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They are aboard the Hamburg-American line steamer Hamburg, which cast ott her lines from her Hoboken pier this morning and to the music of the whistles of numerous ferryboats, tugs and other vessels sailed down the bay with her distinguished passenger. Accompanying Mr. Roosevelt—or Colonel Roosevelt, as soine wise re porters addressed him on the pier this morning, winning thereby a smile—are his son, Kermit Roose velt; Major Edgar A Mearns, medi* cal corps, U. S. A., retired; Edmund Heller and J. Alden Loring. The last named three men accompany Mr. Roosevelt as representatives of the Smithsonian institution, while the younger Roosevelt is official photog rapher of the expedition. The long pier to which the Ham burg was moored was jammed this morning with persons gathered to see the Roosevelt party sail. The Hamburg is due at Naples on April 3. Mr. Roosevelt and his party will remain in the Italian city two days, sailing thence on the Admiral of the German East African line on April 5. The Hamburg is one of the finest vessels of the_ Hamburg-Amer- ican line and is the favorite ship of the German emperor. The Admiral is due at Mombasa, where the Roosevelt party will disembark, on April 22. On his arrival at Mombasa Mr. Roo»«velt Jtad hi« ^arty to the estate of Sir Alfred Pease, a member of the well known English Quaker family and remain there for three months during the heavy rains. Aifterward the Roosevelt party will go to Nairobi and pay a visit to the estate of Philip MacMillan, who is head of an American company that has a concession of 100 square miles in the district. They will cross Lake Victoria early in December to enter Uganda when the dry season com mences in order to do the thirty-sev en days’ march to Gondokoro in fine weather. It is expected that the Roosevelt ex pedition will complete its trip through the dark continent in the spring of next year, reaching Cairo about April 1, 1910. Cleveland, Oifio, Mar. 24.—^In the ar rest here last night of a man and a woman having |9,790 in their posses sion, the poliece believe they have captured the kidnapers of WUla Whit- la. In fact, the woman in the case, who is greatly excited, admitted that she had been responsible for the kid naping. When placed in custody at the central police station she said to Captain Shattuck: *‘I am the one who planned the whole thing. There will be trouble for me, and hell in Shardijk tomor row.” Beneath the woman’s skirt was found $9,790. All of it but $40 was bound in paujkages, with the original slips placed on the money when Whit- la took it from the bank, still around it. Captain Shattuck and Detective Frank Wood made the arrests in the east end of the city. When near the police station the man broke away from Detective Wood and ran towards an alley. The i>oliceman fired two shots from his revolver into the air, and the man stopped. The wcJman made no attempt to escape. Harrisburg, Pa.—Governor Stuart issued a proclamation, offering a re ward of $15,000 for the ari’est and conviction of the kidnapers of Wil lie Whitla. STORLi mis TWELVE TEXAS -STORM DAMAGES SEVER- AL TOWNS. GREAT bO^SS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. Dallas, Tex., Mar. 25.—Twelve known dead, property losses reaching into the thousands of dollars a.nd pos sibly a score injured is the result of a tornado which swept over thenorth- eastern part of Wise county. Several small towns were visits by the Storm, but none were entirely destroy ed, although each suffered serious damage. At Crafton every business house save one was blown down. The Methodist and Baptist churches were completely wrecked. The Christian church at Greenwood was destroyed. Several residences and two churches s were blown down at Brui^low. The farm house of Ira Rice was crushed in by the furious wind and the family of eight members pinned beneath the wreckage. A light in the house at the time of the disaster caused the ruins to become ignited, and, fanned by the strong wind, the fiames snuffed out the lives of the helpless victims. BATTLE WITH IHBIANS. OKLAHOMA SENDS TROOPS TO EXTERMINATE CRAZY SNAKE’S BAND OF MURDERERS. South Pole Nearly Reached. London,—The polar regions are gradually yielding up their secrets to . persaveraace «!fati>^^teriTLina- tion. Lieutenant Ernest H. Shackle- ton, of the British navy, who left his permanent quarters last autumn for a dash to the pole, having succeeded after an arduous sledge journey of 1,708 miles, which occupied 126 days, in forging to within 111 miles of the south pole, or 354 miles nearer than any former explorer. Miners Ask Taft to Arbitrate. Scranton, Pa.—^Reaffirming the de mands already presented to the oper ators, the anthracite miners voted to remain at work after April 1, allow ing the district executive boards of the hard coal fields of Pennsylvania to continue their efforts to get an agreement satisfactory to the men. The resolution was introduced by a district office, and in subriitance ask ed President Taft to create a com mission sinailar to t^e oiie appointed by President Roosev^t j^02. Oklahoma City, Okla., Mar. 2D.— Chief Crazy Snake and 100 followers retreated before five companies ol Oklahoma militia, thus j4eferring lau expected battle. ' ^astily setting fire to his tepees and tents, the Indian leader, with his mixed company of redskins and ne groes, fled from his blazing camp as the troops advanced. Major Charles F. Barrett, in charge of the commissary, received hurry or ders by courier to send supplies and additional ammunition to the soldiers at the camp. Six men have been killed and a dozen wounded since the trouble be gan. This is the official. report, and it is generally believed many more of the negroes and Indians are killed. Crazy Snake, whose name is Chitti Harjo, and whose English name is Wilson Jones, is the leader of. the Snake band of Creek Indians. This band oif Creeks, unable to speak Eng lish, have never turned their faces from the old days, and the oki cus toms. SOUTHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY. Operating the Transylvania Railroad^ o'l (Eastern S|andard Time.) STATIONS. P M 4 05 5 20 5 31 5 36 5 -41 50 56 6 (2 10 6 15 6 80 « 44 6 51 6 55 01 19 45 Kidnapers Restore Willie Whitla. Cleveland, Ohio, 'Mar, 23.—Little Willie Whitla, who has caused the po lice of the entire country endless wor ry since he was kidnaped from school in Sharon, Pa., last Thursday, was re turned to his father at the Hollenden hotel here last night at 8:30 o’clock. Mr. Whitla admitted that he had paid $10,000 to the woman in a candy store, who acted for the kidnapers. Mr. Whitla believes the woman was an Italian, but refuses to disclose her identity. In compliance with an arrangement entered into between the kidnaped boy’s father and an agent of the kid napers here today, the boy was placed on a street car on the outskirts of the city and started to the hotel shortly after 8 o’clock. Florida Beach Auto Races. Daytona, Fla., Mar. 23.—With the firing of the pistol starting the Flori da stock car price class race this morning the seventh annual interna tional automobile races on Daytona beach began. The opening race will be followed by twenty-one events, contested on four days, the last event of the speed carnival being a bicycle race on Friday. It is expected that all sorts of au tomobile, motor cycle, aeroplane and bicycle records will be broken during the four day tournament. Central Tax Case Settled. Atlanta.—The long litigation which has been pending about seven years involving the state’s claim for taxes on 15,000 shares of the capital stock of the Western Railway of Alabama, owned by the Central of Georgia Rail way Company, was settled by the pay ment by the latter company of $225,- 000 in. satisfaction of all claims for taxes against this stock to date. One More Confederate Called Home/ Norfolk, Va.—Colonel William B. Lamb, aged 73, soldier, lawyer, editor, merchant and politician, died. He was best known as the “Hero of Fort Fisher,” in the confederate war, when in a siege of three days he held the fort near Wilmington, N. C., with 1,900 men against the attack of 10,000 fed eral troops on land and 600 guns on water. Around the World for Chicago Club. San Francisco, Cal., Mar. 12.—Pres ident Charles A. Comiskey, of the Chicago American League club, has announced that he will take his base ball team around the world after the season of 1911 is finished. The start will be made from San Francisco around Ootober 15, 1911. Coliseum at Louisville Burned. Louisville, Ky„ Mar. 12. ^The Coli seum was practically gutted by fire. The loss will be $75,000._ Near Beer Dealer Sentenced, the Limit Atlanta, Mar. 12.—The usual sen tence, a commitment to the higher court, a fine of $500, and a stockade sentence of thirty days, was laid on the head of Morris Cohen, soft drink dealer and grocer at 103 Decatur street, yesterday afternoon in the po lice court by Judge Broyles. Acid Forced Down Her Throat. Vincennes, Ind.—Mrs. Jessie Over ton Culbertson is dying, as the result of having carbolic acid forced down her throat and her jaws afterwards securely bound. She was found in a shed back of her home. Revived for a few seconds, she said: “A man and a woman dragged me into the woodshed and poured some thing down my throat.” One Killed in Wreck. Yorkville, S. C.—^A ’‘special train, consisting of two cars, on the Carolina and Northwestern railway, carrying about thirty Knights Templars from Chester to Yorkville, for a banquet, was wrecked. Fireman Frank Hard in, of Chester, jumped and was* killed. Several of the passengers were bruis ed, but none seriously hurt. . Vanderlip Raced Against Death. Chicago.—-Frank L. Vanderlip, pres ident of the National City Bank ol New York, broke all American rail road records, according to statements made by New York Central officials in an effort to reach the bedside ol his dying mother here, but he los-t the race with death by exactly 2S minutes. Mr. Vanderlip, in a special train, covered the distance from New York to Englewoodj a suburb of this city, in 15 hours and 5 minutes, and when he leaped madly from the train he was met with the announcement that his mother, Mrs. Char^tte L. Vander lip, had died. Liquor and Jealousy Caused Tragedy. Pittsburg, Pa.—^After firing two bul lets at his wife, pointing a revolver at his mother-in-law, when she at tempted to help her daughter, and trying vainly to get his little daughter out of a neighboring house that he hight kill her, Harry Smith, aged 31 years, sent a bullet through the brain of his 6-year-old son Russell, killing the boy instantly, and then shot him self through the head, dying in a few moments. Canned Ham KMIs Children. Deals Island, Md.—Two children of Hosea Webster, a merchant of this town, are dead as a result, it is thought, of ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating canned ham, and other members of the family are'in a crit ical condition, among whom are Mr. and Mrs. Webster and two daughters, Dorothy and Esther. Mrs. Mary Farmer Died in Electric Chair. Auburn, N. Y.—Mrs Mary Farmer who is to die in the electric chair in the state prison for the murder cl Mrs. Sarah Brennan, at Brovrnsville has made a statement, it v/as learned which she believes will exonerate her husband, who is also under seiitence of death for the same crime. .Fourth Day’s Argument in Cooper^ Sharp Trial. Nashville, Tenn., Mar. 12.—The fourth day . of the arguments in the Cooper-Sharp trial closed with Gen eral Washington, of the defense, in the middle of his argument, and two more* attorneys to follow him. The speaker laid special stress up on the social standing and breeding of the defendants, and declared that men of such families killed only in defense of life and honor. His speech was a masterpiece of oratory, and had a noticeable effect upon the jury. Negro Hero’s Memory Honopsd. Montgomery, Ala.—Remarkable hon ors were paid to the memory of Bet Goodwin, a negro hero, who v/as drowned in the Alabama river March 11, while trying to rescue two white men. The white men drowned witi him. Hundreds of white persons men, women and children, took part in the funeral services, and eight ca dets of a fashionable military high school served as pallbearers. Child Hung in Swin^;, Neck Broken. Flovilla, Ga.—The o-year-old daught er of William Castleberry, a promi nent farmer one mile beyond Indian -Springs, jv^as found hanging to a rope swing, suspended from a limb, with her neck broken. Suit to Dissolve Oil-Trust. St. Louis.—In the circuit court of the United States for the Eighth ju dicial circuit the suit of the federal government under the, Sherman anti trust law to dissolve the Standard Oil Company of' New Jersey was called. The judges who are hearing the argu ments are Willis Van Devanter, Wil liam C. Hook, Walter H. Sanborn and Elmer B. Adams. A M 8 U5 9 15 9 26 9 81 9 3<*. 9 45 9 61 9 57 10 05 10 10 10 25 10 39 10 4fi 10 50 10 56 11 14 11 40 Lv Asheville Ar Biltmore Heiidersonvilie Yale Hor>e Shoe , (Janiioii Etov^ab Blantyre.. 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Pittsburg, Pa.—Three persons were killed, two probably fatally hurt, and 15 others sustained injuries that ne cessitated their removal to theii homes, in a head-on collision between two electric cars on the Pittsburg and Butler street railway, near Bryant station. Aged Professor Dead. Oxford, Ga.—After an illness of foui weeks. Dr. John S. M