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East Mississippi Times I’ublinhcd Every Frldiy by Wot Ward. BTAUKVILLE, : MISSISSIPPI IK OFTHE WEEK LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD TERSELY TOLD. NORTH. EAST, SOUTH AID WEST Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation and Particularly the Great Southwest. RACE FOR THE PENNANTS. National League. Club — Won Lost Pet. Chicago 46 23 .tilt! New York 42 lie .633 Pittsburg 3H US .54;l Cincinnati 40 li' -&-0 I'lillaili-lliliia 30 37 4Vi Brooklyn S3 40 .462 St. Louis 32 43 .427 Boston 30 43 .336 American League. Club— Wen Lust Pet. Philadelphia 61 24 . S0 Boston 45 32 .6)14 New York 46 30 .636 lie l mil 43 30 .661 Cleveland 32 3S .404 Washington 30 40 .337 til. Louis 23 60 .316 Trapped on a burning, sinking steamer. 10G men, women anil chil dren perished near Kherson on the lllaek sea, according to dispatches received at Odessa. After the colli sion with the steamer Wampoa the passenger steamer Lxtvkl, crowded with passengers, foundered. While trying to rescue her little sister, who fell Into a creek In Posey county, Indiana. Esther Proctor, 17 years old, was drowned. Her body was recovered. ' One man dying, two wounded and a possibility of other casualties, Is the result of a revolver battle be tween three bandits and 40 members of a construction gang on the Lake Shore railroad at North Olmstead, 20 miles southwest of Cleveland, O. August ("Garry") Hermann of Cin cinnati was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protec tive Order of Elks by acclammatlou at the first session of the grand lodge hold at Detroit. Prince Hello De Sagan, husband of Countess Anna Gould Castellane, has just won a fresh vlotory over his per sistent German creditors. The prince's lawyers have succeeded In inducing the Prussian courts to nullity the slate of bankruptcy Into which the .■redltors hud forced hla estates In Silesia. The steamer Cape Girardeau of the Eagle Packet company, with 150 pas sengers aboard, struck a snag in 40 feet of water near Turkey island, 50 miles south of St. Lotus, and sank in nine minutes. No lives were lost. Henry Dexter, founder of the Amer ican News company, died at his home In New York In his 98th year after a brief illueas, During his life he gave away to charity something more than $1,000,000. Affairs In Alaska are to be thor oughly Investigated. Attorney Gen eral Wlckersham and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel are to be sent to the territory by President Taft to probe Its government. This action follows the disclosures at the Ballinger congressional Inquiry and revelations before the senate Judiciary committee of alleged Guggenheim con trol of mines. Germany has formally put the ■tamp of approval on the Madtiz gov ernment In Nicaragua. This Informa tion reached Washington through con fidential channels outside the state department. Benton P. Jackson, former county Judge, was found dead on the ground near big barn gate at Glasgow, Mo. He died of apoplexy. Judge Jackson was a native of Howard county. He was 74 years old. Stanley Yale Beach, son of the pro prietor of the Scientific American, had a narrow escape from death while at tempting to make a flight over Long Island sound In his monoplane. Hla machine fell on the rocks. The plant of the Amarillo (T*x.) Ice and Cold Storage company was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The property belonged to A. Davidson of Amarillo. Capl. C. 8. Rolls, the channel-filer and most daring of British aviators, was killed when hla Wright biplane fell 100 feet at the aviation meet at Bournemouth. The accident occurred In full sight of a great company of spectators. Using his last pint of gasoline to drive his big Wright machine across the line of vision of engineers' trans its on the beach at Atlantic City, Walter Brookins smashed all world's records for aeroplane height by reach. Inga height of 6,175 feet above sea level. Gustave Whitehead, a Brldeport (Conn.) aviator, had a narrow escape when he lost control of a monoplane In which he was attempting an ascent. The machine crashed Into the side of a bridge hurling him out He was made unconscious Before he had been In office an hour, J. N. Ankele, the vice-mayor, elevated to the office of chief execu tive of Newark, 0.. following the sus pension of Mayor Herbert Atherton by Governor Harmon, had summarily removed Chief of Police Zerfeerlbel and Police Captain Robert Bell. Stuyvesant Fish ,Jr., son of the for mer pn-sidt nt of the Illinois Central, ami Miss 1. Mildred Dick, daughter of Evans R. Dick of New York, were married at St. Philip's church. New York. After a short honeymoon Mr. ami Mrs. Fish will return to New York, where they will make their home. Miss Hazel Hogan of Starkville, Miss., was severely injured, when, tearing a college pennant from the wall of her room, she Jerked the pin with which it was fastened suddenly from the wall. The point of the pin struck one of her eyes. Physicians found It necessary to remove the eye. The Shippers and Receivers associ ation of Cincinnati applied to the fed oral court here for a mandatory in junction to compel the Interstate Commerce commission to annul Its recent order In the southeastern rate case, reopen the bearing and give an other decision. One of the effects of prohibition In Tennesee Is a 200 per cent Increase In money orders paid at the Hopkins ville (Ky.j postofflee In the last year, during which time the amount has Jumped from $30,150.70 to $90,415.95. Six men were killed and a score injured, 145 horses were roasted alive and property worth $750,00 was de stroyed In the handsomest portion of Portland, Ore., by the worst fire (hat has visited the extreme northwest In years. According to the police, an explosion in a garage caused the fire. The census bureau announced the population of East St. Louis, 111., to he 68,547; of Belleville, 111., 21,112; of Peoria, 66,900; of Granite City, 4,835. East St. Louts almost doubled Its population in the last ten years. Seven men were Injured, one prob ably fatally, when a scaffold on tho new high school building at Memphis, Tenn., collapsed. Tho men foil four stories. Indictments against 13 persons were returned by a Rack Island (111.) county grand Jury, which since May 3 had been invesl[gating alleged fraternal Insurance frauds. All those Indicted were officers of the American Homo Circle or of the Fraternal Tribunes, or were concerned In the merger of the two. Arthur C. Hawkins, 38, cashier of the Wisconsin Lime and Cement com pany, Chicago, Is In jail, after confess ing, the police say, to having robbed his employers of more than $9,000 In CO days. Hawkins’ only explanation Is that he took the money and "had one great time on it." Governor Noel of Mississippi has written to all county prosecutors and many city officials In the state re questing them to take Immediate ac tion to close all "blind tigers" and “near-beer" saloons. Suspension of recent general ad vances In freight rates has been de termined ou by tho Interstate Com merce commission. These tariffs were to become effective August 1. Clasping her 18-monthsold baby In her arms, Mi's. Rosie Mickeclc of Kansas City, Kas,, threw herself In front of a passenger train. Poverty, It Is said, caused Mrs. Mickeclc to seek death. Lester O. Goddard, a railroad attor ney, died at his home in Riverside, near Chicago. For many years he was connected with the legal depart ment of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad. Aroused by the fact that an appeal to the supreme court had been taken following his condemnation to death on the charge of having murdered the town marshal, C. C. Chenault, a moD battered down the doors of the jail at Rayvllle, La., and, dragging J. D. Freeman, a white man. from his cell, hanged him. Carl Etherlngton, 22 years old, em ployed by the State Anti-Saloon league as a blind tiger raider, was lynched in Newark, Ohio, following a day of almost continuous rioting The heavy doors of the Licking coun ty Jail were battered down and Eth erlngton was dragged from hla cell and shot. Holding that a saloon keeper who violates the state law by selling liq uor on Sunday is undesirable as a citizen Judge Humphreys, In the United States district court at Spring field, 111,, refused to Issue final citi zenship papers to Thomas Mulroy, who admitted, on being questioned, that he was guilty. A four-horse stage coach, carrying 11 passengers bound for El Portal, the gateway of the Yosemlte National park, wont over a cliff Into the Merced river after a fall of 100 feet. Four persons were seriously injured. The Arkansas supreme court has held that the union formed between the Presbyterian church and the Cum berland Presbyterian, or Southern Presbyterian church, In 1906, was valid, and that the Presbyterian church succeeds to the right and title of all property held by Cumberland Presbyterians. The dirigible balloon Rrbsloeh, re cently fitted for passenger service, was destroyed In the air through the explosion of a benzine tank, and her Inventor, Oscar Erbsloeh, and his crew of four men were hurled to their death In Rhenish, Prussia. Staggering under a debt totaling $849,389 and facing financial ruin, the George Washington university at Washington, D. C., Is negotiating for the sale of Its most important build ings and the discontinuance of Its medical school and hospital. Col. Edward R. H. Green, ion of Mrs. Hetty Green, has been made a director of the Seaboard National bank In New York. Thta confirms reports current last May that Colonel Green is to quit Texas to make his home In New York In order to give hla attention to hla mother's interests. State Capital Notes Weekly Budget of State Newt Item* Gathered by Our Sped*! Correipondent at Jackson. It- ■ --J J ACKSON. Dates for Farmers' Institutes. Prof. W. L. Hutchinson, director of the department of Farmers' institutes, of the Mississippi Institutes, of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechani cal College, has completed the list of Institutes to be held, in some twenty counties and at fifty or sixty points therein, during July and August, and gives notice as follows: Alcorn County—July 29, Farming ton; July 30. First District (probably Jones school); August 1, Qoosepond; August 2, Kossuth; August 3, Hinkle. Amite County—July 18, Olio; July 19, Forest school house; July 20, New Zion; July 21, Robinson Station; July 22, Tangipahoa Church. Carroll County—July 29, Carrollton, Chickasaw County—August 6, Egypt. Clarke County—August 13, Union Church; August 18, Mayerhoff Springs. Jasper County—August 4, Montrose; August 5, Bay Springs; August 6, Lake Como; August 11, Heidelberg; August 12, Rosehlll. Jones County August 8, Shady Grove school house; August 9, Howard school house; August 10, Moselle. Leake County—July 26, Lena; July 27, Tuscola; July 28, Standing Pine; July 29, Wllliston; July 30, Midway. Lee County—July 25, Bethany; July 26, Baldwyn; August 4, Birmingham. Lauderdale County—August 15, Top ton; August 16, Shucktown; August 17, Toomsuba. Marion County—July 28, Columbia. Montgomery County—July 30, Stew art Jefferson Davis County—July 29, Son’s Academy; August 25, Hebron; August 26, Prentiss; August 27, San tee. Neshoba County—August 1, Center hill Church; August 2, Dixon; August 3, House. Prentiss County July 27, New Hope; July 28, Osborn Creek Church. Pike County July 23, Carter's Creek school; July 27, Walker's Bridge. Scott County—July 19, Independ ence; July 20, High Hill; July 21, My er's school house; July 22, Hillsboro; July 23, Lilian; July 25, Malco. Simpson County—August 22, Harris ville; August 23, French Hill; August 24, Stonewall. Wayne County—August 19, Waynes boro; August 20, Shady Grove school house. Prof. Smith Taking Hold. Prof. William H. Smith, t-he able and popular educator from Holmes county, who Is state supervisor of the element ary rural schools, is preparing to take up the duties that will fall to him in lus new field of labor. One Important feature of Prof. Smith's work will consist In starling off on a practical basis of the consoli dated rural school system, which was authorized at the i9lO session of the legislature. By adopting this plan, where there are two or three country schools within a radius of a few miles, one school will be maintained, the school trustees being in the same act authorized to provide for the transpor tation of pupils who live beyond two miles from the school so consolidated. It Is figured out that the cost of trans portation will be more than covered by the saving in teachers’ salaries, as the combining of two or three schools In one will enable the authorities to dis pense with the services of one or more teachers. More Roads Projected. Railroad deals seem plentiful about Jackson just at present. Following the announcement that the Great Northern would erect a quarter of a mtllion-dollar depot In this city comes the news from New Orleans that the Frisco will build a line Into Jackson. By an agreement between the Great Northern and the Frisco system it is said that arrangements have been per fected that will secure another line connecting this city with Memphis. This Is to bS done by the extension of the Great Northern to a point near Memphis. Send SSO to Help Immigration Work. President A. C. Benders, of the Mls slppl Travelers, has forwarded to Treasurer Oscar Newton, Jr., a contri bution of SSO to the fund being raised to carry on the work of the statewide Immigration movement. "We appreci ate this donation from the Mississippi Travelers," said President P. H. Saun ders. "not merely for the amount In volved, but for the spirit that prompt ed It. The support of the Mississippi Travelers means a great deal to us, for the boys on the road wield a great In fluence In the upbuilding of the com monwealth." Twenty-five Get Liberty In August. A total of twenty-five prisoners will bo discharged from the penitentiary In August, when who have served their time, and the first one will be released nearly every day during the mouth, till August 31, when five will be freed. Some of these men may be given their freedom before their term expires, In order to restore their citizenship, but In this case Qov. Noel would have to Issue a pardon. The longest sentence any of the men aerved was seven yeara, ranging from that time to two year* BOLL WEEVIL ADVICE. Glynn Mississippi Farmers by Spe cial Agent Moss. The following has been given out here: To All Farmers in 801 l Weevil Terri tory;, The fight against the weevil has not progressed far enough for its ef fectiveness to become fully apparent. But sne lesson baa, or should have been, Impressed on the man who has been compelled to pick closely the weevils and punctured squares in his field, and that Is the urgent need of so reducing the emerging weevils as to minimize the expense and trouble of picking them. The only way to do this effectively Is by burning all cotton stalks be fore frost In the fall. Hundreds and thousands of weevils have appeared In the fields In weevil sections this spring, and the expense and trouble of picking them .has often been a very considerable item. How ever, it was one of the effective means of fighting the pest, and every farmer who has carefully followed this prac tice will profit by It. By destroying your stalks In the fall at a cost of 50 cents an acre, you can very greatly reduce the cost of pick ing weevils and punctured squares In the spring, and practically assure your cotton crop. Further, the expense of picking the weevils this year has been compara tlvely light, on acount of our very cold winter. By June 20 this year, following a cold winter, only 4 per cent, .of over-wintered weevils had emerged from hibernation; while one year ago, followed by a mild winter, over 20 per cent., or five times as many, had emerged by the same date. Hence, where stalks are not de stroyed the average expense of pick ing weevils and squares will very like ly be much greater than this year. We are always going to make cot ton In Mississippi, but the sooner the grower realizes that a smaller acre age, fall destruction of stalks and picking weevils and squares, and rap id. intensive methods are essential, the better it will be for all concerned. B. L. MOSS. District Agent Farmers’ Cooperative Demonstration Work. Sending Out Pension Blanks. The auditor’s department has sem. out to the several counties of the state the blank forms for pension applica tions, which are to be filled out by the applicants and be ready for consider ation when the pension boards meet In September. The forms of application are divided into three classes, as fol lows ; First Class—lndigent soldiers or sailors who lost two legs or arms as a result of the war between the states, |125, Second Class—lndigent soldiers or sailors who lost one leg or arm, $75. Third Class—lndigent blind widows or veterans, $75. Fourth Class —Indigent soldiers or sailors, pro rated per capita. Fifth Class—lndigent servants of veterans, also prorated per capita. Sixth Class—lndigent widows or vet erans, also per capita prorated. The appropriations’ for pensions at the 1910 session were in excess of that made In 1908, by upwards of SIOO,OOO. Governor Noel Counts the Cash. Acordlng to statute. Governor Noel Saturday paid a visit to the state treasury for the purpose of verifying the books and cash account of the treasurer. The result was the Inter esting discovery that there was just 90 cents In the cash drawer, though this, of course, does not represent the state’s cash balance. In the certifi cate which he returned, after verify. Ing the count made by Treasurer Ed wards and Deputy Auditor Thomson, the governor states that in addition to the 90 cents in the drawer he found In the vault the sum of $2,449.55 be longing to the county tax on land re demption funds, while the hooka showed a balance In the depositories of $208,481.04, giving total balance of $270,931.49. Damage to Crops. President Hightower of the Missis sippi division of the Farmers’ union, who has Just returned from a tour of the northern part of the state, in speaking of the damage done by the recent rains, said: “It is a fact beyond question that the heavy rains of the past two weeks have drowned out a large portion of the young and grow ing cotton.” The same kind of news comes from planters from every sec tion of the state coming to Jackson, and gloomy predictions are made un less there Is a hold up In precipitation In the near future. Vicksburg May Get Encampment. Vicksburg may get the next encamp ment of United States and state troops. The Vicksburg board of trade has taken the matter up. This would mean 10,000 troops in camp at Vicks burg, and Mayor Hayes, It Is said, is working along this line. Secretary ol War Dickinson Intimated some time ago that such a move was possible. It is known the war department does not like Chlckamauga any too well, but the encampment was held there this year because of the lack ot a better plues CONDITION OF COTTON MANY LOWLANDS IN THE VALLEY CAN NEVER BE REDEEMED. Alabama, Georgia and the Carolina* See Improvement Reports From Oklahoma Brilliant. Memphis, Tenn. —There was an Im provement In the cotton crop during the week In Alabama and states east ward In Texas and Oklahoma. Else where little or nothing was gained be cause showers were general and kept labor from the fields for the greater part of the time. It seems certain that In the valley states many low lands can never be redeemed from the grass. In Mississippi some of the bot toms are still under water, which Is receding very slowly. The great need of the crop in the central and eastern belts Is cultiva tion. There are a few localities that have not suffered severely either be cause the lands were unusually well drained or because rains were not ex cessive, but as a rule all the territory oast of Texas and Oklahoma has been seriously damaged. For the crop to recover, dry weather Is necessary. The plant la late and has not set fruit as usual at this date. Within the past four weeks North Carolina and Tennessee have suffered less than other states east of the Mis sissippi river. Reports from Okla homa are brilliant and good from Texas except in the southwest, whero rain la beginning to be needed, the re cent showers having failed to reach that section of the state. WHICH WAS THE CAUSE? Preacher Deposed for Bathing and Drinking "Llcker.” Laporte, Ind. —The official board of the First Christian Church announced that It had deposed the Rev. J. J. Cole from Its pastorate and he would not be permitted to preach any more, for the alleged reasons that he swam in the lake on Sunday, that he drank some whiskey on the order of a physi cian, and that he had been seen at a theater. Mr. Cole, In a public reply, does not deny the allegations, but says he of fended the members of the board by not appearing In evening dress at a church reception. BOLT FOLLOWS BENEDICTION Two Seriously Injured—Lightning Hit the Pulpit. Paris, Ky.—Just as the Rev. T. C. Stackhouse was pronouncing the ben ediction at the Silas Baptist Church, about forty miles from here, a bolt of lightning struck the building and two persons were seriously injured, while a score were shocked. The two in jured are Mrs. James Thompson, who was badly burned about the body, and Miss Bettie Starks, who was also seri ously burned. The lightning, after splitting the marble top of the pulpit, ran around the wall toward the door where Miss Starks was standing, burning her shoes and stockings from her limbs. Her dress was ignited and was badly burned before the fire was extinguished. One horse hitched in the rear of the building was killed. COTTON BULLS VICTORIOUS Over Attorney General, Declares United States Senator. Florence, S. C.—That the cotton bulls have won a victory over Attor ney General Wlckersham and that the latter withdrew the Indictments against them because he has seen the error of his way is the opinion of United States Senator E. D. Smith, who has returned from Washington. He points out the fact that cotton has climbed a dollar a bale In spite of the closing of mills, curtailment and all other bear influences. He predicted that cotton would con tinue to rise until the prices inOctober tinue to rise until the prices in Octo ber would make the present prices look cheap. Immigrants Excluded. Washington.—Nearly 25.000 of the immigrants who arrived at United States ports dring the fiscal year end ed June 30 last were denied admission by Immigration officials and were compelled to return to the countries fiom which they came. Various rea sons were assigned for refusing to al ow them to remain here, Including ° f P l; yaiCal defects and Prob ability of their becoming public . The . fi ’ cai year 1910 was a million immigrants year,’’ the first °. r * v ral the total number dmitted being 1,041,570. 105 at Fort Worth. Ft. Worth, Tex. With the temper*, ture registering 105 degrees at three of the ’ dar " as the hottest d ay - Scorch g hot winds from across the plains a Yellow Fever in Nicaragua. Blueflelds. Nicaragua.—The Ameri. -•“consul, Thomas P. Moffatt has sued instructions,to the American na val commanders here to observe th strictest precaution that no person. BlufTcn tl ° n b<s he ' d Wi,h Bluff on account of the , Ind n. 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