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THE HATTIESBURG NEWS
HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI, MONDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 10, 1908
VOL. II. NO. 70
PRiCE FIVE CENTS
DASTARDLY EFFORT TO DITCH TRAIN
Miscreant Tied Rope Six Times
Around Rail to Throw Train
Off the Track.
FRONT WHEELS OF
ENGINE LEFT TRACK
Gulf and Ship Island North Bound
Passenger Train Had Narrow Escape
Last Night from Going Into Ditch.
Train Delayed Half an Hour.
The northbound passenger train
the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
came near to being wrecked last night
a short distance beyond Ralston, and
the passengers had a slight shakeup
and a great scare.
Near Ralston is a trestle and just be
yond this trestle some miscreant had
taken a rope and had wrapped it tight
and fast six times around one of the
rails. When the passenger train came
thundering on, with the man at the
throttle not knowing the danger ahead,.
the train struck the rope,
brakes were applied and notwithstand
ing the two front wheels of the engine
had jumped the track, the train with
its large load of human freight, was
brought to a standstill just after pass
ing over the trestle.
The passengers were not so much
^^^shaken up as they were frightened.
^^^VThoy knew something was wrong, but
^^Wdid not know what it was. There was
- large crowd aboard and had the
train gone down the trestle as the evn
minded miscreant evidently intended,
the disaster would have been appall
ing.
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The air
No clue was found to th3 identity
of the person who tied the rope around
the rail, but the passengers and train
crew were thankful that it w r as no
worse.
The wheels that were off the rails
were soon gotten back and with about
half an hour's delay, the train came on
to Hattiesburg.
BLOODY DUEL
OVER PRETTY
OIRE; 2 DEAD
rA Hearst News Service.
New York, August 10.—On the
streets of the town of In wood, not
far from Rockaway, six Italians—in
cluding thep rincipals and seconds in
a pre-arranged duel over the hand of
a pretty American girl—exchanged
thirty shots. Joseph Monteleone was
instantly killed and Ferdinand Mazzao
fatally wounded. When citizens and
officers intervened another battle en
sued and the survivors of the dual
sued and the survivors of the duel
disappeared.
HOLLAND IS AFRAID
' OF VENEZUELANS
Williamstead, Holland, August 10.—
Geiderland, a Dutch war vessel, sailed
today for the island of Oruba near the
Gulf of Venezuela, carrying arms for
the inhabitants. Holland thinks that
Venezuela would try to capture- the
island in case of war.
ITALIANS CREMATED
IARY FIRE
Hearst News Service.
New York, August 10.—Four mem
berg of the family of Vinvenso Saus
to, Italians, were burned to death
here today and eight others were se
5 $:-A
REVOLUTION
Hearst News Service.
Paris, August 10.—A movement is' on
foot among the revolutionary organ
izations of the Paris Labor Exchange,
which is the official seat of the trade
unions affiliated under the general title
of Confederation Generals du Travail,
to build an independent exchange free
from administrative surveillance. The
'.abor Exchange is at present a hot
bed of revolutionary Socialism. It is
a laboratory for the cultivation ot
strikes. Its legitimate objects, sanc
tioned by the law and even assisted
financially by the municipality, are of
ten perverted by the leaders of the
central organizations. The trade
unions of the department of the Seine
are now grouped in a fairly well-disci
plined body. This union des syndicate
now announces its intention to ignore
the advantages offered by the munici
pality and to appeal to the secretaries
of the labor organizations in the de
partment to found an entirely inde
pendent exchange of their own.
GARLAND AND WIFE
ARE UNDER ARREST
Los Angeles. Cal., August 10.—Sr
nor Alexandro Garland, son of the
vice president of Peru, togather with
his wife who is a cousin of Mr.
Charles Bonaparte, were arrested
here today for disturbing the peace
after a violent quarrel over her rela
tions with certain politicians at Wash
ington.
ATHLETES WANT
ENGLAND TO BOW
Hearst News Service.
New York, August 10.—The ftmer
ican Amat?ur Athletic Union will
break with the British Amateur Ath
letic Association unless apologies are
made for the treatment of Americans
at the Olympic games. An ultimatum
to this effect has been issued. It is
thought that the request will be ig
nored.
LIST OF DRUNKARDS
POSTED IN SALOONS
Hearst News Service.
Richmond, Va., August 10.—In com
pliance with a municipal ordinance
which goes into effect today, every sa
loon in the city has been placarded
with a list of drunkards. Severe pen
alties are prescribed for bartenders
who sell liquors to those- adjudged
drunkards by the city council.
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HIS WIFE SCOLDED
Hearst News Service.
New York, August 10.—Joseph Riz
zo today shot himself dead because
his wife scolded him for making a bad
trade.
riously injured in a burning tenement
at 112th street. Many others had nar
row escapes. The fire was of incen
diary origin. Sausto has taken a pub
lic oath to hunt down and slay the fire
bugs.
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B. I. WINCHELL, WHO SAYS A RAISE IN FREIGHT RATES WILL RESTORE PROSPERITY.
B. L. VVinchell. president of the Rock island railway system, who is one of the leaders of the movement to
Increase freight rates, declares that to save the railroads they must have a greater margin of profit than they are
now receiving. He insists that the only alternative the roads have if they cannot increase rates is to cut wages.
Mr. Winchell believes that the prosperity of the railroads or their adversity is the true measure of the prosperity
or adversity of the people.
Hearst News Service.
Helena, Ala., August 10.—Seven
teen men have been lodged in jail
here on charges of murder, growing
out of the dynamiting of four homes
of negro strike breakers. Three of
the suspects are whites and fourteen
negroes.
Thirty Arrests at Blocton.
Hearst News Setvice.
Birmingham, August 10.—Thirty ar
rests have been made at Bloston for
complicity in the ambushing of a
strike breakers' train yesterday, when
three men were killed and eleven seri
ously injured.
A majority of the man under arrest
are foreigners who were brought here
four years ago as strike breakers, but
who have since joined the union.
Rob art Hayes, president of the local
local miners' union, was placed under
arrest this afternoon charged with
complicity in the affair.
Committete Appointed.
Birmingham, August 10.—Hearst
Flash,—The conference of Birming
ham business men to discuss the
strike situation concluded at 3 o'clock
this afternoon, when a committee of
twenty-five was appointed to devise
means to bring an end to the struggle.
Plans for accomplishing this end were
left entirely to the discretion of the
committee.
White on the Scene.
Hearst News Service.
Birmingham, August 10.—John P.
White, vice president of tha United
Mine Workers of America, arrived to
day to take charge of the strike. He
says that the Alabama strike is the
only one that the organlza|||^M|M
has on hand and that ample
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available to carry it to a successful
termination. He thinks that the most
critical stage of the strike has been
passed and that no further outbreaks
will likely occur. "It is impossible,"
he says, "to figure on the future."
Birmingham, Ala,, August 10.—Fol
lowing the killing of three men and
the wounding of a dozen or more oth
ers when striking miners fired into a
passenger train at Blockton yester
day morning, the leading citizens of
Birmingham held an important confer
ence today looking to the suppression
of the strike and the restoration of or
der in the district.
There is strong talk this afternoon
of inviting the leaders in the agitation
of the strikers' movement to leave the
state and It is believed that such an
order, backed by the sentiment of the
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Washington, August 10.—For Mis
sissippi: Generally fair tonight and
Tuesday.
best people of the district would prove
effective.
It is admlttted now that there is lit
tle probability of restoring order until
these agitators are banished front the
community.
The Blockton affair, in which Con
ductor Joe Collins, Deputy Sheriff O. Z.
Dent and William Howell lost their
lives and many others were injured
has aroused the people to a high pitch j
of excitement and it has been only by
the wise counsel of the cooler heads
that a serious conflict has been
averted.
The dead men were brought from
Blocton yesterday and will be buried
in Birmingham this afternoon. The
injured were also brought eo the city
and are being cared for in the local
hospitals.
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OARRY THAW
Jerome Will Oppose Proposed Visit
to See His Mother in
Pittsburg.
Hearst News Service. •
Naw York, August 10.—District At
torney Jerome ha« determined to re
sist to the last ditch the proposition
to carry Harry Thaw to Pittsburg. He
does not object to the proposed visit
of Thaw to see his mother , but is
afraid that he will have difficulty in
getting him back.
AN EXPLANATION.
For the first time in its history, the Daily News is compelled to offer
an apology for the deficiencies of this afternoon's edition.
The paper was ready to go to press with its first edition promptly at
2:30 o'clock. The forms were placed on the press, as usual, but by
some unfortunate slip in the pressman's mentality h ? forgot to secure
them, and the big machine w f as set in motion. The type for four pages,
including the bulk of the local and telegraphic matter was hurled to the
floor—a mass of PIE.
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A number of advertisements suffered the same fate and it has been
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impossible to recompense them within the limited time at our command.
Enough said.
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TO TEACHERS' NORMAL
Jackson, Miss., August. 10.—Some I
interest is created in the A. & M. Col-!
lege matter by the receipt by teach
ers who attended the Starkville nor
mal this year of a circular lett
President Hardy, in which, after ex
pressing regret that h? could not. meet
them all personally, and the hope that
they had a pleasant and profitable stay
there, says:
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"Enclosed you will find some liter- j
ature which will explain conditions 1
I shall appreciate any help you
may render in getting the true facts
from
here.
before the public. When the real facts
become known the public will become
thoroughly satisfied.
"I hope you may be able to send
us some students this fall. If you will
send me a list of those who are think
ing of going off to school I will take
pleasure in writing them personal let-1
ters and sending them catalogues.''
!
When it is recalled that Mr. Hardy!
stated in an open letter a few days!
after the recent investigation that he |
had applications on file from more
than 2,000 boys who wanted to enter |
Lincoln, Neb., August 10,—Eugene
W. Chafin, Prohibition candidate for
Piesident, invaded Bryan's home town
today and will open iiis campaign with
a speech here. Mr. Chafin declares
that before the November battle of
ballots he will tour every state of the
union, and that he confidently expects
to get the largest vote that any can
didate of his party has ever received.
Mr. Chafin is a citizen of Illinois, but
was born in Walworth County, Wis
Hearst News Service.
Oyster Bay, August 10 —With a
/iew of bringing about better ctndi
,lons in the social life, sanitation and
economy of the American farm, Pres
Idant Roosevelt has requested five
goternment experts to make a thor
ough investigation of existing condi- j
tions and to report to him the result
These reports, with special recom- i
mendations, will form the t?xt ot a ^
special message to congress at the i
convening of the next session.
in an interview given out today. |
President Roosevelt quotes at length
several specialists, all eminent physi-!
clans, who have made a special study j
of conditions on Southern farms, and
who deplore the dreadful child moi j
rarity in that section, due to lack of
sanitation.
Mr. Roosev
American fM
home. shouH
greatest caifl
of their labors.
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jclares that the j
Is wife and his
[e the nation's
?
I tho college this fall, and that the
pacity of the institution is pretty '
ca
veil
taxed at less than 1,000, with a short
support fund besides, these two things
are rather hard to reconcile.
Another thing bearing on the A. &
M. matter which
is the statement just given out from
' starkville, signed by about sixty Iead
j ing citizens of that town, upholding the
j course of Editor Scherer, of the South
1 ern Farm Gazette, and defending him
and his wife against the attack made
dll be of interest,
upon them by Governor Noel and Trus
tee P. W. Maer.
This statement is t«
the effect that
many of the signers heard the testi
mony before the board, and that there
vas not a single instance in which he
articles;
excuse for th? at
misstated the facts in his
that there was no
tacks in their
recent newspaper eor
statement is
! respondence; that the
made without th -
sent jf the
pledge themselves to protect from such
knowledge or con
Scherers whom they
vituperation so far as lies
in their
power.
consin, November 1, 1852.
He worked on a farm by the month
to defray his expenses while at the
University of Wisconsin, from which
he was graduated 4n 1875. He prac
ticed law in Waukesha, Wis., for twen
ty-five years,
of the Epworth League two terms and
grand chief templar of the State Gooij
Templars four terms, a candidate on
the Prohibition ticket for
general of Wisconsin twice and ^for
Governor in 1898.
He was state president
attorney
MANY LIVES
ARE SAVED
Scores Jumped Over Board and
Drown While Work of Rescue
is Being Effected.
rival of the British steamer Imogen
saved the lives of scores of passengers
on ^ e
which was on fire.
stricken men
jumped overboard and were drowned
while the work of rescue was going
London, August 10.—The timely ar
steamer Ashterland,
Dozens of panic
women and children
on.
EMPEROR WILLIAM
TO GREET THE KING
Hearst News Service.
Kronberg, Germany, August 10.—
Emperor William is here to meet King
Edward