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WOMEN TESTIFY IN LEWIS CASE MRS. VAN ALSTINE'S FIRST GRIEV " ANCE 18 BEING A WITNESS. THE MISSOURI LAW IS READ Ceuneel Fer Defendent Would Show Statutes Were Compiled With— Witnesses Lean Forward and Listen to Every Word. St. Louis, Nov. 12.—"Up to this time I have nothing to complain of in my transactions with Mr. Lewis, said Mrs. Mary C. Van Alstine, a witness for the government, upon cross-exam ination Monday forenoon in tho trial of E. G. Lewis in the United States district court. Mrs. Van Alstine, who said her home at Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, stockholder to the extent of $16 WSB was a In the People's United States bank, which Lewis organized. She testified that after the bank went Into a re ceiver's hands she received in ex change for her stock, from Lewis, a trustee's note for $16, payable In three years, with interest payable Bemi-an nually at 5 per cent. She testified that so far the inter est payments had been met. "Then," asks Attorney O'Brien for the defense, "up to this time you nothing nothing to complain of in the matter. The witness hesitated, but aft er the question had been repeated twice, she replied, with considerable emphasis: "No, I have not." She said she had come to St Louis ss a witness and had turned over cer tain letters and papers to the govern ment at the solicitation of the post offiee Inspectors. Mrs. Van AlBtlne, who is about 45 years old, said she was a dressmaker. Jury to 8*e State Law. The Importance which counsel for the defense attaches to the manner in which the People's United States bank was organized and how It was conduct ed during its brief career was Indicat ed early Monday. Shepard Barclay, representing Lew is, told Judge Carland, in arguing for permission to read certain sections of the Missouri banking law to the jury, that it was the purpose of the defense to show that everything in connection with the bank whs entirely regular under the law. He wished especially, he said to bring to the attention of the jury that section referring to the powers of the secretary of state. Judge Carland, who had interrupted the reading, permitted Mr. Barclay to proceed, although, he said, it would not be within the province of the jury to decide whether Lewis' bank has been organized in accordance with the law of the state. At the opening of court Monday morning United States District Attor ney Blodgett requested that all wit nesses in- the cases against Lewis oth er than the one now on trial be ex cused for another week. Jt became parent that the government expects the present case to last at least Week longer. The witnesses first ported at the opening of the Lewis trial last Tuesday and then cused until Monday morning of this week. a in of ap a I Te were ex in of a It the Miss A. C. Penninan of Albion, N. Y., testified that she and her sister In vested $500 each in the Lewis bank and had recovered 85 per cent The government still has a large number of witnesses available for _ ta trial of E. G. Lewis on a charge of using the mails to defraud before Judge Carlaud in the United States district court. Many of these n-i* are women, 20 to 25 of whom, seated together in the room, were highly Interested specta tors of the proceedings in the case last week. court Not infrequently one of them would rice in her place and lean as far forward as possible in her eagerness to catch the words of a witness. Rural Carrier Assassinated. Knoxville, Tenn.. Nov. 12,-James Coffee, a rural n Ail carrisr, whose route was over rough mountain coun try, was found dead, having been shot off his horse by unknown assassins. His mail bag was unopened. It is believed the assassin mistook the mail carrier for bis intended victim. 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MONEY IS 'EASIER SEVERAL SUSPENDED BANKS PREPARING TO RESUME. FIFTY MILLION IN GOLD IMPORTED Bankers Believe Normal Conditions Will Be Restored Inside of Sixty Days. a New York, Nov. 12.—Distinct Im provement is to be noticed in the banking and trust company position. The larger banks, which were more or less embarrassed in the early part of last month, have now virtually adjust ed their affairs and are transacting business on a normal basis. A num ber of the small institutions which were compelled to suspend at the same time are making preparations to resume business. Of even greater im portance was the partial rehabilita tion of the affairs of the Trust Com pany of America and the Lincoln for 45 in of of to Trust Company. As the result of all day and all night conference of last Saturday plans were finally adopted by which the stability of those con cerns was virtually assured, certainly so far as their depositors were con cerned. Consequently these institu tions have been paying promptly the claims made upon them. Instead of fol lowing the dilatory and annoying prac tices formerly pursued. Additional improvement In the banking situation at large is Indicated in the fact that on more than one day this week there were no applications at all for the taking out of loan certificates at the clearing house, are still making heavy drafts for cash upon their New York correspondents and there is no manner of evading these demands. Currency remains at a premium and much discomfort has been experiehced by Individuals of small means who receive their in the form of checks, to say nothing of the more serious restrictions im posed upon manufacturers and other large employers of labor. $50,000,000 in Gold Imported. The total amount of imported goto laid down in this city last week and that now in transit exceeds $50.000, 000. The sterling exchange situation has naturally continued in settled state, the markets of each day showing extremely wide fluctuations. While the rates for sterling exchange are, of course, far above the point at which under normal conditions large exports ox gold would be undertaken, the premium on currency serves to counterbalance the rates at which bus iness is transacted. Interior banks wages a very un a Conservative bankers seem to lie now in agreement in point that it will be unwise to make much greater demands for credit the European banks. The Bank of England raised Its dis count rate to 7 per cent. The Bank of France raised it to 4 per cent, the Bank of Germany to 7(4 per cent, the Hank of Belgium to 6 per cent, the Bank of Bengal to 6 per cent and the Bank of Bombay to 5 per cent. Such a combination of advances in discount rates was almost without precedent and certainly of very It shows In a striking manner the settling influences produced on the world at large by the money strain in the Untied States. upon rare occurrence un The democratic pressure for ready money has been greatly relieved by the arrival of gold and further material relief will be perienced when the balance of the coin secured shall have reached its destination. is e\ Money Becoming Easier. If money were not allowed to freely circulate In the country all business would stop, Including the people who are secreting funds. If there are per sons who have become distrustful of the depository Institution in which their money is deposited, let them de posit it in another institution, but they should bear in mind that In putting it In safe deposit vaults or in bureau drawers at home they are doing that which will work to reduce their Individual income more rapidly than that of any other force that could bo imagined. Wall street itself, it is to be' noted, Is singularly composed der ■ the circumstance, there, judging from the have always turned out in the past, are pretty confident as to what is like ly to happen i B the future, know that within ten days ly $50,000,000 In new gold will be in the country that will serve as a basis of an expansion of credits of over $200,000,000. As the premium on cur rency is fast disappearing, money la becoming easier and ,lt is tie belief of the best -bankers that within sixty days money will be a drug on toe mar ket. own un is peculators way matters They more near BURIED ALIVE IN DEEP MINE NO HOPE OF ESCAPE FOR EN TOMBED PENNSYLVANIA MINER. MAN IS ALIVE AND UNHURT It Would Take s Year to Reach the Workman, Who Awalta Death From Starvation »00 Feet From Surface. Mahoney City, Pa., Nov. 12.—Alive and unhurt, but In darkness that will never be lifted, Michael McCabe, a miner, is awaiting certain death by starvation, 800 feet below the surface of the earth In the Draper colliery, near here. While McCabe was at work he fired a blast that blew away one of the mine pillars. He fled In the wrong di rection and got into a blind shaft. A fellow workman managed to get out jf that wing of the colliery before the roof caved in. The mine breach extends to the sur face, where it yawns 60 feet wide, right in front of McCabe's home, where his wife and six children vainly hope for his rescue. Mine officials say it may be a year before it will be possible to reach the place where the man is shut up. Terse Telegrams Mexican^supreme court decides that the Americans, Richardson, and Harle, must be shot at Chihua hua, Friday, December 6. British nhval officer, accused of ''flippancy'' to German kaiser, may lose his position. Louisiana legislature meets In Politics of the state at Mai a spo clal session. boiling point War spirit is said to be stalking among the delegates to ahe Central American Peace Conference, now in Washington. Citizn of Ardmore, I. T., at Wash ington seeking to defeat appointment of G. A. Porter, as marshal of the East ern district of Oklahoma. Week opens with good banking po sition. Bank reserves comparatively Intact, with $26,000,000 gold steamers for this country. West gets currency. Business disturbances In significant. on ocean Output of lead and zinc in Joplin district may be restricted temporarily because below point of prefit. Grain prices have sharp declines account of money' stringency. France drafts counter tariff niodus vivendi for submission States. on to United Administration is fearful of Japanese exclusion campaign planned for sixtieth congress. Six states represented in congress of Missouri river boomers in Omaha Administration leaders declare gress may repeal Sherman anti-trust law. con Taft will ask $5,525,000 for increase in coast artillery at Pacific Oklahoma will have posts. , , „ . "get-divorce quick law pending enactment of measure after statehood. Harriman, under Mexican conces sion, is building line in Lower Cali fornia which will extend through peninsula. new the Ridgely, at the coming session of congress, will vigorously urge passage of bill to increase elasticity of cur rency. The jury in the Collier murder trial at Pana, 111., has been out for twenty two hours and, as yet, no verdict has been reached. It is said the jury stands ten for acquittal and conviction. two for Every detail in the preparations for the sailing of the battleship fleet the Pacific ocean is now well in hand and by Dec. 16, the date on which the vessels will pass out of Hampton Roads in review before President Roosevelt, members of his cabinet and high officers of the to navy, all arrange ments for the comfort of the route Will have been attended Japanese camphor factories mosa have been suffering from raids by head hunters, several Japanese officials having been killed and their heads carried off. Punitive expeditions are being organized. For the fourth time. Caleb Powers will be put on trial at Georgetown Scott county, Ky., for alleged compli city in the assassination of William Goebel, democratic aspirant men en to. la in For for the governorship of Kentucky in 1900. The triai of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley at Washington on the charge of dering Senator Brown of Utah been adjourned until Wednesday ing to the death of Judge L. * Comas of the District court of appeals If Secretary of War Taft does not visit England on his way home from the east, it will be a keen disappoint ment to his many admirers in the Brit ish Isles. . mur has ow IS. Mc A/Ts, Sores. Burns & Rheumatism THE WORLDS 6REATHST SEWIN6 MACHINE •LIGHT RUNNING ^ pEWHOM $) M C-i ifron want eithera Vibrating Shuttle, Rotary /shuttle or a Single Thread [Chain 3tUoh\ Sewing Machine write to THE NEW HOME SEWINfl MACHINE COMPANY Orange* Mass. Many sewinc machines Quality« but the New Home is made tojwear. Our guaranty never runs out. f • Sold by »«tlioriK«'<i dealers ;onlyv FOR SALB BY/ made to sell regardless of 4 GO TO H-L! IS NOT CUSSIN' Jackson, Miss., Nov. 11. — in an opinion handed down by Justice Calhoon today the supreme court- of this state held that the expression "Go to hell'' was not-profanity, and reversed the circuit court of Alcorn county, in which the matter origi inated. It was styled Rose Stafford vs. the state. The appellant is nogro girl, 12 years of age, who was indicted and convicted for violating the public profanity statute, her offence being jostled on the streets of Corinth by some groe8. It has attracted considera ble notice from the first. it ne GREAT GULFPORT RESORT BURNED Mibüe, Ala.. Nov. 8.—The laun dry of the Great. Southern hotel at Gulfport that cost $500,000 caught Are Friday and the big building seemed doomed, hard fight to save the place, against Sreat odds, as the water supply scarce. Fireman had a WilS A Chicago dispatch says that 1,200 men have been laid off at t he Illinoise ^Central Burnsides shops. Officials of fie company olaim that this number Is not greatly in ex cess of that usually laid off at this season. There is great excitement and surmi&hing of theories among the persons who knew all the time tow to perfect the national financial structure, but could not get listen ers: The new Gilmer Hotel at Coli'mb'i° will be formally opened on the night of the 16th' with a banquet, 1 he Corinthiam editor acknowledges receipt*of an invi tation to be present. Delegates to the American Peace Conference are gathering ai Washington. Cential The moi etary sitnatiod slightly bolter slowly. grows Expensive Peace Guards. Some idea of what it costs to have military protection in Russia can be gathered from the following figures. Prince Naryszkin, whose estates In Lithuania, near the Courtland fron tier, is afraid of strikes and riots. A year ago he asked for some dragoons, who were sent to the manor house and have been there ever since. For this he pays £190 a month to the government. They have already cost him £2,280 in cash, to say nothing of huge quan tities of meat, wood, strew, hay, oats and clover, which he is obliged to give them free of charge. Ail told, he has reckoned that his "protection" costs him about £4,000 a year, such a rate only rich men can afford to feel secure in Russia, ones must run the risk of being looted. —Pall Mall Gazette. are At The poor Boy Kills Baby Sister. Colby, Kas., Nov. 12.—The 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Hoagland killed his baby sister, 1 year old, with old revolver, which he loaded with some cartridges found in a buried tea pot. He did not know tho would discharge when he pointed the revolver at his sister and pulled the trigger. au weapon Snow and Cold in Illinois. Decatur, 111., Nov. 12.—At 10 o'clock Sunday night the temperature through out central Illinois was 20 above zero, the coldest of this season. The change was marked by a snow storm with high wind that assumed almost the proportions of a blizzard. FOR SALE-Thoroughbred Berkshire RT plgS » w° r „ sale cheap. Apply Mrs. J. M. Potts, West Corinth. to PUT CHARITY BEFORE ALL. Father'* Disposition of Money Earned by Son's Bravery. A heroic act was performed recent ly in the south of France by a little lad of 13. A soldier belonging to one of the regiments specially men tioned in connection with the troubles at Narbonne, was bathing alone in the river Aude, when he got suddenly out of his depth. The man was struggling hard for life, when his dreadful pre dicament was perceived by the boy, who plunged, fully dressed, into the water, and by dint of desperate efforts succeeded in getting him safely onto the bank. The soldier thanked the lad most gratefully for having saved him, and as soon as ho got to the barracks he gave an account of his ad venture, which promptly reached the ears of the colonel of the regiment, who sent for the hoy, complimented him on the courage and resource which he had displayed, and present ed him with 20f. manding the brigade having also been Informed of the affair, asked the lad's mother to call on him, and, after hav ing heartily congratulated her, her 20f. as well. The father had been spending the day as usual at work in the fields, and when he turned home in the evening he was •e joined by the story of his son's brav. >ry, and of the fame which he had achieved. The general com gave re But he bethought him af terwards of the distress from which the wine-growers are suffering, and, after consultation with his wife child, he set ofT, with their consent, to take the 40f. to the relief fund. and Wellington's Dispatch Table. Maxwell (better known as Miss Braddon) has many treasures at Lich fleld house, her charming home a| Richmond-on-Thames. One of these is the remarkable dispatch table which the duke of Wellington carried with him throughout the Peninsular war So Ingeniously constructed In this piece of furniture that It can be made to serve the various purpose» of a writing table, dispatch box, chess table card table and dining table. THE SAFEST AND QUICKEST WAY TO TRANSFER MONEY IS BY LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE FOR RATES APPLY TO LOCAL MANAGER CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE ft TELEGRAPH CO. I INCORPORATED Inman Sanders <Si> Co. Cotton Merchants -MAIN OFFICE, CORINTH BRANCH AGENCIES: Tupclo, Miss. West Point, Miss. Como, Miss. Okolona, Miss. Holly Springs, Miss. Birmingham, Ala. We buy Cotton from wagons and sell direct to New England soi 1 Torelgn Spinners. Come to see us before selling. 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UNE LIQUORS—1 he Best to be had for the Money $3.2« S4.00 r SPECIALTIES—ALL EXPRESS PAID : 4 Full Quarts Mountain Grove Whiskey —l 4 Full Quarts John Hopkins Whiskey 4 Full Quarts Peabody Club Whiskey$4.00 4 Full Quarts Osage Whiskey.-.$4.00 (Osage and Peabody Club bottled in Bond) To insure the promptest possible attention to orders, address all le tters to LockBoz 255. Special facilities for shipping trade. * | Notice to « redite»^ Administrator'« Notice to Crefife J Pl Morneon . Deceased? been or TLü f Administration h„ ■ blr fS?*®» °V he Z>th day of fS*l ^ the undersigned uSon^"'"'"^ h p - Morrison, deceased „! eat ate of f * ivrn to all persons' K." her< % a K a > n «t »aid estate to nreJnwt clai ** J he cle f k of "id court for,* "F* in one^ Stra i' 0n * ccor ding to îaw Sïî* be foreverVare^i this date - m they«,* This 29th day of(Vtok~ Leslie I MorrisoI?^' - ' 0N ' fa of of Admt. LOST Cine two year old durhae, ». - w '^ short horns, solid redwhhi^î ■ white under belly an d one wku 1 î tt,e I foot. Any information m tohelV'"' 1 abouts will be libeJall^rewarÄ*' Miss' M,tChe11 ' R ' F ' D: No. /r?4 COMMISSIONER'S SALE Under nnd hy virtue of a final tw. of the chancery court of Alcorn Mississippi, made in the cause 0 7Ti' «•erider^d'at the Öctobe?°tem^\ 1 8ioner named I the 23d day of November A 1 within the legal hours of such sil« *' court house, Corinth, Mississippi. at public outcry to the highest hiAL for cash, the following clcscribed*' erty: One black Jack BCn0 ® 4 I will convey any such title as i. good* 0 m m ' > ' Wh,Ch ' 9 bolieve< ) to £ ^ This, the 24th day of October, A. D lau7 ' , „ . y - Wa llace, Com'* Lamb & Johnston, Attys. forCoopI . "So.s'. Heads" of South America. H The small heads" belong tc » I Eoutb American race. The skull 1. 1 peculiarly conical and at the top S I The f er , than a flve -»MW«g pf«A !' Tht three last survivors of the I are women. The brain weighs aw I one-fifth of the average human braiu. I Their height is from three teet g I Ihre© fee» six Inches.