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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28
JUDGE TWEEDY
 MUST STEP OUT Little Rock Police Judge is Impeached and Barred
 From Office.
City Central Committee is Also Ortlcr- ed tU Take His Name Off
 of Ticket.

Little Rock. March 27.-Refusing to acce.i the resignation offered by him. the City Council this afternoon impeached Police Judge w. M Tweedy, passing a resolution remov- ing him from office, thus bringing to a termination the proceedings against that police court head.
 A resolution was also adopted bar ring him from holding any city office in the future and requesting that the City Central Committee remove his name from the ticket as the Demo- cratic nominee.
 Seventeen charges of immortality ard improper conduct were sustained against Tweedy out of the twenty -one four charges were not established Evidence of number of witnesses was heard, all of which was to the effect that the conduct of the well knclHn police judge was not that be- coming of a city official.
 At the opening of the trial, Judge Tweedy appeared and rendered his resignation but the Council refused to accept it.
 Fred A. Isgrig, secretary to Mayor Charles E. Taylor, has been nominat ed to oppose Tweedy at the next city election and large number of citi zens have pledged themselves to. sup nort this candidate. However. Tweed! is a shrewd politician, and if hi! name is not removed from the ticket the outcome of the election is doubt full, although members of the Coco Government Club declare that Isgrig their candidate, will be elected by ar overwhelming majority.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28
MAY POSTPONE
 PRESS EXCURSION

Little Rock, March 27.-A meeting of the excursion committee of the Arkansas State Press Association will probably be held in Little Rock next week for the purpose of deciding up- on the time for the annual excursion. The annual meeting of the organiza- tion will be held in Marianna May 27-29, and it has been the intention of the members to charter Mississippi river steamer and make a trip from Memphis to St. Louis but it is claimed this trip, with the time spent at the meeting, will keep the members away from their work for ten days or two weeks, and an effort will be made to postpone the excursion until later.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28
Another Report.

Cleveland, Ohio, March 27-The fire at Dayton, Mbich burned spas medically throughout the night and today, was finally controlled this af- ternoon. Governor Cox's secretary, who is in Dayton, says the death toll in Ohio from flood and fire may reach 10000.
 Columbus reports that there are from 500 to 1,OOOmdead in that re- zion. Two hundred and fifty are re- ported dead at Hamilton, Ohio. but this report together with that from Columbus was not confirmed. The. re- servoirs at Celina and Lewiston, which were reported several times to have been swept away, are still in- tact, although it is admitted that they are weakening and may go out, at any moment
 A bliZzard-like storm of wind and snow is sweeping practically the en- tire state, adding greatly to the suf- fering.
 Wire communication is completely interrupted in nearly all directions and railroad traffic save over the Lake Shore is paralyzed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28
M0RE CHEERFUL NEWS FROM DAYTON Fire Has Besn Gotten Under Control and Death Toll
 Over Estimated.
DAMAGE IS HEAVY
Statisticians Say the Loss Will Reach S95, ,OO0, OO9-Rurda Reports
 Many Dead.

Cincinnati, March 27.-NeHs of a more cheering nature was received here tonight from the flood and fire stricken city of Dayton. While con- ditions are almost beyond descrip ton, it is believed that the death toll has been greatly over-estimated. Ac- cording to information furnished by Chief of Police Allaback, the death list will not exceed two hundred.
 Sixty prisoners in the workhouse, who have not had food or water since Tuesday, became frenzied from hum ger and thirst, and mutinied, there by endangering the lives of Superin- tendent Johnson and his family. The superintendent has asked that com- pany of militia be placed at the work house to hold the prisoners in check. He fears that it will be necessary to shoot them should they escape from their cells.
 Governor Cox's secretary, Mr. Bur da, says there are over 1000 persons unaccounted for and should the num- Der of dead fall as low as POO he be- lieves it nothing short of miraculous.
 After a careful survey of the flood cd district, statisticians estimate the property loss at $25. 5.000,0O0.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28

/. Other Towns Flooded.
 Gallipolis, Ohio, March 27-A dis astrous flood is sweeping down the Ohio River valley The river here
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28

Mrs. Lindley M Garrison, wife of the new Secretary of War. Mrs. Gar rison is proving herself one of the most popular of Washington social leaders.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28
PREPARING FOR
 A GREAT FLOOD Mississippi Will Reach 45- Foot Stage at Memphis
 is Prediction.
CITY COUNCIL ACTS WORKING ON LEVEES
Ohio River Will Register G Feet at Cincinnati Within 36
 Hours.

Memphis, Tenn, March 27.-The river at Memphis will reach the flood stage, 33 feet. by Saturday and 40 feet in the next five or six days. The wat CT now in sight is sufficient to give Memphis considerably more than for ty feet, and it is possible that the maximum stage may approximate the 1912 record of A feet.
 At Helena, Arkansas. a stage con- sderably above 50 feet is indicated.
 Anticipating more serious conditions than those which visited the Missis- sippi valley in 1912, officers of the St. Francis Levee Disrtict Tuesday sent crews of men to Wilson to begin working on the levee. Another gang of men and teams went to Mound City and scattering crews went along the district from end to end. Quarter boats have been lashed in readiness, supplies stored in convenient buildings and everything prepared to be moved on an emergency call.
 Government steambOats are being assembled for immediate use. Engi- neers are bending every energy to raise part of the levee, where danger threatened in the flood of February, 1913
 The Wilson levee has been weaken ed, it is said, by the construction of new gap. A crevasse occurred there in April, 1912, flooding the greater portion of the St. Francis basin.
 Outlook Gloomy on the Ohio. z. Cincinnati, March 27.-Captain Charles J. Menges, we'll known river man, who has watched the Ohio for many years, and always has been con- servative in his views, said today:
 Never in the history of this river have seen conditions as bad as they are at the present time. The outlook is very gloomy do not like to ex- cite the people, but in my opinion there will be greater flood here than we have ever had. look for sixty eight feet by water by Friday night. The great difficulty is that the iriver is carrying off the water so slowly. It is raining all the way up the river and the tributaries are bursting with water"
 The weather bureau predicts a stage of 65 feet within thirty y-six hours. No danger of the water supply to Cincinnati is anticipated. and it 7 takes seventy-five feet.tO shut off the California pumping station. ) All Cincinnati railroads were unable to use the Grand Central depot today because of the rise in the Ohio river. The Chesapeake and Ohio, the only line still open to the East, was sending it's trains out of the Fourth street depot. while the Queen and Crescent utilized the Eighth Street depot.
 It takes sixty-five feet of water to : put the Louisville and Nashville out of the Pearl and Butler streets stat- ions. : sr
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28
Appeal Heartrending.

Dayton's Appeal Heartrending. Columbus, Ohio, March 27.-Strick-
 Daytons appeal of yesterday for bcue from flood and flame today be- he heartrending petition for coffins D food. And Dayton is not the only |ip city that will send similar pleas the people of the state and union. hile telegraph and telephone com bnication still is practically paralyz-
 reports dribbling into this city, bm whence all relief measures are ing handled by Governor James M. k, show that the loss of life has len more widespread than at first re- rted.
 The actual loss of life at Dayton yet
 undetermined. Estimates range pm 1000 up. George s. Burba, pri- te secretary to Governor Cox, who in Dayton, wired his chief this af- fnoon that if the loss was only 1000
 would consider it fortunate. He i'd that if it reached 10000 he would t be surprised. meanwhile, the citizens of Colum- IS are just beginning to realize the tent of the disaster in their own " The Scioto river with it's bridges me, have prevented the east side of e city from learning of the terrible ndltlons on the west side. But to- y as the water fell it became known at the loss of life in the submerged ctlon had been heavier than antici- bted.
 me fact that the lowlands in the ulnwest part of the city may be in poated for several days and the great lmber of people reported as missing ses rise to the fear that the death nere may exceed that of Dayton. Late this evening a telephone mes se from Chillicothe informed state
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28

officials that 27 bodies have been re- covered at that point, and estimates of the total loss range from 100 to 300.
 The death list at Piqua will be at least 200, according to telephone message from there today
 At Troy between 75 and 100 were drowned.
 Shawnee City, across the river from Piqua, has been swept awya. The number of lives lost is not known. Re- ports from Northern Ohio indicate that many lives have been lost in that section.
 Tiffon alone reports 50 dead.
 As the water recedes under Eastern skies and icy blasts from the north. chill the survivors from the appalling disaster, the danger of pestilence and famine increases. For three days the tireless executive officer of the state has been doing the work of dozen men, laboring from daylight to long past midnight, to suc- cor the unfortunate of Ohio. His hand has guided everything done in the work of rescue and today with the knowledge that his task was for the most part accomplished, he turned his attention to new problems of prevent ing epidemic, safeguarding life and property and relieving the sufferings of surviving flood victims and the care of the dead.
 | The hero of the Dayton disaster, John A. Bell, the telephone official, | who marooned in business block, has been keeping Governor Cox in- formed every half hour of conditions in the stricken city and delivering orders through boatmen, who rowed to his window, called the statehouse at daybreak today and greeted the executive with a cheery Good morn- ing, Governor; the sun is shining in Dayton" .....-.... ...5.
 But sunshine gave way to bliz- zardly snowstorm later in the day and the reports coming from Bell were less cheering as the day advanced un- til the ominous work from Adjutant General Wood was received that what was most wanted in the one time Gem Citv woc cOffinS and fOOd
 General Wood had been marooned two days in fire engine house but was found and rescued at the request of Governor Cox through the efforts of Bell. When Wood was taken to the telephone building he received orders from the governor to take charge of the troops as they arrived and make a survey of conditions in the city His first report was that the water had fallen to two feet in the business sec tion and that the danger of wide spread conflagration had been avoid ed by the governor in having the nat ural gas supply of the city cut off His next report from Wood was that asking for collins and food. The gen. eral said several hundred bodies were Lin sight and that he feared that the
 death; list was larger than they hac I thought.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28
x x x x X x < < AID THE FLOOR SUFFERERS

* Acting Governor Futrell has j: issued a proclamation calling on * the people of Arkansas to do- * nate to a fund to be raised in j: this state for the relief of the : * flood sufferers in Ohio and other * states. The Graphic will receive * cash subscriptions in Pine Bluff * and Jefferson county and will be * glad to forward any donations to * State Auditor J. M. OathOut,
 * who has been appointed by the
 * Governor to send the money to * the relief committee in the name * of the state.
 * * * x x * * * * *
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28
ARKANSAS GIRL
 IS PROMOTED
Miss Harrison of Pine Bluff Also Will
 Receive More Salary.

Washington, March 27.-Miss Pearl B. Harrison of Pine Bluff, Ark, clerk in the Treasury Department, has been promoted and her salary increas- ed from $1,00 to $1,2OO.
 Changes in fourth class postmasters in Arkansas were announced today as follows:
 Morobay, Bradley county, Russell D.. Brazzel, vice Leon A. Smith, resigned. Sternwall, Greene county, Harry AL len Layman, vice Dan Knowles, resgin- ed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28

J. T. Bono and bride are in the city visiting J. F. Bono and family, MT. Bono, former Pine Bluff boy, is now living in Pittsburgh, Pa, where he is connected with the Union Steel Company. He was married to Miss Merle Middleton in Little Rock We'd nesday night
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28
|AYT0N|S APPEAL TO OUTSIDE.
 WORLD IS HFARTRFND|NC.

vernor Cox Doing All He Can to Relieve the Suffering
 in the Stricken City, Patterson, Cash Register Mag nate Wires New York's True c on nditi ns-Death
 List May Reach 10000 Peru, Indiana, Gets Some
 Relief From Rescue Parties from South Bend Col
 umbus Realizes the Extent of the Catastrophe in it's Own Boundaries Stua tion Critical in Neighboring Towns
 yewa York; 2-The lowing received here
 i from John M Pat president |ter Company, charge of the re lief work in Dayton
 estimation All vater had ood drinking
 two da had two days. WaterwOrks "Fi raging for I burned. turned suddenly hw: current for boa and We from nearby cies Help should be in form of kts and people to them. We eed good boats. soldiers for proecon and hep Fire engnes provisions hu factory power electricity p private caring \ a part of the sufferers
 easern northern city. Consequently teegrams inquiry people that coming Railroads reaching Dayton kcteally all out of use"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28

is rising eight inches an hour and a stage of 55 feet to 5S feet is expect ed, which will cause immense dam age.
 The great Kanawha is rising rapid ly and it is expected that Tomeroy, Middleport and Point Pleasant will be flooded by morning.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28

Mrs. Maggie A. Burks left yesterday for Galveston where she will visit her daughter, Mrs. D. c. Chesnutt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-28

Miss Mason. of Little Rock, is in the city visiting her cousin, Mrs. w. l.. Groom, at her home, West Fifth and Pine street.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-22
Assessor, Are Having Trouble Making Their Rolls
Correctly

Jackson, Miss, March ts.-County
assessors in Mississippi are encounter
ing much trouble in the compilation of
the realty rolls for 1913 because of the
new statute requiring that timber must
be assessed separately from the soil,
and improvements on town and city lots
separate from the realty itself.
Property owners, in large majority
of cases, are not familiar with the pro-
visions of the new law, and, unless spe-
cially instructed, turn in their assess
ment lists on the old basis. Others
seemingly do not know how to estimate
timber apart from land, or houses apart
from the site on which they are located.
Incidentally, the new statute is serv-
ing to show the ridiculously low values
placed by many property owners on
their holdings, for when compelled to
divorce building from the ground on
which it stands they are frequently
compelled to admit that the building
alone is worth more than the original
assessment for both building and rea lty.
1t Is believed at the State Auditors
office that the new law will result In
considerable increase of the grand total
OF the State assessment this year,
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-22
A FAR-REAcHlNG DECISION.

A far-reaching decision has just been
rendered by the Mississippi Supreme
Court in liquor shipment case, which
may, if the spirit OF the decision is car
ried to its logical conclusion, have con-
siderable effect eventually in connec-
ton with federal laws to prevent the
interstate shipment of liquor from wet
into dry territory. In the case in ques.
ton liquor dealer named Miller, doing
business opposite Vicksburg, Miss, in
the wet state of Louisiana, was pro-
hibited from shipping liquor into the
state of Mississippi. He thereafter took
the liquor into the state of Mississippi
in private conveyance and offered it
for shipment to various points over the
lines of the American Express Com
pany. The express company declined
the shipment, and suit was instituted
to compel acceptance of the business
by the common carrier. The Supreme
Court held that as the shipment was
brought into Mississippi by other than
common carrier, it originated, as far
as the express company was concerned,
in the State, and that the express COM
pany wonld have to handle it.
The Webb Kenyon bill passed by
Congress has as it's object the preven-
ton of liquor shipments from wet
state to dry state, but there is no pro-
vision prohibiting the transportation of
LIQUOR from one state to another as
matter of private convenience. The
effect of the decision of the Missis-
sippi Supreme Court, therefore, is to,
in a measure, nullify the provisions of
the act of Congress as well as the State
laws, and if the supreme courts of other
dry States take the same view of the
matter, it will mean simply that liquor
dealers will find it convenient to move
their establishments nearer to State
lines, where private conveyances can be
brought into use.
That the question will eventually get
to the Supreme Court of the United
States, there is little question, but, in
the meantime, thirsty residents of Mis-
sissippi, and possibly of other States,
will continue to wet their whistles as
usual. al.-Mobile Item.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-22
THE PARCEL BUSINESS Is STILL GROWING.
February Shows an Increase Of Almost Fsrty
Per Cent. Over January.

Washington, March t6.-Parcel post
business last month was almost forty
per cent. greater than in January, as
shown by reports to Postmaster General
Burleson made public today.
In February fifty million parcel post
packages were handled, an increase of
ten million over the previous month;
but as February contained three days
less than January the real gain in the
business was almost 40 per cent.
AS in January, the three cities doing
the largest parcel post business in Feb
ruary were Chicago, New York and
Boston in the order named.
Chicago sent and received 5,f67 900
packages; New York 4,i02 900, and
Boston 1,326, 900, most of them in each
case being of the sent class.
The reports to the postmaster-general
indicate that the mails are moving with
their usual dispatch, that the business
in farm products is growing and that
merchants seem to be preparing to ex-
tend their business into new fields.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-22
CAL0MEL is UNSAFE. DRUGGIST
Who Sells Dodson's Liver Tone cuaraEiees II
TO Take the Place OF caIomsl.

If your liver is not working Just right,
you do not need to take a chance on
getting knocked all out by dose of
calomel. Go to Power Drug Co., who
sell Dodson's Liver Tone, and pay 30
cents for a large bottle. You will get
a harmless vegetable remedy that will
start your liver without violence, and if
it does not give complete satisfaction
the druggist will refund your money
with smile.
II you buy bottle of Dodson's Liver
Tone for yourself or your children, you
have insured your family relief from
attacks of constipation, biliousness,
lazy liver and headache. It is as bene-
fetal and safe for children as for adults.
A bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone is
something every man or woman should
keep in the house. Your money is
safe because you can return the bottle
ii it fails to satisfy.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-22
NO MORE FREE SEED.

Your Congressman, in the future, is
to send you no free seed. The Senate,
when it got hold of the agricultural ap-
preparation bill, eliminated the appro-
priation set apart for the free seed
habit. Thereupon the country at large
has commenced to figuratively "pat the
Senate on the back".
The original purpose of the free seed
proposition was all right. But the pro-
vision has never met the end for which
it was intended. The free seed distri-
button long ago became s'a joke and a
semi-scandap', as The Atlanta Consti-
tuition aptly puts it. There are times
when the government can render great
service by the proper gift of free seed.
But the manner of the distribution that
has been in vogue served no good pur-
pose. It Ought to have oeen halted
long ago.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-22
A Novelty in Collection Baskets.
Scissorette.

Scissorette.
An exchange tells us of novel con-
tribution basket for churches invented
by an Oklahoma man. If a person
drops a quarter or more in the box
there is silence; fine crops dime in, a
bell rings; nickel sounds whistle and
a penny fires blank cartridge. If one
pretends to be asleep when the box is
passed, it awakens him with watch
mans rattle, and kodak takes his
picture. Unfortunately the name and
address of the inventor was not given.
There are number of churches in
other towns which would like to get
into communication with him.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-22
It's Joe Miller Doing This.
Sumner Herald

Sumner Herald
A ruling has been made at the high
school of South Mississippi town
which excludes cigarette smokers from
the athletic and literary teams. Good.
Young men whose eyes are bleared,
minds stunted and bodies weakened by
the use of cigarettes have no business on
athletic or literary teams where victory
over another team might depend upon
their exertions. Society may get right
on the cigarette question some day and
keep the coffin nails out of the hands
and mouths of all boys and young men.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-22
YOUNG BIDWELL ADAM, OF PASS CHRIS
TIAN, SUCCESSFULLY. PASSES AN EX-
ANIMATION BEFORE THE BAR.

The success of Mr.. Bidwell Adam. OF
Pass Christian, aged 10 years, in pass
ing the bar examination recently at
Gulfport, is worthy of note, considering
the extreme youthfulness OF Mr.. Adam
and the splendid record he has attained
in his studies and the success which
marked his examination.
A graduate of the Pass Christian High
School, Class IL, he entered Millsaps
College this fall and at once engaged in
the study of law, attaining an average
that easily placed him at the head of
his class and leading ever since. 1t was
not necessary that he return to college
after having passed the bar examination,
which admitted him to practice, but
young Adam returned just the same and
will graduate in law with the senior
class at the end of the present session
and receive his sheepskin. which will
carry for him, his parents and his friends
honor and glory.
Bidwell Adam is the second son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Adam, of Pass Chris
tian, where Mr.. Adam publishes the
Coast Beacon and is well and favorably
known along the Coast. The first son,
E. ]. Adam, Jr., is already practicing
attorney, who, too, won his scholastic
laurels at almost an early age as his
brother. Bidwell Adam is no doubt the
youngest attorney in the State and per-
haps the youngestin the South. Before
taking the bar examination he had to
apply to the Chancery Court for eman-
cipation which was granted him.
Editor Adam is to be congratulated
upon the successes and blessings which
have come to he and his good wife;
whose family of several children have
indeed been for them 'sparkling gems
in life's crowning diadem." The Echo's
best wishes follow.
We have already chronicled and COM
mented upon the like successes of our
esteemed young townsmen, Messrs.
Wilfred Evans and Geoffry Marshall.