A CYCLONE LAYS TONNS IN. RUNS Wide Sweep of Great Storm In The South. SEVERAL PERSONS WERE KILLED. Destructive Rain and Wind Storm Rages Over Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee — Winona, Miss, Probably the Worst Sufferer — Churches Demolished, Memphis, Tenn. (Special).—Tele- phonic and telegraphic communica- tions received Sunday from points in Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, for a distance of several hundred miles, report that territory to have suffered from a destructive rain and wind storm. Only meager detalls are as yet ob- tainable, but five lives are known to be lost and great damage has been done to property and crops. Rail- road traffic from Memphis is demor- alized by numerous washouts, and many trains have been annulled. From the reports so far received, the greatest damage occurred in the central and delta regions of Missis- gippi. At Winona, Miss., the Catholic, the NEWS OF THE WEEK Domestic. The New York Central accused of having granted amounting to $26,000 to the Ameri- can Sugar Refining Company, was found guilty. The trial in the of the American Sugar Refining Com- pany for accepting rebates will begin today. The New York THE THE Railroad, rebates case Central Railroad was found guilty also on the second indictment charging the road with giving rebates to the Sugar Trust on sugar shipped from New York city ww Cleveland Green Womack, a wealthy Missis- sippi farmer, was indicted by the fed- eral grand jury on a charge of peon- age. He is charged with having held several negroes as slaves for eight years, Executive officials of Western roads contemplate asking the Interstate Commerce Commission to serve as a board of arbitration te settle dis- putes between the companies and of- ficials. In an Interna- address before the tional Congress on Tuberculosis New York, Dr. T. D. Crothers clared that consumption and holism are twin sisters. A proposed deep waterway scheme to connect the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico was launched at representative meeting in St. Louis Joaquin Nabuco, the Brazilian bassador, refused to answer questions Christian and the African Methodist Churches and the Hesty brickyard | were demolished and many buildings anroofed and damaged. Among th largest buildings damaged at this place are the postoffice, the ra | house, the oil mill, the compressor, the warehouse of the Jackson Mer- | cantile Company and the residence of E. J. Dunkston. Besides these 25 smaller 1 dings were partly de- stroyed. Telegraphic communica- tion is prostrated. | Of those buildings not the was probably most damaged. The of this building was torn off wind, which at times reached aln tornadic velocity, falling on t} of E. J. Dunkston, 25 ¢ The windstorm was preceded and lowed by heavy rains, causing washouts along the route nois Railroad and Crops. At Mathison is reported Woman was ing. At Tchula a falll small frame b mn fire, child to death. At Nonconn from Memp under © ope yall destroved the roof v the 1081 compre eS8S0r severely ¥ 15) home «28 va 5 away. ol- serious of the I Central damaging 1, Miss, , to have rious damage occurred, A falling buil QE set « burning the Miss. , serious damage, are cut off is impossible are irom MEANT TO KILL POPE. Explosion Of A Bomb In St. Peter's Canses Janice, Rome (B) of the despera terrorizing Sunday a bomb the Va the m at his noonday ments at th upon the | planned is spread abroad visit the ca: to tne tomb «of Clement the outrage was committed. and the anarchists here placed the a long-time fuse attached however, remained in apartments, The vast edifice was crowded. and an indescribable followed the plosion There were no fatalities. 3 goon as the echoes of the tremendous roar haa a canon sought by reassuring words to quiet the people, but in vain. 1 { € ife of the evident that hedral bomb, wit} The Pope, his private ¥ scene of confusion | ceased | Explorers Saluted, Christiania (By Cable). Capt Roald Amundsen and his companion explorers arrived here on the steam- | er Helig Olaf. They were transferred to the coast-defense ironclad Norge. A salute of 15 guns was fired from | the fortress, and the explorers were welcomed by a number of officials and prominent citizens. A banquet | was given in the evening in their | honor. Hurt By Gas Explosion, Redbank, N. J. (Special). —Az the | result of an explosion of acetylene gas in the house of Michael H., Mur- | phy, a New York commission man, Mrs. Murphy, her six-year-old son. her four-year-old daughter, her negro maid and a stableman were so badly Injured that their lives are despaired of and the Murphy residence was completely wrecked. All the injured are in the Long Branch Hospital The Kaiser's Travels, Berlin (By Cable Statistics show that the Kaiser spends half a million dollars yearly in traveling about his empire, He always has a special train and pays the ordinary rates for it. He now increasingly uses auto mobiles, which are cheaper, but he etill considers that all ceremonial Journeys demand that he travel by railway. Sanitarinm For Navy. Washington (Special). —Upon the recommendation of Surg. P. M. Rixey, United States Mavy, the President has ordered that the military reservation of the old Fort Lyon, Col., be turned over to the navy for use as a sani- tarfum for tuberculosis patients of the gmervice. The reservation com prises about 575 acres and has on it 8 pumber of buildings whieh, with glight repairs, may be utilized at the outset for the purpose, below his dignity. A $10,000,000 combine is in mation, with Walter laker, M. Lowney and the companies parent concerns. 1 for and as The Arctic steamer Roosevelt, with Commander Peary aboard, has ar- rived at Chates 7, Labrador, hav- ing been delayed by storms The wages of employes Ame Express Company paid $200 a inerea cent The ia + 8 to f the who are 0 ican less than ed 10 month were net Pennsvivania Rallroad, has nonin- abandon ed bids 1 we Bi€ } flamal . the negro Kedleston. and Mrs, Leits on the Jord mother-in-law I at New York Baltic from Liverp Mayor Schmitz Fran charges 31 RLOTLIOT in 8 INE i Ruef, of » been indicted on Abe San isco, 21 Im Compa Pulls fa ir an ny capital ; ¢ k creased ato Hon 600 Dr. Robert Craig, of Pittsburg, committed suicide at Atlantic City The Wabash will apend over $12.- for new and Cars Foreign. Cardinal lecot has informed “monstrous error’ declaring that the dioceasan as- socidtions formed under the Cardi- nal's auspices were legal. the Cardi- nal explaining that they were not with the separation made a iv 118 Mar- to of The shal Conrad von appointment Field Hoetzendorf laron von Beck is confirmed The wife of Peter Struve, former editor of the revolutionary paper Emancipation, has been arrested. belongs to a noble family, but Gen The Chilian’ Chamber of Deputies au for of Valpariso and a loan of $5,000,000 purpose, The British steamer Melrose Ab- hey and the Swedish steamer Adolph Meyer collided off Bordeaux and the former sank, but no lives were lost. Extraordinary police precautions have been taken in Rome to protect the King and Queen of Greece on their visit, November 23. The Satsuma, the first Japanese batleship to be launched in Japanese waters, was set afloat in the presence of the Emperor. The Finnish police have seized large consignments of rifles and am- munition destined for the Russian revolutionists, The Russian Forelgn Office denies reports that Russia contemplates in- fringing on Norwegian territory, Estrada Palma, former president of Cuba, visited Havana for the first time since he left office. The Bpanish government has de cided to make an exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition. Monsignor Constantine, the papal almoner, died of heart disease, i | HEARST FIGHT GOST $236,370 Oific’al Figures, However, But Part of Expenses. HUGHES EXPENSES PUT AT $618,55. Money Spent by Editor in the New York Campaign Far Above Any Sum Recorded, and Equals Thirty Cents for Every Vote He Received, A COSTLY CAMPAIGN, The more than a quarter of a million Willlam R. Hearst spent was divided as follows: Independence League$198,870,22 Democratic State Committee . iss Traveling Expenses. Every vote Hearst him 30 cents Hughes’ ratio of R votes The does 57.000.00 500.00 got cost the 160 were at every expenses for cents ed total by him actual Hearst, in- prelimi- rende; the hy account show amount expended cluding the nary fight not Cost © he Now a Something | of Fri- i { day when it was announced that Yk Vill R. Hearst, i candidate for gover: and in with York {Spe { fal } sensation was caused here iar who was the n Independ League the the statement recent camp Secretary ald agents 3 7) the neces SAY for the nomi nation gOV r and lie on the Ind State ticket the 8ary n gotten governor pendence Such a signatures petition, of the neces voters, had be the 61 counties sworn umber of to in every one of State RUSSIA'S HUNGRY HORDE. Lie In Bed To Weaken Hunger Pangs, {By 71 8t. Petersburg, Cable) The reports from provinces be 38,355,000,000 sa to 15,069,000,000 pounds, rye pounds, which is 9.598,000,000 pounds below the average The winter grain crop, deducting the seed grain, leaves for feeding the population 318 pounds per man, much of which is exported In several of the interior provinces the peasants have taken to thelr beds, lying motionless for days at a time, in order to weaken the pangs of hunger, and mixing their <canty supply of grain with pigweed to make more fillirg for bread One of Twins Dies At 01. Amsterdam, N. Y. (Special). Jacob Steen died at the home of his granddaughter-here in his ninety-first year. He and his brother Walter, of Syracuse, who was at his bedside when he passed away, were the old- est twins in the United States. The Steens were born May 19, 1816, in jie town of Florida, a few miles from ere, Li A ob SA A Killed In A Tunnel. New York (8pecial). — Following the explosion of a blast In the Man- hattan end of the Pennsylvania Rail road's East River Tunnel, tons of sand and rock tumbled down, filling an excavation which had been hastily vacated by a gang of workmen. One man, a “heading bose,” had missed his footing, and, falling to the bot- tom of the pit, was buried In the mass. Jt was hours afterward that the body was recovered. ALCOHOL AND CONSUMPTION Dr. Crothers Declares Them To Fe Twin Sisters. New York that treatment (Special). The beneficial conten in the was di Pr. T. IM Crowthers, superintendent of Walnut Lodge Hospital, Hartford, Ct., in an address before the International Congress on Tuberculosis in this city, He declared that, on the contrary, al- cohol is really more dangerous than the disease it is given correct, Dr. Crowthers sald: “Alcohol a remedy, alcohol is of be tion tuberculosis clared to falacious by to as Or A pre- drug. All preparation taining epirits increase diminish the disease “They may cover up the bad symp toms, but they increase the and the soll for the growth consumptive germ Rock prescriptions make the more incurable “Alcohol i8 a narcotic, and rather and rye the pain, lessening the diminishes the vitality dis lism of ease Consumption and alcoho twin sisters The one followed ment of the other of the Or persons die of A large n become inebri; ubsidence the d A very so-called who have consumption of con- i : is evelop- large per nebri cured | stopped or pneumonia imbes sumptives and 4d gocia’ « d CxO kKed inmption, as moderate always mar or follows 01 drinking, is vere hemorrhages Iecoholi Ve by A parents are followed children, and have ] istics show that at leas a » descendents CON tive parents en third have of riat« fourth the he among : good for rom San ike cerita and x 1 of TO KILL KING OF ITALY. Two Suspected Italians From Tren. N. J. What the ton, Comet Discovered. Mass. , A New mbridge, {dpe al } Harvard gervatory I. H. Metealf, 3 nouncing the discos of Taunton, comet was foun aken by Mr { 6:1:45 about 2.45 photograph ts "1 Greenwich o'ele { k t i time, or The approximate position of the comet, which was moving in =a [outh westerly direction, lz given right ascension, 4 hours 4 minutes 35 seconds, declination minus 2 de- grees 15.8 minutes, , No Simplified Spelling. 3 York (Special) Simplified spelling has received another solar plexus blow at the hands of a com. mittee of the Board of Education After an investigation extending over several months the committee has recommended that the list of 300 words approved by President Roose velt shall not be adopted in the public schools To do so would be an unwarrantable proceeding on the part of tne board, it says A decis- fon in the matter will be rendered in a week AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL New Som: Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. All of the correspondence between the British Foreign Office and Am- bassador Whitelaw Reid leading up to the Newfoundland modus vivend| was made public by the State Depart. ment. Mr. Bonaparte is clearing up his work in the Navy Department, pre- paratory to becoming attorney gener. al. The President will send the nominations to the Senate Decem- ber 4. Mr. Oscar Straus sald he would give up every business connection and devote himself to his work as Secretary of the Department of Com- merce and Labor. Commodore 8am N. Kane, of New York, died on a Pullman car while homeward bound from Hot Springs, Va. The Interstate Commerce Commis. sion has declined to issue an order compelling railroads to report all cases of false billing, classification, weighing and representations of the contents of nackages. WAR ON THE OIL its Dissolution. the Trust, Charg'ng That It «d Bogus Independent Companies. —— ['nited Louis Petition filed States Circuit asking for Dissolution of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Injunction the felle Archbold othe further tion Law Injunction companies to ther Oil In Court the at St Rocke- and viola- Anti-trust against re, Rogers, rs of to the prevent Sherman IRIE fiir- aga t sul paying standard of ww Jersey prey dividends Company Injunctions indivi Aga i comp connected standard Compan further trade ment i (ey rer Criminal ey Prosecution General M i ractieal parting of the after the expecta appointment wave for ing Senate shortly conver gress he the firm his judge of the Supreme Court The question of eriminal pros tion against the officers of the Sta ard Oil Company will be taken later. But it is understood that his successor, Charles J. Bonaparte now secretary of the Navy, will be placed the burden of the decision Much of the credit of the against the Oil Trust is shared James R sioner of corporations. It was his investigations into the operations of the Standard Oil Company that form- ed the greater of the basis for the present prosecution 84¢ nes i ir suit by mart Horse Thieves In Cuba. Havanna (Special) Major Clark reports from Rancho Veloh that nine mounted men stole a number of horses and equipments near that town. They were pursued by rural guards, but were not arrested. Six of the thieves are known and charges have been preferred against then before the municipal fudge, Building Trades’ Strike. Mobile, Ala. (Special). All the hullding contractors of Mobile Mon- day declared for the open-shop basis As a result 1.500 men in the build ing trades’ refused to work, Only one firm acceeded to the demand for a closed shop. Trianed Animals Tortured. Chicago (8pecial).—At the session of the American Humane Association Mrs. Huntington Smith, of Boston. read a paper in which she declared thatsthe cruelty procticed on animals which are trained to exhibit in eir cusses and on the stage was worse than anything seen in Spanish bull fights. The convention pledged itasit to take an active part next summer in the suppression of trained anima’ exhibitions. ANNA GOULD GETS DNORCE A Complete Victory For the Counicss Castellane, Paris Cable). (By noon giding, divoree to the CO Anna and gave her who, hos to {formerls children, allowed without t Boni of nddeniy. The demand { 1 Hun { end it famous 14 court of the C ition of did AR BOON Al 3 not a8 the Iudge itis handed for Boni. Ten Millions Involved. Washington ¥ ernment filed Court asking gigantic suit brought by the State & possession of Kansas i Hume of land ad ing the Kansas and Texas Rallroal in Indian Territory, aggregatin $10,000 000 gain © line, A value FINAN AL WORLD. Philadelphia Electr clared the usual lend of 216 per Reports President ontention for semi-an from Was Roosevelt w= a tax funes., James RB. Patterson and Caine were elected Addison Harris, Jr treasurer of the Franklin Trust pany of Philadelphia. Speyer’s brokers were the ers of Rodk Island r is a leadwgg financial gower ompany, 1 buying seemed Wf the best chalycior A merger of Gre ern Pacific and are absolutely corolled by J. P. Morgan and J. J.R Hil under one name, iz the latestReossip from the West, E. B. Smith & Qo. were leading buyers of Union Padific in the Wall Street market, | American speculators continue to Buy American stocks in Lotdon, shich the English financiers just now hject to, as they do not wish to warry the stocks over there with Brite ish funds. : Standard Of] declared a quarterly lividend of $10 a share. This makes 140 for the full year, and is the same 4 last year. John 'D. Rockefelier's apposed portion ofl the dividend is $4,000,000, and fog the vear $16, (00,000, lirectors . Wo elected Yo Qin ig buy- As James Spey in that to be North which Northern, nriington,
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