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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
CANEBRAkES ON TUSCUMBIA
RIVER SECURED BUT NO
TRACE WAS FOUND.
STOLEN PROPERTY ESTIMATED
AT FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
Place Found Where Bandits Hitched
Horses Before Hold-Up-First Rob-
berry on M. & o. Since the Days of
"Reub" Burroughs.

Corinth, Miss, March 21-Train rob-
bers, who, at o'clock Tuesday night,
held up and robbed Mobile and Ohio
north-bound passenger train No. 4, ap-
parently have made good their escape.
Searching parties have secured the
Tuscumbia river bottoms, where the
robbers are supposed to have taken
refuge, but to no avail,
The Southers Express Company,
whose car was wrecked, the safe
blown and packages stolen estimated
to contain from $4,000 to $4,000, has
offered $1,000 reward for the capture
of any of the five men who robbed the
car, dead or alive.
Sheriff McPeters, Chief of Detective
Crombough and Special Detective
Clem Lea of the Mobile and Ohio rail-
road, went early yesterday to the
scene of the robbery and searched dill
gently west to Chewalla, Tenn, and
east to Glendale, Miss, returning this
evening without a vestige of clew
to the robbery.
1t was well-planned and well-exe-
cuted piece of work, showing the skill
of experts.
1t is not definitely known how much
booty was obtained but the state.
ment is made that the probable
amount exceeds 100000 Waybills
! showed that $1,000 was to be transfer
red here, going to Chattanooga.
Sheriff's posses from Prentiss and
Alcorn counties found the place, near
Alcorn Switch, where the bandits tied
their horses just before holding up the
train and started in pursuit through
the swamps of Tuscumbia river.
This is the first train of the Mobile
! and Ohio railroad to be held up and
robbed since the Buckatuna Miss.
affair back in the early nineties, when
"Reub" Burroughs, the famous train
robber, was operating. Special off
GERS of the railroal, from Mobile to
Cairo, have been brought into the
hunt for the bandits,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
HATTESBIRC MISSISSIPPI THURSDAY AFTERNOON MARCH
ZERO WEATHER
IN NORTHWEST
FIRST Day Of Spring Ushered In On
BIizzard-Twenty Below In
Montana.

Chicago, March 21.-A binding
storm of snow and sleet swept across
the North Central States yesterday,
and continuing last night, heaped di-
saster upon transportation and COM
munication facilities 1t was the first
day of spring
Half hundred cities were shut off
from communication with the rest of
the world when telegraph and tele-
phone poles were blown down or wires
were covered with ice until they broke.
Steam and electric railroads were
brought to standstill and in several
instances trains were snowbound. In
belt of territory between 100-mile
and 400-mile radius of the great
lakes the snowfall was heaviest. In
places from five to seven inches were
reported last night. Later tempo
rary rise in temperature was followed
by colder blast.
The snow changed in many places
to sleet, which was blown like so many
shot before a gale that increased in
velocity until it reached nearly sixty
miles an hour. At Chicago, tempered
by the lake, it was sixty-two miles an
hour. Zero weather was reported in
several places.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
A Wise WOMAN
IS this one
First Chinese Woman To Register In
Frisco Says Teddy "Too
Much Agitate."

San Francisco, Cal, March 21.-The
first Chinese woman to register in San
Francisco is Mrs. Pom Hue. She was
accompanied to the registration office
by her husband, a produce merchant.
She gave her age as "a, her nativity
as San Francisco and her occupation
as housewife.
She speaks the English language
fiuently, and when asked her party
affiliations was not content to say
merely Republican" but volunteered
that she was for Taft and would vote
for him at the presidential preference
primary May IA because Roosevelt Is
too much noise, too much agitate; stir
IN just to make newspapers talk"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
BANK OFFERS Prize
FOR BEST ESSAY

The Interstate Trust & Banking Co.,
of New Orleans, are offering a gold
medal to some pupil in the Hatties-
burg High School for the best essay
en- immigration in the South" with
special reference to Louisiana and
Mississippi. They have written Prof
Woodley asking at what time the Com.
mencement Exercises will be held
This will occur in May and the bank.
ing company have been advised of the
date. T. s. Jackson has been asked to
deliver the presentation address and
has signified his willingness to do so
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
GETTING READY
FOR AUCTION SALE
Camp Property Near The Normal is
Being Cleared Of Stumps
And Laid off.

The Carolina Development Co., in
charge of the new addition" property
near the Normal College, which is be-
ing put in shape Cor public sale, this
morning increased their force of work
men to thirty-eight. Dirt is flying in
the vicinity, streets are being laid out,
stumps removed, lots staked out and
low places are being filled in. The
promoters state~that everything will
te in splendid shape by April the 9th,
the date that has been decided on for
holding the sale.
F. NJ. Hill for the Little Giant Stumu
Fuller Co., will on tomorrow place one
of their machines on the property re.
moving stumps.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
INJUNCTION CASE
HAS been DECIDED
Chancellor Renders Decree Which Is
Partial Victory For Both
Sides.

The Tatum injunction suit against
the city of Hattiesburg was concluded
is the chancery court last night, when
Chancellor Wood rendered his de-
cree, which in effect is as follows:
The Injunction is made permanent as
regards the city incurring any addi-
tional Indebtedness, or entering into
contract that would be in the ma
ture of debt, but he ruled that the
city could enter into a contract with
Messrs. Camp, Montague and Ross
whereby they would furnish the money
for the proposed extensions Of sewer
age and water to the Normal College
and be reimbursed out of the rentals
derived from the particular exten
sions; the city to assume no liability
in the construction of the lines. The
city is held for the costs of court in
the case.
Unless the case is appealed to q
higher court, this trial will probably
conclude the case, which has obsorbet
public interest for several months
Both sides to the case have apparent
ly won a partial victory, but it ap
pears from the ruling that the city
got what it was contending for, anC
that unless other steps are taken tt
prevent the extensions that work cal
now go ahead, and be completed be
fore the Normal school is ready t
open.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
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:: ABSENCE OF FEELING :
:: ON PART OF FIGHTERS. :

:. New Orleans, March 21.-The :
:. morning session of the trial of :
:. Annie Crawford, charged with :
!. poisoning her sister, Elsie, was :
:. taken up with preparation by the :
(: state to introduce the confession :.
: of Annie Crawford in which she :
:. admitted giving her sister NOR :
: phine tablets by mistake. There :
: was an absence of display of bad :
: feeling on the part of the attor- :
!: peys, who engaged in yesterdays :
I: fist fight. All those participating ::
!. in the fist fight pleaded not guilty ::
= when arranged this morning. I
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
WHITE MAN CHARGED
WITH ROBRING STORE

Jackson, Miss, March eli. J.
Frederick, a white man, is confined in
the Ellisville Jail under the charge OF
burglary of the store of the Eureka
Lumber Company, of Eastabuchie He
was arrested at the hotel at that place
by j. NJ. Knight, the town marshal,
upon the discovery that some one had
broken into the store. and in making a
hasty exit left a pair of shoes which
were identified as belonging to Fred
erick.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
La Toilette HAS
LARGE MAJORITY

Grand Forks, N. D., March 21.-Rob-
ert NJ. La Follette's majority will not
be far from $4,000 when the final pri-
mary returns are received, and may be
heavier. OF the total votes La Fol-
lette has polled about $4,000, while
Roosevelt has polled about $4,000.
The Taft vote will total about 5000.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
FIFTEEN BODIES HAVE BEEN RE-
COVERED LEAVING ABOUT go
MEN STILL ENToMBED.
HEART-RENDING SCENES
ENACTED AT Mine OPENING
Practically Every Family In the Little
Town Had One or More Members
Working the Mine-LittIe Hope Is
Entertained for Entombed Men.
(By Associated Press.)

McCurtain, Okla, March 21.-Four-
teen more miners, entombed by the
explosion in the San Bois mine here
yesterday, we're rescued today. This
makes the total number taken out
alive twenty-five. About one hundred
men were in the mine when the acci-
dent occurred. Fifteen bodies have
been recovered.
The explosion occurred shortly after
8 o'clock yesterday morning. Those
on the surface heard o faint rumble
and an earth tremor. When those
nearest to the mouth of the mine
reached the opening, a cloud of dust
and smoke belched forth.
Then came tense moments of wait
I ing for those in the mine to emerge.
Frank Fields, a miner, was the first
to stagger out. He was walking in an
entry and heard the explosion, he said
He jumped into a side room and the
explosion passed and he made his way
to the mine opening. Nine other min
ers escaped through "manway." A
rope rider" who was coming to the
surface when the explosion occurred,
was the eleventh man to escape.
Superintendent Brown of the coal
company led the first rescue party into
the mines, but it could proceed no fur
ther than the sixth level because OF
the accumulation of debris, and re-
turned to the surface with the body Of
John Colwas. a seveNteen-year-old
youth,
i In the meantime heart-rending
scenes were enacted at the mine open
ing, where hundreds of women and
children had gathered. Throughout
the afternoon, while rescue work was
halted awaiting the arrival of mine
experts from the government station
:, at McAlester, Okla, they remained
about the opening.
Practically every family in the camp
has one or more members buried IN
/ the mine. The systematic work OF
penetrating the mine began early last
, night, and the first to return of the
half hundred rescuers, who are work
ing in relays, brought four bodies out
of the mine, and they were carried to
the washhouse and laid out upon the
5 floors. The bearers of the bodies
passed between rows Of grief-stricken
relatives. who elamored for a view OF
the dead The bodies were blackened
and burned and practically unrecog
nizable, and the confusion was so great
l that it was impossible to determine
definitely their identity.
Superintendent Brown stated thai
the force and extent of the explosion
were such that only by the ra1nd<suI
possibility could any of the entouEr
, men be alive. The mine machine<T 4
operated by compressed air, and tI1oI|
are three small pumps in different sec
tions of the mine. These pumps ex
= haust pure air There is a remote
chance that some of them are bein,
kept alive by these fresh currents, pro
p viding the pumps are not out of com
mission. To this one slim chance tn,
: relatives and friends of the entombe,
men cling with pitifuI hope and pray
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
NORTH TEXAS SWEPT
BY WINDSTORM

Wichita Falls. Texas, March 21.-
Several counties in north Texas were
swept by windstorm last night. An
oil field at Electra, Texas, was damag.
ed about $4,000. No loss of life has
been reported.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
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{: CHARGES FEDERAL CLERKS :
|: WITH EM5EzzLEMENT. :
(By Associated Press.)

= Washington. March 21.-Chair- ::
: man Clayton, of the Judiciary !:
8 Committee, declared on the floor !:
: of the house today that more than !:
: twenty clerks of federal courts in I:
: the United States were embez. {:
: zlers of court funds, and still re- I:
I. tanned their places because the !:
:; existing law was SO framed they
!. could not be reached. I
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21

Two negro boys, Jim Jones and freu
oonord about IA years Of age became
involved in difficulty yesterday O1
a,... .t,a4t. and as a result Leonard
n.. a fractured skull and Jones is De-
inc held in the county jail AWAITING sia.ns
lps w nv nntcome of the injuries inflicted
on the wounded boy 49,, ,oorard
with a brick the Jones 'O0s "'aN
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
Twenty Below In Montana.

Helena, Mont March 21.-Tempera-
lures below zera were registered at
many points in Montana. The lowest
temperature was 20 degrees below zero
at Chessman reservoir, twenty miles
west of Helena
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
Negro Workman Dangerously
Injured at SawmiH Yesterdau

Ike Glover, negro employed by the
Southern Lumber & Ice Co., at their
plant on Fifth street, was principal in
an accident yesterday that came very
near costing him his life.
He is employed in carrying lumber
from the saws to the lumber sheds on
two wheel cart known as dolly
The plan Of operation is to tilt one
aE AI@e contriyance. having the
Is loaded act as part agent
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
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= "0oPERs" TAKE oFFENsE ::
: AT WILEY'S STATEMENTS. !:

= Washington, March 21.-Dr. !:
: Harvie W. Wiley, appearing as a ::
: private citizen before the Pure
:: Food Committee today in ad- ::
: vocacy of regulations strictly /.
:: guarding the use and sale of .
:: opium, morphine, cocaine aud 4
:: other habit-forming drugs, aroused 4
Z: the anger of drug representatives 4
: by referring to them as "dopers." 1
: Heated arguments ensued and for .
= moment it looked as if blows .
= might be passed.
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21

In its locomotion. Glover had attempt-
ed to turn his cart. which was loaded.
and the front end tilted too far. fore
ing him backward into fast revolv-
ing saw The saw almost severed one
OF his legs near the body, and that he
was not instantly killed was sur
prise to those who witnessed the ac-
cident. This morning he Is reported
as resting Is wen e could be expsct-
ed and II Is thought he has fnfr.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
Negro Youths Fight~-One at
Deaths Door, Other Jailed

break for his home. A large crowd
of witnesses to the affray Joined in a
pursuit and caught him before he had
gone very far. He was turned over TO
Deputy John F. Bennett and carried
to Jail.
The wounded negro is in precari-
Gus condition, one side Of HE body be
ing entirely paralyzed and II is stat
ed that he will probably die as re-
suit Of the injuries.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
MAY EXECUTE
MADERO IF HE
IS CAPTURED
(BV Associated PrcSS.l

San Antonio, March 21.-A decree
Dy General Orozco, declaring the Pres
ident Madero, of Mexico, is subject to
execution if captured, was brought
here and published by Melcher CANA
cho, the special envoy of Orozco, to
emilio Vasquez Gomez. Another de-
cree warns Americans that contracts
they make with the Madero govern
ment will be void if the present revo-
luton triumphs. Both DEGREES are
dated chihuahua, March 18th.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
The MARKETS.

New Orleans, March 21.-Cotton 8
to 8 points down.
Chicago, March 21.-Wheat steady;
eight to half cents higher. Provisions
two and half to five cents higher.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
A,,crIoN SALE NOTICE.

Within legal hours Saturday. in
s.on, Of tbe Court House, I will sell to
tho HIGHEST bidder, for cash, a nice
gentle mare. w. d WV
.t,,,,. e. fri
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
9ANOITS ARE APPARENTLY NO
NEARER ARREST OR DEATH
THAN WEEK AGO.
HlLLSVILLE EXCITED over
NOTICE POSTED BY ALIENS
report That Notice Was Posted Be-
size Governors Procomotion-"You
Can Get Us Maybe, But We Will
Get You First It Read.
(By associated PreSs.1

tiillsyille, Va, March 21.-Sidna AL
len IN his gang are today apparently
10 @"arer capture than they were a
"teh a4o when they rode back to the
mountains after almost blotting out
the circuit court of Carol county. The
towns is excited over a report that the
Aliens or sympathizers rode within
three miles of Hillsville last night and
posted notice besides the Governors
proclamation offering a reward for the
clansmen The notice reads, I'VE
have plenty of arms and bullets. We
know how to use them. Hillsville is
an unhealthy place for strangers to
visit Remember this, you can get
as in the end maybe, but we will get
you first
Law So Far Powerless.
Hillsyille, Va, March 2l.-With the
search for the Allen gang fruitless on
the eve of the seventh day since the
courthouse tragedy it seems probable
hat the death list soon may be in
creased to six Andrew p. Hewlett,
who was shot in the back, is not eX-
pected to live. He was wounded while
trying to protect his wife from the
shower of lead which killed the Judge,
prosecutor sheriff, wounded several
others and set the countryside into
such state of excitement as it had
never known The ball cut through
the body. coming out above the chest
Ii Is believed that there are a doz-
pr of the Nlcus and their henchmen
in tla band somewhere i'm the noun
tain Businesses hereabonts and many
or the mem i'm the posses. which train
ei detectives are leading are noun
raineers accustomed TO the country
and TO mountain sNrmishiug.
The law of Carroll county has thus
fa, bocr poverIess to relieve the situ-
alton. hut the detectives and their
followers are not dishcartened. If
busbwhacking and guerilla warfare
.re hronqbt IN plav as now seems in
ovitab,a tbe Aliens will meet their
full matches in cunning courage anu
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-21
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THE WEATHER. .

= Rain and colder tonight; cold !:
= wave in north and central por- :
= ton. Friday probably fair; cold I
= er in south portion. I
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-09-06

Montpelier, W., Sept. 4.-For the
first time in 10 years the Republican
majority has been wiped out, and the
newly born Progressive party has
been responsible for II. As the mat
ter stands, no candidate for the Office
Of governor Of the state has suffi.
c!ent number of votes to insure his
election. However, the indications
IRE that the legislature will be strong
enough Republican to insure the elec-
ton by that body Of Allen NJ. Fletch-
er Of Cavendlsh to the Office Of gov
ernor.
For years II has been said that as
goes Vermont, 80 goes the country.
Using this adage and the result Of
the vote in Vermont. defeat is pre-
dicted for the Republicans in the
November elections.
Progressives Elated.
The leaders Of the Progressive
movement throughout the state are
elated with the result. Some of them
were rash enough to announce that
the Rev. Frazer Metzger of Randolph
had been elected as governor. How
ever they later tempered their state
ments and merely said that their
GUS fight.
The Democrats feel somewhat elat.
ed. for they too show an In creased
vote. though not enough to elect Har-
Ian B. Howe Of st. Johnsbury, their
candidate.
Vermont has had a surprise the
like of which they have not experi-
eced in some years. Since time i'm
memorial the state has gone solidly
for the Republican party by majori-
ties ranging from $4,000 to 10000.
The day was rainy and anything
hut conducive to voting. However,
the rock.ribbed party voters went to
the polls in all manner of convey
ances. In some towns they have
gone for Republican candidates for
years. There was an overturning that
surprised the most ardent of the Pro
sressives. The old line Republicans
had conceded them votes, and plenty
Of them. too, but they did not antici-
pate that they would make the in
roads to the party vote that they did.
Nearly complete returns from all of
Vermont's counties show the follow
ing vote: Fletcher, Republican. 49,
730; Howe, Democrat, 1929; Metz
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-09-06
Woman Suffrape IS
Defeated.
SMALL VOTE IS POLLED
Liquor License Goes Through
with a WhIrl
LABOR AMENDMENTS POPULAR
New institutional Is One Of the
mostProgress So Far Adopt
ed II United States. Women
Announce That Fight For Votes
{. will Continue.

Columbus. O., Sept. with only
about 60 per cent Of the states vote
cavt, Ohio adopted all Of the amend.
ments to the constitution with the ex-
osption of the woman's suffrage pro-
posal. All Of the cities rolled up sub
stantial majorities against the suf-
frage amendment and the majority OF
rural precincts also registered objec.
tiOn to equal franchise.
OF the labor amendments, all OF
which carried with good majorities.
No. 10, providing for the passage Of
laws establishing minimum wage
ard fixing and regulating the hours Of
labor, is leading next to No. rs, pro-
viding for compulsory primaries. Pro
posal No. 6. providing for the initia.
tive and referendum was among the
leaders. Late returns also show the
home rule amendment proposal ex-
trenely popular In the cities as was
license.
Returns were received at the sec.
retary of states Office on only nine
Of what were considered the most
important lrccosals. but the belief
was expressed that the vote on the
other proposals would run about the
same as on the nine which carried.
Complete returns on all probably will
not be known for "a hours.
Counties in the southern part Of
the state show a larger vote against
the proposals than those Of the
northern and central sections, but it
is not believed the vote will be large
enough to defeat any Of the propo.
sails other than that of equal suffrage.
The initiative and referendum Ia
the first proposal to become effective.
1t will become operative Oct. l. The
other prone sails will become operative
Jan. l. 1913. excepting No. 2s, ere.
ating the office of superintendent OF
public instruction to replace the
state commissioner Of common
schools, which goes into effect the
second Monday in July, 1913. and No.
30. which becomes effective Nov. 16,
1912. The liquor license will carry
by about two to one.
Though the proposals have been
ratified by big majorities, 1t 10 prob:
able there will be an attempt to
have the election declared null and
void by those advocating the defeat
of certain proposals. The question
which will be raised is whether the
ratification should have been made
at q general election instead OF q
special election. The supreme court
probably will be asked to pass upon
the question.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-09-06

Washington. Sept. 4.-Reports from
London to the effect that the British
foreign Office officially denied having
decided to demand arbitration Of the
Panama canal controversy confirmed
the suspicion Of state department Of
ficials that statements published here
TO that effect were not well founded
on facts. The United States govern.
ment has received not one word from
Great Britain indicating that that
government has arrived at decision
as to its course In the Panama
matter.
The attitude Of Great Britain In
one respect is causing a great deal Of
perplexity here. Astonishment Is
general In Official quarters At the
campaign Of abuse of the president,
the government, the congress and the
people Of the United States which is
being pursued by the British press,
though such abuse is clearly based