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FOURTH TAGE
THE SUNNY SOUTH
and two groves of trees were carried
away by the fury of the wind.
The tornadi, according to the weather
bureau, was practically local to the sec
tion where it did its greatest damage, but
It was felt in Georgia and Tennessee, and
where the strength of the wind was not
felt all previous .records for rainfall were
broken.
Tn Birmingham several of the most
prominent people met death, the tornado
passing through the very center of the
most elegant residence district. The dam
age to property is estimated at $300,000,
and hundreds were made homeless In the
space of a few seconds. A relief fund has
nlready been raised and the citizens of
Birmingham who escaped the fury of
the wind have come nobly to the aid of
their less fortunate neighbors.
Persons who witnessed the storm and
^.escaped its fury tell interesting stories
' of its work. The only Indication of its
approach was the closeness and sultry-
ness of the atmosphere, which usually
precedes such occurrences. It seems to
have gathered in all its strength on the
very outskirts of Birmingham, and with
the point of the funnel shaped cloud
hanging about seventy-five feet from the
ground It swept on in all its majestic and
death-dealing majesty.
The storm entered the city at the ex
treme southwestern corner and ploughed
its way eastward, continuing its way un
til It was lost in the mountains beyond
Irondale. The freaks of the storm were
numerous and curious. Heavy timbers
were carried hundreds of. yards and
blown entirely through houses. Shingles
were picked up twenty miles from the
scene and trees seem to have disappeared
as completely as though they sank into
the earth. Robert J. Lowe, one of the
best known citizens of Birmingham,
whjse wife and child were killed, was
blown through a window of his home,
landing in the back yard. He was se
riously injured.
Two photographs of scenes after the
Storm are presented in The Sunny South.
One is at Avenue H and Nineteenth street
looking south. The other is a scene on
Nineteenth street, showing a tin roof
tangled in telephone wires.
*
That the head that wears a crown lies
uneasy is demonstrated in the case of
the czar of Russia,
and he is in a state
of extreme nervous
ness that few per
sons would care to
feel, and the serious
part of the situation
to him is that he is
not nervous without
good and sufficient
cause. Only a few
days ago a mine was
discovered under
neath the palace of
Emperor Nicholas at
Tsarkoe-Selo, and its
timely discovery
seems to have frustrated a plot on the
czar's life in which several notabilities
were more or less implicated. Several
other attempts on the czar’s life have
been made, but the Russian newspapers
have not been permitted to make them
public, and the details have not reached
the outside world. So completely un
nerved is the czar that his physicans
have endeavored to induce him to take a
cruise, but he refuses to do so.
The student uprisings at home and
the eastern troubles abroad have given
the czar and his ministers matter for
serious thought, and they have worked
overtime trying to bring delicate political
matters to a climax that will be favora
ble to his majesty. German reports of
the uprisings in St. Petersburg say thv
among the leaders of the rioters were
prominent officers of the imperial army.
The situation at present is anything but
satisfactory to the czar and his minis
ters.
19
Those who have been most insistent as
to the' guilt of Pat Crow in the Cudahy
kidnaping case were somewhat surprised
when a man giving his name as H. C.
Henderson was arrested in Dallas, Tex.,
a few days ago and declared that he was
the kidnaper. So certain are some that
Crow lg the guilty man that doubt has
been expressed as to the sanity of the
DaKas prisoner. Henderson received a
sentence of thirteen years at Dallas and
Czar
1 exception to relinquishing autonomy in
Chin-Chon on the ground of wishing to
grant a concession which would likely
prove an embargo to the powers.
In a note sent to the Chinese minister
cn February 19th, the United States
warned the Chinese government against
entering into any private, territorial or
financial, arrangements without the full
knowledge of all the powers.
The German press lec)are3 that if the
United States is entitled to an indemnity
of $25,000,000, with only 1,000 troops on the
scene, Germany with 25,000 troops should
daim $400,000,000.
From this It is very clear, even to one
unfamiliar with the situation, that the
Chinese problem is far from a settled
state and likely to remain so for some
Hire.
19
The elusive Agulnaldo, the leader of the
Filipinos, has at last been captured, and
General Funston has
thereby added to his
ilready remarkable
nliltary career Its
most thrilling chap
ter. The capture of
tgulnaldo will
doubtless end the
onfllct in the Philip
pines, and for this
-eason, if for none
other, even his sym
pathizers will be
gratified. The cap
ture of the chief was
effected by the daring of General Fun
ston and the treachery of Aguinaido’s
former supporters.
General Funston, accompanied by sev
eral United States officers, Aguinaido’s
emissary who had taken the oath of alle
giance, and a company of picked native
scouts, proceeded to the Filipino chief’s
headquarters. There It was represented
by the emissary that General Funston and
the other officers had been captured by
the native soldiers and brought ;;y them
to Aguinaldo. When brought before
Agulnaldo. on a given signal, these with
General Funston seized tne Filipino lead
er, made him prisoner and made haste to
bring him to Manila.
The full details of the capture have not
yet been made public, nut General Fun
ston doubtless car-
mastodon did cyclonic damage until he
was killed by contact with a live wire.
He demolished a hotel and tossed dogs
and horses into the air. His skin alone
weighed 1,100 pounds and the skeleton
Gen funston
ried out the plan
given in the forego
ing, which he an
nounced would te
his mode of pro
cedure.
General Funston
has been anxious
to capture Aguinal
do since he first
went to the Philip
pines, and on sev
eral occasion has
the wily Filipino
evaded capture by
a very narrow
margin. The plan of
capture was one of
surprising boldness,
since there was danger at all times of
treachery among the native scouts who
had been chosen to aid General Funston.
Aguinaldo, the captured chief, has been
on the move almost continually since the
United States troops landed at Ma
nila, and won admiration for the
successful manner In which he managed
to prevent his capture. Now that he is a
prisoner, the question has naturally aris
en, What will be done with him? It
seems hardly like'.y that he will be dealt
summarily with. The events following his
capture and its effect upon the Philippine
situation are matters of extreme interest
and Importance.
Atfninzldo
The Klondike Nugget, a paper published
in the northwest, warns residents that
spring has not come simple because the
thermometer is only twenty degrees be
low zero and advises them to be careful
in changing their heavy clothing for light
er wearing apparel. In Dawson City a
lady was frozen to the sidewalk while
standing talking to a friend and could
not move until she had been chopped out.
Dawson is at present overrun with mad
dogs and this seems to explode thj theory
that rabies Is the result of extreme hot
weather. Scientists there claim the brain
of the dog becomes fregen and results tn
madness.
At ths Forks, S place near Dawson, aj^
stood fifteen feet high. One tusk weighed
217 pounds.
The accounts of the weather conditions
in the northwest and the fact that spring
Is considered near at hand when tho
thermometer Is 20 degrees beiow zero
causes southerners to shiver at the very
thought.
*
Alaska Is disturbed over the dog thief
and latest dispatches from Nome state
that such a great menace has the dog
thief become that It is likely that the
theft of a dog will be made punishable
by death. In Alaska dogs are as valuable
as horses, and U is pointed out that
horse thieves were hanged In the early
days in the west and the miners are
thinking seriously of following the exam
ple of western pioneers. The Nome Gold
Digger, while not edttorialy advocating
the extreme penalt” declares that the
citizens would he justifiable in dealing
j out summary punishment to dog thieves
and expresses the belief that this would
doubtless lessen the crime.
As a result of his great gift to the city
of New York, there is talk of nominating
Andrew Carnegie for mayor on the re
publican ticket. Mr. Carnegie is now in
England, where he was accorded a
hearty welcome. He is very reticent on
the subject of the mayoralty and will
not take It seriously, treating the Idea
with ridicule. In speaking of his gift
to New York he says it is sufficient for
the present needs, but adds that It is a
great city and will grow rapidly and
continually.
*
William Hennessey, a Chicago police
man. is about to come into possession
of one cf the Bahama islands. John Scan
lon, Hennessey's long lost uncle, recently
died and « law firm has at last found
an heir In Hennessey. Papers are being
prepared and Hennessey will claim the
property. Among the possessions of the
wealthy and long lost uncle Is a Bahama
Island, and the Indications are that. In
stead of walking his beat for his dally
bread. Her.neaseey will hereafter be in
possession of a police force of his own.
Two Bt. Louis wo
rn e n successfully
coped with thieves
on different occa
sions last week and
in each instance the
burglars received a
Crashing at the
hands of the wo
men. Miss Vivian
Bowles displayed
her courage when a
Vivian Bowies former boarder en
tered the boarding house of her sister
and was detected in the act of stealing a
blanket. Miss Bowles gave the alarm
and pursued the thief. She caught him
about a block from the house and en
gaged In a fist fight with him in which he
was defeated and held until the arrival
of a policeman
A snatch thief snatched the pocketbook
of Mrs. E. T. Breeding, of the same city.
She called for help and followed the man
until aid came in the shape of an officer.
*
M. Edmond Got. the eminent French
actor, died March 22d after a long illness
thereby removing
from the stage of
public activity a
man who enjoyed a
position of public |
affection and es
teem that Is reach
ed only by men of
genuine genius.
Francois Jules Ed
mond Got was one
of the most distin-
Cdsnond Got guished comedian?
of the Theater Francais during the a -
ter half of the nineteenth century. ©
was seventy-nine years of age at the
time of his death. He entered the Paris
conservatoire in 1841 in the class of M :
Provost and won the second prize for
comedy in 1842 and the first prize in 1843.
He made his debut at the Francais in
1844 and h1s marked' and original comic
talents were immediately recognized and
so popular did he become that he was
elected a Societaire in 1850. For the
next forty-five 3’ears he was one of the
most prominent figures in the famous
eompan” and won innumerable triumphs
in old and modern comedy.
*
Edwin A. Abbey, a well-known Phila
delphia artist, has been commissioned by
King Edward t o
paint the corona
tion scene in West
minster Abbey. The
honor is an unusual
one and is a compli
ment to the Amer
ican artist and to
America. E d w in
Abbey was bom in
Philadelphia in 1832
and won a wide £ A. Abbey
reputation as an illustrator of periodicals.
He removed to London in 1883, and his
“Holy Grail," painted for the Boston li
brary, placed him in the front rank of
painters of historical scenes. In 1898 he
won the John H. Converse gold medal at
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
The selection of Mr. Abbes- by King Ed
ward for a work of such importance is
gratifying to Americans and to his fellow
artists, and that the painting will become
one of the world's most famous works of
art there Is little doubt.
embarrassed by the presence of his moth
er and is said to have asked ker to retire.
Bhe remained, however, and led the ap
plause.
Korea is now the bone of contention
between Rursia and Japan and the sit
uation there is giv-
In Nicaragua the Para
dise of Mahomet
By THOMAS R DAW LEY. JR
The Enptror
of Japan
the esar no little
uneasiness. Japan
will defy Russia’s
evident intention to
seize Korea, and it
is declared that the
little empire is well
equipped to cope
with the eastern
bear. Jarxin has
come to a position
of prominence and
Interest in the candidacy for alderman
of one of the Chicago city wards by Hon-
respect as the result of her triumph over
China, and it is believed she will be able
to give a good account of herself In a
contest with Russia, in view of the bear’s
troubles in other quarters.
General Yatsumi, of the Japanese army,
who is now in the United States, and who
has been called home, is quoted in a re
cent interview as saying he believes a
conflict between Japan and Russia is In
evitable. He regards the situation as se
rious and believes his orders to return are
in the nature of an intimation that a cli
max is near at hand.
*
Philip Botha, a Boer general and a
brother of the Boer commandant, was
killed on the Doom-
berg March 20th. In
the same battle his
two sons were
wound ed. Th(
Bothas have player
a prominent part ir.
the south African
war. and, although
Philip Botha has
not been as often
heard of as his
brother, he has noma
done equally as effective service. HI?
two sons were both brave soldiers, and,
like their father and uncle, were promi
nent in Important engagements.
£>n a less extensive
scale Mrs. Emmons
Blaine Is. just at
present, occupying
the same position
among women that
Andrew Carneg'e
does among men. It
Is announced that
. Mrs. Blaine has pre
sented the Universi
ty of Chicago with
the sum of $1,000,000.
The money goes to
the University of
Chicago School of
Education, lately or
ganized though the affiliation of the Chi-
Kn BUina
Jtvenue H and Nineteenth Street looking Mouth
ft the pride of its bust
ling. hurrying progress
this country has been
wont to look upon Cen
tral America as a con
geries of unimportant,
insignificant Latin-
American states, chief
ly devoted to the culti
vation of wars and rev
olutions and scarcely
worthy of a great na
tion’s consideration.
With the Increasing
probability of the great
ship canal which is to
connect the Atlantic
and the Pacific, one of
these hitherto insignificant states be
comes of the greatest significance, and
the eyes of America are turning to one
of the most beautiful and easeful coun
tries in the world; a region where life
is so Joyously worth living that its ear
liest civilized discoverers, finding a bar
barism more soft and generous and ap
pealing than their own civilization,
called the Nicaragua of the habitants.
“Mahomet’s Paradise."
Nicaragua was the name of the great
aboriginal city which occupied the site
of the present city of Rivas, and Is said
to have contained a million inhabitant*.
The city as such was wiped out of exist
ence by the usual methods of the Span
iards In the new world, but the name
was applied to the country about, and
is retained by it at the present day. Na-
j ture in lavishing her favors on this land
, left little for the heart of man to desire.
Though the countr>- lies In the tropics,
almost any climate desired may be
found. It is simply a matter of climb
ing the mountains to the proper altitude
above the sea level, to find either a per
petual summer, spring or autumn. There
where nature forestalls every necessity,
the primeval curse of labor Is a barely
perceptible burden. Fruits grow In reck
less profusion. Cattle breed and multi
ply upon the fertile plains, furnishing
meat and the material for the clothing
which becomes a mere matter of conven
tionality rather than of necessity.
One might search far and find no other
country about which there is less reliable
information than about Nicaragua. It is
as large as New England, with a popu
lation less than that of Boston, which be
ing said, completes the sum of statistical
knowledge. There are no reliable statis
tics. No trustworthy census has ever
backbone of the two American continents
finds its lowest depression. Tho great
forests of the eastern coast have disap
peared and fertile tabOe lands, luxuriant
groves and grasa covered prairies or sa
vannahs with rising mountain peaks, deep
ravines and roaring torrents characterize
the scene as the traveler Journeys onward.
And It n* here that the sparse populaUon
of the country is chiefly concentrated.
They are broadly separated Into two dis
tinct classes, the Ladlno and tho Indian.
LadJno is a general term meaning the up
per or better class, and Is applied alike
to all white natives, creoles and mesti
zoes, whatever their origin. The pure
blood Indians form the moot despised
class. The dark skinned Ladlno will read-
ily account for his dark complexion by
claiming negro origin, while he will sturd
ily deny that Indian blood flows tn his
veins, so deep set Is the stigma whch was
cast upon the aborigines by the early con
querors.
The Indians of the Interior and west
coast differ from those of the eastern
slope in their attributes aa greatly as do
the varying aspects of the country. ‘While
the Mosquito and other tribes, all more
or less related, are a dark brown, bushy-
haired people, who have made no progress
In the arts of civilization, those of the
table lands and the western slope are a
yellow race, who at the time of the con
quest possessed a civilisation closely al
lied to that of the Aztecs. They are at
the present day an amiable, polite, indus
trious and interesting people, though un
progressive. Their industry Is of the moot
painstaking and in many instances un
thinking character. They do things be
cause their forefathers did them, and con
sequently waste their time in slow and
antiquated methods.
Health for ten cents. Cascarets make
the bowels and kidneys act natural, de
stroy microbes, cure headache, bilious
ness and constipation. All druggists.
ore Palmer, the society swell, was In
creased last week owing to the part play
ed by Mrs. Potter Palmer, the yo.ung
man's well known mother.
Mrs. Palmer Is. It seems, canvassing for
her son with spirit and drives daily to
the wand headquarters. When Honore
made his first speech he was somewhat
cago Institute and the university. The
money Is given through the trustees of
the Chicago institute, founded by Mrs.
Blaine, and is to be used partly for the
purchase of grounds, partly for building
and partly for endowment. As a result of
this great gift a new building costing
$320,000 will be erected.
Indian hut near Nicaragua
been taken, and none of any kind tor
many years. A decade ago the population
was estimated at 500.000. Recently it has
been put at half that number, a popula
tion of easy going, careless humanity, re
gardless of today as of tomorrow, for
they know that tomorrow will be as to
day and today is but a copy of yester
day.
The general configuration of the coun
try has been compared to one’s right hand
opened with the palm upward and the
thumb close to the side. On the side of
the thumb you will have the Atlantic; on
the other the Pacific ocean, while In the
hollow of the hand you will hold the
great lake. The Irregular line at the !
Junction of the wrist called by the palm
ists the life line, will represent the San !
Juan river carrying off the water of the
lake to the ocean. The area of the coun- j
try Is 58,500 square miles, sufficient to !
maintain a population of a million people.
The great lake Is a remarkable sheet of
water 125 miles long and froffi forty to
seventy-five miles wide. From the middle
of the lake the shore line on either side
Is invisible. There are a number of is-
lands In the lake, including two volca-
noes, Omepetec and Mederia, which rise
toan altitude respectively of 5.280 and
4,200 feet. North of this great lake there
is another but smaller lake connected with
the former in times of flood.
There is a remarkable difference in the
character of the country east and west
or the lakes. The mountain sides and the
plateaus of the eastern slope are covered
with perennial green, while the country
west of the lakes during the dry season
January to May, i« sere and yellow. Yet
it is this western part of the country that
is the more thickly populated
Journeying westward from the Atlantic
coast, the traveler crosses first the flat
tends covered with great forests of tropi-
cal Jungle. This land Is characterized by
the black alluvial soli which covers it at
a great depth. Gradually the land rises,
and rocks and gravel crop out of the
loam. Settlements are rare and human
habitations are far between, though the
fertility of the tend is so great when once
cleared of Its stupendous growth that
corn planted with a sharpened stick grows
luxuriantly and no cultivation with either
plow or hoe is required. This territory
extending from the San Juan river to
Cape Honduras on the north, has long 1
been known as the Mosquito country or
kingdom. Its sparse Inhabitants consti
tute a tribe of queer brown Indiana, who
paint their faces red to scare the devil,
and Indulge in a number of other more or
less curious customs and ceremonies. B*t
they are a harmless people, under chiefs
who make their own laws as occasion re
quires. When one of their number has
transgressed, a council Is held around
their tribal fire, the gravity of the crime
discussed, and the penalty which the guil
ty one must pay decided. Usually a fine
Is fixed. Being notified of the amount,
the culprit without demur seeks passage
to some port where, finding employment,
he remains till he has accumulated suffi
cient to pay the line, whereupon he re
turns to his people with Joy and thus re
habilitates himself. As the chief mean#
of conveyance among these people is by
their narrow dug-outs which they paddte
up and down the numerous streams In
tersecting their interminable foreets, they
make admirable eanoemen and are eager
ly employed as such at Belize, British
Honduras, by the mahogany cutters
whose traffic Is up the rapidly flowing
Belize river.
A few clumsy looking “bungoes" cross
the lake and one American built steamer,
the Victoria, whdeh carries passengers
to and from Granada. It is here that the
aspect of the landscape changes, and the
great chain of mountains forming the
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tcene on Nineteenth Street Mhowing a tin roof tangled in telephone wires
Tapes of Nicaraguians, Latinos and Indiana
TORNADO of unusual
violence and apparently
of local origin struck
Birmingham. Ala., test
Monday morning, death
and desolation marking
its path.
. In Its terrible plunge
through Birmingham
the storm razed the
most thickly populated
section, and twenty per
sons met Instant death
before they could flee
to a place of safety.
The path of fhe tornado
was 150 feet in width,
and nothing that was
standing in this path was in the same
position when the storm had ceased.
Three hundred houses were demolished
more completely than the work could
have been done by experienced
declares this te the reason he owned up to
the Cudahy affair. If he had come out of
the Dallas scrape he says he would not
have owned up to the kidnaping, but he
does not mind spending a few more years
In prison.
*
The situation in China is still In an un
settled state and the attitude of Russia
and China toward each other gives prom
ise of prolonging negotiations between
the empire and the powers for an indefi
nite period. . Late dispatches give-cre
dence to rumors that China has rejected
the Manchurian convention, and while
this is denied at Pekin, the fact remains
that it is yet unsigned. China’s principal
objection Is aimed at Russia, at the pro
vision which prohibits the importation of
arms and ammunition Inio the provlace
of Manchuria and the provision forbid
ding China to construct her own railways