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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-17
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Broad street. New York;
July Is. 1918
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-17
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS

Wednesday, t6-TotaI sales for the cay ao'o'f ' WV
pare 2s95O sharesf for day in 1872
Total sales 49, inclusive 4oooI2o sna''
sharesfo samepe 1912
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26
LITTLE BROTHER KILLSK
HIS LITTLE SISTER
NIECE OF GOVERNOR JOE II. ROB.
INSON MET TRAGIC DEATH
AT LONOkE HOME.
Older Brother Had Been Hunting and
Children Played With Gun
On His Return.

Lonoke, Ark, Jan. 25.-May. the
lfour-year- daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Robinson, the former a
brother of Governor Joe T. Robinson,
was accidentally shot and killed at
the family home here today by her
little brother, Alvin, o years old. The
little girls head Was completely
blown from her shoulders.
Their brother, James, 16 years old,
had been hunting and when he re-
turned home he stood the shotgun in
a corner of the room. where the Rob-
inson children and the little daugh-
tiers of George Rule, Lonoke news
paper man, were playing. Alvin pick
ed up and gun and p1ay.ully pointed
it at his little sister. The gun was
discharged and the top of Little Mays
head was blown off.
Governor and Mrs. Robinson reach
ed here tonight from Little Rock tc
attend the funeral, which will be
held tomorrow.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26

eral reports from tle flood district
along the Ohio, Mississippi, Cumbef-
land and Wabash rivers were less ell
couraging today and ind Gated tina.
the highest stage of these rivers hal
not been reached. Con inued rains III
the northern section of the flood dis
tracts brought down huge volumes of
water which are threatening tie
levees and in many places breaking
through and damaging crops and caus-
ng great anxiety in many sections.
Rescue work continues al Mt. Yer
non, Ind, ShaWneetown, ILL.,, Ports
mouth, o., and other points in the
district.
A rescue party sent out today from
| Mr.. Vernon, Ind, returned with a
number of refugees and with tales af
hardships which many poor persons
had 20 undergo. A family Of five was
found marooned in the second story
of a dwelling, the mother about to
give b nth to child. Tie entire
family was in desperate circums ,ances
and in need of food and clothing.
Mount Carmel, Ill.,, reports that The
crest of the flood in the Wabash river
will probably be reached some time
tomorrow and that much lowland has
been overlooked and great damage
done to growing crops. Ridgway, III ,
reports that Che river in the ne gh-
borhood of Shawneetown, Ill.,, is still
causing great alarm and that many
are fleeing to higher ground.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26
Representative Miller Will
Present "Home Rule to
House Monday.
THE COMMISSIONERS
Mayor and Two Others to Have
Charge OF city Affairs
visions OF Act.

Representative S. A. Miller, of JEFF
ferson county. will on Monday intro
duce in the House an act to provide
for a commission form of govern
ment for the City of Pine Bluff and
it is generally predicted that the bill
Will pass, as many of our people are
in favor Of commission government.
The bill is patterned after the COM
mission form measure that was re-
Gently passed by Representative Os-
torne, OF Sebastian county, giving
Fort Smith a commits: ion from of gov
eminent, except that the Fort Smith
bill provides for five commissioners
instead Of three, as listed in the To-
cal measure.
The Pine Bluff commission shall be
composed of three members, including
the mayor or chairman of the board,
and two other commissioners to be
appointed by the governor. The COM
missioners shall hold their office for
two years, and thereafter the mayor
and other two commits sioners shall
be elected by the voters. and at said
election a city attorney. police judge
and city clerk are also to be chosen.
AS is customary, the candidates to
! be voted for are to be nominated at
primary election and the primary
election for such nominations shall
be held on the second Tuesday of the
month preceding the municipal cleo
ton for the offices to be filled at
such election. The judges at the
municipal election shall be the same
judges at the primary, which shall be
held at the same place so far as pos
sible and under the laws OF the
state, governing elections.
Any person desiring to become a
candidate for mayor or commissioner
shall, not less than ten days prior to
said primary election, file with the
city clerk a statement of such can
| didacy, duplicate of which state
menC Is Included IN the act 10 De
adopted. A petition of at least fifty
qualified voters of the city shall ac-
company the statement in each in
stance. No petition shall contain the
name of more than one candidate for
each office, and no voter may sign
more than one petition for each office
to be- voted for
Candidates May Withdraw.
Any proposed candidate may with
draw his name before the clerk shall
have certified the list of candidates
nominated. The candidates for may
or and commissioners shall be voted
for separately and designated on the,
official ballot as candidates for Com
missioner No. /, who shall be the
mayor or chairman, and No. and
No. 3, commissioners.
Any candidate declared defeated at
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26
been committed.

been committed.
Manning says he came here about
1.-Two year. and nalf ago from near
Ieola, Miss, where he says he killed
a negro named James Edwards in a
manner sim lar to the crimes commit
ted here. He has lived at various
cabins over the city, but has worked
little. He SAYS he worked for a
while at Dilley's foundry. Manning
wore a jumper and a pair of over
ais when arrested yesterday on the
Old Fish place, owned by Carlisle and
Malone, and they say that he has
been there. about two months.
AS soon as Manning made his
complete confess on Deputy Sheriff
Green went to the Fairchilds woman's
house and arrested her. She lives in
cottage on North Texas street, near
the rver. She at first denied any
knowledge of the murders and claim
ed that she did not know Manning.
w lCu size VAS COIllOulGu Win IilO
prisoner in the county Jail she con-
fessed. She sa d that she knew that
he did the killings, but denied that
she had received more than one dol
lar from Manning. She is being held
as an accessory after the fact.
Sheriff Brewster, fearing mob vio-
lence, took Manning to Little Rock
on an early morning ira II this morn
ing. He will place Manning in the
state penitentiary for safe keeplng.
He was accompanied by Deputy Sher-
ifs Green, Glover and G.. c. Brew
ster.
Upon his return, from Arkansas City
Judge Grace will be asked by Sheriff
| Brewster to call a extra sess on of
| the Grand Jury, that Manning may be
indicted and tried without delay. He
will be a fit subject for the new cleo
| trio chair that is to be installed at
the penitentiary at Little Rock.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26
BEULAH CREVASSE
HAS GIVEN AWAY
Mississippi 'Rushes Over
Four mississippi Counties
and Covers IS Miles.
LEVEE BOARD BLAMED
One Man il Drowned and Many Home.
Situation Along Ohio
Also Causes Alarm.
LEVEE BOARD BLAMED

Memphis, Tenn. Jan. 25.-One per
son was drowned gin the Bculah ere
vase according to telephone mes
sage received late ihis afternoon from
Benoit, Miss. The man was negro
living near the path OF the water.
His home was washed away and all
his fam ly but himself were saved.
The Gray and Virginia plan
tations were reported entirely under
water this afternoon.
The break in the levee occurred
his morning at 7:35 o'clock. The
sec. ion to be overflowed the same
what was flooded last spring and
the creyasse is II the same place.
According to engineers over million
acres of land will be inundated with
in the next SO hours. 1t is believed
that the submerged section eventually
will be 80 miles W lie and IS miles
long. The flood will cover parts Of
Bolivar Sunflower, Washington, Issa-
quena, sharkey. Yazoo and Warren
counties. Most of the water will be
over Boliver, Washington, Issaquena
and sharkey.
Hundreds of families, mostly ne
groes, are marooned, living in lofts
and temporary scaffolds erected from
drift timber.
Governor Brewer places the blame
for the crevasse on Major Saackleford,
chief engineer of the lower levee dis
trict.
He should have ditched the water
away from the danger point and d.
verified the threatened disaster, declar-
ed Governor Brewer. 1t is simply
a case of dilatory tactics by the en-
gine ering department of the NJ ssis-
sippi levee board. r..
The YaZoo and Mississippi
railroad will abandon service through
the flooded section.
1. is the bel eff of the authorities
that many heads of stock were drown
ed and much damage done 20 property
as result of the blood.
The water will cover all the lands
from the Mississippi to the foothills,
fifteen miles east. 1t will reach the
Yazoo river in a week and get back
into the NJ ssissippi river close to
Vicksburg, fully IS miles south of
Greenville.
Many negroes who went through
the experience of 1912 became panic
stricken when the levee broke. Many
in the fields quit work to save their
families and Their belongings.
The gap, engineer say, is now
nearly a thousand feet wide.
Fifteen hundred men, including con-
victs from one of the state farms
worked on the levee all last night.
1t was two feet higher than the water
and prospects were bright for pre-
venting the overflow. -
This morn ng shortly after the men
had breakfast about so feet of the
broke and in less than five minutes
lit had doubled in width and passed
beyond the control of the forces.
Government officials say it will be
impossible to check it and they have
put all Their energy on Filters and
Lake. Jefferson levees below.
| Conditions Alarming
St. Louis, Mo-, Jan. 25.-The gen.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26
WASHINGTON NEGRO
is GIVEN DEATH PENALTY

Washington, Jan. 25.-Nathaniel
Green, colored, who attacked AIDE
laide A. Grant, a white woman, on
Christmas night as she was passing a
dark areaway, was sentenced to
death today, following recommended
ton by the jury for an extreme pen
atty. The date set for the execution
is March 81, Good Friday. In pro-
nouncing sentence Justice Stafford
referred to the crime as worse than
murder. .
Mrs. Grant is the wife of an en-
ployee of the government service.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26
Shriff Brewster and Deputy
Sheriff Clint Green Make
An Important Capture.
HE KILLED THREE MEN
Negro Says He Murdered Bob Lut.
trell and Fred SOmH,ers, White,
and One Negro.

In a cool and cold blooded manner
and talking as if he had enjoyed his
brutal acts, Eugene Mann ng, a big
burly negro, with features more of a
chimpanzee than human being, last
nigh. confessed to numbering George
Luttrel and Fred Sommers, two we'll
known residents of this city, ana
George Derrick, a negro, also resi-
dent of this city, whose bodies were
found in the raw ne below Tennessee
street at the intersection of Fast sec
on avenue, at different times in the
past two years and whose deaths
were shouded in deep mystery. All Of
Mann ng victims We're found lying at
the edge of the shallow water Of the
the surface of the stream and in only
one case did the body show signs of
foul play Or assault. In each case,
until a few days ago, it was thought
that the men had met accidental deaths,
but the arrest of Manning yesterday
afternoon by Sheriff Edgar Brewsta:
and Deputy Sheriff C. G.. Green,
brought to light series of brutal
murders and like of which Pine Bluff
has never known in It's. history.
Complete Confession.
The negro made a complete confes-
sion of the wholesale murder cam
paign and in his confession he told
of having murdered a man in a SINH
years ago. He declared that four
murders were all that he had ever
figured in. He used hickory stick
and an axe and robbery was his mo-
tive. Della Fairchilds, a negress, is
in Jail rs an accessory.
To Deputy Sheriff Clint Green is
due the credit of unraveling the muir
der MYSTERY, and he with his chief,
Sheriff Brewster, worked out the diff
ficult case with cleverness and dis
patch.
week ago Deputy Green was "tip-
ped off" that negro had murdered
Luttrell, Sommers and Derrick. He
informed Sheriff Brewster of his
tip and the two have worked on the
case, constantly. They did not even
have the name of the man, but they
worked every clue with care and on
yesterday their labors were rewarded.
They ira led the negro to NUMBER
of places with only description, but
each time he had gone elsewhere. At
noon yesterday they got on horses
and rode to the Old Fish place, five
miles East of Pine Bluff. The man
they were after was there. They ar
rested him and brought him to the
county Jail here. !. Y
At the jail the officers talked with
Mann ng, but never let on what he
was arrested for. They let him do
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26
NEFF AND PECK GO
TO SHREVEPORT. LA.

w. N. Neff, general superintendent,
and E. A. Peck, superintendent of the
Arkansas division, will go to Shreve-
port. La, today to inspect some con-
templated improvement on the CON-
pany property in that city. Mr. Nefi
has been in the city for several days
comforting with committee from
the Carrcn's Union in reference to 9
working contract.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26

New York, Jan. 25.-Mrs. Emily
II adenburg, widow Of the late Adolf
Ladenburs, who left an estate of So
600 has judgments for unpaid coal
and plumbing bills standing against
her. The Mineola County court has
GRANTED a Judgment for total OF
$51S against Mis-. LadenOurg to
Charles w. Raynor, plumber. While
the Birdsall Coal Company has secuf-
ed a judgment for SOB.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26
NEGRO C0NFESSES To
WHOLESALE MURDER

''5 taking and after an hour he had
made confession that startled even
t"e officers who were familiar with
the details of the crimes. Lar H.
told his story over to a Graphic rep
resen alive
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-05-23
WOMEN'S NINE HOUR LAW.

The law relating to the employ
ment of women and prohibiting their
working for more than nine hour
day is now in effect and has been
tried out for very short period. It
was enacted at the Twelfth Session
at the instance of the club women
of the state by whom it was drawn
and pressed upon the attention Of
the solons.
During the discussion incident
to its consideration and passage some
Boise merchants made observations
that while this bill was drawn in
the interest of women workers by
the women themselves, it lay in the
power of the women more than any
body else to so arrange their shop
ping that such legislation would not
be necessary. That it is the women
shoppers that keep the women clerks
employed the long hours. That w
men of wealth and leisure are the
most disposed to do their shopping in
the evening when business should be
closed, and that Saturday, the natur-
ally hard day for saleswomen is the
day the women living in the
town and close to the stores turn
out to do, their tedious shopping
They could do this during the Pc It
of the week when business is not so
pressing but they go when they can
be in the greatest throng, and club
women, they said, we're conspicous
in doing this. Another thing charg-
ed up to the women was that in
places where the merchants establish
ed rest rooms primarily for the bene-
fit of country women, the towns
women congregated to visit, and
were surest to be there on Saturday
afternoon and evening when it made
the greatest burden. They suggested
that the women who were agitating
for the passage of the bill were the
most active in making such a bill ne
cessary and would have to change
their ways the most to enable trades
people to conform to it.
The people of Blackfoot are invit-
ed to consider these matters and see
whether or not their own habits OF
trading are consistent with the pur-
pose of the law. It is only natural
for sociable beings to turn out when
everybody else is out, and it is a
good sign when the town people and
the country people seek to mingle
together as they do on Saturday
afternoons and evenings about the
business blocks, but the lady VINO
lives in town and leaves her shop
ping until the busy hours of Satur-
day and then shows irritation If she
is not waited on promptly, should
consider the other side Of the ques-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-05-23
THE ASYLUM TRAGEDY.

The responsibility for the shock
ing incident at the Asylum Wednes,
day morning rests upon the state
No citizen can disclaim his part in
allowing the conditions that made
the tragedy possible, no legislator
can sidestep his responsibility fol
denying the repeated demands fol-
appropriations sufficient to provide
the room needed. Every Legislature
that has assembled for twenty years
has been informed that the 1nstitu-
ton was crowded and that more
room must be provided. When
room has been provided it was after
injustice had been suffered and when
1t was time to be providing still more
room which also came along after
it should have been supplied.
People are still losing their reason
and will continue to, and because Of
our increased population more peo-
pie must be provided with quarters
andtreatment at the infirmary. When
296 patients are served in quarters
suited for only $50, somebody has
to be crowded, and what happened
Wednesday morning may happen
again.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-05-23

where to dine. Then the proprietors
saw a great light and promised re-
form. When the second month s
score came out there was a marked
Improvement all along the line, some
places showing a gain as high as 20
points. The inspection has been IN
force everal months and the general
rating is steadily rising. l believe
no one has fallen back for the very
good reason he dare not. Every per-
son who patronizes public eating
place in the city Immediately looks
for the standing of the restaurant he
patronizes. In this way that most
potent appeal to the otherwise regard
less-his pocketbook-is directly Sc
cured. ..
Do l hear some one hint at low
marks for those who do not come
across" and another avenue Of
graft opened? In practice it doesn't
work, because the man with the
clean place who might be marked
low has his own proof at hand. All
he needs do is is to show his patrons
through his kitchen and they can
Judge for themelves. And for the
fellows who do not deserve high
marks and buy them-his competi-
tors have easy ways to find that out,
too, for the place with the good rat
ing and filthy kitchen dare not
open up to the inspection of patrons.
Many of the finest hotels in the large
cities already urge guests to visit
their kitchens, at any nour, and find
the practice the best advertising they
can do. Some day the better-class
restaurants also will find it prof.
table to do the same. 1t might not
be bad plan to require each place
to print on its menu eacn day the
rating it received for the previous
month.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-05-23
TO ALL GoeD-RoADs BOOSTERS
A HALF HOLIDAY MAY 10th 1918
MORNING.
EVERYONE COME OUT AND
..... JOIN IN THE FUN.

Bring with you the shovel, the
rake or the hoe, a bucket to carry
water, tamper to pack the dirt in
the ruts, or team to use on one
OF the numerous drags that will be
provided.
Come out on the roads adjoining
your property and give few hours
of your time. It will materially as
sist in the general prosperity of your
self, your neighbor and your county.
Help stimulate real interest in
good-roads, over which we must of
necessity market this season what
bids fair to be, the most bounteous
harvest of.crops this fair County has
ever known.
Good-roads is the lode-stone that
attacts the homeseeker, that in
creases land values, that means short
and double houls, the valuable
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-05-23

the construction work will begin this
summer.
1t is the national highway that we
of this section are interested In,
however, and if that can be accomp-
lished the one big thing will be
done to give this section of the coun-
ty publicity
Theodore Turner of Pocate1lo
chairman of the State Highway COM
mission, is much interested in the
building of this great highway and if
constructed great benefit can be de-
rived not only by Idaho Falls but
by the entire eastern part of the
state. The construction of this high
way will mean that hundreds of tour
lists will visit the famous Yellowstone
each year by means of the automo-
bile on their way to the coast. The
highway plan as laid out will in
clude a route from Denver through
the scenic sections of Arizona, Utah,
the Grand Junction of the Colorado
to the national park and on the
coast.
This highway can be built if given
the proper attention and encourage
ment. Bonneville county pays into
the state treasury each year in auto
mobile taxes sufficient funds to pay
the interest on a bonded indebted
ness and the only way in which
Bonneville county will derive any
benefit from the fund will be to is
sue highway bonds, otherwise the
money paid into the state by the
automobile tax will be lost by the
state.
Certainly the people Of the county
will be sufficiently interested in the
matter to vote the bonds when it will
cost them nothing and they derive
all of the benefit The building of
the great state highway through
out the Snake River valley counties
will do more to encourage better
conditions than any other one thing.
The very fact that the towns and
homes along the route will be seen
daily by hundreds of interested Wis
itors will encourage keeping towns
and farms along the line of route in
the best of condition in order to
make the best possible impression on
the people it is hoped to interest
1t is likely cleaning up the house for
company" Automobile travel is the
modern method and will be succeed
ed by only one other method, and
that time is so far off that the peo-
pie can we'll afford to build high
ways.
Bingham county, on the south, is
taking great interest in the matter
and Fremont county on the north
also, Bonneville county the best of
them all, can not afford to be be-
hind in the procession.