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HATTIESBURG. MISSISSIPPI. MONDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 13. 1908
VOL. II. NO 47
FIFTY UNION WAREHOUSES
ARE ALREADY COMPLETED
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it Hightower Begins Sum
mer Campaign Today in Gre
nada County.
APPOINTMENTS FOR
EACH BAY TO SEPT. 5
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Campaign of Agricultural Education In
Mlftilaaippi Will Be Carried on by
Experts Throughout the Entire
Summer."
Dally News Special.
Jackson, Miss., July 13.—President
G. R. Hightower, of the Farmers'
Union, accompanied by Mr. R. A. N.
Wilson, one of the district lecturers,
and Prof. Meharg, one of the govern
ment agricultural experts doing ser
vice in this state, began today the
summer campaign of education under
the auspices of the union and the direc
tion of Mr. Hightower, the first day be
ing devoted to Grenada County.
A list of appointments running
through every week day to September
5 has been published in advance, a
full day's program being given to
each county, and the county officials
were, requested not to permit any out
side matters to get mixed up with the
day's program, such as institutes or
political speaking, as all the time
would be required for the work in
hand.
Most of the locations, which have
been decided upon and arranged by
the respective county officials, are In
the country, this being hi accordance
with.-the request of President High
tower, but they have been so arranged
as to make. It comparatively easy to
get from one place to another between
dates.
While the questions of diversifica
tion and cultural methods as recom
mended by the government experts
will be discussed at length, a large
part of the program is to he devoted
to the warehouse matter and the ques
tion of using cotton bagging for wrap
ping cotton bales.
Of the 7B or more Farmers' Union
warehouses which will be In readiness
for business during the coming sea
son, fifty or more are already com
pleted, and while each is in a meas
ure independent, a committee of the
state organization will have supervi
sion over the entire number, all being
In a sort of a federation, with a uni
form style of bookkeeping, identical
form of warehouse receipts, etc.
During the present week the sum
mer campaign of education will be
carried into Grenada, Carroll, Mont
gomery, Holmes and Madison coun
ties. <
MANY TIKE PART
IN SAENGERFEST
Utica, N. Y., July 13.—Thirty-four
German singing societies of Central
New York will take part in the bi
ennial saengerfest commencing here
Hearst News Service.
today, to last three days.
SELL AUTOGRAPHS FOR
WHAT THEY WILL BRING
Hearst News Service.
London, July 13.r—One of the most
notable sales of rare autographs that
London has. known in years will begin
today at Sothsby's. American collect
ors will be well represented at the
auction and are likely to carry off
many of the rarities.
Among the eminent authors whose
letters or manuscripts will be auction
ed off are Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte
Bronte, Samuel T. Coleridge, CharleB
Dickens, Lord Alfred Teniiyson, Rob
FOR ALIA
Hearst News Service.
Denver, Colo., July 13.—The death
sentence Imposed upo Guiseppe Alla,
the murderer of Father Leo Heinrichs,
began to operate today. He will be
hanged in the state penltentiaary at
Canon City some time this week, but
the day and the hour are known only
•to the prison officials, and no Intima
tion of the time will be given to the
murderer of the priest until the offi
cers go to his cell to take him to the
gallows.
Alta retains a fierce hatred for the
priesthood and refuses religious com
fort.
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FINAL TRIAL OF
THE MISSISSIPPI
Washington, July 13.—By order of
the navy department, the battleship
Mississippi will have her final trial off
Newport, R. I., tomorrow.
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TQ1GIN TOMORROW
Man Charged With Killing His Friend Will Claim
Temporary Insanity as the Result of
Previous Injury.
Dally News Special,
Jackson, Miss., July 13.—Judge Pot
ter, on his way to resume the regular
July court term in Raymond, was this
morning accompanied by District At
torney McNeil, who was not in court
last week, but sent his law partner,
Mr. Smylie, in his.stead.
Mr. McNeil was compelled to he ab
sent on account of the condition of
the health of his wife, with whom he
went to New Orleans for a surgical
operation, but who, he Bays, is rapidly
recovering.
Today's session of the court is be
ing devoted largely to misdemeanor
cases, and tomorrow morning the
murder case against Andrew K. Currie,
the Utica merchant who in 1906 shot
and killed Frank Hood, a Copiah
County farmer, will be taken up.
The defense of Currie will be tem
porary insanity, the circumstances of
the killing as related by witnesses be
ing that while Currie stood In the door
of- his own store with a shot gun In
his hand, crazed by drink, Hood, who
was his good frlend^ame up and tried
to persuade Currie to put the gun
down and to otherwise quiet him, when I
Currie deliberately leveled the gun at
ert Burns, and William M. Thackeray.
There Is a very Important series of
ninety-fire letters written by Sir Wal
ter Scott to the Marchioness of Aber
deen between the years 1806 and 1826.
They make a total of 353 pages of
writing In Scott's hand It Is said that
thla will be the fim
letters ever offered public auction.
His friendship with the Marchioness
ls well known, anil the letters are, as
might be expected, of an unusually in
teresting character.
series of his
Well Known Biloxi Man Blows
Out His Brains With Shot
Gun.
NO KNOWN CAUSE FOR
THE MAN'S RASH DEED
Friends Believe He Was Temporarily
Insane When He Took His Own
Life—Discharged the Shot Gun With
His Foot.
Daily News Special.
Biloxi, July 13.—Jacob Korman,
aged 58, committed suicide here yester
day by blowing out his brains with
a shot gun, which he managed to dis
charge with his foot.
Mr. Korman is believed to have
been temporarily insane when he took
his own life. He was well known and
had a large circle of friends and there
was no known reason why he should
make way with himself.
him and literally shot the top of his
head off at close range.
By other witnesses it is related that
Currie had been drinking all day, and
shortly before the killing had had
trouble with another man, a relative,
who had struck him on the head with
a piece of lumber,
which the defense will claim rendered
him temporarily a mental fiend, de
throned his reason and caused him to
kill a man who was regarded aB one
-of his best friends and with whom
he frequently drank whisky.
Notwithstanding this line of defense,
the relatives of Hood have employed
Hon R. N. Miller, of Hazlehurst, for
several years district attorney here, to
assist in the prosecution, wtiile the de
fense Is being conducted by Messrs.
Williamson, Wells & Peyton, of this
city.
It is this blow
Owing to the fact that Utica, the
scene of the crime, is in the extreme
southwestern portion of the county,
thirty-three miles from this city, and
that Hood lived just over in the border
county of Copiah, no difficulty is antici
pated In securing a jury from the spe
cial venire drawn last week, many of
whom were summoned from this city,
I and the court officials hope to conclude
the case within three days.
Hearst News Service.
London, July 13.—In the Olympic
games today, J. P. Sullivan, an Amer
ican. and a member; of the American
Athletic Club, won the first heat in
the 1,500 meter run. Lightbody, also
an American, was second. Time,
4:07 3-6.
In antiquity the thinker was a cata
pult; in modern times he is a siege
gun.
BLACK BRUTE
KILLS WOMAN
Hearst -NSws Service.
Joplin, Mo., Ju
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13.—Because Mrs.
woman aged 19,
es, Will Wilson, a
her wllh a blow
Roy Plum, a w
repulsed his adv$a
burly negro kilf*N
on her left tempi*
The negro sought surety In flight, but
was tracked by bare foot prints
and was capture w.^uoon after commit
ting the deed, l^s was spirited away i
io Carthage to estate a lynching party
that had been for tied to deal with hint I he
,
is
summarily
It is said thjfpegro has confessed j
to the crime. young woman was j
in the employ of a street carnival.
Wfc—
Hearst Nfws Service.
Des Moines, Iotta, July 13.—The
Western Union Telegraph Company,
of New York, waS made defendant In
a suit for $900,000 brought by the state
of Iowa today. O this amount. $100,
000 is claimed fo] the alleged failure
on the part of the 1 telegraph company
to pay taxes on it*< capital stock, and
the remainder Is for penalties for
such failure.
LEE IS IN
DITION
Daily News Special.
Jackson, Miss., July 13.—United
States District Attorney R. C. Lee is in
a critical condition at his hotel here
with peritonitis and his friends are
much alarmed on account of a change
for the worse which occurred last
night. Mr. Lee, whose home is at
Madison station came to Jackson three
or four days ago and with a friend
was sitting on a high gallery leaning
against the banisters, when the latter
gave way and the two, both being
heavy men, fell a distance of eight or
ten feet to the ground,
rendered unconscious at the time, but
soon recovered and was thought to be
all right until peritonitis set in a day
or two later, since which time his con
dition has caused a good deal of
alarm.
Mr. Lee was!
GOTHAMITES
REACH HHMEi
Hearst News Service.
New York, July 13.—The New York
delegates to the Denver convention
reached the city this mining. Leader
Murphy expressed himself as pleased
with the ticket named at Denver and
said he believes New York state wjll
go for Bryan by a safe plurality.
THE DAILY NEWS
PROGNOSTICATOR
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Washington, July 13.—For Mississip
pi: Fair tonight and Tuesday.
SEAB WRIGHT MAY GET
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Columbus, O., July 13.—Seaborn
Wright, of Georgia, is the most prom
inently mentioned of the Prohibition
leaders for the nomination of the Pro
hibition party for President, to be
named in the convention which assem
bles here tomorrow.
While Mr. Wright has said he will
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not accept the honor, it is believed that
I he can be persuaded to do so and there
is talk of bending every energy of the
j delegates to making his nomination
j unanimous,
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DUE TODAY
Local Soldiers Will Go to the En
campment in Dressy and Com
fortable Attire.
The Hattiesburg soldier boys will
go to the summer encampment at Co
lumns on August 4 all "dressed in their
best suits of clothes," and the clothes
are already on the way, and are sched
uled to be here today.
The new uniforms for Company I.
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MANY
TO ATTEND MEETING
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State Association Opens Tomorrow in Jackson
and Will Consider Creation of State
Board of Equalization.
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Daily News Special.
Jackson, Miss., July 13.—It is cur
rently believed that the meeting here
tomorrow of the association of super
visors of the state will he attended
much more largely by members of the
board of supervisors from the southern
portions of the state than from any
other section, as was the case last year
and the year before, when the associa
tion was organized In Hattiesburg with
an attendance of more than 100.
BIG OLYMPIC
Hearst News Service.
London, July 13,-Rain this morning |
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marred the opening ceremonies of the
Olympic games. Huge crowds are
here for the events and despite the
The
downpour many were out.
Americans were accorded the honor of
leading the procession, which passed
in review before King Edward. The
"Yankees" seem sure that they will
capture their share of the contest
prizes and probably many more.
WESTERN GOLF
CLUBS TO MEET
Hearst News Service.
Rock Island, 11., July 13.—The an
nual amateur championship of the
Western Golf Association will be play
ed on the links of the Rock Island
Arsenal Golf Club this week,, begtn
mptoday with a qualifying round, med
al play. The intermediate rounds of
match play will be at eighteen holes
and the finals at thirty-six boles. Some
of the best players In the West are
competing.
Seaborn Wright is the man who was
more largely responsible for the great
prohibition victory in Georgia than
perhaps any other man. He has been
working for and speaking for prohibi
tion in Georgia and other southern
states for ten years and has done as
much as any man In the south to pro
mote the cause of prohibition, but Sea
born Wright, it is argued, is a Dem
ocrat and could not consistently ac
cept the nomination for President of
I a party opposed to Democracy.
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FROM FLORIDA TO
NEW YORK IN
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Hearst News Service.
New York, July 13.—George W. •>
Johnston today finished a trip ❖
from St. Augustin , Fla., to the <•
❖ Harlem river, New York, in a <•
❖ shell boat made entirely of news- ❖
He rowed the entire dls- ❖
papers.
tanee in two months and the boat •>
was in good condition when It ❖
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arrived here.
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Second Regiment, by which the Hat
tiesburg company is officially known
in military circles are to be of olive
drab, fatigue uniforms and made of
the best quality of cloth and in the
best style of military suits,
the boys will look good and feel com
fortable.
While the objects of the association
are manv and mostly worthy, a good
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deal of the time of the sessions ha\e
heretofore been taken up wilh ques
tions of .ax assessment, valuations
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and levies. •
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It so happens that in a majority of I
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counties the supervisors are very well
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satisfied with the present plan of tax-;
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ation. while in the dissatisfied sections
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their reasons for being dissatisfied are I
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not the same, and with all the discus
ston of the various phases of the ques
tlon by supervisors, on the stump and
in the legislature, no solution of the
trouble has been advanced which
meets with any considerable following,
one element always opposing proposed
changes for one reason and another
clement for an entirely different rea
son.
The question of creating a state
board of equalization has had much fa
vor in the southern part of the state.
h, « bo,h the opposition and Ihe indif- i
ferent element have opposed it.
It is for the reason that some of the i
supervisors are of the opinion that an
other useless discussion of this same
question will be made the burden of
the meeting that members from sev
eral sections of the state have sig
pified their intention to be abseni when
the roll is called tomorrow.
NAVAL RECRUITS SBUGUT
IN HATTIESBURG DISTRICT
R. R. Hinnant, hospital steward.
United States navy, arrived in Hat
tiesburg yesterday and has opened
a navy recruiting station on the sec
ond floor of the Carter building.
Mr. Hinnant stated to a reporter of
the Dally News today that the office
here ls but a branch office of the main
office at New Orleans and will remain
open for two weeks. He said: "I am
here to offer a splendid opportunity
for young men of Hattiesburg and vi
cinity to enlist In the navy without
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Joe Brookshiae is Severely Stabbed
By Negro and Barely Escapes
With His Life.
PHYSICIANS SAY
INJURY NOT SERIOUS
Mr. Brookshire Had Altercation With
Anderson Bailey, a Negro, Who, Af
t.er Wounding Mr. Brookshl
Out for the Tall Timbers.
Joe Brookshire, one of thetj^M
known citizens of the city,H''VSlS
stabbed by a negro this mortiin |jj.
was severely, though fortunatel : p* !
seriously injured.
Mr. Brookshire operates a sotlj
factory near the Mississippi Central
depot, and this morning he went out
to collect a bill from a negro by the
name of Anderson Bailey, who has a
i store on the sixteenth section, not far
from Bonhomie.
| When he arrived at the negro's
j place of business the negro was de
i cidedlv impudent and sassy, so It Is
i said, and finally pulled his knife and
! jumped at Mr. Brookshire and sent the
j blade of his knife into Mr. Brook
| shire's left side and also ma j*
I slight cut just below. The attaq ; |
! sudden and Mr. Brookshire hi ?
time to defend himself from ' •
clous negro. "j
Mr. Brookshire was inimet
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carried to his residence. T)rs. j *"
and Ross attended him. They) ^
that the knife had penetrated to the
opening, but had not touched any vital
point, and it is believed that the wound
will soon heal.
The report of the stabbing of Mr.
Brookshire by the negro caused con
siderable excitement and his many
friends felt like if they could get hold
,he ne ^° thev wou,d make short
8hift of h,m ' Somp of lkem have
suggested hunting: the negro this af*
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' ernoon and lf they do h " mav he
handled by Judge Lynch, but it Is gen
erally believed that this would be a
fatal mistake and as the offense will
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not result in serious consequences to
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i Mr. TTrookshire, that the law should be
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, allowed to take its course. This is
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the opinion of the officers who believe,
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if left to themselves, that thev can
succeed in capturing the negro.
The negro hag •• sk | ddo oe d " and It Is
not known wbere he ls and sin0P Mr r,
Brookghlre . g wounds have been de
clared not to bp serlou8 no trouble is
nmlc ,„ ated and It |g up to thc ofrif . prs
of the , aw to locatp 4ho npgro an(i
they wj „ , )robably do s0 witbln a short
W hile
ANOTHER DELAY
FOR HARRY THAW
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the application for a jury lrial for
Harry K. Thaw to ascertain his san
tIty, was adjourned today until De
eember 21, before Justice Mills.
New York. July 13.—The hearing of
the expense of a trip to New Orleans
or some other main office,
"The navy offers fine opportunities
for men with trades and inducements, .
and to boys as apprentice seamen to
learn trades,
from this city and
"While I am here I will enlist men
in all branches of the service with but
few exceptions."
The office will remain open from
9 a. m. to 5 p. m. each day, and Mr.
Hinnant expects to enlist a number