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The Jones County News
M. C. GREENE, Editor and Proprietor.
HARVEST OF DEATH
Garnered by Fierce Tornado
in Little Kansas Town.
TWENTY-NINE LOSE LIFE
Raging Element Swoops Down Upon
Marquette and Surrounding Sec¬
tion, Cutting Wide Path
of Grim Destruction.
A special from Marquette, Kansas,,
says: Twenty-nine persons are kftown
to have been killed and over forty
were injured in a tornado, the most
disastrous in the history of central
Kansas, which swept over a portion ot
the state Monday night. One large sec¬
tion of the town of Marquette, where
the principal losses of life occurred,
was entirely wiped out. Reports from
surrounding country show that the
destruction to life and property was
widespread.
A stgre room belonging to a furni¬
ture dealer was converted into a tem¬
porary morgue, and at 9:30 Tuesday
morning 24 had been brought in.
Following the storm the utmost #jji-
fusSon prevailed and it will be soma
time before the actual extent of tha
storm is known.
The known dead are: Gus Ander¬
son, Tillie Ellerson, Mrs. A. V. Ander¬
son, Mrs. Elmer Hultgren, Blanche
Switzer, Lena Switzer, Nina Switzer,
Anna Coulon, M. P. Nelson, wife and
three children, A .Stjoren, Sr., Olaf
Hanson and wife, Gottfried Nelson,
wife and child, F.lmer Nelson, Mrs.
I'ostier and child, Nina Roberts, Carl
Varnguist, Mrs. J. L. Norris, Clyde
Norris.
In one room of the Lutheran pai-
senage were fou»d six injured and
in an ailojining room were five
corpses. In half a dozen other hous¬
es similar scenes were found.
YVhen the missing m Marquette had
been pretty thoroughly accounted for,
the searchers directed their attention
to the surrounding country, Soon
half a dozen wagon loads of dead and
injured had been brought to town from
the district adjoining It on the
south.
TAFT WARNS RAILROADS.
Opposition to Rate Legislation Will
Act as a Boomerang.
Secretary Taft fairly took the
breath of the 300 railway men, mem
bers of the international railway con¬
gress, dining at Washington Tuesday
night, as the guests of the
American Railway Association, when,
after being introduced as the
“Apostle from the Philippines,” he
emphatically declared that railway
rate legislation must come; that if
the railway men of the country were
wise, they would aid and not hinder
it; that the sentiment of the coun¬
try is such that failure of proper leg¬
islation would cause a campaign on
the subject that would do no good
to the railroads.
Absolute silence reigned when Mr.
Taft spoke his mind on the subject
of rates. He was positively against
government ownership, he said, be¬
lieving that nothing so deleterious
could come to the country as this so¬
lution of the question. “But,” he con¬
tinued, “you cannot run railroads as
you run private business. Y r ou must
respond to the public demand. If
there is danger of discrimination, then
you must allow tho establishment of
some tribunal that will remedy that
discrimination.”
The secretary saw no reason why
a tribunal properly constituted should
not be competent in every sense Oi
the word to fix a maximum rate.
HIT EQUITABLE FOR BIG SUM.
Mart Borrows $27,000 by Forging Sig¬
nature of a Policy Holder.
YVllliam Daly was arrested in
Stroudsburg, Pa., Tuesday, charged
with larceny of $27,000 from the Equit¬
able Life Assurance Society, by the
use of a forged signature of a holder
of a $50,000 policy, and by conspiracy
with an employe of the Equitable So¬
ciety.
TH'RHH HELD FDR MURDER.
Negroes Jailed on Charge of Killing
Aged Man and His Wife.
Jim Taylor, Sidney Morris and Claud
Elder, three negroes under 23 years
of age, ore in the jail at YVatkinsville,
Ga., charged with the murder of old
man Frank Holbrook and his wife near
that Place Tuesday night.
Two of the negroes were traced by
bloodhounds, They had previously
been prosecuted by Holbrook for bur¬
glary and had made threats to kill
him. The murderers got away with
$400 that the old couple had in the
house.
TO BRING BONES OF JONES.
Application is Made to Navy Depart¬
ment for Squadron of Vessels.
Acting Secretary of State Loomis
Wednesday made a formal request
Jo the navy department in behalf
of the state department for the dis-
patch of a squadron of American na¬
val vessels to France to bring to this
country the remains of John Pam
Jones, recently exhumed In Parle.
deaths exaggerated.
But Work of Tornado in Snyder Was
Appalling Enough—Killed Is Placed
at 130 and injured at 150.
Tho latest reports from the tornado-
stricken town of Snyder, Okla., place
Advance thiXre fiofl Thigh-
ly probable, however, that the death
list when accurately tabulated will
reaoh ISO,
Of those Injured there are various
reports, reaching from 100 to 150.
The storm formed near the Texas
line easterly and direction its path extends for oVer In 40 a north¬ miles,
causing damage at Altus, Olustee and
other small towns and in the country
as well as at Snyder. Reports indi¬
cate that the casualties outside of Sny¬
der will aggregate over twenty-fire,
and may go higher.
Relief is being sent from neighbor¬
ing towns. From Oklahoma City
Thursday went 100 men to dig graves
and seek the dead still in ruins and
also a dozen undertakers with 100
coffins. Offers of financial assistance
came from numerous cities. Governor
Ferguson of Oklahoma has Issued a
proclamation calling attention to the
needs of the stricken town.
To add to the general confusion ann
distress, after the tornado had passed,
fire broke out and burned up all that
remained of the buildings in the busi¬
ness blocks.
TWENTY KNOWN TO BE DEAD.
Later Particulars of Railroad Horror
Caused by Exploding Dynamite.
Twenty persons are known to be
dead and more than one hundred
others injured in the railroad wreck
and dynamite explosion which occur¬
red early Thursday morning on the
Pennsylvania railroad in the southern
p;-.rt of Harrisburg, Pa. That no more
persons were killed is considered re¬
markable by the Pennsylvania officials
ns a full bpx car of dynamite exploded
directly at the middle of the heavy
express train.
The Pennsylvania railroad officials
Thursday night gave out a list con¬
taining the names of ninety-eight per¬
sons who were injured and treated at
hospitals or elsewhere. The company
Mso gave a list containing the names
of thirty-six persons who were in the
wreck and whose injuries are not
given. i
PRESIDENT AT THE HELM.
Arrives in Washington end Relieves
Taft of Service on the “Lid.”
President Roosevelt reached home
at midnight Thursday night from his
western trip, which he regards as one
of the most enjoyable journeys he
has taken since he has been presi¬
dent. He traveled 6,006 miles, and
passed through twelve states and
three territories—Maryland, Pennsyl¬
vania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illi¬
nois, Missouri, Kansas. Indian Terri¬
tory, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa.
Every state and territory in the
United States has been visited by Mr.
Roosevelt since he became president,
and it is his intention to accept the
hospitality of these states before his
term is finished. It is probable that
he will make a tour of the south some
time before the convening of congress
in the fall of this year.
WATER WAGON FOR THE COPS.
Policemen Barred from Drinking at
Any Time or Anwhere.
Hereafter no Atlanta policeman
may become intoxicated with impun¬
ity, whether on duty or off duty, in
the city or out of it. This decision
was reached at the last meeting of the
police commissioners, when one man
was suspended and another discharged
for drunkenness.
Policemen may drink in the privacy
of their homes, but if it shows upon
them In public, whether they are in
uniform or out of it, they will be dis¬
charged.
Russian Warships Off Japanese Coast.
It is reported in Tokio that two
Russian warships from Vladivostok
were off Aomori, which is located
at. the northern extremity off the
main island of Japan.
SEVEN MINERS MEET DEATH.
Bodies of Three Were Torn to Frag¬
ments—Dynamite the Cause.
Seven men were killed and several
were injured, one fatally in the Cora
mine, one of the Heinz properties
near Butte, Mont., Friday afternoon
Nels Wamps, a miner, was carrying
forty sticks of dynamite up a ladder
to join companions on the 100-fool
level when the dynamite exploded wtk
terrific force. It is believed that
Wamps accidentally touched his can
die to the explosive. His body was
blown to bits.
Two men working nearby were
blown to pieces.
BLUE AND CRAY HAVE RALLY.
Veterans Gather in Washington to Ar¬
range for Grand Reunion.
Veterans of the union and confed-
erate forces gathered in Washington,
D. C., Thursday for a two days’ social
and non-political rally. The meeting
is Intended to be preliminary to a
permanent fraternal organization na
tional in character, of the blue and
gray, with the idea of holding in
Washington in 1806 a grand reunion
GUAY. JONES CO.. GA.. THURSDAY. MAY 18. 1905.
SHORTAGE IN LABOR
Declared to Exist in South by
Mr. Hunt of Georgia.
IMMIGRANTS ARE WANTED
Above Statement Was Made In Speech
at Convention of Cotton Manufac¬
turers In Knoxville — Officers
For Ensuing Year Elected.
With the unanimous adoption of
a report from the committee on tho
nomination of officers for the coming
year, the annual convention of the
American Cotton Manufacturers’ Asso
elation came to a close at Knoxville,
Tenn., Thursday afternoon. The offi¬
cers chosen were:
President—R. M. Miller, Jr., of
Charlotte, N. C.
Vice President—Arthur H. Lowe of
Fitchburg, Mass., re-elected.
Secretary-Treasurer—C. G. Bryant
of Charlotte, N. C., re-elected.
Chairman Board of Governors—R.
R. Ray of McAdenville, N. C., re¬
elected.
Associate Governors—R. S. Rein¬
hardt of Lincolnton, N. C., F. H. Re-
mey of Augusta, Ga., David Clark of
Charlotte, N. C-, and E. A. Smith
of Charlotte, N. C.
The next place of meeting was not
selected by the convention, but was
referred to the board of governors,
which will meet within the next sixty
days to determine. New Orleans and
Augusta are the favored cities.
During the closing session B. W.
Hunt of Eatonton, Ga., made some
rather startling statements abijut la¬
bor in the south in discussing the
subject, "What a northern man has
learned from thirty years’ residence
in the south.” He discussed the need
of immigration. In his section every
mill had a labor shortage. These
native born Georgians, reared on th>
farm from pioneer times, preferred
to remain there. YVith cotton at' 6
cents the only person who could
make a living cultivating It was the
man who lived in a cabin, ate scanty
food, had scantier clothing and worked
hard on a little patch of land. Some¬
thing had to be done to supply the
labor necessary for mills and to pre¬
vent the continuous scramble for em¬
ployes and to stop employers robbing
each other of hands. He advocated
getting a tide of immigrants turned
to tho south. Foreign labor and
French-Canadian labor offered a so¬
lution of the question. He knew that
shorter hours and strikes would prob¬
ably come, but tills trouble could be
no worse than having few or no la¬
borers. He had little complimentary
to say of southern negroes.
Various resolutions of thanks were
passed by the convention at this
juncture and very complimentary
words spoken by speakers regarding
the treatment accorded the conven¬
tion by Knoxville.
J. H- Mi Beatty of Clemson (S. C.)
college, made a strong plea for the
cotton manufacturers to establish
scholarships In southern textile
schools, of which he said there are
now five.
A pleasing feature of the closing
hour was the presentation of a silver
set of two hundred and sixfyffive piec¬
es to the retiring president.
Entering into executive session im¬
portant resolutions were passed.
One, by George B- Hiss of Charlotte,
N. C., commended the frank and thor¬
ough report of President Roosevelt’s
merchant arid marine commission, and
urged congress at the next session to
enact vigorous legislation for the up¬
building of American shipping in over¬
seas trade as the most effective meth¬
od of commercial expansion.
One by Mr. Ashcraft pledged the
co-operation of the convention in the
extension of foreign markets for cot¬
ton products. The resolution urges
President Roosevelt to appoint a spe¬
cial commission to formulate a plan
for the extension of these markets.
A committee will be appointed by this
association to co-operate with a simi¬
lar committee from the Southern Cot¬
ton Association.
DECISION IN FAVOR OF MORRIS.
Georgia Supreme Court Settles Cobb
County Treasureship Case.
The supreme court of Georgia Wed¬
nesday morning handed down a de¬
cision in the Cobb county treasureship
case, in which the decision of Judge
J. H. Lumpkin is affirmed, and Judge
J. T. Pendleton of the Fulton supe¬
rior court, Is ordered to have the elec¬
tion superintendents of Cobb county
assemble, consolidate the vote fpr
treasurer and declare J. Old Morris
duly elected. The case was brought
to the supreme court by J. D. OlovSr,
clerk of the Cobb county superior
court, who has acted treasurer.
CASSINI GOES TCKSPAIN.
Russian Ambassador at Washington
Transferred to New Post.
Count Cassini, the Russian ambas
sador to this country, has been trans
ferred to Madrid. He will be sue
needed in Washington by Baron Ho
sen, until recently Russian mlnistei
at Tokio. Count Cassini was offered
;he ambassadorship to Madrid tw<
months ago and accepted it. He wii;
leave in June for ... his new post.
DYNAMITE HORROR
Express Crashes Into Cars
Loaded With Explosives,
DEATH HARVEST RESULTS
Estimates Place Number of Passcn
eengers Killed at Haif a Hundred.
Wreckage Takes Fire and
Adds to Disaster.
An express train on the Pennsylva
nia railroad ran into a freight trail:
in which there were two cars loaded
with dynamite at 1:10 o'clock Thurs
day morning In South Harrisburg, Pa.
near the plant of the Paxtang Light
Heat and Power company.
1 hree terrific explosions that broke
windows all over the city followed
and two trains were completely wreck¬
ed and took fire. It was estimated
that fifty persons were killed and one
hundred Injured.
When the first explosion occurrea
bodies were thrown clear out of the
berths in the sleeping cars, many land¬
ing down on the railroad embankment,
and some even having been hurled
into the SusquehanHa river, which par¬
allels the railroad In that locality.
All tho physicians procurable in Har¬
risburg were Bummonod to work with
the injured.
A fire alarm sounded and the fire¬
men arrived, to find themselves prac¬
tically helpless in the work of res¬
cue. A police patrol wagon was com-
missioned as an ambulance, and many
of the Injured ao possible were load-
cd into It on each trip and taken to
the Harisburg hospital, the capacity
of which soon became taxed because
of tho large number that were brought
in. A special train was made up anil
transferred Injured and dying to the
union station. Many of tho injured
were taken into private houses.
Immediately after the wreck, all the
passengers who could dp so ran from
the soenes of hofror to safety from
the incessant small explosions.
The agonizing Cries of the unfortun.
ates were heartrending. The office of
the Paxtang Light, Heat and
Company was transformed into a
porary hospital. At an early hour the
Harrisburg Traction company ran out
a number of cars from its South Har-
risburg barns and used them to bring
the injured to the hospital.
The train was the second section of
the No. IP. ■’’’here were 169 passen¬
gers aboard.
RESENTS SLUR ON ARMY.
Labor Leaders in Chicago Nettle
Roosevelt in Wording of Petition.
A strongly worded protest against
the sending of federal troops to Chi¬
cago was submitted to President
Roosevelt while he was in that city
Wednesday. Tho protest is signed by
C. P. Shea, president of the Interna¬
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters;
Charles Dold, president, of the Chicago
Federation of Labor, and by other la¬
bor leaders.
"Peace,’’ says the protest of the
labor leaders, "rests not upon the mi¬
litia or the army, but upon the pa
tience and long suffering of the toil¬
ing masses. Can a few soldiers scare
the men who make armies and who
compose the flower of American man-
hood.’'
The committee presenting the pro
test was received by the president
in person at the Auditorium annex,
The president told them no demand
had been made upon him for use of
troops In Chicago. He said that be
regretted that the protest spoke 'of
the federal army as It did. The pres-
ident said:
"Of the merits of the case, I am
wholly ignorant. I have no knowledge
of what the situation is, or of what
steps should be taken to end it. I feel
however, that in view of one state-
mont, I ought to say this: I regret that
you should in the letter have spoken
at all of the use of the federal army
as you have there spoken.
“What I have to say is based pur..-
ly upon what I regard as the unfor-
tunate phrasing of a letter presented
to the president of the United States.”
AGED COUPLE MURDERED.
Man and Wife Found Dead with Skulls
Horribly Crushed.
F. M. Holbrook, a highly respected
and prosperous citizen of McDuffie
county, Georgia, and his wife were
murdered In a horrible manner Tues
day night. Tne aged couple lived
alone and it Is thought the object oi
the murder was to rob the store ad
joining the residence.
Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook had evident
ly retired and were aroused by some
one without. Mr. Holbrook had gone
to the door and met his death. It if
evident that Mrs. Holbrook followed
her husband and was also killed.
CATHOLICS FILE CLAIMS.
Want Pay for Alleged Use of Churc 1
Property in Philippines.
Secretary Taft has been informed
by the apostolic delegate to the United
States that a number of claims aris-
ng from the use by United States
troops of church property in the Phil-
ippines during the period of military
occupation .amounting to a million or
a million and a half dollars, have
been presented in Washington.
SHOW GIRL IS FREE
Nan Patterson Released From
Jail Without Bail,
NOTORIOUS CASE CLOSED
District Attorney Jerome at New York
Decides to Drop Prosecution of
Alleged Slayer of Bookmaker
Caesar Young.
After more than eleven months in
prison and three mistrials on tho
charge of murdering ‘'Caesar" Young,
Nan Patterson walked from tho Tombs
prison at New York Friday a free
woman. As she left tho great build-
i ng which has been her homo slnco
a few days after Y’oung was found
dying in a cab in lower New York,
2,000 poople greeted her with cheers,
for the news that District Attorney
Jerome would move for her dismissal
from custody had spread throughout
the vicinity of tho court house.
The move to discharge Nan Pat¬
terson came rather unexpectedly to
the public. It was an hour or two
before noon when District Attornoy
Jerome appeared before Recorder
Goff in special sessions and announced
that he desired to move the discharge
of tho former chorus girl without
bail and on her own recognizance.
Not the least interesting of the
( ] a y' S events and perhaps the great-
es ^ d ran i a tic climax to tho troubles
of f ormor Fiorodora girl was tho
reunlon in freedom wi — her sister,
Mrs j M 0rgau Smith, 03 il her bro-
the r-in-law, J. Morgan Smith, both
Q j w liom were discharged by Justice
Cowing in the court of general ses-
gionSi after belng hc id on charges of
conspiracy in connection with the Pat¬
terson case. Smith was also held for
contempt of court In falling to obey
a subpoena as a witness at the first
trial. He was fined $250 and released
on this charge. Then came the sur¬
prise, for Nan Patterson herself paid
the fine out of a check which had
been givCll ber b a *friendly news-
paper.
District Attorney Jerome announced
b j s ( f ec f s j on to free Nan Patterson In
a speech in the course of which fie
declared that during the last trial
he had information that members of
the jury had agreed that J. Morgan
Smith had bought the revolver and
that Nan Patterson carried It in the
cab and that Young did not commit
suioide.
He took occasion to refute pub¬
lished reports as to the cost of the
trial, stating that the whole expense
was not moro than ?Sj 0 oo. Following
this lino he declared that the news¬
papers had made ‘‘gross misrepresen¬
tations,” and then said:
“This case has caused one moro
step in this country toward trial by
newspaper rather than trial by jury.
I ilo not refer to those papers which
have merely reported the proceedings,
but to those that in their editorial
rooms have labored to arouse sympa¬
thy for the prisoner with the result
of a serious miscarriage of Justice.
Everything that tho prosecution has
done had my cordial and hearty ap-
probation. I fear nothing for myself
or my assistants. My assistant did
rightly, bravely, honestly and went
forward wilh my entire and perfect
approbation."
He concluded with the motion that
Nan Patterson be discharged on her
0 wn recognizance,
When she came into court Nan was
smiling gayly, but as Recorder Goff
began to address her the tears came
into her eyes and before ho concluded
she was weeping. The recorder spoke
with a kindly note in his voice that
seemed to affect her very much. Ho
closed by saying;
"Let me entreat you in all your fu-
ture life to remember tho terrible ex-
perlence through which you have just
passed and to permit every action of
your life hereafter to lie guided by
that experience. I feel sure that you
will do so; that you will remember
your ordeal.”
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OMAHA GIVEN THE “SHAKE.”
Route of President’s Train Changeo
to Dodge the City.
Late Tuesday afternoon it was do
cidcd to change the route of the pies-
ideiitial train and send it across the
Missouri river at Blair, Nebraska,
25 miles north of Omaha. When the
train reached Fremont, it was turned
over to the Northwestern, which took
the train across the cut-off to Mis¬
souri Valley, Iowa, where the main
line branches off and runs direct to
Chicago,
Quite a large crowd had gatheree
at the union station in Omaha,
SAVED THE WRONG WOMAN.
A Sad Incident of the Deadly Tornado
at Snyder, Oklahoma.
One of the saddest episodes of the
cyclone at Snyder, Oklahoma, was
that of Colonel Williamson, When
the storm struck, Williamson grabbed
a woman whom he thought was his
wife and hurried away to a place of
safety. When out of danger, he dls-
covered that the woman was not his
wife, Later, Mrs. Williamson was
found, with her head completely sev¬
ered from ft?r body-
VOL XL NO. 27.
NEGRO TOOK FAMILY.
Colored Desperado Forces White Man
to Hand Over $ 600 —Caught by
Posse and Quickly Lynched.
A dispatch from Cairo, Ill., says;
Tom Witherspoon, u negro, was taken
from officers at Belmont, MW.. 15 miles
below Cairo, at C o'clock Friday af¬
ternoon by a mob of several hundred
persons and banged In ike public
square to a largo swing.
Early Friday morning a negro, said
to be Witherspoon, who only recent¬
ly was released from the Missouri
penitentiary, went to tho home of
Fred Hess, three miles below Bel¬
mont, and at the point of a rifle de¬
manded $600. Hess, who Is a mem¬
ber of the Missouri legislature, told
Iho negro that lie did not have that
much money In tho house. The ne¬
gro ordered him to go to Belmont
and get the money. He compelled
Hess to hitch up a horse anil buggy
and ordered him to get In with his
wife and child.
Tho negro then saddled another
horse, and, mounting it, told Hess to
drive toward Belmont, and when near
Iho place the negro forced Mrs. Hess
and child to get out of tho buggy
and enter a deserted shanty. Tho
negro then told Hess to drive to Bel¬
mont and to send tho money hack
by a negro preacher inside an hour,
or ho would kill his wife and child.
Hess hurried to Belmont and got
the money, and sent It back by tho
negro preacher. The desperado im¬
mediately mounted tho horso and rode
up tho Iron Mountain railroad tracks.
A. posse was organized at once by
Belmont and Columbus citizens and
a small party followed the negro on
a switch engine, and discovered that
he took refuge in tho swamps around
First Lake, Ho was captured and
taken to Belmont by the officers. A
mol) of several hundred persons had
formed in Belmont, and they imme¬
diately took charge of the negro, and,
despite his begging and pleadings,
they rushed him into the public square
and swung him up.
BLACK MEN ARE DROPPED.
Colored Strike Breakers at Chicago
Give Way to White Men.
A Chicago special says: Somo cm
ployers laid off union teamsters Fri¬
day on account of a lack of business.
More than the usual number of loams,
about 1,800, It was said, made deliver¬
ies during the day, guarded by 2,100
policemen anil about the same num¬
ber of deputy sheriffs. A large num¬
ber of the negro strike breakers have
been dropped and tlielr places taken
by white men. The health authori¬
ties have decided to vaccinate all the
negro teamsters brought from the
south as a precaution, as there arc
100 patients in the -city smallpox hos¬
pital.
Tho employers are said to he mak¬
ing up a “black list..’’ The strikers
are to bo given until next week to re¬
turn to work. After that they will be
unable to get employment as team¬
sters from a boycotted firm. It is
said that 2,400 of the 4,300 vacancies
caused by the strike havo already
been filled.
The scholars at another school have
struck on account of the delivery of
coal by non-union men.
MAYOR IN ROLE OF ADVISOR.
Woodward Requests Manufacturers to
Cut Out References to Unions.
Mayor James O. Wpodward, "the la¬
bor union mayor of Atlanta,” has
written an address of welcome pub¬
lished on the front page of the Amer¬
ican Industries, the official organ oi
the National Association of Manu¬
facturers.
‘ Though heartily welcoming the
manufacturers to Atlanla, ho urges
that tho association cut out all pro
ceedings which are likely to cause
a bone of contention between the
union men and their employers.
D. M. Parry of Indianapolis, a big
carriage maker, who is president, of
the association, is outspoken in his
defense of "open shops, v and (Tie
article of Mayor Woodward will cre¬
ate something of a surprise.
PREACHER AND LAWYER MIX.
Fitzgerald, Georgia, Treated to a Live¬
ly 8treet Fight Sensation.
At Fitzgerald, Ga., Thursday, Rev.
E. W. Daugherty, pastor of one of
the local Christian churches was at¬
tacked in the street by City At¬
torney Ryman, who is also editor of
tho Fitzgerald Citizen.
The trouble grow out of a division
In tho church and articles published
by Ryman.
It is alleged that the minister was
struck several times and took ref¬
uge in a livery stable, where (he pro¬
prietor prevailed on tho lawyer to
cease his attack.
MEMPHIS TO NEW ORLEANS.
Goodyear Syndicate Preparing to
Build Extensive Line of Road.
The Goodyear syndicate, which is
now operating quite extensively in
Mississippi, backed by a capital stock
of $25,000,000, will build a railroad
direct from New Orleans to Mem j
phis, going up the Pearl river valley j ;
to Jackson, and thence on a direct !
northerly line from that clly to the
Tennessee metropolis. j
FIVE HUNDRED DEAD
Terrific Tornado Wrecks
Town of Snyder, jn Ok¬
lahoma Territory.
HALFTHE INHABITANTS KILLED
While Peopie Were Wrapped i-n Slum¬
ber Death-Dealing Element Swoop¬
ed Down Upon Them Una¬
wares—All Communication
With Outside World Is
Cut Off. ,
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Meager reports reaching Fort
Worth, Texas, state that a terrific cy-
clono struck Snyder, Oklahoma, Wed¬
nesday night, wrecking tho town and
killing five hundred people, and relief
is asked for.
A message to the train dispatcher
sent from Fort YVorth asking for In¬
formation was answered as follows f
“Wo have same report and aro send¬
ing a relief train on the supposition
that it is true. Wires all down.”
The telegraph operator at Chicka¬
saw, I. T., states that he talked over
tho telephone with Hobart, Okla., near
Snyder, anil that ail wires In tho
vicinity of Snyder were down, but re¬
lief trains were being sent from sev¬
eral directions to Snyder. Snyder is
a town of 1,000 people in Kiowa coun¬
ty, Oklahoma, located on the Frisco,
45 miles north of Vernon.
Confirmatory Dispatches.
Roports reached Oklahoma City from
Hobart and Anadarko confirming the
news of a tornado at Snyder, but no
details were given.
Telephone reports receivod In Guth¬
rie from Hobart, I. T., indicate that
tho entire town of Snyder was de¬
stroyed by a tornado. A train of doc¬
tors, nurses and other assistance left
Hobart for Snyder.
At 11:40 o’clock Wednesday night
the dispatcher for the Frisco in Sa-
pulpa, I. T-, received a report from
Enid, O. T-, advising that a tornado
had struck Snyder, Oklahoma, wreck¬
ing the town and killing 500 people,
among whom was the station agent
of the Frisco at that town. Tho re¬
quest came also for assistance. On
tho strength of the report the dis¬
patcher ordered a relief train with
physicians to be sent from Chlclcasha,
I. T., and Quanah, Texas. The wire
between Snyder and Sapulpa went
down about 10 p. m.
TWO HUNDRED JEWS KILLED.
Kishineff Horror Seems to Have Been
Repeated in Zehitomii*.
Very grave reports aro current in
St. Petersburg as to the extent of
the massacre of Jews at Zehltomir,
tho number of killed or wounded now
being placed as high as two hundred,
but precise information is lacking.
Tho minister of the interior has call¬
ed for a detailed report.
Dispatches are being held up. Tele¬
grams sent by the newspapers to Ze-
hitomir remain unanswered.
It is asserted that a fortnight be¬
fore the disorders proclamations were
spread calling on the Christians to
beat tiie Jews. When these proclama¬
tions were shown to the mayor of Ze-
httomir, the latter declared them to
be stupid and said there was no oc¬
casion for alarm.
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TOBACCO KING LAID TO REST.
Funeral of Washington Duke at Dur¬
ham Was Largely Attended.
Fifteen thousand people attended
die funeral of Washington Duke, the
founder of the Duke branch of the
American Tobacco company at Dur¬
ham, N. C., Wednesday. The banks
and schools of the city and many of
the manufacturing establishments
were closed during the entire day
and practically ail business of the city
was closed during tho exercises.
WHITECAP CASES CALLED.
Four Hundred Citizens of Franklin
County, Miss., Haled to Court.
Tho Franklin county, Miss., white-
cap cases were called for trial in tho
federal court at Jackson Friday, 400
Franklin county citizens being pres¬
ent..
The cases against A. M. Newman,
assessor; J. N. Halford, treasurer;
James Whitehead and six others were
called first.
United States Senator McLaurin is
among tho attorneys for the defense.
Three hundred of tho defendants are
under indictment charged with intim¬
idating a government homesteader.
CRAZY WHITE HOUSE VISITOR.
Dago Nabbed While Trying to Enter
President’s Mansion.
A Washington dispatch says: A
man, who said his name is Daniel
Costable, an Italian, was arrested by
Policeman Hopkins while trying to
force an entrance to the rear door
of the white house, about midnight
Friday night. He was locked up at
the police station.