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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
ALL.SOUTH CONFERENCE
Delegates From Nine States Meet at
Memphis.

Memphis, Tenn.-The movement in.
augurated by the All South Conference
in the assembly room of the Business
Mems Club promises to grow to large
proportions and be of inestimable ben-
eft TO the entire South. 1t is to bring
the tide of travel to the Southland in
stead of permitting the Northern and
Central sections G. the country to have
a monopoly upon the people going to
and from the two coasts and interme-
date points. And in this connection
this conference, which is a pet project
of the Southern Commercial Congress, is
working with the officials of the Pan.
ANA canal exposition, which will be held
for twelve months during the year of
1915 al San Diego, Cal.
States represented Monday were Vir-
ginia, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Lou
~isiana, Tennessee, Texas, Arizona and
California. The delegates were repre-.
sentatives Of commercial organizations
from cities in these commonwealth.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
WILL CONF|NE
The WAR TO TRIPOLl
TURKEY MUST PROMISE NOT TO
MASSACRE ITALIANS.
The Italian Government Is Withholding
All Information As to Move
ment of the Army.

Rome.-It is understood on the eve Of
the departure of the army of occupation
from the various ports of concentration
nearest Tripoli, that the Italian gov
eminent has notified the powers of its
intention to confine the war to Tripoli.
The Italian government states, how.
ever, this intention will be abandoned if
Turkey is unable to restrain excuses
against Italians on Turkish territory.
Reports of threatened massacres of all
Italian subjects in Turkey have reached
the government, but in an unofficial
way, and they are having their effect.
Twenty transports, all Atlantic liners,
are in the harbor at Naples ready to
take the troops to Tripoli. The govern.
ment is Withholding all information as
to the movement of the army, but it is
believed that a large part of it has
already sailed from ports other than
Naples, and that the landing has already
begun.
The Italian warships are still on &C.
tive duty in the harbor at Tripod. o.
casionally a shell is sent over the town
in the direction of the outskirts, where
the Turkish infantry and cavalry are
gradually being joined by the desert
tribes.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
BLUE AND GRAY CELEBRATE
Mission of Peace Monument Is Unveiled
at Atlanta.

Atlanta, Ga.-Coming for the pur.
pose of dedicating a monument m
Grating the famous Mission of Peace
undertaken by the Old Gate City Guards
of Atlanta in 1879, more than 1000 sol
diers, representing many of the crack
military organizations of the North and
South, are in the city. The chief event
of the peace celebration was the dedica-
ton of the monument in Piedmont Park.
A notable incident occurred in the
afternoon when the Order of the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery of Boston, the
oldest military organization in America,
decorated the graves of the Confederate
dead in Oakland cemetery.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
Lynching Threatened.

Coatesville, Pa.-Another lynching is
threatened in this county as the result
of a brutal attack made upon Annie
McElhaney, a student at the Gainesville
High School, by an unidentified negro.
The populace has been wrought to a
fever of excitement. Miss McElhaney
was attacked by the negro on the road.
She fought with all her strength and
just as she was being overpowered,
Frank Wynn, a farmer, came upon the
scene. The negro, frightened by the
appearance Of Wynn's wagon, ran.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
SENATE SALARY NOT
ONLY INDUCEMENT
EXPENSE OF S1O7,7 1888 EXPLAINED
BY STEPHENSON'S MANAGER.
Explanation Of Heavy Expenses Made
On Ground That Fierce Fight Was
Being Made by LaFollette.

Milwaukee, Wis.50ut of testimony
given before the United States senate
committee, investigating the charges
that bribery and corruption contributed
to TIE election Of Senator Isaac Ste
phenson, was developed evidence that
the Stephenson campaign manager re-
garded the $1O7, 792 spent as small, COM
pared to $l50,OOO or 100000, which
might have been spent for a campaign
more systematically conducted.
The statement from Rodney Sackett,
one of %Stephenson's managers, that
$15O,000 or 100000 might legitimately
have been spent for the senatorial nom
nation brought forth comment from
Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, a mem
Der of the committee.
"If $107, 900 is not enough to nomi-
nate a United States senator in Wscon.
sin, how much IS, and what could you
do with 100000 legally to secure for a
man a position with a $500 annual sal
ary?" asked Senator Pomerenc.
"We could have been more system
attic" answered Sackett. There are
approximately 100000 Republicans in
the state. Had we the money we should
have personally canvassed each voter.
This, | estimate, would have cost from
$15O,000 to 100000"
Senator Stephenson's vote, it was
shown, was $4,000 out OF a total OF ga
900 votes cast.
On being asked by Senator Pomerene
if a campaign manager expected a can
didate to spend that much money legit-
imately for "A position with a salary Of
$500, Sackett replied:
at is not supposed that a man goes
to the senate for $500 alone"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
SERIOUS OUTBREAK
At MCCOMB CITY
RIOTING THROUGHOUT "a HOURS
SEEMS TO BE OVER.
Soldiers, Armed With Instructions to
Kill, Gaurd Train Loaded With
StrikebTeakers.

McComb City, Miss.-With the en-.
forced departure Wednesday afternoon
of the last of the strikebreakers
brought here by the Illinois Central
railroad came the first real assurance OF
the restoration of peace after twenty
four hours of excitement and spasmodic
rioting. The people of McComb City
demanded that the strikebreakers be re-
moved from their community, and the
1872 men were placed aboard a heavily
guarded special train and hurried to
New Orleans.
Sixty soldiers armed with ball cart
ridges and with orders to shoot to kill"
if necessary, accompanied the special
train south as far as Magnolia.
After the strikebreakers had agreed
to get out of town the departure of the
train was delayed for nearly three hours
by protests from the railroad company,
and the people of McComb City began to
exhibit signs of surliness and some
show of mob spirit. About a half hour
before the train left a number of these
persons, well armed, left the city, going
south and taking up a position near the
railroad track on which the special
would have to pass en- route to New Or
leans. Strike leaders in automobiles
finally persuaded the men to disband
and commit no overt act.
Three companies Of Mississippi ma
tional guards patrol the streets, and the
belief is expressed that the town will
remain quiet.
"If any strikebreaker makes a move
to hurl anything from the windows,
kill him on the spot; if the train is Rred
upon at any time you will return the
fire and you will shoot to kill
These final orders were given just be-
fore the departure of the special train
by Maj. George Hoskins of Brookhaven,
who was placed in charge Of the soldiers
aboard. The strikebreakers were glad
to get away from the town.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
WOULD HOLD COTTON PRICE
Texas Farmers Union Man Endorses the
Governors Conference.

Fort Worth, Tex.-President Peter
Radford of the Texas Farmers Union
heartily indorses the suggestion that a
conference of the governors of the South
ern states be held to see what may be
done to maintain the price of cotton,
which has been declining for several
weeks and is now practically at cost of
production. He says he will immediate
ly communicate with the local unions
throughout the state of Texas and with
The unions of other states, with a view
of having this suggestion adopted and
request made upon the governors of the
proposed conference.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
TO PROBE COFFEE CORNER
In Eighteen Months Prices Have Risen
100 Per Cent.

New York.-The federal government
is preparing to take hold of the coffee
corner with the view of finding out why,
within eighteen months, coffee in the
United States has risen 100 per cent,
why at the present moment this daily
beverage of millions of Americans is OBJ
tainable only at famine prices, although
there is not now and has not been in
the period stated anything like a famine
in the commodity, and to fix response
bility upon the persons responsible for
this anomalous commercial condition
that is imposing a hardship upon a
greater mass of people of all stations of
life in the United States than is being
imposed by any of the many trusts the
federal authorities now have under in
vestigation or are contemplating action
against.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
Learned From Nature.

An enthusiastic friend was dilating
to the woman landscape gardener on
the obvious advantages she must de-
rive from actually experimenting the
workmen who executed her designs.
Being right out with nature that
way you must learn so many interest
ing things" said the friend.
9" do" said the gardener, Il can tell
the different kinds of whisky, the diff
ferent kinds Of tobacco and the differ
ent kinds Of profanity a rod away"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
UNCLE SAM May Intervene
Political Situation in Panama Consider
ably Involved.

Washington.-The United States may
have to act in the political imbroglio
in Panama, growing out of President
Arosemena's notice, that he will take a
six months vacation" so that he may
qualify for what amounts to reelection.
The Liberals assert the supreme court
of Panama will not recognize Arose
mena's proposed vacation as compliance
with the law that prohibits from cleo
ton to the presidency a man who has
held the office six months previously
and Washington may be obliged to step
in and tell Arosemena how far he can
go in his political moves.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
Coast-to-Coast Tour.

New York.-A plan for a 1918 Gid.
den tour to extend from the Atlantic
coast to the Pacific has been submitted
to the American Automobile Association
officials by a Western organization,
which thinks the run would prove a
popular feature in connection with the
worlds fair scheduled as a part of the
Panama canal opening celebration. In
asmueh as many persons are expected
to visit California when the worlds fair
is on, it is urged as an entirely natural
thing that many should come by auto.
mcbila.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
VICTIMS ARE
NEAR STARVATION
CITY OF BLACK RIVER FALLS, WIS.,,
BLOTTED FROM MAP.
Communication With Towns Down Black
River Cut Of-Half- Famisehd Pe0-
pie Fear to Spend Another
Nigth of Terror.

Black River Falls, Wis.-With the
towns of Black River Falls, Hatfield and
North Bend practically destroyed with
scores of farm houses away, it is i'm
possible to verify rumors of losses OF
life in the Black River valley floods, and
the remarkable spectacle is presented of
thousands of people homeless with per-
haps not the loss of a single life.
Fifty-three business buildings out OF
sixty-one in Black River Falls have dis
appeared, as have over thirty residences.
The town of North Bend, north of here,
is entirely destroyed. Damage to crops
of the surrounding country will be i'm
mense. The water in all directions is
covered with floating corpses of chick
ems, hogs, sheep, cattle and horses.
The loss to Black River Falls alone is
estimated at 81 900, 900, while the La
Crosse Power Company, the breaking OF
whose dam at Hatfield caused the de-
struction of practically everything in
the valley, will lose at least half a
million.
Thousands are homeless in the fields,
having fled before the great flood a
swept down the valley. Food is scarce
and starvation threatens as the trans
p%ortation of food supplies is a question
with which to be reckoned. Miles of
railroad track has been washed away.
Hundreds of residents have moved
their belongings to nearby farms. The
population fears to spend another night
here for the dread of being carried into
fha riuar hu 4La n~rIn, HIM ha
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
CABBAGES SAVED THEIR LIVES
Three Men Held on in Water, But One
Other Drowned.

Hazelton, lnd-A big sack of ~cabbages
saved the lives of three men, but there
was not room for the grasp of a fourth
and he was drowned in White river
near here. Henry Wallame, Felix Zeldf,
William Afford and Peter Peyton were
riding in Il gasoline launch ON the river
and Ii of them was transporting a
sack of cabbages. The boat turned over
Zelf, Afford and Peyton succeeded in
getting hold of the floating cabbages,
but Wallace could not and sank, while
his companions, being unable to help
him, swan ashore with the support of
their vegetable life-preserver.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
Too Many Seek Divorce.

Kansas City, Mo.-So numerous have
become applications for divorce at each
session of the court in this county that
the judges decided thai some action must
be taken to stop the rush. The majority
Of the judges favor the suggestion of
having the board of public welfare en-
ploy attorneys to investigate each suit
as it is filed. At a recent session of the
divorce court almost sixty DEGREES were
granted in one day. 1t is said many per.
sons leave the state Immediately after
obtaining their divorces.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
HIGHER CRITICISM OF BIBLE
General Discussion at Ecumenical Con-
ference.

Toronto, Ont.-A paper read before
the Ecumenical Methodist Conference by
Prof. A. A. Peake, Of England, on per
manent Results of Biblical Criticism"
precipitated a general debate upon So
called 'higher criticism" The propri-
ETY. and even necessity of criticism were
generally conceded and the trend of
opinion was that it "leads inevitably to
Christ, the divine Son OF God, Savior
of the world
Prof. Peake defined the Bible as "the
record of Gods gradual disclosures of the
spirit to men,"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
HUGE DISCREPANCY SHOWN
Over ~$3,1SS,271 material on Hand" Is
Missing.

Washington.-A discrepancy of over
$3,2SS,271 between the material on hand
and that called for by the books of the
Washington navy yard was shown by
the inventory of that yard, just COM
pleted, according to an announcement
by Secretary of the Navy Meyer.
This is the first inventory of record
made at this yard within the last TWEEN
ty-ive years.
The discrepancy is attributed to loose
bookkeeping methods, which Secretary
Meyer has determined to correct.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
ALlGHTS ON THE MISSISSIPPI
Hugh Robinson Does Spectacular Flying
at st. Louis.

st. Louis, Mo.-Hugh Robinson, in a
hydro-aeroplane, made a spectacular
fight on the Mississippi river Sunday,
starting from the water five times, Land,
ing from the water five times, landing
six times and carrying United States
mail from Missouri to Illinois.
In his flights Robinson went under
three bridges, coming down the river and
over them going up.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
10000 KILLED IN CHINA
Anti-Foreign Insurgents and Troops
Fight Desperately.

Peking.-Ten thousand persons were
killed during the recent fighting between
anti-foreign insurgents and government
troops in SEE Chuen province, according
to kilograms from American missionaries
at Cheng Tu. Of the dead, 1000 were
soldiers. Bebels are in possession of
many cities southwest of Cheng lu. Sol-
diers have been sent against them.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
ATTEMPT TO LYNCH INDIAN
North Carolina Cherokee Arrested for
Killing Girl.

Asheville, N. Cross French, 81, a
Cherokee Indian, living on the Bird
Town, Swain county, reservation, was
safely locked in the county Jail here,
charged with the murder of Ethel Schu-
Ter, the ~14-year-old daughter of a Bird
Town farmer. His arrival here wss eff
fected after an exciting escape from a
mob of 100 men bent on lynching the
prisoner.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
FLORIDA FRUIT MUST BE RIPE
Secretary Wilson Prepares to Coniscate
Florida Products.

Washington.-The department of agri-
culture has prepared for confiscation of
unripe fruit from Florida. Secretary
Wilson, who has been in communication
with the Florida agricultural authorities,
announces that any attempts to ship
or to process mripe fruit would be
the signal for government activity.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
RAILROAD STRIKE SITUATION
Railroad officials Say Many of Men Be-
coming Wearied.

Chicago-Quiet prevailed in the strike
of shop workers on the Illinois Central
and other Hartman railroads, according
to announcements of railroad officials
here.
They said the men are becoming dis
satisfied with the way the strike was
called, and that many of the local unions
are demanding it be ended. Union lead
ers, however, maintain that the men are
satisfied with the progress of the strike
and are prepared to remain out all win
ter, if necessary, to gain their demands.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
COL. JACOB REYSER DEAD
Famous Kentuckian Penniless Aftei
Spending a Fortune.

Washington.-"Col." Jacob Keyser,
known to every Southern member of
congress and for ten years the most
popular of the old Riggs House
Guards" is dead. Col" Keyser died
practically friendless at the Washington
asylum hospital. Twelve years ago his
fortune was estimated at 100000, but
he spent money lavishly until he re-
duced himself to the charity of his
friends.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
PROVIDES FOR PARCELS POST
Experiments in Mail Transportation
Through Air,

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for the es-
adjustment of a parcels post and the
transportation of mail by ~aeroplane has
been made by Postmaster General Hitch
cock in his annual estimates of p~Qstoffice
department expenditures, submitted to
the treasury department.
Items providing for a parcels post in
,lude $4,000 for preliminary expenses on
rural mail routes and an equal appro-
p~riation to start the service in the cities.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

A Chicago mar has discovered that
cows like to hear music while they
are being MIXED. This opens a field
OF useful and harmless occupations for
some Of the singers on the vaudeville
stage.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

A San Francisco millionaire's wife
wants a divorce because he allows her
only $40 a month. Come to think OF
It, being a millionaire's wife on $40
a month Is not what might be called
q pleasant pastime.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Ducks In a Massachusetts post office
saved the place from burglary, but
they never will get as much advertis.
Ing out of 1t as the geese that saved
Rome.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
A Preference.

Marriage is a lottery" said the
ready-made philosopher.
mo. it isn't" replied Mr.. Growcher.
I'm a lottery you can lose once and
forget about it, instead of having to
put up alimony."
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Few women ever do learn anything
about the proper use Of weapons. A
girl In New York laid down a copy OF
the Congressional Record to hill q
burglar with a rolling pin.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

A citizen Of Boston, seventy years
old. announces that ais health is due
to a diet of oatmeal and crackers. He
Q not even mention the sacred
bean.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Fall styles in mems hats indicate
that even the bald can have a little
wool on the top Of the head in the
place where the hair ought to grow.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

A health expert in Chicago says
that nature and providence never in.
tended children to live in flats.
Neither. 1t may be added, do land.
lords.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13
Not a Bit.

"In getting married Mr.. Sothsrn
and Miss Marlowe showed very little
consideration for the public"
why SOL"
There's no fun in watching a man
and his wife play Romeo and Juliet"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

The car has approved of the addt
ton of a big slice of Finland to Rus.
sia, which shows that as far as that
unfortunate people are concerned, he
Is beginning at the Finnish.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

And some of the American heiresses
want to know what they have done
that King George should reconsider
his intention to create a bunch of new
English peers.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Why reproach the katydid for its
failure as a prophet of frost? Our
high-priced weather department also
has been known to make mistakes.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Feed your husband II he drinks,
don't nag him." says a woman lecturer.
But what II he persists in coming
home full?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Flats may be bad things, but houses
IN which the maidless housekeeper
tolls upstairs with a baby on n arm
and a bucket of coal on the other ara
worse.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Our notion Of the height Of incon-
gruity is the national laundrymen's as.
ISOLATION holding their convention in
Pittsburg.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Mrs. Wtnslow's Soothing Syrup for Childres
teething, softens the gums, reduces innamma.
ton, allays pain. cures wind collie, 25c q bottle.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Many a summer girl will soon be-
come an autumn bride.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

A new comet is coming. AS II this
poor old world has not already trouble
enough without this herald Of more to
come!
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

The statue 'of Liberty needs a new
gown. but we hope they will not go
80 far as to dress the lady in a hobble
skirt.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Seattle is going to have a sky.
scraper AZ stories high. but only Sc
attic knows what for.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Some people look on hay fever as
a joke, but the Texas man who
sneezed himself to death probably fails
to see the point.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

The wife OF the prize model husband
has committed suicide. 1t Is a warn
ing to wives who expect too much.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Automobile racing continues TO an
initiate space and spectators.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

An aviator is called a birdman, but
there is many a gay old bird who
never has flown in an aeroplane.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Our ancestors got rid Of bears and
eatamounts instead of feas and NOS
u%uitoes.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

A mar in Pittsburgh has discovered
q cure for hay fever. Moreover. he de-
clares It is not to be sneezed at.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

New York states hobo farm Is show.
ing good results. It Is driving the
hoboes out Of the state.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

The French lady who has challenged
an editor to a duel will probably In
sist on fighting with a fatal hatpin.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Iniammatory Rheumatism may make
you a cripple for life. Don't wait for
inflammation to set in. When the first
slight pains appear, drive the poison out
with Hamlins Wizard Oil.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

Los Angeles Is to have a squad Of
policemen on roller skates. They
ought 10 DO funny. II they are not
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

An aeroplane motor Is like a mule;
generally balky when you want It to
90.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-13

No matter how hard the rules may
be, they're as fair for us as for the
rest Of the gang!