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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-06-16

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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
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SPORTING AFFAIRS
G eeseoeeosee 9 90

Magpates of the National league
are by no means certain that the live
ly ball is wanted by the fans In fact,
Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the Pitts
burg Pirates, is certain the fans co
not want it. Barney is there with a
demand that vote be taken of the
magnates to determine whether there
is majority in favor Of the ball as
it is now made.
President Johnson has inaugurated
another new rule this year for all
American league parks The umpires
are not required to announce the bat
teries or to give names of emergency
hitters in the game. All club owners
have been notified to provide mega
phone men for that purpose, as the
umnire's voice is strained too much.
Johnny Evers hopes to be back in
the Cub lineup by June l. The
crack little second baseman feels
much better, though he is still weak,
but is confident that he will be able
to get back into the fight early next
month. Evers is going to Chicago
sanitarium, where he says the abso-
lutte rest will fix him up nicely.
Napoleon LajCie, Who has been
out of the game for two weeks may
not bn able to resume play for long
time. The club physician ordered him
to take q protractcd rest, stating that
he Is suffering from an abdominal
trouble that Will necessitate an opera
ton unless extreme care is taken.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02

! CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
9 ooesoeooeeo . eeseeo Q .

At Winnipeg, Manitoba, two dou-
Bile drownings marred the celebration
Of Victoria day, the victims losing
their lives in sight of hundreds Of
pleasure seekers in down town parks.
Heller Jones, nineteen years old, a
college student, and Miss Maggie Nc
Lean were thrown into Kildoan lake
when their canoe was upset in vio-
lent storm. Both were drowned be-
fore rescuers could get near them.
At Elm rarl, George Hunt and Miss
Jessie B. Hunt, brother and sister,
were drowned in the same way
At Denver, Colo. Thursday, an argu-
ment that started at a box party in
the Broadway theater and was contin-
ued in the harroom OF one of Denver S
fashionable hotels, develored into a
shooting affray in which S. Louis Won
Phul, well known aeronaut OF ST.
Louis; ]. w Atkinson of Colorado
Springs and G. E. Copeland Of Cripple
Creek were wounded by Frank Hen
weed local repres tentative of New
York business concern. Henwood was
Immediately arrested.
At Kansas City, Monday, the sec
ond attempt within five months to de
stroy the home of w. e. Griffin, negro
principal Of the Booker T. Washinef..',, 80
r-1.uyi, ves made shortly before mid
night. An explosive was placed under
board walk about three feet from the
hol,se, which is situated at 2442 Mont
gall avenue.
Near Little Falls, N. j., two
men are dead as the result of a revol-
yer battle between a farmer and pic
nickers whom he sought to drive from
his place. Fifty shots were fired. The
farmer, Frank Sostello, and one CT the
picnickers, Frank Dorsey, were shot
through the heart
In New York city the police be-
gan a search for seven men charged
with beating John White to death.
It is asserted White went into g sa-
loon wearing a bright red necktie.
The geven men ridiculed him. A fight
followed and Whites skull was frac-
tured
Kentucky's last execution by hang
ing took place at Frankfort. Roger
Warren, a negro, who killed another
negro prisoner in the Frankfort reni-
tenitary, was hanged. The electric
chair will be used henceforth
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
TAFT OPENS LIBRARY
Ten Million Dollar Public Build
ing Dedicated.

The New York public library, costing
$10,C00,0 600 or more, occupied the CEN
ter of public attention. Early in the
morning preparations for the official
opening We're completed and the build
ing was ready to receive President
Taft, Governor Dix, Mayor Gaynor and
the 500 oher notables among the 15,-
000 invited guests
Police arrangements included the
massing Of 500 men on horse and foot
to keep order in the square at Fifth
avenue and Forty-second street, which
the big new building occupies. A Sc
lected squad Of mounted policemen, re-
resplendent in brass and braid, es-
corted President Taft from the Penn
sylvfIia railway station to the marble
entrance hall, where the reception to
city, state and national officials took
place at 2 O'clock
The formal exercises Of the opening,
which the $4,000 invited guests were
priyileecd to attend, occurred at
O'clock, President Taft delivering an
address.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
SCHMIDT is IN CUSTODY
Suspected Dynamiter, Long Locked
for, in Los Angeles Jail.

NJ. A. Schmidt, one of the fueitives
indicted in connection with the Los
Angeles Times dynsmiting, has been
put under arrest at Los Angeles, Cal.
An automobile rolled up to the Inter-
national Bank building. In il were
four men and fifth in irons lie
was hustled up to the office of the dis
trict attorney, J. D. Fredericks, where
he underwent long questioning. At
its conclusion he was not taken to
eiher the city or county jail, but was
secreted. 1t was late when he was
finally taken to the county Jail and PUT
in a cell. Neither the officers who ar
rested the prisoner nor the district at
torney would give out the Details of
the arrest.
Schmidt, J. B. MCNAMARA, posing as
j. B. Bryce, and who is now in the
county Jail, and David Kaplan, who is
still at large, are said to be the three
men who came to Los Angeles and
blew up the Times, causing the death
OF twenty-oGe rersous.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
WILL VISIT MISS. TOWNS.
Road Improvement Train Is Making An
Extensive Tour

Birmingham.-The ''road improvement
train," which is being sent over the
South by the Southern railway, the
Mobile & Ohio railroad and affiliated
lines, working in cooperation with the
United States Office of public interest in
the movement for better highways and
at the same time Offering valuable i'll
formation as to the construction and
repair of roads, will this week finish its
tour of Alabama and go into Mississippi.
The 'road improvement train" is
equipped with two cars fitted especially
for lecture and demonstration, and is
accompanied by two road-building eX
pcrts of the United States department
of agriculture, Messrs. d. II. Winslow
and H. c. Wells, who from wide expert
ence are qualified to give the most valu-
able information on the building of good
roads and keeping them in repair by
the use of the materials at hand and con-
sequently most economical in various
sections.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
MILLION DOLLAR CHARTER.
mississippi Delta Planting Company
Qualities for Business.

Jackson.-The first million dollar
charter recorded in the office of the sec
retary OF state for long while was fled
tuesday, being brought in person to the
capital by Attorney Calvin Perkins of
Watson d Perkins, Memphis, Tenn. This
was the charter OF the Mississippi Delta
Planting Company, the organization of
which has stirred up interest throughout
the state, an especially the Delta sec
ton. The domicile of the enterprise is
given as Scott, Bolivar county, and the
object OF the corporation is to acquire,
hold and enjoy as lessees for period not
exceeding ten years, agricultural lands in
the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, for the pur-
poses of cultivation; to construct, ac-
Quile, own and control cotton seed oil
mills and saw mills, as far as necessary
to the development OF business, not TO ex-
eeed in value one million dollars at any
time. The company is organized to raise
cotton and all other agricultural products
practicable to the sections and climate
in which its holdings are located.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
TICK ERADICATION WORK.
Inspector Herman Announces a TriR,
Through State.

Jackson.-The following is letter
from DR.. j. A. Herman, inspector in
charge of the tick eradication work in
the South, to G. H. Afford OF the dem
onstration corps who is cooperating
with the tick eradication forces:
Great progress has been and is being
made in the state in eradicating the
ticks and an effort is being made to
pat the work Oh Il statewide basis and
if only the proper energy is brought to
bear and sufficient interest shown BY
the officials, stockmen and farmers, tie
expectation that Mississippi will be che
inst Southern state to completely Grad
icatc the cattle ticks from her borders
will be fulfilled
Active work is now being conducted
in the following named counties: Goa
homa, Pamela, Lincoln, Claiborne, Clay,
Grenada, Holmes, Wilkinson, Noxubee,
Chi illasaw, Carroll, Issaquena, Adams,
Lowndes, Marshall, Warren, Kinds, JEFF
ferson, Monroe and Benton. The fol
lowing counties are in the free area:
DeSoto, Tate, Tunica and parts of Mar
shall and Benton.
The following named counties will be
visited June 5th by state bureau Of
fcials in an effort to get the supervisors
to start tick eradication by arranging
for tie building of dipping watts: Boli-
var, Sunhower, Yalobusha, Attala, KEN
per, Franklin, Washington, Tallahatchie,
Montgomery, Madison, Amite, Lauder
dale, Sharkey, Lefore, Calhoun, Ran
kin, Scott, Quitman, Lafayette, Web
ster, Copiah, Newton.
There are seventy-seven counties in
the state Of Mississippi. Five counties
are entirely or partially released from
quarantine. Twenty counties are now
engaged in determination work. Twenty
two counties are to be started in the
WORK during June. if they want it. Forty
seven counties represent the total we
are now trying to help. Thirty conn
ties represent the number i'll which the
tick is enjoying unhampered its inces
SAINT banquet from the nourishing hides
of thousands Of cattle whose owners by
their hospitality fatten the worthless
and costly tick and starve the useful
and profitable COW.
We believe what IS a good thing fol
the farmer of Northern and Western
Mississippi is equally good for the Mis-
sippians who live in the Southern and
Eastern sections of the state. We be
lieve if Adams and Jefferson counties
can eradicate the cattle tick in cne yeai
every other county can and should
We believe If In three months Holmes
county people can construct $40 dipping
watts and dip $4,000 cattle every two
weeks, it won't take Uncle Sam long te
reward them by releasing the area from
/ YieI IelttiiIv.
We believe Mssssippians need tho
millions the tick is costing for some 9th
er purpose, and they are going to stol
the leak right now. We believe it is
no longer necessary to show any person
that the tick can be eradicated; 143, ,O0C
square miles have been freed Of then
and released from quarantine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
BIG CONEY ISLAND FIRE
Two Hundred EuiIfIiSocceo IiSoc ooe 6"--
Loss of S3,O0Q,000.

Coney Island, the monster play
ground of New York city, suffered
the worst fire of its history. Dream
land the largest of the amusement
parks, was wiped out and four squares
adjoining, covered with booths, res
taurants, hotels, moving picture thea
ters and resorts Of various types, were
destroyed The fire broke out at {
o'clock in the morning and was not
under control uLtil three hours and 6
half after. Tie loss will amount to
$3000,000
In all 200 buildings were burned
down and perhaps 1900 persons--con-
cessionaires and employes-were turn
ed into the streets homeless and pen
niless, No lives were lost. The burn
ed area represents nearly a third OF
OF the entire amusement city.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
TWO FiNANCIERS
Denied PARDONS
JOhn R. Walsh Must Serve Oul
Prison Term.
Former New York and Chicago Bank.
ers Fail to Convince Presi-
dent Taft that They Should
he Liberated.

John r. Walsh of Chicago, who is
serving a five year sentence at Leaven-
WORTH Kan, and Charles w. Morse
the former New York banker, who is
serving a fifteen year sentence in the
federal prison at Atlanta, Ca, have
been denied pardoIs by President
Taft
Permission is given by the president
to Morse to renew his application for
pardon after Jan. /, 1913. AS Walsh
is eligible for parole after next Sep.
tember, when he will have served two
thirds of his sentence, the president
refused to take any action whatever
in his case.
The efforts of Mrs. Morse in her hus-
bands behalf have been indefatigable,
and although she is greatly disap-
pointed at the decision of President
Taft, she will continue her efforts to
have her husband liberated.
In deciding against Morse and
Walsh the president has resisted the
mcst powerful influences that have
been brought to bear upon him on any
subject since he entered the White
House. In a long memorandum an
nouncing his rejection of the applica-
tions he refers to the influential and
prominent persons who have peti-
toned in behalf of the prisoners. and
adds that they apparently fail to APP
preciate the high Importance to So
ciety that such criminal breaches of
trust as Morse and Walsh are guilty
Of should be severely punished. IN
the case of Morse the prisoners wife
presented a petition bearing the names
of about 10000 persons, including
many in political life, while in Walsh's
case the requests for clemency also
came from many well known in poll
tics, society and business
The president in his opinion lays
down certain principles concerning
the violation of the national banking
laws in considering the Walsh case,
and then applies these principles to
the Morse appeal.
The president holds that both men
were guilty in proportion to the trust
end confidence placed in them. He
Points out the necessity Of the govern
ments emphasizing the difference be-
tween "honcst business and dishonest
bleache sof trust" particularly be
cause the present mad rush for
wealth" has dimmed the lines between
profit from legitimate business and
improper gain from undue use of trust
control over other peoples property
and money"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
NYE PUT ON TRIAL
Ohio Representative Is Charged with
Soliciting a Brihe.

At Columbus, Ohio, Representa-
tive George B. Nye of Pike county was
placed on trial before Criminal Judge
Kinkead on the charge of soliciting a
brihe of $500 from State Printer Ed
ward A. Crawford to vote for the Kim
bic bill, which reapportioned common
pleas judicial districts The bill was
aimed at Judge A. 2. Blair of Scioto
county, who was instrumental in ex-
posing the wholesale frauds and vote
buying in Adams and Scioto counties
last fall.
Nye is under Indictment on two 9TH
er charges of soliciting bribes and is
the first of the half a dozen or more
members of the Ohio legislature to be
placed on trial.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
BABIES LIVES IN DANGER.
Inspection Shows Condition of Jackson
Diaries Appsllipg,

-~AAtSo -
Jackson.-Without the knowledge of
local dairy owners, DR.. Percy Wall of
this city, with the assistance OF the
attaches of the laboratories of the State
Board of Health, has been making
thorough inspection of dairy conditions
i'll the vicinity of Jackson-which they
believe are fair sample Of what will be
found throughout the state. The re-
suit of their meteorological examinations,
performed with care, are appalling, and
show that Mississippi faces danger
equally as great as that which has
caused the loss of hundreds and thou
sands of babes i'll Illinois and New York
cities.
jackson has been sadly deficient in it's
milk inspection requirements and there
has been little attempt on the part of
some dairy owners to keep their milk
houses sanitary. 1t is to be the aim of
the State Board of Health officers to
so bring this matter to the attention of
the council of jackson, as well as the
aldermanic bodies of other cities, that
milk inspection and the maintenance of
sanitary surroundings will be made in
sistent.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
FOUND GUILTY OF HERESY
Presbyterian General Assembly Con-
dcmns Few. Vim. D. Grant.

At Atlantic City, N. j., the Rev.
William d. Grant, the Northumberland
clergyman, has been found guilty of
the Prcsbytelian general assembly.
1t is SAID the Pennsylvania clergy
man viii he siven chance to return
to the PTesDytery should he rccant on
tie counts urcn which he has tcen
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
FOSTER RAPs ROOSEVELT
Criticises Colone's Utterances Con-
ceFnina international Arbitration

Criticism Of Theodore Rcoeeve1t's s
recent public utterances regarding in
,telnational arbitration marked the ad-
dress OF John w. Foster, former sec
conference On International arbitra-
tion.
AT the same time, said Mr.. Foster,
notwithstanding Mr.. Roosevelt's ear
ly declaration in opposition to arbitra-
ticn in general, he has done more than
any ether living man to advance this
cause"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
GOOD ROADS CONGRESS-
Chicago Man PresiGes at Meeting in
Birmingham, Ala.

At Birmingham, Ala, Tuesday, the
fourth National Good Roads Congress
began its sessions with nearly 1900
delegates from all parts of the country
in attendance. Arthur c. Jackson of
Chicago, president of the National
Good Reads association, presided.
Addresses were made by Governor
Emmett O'Neal, Mayor Culpepper Ex-
UNI, President w. w. Finley of the
Southern railway and others interested
in the coed roads movement.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02

BiloXi.-The official programme of the
national convention of the Supreme Dam
of Beavers, to be held in Biloxi June IL,
10 and IA, has been announced Mayor
L. Glennan will deliver the welcoming
address on the part of Biloxi and by
Il. NJ. Barber in behalf nf n
to by G. A. Canale, supreme trustee,
Memphis, Tenn, and Attorney-General S.
S. Hudson, supreme counsellor.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
SEVEN COUNTIES MUST PAY.
Otherwise Tax of 10 Per Cent. MAY Be
Levied Soon,

Jackson.-Only seven counties in
Mississippi have failed to comply with
the demands of the law in the return
of their state ad valorcm and privi-
lege taxes for the past year. The de-
linquent counties are Harrison, TIA
wamba, Neshoba, Lowndes, Scott,
Wayne and Winston, and there is likely
to be heavy penalty imposed in these
cases against the sheriffs of the counties
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
Military Parade at Vicksburg.

Vicksburg.-A big street parade in
honor of the officers and crew Of the
battleship Idaho, in port here, took
place Saturday morning, the principal
thoroughfares being traversed by the pa
geant Adjt.-Gen. Arthur Fridge of the
Mississippi National Guard was in COM
mand, and the soldiery taking part were
a detachment of mounted police, six
companies of the Mississippi National
Guard, the Marien Corps Band, the sail
ors from the battleship, and the Hos
pital Corps of the State Militia.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
BLAST KILLS FOUR I'M MINE
Head of One Victim Is Blown so Feet
Up on Eank at tIibbins, MINI.

Hibbing, Mimi, special says:
Four men were blown to pieces III
an open pit mine. The head Of one
man was hurled fifty feet up on the
bank. The names of the dead have
not been learned. They were placing
charge of powder when it exploded
prematurely.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
so DROWN AT SEA
Steamer Tabosa Strikes Rock and Is
Sunk Off Panama.

The National Steamship line steam
er Taboga went on rock off Punta,
Malas Panama, and sank a short time
atterward.
OF the 100 passengers on beard only
forty are known to have been saved.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
WANT NO MORE ARGUMENT.
Supreme Court Too Busy to Receive
Oral Explanations

Jackson.-The supreme court has is
sued ruling to the effect that no more
arguments will be heard in civil cases
until after the close of the summer va
cation period. The matters now pending
for consultation, with the arguments to
be heard in criminal matters will keep
The court busy for the remaining six
weeks, and decisions will be handed
down each Monday.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02

Lee Receives Commission.

Jackson.-Eon. Robert C. Lee, recent
ly appointed by the president to sue
ceed himself as United States district
attorney for the southern district of
Mississippi, has received his commission,
the appointment being for the full term
of four years, dating from May 8, 1911.
This insures to the United States gov
ernment the services of an able and zeal
Gus attorney to look after the interests
of the government in south and central
Mississippi, and it is an appointment
which carries satisfaction and gratif-
cation to all who have dealings with
the courts.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
Eradicate Cattle Tick.

Newton.-Dr. G. n. Wickwire, United
States food inspector, and at present en-
gagged in the work of ridding the state
of the cattle tick, is looking after this
work in Newton county. He has charge
of the work for five counties, Lauderdale,
Newton, Kemper, Scott and Rankin. He
is an expert in this line, and will super
intend the work of constructing the watts
for dipping the cattle and give such in
formation as the people ask in regard to
the eradication of the tick.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
DIVERS EXAMINE LINER
Ten Feet of lvernia's Plating Opened
by Crash--Veasel Flooded.

Divers at Queenstown have exam
ined the Cunard liner Ivernia, which
was beached off Whitegate after hay.
Ing struck Daunt rock while bound
here from Boston with 728 passengers.
all of whom were landed safely.
1t was found that ten feet of the
vessels plating had been opened abaft
Of the collision bulkhead. At high
water the deck was submerged. -Four
compartments are filled with water,
and all of the others, except one, are
partly flooded.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
Dea tn. of E. 7. Smith.

Port Gibson.-Mr. L. J. Smith, one
of the most popular citizens of this
county, died after a lingering illness,
aged rs. He was Confederate veteran,
having served in the Tenth Mississippi
infantry, one of the first companies to
leave Port Gibson, in which he was
lieutenant
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
Champ Clark Not Coming.

Jacllson.-Alumni and friends of the
University of Mississippi are naturally
disappointed that Speaker Champ"
Clark of the House Of Representatives
in congress has notified the university
Authorities that he will be unable to visit
the delivery of the annual address.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
Immense Dairy Planned.

lUlflbHSt Daily IdslIFCus
Hattiesburg.- Purchasing a tract Of
about 1000 acres situated from four to
five miles west Of this city, D. NJ. Col
lier formerly from New York state,
is making preliminary arrangements for
establishing a dairy to be conducted on
large scale. Mr.. Collier, who had ex-
tensive dairy interests in New York
state, sold out several years ago and
started on a tour of the South to try
to find location which would meet in
every particular the ideas he had in
mind for the purpose of establishing an
immense dairy business.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
Many Go From Jackson.

Jacksonville city of Jackson will be
well represented at the forthcoming con-
vention of the Mississippi Land Devel-
opment and Improvement Association, to
be held at Gulfport one month hence.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-02
Will Attend Convention.

Gulfport.-The secretary of the Com
mercial Union is in receipt of letters
both from G. A. Park, general immigra-
ton and industrial agent of the Louis
& Nashville railroad at Louisville, and
j. S. Clair of Chicago, holding similar
office with the Illinois Central road, adj
vising that they both propose to attend
the Statewide immigration Convention
in Gulfport June 23 and "a, in the in
terest of immigration.