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Vol. 7. No, 50.
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Contest Against Privilege Prom
ises Hard-Fought Battle.
THE BUDGET CONTROL
Great Dcmonstration Against House
of Lords Held at Trafalgar Sgquare
—-Hereditary Principle Strongly As
sailed—3 Stirring Campaign Begun,
London.—The whole of Great Brit
is immersed in a political cam
which has been inaugurated as
esult of the refusal of the house
lords to consent to the budget.
he country is divided into two
eat camps, composed of those who
pport the lords’ action, and those
ho contend that the house of com
mons have absolute c¢ontrcl of the
finances of the nation. There are,
of course, cther issues, such as tariif
reform versus free trade, but these
are being pushed into the back
ground by the confiict betwcen the
two houses.
Radicals Condemn the Lords,
While the various local organiza
tions are busy selecting candidates
and preparing for the contests in
their respective districts, the leaders
of the great partics are carrying on
2 general campaign.
The radicals, who had long fore
seen the fate of their finance bill, are
not allowing the grass to grow under
heir feet. In London, one of their
organizations, the National Demo
cratic League, hcld a demonstration
as a protest against the action of the
lords, which was one of the most no
table that has ever been seen in the
metropolis.
Fully 20,000 persons, mostly of the
laboring and artisan classes, gathered
in Trafalgar square and cheered the
radical speakers, who comdemned in
unmeasured terms the members of
the upper chamber,
KIDNAPPING PLOT FAILS,
Four Men Arrested and Placed Under
Bonds of $5,000 Each.
St. Louis.—Four men were arrested
n Collinsville, 111, charged with par
cipating in a plot to kidnap the
ildren of a merchant of that town.
hey are held under bonds of
000.
he plot was revealed to a Collins
le police when L, F. Lumaghi, a
former mayor of the town, received
a “black hand” letter demanding
$6,000 on pain of lcsing three of hisl
ng children. Lumaghi’s repiy was
ire armed zuards, who patrolled
premises dev and night,
hen came a.zecond letter declaring
hat he would be killed if he did not
'place $6,000 under a “for sale” sign in
a lot adjoining his home,
Under advice of the police l.uma
ghi put this amount in “stage money”
in the designated place and an I[tal
jian was caught delving under the sign.
In his panic he confessed and impli
cated four others, three of whom have
een apprehended, ‘
Planter Commits Suiclae.
Columbus, Ga.—Tom Hill, aged 40,‘
prominent farmer of Meriwether coun
ty, shot himself at his home near!
yullochville, death being instanta.ne-i
pus. |
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Prepare for Veterans,
W ontgomery, Ala.—Colonel Harvey
W cs, adjutant of the Alabama divis-
Lt TTnited Confederate Veterans, is
! . ready for the general reunion
! veterans of the confederate
§ and navy, to be held April 26,
t 28 at Mobile. Under the usa
| the past the commanding officer
é e entertaining division is the
i marshal of the parade, 50 this
- will fall to Col, Jones’' chiet,
al George P, Harrison, of Ope
! elected only a few days ago to
er term at the head of the Ala
forces. )
a Protests Against Russia,
.—The Chinese government
t a circular note to powers,
hg against Russia’s claims to
it of administration over tne
‘ rian railway zones. The pro
als with the Russian communi
“*,s which was sent to the powers
“\ ober 8.
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¥ Chattanooga Club Chartered.
Nashville, Tenn.—The Chattanooga
wseball Improvement company has
‘» chartered here with a capital
ol of §15.000, e
HAZLEHURST NEWS.
~ Hazlehurst, Jeff Davis County, Georgia, Thursday, December 9 1909,
I Lord Curzon of Kedleston.
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t Tord Curzon of Kedleston, prominent
'in the discussion of the proposed
British budget, which embodies uvew
schemes of tagation, is known to Amer
fcan readers as the busband of the for
mer Miss Leiter of Chicago, who died
‘a few years ago. Lord Curzon was
formerly viceroy of India and is known
as an able administrator and student
of politics.
EURNED AT STAKE,
Georgia Mob Visits Summary Ven
geance Upon Negro Preacher.
Cochran, Ga.—John Harvard, 2 ne
gro preacher, who shot and fatally
injured Will D. Booth two miles from
this place, was captured by a mob of
enraged citizens five miles from here
and burned at a stake, more than a
carload of lightwood, it is stated, be
inz heaped about the body.
Booth is a well-known business man
of Hawkinsville, and was enroute to
Cochran in an automobile when the
shooting occurred. - He drove up be
hind Harvard, who was in front ot]\
him in a wagon. Harvard charged‘
that Booth’s machine freightened his
mules. He drew a pistol, after a few
words, and fired upcn Booth, three
shots taking effect. Booth returned
the fire, and it wags learned afier the
negro was captured that he carried
two bullets, but neither struck vital
spots. He was found in a barn three
miles from the piace wherc the zhoot
ing occurred. s
{IAS LOST HIS IDENTITY.
Unfortunate Condition of Man Sand
bagged at St. Augustine,
St. Augustine, Fla.—A nicely dress
ed stranger was sandbagged here re
cently and robbed of everything which
would tend to identify him. TUpon
being found on the street he was re
moved te’ a local hospital for treat
ment.
Since regaining consciousness the
stranger has no recollection of his
name, home, reiations or a.nything%
which happened previous to the as
sault. All efforts to locate his home
have been in vain,
The unknown man is a member ot
the order of Red Men,
CORPORATION TAX,
Estimate for 1910 Places It at $25,-
OCO,OOO,
Washington.—lt is estimated that
there will have been collected from
the special corpiration excise tax by
July 1, 1910, $15.000,000, and that an
additional $10,000,000 collectible for
the calendar year January 1, 1910, to
December 31, 1909, will be collected
subsequently te July 1, 1910, making
the estimate for the total amount of
the collection for the fiscal year
1910, $25,000.000,
Arabian Band Routed., |
Paris.—Advices received here by
the minister of colonies state that a
detachment of French troopg attack
ed and routed an Arabian band near
Bilma, French West Africa. The
Arabs lost fourteen killeq and the
French five killed and eight wound
ed.
Pasition Given Abruzzi,
Venice.—~The duke of the Abruzzi
has been appointed director general
of the ars re and shortly will
take up he royal palace
‘at Ven e
May Be Great Walk-Out of Em
ployes of U. S. Railways.
WANT WAGE INCREASE
Leaders of the Railway Brotherhoods
Admit That a General Strike of All
Railway Employees Is Not Improb:
ablé—Crltica} Situation, :
- Chicago.—~The United States sis
threatened with the greatest railroad
strike in the histcry of the nation.
Practieally every railroad line in
the country, east and west, is in im
minent danger of being completely
tied up by an walkout on the part of a
large number of its operating employ
ees this month.
Officers of the organizations of en
gineers, firemen, trainmen and switca
men have agreed upon a uniform de
mand of 10 per ceat wage increcase,
without deviaticn or compromise,
Crisis Coming Rapidly,
That the crisis is approaching rap
fdly was indicated by the announce
ment_aft New York by ofiicers of the
Brotherhcod of Raiiroad Trainmen
that they wculd prezent their demands
on the 11th of this month, and tae
wage conferenceq will begin on the
15th. Altough every eficrt vrill be
made to avert a general strike, it is
impossible to predict what the out
come of the conferences will be,
Both the railriads and the leaders
of organized labor among the railrcad
emplovees are preparing for the strug:
gle, which, when it once begins, will.
without dcubt, develop into one of
the greatect industrial battles that has
ever been fcughi in this or any other
land.
More than 1,000,000 men would be
involved in a sirilte of this charaeg:
ter, .
ZELAYA IS SUBMISSIVE.
Willing That the United States Should
Make [nvestigation. |
Managua.—President Zelaya has
asked the United States to send a
commission to Nicarazua to investi-:
gate conditions existing here, and‘
says that if its findings show that
his administration is detrimental to
Central America he will resign, |
President Zalaya believes that the]
information sent to the United States
regarding cruelties practiced by his
government is prejudiced, and that a
disinterested investigation would show:
matters in a better light, |
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To Lay Case Before Congress. |
Washington.—There secems to be lit
tle doubt that tho president will lay
before congress at an early date the
facts as to the Nicaraguan situation
with a view to receiving authority
for any further <teps that he may see
fit to take in the interests of Ameri
cans residing in that country, and
with a view to putting an end to the
interminable strife in Central Ameri
ca,
FRANCE AND CHURCH WARRING.
Priest to Be Prosccuted for Banning
a Communal School.
Paris.—M. Barthou, minister of jus
tice, has instructed the public prose
cutor at Grenoble to begin action
against a local priest for placing a
communal school under an interdict.
This will be the first prosecution un
dertaken directly by the state in con-{
nection with the church’s campaign |
against the public schools. . l
The suits instituted by several
teachers’ associations against the
archbishops and bishops, who signe(ll
the pastoral letter warning Catholic]
parents that the teaching in the pub-]
lic schools jeopnaraized the religious'l
belief of their children, have been set
for this week. Authors of the inter
dicted text-books have retained Sena
tor Valle to commence suit against
Monsignor Amiette, archbishop of
Paris. \ :
$300,000 Fire at Bailtimcre, I
Baltimore, Md.—Fire broke out in
the building No. 104 South Sharp
street, within a block and a half of
the point of origin of the great fire)
of 1904. It spread rapidly, and within
a short time had done damage esti
mated at about $300,000.
' stricken Blind at Football,
‘Asbury Park, N. J.—Harold Pet
man, a 15-year-old school boy, was
stricken blind by a hard tackle during
a football play. The physician who
attended him said his'sight may be
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Archibald Mecl.ellan, chairman of the
board of directors of the mother
church of Christian Seience in Boston,
is one of the men highest in the coun
sels of the church. Lle bore a pronii
nent part in the recent trial and con
demnation of Mrs. Augusta li. Stetson
of New York.
WITNESS IN SUGAR TRIAL.
Coyvernment Special Agent Tells of
Short-Weight Frauds.
New York.—The storm center of
the sugar trial has whirled about
Richard Parr, the specialflagent of the
treasury department, who was fore
mest in discovering and exposing
short-weight frauds on the Williams
burg dccks of the American Sugar
Refining Company. Parr rehearsed
once more hig siory of how he caught
Kehoe, a tally-elerk, manipulating
the crooked scales, and how Oliver
Spitzer, one of the six company em
ployees, ofered to let him name his
own price for hushing the thing up.
Told with heat and great circum
stance, the narrative made a visible
effect, and counsel for the defense
was quick to retort with an attack on
Parr’s credibility.
The wire, with which it was shown
at a former triai, the scales were
manipulated, was produced in court
again and identified, and a working
model of the scales was exhibited for
the benefit of the jury.
PROBE CUSTOM SERVICES.
Rigid Investigation May Be Mace by
Committee of Congress.
Washington.—A complete investiga
tion by a joint committee into the
customs services, particularly the su
gar frauds, will be proposed in a con
current resolution to be presented to
congress by Representative Philip
Campbell, of Kansas,
The resolution proposes a select
committee of five members of the
house and three of the senate to make
a complete investigation. This will
go into the conditions in the customs
service and the whole story of the
sugar trust’s swindling, together with
its other violations of the law,
The committee, should the bill pass,
will be authorized to summon and
examine witnesses, send for books,
papers, etc,; and to report to congress.
’ Kiiied by Man He Sued. :
Decatur, Ala.—News reached here
{ of ‘the killing of Judge M. M. Math
[ews, at Somerville, Ala., by a man
' he was suing before a magistrate,
} who struck him on the head with a
stick of wood, killing him instacily.
Some years ago Mathews was a
prominent lawyer and judge in Kan
sas,
First Hunt Proved Fatal.
Orville, Ohio.—W. 8. Evans, former
i editor of the Orville Courier, went on
his first’ hunting expedition in his life
\of sixty years. His body was found
by neighbors hanging over an old
' fence, where it is believed he accl
dentally shot himself in the act of
climbing over,
Four Years in Pen for Oliver,
Bainbridge, Ga.—After a day’s hard
work on the A, D. Oliver bigamy
case, the jury returned a verdiet of
‘in the penitenti 'z«," A-\ 3im ) " i
SI.OO Per Year,
RGAN CONTROLS
Important Change In Great In
surance Company.
THOS. RYAN GOES OUT
Contrclling interest In the Equitable
Life Assurance Society by J. Pier
pont Morgan Has Been Announced
—Price Not Given,
New York.—Control of the REquita
ble Life Assurance Society, which
was secured by Thomas F, Ryan scon
after the insurance scandals of some
yvears ago, has passed to J. Pierpont
Morgan with the $472,000,000 of as
sets which the company declared in
its last statement, The transfer,
apart from its magnitude, is a chap
ter in the history of finance and marks
a complete reversal of the cld order
under which the insurance ccmpanies
controlled the destinies of the banks
and trust companies,
News of the transfer was contained
in the following brief statement is
sued froin the offices of Morgan & Co.:
“Mr. Morgan has bought the majo
rity of the stock of the Equitable Life
Assurance Scciety, formerly owned by
Themas ¥, Ryan. This purchase is
subject to the trust under which Gro
ver Cleveland, Morgan J. O'Brien and
George Westinghouse were made xot
ing trustees fcr the benefit of policy
holders, and it covers all Mr, Ryans
interest, including all the stock pur
chased by him from James H. Hyde.”
Beyond these facts, Mr. Morgan and
his partners decrlined to give any de
tails. The exact amount of the stock
bought by them and the price they
paid remain for subsequent announce
ment.
GIVES BOND IN REBATE CASC,
First President of Railrcad to Be In
dicted for Violating "the Law.
Louisville, Ky.—Lucien J. Irwin,
president of the Louisville, Hende>-
son and St. Louis railroad, indictea
jointly with his road by the federat
grand jury for giving rebates, a¥r
peared in the Uniled States court and
arranged for his bond of 4,000.
The officials of the interatate com
merce commission who procured the
indictment are authority for the state
ment that Mr. Irwin is the first rail
road president ever indicted for vio
laticn of this law.
VILL FIGHT IN 'FRISCO.
Chamnionghip Contest Between Jeff
ries and Johnson,
New Yorlk—The world’s champion
ship fight between James J. Jeffries
and Jack Johnson will be held in San
Francisco before a club organized by
“mex” Rickard, of Ely, Nev,, and Jack
(Gilezson, probably on July 4, 1910.
The bid made by Rickard and Glea
gon of a purse of SIOI,OOO and the
contestants to take 66 2-3 per cent of
the moving picture receipts, was ac
cepted by representatives of Johnson
and Jeffries,
POLICE ARE BAFFLED.
East Orange, N. J. Alleged Bathtub
Murder Still a Mystery.
New York.—The police *of three
cities have confessed themselves
bafiled in the search for a definite so
luticn of the death of Mrs. O. W. N.
Snead, the young Brooklyn woman
found dead in a bathtub in a house
in East Orange, N. J. Although the
detectives who have been delving into
the mystery declare themselves satis
fied that several persons were invoiv
ed in the alleged murder, one arrest
alone has so far been made in con
nection with the case.
Society Girl Shoots Self,
Greensboro, N. C.—Without any pre
vious intimation and with no known
motive, other than a slight remon
strance from a member of her family
about extravagant indulgence, Miss
Ethel Norman, aged 17, and promin
ent in society in this city, committed
suicide here by shooting herselt
through the heart with a revolver.
Fatal Duel of Senators,
Lapaz, Bolivia.—Senator Fernandez
Molina has been shot dead in a duel
with Senator Adclfo Trigo Acha, The
men quarreled during a debate in the
senate, e
Will Abolish Football,
Seling Grove, Pa—The Athletic As
sociation of Susquehanna university
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