SEVRE STORMLyjs $lA REg

age it31 GOy

WIND WAS YERY IGH

Edr~ed of 10dowW Brokem.

cummneys Blown Down. Tree CP-

rooted and Houses UnVrootd-T~e

egraph and Teepho Poles Pros-

trated.

A wind and hail storm of cyclon-acproportions struck Atlanta at 5:'0Thursday afternoon, and left a trailof wreck and ruin behind it. Hun-dreds of windows were brokec. chim-neys were blown down. trees.uproot-ed and houses were unrooted.The property loss is estimated at

least $100,000. There were no ca.-Ualties. The storm lasted onlytwelve minutes. but the wind attain-ed and held a velocity of fify-lmiles an hour.

Pedestralns were blown againstbuildings, and in some instanoesthrough window. The covers ofumbrellas were stripped from themby the hal stones. one of* whichweighed fourteen ounces.

Street car traMe was suspendedfor a time. and is not entirely re-stored. Electric light wires strewnthrough the streets make t-avel very

- unsafe. Telephone and telegraphwires are down in all directions, andseveral nearby cities are cut off.

.AR.y STARVED To DEATH.

Crew of a Schooner Brought so.hMein Seeious Fix.

Waterlogged. dismasted and withthe decks barely above the

water.

as she was being towed by the Gut-SCompany steamer Winifred. the

Kate Flore. Captain Whitney .!TomMobie to Cuban ports. limped intoPort Arthur. Texac. recently withwhat was left of the crew in thethroes of starvation.Of the crew of seven which sa.ed

trom Mobiwe feie are in the hospitwith slight chances of recovery.whil another was washed overboardin the recent hurricane, and a sec-ond died of starvation shortly be-fore aid came to the helpless vessel-Washed hundreds of mile out of her

The Kate FIore saned from Mo-bie about September 12. with a car-go of lumber for Cuban ports.

En-

countering the hurricane, the boatwas stripped to the decks and wa-terlogged. sank to the deck. Whattores that were left were in the

wa-

ter-filled cabin and the men tookturns iving through the hatchway

for canned meats upon which they

barely subsisted until sucr came.

MEBDER AND SUICIDE.

fl.heed Bis Wife's Father and Then

W. S. Wise. a wealthy farmer of

inoncounty. N. C.. cut off thehed of his father-in-law.. werHaflman. with an are Thursdef

monnten barred the door ofhis home. set Sre to the furnitureand was cremated. Wise appeared

rtonal a feW moments before the

tragedy, but strang, remarks causedwife alarm, and with the chil-

en she ran to her father's homeand awaal him. Wise met the

agman as he neared the house-and seerd i head completely withone blow of the axe. and rushingback Into the house broke up the

urniture wtih the same are and ar'-

ranged his own funeral pyre. Thetragedy occurred at 3 o'clock. nearBethpage church, six miles wnot of'Lincolton.-

DIVES UNDER STEAX ROLE-.

Man. Mentas~i Deranged. Meets

Lagtng from beside his watchfulkeeper. who was accompanying 'himon a walk in Asheville. J. R. Giles.of Wilmington. N. C.. an innsate of

an Ashevlle sanitaiu~m, jumipedheadlong beneath the wheels of a15-ton steam roller Wednesday Mf-ternoon and his head was crushedout of shape by the ponderous wheeiof the machine. operating on the-French Broad river road four milew'from Asheville. Temporary aberra-tion for which Mr. Giles was beingtreated caused this remarkable modeof suicide.

Telln Thrilling Story.A thrilling story of the escape

from death of the captain and crewof the British schoner Florence M1.Hewon. which lies at the bottomuof the Atran4c. twenty-five m'.lesnortwest of Havana. Cuba, wherqshe was wrecked in Monday's hur-ricane, reached gey West ThursdayafternOon when the rescued metwere landed tere on the schoon'Pleroma. herself badly batteted bIthe ferce gale.

-eoee Dsnages.Mrs. Robert MIcLees obtainedvrdict in the circuit court at An

derson on Wednesday against tbity for $800. She was driving alon,thestreets some time ago. when he

buggy wheel dropped down in a hotandthrew her out and hurt ho'andshe sued for damages.

WHi Be Hung.The Louisville State board of paidonshas refused to recommendcommiutton of the death sentent

f Avery Blount. convIcted of tImurder of Joseph Breeland, b.ifeand step-dghter' 'In Tang

-.po,.ah 5mar1 months ago.

SHOT PATRIOT DEADPROP. FERER ECUTED) V

&RCELONA. SPAiN.

He Was convicted by Court Marti&foe lgdag a RevolutiOnar Move

ment.

At Barcelona. Spain. Francls.Ferrer. who was convicted of promoting the recent Barcelona reb*1-lion, was shot Thursday mo:ia.; itMontjuich prison. In execution of thedeath sentence inposed up'u nmn.

Professor Ferrer. Spanih educatorand convicted revolutloa. t. fac:::1 tbfiring squad without 11*nct... auAfell dead at the first votier.

Except for a mom .-.Y ex iof emotion immed-at.y pee'Ehis death. he retained his c'mwe'*areto the last. His attorney. M. Galcer-an. who defended him so Qoyadly nato bring about his own arrest for im-properly addressing the court. aecaued permission for a brief talk %Ithhim just before the execution.To his attorney. Ferrer spako feel-

ingly of the work for which he hadsacrificed his life and of the fuLureof his daughter. whose brave attempito save his life touched the Nohermore deeply, apparently. than anyother Incident of his trial and con-viction.On Ferrer's arrest his family was

left dependent upon this daughter.who at once secured employment Ina biscuit factory.When it was known that her fath-

er had been sentenced to death thedaughter made a personaW appeal toKing Alfonso. calling upon him Inthe name of his known generosity tospare her father's 1it.. When thesefacts were related by Galeerai. Fer-rer broke down for a moment.

Ferrer declined to receive the lastsacraments. and turned away fromthe two prieets of the Order of Peaceand Charity who had been "eut bythe prison authorities te ofer himthe final consolation of the church.WhenAbe hour of execution arriv-

ed he 4dked bravely through thenr!on y rd to the ditch in the shad-ow of the encircling wail. Withouta quiver he faced the 1 infrantry-men. who at the word of command.

fre4 simultaneoualy. When the report of the volley had d! 3d away.Ferrer lay upon the ground.

Previous to the execution precau-tions had been taken to forestall aposble attempt at rescue by doubl-ing the sentinels upon the walls of

thefortress.

MAL CARWER ARRESTED.

Trused Employe Under Bond on

Charge of Riling MaIl.

Consderable surprise was createdat Asheville. N. C.. Monday after-noon when Mail Carrier N. W. Fain

.fthe Asheville oSce was placed un-er arrest ctaarged with rifling malmatter. Fain was released later on$500 bond for his appearance laterbefore the United States commis-slonr.

it is alleged that Fain tamperecwith mall matter that went out onanother carrier's roate; that the mailmatter alleged to have been opene:~.nd otherwise tampered with was ad-dressed to a woman resident of the

Fain has been a mall carrier in:he employ of the Asheville omce forL9 years and in another year woul:1&ave been retired with a pension-de is district deputy of the Jr. 0. U...M. and a leading lodge man.'he affair has created considerabletalksince Fain Is the father of sev-eralchildren. He has been sus-pended from duty.

LONG LOST BROTHER FNtSD.

isters Meet Him as Oscer of Ger-

man Navy.

Two sisters have unexpectedlyfound a brother who was lost whenallof them were little children inGermany. Mrs. Clara Ptertzenmeler,

f Chicago. came to New York to.lslther sister. Mrs. Minnie Leb-mann. of Brooklyn. during the Hud-

0-Fulton celebration.Both attended a reception to the

.mcers of the German warship .n:heharbor and there they were in-:'oduced to Second ~Ient. Frltr

iehi.whom they immediately rec'gnlzed as the long lost brother.When eight years old he was Sen

- market in Germany and lost ntay. He was sent to an institutionandfrom that was graduated Into theavy. He had not s'een his relativesormore than twenlty years until hi>tisterSlearned the name of his homn

HELP" NEEDEI) AT KEY WEST.

Hundreds Are on Verge of Starva

thou in Stricken City.

Immediate assistance from the outsideworld Is necessary to carry o1thework of clearing up the city ancaringfor the victims of the burr!

cne at Key Wee?. The Mayor anIunced Thursday that the city i

forced to suspend work because Clackof funds. Great distress an

.suffering are already among the eniployesof the large tobacco factories

Hundredsare on the point of staa1tion, is Is declared.

The Newberry News and Heralsaysit believes the farmersi ouglttsell their cotton so long as pricirman above twelve cents justafastas they can market It. Whengetsbelow that price. If It shoul

thcentheyshould not sell a balThespinners are organized for cutailmentin production. They mea

s tohear the market. Why casnth tbfarmers organie ermyelseaa.

SIX IMES LOSTCeand sgame WMe"e o LAe E&M

at Point Peee,0t.

TWEVE WERE RESCUD

Until Daybreak the Ship-WreckedCrew Remained in the Forward

Cabins and Pilot Houses and Then

Began an Anxious Search of the

Horizon for Passing Vessels.

In the wreck of the steamer Geo.Stone. of Cleveland. Ohio. on Po:ntPelee. Oat.. Wednesday. upper LakeErie added a gruesome chapter to theaistory of marine disasters on the

great lakes. Six lives were lost andtwelve were saved. Wednesday nightthe tall end of the recent gale lash-ed a hopelessly broken vessel thatwas not insured and belonged to 31.A. Bradley of Cleveland.The six victims lost their lives

when Captain Paul Howell Peter Dai-ey oi Erle. Pa.. who was a passenger.and six members of the crew were

capsized in the surf. attempring togo ashore for assistance. Two ofthe crew clung to the over-turnedbot four hcurs untU they driftedashore.The wooden steamer George Stone

began to feel the effect of the South-west gale about 6:30 Monday eveningand at midnight she began a desper-'ate battle for life.

All day Tuesday she fought val-iantly against the storm but towardbevening It became apparent that thepumps were unequal to the task ofremoving the water that poured intothe hole through the seams openedby the buffeting of the waves.About nine p. m. the captain and

crew realized that the storm hadtaken the vessel out of their control.About 2:30 a. m. the Stone struckwith a terrific jar upon the sand barknown as Grubbs Reef nearly fivemiles of the western shore of PointPelee.Until daybreak the ship wrecked

crew remained In the forward cabinsand pilot houses and then began ananxious search of the horizon forpassing vess'ls. One man was sentaloft with a bed sheet which hewaved from the forward mast. Butthough three or four steamers camewithin sight none responded to thesignal of distress.Fire added to the dangers of the

situation at -his point. the pilotouse being burned to the d*eck.Towards nice o'clock a. m. Wed-

nesday the danger of the vessel be-ing broken to pieces became acuteand Captain Howell picked his crewfor an attempt to reach shore In oneof the small boats, when almost out-

side the zone of danger a mountaincomer capsized her and left her eightpassengers struggling in the icybreakers.

CONVICT DROWNED.

Attempted to Swim Across Pee Dee

River for Fish.1

Dave McDonald a memb' of theMarion County chaingana. wasdrowned Saturday afternoon in the

Little Pee Dee River..just beluwHarley's bridge. The body was found

y Mr. Jeff Hamilton. who was inboat and was sounding the bot-omwith a long pole. Ta'. man wasn the opposite side of the riverfrom Sallie Drake and Rilla Hayes.olored women. who were fiahing.Sallie Drake offered to iseli him soefishshe had caught. 3nd he plungedintothe river with shackles on. andattempted to swim across for thema.but failed to reach the shore. Helied in plain view of these womenand others of the chaingang.

MURDERER CONVICTED.

Klled Yorag Woman Who Refused

to Marry Hum.

At Douglass. Ga.. late Wednesdaynight the jury in the case of Wil-11am Mct.eod returned a verdict of

guilty with recommendation to mer-cy and the defendant was rat oncesentenced by Judge T. A. Parker tolife imprisofnmenlt in the State pen-tentiary. On August IS McLeod

killed Miss Mlattie Graham. Accord-ing to the evidence he was insanelyjealous. He asked .permission toshake hands with the jury for sav-aghim from the gallows. Evi-.fence was introduced indicating theweakness of McLeod's mirnd.

Much Damage at Rome-.

A terrific rain, wind and hail stormf fifteen minutes duration shortly~fter5' o'clock Thursday af!ternoon.smashed thousands of win-dows. in-cluding plate glass store fronts; up-root-d trees, tore roors from build-ilgsin all parts of Rome. Ga.. andwreaked damago generally. It isbelieved that crops in that section-have been practically ruined. Thestreet railway and electric light sys-emare out of ccomission. Halstones as large as oranges fell.

LCharged With Bigamy.-Oscar Alexander. an operative at

the Brogon mills. Anderson. has beenarrested on the charge of bigamy.

He married the 1 7-year-old daughterofMr. C. N. Prince on the 2nd. hay-

dlga wife already. who is Wring inaGines~ville. Ga. He is 23 years

K~illed by Train.e.J.E. Edgar and wife, an agedrouple, were instantly killed at Win.mton. Ga.. by Southern Railway trait

No. 29, while trying to cross the, ? a tracks in the face of a srn

WILL PROUVE IS CLA

DR. COOK RELIES ON ESKD

BOYS TO VINDICATE HIM.

Says He Will Convict Commam

Peary Out of the Moutbs of E

Own Witnesses.

A dispatch from Buffaic. N.says Dr. Frederick. A. Cook arriv,there Wednesday morning frCCleveland in the midst of a heasnow sto-.n. He went directly to t

Iroquois hotel, stating that he wousee the newspaper men there at oj

o'clock."I can only say that the actu

living human witneeees of my Jou

ney to the pole will themselves Iable to disprove the declarations plinto their mouths in the statemelssued by Commander Peary.'' salDr. Cook to the Associated Press"There could not bs better testony than that given by the m(themselves before an unbiased bodof inquiries. Commander Peary evdently regards their evidence as ithe mos. profound importance. anso do I. It seems to me that I

might have brought them alowith him if he was so confident thi

they would corroborate his storHe, however. choose not to do imSwill, therefore, send for them a

oon as possible and place them athe disposal of any scientific or otbebody that may desire to euamithem with the aid of any comptent interpreter whom the examixtg board may appoint-"Asked whether he would makeirect reply to Peary's statement. aad been intimated in the intervieLt Cleveland. Dr. Cook said:

There is nothing to add to wholas already been said. I do not iand to enter a newspaper contrcersy with any one. I shall dop-nupon wfitnesses who have alreadeen brought Into the case, and bem. '

Dr. Cook w-'s given a pubie rteption at Buffalo on the "changeloor of the chamber of commerce.

BOY KILLS HIS FATE.

L North Carolina Farmer Meets

Tragc Death.

Col. Robert L. Abernethy. one ae best known farmers and stoc

'asers in North CArolina. was shend instantly killed at an early bourhursday morning, in a desperat

acounter with his son. Reuberged 20. after the father had mad

Luunsuccessful effort to kill the sone tragedy occurred at the famil:iome. "Open View" farm. In Gasto!

,ounty. and was witnessed by thrife and mother. Abernethy enter-d his son's room. precipitated

iuarrel over a trival matter, aniraaing a pistol, fired three shotLtthe boy, neither taking effectrheson grappled with him, and 11hefierce hand-to-hand struggle tha

runed, the pistol was discharge<wice. both shots taking vital effecthe father. The coroner exos

~rated the son. There had been ballood between the two because ce father's treatment of his wifi'hlch the boy resented.

Two Perasons Killed.A storm amounting almost toornado passed cver sections of Tesesseeabout 7 o'clock Thursdalgh. Al Barnes. a prominent cden of Denmark. Madison count:as killed, and Mrs. Barnes hurheir home was wrecked. Tom Heltas kIlled in Lincoln county, neadulbery, and Homer Ashby and wilwereseverely hurt. C'arter Arnoltreturning home fro'n senool at Waitrace, was caught in the storm anbasnot been heard from. Many resdences were wrecked in Tennese

Editor Kills Assailat.In a pistol duel at Harrodsbiriy.. Wednesday night between EdtorJohn F. Pulliam and John VRobards in Pul'iam's offee. Robart

was fatally wounded and Pullia:inayhave to have his arm amp1ttedas a result of a bullet. whiccrushed the bone. Robards is sa

tohave entered the offce of the Haoosburg Herald and opened fire<

P'llim. who returned it. A triviuarrel is believed to have been ticauseof the affray. Both are pron

Wanted to See Him Hung.At Wilkcesbarre. Pa.. on Thursda

Stanley Nazarko. a Slav. was hoiormurder. More than the usu

iterst was taken in the executi<ofNazarko. whose wife came to t.Jail with the man she intendsmarry and req uested penrmissionwitness the hanging. The re'quewasrefused by the sheriff. althou;thecondemtned man was willing tbhiswife and her future husba:should see him dia.

Leaps Into a Well.

Temporarily deranged by

old.jumped into a well at the holofher sister. Mrs. B. F. Gulledge.

thesouthern part of Anson counC.. at midnight Thursday nig

andwas almost Iustantly killsPP'rsued b' a brother, who divitherintention, she outran him aleaped into the well head-first. Ewaprominently connected andcntlyheld a position at the Sou

rRailroad at Charlott.

Wants to Move Away-A commiittee of three fromien city council has been appo1

eedtoconfer with Miss MaryKKrk.the alleged leper, or her age

inrgard to tbe sale of her propei the city of Aiken to the cityores. It Is stated that 1irkdesires to sell her propt

I POITS TO MUMK

O A GRUESOME FIND MADE BY RU-

RAL MAIL CARRIER.

er Discovered Severed Limbe of Woman

[s in Dress Suit Case in an OutlyingPortion of Thverton. FR. L

The hnding of the severed legs ofd a woman in a dress suit case amongm some bushes in an outlying sectionY of Tiverton. R. I.. Monday broughteto light what the authorities are con-

d vinced is a case of murder. Thee discovery of a New Bedford news-

paper of Sunday's date with the por-attions of the i'-ibs is regarded as themost important clue thus far obtain-ed. indicating possibly the place ofthe murder. if murder there was.The authorities Monday night were

of the opinion that the woman wasmurdered in New Bedford. that thelegs were placed in the suit casethere and brought by team or auto-mobile to 'verton Sunday night.According to the medical examiner,

d Dr. John Stimson. the suppo;ed mur-der was committed not more than

e twelve or fifteen hours before thegsuit case was discovered.t

That a murder was committed, andthat the cutting was not done by tha

aexperienced hands of a surgeon ort by a medical student. Is the beliefIof the medical examiner, who eas

e that apparently a common handsawwas used to sever the legs from the

. trunk. A search for the other por-tions of the body in the woods nearby

a is being made.a The body might have lain undis-covered for days had not a rural let-ter carrier. George Potter. chanced to

,t go to the spot. Potter was makinghis rounds, passing along the road.when he noticed three portions of

Ihuman legs aprtially wrapped innewspaper in the case. Later in-

yvestigation by the medical eaminershowed that the suit case contain-ed the upper portion of a right leg.

- that from the thigh to the knee, andthe entire left leg. cut in two piecesat the knee. *The medical examiner, after tak-

ing measurements of the limbs. es-tiUmated that the woman (or girl)probably was live feet, three incheshigh, and weighed perhapus 120pounds. -A large callous spot onfthe bottom of the foot !.dicated thatcthe girl was accustomed to walkingtmuch or to standing, and suggestedrthat she may have been a workingegirl.

]DECREASE IN CONSL-MPTION.

FCotton Mi!!s Are Changing From

a coarse to Fine Products.

According to a preliminary state-ment prepared by Commissioner

'Aatson. the consumption of cotton

-bythe mills of the State this yaerwill be 45.919 bales less than last

year.The consuming of a less number orbales this year is caused by the fact

that most of the mials are changingor have already changed from acoarse to a finer product. Chang-ing from a coarse grade to a finergrade materially increases the valueof the product. It does not meanthat there has been a curtailment'n production, but rather increasedvalue of production, a product whichcan be placed directly from the millson the Southern markets.Only about 15 mills, and half of

-their production. tuirn out expert

goods. according to the statement.rUp until a few years ago all ofthemills manufactured a coarse

grade of cloth. Since 1907 there hasbeen a gradual change from thecoarse to the fine goods, all of whichis beneficial to the manufacturer.farmer and consumerThe total number of bales used

in 190i8 was 793.396. The follow--ing, giving bales consumed by mills.will prove interesting:1880S. 33.624 bales: 1S90. 133.-181342 balee: 1900. 485.024 bales:

195. 555.467 bales: 1907. 114.905Ibales; 1908. 793.396 bales.*d FIREMAN IS KILLE~D.r--IAnd Eight Persons Are Hurt by Ac-

ient to Train.

Fireman 0. J. Sutton was killed

and eight persons were injured whenan engine and two cars of the Aus,y. tin& Northwestern railway plungedIntoa burning bridge over Wattersal1creek. The seriously injured are:Benj.Coyne. mail clerk. skull andespineinjured; B. Wille'rs. brake-

'aman. McNeii. Tex.. two ribs broken.toas a heavy mist obscured the fire and

*t theengineer could not stop his train; intime to avert the accident.

t __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Ldd'Scarlet Feve at Columbia.A dispatch from Columbia says in

viw of the fact that there ia somescarlet fever in that city and inllother parts of the State. the local

Lsboardof health has issued a formalnstatement, setting out the best meansinof preventing the spread of the dia-ry,ease.There is nothing startlingb,aboutthe situatlonl there, the boarded. ofhealth desiring only to be on the

edsafe side.

he Killed in Auto.re-1Ms.H. C. Edwards and C. N. An-th-'argyrous were killed and seven oth-

er injured in an automobile acci-dnt in a suburb of Oakland. CaLFrday night. All the ;victims were

t nan automobile.

v. Fatal Gip Accident.ntsNH'nry Ward. the 12-year-old so!

rtyof Mr1. J~sse Ward. of Plckens, hadau- hishand caught in a cotton gin 0:ussTuesday and h~s arm and one sld4e ofhis bod~y were tom-ly4 mangled

TWELVE PERISHStorm Ca S Of I.Iefa &rd

East Cast Etsin

PROPERTY IS DAMAEDThe Floating Equipment and Incom

plete Work on the Rairoad is VeraBadly Torn Up, As it Was Mad

Exposed to the Fury of the Heav

Wind.

A dispatch from Miami. Fla.. say1news reached there late Wednesda]afternoon of the sinking of the tugsSybil. Sadie and Bahia Honda duringMonday's hurricane and the loss o:the eleven members of the crewthe Sybil. Including Capt. ParkerThe crews of the Sadie and BahisHonda escaped.This news was brought to Miami by

the relief expedition sent out by theMetropolis, the local afternoon newspaper. The loss of life on the SybilIncludes, besides Capt. Parker, En-gineer Fox. Pilot Whitmere. Engi-neer Peterson and seven deck hands.The following statement was given

out by Engineer Ernest Cotton of theFlorida East Coast railway:"Loss of life on the Florida East

Coast eztension s limited to the crewof the tug Sybil and TimekeepwBrown at Marathon. a total of twelvepersona. The floating equiptment ofthe road and uncompleted work wereadiy damaged. There was, however.no damage to the concrete work atany point. All of our camps were=ore or lew wrecked. but the largeforoes of our workmen are being car-ed for and have suffieent supplies offood. The men behaved well and al-ready every gang has gone to worklearing away the wreckage andpreparing for reopening the eXtensionto trazc."The track north of Marathon iswashed out at several points, but theextend of tdamage has not yet beendetermined.Timekeeper 3. H. Brown, an old

employe of the Florida East Coastrailway, was drowned at Marathon.The Metropolis expedition reportedwashout of 4.000 feet of track be-

tween Manitee and Jewish creek. onthe Florida East Coast extension. Thetrack was also shifted ifty feet. Therovisions of the colony at Jewfi'hre running low:

COrNTRY EDITORS POPULAR-

n MI'nesom Where Many of Them

Hold Ofice.

The late Governor Johnson. short-

lybefore his death, wrote for theYouth's (%>mpanion an interestingarticle dealing largely with the news-

aper man in office. He said that

thas often been obser'ved that Min-

nesota is "governed oy the countryeditr." and shows that the assertion

snot without. good foundation.Here is his partial summary of thesituation. "The governor, his pri-vate secretary, and executive clerkarecountry newspaper men: so arethelabor commissioner. the execu-tiveagent of the game and fishommission, the State oil inspector,theState librarain, the secretary andassistant secretary of State. the as-sistant labor commISSIOner, the Statefrewarden, the assistant fire mar-shal,the deputy public examiner, thesecretary of the dairy and food com-mission, the assistant clerk of thesupreme court, the secretary of theboard of control. Both political par-tieshave recognized the capabIlityofthe country editor for official po-sition from the earliest history oftheState, and be has always beenanactive force in legislative coun-clsand in the minor places undei.henational and State government.

WIRELESS I8 WORING WELL.

Success of the Military Stations U

More evidence of the successfu

working of the military wireless tel

egraph stations n Alaska is shown trareport from First Lieut. E~. A

unet. Thirteenth infan'. at ForGibbon.On the night of September 23thestation at Nome worked well bot]ways,with the steamer Minnesota. eiroute to Japan. At that time th<ess~lwas about two hundred milesouthof Mimak Paas and about 1.30smilesfrom the wireless station. TheMinnesota also reported hearing mes

agsafrom Fort Gibbon strong an

More than 500 miles of the disance traveled by messages from ForGibbon was over land and the statio1atthat place also picked up meisagesfrom the steamer at Mimall

Office r Comts Suicide.Liet. Carl. A. Richster. U. S. N

tatioed on the Marietta. commi1tedsuicide bf hanging himeselfiis quarters .Aboard the MariettiHisbody was found hanging fro:twobell straps In his room atoclock Thursday morning. He haeen ashore until a late hour We<nesday night. The body has boecarried to the naval hospital at Portamouth from the Marietta. whichtill in Hampton Roads. LieuRlchster was from Iowa.

Decatur Flooded.A terrifle hail and rain stor

broke over Decatur. Ala.. shorta~ter5 0'clocky Thursday night. du(nngwhich many windows were bro:

en by hai stones as large as wen'a.Th seet; are fdooded.

VICTIMS OF STORM

MAY GO TO FIFTY WHEN ALL

REPORTS .RE RECEIVED.0

The Hurricane Was the Worst That

Ha Visited That Section in

Many Years.

A dispatch from Memphis, Teun..!says with the known death list al-I!ready reaching a total of 37 humanlives and with 13 others reporteddead. with scores seriously injuredand- many others painfu)ly bruised.and with the property damage run-ning to a million or more dollars.the toll of the havoc and desteu-tion of the storm which swept mid-dle and west Tennessee. Alabama.Georgia and portions of Arkansasand South Carolina last Thursdayafternoon and Thursday night growshourly as reports are received fromremote districts anu as wire com-munication is gradually restored toa normal condition.The storm of Thursday night was

the worst that has visited this sec-tion of the South In years. beingintense in its destroying fury andwidespread In its area. Whole sec-tions of counties were laid in waste.towns destroyed and plantationsgreatly damaged.The dead:Denmarkt, Tenn.-Albert Barnes.Mulberry. Tenn.-Thomas Hlelm.Stantonville. Tenn-Thirteen peo-

ple reported killed (unconSfrmed).Pittsburg Landing Tenn.-Mrs.

West McDaniel. Otis Littlefeld. Lu-ther Little, Marshal Jordan. RubyJordan, L F. Lemons.

Near Stantonville, Tenn.-CharleyMoore, wife and Infant; Terry Wil-bank. Mrs. Wilbank and their twochildren; Mrs. Slasom.

Near Cartersville, Ga.-Mls Prit-chard.

Scottsboro. Ala.-Miss HoustonSkelton. Milas M. Suder. a child ofJim Gale.

Wyeth Cove. Ala.-Eight peoplekilled.Near Scottsboro, Ala.-Mrs. R. H.

Skelton.Stanton, Tenn.-Andy Johnson. a

negro.Nixon. Tenn.-FIve people killed.Near Marmaduke. Ark.-Arthur

Liggett.Apparently the storm broke in all

its fury over middle and west Ten-nessee and proceeded In a south-easterly direction across the Stateinto Alabama and Georgia. assum-ing the proportions of hurricane.

It came practically without warning and in some places the windattained a velocity of 90 m.les anhour. While only one death oc-curred at Denmark. Tenn.. the borrors of the storm were greatl3heightened by the Are which follow-ed the wrecking of that town. Theferoe Uames rapidly consumed whatfew dwellings and stce houses thatwere left standing and now a scen-of utter desolation is presented.-Two hundred people were renderedhomeless and have appealed toneighboring towns and cities forimmediate aid.Reports of flve deaths and heavy

damage come from NcNairy county.Homes and stores were leveled tothe ground and great trees uproot-ed.Many handsome and imposing

State monuments in the Shiloh Nat-ional park were torn from theirpedestals and the superintendent'slodge and oth':r build~ngs were de-stroyed. The property damage inthis section is estimated at $100i--000.Wire communication with Stan-

tonville, where 13 lives are reportedlost, has not yet been re-established.At Russellville. Ala.. 27 pe-ople-

were seriously, several fatally. in-jured.A property damage of at least

$50,000 Is estimated at Cartersville.Ga.. while that at Atlanta will runbetween $80.000 and $ 100.000. Onelife was lost at the former place.Rome. Ga.. Gadsden. Ala.. Hunts-

ville. Ala.. Decatur, Ala~.. and othersmaller towns in the path of thestorm report heavy property dam-age.

RTT.T. WIFETHEN EDLSELF.

Insanely Jealous Man Commits Mar-

der and Suicide.

At Erie. Pa.. Fred F. Link. ofthe Link Manufacturing Company.of that city, aroused his wife fromher slumber Sunday morning and aquarrel ensued, during which. It issaid. Link announced that he haddecided to end both his own life,and that of his wife. He drew arevolver and Mrs. Link seized himand fought for her life, but theinsanely jealous man overcome herand shot her four timee, one bulletpenetrating her heart. Link bredthe remaining bullet through br~sown head, dying instartly.

Hanged Man's Policy.The question whether an ordinary

Insurance policy insures a managainst death by legal hanging israised in the case of the MutualLife Insurance Company vs. J. WiI-1am McCue and others, which was

2 resented Monday to the supremecourt of the United States. McCue

sisone- of the children of fornfer May-or MfcCue of Charlottesvlille. Va., whows hanged for the mrurder of hiswife in 1905.

To Disprove Peary.Drt. Frederick A. Cook. the arctic

eplorer. said to the Associated Preseat Philadelphia on Thusa.:-There is a mistaken impressIon that

n~ amn bringing the Eskimos to NewlyYrrk to prove that I have been tc

-the pole. The real reason of the'i:- icoming here :s to disprove the smory.1-tbcy were madA to tel! by3 C.zaudor ?a7adhs pety.

TOOK HIS LIFEFashionably Dressel Rbber Gleats His

Pf3aers by Cay

COMMIIING SUICIDEHe Held Up the Cashier of the High.

land Park Bank Near Chicago andFlees With the Funds and Whem

Closely Pressed Deliberately ShootsHimself.

A fashionably dressed bandid whoearly W eunesaay afternoon robbedthe savings bank of D. M. Erzkme &Co.. in Highland Park, Ill., an arts-tcKratic suburb on the lake shore25 miles north of Chicago. committ-e.i suicide by shooting himself inthe mouth when driven to bay bythe Highland Park Marshal and aposse of citizens.A companion of the robber, who

had driven him to the bank in an.utomobile, was captured immediate-iy following the robbery, forcing theprincipal perpetrator of the daringdaylight crime to flee on foo.He was engaged in a running duel

with Town Marshal John Sheehanwho was the target for many bulletsfrom the fugitive's revolver, one ofwhich went through the sleeve ofhis coat. After runn.ng severalblocks and faiing to drive back hispursuer. the robber ran Into a shed:losely pursued by Sheehan.When he saw Sheehan enter the

shed with his revolver leydit his head, the fr6gtive put the mus-zle of his own revolver in hs mouthtad fired a shot which resulted In hiseath almost instantly. The identi-.y of the dead man and his compan-ion is unknown.The robbery was conducted in a

eliberate and spectacular manner.he bandit securing about $500 in,i1 coin and Dills after he had fore-! John C. Duffy, the cashier of theunk. into the cash.er's cage justfter the closing of business for thelay."Call everyone in here Into that

:ge or I'll blow your head of2. flur.ry up," said the robber as he cov--re I the cashier with a revolver.Duffy. unarmed. complied with the

!emand. The bookkeeper and theeceving teller came Into the cagewhile the intruder helped himself to11 the money in sight. He carefullyuckei the 4old and bills into his>ockets and then exclaimed: "If anyf you attempt to follow me I will

(il yoU." -He started for the door and Di!y

mmediately phoned the marshal's'ace across the street. By the timele robber reached the automobileseehan was runmng toward theank. At the sight of him the robbyr

>roke Into a run, and citizens heldh.e chaufeur.The chase after the fugitive was abrillng one. but ended in his su--ide within a few minutes. All thenoney taken form the bank wasonnd in his clothing. The robber~ad called at the bank earlier In theay.

QUEER CASE IN LEXINGTON.

Drug Company Sued for Wrong

I-eln Botte.A dispatch from Lexington says

a case without precedent in -that:ounty, and with but few, If any, Inhe State has recently been fled Inhe oflece of the clerk of court.t is a suit for $10,000 damages In-stuted by Louis Ernest Spann, Jr.,y his guardian ad ltemn, L. ErnestSpacn. against the Crosson Drug:ompany of Leesville, for the allegedrong labeling of a bottle of medi-ine. purchased by Mr. Spann for hishild, an infant of two months. Italleged that the parents gave the

:nedicine to the child, believing it tobe one certain kind of drug. whenn reality it was not what It waslabeled on the bottle, and that themedicine made the child ill

EXPLOSION OF GASOLINE

In a Stove Causes One Death and a

Destructive Fire.

At Fitzgerald. Ga., on Wednesday,a fire originating from an explosionof gasoline in a tailoring establish-ment, destroyed the Grierc block onPine street. caused a loss of $25,-400 and injuring two firemen. It

is believed that a negro who at-tempted to fill the gasoline stovewith the flames on lost his life.The buildings destroyed included theCommercial hotel, loss of $12,000;Smith's tailoring establishment. loss$3,000. Firemen Homer Wattersand James Parrott fell through thehotel root and were badly hurt.

Tennessee Did Not Escape.That a destructive storm of wind

and hail swept over West and Mid-dle Tennessee and North Alabama,early Thursday night. is evidenced bythe fact that no communication ofany character can be had with theseeions Telegraph and telephonewIres are down and reports fromsmal1 towns in the extreme westerncounties of Tennessee state that asevere wind storm occurred at 6o'clock Thursday night ,unroofinghouses, leveling telegraph poles anddoing other damage. No loss of lifeIs reported from these poInts.

hsr. Motivem for teDeued. ooThe Georgetown Item says the easeasuming very grave proportions. ItIs now authoratively stated that Mrs.Bilngham was the only eye-witnessto a killin of a negro by the Doo?or several months previous te hisvisit down th.s way. If such be the -

esse, here Is the motive for M4ra,Bmrhgla'a death.

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