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HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI. MONDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 21.-1908
VOL. II. NO. 105
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BIG BLAZE
IN CHELSEA
Massachusetts City Suffers Heavy
Loss By Burning of Several
Large Factories.
HRE IS STILL RAGING
IN TENEMENT DISTRICT
Thousands of People Will Be Ren
dered Homeless Unless Prompt As
sistance Is Secured—Fire Depart
ment Unable to Cope With Situation.
Hearst News Service
Boston, September 21.—A general
alarm this morning summoned assist
ance from Boston, Everett , Malden
and Charleston to combat the flames
which have already destroyed the
enormous box factory plant of At
wood & McManus, at Sixth street in
Chelsea.
It Is said that dozens of big manu
facturing plants In the Immediate vi
cinity are doomed to destruction un
less prompt assistance is obtained, as
the Chelsea fire department has ex
hausted its every resource and is to
tally unable to cope with the situation.
FOUR FACTORIES BURNED.
Chelsea, Mass., September 21.—Fire
which started here this morning in a
box factory is still spreading. Fout
of the largest manufacturing plants
In the city are now a mass of flames.
The local fire department is handi
capped by bursting hose. Assistance
has been summoned from Boston an*,
other cities and special trains with
flre-flghting equipment aire en route.
The loss Is already well up into the
millions.
TENEMENTS BURNING.
Chelsea, Mass., September 21.—
Noon.—The Are is still spreading.
Thickly populated tenements are now
on fire and thousands of people will,
he rendered homeless unless prompt
assistance arrives.
EARLE'S AFFINITY
IS NOW AT HOME
Hearst News Service.
Monroe, N. Y., September 21.—The
second Mrs. Earle, the artist's af
finity, whom he was accused of beat
ing, is against home and peace once
more reigns In the family. It Is now
believed that the prosecution of Earle
will be stopped. The mother of the
artist is believed to have been In
strumental in restoring peace.
P08T0FFICE SAFE •
ROBBED OF $1,000
Erie, Pa., September 21.—Word re
ceived from Albion early this morning
is to the effect that thieves dynamited
the postoffice there and succeeded in
getting away with $1,000 in cash and
a large quantity of stamps.
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Washington, September 21.—For
Mississippi: Local showers tonight
or Tuesday.
ILYNCHED
BY BLACKS
Yazoo County Negro Meets Death
at the Hands of Members of
His Own Race.
CRAZED DY COCAINE
RE KILLED WRITE MAN
Barricaded Himself in Cabin to Resist
Attack of Negro Mob, But Was Shot
to Pieces.—Remains of Dead Mer.'
chant Buried in Yazoo City.
Daily News Special.
Yazoo City, Miss., September 21.—
Charles Jones, the negro who ran
amuck while under the influence of
cocaine and killed R. F. McCormick,
a prominent white merchant, and a ne
gro woman and child at Eden, Sat
urday night, was captured and lynched
by members of his own race near that
village last night.
Jones barricaded himself in a cabin,
where he was soon surrounded by a
mob of bloodthirsty blacks.
Three approached the front of the
house and two the rear, and when
jones attempted to escape from the
rear he was killed instantly,
posse hunted the negro who sold the
cocaine, and if he had been found the
chances are that he would have met
a quick end. The people of both races
are thoroughly enraged and cocaine
vendors will hereafter be dealt with
severely.
This is the first time in the history
of this section that negroes have been
so enraged as to inflict the death pen
alty on a member of their own race.
The remains of Mr. R. F. McCormick
were laid to rest Sunday afternoon,
the Woodmen of the World officiating.
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CAR SILLS
GO HIGHER
Mills of the Hattiesburg District
Can Now Cut Them at a
Fairly Good Profit.
"The lumber business is getting on
its legs again," as this newspaper has
said from time to time.
Prices are advancing slowly, but
steadily—and the mills are starting
up one by one.
A prominent mlllman said this morn
ing that car sills had advanced from
$12.50 to $14 per thousand feet within
the past few days, and still further adr
vances are expected.
This means a great deal to this sec
tion. Much of the smaller timber can
be worked into car sills, and there Is
a fairly reasonable profit In cutting
them at the present price.
Large orders for car sills are now
being placed In this territory by the
railroads and a number of the mills
now resuming will make a specialty of
this class of cuts.
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BLAZE AT POWER
PLANT WAS SLIGHT
A slight fire In the boiler room of
the power plant of tjie Hattiesburg
Traction Company, shortly before 7
o'clock this morning did about $50
damage. The operation of the plant
was not interrupted and the damage
will be easily repaired. An alarm was
turned In and the department respond
ed promptly.
IMPORTANT MEETING.
The meeting of Hattiesburg Lodge
No. 127, I. O. O. F„ to be held at 8
o'clock tonight will be of especial in
terest and importance and the mem
bers are urged to be present.
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PARIS POSTOFFICE
LOSS OVER $5,000,000
| from a short-circuited
Hearst News Service.
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Reports
tb.it it was incendiary are no longer
Paris, September 21.—The latest
theory of the origin of the fire which
; believed.
| The loss is now estimated at $5,000,
last night destroyed the postoffice 000 and the business of the city
is
building in this city is that it started I practically paralyzed.
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Hearst News Service.
Fort Gaines, Ga„ September 21.—W.
W. Beard, sheriff of Clay County, was
mortally shot this morning by a negro.
The shooting occurred about 7 o'clock,
while the officer was trying to effect
the arrest of the negro, who is ac
cused of killing the Bins brothers,
two white men, at Shellman, in the
same county last week.
Sheriff Beard was armed at
I time, but the negro had thrown up his
hands and expressed a willingness to
surrender. Beard put his gun in his
pocket and had started to handcuff
the
Ben Holmes Says Bryan
is Still Gaining Ground
in Great Middle IV'st
spent several days.
Mr. D. B. Holmes returned yesterday
from 'rtiousand Islands, Canada, where
he attended a meeting of insurance
He visited Cincinnati and other
g of the political situation
id Indiana, Mr. Holmes says
thing points to a Democratic
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points In Ohio and Indiana, where he
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back, pulled a revolver and fired. The
ball took effect in Beard s heart and
he died almost instantly.
The negro made his way into the
woods after the shooting. He Is
heavily armed and trouble is expected
when he Is located by a posse of
armed citizens now in pursuit.
Sheriff Beard was one of the most
popular men in this section of Ala
bama and his murder has aroused the
community to a high pitch of excite
ment.
A lynching will undoubtedly follow
if the negro is captured.
his prisoner, when the negro stepped
Haskell Asks Hearst
to Prove His Slander
Hearst News Service.
Chicago, September 21.—Governor
C. N. Haskell, of Oklahoma, treas-!
urer of the National Democratic Cam
paign Committee, has sent the follow-1
ing telegram to William Randolph
Hearst:
"Sir—You are stating in speech and
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Schilling, the Morosini girl who eloped
with her father's coachman, are shown
in the upper part of the picture.
To
the right is the Mausoleum and at the
bottom is the Riverdale gateway of the
home of the dead banker.
BIG DEAL
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Williamsburg Lumber Company Has
Sold Out to a Big Eastern
Timber Syndicate.
DEEDS RECORDED AT
COLLINS THIS MORNING
Consideratioh is Said to Have Been
Over Half Million Dollars.—Monster
Mill is Now Running and There
Will Be No Interruption.
Daily News Special.
Collins, Miss., September 21.—
Deeds were filed ia the chancery
clerk's office in this city this morning
for the transfer of all of the timber
j holdings of the Williamsburg Lumber
Company to the Silverton Company, of
' New York, the consideration being
i $525,000.
j TMg , 8 , he , argest deed ever flled
j f or record j n the chancery clerk's of
flee of Covington county and one of
j the largest ever recorded in Missis
sippi.
The sale was made several weeks
ago. but the details of the transfer
nave just been consummated.
The New York syndicate becomes
the owner of all of the vast timber
holdings of the Williamsburg Lumber
Company in this section for which it
pays $500,000. fn addition to this,
the concern has purchased the com
missary, wagons and live stock be
longing to the Williamsburg Lumber
Company, and has leased the mam
moth saw mill for a long term of
years. For these latter concessions, it
is said that the syndicate paid $25,
000 .
The mill of the Williamsburg Lum
ber Company is one of the largest in
the state. It Is now running on full
time and there will be no interrup
tion.
he says, sentiment seems to be about
equally divided between
Bryan, while the rural districts are al
most solidly for the Nebraskan.
Taft and
press, in substance, that during the
vhen Attorney General
year 1899,
Frank S. Monnett, of Ohio, had sev
eral cases pending in the supreme
court of that state against the Stand
ard Oil Company, that I sought to in
"I have said, and now repeat, that
your statement is absolutely false, and
that I never had any relations of any
kind or character with the Standard I
Oil Company.
"Our conflicting statements prove [
| nothing. You, as a newspaper man. I
! may, and should desire a reputation
for truthfulness; I, as a public official.
< demand th'at those who accuse me!
iluence him to dismiss those suits.
stand forth and make known their]
You know that a suit against
! proof.
| you fdr civil damages or a criminal I
] prosecution for libel means long delay j
land affords your character of journal-1
j ists a chance to cover your expense
j before being called upon to settle. I
do not want your money; I simply
desire to expose you to the public as
a false accuser, who has distorted pub
lic records and manufactured state
| ments for base political purposes.
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"For the purpose of forever settling
this infamous slander which you are
circulating in your newspapers and
on the stump, I now propose that a
committee of five, or any three
of
\ them, composed of the editors of the
i Springfield (Mass.) Republican, the
I Chicago Journal, the New York World,
l the Indianapolis News and the St.
| Louis Republic, be selected to hear
i you and me under oath, and all other
! pyidence they may desire as to the
J trui ]j or falsity of your charge at the
earliest possible moment, and render
their decision to the public in writing,
! "Should this committee find your
! charges sustained I shall withdraw
from all connection with the present
Should the
■presidential campaign,
verdict be against you, as I know it
will, there need be no other penalty
than the public contempt due every
assassin of character.
TiH MURPHY
Played to a Crowded House at the
Auditorium Saturday Night
and Pleased All.
The theatrical season in Hatties
burg opened last Saturday evening
with Tim Murphy's new comedy suc
cess, "Cupid and the Dollar."
packed house greeted the perform
ance. which was one of the cleanest
and best attractions ever seen in this
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city.
Mr. Murphy is at his best is the
leading masculine roll of the new play,
while Miss Dorothy Sherrod as the
leading lady is most captivating. The
company is a strong one and the play
so distinctly American that it arouses
the admiration and patriotism of the
audience and maintains Intense inter
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est from curtain to curtain.
MILLS IDLE
IN ENGLAND
Hearst News Service
Manchester, Eng., September 21.—
Four hundred cotton mills were clasea
today by the walking out of 30.000
operatives. The strike threatens to be j
the most disastrous In the history of ;
the country.
DICKSON IS NOMINATED.
Hearst News Service.
Natchez, Miss., September 21.—Prac
tically complete returns from Satur
day's primary show that W. A. Dick
son is nominated for congress over
Jesse Webb by about 700 majority.
NEW ROAD
Hattiesburg is After Main Line Of
New Orleans, Mobile and
Chicago System.
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BIG $35,000 SUIT
MAY BE COMPROMISED
Hattiesburg is Willing to Pay the
I Money Subscribed Several Years
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Ag0 Under Certain
Conditions.—
Lawyers Now in Conference.
The litigation between citizens ol
Hattiesburg and the Mobile, Jackson
& Kansas City Railroad, involving
$35,000, subscribed to the road with
the understanding that this city was
to get a main line instead of a branch
| will probably be settled by compro
j mise.
j if the compromise is effected, Hat
tiesburg will after all get a main line
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of the road to New Orleans and the
! local subscribers to the fund will be
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satisfied.
The citizens of Hattiesburg who had
,000 to the M., J. &
K. C., met this morning and after
conferring with their attorneys, de
cided to leave the matter witji the
attorneys, Messrs Travis and Hill to
effect a settlement w ith the attorneys
of the railroad. This decision makes
possible the adjustment of the dispute
at once and will mean the extension
of the road as a main line to New
Orleans when the adjistment is ef
fected.
subscribed the
The citizens of Hattiesburg allege
that they subscribed $35,000 to the Mo
bile, Jackson & Kansas City with the
distinct understanding, and with the
promise by the road's representatives
that the road would be built to Hat
tiesburg instead of Laurel and Ellis
ville, and that the line to Hattiesburg
would be a main line and not a branch.
They claim that they were handed a
large and juicy lemon in the build
ing of the jerkwater branch which
connects this city with the woods out
at Saratoga, and that the road failed
utterly to keep its promise in regard
to not biuldiug to Ellisville and Laurel.
They refused to pay the money when
demanded by the railroad and the
case was carried to the courts and
was tried in Laurel, a decision in favor
of the railroad resulting. The case
was then appealed to the Supreme
court and the decision of the lower
court reversed,
offer to compromise, and the meeting
held to day will probably result in
a satisfactory adjustment of the dis
Then came an
pute.
Attorney McIntosh of the M., J. & K.
C. Railroad has been in the city all
rith Messrs
day in close conference
Hill and Travis, who are the attorneys
for the people of Hattiesburg.
Under its reorganization, the rail
road is now known as the New Or
leans, Mobile and Chicago, and the
intention of the promoters is to extend
from Hattiesburg to New Orleans. If
a contract to this effect can be con
sumated, Hattiesburg is willing to pay
the $35,000 as the city would then get
what it bargained for—a main line of
the road.
STOLYPIN
IN CHARGE
Hearst News Service.
St. Petersburg, September 21.—
Premier Stolypin today took personal
charge of the campaign to stop the
ravages of cholera In this city,
number of incompetent officials have
been discharged and new sanitary die
tricts created. The disease is In
creasing at the rate of 400 patient* a
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