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HATTIESBURG. MISSISSIPPI. TUESDAY AFTERNOON MAY 26, 1908
VOUII. NO 7
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Anti-Administration Forces Prepar
ing to Make War at the Big
Chicago Convention.
THIS IS LAST DAY
* TO REGISTER KICKS
iProminent Party'Leader* From All
Over the Country Gather to Confer
With Member* of National Repub
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Hearst News Serciso.
Chicago, May 26—This is the last
day for filing the contests and creden
tials of Republican delegates to the
national convention before the Na
tional Republican Executive Commit
tee. It is said that contesting delega
tions from several southern states will
die their claims and that a number
of states pledged to Taft will be bitter
ly contested by the anti-administration
forces.
The city is today teeming with
prominent Republican politicians from
all sections of the country and these
have been in freqhent consultation
with members of the national commit
.tq£ day.
The final list of contestants will not
he raado up before Saturday.
PUT ON TRIAL
the
7 ^Circuit court has been making rath
' «r slew time trying the city caaes
owing to The inability to get witnesses
and only o few cases have been dis
posed of by trial tor the city, and so
far as the present term of court is con
verned it is not likel^ tjiat many cases £
will be tried for the city, though, If
possible. City Attorney Ellis wants to
clear the^docket of all old cases and
get rid of them. He has nol prossed
several blind tiger cases and two ne
gro women who were tried yesterday
afternoon on a charge of unlawful re
tailing were acquitted.
This afternoon the District Attorney
will go to the hat in some county
cases, provided the necessary wL •
nesses for the state and for the de#
fense can be.obtained.
•City Attorney Ellis is Jooklng faith
fully after the city's interest? and will,
If possible^ear the docket duilnig the
week.
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^ TOTAL EDUCABLE
CHILDREN 3.258
County Tax Assessor W. S. McKin
non has completed thp list of educable
children of Forrest County and has
turned the same over to the county
superintendent of education, Rev. E.
J. Currie.
The list shows but little change from
the list published In the Daily News
about a week ago, though a few more
names ha^e been added.
Aji completed, the new list shows
2,317 white children and 941 colored,
making the total number for the coun
ty 3,258, which is considered a good
showing for the / new county.
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SCHEDULE BETWEEN
^ HATTIESBURG AND NATCHEZ
V The Mississippi Central has isrued
the following schedule for through
trains to Natchez:
rassenger train No. 1, leaves Hat
tiesiiurg at 8.15 a. m., arrives at Brook
haven at 11.45 a. m., leaves Brook
ha veil at 2 p. m. and arrives at Nat
chei ai 6:50 p m.
No. 4 leaves Natchez at 8:50 a. m.,
arrives at Brookhaven at 12:40 p. m.,
leaves Brookhaven at 8 p. m. and ar
rives at Hattiesburg at 6:80 p. m.
Returning Confidence.
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BALLOT BOXES -
MAY BE OPENED
Hearst News Service.
New York, May 26.—Judge Lambert
today denied the motion of the attor*
neye for Mayor McClellan to prevent
the reopening the ballot boxes. This
decision is the fifth that has been ren
dered in the contest of W. R. Hearst,
defeated candidate "for mayor, but the
lawyers for McClellan have thus far
prevented a recount of the ballots.
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MISS DICKERSON
GOES ON STAND
Hearst News Service.
New York, May .26.—Miss Georgia
Dickerson, the young woman .with
whom he eloped the day his wife's,
body waaJound in Lamp Black swamp,
will take thd'stand totfeiy against Theo
dore 8. Whitman, who is accused of
having been the murderer In the fam
ous swamp murder mystery.
Hearst News Service.
Monroe, N. C.-, May 26.—Because he
persisted In his attentions to her flf
teen-year-old daughter, Mrs. Anna
Thomas today shot and seriously
RIOT FOLLOWED RIOT
IN STREET CAR STRIKE
Chester, Pa., May 26.—Riot followed
the street car strike situation
Mob violence was
in force in all sections of the city.
Strike breakers fared badly at the
hands of strike sympathizers.
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riot in
hereMast night.
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Hearst News Service.
Chicago, May 26.—A sensation was
sprung in the criminal court, when it
was announced that Judge Carpenter
would be asked to oite for their ap
pearance on charges of contempt 10,
000 men. The men against whom It is
proposed to bring this sweeping in
dictment are all members Of the Car
penters' Union of America.
Leaders of the union announce this
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afternoon that if the citement is is
sued they will have the 10,000 men all
march to the court in a body and that
it will be the most imposing pageant
in the history of union labor In this
city.
The charges against the carpen
ters grew out of an alleged attempt
to prevent non-union men from taking
thq place of union carpenters. It is
alleged that violence was used, but the
union officials claim that organized la
bor took nec part in the incidents enu
merated In the charge. -
LEWIS AND HUGHES
. ELECTED BISHOPS
Baltimore, Md„ May 26.—Rev. Drs.
Lewis and Hughes were elected bish
ops on the fifteenth ballot.
wounded William Luther, a prominent
young society man.
Luther says that iris intentions to
ward the girl were the "best in the
world" and that he expects to marry
her yet if he recovers from his wounds.
UCEN8E ISSUED.
A marriage license was Issued tins
morning for Russell W. Davis and Miss
D. Leetltia Bounds. The parties live
in the southern end of the
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JOHNSDN SPEAKS
TD STUDENT BODY
Hea{st News Service.
Birmingham, Ala., May 26.—Gov.
John A. Johnson, of Minnesota, left |
Birmingham at 8 o'clock this morning
for Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he today J
delivered an address to the Alumni
Society of the University of Alabama, j
Governor 'Johnson was introduced by
Gov. B. B. Comer, of Alabama.
COTTON IS DOWN
SEVERAL POINTS
New Orleans, May 26.—The cotton
market opened 8 to 13 points down,
followed by a continued tread toward*
a lower range that^served to establish
net losses up to the noon call of 13 to
17 points on the several months. The
spot market was rather less buoyant
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❖ NOffTH CAROLINA
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Hoarst News Service.
Raleigh, N. C., Mav 26 —At ❖
l noon indications are that the stats •>
fj. will go dry by at least 20,000 ^
•> The greatest prohibition vote haB <•
<• been in Charlotte
❖ state's largest city, where at 9 <•
■»> o'clock the drys were 700 ahead. •>
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THE DAILY NEWS
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~ Washington, May 26.—For Missis
sippi: Fair tonight; Wednesday fafir
in west, showers in east portion. ^
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WILD RIDE
TD DEATH
Score of Children Climbed Into An
Empty Coal Car and Loosed
the Brakes.
SEVENTEEN INJURED;
. SEVERAL WILL DIE
Car Collided With Freight Train
Standing on the Main Line at End
of the Grade—Spectacle Was One
to Excite Pity.
Hearst News Service.
Pottsville, Pa., May 26.—Seventeen
children were injured seriously and
several of them fatally, when a score
of boys and girls entered a coal car
last night and coasted down the heavy
grade of a sloping hillside, colliding
.wit h a freight train standing at .the
HBm^Ai^hc grade.
was stai
of themslNMHQH
main tine a: the enl
jumped. One of these rolled back un
der the car and had both lower limbs
severed at the knees by the wheels.
The car ploughed its way - through
the train and fell into a ditch on the
opposite side of the main line and
the occupants were throWn into a heap
on the ground. Maimed and bleeding,
they presented a pitiful spectacle.
Physicians were immediately sum
money and the children carried to
their homes and to hospitals. They
ranged all the way from 8 to 16 years
of age.
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NEWICRUISER
IS LAUNCHED
Hearst News ServC,
Philadelphia, May 26.—The cruiser
Michigan was launched at 11 o'clock
this morning without mishap.
CHIEF JUSTICE
DID NOT ARRIVE
Hearst News Service.
Richmond, May 26.—Owing to tin
failure of Chief Justice Fuller to ar
rive from Washington, the South Caro
iina dispensary cases were not called
today.
M'LAURIN IS AFTER
B|ily News Special.
Jaokson, Miss., May 26.—Should
Senator A. J MdLaurln succeed in get
ting his land bill through both houses
of congress Sbmethtng like 89,000 acres
of government lands will pass into the
possession of the State of Mississippi
for school purposes, and before long
the government land office in this city
will be abpli8hed
It Is true that the few thousannd
remaining acres of Uncle Sam's land
in this state are of about the poorest
quality to be found in the state, and
have been picked over by homestead
ers wherever It has been thought
worth while, but, even at the low valu
ation of $1.25 per acre, It has been
pointed out that the value would be
something near $100,000 and at least
worth taking charge of by the state.
The arrangement, if it succeed*, will
not In any way Interfere with the prop
er handling of the claims of home
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WOMAN'S BODY -
FOUND FLOATING
IN TIMBER CREEK
Gloucester, N. J., May 26.—The body
of the woman found in Gloucester
Flats on the bank of Big Timber creek
was identiflefid today as that of Maria
Mooney. It is thought that she fell
from a trestle bridge Into the waters
of the creek and was drowned.
RAISING FUNDS
TO BUILD CHURCH
Our local townsman, Mr. Thos. M.
Ferguson, who was appointed a com
had been made and were still being le
ceived. The total amount of cash do
nations up to the present is about
$1,200. It was decided at a confer
ence meeting held here by the MeHi
adists directly after the cyclone at
Purvis to rebuild the church at that
place, using the former plans. The
building completed is to cost about
$3,000. Liberal donations of building
material and lumber were subsertbed
and Mr. Ferguson states that only
about $1,000 more In cash will he
needed to close the required amount
of funds.
Mr. Ferguson, who was also appoint
ed a member of the building commit
tee, states that the contract for the
•rebuilding of the church has been
awarded and that it will soon be un
der course of construction.
REV. S. E. TULL
TD HELP PASTOR
The following .notice of revival ser
vices has been handed the News:
A series of services will be held at
the Columbia Street Baptist ehurCh
beginning next Sunday, May 31, at 11
o'clock. After Sunday the pastor will
be assisted by Rev. S. E. Tull, pastor
of the Baptist church, of Greenwood
Miss. He is one of the most vigorous
and successful preachers in the state,
and his coming is looked forward to
with much pleasure ami satisfaction
by those who know of his ability
as a preacher of the gospel. Other an
nouncements will be made later.
J. N. M'MILLIN, Pastor.
steaders already filed, as these would
be carried to a conclusion as if noth
ing had happened.
WESTERN UNION
MOVES THURSDAY
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany will move its office on Thurs
day to the Kennedy building, next door
to W. L. Logan & Co.
flee is being fitted and being so close
to the postoffice the location is a good
one.
A neat of
Troubles stay longest where they
are moBt hospitably entertained by
the host. ' . —
Shot During the Battle of Jones
boro, .Ga., and the Wound
Hu Never Heaied.
LEG AMPUTATED TODAY
AT LOCAL HOSPITAL
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Operation Was Successful and It Is Be
lieved That the Aged Patrent Will
Be Restored to Permanent Health
Soon.
Mr. J. L. Bufkin, of Buckatunna,
Miss., was operated on at the South
Mississippi Infirmary this morning,
having his left leg taken off at the
knee joint.
The operation was a most successful
one and the surgeons are confident
Hht he will pull thr ough witbrwtf -any
Mb'. trouble or incident. Although
Vyears of age, he stood the opera
^Bn all right and the surgeons think
he will be able to be out within a rea
sonable time, when he will return to
his home at Buckatunna.
The surgeons taking part in the
operation were Drs. Crawford, Donald
and Bufkin.
The wound was one that was re
ceived in the civil war.
Among the heroes of the "Lost
Cause" there are many who have not
been named In history, but their deeds
of valor on the field of battle are
shown best by the unparalleled light
made in the greatest Internecine s' Ufc
gle the world ever saw.
Such a man is Mr. J. L. Bufkin. of
Buckatunna, Miss., who was one of the
bravest men that ever shouldered •*
gun in his country's defense.
'Last Friday Mr. Bufkin came to the
South Mississippi Infirmary to con
sult with the surgeons of that splendid
Institution in regard to the diseased
and painful condition of. his left leg.
He was shot during the battle of Jones
boro. Ga., August 31. 1S64. As a result,
of the wound he was crippled for about
two years. The wound finally healed
and caused hint no especial inconven
ience for about twenty-four years
when it ..gain commenced to pain him
forcing bint
old wound being the seat of pain. For
tin* past sixteen or eighteen years, he
use ills crutches, the
tin* past sixteen or eighteen years, he
has been an almost constant sutTerer.
Upon his arrival at the Infirmary
last Fridav, the surgeons made a care
j fill investigation of his wound and
frankly stated to him that the only
possible relief for him would be to
submit to an operation—to have the
left leg amputated at the knee. The
brave old soldier never once flinched
when the news was broken to him, but.#
calmly said that he was there to' fol
low the direction of the surgeons and
whatever their opinion was would be
satisfactory to him. Again he dis
played the true metal that made the
Southern soldier famous the world
over. The same true spirit of bravery
that characterized him when he stood
amid shot and shell was with him.
But the shot that has made the
amputation of his leg necessary at this
late day is not the only one that this
brave hero had to contend with.
When he was ^tot in the left leg and
when a comrade wad bearing him
from the blood-stained battle field, ho
received a painful wound in the foot,
^ut fortunately this wound never gave
him any serious trouble. Then, again,
earlier in the conflict, he received a
wound in the thigh at Perryvllle, Ga..
but no sooner had he recovered from
this than he at once re-entered the
service, proving that he never shirked
a duty when he was at all able to per
form It.
The wound for whlclv Mr. Bufkin
was operated on today was in the calt
of ihu left leg. It had grown to be *
deep-seated wound, reaching to the
bone, and there was danger of blood
poisoning or some outer complication,
if the lower part of the leg was not re
moved.
Mr. Bufkin received
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