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0 pkbpebtv destroyed
„ Wers Killed and Many
* o'r er .Injurea-V.t Track, of
Timber Lands were Ruined.
rmle Rock, Ark.- According to dis
w received, meager because of
paU ’,cmoteness of the section affect
the ' re than a score of lives were
6d \ and many other persons were in
loSl ; a tornado which swept the
JUr 7western section of this state,
DOr!l ' ne ly demolishing several towns
C °f razir/' vast tracts of timber.
an l‘ lor nado, approaching from the
]I ! s , crossed the Arkansas river
8° l - 1 , ~ jes south of the settlement
B fpinev and proceeding in a north
-0 fnriv direction, swept through the
of London, Wallerville, Jethro,
to v " [ (>wi vil!e, Paterson and Berry-
outlying portions of Mulber
vlli •‘ li)er completely wrecking or lay
[• • \ vlQte the larger part of these
’‘‘ m d destroying timber and crops
T a '.;iout the intermediate country.
th \, it is stated that twelve
‘ V ;ere killed and a number in
'i 1 practically the entire settle
dU f"was demolished.
,n< ‘ London ten are reported to have
, ; t l ,hpir lives, and considerable dam
* to property occurred.
Vallervilk 1 and Jethro are reported
!he path of the storm. In the vi-
Jviy of Mulberry the death list is
placed at \o.
,\i Berryville, one woman, Mrs. J.
p Hoskins, was seriously injured, and
gpveral other persons sustained lesser
iniuries A path of HOO yards wide
cu t through the town, six build
irs being completely wrecked, and a
•umber of others damaged, either be
jn-r lorn from their foundations or un
roofed. Here the property loss is es
timated at $>25,000.
From the outlying districts consid
erable damage to property is also re
ported, but no loss of life.
At Lodi three buildings were de
stroyed, and one woman seriously in
jured.
advices from Lewisville, in the wes
tern portion of Lafayette county, re
port the destruction of several build
ings at that place, and at Patmos con
siderable damage to property as well
as injury to a number of persons is
reported.
MONEV FUR NAVY YARDS.
Strong Plea Made for Extensive Na
val Improvements.
Washington, D. C. —Rear Admiral
r, c. Holliday, chief of the bureau of
yards and docks of the United States
navy, makes a strong plea for more
extensive improvements at insular
stations, and for a higher standard
in the maintenance of home navy
yards, in his annual report to the sec
retly of the navy. No extensive
hni ovements, he says, have been
ma t during the last year at the insu
lar stations.
The estimates for navy yards and
stations recommended to be submit
ted to congress at its coming session
are as follows:
Public works, including repairs and
preservation $9,811,730; maintenance
yards and docks, 1,500,000; contingent
yards and docks, $30,000. Total, sll,-
341,730.
The estimates include: Navy yard,
Charleston, S. C., $442,500; naval sta
tion, Guantanamo, Cuba, including
$400,000 for a dry dock to cost $2,-
$450,000; naval station, Key
West, Fla., $30,000; navy yard, Nor
folk. Va., $811,000; naval station, at
Pearl Harbor, including an estimate
of $200,000 toward the construction of
a dry dock to cost $2,000,000, $1,000,-
000; navy yard at Pensacola, Fla., $35,-
000.
AMMUNITION APPROPRIATIONS
Granted By Government to State
Troops Very Liberal.
Washington, D. C.—The division of
militia affiairs of the war department
“ as announced the allowance of am
munition for the present fiscal year
made to the national guard under the
acr ofMay 27, 1908, being fifty per
cent °f the allowance to the regular
army.
The total which is set aside for this
purpose is $643,124, divided among
states according to the enlistee
strength of their national guard:
Alabama, with 3,010 men gets /17,-
uVI for ammunition; Georgia, with
-806 men gets $17,559; Nort* Caro-
Hna. with 1,835 men gets $12,032;
outh Carolina, with 1,714 men gets
|£*.7lß; Kentucky, with 1,590 men
l* ;ets $10,250; Tennessee, with 1,430
F men gets $9,595.
printpaperTamine.
Conditions in the Industry Never So
Dubious as at Present.
Appleton, Wis. —Unless altogether
abnormal weather conditions prevail
Practically throughout the United
plates between now and the first of
he new year this country, within six
e eks, will face a serious paper fam
large paper manufacturers of
Wisconsin.
Conditions in the paper industry
a ’-e never been so dubious as at pres
jri. and it is said the constantly ae-
P mg water power streams through
'n t3le paper-making districts, both
as! and west, are adding daily to the
aspect.
ON SAN JUAN HILL
Memorial Arch is Unveiled to the
Soldiers Who Fell.
Santiago, Cuba—'The dedication and
r ‘ filing of a memorial arch on San
dr Hill, in honor of the American,
in " n , an Spanish soldiers who fell
th* , CB9B, took place here. At
tame time the corner stone of the
a , ja Yoga school was laid. Elabor-
Am ', Grvices were held, at which the
°ncan troops, under command of
rurni* 61 Yeatman, and a detachment of
1 “ Ul § u ards were present.
WILL SELL CANAL BONDS.
Cortclyou Announces Terms for S3O -
000,000 Bond Issue.
Washington, I). C.—Secretary Cor
tel\ou has made public the announce
ment that he would receive bids up
to the close of business on December
5 next for $30,000,000 of Panama Ca
nal bonds, or any part thereof, to
bear 2 per cent interest. The bonds
will be dated November 1, 1908, thus
making this anew issue, and interest
will begin as of that date. The bonds,
by the terms of the law authorizing
their issue, will be redeemable in gold
in ten years from their date and pay
able in thirty years. As an evidence
of good faith the secretary requires
each bid to be accompanied by a cer
tified check, payable to the secretary
of the treasury, for 2 per cent of tlie
amount of the bid.
The bonds will be issued in denom
inations of S2O, SIOO and SI,OOO of
coupon bonds, and of S2O, SIOO, $1,500
and SIO,OOO of registered bonds. They
will be exempt from all taxes or du
ties of the United States, as well as
taxation in any form by or under nay
state, municipal or local authority.
The bonds will be available to nation
al banks as security for circulating
notes and receivable as security for
public deposits in national banks. The
law forbids their sale at less than par
and provides that all citizens of the
United States shall have equal oppor
tunity to subscribe therefor.
In considering the bids the secre
tary will award the first allotment to
the bidders offering the highest price.
Of two or more bidders offering the
same prices, those asking for the
smaller amounts of bonds will receive
priority in the allotment..
The secretory of the treasury will
issue the bonds under authority vest
ed in him by acts of congress, approv
ed June 28, 1902, and December 21,
1905, which authorizes the borrow
ing on the credit of the United States
of the sum of $130,000,000, or as much
thereof as may be necessary in carry
ing on the work of constructing the
Panama canal.
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
Convention at Denver, Col. —Re-Elects
Samuel Gompers, President.
Denver, Col. —The result of the elec
tion in the American Federation of
Labor convention follows:
President, Samuel Gompers of
Washington; first vice president, jas.
Duncan, Quincy, Mass.; second vice
president, John Mitchell, Spring Val
ley, 111.; third vice president, James
O’Connell of Washington, D. C.;
fourth vice president, Max Morris of
Denver, Col.; fifth vice president, D.
A. Hayes of Philadelphia; sixth vice
president, Joseph F. Valentine of Cin
cinnati, Ohio; eighth vice president,
John li. Alpine of Boston. Fraternal
delegates to the British trade con
gress, John B. Frey, editor of the
Moulders’ Journal, and B. A. Larger
of the United Garment Workers of
America; to Canadian Trades Conven
tion, Jerome Jones of the Georgia
Federation of Labor and editor of The
Journal of Labor. Convention city
for 1909, Toronto, Canada.
Mr. Gompers was re-elected to the
office he has held since the organiza
tion of the federation in 1881, with the
exception of one year, amid scenes of
the greatest enthusiasm, only one dis
contented representative of the so
cialist party voting against him.
It w r as announced that there had
been born in Denver a powerful rail
way emplooys’ organization to be
known as the railway employees de
partment of the American Federation
of Labor, with ten affiliated organiza
tions as members. The object is to
bring about a closer union of all rail-
road employees and to seek to affi'
iate all railway organizations with
organization.
The first convention is to £ nn , ni
in Denver, and it Is expectr. ’
employees will be represtr y Th
officers of their organiz ’
convention *
CERTIfICATpEDEEMED.
** - *• “Ass? was Less
° f the treasury ore year
ato has Jeen accomplished at a cost
to the reasury in cash of less than
'amount, of these certificates
outstanding at the date of Leir ma
turity, November 20, 1908, ’’as $13,-
j 36 500, and without excepton they
were held in the treasury af security
for circulation. Of this amfint, $13,-
ess 250 have been withdrawi and law
ful’money substituted for Qe retire
ment of circulation and $54,750 have
been surrendered and replacd by oth
er United States bonds in order to
continue circulation, onl >’
$100,500 undisposed of. Tis result
is eminently satisfactory to,he treas
ury officials.
Monument for Lee anCrant.
Raleigh, N. C.— GovernoGlenn has
endorsed heartily the plaifor a suit
able joint monument by tj people of
the north and south to e militaiy
fame and glory of Gendls Robert
E. Lee and Ulysses S. <s nt on the
famous bloody angle of fottsylvania
battle ground. 1
The governor says: “’p time has
come when all sectional imosity and
bitterness should be forpen and for
given. That the south c* but remem.
her with gratitude G£ ra l Grant s
generosity and kindnei to General
Lee, and a monument t#oth in spirit
of fraternal love would fa great deal
to cause them to be reifrbered joint
ly as heroes of a rei*ed country. ’
National Glnnerßeport.
Memphis, Tenn.—Tl) report of the
National Ginners’ asriation ad the
number of bales of by states,
ginned up to and incfing November
4th. is as follows: I
Alabama, 1,002,000F r3?ansa ® 606,-
000- Florida, 51,000porgia, 1,553,-
000- Louisiana, 341 J:. Mississippi,
1,093,000; North Q hl ™> 449,000;
Oklahoma, 336,000; P 1 Carolina,
941 000’ Tennessee/47,000; Texas,
2,881,000; Virginia, jOOO; Missouri
and Kentucky, 41,(1 9,t>9 <
000.
THE CAMPAIGN FUNDS
Democrats Received $620,644.
Republicans $1,700,000.
74 THOUSAKDCONTRIBLTORS
To the Democratic Fund—Charles P.
Taft Brother of President-elect Taft
Gave $160,000 to Republicans.
Chicago, 111.—The democratic na
tional committee received in all $620,-
644.77 and spent $619,4*10.06 during the
recent presidential campaign, leaving
a balance on hand of $1,234.71. So
reads a statement made public by the
officers of the committee. and the
itemized statement will be filed for
record in the office of the secretary
of state of New York, in compliance
with the resolution adopted by the na
tional committee at Lincoln, Neb., last
July
Auditor’s office $ 866.50
Secretary’s office .. .. .. 4,108.51
Traesurer’s office 5,073.21
Commercial travelers ... 153.00
Club organization bureau.. 5,020.76
Labor bureau 37,401.36
Advisory committee .. .. 3,020.95
Organization of states. .. 129,053.62
Purchasing agent departm’t 1,340,73
Finance committee 26,586.54
Congressional committee .. 3,625.00
Publicity bureau 88,899.43
Ex-treasurer’s account,
miscellaneous sight
draft on Oklahoma bank 4,0*10.85
Sergeant at arms .. .. .. 4,016.37
Documents 142.537.25
Chairman and vice chair. 6,430.00
Reproduction bureau .. .. 5,115.60
Speakers’ bureau 33,786.95
General fund .. .. .. .. 38,111.80
Hent of headquarters . .. 13,746.72
Telegrams.... .. 13,761 90
Telephones 2,199.30
Express charges 113,061.17
Postage 37,452.54
$619,410.06
Balance on hand 1,234.71
Total amount of money
received .. .. .. .. ..$620,644.77
New York City.—The Taft campaign
fund in round numbers aggregated s*!,-
700,000, according to the list of con
tributors made public by George R.
Sheldon, treasurer of the republican
national campaign committee. Charles
P. Taft, a brother of the president
elect was the heaviest contributor. He
snent $160,000 to help his brother to
the white house, J. Pierepont Morgan,
Andrew Carnegie, Whitelaw Reid and
William Nelson Cromwell come next
with contributions of $25,000 each.
President Roosevelt gave one thou
sand dollars.
CATTLE SHIPMENTS gUARANTTNED.
Contagious Foot and Mouth Disease
Transmitted to Children.
Washington, D. C. —Alarming re
sults following the outbreak of a con
tagious foot and mouth disease in
York and Pennsylvania, causing D°. se
states to be quarantined agai* rit m ‘
terstate shipments of cattle, r' c -> wei ®
shown in the advices why: 1 reaci ? e ~
Secretary of Agriculture : v lls ° n > stat
ing that four children in Danville,
Pa, had contracted - e disease \ rig
id investigation is ‘> progress Dan
ville and elsev- e re to determine as
to whether o Aiers have become simi ‘
hrlv The officials believe
that the ■ sltuation * 3 & ray e and will
rpfini-'r energetic and concerted ac
tion tbe state an d federal authori
to check the disease.
FIRE FOLLOWED EXPLOSION
In Mississippi River Steamer —Ten
Were Killed.
New Orleans, La. —Seven missing
and undoubtedly blown to pieces or
drowned in the Mississippi river, three
fatally injured and nine less seriously
hurt are the tales of horror in a boil
er explosion on tb steamboat H. M.
Carter, opposite Bayou Goula, La.
The captain on the boat H. M. Car
ter was hurled seventy-five feet into
the river. He swam back and clam
bered on the boat, despite his injuries.
Several other men were hurled into
the stream by the force of the explo
sion.
OPIUM SMUGGLING PLOT.
Cement Barrels Half Filled With the
Drug—Shipped to Manila.
Manila, P. I. —Evidences of an ex
tensive plot to smuggle opium here
from China have been discovered. Re
cently a wlorkmen employed on the
military buildings at Camp Stozenberg
discovered a quantity of opium con
cealed in cement which had been
shipped from Hong Kong.
The opium has been turned over to
the customs officials, and the govern
ment is now investigating.
THREE MEN SHOT
In Court House at Quincy, Fla.—One
Man Died.
Quincy, Fla.—Thomas R. Smith is
dead, his father, T. . Smith, shot in
three places, and Dr. Robert Munroe
seriously wounded in the leg, as the
result of a sensational shooting af
fray in the court house here. Two
Massey brothers and A. D. Covington
are under arrest, charged with the
shooting.
All the participants are among the
most prominent men in the county.
Trouble has been brewing for some
time, and friends brought the princi
pals together in the hope of settling
the differences.
attempt tokill emperoh.
Dynamite Cartridges Found On Rail
road Track —Investigation Ordered.
Frankfort-on-the-Main . An attempt
was made to blow up the train on
which Emperor William journeyed
from Donauschengen to Berlin.
The Royal railway administrative
officers make public a statement in
connection with the incident. Accord
ing this statement a dynamite car
tridge was found on the tracks near
the station at Muhleim, between
Frankfort and Hanau.
TO PROTECT FLORIDA
Increase in Duty on Citrus Fruits is
Favored.
Washington, D. C. —The so-called
“Starch Tru§t” was under fire at the
hearing on tariff revision before the
house committee on ways and means.
The cross-examination of J. B. Wal
ton, representing the Corn Products
Refining Company, the so-called trust,
formed the most interesting incident
at the hearing on the tariff schedule
covering agricultural products and
provision. Citrus fruits also occupied
considerable attention.
Mr. Walton admitted that his com-
pany sells corn starch at a loss in the
United Kingdom, at a price forty cents
less than it is sold in this country.
Florida fruit growers gave the com
mittee information on citrus fruit,
pineapples and vegetables, especially
as affected by competition with Cuba,
and requested either the retention of
the present tariff on these articles or
an increase in the duty.
The argument that “the states of
Florida, Arizona, Louisiana and Cali
fornia can in time produce all of the
citrus fruits used in the United States’’
was put forth by E. P. Porcher of
Jacksonville, Fla., for a protective duty
on oranges and lemons.
J. G. Chase, representing the Jack
sonville board of trade, was urging
protection duty on citrus fruits, when
Representative Underwood of Ala
bama asked:
“Do you believe in the general idea
of protection?”
“Yes,” was the reply, “so far as it
does not harm the people of the coun
try.”
“Is that the attitude of the Jack
sonville board of trade?” questioned
Mr. Underwood.
Mr. Chase answered affirmatively.
“And it’s the attitude of all the
people of Florida, isn’t it?” urged Mr.
Boutell, republican member from Illi
nois.
Again the fruit grower agreed, add
ing: “Of all the thinking people.”
“I just, wanted to know about it,”
said Mr. Underwood, “because Flori
da gave its electoral vote for a party
whose platform favors a tariff for rev
enue.”
Representatives Clark and Sparkman
of Florida asked leave of the com
mittee to file briefs on the subject of
i tariff on citrus fruit, and F. G. Mc-
Mullen for the Florida pineapple grow
ers, asked for a 70 per cent duty on
pineapples.
500 PERSONS FACE DEATH
When Two Steamships Collide in New
York Bay.
New York City.—The lives of more
han five hundred persons were im
jeriled, when the fruit steamer Admi
ial Dewey, inward bound from Jamai
ca,, crashed into the steamer Mount
Desert, outward bound from Bay
Ridge for the fishing banks. The
Admiral Dewey, coming suddenly out
of a fog bank, struck the Mount Des
ert almost amidships, opening u gaoh
in the lisntng vessel that extended
from the upper deck to the water’s
edge.
Panic immediately followed the col
lision, and it was due to the prompt
action of Captain Davidson of the Ad
miral Dewey, that a catastrophe was
averted for the passengers on the fish
ing steamer began piling over the
guard rail of that vessel, and leaped
for the deck of the Admiral Dewey.
Had he backed his steamer away,
many would have fallen into the wa
ter. Captain Davidson kept the steam
er moving slowly ahead, and this held
the prow of the fruit steamer into
the rent that had been made, and af
forded a boarding place for the fright
ened passengers of the Mount Des
ert.
FERTILIZER COMBINE PLANNED.
Independent Companies in South to
Unite and Form Big Company.
Baltimore, Md. —Independent fert:*-
izer men throughout the south met at
New York to consider a proposition
to join anew fertilizer combination,
which will take out. a charter under
the laws of New Jersey and have a
capitalization of $75,000,000. Of this
sum $50,000,000 will be stock equally
divided between common and prefer
red.
The new concern will be called the
Independent Fertilizer company ond
will be controlled by interests identi
fied with the Tennessee Copper com
pany. The chief subsidary of the new
corporation will be the $10,000,000
chemical company recently organized
to handle the sulphuric acid output
of the Tennessee Copper company.
Already options have been obtain
ed on some of the largest independent
plants in the country, including the
two of the Armour company,
in of the Swift
Packing at Wilmington, Del.,
and Atlanta, Ga.
Big Tobacco Deal Closed.
Louisville, Ky.—The big deal be
tween the American Tobacco com
pany and the Burley Tobacco society
for the 1906 and part of the 1907 crops
of tobacco, which has been hanging
fire for several weeks, was closed
here. The price agreed on in the
transaction, which is the largest of its
kind ever put through, is an average
of 20 1-2 cents for the 1906 crop and
17 cents per pound for the 1907
The deal involves nearly 80,000,000
pounds of tobacco held in the pool by
the Burley Tobacco society and an
outlay of something like $14,000,000
on the part of the American Tobacco
company, practically all of this money
being placed in circulation at onoa
Criminal Law Defective.
Pittsburg, Pa. —That the American
criminal law has very serious defects
and that if the American people wish
to rule they must “thoroughly ration
ally and honestly recast the criminal
law,” were asserted by Attorney Gen
eral Charles J. Bonaparte, in his an
nual address as president of the Na
tional Municipal League.
tHis subject was “The Criminal Law
as a Means to Enforce the People's
Will.”
EVEN AN EXPERT LETS SOMETHING
DROP ONCE IN A WHILE.
—Cartoon by Triggs, in the New York Press,
LATE EVENTS MEAN A MODERN CHINA
Prof. Hirth Calls Chinese Born Parliamen
tarians —Predicts Progress. • ;
New York City.—Friedrich Hirth,
Professor of Chinese in Columbia
University, who as a lifelong student
of the Chinese people, their language
and literature, is considered one of
the best authorities living on Chinese
topics, gave it as his opinion that the
death of the Empress Dowager and
the Emperor meant the opening of
an entirely new and better era which
would benefit not only China but the
other nations of the world. He
thought affairs in China would from
now on advance rapidly toward Euro
pean ideals, and though progress will
be less rapid than in Japan, China
would in thirty or even twenty years
be transformed into a nation on an
equal footing with the other great
nations of the world.
Professor Hirth had no belief in
the report that foul play had entered
into the death of the Dowager or the
Emperor. In regard to the general
attitude of the influential parties and
individuals toward the new rule, he
•aid:
“I think the events of the neit few
weeks or days will determine the
question of bloodshed or peace. I
think that both Liberals and Conser
vatives are ready to wait quietly in
order to see what course the Govern
ment will take. Prince Chun is a
Liberal, and he has enough followers,
I think, among the really dangerous
party, the overardent Liberals, who
might be called the Anarchistic party,
to avert any trouble from them.
“Prince Chun, I believe, is an able,
man. He has visited Germany on a
diplomatic mission. He alone of those
who have come into great power in
China has seen Europe; that single
fact should be enough to show in
what direction his rule will tend."
Speaking in a general way of the
death of Emperor and Dowager he
said:
“It appears to me a very beneficial
thing for China. The antagonistic
relations between the two and the
control by th.e Dowager of the Em
peror roused great dissatisfaction
among the Liberals, who had rested
their hopes on the Emperor.
VOODOO SIGN CAUSED SUICIDE.
Superstitious Test Applied to a Man Accused ot Murder Drives Him to Death-
Red Slain on the Weapon, Mistaken For Blood, is Realty Rust.
Monticelio, Ark. Suspicion of
murder having been confirmed against
him in the eyes of his neighbors by a
voodoo test, Louis Hursh, a farmer,
cut his throat and died in the pres
ence of the Coroner’s jury.
Samuel Haywood was the man
whose murder was under investiga
tion. He was called to his front door
at night and killed with a charge of
buckshot. His wife had but a fleet
ing glance at the assassin and could
give no clew to his identity.
Hursh was questioned about the
crime at the inquest, but protested
that he had no knowledge of it. Mem
bers of the family swore that he was
at home when the shot was fired, and
Hursh apparently had been elimin
ated from the list of suspects when
one of the jurymen, an aged negro,
spoke up.
“Try the voodoo test on him,”
urged the negro.
“What’s that?” inquired the Coro
ner.
“Get Hursh’s gun and fire it off
again while he is standing by. If he
did the murder the gun will sweat
blood.”
The Coroner was disinclined to
take this step, but others urged it on
him and he finally consented. Hursh
declared that it was a matter of in
difference to him whether the test i
President’s Promise to an Ohio
Veteran of the Civil War.
Washington, D. C.—General H. C.
Corbin, retired, secured from Presi
dent Roosevelt a promise to appoint
Gilbert Van Zanat, the drummer boy
of the Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry in the Civil War, to a place
in the Government service. General
Corbin brought Van Zandt, whose
home is at Wilmington, Ohio, with
him and told the President that he
entered the military service at ten
years of age as a drummer boy in the
Seventy-ninth Ohio.
“Yet Tsi-An played a valuable part.
It almost seems she saved the nation
in 1898, when by a coup d’etat the
young Emperor tried to crowd on
China in twenty days changes which
the nation would have needed as
many years to digest.
“Yet, the Emperor being highly
appreciated by the party of reform
and progress, her seizure of the reins
of Government and suppression of
new ideas cast a gloom over the spirit
of the empire. And little as we know
the new characters on the Chinese
stage, it is fair to believe that both
extremes—conservative and progres
sive—will hold themselves in check,
and will wait to see where the Gov
ernment is tending. All depends on
events; it is impossible to state what
will happen; one can only speak of
probabilities.
“But the tendency, whether calm
or violent, will, I feel sure, be toward
liberalism. These two deaths have
cleared the course for China. There
is much talk of antagonism toward
Manchu rule, yet that antagonism is
a thing of recent years; it has been
greatly heightened by the relations
between the Emperor and his aunt,
the Dowager. I believe now that that
antagonism will calm down for the
time, and will, if the new Govern
ment gives satisfaction, die out.
“The talk is of a Constitutional
Government. I think, and have al
ways thought, the Chinese well fitted
for it. They have always appeared to
me to be born parliamentarians. Cer
tainly they are as well fitted for lib
eral institutions as any Oriental na
tion —better fitted than the Turks or
Persians, as well fitted, I think, as
the Japanese. But I believe they will
model their Government on the Jap
anese Government, and that the
stages of their progress generally will
be peaceful.
“The present Government has a
strong liberal party behind it, and the
radicals are too much in the minority
now to do any harm. So many strong
men, both liberal and radical, are
with the Government that I do not
foresee a serious outbreak.”
was applied or not. He told where
his gun would be found, and it was
brought into court.
The Coroner and jury adjourned to
the woods near by, and the gun was
loaded and discharged. Hursh stood
by, apparently careless cf the results.
Following the firing of the gun the
jurymen crowded around it to exam
ine it for the sign. A murmur arose
among them, and the suspense was
more than the prisoner could bear.
He turned to the gun to examine it,
and the man who had suggested the
voodoo test pointed to a red stain
near the muzzle of the weapon. Hursh
became agitated and seemed on the
point of making a dash for liberty
when he was seized by a deputy.
Without further investigation the
party filed back into the court room,
where in a few moments the jury
held Hursh responsible for the kill
ing, and Coroner Lewis signed the
commitment,
When the prisoner 3'W i*mt he was
to be sent to jail on the strength of
the voodoo test he took a sharp knife
from his pocket and with one stroke
ended his life.
Subsequertly more careful examin
ation of the red stain on the muzzle
of the gun was made and beyond any
doubt it was established to be noth
ing but rust.
Queer I)r. Gabrini Dead
In His Swiss Chateau.
Geneva.—The richest and most ec
centric man in Switzerland, Dr. Ga
brini, is dead at Lugano, leaving a
fortune of $500,000, most of which
was made in America.
Dr. Gabriui was a man of the sim
plest habits. He would wear the
shabbiest clothes, and many tourists
who visited liis beautiful chateau at
Ciani accepted his services as a guide
under the impression that he was
one of his gardeners. He used to
take their tips with glee.