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The Meschacebe PUBLISHED WEEKLY. I; .DGARD. a ! : LOUISIANA NEWS OF THE WEEK LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD TERSELY TOLD. IOTH, EAST, SOUTH lAD WEST Happenings in Foreign Lands and Throughout the Nato n Chron icled in Paragraphs. An unsuccessful .ttempt was made to assassinate Premier Brand while the chamber of leputies was in ces sion in Paris. A man who has not yet been identified fired a shot at the minister from behind a pillar. The shot went wide, but strike M. Mir man, who was standing beside the pr.mier, and wounded him. Miss Sarah Cadin od Trenton, Ill., was found dying on the beach at Long Beach, Cal., with a bulltk wound in her forehead. A party motor g on the beach took her to a hospital, where she died. No revolver was found, but Ihe accepted theory Is that she killed herself. A Chinese porter in a hotel in Nel son, B. C., killed himself by crawling into a raging furnace. An hour later iis carbonized body was found. In his inaugural address delivered before the legislature Gov. Emmett O'Neal declared Alabama's prohibi tion laws to be an invasion of indi vidual rights and constitutional guar antees, and declared the attempt to t insert a prohibition clause in the stne I constitution to be an offspring of intolerance ant bigotry. A boiler explosion on the towboat T. N. Davis blew First Engineer Wii liam Byeriy into the river. His body has not been recovered. The acci-' dent occurred six miles north of 1 Cairo, Ill., on the Ohio -river. Substantial reductions in the prices b 'of staple foodstuffs were reported in I the large grocery stores and the gro cery sections in the department stores I in the loop district of Chicago, follow- P ing the decline in South Water street market quotations on these commodi: ties consequent upon the breaking up of the food trust and the disgorging r from cold storage of large quantitie of butter, cheese, eggs and poultry. Sea.~tor iPurIEell ~4'North Dakota b introduced a iesoldIap in the senate declaring Secretary of the Interior Ballinger to be an unfaithful servant sand asserting that he sahod no longer be retalned in that otffice. Preferring -death to physical help lesnhesa, Henry R. Whitmore, 68 years old, former assistant secretary, ,f the Merchanta exchange and a pioneer business maa-.of St. Louis, jumped from )an eighth-floor window of the Margunette hoteI in that city. A note explained the dedd and that it was dae to paralysis. 1ri 'tftt sal to congress aha special magage urgins-the, tortifls- , lan of the Panama; canal aia recom asuding an apoproiation "of $6,00;i-l for V-ti wok;, at the poesent sea .dbefr oto aremgen were s - rt. tre e a,( then as sertously. that s *hiusPto ba d 4 bel i eS 0to 5. p1 tl0 , an B kept thtpenremmon tip jump. t he b ia~ei oat the Imarty to tucceed , - \ ha This. ,mue s are know to bte: barn kla~isI the b~ody~r aj fouirith Is .the 5 - _k~~ ~P~- P kii OciOS ~~~IO 2_,bs '~pt Jfh -lletit ·-.·"iri-~o"~~j~itier- tbe bi~~~~~inE1T i~ir8 hO w-:~~~~lcll9 President Taft has nominated Rep resentative Walter i. Smith (,Rep.) Iowa, to be United States circuit judge in the Eighth judicial circuit to succeed Judge Van Devanter, re cently elevated to the supreme court bench. The crew of the (-e"inan subma rine torpedo boat V 3 were prisoners at the bottom of Kiel bay fo" sip hours. Divers from a "parent ship' wcrxed frantically to get chains about the disapied- boat so that it .'uld be draw:. toithe surface. All of the crew were unht' t. One man was k':led, one fatally, two seriously a-id fbur c '.ers slightly 'T injured :1 Chicago by the fall of a 1 scaffc:i on which plasterers were working inside the auditorium of the Columbia theater, on -Clark street, nd near M'lis,,u. The army appropriatio'n hil, ca.rry. ing aver $93,000,000 for the year e:;d. i1. .tune 30, .112, passed the house in Wash :.gton. 1 de A bank clerk en.rusted with $52, 5ie 500 to take fr a Paris to Zondýd. loel the money when he became acquaint. Is ed v':h two men on the jo: ney. The te men are being sough'. te Eight men met almost instantane ous death s~d o.e was so severely ie burned that he probably will die as I a result ot a boi'. r explosioil aboadni the battleship Delaware, the cause i 1., of which is yet unexplained. The ac at cident occurred about 200 miles sout - id eastof the Norfolk nav, yard. g The grand jury returned a-: indict L1, me : charging first degree murder S against Edith Melber, the confessed t murderer of aer four-year-old sor i George, near Albany, N. Y. t I- Three negroes were taken from the g county jail in Shelbyville. Kv., by a tr mob of 20 a iaed and masLed men a-i hanged from. th, C: tesapealt ' & d Ohio railroad Bridge. The men tt lynched were Eugene Ma. aall, who y i- had been convicted of kiL aog an aged 1 i- negress and had been sentenced to c r- the penitent:,.ry for life; Wade Pat- f, o terson, charged with detaIning Miss t a Elizabeth Ruble, 19 years old, and f James West, charged with beating c Miss Mary Coley, a white ,irl. Lt Millions of pounds of cold storage 1- butter, eggs, cheese and poultry, some C y sf it as much a-, five years old. ac s I' wording to estimates of dealers, are a f about to thrown on the market and h sacrificed at whatever price +, ey will s bring, as the result of the collapse t a within the last few Gays of the "food h r lrust" which by steady aggression has s s piled prices of provisions up to their te p-resena figures. s. t The postoffice appropriation b !", d tarrying $253,000,000, was ciatpleted a )y the house committee un postoffices. rhe amou>t is an increase of $10,000, 3 00 over the last appropriation. 1 Truxillo, Honduras, was captured at by the revolutionists after a hard 11 akirmish with the small squad of gov- is arnment soldiers. The government ti lost seven killed; including the mayor- t. Ie plaza, and 12 wounded. United States Senator Isaac Steph mnson of Wisconsin is charged with a number of violations of the laws la of Wisconsin in a leigthy statement Yt .Ied wlt Governor McGovern by the ti l9 ste senate committee in its at report on the investigation of the T p riawJy mpaiI wad-election of Sea- lo qiscouraged and weary of life be :ause, according to her own state 'sent, she had been deceived by the 52 ntan to whom she had made the last In sacrifice a woman can make, Mrs. sa tice Poebler, 25 years old, of Gath- in le, Ind., shot Carl V. Stovey, 20 years 10 ald, of Columbus, Ind., above the heart, and then turned the revolver an herself in a room at the Hotel Braden, Indianapolis. Both the man Ov SaLre believed to have been be iso d: j t - a SAfter believing herself a widow 23 r tears and fnallyiaarrying again, Mrs. X Ida Mattox, wife of Rev. C. 1. Mattox, d `Baptist M ie1ate in Sprinagfield, Mo., has learned that ihe has two hus e banldai MrdaS. "Mattoa'b first husband, SA. .:Diad instead of being dead, as d ballered, bhas been found to be * Eying conuty, Texa.i ill, report that the. I Sriaa again is in a crittical condi b t, mowgher trip to Bad Naa SIte, 3obtlAed from . attaches of t sLaco.l -Th trip to Bad Si a brought only temporary re F ,al te- a rna'se nervous die L +. anid asncholta retuaned al t isiltn with her return to besee.11 s condition has .ro. .W5 l 41 worse, until it is now .. cared y a few mae days are left A boy was Lape fsir persons 'Mo ei~.~a~di k~Ps ~a aa w hE par < eas ing struckas 8 fotaf 5ar onaatp raas root ,ry at mlaeswo a~ii) eake to :~bjth~ecrie l State Grows 52 Per Cent of Country's Rice Crop Baton Rouge.--That Louisiasa pro pro d.oes 1.84 per cent of the .corn of P this country, 2.2 per cent of the el, tire cotton c' p of the countr.. 52 per cent of the 'otal rie crop wised in the United States ai~d 4.14 per ly, nt of the total 'innsge of sugar 1 care rr .:ed in tae world are some Svtr, interesting fact, fathered ty re Dr. A. F. Kidder ,; the College of Ag riculture of Iue Louis.'.na State Ua· .ersi::., who, expanding c,. . Lot'i 1. !:a's part in rý`sing tue wo' crops d. during ', )9-1910, -Lys: se "'be total acreage of corn , aie United States for the se-.mn "', 1909 amounted to 108,771,000, producing 2,772,276,,30 t;ashels, which were worth on tDecembe- :, 19( + ,,6, 982,000. The average yield per acres e- for the entire nr.. on was 25, bush-' y els. Louisiria produced only :.84 s per ce a of this enormous- crop, wi'h d 51.198,000 bushels ', her , -edit. Lou -e Isaarc's yie.lt per atre was :elo'- the general average by 2.5 bushels. "It wou:d rot be wise to predict an increase in the ) .id c, cottoin. However, du:' rg the last six yea, s d the average yield per acre in Louis iana has. been v rer ei by .16 ct' bale than t',, same f;- a;l cotton e growing :,tes. But Louisiana hi produced on;. 2." per cent of the en tiie amount, so our yields should necessarily be greater. :.e average yield per "-r duting the period ..im 1904 to 1909, inclusive, for the entire cotton belt has been .39 of a bale. and for thi. state d'-"ing the same time was 55 of a bale. 500 pounds of li, cottlt, representing a be-. "hice is the only crop in whic, ouitiana" i ex-elling.ir prtou odu.cio. On compa ing the acreage of this state with the total amount in all Ih- states, it is found that Louisiana has 52 per cent of it, her acreage be ing 375,000, and :',e rer: aining states' having oaly 345,225. There :, the same percentage of variat'an f the total yield, it being in favor of the same state. Louisiana does not pro duce the highest ave :r:ge yield per acre, that honor going to Arkansas at 40 bushels, yet she does produce 12,675,000 bushels, 38.9 bushels per, acre, while all the other states have E 11,693,00t to their credit. The yield is usual:y calculated in sacks, and the average sack will contain about two and a half bushels. The amount et rice sown could be increased, be cause under the present conditions t large areas are fallowed for several l years and produce nothing but pas- g tures, which are not used as profit ably as it is possible for them to be. The rice lands of Louisiana are no longer new, consequently better meth- t ods of rice culture must be practiced if this state is td continue producing 52 per cent of the total amount raised k in the United States. The amount of sugar, both cane and beet, produced in the world for the season of 1909 10 was 14,495,690 long tons, that is, a ton containing 2,240 pounds; but the amount of cane sugar is slightly over one-half that, or 7,844,320 tons, - being 54.25 per cent of the total amount produced; 325,000 tons repre sents the production of Louisiana, which is 4.14 per cent of the total tonnage of cane sugar. British India:, 6 Cuba and Java were the three lead ing countries in the production of cane. sugar in the season of 1909-10, making 1,800,000 tons, 1,700,000 tons and 1,185,000 tons, respectively. The m United States made more beet than ce cane sugar in 19I9- h, t tinage of at beet sugar being 457,560, but the area o1 In . which beets may be grown is a great deal larger than that which can e be devoted to cane. The number o m beet sugar factories has increased from 36 in 1901 to 62 in 1908, while the acreage has increased from 175, e0 to 364,900 if the same length of t-im." While qe beet sugar prodie tion a gnrmowniager, the cane agar has practically remainee the same. The torm~e will no doubt keep on in ererenai and will therefore become -every year s greater competitor of the cane planter in Lnouslana". S hi 1ew Paper ` Maka Aperia ;nc. S u*e.ý--The Morni ng News has - -ue its a pekiaa Yk" hP. ew Mr~pPf BrpbeI Iarhe. rd an lay 1. Jehasmm -A first es`. q;sp t `las : beci istaled, Iw aNWtlIe s VI fr -;9~t~ie~ Jith thp"7 Farmer Fnds RBaoon in His Field. Amite City.--Geoge Grace, a fa. 'a e'r lith.ig 12 miles east of Amite, we, t cut to his fited to work a :fw ,lorn ings ago .nd i, s surpried .: find a larg€ car,-as balloon ,. the mif:dle of the feld. T.'e balloon was fl' and contai..ed no gas. The only plausible theor; is :aat it was l, st 1:- some one who w"- makylg an ascensi' r, an, N, '.o probab!, ".a: d;a, ,a (.con ser,'ence. Former "f. y' To'wn, Is N')w "Wet." >'elousar. -Ther.. hav< been I . ap plications for license to engage in the liquor bus , ess del ,ing tI' ensuing yea:, and sesr.t- ner bu 'I1 ,gs are br :ag constr bcted for this purpos, and old or,- are being re, aired for similar , es. F, veral licernes ha - already been granted, and ' ae saloo-. is ~ re-lity once again, after : aving b=pe losed f, two Years. Smallpox Near Napctec vi':a. Napoleonville. - At the L:znthly meeting of , e . - utnmtio., po.' e jui. the county coroner reported a case of smallpox at the Napceor:ille sawmill, one a' toe F: .ttenvlle mill anm a third in the town of Ph.ten ville. The latter patient is a 'A.ite man. Precautionary measures were e-tered taken. D.mage ,) Ora.ge Grov Is Slight. Oakdale.-Thr total damage . the u: ange groves over s section of the sta , from the 'ecent snow an Uliftrsirllt h~.vY f ze was comp ativr'v small, ac rding to the latest reports from 'lhe count'- dist-i tS. The garden truck likewise suffered but slight dlamage. Negroes Heid for Burning a Churc" Alexandria.-Three negroes were arrested and jailed here on a charge tof burning a negro church building n'.,r Lamothe. The fire was said to be the result of a disag-:ement over who was to be pastor of the congre gation. Sugar Rolling Season Ends. Plaquemine.-Sugar-rolling in Iber ville parish was brought to a close wheni the Wilberts' Myrtle Grove fac tory wound up the semion's r.n. Nearly 80,000 tons of - cane were ground. e. Cotton Acreage to Be Increased. 0o Ringgold.-Farmers in thks victin - ty are preparing to increaSe theit d cottpn acreage for the piesent year. 1 They think the recent cold wav4 d killed most of the boll weevils. Cash Prizes for Boy Farmers. Alexandria.-The Rapides parliS police jury will offer cash prises from $25 to $100 to boys' corn clubs in the parish for the coming seasqn. Oak Grove's Poll Tax Payments. ", Oak Grove.-Potl tax payments in I West Carroll parish for 1909 were L, 656, and 700 ihi 1910. t f LOUISIANA IN BRIEF. s The Louisiana Pension Board, which e meets in -Idarch, will have an in i crease of $125,000 for distrlbu*on, 1 f and many, names on the waiting list I i of Confederate veterans can be added. Representative Leon 'tocke of Lake I Charles addressed Infayette lis1ness t men on the intercostal canal and wa Il rays project. 4 white man named Posey of Port Hudson was arrested in conection A with the Collette murder case. The meeting of the 4Layette Farmers' Club was a success. ~ Capt. W.- V. Robson, eat of o the Caddo Parish Leve e re signed, and Dr, S.. A. DI o Shreveport was appointed to ucceed him a member. Dr. ~ei r Dowling, presid of the n rioasrn Board . f a i orte to the Shreveport a is aie e had founder SNew Orleans 4t5 i iTtLoquittanfr the PMp at P vil fit at aladtla. s a ~ - ~. *4 . LIGHTS ON WARSHIP AVIATOR ELY USES NEW BIPLANE SUCCESSFULLY. Lands Lightly on Big Platform Erected On Deck of Cruiser Penn sylvania. Sa'i Francisco, Cal-Flying a Curtiss t ,;plane, ,.ugE..e P,. Ely made a success - ul lant.ng on the cruisir Pennsyl Sv mia and an hour later rose from the f deck and .'.w back to W'lfridge field, ;wrlve miles awa-. "2he feat was iccomlplished without a mishap. "at a wire or bo.' of tCie delicate ':ieohani.,l wa- injured and tl t seeming ase of the whole p "form ance '. sened the spectaculp, effort. At 10:,- the ":okout on ane Penn sylvania sighted Ely through the haze and *. e ships roa td a blast of wel cc., e. He c'.mn on at terrific speed and a moment late- circled ar mnd the j;'et, dip; ing in s.iute to e -.h shin, and came 'ip in the wind for the stern of the Pennsylvania. He vas flying low as he neared the shin and dropped ,Jwn as lightly as a gut,, strikir." the platform about iorty feet from the end. The hooks which had be'. a:--anged in the center piec. of the aeroplane lid the:c work perfectly, and the air PLp was brought to a standstill within 25 fee'. When Ely touched the deck he was going at the rate of about 35 miles an hour, b,.' so gradually was the -, ed - hecked "y the dragging of tLe sandbags as .tl - were picked ap in successic:, that he car, to a stand- I still 'm(ittou: dis, -ranging ane- part of tl , mahine. There N.a a great outburst of oheers when it was seen I.Lat the landing had been successful and a rush of the offi cers, v.-itors and sailc,s to greet the i aviatr,r. *a exactly one hour from the time he landed Ely t m)k his se': in the ma. e &;pe rt. d gave the word to let go. The - aeropi~i~lT swept down the 125-foot platform at a rop V the stern with a gentle dip and then rose rapidly over the ships in the har bor. The start was as perfect as the landing had been. R,ising to a .hc;ht Iof 2,00 feet, Ely circled over the ex treme southern part of the city and thte headed straight to the aviation fi.ld. He landed there at 12:13. C CANNOT GO TO U. S. COURTS ing Prohibit Removal of Suits Against Cort to po ations to Federal Courts. rer Washington.-The house of repre re sentatives adopted an amendment to the Moon bill modifying laws relating to the judiciary, which will have the effect of stopping the practice of cor porations doing an interstate business or from taking practically all suits se against them out of the hands of state ac- courts and placing them in the federal I. courts. 're The amendment in full is as follows: "Provided further, that no suit agairiet a corporation or joint stock company brought in a state court of the state in which the plaintiff resides or in which * the cause of action arises, or is whic' 1 the 'defendant has its place of busi sr. ness or carries On its business, shall v4 be removed to any United States court on the ground of diverse citizenship." RAPS MORTGAGE SYSTEM n Booker T. W shington Advises 2,000 ae Negro F ers In Conference, Tuskegee, Ala -Nearly 2,000 negro farmers from Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, and educators from many parts of the country, were present at In the opening of the 'twentieth annual N negro farmers' conference. Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskegee' Institute, opened the meeting with a speech in which he urged the negro farmer to strive for better methods of cultivating the land. h "Colored farmers," he said, 'might a- as well understand from uow on that a, the old methods are passing away and ;t new ones are to take their places. I L refer especially to the' old habit of mortgaging e crop and animals for the money to live on while the crop is being raised." DEMONSTRATE PROHIBITION I Mayor of Town Hands Reins Over to Anti-Saloonists. e Knoxville, Tenn.-A special to the Sentinel from Canton, N. C., s4ys May or Curtis of Canton has turned the control f the town over to anti-saloon advpctet, asking them to demonstrate how the North Carolina prohibition Saws can be enforced. * He has cited two ministers and a _ Inumber of laygen to appear before him T be sworn in as special pollee S-I hs action is a sequel to a stroag prohibition lecture delivered by .ederal Jtdge-J. C. Pritobart formerly a. nited BteSat senator, aid the la I Jgnce of a stirring revival ~andcted by the Rev. George C. Cates, an ervkn s . NR'S HOEE D8 RS. tit 'C V~~~a9 tt~'t "'rrr.f L. :I TRUE. Mr. Fitz-Doctor, rm subject to vr lent fits of late and I wonder at time* that I survive them. Dz;tor-You sort of wonder at the survival of the fittest, eh? COLDS Cured in One Day Munyon's Cold 'Remedy Relieves the head, throat and lungs almost immediate. I Checks Fevers, ps Diacharges ci e nose, takes away all aches and pain. caused by colds. It eures Grip and oh itinate Coughs and prevents Pneumonia. Price 25c. Have you stiff or swollen joints, no mat ter how chronic? Ask your druggist for _iunyon's Rheumatism Remedy and see how quickly you will be cured. If you have any kidney or bladder trou ble get Munyon's Kidney Remedy. Munyon's Vitalizer makes weak me# 'aong and restores lost powers. en ar- · 1--5j g ~ ;ht on ie 4t Us.Itfora-ummtsoy ewe ehkkg.. - i9 sad turkey aim those *(pa ergataI alaabad=mdmy wilfind i h vs laSISm V3stO&t lapew-iso '1eeulthatltcmwsaema~t blesmsb I. bim Dais Dgew.. NOW Ouhinag.a welis 11 "I hase ted Masicess Mmtaag ULI wgti~ctcg reai. 0 !'os+q alPaa n m I cick h fortbs cow has receatl b~em a~ a - SW tI yyý 2.. fi.$1 aL at D a&'Zoinh~s . , = . st1Iy - 4 mlldp ;c. V e n O ra .- u~~dp il il 0 ta O d=mo hidb.basw e ·cfil rtitolw LlhlrdDi, it A. bLairwWa L~r. is~ - - Ud Li. A MMclIl t , & usuinbap dn. Hrr. N ad Isothing d ske 'etMr ad_ S' A-DAR SHR UM ass .. i.rra! ate: C I --- ruug tlt a Fs a~ .kd irrC frAW L i .k vt cllýi.l