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VOLUME I.
ARMS TAKEN FROM MINERS AND OPERATORS
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DURING the progress of the coal miners’ strike In West Virginia the militia captured enough war material to
equip a small armv. Six machine guns were taken from the coal operators, 2,000 shotguns and rifles, Includ
ing Mausers, Springfields, Winchesters and mountain rifles, and nearly 250,000 rounds of ammunition. Revolvers
and rifles were taken from both operators and miners.
BROKE SHIP RECORD
Captain of Liner Censured for
Setting New Time.
Commander of Steamer Illinois Tells
How He Arrived Day Ahead of
Schedule, and Is Shanghaied
to Land Job.
New York.—lt is perfectly possible
to “shanghai” a seaman and make him
work on the land, although the possi
bilities appear never to have occurred
to writers of sea stories. Anyway, it
not only could happen, but it did hap
pen, and Capt. Harry Harriman, post
master, and most prominent busi
ness man in Massapequa, Long Is
land, is the man to whom it happened.
Captain Harriman followed the sea
for over 40 years, rising from appren
tice to the position of captain of one
of the Red Star Line steamers.
One day he came to Massapequa to
visit his brother-in-law, who was em
ployed by a real estate company here.
While on his visit he got into conver
sation with the owner of the little
store and postoffice, near the railroad
station. The storekeeper and post
master expressed himself as being
dissatisfied with the place, and yearn
ed for the coming of some one who
would purchase the store. In a spirit
of fun the captain offered him an ab
surdly low price for the store —and
the offer was accepted.
Not willing to back out of his bar
gain, the "captain closed the deal then
and there and decided to install his
wife as storekeeper and postmistress.
He found that Massapequa’s rapid
growth provided more work than his
wife could attend to, so, with a leave
of absence from the steamboat linft
he is still at his little Massapequa
store.
The captain is going back to his
first love, the sea, but he says, when
he brings to mind some of his amus
ing experiences as postmaster, he de
cides that work as postmaster in a
Long Island village is almost as ex
citing as anyone could wish for.
But, for all that, when Captain Har
riman tells how he came to take up
his work in Massapequa, he solemnlj
insists that he was shanghaied Into
the job of being postmaster.
Captain Harriman, whose last com
mand was on the Illinois, the Red Star
Line steamer which plies between
Philadelphia and Antwerp, was a per
sonal friend of Captain Smith of the
ill-fated Titanic. On the day the Ti-
SOON SUES FOR DIVORCE
Mrs. Lee -Ho of New York Declares
Heart of Husband Was Filled
by Miss Gwe Yok.
New York. —An oriental flavor was
added to the bargain day divorces In
the Supreme court by the presence of
Lillie Lee, Chinese wife of Lee Ho
Soon, a restaurant proprietor at 134
Third avenue.
Mrs. Lee, or Soon, just as you pre
fer, was the first Chinese wife to come
into court and ask a regular, everyday
American divorce from a Chinaman
liusband. She couldn’t stand for a ri
val In her husband’s affections. Soon
did not take the trouble tb come to
court or have a lawyer there to repre
sent him.
Mrs. Lee Is twenty-five years old.
She married Soon on October 4, 1908.
They lived together until August, 1911.
Since that time Mrs. Lee has not en
tered her husband’s home or partak
en of chop suey with him.
M. L. Nichols, the only Caucasian In
the divorce proceeding, testified that
on the night of June 11 last, while he
NUMBER 17.
tanic sank, Captain Harriman and
Captain Rogers, late of the steamship^
Frelssman, were planning a vacation
in Maine on which Captain Smith was
expected to accompany them.
The Illinois, anyone can see, is the
ship of ships-in the eyes of the post
master-captain.
“That’s the ship that beat the Phila
delphia-Antwerp record,” he said, with
a grin and a chuckle, “but the com
pany never seemed to approve of the
way we beat it. It was the eighty
fourth trip of the boat, and the weath
er was glorious—you wouldn’t find
more favorable conditions for a trip
in a lifetime. When I took my ob
servations the second or third day, I
found that we were about 16 hours
ahead of the schedule. I called up
the engineer and he said that no ex
tra amount of coal had been burned,
an'd we decided If we didn’t have to
use any extra coal, to beat the rec
ord —If we could.
“Anyway, we were due in Philadel
phia on Monday and we steamed in
on Sunday, 24 hours ahead of sched
ule. I had a thousand emigrants on
board and no arrangements had been
made to receive them before Monday
—oh, we threw things into a merry
mess. As I came into the dock, I
called out to Captain Fuller, our ma
rine superintendent:
“Where shall I go with this boat?”
“ *You can go to hades with her,’ he
yelled back. ‘What business have you
got in here today?’
"When I reported at the offices of
the company, they called me down for
bringing the boat in so far ahead of
time, but I showed them my orders to
’proceed with all possible dispatch,’
although they didn’t seem to want or
ders carried out so literally.”'
SAVES FATHER FROM BULL
Tennessee Lad Throws Rocks at Ani-
' mal That Was Goring His
Parent. *
Nashville, Tenn. —Prompt response
of his twelve-year-old son to his cries
for help saved the life of Dr. B. J.
Shelton, a prominent physician of An
tioch, near here, when the physician
was gored by a vicious bull. Dr. Shel
ton was thrown to the ground, three
ribs being broken and a deep gash cut
in his chest by the horns of the in
furiated animal.
Young Shelton threw rocks at the
bull and attracted his attention after
his father was down.
was calling upon Lee Ho Soon in
Soon’s restaurant, Soon said, “Come
on up and meet my wife.”
Nicholas had already been Intro
duced to Lillie James Lee, .the plain
tiff in the divorce action. He said he
was surprised to find that Soon’s
“wife” was another dark-eyed Chinese
lassie. Nichols told the real Mrs.
Soon what he had discovered, and
she started the divorce suit.
BRAKEMAN GETS FORTUNE
He Quits Railway Work at SBS Per
.Month and Retires With
$51,000.
Red Bluff, Cal. —Leo Hellawell was
Thursday a Southern Pacific brake
man receiving the ordinary wages of
SBS a month. Today he Is retired and
the possessor of a small fortune of
$51,000. And this sudden rise to for
tune has not In any manner affected
the young man other than to induce
him to forsake railroading for all
time.
Hellawell, who Is twenty-one years
of age, resided with his parents in this
Oc gulMin
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1912.
city for several years. His mother,
died in a hospital in San Francisco a
few’ weeks ago.
Thursday, while at the Dunsmuir
end of his run, Hellawell received
word that SI,OOO Insurance carried by
his mother. w’as awaiting him here.
On the same day he received word that
he was heir to $50,000, this amount
being bequests from his mother’s rela
tives in the east
TORTOISE STARTS A FIRE
Knocks Over Lamp Placed In Bex
to Keep Him and Twenty-four of
Hls Kind Warm.
Denver. —A tortoise Set fire to St.
Mark’s Episcopal chufbh here, con
siderable damage resulting and twen
ty-five tortoise lives being lost
The tortoise kicked over a lamp in
a box where he and twenty-four others
made their home. The box was kept
in the guildroom of the church and the
lamp was put In the box to keep the
animals warm. They were the prop
erty of Rev. John H. Houghton, rector
of St. Mark's,
TWINS REGISTER AT POLLS
Have No Trouble In Proving They Are
Old Enough to Vote —Are 93
Years of Age.
New York. —"William Muncy, 93
years old, born in Babylon, and have
lived hereabouts all my life.”
This was the substance of answers
given by a voter at Babylon, L. I.
As he stepped aside, another man,
his duplicate in form and features,
stood before the registry board. He
said his name was James Muncy, and
gave the same Information regarding
himself.
The two men are the Muncy twins,
said to be the oldest twins in the
world. They walked from their farms
at West Babylon to register, and aft
erward walked back, a distance of
four miles.
The remarkable pair were the cen
ter of attraction at the registering
place. They appeared to be In rug
ged health and mentally alert. When
hffhded the blanks for enrollment they
smiled at each other and placed a
cross beneath tile fountain emblem of
the Prohibition party. Then, with a
cheery good afternoon to the assem
blage, they walked briskly away.
For seventy years the twins have
registered and voted together, seldom
missing a year. Both have been
farmers all their lives.
LAW SCARES MALE TEACHERS
Men Shun Service In the New York
Schools and List of Applicants for
Places Is Exhausted.
New York. —The public schools of
New York City are today face to face
with one of the results of the equal
pay law, which secured like salaries
for men and women teachers.
This week the board of education
will appoint as teachers in the ele
mentary schools 388 women and
twenty-two men, and with these ap
pointments the eligible list of male ap
plicants Is exhausted.
It Is improbable that any more
men teachers will be appointed for
many years, for the waiting list shows
688 women and no men, and the re
duction in men’s salaries has made it
extremely difficult to get men to ap
ply for the places.
Two years ago men’s salaries were
a third greater tljan they are today.
Before the equal pay law went into ef
fect a man teacher started at SBOO
and went to $2,150 in twelve years:
now he starts at $720 and may hope to
reach $1,500 after fifteen years.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
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Dress Goods
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