price not only to the
consumer, but to the producer, it IS
said.
No public warehouse report is ever
made here, and the exact amount of
produce in the hands of Chicago firms
cannot be estimated. Thirty-two ware
houses are known to have A, OOO, 900
pounds of butter, eggs and poultry.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
SOLVE RATE PROBLEM
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT NEED.
ED BY ROADS.
Attorney 78randeis Points Out Econo-
mics Possible by Employment OF
Scientific Labor.

Washington-"We contend that rates
are ample, but that the expense of OPP
Grafton is excessive: that wages are
not too high but that, as the manage
ment is ~unscientiic, labor, material,
equipment and the plant fail to give
adequate results. We plead for the
Introduction of scientific management,
under which the railroads shall get one
hundred cents for every dollar eX-
pended"
In opening his argument for the ship
pers of the Atlantic Seaboard before
the interstate m commission.
Louis d. Brandeis thus presented the
fundamental reason, in his mind, why
freight rates should not be advanced
as proposed by the railways.
Mr.. Brandeis declared that no rail
way company operating in official elias
sification territory had introduced into
any of its departments the principles
of scientific management.
He believed that these principles
were properly as applicable to rail
roads as to n other industrial enter
prise.
Mr.. Brandeis pointed out that no &C
tual cooperation existed among the
roads with a view to reducing the cost
of any particular operation. If there
were cooperation among the roads the
highest measure OF efficiency could be
obtained and the saving of 8 per cent
of the aggregate cost, or ever far more
than s per cen could easily be obtain
ed, he said.
Cooperation also, in Mr.. Brandeis'
opinion, could secure reductions in the
cost of steel rails, in the price Of
which he believes an enormous saving
could be made. He suggested, how
ever, that no effort was being made by
the railroads to obtain reduction OF
the price of steel rails because of the
financial connections with the four
great steel companies which manufact-
ure the rails.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
BattIeship Arkansas Launched.

Philadelphia.-To the cheers of close
to twenty thousand people lining the
river bank at Camden, the battleship
Arkansas. latest acquisition of the
United States navy, slid into the Della
ware. A minute before Miss Mary L..
Macon, daughter of Congressman Ma
con of Arkansas, dressed all in white,
and holding in her arms a huge bunch
of American Beauty roses, had thrown
the bottle of American champagne
with unerring aim against the bow OF
he ship.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
TAKE A LESSON FROM VENUS
Moral That Writer Has Drawn 10
Not Without Some Points Of
Worthiness.

Miss Venus is a lovely girl; not
one time has she ,muttered; against
her pale, illumined life not one word
has she uttered. Just think, she's
been without her arms for many dusty
ages, and yet she never drops the
brine or rants in hopeless RACES. She
has to stand a bunch Of CUFF from art
bugs down to draymen, and yet she
never once ONE back and grills the
heather layman. When some low
brow of brutal mien starts merrily 10
panning and says her face is worse
than wood and that her hair needs
canning or that he has a waitress
friend who jerks a coffee jigger could
give her many, many leagues and beat
her out on fgger, she never even
looks at him, that rank untutored sin
ner, but holds her tongue and pedes-
tai; o, Venus is a winner. She's on
the Job both day and night, she hears
man knock or flatter and not
of classic. mold get madden than a
halter. She suffers long and quietly
with calm and placid manner; in cold
no mits to reach a quilt, in heat, no
hands to fan her. She is a lesson in
herself-a fruit for daily picking. Just
spare the world our trouble tales and
scratch the useless kicking.-G. s., In
Chicago Tribune.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Needed Assistance.

A poor old c~ast-down hobo started
to knock the paint off of n back door
the other morning, and when he tear
fully told the lady who appeared that
he had a sick wife at home and a
dozen hungry kids, she gave him a
couple Of homemade biscuits. Daintily
the hobo handled them, and once
more he glanced up |wistfully.
Whats the matter" Indignantly
demanded the housewife. aren't you
satisfied with the b~iscuits?"
Yes, dear lady" replied the tramp
full one, but l thought perhaps you
would be so kind as to loan me a nut
cracker for a few minutes"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
EXPECTS TO DIE IN PRISON.
Old Confidence Man Says Sentence
Will Be His Last.

Cincinnati, On the same court
rOOm in which he was convicted of his
first crime twenty-one years ago Colo
mel" A. c.. Ward. notorious confidence
game man and all-round crook, was
convinced Monday for the sixth time
during his career and sentenced 10 two
years in the penitentiary on the charge
of obtaining money and goods under
false p~retenses.
Il know that am going to the Ohio
p~enitentiary to die said Ward, who is
Il years old, shortly after sentence
had been pronounced on him.
IF | do die. a warden in the Michi-
gan p~enitentiary has promised to take
care of my body"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Has Will Set Aside.

New York.-Francis X. Petit, who
was left only a cemetery plot and an
old suits of clothes under the will OF
his father, William B. Petit, succeed.
ed in having the will set aside. The
testament disposed of a $3.50, 900 es
tate, giving his young wife the pulk OF
the fortune. Young Petit testified
that his father INDUCED in eccentric
pranks, and said that on one occasion
Petit, Sr., carried a pistol and a horn
when he collected rents from negro
tenants.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Egypt Experimenting With Cotton.

Observation-Disclosures in cotton
culture are being made by the Egyp-
tian government with a view to in
creasing the production of that com
modify The government is conduct
ing these experiments on its Korash>
rah estates with a new cotton seed,
styled assili, which has produced ap-
proximately 500 pounds per acre. 1t is
hike aft in color, but better in quality
and is expected to fetch 81 more per
hundredweight than n other variety
cultivated in Egypt.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
WEEWL IN OKLAHOMA.
Crop Investigator Declares 35 Per
Cent. Acreage Infested.

Oklahoma City.-That 80 per cent.
of the cotton acreage or fifteen coun-
ties of Oklahoma, is infested by the
cotton boil weevil is the startling news
conveyed by w. D.. Hunter, in charge
of the Southern field crop insect in
vestigatiOn for the federal government.
All of Louisiana and Texas, except a
few counties in the western section, he
declares to be infested. Twenty-three
counties are infested in Mississippi
and twenty in Arkansas. The infested
portion, he asserts, is relatively larger
than the remainder of the ]cotton-prO.
ducing territory of the South.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
IMPORT RECORD BROKEN.
Profits for America Over Three Hun.
dred Million Dollars.

Washington. - With the enormous
total of almost 3 800, 600, 900, the
total value of the foreign trade of the
United States during the yea which
ended December 81, 1910, was greater
than that of any year eve before, and
left a balance in favor Of his country
of over $3OO,O 600, 900. The figures ex-
coed the former high record of 1907
by about $780, 600, 900.
Besides this new record, another rec
ord vas broken during 1910, in the
value of imports from abroad. They
amounted to 81, ,SO7, 624, compared
with 1,475,52O,72 in 1909, $1,116,374,.
)87 in 1908, and 1923 1898 in 1907.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
PITIFUL END TO CHAPTER.
Col. TiIIman, Fcrsaken by All, Nearing
His End.

EdgesfieId, c. C.-Estranged from
his wife and relatives, deserted by his
One-time friends and practically pen
niless, Col. James H. Tillman, form
erly ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of South Car
Dina and slayer Of N. G.. Gonzales, is
dying Of tuberculosis. He is gradually
growing weaker and it is not believed
he can survive many weeks longer. He
has not been able to sit up in bed for
months.
Col. Tillman is occupying a small
cottage Of four rooms and is attended
by only one nurse. 1t hrs become
known hat his relatives have nothing
to do with him; that he is without
money, and that but for the nurse he
would have starved to death.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

The students OF Vassar proclaim
with pride that they can cook. and
cook appetizing meals at that. There
is no danger in the higher education.
Neven for the conservative. when WON
en- taxi pride in their cooking as an
accomplishment, and men, as a rule,
do not care how much science and
PHILOSOPHY their future wives absorb
as long as the absorbing process does
not Interfere with the prospect of
good dinners when the cook Is on
strike.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

The brave police president oABerlin
has taken a valiant stand againA long
hat pins. calling upon women to fease
making themselves in this RESPECT a
menace to mankind. The long hat pin
affected by fashion is really danger
pus, IS those who have been jabbed In
crowded cars or on the street can tes-
efy. If the women won't be reason
able about 1t, won't they please be
merciful?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Welded IN BALLOON.
Couple Also Take Honeymoon 800 Feet
Above Mother Earth.

San Antonio, TeXas.-While soaring
aloft over San Antonio in a dirigible
balloon, at a height of eight hundred
feet, Miss Marie Shelton, and w. Wal
ter Stowe, two w~elI-knoWn young peo-
pie of San Antonio, were united i'll
marriage. The ceremony was perform
ed by Rev. J. II. Adams of the Cum.
berland Presbyterian Church, The
wedding was actually in the clouds, as
the day was foggy and misty. The
young couple enjoyed a honeymoon
trip Of thirty-fve miles across the
country before the balloon was brought
to the earth.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
MUST MAKE 1T EXPLICIT.
President to Compel Revenue Agents
to Get Full Full Data.

FTeSIOent 10 compel revenue Agents
to Get Full Full Data.
Washington. = President Taft will
probably direct Internal Revenue Com
missioner Cabell to require the reve-
nue. collectors in prohibition districts
to certify to the state authorities the
names of persons who buy licenses
from the government to retail whisky
and spirits. Congress has already
passed an act to this effect, but the
revenue bureau has insisted on fur
nishing what is called r. d. L." lists
to state authorities. These letters
stand for retail dealers license and
indicate that the persons whose names
appear thereon have been licensed to
retail liquor. The lists are useless i'll
court as evidence, however, because
the letters r. D.. l. mean nothing.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
GUSHER IN LOUISIANA.
Stands Second Only to the Great Cali
fornia Producer.

Houston, Texas.-A. special to the
Post from Vinton, La, says:
With the exception of the famous
Bakersfield gusher at Bakersfield, Cal,
the Stewart well, brought in on the
Vincent tract, is by far the greatest
producing oil we'll ever discovered in
the United States or in fact in the
world. The we'll is gushing at a rate
of not less than 1900 barrels per day,
constantly increasing its average as it
clears.
No well in either the Beaumont or
Jennings fields eve averaged more
than 10000 barrels per day, which
makes the Stewart we'll stand second
only to the great California producer.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
THREE NEGROES LYNCHED.
One Killed Wife, Two Others Assault
ed White Women.

S~helbyville. Ky.-A mob composed
Of less than 100 men seized and lynch
ed three negroes, two of whom were
charged with assaulting white girls
and the third sentenced to hang for
the murder of his wife. The three
were lynched in different places, and
what was first seemed to have been a
single lynching was found to have
been a triple one only with the finding
of the three bodies.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Haines Dropped From List.

Washington.-The house passed a
bill authorizing the dropping of army
officers from the rolls when they have
been absent without leave for more
thar three months. This would re-
move from the army list Capt. Peter c..
Haines, now serving a sentence for the
killing of William E. Annis, a civilian,
three wears ago
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Cherry Heirs Get s54 .5e4.

Springfield, Ill.-WidOws and chill
dren of miners who were killed in the
Cherry mine disaster of November 1.
1909, have received S54, 594 from the
Cherry relief fund, according to the
report of Secretary Dunca Mcdonald
of the Cherry relief fund commission.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Walk 1.10O Miles

Winnipeg, Man-The party of fifteen
scientists who have been on a geolOgi,
cal survey in the Hudson Bay country,
arrived here Monday after a trip Of
extreme hardship. Arriving here, they
finished a walking trip of LOO miles
with the mercury registering SO de
greeS below zero.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
sheehan Named for Senator.

Albany, N. Y.-Wm. F. Sheehan was
nominated as the Democratic candi-
date for United States senator Mon
day at the joint caucus Of Democratic
legislators, receiving 60 votes, four
more than a majority of all the Demo-
cratic members of both houses.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Vanderbilt Is AGAIN Enriched.

Nashville. Tenn-Vanderbilt Unfver-
sity has an additional $500. 900 to it's
credit in a local bank in the way of
checks for 100000 each from w. K.
Vanderbilt and from the general edu-
cation board of New York.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Improve Hydraulics.

Misunderstanding of the Navy
Meyer asked congress for $807, 900 for
the improvement of the hydraulics of
Mare Island straits and approaches in
California so as to permit ships of the
deepest draft to go to the navy yard.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Packers Offer Pensions.

Chicago. Ogden Armour confirms
a report from Kansas City that old age
pensions were to be established for
employees of the Armour Company in
all cities.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

An Iowa Judge granted a divorce to
a man whose wife liked cigarettes bet
ter than she did him Must have been
awfully good cigarettes or a pretty
poor husband.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Bio Increase in Postal Bill.

Washington.-The p~ostoffce appro-
priation bill, ~aggregating 1888, 0OO, 900,
ar increase of more than SO, 600, 900
owe the current appropriation, was re-
ported to the house by the p~ostof6ce
committee.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Stop Treating to Drinks.

Jefferson City, MO-A bill introduced
in the house would make it illegal to
treat in saloons and to sell liquor to
women in saloons. Fortune telling
will be a felony, if a measure which
was placed before the house is passed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Nipped In tho Bud.

Parke-Too bad about Differs boy,
wasn't it-got him graduated from
college and thought he had a career
before him.
Lane-What happened?
Parke-Why, he has Just eloped
with the lady chauffeur.-Life.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
S. 600 for Canal

Washington.-An Immediate appro-
priation of S., 100000 for Panama canal
Notifications to be taken out of a total
appropriation of $12,475,32S for Pan
anna d~efenses was asked of congress
by the war department.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Jesse James Son Divorced.

Kansas City, Mo.-Stella F. James
was granted a divorce from Jesse E.
James, son of Jesse James, the bandit,
in the circuit court here. Mrs. James
was given the custody Of their four
children and 500 a month aIimony.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Gardiner RiII Passes.

Washington. = The Gardiner bill
which would prohibit the admission
into the United States of n litter
ate alien over 16 years old, was or
dered favorably reported to the house
BIZ the committee on immigration.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
One wav to Look at II.

.Jinks-Do o know. / vas re-
fused three times before 1 FOUND a
girl who would have me?"
Blinks-I see. Just like n patent
medicine: We'll shaken before taken"
Judge.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

New York walters are opposed to
the institution of the BertillOn system,
and the public will stand by them so
far as pertains to thumbprints on the
SOUP plates.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

Mrs. Russell Sage is going to build
a model town for 1900 model families
near New York. But she nay have to
go out of New York to find her ten
ants.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

Last year Alaska produced s20.463..
900 gold. or about three times what
Uncle Sam paid for the big territory.
Some day Secretary Seward will have
a fine monument as a good Judge of a
EeaI estate bargain.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

Photographers all over the country
will mourn that it is the society WON
en- of Philadelphia. instead OF Chicago.
who are unwilling to show their feet
in a classic tableau.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

DR. Wiley says that the earth is
c~oolin2r n that men will freeze to
death q, the equator some day, From
a man who is contemplating matri-
mony one would expect a brighter
view.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

When a cold wave hits New York
there are noses sympathetically red In
Weehawken, Hoboken and Hacken-
sack
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

A new million-dOIlar apartment
house in New York is to a a kin
dergarten, hospital n skating rink.
The three don't go badly together.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Roonng.

Galvanized Iron Corrugated and Crimp
Of best quality for barns, sheds, chicken
houses and residences,-Fire and water
proof. needs no paint. takes care of itself,
will last for years. Get the best, all
lengths, 8 to IL feet. Full weight goods.
Send this ad with order. Pidgeon-ThOmag
Iron Co., THE Roofing Folks" "a, So N.
2 St., Memphis. Tenn.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

The Courier-Journal notes the fine
difference between the words died"
and passed away as applied to bank
cashiers.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

1t was a stroke of genius which
made the census taking precede the
opening of the shooting a for
amateur hunters.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

A ninety-three-year-old man has been
left a fortune but refuses to give up
his Job. He knows what has kept
him alive.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

Chicago highwaymen carried a vic
tim three miles to rob him. That
must constitute a violation of the
interstate law.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach. liver and bowels
Sugar-coated, tiny granules. Easy to take
as candy.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Are You Weak, All
Run Down

This condition is directly caused by
bad blood. When the blood is made rich
and pure by Hoods S~arasaparilla, you
will feel strong and cheerful; it will put
new life into your veins, new vigor into
your muscles; give you a sharper appetite
and good digestion; make you look better,
sleep better and feel better; will make
the hardest work lighter and the darkest
day brighter. Facts! Thousands confirm
them. Get Hoods today.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

If all the New England hunting
stories are true the abundance Of en-
ison should bring down the price Of
beef.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

Whenever the dressmakers think OF
other outrageous spring styles they let
US know.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

That latest earth shock might be
traced to the miIitarists bringing up
their heavy artillery.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

If motion pictures are to aid the in
sane they should not be associated
with nickel-theater ventilation.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

When aerial freight transportation
begins to become a fact, we shall hear
some railroad men arguing that there
is not enough air for the success OF
the plan.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

Now Peru and Bolivia are disagree
ing. What South America needs Is
fight n revolt antitoxin.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

If we must have so many warShips
why not get Mr.. Edison to make a few
with his cement molds?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20

Still. feeding children on two n
a day and making them like 1t are two
different propositions.