TON ms BIG. BATILESHIPS| Aenea Peet Safely Rides Out Storm at Manila MUCH DAMAGE DO DONE ASHORE. The Storm Was Expected, but It Broke Suddenly, and Ships’ Cutters and Launches Had to Scurry for Bafety Inside the Breakwater—All Warships Had Steam Up. Manila (By Cable).—The Atlantic battleship fleet has safely outridden a hurricane which swept Manila Bay for 12 hours, and did much damage ashore. Typhoon signals early Sunday morning, broke over the bay unexpectedly at noon. It was im- possible to hoist the cutters and launches belonging to the fleet, be- cause of the danger of smashing them against the steel sides of the bat- tlehips, and the little craft were sent scurrying inside the breakwater into the Pasig River, where they remained all night. “The storm quickly increased In in- tensity and the torrential raing shut in the ships. At 8 o'clock Sunday night storm had reached its height, and then gradually tapered down, until at midnight it was comparatively calm, although heavy seas swung acrosg the harbor. During the storm all the battleships had steam up, ready for any emergency. Rear Ad- miral Sperry finaly ordered the flag- ship Connecticut and the Kansas, Minnesota, Vermont, Virginia and Ohio under way. They were close to the breakwater, and Admiral Sper- ry feared they might drag anchors. | The six vessels steamed down close | to Cavite, where they anchored. At times the wind blew at the rate of 100 miles an hour. All com- were displayed but the storm suddenly, and the Co ARNE 5.8 0. ORC AE NB AORN 0 00 BiG PONDER 5F “BLOWS UP | ir PEER Two Fire Fighters Hu Hurled To Death With Debris, Spencer, N. C. (Special),~~Two lives were lost and 20 or more per- sons were injured in Spencer by the explosion of a powder storage house on the yards of the Southern Railway Company and most of the buildings nearby were damaged by the shock and the fire which followed The dead are: C. H. Layton, aged 48, of Raleigh; George Gould, aged 30, of Spéncer. It is feared that other bodies are in the ruins. Fire was discovered in the stor- age room of the powder houre and The Spencer shop fire department rushed to the scene. ¢C., H. Layton and W. F. Stafford were holding the fire hose when the explosion occurred and were buried under the debris. With great difficulty their bodies were pulled out of the burning ruins after the scene was reached by fel- low workmen. The fire consumed 20 or more cars and ofber material. It is sald that a powder magazine contained a half- carload of powder, dynamite and other explosives. Every building in Spencer and for many ‘miles around was badly shaken up and damaged. Of the Southern’s buildings the blacksmith shop is the most seriously damaged. The large new machine shop, 2v0x 600 feet, was also badly demolished, all windows being torn out and a number of columns torn down. WOMEN IN FIGHT FOR A MILLION munication with shore was cut off. | It was impossible during the height | of the storm to see the warships through the haze of rain and spray. | On shore it was dangerous to go! about. Several carriages were over- turned by the wind, trees were blown | down, electric wires were prostrated and several buildings were unroofed Among the bulldings unroofed was the depot of the commissary, - Sev eral naval officers ashore on various errands were compelied to remain | ashore all night. JAPAN'S GRE AT | Ww ELCOME. Plans To Outdo Every Other Recep tion To American Fleet. Tokio (By Cable). ning to give the American batt fleet a welcome that shall eclipse! in splendor and enthusiasm any of} the receptions tendered the American vessels on thelr voyage around the world, The ‘arrival of the fleet at Manila bas given a stimulus to the] interest im their forthcoming visit] to Japan, and the preparation for the constant entertainment of American officers and men are completed, The vessels are here October 17 and will remain week. The Japan is plan- | the now | due | a Japanese authorities have tak- en delight in thinking new ways and means In extending hospitality to their guests and making their stay | here thoroughly enjoyable, and vari- | ious exceptional attentions have been planned which will ald in making the sojourn of the Americans in Japan something always to be remembered. | The entertainments and receptions will begin at Yokohama and cont inte | there for two go before the scene of hospitality i# removed to Toklo. At the special wish of the Emperor, | Admiral Sperry is to be entertained | and will reside for four days at one of the imperial palaces at the capi-| tal. The program provides for the constant entertainment of officers fand men and everything will be | free. There is to be telephonic connec- tion between the shore and the flag-! ship; all telegrams for the American officers will be delivered on board the ships; three special boat landings have been erected for the exclusive | use of the visitors; five information | bureaus will be established on shore | at Yokobama, suites of rooms have been engaged by the Japanese au- | thorities at the principal hotel in| Tokio for the -use of the visiting of- ficers, and there is to be a special | train service for both officers and | men between Yokohama and Tokio No American In uniform will have to spend his own money for a rail- road ticket, and the various trolley | companies have expressed their de-| termination to carry any of the fleet free of charge. ft up { i CAN AL WORK GOING WELL. Col. Goethals Tells President It Will Be Finished In 1014. Washington, D. C. (Special).- Col. George W. Goethals, cha! whan of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and Major W. L. Sikert, one of the | ermy engineer commissioners, arriv- ed in Washington for a thorough dis- cussion of canal matters with the authorities here. Colonel Goethals discussed the subject at some length with the Presidént, telling him that every- thing was going along nicely. that théy, had met with no unexpected obtacles, and that he still adhered to the belief that the canal would be ready for business January 1, 1915 Cigarettes In Chelsea Fire, Boston (Special). — Cigaretio smoking by ragpickers who were vio- lating the Sunday ordinance was the cause of the great Cheleea firéd, which destroyed property valued at more than $1,500,000 and resulted in the death of 18 men and women on April 12 last, Such is the report of Judge Cutler, of the Chelsea court, who held an inguiry to deter mine the cause. Israel Smarlsky, foreman in charge of the ragpickers, is held directly responsible for the " clgarette smoking. Style. New York (Special).—Another sensation was sprung Tuesday in the contest over the will of Benjamin Hart, an American millionaire, who 11, when Stew- and Shearer, attorneys for Mi- A A EA TTRITE es PETIT THOUSINS DEAD WILLINS STARE Tm ——— The Conditions in India Are Ap- palling. CITY OF HAIDARABAD DEVASTATED. Pestilence Threatens to Follow Flood ~—Subsiding Waters Leave Sea of Mud — Rellfef Expeditions Cannot Traverse Quagmire—City or 400,000 Population Wrecked. 40 } i i * Bombay (By Cable) Between two and three million people are shelterless, facing starvation and threatened with a fever pestilence as a result of the flood that has devastated the city of Haldarabad and the entire Musi River Valley. Rescuers who are now on the scene report conditions as more appalling as the waters subside. The whole val- ley Ie a sea of soft mud, from which the arms, legs and heads of thou- sands of victims are protruding. The relief expeditions are unable to traverse this quagmire for fear of being swallowed up in the soft mud. Boats cannot be propelled in the slimy streams, and it will be probab- ly two weeks before the stricken section will be sufficiently dried out to permit of a thorough search. Haldarabad, a city of 400,000, has been completely wrecked, and dozens of small towns have practically dis- appeared, The danger from fever and starva- tion is still the greatest menace. Rescuers are wearing clothing soak- ed In disinfectants to prevent con- tamination, and at times the stench is so fearful as to drive them from their work. The total casualties resulting from the disaster will undoubtedly reach 10,000 Half this number are be- lleved to have been drowned. and as many more deaths will undoubt- edly result from the terrible con- ditions now prevailing in the region. BOMETHROWER AN EXILE. De Radio, Who Tried To Kill Em- peror, Living In California, IRE CS RI ASO TA IA PR A 5 INSPECTOR KILLED BY POSTMASIER Victim Had Found ~~ Shortage Accounts. ' Washington. b. c. (Special) —F, E. McMillen, chief postoffice ingpect- or, has received a telegram announc.- ing the murder of Postoffice Inspect- or Charles Fitzgerald at Clinton, Miss., while in the discharge of his duties, Inspector Fitzgerald who was sta- tioned at Jackson, Miss, went from that place to investigate the Clinton postoffice, After checking up he found that the accounts were several hundred dollars-short. As he was going to the rallroad station to re- turn to Jackson to make his report he was met by W. 8, Sorsby, the deputy postmaster at Clinton, and the son-in-law of Mrs. Cabiness, the postmistress. Sorby drew a pistol and shot Fitzgerald, who died shortly afterward. Inspector Fitzgerald the service since 1895, garded as one of the and reliable men on had the reputation of being diplo- matic in the conduct of his duties, and never incited trouble. This is the first case of the killing of a postofice inspector while on duty. The department will take steps to bring the slayer to immediate jus- tice, and in the meantime has sent another agent to further investigate the Clinton Postoffice accounts. had been in and was re- most efficient the force. He TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. Perish In Recent Floods In India, Bombay (By Cable). Thousands of native houses have been washed away and there has been a heavy loss of life in the Hyderabad and Deccan districts as a result of the floods, which followed an unprecedented rainfall. The feet, all the bridges were carried away and the country was devastated for many miles in either Corpses are stréwn everywhere Hundreds Great San Francisco (Special) published here iz to the effect A story | that | of Hart and pro- submitted to Sur- | reply to an ap-| Franklin Bien | Kitty Hart, who to inter- i chael Hart, nephew of his will, rogate Beckett, in plication by Lawyer to Estelle had, Justice Hart on May 10, obtained from | 1 Dono- | 1583. otherwise known agellan. Hart, who first accumulated a for-| tune as a peddler of clothing In Vir ginla, after the cloge of the Civil War, which was subsequently increased by in real estate, resid- ed in Paris for 25 years prior to his deat living on a most lavish scale He left an estate valued at $1,000. 000 For years he had resided at 29 Rue de Galilee, Paris, his establish- | ment being presided over by Mme Mabrielle Juliette Antoinette de Rie, | to whom he left an annuity of $186 000 a year, his Paris house, and $25, 000 be pald her immediately af-|} ter his death To his nephew, Michael Hart lives at the New York Athletic he left $100,000 In cash and the income of his residuary estate, which is valued at several hundred thousand dollars His adopted daughter, Isabel Luec- chest Hart Guillemin. who is the wife of Jean Gui'lemin, a prominent mem- | ber of the French diplomatic corps, | | was cut off without anything gellan, as Count} a’ i to 1: who Club, | alleging that it was due influence on the part of Mme. de Ble and others and Mrs living in this city, uhdey name of Mrs. Elizabeth Wrigh nr procured by un- also | Denies She Wrote Letters, Clinton, Ill. (Special) been written by Mabel Snell Me- Namara, of Kansas City, niece of the late Col. Thomas Snell, a millionaire of Clinton, and which were a feature is emphatically denied in an answer filed in the Dewitt County Court by the niece. The answer lg made to a recently filed by the contesting to have deeds of land Dowie Was A Millionaire. Chicago (Special). receiver for the estate of John Alex ander Dowie, founder of ious community of Zion City, sliowing the assets of the estate to Against eured claims of $326.327 cured claims, including { sth In dispute, of $4.9 :7 and a number 03,726 Wright's Time Extended. Washington, D. C. (Special). —8ecn- retary Wright has approved the rec- ommendation of the acting chief sig- nal officer of the army that Orville Wright's big aeroplane to the Government be extended to June 28, 1000. This was done In order to allow Wright ample time to recover from the in- Juries he received in the accident to his aeroplane at Fort Myer, Va. An Old Mason Dead. Bellingham, Wash. (Special), Possibly the oldest member of any secret order in the United States died at Lynden ie was the Rev. Alexander le Claire, 96 years of age. who Led heen for 75 vears # member of the Masonic fratornity. For 40 years he was a frontier preacher, leaving the Catholic Ciaureh at the age of 21 to join the Meth- odists. He was born in Canada of Seoteh and French parentage and learned the cobbler trade. At the pga of 70 he gave up tha miniatry Conte Camillo De Rudlo, the Italian exile who threw one of t bombs | that shattered the carriage of Em Napoleon Ill and Em- killing ten persons | 1 € press Eugenie, the night of January 14, 1858, is! living quietly in Los Angeles with bis English wife, who alded him to | with him ever since. De Rudio says tne idea back of the plot to kill the French Emperor was a hope that an uprising Iz France would be followed by one in Italy, In which the monarchy would pe overthrown. De Rudio, in his sory, connecis Francisco Crispi with the plot, declaring that he saw him in conference with Orsinl a few mo- ments before the bombs were thrown ed His Life. Saxony Mags. (Special) body of Frederick C intendent of the Baxonville Wool Mill, for whom several hundreqg have been hunting since his disappearance, was found in Lymans Brook, at East Sudbury There was nothing about the body indicate foul play, and some of friends believe that the wealthy | into the walter to depression from £11 ie, The Dawson, su- en fo his end the mental SCHOOL FOR wiv ES LATEST. | Chicago ( Nubwouien win Teach The Means To Domestic «felicity, A school undertaking o Chicago (Special).- for is the latest At a meeting held at the Union representatives of a lube met to found an institute of domestic science ultimately, it is planned, will General Federation of with the Courses will be given in maki | clothes, i mies and general hovaskeeping. FINANCIA', Niplssing’s quarterly dividend of | per cent. has just been declared. One of the things that is hurting American Smelting is the fact that a oo treating their own ores, | year ig expected to reach $17.000,- i 000, in the past year Goldfield Florence have paid div. dends of $315,000. ers, that $30,000,000 of bonds will be issued this year. Reading's September anthracite tonnage .g expected to exceed 1,000, 000 tons. “There will be littie if any im- provement prior to election in the steel trade,” says the “Iron Trade Review,” Net earnings of Utah Copper in August approximated $240,000, George A. Hubn has returned from a quick trip to Paris. He says the foreigner Is anxious to buy good American securities, Gold in small amounts continues to flow from this country to Canada, where it Is needed for erop-moving purpones, Magineery who bave recently ex- amined the Nevada Consolidated say that the company has ore blocked ont sufficient to ke2p the big rede tion works busy for twenty-five years. : : and scores of bodies have been found in the branches of trees, where they the swollen waters hospital at Hyderabad undermined by the waters and the wreckage was in the IS WORSE THAN LEPROSY. fering From Rare Discase. Mo of » S. 8 {8pecial) Louis, 34 Skin hope “Pem phigus follaceun™ is the name given It resembles leprosy the skin crumb! and wastes away In Zigni's allment iit completely disappears, giving the body the appearance of being severe Ivy burned Often the entire skin disappears before death comes, giv ing the victim terribl pain Zignl the Zoran in No known to science, years old, Is a and Cancer Hospital patient In leprosy os the . 140 PERSONS PERISH. Ferryboat. Smyrna (By Cabl A Turkish steamship ran down the steam ferry boat Stambul outside harbor One hundred and forty persons drowned el the Eight-Hour Law Unconstitutional. Madison, Wis. (Special) The Bu- the Wisconsin eight-hour rail road | law which was enacted | the legislature. | al telegraphers’ at the 1907 gession of The law is declared on the theory that it is with provisions of the federal Con- Auto Crash Kills Girl, Louisville, Ky (Special). ~-Miss family, was almost Robert Payne, a young so man, . other persons were bruised, when an inent killed; at Be —— ————— Robbers Escape On Handear. Ladysmith, Wis. (Special). The State Bank was robbed of about | $3.000 by cracksmen who escaped Citizens turned out to ascertain the cause of the explo- | sions and were met with a volley of { bullets from the robbers. Night Of- ficer Gordon was shot In the arm. Three Mocks Burned In Vermont. West Fairlee, Vt. (Special). The town was The loss, estimated at $25,000, includes taree business blocks, the Eagle Hotel, two livery stables, two dwellings ang a dozen smaller buildings. Skull Fractured By Fall. York, Pa. (Special). —8amuel Dil- ler, the 16-year-old son of Joseph Diller, was thrown from a horsé and sustained, a fracture of the skull The Dillers live on a farm near Burn’s meeting house. The boy is gtill unconscious. Crushed By An Auto, Holland, Mich. (8pecial). While on an automobile trip from Grand Rapida to Holland, Dick Brink, of Grand Rapids, a prominent merchant. was sccidentally killed, While drive ing down a hill pear Vriesland the steering-gear broke and the auto mobile turned bottom side up in a ditch. Mr. Brink was almost in- gtantly killed. The other membors | of the pariy-~Mra. Brinks, Mr. and Mra. Bush and Mrs. Ten Brock, all of Grand Bapide-—escaped with slight injuries. i | | | LOCKED ABOK ~~. GAR -BY HAZERS Student Bound and Gagged and Wiss- ing Four Four Days. SUFFERING MAY CAUSE HIS. DEATH. Story That Youne Sen of Kentucky State University Placed Captive in Freight Car and Sealed the Door— Youth Dissppeared Monday and the Box Car Cannot Be Traced. Lexington, Ky. (8pecial).—A story i8 In circulation here which causes anxieay as to the fate of W, E. Smith, the Kentucky State Uni versity student, disappeared Tuesday night. currently re ported that a throws him in the students at to his father, who, other persons, that he overheard sey eral of the students say that in the course of a hazing experience which Smith was subjected the night of his disappearance the gang students who had him in hand took bim across the lots which between the university the Queen and Crescent Rallroad Yards, and, breaking open the doo: of a box car, had placed their cap tive, bound and gagged, inside car, and, sealing the door, had the helpless victim to his fate If the story is true, {t may who is whose relations university in turn, it boy close the to left it be as mischief by the in it, they undoubtedly believing that the car would be entered nex day by some of the railroad people while it stood in the yards, or ai some adjacent station, and that Smith would be released unharmed. These expectations were, however, not realized. The car which con- tained the boy bas been taken io some distant point or left abandoned on a siding Efforts trace the proved fruitiess have been of io unable tr the story the tlie res. { The police statement was made to them by father of the original Informant, olutely refuse to give the name the person who told as almost worth if the them the) he the students al learned of his les, they state the would not be conclu- as he does not know the names the students he rheard That of his are fully aware of his fate and are ising every effort to stop investiga tion received further confirmati today. when Ernest Smith, a soph mi at iversity, and who had roomed with his missing brother ived the following communicat a sealed envelope in his mail You had better stop this investi- gation {Bigned) Ernest Eu his search the iife of the to be and, boy guilty name, besid Ove some fellow-students ire the un re ion Ce in BLACK HAND has been for his brother announcement for any ormatio He ved sith and of a n much threat. and at in authorized reward of $50 his whereabouts alarmed when he rece! ening communication once reported the matter to the de tectives, who will take whatever steps are necessary fo insure his per- sonal safety The faculty Kentucky State University and officials of Lexington have been puzzled for over a week over the disappearance of young Smith A commitiee appoint- i by the faculty has made an in- and they ridicule the Smith was thrown into a his fellow-students They however, have failed in discovering the whereabouts of Smith, and say they are at a loss to know of inf was the of today of the the police 3 ry t i The quantities of articles imported for manuiacturing 1908, Year, were in August, than in the same month last ing concerns making their President Roosevelt has made pub- lie a letlter written by Lith 10 Luvs ernor Haskell, of Oklahoma, relative | to, the shipment of whisky into pro- Five diamond rings, five set with and other articles of jewelry recovered from the well-hole of the sewer at Thirteenth and G Streets, Washington. Capt. Ten Eycke DeW. Veeder, commander of the battleship Alaba ma, at Gibraltar, has reported to the Navy Department the death at sea on September 27 of Eugene W. Cooper. Surgeon General Rixey has completed | his organization of a corps of nurses | for the Navy and the appointments have been announced Director of the Mint Leach an- nounced that he would resume the purchase of fine silver for subsidiary coinage. The case of a colored soldier dls. charged for his part in the Browns- ville affair was carried to the Su- preme Court. The Forty-fourth and Forty-third Companies, Coast Artillery Corps, from Port Washington, Md.. at the fire command practice at Fort Mon- roe, Virginia, on September 10, 1908, made seven hits out of eight shots fired at two targets An aggregate loss of $1,000,000 a day during the months when forest fires have been prevailing in various parts of the United Biates is esti- mated by W. J. Magee, the erosion expert of the Department of Agri culture, Secretary Wright will atiend the dinner at Boston to be giveh Ly the merchants’ association of that city to W. Cameron Forbes, the vice governor of the Philinpines The Eastern Public Education As soclations continued the reading of papers on pertinent topies, Sing PR A. GANG OF OUTLAWS TERRORIZES THE TOWN Arvonia, Near Richmond, Has a Reigp of Terror. Richmond, Va. (Specia}).~Com- monweaith’'s Attorney Edmund W, Hubbard and Sheriff L. WW: Williams left Arvonia for the purpose of track- ing down the Thomas-Zimmerman force of outlaws, who are terrorizing the countryside, and who are beliey- ed to be guilty of the shooting of N. W. Gregory, on Baturday night. The outlaws are in hiding in their stronghold between the Slate and James Rivers Their spics re- poried traversing every section of the country, ready to warn the des attempt on the citizens to hunt them down. Warrants have been figsued for Mrs. Arthur Zimmerman, wife of the leader of outlaws, and her sister, an alleged accomplices with whi Ar. Zimmerman and and Charles Thomas are al- The women have PR are the part of the many eh William leged to be guilty disappeared an dare believed to have joined the outlaws in the fastness- on, With the ing of the county the citizens of Arvonia without protec ion They authorized, however, to shoot to kill if the town is attacked and armed little hamiet Caw are left of determined guardin the ue are tonight Outlaws Are Associated with the Zimmerman and Sweten families, numbering in all probably a hundred wen Ali of them are desperate characters and will fight if the posse of citizens comes upon them The three fam- ilies have intermarried throughout the countryside until almost all the country population is in league with them There are also several fam. iiles negroes implicated wi gang, notably those William irown and George Martin, The gang | remains in hiding during the day, sal- iving forth the night time to seek food for themselves and thelr wives Robberies are of almost nightly ox Desperate, the outiaws are Thomas and of th the of in Hot Na nce ks, ating woulda ling place the » negro sates that ce against des; erations should eris Ban 8! hie a negro that tizen despera should EAaLg CETAD of vider ‘4 Gel ne a from iarie Vayne sufll a siege AWE ouliaws wooded $s 2% ail Alt oon 10 on IVIEIO at pre were wt ient ico ns shipped the are it |} ndreds C formi deg man and Years ago whisky of of added been {ake 5 in their The 11 OILas 3 They are firebugs, ti ditillers, and Gregors wh e cl iifci: shooting Arges In 1 vis i and haysis The Rs vely engags the despaired th would farms have plants torn upd yurned he barns y Jones work gether kiil of con act Wrisnelne f bring His statement is of them withot BODY one science Appeals For Aid. e following communication from was addressed to Governor Conditio here imtoler ng of assassins strongly in- three miles away One others threaten. Appear power- and blood . 1] : Th Ary Sw ans: jie nia ns a ‘renched citizen shot ad; county less We sounds in back; authorities nead detective Can you come u 8 DEAD IN NEW YORK FIRE. Children Hurled From Windows By Tenement-House Inmates. York At leas: persons were to daath { i New { Special) {eight burned and many were injured, one fatally, {in a fire in a crowded tenement house on Mulberry Street early Sundaj morning At 2.15 o'clock four bodies had been recovered from the building | those of two men, one woman and {a littie girl. Four other bodies were in the upper part of the building. ! The fire started on the first floor, | in a dry poods store, and spread | rapidly. There was a fire-oscape on | the front of the building, but it was {of little use, as the 50 persons in {the building, believing themselves | wrapped by the fire, completely lost | their ‘heads, and children were 3 i i thrown from the windows to the gireels, Nearly caught by Orders 50 Wright Airships. le Mans (By Cable).—~Lazare Weliler, the French aeroplane pro- | moter, announced that he had given {an order to Wilbur Wright for the construction of 50 Wright aero- planes. he amount of this contract is $100,000, and M. Welller is con- vinced that Mr. Wright can carry it out all the children were persons on the sidewalk. | | Town Wiped Out By Fire. Winnipeg, Manitoba (Special)... A dispatch fromt Fernie received here says that the new town of Michael was wiped out by fire. The town was partially detroyed during the big fire on July 31. R500,000 Lost By Fire, Pittsburg (Special). — An explo- gion of gas at the plant of the Pitts burg Plate-Glass Company's works. No. 2, at Tarentum, a suburb, re- sulted in a logs by fire of £500,000 and threw 800 men out of employ. ment, W. A Long a watchman, was Ynocked down by te exningion, bruised about the body and inter nally injured Half oi the plant is in rains and the flames were only checked by a large steel building, recently erected by the company.
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