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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-13

Gordon's ,iIk Hose, the best for
$500, at sWITTENBERG's.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-13
CITY BREVITIES.

Marriage license was issued this
morning to ]. G. Cotton and Miss
Ruth O'Neal.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-13
Sunday Services at
Hattiesbury Churches
First Presbyterian Church.

First Presbyterian Church.
Sabbath school 9:45 q. m.
Preaching service II q. m.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all who desire to attend.
e. J. Currie, Pastor.
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church.
Sunday school 9:45 a. m.
Preaching II a. m.
B. Y. P. u. 6 p. m.
Preaching p. m.
We extend to you a cordial invita-
ton to worship with us.
Homer H. Webb, Pastor.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-13
THE MILLS OF THE GODS

Mr. Whitmans graft mill
grinding slowly
cation beginning GaTney
bheinlaw
Hail.
commissions payment their political appears
besides
in Tammany Hail. What Murphy state of
New York when he determined
~ mn *-
The special Congressional
Muh story out of all of that mountain
Der OF House with stolen goods in his
and this revelation
ing among members of Congress He
the Windy City His has
- foregone conclusion that
re House.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
SIX YEARS OF EXILE
ENDED BY DIVORCE SUIT

with tears running down his cheeks,
exposed his thankfulness in prayer
Conroy told Cooke that Mrs. Cooke
had said her decision to get divorce
was due to increasing sympathy for
the position of Cookies two illegiu-
mate children. The constable said
Mrs. Cooke had expressed the hope
that Cooke would marry the Whaley
girl.
"of course we will marry as soon
as possible" declared Cooke we
have lived in humiliation under the
scorn of our fellow men long enough.
Neither of us believe in what Is call
ad free love and it has always been
onr most ardent hope that Mrs. Cooke
would free me so that our children
MIGHT he able to hold their heads UP
In the world
Floretta Whaley was equally loylui
over the news from Hartford
you don't know what TINS means
TO us." she told Conroy. Since we
went away together we nave peeh
forced to move from pillar to post to
eseape the scorn of our neighoofs
IN San Francisco we We're forced 70
move thirteen times and since we re,
turned to the east we have moFeu
five times In one year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
MADE POOR WEATHER
AND LOST HIS JOB

the ordinary course Of events, 1t was
pointed out, an investigation would
have been made by agricultural de-
partment heads.
Moores activity in promoting hts
candidacy for cabinet post may also
be probed by congressional commit
tee Representative Fowler of Illinois
stated today that his resolution to
this end, introduced last week, will
be urged Today Moore refused to
add to his statement that the charges
of alleged coercion of weather bu-
ireau employees, and alleged misuse of
the travelling fund, were UNANIMOUSLY
false"
j. Warren Smith, weather forecast
er at Columbus. o., was dragged into
the Moore controversy today by
James Berry, former division chief
here, who has filed charges against
Moore at the white house. Berry de-
clared that Smith sent out circular
letters last November boosting Moore
for the agricultural portfolio.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
ATTORNEY ANHUT
rs INDICTED
is Charged With Bribery in Attempt
to Get Thaw Out Of
Asylum.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK, April 1.-THE grand
jury that had been investigating the
Thaw bribery scandal today returned
an Indictment against Attorney John
Nicholson Anhut, charging him with
bribery. Justice Seabury issued
bench warrant for Anhut, who had
arranged with counsel to be bonded by
a surety company and was expected
to be brought to court this afternoon.
The indictment charges Anhut with
being the main instrument through
whom an alleged attempt was made
to bribe state officials with s25,000 OF
Harry X. Thaw's money to work for
Thaw's release from Matteawan
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
WIDOW OF D|ETz
Tells HER STORY
Is Center Of Interest Today In the
Murder Case When She Ap-
pears at the coroner's
Inquest.
he Has Established an AIib and the
Police Have no clew to
the Brutal sIay-
ing.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, April 17.-Mrs. Augusta
Dletz, widow of George Dietz, wealthy
tailor who was mysteriously slain
early Monday, became the figure of
central interest in the police inquiry
into the murder today.
The comely widow, described as
one of the most beautiful women on
the northwest side of Chicago, was to
take the stand at the inquest ordered
by Coroner Hoffman this afternoon.
George Nurnburg, harness manufac-
turer, under arrest since Tuesday
night, and Miss Julia Winning, an
employe of the Dietz ladies tailoring
establishment, were other witnesses
scheduled to appear at the inquest
Mrs. Dietz will be questioned regard
ing reports that she was on friendly
terms with Nurnburg. The basis for
this line of questioning will be state
ments said to have been given to the
police by a private detective.
The widow, tall, dark-haired, we'll
preserved woman, Of about As years,
was the cynosure of all eyes at the
simple funeral services late yester-
day. Attired in tailored suit OF
fashionable design, she entered an
automobile and was driven to Rose
Hill cemetery. In IN automobile fol.
lowing were four city detectives who
sauntered about the Dietz apartments
while the services were being held.
Mrs. Dietz engaged Frank Grove
former assistant states attorney, tc
+ look after Ter interests at the inquest
today. After she returned from the
funeral she sent word to Assistant
Chief of Police Schuettler that she
wished to see him. Lieutenant Muel
l5ler. Of the Town Hall police station
went to the Dietz home last night and
/ with two city detectives were closet
! ed with the widow more than ar
4 hour.
! During the evening, the representa-
/ tives of life insurance company, tr
which Dietz had policy for $4,000
called on Mrs Dietz to make arrange
ments for the payment
Police Lieutenant Mueller said to
/ day that Nurnburg had established
an alibi that to his mind removed al
suspicion that he could have been the
4 murderer. Mueller reiterated his for
mer statement that the police hat
found nothing to show that the mur
derer forced entrance to the apart
ment. He thought that entrance nigh
have been gained by some one who
had a key.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
TARIFF POW WOW
SAILS SMOOTHLY
All Rebellion Against WlIson-under-
wood Bill Has Been Crushed
at Democratic
caucuses.
BANDwAGoN is FULL POISONING THE MIND
Opposition Is Getting More Feeble
at Each Vote and All VIII
Soon be Voting as
Desired.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, April 17.-With in
cipient democratic rebellion in the
house against the administration tar
iff program crushed by the party eau
Gus votes on free sugar and wool,
early conclusion of the house caucus
was predicted when the democratic
tariff "pow-wow' was continued this
afternoon. Smooth sailing for the
Wilson Underwood bill in the future
was assured Overwhelming votes OF
the caucus to sustain the president on
the free sugar and wool items in the
Underwood bill caused democratic
opposition to melt away.
Schedule X, the wool section, was
certain today, following the decisive
vote last night of 100 to AZ sustaining
the presidents free wool policy. The
first vote was 179 to AZ. Afterword
eleven more democrats climbed on
the bandwagon" to sustain the presi-
dent and the ways and means com
mittee.
| Efforts to increase duties on manu-
4
factured wool products continued to.
day, but the democrats opposing the
tariff cuts provided in the new bill
will have no hope Of prevailing over
/ the committee.
Conclusion of the democratic eau,
Gus this week, after some debate on
the income tax and reciprocity feature
of the bill, IS now planned by the par
Ity leaders. Presentation Of the bill tc
| the house next Monday Is expected
At that time the democratic and repub
lican reports on the Underwood bill
will be filed.
Tonight the house republicans hold
another tariff caucus, to 20. K.'' 8
4 tentative report prepared by republi
cans of the ways and means commit
tee, which will excoriate the Wilson
/ Underwood bill in it's principal ant
general provisions. The republicans
planned today to have tonight's eau
Gus open to the public, In extension
of the open door" policy adopted las
week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
MARTIN in HIDING
AND NOT DEAD
Scotland Yard and Detective
Burns Agree That His Muir
der is Trumped Up.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
LONDON, April lit was learned
today that both scotland Yard detec.
tives and William j. Burns are con
vinced that the opera hat and Wallet
of the missing Joseph W. Martin, cot
ton broker, were placed on the
Thames embankment deliberately tc
give the impression that Martin was
murdered The detectives believe the
Memphis man to be still alive and vel
and popular interest in the Martin
mystery" Is on the wane.
The detectives will apply to court
for permission to open Martins safety
deposit box, if the man does not turr
up within "a hours.
The sleuths at work upon the case
are being deluged with all sorts O
clues" by post, telephone and tele
graph. So far as known, only one I:
being investigated. 1t came from al
English woman, who declared sh'
knew Martin was still alive, bu
would be murdered before his where
abouts became known.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
D. A. R. DEADLOCK
OVER ELECTION
No Trouble to Select All Of the
Officers Excepting That
of President.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, April IL Dead
locked on the election of a president
general. the D. A. R. convention met
TODAY for what delegates believed
would be a day of balloting. The
count of the first ballot, which was
not completed until after midnight,
showed Mrs. VIM. Cummings Story,
''insurgent'' candidate, leading the
field. but she lacked "a of the neces-
sary majority, having polled 519 Mrs.
Charles M. Bryan, third party candi-
date" drew 103. A second ballot will
probably be begun about noon
The three factions divided the 9th
er national offices. Mrs. Henry T..
Mann was elected vice president in
charge of organization Of chapters;
Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood of Washins-
ton, d. G., chaplain-general; Mrs. VIM
G. Boyle of Washington, recording
recretary- Mrs. j. G. Bur
roughs of Michigan, corresponding
secretary general; Mrs G. NJ. Brum-
baugh OF washington, registrar-gener-
al. Mrs. Joheph E. Ransdell of Louisi-
ana, treasurer-general; Mrs. Charles
Wesley Basel. of Maryland, historian
general, and Mrs. George NJ. Sterberg
of Washington, librarian-general. The
vice presldents-general elected were:
Mrs. John vanlandingham of North
Carolina; Mrs. r. Cunningham Of
Texas: Mrs. Thomas Day of Tennes-
see. and Mrs. John C. Armes Of Illi-
nois
dark horse candidate was gen.
orally believed to stand the best show
for choice as president-general today.
If the three present candidates con-
tinue to be voted on, it was generally
asserted that there would be little
change In the totals
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
THIRD DEGREE
PUT ON RIGHT
Jail Reputed to be Haunted Was Just
the Place sseare the
WIZ st Of
'"sr'
L1zAR !. AND GHOSTS
Man Accused Of Crime Finally Con-
fessed But Now Repudiates
1t When on
IIzAR : AND GHOSTS

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.I
ROCKVILLE, Md, April 17.-More
weird than the horrors told by Edgar
Allen Poe, was the plea advanced
here this afternoon by Norman Bruce
McCleary, fighting for freedom before
the jury trying him for the murder of
his sweetheart's mother, Mrs. annie
Henry.
His face still blanched with the
memory, the defendant, twenty-five
years old, today repudiated written
confession of the crime by an astound-
ing story that police officials, garbed
as ghosts, had tortured him through
the black hours of the night, until
exhausted and unnerved, he had un-
willingly admitted choking Mrs. Annie
Henry to death.
McCleary fought for life under the
merciless examination of his most in
innate personal friend, Prosecutor
Wandering.
He swore while he was being held
L for trial in the county Jail, reputed to
be haunted, the police officials had let
dozens of lizards into his cell, that
he had been awakened by their crawl.
ing over him, while the cell was bath
ed in a CHASTITY blue light.
The phantoms, the defendant said
he believed were the ghosts that com
mon report said Inhabited the jail
supposedly the spirits Of murderers
who had been hanged.
Subsequently he learned that the
lizards were merely natural reptiles
and that the blue light came from
searchlights manipulated by police
outside his cell.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
Former Pastors Wife Finally
kelents and Serves Papers
Which Bring Joy.

United Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, April 17.-After six
ears OF humiliation and social exile,
ss'e hnode Cooke, former pastor of
= seorges church at Hampstead, l..
-. ~ ana Floretta Whaley, the girl for
- saoin ne deserted his wife, and with
ra avih ne has defied the age-old con-
'sn'lons, today believed they had a
sr,, aaaee Tor legal names for their two
small boys.
j. from Hartford, Conn, where the
sof o.'nef pastors wife has been living
: several years. came a constable
~, iiilu Cooke and his companion in
NIL s'r new Brooklyn home and serve
!, sasi -, Notifying him that his wife had
'as' feiented and instituted divorce
hseeaings, hs,,, When Constable Conroy
trss, sas .he news to Cooke. the un-
eu minister fell on his knees and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
Senator Works Objects to Reports OF
Murders, Crime, Accidents
and Deaths in
Papers.
He Is Concerned Over Not Only the
Subscribers But the News
Gatherers, Poor
Things.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, April 17.-'News-
papers with the record OF crime,
scandal and evils which they dis
play" are among the greatest, most
powerful and most corrupting evils
and influences of the present day."
according to a bitter indictment
drawn today by Senator Works Of
California, in the senate. He spoke
in favor of his bill prohibiting publ
cation in newspapers at the national
capitol of all such stories.
He deplored the "avidity with
which newspapers parade murders.
vice, accidents, crimes and scandals" J"
citing the reports Of the Beattie trial
as an example Of poisoning the
minds of the readers with their Of
fensive and horrible recitals Of a
brutal crime and the immortality that
preceded and brought 1t about"
The mere fact that crime was
committed, was enough, he said.
ITO go further Is calculated to
arouse the worst passions Of men. II
there is any real desire of the readers
Of the newspapers OF the country to
read such deletirous and offensive
stuff, it should be one OF the highest
duties OF the journalist not to feed
any such morbid sense.
However serious this offense may
lie as affecting the individual reader
| i. is even more serious as affecting
the newspaper men who gather ant
publish such news. They live con
stantly In an atmosphere OF crime
and immortality.
Their purpose is to trace dowr
and send out to their fellow men the
details of misconduct Of every kind.
Reporters and kodak men seem te
! lose all sense of decency or of respec'
4 for the rights OF others in their eager
quest for what should be unreadable
news"
Works presented an analysis O
the news in the big metropolitan
newspapers showing the percentage Q
stories devoted to crime. He bitter
ly criticised some of the stories Of th'
Titanic tragedy, printed before an!
definite news had been received from
the vessel, as horrible injustice
and cruelty to agonized friends an'
relatives
Press associations, the Californi:
senator asserted, were more concerned
Il with telegraphing to their clients thu
sensational features and attacks on per
sons contained in speeches durin,
campaigns than the serious work &C
complished.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
You Cannot
-
BE Lost on a
Straight Road

You do not always stick to
the straight road when buying.
You wander off into the pleas
ant paths of buying on impulse,
at strange stores, at odd times,
and sometimes even needlessly.
Your pocketbook suffers
when you leave the straight
road. You are compelled to buy
oftener by having unknowingly
bought poor quality. You lose
time in searching for the ar
ticles you need, and you receive
too frequently poor service as
consequence Of not sticking
to a straight road.
Advertising is the straight
road to satisfaction, quality,
and price in buying. By it you
gain known value of merchan-
disc, good service, and the best
quality for least cost. Adver-
tisers in THE GATE CITY are
making it easy for you to prof
it by following the straight
road to successful buying. Read
their advertisements closeIL
and constantly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
General House Cleaning of the
Bureau is Liable to be
Started.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
WASHINGTON, April 17.-General
house cleaning of the weather bureau
was impending today. Any political
machine that Chief Willis L. Moore
may have constructed in that depart
ment is to be sent to the scrap heap.
1t was regarded as significant that the
department of justice was called up.
on to make the investigation OF
Moore's conduct in office and that the
preliminary findings which resulted
in the bureau chiefs dismissal and
that OF one Of his subordinates, have
not been made public in detail. II
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
|lDPE improved
THIS MORNING
....,d oulet Night After Severe
coughing Spell and Hope
is Not Yet Aban-
doned.
3 RECOVERY FRIEND OF NURNBURG HARRIS WAS SEATED
|.,,bouoh Conditions Today Were Fa-
vorable, His Death is Ex-
pected by the
Vatican.

r,n,ted Press Leased Wire Service.l
poMF. April 17.-Pope Plus x, af-
II several hours Of tranquil and re-
,rssbing sleep, was considerably i'm
,roved today. Though the grayess
,nyiety prevailed in and about the
yatican, his physicians held that In
rev Of the late developments, the
lime to abandon hope had not come.
After their first thorough examina.
Han today, the doctors, Marchiafava
md Amici, issued the following bulle-
filn:
4The holy father passed quiet
hight, and his condition is improved.
Ne has no fever, and the bronchial af-
lection is ameliorated.
fsigned) "Marchiafava, Amici."
The night, which at it's beginning
WAS perhaps the most alarming since
lie pope fell i'll. gradually took on a
tnge Of hopefulness, until by morn
ing It was believed the pontiff, could
he hold out several days longer,
might have a chance for recovery.
The pope at midnight was unusual
II restless and was greatly tormented
| ~ his cough. He was allowed to sit
up in bed and this to a certain degree
alleyiated the throat and lung dis
comfort But his holiness was talka-
Tive and paid no heed to the doctors
orders to be quiet. This caused his
temperature to mount.
After severe fit Of coughing in
the early morning hours, the pope fell
into deep sleep, from which he ap
parently derived much benefit
The sleep was unbroken little af-
Ter 2 O'clock and at dawn the pontiff
was still sleeping. He appeared to be
| 50 comfortable that his attendants did
not wake him to take nourishment,
the physicians saying that rest would
do him more good than food His
sleep early today was undistnrbed by
coughing
Early last night the vatican made
preliminary preparation for the pope $
dissolution. Mgr. Cactara Dominici
chamberlain, notified Cardinal Greg
la, dean of the sacred college, tha:
the end was near, Cardinal Oreglia
who has been an invalid for months
Suddenly was rejuvenated, and order
ed his coachman to have his carriage
IN constant readiness. The dean is
Inc acting head of the church, during
the vacancy of the holy see. He Is
Is years old.
Prof Marchiafava, who is an at
lache OF the Italian government, pait
visit to the home office, and from
mat time on King Victor Emmanuel
a. the quirinial received hourly bulle
uns Of the holy fathers condition.
Pope Plus was considerably NOR
eneerful today, and when Doctors Mar
calafaya and Amici called upon hin
'ogether, the pontiff said:
This is the first day since my frs
Nlapse that have felt relieved"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
sewed hls Head on.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
ST. RANDERS, Miss, April 1T.-
Negro men today lynched Mrs. Matt
Mussee, a negress, after she had
carved her husband with a razor. The
negress sang a hymn as she was
strung up
Gashes extend all the way around
Mussee's neck and after surgeon
had taken numerous stitches he look
ed as though his head had been sew
ed on following decapitation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
Family In Council.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 17-Mem-
bers of the Martin family today are in
council to arrange for the payment of
the shortages of Martin on the phan.
tom cotton, on the receipts for which
ihe negotiated loans.
1 The family still say that they be
lieve he was murdered in London, but
4 the local opinion in Memphis is that
| he will turn up as soon as immunity
from arrest is assured by the settle
ment now being arranged. Relatives
have not been active in the search
since they discovered financial en-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-17
Railroad for Sale.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, April H.
REPRESENTATIVES of nationally prom
inent financiers were expected to be
present today when the Detroit To.
iedo q. Ironton railroad was put on
sale. The upset price of the road is
So. 200, 900. Receivers have had the
road In charge some time.