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ALTHEIMER LADY
 DIED LAST NIGHT
Mrs. Eliza Garrett Succumbs to Long IllEess-Was a Resident of This
 Section For Many Years.

Althei:ner, July 31.-(SpeciaD-Mrs. Eliza Garrett, wife of Henry Garrett. died at her home here tonight at 8:45 o'clock. She had been ill for over a year and her death was not unex- pected. Mrs. Garrett was about 30 years old and has been resident of Altheimer and vicinity for a long term of years. She was a most es- timable woman, strong church mem Der and before her illness was noted for her many acts of charity.
 She is survived by her husband. Henry D. Garrett, four sons, Lloyd, R. D., Stephen and Toby Garrett and one daughter, Miss May Garrett, all of this place. The funeral arrangements have not been made but the body will probably be buried tomorrow after noon at the cemetery near here.
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o'clock. At this session it is planned to appoint specia! committee to in- yestigate the police department be- cause of the sensational disclosures in the Rosenthal case,
 Jack Rose, Henry Vallon and Brid- gy Webber today asked to be trans ferred from the Tombs to the West Side prison. They allege that they are not even allowed to sleep in their cells in the Tombs for as soon as they lay down q voice would come from some of the other prisoners.
 "Webber, did you confess. You'll be shot. Sometimes the remark would be addressed to Rose or to Vallon. The prisoners feal ed they would be killed while in the Tombs and accordingly were transferred.
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EAR. SALE

40 h. D. Overland 3-passenger Auto. mobile, good condition, two tircs practically new, other two in fair condition. The car originally came two-seated but traded real seat Tor ramble seat. New Magnetic and coils. Cost $1,50O.OO. VIII .seii for only $4O8.O0. Reasons for sell. ing have n 5 passenger Maxweii anu have no use. for Overland. Excep' tional- opportunity for immediate sale. Apply Jno. B. Speers' Citizess ne e. Banks s 1-2o ot.
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GOVERNOR WILSON
 GOES ON RECORD Favors Gradual Downward Revision of the Tariff
 '.@3As Remedy. HOLDS A CONFER ERENCE With William (. Redfield, of Brook Iyn, the Great Authority '2 On the Tariff.
HOLDS A CONFERENCE

Sea Gift, N. J.. July Ex-Governor Wilson placed himself on record to- night as favorng a gradual down. ward revision of the tariff as means of reducing the high cost of living.
 It was after he had long confer ence with Representative William C. Redfield, of Brooklyn, who is known as the great authority on the tariff and an advocate of gradual reduction, that the governor made his statement, entirely agree with MT. Redfield S views on this point. When MT. Red field had left, the Governor was ask ed:
 DO you agree with Representative Redfield's plan of reducing the tariff by gradual process?'
 h'sI think we all agree on that point" said the governor. My speeches will show that I have en- tertained this view right along"
 The tariff will occupy the better part of Governor Wilson's speech of acceptance
 Ollie James is expected here tomor- row to go over the arrang ements for the notification ceremonies on Au- gust z. James has invited twenty three governors to be present. A grandstand will be erected on the lawn in front of the little White House for the celebration. William G. McAdoo, vice chairman of the campaign committee, was with the governor for a short time. MT. McAdoo is summering near here and motors OVar ffeQuentfV
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with them in any way by the evil dence.
 Attorneys for the prosecution ad- init thelr case would have been gone if the court had barred these eters. They cla m that the letters complete the chain of circumstantial evidence against Mrs. Grace.
 Mrs. Grace expects to become a mother before lorg and the defense hopes to get this fact before the jury.
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New York, July 31.--Regardng a suggestion that if he really wishes to "emancipate" the people, he should
 sell his possessions and distribute them among the poor, James Graham Phelps Stokes, millionaire socialist candidate for Mayor of Stamford, Conn.,, declared "I would gladly do that very thing if there was the re- mctest chance that such course would result in more emancipation than the course I am put isuing. Aims giving on a large scale has gone on
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essments Are Made An hlly in District and I'm brovements Included.
AL ESTATE BOOM
of Has Been Sold in CraW.
 Ed County Since Free Bridge
 |Was Built Than for , Years.
(Rv MEYER SOUMSON)

(By MEYER SODMSON)
 Iii Smith, Ark, July 31-For the 1t of the anti-Free' Bridge peo- |t home, and they have dwindled now to a small number, 1 made |rsonal investigation today into lax books of the Fort Smith Dis kaown as Upper Township, and |into the tax books that include property holdings of taxpayers rawford County. 1 wanted to fy myself as well as furnish
 acurae guras regarding the that is being paid for the Free ke in this district. The figures Re books even surprised me, and well known that 1 am one of original Free Bridge men in Jef- In.
 |e investigation revealed the fact |the property owners in the Fort |h, or Upper Township. and Craw- |County District, are paying and |continue to pay each succeeding a smaller tax than each previous This reduction has already
 accomplished notwithstanding bet that ;here is no revenue from Free Bridge as yet. But there Ding to be. The Iron Mountain load is already extending it's Is to the Free Bridge and will he structure as soon as it's pre-
 contract with the Frisco ex- e assessments are made annual
 the Free Bridge assessors and ! the arrangement that has been Jed by the Commission, the inn ments that are being made
 day, are listed in the assess
 -eacd~ succeeding year.
 es 1t will be seen that those who benefited by the Free Bridge. Pade to bear the burden of the Bridge expenditures. Since the
 Bridge has been completed a ificent white stone building has
 erected at Garrison avenue and lon avenue. This year the as rs included this building ;n it's sment of Fort Smith real es-
 and Friedman & Mincer, who Pved the property at cost of go, declare that they are willing " the additional tax for the in-
 ir2m it justif es the additional lon. One large property owner Prt smith, in 1911, on an assess luaiioa of $l35.0O0 paid a bridge pl $.24.72 In 1912 this same ffty owner, on the same valua- paid s2"3 32. Probably some of pecpse cannot understand why reduction is beng made and es- ny when there is no revenue
 the Free Bridge. The annual sment, including the increased llons of improved property in
 smith and ether parts of the |cl, $ responsible for this de- |e. It results in the man who IS prosperity paying for his pro
 and at the same time the gen. taxes are reduced. The property
 who paid $224.72 estimated his ;ax at $1.75 per thousand the year and $1.60 the second year. oid me that he expected to pay
 $l.40 the third year.
 smith is n what is known as
 Township, and the city was Eded in the Free Bridge District st Crawford County. The other
 CT Sebastian County, with the p!lon Of several small townships
 as Fort Smith, are eliminated
 the district. All of Crawford N, however. is in the district. oml'h psys bridge tax in pro- ua to that of the people of 'Ed County, according to as- valuation at the time the dis was formed.
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for thousands of years, and doubtless with benefit to individual almsgiv- CTS and to some recipients, yet as large proportion of the people are in as deep poverty as ever before We Socialists find it very much more Ia tional to use the means at our dis posal to help break down the pres ent unjust system and to help rear In its stead ar industrial Democracy in which every worker shall be assured of the enjoyment of as much wealth as he cares ito produce
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FOR SALE CHEAP

; One bali. block of ground, with modern cottage on Chestnut and 18th
 street. Apply to Mrs. Essie Wilson
 Froug's Department Store. 7-15-6t
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Mr. and Mrs. w. K. Coleman and children will leave today Tor Mt. Nebo where Mrs. Coleman ana the children will spend month MT Coleman will return in a few days.
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New York, July 31,-"Dago' Frank Cirofici, one of the gangsters arrest ed as involved in the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal on the night of July 15, this afternoon gave what is reported to be compile. e confession to District Attorney Whit man. This confession, it is under stood, corroborates the statement of Webber, Vallon and Rose, not only in regard to the killing of Rosenthal but also ill regard to the extent and dis trlhution of gambling house graft.
 Sam Schepps, gambler, who also paid tribute to the system, sent word to the District A torney today that he will corroborate the statements of the men who have confessed provided inn muniy is guaranteed him.. The Dis trict Attorney replied that if Schepps was not involved in the ac ual kill- ing of Rosenthal he would be protect cd in case he turned states evidence. [ The money collected by Police lieutenant Charles A. Becker, now under arrest. charged with the mur- der of Rosenthal, seems to have been only a small part Of the police graft Evidence which came the prosecu- tor from other sources shows that in addition to the $4,500,000 paid by gamblers in Greater New York he great sum of approximately $1,00O,OOO,O 900 a year found it's way in official hands from the Raines law hotels which dot the city.
 The vast sum taken from he mean est sort of crime was pooled with the graft returned from the gambling houses and the District Attorney is busy with the list of witnesses who can and will furnish information con cerning he regular traffic that was made by the police on crime as charg- cd by Rosenthal just before he was assassinated.
 Police Lieutenant Becker, now in a cell for the murder or .iosenthal, will have to pay the extreme penalty of the law for murder in the first de- gree if he is guilty of taat offense, ac- cording to a prosecu ing statement made today by District Attorney Whit man. The announcement followed the report that Becker might seek to save himself by making a full con- fession of the details of police graft in New York. District A torney Whit man said that Becker could not hope to secure immunity in any, certain manner because murder is much more serious crime than glaftins.. Mir. Whitman feels that ne already has sufficient evidence to convict Becker
 Surrendering to the command O. Alderman Henry H. Curran and six teen o-her aldermen. Mayor Gaynor today called a special meeting of the aldermanic board to be held in the city hall next Monday afternoon at 2
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COILS TIGHTEN
 AROUND BECKER Accused New York Police. Official Target For More
 Confessions. GETS NO IMMUNITY
District Att0lHey Whitman Says Mur. der is Foo Serious t0 He
 Overlooked.

New York, July 3t.-Declaring on oath that Lieutenant Charles A. Beck CT of the New York police depart ment gave the order with his own lips to kill Gambler Herman Rosenthal, Jack Rose and ''Bridgy' Webber, from their cells in the West Side po- lice station today made public the en- tire story of the killing They told how an order was given by Police Lieutenant Becker to kill Rosenthal ten days before the assassination was finally accomplished. They told how this plot was frustrated by the fear ot gun men hired to do the job that they were being followed by detec- lives and they declared that the briEe paid for the murder of the "squeal- ing gambler was paltry $1,O00. Rose and Webber, free from the fear of death which overhung them in court and in the Tombs, ,oid the story
 which for dramatic intensity excelled any confession eyec made to the au- thciities in New York They told a story which may send Lieutenant Becker to the electric chair. When they had finished they made oaths that it was true.
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George Holderness went to Fordyce yesterday afternoon Nor a visit with relatives.
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Continued on PaGe Elsht.l
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-07-19
BIG COAL CONTRACT.

1t is rumored on what Is consider
ed pretty good authority that the
Consolidation Coal & Coke Co. haE
made contract with the G and O.
railway whereby the road agress .
carry the output of the coal COR
pany's mines. no matter how great
that output may be. According =
this contract the @. and o. win
have to move from jenkins from
zoo to 500 or more cars OF coal
daily. This means many things, a.
mong them a largely increased roll
ing stock, bigger locomotives and
improved roadbed. There is said to
be at this time large amount Of
coal awaiting transportation. 1t -
thought by some that the road from
Elkhorn City to Jenkins will be
ready for business by September
next, others make the date much
later.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-07-19
PAINTsvILLE WOMAN DEAD.

Mrs Edna Preston, wife Sf L.
F. Preston. Jr., of Paintsville, died
at Riyerview hospital on Friday af-
ternoon last. The body was taken
to her former home the following
morning for interment. Mrs. Pres
ton had been sick of puerperal
peritonitis several days and was
brought here in the hope that some
thing might be done to save her
life. but the disease had progressed
too far to hope for recovery. Mrs.
Preston was 33 and was the mother
OF several children. During her ill
ness at the hospital she was the
recipient of much kindness from
our good people. and for this the
bereaved husband desires through
this paper to express his heartfelt
thanks.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-07-19
PIPE line ASSURED.
Contract Closed With Cumberland PiDs
Line Co.. Work to Begin at Once.

Mr.. Tolles, of Brooklyn, N. r.,
and Mf. Bahan. of Somerset, KY,
President and Vice President of the
Cumberland Pipe Line Co., were IN
Louisa this week. While sic they
signed a contract to build a pipe
line from Busseyyille to Louisa %
carry the product of this oil field
to market. The work of construction
is to begin as soon as the pipe 10
on the ground, and shipment Of
the pipe will be made at once. A
large storage tank, sufficient to hold
the product of the wells in the
Busseyville field during the laying
of the pipe line, win be immediate
ly placed on the ground.
The Burgess-Garred oil well Of
Busseyville flowed last week. The
owners of the well are consequently
iubilant.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-07-19
NO BONES BROKEN.

Four young ladies, two of this city
and two visitors. all piled into one
buggy Wednesday and took a drive
to the country. Everything went
smoothly for awhile. but on their
return they had afalling out. Com
ing down the town hill the driver
got things mixed and pulled the
wrong string. Old Dobbin respond
ed to the call and meandered down
the hillside, upsetting the vehicle
and spilling the occupants all over
the grass. Considerable assistance
was required to put matters to
rights. No one was much hurt, but
the horse is still wondering why
his young friend turned him out
Of the regular road.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-07-19
SMALL BLAZE.

The alarm of fire about noon on
Monday last was caused by the
partial burning OF the wash house
in the rear of the property on Main
street occupied by H. c. Sullivan.
A man who had been taking honey
from some beehives on the prem
ises had used some punches of
lighted rags in his work and had
thrown the rags into the wash
house, supposing they were not
burning. Some time afterwards a
servant had occasion to open the
door of the building and found the
interior all ablaze. She gave the
alarm and the 'neighbors and the
fire department extinguished the
fire. but not until the building was
practically ruined. Mrs. Sullivan
lost a large quantity of canned
fruit, jellies and the like, repre-
senting the expenditure of much
material and physical endeavor. The
blaze was small one, but its
possibilities were large. The wash
house was only few feet from
the residence. iare two-stor.i.
frame. and just across a narrow al
ley are a number of frame resi-
dences and business houses ending
only with the fire wall of the Pierce
building. 1t happened that the
water supply was low, and the loss
would have been very great.
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SCHOLARLY ADDRESS.
Prof. 7. J. Coates Speaks TO Large
Audience in lie. Church South.

There was no diving after the un
fathomable. no soaring for the in
finite by Prof. Coates in his ad
mirable bit OF entertainment pre-
sented TO pleased and perspirine
audience at the NJ. E.. Church
South on Tuesday night. In his
characteristic way he made him.
self at home with every man and
woman in the assembly, in doors
and out-for many stood on the
sidewalk and heard every word OF
his lecture. and when he had flu
ished the regret that he had stop
ped too soon was general. Prof.
Coates said he had not decided
what to talk about until he saw
his crowd III his subject was de-
cided by the appearance of the au-
dience 1t shows that the speaker is
something of a mind reader. for
what he offered them was precisely
what they wanted. 1t would be
somewhat difficult TO name this
offspring OF Prof. Coates exhuber-
ant fancy. He took up some books
and poems and some songs and
discussed them in a very original
and attractive way, endeavoring,
successfully, too, to determine
wherein lay the sentiment that APP
2ealed to the feelings, the emo
tions. OF the reader and the hear-
er. To help in the analysis Prof.
Coates quoted from Burns, Stanton,
Riley, Twain, Stephen c. Foster,
Allen. Dante and possibly some 9TH
ers. This wide and diversified range
afforded his hearers glimpses into
a field Of literature not often per
mitted in the very brief time oc-
cupied on the occasion under con-
sideration. His analysis OF the ac-
ton and the sentiment in Fosters
My Old Kentucky Home" was de-
cidedly original and interesting.
bringing to light as II did many
things hitherto unknown to most Of
those present. For instance, the
old home itself. as described by
the speaker is entirely different
from the one usually brought to
The minds eye by the sweet old |
song, Weep No More, My Lady
who of us had before last Tues
lay evening any just conception OF
he true meaning Of those tender
words? The song may not be very
much for music, but the sentiment
8 pure and sweet and has received
lew beauty by the exposition made
" Prof Coates.
The encouragement given by the
olored "Auntie" OF the ante-bellum
lays to her diffident lover--when
he had put on her dry rock
night have helped some backward
achelor present to ask the hteful
uestion, but Prof. Coates figura-
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victs.
Convicts Are Teachers.

q 3
r. L. Thompson, guard who wa
formerly a school teacher. is the
Superintendent of the school, ani
the teachers. numbering about II.
are convicts some OF them highly
educated men.
An unusual case in the peniten-
tiary school here is that OF w. H
Hardwick, OF Kanawha-co.. who il
serving a life sentence. Hardwick.
though Sc years of age, was unable.
until few months ago. to recife
the alphabet. Within the last year
he began attendance at the prison
school and he is progressing at =
remarkable rate despite his advanc-
ed age.-Cincinnat Post.
This man Jordan was born in
this county, where he has numer-
GUS highly respectable relatives n
was through no fault of theirs that
he went wrong when young, anG
that he was imprisoned casts 10
reproach on their good name. The
NEWS publishes the foregoing be-
cause it will be read by his people
who were sorry Jordan had to be
punished for his misdoings. and
they will be glad to know of the
great reformation that has been
wrought. and that he has been
liberated to begin anew the battle
of life.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-07-19
ACCIDENTAL POISONING.

A near tragedy was narrowly
ayerted Saturday evening. Mrs. Will
Auxier and Mrs. Smith made some
ice cream to sell for the benefit OF
the church. The ladies were be-
Ing well patronized. when one OF
the children began to get sick. who
had eaten of the cream and twenty
five or thirty were poisoned, some
of the smaller ones growing violent
ly i'll, Physicians were called and
soon had the cases all under con-
troll. 'Tis thought that the zinc
dipper used caused the trouble
Pike. cor. Ashland Independent
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-07-19

lively threw cold water ON any new
formed resolutions by relating the
,direful fate Of Jacob Brown. THE
NEWS wants TO say here that it
has often wondered where Henri,
Stanton found the prototype of the
wife in Jacob Brown" Surely not
from Mrs. Stanton, for she was one
of the most lovely and lovable Of
her sex.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-07-19
west VIRGINIA CONVENTION
Democrats Nominated Thompson fol
Governor by Acclamaton.

Huntington, w. Va, July 17.-Ir
the Democratic State convention, in
session here today, these three
facts stood out clearly:
The Democracy of West Virginia
is unanimous in support OF Wood
row Wilson for President and Will
liam r. Thompson, of Huntington,
for Governor. The .latter's nomina-
tion by reclamation last night was
an unusual example of unanimity
John T. MoGraw, the original VIII.
son boomer, is without serious rival
for the leadership OF the party in
the State.
Former Governor William A. Mac
Corkle's opposition at the Baltimore
convention to Bryan's resolution de-
nouncing the methods of Morgan,
Belmont and Ryan was unpopular
with the rank and file OF the party.
An ovation lasting eight minutes
followed the declaration of John II.
Holt, of Huntington, temporary
Chairman. that the world had pro
duced two great commoners, Will
lam Pitt and William Bryan.
New State Committed.
The new State committee. by dis
tricts, is made up as follows: :.
First District, j. d. Handian; Sec
ond, John B. Slippner; Third, Joe
Murphy; Fourth. J. II. Depew;
Fifth. George l. Neal; Sixth, wynd-
ham Stakes; Seventh, w. Ii. Nc
iinnis; Eight, R. S. Carry Ninth,
Charles w. osenton: Tenth, Sam
nel Hayes; Eleventh, G. L. Shaver;
Twelfth. J. Carl Vance; Thirteenth.'
Lon W. BARTLETT; Fourteenth, R. Al
welch; Fifteenth, Gray silver.
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Distressing Occurrences.


Whitesburg. KY, July 15.-The
S-year-old son Of Daughtery Adams,
Jr.. Lower Rockhouse Creek farm
err was sent to the mountain to
see about hens nest HIS fail
ure to arrive on time caused his
mother to send younger brother
after him. When the younger broth
er failed to return the mother
went to investigate.
She found big rattlesnake COLI
ed In the nest and her two little
boys lying dead. After desperate
effort she succeeded In killing the
reptile. Returning to the home, she
found her little s-year-old boy
drowned in the washtub.
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THE SICK.

Mrs. Ella Hayes, who has q bad
attack of asthma, is somewhat bet
ter and able to sit up.
Nick Mcguire, at the hospital, Is
a little improved.
Mrs. Roy Wright, who was re-
Gently operated upon for append
citis. is much Improved. She Is al
SO at the hospital.
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regarding the situation. He said II
the fugitive is offering armed re-
sistance to the officers the militia
may continue in service, but they
cannot be used for a search. He
said it would be cheaper for the
State to offer reward than 70
keep the soldiers on duty.