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The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1911-03-23
THREE HUNDRED
CATTLE BURNED

Chicago, March 22.-Onc man was
killed and 300 head of cattle wc,cs
burned to death in fire which d.
stroyed square block of the huge net
work of pens in the Union Stock Yards
here.
The body of the man trappedb the
flames was found in the wreckage OF =
viaduct that fell among the perishiny
beats below. A number of firemcn
narrowly escaped injury when tho
structure fell. Various commission
firms owned the cattle burned. Loss,
S25, 900.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1911-03-23
STABBED DURING
SUNDAY SCUFFLE
Willie Gregg Suffers Painful
Wound From Hand of Clifford
Burke-Both Arrested.

In the sequel of a rough and tumble
skuffie held in the rear Of Rays East
port livery stable Sunday morning,
Willie Gregg, a white youth was
severely cut in the back by Clifford
Burke, another young man.
From what was reported to the
officials, both Burke and Gregg had
been drinking, and had started a
friendly scuffie. During the struggle
Gregg twas put down several times by
Burke, and finally it was stated tnat
Gregg walked away and that he was
approached by Burke, who stabbed
him in the back. The stab wound
was made to the left of the spinal col
umn, below the shoulder blade. The
cut was about 2 1-2 inches long, having
gone to a rib when the thrust was first
made, and made the cash when the
knife was pulled from the wound.
Gregg was brought to town aud DR..
Burnett rendered medical assistance.
1t was reported at first that the wound
was of a very serious nature, but the
deyelopements showed that no vital
spots had been touched.
Burke was afterwards arrested by
the sheriff and several charges lodged
against him. Sheriff Dawson also
served a warrant on Gregg, charging
him with public drunkenness.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1911-03-23
JOHN HOUK OUT
WITH WARNING
Says Taft is the Only Man Who
Can Bring Harmony in
Tennessee.

Washington, ID. g., March 22.--The
attitude of the administration toward
the Republicans in Tennessee, which
has been one of sympathy and inter-
est in the Sanders-H Hale faction, does
not merit the admiration of John G.
Houk, who represented the Knoxville
district in the Fifty-second and Fifty
third Congresses. Speaking of the Re
publican party in Tennessee, the SEN
ator from Knoxville said to-day.
"If this administration does not
change its attitude in national politics
SO far rs Tennessee is concerned, it
will need another steam roller Of much
larger design and pattern than the one
it employed at Chicago at the national
convention that meets next year. There
is just one man who can bring about
harmony among Tennessee Republi-
cans" continued Mr.. Houk, "and that
man is William Howard Taft. He can
accomplish such a result only by Civ
ing ali elements of the party in the
state that much-talked-of square deal
of which we have heard so much Let
him make the federal officeholders in
the state attend to their official duties,
and quit packing political conven
tions."
The ease and facility with which
Congressman-elect Sells has railroaded
appointees into office even before he
has been sworn in as Congressman
has been much discussed by Tennes-
scans here. 1t is not only charged that
Sells has made SO much headway this
early in the game as the result of ,the
support of Postmaster General Hitch
cock, but it is even asserted that he
has had helping hand from Senator
elect Lea.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1911-03-23
LET'S GRAND JURY QUIZ
CAMPAIGN MANAGERS

Knoxville, Tenn, March 22.-Sen-
ator John p. Davis of Claiborne coOnty
is preparing a bill for the purity of
elections. Senator Davis bill will
provide for a fine Of 100 for each man
who sells his vote ant. disfranchise-
ment for a term of years. His bill
gives the Grand Jury inquisitoral
powers to summons all candidates and
campaign managers and make them,
under oath, tell what they did with
campaign fundss
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1911-03-23
WORK IS
PROGRESSING
Seven Crews Are at Work on
Grading Contracts
FINISH GRADING JULY lST
Peters & Gibson, the Contractors,
Have Taken Hold With a Vim
and Give Assurance of Roads
Completion by December 1st,

Seven crews are at work grading the
roads of Cooke county, the main con-
tractor Peters Il Gibsons having sub
letted the entire work of grading.
There are crews at work on the Salem,
Bybee, Bridgeport, Chestnut Hill, JEFF
ferson county and Del Rio roads. The
Bybee work consists of two mile ex-
tension to the present road. In all
eighteen miles of grade work is to be
done and the contractors promise to
have same finished by July L.
G. w. Gorrell Secretary of the Pike
Commission, stated that just as soon as
the weather permits that five macadam
outfits will be put to work on the roads
and that by December l, the ~ miles
which have been specified will have
been macadamized.
Peters 4 Gibson, apparently, have
secured an energetic crowd of sub-con
tractors and the farmers of the county
are elated with the condition of the
work.
The macadam contract for the Bybee
road has been sublet and the outfit is
already on the scene. Peters & Gibson
will bring two outfits to Newport dur
ing the next few weeks, and Horace
Mann. who has the contract for the
macadam work on the South side of
the Pigeon river, will also receive
another macadam outfit in the next
few days and, with the outfit already
on hand, will be ready to cope with
the work.
TIE Oldtown road will be redressed
early in the summer, and the Winters
wear on it will make it better road
than had been hoped when the new
dressing is placed on it.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1911-03-23
Another Contest is inaugural
ed by The Plain Talk
$50 WILL BE GIVEN AWAY
A Sum of SIS Will be Paid to the
Person Who Nominates the
Winner of the First Prize-Two
Special Prizes Offered.

Prizes to the value of $50 will be
given away by THF NEWPORT PLAIN
TALK during the next three months.
Last Fall Gold contest was conduct
ed by this paper and SO successful was
it, that the paper has decided to put on
similar contest, with some new
features added.
The contest is to be inaugurated at
once and the young people CT the coun-
ty will be able TO earn little vacation
money without much work, for it does
not take work to secure subscriptions
to paper like THE PLAIN TALK.
In every community there is a popu-
lar young lady, young lady who can
ask half dozen friends to lend her a
little assistance and these friends can
make it an easy matter for the contest
ant to get a good start in the way of
securing votes.
THE NEWPORT PLAIN TALK is
offering prize of SIS to the person who
first sends in the name of the contest
ant who finally proves the winner.
This means that the nominations will
have to be speedily made as some one
else is liable to name the winner and
the first one TO submit name is the
only one to be considered.
A sum of So will be awarded to the
contestant having the highest stand
ing, May l, and another sum of So
will be awarded to The contestant
standing highest on June l. The con-
test will be brought to a close July B,
when the taree prizes will be distribut
cd as follows: $40 to the contestant
having the largest number of votes,
$40 to the contestant having the second
highest lumber and SIS to the contest
ant having the third highest number
of votes.
See advertisement for manner of Sc
curing votes.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1911-03-23
BOOKER 7. GETS
HIS HEAD CLUBBED
Negro Educator is Sent to a Hos
pital in New York
City.

New York, March 49, Under the
complaint of Booker L. Washington,
Albert Ulrich, A German janitor, was
arrested tonight charged with hitting
the negro on the head with a club.
Washington says he went to house
in Sixty-Third street to see friend
but his ring brought no response to the
door. After ringing several times he
walked up and down in front of the
house. Soon the German appeared
with large club and began welding
it. Washington returned the blows
with his fists and held his assailant
until officers arrived. The negro spent
an hour in the hospital as result of
his beating.
Ulrich told the police that his wife
complained that a negro had been hang
ing around the hallway acting suspic-
iously. He walked up to the man and
asked him what he wanted around
there. No reason being given prompt
Is he grabbed the negro. In the mix
up which followed Ulrich welded his
club and received the return blow
which the negro admitted he struck.
AT the police station it was not until
Washington had proved his identity
that he was allowed to go. Uirich
urged his arrest.
At the Flower hospital it was said
Washington had suffered two lacer-
ations of the scalp, each about four
inches long; that his right ear was
split and he received several body
bruises.
DIR. Washington came to New York
last Saturday to meet the auditor of
Tuskegee institute, ID G. Smith whom
he was trying to locate in West Sixty
third street tonight when the attack
occurred.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1911-03-23

Continued on Page s.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1911-03-23
INDICNlTIES BY
LOEB'S SLUETHS
Two Southern Women Subjected
to Shameful Search on Return
From Europe.

New York, March 22.-The wife and
a daughter of Joseph Hull of Savan-
nah, Ga, one of the wealthiest and
most influential men in the South,
were required to disrope in their State
room aboard the steamship Lusitannia
Saturday while custom inspectress,
acting on amysterious tip subsequently
found to be false, made vain search
for a diamond necklace thought to
have been purchased abroad. The
search proving futile, Mrs. Hull and
the daughter, Eliza Lamar Hull, were
allowed to proceed to their hotel, where
another daughter, Nina W., convalesc-
ing from an attack of typhoid fever,
had preceded them without having
been subjected to search.
The necklace rumor dismissed, GUS
toms inspectors scrutinized the family
baggage, and charging undervaluations
in the case of Mrs. Hull and the daugh-
ter, Eliza L., siezed the articles in
question. Mother and daughter main
tanned they had acted in good faith,
but their explanations were not con-
sidered satisfactory to Collector Leob,
and the articles were seized. They
consist entirely of wearing apparel,
and will be held until "the home
value" that is, the foreign cost plus
duty, is said.
Joseph Hull, the husband and father,
was on the pier to greet his wife and
daughter, as was son, Daniel, cot
ton broker in this city. All were in
at the proceedings, and
threaten to carry the matter to the
courts il necessary.
JUSTLY INDIGNANT
awe were made to take off even our
said Mrs. Hull. "Every
stitch of our clothing was searched,
and wen our hair did not escape. |
consider this treatment an outrage,
and had no idea such thing could
happen in America"
1t was explained for the family that
the report concerning the necklace
probably had come from Savannah,
where "there was Jealousy" over the
fact that the Hulls were fortunate
enough to enjoy foreign luxuries and
finery. AS to the undervaluation
charge, Daniel Hull said:
"My sister Eliza was the only one
OF the three VINO nau previously ueeh
abroad, so yesterday my father sent a
wireless, warning mother and the girls
to be very cautious and particular IN
making their declarations. AS to the
alleged undervaluation, the total can
be no more than $3.50, and that 1t was
due to the ignorance of my mother and
sisters and was done with no malicious
intent.n
Federal laws give the authorities
power 10 search passengers suspected
Continued on Page s.
The Washington times., 1911-02-11
SOTHERN SHY[OCK
A FAMILIAR ROLE
Actor Elicits Sympathy for
Money Lender-Miss
Marlowe Charms.

Probably in no other role except
that of Hamlet is +. II. Sethern more
familiar TO Washingtonians than as
Shylock. in which he was seen at the
Belasco last night.
''The Merchant OF Venice" seems to
reveal fresh beauties the oftrner 1t is
seen and the iInpersonations Of Mr.
Sothern and Miss Julia Marlowe add
to this impression.
Those who look upon Shylock as
merciless Jew. actuated by no motives
save his love of gold will at least be
afforded the novelty of a different
conception by the Shylock of Mr..
Sothern. At the risk of incurring
adverse criticism from some Sheake-
spearean students this actor gives the
money lender virtues which so shine
through his big faults that one finds
himself sympathizinE and then pity
ing the Sothern Shylock.
The peculiar charm of Miss Mar
lowe last night lent itself to the i'm
personation of Ophella. 1t Is an in
tensely womanIy Portia that this ac-
tress presents and Miss Marlowe's
voice was never more sweet and vi
brant than in the casket scene and
I'm the courtroom scene.
The Washington times., 1911-02-11
LadyDecies to Be Received
Informally at White
House.

The Dowager Lady Decies and her
daughter. the Hon. Mrs. Wilkerson. will
be received informally by Mrs. Taft at
the White House this afternoon, follow
ing the tea which Lady Decies' hostess,
Mrs. Gibbons. wife Of Capt. John III.
Gibbons, u. s. NJ, Is giving in their
honor at 4 o'clock.
Lady Decies. who will be in WASH
ington until Tuesday. Is visiting Capt
and Mrs. Gibbons. whom she met dur
ing her residence in London, where
Captain Gibbons was naval attache at
the American embassy, and the Hon.
Mrs. wilkerson is the house guest of
Mrs. Oliver Cromwell. Mrs. Cromwells s
daughter. Miss Louise Cromwell, was
onC of the bridesmaids at the wedding
Tuesday Of Miss Yivien Gould and Lord
Decies.
Last night Mrs. Cromwell entertained
a distinguished company at dinner in
honor Of Lady Decies and the Hon. Mrs
Wilkerson.
Mrs. Mclaughlin and Miss McLaugh-
lin will be at home Friday. February
II, from 3 to 6 O'Clock, at their homo in
Euclid street. They will be assisted by
Miss Mary Cecil, of Baltimore, and Mrs.
J. Beverly North. of Snow Hill, Md.
-.f.-
The Washington times., 1911-02-11
President and Mrs Taft Entertain Company of Young
People at Dinner This Evening Followed by Dancing
Miss Helen TAFT to Have
Charge Of Flower Table

A valentine tea and sale will be given
this afternoon from to o'clock by the
St. Johns Branch of the Junior Apxil-
iary, at the Parish Hall, at Sixteenth
and H strets.
Miss Helen Taft will be in charge OF
the flower table and Miss Mary Nc
Cauley and Miss Margaret Cotton Smith
will preside at the tea table.
Others assisting will be the Misses Fin
ley, Miss Parker, Miss Webb. Miss Ger
trude Greely. Miss Miriam Crosby, Miss
Adee, Miss Quirollo. and Miss Freeman.
=
The Misses Norcross, of the Abemarle.
will receive informally Sunday. from 4
to 10 o'clock. They will have with them
Miss Beard, OF York, Pa, who will be
their house guest for the weekend
=
The members of theN Excelsior Club
were hosts last evening at very en-
ioyable dance given at Dyer's. Dane
ing was indulge1 in until a late hour'
when i buffet supper was served.
The guests were Miss Miriam Refs,
of Baltimore; Miss Edith Strasburger,
Miss Dora Schiffman, Miss Flora OF
tenberg, Miss Selma Heyn, Miss Gus
sic Hanlein, Miss Marguerite Kaufman
Miss Selma KatZen, Miss Louise En-
stein, Miss Hortense Brylawski, Miss
Selma RosenthaI. Miss Florence Cohen,
Miss Rena Sanger, Miss Helen Zach,
and David Oettinger, Albert Steinem,
Louis Glaser. Ivan Hermann Milton
Fischer, Norman Fischer, Ivan Pelz-
man, Frederick PeIzman, Leroy New
meyer. Milton Nathan. Sydney Kauf-
man, Harold Lichenstein, Gilbert Hahn,
and Clarence Eiseman.
Miss Florence Cohen and~~her house
guest, Miss Straus. of New York. who
spent the past week in Norfolk with
relatives, have returned to the city
The Washington, d. c.. Section Coun-
Gil of Jewish Women will hold its next
meeting on Tuesday, February II, at
. 80 o'clock, in the vestry rooms of the
Eighth Street Temple.
Hon. Benjamin S. Cable, assistant
secretary of Commerce and Labor, Will
speak on Immigration" and there will
be music-two vocal numbers-the one
by Mrs. Blanche Muir Dalgleish with
Mrs. Burrows at the piano, and the
other by Joseph Glushak, who Will
have Mrs. Simon Oppenheimer, as ac-
companist In celebration OF the day
the usual social hour will take the form
of "A Valentine Tea" when Mrs. l.;
S. Kann and Mrs. 8. Rothschild Will
act as hostesses.
The Washington times., 1911-02-11
SAPHO FAVORITE
BERNHARDT ROLE
Character Part Has Peculiar
Charm for Great Emo
tional Actress.

TheophiIe Gautier wrote a vampire"
before the rugged rhymes of Kipling
gave the name a vogue, but the stylist
yields the palm to the analyst of human
character who gave the world nest
OF vampires, and then made one OF
them supremely human.
The role of Sapho has been a favorite
with Bernhardt, not merely because it
throbs with elemental passion, but be-
cause it so easily becomes tawdry in in
competent hands. It is the masterful
handling Of delicate lights and shadows
so necessary to the humanizing of the
bat-woman, which has made 1t a de-
light for the Incompatible tragedienne
to use II often in her repertoire, as n
skilled workman loves TO blow those
flmy creations in Venetian glass, which
are either wrecks or marvels.
Every resource of her art was brought
into play last night in her presentation
O: the play at the National. Tho
caressing tones which made the ap-
pealinG passages COO and purr, the IN
strinctive restraint which comes so nat
uraIly that one does not even remem-
Der the Danes warning against latter
ing a passion, the tense bushes when
one can hear a heart break like taut
violin string.
1t was DelOTe lle udN VI DS"N 81
ers" that Daudets great novel brought
him a million francs. As play 1t has
perhaps, brought others as many dol
lars. Loves supreme remuneration does
much TO redeem its morals. AS a work
of art presented by artists it needed p )
redemption. 1t embodies too little or
the life and character common to all
mankind to stand forth except as a
faithful portraiture of a Paris which
even now is changed. But as cameo
carved in the veined carnelian OF GRIM
son guilt and white sacrifice, II VIII en-
varied cabinet of emotionalism.
The Washington times., 1911-02-11
Reporters In Germany
Get Passes From Police

BERLIN, Feb. 11.-Both German and
foreign reporters are TO carry passes
permitting them to rush into news
storm centers instead of being kept in
the background or being hacked with
the sabers of the police when they en-
deavor to force their way into the midst
of stirring affairs.
The passes which were ordered issued
by the police president ore effective dur
ing the good behavior OF their holders.
and are the first recognition Of the kind
the press has ever had. They are a
result of the pressure put upon the po-
lice after several correspondents were
injured by the police at the time Of the
strike in the Moabite district.
The Washington times., 1911-02-11
Mrs. Hill to Be Hostess
At Tea This Afternoon

Mrs. Gillett Hill will be hostess at
large tea this afternoon at O'CLOCK
In compliment to her sister, Miss Jessie
Bean Gillett, of Illinois, and Miss Eliza
beth Putnam, of Iowa. Miss Gtllett Is
spending the winter with Miss Amaryl-
lis Gillett, and Miss Putnam is spending
several weeks with her brother, George
Putnam, commissioner of the Light
house Board.
Palms and quantities of double poin-
settia blossoms will adorn the house.
2lS3 street, which Mrs. Gillett Hill
has recently taken for the season, and
the tea table will have a centerpiece OF
poinsettia blossoms. The chandelier.
which Is wheel, is suspended by
chain from the ceiling directly over the
table 1t will be intertwined with
Southern smilax with bows OF red tulle
ribbon. - :
Mrs. Mclean wife OF Capt Danss water
Mclean, L. S. NJ: Mrs. w. +. Dennfs'
and Mrs. Russell B. Harrison will pre-
side at the tea table.
Others assisting Mrs! Gillett Hill In
receiving her guests and dispensing the
hospitalities of the afternoon, Will De
Miss 'Amaryllis Gillett, Miss Gillett
BarT1es, Miss Hitchcock. Miss Morris
Evans, Miss Marthena Harrison, Miss
Weeks, Miss Dolly Cunningham, Miss
Dulles, and Miss Gillett Hill.
Mrs. Gillett Hill will receive her
guests in a handsome white charmeuse
satin gown elaborately embroidered In
silver Miss Jessie Gillett's gown Will
be of green chiffon over satin trimmed
in silver. Miss Putnam will wear pale
blue chiffon over white and trimmed
with silver, and Miss Gillett Hilrs gown
will be of white satin yelled in green
chiffon with touches of gold embroid-
cry
The marriage of Miss Florence Augen-
stein, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. S. W:
Augenstein. and Philip NJ. Brown Will
take place tomorrow evening al )
o'clock at the home of the brides par
cnts, 1876 Park road. Rabbi Louis Stern,
O" the Eighth Street Temple, Will Of
fciate.
Mrs. Julian Brylawski entertained a
few OF her friends at bridge yesterday
afternoon, at her home. in Calvert
street. Those present were Mrs. Harold
Levy, Mrs. Morton Luchs, Mrs. Harry
Loeb, Mrs. Edgar Kaufman. Mrs. Gold
smith Sigmund, Mrs. Wallace LuclIs
and Mrs. A. c. Mayer.
The Washington times., 1911-02-11
Receiving Days

The Misses Williamson, of zoos Il
street. will receive this afternoon, and
on February p.
Mrs Waldo HIbbs. and Mrs. Harring-
ton, of 3016 Dumbarton avenue. will not
receive Tuesday, February II, on ac-
count Of illness, but will be at home
Tuesday. February 2S.
-
Miss Rathbone Smith will not be at
home today. but will receive February
IS and %.
Mrs. Ellis Logan, of 1858 Irving street
will be at home Monday and again
February q.
The officers OF the Washington
Wellesley Club will be at home to
Wellesley women with their president,
Mrs. Charles DeVin Davis, at the West
mureiand. on Monday afternoon, Febru-
airy 13 Members will be glad to make
the acquaintance of any Wellesley
strangers in town.
Mrs. Menefee and the ladies OF Wash
ington College, have cards out for an
at home, Fridav, February Il, from 4
to O'Clock. and from to II O'Clock
They will receive the second and fourth
Fridays in March.
p
Miss Cryder mas cards out for a musi-
Gale tomorrow afternoon, followed by a
tea at o'clock, at her residence, 1924 n
street.
The Washington times., 1911-02-11
Last Tribute Paid
To Admiral Terry

g
Funeral services for Rear Admiral
Siias Wright Terry, u. 8. N, retired,
who died at his home Thursday after
noon of pneumonia, were held this morn
ing at the residence. 2032 o street, at II
o clock. From the house the body was
taken to st. Johns Episcopal Church,
where further services were held. The
Rev. Roland Cotton Smith officiated.
The body was sent to Annapolis for in
terment In the Naval Cemetery, with
full military honors.
Rear admiral Terry was Ill only six
days. He was native of Kentucky,
where he was born in 1912. He saw
forty-six years service In the navy, and
was at one time commander of the
Washington Navy Yard. His daughter,
who recently married Lieut.. Comdr.
Filippo Camperio, former naval attache
of the Italian embassy, is at present in
Venice, and will be unable to attend the
funeral.
He is survived by his wife, his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Camperio, and one son, j. l..
Mason Terry, of New York.
The Washington times., 1911-02-11
Wife Of Executive Attends
Solhern and Marlowe
Matinee.

Mrs. Taft, accompanied by the Bel
gian Minister and Countess de Buis-
seret, Countess de Chambrun, wife of
the military attache of the French EN-
bassy, and Mrs. Longworth of Cincin-
natl, attended the performance OF Soth-
ern and Marlowe, in Macbeth" at the
Belasco Theater this afternoon.
This evening the President and Mrs.
Taft are entertaining a company of
young people at dinner, followed. by
dancing.
Miss Christine Marburg, of Baltimore,
is the guest of Miss Taft at the White
House, having come over for the dinner
tonight and also to attend the dinner
and cotillion given by Miss Marguerite
Barbour for Miss Taft last night.
WaIbridge Taft and Howard Taft are
also weekend guests at the White
House.
The Washington times., 1911-02-11
Whirled Thirty Feet By
Belt, Only Arm Broken

WILMINGTON. DEL, Feb. 11.-Daniel
Rhiner, aged sixteen, today was caught
in a belt at the Brandywine. broom
works at Rock Run. carried to the top
of the building and then precipitated
thirty feet to the floor, escaping with
broken arm.
The Washington times., 1911-02-11
LOCAL MENTION

who Lie, Washington Women or
Menu" Z. Hez Sven, Sunday night,
Capital Baptist Church. Typo-Temple,
423 G st. n. W. 1t