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it , I It i( n s Ji If N 'f II! 8'f ! i ' .1 '1 ' U 1-1 n II 1 . m THE HAYTI HERALD SI.09 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. HAYTI, MISSOURI. llll NEWS IN BRIEf A GENERAL SUMMARY OF IMPOR TANT NEWS OF THE WEEK GATHERED FROM ALU OVER. As the result of nn explosion nt Lick Branch mine, nt Switchback, W. Vn., between 50 anil 100 miners were killed. With twenty state senators voting for it, the Ilolladny state-wide pro hibition bill has been passed in the upper branch of the general as sembly of Tennessee. The administration, it is learned. 18 preparing a bill for the exclusion of Asiatic laborers, intended to make the exclusion laws moie eco nomical 'and effective. Anahsis of the returns of the recent prcsidcntal election discloses that one county of the United States, Zapata County, Texas, cast its vote unanimously for the Eepublisan elec tors. Joseph Massing, aged 43 years, while hunting near Madison, Ind., leaned on his rifle, and his dog in pawing at him pulled the trigger and the bullet entered side. Massing It will require $234 ,000,000 to run the postal seivico during the fiscal year 1910, according to the decision reached by the House Com mittee on Post Offices and Post Hon ds. The Ways and Means Comfittee reported favorably to the House the bill introduced by Chairman Payne providing a duty of $1.10 a gallon on bay rum imported from Porto Itico. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the House authorized the postmaster general to is-Mio Lincoln postage stamps of the denomination of 2 cents. The Illinois branch of the Eed Cross Society has forwarded more than $ 15.000 to Washington to be transmitted to the Italian Red Cross to be used for the. relief of earthquake sufferers. President l?oo-evelt rode ninety miles on horseback as an experiment. and when he diMiiounted at the "White House door, after seventeen hours in the saddle, ho did not show any marked signs of weariness. Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, a col ored woman, aged 107. and a former slave, said to be the oldest person in Indiana, is dead at Indianapolis. She always said she remembered Jiunso Madison and Thomas .lefl'er fcon well. Much interest was manifested by the senntors in the procedure that will be adopted to dispose of the charges by the President against Senator Tillman in relation to the attempted purchase of timber lands in Oregon. After a long period of hard, pnt ient work, Secretary of State Ifoot and Ambassador Brycc of Great Hritiim Tuesday night signed n treaty for the settlement of inter national differences between the national differences between the United States and Canada. Alf II. Cardin of New Albany, Ind., until recently a resident of Crittenden county, Kentucky, filed suit in the United States court here Aguinet William Neal and about one hundred others alleged night riders of Marshall, Crittenden, Caldwell, Trigg and Lyon counties, for $10, 400 damages, claiming they burned his tobacco warehouse at View, Ivy., on the night of Feb. 8, 1908. and compelled him to leave the slate. Directors of the National Bill Posters' Association, in tesaion nt Oklahoma City, issued an order for bidding members of the association to post nude pictures, such as are used to advertise union suits and corsets. Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United States Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, in a ckborntc opinion Wednesday afternoon held the Carmichacl prohibition net, un dor which this stute is operating, constitutional. While both were riding on the same mule William Ni-x, who sat in front, was cut to death by his brother-in-law. Bright Uilstrnp, two miles south of Cleveland, Ga. Gil strap, according to report, stabbed Nix seventeen times. Herbert S. Hadley, former attor ney general for Missouri, was sworn in as governor Tuesday at noon by Justice Lamm of the supreme court. A blizzard raged outside the capitol, but the inaugural ceremonies were attended by immense throngs. One by one, as his four children .descended the stairs from their bed rooms Wednesday, James York, a quarry worker, nt Bradley's Cross ing. Minn., slaughtered them all with a knife. Then ho went into a woodshed and hanged himself. Tl.o T Al-;..c f CU Tnnic w-na j nur. xi . Olivine j i. uii jji.i3 tuiij before the House Committee on Claims for more than an hour Wed nesday, submitting to a lengthy ex amination by members of that com mittee Regarding the $1(,."()0 short age discovered in the St. Louis sub treasury more than two years ngo. For several days stories have been going the rounds that the relations between the President and Judge Tuft were strained. Dissatisfaction at the White House because of the prominence given to "reactionaries" in the prospective Taft Cabinet vas given iu the basis for the alleged estrangement. The first infliction of capital punishment in France for a number of years past were witnessed in this Town this week, when four murder ers were decapitated by the guillo tine. The executions were public and took place in the presence of a large crowd. Speedy action to prevent lobby ing in the Kansas Legislature, was outlined in the House, when it pass ed a reolution authorizing the speaker to appoint a committee to act jointly with a similar commit tee from the Senate to frame an anlilobhying bill to be rushed through to passage. Through the sympathy of Charles W. Morse, the Wall-street financier who was sentenced to l."5 years' im prisonment for breaking the Federal banking laws, a young Texan named .James B. Wilson will return to his home in San Antonio and take u fresh start in life. Plans for what it is stated will be the most extensive publicity campaign ever conducted in the in terest of great national problems as they confront the church have been announced in New York by the Homo Missions Council of the Evan gelical denominations throughout the United States. As the resit of keeping a New Year' s resolution, in which he gave up the use of cigarettes, Edward Lane, 20 years old, died at Hazle ton, Ind. He was additid to ex cessive smoking nnd was urged to stop them with the new year. So accustomed had the young man be come to the use that the denial affected his nervous system seriously. Following the receipt of special cable dispatches from San Frnncisco Tokio, Japan, relating to matters now pending before the California Legislature Japanese newspaper here elaborate upon the strained re lations that may arise through the passage of bills nnd the enactment of laws forbidding the ownership of land and the -attendance of pub lic schools by Japanese residents of tho state. Miss Hufe, a school nurso of Cambridge, Mass., says Hint cig nrotte smoking is that city is very common nnd that hundreds of little girls are among tho smokers. About two-thirds of the girls smoke from five to fifteen cigarettes a day. Nose affections and heart trouble result. Tho State Corporation Commis sion of Oklahoma began the hearing of u docket of sixty-two cases this wjek, including ten cases of con tempt, four each against tho Santa Fe and Hock Island railroads and two against the Frisco, for violations of the mill nnd transit order nnd other rules of the commission. Estimates place the damage re sulting from the blizzard which swept Texas from the Pan-Handle to the gulf coast at more than one million and a half dollars. In tho western section it is known that nt least 10,000 head of cattle succumb ed, while more suffered from the wave. It was learned from nn authori tative source here that the United Sates Government has forced tho llonduran Government to apologise for an insult olliered to an American consular officer by a llonduran offi cial. The o trending llonduran offi cial was dismissed from office and officially degraded on the emphatic demand of the United States. Gov. Deneen and the other state officers-el cct will be inaugurated next Monday. The legislative dead lock over the canvass of the vote has been broken. The vote was can vassed and the result officially de clared. Arrangements were then made for the inaugural ceremonies on Januaiy 18 just one week after the dale fixed by the constitution. A resolution declaring the water wagon in Oklahoma to be a common carrier was introduced in the Okla homa house by Representative ''Bill" Durant of Durant, passed with a whoop, and sent to the senate for concurrence. The resolution de chucs that the welfare of the peo ple demands that the state-wide pro hibition law have the moral support of tho stale's entire citizenship. "Many people aie. sending me material in regard to Hooscvelt's dark and crooked ways and I am prepaiing a speech in which I will try to redeem my promise made,'' said Senator Tillman. He said ho did not know how soon he would be able to deliver his speech, but he would make it before the presi dent retired from office. Thornton Jenkins llnins listened to the Inst of the testimony that can possibly be given against him when he heard the rebuttal witness called by Prosecutor Dnrrin. Judge Crane promised Attorney Mclntyre that he could have all day in which to deliver his summing up address to the jury. Mr. Mclntyre said that he could use every minute of the court day and that he might need to ask Judpj Crane to extend the legal day. Tho National Government has come to n realization that tho Pana ma Canal will cost, in the neighbor hood of $1500,000,000. It proposes to issue bonds early in the spring which will go n long ways toward reimbursing tho treasury for the ex penditures which have Already been made. The time is considered op vortune because of the general rc vivnl of commercial and trade condi tions coincident with the incoming administration. It was lenraed Friday on reliable authority that the Department of Juhtice had turned over to the United States district attorney, Stimson, of the Southern district of New York, all the papers con nected with tho Panama canal pur chase, which has been the target for criticism for the last few months. It is believed this transfer is made with a view of bringing criminal action in Now York against publish ers of newspapers who havo been held responsible for the reflections on tho transaction 20 DIE WHEN TRAINS KIT Firo Starts in Wreckage, But Extin guished With Snow. Denver, Col. Twenty persona lost their lives and between 40 nnd 00 oth ers were injured, some fatally, in n hend-on collision between westbound Denver nnd Rio Grande passenger train No. ( nnd castbound double-header freight No. GO, late Sunday nignt, 18 miles cast of Qlcnwood Springs, because Guslav Olson, a veteran engineer of the system, failed to obey orders. Tho wreckage caught fire, and the horrors of a holocaust weio only avert ed by the uninjured passengers and mem bers of tho train crews, who used shov els and boards to throw snow upon the flames, putting them out before they could eat their way through the debris nnd consume tho dead and living. And, to make matters worse, a second wreck occurred cast of Glcnwood Springs, after tho first relief train readied that city with the injured, marooning the second relief train carrying other wreck vie turns nnd tho bodies of nineteen dead, for nearly ten hours. CUBA LIBRE JANUARY 28. Cubans to Be Given Second Chance at Xiborty. Havana. On January 2S at noon the Cuban people will conic into their own for the second time at the hands of the American go eminent. It was on May 20, 1002, that the American ilag, hoisted after the war with Spain, was hauled down in favor of the blue-striped, single st aired ensign of Cuba. This republic, for which tho Cubans vainly fought Spain for so many years, lasted little more than the period be tween presidential elections in the United States. In September, 100G, a company of marines landed at the pal ace from the United States cruiser Den vpr and halted a victorious levuliitionary army on tho outskirts of Havana, and American intencntion, which first came against a foreign power, was once more a reality, this time to set things right among the Cubans themselves. TROUBLED OVER SALARIES Congress Raised Own Salary, Why Not OthersP Washington. Congress is worried over what to do with the salary ques tion. The wo-riment of the .statesmen comes about in large part because, hav ing cheerfully voted to increase their own salaries, and that not long enough ngo to be out of the mind of the pub lic, senutors and representatives cannot with any grace keep from doing some thing for their official brethren. Now nlong comes a variety of snlary increase propositions that, if carried out, mean additional expenditures for the president, the speaker of the house, the vice-president and the federal judges of all descriptions. The aggregate incrense that would be carried if all these proposed provisions for higher salai ies go into effect amounts to over $400,000. TAFT TALKS TO THE NEGROES Black Man Must JKTalco Himself In dispensable Citizen. Augusta, Ga. Introduced to a big au dience of men, comprising the negro Y. M. C. A. of tliis city, as "the most pop lar and conspicuous citizen of tho United Stutes; America's greatest .statesman, our uncrowned king, for whom we wish a successful administration and a Becond term," by tho famous Dr. Walker, known us the "Black Spurgeon," Mr. Taft became greatly inteicsted in dis cussing the Christian uplift of Y. M. C. A. work, nnd talked for an unusually long time to his enthusiastic listeners. Dr. Walker painted a bright present and a brighter future for the negroes of Georgia, who owned, he said, a million ncres of land in the State, and paid taxes on $20,000,000 worth of property. This report Mr. Taft regarded us most encouraging; it gave him an illustra tion for his oft-expressed belief thnt tho" race question must be settled by the negroes making themselves indispensa ble to tho community in which they lived. This meant industry, information and thrift, only acquired by constant in dividual effort. 3,000 Houses to Be Built. Washington. An innovation in inter national relief measures is to bo under taken by iho American government in expending the $800,000 in money appro priated for the Italian- earthquake suf ferers. Penlizing thut great used among tho suircrorB will bo shelter from the ele ments, President ltooseelt lias decided to. send to Italy material for the con- struction of .'1,000 substantul but neces- sarlly very modest frame house, supple meiitiiig this by supplying civilian car- penters to auporvlRo the construction if this cuu bo arranged. MISSOURI NEWS VICTORY FOR THE DRYS. Success of Anti-Saloon Forces at Charleston, Mo., Is Celebrated. Charleston. Church bolls ami whistles were sounded in honor of. the victory of tho day in the local con test and a public meeting of thanks giving waB held nt tho court house. Charleston voted dry by 128 majority, after a hard campaign, which brought out tho largest vote ever polled here. Notwithstanding a blizzard was rag ing all day, members of the Anti-Saloon League, assisted by the W. C. T. U., camped near each precinct polling placo and, warmed by camp fires made their fight against the liquor in terests. Trolley to Lone Jack Soon. Joplin. The promoters of tho pro posed trolley lino from this city to Lone Jack says that tho final survey has been made -and accepted and that It is only a question of a short time before the work of construction will begin. It is the ultimate object la building this line, together with sey eral divisions already projected, trf connect Kansas City with Jefferson City by trolley. The entire distuncol to be covered is approximately 125? iniles, tho one to be built first from v here to Lone Jack covering thirty miles of the distance. The new road will leave tho Metropolitan proper at about Twenty-ninth street and Cleveland avenue. Train Runs Down Rich Hill Man. Rich Hill. J. L. Kooyston. aged 62 years, of this city, was struck by a Missouri Pacific passenger train here Saturday and received injuries from which he died an hour later. He was picking up coal on the tracks and did not hear or see the approaching train. Missouri Girl Dies From Burns. Rich Hill. Miss Minnie Melnts, aged IS years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Meints, living near Am sterdam, this county, died Friday from injuries received when her cloth ing caught firo from a heating stove earlier in the day. Another County Votes Dry. Charleston. Mississippi county outside of Charleston voted on tho question of local option Saturday. Eight out of thirteen precincts give a majority of CG3 in favor of tho drys. Tho remaining preclnts will probably increase this majority. Charleston voted dry recently. Sentenced for Girl's Downfall. Sedalia, .Mo. Edgar Wood of Wind sor, a member of a prominent Henry county family, was convicted in the Pettis county criminal court of caus ing the downfall of a young schoolgirl, also of Henry county. The jury gave tho defendant the limit, fixing his punishment at two years in tho peni tentiary. Tree Kills Eldon, Mo., Farmer. Eldon. Dallas Hcynes, a farmer, living near Kltorville, was killed by a tree falling uion l.im. Standard Oil Has One Friend. Jcffeison City. Whether it was a joko or stern reality will never bo known, but the Standard Oil Company has at least one friend in Missouri. One prominent Democratic member of tho House has received a bill from an unknown source authorizing the Standard Oil Company to come back to Clinton County nnd do business. The bill went into the waste basket. Pike County Apples for Legislators. Jefferson City. Every member of the Legislature has received two Piko County apples as a sample of what that section of Missouri can produce. The apples were presented by State Senator Stnrk3 of Piko County, and were the cause of a scries of resolu tions inviting the Pike County states man to repent the presentation as often as ho desired. Marshall Paper Changes. Marslmil. A. L. Preston, for seven teen years circulation manager of tho Evening Post, at Nevada, Mo., has purchased J, R. Napton's interest in tho Democrat News. Mr. Preston will continue in chnrgo of tho circulation of tho Post at Ne vada, but will give the Democrat News his personal attention after February 1. Trains Collide; Man Killed. Springfield. 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