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Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

evidenced by her lifelike impersona-
ton of characters. male and female.
AS Dominique Dessalines and Prince
Elon in The Jewish Ruler she has
appeared to excellent advantage. a
rather difficult undertak king for wo-
man.
Miss Davis has history full of
striking incidents. She Is a native
of Baltimore. but has made her
home for the most part in Washington.
She was the first colored clerk to be
employed in the office of the recorder
of deeds. She evinced at an early age
an aptitude for a stage career and was
trained under Miss Marguerite e. Sax
ton. She made her debut auspiciously
in Washington in 1888. being intro
duced to an immense audience by the
Hon Frederick Douglass.
Success has crowned her efforts to
develop in the race a taste for the
standard creations of the dramatic art.
Miss Davis has perhaps done more
than any other woman of color to ex-
emp!ify the capacity Of the Negro for
the higher realm of the drama. She
has been one of the few to remain
loyal to the loftier ideals Of her pro-
fession. and the advanced position oc-
| cupied by the race in the dramatic
world today is due in no small meas
| ure to the effective pioneer work of
this energetic pathfinder.
Miss Davis has published an attrac-
tive Book of Recitations," which pre-
sents varied array Of standard selec-
tions for the stage. the schoolroom
and the home. Her plans for the fu-
ture include brief series of engage
| ments in America. return to Bermuda
and visit to the West Indies. tour
of Europe. Egypt. Liberia. the Gold
Coast OF Africa and Cape Town.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12
Generous Aid For Children. Benefit.

Generous Aid For Children's Benefit.
Through the generosity OF the
Church Federation Of Laymen and the
Parks and Playground association in
New York the committee having
charge OF arrangements for fresh air
homes for colored children has been
able 10 accommodate larger number
this year than ever before. The camp
is located on a farm at Manorville.
N. Y. The committee hopes to give a
large number Of children at least two
weeks at the camp this year. They
go in parties of twenty-five to forty at
time.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12
Optimistic View Concerning Africa.

Optimistic View Concerning Africa.
DIR. Edward Wilmot Blyden, Africa's
grand old man, who is now an asso-
ciate editor of the African World, pub
lished in Liverpool, in recent letter
to friend in America, says: Africa
is all right. The social and economic
conditions as they now exist will have
20 be initiated by Europe If the masses
are to have rest from perplexing days
aud sleepless nights"
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12
e.n.rou. Sum For Palmer Institute.

Generous Sum For Palmer Institute.
G. Cleveland Buchanan. who is
spending the summer in New York In
the interest of the Palmer Memorial
institute at Sedalia. N. o.. of which
he is the financial agent and agricul
tural director. is meeting with crafty
ing success. Through the influence
of DR.. Booker 4. Washington an in
fuential and wealthy friend of the
school recently contributed through
Mr.. Buchanan $1,000 for the work Of
Palmer institute.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

The Little Rock (Ark.) Daily Roviow.
The National Negro Press associa-
ton takes Off its nat with a courteous
bow Of exuberation to e. NJ. Woods.
editor of the Little Rock Review. Mr.
Woods has decided to issue the Review
daily during the sessions of the busi-
ness league in Little Rock. Aug. 16 to
as. inclusive.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

Mystic Shriners Plan Big Parade.
The Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine will
hold their ceremonial session in At
lantic City. n. j., for two days. begin
ming on Tuesday. Sept. 5. A monster
street parade will be one Of the fea-
lures.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
CONFIRM CHINESE MASSACRES
MOB WIPES OUT BAND OF MAN..
CHUS AT SIAN FL.
6rigands Roaming Country, Burning,
Robbing and killing the
Inhabitants.

Pekin, Nov. 25.-Missionaries arriy.
ing in Pekin from Tung Chow Flu, 80
miles northeast of Sian Flu, give &C.
counts of the recent revolution in the
province of Shen 81, where the anti
foreign element declared it's intention
to exterminate foreigners, Christians
and Manchus, but only partly sue
ceeded.
The rebel general at Sian Flu, they
say. issued proclamation to the peo-
pie not to harm merchants, foreign.
ers, or non-combatant Chinese, but
only to destroy Manchus. The Man
chus thereupon prepared for defense
within their own walled section of
the city. They withstood one attack
diers. but in an attack next day near
ly all the Manchus were slain. Ac-
cording to the missionaries the Chi
nese informed them that horrible bar.
barities accompanied the slaughter
and that Manchu women were
speared or carried off by Chinese Of
ficers or soldiers.
After the massacre the revolution
lists neglected to properly police the
city and bandits plundered shops and
demanded money of inhabitants.
They also burned the school of the
Scandinavian China alliance mission
and killed Nine. Backman and anoth-
er teacher. A missionary was wound
ed, but succeeded in rescuing a num-
Der of the school children.
Outlaws Decapitated.
When the rebels restored order
they decapitated many of the outlaws.
During the disorder the English Bap-
fist mission was threatened, but not
attacked.
When the missionaries left Tung
Chow Flu the rebels continued to ad-
minister the city capably, but the bri-
gands swarmed through the province.
Another party arriving in Pekin from
southern Shen ST, believe the Sian Flu
missionaries will be unable to get
away owing to the condition of the
roads. This party was attacked
while on the way here by 20 high
waymen, who badly beat DR.. Blom, a
Swedish missionary, who was in adj
vance of the refugees, and twice
slashed his wife on the head with
sabers. They declare that IA soldiers
who were escorting the party did not
once lift their riflest against the out
laws.
The party also gives an account of
massacre at Tung Kwan. Brigands
posing as revolutionists captured and
looted the town, killing 1000 of it's
inhabitants.
Big Battle Near.
Nanking.-The revolutionary force
advancing on Marking has reached
the south side of Purple Hill, the
north side of which commands the
city. Other points to the southwark
have been reoccupied as base.
General Chang still remains obdur-
ate and says he will fight the revolu-
tionists to finish. The outlook here
is for long and bloody fight.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
CITIES ASK RATE REDUCTION.
Duluth and Milwaukee Claim Mime
apoIis and Chicago Are Favored.

Duluth and Milwaukee Claim Mime.
apoIis and Chicago Are Favored.
Milwaukee, Nov. 25.-Tables and
statistics showing the freight rates
now in effect ON the Great Northern
and other railroads made up the
bulk of testimony in the grain rate
complaint by the Superior Commercial
club and the railroad commission of
North Dakota before Interstate Com.
merce Commissioner E. e. Clarke
]. E. Little, secretary of the Su-
perior Commercial club, was the prin-
cipal witness. He told about the
freight rates now in effect in the dis
puted territory and what he consid-
cred a fair return to the railroads for
tonnage. A general reduction of
rates is asked for by the complain
ants.
Milwaukee and Duluth have filed
similar complaints alleging there is
a discrimination against them in COM
parison with the rates charged to Chi
cago and Minneapolis. The commits
sion will consider the three cases at
the same time. All records in the
case will be filed by Jan. 10 by the
complainants and the defendants will
have until Jan. 25 to file their answers.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
Stolen Italian PAINTING Found

Florence, Nov. %. - Thieves who
stole Fra Ang alico's painting, "The
Donna Della Stella" from the convr Mt
of San Marco here Sunday, We're 81
rested and the painting recovered.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
Personal

Surrounded by flowers and the con-
gratulatory messages of official and per-
sonal friends, United States Senator
Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois celebrated
at Washington the eighty-second ami
versary of his birth.
The will of August Uihlein. the
brewer, covering an estate of $4,000
900, was filed for probate at Milwau-
kee. The entire estate is left to the
six children-three sons and three
daughters.
President E. P. Ripley of the Atch,
ison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad ar
rived at San Bernardino, CAL, from
the east in care of physician and
nurse. Mr.. Ripley is said to be suffer.
ing from a severe throat ailment.
A new organization known as the
Aeronautical Society of Women has
been launched in New York. Women
aviators and would-be aviators are
qualified for active membership.
Mayor Samuel L. Shank of In.
dianapolis has announced that he ex.
poets to buy 1000 turkeys and place
them on sale in the city market at
cost in ample time for Thanksgiving.
The will of Horatio Victor Newcomb.
former president of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad and thirty years ago
a dominent figure in Wall street, leaves
his $4,000 estate to his nurse, Miss
Jeanne La Roe.
William P. Fowler, since 1900 head
of the institutions registration depart
ment of Boston, has offered his resig-
nation to Mayor Fitzgerald. In the
eleven years Mr.. Fowler has been reg
istrar he has never taken cent for
his services, although the position car
ries salary Of $4,000 = year.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
TWO '7ARRERS"
ARE CONVICTED
SENTENCE DEFERRED TO PER.
NIT APPEAl-THlRD DEFEND.
ANT ACQUITTED.
JURY HAS TO TAKE AZ BALLOTS
Four Confessed AssaiIants Of Teacher
Are Given a Year Apiece-Con.
victed Men Take Fates
Calmly.

Lincoln Center, Kan, Nov 25.-Two
of the defendants in the sensational
tar party" case, John Schmidt and
Sheriff. Clark, were found guilty of
assault and battery by Judge in
Judge Growers court. A. N. Simms,
another of the defendants, was &C.
quilted. Sentence on the two con-
victed men was deferred to permit
their attorneys to argue motion for
new trial. Earlier in the day SEN
fences of one year each in the county
Jail, the extreme penalty in Kansas
for the offense charged was passed
on Everett G. Clark, Jay Fitzwater,
Watson Scranton and Edward Ricord,
confessed assailants of Mary Cham
berlain. These defendants were &C.
cused of the same crime.
Ricord already was in Jail, having
been surrendered by his bondsmen u
days ago. The court told the three
other men they might have a reason
able time in which to straighten up
their business affairs. Fitzwater says
he will go to Jail next week. Clark's
it necessary for him to be free for
month or more. Scranton said he
would be ready in few hours and
would not appeal his case. Both the
convicted men took their fates calm
ly. The four confessed men expressed
themselves as actually being glad the
long period of waiting was over. Sher-
i'll Clark and John Schmidt hardly ex-
pected conviction, but they had no
complaint to Offer They are still
free on their bonds.
Altogether, AZ ballots or there
abouts were taken by the jury. The
verdicts for acquittal were made on
the strength of the testimony of An.
derson and the elder Clark.
The jury decided that it was Sher-
rell Clark who had furnished the tar,
and that Schmidt had been privy to
the plot from the beginning. No such
testimony had been brought against
Simms, and he was given the benefit
of the doubt, though one of the jur-
ors declared that all the jurors still
consider him probably guilty.
Ballots were taken every three.
quarters of an hour. Schmidt was
first found guilty; Clark was found
guilty next; and Simms finally found
innocent. On the first ballot the jury
was unanimous as to the guilt of all
the men, but on the conscientious ex.
animation of the matter during their
80 hours vigil, Si.nms was cleared.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
BEATTIE's coNFEssioN.

a. Henry Clay eeattie, Jr.,
= DESTROYS Of standing right before
God and man, do on this, the 23rd
day OF November, 1911, confess
my guilt Of the crime charged
against me. Much that was pub
Iished concerning the details is
= not true, but the awful fact, with.
out the narrowing circumstances {.
remains. For this action, ! am
truly sorry and believing that
am at peace with God, and am
8 soon to pass into His presence,
this statement is made"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
Adam 1ede on Pittsbura.

Pittsburg patriots twisted their
faces awry at a Smoketown pun de-
livered by former Congressman Bede
Of Minnesota.
Bede put it over in the climax Of
a sparkling speech at a chamber Of
commerce banquet.
After telling how dearly he loved
old Pittsburg and her fine old peo-
pie. her rich people and her toilers,
he said:
II like Fittsburg, because II l ever
get tired of the town l can wash it
o."
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
Washington

A statement showing the sea
ers of the world was announced at the
navy department which gives the Unit
ed States second place among the
fighting nations from the standpoint
of effective tonnage now in commits
sion. On account of Germany's big
building program, however, this coun-
try takes third place on prospective
tonnage
Holding that the question at issue
is of such vast import as to demand
hearing before the full Supreme court
of the United States, Chief Justice
White at Washington denied the appli-
cation of attorneys for the beef pack
ers for a stay of the criminal trial at
Chicago.
In a statement given out in New
York John D. Rockefeller replied to
the charges made at Washington by
the Merritt brothers before the Stan
ley Steel investigating committee OF
the national house of representatives
regarding the methods used by Mr.
Rockefeller in securing control of the
Mesaha ore mines and the Duluth,
Missabe & Northern railroad. Mr..
Rockefeller pointed out that these
charges were denied under oath as
long ago as 1896
The special committee of the United
States senate which has been invest1-
eating the election of Senator William
Lorimer of Illinois, ended its hearings
in Chicago. 1t will reassemble in
Washington December 5, ind will take
more testimony there.
Navy aviators who operate the n.y.
dro-aero planes with which it is ex-
pected every American battle ship
soon will be equipped, will wear life
preservers invented especially for their
use.
The cabinet at Washington decided
that the situation in Santo Domingo
was such, as the result Of the assas-
sination Of President Caceres, as to
make 1t expedient for the United
States to have a naval force there
sufficient to meet any demands for the
protection of foreign lives and prop
erty and ordered two cruisers sent
there at once.
Employees Of the department of agri-
culture during the last year. in con.
junction with farmers institutes,
operated II instruction trains, cover
ing more than 100000 miles, according
to a statement made at Washington
by Secretary Wilson.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
Masked Mar Robs Mail Car

Columbia, S. c., Nov. 25.-A masked
white man robbed the mail car of At
lantic Coast Line train No. IS be.
tween Registers and this city, took the
and jumped off just before the train
reached the city limits.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
Eight McNamara Jurors.

Los Angeles, Nov. 25.-Eight sworn
jurors are in the Mcnamara jury box,
registered letters, stopped the train
three more having been added. To
this number was added one man
passed as to cause over challenge by
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
STUDENTS WANT FREE SHOW
Small Sized Riot in Champaign Pic
ture Show.

Champaign, ILL.,, Nov. 25.-Univer-
sity of Illinois rooters made an at
tack on the Orpheum vaudeville thea
ter in Champaign, demanding free
show. Denied this privilege, they at
tackled. the house, breaking down
doors to gain admission. They were
driven back by policemen and en-
ployes who used large clubs with vi
cious effects on the heads of the I'M
dergraduates.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
Domestic

Mrs Gertrude Gibson Patterson
went on the witness stand at Denver
as the first witness in her own behalf
and told the jury of her life with
Charles A. Patterson. She testified
that she shot him after he had knock
ed her down and kicked her. She also
told of the trip she made to Paris with
Emil Strouss, the millionaire Chicago
clothier. Her testimony followed
closely the stories she has related Of
that incident in her life with Patter-
son.
Neither Edward Hines, lumberman,
nor Edward Tilden, packer, was the
custodian Of 100000 fund nor any
other fund which was to be used to
pay off the expenses of William Lori
mer to the United States senate" &C.
cording to experts reports submitted
to the senatorial investigating commit
tee at Chicago.
All three defendants In the tar
party" case took the stand at Lincoln
Center, Kan, as the defense closed.
Each admitted knowing of plans to
tar Miss Mary Chamberlain, the school
teacher, and starting to where the at
tack was to be committed, but denied
having hand in the attack or intend.
ing to.
With delegates from all parts of the
country in attendance. the first Amer
lean Road congress was opened at
Richmond, Va. President Taft was
to have made an address at the open
ing session on the subject Of high
ways, but gave up his trip here be-
cause his physician feared the cold
from which the president is suffering
might be aggravated by the exposure
on the journey.
Every paid official of a labor union
In the United States and Canada was
asked by the American Federation OF
Labor convention in session at Allan
ia, Ca, to contribute one weeks
wages to the fund for the defense of
the Mcnamara brothers.
Ten seal pups from Unalaska, con-
signed to the government geological
gardens In Washington, D. c., were
passengers on the revenue cutter Bear,
which arrived at Port Townsend,
Wash.
William j. Cummins, former presi-
dent of the Carnegie Trust company of
New York city, was found guilty by a
jury Of larceny in connection with his
use of an alleged fund Of $4,000 from
the Nineteenth Ward bank.
The epidemic of hog cholera over
and Missouri is declared by
men who have observed the disease to
be the worst in many years.
New York bankers who have been
comforting with representatives of the
6oVNAAO10 NOAlSlCAC0 duO Lu6 0OuCu>
crn Cotton congress announce that
they had raised fund of $4,000, 900
to be placed Immediately in the cotton
belt states for the purpose of handling
the cotton crop of 1911 and enabling
growers to participate in any rise in
the market.
According to the Grand Rapids
(Mich.) police Perry B. Mcclellan, a
former employe Of the Adams Ex-
press company, has confessed to the
robbery of the express company's safe
at the railway station office there.
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., died in the
electric chair for the murder of Mrs.
Louise Beattie, his wife. He was pro-
nounced dead one minute after the
current was turned on. Beattie went
to the death chair mistaken, and al
though entreated to confess the MUIR
der of his wife last June smiled in
dissent. He did not acknowledge his
guilt.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
Foreign

The announcement that King George
had dismissed Rev. Frederick Percival
Farrar, his domestic chaplain and also
honorary chaplain to Queen Alexan-
dra. was followed by the news that the
clergyman had absconded and that
the police, armed with a warrant for
his arrest, were hunting him down.
DR.. Farrar Is husband of Richard
Harding Davis sister.
Unrepentant suffragettes to the mum.
Der of 223 appeared at the Bow
street police court to answer for their
acts of violence in their assault on
the British house of commons. and
We're sentenced to fines or alternative
terms OF imprisonment, varying from
fortnight to month. The women in
variably chose prison instead of a
fine.
Ramon Caceres, president Of Santo
Domingo, was assassinated in San Do
mingo city while he was leaving the
house of Leonte Vasquez. by two men
who escaped.
1t is announced in Paris that Sarah
Bernhardt will shortly be married to
Lou Tellegen, twenty-six-year-old
FLEMISH actor who was a subordinate
member of her company during her
last American tour. Nine. Bernhard
is now in the sixty-seventh year of her
age.
A passenger train plunged through
bridge on the State railway at Mon.
tieuil-Ballay. France. and sank in the
Thouet river. Estimates place the
number of victims at thirty.
General Tejera, the assassin of Pres.
ioent Caceres of San Domingo, was
captured and put to death, and General
Pimentel, an accessory, also was exc.
cuted. according to reports to the
state department at Washington.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
Tilted.

Tilted.
els Mr. Biff1t a believer in the up
iift?"
Cant say for certain, but notice
that he wears his cigar at a dizzy
angle"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
STOKES GAVE GIRLS MONEY.
One of Women Charged With Trying
to Kill Weeps at Trial,

One Of Women Charged With Trying
to Kill Weeps at Trial.
New York, Nov. 25.-Lillian Graham,
the show girl who, with Ethel Con-
rad, is charged with attempting to
kill w. E. D. Stokes, the millionaire
horseman, last June, burst into tears
in the courtroom when Stokes declared
on the stand that he had refused to
give her $4,000 because he had mar
ried land the incident might be mis-
interpreted"
Miss Conrad, who was with her in
the defendant seat, comforted her by
words and caresses, but the trial was
not interrupted. Stokes testified that
he met the Graham girl in 1906 and
had entertained her the following
year at his country place at Lexing-
ton, KY.
He gave her money on several &C.
casions, he said, making her a pres
ent of several hundred dollars at
Lexington in 1907.
Later, he testified, the Graham girl
had lived in the Ansonia hotel in this
city, of which he was the ow er. He
gave her money to go to Paris, he
said, and saw her upon her return in
1908. When he saw her in May last,
he said, she was seeking position
on the stage and wanted $500.
Il told her would not give her a
penny" he testified. Il impressed on
her the fact that I was married and
that the incident might be misunder-
stood. l also told her it would be
bad practice"
Lillian threatened to kill herself
afterward, he said, and once he had
knocked bottle of poison from her
hand. She had several stormy inter.
views with him, he declared, the bur-
den of each being a demand for
money, but he was steadfast in his
refusal to pay her anything.
Cfnlnn Italian 6aintino
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-30
G D D s
Cured in One Day

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Remedy will break up any cold and pre-
vent pneumonia. 1t relieves the head,
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Munyon's Doctors They will carefully
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Address Professor Munyon, SD and
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-02
WILL INSTALL
K. OF G. OFFICERS
Duck supper VIII Follow the Work
Tomorrow Evening, and Large
Crowd is Expected.

The officers recently elected by De
La Sale Council, knights of Columbus
will be installed by District Deputy
p. P, McManus on tomorrow evening.
The installation will be followed by
a big duck supper. The officers to
be installed are the following:
Grand Knight-John B. Walsh.
Deputy Grand Knight--Antonio Nc
Andrew.
Chancellor-W l.. Mcnamara,
Recorder. B Gredell.
Financial Secretary-D. w. McDev-
lit
Treasurer-C. w. Ewers.
Advocate. II. Mcnamara.
Warden-James Penrose.
Inner Guard-P. j. Finn
Outer Guard-John Costello.
Trustee George Demple for term
of three years.
The installation of officers was
pushed forward a week owing to the
fact that District Deputy McManus
must leave for Des Moines on Thurs
day to attending the coming session of
the legislature The officers of Fort
Madison council will be installed on
Wednesday evening.