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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-12-26
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FOR FLETCHER'S
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Fifteen Wilmington High School
students, who represented the school
in football during the past season,
have been presented with "W's" and
silver watch fobs.
Potomac Odd Fellows, of Hagers-
town, Melted about $1,000 at their re-
cent fair.
when my boy Ray. was small he was sub
ject to Group. and | was always alarmed at
such times Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
proved far better than any other for this
trouble. 1t always relieved him quickly, l am
never without it in the house for | know it Is
a positive cure for Group" writes Mrs. W. L.
Mccain, Blairsville. Pa. For sale by al
dealers advtK
The Mayor and City Council of
Havre de Grace have passed an ordin
ance limiting the speed of automobiles
to Is miles an hour within the city
limits.
Any skin itching is temper tester. The
more you scratch the worse it itches. Doan's
Ointment is for piles, eczema any skin item
ing. soc at all drug stores. advt*
The foot-and- mouth disease has
been found among herd of q cattle
on the farm of II. X. Showalter, IN
Washington.
The directors of the Chamber Of
Commerce of Wilmington, have en-
gagged the services Of John +. krauss
in connection with the credit-rating
bureau, provision for which was made
during the recently conducted mem
bership campaign.
Thirty-six head of cattle on the
Pordham farm, near Delaware City,
where the foot-and- mouth disease was
discovered, have been killed.
William A. Burk, of Chestertown,
has been appointed notary public.
Pomona Grange, of Kent county, has
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-12-26
Spendin' 1t With Lizzie
By the BENTZTOwN BARD.

BY the ENILIOWN bAhD.
My muvver's awful sad sometimes,
When Christmas comes, wifi all its
chimes
Of gladness-an' she turns away
And says she's goin' to spend the day
Wifi Lizzie-guesses at she will
Be out there wifi her on the hill
All time we're laughin' at our fings
An havin' fun, an wearin' wings,
And bein' real funny, Just ike those
That's chillun ought to, | suppose.
En- muvver goes off sad and still
An leans there on the window sill,
An looks out over all the land,
An ever now and then her hand
Goes to her eyes, an We can hear
The little music of a tear
Just bout as loud as love is-come
Between the rat-tat of our drum;
An we .ook up, an then she'll smile,
Just like she had been all the while.
We call her sometimes to our side
When in our wonder sweet and wide
The pictures charm us in the books
An then it's piteous how she looks
Just far away from us and all,
An just goes foatin' through the wall,
And down the yard, and out the gate,
And up the road-an' so we wait
AS quiet an as sweets we kin
Till she comes foatin' back agin.
En- when she comes, she is so kind
And tender in her heart and mind,
And loves US close up to her heart
AS if she'd never want to part
Wifi us like once she had to do
Wifi Lizzie-an' | guess it's true
She's spent her Christmas wifi her just
The way she said she would-in trust,
An faith, an love, and longin' still,
To be out wifi her on the hill.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26

Staying OF California Postmaster by
MexIcans Arouses Storm
on Border.

San Diego. Ca1.-Martial law was
proclaimed along the border for miles
each side Of Tecate, CAL, following the
destruction by bandits Of the general
store containing the United States
postoffice and customs office and the
murder OF Postmaster Frank Johnston
by three men declared to be Mexicans.
The border Is being patroled by
American troops from Fort Rosecrans.
Across the line, not many hundred
feet, Mexican rurales performed guard
duty. Every man within a radius OF
ten miles of Tecate is fully armed and
rifles and ammunition have been or
dered from this city.
Gov. Hiram w. Johnson has been
asked to make formal demand on Gov.
Francisco yasquez Of Lower Califor-
mia for tie delivery of the Mexicans
suspected of having killed Johnston.
Mai. w. C. Davis, commander at
Fort Rosecrans, received instructions
from Washington to lend any assist
ance to the immigration and customs
officials and keep the department IN
formed of conditions. He already had
taken initiative to the full scope OF
his authority.
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1913 COTTON CROP
IS WORTH BILLION
YIELD OF OVER SEVEN BILLION
POUNDS, ACCORDING TO THE
CENSUS BUREAU.
SECOND LARGEST QUANTITY
Crop Valued at ss2o.ooo,, 900, and Pre-
vious Record Crop Brought
1886 6,ooo, o,ooo-Estimated Value
includes Seed.

Washington.-The 1913 cotton crop
was the most valuable ever grown, and
second largest in point of quantity.
Statistics announced BY the bureau Of
census indicated it amounted to 1888.
557, 500 pounds, or 14,767,151 bales OF
lint and Inter cotton. The total value
of the crop, including the value Of cot
ton seed, is unofficially estimated
roundly at more than $1.OO0,O00,OOO
compared with $92O,OOOOO last year
and 1896 100000 for the previous most
valuable crop, that of 1910.
The crop amounting to 14,127,S56
equivalent 50O-pound bales of lint and
6Ss, ,795 equivalent 5OO-pound bales Of
linters, was produced by the farmers
of the United States during 1913, the
census bureau announced in its pre-,
liminary report of cotton ginned as re-
ported by ginners and delinters to
February %.
These figures compare with lo,7OS,'
421 equivalent 5OO-pound bales of lint
and sos, ,594 bales of linters last year,
and 15,692,701 bales of lint and 557,-
SIS bales of linters in 1911. The de-
partment of agricuiture's estimate, an
nounced December II, placed the 1913
crop at 1S,677,OOO equivalent 500
pound bales.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
COTTON RECORD IS BROKEN
Gross Receipts Of Staple at Memphis
Go Past the MiIIion-5ale Mark
for the Season.

Memphis Gross receipts of cotton
at Memphis have passed the million
bale mark. This is the first time in
the history of the Memphis Cotton
Exchange that gross receipts for a
single season have reached a total OF
/ 900. 900 bales Receipts UP to March
is were 1,012, ,,S75 bales. The former
record. made in 19OS-19O9, was $3.50
bales for the season to August 81.
Cross receipts, as used in the Mem
-nhis market, means all cotton that
comes to or passes through Memphis.
In othsr words, both net and through
cotton are included in gross receipts.
Net receipts to date are COS, ,672 bales.
This is cotton that comes to Memphis,
is warehoused, sampled and sold here.
There is more cotton handled in this
manner in Memphis than any other
market in the world except Liverpool.
Record net receipts for single sea-
son was made in the season OF 1S9S-9Ss
when the total was 677,2O6 bales. 1t is
not believed that this record will be
reached this year, but Henry Hotter,
secretary of the exchange estimates
that net receipts this year win reach
about 650,0O0 bales.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
POSSE KILLS BANK ROBBER
Youthful Bandit Surrounded Four
Hours After Rohbery-Wounds
Four Officers.

Oklahoma city, Okla.4Four hours
after Joseph A. Agnes Patterson, %
years Of age, and former Newalia
youth, held up the cashier, Bert Brad
lev. and robbed the State Bank of Ne
walla. nineteen miles east of Okla
homa City, Of s7OO, he was surrounded
by a posse and killed. The money
was not recovered, only SO being found
in the clothing of the robber. Patter1
son shot and wounded four members
of the posse in the running fight.
Chief of Police Charles Hawk OF
Shawnee was shot in the lung and
hand. Deputy Sheriff Frank Timmons
Of Shawnee was shot in the arm; bull
let grazed the hand of Jerry Spann,
night chief of police of Shawnee, and
n. M. Hulse, q farmer living near Ne
walla. was shot in the leg. It was
feared at first the injuries OF Hawk
might prove fatal, but later it was an
nounced he would recover.
The youthful bandit, who was born
and reared at Newalla, but had been
away for three years working as a
railroad telegrapher, entered the bank,
forced the cashier, the only official
present, into the vault and gathered
up loose cash. The cashier escaped IN
five minutes and spread the alarm.
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SLEs FAMILY AND SELF
GEORGIA Farmer Takes Lives Of His
Wife and TWO Daughters While
They Sleep.

Oak Park, Ca. A. Eubanks,
farmer living near this place, killed
his wife and two daughters as they
slept. set fire to his home and several
other farm buildings, and then fired
bullet through his forehead. Mrs. Eu-
banks head was almost completely
severed from her body with an axe.
The two children, one aged 4, the 9th
er a baby six months old, were stab
he'd to death. Mental arrangement,
resulting from i'll health, is believed
RESPONSIBLE for the farmers acts.
After committing the three murders
and firing his buildings, Eubanks
awakened neighbor and told him
what he had done. He then shot him
self.
A note left by Eubanks near the
place his wife and children were killed
said their domestic life had been un
happy.
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'Sl,5DO,0OO BONDS
VOTED BY SENATE
MEASURE WOULD LIFT AccuMu.
LATED FLOATING DEBT or
MISSISSIPPI
EVENTS IN STATE CAPITAL
Doings in the Various Departments Of
the Government Of the Common
wealth Reported for Ben
eft Of Our Readers.
jackson

After a long discussion, the senate
passed a bill to authorize issuance of
$1,50O,OOO in 2O-year 5 per cent bonds,
for the purpose of lifting the accumu-
lated floating debt, which approxi-
mates around that amount. Efforts
were made to amend the bill so that
the interest should be IL per cent,
but were defeated. The bill specifies
that as much as 100000 of the issue
may be had for sale entirely within
the state, but if the condition of the
bond market is such that this is inn
practicable, then the reserve amount
shall be placed on the open market
During the discussion of this bill it
was shown that this is the largest
bond issue proposed by a Mississippi
legislature for seventy-fiye years. This
is the second bond issue bill intro
duced during the session, the first be-
ing by Mr.. Burkitt, for $1,000,000, to
be placed entirely within the state,
which was defeated on the floor. If
passed, and the bonds provided for
find market, it will obviate the ne
cessity of borrowing money at 6 per
cent in order to pay back debts Of the
state.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
FIND NEW MYSTERY
IN CAILLAUX CASE
IDENTITY or MONSIEUR x,g WHO
COMMANDED COURTS, is
SOUGHT.
MAY BE ROcRETTE HIMSELF
Examination of BRAND and Barthou
Editorial in Echo de
Paris Denounces Monis
and caiIlaux.

Paris.=The whole of France is clam.
oring for the name Of che mysterious
person who, according to the eyi-
dence given at a sitting Of the parIia-
mentary commission Of inquiry into
the Rochette case, has power to bend
the government to his own will.
This unnamed wire puller was de-
clared to have obtained the postpone.
ment of the second trial of the swim
ding banker, Rochette, in 1911, thus
allowing him to engineer his Mexican
loan and escape with the wallet Pub
lie opinion holds that Rochette him
self is the man who today is described.
as Monsieur X,' but this conjecture
is not supported by facts.
The same element Of mystery en-
wraps this tragedy as that which per-
yaded the steinhell case, which was.
never cleared up. Then, as nows the
shadow of mysterious, all-powerful
individual loomed large in the back
ground. Then, as now, a conspiracy
Of silence concealed his identity.
The academician, Maurice Barres,
among many other less famous public
men, leaps into the discussion with a
powerful editorial in the Echo de
Paris, headed In the Sewer" in which
he says:
"The apparition Of Monsieur x is
the dominant factor in the case. Mon
sieur x is undoubtedly Rochette him
self, who is now retired to his Mex
lean farm, where. I understand, he
lives joyously, with fifty braves, gun
in hand, protecting his precious person
and the treasure of the French stock
ings, which he has cleaned out, thanks
to the obliging Monsieurs Monis and
Csillaux.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
HALE AND HEARTY AT 1OA
John Durant, a Sailor Boy of Ninety
Years Ago, Celebrates His
Birthday.

London.-John Durant entered the
British navy years ago. He was four
teen then, but he is still enjoying life
at Weybridge, where he entered upon
his one hundred and fifth year.
During the winter he spends most
Of the time in his bedroom, but in the
summer he walks abroad for coHsid-
cradle distances. He is, a very hearty
eater and smokes three ounces of to-
bacco regularly every week. Special
fare was provided for his delectation
to mark the great occasion of his one
hundred and fourth birthday.
When the news came that Franklin
was lost in the Arctic circle in 1895
Durant volunteered for the search ex-
pedition, but he. did not sail on the IL
fated Terror; he withdrew and went
to the West Indies instead In 1912
ne entered the service of the South
Metropolitan Gas company as a barge
man, and after 40 years of work re-
tired on a pension, which he has now
enjoyed for 80 years.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26

RESOLUTION FOR CONSTITUTION
Al AMENDMENT LOSES IN Up
PER HOUSE OF CONGRESS.
VOTE ON MEASURE, IS TO "a
Senator vardaman's Plan 70 Repeal
Amendment giving Franchise 70
Negroes Also FaiIs-suffrag
Not Yet Settled.

Washington.-The senate, by vote
of 35 to "a, voted down the Ashurst
resolution to provide for a constitu-
tional amendment extending suffrage
to women. Prior to this the Varda-
man amendment which in effect pro-
posed repeating the fifteenth constitu-
tional amendment, extending suffrage
to negroes, and then to grant women
the right to vote, was defeated, AZ to
10, and another amendment by Sena-
tor Williams to grant votes to white
women only was. lost, A to 21.
This action, following weeks OF de-
bate on the floor of the senate, dur
ing which many leaders in the sur
frage movement. pleaded for postpone
ment of the final vote, marked the
climax of spirited campaign launch
ed here the day before the Inaugural
tion of President Wilson.
Immediately after the vote, Senator
Shafroth of Colorado sought to intro
duce a new resolution for constitu-
tional amendment requiring each state
10 NOL6 OA granting oAAAA06S ~
en-, on petition from five per cent OF
its voters. The senate went into ex'
ecutive session before the senator
could get the floor, however, and the
resolution will be offered later.
The resolution defeated was the first
introduced in the present congress. It
was presented by Senator chamberlain
of Oregon, and the woman suffrage
committee later authorized Senator
Ashhurst to report it favorably.
Though otherwise the vote virtually
was non-partisan, the southern sena'
tors, all democrats, lined up almost
solidly against the amendment. They
contended it would complicate the ne
gro question in the states. OF the
southerners only Senators Ransdell
of Louisiana, Sheppard of Texas and
Lea of Tennessee voted for the reso
luton.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
Wire Suits Dropped.

The senate adopted a concurrent res
olution to ratify and confirm the ac-
tion of the encouragement of MissisS
sippi in agreeing to dismiss the pend
ing suit against the Western Union,
Telegraph company and the Cumber-
land Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany, on the charge of violating the
antitrust and anti-merger laws of the
state. This agreement was reached at
the recent showing by the Cumberland
Telephone and Telegraph company
that it had agreed to dispose of its
stock in the Western Union and the
American Telegraph and Telephone
corporations. The resolution ratifies
the action of the attorney general and
authorizes settlement of the pending
litigation. A compromise proposition
of $4,000 settlement is said to be
distinctive feature of the proposed
agreement.
The lower house adopted the senate
resolution authorizing Attorney-Gen-
eral Collins to compromise his $4,000
penalty suit against the alleged tele-
phone-telegraph trust.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
TO WE'D MAN SHE NEVER SAW
New Jersey Girl VIII Marry Man She
Never Saw, on Arriving in
China.

Trenton, N. ITO become the bride
of Arthur G. Bowman, man she has
never seen, Miss Hazel Hulse viii go
to China in May. Bowman's heart was
won when he saw the girls photo
graph, which she sent to her brother.
Aubrey Hulse, and to her uncle, Clar-
.ence Lovett. This was when the three
Americans were struggling with the
problems of custom regulations ia
China
Correspondence followed and the let
ters became frequent. More photo
graphs were dispatched, both ways,
and then came the declarations OF
love and proposal that was accepted.
This was about two months ago, and.
now following the announcement of
the engagement, Miss Hulse and her
friends are preparing for her trip tc
the Orient.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
ORGANIZE Minute Men.


Ell Centre. Cal.-At mass meeting
of Imperial Valley citizens at 81 Cen
tro. sixty-fve men volunteered their
services as minute men to act on the
shortest notice in the case of another
raid such as that several days ago at
-Tecate, when one man was killed and
another wounded by Mexicans. These
minute men will hold an assembly at
Calexico, on the border.
A resolution will be forwarded to
President Wilson, asking that an
armed guard be placed at Sharp's
Heading. which is the basis of the
water supply of the valleys. Rumors
have been current lately. that Mexicans
had threatened to dynamite the walls
of the heading.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26

State Death Rate IT'S Fer ls0uu.
The death rate in Mississippi was'
11.S per 1000, according to the report
of the bureau of vital statistics. The
total number of deaths reported to the
bureau during the year was 21,SO6, Of
which 1914 were whites and 1862
we're negroes. The white death rate
was s9.3 per 900, and the negro death
rate 1870 per 1000. OF the total num-
Der of deaths 9,O12 were preventable
or postponable. The unnecessary
deaths among whites we're 1898 and
among negroes 5,77O. tuberculosis
led all other diseases in the produc-
tion of deaths, causing a total Of 1855,
of which 524 were whites and 2,O4l
negroes. Pneumonia held second rank,
with a total of 1,425 deaths, of which
$40 we're whites and 915 negroes. Ma
laria was third with 1884 deaths, OF
which 4O5 were whites and S59 ne
groes. That pellagra is showing an
alarming increase of fatality is shown
by the statistics being credited with
795 deaths, 20e whites and $50 negroes
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
BLIND MAN OUT AFTER TOGA
Edward Ray May Pun for Senate in
North Cardinals Making Can
vass Of State.

AshevIle. N. C.-North Carolina will
share with Oklahoma the unique dis
tinction of being represented by a
blind man IN the United States SEN
ate if the hopes of Edward Ray, blind
lawyer and lecturer, are realized.
Mr.. Ray, who has Oeen blind since
ten years of age, is a North Carolina
A. B., a Harvard A. NJ. and a graduate
with honors of the Chattanooga Law
School, is making q quiet canvass Of
the state at present, seeking to learn
his chances against Senator Overman.
whom he desires to oppose. Mr.. Ray
was in Asheville and while here con-
fded his ambitions 10 some personal
friends, stating, however, that ne
would not make formal announce
ment until he mas consulted friends a.
Raleigh.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
LEFT AFTER new EVIDENCE
Representatives Of Leo Frank Make
Trip to New York-Hope to
Obtain New Trial.

Atlanta, Representative Of the
defense in the case of Leo NJ. Frank,
superintendent of the National Pencil
company, under sentence of death for
the murder here Of Mary Phagan, the
14-year-old factory .enploye, have gone
to New York in connection with ef-
forts being made TO- obtain new trial
for the convicted man.
H. F. Becker, formerly connected
with the the pencil company here, and
Nina Formby, also of Atlanta, both Of
whom are now in New York, have
made statements which the defense
believes may be aid to efforts to OBJ
tain new trial. Mrs. Formby, in an
affidavit, charges that detectives CO.
creed her to swear to false story
against Frank.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
Dr.. eathinas Makes Charges.

DR.. j. C. Gathings, superintendent Of
the penitentiary, threw bombshell in
to a joint penitentiary committee ses-
sion in the form of a signed statement
preferring sensational charges against
C. C. Smith, former chairman of the
prison board, recently pardoned from
a five-year penal sentence by Governor
Brewer. Smith testified recently before
the committee and made some ugly
charges against Superintendent Gath
ings, among other things alleging that
the superintendent was personally re-
sponsible for the holocaust at the Oak
ley farm last summer in which thirty
convicts lost their lives. In his reply
DR.. Gathings denies responsibility for
the Oakley disaster, and goes after
Smith in rough-and-tumble fashion. He
claims that Smith kept large quanti-
ties of whisky at the prison and dis
pensed same freely to certain members
of the legislature and other visitors.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26

Miss Frances leighton After Precious
Metal In Sierra Madre Noun
talns In Mexico.

Los Angeles CaI.-The desire for
wealth is implanted in the hearts Of
most people. but It is not everyone
who will undertake heavy manual
labor In order to attain It. Whatever
else may be said OF the modern girl.
1t cannot be said that she Is afraid
of soiling her hands in a worthy
cause. and one enterprising young
lady has even taken to prospecting
In the hope OF acquiring wealth.
Her name Is Miss Frances Leiglston,
and she is prospecting through a sec
ton Of the Sierra Madre mountains in
Mexico. in search Of a gold mine which
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
40 ESCAPE IN HOTEL FIRE
Milwaukee HosteIry Burns to the
Ground With Loss Of Two Hun
dred Thousand Dollars.

Milwaukee, Wis.-About forty guests
of the windsor hotel we're compelled
to flee for their lives when fire broke
out in a book binding plant in the
south portion of the building and
burned out the four-story structure,
with $500 900 loss. At first it was
feared that a score of guests had been
trapped on the top floor of the hotel,
but all are thought to have been res
cued. The cause of the fire is un-
known.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26

she beNeves her grandfather discov-
cred, but did not make known.
This young California girl goes
about her work in the most business
like fashion, and wears a costume
which is at once sensible and becom-
ing She wields the pick with great
energy, and certainly deserves to find
the treasure upon which her heart is
set.
Whether she finds it or not, such
an open-air life is not to be despised,
and has many advantages over the
life of the business girl in crowded
towns, who is too often deprived Of
the fresh air and exercise so essential
to good health.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
TWO DEAD IN DETROIT FIRE
one Man Missing and Scores Are In
iured as Result of Burning OF
Five Story Building.

Detroit, Mich.-Two bodies have
been recovered and third is believed
to be in the ruins of five-story brick
building swept by fire. Two men we're
injured and two-score of employees, in
Guiding a number of young women, es-
caped from the blazing building. The
property loss was estimated at $780,
600. John Law and Walter Libbey,
who lost their lives, were employed in
a machine shop on the fifth floor. A
man named Todd, who worked on the
same floor, is missing.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
CANNOT Adjourn March 2s.

Although both branches Of the legis-
Iature agreed to adjourn sine die on
zSth of March, leaders in both bodies,
after scanning the calendars, prophesy
that it will take until April to dis
pose of the actually important busi-
ness, to say nothing of several score
measures of more or less merit pend
ing with favorable committee reports.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-03-26
GREAT FOREST FIRES RAGE
Flames Threaten to Destroy the Fa
NOUS National Redwood Forest
in California.

San Jose.-Fire, which broke out il
four different places in the Santa Cruz
mountains, is threatening destruction
to the famous national redwood for
est. and the force of 200 men who
have been fighting the flames for
twenty-four hours have sent in an
urgent call for help.
The four fires have each burned
over a square mile of forest, and one
of them, now less than a mile away,
is eating its way rapidly toward the
giant redwood trees in the national
forest reserve.