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]flf4Do IN ARKANSAS 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.