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JJ. MINER. Mgr. BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA CO., N. G., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4,T908. VOL. XIIL NO. 49.
DilfK CASES IN 0. S.
America Shows More Separations
Than any Other Country.
ONE MARBlAGijN TWELVE
Eventually Fail—Desertion Most Com*
men Cause of Divorce—Many Separa
tions £>rc Ca.used by Drunkeness.
Washington, D. C.—The divorce rate
appears to be much higher in the
United Slates than in any of the for
eign countries for which statistics re-
laFing to the subject have 'been ob
tained, not loss than one maiTiage in
twelve in this country ultimately ter
minating in divorce. This fact haq
been ascertained .by the census which
has jv.st completed a compilation of
statistics cf marriage and divorce cov
ering the twenty years from 1887 to
lOO'l, inclusive. Similar statistics for
th<? ;)reviou3 twenty years were gath
ered Eoine years ago.
The ficures show that at the 'end of
the forty-year period divorces were
increasing about three times a* fast
a? the pr-v)uiation, while in the first
dernde of Ihe period they Increased
niily about t^o and two-thirds as fast.
In the six years from 1900 to 1906.
porulation increased 10 per cent and
divrrro? 29.3 per cent. The divorce
rate increased per >100,000 of popula
tion from 2D in 187i> to 82 in 1905 ;
there be’ns: onp divorce for every 3,-
441 ]?ersons in the former years, while
in thp latter there was one for every
11 persons.
riirino; the twenty years from 1887
to 1908 the total number of recorded
r.',arria?-e.s v>'as 12,SS2,044. w'hile the
member cf divorces granted during
ti'iis period was 945,fi25. For the pre-
vi.^us tv/pntv Tenrs the number of di
vorces was 32.'5.716. At the beginning
«f the forty-years period divorces oc
curred at the rate of 10.000 a year,
while at the end of the period the an-
ni’al nunihe’* was about 66,000.
A more significant divorce rate is
fVat Vv-h’ch is ba^ed. not on total pop
ulation, but on the total married pop-
n’rtion, since it is only married peo-
]!> V' can become divorced. These
f.'icw that in 1870 the di
vorce rate rer il00.000 married pop
ulation was while in 1900 it was
200. This fbov,^s that divorce is at
present two and a half times as com-
Inon. coronared with the married pop
ulation. as it was forty years ago.
The average duration of marrla^o
terminated by divorce is about ten
years, 60 per cent of them being less
than ten years. The number of years
from marriage to separation w’as as
certained in the cases of 770,929 di
vorced counles. Of these 98,460, or
12.S per cent, separated in the first
year of married life, and 14.2 per cent
in the second year. The surprising
faot that v/as revealed that 3.1 per
cent of the total number separated
ar.d became divorced after more than
vp?»vr> cf married life.
Children w^ere reported in 38.9 per
f'pnt of the total number of divorced
ca?e.':, children being present in 46.S
per cent of the cases granted to the
wife and in 20 per cent of those grant
ed to the hiTsbard.
Alimonv v:as demanded in 18 per
cer,t cf the divorces granted to the
v.'ife and .eranted in 1.?.7 per cent. The
proportion cf husbands who asked for
alinicnv v/as 2.S per cent
WAO?JES WOFpJGTaCE
Driving a Fiat Car Across the Line
a Winner in Record Time.
Savanna,b, On —'Covering the dis-
<r\nre of 402 mil03 in 370 minutes and
Feccrd". the fastost time ever mads
in a road race in this country, Wag-
ne;’, the French driver, in an Italian
Fiat cnr, won the grand prize race at
■'Pvnvnnh by the narrow margin of
fifty-five seconds. The race w^as the
mo:4 spcr;tacuiar ever witnessed in
America, and, despite the rapid run
ning, there was no fatality, although
Erie, driver of a German Benz car,
plun:?ed from the road while making
ninety miles an hour and came out
with nothing more serious than a
broken nose and jaw.
The time of the nine cars that fin
ished, in hours, minutes and seconds,
v.'as as follows:
First—Fiat, Wagner . . . .6:10:31
Second—Benz, Hennery , . .6:11:27
Third—Fiat, Xazarro. . ,6:18:47
Fourth—Benz. Hanriot . . . .6:36:12
Fifth — Clement-Rayard, Haut-
vast . 6:34:06
Sixth—Renault, Strang . . . .6:43:37
Seventh — Clement-Bayard, Ri-
gal 6:45:49
Eighth—Italia, Fouriner . . .6:46:32
Xlnth—^Fiat, De Palma . . . .6:51:34
Of the six American cars entered,
the Chadwick, driven by Willie Haupt,
Tnade the best showing; but the pow
erful 120-horsepow^er foreign cars soon
left the smaller Americans far in the
rear and not a car entered by an
American firm finished the race.
APPBOPBUTION FOa WATERWAYS
Recommended by United States Chief of
Engineers.
Washington, D. C.—In his first an
nual report. General W. L. Marshall,
chief of engineers. United States
army, makes a strong appeal for an
increase in the corps of engineers.
The present authorized engineer
corps, he states, consists of one hun
dred and eighty-nine officers. He re
commends an increase of one hundred
and thirty-two officers, sixty to be
employed on military and civil work*
of construction, fifty-seven to be em
ployed in three additional battalions,
and fifteen for regimental organiza
tion.
The chief of engineers submits esti
mates of appropriations for the fiscal
year 1909-10 for fortifications aggre
gating $7,732,233. Included in this
amount are the following:
Repair and protection of defense of
Pensacola, Fla., $507,100; defenses of
Galveston, Texas, $40,000.
'For river and harbor work the fol
lowing estimates are submitted ' for
th« fiscal year ending June 30, 1910:
Under continuing contracts, $20,479,-
057; rivers and harbors (general, in
cluding examinations, surveys and
contingencies), $21,464,141.
Estimates for river and harbor
work for the southern states in detail
Georgia—Brunswick, $47,000; Dari
en and Doboy bar, $10,000; Altamaha,
Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers, $88,000;
Flint river, $25,000; Savannah harbor,
$400,000; Savannah river, $57,000;
Coosa river, $100,000; Cumberland
sound, $50,000; waterway between
Savannah, Ga., and Fernandina, Fla.,
$44,000; Chattahoochee river in Geor
gia and Alabama, $230,000; Coosa riv
er, in east Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, $100,000.
Alabama—.Mobile, $492,000; Black
W^arrior, "Warrior and Tombigbee riv
ers, $1,000,000; Mobile, $200,000; Mo
bile bar, $342,000; Alabama river,
$200,000; Tombigbee, Alabama and
Mississippi, $53,000; Alabama river,
$200,000.
Florida—Biscayne bay, $27,000;
Withlachoochee river, $50,000; Apa
lachicola bay, $80,000; Carrabelle bar,
$75,000; Hillsboro bay, $10,000; Key
West, $50,000; Tampa bay, $25,000;
Apalachicola river, including lower
Chipola river, $20,000; Blackivate riv
er, $25 ,000; Crystal, Manotu, Anclota,
Suwanee and Withacoochee river, $24,-
500; Indian, $9,000; Kissimjniee, $5,-
000; Oklawaha, $6,000; Orange, $5,-
000; St. John’s $647,000; Volusia bar,
$5,000; Choctawhatchee, $10,000; Es
cambia and Conecur, $il0,000; Jackson
ville, $215,000; Pensacola, $150,000.
South Carolina—'Charleston, $250,-
000; Alligator creek, $66,000; Pinijah
bay, $15,000; Great Peedee, $10,000;
Santee, Wateree and Congaree riv
ers, $60,000>.
NEW YORK BREAD LIKE
Labor Agent Powderly Says the Line
Is Made of Liars.
New York City.—That most of the
unfortunates who stand shivering in
New York’s bread line waiting for drj'
bread and a cup of cofCee are liars
and professional hoboes, who would
not work if employment w'as offered
them, is the opinion of T. V. Powder
ly, a government labor agent, who has
made a study of conditions here at
close range.
Speaking of his observations, the
government agent said: “Some of the
men are ail right, but more of them
would not work if they had the
chance. I took one man, for instance,
to a restaurant and bought a meal.
When it v/as served he asked if it
might be taken home to his family.
He was one of those who honestly
w'anted to work and could find noth
ing to do.
“The majority told me tales about
their lives—tales I knew to be false.
Some of them pretended to have
been bankers, brokers, or engaged in
other lines of business. Their very
speech betrayed them. Most of them
are ‘bums’ 'and scalawags.”
ENGLISH FEAR GERMANY
Lord Roberts Warns Hit Country
of Peril by Sea
TEMPTirarW INVASION
Great Britan’s Military Weakness
Would Be the Cause of the Loss
of Naval Supremacy
THE CAMPAIGN FCNDS.
STRSKE BREAKERS AT PENSACOLA.
300 Laborers Take Place of Striking
Wharf Hands.
Pensacola, Fla.—Nearly three hun
dred negro laborers, in charge of 30
detectives, arrived here, the majority
of them coming from Louisville, to
take the places of the strikers 6n the
three export wharves of the Louisville
and Nashville, where the men went
out on a strike a few days ago.
With the arrival of the new men
work on the wharves was resumed,
but the newcomers are not satisfied,
at least a portion of them are not,
and declare they were not told that
a strike was on here. Some of them
applied to the mayor and wanted to
be sent out of town, but were In
formed that the city had nothing to
do with the matter, excepting that
they will not be allowed to remain
in the city unless they secur« some
kind of employment.
London, England.—Speaking in the
house of lords Field Marshal Lord
Roberts expressed the conviction that
the lack of a military force sufficient
to make hopeless the attempt of an
iavasion would, in all probability, be
the cause of the loss of Great Brit
ain’s supremacy at sea. In a studied
speech he pointed out the compara
tive ease with which Germany couI*J
land an army on the shores of En^
land. England would be forced, ho
stid, to submit to most humiliating
remands. Hq disclaimed all hostility
to or fear of Germany, but he said
that the defense of the islands re
quired immediate attention. There
should be an army so strong In num
bers and efficient in quality that the
most formidable of foreign nations
would hesitate to make a landing in
England. He had ascertained, the
speaker continued, that vessels capa
ble of accommodating 200,000 men
always were available in the northern
ports of Germany, and that that num
ber of men could be collected in the
districts of the nearest port without
any trouble, and that all preliminar
ies, up to the actual dispatch cf
troops, could be carried out v/ith the
utmost secrecy.
“It would be folly,” declared Lord
Roberts, ‘to shut our eyes to the pos
sibilities, however much peace is de
sired. The startling events in the
near east have brought home to the
most careless observer that nothing
could save, that country which is not
prepared to protect itself. If Great
Britain continues to neglect the pre
cautions she will some day find her
self in the hands of the invaders and
forced to submit to the most humiliat
ing conditions. This danger is daily
becoming more threatening. Within
a decade Germany has created the
greatest sea power that ever existed,
except Great Britain.
Lord Roberts said that the main
temptation to the invasion of Great
Britain was the comparatively small
standing army.
It was Great Britain’s interest, he.
continued, to find out in what Way*
the great increase in Germany’s great
sea power was likely to affect her and
to adopt measures necessary for her
own defense.
Great Britain’s military weakness
would in all probability be the cause
of the loss of her naval supremacy.
Lord Roberts’ resolution to the ef
fect that the defence of the islands
necessitates the immediate attention
of the government to make provisioi.
for a strong and efficient army, was
adopted by a vote of 74 to 32.
INBDSTRIAL EDilCATiON OFFICERS
Named and Convention in Atlanta,
Georgia Adjourns.
Atlanta, Ga.—With the report that
the society now has four hundred ac
tive members scattered throughout
the United States ,the National Socie
ty for the Promotion of Industrial Ed
ucation closed its second annual con
vention here. Alabama and Georgia
are the southern states in which the
members of the society are most num
erous. The society also has organized
stale committee's in twenty-eight
states. It was reported at the final
session that a great amount of infor
mation concerning industrial educa
tion has been distributed during the
past year.
The following officers were elected:
Dr. Alexander C. Humphries of Ho
boken, N. J„ president, Walter C. Kerr
of New York city, vice president;
Frederick B. Pratt of Pratt institute,
Brooklyn, treasurer. The secretary
v/ill be elected by the board of man
agers.
The board of managers elected to
serve until 1912 follow: Fulton Cut
ting, New York; Leslie W. Miller,
Philadelphia; Miss Jane Adams, Chi-
ca; Frank A. Vanderslip, New York;
F. J. McNulty, Springfield, 111.; Wal
ter M. Wood, Chicago; Louis Roullion,
New York; Marcellus H. Dodge, Wor
cester, Mass.
TARIFF REFORM SURE,
Hundreds of Letters Approve Judge
Taft’s Position.
Hot Springs, Va.—President-elect
Taft’s announced position in favor of
a thorough tariff revision is being aj>-
proved in a correspondence which is
developing to the amount of more
than a hundred letters a day.
Mr. Taft’s determination in this re
spect continues and the trend of re
cently expressed sentiment is most
satisfactory to him.
Democrats Received $620,644.77. Re
publicans $1,700,000.00.
Chicago, 111.—^The democratic na
tional committee received in all $620,-
644.77 and spent $619,4>10.06 during the
recent presidential campaign, leaving
a balance on hand of $1,234.71. So
reads a statement made public by the
officers of the committee, and the
Itemized statement will be filed for
record in the office cf the secretary
of state of New York, In compliance
with the resolution adopted by the na
tional committee at Lincoln, Neb., last
July
Auditor’s office $ 866.50
Secretary's office 4,108.51
Traesurer’s office 5,073.21
Commercial travelers ... 153.00
Club organization bureau.. 5,020.76
Labor bureau 37,401.36
Advisory committee .. 3,020.95
Organization of states., .. 129,053.62
Purchasing agent departm’t 1,340.73
Finance committee 26,586.54
Congressional committee .. 3,625.00
Publicity bureau 88,899.43
Ex-treasurer’s account,
miscellaneous sight
draft on Oklahoma bank 4,CIO.85
Sergeant at arms .. .. .. 4,016,37
Documents ~ .. .. 142.537.25
Chairman and vice chair. 6,430.00
Reproduction bureau .. .. 5,115.60
Speakers’ bureau 33,786.95
General fund .. 38,111.80
Hent of headquarters . .. 13,740.72
Telegrams.... .. . .. 13,761.90
Telephones 2,199.30
Express charges 113,061.17
Postage 37,452.51
$619,410.06
Balance on hand 1,234.71
Total amount cf money
received .. .. .. ..$620,644.77
New York City,—The Taft campaign
fund in round numbers aggregated $'1,-
700,000, according to the list of con
tributors made public by George R.
Sheldon, treasurer cf the republican
national campaign committee, Charles
P. Taft, a brother of the president
elect was the heaviest contributor. He
spent $160,000 to help his brother to
the white house, J. Pierepont Morgan,
Andrew Carnegie, Whitelaw Reid and
William Nelson Cromwell come next
with contributions of $25,000 each.
President Roosevelt gave one thou
sand dollars.
MONEY FOR NAVY YAROS.
Strong Plea Made for Extensive Na
val Improvements. _
W’ashington, D. C.—Rear Admiral
R. C. Holliday, chief of the bureau of
yards and docks of the United States
navy, makes a strong plea for more
extensive improvements at insular
stations, and for a higher standard
in the maintenance of home navy
yards, in his annual report to the sec
retary of the navy. No extensive
improvements, he says, have been
made during the last year at the insu
lar stations.
The estimates for navy yards and
station^ recommended to be submit
ted to congress at its coming session
are as follows:
Public works, including repairs and
preservation $9,811,730; maintenance
yards and docks, 1,500,000; contingent
yards and docks, $30,000. Total, $11,-
341,730.
The estimates include: Navy yard.
Charleston, S. C., $442,500; naval sta
tion, Guantanamo, Cuba, including
$400,000 for a dry dock to cost $2,-
500,000', $450,000; naval station. Key
Vv^est, Fla., $30,000; navy yard, Nor
folk, Va., $911,000; naval station, at
Pearl Harbor, including an estimate
of $200,000 toward the construction of
a dry dock to cost $2,000,000, $1,000,-
000; navy yard at Pensacola, Fla., $35,-
000.
TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN iND U. S.
Agreement Covers Policy of the Two
Countries in the Pacific.
W’^ashiiigton, D. C.—Despite"”officia]
reticence, information from reliable
Bources has been obtained of an
agreement of far-reaching importance
between the United States and Japan
covering the policy of the two coun
tries in the Pacific.
The agreement is based on the idea
of encouraging and defending free and
peaceful commercial development in
the Pacific. It contains not only a
mutual guarantee to respect each oth
er’s territorial possessions there, 'but
defines the attitude of the two coun
tries toward China, binding each to de
fend, by every peaceful means, Chi
na’s independence and integrity, and
to give equal commercial opportunity
In the Chinese empire to all nations.
But more important still, the agree
ment in the event of complications,
threatening the status quo, binds the
United States and Japan to consult
each other with a view to acting to
gether.
LATE NEWS NOHS,
OFFICERS _^ST NOT TALK.
No More Discussion of Newport Con
ference Will Be Allowed.
Washington, D. C.—That there shall
no further public discussion by na
val officers concerning the Newport
conference without permission of the
president, is the purpose cf an order
Issued hr Secretary Metcalf, by direc
tion cf the president.
On October 30th the department is
sued an order permitting officers to
dipcuss the work of this conference,
except so far as it applied to changes
to be made on ships to be authorized
in the future. The president has now
concluded that public discussions of
^liGged defects of ibattle-ships will not
serve any good purpose.
Monnment for Lee aoil Grant.
Raleigh, N. C.—Governor Glenn has
endorsed heartily the plan for a suit
able joint monument by the people of
the north and south to the military
fame and glory of Generals Robert
E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant on the
famous bloody angle of Spottsylvania
battle ground.
The governor says; “The time has
come when all sectional animosity and
bitterness should be forgotten and for
given. That the south can but remem-
her with gratitude General Grant’s
generosity and kindness to General
Lee, and a monument to both In spirit
of fraternal love would do a great deal
to cause them to be remembered joint
ly as heroes of a reunited country. ’
FAVORS HEVlSiOW OF TARIFF.
Joseph Q. Cannon Places Himself On
, Record To That Effect.
Chicago, 111.—^Joseph Q. Cannon,
speaker <rf the house of representa
tives, placed himself on record in fa
vor of a revision of the tariff. In ac
cordance with the promise of the re
publican party platform, and declared
that so far as his vote was concerned
he would see to it that the announced
policy of revision would be written in
the national laws as soon as possible.
The words of the speaker came at
the conclusion of a luncheon given to
six rear admirals of the United States
navy by Alexander H. Revell of Chi
cago In the Union League club In that
city.
Catfle Shipments Qoarantlned,
Washington, D. C.—Alarming re-
suits following the outbreak of a con
tagious foot and mouth disease In New
York and Pennsylvania, causing those
states to be quarantined against in
terstate shipments of cattle, etc., were
shown in the advices which reached
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, stat
ing that four dhildren in Danville,
Pa., had contracted the disease, A rig
id investigation is in progress in Dan
ville and elsewhere to determine as
to whether others have become simi
larly affected. The officials believe
that the situation is grave and will
require energetic ahd concerted ac
tion by the state and federal authori
ties. to checli^ the disease.
General.
In a sensational colloquy in the
English house of commons Premier
Asquith declared the British naval
plans, which provide for an increase
of the navy so that it may exceed by
1 per cent the combined strength of
any two nations, to mean “Any two
powers wherever situated,’^ Badgered
to declare whether this meant includ
ing th« United States, he repeated the
original answer and declined to state.
The men responsible for .bribery
and corruption in San Francisco and
not their tools will suffer, if Francia
J. Henry has his way. He is so far
recovered from his wounds that he
has outlined the iMture action, (rf the
district attorney. He emphatically
declared his life work would be car
ried to completion.
Two arrests of men under surveil-
ance is expected to complete the-
rounding up of a gang of alleged coun
terfeiters that has been flooding Chi
cago with bogus five dollar bills. Six
young women are already under ar
rest.
Laing Ching Kwai, special Chinese
commissioner of education to Ameri
ca, was robbed of valuable papers,,
including his passport, at the Sher
man house in Chicago, The robbery
occurred while the distinguished vis
itor was dining at a Chinese restau
rant near by.
Having a horror of mic» since ear
ly childhood. Miss Mary Isabel Mead
of Florence, N. J,, died of fright when
a mouse, pursued by the family cat,
darted across the kitchen fioor in her
home. Miss Mead was well known
socially.
Joseph Orscher, aged 48, a bricklay-
ir, repairing the masonry of a build
ing in New York City, fell from the
scalTold, sixty feet, to the pavement
A doctor was summoned, and was as
tonished to find that Orscher’s only
injury was apparently a dislocated
shoulder. He is apparently all right.
The week, December 7-12, is unique
in the history of the country. During
that week will meet in Washington,
the governors of all the states and
their advisers, as the National Conser
vative commission, to list the resourc-
es cf the United States; the Southern
Commercial congress, to interpret by
the voice of authority, the resources
and possibilities of the south; the
National Rivers and Harbors congress
to work for a coherent policy in the
development of the great natural lines
of transportation; the National Coun
cil of Commerce, to consider the im
portant features of commercial rela
tions at home and abroad; the Com
mission on Country Life, to consider
rural sonditions in every respect.
Washington
Honorable Gifford Pinchot, presi
dent of the National Conservative
commission, and chief forester of the
United States, will address the South
ern Commercial congress on Monday
night, December 7, on the "Commer
cial (Meaning of the Appalachain
Range.” In addition to this speech,
there will be an elaborate display of
ohartr., diagrams, maps, etc., by ls.ii-
tern and otherwise.
Contracts for about <10,000 tons of
steel armor for the battleships Florida
and Utah have been awarded by the
secretary of the navy. The Bethlehem,
Carnegie and Midvale companies were
each given a contract for about one-
third of the armour.
In a quiet and simple manner, trit>-
ute has been paid at the Chinese le
gation to the memoiy of the deceas
ed emperor and empress dowager of
China. Practically all the members
of the diplomatic corps. Vice Presi
dent Fairbanks, several members oi
the supreme court and assistant scv'-
retaries of the various executive de
partments attended. President Roose
velt sent one of his military aides,
Colonel Charles S. Bromwell, who left
the president’s card and those of the
secretary to the president, and of Cap-
tAin Archibald Butt, another military
aide. Secretary Root was suffering
from an indisposition and sent a mes
sage cf sympathy through Hunington
Wilson, assistant secretary of state,
as did also Admiral Dewey through an
aide.
Admiral Sperry cabled the navy de
partment that he would allow the
men of the Atlantic fleet shore leave
at Manila and permit them to partic
ipate in a parade and various festiv
ities arranged in their honor. He says
a few existing cases of cholera in the
Philippine capital are isolated as not
to be a menace to the health of the
fleet.
Major General John F, Weston, now
in command of the Philippine forces,
has been assigned to command the de
partment of California, with headquar
ters at San Francisco, vice Brigadier
General Fred A. Smith, who will he
assigned to other duties. Major Gen
eral W. P. Duvall will succeed to the
Philippine command.
American Minister Rockhill, at Pe*
kin, cabled the state department say-
ing that the Chinese government is
anxious for a postponement of the
meeting of the international opium
commission at Shanghai, from Janu-'
ary 1 to February 1. The Chinese are
not yet ready -for the meeting. There
will be no objetcion to the request on
the part of this government.
When Secretary Strauss of the de
partment of commerce and labor was
asked if he contemplated “a shake-
up” among the officials of the immi
gration service at New York, he re
plied that an improvement of the ser
vice was in contemplation, “Public
office is not a private *franchise, as I
myself will soon learn,” said the sec
retary.
TORNADO IN ARKANSAS
Demolished Many Towns in
Northwesten Part of State.
MUCH PROPlff lESTROYED
20 Persons Ware Kilied and Many
Others Injured—Vast Tracks of
Timber Lands were Ruined.
Little Rock, Ark.—According to dis
patches received, meager because of
the remoteness of the section affect
ed, more than a score of lives were
lost and many other persons were in
jured in a tornado which swept tho
northwestern section of this state,
completely demolishing several towns
and razing vast tracts of timber.
The tornado,, approaching from the
southwest, crossed the Arkansas rivdr
several miles south of tUe settlement
of Piney, and proceeding in a
easterly direction, swept through tho
towns of Londcuy Wailerville, Jethroy
Lodi, Lewisville, Paterson and Berry-
ville and outlying portions o£ M.ulber-
ry, either completely wrecking or lay
ing waste the larger part of theso
places and destroying timber and crops
throughout the intermediate country.
At Plney, It is stated that twelve
persons were killed, and a number in
jured, Practically the entire settle
ment was demolished.
At London ten are reported to have
lost their lives, and considerable dam*
age to property occurred.
Wailerville and Jethro are reported
in the path of the storm. In the vi
cinity of Mulberry the death list ia
placed at flve.
At Berryvillei- one woman, Mrs. J..
O. Hoskins, was seriously injured, andl
several other persons sustained lesser
injuries. A path of dOO yards wide
was cut through the town, six build
ings being completely wrecked, and a
number of others damaged, either be
ing torn from their foundations or un»
roofed. Here the property loss is e»
timated at $25,000*.
From the outlying districts consid
erable damage to property is also re*
ported, but no loss of life.
At LfOdi three buildings were de*
stroyed, and one woman seriously In
jured.
Advices from Lewisville, in the wes
tern portion of Lafayette county, re
port the destruction of several build
ings at that place, and at Patmos con
siderable damage to property as well
as injury to a number of persons ia
repbrtGv^f
HOBSON MAKES DEMAND.
Congressman Orders Roosevett to
Keep th« Fleet in the Pacific Ocean.
Akron, Ohio,^—Congressman Rich
mond P. Hobson, who was here has
sent a letter to President Roosevelt
demanding that he rescind his orders
recallkig the United States fleet from
the Pacific. In his letter, he scored
President for his interference in th«
Japanese troubles in California, say
ing:
“Our presidents have invariably re*
fused to interfere in local matters,
even when foreign subjects were be
ing assassinated, but in this case, Mr.
President, you did interfere where
foreign subjects were not being harm
ed. If you were Justified then in call
ing on the people of San Francisco to
surrender, you are not justified now
in withdrawing the fleet and again
placing them and their neighbors on
the whole coast in precisely the same
defenseless position.” *
Conditions that have no counterpart
in the Atlantic exist, Hobson says,
and it would be a national and inter
national calamity to withdraw tba-
fleet.
ALMOST STRUCK ROOSEVELT,
Bicycle Rider Arrested for Nearly
Running Down the President.
Washington, D. C,—Because he
barely avoided running down the
president of the United States with a
bicycle while the latter was walking
to church Gilbert Beyer, a youth, was
arrested on the charge of “not having
a suitable bell on his bicycle,”
Boyer was released upon putting up
$5 collateral, which he forfeited rath
er than stand trial upon the charge.
President Roosevelt was walking
briskly down E street with two secret
service men at his heels and started
to cross Fifteenth street, when ' he
heard a shout of warning from some
one in front of him. The president
sprang back just in tin>e to miss being
hit by a bicycle ridden by a boy who
was trying to steer the wheel with
one hand and carry a basket of milk
bottles with the other.
When the president shouted at him
to admonish him for his reckless rid
ing, the youth merely grinned and ped
aled swiftly away. -•Nl
mikm BDSIHESS WITfl THE SODTB
Prediction That It Will Soon Be En
hanced 50 Per Cent.
Chicago, 111,—“Chicago’s busines
with the southern states will be en
hanced 50 per cent in the next two
years. Southern resources are wait
ing for development and Chicago cajh
ital will set them in motion. We are
going after the business of the Mia-
sisippi valley at once.’’
This is the verdict cf thirty dele
gates of the Association of Commerce,
who, after a two weeks’ tour of south
ern states, returned here. The return
ed visitors declare that chief among
the results of the trip will be a closer
affiliation of the banking interests oX
the south v/ith those of Chicago.