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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
MAYOR OF OMAHA
INJURED BY MOB
GOES TO HOSPITAL AFTER BEING
DRAGGED THROUGH STREETS
WITH ROPE AROUND NECK.
LOSING FIGHT OF SHERIFF
Officers Hold Mob Back Until Flames
In Courthouse Compel Surrender
of Prisoner, Who Was HANGED
On Light Pole.

| Omaha, Neb.-Mayor Ed p. Smith,
victim of two attempts at lynching
| Sunday afternoon, lies in a hospital in
| a serious condition as a result OF in
juries received at the hands of a mob,
which later hanged William Brown, a
negro, to a light pole. 1t had been
stated that the mayor was killed by
the mob
The mayor had gone to the court
house and held consultation with
Sheriff Clark. Emerging from the
courthouse, he met the mob and be-
gan to make an appeal for law and or
der. Somebody shouted: Lynch him, -
and a member of the mob threw a rope
around his neck
Half dozen men dragged the may
or half a block and threw the loose
end of the rope over a trolley pole
Twice they drew the mayors body
from the ground. Each time two po-
lice officers cut the rope. Following
the second attempt these officers sue
ceeded in getting the mayor into
police motor car and rushed him to
surgeons office nearby. The mayor
was bleeding from his mouth and nose.
and after a brief examination by ply
sicians, was taken to a hospital.
The riot centered about the magnifi-
cent new $1,500,000 courthouse build
ng which was set on fire in the eff
d0rtS to reach William Brown, negro
harged with criminally attacking a
white girl few days ago.
With the flames mounting steadily
from floor. tn floor Sheriff Mike CLARK
and his deputies fought battle of
hours to save Brown, but at II o'clock.
with the cries of the 100 or more pris-
oners on the top floor-the Jail floor
ringing in his ears, he was compelled
to surrender the prisoner.
The latter was hurried to an cleo
trio light pole and hanged.
The assault with which William
Brown was charged was committed
early in the week. With an escort
crippled beyond the point of resist
ance, the girl met her assailant few
blocks from home in the southeast
part Of the city. He held the couple
up at the point OF a revolver After
robbing the young man he attacked
the young woman in his presence
holding revolver useless.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
ITALIAN DEPUTIES
IN BATTLE ROYAL
MEMBERC OF PARLIAMENT IN
DULGE ri SCRAP AND BODY
is DISSOLVED.
DEBATE WAS TURBULENT
Election For Members of a New Par
Lament Will Be Held on Nov. is
and Body Will Convene on
December list.

Rome.-Parliament was dissolved.
Elections will held Nov. 16, and par
lament will reassemble Dec. 1.
Debate in the Chamber of Deputies
was interrupted by free-for-all fight,
which lasted ten minutes, and in which
about 100 deputies participated. The
opinion is expressed in some quarters
that the cabinet, as a result of the
riotous incident, may decide to resign
rather than plunge the country into a
struggle during the general election.
1t is asserted the fight in the chamber
Indicates what will occur in the coun-
try.
The correct figures for the vote OF
confidence given the cabinet was 20S
To las, instead of 20S to 40. as at
first reported.
In consequence of the fight in the
chamber several challenges TO fight
duels were announced between depu-
ties and between deouties and jour
nalists.
A prolonged heated discussion pre-
ceded the riotous scene. The members
of the parliamentary league insisted
upon asking the government whether
it intended to discuss the treaties be-
fore adjournment Premier Nitti an
swered that he would first have
vote of confidence and then whatever
cabinet should be in power would de
eide what should be done. Thereupon
members of the parliamentary league
invaded the ministers bench, shout
ing and gesticulating.
A party of socialists then rushed
from their seats and faced their ad-
versaries, the group soon engaging
in fisticuffs.
Premier Nitti, who had left the gov
eminent benches returned to his place
when the disturbance had somewhat
subsidized. He was greeted with ap
plause.
All the members OF the Chamber OF
Deputies, with the exception OF the
official socialists, voted confidence in
Premier Nitti. Ten members refrain
ed from voting.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
POET O'ANNUNz|O
DECLARES WAR
ANNOUNCES THAT HE CONSiD-
ERS HIMSELF IN STATE OF
WAR WITH JUGO-SLAvTA.
CITY is ABLAZE WITH FLAGS
Streets Are ThronGed With Soldiers.
Many Veterans of the Great War
Are Lined Up With the
Spectacular Poet.
Fiume.-"I consider myself in a

Funnel consider myself in q
state of war with Jugo-Slavia."
Gabrielle dAnnunzio thus proclaimed
from the municipal palace of Fiume
He also announced that measures had
been adopted to meet any attack from
the enemy
Troops had been sent to the first
line of reserves, ready to answer any
need. Thus far the Italian Red Cross
has not appeared on the scene for
the purpose of giving assistance to
those within the city if necessary.
Fiume is ablaZe with flags, her
streets are filled with marching SOL
diers and her air is vibrant with the
the command of Capt. Gabrielle dan
nunzio, marched into the city and still
firmly hold it
Italy's flag, with that of the city
OF Fiume. predominant, the only for
eign banner being the French tri-col-
or floating over the French naval
headquarters. remnants bearing the
words viva Italia.'' and Capt. dan
nunzio's slogan, "Fiume or DEATH
mingled with red, white and green of
Italy and the violet and blue and yell
low of Fiume.
The correspondent reached Fiume
from Trieste, being buried in the coal
in the tender OF a locomotive for the
last part of the journey TO avoid
guards along the way.
Soldiers are everywhere in the city,
motor trucks lurch through the
streets, carrying men from one point
to another and hundreds of troops
may be seen at any hour marching
with the greatest precision and with
the strictest military discipline, the
whole scene being similar to that TO
be encountered at a great Italian mil
itary post. Men from all regiments,
arms and branches of the service
seem to be here. Among them are
thousands of veterans of the great
war, a majority of the men wearing
three or four service medals, as we'll
as those indicating they volunteered
for the fighting here. One lieutenant
on the staff of Capt. d'Annunzio wears
six wound stripes, while men who
wear four or five stripes are frequent
ly met.
Capt. d'Annunzio's headquarters are
established in the government palace,
which has been converted into a yer
table general staff building, filled
with different departments. The pri-
vate office of the poet-aviator over
looks the city. The building is the
finest on the Fiume, having beautiful
sculptures, elaborate staircases and
furniture
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
RUSSIANS FLOG AMERICAN
Most Serious incident, and Apology
Is Demanded BY Major-Gen-
eraI Graves.

Vladivostok. = Maj. Gen. William
s. Graves, commander of American
forces in Siberia, has demanded an
apology from Gen. Rozanoff, in com
mand of Russian troops in Priamur
province. for the arrest of Capt l.. P
Johns of the Twenty seventh Regi-
ment and Corporal Benjamin Sperling
of the Thirty-first, and the flogging
of the latter by Cossacks commanded
by Gen. Kalmikoff. An investigation
of the conduct of a Japanese officer
at Imam. the place where the arrests
tool. place, also has been begun by the
Japanese command The incident
which occurred Sept. 5. is considered
one of the most serious since the
allies landed in Siberia.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
SAVING our BACON
Origin of an Ancient coIIoqui-
alism in Connecticut.
Expression Used When Debtor Gets
Best of Creditors by Question
able Methods in Bust
ness Deals

Distribution and sale of the govern
ment supply of bacon brought To the
minds of many who are acquainted
with old sayings the ancient colloqui-
| alism, Saving ones bacon" The
thrifty housewife. laying in store of
the smoked meat, assures her near
neighbors that she is saving her ba-
CON-" The housewife, of course. is tell
ing the truth. but as she repeats the
ancient colloquialism she fails to use
it in its proper sense.
The housewife who is so gay over
Saving her bacon" would be horri-
fed and justly provoked if her neigh
Dor would reply: what You cheating
your creditors?'' And that is just what
she means if she employs the term
properly. The story of the origin OF
the cclloquialism is credited to Con
necticut, according TO the Hartford
Times.
In the days when the Charter Oak
was green and Sir Edmund Andross
was more green. New London boosted
of a citizen of the name of Fitz John
Winthrop. He was a sailor. and more
over of literary tastes. These tastes
We're more distinctly commercial. That
is. while he was quite a bibliophile on
his own account, and had a goodly
store of books. he was in the business
of collecting books for others. Prob
ably because he was something of
connoisseur. the colonist who coveted
foreign published books engaged him
TO obtain them when he was in port
on ho ntf, hni T.
fads, he would, of his own account,
make the purchases, and bring them
over, disposing of them at n fair profit.
Among the customers was a lawyer
who was also interested in shipping.
politics and several other things which
in our later day might go by the name
of speculations. AT the time when he
was flush with money he would invest
in books. and depute Capt. F1tZ John
to obtain them abroad. Among other
works for which he had something
of penchant were those of Lord
Bacon. He managed to have quite
stable importation at different times.
On one occasion, when the captain
came into port and brought him
bale of books. he found the lawyer In
nna1cfal ulllcult1eS OF SiiduA CudI-
acter. On the following day the prop
erty was to be "distrained. Under
the colonial law among other things
exempt from the claws of the creditor
was meat of various descriptions and
quantities. Bewailing the fact that his
books must go under the hammer, he
was disconSolate when the captain
came with the additional volumes. He
had a decent supply of wits and he
and the lawyer, working industriously
by night. managed to stow away
good deal of the library in meat bar
relS in the cellar. On top of each was
a layer of bacon in coarse salt. The
following day, when the sheriff's clerk
came with his red chalk, he scrawled
his s'X'' on each of the barrels, and
the contents were exempted. Ii must
have been some time later when Capt.
Fitz John related the story, and man.
aged to add, Leave it to any one if
them bar'ls didn't hold Baconi' And
so when debtor got the best of his
creditors by questionable methods, the
got to be known as say
ing ones bacon"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
SUGAR BOARD Is TO QUIT
Equalization Board Notifies President
That the Work X Was Appointed
To Do Is Completed.

New York-President Wilson has
been advised by the u. S. sugar equali
zation board, it was learned here that
in it's opinion it is 100 late TO consider
a continuation of government sugar
control throughout next year. The
board automatically goes out of office
Dec. 81.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
ASKED TO CANCEL SPEECH
Citizens of Ardmore, in Mass Meeting,
Decide They Dc Not Want
Senator Reed.

Ardmore. Okla.-Ardmore citizens,
in mass meeting, sent a telegram to
Senator James w. Reed of Missouri,
demanding that he cancel his Ard
more speaking date IN opposition to
the league of nations. Resolutions
were adopted indorsing President VIII
son aud the league
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
Fathers Foot

ITS II absolutely necessary that I
speak TO your father:" asked the
wooer after the girl of his heart had
promised to be his.
"Why. of course. He is the head OF
the family. you know"
.Tt isn't the head of the family I'm
afraid of; it's the foot" London
Ideas.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
Force of Habit OnIv.

BILLY Youngdad's baby is beginning
to talk now" said Jones to Smith. the
other day.
"Why. has he been boring you with
stories about it?'' said Smith.
mo. but ! sat near him at luncheon
today. and / heard him say absent
mindelly to the waitress. 'Dimme a
Slnky water p'ease.' London Tit
Bits
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
ONE WAY TO GET RESULTS
Ohio Bakeries Are Fined for Fixing
High Prices and Ordered to
Make Reduction

Columbus. O.-Four large Columbus
5aklng companies indicted August D,
n charges of violating the Valentine
nti-trust law il com bining to fix the
Price of bread, entered pleas of guilty
nd were fined $1,000 and costs each
assessed a penalty of $50 per day from
day of Indictment and ordered to re-
luce the price Of bread to what it was
5efore the combination was entered
into
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
Practical.

The Weilwisher-Did you read
about that awful tornado disaster7
Sad wasn't 1t?
The Efficiency Expert-very sad.
Just think of all that energy absolute
" wasted.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
co-operation Assured.

MISUNDERSTANDING OF co-opera-
ton in the campaign to reduce the
cost of living being received by the
department of justice from many ma
tional trade organizations is declared
to be very gratifying"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10

Elaine, Ark.-Under guard of 500
federal troops. overseas veterans of
the Third Division, rushed here from
Camp Pike. Ark. Elaine was quiet at
midnight following two days and two
nights OF race warfare, which resulted
in the killing of o. z. Lilly, prominent
real estate man and member of the
! board OF aldermen of Helena; and Cor
poral Earle of headquarters company.
| fourth infantry; slight injury to Sergt.
] Pearl b. Gay, headquarters company,
fourth infantry, which brings the total
white dead to five and the injured to
five, one serious. Corporal Earle was
rushed to the Helena hospital where
ne underwent an operation. He died
at 1880 o'clock.
Eleven negroes are known to be
dead, and reports are that at least a
dozen are still in the canebrakes, but
their bodies have not been recovered
Gov. Charles Brough of Arkansas
and Chaplain E. C. Sliney. Catholic,
3Sth infantry, Boston, Mass, had
narrow escape as they were following
battalion of soldiers through the cane
brake, when three bullets whizze1 past
them. The governor and chaplain hit
the dirt" as have many of the veterans
of the world war The governor fol-
lowed the troops through three or four
miles of the canebrake as they were
searching for negroes and taking pris-
oners found lettering about.
More than $50 negroes had been ar
rested at midnight by the troops and
are confined in the basement of the
school house here. A heavy guard was
on duty Among the number were
several injured negroes who had slight
wounds dressed by the army medical
men.
A score or more of high-powered
rifles and pistols had been captured
by the overseas veterans of the Third
Division who were rushed here. and
much ammunition was found in old
shanties and houses of the negro res
idents.
o. r. Lilly was killed by a negro
OF Helena. who. with three other
blacks were being taken to the Phil
lips county Jail Mr. Lilly was acting
as guard and was sitting in the rear
Of a seven passenger car with the ne
groes nearby. One said to be black
named Johnson. jerked Lilly's pistol
from his pocket and shot him four
times in the breast. He died in a few
minutes. The negores were imme-
diately shot and their bodies thrown
to the side of the road. One of the
negroes was DR.. ID. f. Johnson. negro
dentist of Helena, who officers and
citizens say has been instrumental in
getting plantation negroes to quit their
work and arm themselves. Citizens of
Helena were said to be looking for the
Johnson negro. A brother of this ne
gro is said to have shot Lilly
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
New Beacon ON Superior.

Eagle River, Mich To cheat the
graveyard" of Lake Superior of furth-
er victims after taking toll OF Great
Lakes shipping for nearly a century.
the United States government has just
completed construction of light sta
ton aid to marines five miles east of
this point.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
SHIPPING Suspended.

Shipping in American
ports. SO far as it concerns shipping
board vessels with cargoes consigned
to ports of the United Kingdom. was
at a standstill because OF the strike
OF British railway workers.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
President yerx Sick MAJ.

Washington President Wilson is a
very sick man." WIS the announcement
made by DR. Grayson in his bulletin
on the presidents condition after the
president had been Under the ohserva-
tion of three specialists called as con-
sultants
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
Serious Times in ENGLAND

London Industrial stagnation
threatens the United Kingdom. All
hopes for an immediate settlement
are blasted by the obstinate refusal
both OF the railroad workers and the
government to get together.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
SERIOUS RACE RIOT
NOW IN ARKANSAS
RESULT OF AMBUSHING or OFF,
GERS BY ARMED NEGROES
WHO WERE MISLED.
BATTLE STAGED AT ELAINE
Nearly Score of People Known To Be
Dead AS Result Of Clashes Gov.
Brough and Army Chaplain
Fired Upon.

Helena, Ark.-Serious race riots
have resulted from the ambushing and
killing OF officers by armed negroes in
the neighborhood of Elaine, twenty
five miles south of this city
1t seems that the negroes were in
cited to acts of violence by a white
man, who had been for some time ad
vising them to seize the cotton fields
by force. and promising the sending in
OF a federal agent who would purchase
the seized cotton.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
a. C. L. In Elections.

Paris.-The cost of elections this
autumn is expected to be about three
times as high as those of 1914 This
is due to the advanced cost Of print
ing, travelling and incideatals.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
Armenians in Dancer.

Washington. - Practically the en-
tire male population of Armenia will
be exterminated unless the Turks and
Tartars are checked by some outside
force according to state department
reports.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
Italians Seek Aid.

Rome The Italians at Trau, Dali
malta, have requested the Italian gov
srnment to send a ship TO Trau for
their protection and also to obtain
the release of prominent Italians ar
rested by the Servians.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
Fear Many Are Lost

Madrid-Many casualties have re-
suited. il is feared. from the floods
caused by excessive rains throughout
the countrv. particularly in the city
Of Cartegena
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
Indorse Woman SUFFRAGE.

Salt Lake City, Utah--The Utah
state senate, IN special session here
passed the amendment to the national
constitution providing for suffrage for
women.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
TRY TO WRECK TWO TRAINS
BouiGers Were Placed On Tracks, But
No Harm Results Military
On Guard

London.-Two attempts to wreck
trains running between London and
Brighton by placing boulders Oh the
tracks were reported. Military forces
are now guarding the line
Strikers in Scotland have blockaded
two trains. The London K Brighton
company deny that Is per cent Of the
engine drivers and firemen of their
line have resumed work.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10

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Druggists 75c. Testimonials free
T. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
THE blues
Caused by
Acid-St0n1aCh

Millions of people who worry. despon-
dent, have spells OF mental depression. feel
blue and often melancholy. believe that
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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
British Troops in Odessa.

Vienna--Troops from the British
fleet in the Black Sea have been land
ed at Odessa and have occupied the
city, according to advices received in
Budapest.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
Issue Storm Warming.

Washington.-The weather bureau
Monday issued a bulletin warning YES
sells off the Florida coast to take pre-
cautions against a tropical disturbance
in that vicinity moving north or north.
east.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10

Rone-The shutting off of British
coal from Italy because of the railway
strike in Great Britain, of which no.
tice was given by the British govern
ment, will be seriously felt in this
country.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
Volcano IN ERUPTION.

Honolulu. Two ranch homes and
much valuable koa forest have beer
destroyed by tie lava flow from the
Istest eruption Of the volcano of Mau
"a Loa On the island Of Hawaii.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10

Paris.-A resolution demanding that
Fiume be made an Italian city has
been adopted by the Italian chamber
Of deputies. according to information
received By the Italian delegation. here.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
To 70 y. 8. Senate.

Paris--Now that France has ratified
the peace treaty the opposition n
the United Statnsssenafe holds the fate
Of the world In its hands.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
New Ambassador Arrives.

WaShington.-Visco Grey. the
new British ambassador to the United
States. has arrived from New York.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10

Rome--Premier Nitti was given q
vote OF confidence by the chamber OF
deputies. which continued in session
all night The government received
Lz08 votes to 40.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-10
Not Claiming Too Much.

Are you the captain Of your soul :"
sSort of second lieutenant" ven
tured Mr.. Henpeck dubiously.-MaD-
chester Evening Gazette.