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II II o Two Terrific Quakes Felt Thursday The 25,000 Inhabitants In Panic Mother Dashes For Her Babe And Dies With It In Her Arms. Messina, By Cable. Messina ex perienced two terrific earthquakes at About 7:30 o'clock Thursday morn ing, which were accompanied by roaring sounds and are said to have had a stronger and more undulatory movement than the earthquake of last December which destroyed Mes sina, Reggio and other cities, laid waste to many villages in Calabria and killed 200,000 people. Although the shocks Thursday had no such terrible consequences the 25,000 residents of this city were thrown into a state of terror. They ran into the streets panic striken and Thursday night nearly the entire pop ulation was encamped in the open. The broken walls of the old ruins were thrown to the ground and Mes sina was for a fsw minutes smother ed in a cloud of dust. The casualties were few and the only persons killed, so far as is known, were a young woman and her infant. The woman had come here only a few days ago and had settled in rooms, which the great "earthquake had left relatively un damaged. She was standing at the ORVILLE WRIGHT MAKES THREE SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS Washington, Special. Calm, confi dent and nerveless, Orville Wright late Thursday encircled the Ft. Meyer drill grounds time after time in his aeroplane in three successful flights while a crowd of thousands cheered him for the success that attended his persistency and pluck. "While the ma chine oscillated at certain points in its flights and dipped and rose sud denly at other points, it was evident from the regularity with which these things happened that they were due to the condition of the atmocphere and not to any fault of the machine. For the first flight the machine got away with a fine start. Down the field the aeroplane sailed, curved gracefully and came back up the east side of the field along the edge of Arlington Cemetery. The machine .seemed to be behaving beautifully. 'The first round was made in fifty sec- onds. Five times the machines skirt ed the field, attaining a height which waried from 15 to 30 feet. Chi the sixth round Mr. Wright "came to earth within a few hundred feet of the starting point, completing the flight in exactly five minutes. The landing was perfect, the machine swooping down in successive glides until Orville pulled the string which stops his motor and the aeroplane glided smoothly over the grass on its skids until it came to a stop. The ma chine was returned to the starting ap paratus and again was placed in posi tion, and another iliht was essayed. COMMISSION DECIDES ADVERSELY IN BISHOPS' CASE Washington, Sp2cial. The Inter state Commerce Commission has de cided adversely in the matter of the complaints filed before them by five bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, who claimed that they had been the victims of discrim ination while passengers on Southern railroads. The complaints were di rected against the Pullman Company and the Richmond, Fredericksburg STRANGE FREAK OF LIGHTNING IN MARYLAND TOWN Cumberland, Md., Special. Light ning struck the house of Johnson Collins, last Wednesday, four miles east of Flintstone, while Mr. and Mrs. Collins, their six children and Mrs. Johnson, a neighbor, were in the kitchen. Mrs. Collins was putting pies in the bake oven. When Mr. Collins recovered from the shock he found his wife and the youngest MAY BE THE BODY OF KeAv York, Special Although com plete identification was impossible as yet, there appears to be a strong probability that the body of a China man, which was found floating in the Hudson river in the upper part of the ity Thursday evening, was that of Leon Ling or William L. Leon, the murderer of Elsie Sigel. The man's height, weight and general appear ance tallies with that of Leon Ling, but as the body was nude, except for a" silk undershirt, and had been in the water for more than a week, a thor ough examination will be necessary. Coroner McDonald, who was the first POLITICAL PRISONERS MAKE DASH FOR FREEDOM Seattle. Wash. A cable dispatch from Nome, Alaska, describes a bloody outbreak of Russian political prisoners in the Yakutsk District, Siberia and the flight of the muti neers across the wilderness toward Bering Straits in an effort to reach Alaska. The dispatch says: Advices from Vladmir Station of the Northern Siberia Company, across Behring Strait, are to the ef- feet that a band of prisoners in the) door when the shock occurred and rushed inside to save her child. Be fore she could escape from the room the second shock threw down the walls, burj-ing both mother and child under the debris. Soldiers and en gineers who rushed to the rescue, heard the voice of the mother call ing for help and they worked heroic ally for several hours, when- they found the dead bodies, the mother with her child in her arms. The first shock was followed quick ly by a second and the people fled pell mell to the American quarter, which they seemed to feel was the safest place of refuge. So great was the rush to the American huts that the authorities were unable to check the invasion and as a consequence these structures, which were design ed for the most needy of the popu lace, were taken possession of. by the first comers. The soldiers, however, soon drew a cordon around this quarter and a guard was mounted at the bridge leading to it. Many of the panic stricken people were driven off and orders were issued that no one be permitted to occup the American quarter pending further instructions. The start was as successful as the first. In the second flight Orville made much wider turns and rose to a greater height. Wilbur Wright watched every detail of the flight with care. It was noticed that at times the motor skipped, but this seemed to have no effect on the progress of the aeroplane. The starting rail runs downward into a little hollow in the field and whenever the aeroplane passed over this hollow it dipped no ticeably and whenever it passed over a vacant space between two of the stables, it was seen to rise as though on billow of air, but these atmos pheric conditions were easily over come ,by the clever manipulation of the levers. On his second flight, Or ville made nine rounds of the field in a few seconds less than eight min utes. In his last attempt he remained aloft for a few seconds more than nine minutes and encircled the field nine and one half times. For one complete round he flew very close to the ground, evidently preparing to land. This he did within two hun dred feet of the aeroplane shed. Dur ing this last flight he went higher than on his previous trials, reaching a height of forty feet. Just before making his landing the left wing scraped the ground and raised a cloud of dust, but Mr. Wright con tinued to fly half way around the field before descending. and Potomac, the Southern and the Central Railway of Georgia. The complainants were Bishops Wesley J. Gaines, H. M. Turner, Evans Tyree, C. S. Smith and E. W. Brampton. The principle involved in the com plaint was the old one of the ' 'Jim Crow" car, it being alleged that the coaches furnished for the negroes are not as good as those for white pas sengers and that the negroes were re fused sleeping accommodations and food on trains. child in her arms standing under a tree in the yard. She could not tell how she got there. One of her shoes had been torn from her foot and the flesh was scraped from her ankle downward almost to the bone. The roof was torn from the house, one side of the building demolished, the stone chimney shattered in' pieces and dishes in the cupboard broken. ELSIE SIGEL'S MURDERER to inspect the body, believes that it is Leon's as do a number of policemen, but until measurements and facial characteristics are carefully gone over the identification will remain in doubt. If it is Leon the cause of his death will be another mystery although one theory, that of suicide, would appear reasonable. In salient features the body bore a marked resemblance to Leon Ling. The teeth were good, as were Leon's, the height about 5 feet 4 inches, which was Leon's height, and the weight 125 pounds, which was about Leon's. Yakutsk district revolted and killed the guards and started on a retreat of 2,000 miles for East Cape, where they planned to take small boats and make the mainland of Alaska, thirty six miles away. ' Jf Captain Kalinnikof, acting gover nor of the district, ordered Cossacks to overtake the prisoners. The' fu gitives in ambush killed four Cos sacks and wounded; twelve others. forcing them to retreat. ARE GRANTEDNEW TRIAL Supreme Court Reverses Verdict in the Cases Against the Murderers of Captain Quentin Rankin on Technical Grounds. Jackson, Tenn., Special. The cases of the eight night riders, 6 of whom were under the death sentence charged with the murder of Captain Quentin Rankin, at Walnut Log, on Reel Foot late, October 19 last, were reversed by the State Supreme Court Saturday and were remanded for new trials. The six men, who were under the death sentence are Garret Johnson, alleged leader of the night riders' or ganization in Obion county; Arthur Cloar, Fred Pinion, Sam Applewhite, Tid Burton and Roy Ransom. The ' other two, Bud Morris and Bob Huft man, were convicted of murder in the second degree. The opinion in the case was deliv ered by Special Justice Henry Craft, of Memphis, appointed in the stead of Justice M. M. Neil. In reversing the case, he assigned two principal reasons. The first was that the grand jury which found the indictments against the alleged night riders, was not seelcted in a proper manner. The grand jury was select ed out of a panel named by Judge J. E. Jones, the trial judge, whereas the law provides the panel must be chos en by at least three members of the county court. The second error on which the reversal was based is that the State did not allow the defend ants a sufficient number of chal lenges. The eight were tried on one indictment and trial court upheld the State's contention that the eight de fendants were only entitled to the legal number of challenges, twenty four, which would apply if one man was on trial. When Justice Craft concluded his opinion a storm of applause broke out in the court room, but wTas quick ly stopped by the marshal and his deputies. The prisoners will be tak en back to Union City and an effort will be made to secure their release on bail pending a second trial on their cases. Those most active in the prosecu tion of the alleged riders of Reel Foot lake consider the situation now such as may again assume a serious phase. That it will be difficult to secure a jury to again hear the cases is conceded and as yet no decision has been reached by the representatives of the State as to their future plans. An immediate trial of other pending cases of a similar nature, however, is not looked for. Killed Whole Family. Aberdeen, S. D., Special. J. W. Christie, a farmer living near here, his wife, his daughter Mildred, aged 18 years, and a boy named Roymaine, were murdered Saturday. Mr. Chris tie was milking a cow in his barn yard when the unknown person or persons shot him dead. The murderers hurried to the house and fining Mrs. Christie and her daughter and the Roymaine boy, who was visiting at the house, they be gan firing upon them. . The first shots took effect and the two women and the boy fell dead. It is supposed the men who com mitted the crime were acquainted to some extent with the Christie family and their habits, for few people knew that Christie kept large sums of money in his house. It is believed he had several thousand dollars in his home at the time of the murdert The entire countryside is wrought up. Bands of farmers were immedi ately organized and search for the murderers was begun. The formers threaten the murderers with lynch ing if they are caught. Mr. Christie was one of the most prosperous farmers in the Northwest. Continued Earth Shocks Keep Messi na Alarmed. Messina, By Cable. Seven earth shocks of Saturday and Sunday which have kept the populace in a state of alarm. A fire broke out in the wreckage, and while the troops were trying, to extinguish the flames another fire started at Milazzo, a short distance away. A Woman's Heroism. 1 Mobile, Ala., Special. W. L. Sam son, bridge-keeper for the Louisville & Nashville at Bayou Sara, Ala., early Thursday night was in his loft near the bridge when lightning killed him and threw his body into the water in front of his wife and little child. Mrs. Samson remained at the bridge all Thursday night, and the greater part of Friday alone with her child, seeing that trains could safely pass the structure. As it w;as not a stopping point she could not get as sistance until Saturday when she succeeded in flagging a train. Boll Weevil Reaches Mississippi. New Orleans, Special. A report that the boll weevil in its flight east ward has reached Pike county, Mis sissippi, and that several specimens were found near Magnolia, that State, is contained in The Picayune's weekly summary of cotton crop con ditions in Mississippi and Louisiana. The pest appears to have gained an early start this season in the infested territory and planters are abandon ing weevil ridden cotton. ! WASHINGTON NOTES The Senate concluded its discus sion of the schedules of the tariff bill Monday and is now ready for the corporation and income tax ques tions. Senator Aldr'ch introduced a resolution proposing an amendment to collect the taxes on incomes from whatever source derived and without apportionment among the several States. An increase in the duty on struc tural iron and steel valued at more than 9-10 of a cent per pound was made by the Senate, the increase be ing from 3-10 to 4-10 of a cent per pound. Cotton bagging was placed on the free list. Ineffectual efforts were made to place cotton ties, school books, bind ing twine and salt on the free list and Egyptian cotton on the dutiable list. "What is whiskey?" was discuss ed in the Cabinet room of the White House. President Taft listening to attorneys for rectifying distilleries and blenders, who oppose the recent decision of Solicitor General Bowers as to what should be labeled 'imita tion whiskey." The hearing will be continued. After defeating Senator Tillman's amendment for a tax of 10 cents a pound on tea by a vote of 18 to 55, thus concluding the schedules of the tariff bill, the Senate took up the income and corporation tax questions. Senator Aldrich said he would sup port the corporation tax amendment as a means of defeating the income tax, expressing the opinion that the tax would be repealed after two years or the rate materially lowered. The Democrats held that this position was a subterfuge on Mr. Aldrich 's part to destroy the income tax. Sen ator Flint, who will have charge of the corporation tax amendment, spoke in favor of it. Senator Cummins in favor of the income tax; and Sen ator Dixon in favor of an inheritance tax, although the latter said he would vote for the corporation tax Senator Flint said the corporation tax would vield, in his opinion, a revenue of $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 a year. Secretary of the Treasury Mac Veagh made a call on national bank depositories for a return to Treas ury of government funds approximat ing $25,000,000. Income and corporation tax ques tions were discussed Thursday in the Senati. Among those who spoke were Senator Root, of New York, who advocated the corporation and opposed the income tax; Senatoi Borah, of Idaho, who took opposite sides with Mr. Root ; and Senators Owen and Capp, who favored the income tax. But for the objection of one Sena tor, Mr. Bulkeley, of Connecticut next Tuesday would have been fixed as the date for a vote by the Senate on the income tax amendment to the tariff bill. Orville Wright made three success ful flights in his new aeroplane al Fort Myer late Thursday afternoon, remaining in the air about 22 minutes all told and raising to a height of 4C feet. For the, fiscal year ended Wednes day, government disbursements ex ceeded government receipts by $89, 811,156, according to the Treasury statement. Rear Admiral Potter became chiej of the buearu of navigation succeed ing Rear Admiral Pillsbury, retired A five-hour flight of oratory in th United States Senate by Senatoi Cummins, of Iowa, and a thirty-sec onds flight of the Wright brothers1 , aeroplane were the principal happen ings of interest in the national cap ital Wednesday. A mishap to Orville Wright's ma chine put an end to his flights foi the day less than a minute after h started for his first flight. The dam age to the aeroplane, however, was slight. Petitions for rehearing on the charge against them for contempt ol the Utiited States Supreme Couri were received by the clerk of th court from Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp Jailer Jeremiah Gibson and Luthei Williams, three Tennesseeans accus ed of having failed in their duty t prevent a lynching. Protest against the effort to pre vent the use of coupons to stimulate the tobacco trade was made by rep resentatives of the so-called "tobac co trust" before a sub-committee o4. the Senate finance committee. The Senate Saturday adopted tht maximum and minimum provisions oi the tariff bill by a vote of 36 to 16 The provisions of the measure go in to effect March 31, 1910, and 20 days must elapse before the President's proclamation applying the maximun duty of 25 per cent ad valorem, in ad dition to other duties, provided in th bill, will be operative. The Senat agreed on the submission of an in come tax amendment to the constitu tion to the several States for ratifi cation. President and Mrs. Taft lefi Washington- Saturday afternoon fo Beverly, Mass.,, where Mrs. Taft anc children will spend the summer. Th President, after speaking at the cele bration of the 250th anniversary oj the founding of Norwichj Conn., or Monday, and participating in th ter-centenary celebration of the dia covery of Lake Champlain, will re turn to Washington to await the ad journment of Congress. Orville Wright, left Saturday fo: Dayton, O., to get cloth for repair ing the lower plane of his machine Avhich. was badly ripped in strikin a tree Friday while the aviator wai gliding to earth. President Taft Saturday was tin principal speaker at the unveiling o' of granite monument erected in thi: city, as a memorial to the funder oj -the Grand Army of the Republic Major Benjamin Franklin Stephen son, of Iillinois. The monument i: the first of its kind. WILL CATCHJ.EON LING Chief McCaffery reels Reasonably Certain That Elsie Sigel's Murderer Will Be Apprehended. New York, Special. Inspector McCafferty, chief of the New York detective bureau, has given out the first authentic statement on the murder of Elsie Sigel that has been made by the police since the discovery of the girl's boy on June 18 in a trunk in the bedroom of Leon Ling, an Americanized Chinaman, in an Eighth avenue chop suey restau rant. "We shall catch the murderer," the inspector said. "Delay does net altar that although it chafes us. The whole country is one vast rat-trap with every exit guarded. "The girl was killed between 10 o'clock in the morning and noon of June 9 and we believe Leon Ling is the man who did it with Chung Sing, his intimate, and possibly others, as possible accomplices. We have Chung Sing. From his room in Eighth aven ue, Leon Ling was thought to have gone straight to Washington and there sent the 'Don't worry' telegram sign ed 'Elsie' received on the night of the murder by the Sigel family. It is definitely and clearly estab lished that the trunk was carted from the Eighth avenue house in which the body was found to a Chinese laundry at No. 370 West 12G street and thence to Newark, N. J., whence it was returned to the room of Leon Ling, where it was discover ed. It has been shown, too, that Ling was personally busied in mov ing the trunk about. It seems clear that to have been at the various places mentioned Ling could not have spared the time for s. trip to Washington. Those receiving him and the trunk all showed sus picious forki.owledge of his coming. "No other murder that I can re menibei has attracted such wide in terest or such enthusiastic co-operation on the part of police of crthei cities. All the forces of the country are working as one great machine. We havn fifty men of otir ow4 in the cities of the East. ' The only possible ship on which Leon could have left the country is due to arrive in Yokohama July 3. She will be watched." All the Chinese laundries in the city, which are operated by four com panies in the name of individual man agers, received notices in Chinese warning employes that they must have nothing to do with white women beyond business over the counter, on pain of dismissal. Brandenburg Out and In. New York, Special. Although Broughton Brandenburg was acquit ted here Tuesday of the charge of grand larceny in connection with the sale of an alleged spurious letter of Grover Cleveland to The New York Times he had only a few minutes of freedom. Before leaving the court room, he was re-arrested and will be taken to St. Louis next week for trial on a charge of fraudulently enticing from the child 's parents his stepson, The minimum penalty for this offense in Missouri is 20 years' imprison ment. The author was taken back to the tombs in default of $5,000 bail, to await the arrival of the Missouri; of ficers. ' After Train Robbers. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Special. De tective Draper, of Spokane, with a pack of bloodhounds ,has traced the Canadian-Pacific train bandits that held up an express train last week at Kamloops into an old mining tunnel at Red Gulch, 6 miles east of Ash croft, British Columbia. Detective Draper has sent for help, as the two men trapped are heavily armed and show fight. One of the robbers was killed by Constable Rucker Tuesday. He wore clothes bought in Spokane. c- H. Hix Appointed General Manag er Seaboard Air Line. Batlimore, Special. C. H. Hix has been appointed general manager, and C R. Capps, freight traffic manager of the Seaboard Air Line with head quarters in Portsmouth, Va. These important changes in the organiza tion, as announced officially, follow the recent resignations of W. A. Gar rett, and L. Sevier, both of their offices having been abolished. Judge Overrulss Motion. Asheville, N. C, Special. "I do not find anything wrong whatever in the manner in which this grand jury was drawn, summoned and empan eled," spoke Judge Newman from thebench in United States District Court Tuesday morning in referring to the motion of defendants in the First National Bank of Asheville conspiracy and embezzlement cases to quash the bill of indictment. THE NEWS IN HKt Items of Interest Gethered By Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FRCM DAY TO DAY Uve Items Covering Ever.ts of More or Less Intent at Eoe ud Abroad. The first bale of cotton for the sea son was sold at Houston, Texas, oi, Monday. It brought $425. Georgia's new governor, Josep.i Brown, has installed a long handle! gourd in the capitol out of which to drink his ice water. Little Lucretia Norris was bom six years ago in Omaha, Neb., with a deformed jaw.. Some days ago tha surgeons took away the bad part o, her jaw bone and inserted a chicken bone in its place. The operation 13 said to be a complete success. Joseph M. Brown was inaugurated governor of Georgia last Saturday and governor Hoke Smith retired ap parently not in happy frame of mind. " Wheatland," the home of Pres ident James Buchanan at Lancaster, ,1 ViTr litrhtrnnrr last week. The steamship Cartigo was 150 miles from New Orleans and by wire less called to the surgeons on shore for a prescription for a case of blood poison. It wTas promptly dispatched and when the ship arrived Fridajr the patient was improving. Bernard J. Dobbin, while setting a trawl got lost from his fishing ves sel by a dense fog and drifted for eight days with a half pint of water and a little raw fish, when picked up almost famished and brought into Rockland, Maine, Monday. His mates searched for him 24 hours and he rowed his strength away trying to reach them. He saw a number of vessels pass but could not attract at tention. A singular test was made in the Chicago Appelate eourt last week, where a physician claims that he was to give patient treatment for life and receive $100,000 at the death of the patient. The courts declared the" contract void in that such contracts are fraught with the temptation for a physician to hasten the death of the patient. At the mortar gun practice last week at Fort Monroe, two companies made 50 per cent of hits while firing so rapidly that each gun kept two shots in the air at once all the time. The Virginia Passenger and Power Company will effect a complete phy- si?nl rpfropanizntinn -nf.itsl "Ciilwav lrass in 'Richmond!! There is a strange phenoVnenon in New York in the case of orJV1 lary Moldon, a cook. She is knof.vn as "Typhoid Mary." She is, iAmiune herself, but is infested witii the germs and conveys them to those with whom she comes in contact. She has to be quarantined. Evidence has been found that Leon Ling tried to bury Elsie Sigel's body under the floor of the Harlem laun dry. A dray was driven down Market ' street in San Francisco, Monday morning, hauling $10,000,000 in gold. Mrs. Louis La Bartia, in New York on Monday fired four pistol bullets into the man that killed her husband a year ago. Nine deaths in Philadelphia and ten in Chicago were recorded last Monday as heat fatalities. Washington News Notes. Marines have been restored to all the battleships and cruisers. Ex.-Gov. W. M. O. Dawson, of West Virginia, has been appointed a United States commercial agent in China. Fifty babies and six adults have suecombed to the heat in Washington the past week. New restrictions are imposed on the Civil Service law by the bill pro viding for the Thirteenth Census, which was sent to the President $&?- his signature. The income tax resolution vas re ported to the Senate from the Fi nance Committee by Senator Akl rich Monday. At the very last moment cotton bagging and ammonia which enters into the Southern fertilizer business was voted into the senate tariff bill. The Senate put cotton bag?"-.? aDcI binding twine on the free list Mon day, and closed the discussion on the Payne-Aldrich bill schedules. Extensive experiments in wireless telegraphy will be made by the At lantic fleet during its war maneuvers off the New England eoa-;t in July. The Aldrich committee and the Senate have made a thousand changes in the House Tariff bill. Foreign Affairs. The thirteenth vain attempt of the militant suffragettes to obtain, access to Premier Asquith by deputation resulted in exciting s.-enes in Parli ament Square Wednesday night, and in the arrest of more than 100 women m London. ister of Great Britain and Lord umbia, is in London for his healm and it is rumored that he will not return to his South American State but he asserts to the contrary. I
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