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BREVARD, NOBTH CAEOLINA, JULY 30.1909
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MANY Lm lOST
Volcano Thooglit To Be Extinct
Again In Actfttn.
300 ARE REPORTED DEAD
Following the Eruptfon of the Vol-
carK) There-Were Torrential Rains
Which Flooded the Country and
Caused Destruction of Property.
Victoria, B. C.—News was brougflt
by the Norwegian steamer Tricolor,
from Sourabaya,-Java, of disastrous^
earthquake on the west"^coast-of Sur
matra, the second largest island in
the Malay arohlpeligo. ^
According to the'^report received by
the Tricolor, 300 lives were lost.
The earthquak'e followed an erup
tion of Mount Korintji,^ a volcanic
peak, 12,400 feet higb ind inland 50
miles from Indrapura. Blount Ko-
rintji has long been supposed to be
an extinct volcano, its crater having
been filled with a large lak^. - '
Following the eruption of the 'toI*
cano and the earthquake, there were
torrential rains, flooding th4» rivers
and causing additional losses. T^e
disaster is said to be ene of the worst
that has ever occurred in Sumatra.
JUDGE HUDSON DIES.
One of Leading Members of South
Carolina Bar,
Greenville, S. C.—-Joshua HiJary
Hudson, of Bennettsville, for sixteen
years circuit judge of South Carolina
and to the day of his death one of
the leading legal men of the state,
died at the age of 77, at the residence
cf his dai^hter, Mrs. W. A. Williams,
of thifi eity. ' " . >
Judge Hudson was born in Chester,
this state, in 1832. He served with
distinction throughout the civil war,
attaining the rank of lieutenant colo
nel in the' Confederate afmy. After
his retirement from the circuit bench
in 1894, Judge Hudson devoted him
self with conspicuous ability to his
legal practice. In 1906 he served in
the state senate for one session.
COftPSE IH TRUNK.
-Murder Mystery is Pwezling the 'Pb-
llco 6?^ Lynn,' Mass.
Lynn, Mass.WA body, fully clothed
and believed to be that of an Arme
nian, was found packed In a tmnk
in a lodging house at 'No. 148 Liberty
street. The head was mutilated and
th^re was a bdUet. woiiiid over the
heart. ^‘ ^
In a pocket a bank book was found,
bearing the name of Minas K. Mori-
jian. The room was rented eight
weeks ago^ by-4‘’rank Jones, a shoe
factory workman, whoT, it is said, Had
not occupied it for several jiays.
The body was discovered by Mrs.
Bessie 'Rollins, the -lodging house
keeper, and lier husband;^ who had
found a-,stream of blood trickling
from^the bottom cf the trunk. The"
police were notified and search was
begun for Jones. On May 30 a new
trunk* was brought to the house for
Jones. In the bank book was a note
which said: : ^
“If anything happens to me notify
L. B. Adams, 388 Center street' Ja-
naica Plains/*
How long the body had been in the
trunk is not known.
VICTlMSJF STORM
Twenty Four Lives. Reported
lost In Texas.
night RIDERS ESCAPE.
3ix Men Break Jail at Dresden,
Tenn.
Nasbville, Tenn.—Six men have es
caped from the Weakley county jail
at Dresden, Tenn. Among those who
got away were Jeff Linder, O. D. El-
'^redge and John Rady, in jail on
charges of night riding. There were
•five othjer men in the prison charged
with night riding who refused to es-
c^ape. No trace of the missing men
’has been discovered.
I ' Killed by Elevator,
Birmingham, Ala.—H. B. Fitts,
white, foreman of stock house at the
No. 4. blast iron furnace of the^ Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Com
pany, at Bessemer, near here, was
killed by being caught by a runaway
elevator." Fitts was horribly man
gled. The deceased is survived by
.widow and several children.
^ Boy Ground to Pieces. ;
Birmingham, Ala.—-Houston Oury,
14 years old, with four others of hfs
age, T^as caught on a trestle near
Pratt City-and ground to pieces
Frisco passenger train, out of Birna-
Ingham. The companions of Oury es
caped by leaping to the abutments of
the bridge.
Will Move Plant. 3
Birmingham, Ala.—President Has-
slnger, of th« Southern Iron and
Steel Company, ■ has oflicially , an
nounced that the steel rad,' wire and
rail mills, which cost origlijalfy more
than a million and a quarter dollars,
would be removed to Gadsdeh, forty
miles north of here. The citizens of
Gadsden contribute to the removal,
furnish free water and give an ex
emption of taxes for a number of
years. The industry employs one
thousand men when in operation.
Strange Disease Prevalent. ^
Lake Charles; La.—Charbon, a
deadly and lostthsome disease which
afflicts cattle ^d \i^hich has kiJled
thousands of valdabie animals In
Louisiana, has attacked huma^.
CERFEW LAW FOR MOBILE.
^Id H\)Id'Ups and Robberies- Have
Terrorized the City.
Mobile, Ala.—A curfew law has
been established by the police affect
ing negroes and suspicious white
men as the result of a series of bold
hold-ups and robberies of white per
sona.
<The shooting and perhaps fatal
wounding of Edward Yulestra by two
men has terrorized the city. Sixteen
arrests of suspects have already been
made by the police. A perfect drag
net has been established by the po
lice In ,theirr e^prtg to^ capture the
men. Seven hold-ups, all under the
glare of street arc lights, have caused
unusual activity on the part of the
police.
RECORD FLIGHT MADE.
Orville Wright’s Aeroplane Goes
54 1-2 Miles Per Hour.
Washington—In two short flights
In the Wright aeroplane at Fort
Meyer, Va., Orville Wright closely ap
proached the world’s aeroplane re
cord, attaining an average velocity
of 54 1-2 miles an hour as computed
by Wilbur Wright, who held the stop
watch on the machine for half a
dozen rounds of the course.
<}n the first flight the air craft re
mained aloft only one minute and
thirty-nine seconds, the aviator being
forced to descend by losing a cog
wheel on the magneto, after making
his second round of the course.
MEN FIGHT DUEL.
Shooting ^Affray Takes Place at Ir-
wlnton.
Irwlnton, Ga.—-In a duel here. Jack
McConnell and George F. Hatchfield
were seriously wounded. The caifie
of the shooting is not known.
THE DAMAGE I'’ $1,000,000
Nearly Thirty Towns RepiSrt ^+4eayy
Losses^—Fof% Peopfe Are fnjared—
Communication H&s Been Re
stored.
Houston, Texas.—Other than to
add several hundred , thousand* to the
monetary loss, disp^ches from the
storm-swept eoas^ sections of Lou
isiana and Texas-i^nd Into the interior
for a hundred mi^s add but little to
that already tol^ of the hurricane,
which' rivaled In^ntensity the storm
of J.900. The number killed is con
servatively estimfe^ at twenty^^ve,
those more" or seriously jlijured
twice as many and the property loss
Is conservatively estfmated at approx
imately a million^ dollars. While be
lated reports may add to the list of
casualties and property damage,
other than to is^^ted points, commu
nication has be^ restored.
Late dispatcher add the towns of
Rock^Island,. Wha,rton and Weimer to
those^ which suffered to an extent
from the sweep of the wind. At Rock
Island nine "of the largest buildings
were either razed or partially
wrecked, the damage being estimated
at $75,000. Fifty houses-were blown
down at Weimer and the property
loss will approximate $100,000. The.
following is a list of towns from
which reports of the greatest damage
have come:
Galvest(», Bay City, Velasco, An-
gjeton, Whaston, ColuMbia, CoUlm-
bus, Palacios^ Eagle Lake, Weimer,
New XJlma, Schukenburg, Allenton,
Beasley, Kendleton, Sublime, Glldden,
Markham, LaGrange, Bostrop, El
Gampo, Yoakum, Garwood, Matthews,
Bonus, Waelder, Flatonla and Austin.
While the city of Galveston was
held safe against the fury of the
storm by the new government $2,000,-
000 sea wall, far out In the gulf, on
Tarpon fishing pier, 7 miles from the
city, where the storm whipped over
the jetty into the bay, ten persons
were washed from the rocky promon
tories into the gulf. Those drowned
were members of a fishing party and
employees of the Tarpon pier, ma
rooned the jetty.
In Galveston, and vicinity not a sin
gle life is believed to have been sac
rificed, but the material loss Is
thought to be quite extensive. The
hurricane swept .j^e entire gulf#€oast
with an intensity and viciousness
that has seldom been equalled in a
country where destructive storms are
not unusual.
It had its origin on' the Atlantic
coast and swept westward and south
ward, devastating the entire gulf
coast even as far south as Matagorda
Bay..
Postoffice Promotions.
Washington — Announcement is
made at the postoflace department of
promotions in positions of automatic
grade at the thirty postofflces having
the largest gross receipts on July 1.
Atlanta, which was in the number,
gets’ the following promotions: Five
clerks, $1,100 to $1,200; fifteen clerks,
$1,000 to $1,100; two clerks $800 to
$900; one carrier each from $600 to
$800; from $800 to $900> from $1,0^
to $l,100>and two carriers from ^,-
100 to $1,200. y .. .
Woman for Congrejss. •
Denver, Colo^—Tie women of Colo
rado are to nmke a stubborn effort
to send one of ^*!r sex to congress
two years hence. Such was Ihe an
nouncement made to the visiting de
legates from the International Coun
cil of Women, by one who spoke for
the women's associations in the state..
Kai^s FlghU Locker Chibs. ,
To^ka, katt.-^two^ suit# were
filed against tfia Topeka Club, one of
the most fashionable in the state, ^
test thft right to keep Hqnora 4n
ers at th<i cUib The purpoa®
is to test featoe
absolute ^rdWbfUctt kiw.
TWO DEAD, OTHERS INJURED.
Cloudburst Caught* Picnic Party In
Canyon.
Boulder, Col.—-Two are dead and
two seriously injured as the result of
a cloudbufst that deluged Two Mile
Canyon north of Boulder.
The victims were members of a
t^icnlc party, Wh^n the rain began
to fall the party sought shelter under
a huge boulder. Presently^ torrent
two feet deep swept down the can
yon. The walls of the canyon were
precipitous and It was with great dif
ficulty that they found places of
safety. \ .
Six were able to gain shelter, but
in aiding their companions Dicker-
man and CarllsTfe were swept down
with‘the torrent _
• VVlrcck on Coast Lin®. ■'
Ocala, Fla.—Four cars of an excur
sion trin on the Atlantic Coast Line
t’irned tfver Ay& nalles north of, here,
while the train was running 30 miles
an hour. Two^tnen were ba^ In
jured, and a score of others, were
bruised or cut by flying glass. Ed
ward Smith suffered a crushed and
broken arm,'while Oscar Kinnebrew»s
leg was mashed, and will probably
have to be amputat^. Both reside
In GalnesvlUe, Fla^
FOUR PERSONS KILLED.
Carriage Struck By Freight Train at
Columbus, Miss. : '
Columbus, Miss.—^A Mobile and
Ohio freight'train backed into a two-
seated surrey in which were seated
Mrs. J. M. Holloway, her sister, Mrs.
George Meyers, of Millport, Ala., and
two daughters, aged 3 and 5 respect
ively, as the vehicle wag going over
a crossing- near the water tank ^re,
and all four occupants were killed.
J. M. Holloway, a prospeous young
farmer who lives five mlles_veast of
Columbus, was driving the team but
escaped unhurt.
Mrs. Myers was visitinp: her sister,
Mrs. Holloway. They were coming
to Columbus to take the 7 o’clock
train for Mrs. Myers’ home at Mill
port. The tragedy was caused by the
train's sudden' backing so the engine
could take a position at the tank.
Holloway saw he lacked time to cross
the track and jumped to back the car
riage and let' the caboose strike the
hors^ instead of the surrey.
SITUATION IS SERIOUS.
Spain Seems to be Faclftg Crisis In
Regard to Morocco.
Madrid.-—The situation in Morocco
and at home is hourly growing worse.
A dispatch from Barcelona says that
a battalion of troops about to be em
barked for JMelilla revolted and
turned their weapons against their
officers. They were overpowered by
other troops quartered near by, but
it Is feared that their example wUl
be followed by other regimants, wfiic'i
are expecting to be dispatched
against the tribesmen.-
Little, definite news Is being glyed
out from. the war ministry In fegafct
to the fighting In Morocco. It Is
known that the Spanish troops under
General Marina" have been under fire
around Mellila for about ten days and
it is believed that the government is
suppressing news of heavy losses.
TRAGEDY IN HOTEL.
Woman Is Killed by Supposed Bur-
gN*r at Hot Springs, Ark.
Hot Springs, Ark.—^Wlth her hus
band a witness to the attack, but
too enfeebled to aid In the struggle,
an unknown man, presumably a bur
glar, unable to release himself from
the ‘^•asp of Mrs. Elie P. Dorrence,
of Helena, Mont., shot and killed the
woman in her apartments at a local
hotel.
Mr. Dorrenc6, when the stot was
fired, staggered through the dark
ened room and caught his wife as gfie
fell. After briefly telling of the oc
currence, when attaches of the hotel
reached the scene, Dorrence col
lapsed.
Mrs. Dorrence was a state officer
of the Order of the Eastern Star ot
Montana.
Five suspects have been arrested.
Reunion of Veterans,'
Atlanta.—The forty-fifth annnrer-
sary of the Battle- of Atlanta was
commemorated by the survivors of
the Forty-second Georgia, who met at
the county court house with other
Confederate veterans as the guests of
Atlanta’s mayor, Robert F. Maddox.
The Abasement of the court house was
crowded with old soldiers and the
features of the occasion were the ad
dress of Mayor Maddox, and an Invita
tion-from Clark Howell for the vete
rans to be his guests at a special bar
becue for the^m on July 22, next year,
on the b^ittlefield of Peachtree Creek.
County Govmimait*.
Representative—G. W. Wilson.
Clerk Superior Court—^T. T. Lof tisL
Sheriff and Tax Collector—C. G. Kilpat'^
rick, '
Treasnier—Z. W. Nicholls.
Re^^rof Deeds-^B. A. Gillespie.
Coroner—Dr. W. J. Wallis.
Commissioners—^W. M. JHenry, Ch'n;: G.
T. Lyday; W. E. Galloway.
Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen^
derson.
Physician—^Dr. Goode Cheatha^i.
AttOTHey—Gash & Galloway.
Town Govammientf.
Mayor—W. E. Breese, jr.
Board of Aldermen—^T. H. Shipman. J*
M. Kilpatrick,^. M. Mitchell, A. H- King,
E. W. Carter.-
Marshal—J. A. Galloway.
Clerk and Tax Collector—T. H. Gallo
way.
Treasurer—:T. H. Shippian.
Health Officcr—Dr. C. W. Hunt.
Attorney—W. W. Zachary.
Regular meetings—First Monday night
in each month.
JProfes^hol Cords.
W. B. DUCKWOK.TH,
ATTO RN EY-AT-LA W,
Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building.
GASH <a GALLOWAY
LAWYERS.
Will practice in all the courts.
Rooms 9 and 10, McMlnn Block.
SOUTHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY,
Operatic^ the Transylvania. B&ihx>ad.
SUMISIER SCHMDUXiE
' Effective May 30, 1909"
Time Table No. 5
No. 6.
Dally.
0'S
Eastern Standard Time
STATIONS
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Yale
(7 48
5 21
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(■7 44
5 26
f 9 31
f7 39
f4 49
35
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s7 83
S4 43
f5 41
f 9 46
17 28
f4 81
s6 47
s 9 52
s7 21
s4 88
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fiO 00
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f7 13
f4 23
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F4 ^61
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sJO 15
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flO 29
f6 48
f3 58
f6 33
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f6 42
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f6 SO
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11 30
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6 00
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Near-Beer Caused Killing.
- Memphis, Tenn.—A controversy
over a can of near-beer Is declared
to have brought about the killing of
an unidentified man who was found
lying on a sidewalk In a dying con
dition, according to the statement of
Tobe Tinsley, who has surrendered
to the police and declared that he
shot the .man in defense of his own
life. Several were participating in
the beverage, Tinsley states, and hr
rebuked the stranger for partaking-
too oftem Then came a quarrel, he
declares, the stranger drawing a
knife, and he fired.
Tommy—^Pop, what Is the office that
seeks the man?
-Tommy’s Pop—The tax office, my
son.—Philadelphia Reco^
* ‘f’ ’ stop on signal. ‘ ‘s’ ’ Regular stop.
For tickets and full information apply to
E. W. CARTER, Ag’t.
J. H. WOOD, Dist. Pass. Ag’t, Asheville, N C.
Summer Excursion Round-Trip
Tickets
Now on sale via Southern Bailway,
Week-end to Asheville $1.65—^On
sale all trains Saturdays and Sun
day mornings. Good returning
Mondays.
Summer excursion to Asheville
$2.05.—On sale daily. Good re-v
turning October 31s^. - s'
Other'points on application.
J. H. Wood, D. P. A.
E. W. Carter, T. A.
Change in Handling of Meaphis-Ashwrille
Sleeping Gar Line.
Effective Sunday, June. 20th.
Under new larrangement leaves
Asheville westbound daily 2:05 p.
m., arriving Memphis 7;3Q a. m.
Eastbound leaves Memphis daily
8:15 p. m.j arriving Asheville 1:35
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