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The Washington times., 1912-09-24

The strain Of facing world series test has begun
to weigh heavily Ozark JEFF Tesreau Just at pres
ent the big bear only weighs 23s eats four
meals day and only sleep eleven hours II $4,000
people get after him in tight game he may get all
worked and hustered enough to step over and get
a drink Of water-provided he's thirsty at tho time
being. In temperament he is nervous and excitable-
something like a cross between the Pyramids and the
Sphinx.
When a guy can hunt bears without a gun back In
his native mountains world series must be about as
nerve rackng as a head-on clash between brace OF
eminent croQuet players.
The National Commish will gather this week and
tear of one Of the greatest little mathematical problems
of the age They will distribute $4,000 seats in New
York among 10000 spectators or perform the daring
feat of dividing $4,000 by 100000 and obtaining one as
the result II can't be did? Tut-tut-you've never
lived in New York Certain policemen there have saved
$780, 900 year on a $4,000 salary.
The Polo Grounds now seat n 500 people. In
Roston they can seat 000 When the coin is tossed
for first pick Of battleeds we give you one guess az
The Washington times., 1912-09-24

We are still in a deep quandary over selection of
an expert to cover the big show for esteemed
readers. We find ourselves poised midway between a
ball player, who can't write, and great writer
who a ball game. Both cards highly at
ractive. but have gnawing fear that at the finish
may be forced to fall back upon some who is
only a baseball reportey-a poor boob who only
write about what happens andswho is under the heavy
disadvantage Of knowing what he is writing about.
All lamps are now focused upon J. Wood and his
actions in the wake OF his near-record Joes two
ilustrious Observation-Disclosures and Johnson-have
drawn a large pear-shaped time of 1t since debutting
beneath the great white spotlight but Joe have
pulled up in time It will be interesting. anyway. to
observe how he goes to II now that his mad dash 1s
over II the same deadly spell assails the Red Sox
star we suggest that he and Marquard hook up In a
hattie of the Renowned Jnxes. The RUDE has been
mopne for three months now, and after his nineteen
mark is said to be willing to stop at one straight for
SPELL
The Washington times., 1912-09-24

to which seat Of will be chosen whoever cops the
winning Zip.
The Washington times., 1912-09-24

Indictment weather prevented much
progress OF football training at the
The Washington times., 1912-09-24

The Polo Grounds can now seat Al. 500 people In
BOSTON they can seat $4,000 When the coin Is tossed
Tor Arst nick of battleeds give you one guess
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
S35,0OO,OOO FOR
LEVEE BUILDING
LOWER MISSISSIPPI SHOULD HAVE
LARGER SHARE.
COMPLETE WORK IN 5 YEARS
Congressman Humphreys Flouts the Sug-
gestion That the Mississippi River
Commission Be Abolished.

Washington.-The river and harbor
committee of the house is preparing n
bill, which Chairman Sparkman hopes
to pass through the house before the
Christmas holidays. Congressman Rams
dell of Louisiana and Congressman Hum
phreys of Mississippi are going to insist
upon an increase in the amount-six mil
lions-which has been recommended by
the chief of engineers for the lower Mis-
sissippi and hope to have a declaration
interested in the bill committing the gov
eminent to the completion of the levees
within five years.
The government engineers estimate
that it will require about $4,000, 900 to
raise the whole levee line to a grade and
section strong enough to withstand a
flood equal to the one which passed down
the river last spring. Heretofore the
levee districts have been contributing
about 50 for every 81 appropriated for
levees by the federal government, but
the congressman from the lower river
hope to induce congress hereafter to re-
verse that ratio and for the goTftment
to appropriate two dollars for etery one
raised by the various levee boards.
Mr.. Humphreys was asked what he
thought of the proposition which has
been made by certain interests on the
Mississippi river to have the Mississippi
river commission abolished and said:
"To abolish the Mississippi river COM
mission would not only be a serious
blunder, but would be nothing short of a
calamity to those who live behind the
levees on the lower Mississippi. If such
u proposition were seriously made it
would be most vigorously fought by
every congressman who understands any
thing about the question, and have
not the remotest doubt that such a sug-
g%estion would be overwhelmingly de-
feated."
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
FOUR GUNNER SENTENCED
None Gave Sign of Feelings as Sentence
Pronounced.

New York.-"Gyp the Blood"
Whitley Lewis" Lefty Louie" and
"Dago Frank" the gunner convicted of
the murder of Herman Rosenthal, were
sentenced by Justice Golf to die in the
electric chair at Sing Sing during the
week of January 6.
None of the condemned men gave any
visible sign of his feelings. Accompanied
by Sheriff Harburger aud twelve depu-
ties, the four were forced through a big,
silent crowd outside the criminal courts
building, thrust into tn prison van and
taken to the Grand .ntral station,
where they boarded a tram for Sing Sing.
There, with Charles Becker, former lieu
tenant of police, condemned as instigator
of the Rosenthal murder, they will await
execution.
The wives of Lefty Louie" and "Gyp
The Blood and a sister of Whitley"
Lewis were permitted to walk with their
relatives from the train to the prison.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

about six weeks, dating from the efforts
made in the joint political debate with
Bourke Cochran at Baltimore, late in
September. Physicians compelled him to
retire from the campaign Immediately
after that, and he returned to his Wash
ington home, where he died.
For over five years Senator Rayner
had been a sufferer from neuritis, the
attacks of which often made his work in
the senate arduous and painful.
His death creates a vacancy in the
senate that probably will be filled by a
Republican through appointment by Gov.
Goldsborough of Maryland. While the
legislature of that state is Democratic,
it does not meet this winter, and the Re-
publican governors appointment will hold
through the opening session of the next
congress.
Senator Rayner was one of the strik-
ing figures of the senate. He had been
a member of that body for almost eight
years and was one of its strongest de-
baters and a recognized authority on con-
stitutional law.
Before he entered the senate he had
attained a national reputation because of
his vigorous conduct of the late Admiral
Schley's case before the naval court of
inquiry that investigated the action OF
American officers in the battle with Ad-
miral Cervera's Spanish fleet.
Mr.. Rayner was a native of Baltimore
and was 62 years old.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
GOV, DIX PARDONS
ALBERT 7. PATRICK
WAS SENTENCED IN 1900 FOR MUIR.
DER OF MILLIONAIRE RICE.
WAS SERVING A LIFE TERM
Always Air Of Mystery in Case" Says
Gov. Dix-Patnck Has Made Re
markable Fight for Freedom

Albany, y. E.-Albcrt T. Patrick, who
is serving a lie sentence in Sing sing
prison for the murder Of William Marsh
Rice, an aged millionaire, in New York
City on september %, 1900, was par
doued By GOV. Dix.
Patrick, who was saved from the cleo
tric chair by the late Gov. Higgins in
December, 1906, has made a remarkable
fight for freedom. A lawyer by profess
sion, he protested when Gov. Higgins
committed the death sentence to life i'm
prisonment, declaring that the governor
had no legal right to cancel the original
sentence and impose a punishment OF life
imprisonment.
There has always been an air Of mys-
terry in this important case" Coy. Dix
said. Quoting from the minority opln-
ion of the court OF appeals, the atmos-
phcre that surrounded the defendant
showed that a fair and impartial trial
WAS scarcely possible.
1 bII0l IDhl MI IdlllNh ~ uN''bV
his energies to n complete vindication OF
his declared innocence.
During the past year ] have given
much consideration to this case and I'm
convinced that the defendant is entitled
to have a full pardon"
Patrick was charged with having
brought about the death Of MIR. Rice, not
by his own hand but through the agency
of Charles +. Jones, a valet employed by
Rice. II was principally upon the testi-
m0ny Of Jones, who confessed having adj
ministcred chloroform to Rice at the be-
hest of Patrick while Rice was asleep,
that Patrick was convicted. Jones es.
capped punishment and has long been able
to hide his identity from the public.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
KANSAS CROP LARGEST
State Has Never Before Produced So
Much Grain.

Topeka, kas.-kansas crops of wheat,
corn and oats this year are the largest
the state ever has produced, according
to a report of the state board of agri-
culture. The present wheat prospect 3
81 per cent on 1900 900 acres. The re-
port says;
"The combined value of Kansas wheat,
corn and oats this year is $170,7 49,, 500,
or about $4,000, 900 more than in 1911.
The next best record was in 1909, when
their value was $169, 262, 1923. This years
yields were in each instance considerably
in excess of those of 1909, but prices
were lower.
This year Kansas raised between a
fifth and Il fourth of all the flour wheat
produced in the United States. The yield
of wheat, Ss,Ss9,12S bushels, exceeds
1911 by 5000, 900 bushels. The average
yield per acre was 14.24 bushels.
This years corn yield, 1876, 0 ,3se
bushels, from n considerably diminished
acreage"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
0 VI FOR Ex-PRESIDENTS
Representative Burleson Would Pay
Them S17,5O0 Yearly.

Washington.-Representative Burleson
of Texas has a plan for taking care Of
ex-presidents that will in all probability
be put through this congress in a hurry
SO as to give an official reply to Andrew
C~arnegie's offer to pension them, an offer
which Burleson thinks abhorrent to every
r~ight-thinking American. He is going to
offer an amendment TO the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation bill
making former presidents life members
of the house Of representatives, with
right to introduce bills and take part in
the discussion, but not to vote, each to
have an annual salary of $t7,500.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Committees Wiped Out.

Washington.-When the extra session
OF congress is called next April not one
OF the Republicans now sitting on the
Judiciary committee of the house will be
in his sat. All of the present members
were defeated except Representative Nor
ris of Nebraska, who was elected a ser.
ator. The Republicans have Jared little
better as regards the ways and means
committee. Serene E, Payne of New
York and Joseph W. Fordney of Mich
igan are the only Republican members
of that committee who will return,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Woman StabS Man.

Paterson, n. J.-Wrcnching from the
hands OF her asSailant a ~stiletto with
which he had twice stabbed her, Mrs.
Laura Pigarello plunged the weapon
again and again into the neck Of Antonio
Querceto, killing him, according to the
woman's story told IN a hospital cot.
While he begged fer mercy, | drove the
point into his neck many times" said
she Then left him and walked home"
She SAID the man attacked her late a.
night in a lonely street and stabbed her
when she repulsed him.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
mark GRAVES OF
CONFEDERATE DEAD
HEADSTONES PLACED ON 22,4Ol
GRAVES IN LAST SIX YEARS.
WORK is COMPLETE
Arkansan Alone of Commission Appointed
in 1905 by Congress Lived to Re-
port Quest for Lasting Places
of Comrades.

Westinghouse far as ar earnest and
careful search by one of their W lead
ers on the field of BATTLE car assure,
every Confederate soldier and sailor who
died in a Northern prison and vas buried
nearby now lies beneath a headstons
or a monument of marble. Gen. James
H. Berry, ex-senator from Arkansas, the
only surviving member of the commission
entrusted by congress with this task,
has just reported the completion OF his
work to the secretary of war.
The suggestion that the national gov.
eminent mark these l~ong-neglected graves
came originally from the late President
Mckinley in the course of n OF his
speeches delivered in the South and took
form in an act of congress of March
9, 1905. This appropriated $20o,0oo for
marking the graves and created a com
mission to do the work. In the past six
years two commissioners, ex-Representa.
tive Elliott of South Carolina and Gov.
Oates of Alabama, have passed away
and it has remained for Gen. Berry, one
of the few living Confederate generals,
to carry out the work.
Gen. Berry's report will be transmitted
to congress. 1t shows that the general
found and marked by headstones and
tablets the bodies of 22,401 Confederate
dead, including all positively known to
fall within the terms of the act. In
every case where it was possible each
of these graves was marked with a white
marble headstone, similar to those placed
over the graves of the Confederate sec
ton of the Arlington national cemetery.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
EQUAL Standard of Morality

Philadelphia.-What is declared bv Of
fcers and delegates to be one of the most
successful conventions ever held by the
National American Woman's S~uffrage
Association came to an end here after the
adoption of resolutions on several i'm
portant subjects. The resolutions de-
n.and az equal standard of morality for
man and woman; commend the govern.
meht Tor its efforts to end commercial
lied vice, and favor arbitration among
nations ito the end that wars might be
prevented"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
BABY IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Niece Of President-e elect Will Live With
Wilson Family.

Washington.-When Gov. Wilson be-
comes president of the United States
the halls of the White House, for the
first time in fifteen years, will resound
with the prattle of an administration
baby" The baby is 16 months old, Jose
phine, daughter of Mrs. Perrin Cothraa,
of Raleigh, N. G., II f~avorite niece Of
the next president. Gov. and Mrs. Will
son are said to have invited Mrs. Cothran
to make her home in the White House
during the four years from March 4 next.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
JAPS AFTER COALING STATION
Secure Options on Land in Honolulu, Is
the Report.

Neutrality-suspicious. that the Jap
anese steamship line, Togo Kisenkashal,
in securing options on land in Honolulu
for the erection of a coaling plant of
1000 tons capacity are reproduced in
a government report here without com
ment by government officials.
The Lodge resolution, passed by the
last congress, declared against the ac-
QUESTION of any coaling stations in
America by corporations controlled by
foreign powers, but no definition was
made as to whether it applied to outly-
ing possessions of the United States. 1t
is understood the state department is
watching the Honolulu situation.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Poor Girl,

How long have you been marriedfS
TT will DO six months next Thurs,
day"
"And do you still regard your hus'
band az the most wonderful man wha
yer was born?"
Then the poor girl broke down, says
the San Francisco Star, and sobbed
p~iteously. When she could trust her
self to speak again she said:
mo. Charles has disappointed me
terribly. I'm afraid l have wre
wrecked by li-life. Last night when ]
asked him to get up and LEI II there
wasn't a burglar in our room hs
bumped his nos against the edge Of,
the open door and he said three sim
ply awful words just az If they came
natural to him"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Down and Cutters Aided.

New York.-A weeks celebration OF
thirty-three years work in helping
"down and outers' to the Sup and in
ranks" was begun by the Bowery Mis-.
sion with song, prayer, anniversary ser.
mon, "reminiscences and much feasting.
The latter, in which hundreds shared,
was at the expense OF Mother" Sarah
Bird and Frederick Townsend Martin
and it marks the reopening this week of
the winter bread line, at which a thou.
sand cold and empty stomachs are
warmed and filled every midnight with
hot coffee and rolls.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

Nearly all the emeralds mined to-
day come from Colombia. And, In
spite of the supposed higher value OF
diamonds, the emerald Ia the most
precious of gems. Carat for carat, .
fawless emerald would bring perhaps
three times the price Of q fawless dia
mond in the jewelry market. India.
the storehouse Of precieu 10 stones. 10
credited with producing the first en-
sralds. but the Oriental emerald 10
not Identical with the modern gem. a.
1t Is q variety Of the ruby. Of greer
color and extremely rare.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
HYDE Denies He Juggled Funds.

New York.-Charles H. Hyde took the
stand in his own behalf at his trial on
the charge of bribery and categorically
denied accusations that, as city chamber.
lain in 1910, he forced the Northern
Bank to lend the Carnegie Trust Com
pany a large sum of money by juggling
with city deposits, and that a specific
case of bribery had resulted from a con
yersation with Joseph G. Robin of the
Northern Bank on August 80, 1910. At
the time the alleged bribery converse
ton took place, Hyde asserted he was at
his suburban home on Long Island.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
FIRE, FAMINE AND FLOOD
Anarchy Also Adds Terror to Besieged
at Adrianople.

Mustapha Pasha, Turkcy.-Fire, fam.
me, flood and anarchy afflict the be-
sioged fortress of Adrianople, according
to reports brought here by fugitives from
that city, Those refugees who have man.
aged to escape through the lines of in
restmert, which are being drawn closer
every day around the Turkish strong
hold, declare that many buildings in the
vicinity of the selim mosque are on fire.
Other districts of the city are deeply in
undated with the waters of the rivers
Martha, Tunga and Arda, which have
overlooked their banks.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
GRAFT SKIN ON BABY

Los Angeles, Cal.-"Baby" George Har
rington, six-months-old son of Mrs. Char.
lotte Harrington, an actress, who lost
her life in the st. George Hotel, is be.
ing rushed Cast in an effort to saw it,
life.
The baby was so severely burned that
at first it was feared It would be neces.
sary to amputate Que leg, but it was de.
cided later to try skin grating. On the
same train with the child is the body OF
the mother.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
SENATOR RAYNER
CALLED BY DEATH
MARYLAND SENATOR SUCCUMBS
AFTER FIVE-YEAR ILLNESS.
SENATE EVENLY DIVIDED
Gov. Goldsborough Will Name Repub'
lican-Rayner's Death Sweeps
Away Democratic Majority
of One Vote in Senate.

Washington.-Isidor Rayner of Mary
land, one of the leading Democratic
members of the United States senate and
a man whose name was offered to the
Baltimore convention by William j.
Bryan as a suitable candidate for the
presidential nomination, died here at the
end of a lcng illness, resulting from con-
tinued attacks of neuritis.
His severe illness covered q period of
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

No ofense is meant to the automo-
bile, but the story OF "Dakotah Bub,"
who has walked $4,000 miles. and
was on his way to stay for the win
ter in balmy Porto Rico when he
was badly injured by an automobile,
recalls the tale OF the veteran who
had gone through 100 battles without
n scar and then came home and was
idck/ 10 death By . mule.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
sulting Himself.

The modern small boy Is painfully
cautious.
Would you like to come to our bon
Ore on the 9Th of November" one was
asked.
Back came an answer worthy OF 6
cabinet minister: well, II ! havenv
q bonfire of my own, and If my fathe1
doesn't take me to Belle Vue. and y
I'm not asked to a better bonfire, III
be ,awfully glad to come."-Manches
ter Guardian.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

lola, Kas,-The frat conviction under
the Kansas law which makes persistent
violations of the prohibitory liquor ac.
a felony was returned by a jury against
Mrs. Lulu Rosenberg, Under the terms
of the verdict Mrs. Rosenberg will b
sentenced to the penitentiary.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
ROBERT KNIGHT IS DEAD
He Was Largest Cotton Mill Owner II
World.

Providence, R. Robert knight,
owner of more cotton mills than any
other individual in the world. died at
his home in Elmwood aged SO.
With his brother, Benjamin B. Knight,
he took control of many of the mills op-
Grated by A. & W. Sprague, who failed
for $25, 900, 900 in 1878. Since his broth
er's death fifteen years ago, Robert
knight had come into control of twenty
two spinning, weaving and finishing es.
adjustments, employing $500 operatives
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

A German comes to bat with the
original idea Of sending missionaries
around the country to teach people
how to make lore. Any fellow who
will stand for a missionary butting ir
isn't In love.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
A BIt Candid.

First Tripper latter lengthy survey
of second ditto)-You as got q hugly
face, 'asn't you. mate?
Second Tripper-Cornt do numn
abaht It.
First Tripper-You might ave
stopped at 'ome.-Punch (London).
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

Fashion experts declare that, ere
long, women will discard rats. putfs,
and all, and make her hair as thin as
possible on the top, Thank goodness,
that means that the elongated hatpip
O. passing.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

A Boston man says n poem Is al
much the creation of the stomach az
the brain. One usually empties the
n Of ideas to fill the other with
food.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

Maxim declares that perfumes make
many persons Ill. and should be pro
hibited by law, Probably he'd have
the person using 1t pinched as a com
mon nuisance.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

A beauty doctor tells us to watch
shoulder blades and to make sure they
do lot protrude. But all Of us can't
spend our time at evening AFFAIR."
where decollete is in order.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
200 Bodies

Mexico City.-The bodies of two hun
dred persons killed in the earthquake
Tuesday have been recovered from the
ruins of the little town of Acambey,
in the northern part of the state of
Mexico.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

As good a way to get rich without
working AZ one can easily think Of Is
10 sit on our Turkish rug and wait
tor II to enhance In value.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

Christmas island. the original Treas
are island, has been sold; and now It
comes out that Its crop Ia copra. In
stead Of pirates. and skeletons, and
buried treasure.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
rhnt Is UnMnd.

Tommy-Pop. what is a free thin
@f
PoD-A free thinker, my son, Ii ans
mar who isn't married.-PhiladelpW
Record.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Miss Taft Tests Lock.

Colon, Panama.-One of the giant
gates OF the Gatun locks in the Panama
canal was tested for the first time, when
Miss Helen Taft put the electrS al ma.
chinery in operation and swung the gate
open.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

A Chinese newspaper that has been
published for 1900 years has suspend.
cd publication. Now we understand
where q lot Of those old jokes come
from.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
OmInoua.

81 like affectionate animals DoeS
this dog attach himself to people
easily?"
mot If they can run faster than he
can"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

A New York autopsy revealed the
subjects stomach near the thorax.
Evidently he wanted It where 1t would
get quick delivery.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

What IS the feminine OF boss"
asks an editor. That man isn't mar
lied