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The Meschacebe " - rPUasLnsD WleKLe. RESERVE. : : : LOUISIANA. NEWS OF THE WEEK THE LATEST NEWS OF THE YfORLD BRIEFLY TOLD. -1 MciI z t the Vati can ,pr tivesccredited to the gowa p possblgy will take part 'in ieexpected pom gesl to settle the Balkan uituation, to use their influence in fator of-peace. The muddle over tax matters in Oklabuma is stll- further complicated by 4ie isvery that several of the eItle* and. towan o the state rthat a.e .have made tax levied may have r a ;aym new one. Questions A. bees. raised as to thelegaiity of asluvIestt n., Oklahoma City , ana ro ossham . Sthat thi e Brittsh navy should be ket up to the "two power" standard extdus Omuch eaium. -Mbtor M. retcal submitted his res 'to the preifdent Friday as secretary of the.. navy. ,a4. it was -op7 ,Epto.d, to take effect PD i 1. It was immediately ai laued that Truman H. Newberry of ebilgaor the last three years as sIseP rewt~r of the navy, will be . m t'eOCk, th setar, who IL gas 1 bal.snesa, snc s @s o of Mx iantdsmelits et 4ges brought was adisearged w -s Jer. .use t reeas wode - r w.. + fl.. Segregation of the sexes in Chica go high school is to be put to an elaborate test in the ner future if the plans of F. G. Cooley ,superintendent ot schools are carried out. Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia, an uncle of- Emperor Nicholas, died in Paris of pneumonia. The grand duke has lived in Paris almost continuously since his retirement from the position of supreme director of the navy, which he held for twenty-four years. Representative P. P. Campbell of Kansas intends to push his anti-option bill in cogress, - measure aimed at bucbaket-shops and option dealers. brewery interests, beleviag that it tlW Amu enlt in politics that Pined the defeat of Governor Sheldon' 'While sleeping with his brother, Andrew Rumfelt, 22 years old, who lives six miles southeast of here, was shot and killed. He was single. The brother, Martin, who is a few years Andrew's senior has been charged by the coroner's jury with the act. Heedless of the warning of the German Reichstag and the federal council of the German empire, Em peror William is determined to uphold his personal power and to to exercise just as great a personal influence in both foreign and domestic affairs in the future as he has in the past. .-The Chinese legation at Washington received official confirmation of the death of the emp'ror and empress dowager of China. he- emperor died Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock and h~i tee fDowager~sat 2 o'clock , iae*tmg the sheriff .of jured in, a battle between white and negro citiseas. In a boiler explosion of the Miller Lumber company plant at Pound Gap, Ky., four men were killed and four seriously injured. The dead: John Hubbard, Rollo Plemming; Willie Tackett;, Mullins Elbert and Manager. Miller of the plant wll die. The Zeppelin Airship company, headed by Count Zeppelin, has an nounced Its intention of seeking the north pole by means of a dirigible baloon. B'ii b Firn "e ~bm i · to ameet the special desands of a polar MI and the start will be made from Northern preden. Lii amthdug iw the last daca IORP the eaBI postal .eflt is the history of the country p6taIc78.LW t.& in tbe·tmr IIbe pyre., ' et ' - a als his ;ost : cbmber ` %. a iiiiii% ,'t ýºsii.·aa 5: : r~e ar t of the navy burs ma~-~ti c _t. ~Biiniptj4. at ~its3 º : ati$qa ig# i .0 e firshiip. t~0: a amt~ b~ic I -mler* it ait it m;eua ~eulas y aý -ý' at' ~t i I CONFESSES TO BIG FORGERY -tBich Chicago Real Estate Man'. . Peculations $700,000. lChicago.- Peter Van Vlissingen, a reat estate dealer, for several years classed among the first of Chicago's prospero and reputable business men, confessed ]having obtained through forged deed and notes more than $700,000, and a fe hours after his arrest, on his own urgen f appeal to be punished, was sentenced t i the penitentiary. The arrest, the indic t meat, the co L'asion and the senten were the work or less than four holirs. L t as kidst of business fro Ses'e shortly after the t hour, Van Vlisingen, a venerable It ing man, appeared before the conrt, - in tears, confessed that for frou eigh n to twenty years he had bee sec money through the sale of f u ments, and that though he ght back many of these spurious t ents without detection, at leas twen -five people would lose an aggr te o more than $700,000 through th pa which he has not yet redeemed. ADENOIDS MAKE CRIWNALS There Ale 100,000 N Yor* School Children A tea New York.-Declarati was made by Dr. William H. we, city superi tendent of schools in i city, hMt ade noids in children are so 'mi'ly bate ful that they produ'e depravity4 in btys sad. grls who have them. Dr. all made tids stt a nt in sas g l thgt atit wask' rativerthat board of education be elothed with pive o s en p tar s of chldren p ec I If they are permitted ta remain the is almost certain to .deveaiiji t l tendencies, said Dr Maxwell. "There are 100,000 nhildren in the schools of this city suffering from one serious ailment or other that makes them defective. A large majority of them have adenoids." CAMPAIGN FUND A UITTLE SHY But Dsmecratic Chairman Says An Blls Will Bo Paid. Nei York.--The Democratic national committee finds itself unable to meet the epenses of the late campaign. Chair man Normla E. Mack mid: "We did not reqqw enough money ta pay all of u obligationas. Ithanl =gaald them as personal obligations.' Mr. Mack ea in, htst the total re rw= ", ; lo ga ba-t ls oer the fahndal conitio, s hano ah that ' peruamanent fieethe. Dl moeat- party would vely arty hey:opened/ either W~shugto or .Oe York .. } ta ý:f 4.-4e. G.We~wuS ` ";:''" - it .. _~i~ eiR the Wilt. p;:;Idu.a .S ~Ee l~~~ NEWS OF LOUISIANA Farmers' Union to Build Warehouse. The building of a large central warehouse at New Orleans, where the planters of half a dozen or more states can store their cotton and hold it until they choose to sell, is now practically assured. rative Union Thursday night en dorsed the scheme by an almost un animous vote and authorized their committee to proceed with the plans. This committee conferred with a similar committee from the New Or leans Progressive Union at 11 o'clock Friday and an agreement was reached as to what the business men san prom ise the farmers and what the farmers can promise the business men. The idea of the Progressive Union's com mittee is to make the warehouse a public one, controlled by a commis sion. Governor Saunders has en dorsed the plan. He says that he will give all the aid desired and will call a special session of the legislature of Louisiana if necessary to make provis ions for the project. The gist of the resolutions passed Thursday night by the Farmers' Union is that the surplus supply of each crop of cotton should be kept at home and for the account of home owners instead of in European ware houses for the account of foreign own era, it being clearly evident that cot-, ton is worth more when marketed as the trade demands than when sold while there is no mill demand. Pound Wandering in Cemetary. Following the arrival of a Catholic priest from De Soto Parish the police reported the discovery of Mrs. Ernest e, of Manfleld, sobbing in the :Greenwood Cemetery, in the north ,eastern suburbs of Shreveport. She had a 6-months-old baby in her arms. She gave no reason for being in the graveyard. Her husband has been cummunicated with at Mansfield, where she is said to have left six children, and r.equested that she be cared for until the arrival of thg priest. She was placed in a hotel near Police Headquarters, but shortly befpre the priest +reached Shreveport she ot away and. started again for the eelnctesy. She claims she left home beeouse she wa tired of staying hee. id selt d she tr id see.lrrby 's . ai eAsln4 o prperty. .She" red Cemmlnsaloe Mst Pill Vacancies. xeureoal reads of Act 2'1 of 1903, .creatfingt a CMmieeiloa-for the Ps biets o the Cosamimna h aust fil arll vacsandes. secios one of the act, a .fer p frwidla or the appointment 'o ite originala mebefs Of the Co pai*ion by the ( ovemnor, says: "Any vracameis Gprripg io "the uenaber sbtp of the iBoiard shall be filled by ah remaiing memebera of the Board, roided the person or persons so aeeted shall reside- l. the ai. part : t~o stt te e hig prpdecesas A Rmkinsnaa 1.~ Cwshd. 0it4 Aýpr4.p rti. bum 1"' r: ~ d~t (ý r f b ktc ýi!ý Abfft d d i~s~-· .aS~~pc·P f .. fSy s_" s , r'ý ^rr y, n. `p "?. fi- ' IJwpO~~esotit;~s auia ;' te arjcitr I~A~.aam ~bi-~me~i.a St~i~l s44 Kswfr~ +QI I8& pi~ fpii Eight Killed, Many Hurt, in Wreck. Eight persons were instantly killed, one fatally injured and twenty-two more or less seriously injured Wed nesday morning at 8:04 at Little Woods, La., eighteen miles north of New Orleans, when New Orleans Great Northern passenger train No. 61 dashed at full speed into the rear end of New Orleans and Northeast ern passenger train No. 9, just is it was pulling out from Little Woods. According to the Great Northern's crew, the Northeastern train was twenty-three minute liate anid the Great Northern wae tAhile-nstautea late, and was running on No. 9's schedule. The Northeastern train's crew contends that the wreck occurred at 8 o'clock. The Northeastern train had stopped at Little Woods. taken on three or four passengers, and was just getting underway. According to witnesses, there was a heavy fog, in addition, Engineer W. A. Blackburn, of the Great Northern train, was busy con versing in his cab with E. Heintz, also an engineer on the Great North rn, and who was riding to the city on the Great Northern engine with Engineer Blackburn and Fireman Peter McCarthy. The Northeastern train consisted of two empty "dead head" passenger coaches in the rear, a white coach, a combination white and colored coach gad a baggage car. The Great Northern train carried its usual equip ment -of baggage, two passenger coaches and parlor car. The Great Northern's engine struck the rearmost empty passenger coach with such terrible force that the en gine drove itself under the coach roof almost to the front end of the car. Fireman Peter. McCarthy, evidently the first of the Great Northern's crew to see the Northeastern train, jumped from the cab a few seconds before the impact. E. Heintz., the engineer with whom Engineer Black burn was said to be conversing, also saw the Northeastern train before the impact, and is said to have lit erally tumbled out of the cab. Both he and McCarthy were injured by their falls. Blackburn saw the North eastern train a second or two before it was struck, and had time to re verse the lever, but no time to lump. in consequence, he,was carried with his engine as it ripped the empty passenger coach in two, but mira culously escaped injury. The second empty passenger coach, known as coach No. 230, driven by the terrible force of the collision, crashed into the rear end 'o passenger coach No. 243, in which 4bere were aioat twelve p.a eng.rs. Caught be the s. *No. 2# ieh at·res d passenger coadh, known as doah NoFo 259, coach No. 243 was .terly g.round to pieces, cnd coach No. ss.hot still further ahea& and adid not stop until it hah `balt -teles~ ec oads No. 2O9, the 'omoi ea.c, It was in ,a eh No, . 4. that the terdble slaughter eccurred. 06 the ten or twelve persons known to have been in that coach only two or three escaped with their lives. TheI otherswere miangled so that they died without Over jaro*In what had o Burred. , istUaatly _Ifled.:-Wly ,Attaway aged 3 ayea.s 8ideU, La., C. B. vwery, 'aged 4 years, General Vana *ges Amlii~dten~l ·Creosote ; co.. Sfdi~ih. La.;L` W - A.' Martin,-5 -4years, SUI Iq Ir4. C. A. Cranford, aged 45 yW3q leagany ]Miss.. 3. L .P.: ,,;howu, aged 64 ears, .Morrlato, Miss,; a. W. 1~favls ·aged 38 ' years, tt," feat, Pearl Blgver rZ,4.as; v reof. C. C' . _r at, ~ght bidpf, averl~d fet of 1 S n , Mlgla y cf 0~et' lfaeti er letgrin,. i and both arm brakn. Mrs. :f. 2. Attawe e il 1? .2e7ua 6le~La. , slight= -des:. Mrs, 1Us , Miss., right :leg ) . en. M4isi "tteaee Jye" , aged 25 esra, x i raa l .~~i d~~~r .ia·j-.jsdEls*. -rrigt. a-~ineIuurIn ICI III ý p·?iBPi~~.- ~ lig of. ~B 1E4~s, age 24 7st (. ;-J - -tbm 2ý" ,kntum aanbos':;. . ""9 .9'? z~. ~ 9- 4 Truth and Quality appeal to the Well-Informed in ever walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable' standing. Accor ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of known value, but one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves the internal organs on which it acts without any debilisng after ffets ¶it wiout havingto inereas the quantity rommlime to time. It acts pleasantly and naturally and truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objection able substances. To get its beneficial effects always purchase the genuine- manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug. Iist. FUN FOR "HAPPY COUPLE." Modern Wedding Described with Pos. sibly Slight Exaggeration. The young pair had so many friends that the police were quite unable to cope with the situation. The bride was headed up'in a barrel and thrown into the river, while the groom was bound and gagged and suspended by his feet from a tall tree. .At. this point the. military was called out and arrived at double quick aust in time to save the baggage from being pasted over with insulting pi. A number of shot were exchanged. At a late hour the city was reported quiet and the authorities, though not denying the popularity of the high contracting parties, were confident that there would be no more violence. -Paclk. iMark Twain on Art. Mark Twain and a party.of friends recently went to visit the studio of a young sculptor who Is coming rapidly Into public notice. One of the pieesm which was admired greatly by the a. jority of the party was the figure of young woman coilins up her hair. Mark listened to the encoeunms in ' silence, and when urged for aye e presalon of opainion said slowly: "It is beautiful, but it is not tr1a to All expressed their surprise u aexpected verdict and S"She ougt to have her * of blirpin" replied Tom tel u noeelt ra th .r -. . theW~ id-, an a the calir, tiaa rweVi ecais ti e he Oyla lien i** 'agiita - Ihe m 'w _Ater" n lkr a inid -------1----------- W ilk --. V~t Week, n*acr i ~ s~ Sk~~ba·~ IP ~ar~ct C-a .rYC: 'i4w*J~ 4m -·f' 81W.ii-~i;: j