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H Three Cents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Price, $1.00 Per Year in Advance. VOL XII. COLUMBUS, N. C., THURSDAY, OCOTBER 25, 1906. NO. 26. fiTf in 7(ii :C5 REDS ENGULFED nv Din Tinm u U UiU UUHL mi ftlflV JIAVOC IX AIA'ADOR. Many Sunk )e Population of Elliott's Key Swept to Instant Death. DESTRUCTIVE' TORNADO IN CUBA ... - , .' t torm Kills Many on Vessels Off Flor ida Great Havoc in Havana Salvador is Deyastated-i-Damage Incalculable Loss of Life Greafi Miami, Fla. Three terrible disas- PI'S UL' A btlV U & A 4V"JXrf . VAMV or more than two days ragged along j,e Florida coast The steamer St. v-tive lives, fifty passengers haye eea lost from a barge, and it is re nted by Captain Bravo, of the St. ucie, that he saw.a tidal wave sweep biles long and about one mile wide, itb the almost certain aeatn ot tne SO inhabitants.' Besides this list' it feared part of the fleet of the Flor ida Fish and Produce Company has cen lost. , ' - Captain Bravo said that his ship swept over Elliott s Key. He an- hored on the lee slue oi the island, which runs north' and south along bt? coast, and about an hour later the v.ave almost swamped tne snip. Twenty-five of the 100 persons on toard were killed by being borne against the deck and fittings, while ixty seriously injured were brought here on. an extension steamer. The entire crew and all the pas- singers were on aecK watcning tne storm when suddenly the wave rolled jp and broke in hundreds of tons on he ship. The St. Lucie was crushed by the force of the blow and left a total wreck. The captain, says that all lives must have perished were it not that the wave carried the ship so far shoreward that when the waters receded the vessel was only in one foot, of water. Bravo said that he saw the wave - 1 XI 1 -1 carry away nouses on me isiauu, auu he asserts that there is hardly a- sign, of v-jsretation remaining. Relief tugs have been despatched to Elliott's Key. . .." The barge from which fifty are said '"to have been lost was moored Elliott's Key. There were 100 on board, almost all being engaged in the fishing business in these wat ers. The barge was almost swamped. It is said the waves covered the craft completely, but her buoyancy was so ?reat she continued , to float. The barge drifted toward the Bahama Isl ands, and the fifty survivors were taken off by a steamer. . - .?". The stsamer St. Lucie belonged to the fleet of the Florida .East Coast Railway, and was Employed-ins carry iag workmen t6 and from the exten sion work ou the keys. . Despite the storm warning Captain, Bravo sailed for Key Sargo- with -a- large number of workmen. ' . - The St. Lucie's home port was Tampa. She was built in Wilming ton, Del., in 1S8S, was of 10 5 net tonnage and 122 feet long. She was usually manned by -a crew of thirr teen. The St. Lucie had formerly been in service at. New Haven. De tails were lacking. . In Havana about fifty houses were irjured, but, owing to the massive construction of roofs and walls, the damages are serious only in a few stances. The buildings of the Uni versity of Havana ustained injuries atnoun.-lnt' to many thousands or dol lars. A partition wall in the Ameri- ?n legation was blown down, x ne office furniture was ruined and the books and records ' of the legation vera wet . .rough. -; - TWENTY" DEAD IX HAVANA. Perish Man-of -War -N . ; Crops Swept Away. San Salvador.- A "tempest raged incessantly for ten days throughout the republic, flooding the rich valleys; principally that of Majada, and re sulting in great loss' of life and de struction of crops. ; The Salvadorean man-of-war Izalco was lost at Acajutla. x The, topography of various depart ments has been changed; buildings have fallen, burying their tenants in the ruins, and the iron bridges, over the principal rivers have been carried away. . t ... .' , It was 'estimated -that 15,000,000 tons of s; water fell. v. The- aqueducts auu ciciiiu iigut, yiauia di ouusuuaic and Salvador have suffered heavy losses. v ' . ;:.::' The railroads, telegraphs and com merce are paralyzed, but traffic is be ing restored in some towns of the republic. i The water mains at some places have disappeared. The rivers are bringing dotfn the. bodies of persons drowned in the storm and the carcasses of cattle, and. the sight of these tends to in crease the terror of the people. The government has issued orders that assistance be given to victims of the istorm. : Guatemala and Honduras also nave suffered severely. , It is said the losses there will amount to many millions of dollars. . , JURY ACQUITS BROUWERv'lCIUILTY OF SUGAR REBATING AND SPECTATORS CHEER Demonstrations of Joy in Courts One Girl Kisses Him. HOME AGAIN VITH HIS BOYS Hew .York Central and Manager May Be Fined $240,000. Counsel For Defendants Ascribes Verdict to Public Hostility to Corporations. . ' - STANDARD OIL GOfilPAUY . 1 FOUND GUILTY Convicted of Conspiracy in Re straint of Trade. STOPS FIGHT f OR MILLIONS Mrs. Wister Quails Before Bit of Paper Weightman Left : ; JURY SANG. RELIGIOUS SONGS Sheet, on Which Wealthy. Che AVrotc Opinion of Daughtcr-in-Law Drought From Hiding. They Thought He Had Been Away on ; a Trii The Jury Out an Hour anil n Quarter Two - Jurors ; Wept HistyC. , New York City. The New ork Central JRailroad Company and 'its general traffic manager, Frederick L. Pomeroy, were each found guilty on Bix counts of giving unlawful rebates fin 1904 to the American Sugar Re- Toms River, N. J, The .trial of fining- company, by a jury in the NEW YORK CENTRAL FINED. Judges Holt Administers- Rebuke. With a Penalty of $108,000. New York City. Judge Holt in the United States Circuit Court fined the New York Central Railroad, the sum of $108,000 $18,000 on each of six counts ron the charge of granting rebates to the sugar trust. Frederick L. Pomeroy. assistant traffic manager, of the railroad, a co-: defendant, was fined $1000 on each count, a total of $6000. Judge . Holt delivered a scathing indictment of the practices of the railroad in sentencing. "Such a violation of law," said Judge Holt in passing sentence, "is much more heinous than the ordinary common, " vulgar crimes usually brought before the criminal courts. Those are crimes of sudden passion and temptation. These crimes we are dealing with were committed by men of education, business exper ience, and standing in the commu nity, and as . such they should be ex pected to" set an example of obedience to the law, on the. maintenance ot which the security of their property depends.. "This corporation Jbefceived large and valuable public' privileges. It was under the highest obligations to treat all citizens alike," and not to grant any unjust discriminations. This was a secret crime, the proof of which was difficult to obtain. The law was originally passed twenty years ' ago. The complaints of the granting of rebates by railways wer frequent and insistent. 7 "It is riot too much to say," con-, tinued Judge Holt, "that if the busi-, hess had been carried, on upon this basis and the discrimination contin ued in favor of one shipper it might' have been that competitors would have been driven out of business." Dr. Frank L. Brouwer on the charge of murdering his wife, Carrie Brou wer, ended with his acquittal. When the foreman, of the jury an nounced the verdict the crowd of peo ple which packed the court room broke into a wild demonstration of delight The jury had sbeen out an hour and a quarter, just long enough L to sharpen the anxiety of prisoner, counsel on both sides and the village folk who had been following the case with keenest interest from the start ot the trial, nearly two weeks ago. Judge Hendrickson's charge to the jury lasted an hour. It was consid- ered fair and strictly impartial by the defense. He sent the jury to its rooms to deliberate on a verdict and held court in session, awaiting a word from its foreman." After a short recess the court con vened and announced, the verdict. The court was in an uproar as Judge Hendrickson declared the prisoner discharged. The men cheered and the women applauded. Dr. Brouwer was so overcome that he seemed to have difliculty in speaking as he turned to theV court. When order was restored the discharged man asked the court's permission to ad dress the jury. He first thanked "the Judge for the Impartiality he 'had shown, and then, turning to the jury, he said: -..s. - "I am thankful, very tnankful for the way you have treated me, and I hope that none of you will ever be placed in a position such as I have been in." He then shook hands with each juror, and started to leave, the court room. The crowd was so anxious to congratulate him on his acquittal, however, that; he was compelled to stand and shake hands with the men and women as they filed by. A fourteen-year-old girl wanted to kiss him, and he leaned over and received the kiss.' The last day of Dr. Brouwer's trial consisted entirely of argument. Frank McDermott, for the State, re viewed the evidence presented by the prosecution, and declared that it es tablished a circumstantial case which United States Circuit Court, Criminal Branch. " ' . The conviction makes each of the defendants liable to a fine of $20,000 for each separate offense, or a fine of, $120,000 for the railroad and the same amount for its employe, or a total of $240,000. The indictment, while, indicating that about $26,000 was secured by the Sugar ,Trust in unlawful drawbacks on the transac tions set up, specifically alleges the payment of not more than $10,000 in the offenses for which the fines can be itnposed. - , ""Judge Holt did not fix the penalty at once. Immediately after the jury brought in its verdict 'Austen G. Fox on behalf of the defendants asked the Court to fix a date on which he ould hear argument on a motion for arrest of judgment. After it is disposed of Judge Holt will fix the penalties, which, it is expected by United States District Attorney Henry L. Stimson and his assistants, will be near the maximum. These operate only as civil judgments, and the defendants if they refuse. to pay them cannot be Imprisoned for their action. The conviction, which came after a trUl lasting only threa days, but two of ! which were consumed In putting the; evidence before the jury, marks the successful completion of the first prosecution of either a corporation 'or an individual for infraction of the -Elkins law ver Initiated in the Fed eral courts of this district. The indictments on which the rail road company and its servant were convicted charged the giving of re bates to the wholesale sugar jobbing firm of Edgar & Earle, of Detroit, on debaand of the Sugar Trust. The re sales were five cents off the tariff rate, ot twenty-three cents a hundred "po&ds"paid by f he railroad company by voucher. . United States District Attorney Stiicson summed up for the Govern ment. No member of the jury could fp.il to see, he said, that the system of giving the rebates must have been known to the president of the road, and the Elkins law plainly made the illegal act of an agent of the corpora tion the act of the corporation itself. Vlt is no excuse at all for the rail proved the prisoner guilty of poison- road to say that it had to give secret BISHOP'S DAUGHTER. A SUICIDE. Eluding Nurse, Mrs. Cowdin End "Life in Connecticut Sanitarium. New Haven. Conn. . Discouraged by a long illness and suffering from nervousness, Mrs. Laura Potter Caw- din, daughter of Bishop iienry v,. Potter, of New York City, committed suicide in a private sanitarium at Cromwell, Coni. The body was shipped for interment to Mount Kis co, N. Y. The body of Mrs. Cowdin was fmind bv sanitarium attendants hanging from a beam in a remote cor ner of the cellar. Mrs. Cowdin was the second of Bishop Potter's children by his first wife and was forty-lour years oiu. Her husband, -Winthrop Cowdin.. sur vives her. Their New York home was at Eleventh street and Fifth ave-. nue. Bishop Potter attended the funeral services. ' - Many Tci-sons Injured Damage Placed at $2,000,000. Havana, Cuba. A. cyplone of un precedented severity, accompanied by torrents of rain, swept over the prov inces of Havana andPinardel Rio and resulted in twenty deaths in this city WILLIAM SCULLY, EX-LORD DEAD "u tue serious injury vn a uwu more persons. The' damage is esti mated at fully $2,000,000. The dead are all Cubans of the poorer class. - The United States cruiser Brook lyn dragged her anchor until her Ktern grounded in the mud oft La Former English Peer Leaves Estate Valued at $50,000,000. Lincoln, III. William Scully, well known as "Lord Scully," died in Lon TTinfrinnrt He was eighty-five Jgla. She got off in the morning v s old and possessed an estate val irlaout iniurv. ' at sn. 000.000. including about The storm caused wrecks and con- J 200,000 acres of land in Illinois, Mis fr'sion amons the shinning in the har- e ' K-nnsas and Nebraska. He. lKr. Many buildings were badly dam- owned 46,000 acres in Illinois, 60,000 ciuu neai ly an me uwa m-i,uo acrgs m iNeDrasKa, uu,uu Kansas and about 4 0,00 u acres iu Missouri. v "Lord Scully" was a peer until ionn when he renounced his alle- arlv ail of the 400 tents in camp o.ianf.'e to Great Britain and became a were blown down, but the damage Citizen of this country, taking resi ts small. Harry osdick, an army dence in Washington, D. C. He went 'iraster, with the Twenty-eighth. In- to England a year later. He leaves a antry, from Sioux City, Iowa, was widow, who was. his second wife, two jobably fatally hurt. He was crushed daughters and one son. 'y a tree, which fell through the bar- ? 'neks where he was sleeping. Fred : YALE RAISES SALARIES. :5,Jtcliffe, of Fort Snelling, was ser- - , . l0,isly injured in the head. Thosaas' rrK.v.firn Professors Arc to Get r-ixii, oi ueaaing, ra.., was nun. 1:r the back. . . ' "arns in the &im,i7-r nktrict ha vo vnio full nrofessors have been raisea 1 l . . v , xrT f 'O ing his wife Mr. Wilson, for the defense, point ed out that had Dr. Brouwer intended to divorce his wife he would not have transferred property to her or made out insurance for her. In reply to the charge that the accused man loved another woman Mr. Wilson asked why this woman had not been produced. During the plea for acquittal two of the jurors were so affected . that they had to wipe the tears from their eyes. Dr. Brouwer, at the. mention of his dead wife and of his mother and children, also wept. Dr. and Mrs. Brouwer had been married nine years when Mrs. Brou wer died. Before her marriage she was a school teacher. Before going to Toms River they lived at Lake hurst. The doctor established a good practice and became one of the best known physicians in Ocean County. When Mrs. Brouwer was taken ill her husband employed two nurses, both of whom appeared as witnesses against him in the trial., They left the Brouwer house, as they declared, because "they became suspicious of the treatment the patient was receiv ing from her husband. Another nurse was engaged. After seven days of illness. Mrs. Brouwer died, and ru mors were started that there was something mysterious in her death. Trevonia Hyer, brother of the dead woman, began - an investigation, as did the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which had issued a $1000 policy on her life. The body was ex humed and an autopsy was held. An unweighable quantity of arsenic was found in the organs of the body, and a very small quantity of glass. rebates to the American Sugar Refin ing Company, although not to Ar buckle Bros., on the plea that other wise the freight would go by water," said Mr. Stimson. "The real reason why the railroad has not put in a de fense is that it has none. - Its clerk who paid the rebates did not send them in the "form of checks, but bought drafts. When the railroad's audit accounts were destroyed every three months no trace of the transac tions was left. They forgot, however, that we could subpoena the banks to produce the telltale drafts." The jury was out about three-quarters of an hour, coming back once for supplementary instructions taken from a list handed up by Mr. Fox, and a copy of the Elkins law. Penalty For Violation of Anti-Trust Law a Fine of From $50 to $5000, or Imprisonment of From Six to Twelve Months. Findlay, Ohio. After .singing re ligious songs for a period of two hours in the Court; House here, the jury in the case of the State of Ohio against the Standard Oil Company returned . a verdict of guilty on the charge of conspiracy to restrain trade in violation of the Anti-Trust laws of the State. The trial of John D. Rockefeller on the same charge follows, probably after; appeals in the present case are taken." The jury was out thirty-two hours and returned the verdict of guilty at 4.30 o'clock a. m. Attaches of the' Court House had given up all ; hope of an agreement ( after the jurymen reported to Judge Banker that they could not agree on a verdict. The judge sent them back and told them to try again. ', " Nothing was heard from the jury room until supper time, when supper was served to them. They ftnmedi ately started arguing the case after eating their supper, and the argu ment was kept up most of the night. I , Suddenly, when all was still about the Court House, a song broke the stillness and the startled attaches heard the words of the hymn, "Near er, My God, to Thee." The song was followed by many Gther good old Methodist hymns, sung with the fervor of revival times. This was kept up from about ;2..to A o'clock a. m. Then one of tne jury men got on his feet and made an ear nest speech to his fellows. , Hand clapping and other demonstrations of approval were heard from the jury room. ' Then came a knock at the door and the jury announced that they were ready to give their verdict. The bai liff summoned Judge' Banker, County Prpsecutor David and Attorney Troup, for the defense.'" ."" "' T Judge Banker, when he arrived, said: "Gentlemen, have ,you agreed upon a verdict?" "Your Honor, we have," respond ed Foreman Bailes. "What is the verdict?" The foreman sent the Court a type written form which had been filled out, and the Court read it, as follows: "We, the jury in this case, find the defendant guilty in the manner and form as the defendant stands charged on the information. . "A. L. BAILES, Foreman." , 5 Judge Banker addressed the jury: "Please accept my gratitude ana thanks, which are due you for your; patience and close attention to this case," he said, "and I want to thank you, and in that word I express all there ia. in it and all I can express You may new be discharged and go to your homes." f . Attorney Troup for the Standard Oil Company made a motion for a new trial. . The penalty , for violation of the Valentine law is fine of not less than $50 and not more than $5000,. or im prisonment for from six months to one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Further, any person At the conclusion of the trial Aus- injured by violation of the Valentine ten G. Fox, who appeared on behalf of the railroad, made the following remark: '"It is impossible to successfully de fend rebate cases in the present state of public opinion." NO HOPE FOR THE IAJTIN. BOYS SAVE FAST TRAIN. ty and suburbs were uprooted. The 2000 American soldiers and murines at Camp Columbia were put Sreat inconvenience by the storm. $1000 a Year. : N?nr TTnven. Conn. toaianeb ot Find Broken Rail and Flag Engineer With a Necktie. v v Franklin, Pa. Edward Thompson and Clinton Coefield, two fourteen-year-old boys, discovered a broken rail on the Franklin branch of the Erie road near here. As the passen ger train from Oil City, which con nects with the New York and Chicago trains at- Meadville, approached, Thompson threw off his red necktie and Waved it frantically. The engi neer saw the signal and stopped his train. He said his train would doubt less have been wrecked had it struck the curve at full speed. ' Efforts to Rescue .Men in Sunken . . : .. Submarine Fruitless. Biserta, Tunis The French sub marine Lutin still lies at the bottom of the sea three miles from this port, and the officers engaged in the sal vage work express the certainty that all the fourteen members of the crew have perished. Men on board the tug Ishkul, which convoyed the Lutin on her last voyage, say that the su-b- marihe plunged twice successfully, law may recover damages double the amount of such Injury. Seven farmers and five business men made up the jury which thus de liberated for thirty-two hours before finding the Standard Oil guilty of conspiracy in restraint of trade. The scenes accompanying the return of the verdict, which the attorneys for the prosecution predicted would sound the death knell for the Stand ard Oil Company, were sufficiently dramatic. The hymn singing ' was startling in Itself. The echoes of the speech made in the closed room, and the applause of the jurymen them selves as they reached the verdict, were plainly heard by the few per sons remaining outside. , ( Philadelphia! Confronted A with -a ' scrap of yellow paper, upon .which her father-in-law, the late William Weightmarij' had written his "; last ' Wishes 'and thoughts concerning . "her. Mrs.- Jones Wister ' abandoned ker . i . . i -...I--.- . ....... suit against , Mrs.x Anne M. Weight- man 1 Walker, her-. sister-in-laWi to -' whom Weightman left all of his $S0,- 000,000. , "". ' " ' : Rather than have the contents, of the memoradum . read in court Mrs. Wister acknowledged defeat and gave up. her fight, permitting her at torneys to beg Mrs. Walker to make no opposition to an indefinite con- tinuance of the case, so that the best ' possible face would be put upon Mrs. s Wister's backdown. . The admission of defeat came at a" moment when interest in - the testi-. mony was at its height arid when it ! seemed that Mrs. Wister's remark- .. able charges about the conduct and intellectual , capacity of .the aged; chemist' were about to be substan-' tiated. ;?". :. ,; - -. - : . , . j i .:;i In holding back until the very last , moment the weapon in her posses sion,, and choosing the most, potent. . time and place, Mrs. 'N Walker takes v' full revenge for the social slights put upon her by Mrs. Wister when the richest woman in America was,tryihg'., to enter the exclusive circle of Phila delphia society, in which Mrs. "Wister; has been a power. ... . ' Upon the paper there appeared, ac cording ta the 1 belief of Mrs. Wister's attorneys, the: codicil in which Weightman might have made provis-? 1 ion for his granddaughters (Mrs. . Wister's children ) , ' on behalf ' ' of . ' whom Mrs. Wister contested the will.. Neither codicil nor will ! did '"- th -paper prove to be. With the keen ness of a man who has made his $50,-' ' ' 000,000 and is determined to protect what he had garnered and devise it as he saw fit. Weightman had care- ' fully transcribed upon this bit of , paper what purported to be his pre-' ;" cise relations with Mrs. Wister, with whom he Is said to have been in love.' -- Moreover r-"tfe "had declared conelu sively in that document that he had no intention of having Mrs. Wister -K Or ,his grandchildren share his wealth. He completely washed his -! ': hands of the Jones Wisters and. jotted down some statement concern- ' ing which Richard .Waln.Melrs, a, son- . in-law "of Mrs. Wister and nephew of Mrs. Walker, made this statement: ' . ; "For the sake of Mrs. Wister, I . would' rather cut out my'tongue than i' t divulge the contents of Until the . paper was produced at to-day's hear- ing only four persons in. the, world had seen it. I hope with' all the ear- ' nestness of which l'am. capable,' that, ,f no one else will ever see It. ... ..'-. . ( . ; 'Unless 5 the ottier side should er- ' mit it to escape them,. I feel sure that -, the scrap of paper which turned the current ,ol to-day's events will never, be made public. It is Juried deeper than the foundations - of -my office . building. It, ia neithey a will nor a codicil, but' what it contains': caused . the abrupt ending of the case." Mrs. Wister said het father-iri-law wished her so well that wh"en her first'--husband, his son. died he. tvas eager to marry her.f Weightman's mental y state was questioned by medical men who were friends of ithe contestant. Among the peculiarities for which he was;: known -? were Refusals ever : to give a cent in charity and hatred of . music and children. 'i ?-'ll 'S ' MANY KILLED IN MINE. OOnGRANTS FOR THE SOUTH. and thatafter she had gone down for 258 Flemish Weavers and Their Fam- the third time her bow showed twice above the surface of the water before she finally disappeared. This leads to the belief that the catastrophe re sulted from a sudden leak at the stern. The water probably rushed in and overturned the accumulators. This would have caused deadly fumes ffom the acids. . 5 V Admiral Bellue is uncertain wheth er the salvagers have really located the Lutin or not. Divers have reathed the bottom, but owing to the rough ness of the sea they were unable to remain below long enough to make a thorough investigation. Fourteen salvage vessels now torm a cordon around the spot where the Lutin went down. The divers descend in relays, and are displaying untiring energy. AH their endeavors, however, to. lo - cate the Lutin, so-as to permit the use of the powerful lifting apparatus, Terrible Result of Firedamp Explo"- ' "sion in English Colliery - ; Durham, England. As a result of an expl6sion;in the Wingate colliery, near? here, ; thirty-five, miners have been killed and 200 were temporarily : entombed. It. was fortunate that few . of the 1000 men employed were In the mine when: the explosionV took place. The-cause is supposed' to have ,( been firedamp. The explosion was heavy, and in Wingate town ' many windows -were broken. - f , , Soon after the news of the afrcident became; known crowds of half' clad people were rushing toward the mine, and there were heartrending scenes at the mouth of the pit. ilies Start For America. ; Brussels, Belgium Two hundred Family: Ate Toadstools; Three Dead .Religious Promoter 'Arrested. Aliped victims of the Rev A. M.. x, in vain.; ijeen Hntn rrv, niQnfA tmnn in the case oi lauir" c xroiio-u- nrnmnter or tne neuian Jtve- --- v-i.i uj cu. i lie ickcutij uiautcu lu twv : j-. I j.." l' . ,rv,v.o nf the faculty, ine nguic -- j if aiou lias uccu g&nuuai; I ucuiuvtu . nd flftv-eieht skiUed Flemish weav ers, with their families, left Ghent for Bremen, whence they will sail on a steamer of the North German Lloyd Line direct for Charleston, S. C. This is the first installment , of a. considerable immigration movement arranged under the auspices of the Government of Belgium and the au thorities of South Carolina. Mother and Babies Die in Fire. i Mrs. Clinton Bryan and her two sons, one eight months old, the other two years,-were burned to deaths in their home at Lima, Ohio. The fire Is believed to have resulted from a gasoline explosion. At Anderson. Ind.. Mrs." Robert Arrol is dead,"5 making the third death in one family from eating toadstoqls by mistake for mushrooms, '; r ' SAM J ONES, REVIVALIST, DEAD. Jamaged. Great damage is reported heretofore paid has been between r 'i the Guira section, the centre of $3000 and $3500. " V!f) hanana and plantain growinc in- . The salaries of Yale professors are 'istry. These crops are said to have said to be twenty-five per cent, small ii'-en practically totally- destroyed, er than those in Harvard and .nity f.any small farmers have lost their per cent, smaller than those at ine 'l rtTlCl iirs in tri-aat rlior"os? T"-n ivoritV rP PhlcaZO. " ligious Land Settlement in Dickson County, Tenn., have naa nim ar rested for illegal use of the mails. . . Secretary Taft Home. ' Secretary Taft's party returned to Wav"""' Havana. , 5 Militia at Hanging. Governor Heyward, of South Caro lina, sent militia to Conway to see that the execution of . Commander Johnson, a white man, proceeded. a3 J ordered. . . - i Hydrophobia Kills a Woman. Mrs. A. W. Esleeck died at Green field, Mass., of hydrophobia, result ing from a bite upon the arm by a Famous Fighting Preacher Who Was FeaWd by Liquor' Rings. ' Little Rock, Ark: When a porter went to a berth occupied by the Rev. Sam Jones, the revivalist, In the sleeper of a train running t Memphis on the .Oklahoma;: Choctaw and Gulf Line,' to awaken, him. he: found- the famous preacher dead. A physician said the f revivalist; probably -died about 4 o'clock in the morning. : If. so, the first day of Jones sixtieth year was his last.- He was fifty-nine years; old. The evangelist's; heajth long had been so poor that almost small dog Mrs - - ere attack 0f heart or stomach wife of A. v. -"r "V'SJSSS trouble would be likel to carry him paper manufacturer. The Esleeck8 olt suddenln . Friends in this city moved to Greenfield took charge of the body temporarily, where the milyhadeen promm- pending Inatructions from the pteach-' on c in Cartersvllle Ga. V ' 7 . UMbt mJ I J 1 w w .