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Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1914-04-03
MISSOURI NEWS.

n HAL uohI Wat NAhS SSAA
hog on the market for S6e. Some
hog.
At q sale south Of Cabool last
week E. 3. Beck paid Silt for .
Durham sow.
The College Of Agriculture OF
the University of Missouri main
tains a free seed testing labora-
tory.
The Dearborn Democrat re-
ports Q doubling Thomas in it's
pidst who had doubts as to the
genuineness Of a bowl OF oxtsil
soup after discovering . tooth in
1t.
Ths Albany Ledger is claiming
honors for the smallest child.
She 10 fourteen inches long and
dressed ia all the furbelows
available weighs only three
pounds and half.
IL looks like hot times ahead
for ST, Louis, remarks the Cass
County DemoerRt, The INDUS
trial Workers Of tAe World and
the Holy Boilers have both rec
gently gained ? fQothold in the
town.
"Kansas City," writes the OBJ
servant editor Of the Higgins
vile JeHersonisn, "is q fine town,
but we never saw place more
in noed OF an ordinance to pro-
hibit "chickens" from running
at large"
The Macon Chronicle inter-
view the superintendent OF the
county infirmary the other day
and EXTRACTED from him the in
formation that his wsakrIninded
charges are nuttier than usual
when the moon is full.
A doctor in Macon told the
Tim, y Democrat an interesting
story the other day about q pa
,ient ot his who took doss OF
gunpoyder by mistake recently,
and has now given up smoking
for fear OF uatowRrd and Qntidy
results.
A Pleasant Hill Pastor receivr
ed . Christmas pudding this
week from his mother in England,
The pudding was due in time for
Fuletide celebration, but the pas :
tors parent tareIesssy ommitted
the word Missouri from the ad'
dress,
Uncle Bob Smith, % years old,
- The oldest inhabitant OF Co.
lnmbia, When Uncle Bob came
10 thu Missouri Athens in 1925 II
had six residents, q cotton gin, a
grocery store and doctors office,
Tns trwn was called Smithton,
Whom .hree men armed With Q
revolver, knife and brass knuoki
attempted to rob Q st. Louis jew
sl rystore, the clark bombardec
them with siarm clocks ant
pieces OF cut glass until they flee
from the store without any booty
The Lamar Democrat has sen
cut a tracer In search OF the Q. I
castor that used TO stand in tn
middle Of every we'll regulated
family dinner table and held on
large cruet for vinegar, one TO
mustard or horse radish, one to
pepper and one for salt.
An Oregon county man VIII
killed guest one night last sum
mer has been acquitted. TIL
host asserted to the satisfaction
of a jury that he was given
walking In his sleep, and sle'
his guest during such . nootur
iAl expedition
Mrs. Logsn A. Munday. wh
died few days ago as Mexico
in her eighsy-foarth year. live
to zee 1T Of her deoedants, ah
bad thirteen children, forty.fiy
a1aaoahlldFen fiftv- eight gre,
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1914-04-03

in Missouri and perhaps in the
United States, died at his home
in Liberal, Sunday night, March
10Th, 1914, aged 115 years. He
was born in Steuben county, n.
Y, January II, 1893, and often
said that his age was due to the
use Of "pure" tobacco.
"If men throughout the land
would interest themselves at this
season of the year in beautifying
the home and caring for the
lawns instead of watching for
the "ealyes" on main street they
would experience less Of crime
and more of progress"
A st. Clair woman has been
getting eggs from her hens all
winter, according to the Times,
by the simple expedent Of feed
ing them black walnuts, All
you have to do is crack the wal
nuts and the intelligent creatures
pick out the meats by themselves.
A Warrensburg man found
two dozen pullets missing the
other morning when he went out
to his hsnhouse, and on the floor
q gold watch and bit of broken
watch chain. He says the thief
is still in bis debt, however, the
ahronometsr not being anything
to shout about
Harbingss OF spring from the
Trenton Times. snow that warm
weather is coming, constable
Steve Spencer has got busy and
ordered all the dead dogs laying
along the Cannon Ball Rout that
have been killed by speeding
automobiles during the winter to
be gathered up ana buried"
George Young, farmer near
West Plains, shot his hired hand,
George Billings, Friday morning.
Young and his wife quarreled
and Young slapped her. Bill
ings resented it and, picking up
a p ,ker. chased Young out of the
house, Young seized a shot gun
and shot Billings, who may die
The Platte City Landmark tells
about q fiend in human form
whose house burned recently
Sympathetic merchants of Platte
City contributed S54 to his re-
lief. On the strength of that he
took tine electric line to Kansas
City and spent the S54 with th'
merchants Of that village, buy
ing new household goods.
Last Tuesday morning whil'
John Wilson and wife OF thi
city were driving to Idalia to Wis
1t friends, the mule which the.
were driving mired down in bat
mud hole at the Galloway schoo
house and became tangled in th
harness and before it could b
gotten loose had drowned. Thi
does not speak very we'll Tor ou
, public roads.-Essex Leader,
; Carl Weber, president Of tn
re-organized City Bank, paid in
to the county treasury last Mon
day the balance Of the $3.50
' which the county had on depos
I with the City bank at the tim
that institution closed its door
3 THE fact that the county has bee
/ paid in full together with intere'
8 on the deposit reflects great cred
r 1t on the gentlemen who hav
r charge OF the winding up OF tn
affairs OF that hank.-Bloomhel
: Vinaicator.
:. Fgedericktown Tribune PRO
. W. H. Rrowder, president OF Il
n Franklin Female college, Franl
o lin, KY, was here the first of Il
W week looking over the Mary
: college equipments and pro
poets for its future. Prof. Brow
. der is being solicited by Il
y BOARD to take charge OF the 90
3. lage next year. He was high
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1914-04-03

OF Agriculture has selsoted the
University for its next session.
Agricultural authorities from all
over the world will give instruc-
tions to Missouri men and woe
men. The session will be held
this summer.
The Gentry Circuit court is in
session this week. Eight divorce
cases are on the docket for tos
morrow. In days gone by lawyers
displayed this signs "DivorcesI
made easy" II judges would
tack up this sign over the
the court house door there would
be fewer disgFReeful divorces,
"Divcrces hard to got. Worth
County Times,
personally" announces tbs
Fulton Sun. "ws aFe not eoM'
planning Of the chickens running
at large, 10 fact. We ere profit
ing by it, For about month
we have been getting an egg or
two q day, but we don't knov
whose hens lay the eggs. We
find them in our barn and taks
care OF them to keep them from
freezing"
The old eeurt house in Rich-
mond, which has been in usb
since before the war and is one Of
the most picturesque structures
in that fms old southern town, is
to be preserved. Although q
new court house will be built, the
old one with its massive stone
pillars hewn out of the Ray coun-
ty hills ia to be moved intact to
the lot by the Jail.
Because she had not prepared
dinner at the exact hour at which
he called for ii, Henry Seftz, a
wealthy farmer Of st. Louis
County, shot and killed his wife
while she was hanging clothes
in their back yard. He then carr
ried her body into the kitchen
and shot himself twice. Physi'
clans at the city hospital say he
will die. Several sisters OF thede. .
ceased witnessed the quarrel and
shooting WHICH followed it.
1.-THE robins have made their
1914 debut" announces the
Chilicothe Constitution, sand
several citizens have reported
the arrival OF dandelions, and
some of the old-timers have ooh '
suited physicians regarding thai
malady known as spring fever,
hut one of the real harbingers ol
spring which was in evidence
Saturday was the large number
of farmers who came to town anc
talked OF sowing oats this week.
"Aunt Chloe, do you think
= you are a christainf" asked 4
a preacher of an old negro woman
; who was smoking pipe. 'Yes
r brudder, I 'speots l is." "Dt
you know there is q passage il
the Scriptures that declares tha
nothing unolsan shall inherit tn
Kingdom Of HeavenG" eye
Is'e heard it," "Well, yo'
smoke and there is nothing 81
y unclean as the breath OF a smok
er. So. what do you say t
i hat?" "Well when 60 dere
. Pspects to leave my brett benin
y me-"
a Bertha Thurman. the 18 yea
. old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E
A Thurman Of Roysr's prairie, wa
seriously burned Saturday an
/. may die. Her father and moth
l. er had gone tc q sale ct the farI
10 OF Jean Thurman, leaving her 9
= home with some small childreI
10 The girl was ironing and one
N the little chaps lighted a mate
" and stuck 1t to her clothing an
= in a minute she was envelope
70 in flames and started to the dot
I. to run outside. when her brothI
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Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1914-04-03
A.ks custer Writ as saspsnasa.

Asks Custer WITH 50 Suspddesu.
Jefferson City.-The Central Coal
aud Coke company Of Kansas City
has filed an application with the su-
preme court asking for Q reductions
OF the sse.oea fine imposed upon L
By the eaurt Dec. "a last, and that ths
writ Of custer issued against II be
withheld 50 long as It sbeys The laws
e Missouri !
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-19
STATE SHIPPERS
 PETITION DENIED Arkansas People Resent De- cision of I. c. c. Examiner
 at Memphis.

Forma. request for postpt nement O. the we'll known Arkansas rates case" tne petition of the Memphis ! trGffic bureau against the Rock Is,and and other railroads. made Thursday at Memphis by repl esenta- tites of Arkansas shippers. lcs bee. Genied Considerable fec ling appears 70 nave developed as res lit of the decision by Examiner Watkins an. by members of the interstate com merce commission, who were appeal cd to by telegraph.
 Governor George w. Hays yester- day filed a telegram with the inter st; te commerce commission, and up to late hour last night nothing fur tier had been heard. which would in ticate that the protest of the gover- nor had more weight than that of the ST ippers.
 | In their motion for a continuance until later date for the hearing ol the petition whereby Memphis ex pctts to be granted the privilege oi shipping into Arkansas under Arkan- sss interstate rates, the shippers as
 ntervenors stated that they si never been served with a coor of the l ret;tiOn of the Memphis trafiic, an called the attention of the examiner for tLe interstate commerce commits 1 sion that copies of the petition in such cases must be served on all de- fendant railroads as well as upon all tr; fife organizations interested in the natter.
 It was further pleaded that by moi having copy of the petition, the ir.trvenors, shippers in Arkansas were unable to properly protect theil ewn interests, in that they did no kpow specifically what demands ar' rade by the petitioners.
 When the present hearing at Mem phis was opened Thursday, some lum Der rate cases were taken up ant these cases are still to be heard Several more days may elapse before the hearing of these will be complet ed. and in the meantime Arkansa! slippers and their representative gre under a considerable expense a Memphis, unable to return to thei homes because of inability to know when the case in which they are vit ally interested will be called.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-19
PHONE COMPANY
 MALLS ITS CHECK
City Richer by $1,N6 Be- cause Southwestern Com
 pany Pays Its Pole Tax.

The city of Pine Bluff will today be richer by $1,276. as result of the decision of the Southwestern Tele' phone & Telegraph company to pay the tax of 75 cents on each of it's poles within the city limit, under the ordinance recently adopted by the city council.
 Mayor Simon Bloom was informed over the long distance telephone yes terday by District Traffic Chief Jones of the telephone company, at Little Rock, that a check for the amount due the city had been mailed yester- day at the state capital. The checf@ will reach Mayor Bloom this morn ing. NrW lNs<ly9lEYae
 ''The money is coming at might good time" said Mayor Bloom yester- day. "because we need it, and neeS it badly. I am certainly glad t' know the check is on it's way"
 Shortly after the council, about T month ago, adopted the ordinance fixing the tax on poles at 75 cents representatives of the telephone com- many conferred with members of the council and with Mayor Bloom. an agreed to pay the tax. provided the city council would reduce the tax fo- tax year to 50 cents per pole. at which figure the tax has been in pas' years. Whether or not the company was given this promise. could not he ascertained last night. but it '' not unlikely some such action will be taken by the council when the time comes to fix taxes for next year. day or two after the ordinance | went into effect the city preferred charges against the telerhone com pany, for maintaining poles withou having the tax. The compsnv VI. found guilty, when these eases were tried before Police Judge Sewart. hu at the request of Mayor Bloom Judr' Stewart held up his sentence "nf' tocay. As a result of the action c the company in mailing the ch'"' yesterday, it is expected when th' cases are called hefore Judge Stew are this evening, the company will b' allowed to leave court with no pun ishment.
 The settlement of the cases ap hears to have headed off litjr'
 which may easily have heen long lasting and expensive to both sides Members of the council as well
 others connected with the city ""v ernment expressed their eratifica tion last night at the termination . the argument over the tax on no'. which has been going on between tn citv and the company the past mont"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-19
Murderer of Clark County Constable Shows No Emo
 tion as He Walks to Chair.
DEAD IN 3 MINUTES
C00lIy Backs Belongings as Though Preparing for Trip, and Directs They Be Sent d Sister Writes
 Thanks to Women.

Little Rock. Dee. 1S.-Arthur Hodges, 2l years of age, convicted of killing Morgan Garner, deputy con stable of Clark county. was electro cuted at the state penitentary to- day. He died 3 minutes after the cur rent was applied to the chair He made no statement The datc for his execution had been set four times, the last effort to save his life being denied by the supreme court last evening.
 In the death cell with the Rev. s. L. Tomme, chaplain at the penitentiary Hodges gathered up his few belong ings, packed them in box and di reetcd they be sent to sister n Oklahoma.
 Went to Chair Calm. Hodges walked to the chair pale but without showing other signs of enoticn, sat down without assistance and watched the attendants tighten Inc straps about him. At 10:36. the current was applied. Three minutes later, Dr. w. w. Coulter, the prison physician pronounced Hodges dead.
 After fighting since September
  Red" Hodges as he was known anong the prisoners and guards ma ntained a belief he would escape :ho chair until the last. Last night when informed the supreme court had blasted his latest effort, Hodges re- tdired his comDosure.
 This morning Hodges seemed to realize that, although successful in cutwitting the state for more than | year, he mast pay the penalty. His face had assumed a bleached color and freckles stood out with startlipe prcm thence. His coarse red hair hai been cut close to his scalp, giving Ein an odd appearance.
 During the last few hours before his execution the condemned man was baptized. Thanks Women. He wrote several letters last night and this morning, and to the public especially Little Rock people, ne asked newspaper men to express his gratitude.
 "I want to thank the Little Roc'' women who assisted me so much ill staying the execution" said Hodges Frrther than that he declined to talk This morning after being taken tc the hospital at the penitentiary to h' bartized, Hodges was returned to the death cell where three other wnit men and five negroes are awaiting eYectrocution. He was dressed neatl, c.acnly shaven. During the time he was packing hls balongings and arranging to leave the cell for the last time, Hodges main taircl ,n attitude as is he were leav ing for visit.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-19
Interstate Commerce Com mission Grants Petition
 for 5 Per Cent Increase.
80 MILLION A YEAR
Estimated Advanced Rates Will In- crease Income of Roads S3O, O,OOO,- OOO AnnEa1ly-TwO Commits.
 SiOnprS Dissent.

Washington, Dec 1S.-Increases in on all the railroads between the At lantic saeboard and the Mississippi north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, were granted today by the interstate commerce commission in divided opinion except on certain heavy com mcdities which comprise large bulk of the traffic.
 The increases will further apply tO the railroads west of Buffalo and Pittsburgh, granted partial advances in the decision of last August which denied them altogether to the roads east of those points.
 It is estimated the advanced rates will increase the annual income of the roads about $30.000,000.
 The commission made it's decision upon the showing of the railroads that in addition to the conditions from which they previously asked relief they now were confronted with an emergency because of the war in Europe.
 Commissioners Harlan and Glenn ents dissenting, the majority of the commission declared:
 "Whatever the consequences of the war may prove to be, we must recog- nize the fact that it exists; the fact that it is calamity without precedent and the fact that by it the commerce of the world has been disarranged and thrown into confusion. The means of transportation are funda- mental and indispensable agencies in our industrial life and for the com. mon veal should be kept abreast o1 public requirements"
 Summary of Decision. Summarizing the basis of it's decf- sion the majority report of the com mission said:
 "The facts disclosed and occurr- ences originating subsequent to May 29, 1914, as presented at the further hearing, may be summarized under three heads:
 "First-Completed returns for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, ano returns for succeeding months; sec ond, the war in Europe. and third results of the original order When these cases were originally submitted, as also when the original report was prepared, the revenue ant expenditure account for June, 1914 and the property investment account | for that fiscal year were not available the war was unforeseen and the re- suits of our order were of course vel to come. Collectively they present new situation"
 The commission issued this order
 'It is ordered that respondents here in be and they are hereby authorized to publish and file, by not less thar ten days notice, to the interstate commerce commission and to the gen eral public in the manner prescribe' in Section 6 of the act to regulat commerce. schedules which do not ex ceed the limits or transgress the limit ations, stated and prescribed in sait report.
 ''It is further ordered that the per mission hereby granted does not waiv
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-19
WANT BACHE-DENMAN
 RECEIVERSH|P ENDED
Sebastian Coal Company Alleges Re- ceivership Was Ruse, Asking
 No Final Relief.

Fort Smith, Dec. 1S.-Alleging that the court had not legal jurisdiction to appoint a receiver for ten of the Bache-Denman coal companies, which asked receivership after some of their nlants were destroyed in the July rioting at Prairie Creek, on the ground that the receivership bill did n not pray for any final relief, and supporting their argument by citing federal district court decisions. coun- sel for the Sebastian County Coai & Mining company of Philadelphia argued before Judge Frank A. Youm- ans in the United States court today a motion to remove the receivershlp
 Some months ago this same com pany filed suit against the Bacne. nenman corporation to carcel leases the Bache-Denman company held or coal lands of the Sebastian company
 Judge Youmans took the motion under advisement.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-19
ALLIES MAKE GAINS.
Advance in Belgium Gains in Moment
 um, Germans Losing Heavily.

Paris Dec. 18.--The allies advance in Belgium is fast gaining momentum. The Germans are being forced back all along the Flanders front, with great losses in killed, wounded, pris- oners and war material. Marked gains have been recorded in every forward movement attempted by the allies and the counter attacks of the Germans have been met successfully throughout.
 At the extreme left of the allies line, where, two days ago. the French and Belgian troops debouched from Nieuport and advanced as far as Lom- baertzyde, the allies today reached the Lombaertzyde road and by bril- liant offensive action took all the | German trenches to the east of Streen- strate, capturing 100 prisoners and three quick-firing guns and gaining nearly 3SO yards.
 To the northwest of LombaertZyde, the fighting among the sand dunes has developed with advantage to the all l lies, who have made considerable progress with the aid of the British ships, which directed severe flre on the flank of the Germans, silencing their artillery wherever it entered the engagement.
 The Germans attempted to blow up the allies trenches by bombs hurled from Zeppelins. but the British war ships standing in close to shore pour ed such deadly fire upon the airships from their high angle guns that this menace was soon removed.
 The cooperation of the British squadron in this quarter is most valu- able, as the ships have been successful in diverting the attention of the Ger man coast troops, which were thus
 prevented from assisting the main
 force in, opposing the land attacks from the south.
 The action, with the allies on the
 offensive, continues generally between Hollebeke and Wypschete. This IS part of the turning movement directed against the German left center, north
 of the road from Ypres to Menin'
 where the Germans today attempted in
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-19
Edgar Levy Suffers Frac- ture of Two Ribs, and Ed
 die Waite Is Burned,
BLAST SHOCKS SCORE
Explosion Follows Throwing of Light. cd Match Into Reducing Pit Near Lakeside School, Waite Being
 Imprisoned in Pit.

Edgar Levy sustained two fractured ribs, was severely bruised and shaken up, Eddie Waite was burned and jared considerably and a score or more other children attending the Lakeside school suffered a shock dur ing the noon lunch hour yesterday when the Waite boy threw lighted match into a gas pressure reducing pit of the Pine Bluff company, to see the gas burn.
 Persons acquainted with gas ex- plosicns and who visited the scene, are Of the opinion that but for the weight Of the concrete top of the reducing pit, which broke the force of the ig-
 nited gas, serious injury might have been suffered by many of the school children who were nearby when the accident occurred.
 Boys attending the Lakeside school,
 near which the reducing pit is located, have formed the habit of putting a
 see if the gas would burn. It
 is stated that yesterday one of the
 boys attempted to ignite the gas at the
 vent, but no fire resulted. The boys
 then went to the pit, and made the
 experiment of striking a match and
 putting it close to an opening. The
 explosion resulted. The Waite boy
 applied the match. after being given
 banana by another boy, who dared him to do it.
 The Levy boy was thrown dis tance of about thirty feet. The con-
 crete slab was lifted bodily eight or
 ten feet in the air. The Waite boy was thrown into the pit itself. and
 after he fell into the opening, the top
 of the pit fell back over the opening,
 imprisoning the lad within the pit.
 Others of the school children were
 iarred, shaken up and thrown down
 by the explosion.
 Members of the school staff, persons living nearby and the older boys of the school rushed to the rescue ot Levy and Waite An ambulance and several physicians were summoned the Levy boy being sent to his home
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-19
CARPENTER TRIAL.
|oted Murder Case Will Reach Para
 gould Jury Today.

Paragould, Dec. 1S.-By tomorrow light the fate of M. P. Carpenter, on
 Fial here for the murder of his hother-in-law, Mrs. Nancy E. Davis, Fill rest with the twelve men who |cmpose the jury.
 The defense closed its case this horning at ii o'clock. The state used |everal witnesses in rebuttal, and Then court met at 1:30 o'clock this |lternoon, Judge Gautney read his in- |ructions to the jury.