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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
BRIBE GIvERS
TO BE INDICTED
Ohio Investigation to Be Sweep
ing In Character.
GRAND JURY Is PROBING,
Investigation of Bribe Offers viii Not
Be Confined to Those Men Who
Handled Money, But Those Who
Supplied II.

1t was Indicated at Columbus. Ohio.
that indictments for perjury were
likely as a result of some evidence
given before the grand jury in con-
pection with the bribery investiga-
ton. 1t also was made clear that lob
byists would be indicted if sufficient
testimony can be secured to convict
The intimation was given out that
the Investigation of bribe offers would
not be confined to men who handled
money, but those who supplied 1t
would be immune
It is said a score of detectives are
in the city Many of the well-known
lobbyists, who have been coming to
Columbus for years, are conspicuous
by their absence Some are reported
to have left the state. Today a clew
was taken up looking to the implica-
ton of a member of the house, who
demanded $4,000 to aid in the pas
sage of one bill.
The indicted legislators were ar
ragned today. All pleaded not guilty.
The trials will begin during the week
of May 10. The legislators will seek
DELAY
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
MORE ARRESTS COMING
"eb Spun hv Detectives Far Reachin
in Scone

"sD Spun nv Detectives Far REACHING
in Scope.
There is stir of suppressed excite
ment in Les Angeles, for the hint has
leaked out from the authorities that
important developments in the way of
the arrest of more men in connection
with the dynamiting for which John
j. Mcnamara, James B. Mcnamara
and Ortie e. McManigal are held in
Jail here may be looked for within
thirty-six hours. These men are said
to be two labor leaders of the Pacific
coast, one of whom is especially prom
inent, and the others are two eastern
ers, around whom the filaments of the
web spun by the detectives have been
thrown. Their identity was disclosed
to the police by McManigal No def
mite word has been given out as vet
regarding the exact charge against
these suspects, but Sheriff Hamell has
admitted that something was likely to
break very soon, and that it would be
well for those interested TO keep a
close watch on the proceedings of his
office.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
KISS LED TO DEATH.
Tragedy Occurs Near Esseg, in Prov
ince of SIavcnia.

ii&SSiy GSNL'S t-~SSSt ~ 'S'
ince of SIavonia.
A quarrel about the price Of a kiss
led to the loss Of two lives near Es-
seq, in SlaYOnia.
Two young people, George Mitchell
itsch and Marie Hippitch, who had
just become engaged, were walking in
the evening on the bank of the Drau
river, when Mitchelitsch was heard
to ask the girl for kisses on account
of their impending marriage. She
gave them, but in return said it was
only fair II she also got an alvance of
the housekeeping money for furnish
ing. He agreed, but when she said
she wanted half crown for each
kiss, he became furious.
Hot words and boxes on the ear
followed, but the passersby only
laughed at the lovers quarrel, until
they saw the man push the girl into
the river AS she fell she caught hold
of his coat and dragged him in after
her.
The swift current curried them
away, and both were drowned before
their bodies could be recovered.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
STATE NEWS NOTES |
Weekly Budget of News Items Gathered by Our
Special Correspondent at Jackson.
SPREAD THROUGH STATE.
Girls Tomato Clubs Receiving State
wride Attention.

Jackson.-That Girls Tomato Clubs >
corresponding in their aims to the
Boys Corn Clubs which have made the
state notable during the past few years,
will be organized in nearly every county
in Mississippi before long is very evil
dent.
The idea, which is being advanced by
Miss Susie " Powell of the state board
of education, has already been received
with considerable favor in the schools
of Lincoln county, where, at Brook
haven, several clubs have already been Or
ganized.
Nor will the members of the country
clubs be forced to worry about a suitable
market for their tomatoes. OF course,
a large percentage of the crop of each
club will be grown for home consumption
but if Miss Powelrs plans do not &C
astray, and there is no reason to fear
that they will, the venture should also
prove lucrative one, as well as a
pleasant means of agricultural educa-
ton
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
1000 ACRES AVAILABLE.
Land Office Besciged by Inquiries From
Northernerc

Jacksonville interesting of northern
and eastern capitalists ana linanciers in
the colonization plans of various deycl-
opment organizations throughout Missis.
sippi is causing 4 sudden appreciation OF
the homestead possibilities of the state,
according to information received in the
office of Register j. jay White, of the
United States land Office in this city.
The colonization plans include the
bringing of thousands and thousands of
immigrants to the unsettled portions of
the state, providing them with substan-
tial farms and letting them pay for the
lands after they have tried their powers
at cultivation This class of colonists
will be comprised mainly of Dutch, Ger
man, Swcdes and Italian farmers who
have come to this country to pursue
their agricultural vocations in the new
land.
There are 10000 acres of land still
available in Mississippi, however, under
the homestead laws of the United States,
and these are being eagerly inquired for.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
WoMAN'S MONUMENT.
Full Meeting of the Committee at the
Little Rock Reunion.

headquarters Confederate Women's Mon
ument Committee for Mississippi,
Rcsedale, Miss, May /, 1911.
To the State Committee, and all Missis-
sppians Interested in the Building of
Monument in Honor of the Women
OF the Confederacy:
Pursuant to an order issued some days
since by Gen. W. A. Montgomery, thel Z
will be full meeting of our committee
at the Little Rock reunion, and it is inn
portant that all of the funds that have
been subscribed and collected for the
monument should be sent, prior to that
time, to Col. Clay Sharkey, our treas
urcr, of jackson, Miss. We understand
that perhaps there are some contribtl-
tions that have not been heretofore for
warded, because they are small in
amount, and the parties are holding
them, thinking it good policy to delay
reporting, with view of materially in
creasng the amounts, and making a
more crcditable showing.
We want to say, for each member of
the committee, thai this monument is
intended as love Offering from all of
the people of the state who want to
honor the women of the .Confcderacy,
and the small amounts are especially ap-
prcciated for that reason. SO no one
need hesitate to send in their contribu-
tions, 10 matter how small they may
be, and we will especially appreciate
prompt attention now, as VIC are anx-
ious to show, as collected, as large a
sum us the facts justify, when we make
our report to the United Confederate
Veterans, at the Little Rock meeting, on
the 10th inst.
After sending in whatever sum may
have been collected, the proper efforts
can be made to get additional contr-
buttons, which can be sent forward from
time to time, as may seem best.
Asking that the state papers copy
this notice and that it receive prompt
attention in all parts of the state, we
are, yours respectfully,
CHARLES SCOTT,
Chairman;
W. H. GRIFFIN,
w. S. COLEMAN,
CHAS. HUMPHREYS,
Committee.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
GENERAL An appropriation will
NEWS be asked of the coming

GENERAL An appropriation will
NEWS be asked of the coming
NOTES. Georgia legislature by
the state department of entomology
more successfully to carry on the bat
tie against the boil weevil, which is
due to arrive in Georgia in three
more years This appropriation, how
ever, will not be used in an effort to
exterminate the pest after it reaches
the state, but to instruct the farmers
how to prepare themselves against the
little insects which have cost the cot
ton sections of the west millions of
dollars.
A Birmingham dispatch says: The
Lake Borgne canal has been trans
ferred 10 Joseph H. Hoadley, ]. F.
Shaw, of Boston, and others repre-
senting syndicate engaged in merg-
ing the Southern Steel, Alabama Con-
solidated Coal and Iron and other
southern Industrial properties. An
nouncement is made that a railroad
will be built from Gadsden via Bir-
mingham to the Warrior river at Tus-
caloosa. Coal is to be floated down
the Warrior to Mobile, and thence to
New Orleans via Mississippi sound
and Lake Borgne canal Details of
the merger are now being arranged in
New York.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has ac-
cepted an invitation to attend the an
nual meeting of the Associated Har-
ward Clubs at St. Paul, June 9-10 9th
ers in attendance will be DR.. Charles
W. Eliot, president emeritus; DR.. A..
L. Lowell. president of Harvard; Sec
retary Of the Navy Won Meyer and
Pierpont Morgan, Jr. Three special
trains will bring eastern delegates,
who will be entertained by Chicago
alumni, June g. en- route to st. Paul
Governor Brown, of Georgia, has re-
Gently respited for month F. T. Tay-
lor, condemned to death on the gal
lows for the murder of W. A. Belcher,
in Appling county, until June 8, in
order that he might have opportunity
to examine the voluminous records in
the case. The prison commission has
recommended Communication to life i'm
prisonment.
The sale of the Risdon Iron and
Locomotive Works of San Francisco
to the United States Steel corporation
reported at San Francisco last week
was confirmed by the recording cf the
deeds for the transfer of the property
at price said to be approximately
100000. 1t was announced by rep
resentatives of the corporation in San
Francisco.
Woman suffrage won a victory In
the English house Of commons when
the enfranchisement bill granting cleo
toral privileges to women household
ers passed the second reading by a
vote Of 255 for and SO against. II
was then referred to the house as a
committee of the whole.
AT the Fitzgerald Ca. drainage con
/ vention, May 81, the drainage en-
! gineer, whose headquarters will be al
! Waycross, will be introduced for the
! first time to the workers for a drain
! age law in Georgia. and he will imme.
diately begin his survey of the state.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
ENCOURAGE CORN CLUBS.
Commissioner Blakeslee Receives Many
Prize CfHs.

Jaekson.-That interes. in the boys
corn club movement is not being con-
fined to residents of Mississippi, in point
of contributions to the cause, is evil
deneed in several offers received during
the past few days by Commissioner Of
Agriculture II. E. Blakeslee, who is to
have charge OF this department at the
Mississippi State fair
Several valuable prizes are now being
offered by out-of-state manufacturers,
among them being four gasoline engines,
suitable for heavy farm work, two
ranges, one buggy, four Junior" wag-
ons Of the Studebaker type, and almost
a carload of individual agricultural i'm
plcments.
These will be apportioned as prizes for
the best yields and crop records. Some
Of the most expensive premiums will be
offered for the best records of profit
from a single acre of corn.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
| CHINESE SITUATION
WORRIES POWERS
Complication at Canton Causing
Trouble.
UPRISING REPORTED SERIOUS
Alleged Attacks on Foreigners and
Foreign lnterests-Troops Said to
Be Unable to Curb RevoIutionists-
Rebels on Rampage.

! International complications are
threatened from the attacks ON for
eigners and foreign interests and the
apparent inability of the imperial
troops to curb the revolutionaries
about Canton. says a Hong Kong dis
patch
Reports show that the present up
rising is probably the most serious
that has ever been known in south
/ eastern China, which for years has
been violence-ridden from the secret
Chinese societies and political organi.
cations. With fire and sword, the
rebels are sweeping the country. leav-
Ing trail of death and outrage in
their wake
The rebels have blrned four gov.
ernment buildings at Fatshan.
Two Chinese gunboats are reported
to have shelled Samchui, which ia
held by the rebels, and scores are re-
ported to have been killed by the fire.
The French missionaries are re-
ported to nave uoOn-,-.,, ..han th.
mission at Shinting was sacked
Half Of the imperial army garri-
soned at Fatshan has mutinied and
Joined the rebels, taking their arms
and ammunition with them. The
mandarin's palace was attacked.
Europeans employed upon new rail-
road construction north of Canton, and
their families, are in danger of death.
The fate of many of them in interior
districts is unknown
Pressure is being exerted by the
British government to compel the
sending Of soldiers to protect these
engineers. 1t is possible that British
marines and sailors from other for
eign warship will be landed within
forty-eight hours to engage the rebels
in battle.
There are few American interests
in the area Of pilage, but there are
number of American and English men
and women missionaries.
A foreign mission near Samchui is
said to have been burned and the in
mates either taken captive or killed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
Scholarships for Farmers.

Jackson.--Prcsident |. w. Cooper of
Whitworth College has offered Miss
Powell four scholarships at Whitworth,
which are worth $50 each, to be bestowed
two each in the counties of Lincoln and
Copiah, as premium on excellence and
success in tomato culture. In each of
these counties tomato clubs, composed
not only of schoolgirls, but of those
who have retired from school, and in
fact may have girls of their own at
school, are being formed, and Miss
Powell and her associates in school i'm
proyement and woman's club work are
doing all in their power to encourage
this spirit.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
TRAGEDY AT ATHENS.
Murders Wife, Then Stays Self
MYSTERIOUS Affair,

With a little wide-eyed baby girl the
only witness R. M. MacKinney, living
on Chase street, Athens, Ga, shot his
wife, then, turning the pistol on him.
self, fired into his own brain, and died
almost instantly. The woman lived
for a short while, but never spoke
and scarcely moved after being shot.
The cause Of the shooting is unknown.
1t was at first believed that they
were shot by a third party, but the
police are confident, after examination
Of the room and the grounds, which,
after the rain, would show fresh
tracks, and from other circumstances,
that the man shot his wife and then
committed suicide.
The shooting occurred in sight of
Young Harris Memorial Methodist
church, where a protracted meeting
had begun, and while the services
were in progress
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
Gloster viii Have Joint Debate.

Gostcr.-One of the greatest picnics
of the season will be held at Woodmen
Springs june 6. The occasion will be one
Of interest as each candidate for repre-
sentative from Amite and adjoining conn-
test will give their views i'll short
speeches, also candidates for the sena-
torship from Amite and Wilkinson, and
that for district attorney from the
Sixth judicial district. Invitations are
extended to the members of the order
Of the Wocdmen of the World of Missis-
sippi to see the proposed site for the
". Q. w. Sanitarium.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
GOING TO THE REUNION.
Mississippi Win Send Good Crowd to
Little Rock

Observation-Disclosures are that Misss-
sippi will send big delegation to the
annual reunion of United Confederate
Veterans to be held at Little Rock dur
ing the week beginning May Is.
Maj. j.-Gen. w. A. Montgomery, com
mander of the state division, and his
official staff will leave Jackson via the
Illinois Central Sunday afternoon, May
Il, and arrive in Little Rock the fol
lowing morning. He will be accompanied
by several hundred veterans who will as
semble at this point to accompany the
official party.
While Mississippi's contingent at the
reunion will hardly be as large as the
crowds sent from this state to the re-
cent reunions at New Orleans and Mem
phs, the commonwealth will neverthe-
less be well represented.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
Annex to Old LADIES' Home.

Jackson.-Those at the head of the
Old Ladies' Home management state that
all details are completed for starting the
construction Of the annex, which it was
decided to build at the recent annual
meeting of the association here. There
are tweny-odd inmates Of the home at
present and there are allEost as many
applications for admission OH file The
inmates at present are all healthy and
contented and there are no vacancies
pending, so that the providing of this ad.
ditional room is an imperative neces.
al ;fxr
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
PLAN MEMORIAL HALL.
Great Building for Historical Relics
Would Cost 100000.

Great Building for Historical Relics
Would Cost 100000.
Col. George A. Armes, u S. A., re-
tired, at session of the National
Congress of the Sons of the American
Revolution, introduced a resolution
providing for the erection at Washing
ton of a great memorial hail, in which
historical relics may be preserved.
Definite action on Col. Ames' plan will
be taken before the congress closes,
it is said.
Col. Ames' resolution provides for
building to cost not less than $1,000
600, and to contain rooms not only for
the preservation and exhibition of
relics, but also large hall, in which
conventions and other gatherings
might be held.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
DIES IN FRIENDS ARMS.
Senator Culom's Secretary is Stricken
With Heart Failure.

Suddenly stricken with heart fail
ure, caused by an attack of acute gas
tritis, William Martin Malloy, private
secretary of United States Senator
Shelby Cullom, of Illinois. died in the
arms of his roommate, II. X. Cruik-
shank, at Washington, d. c. Coroner
Neville pronounced gastritis as the
cause Of death, and issued &. certifi-
cate to the effect.
MIR. Malloy was decorated by Queen
Wilhelmina, of Holland, for service
rendered at the peace conference at
The Hague a year ago, while serving
In the capacity of secretary. He was
secretary of the Lincoln memorial
fund, Of which President Taft is pres
ident.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
AVENGED HIS DAUGHTER
Mcmahon Fatally Shot LeaPy When
Latter Lauohed at ReDzration

mcMsnon Fataliy ohot LedPy When
Latter Laughed at Reparation.
Avenging the honor of his 1S-year-
old daughter, Frank Mcmahon, aged
IS years shot and fatally wounded
George Leary, aged SO years, at Phil
adelpbia when the latter laughed at
his demands for reparation. Leary
died shortly after.
The shooting occurred in the pres
ence of a large crowd that had been
gathered at Fifty-fifth and Spruce
streets by the loud wrangling of the
two men.
Leaving his victim lying in the
street, Mcmahon sought a policeman
to give himself up.
McMahon is a saloonkeeper at Sec
ond and Spruce streets. Leary was a
real estate opertor.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12

New Drainage Plan,
Greenwood- Kochtitzky, who has
the contract for the construction of the
canal in Carroll county, reports that he
has started the ditch. This contract calls
for ditch two miles long, seven feet
deep and twenty-six feet wide, beginning
at the Pelucia creek, on the Harris farm,
and extending to the old Pelucia channel
just at the Leiiore county line. The
dredge boat in operation picks up about
five hundred feet a day, and he expects
to wind up the job about June 1.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
OFFER TO CORN CLUBS.
Attorney General Hudson to Give Prize
Of Fifty Dollars.


Of Fifty Dollars.
Boys Corn Club Members throughout
the state are rejoicing over the an
uouncement that the state Officials are
beginning to show an interest in their
organization. The latest of the execu-
tives to show financial interest in the
4~orll is Attorney General S. S. Hudson,
himself a practial farmer and competent
to see the benefits that will be attained
by the progress of the yoaths of the
state along agricultural lines.
Attorney General Hudson authorized
the offering of Il prize of $50 in cash t.
the Corn Club boy who would grow th'
best crop of corn, judging his crop Oh the
basis of so per cent for the best yield,
25 per cent for the best profit ana 25
per cent for the best record of fertiiza-
ton, cultivation and general growth.
A ten-ear exhibit of the crop must be
made at the Mississippi State Fair this
year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
STRIKE SPREADS.
Shopmen Walk Out at Many Poi

on Pittsburg Division.
The strike Of the Pennsylvania
railroad shopmen has spread to the
Monongahela branch of the Pittsburg
division. where seventy-five men quit
at the Ormsby shops, on the south
side
The strikers claimed that 325 more
would join them. A few men quit at
South Fork, on the main line Of the
Pittsburg division. The call boys
there have gone out in sympathy with
the shopmen, and when the railroad
company began placing telephones in
the homes of the 1877 engineers and
firmen, some of the men refused to
permit the installation.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
Reeves Gets Promotion.

r. d Reeves, for. the past three years
general freight and passenger agent of
the Mississippi Central Railroad com
pany, with headquarters at Ilattiesburg,
has accepted position as assistant gen
eral freight agent of the Illinois Central
and Y. & M. V. roads, with hcadquar-
ters at Memphis. Mr.. Reeves is one OF
the best-known railway officials in the
state, and has been connected with the
Mississippi Central ever since the limo
was completed from Hattiesburg to
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
Court Pretermitted.

Greenwood. judge j. NJ. Cashn has
yielded to the solicitations of petition
ers TO pretermit the May, 1911, term Of
circuit court The farmers began to get
busy and circulated petitions asking
this, which were largely signed. There
is no doubt but that four weeks term
of court would have been hardship
upon the farmers of this county. Con
tinuous rains and soggy conditions OF
the soil have caused serious delay on
both corn and cotton crop.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
BURGLARS SENTENCED.
Perry Davis, With Aliases, Gets Time
and Fine.

II
Jackson.-For breaking and entering
a postofGce Of the United States at
Lake, Miss, and stealing therefrom
stamps aggregating in value $413.73, in
addition to some $40 in currency, be-
longing to the postage and money order
funds, on or about June 20, 1910, Perry
Davis, alias Graves, and Rube Chapman
were sentenced by Judge Niles to serve
five years each in the federal prison at
Atlanta, and in addition to pay a fine
of $3.50 each,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
State Has Some Cash.

Jackson.-The state of Mississippi has
dollar or two at any rate. Total
amount to the credit of the treasury in
the various state repositories was ST.
1876 6,995.1G, which will hold things for
while and incidentally earn enough in
terest to pay the salary of the treasurer
and a few other officials.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-05-12
Railway Wins Suit.

Halfway WINS suit.
reenvile-Chancellor Thomas de-
cided in favor of the Southern Railway
the suit of the Indianola Compress and
Storage Company ct al. against the
Southern Railway, in which it was
claimed that the fire which burned the
compress and other houses on Nov. II,
1908, at Indianola, was caused by train
of cars on the Southern Railway. Be
tween $25O,Ooo and 100000 was in.
volved in the suit.