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4 vol.. XXVI. RALEIGH, N. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 1905. No. 40 TAR HEEL VOTERS HEAR SECRETARY TAFT The Distinguished Visitor Greeted by Large and Enthusiastic Audiences. SPEECHES MADE IN SIX TOWNS lion. William H. Taft Has Triumph ant Tour Through North Carolina. ;re'ted by Tremendous Crowds at Stntesville, Salisbury, Lexington, High Point and Greensboro State's Industries Would be Badly Hurt Without Protective Tariff, He Says in Salisbury Speech People Urged to Vote as They Think So J As to Wipe Out Sectional Lines. Hon. J. Elwood Cox and Big Party of Republicans Accompany the Dis tinguished Visitor Through the State Secretary Shaw at Greens boro. Hon. William H. Taft, the Repub licaa candidate for President, made several speeches in North Carolina last Saturday and was greeted by large and enthusiastic crowds all along the line. He spoke at States ville, Salisbury, Lexington, High Point, Greensboro, and Reidsville, the principal speeches of the day being at Salisbury and Greensboro. Mr. Taft and his party traveled on a special train over the Southern's road, and while in this State, the conductor of the train was Mr. T. J. Iloseman, Republican candidate for the Legislature in Rowan County, and the engineer was Mr. Harry El more, Republican candidate for Cor poration Commissioner. The Taft special came into North Carolina from Bristol, Tennessee, the first stop in this State being at States ville at 7.30 Saturday morning, where he was introduced by Hon. J. Elwood Cox, Republican candidate for Governor. Notwithstanding the speaking was at an unusually early hour, Mr. Taft was greeted by a large and enthusiastic audience who paid strict attention to his speech. Speech at Salisbury. At Salisbury where Secretary Taft was introduced by Mr. A. H. Price, he said: "Ladies and gentlemen: You will excuse me If I use a conversational tone. I have not any more to give you. I have been talking so long and so far that my voice is spread out and very thin, and if some of the notes go up above the usual reg ister, I hope you will pardon me. "It is a great pleasure to come into North Carolina. I have stud ied the statistics of North Carolina and her marvelous growth with in tense interest. I know a good many of your North Carolinians, and every time a man from North Carolina came into my office in Washington when I was Secretary of War, he had not been there more than five minutes before he put his hand in his pocket pulled out a paper and began to read, and what he read was the statistics of the growth of busi ness of North Carolina, so that it impressed itself upon me. For in stant vnnr factory nroducts in 1900 were 185,000,000. In five years thfv haA Increased, in 1905, to $142,000,000. In 1905 you had em ployed 36,000 persons in your cotton mills. Your cotton manufactures had Increased from $9,000,000 in 1890 to 128,000,000 in 1900, to 847,000,000 In 1905; also that you are second in rank of manufacture of tobacco: you are third in the rank of manufacturers of lumber and timber products. You make in one of your cities in this State nearly as much as they make In Grand Rap ids, Mich., in furniture. I am giv ing you these figures merely to point out that unless we continue to have a protective tariff, most of these In dustries will be destroyed, and the wealth that you have accumulated has been accumulated by reason of the policy insisted upon by the Republican party in respect to the tariff. And yet how many electoral votes have you cast in North Caro lina for the Republican party? Somebody may have a better mem' ory than I have, but I don't recal a single one. I ask you, my friends whether there is any reason under the existing circumstances why. you believe in Republican policies you ought not to vote the Republi can ticket? You have a State ticket and a Congressional ticket that is unexceptional. I am not going to speak about the national ticket be cause I have a personal relation to it. But the national ticket is a Re publican ticket and pledged to carry out Republican policies. I submit to those who have stood in the Dem ocratlc party in North Carolina that there is absolutely no reason now why if they favor Republican poli cies in the nation they should not luc iuinit. aow It IS a great pleasure and honor to me to be the first Republican candidate for the presidency who has come to North Carolina In a campaign for that great office. I have come here because I deeply sympathize with the Sooth. I am anxious that it should take place at the Council board of the nation. I am anxious that you should exercise the influ ence through your able and great men, of whom you have many, In the same way that Ohio and Indiana and New York and Massachusetts do. But, my dear friends, if you are going simply from historic tradi tion to keep voting the Democratic ticket because you think that your fathers voted that way, then you are bound to stay on the outside and look in at others enjoying the power n the executive councils of the na tion. It is not possible otherwise. Human nature and party politics are such as to make that necessary, and appreciate the homogeniety of the Southern people, I know their family tradition. I know their conserva tism, and their adherence to some thing just out of respect to their an cestors; but on the other hand they are an enterprising, progressive courageous people in everything but politics, and I think it Is time that they began in politics to show the same enterprise that they do in man ufacturing furniture and in reaching out to develop the enormous wealth of North Carolina. Should Show Some Enterprise in Politics as in Manufacturing. ' It is time for North Carolina to shed the old historic political tra dition, to come out in the open and support a ticket I mean a State icket, than which no party ever put up a better one, whether a Democrat or a Republican, and if you do, if you succeed in this election you have the satisfaction of knowing that there are mighty few Democrats in North Carolina that are going to set up all night and worry over the result. "The Spanish war united the' North, and the South In a way that nothing else could, where we shed a common blood, where we fight for common flag there the parts are welded, and what I am speaking of now is not the union spirit, for that I think we have. I am speaking now of the political union. In the Phil ippines we did not recognize any dif ference between the North and the South. We appointed men from the South and from the North, Demo crats and Republicans, and we were there a united country politically In dealing with the Philippines. What should like to bring about , here, and it would be a result in which I should have the lntensest pride if I could be the humble instrument in bringing the States, North and South, closer together in one political union, as they now have, I believe consci entiously, one political creed. I be lieve that I am going to be elected without North Carolina, but I tell you I would take lots of pride if I could only have the Old North State behind me in the election. It would be creating a political change, rev olution, peaceful revolution from which would date great political progress in this country. Shall We Return to Prosperity. "My friends, Ihave not the time to talk longer, I am like Joe in the Bleak House, I am just going on, on, on. I hope after the 3rd of Novem ber I can stay quiet for a little while, but just now I have got to move on. would like to talk to you at length about the political issues of the day. I would like to point out to you that we are getting over a panic, a finan cial depression, and we are just trembling in the balance now to see whether that depression is going to continue four years or whether we are going to return to the prosper- ty we had a year ago, and the ques tion is going to be largely determined by the result of this election, and I ask you as man to man whether you think that if you were an investor of money for other people or for yourself you would have more confi dence and more certainty in the bus iness future if the Republican ticket is elected than you would if the Democratic ticket, with Mr. Bryan at its head, is elected? I have no words of enmity or criticism for Mr. Bryan except that I find myself never agree ing with him on any economic the ory, and I am bound to say that his experiments for the last sixteen years have been such that it has not taken mora than four years generally to demonstrate that at the end of those four years nobody agrees with his economic theories at all. Under these circumstances I submit that to put a gentleman of that sort, able as he is orator as he Is, persuasive as he is with his eloquence, into the .White House and into the Executive chair, there to exercise that economic and political Judgment which has been found so faulty in the past, is to risk your business future, and is, fear, to continue the depression so as to give us a repetition of the timet between 'S3 and '17. and there fore I appeal to you North Carolin ians, without regard to party, to tote as you think, to rot for the ad ministration that you believe will give the country such prosperity." Arter leaving Salisbury the next stop was at Lexington where the dis tinguished speaker was introduced by Hon. Zeb. Vance Walser. At High Point Main street was fall of people eager to hear Mr. Taft. The factories and most of the bnsi ness houses suspended business while he was in the town. Hon. J Elwood Cox spoke of him to his home people. Secretary Taft spoke in highest terms of Mr. Cox, the Re publican nominee for Governor. He said: "It is a great pleasure to be here and especially la it a great pleasure to be presented by the next Governor of North Carolina, your friend, your neighbor, and one of your leading men. The Republican party of North Carolina has honored itself by select ing Mr. Cox as its leader here, and I believe it is an augury of coming success. " The special reached Greensboro a few minutes ahead of schedule time, and the reception committee was no where In sight. Judge Adams went out to look for his reception commit tee. After waiting some time Secre tary Taft left the train and was mak ing his way out through the crowd when the committee arrived. The arival of the train bearing Secretary Taft and Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, ex Secretary of the Treasury, and Sen ator Smith, of Michigan., was herald ed by the firing of a salute of twenty one guns by the Pain Fireworks Company. A procession of twenty gaily-dec orated automobiles headed by mount ed marshals and a band, conveyed the party up the Btreet, Mr. Taft going direct to the Grand Opera House and Mr. Shaw to the Audito rium. Mr. Taft's Speech. It was announced to the crowd at the station that Mr. Taft's principal speech would be delivered in the Grand Opera House, and the house was well filled when the candidate and his party arrived. Mr. Taft was given a great ovation when he enter ed the building, the people rising to their feet and cheering lustily. After being presented to the audi ence by Chairman Adams, Mr. Taft said: Ladies and Gentlemen: I must apologize to you for breaking into the plans of the committee and ask- ng that I be given a hearing in this opera house. There are two reasons why I want to be heard. The first is, would like lo be heard here, and the second is that I have a very pleasant and fond association with this opera house. Here it was that I delivered the first political speech that I ever delivered south of Mason and Dixon's line. What I said in that speeech has been sometimes misrepresented, but I am prepared to stand by every thing that I said in that speech today. There are some things that I would like to recall. I said that it was important for the Republicans of North Carolina and of the South generally to get together and make a strong unit party for the purpose of carrying elections at the polls. That they must give up factional strife with reference to Federal of fices, and go in and work for success at the polls, and then the offices would come. Now the Republican party of North Carolina has followed that advice and they are standing to day shoulder to shoulder to carry this old North State into the Republican column. Second, I said, my friends, that if the Republicans of North Carolina wished success that they would deserve it, and the way they would deserve it was by nominating men who would command the support of every good citizen of their high standing and integrity and they have nominated just such a ticket. You see our Democratic friends in North Carolina have to have everything made easy for "them to get into the Republican party. Now you have done that, and I am looking forward with great hopeful ness to the result. I admire and have a deep sympathy with the Southern people. No one can read their history, going back to the civil war, without having an intense ad miration for their courage, their per sistence, their warlike character and their patriotism as they understand their duty to their country. No one can be an American without longing to have their support and their sym pathy and their interest in our com mon government. The Spanish war wiped out much of the past and the common sharing of losses of life and limb and the fighting - under the same flag against Spain brought us together there are some political dif ferences, and I have an amibiton to be an humble instrument in wiping out those differences, so that Repub licans all have the same chance south of Mason and Dixon's line as they do north of that. I don't want a certainty. Politics would not be fun if every State voted the Re publican ticket always, but what I would like to have Is a fair show the transfer of the contest over the whole country. Don't have eight or nine States marked black on the po litical map and stay black forever no matter what happens. If you want influence, you have fot to have it un derstood that you are exercising in telligence in the discharge of your political duty. I suppose this has been preached before to the South, but I believe that today it has more (Continued on Page 2.) JAPAN FOR PEACE The Americsa Fleet Given a Routing Reception. WAR CLOUDS HAVE VANISHED Admiral Sperry Presented to the Em peror and Receive m Most Cordial Welcome The Emperor Stated That His Constant Aim and Desire Waa to Cement the Ilea of Amity Between the United States and Japan. Washington. Octil ?0. Cable ad vices from Rear . Aduilial Sperry, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic fleet, now visiting Japan, conveyed the information that the Emperor paid the visiting Americans an un usual honor by attending the lunch eon given to the American officers. As a further evidence of his friend ship for the United States, the Em peror violated another custom by commanding Admiral S perry to con vey to President Roosevelt a mes sage of good will and an assurance that it is his desire to cement the perfect accord between the two coun tries. The Emoeror's In response to one from President Roosevelt t "Immediately after the audience. the Emperor present in person, with the Princess, gave a luncheon to our Ambassador, the flag officers and cap tains of the fleet, all the Ministers of State, and the most distinguished officers of the Japanese army and navy. The presence of the Emperor was a most unusual and marked honor, the reception to the officers and men most cordial, generous, suc cessful and satisfactory in every way. "(Signed) SPERRY." LETTER FROM BILK INS. More Excitement in the Western Part of the State Circus Adver tising Why Some Preachers Go to Circuses Politicians Are Busy and Why. Correspondence of the Caucasian-! Enterprise. Bilkinsville, N. a, Oct. 12, 1908. Well, they iz grate excitement in this part ov the moral vineyard once more. We air goin' ter hev another circus in Statesville. Hit will be thar termorrer in awl hits glory. Hit! will be the gratest ever seen, will take "five grate long trains" ter pull hit erlong, an' they will be 'eight hundred employes" an' fifty ov the funniset clowns" in the world." The exsitement we had a few weeks ergo won't touch this at awl. Then only a few ov the preachers an' dea cons an' erbout ninety-nine out ov a hundred ov the people went ter see the circus. The preachers j is t went ter see that none ov their flocks wuz thar lookin' at the "immoral bare back ridin' " an' sich, an' the folks they went ter see if their preacher, Bro. Jones or Bro. Smith wuz thar, an' so the whole outfit got thar an' seed the circus frum the nnloadin' ov the trains till they wuz loaded er- gin, an a lot ov the deacons an' sich like stood rite up close ter the rings ter see that nothin' wrong went on. An' the children! Ov course they wuz thar, even children that wuz not over six weeks old. They air awl goin' ergin termorrer awl exsept me. I am the only real sinner tney iz in this whole country an I am goin ter stay erway frum the circus an' try ter be gude. An' they air awlso havin' picknicks The last legislature, including' the extra seshun, raised the very dickens an' the pollytishuns don't know ex ackly how much devilment wuz done an' they don't know how the boys air goin' ter vote this time, so they air havin' awl sorts ov perlitical din ners erround erbout an' air sendln printed invitations ter each person in reach, high an' low, old an' young, male an' female, iellin' them that they air especially Invited ter the picknick, an, ter cum an' bring everybody else, an hev a gude time. The solum truth iz that we dyma- krats air oneazy erbout the outcum an' income ov this eleckshun, an' we air doin awl we kin ter pacify ther folks, fer we wish ter fool them sum more In fack, a whole lot more. An' we air busy rite now doin' the Job, fer hit will be too late after the 4th of November. If the devil iz any smarter than we pollytishuns I don't blame folks fer bein' afeared ov him, fer we air slick persimmons, an' we don't care who knows hit. We air so good that they think we air not bad. But the real truth iz that we air so bad that they air fool ed ter death an' they put in awl their time a-huntin' the holes that we crawl out ov. - If any ov us dymakrat pollytishuns would do rite an carry out our promises times would be so gude that the folks would become wild an begin ter kill each other fer amusement. Why, Bill Bryan erlone hez promised ennuff gude things ter ruin the country. That lz the rea son we dymakrats don't carry out the promises made before the eleckshun, an' I claim that hit lz reason ennuff. Wliy ruin the whole country jist ter hev hit sed ov yon that you did what you promised? No, a thousand times no, we will not blast the future ov this co an try by earrrtn' oat an promise made fer campane purposes Better lire under Rtpublikla rale fererer than ter carry out a single promise, made duria' the cam pan. An If Bill Bryan ft eleekted. IH guarantee that not a single pro nil will be carried oat. Hit will uke him an awl hi family aw! ov the four years ter git us pollytlahuas fix ed Bp in gude, warm Jobs, fer we air hungry, so hungry that a little job in ashlneton would ta&ta like blackberry pie an' honey JUt erbout now. Some or these folks up in the mountains air askin why the polly tlshuns down erboat Raleigh don't cam up here an show them how ter farm sum more. I tell them that the farmers that live in Raleigh, the perlitical farmers, air doin' that work In close counties this year. They think they hev Iredell an' other counties in that seckshun safe by hook or crook, an' they "thro wed a tub ter the whale" ax the old sayin' goes when they erlowed the folks in Alexander an' Wilkes counties ter still their fruit into brandy this year. By the next eleckshun they hope ter hev sum other skeem fixed up ter bring Alexander an' Wilkes over the bridge. But they had bet ter hev a gude skeem fer Wilkes an' Alexander air powerful contrary counties. When you touch some people's pockets you touch their hearts.. When you touch a man's or chard in Wilkes an' Alexander you touch hiz heart. An' I don't blame em much fer they hev sum mity nice apple trees, an the water iz Jist cool an' pure ennuff ter make gude brandy. But don't think that the people in Alexander an' Wilkes air foolish erbout a little brandy. Why they hev plenty ov hit lyin' eround in brush heaps an' in rocky caves ter last them fer years ter cum. They hev bin gittln' ready fer the flood ov peanut pollyticks awl the time an' they air now in gude shape ter stand a long seige. Why they iz brandy in Alex ander an' Wilkes that 1 so old that hitswhiskers hev turned grey. Pro hibitionists who can't control their appetites az well az they kin their ballots air hereby notified that they iz lots ov room in Alexander an' Wilkes an' the people will give them a hearty welcome. Plenty ov room fer gude skule houses and churches in both counties an' plenty ov or chards kin be planted. Az ever, ZEKE BILKINS. THE CHARGES AGAINST BENSON POSTMASTER. UNTRUE. Democrats Fail to Make Good in Their Charges Against Postmaster Langdon Did Not Withhold the Mall A Campaign Canard Nail ed Good and Fast. Some days ago the News and Ob server printed an article with scare headline, copied from the Smithfield Herald, stating that the postmaster at Benson was holding back Demo cratic literature, would not distribute it to the public, and was selling newspapers intended for subscribers as old papers. The postmaster at Benson says the charge Is a false hood. One of his clerks in the of fice states that in disposing of some old papers some days ago three pack ages of the North Carolinian were by mistake thrown away, or sold with other papers to a colored person. He says that after papers have stayed in an office for one month or more they are then disposed of in some means, which the law allows them. He soon discovered his mistake and went out to get the papers back. A Democrat had secured them and did not want to give them up. The postmaster at Benson asked that an inspector be sent there, which was done, and it is suffice to say that Mr. Langdon, the postmaster, is still holding his job. The following affidavits which appeared in Tuesday's Issue of the Smithfield Journal, explain them selves, and shows that the postmaster was in no way to blame: State of North Carolina County of Johnston. ss. Lucien Norris, being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say: That he is a resident of the town of Benson, N. C, and is a patron of the postofflce at that place, and has been during the entire term of ser vice of Robert D. Langon, present postmaster. He further deposes and says that he never intentionally said or implied that said Langdon or any one connected with the postofflce either destroyed or otherwise Im properly disposed of any mail matter belonging to him. He believes that said Langdon is an honest, compe tent official, and in every sense a citizen and man of high character. That he further deposes and says that regarding an affidavit published in the Smithfield Herald under date of October 16, 1908, and copied in other papers regarding .the alleged unlawful disposal of a copy of the North Carolinian marked and Intend ed for him, he says that he is not now, nor ever has been, a subscriber to said paper; that on October 15, 1908. he was accosted on the public street by one F. H. Brooks, who ask ed him to accompany him to the of fice of one O.. A. Barber, which he did, and while in said office Brooks asked him what papers he had been getting. Deponent answered that he was a subscriber to the Raleigh Can casian. and the , Benson Spokesman, both of which he received regularly; also that he received owaakmally a copy of the SaitkSeid Journal, lie farther asked ts It 1 had ret&aed or declined to take any coptas of t& North Carolinian from the poste&c between September lTih. and Octo ber 13. 10. aad 1 replied that 1 had not. Said Brooks wrote dew Biy replies and asked ta it 1 was wUUng to sign that statement and it 1 at milling to swear to the facta, and 1 aald I waa and did. 1 did not know the parpoa of it all, and certai&ly did not mean, or did 1 ay, anything that coald be construed as meaning any reflection on Postmaster Langdon or the man agemeut ot the postosace, nor did 1 know or think that it would be pub lished In the papers. Sworn and subscribed to this lth day ot October. L. NOIIUIS. Dated at Benson. N. C, this ltth day ot October, lies. E. F. MOOUE. J. P. State of North Carolina County ot Johnston. ss. Robert D. Langdon being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say: That the statement made in the af fidavit of one J. W. Holmes, and pub lished in the Smlthncld Herald under date ot October 16, 1908. to the ef fect that said Holmes saw P. liawley while postmaster at Benson, N. C, four years ago, destroy Democratic literature two days after election day, November, 1904, is false and untrue, for the reason that said Haw- ley retired from the postofflce at Ben son on October 11, 1904, or twenty six days before the date sworn to by said Holmes, as can be proven by reference to the records of the U. S. Postofflce Department. That affidavit of said Holmes is false and untrue in the particular that when deponent first demanded the papers of Holmes, he claimed not to have them, that they were in the hands of J. T. Ellington. Before making a report to the U. S. Post- office Department, I decided to make a demand on said J. T. Ellngton, and to ascertain his whereabouts, went about twenty minutes later to said Holmes, who said that Ellington was at Newton Grove and that he himself (Holmes) had the papers and not Ellington, and that he .would not give them up, despite my warning that he was violating the law In re straining United States mail. Sworn and subscribed to this 19th day of October, 1908. R. D. LANGDON. Dated at Benson, N. C, this 19th day of October, 1908. E. F. MOORE, J. P. State of North Carolina County of Johnston. ss. Carl B. Ryals, being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say: That he is employed as a clerk at the postofflce at Benson, N. C, under R .D. Langdon, postmaster, and has been for the past seven months. That on October 13, 1908, a negro woman called at the postofflce and asked to purchase some old papers, we having often on hand undelivered newspa pers, which, under the law, we hold for thirty days and then dispose of. We had just gone over a large lot of the North Carolinian, a newspaper published at Raleigh, assorting them, many belonging to other postofflces. others unknown, etc., and by an er ror I picked up three bundles of these and handed them to the wo man, receiving from her five cents. Mr. Langdon was otherwise engaged at the time and had absolutely noth ing to do with the matter personally. Later Postmaster Langdon asked me what papers I had sold, and upon in vestigation. I found that I had dis posed of North Carolinians on which the time limit had not expired. He told me to go at once and demand them of the woman, and I started to do so. I inquired of a negro boy who was present, her address, and he told me if I wanted those papers to go to Mr. J. W. Holmes, as he had bought them of the woman. I then so reported to Mr. Langdon. The fact that such papers were sold was entirely mjr own,: fault and was due to the large accumulation of pa pers at the time. Sworn and subscribed to this 19th day of October. 1908. CARL B. RYALS. Dated at Benson, N. C, this 9th day of October, 1908. E. F. MOORE, J. P. DESPONDENT, SALISBURY MAN KILLS HIMSELF Without a Job, He Take Overdose of Opium in Woods on Edge of City. Salisbury. N. C, Oct. 19. Des pondent and without a job, William H. Blank, aged fifty years, killed himself here tonight by taking an overdose of opium. His body was found in a piece of woods near the city limits. A note In his Docket said: "Dear wife, I am gone. Will not return. Take good care of the children." and was signed William H Blank Six Deaths Doe to Colorado Snow Storm Denver, Col., Oct. 19. Six acci dental deaths are traceable to a snow storm that prevailed In Color ado Sunday. Besides, seven persons sustained serious injuries in railroad collisions and in coming in contact with live wires. r.iURDERJJWVYEnS Litest Victims ot Mht Rkkrs iaTe&sesstc ONE RIDDLED WITH BULLETS CVt. It Z. Taylor. Aged y Year, and C4Ja Qweatra Raa&la, of Trenton, Tsu, TaluM IVa Ho tel by Marked Urm Ilsniln's IVxty Found Itaagtng From a Tre. Nashville. Tens.. Oct 10. Colo Bel l. Z. Taylor and Captain Qaente Rankin, ot Trenton, are the latest victims of the night-rider outrage. Rankin was hanged and Into hU swaying body a number of shots were fired, the shot causing death. Tay lor is missing. Governor Patterson has offered $10,000 reward, and has abandoned his political campaign. Two co nips tiles of militia are oa the way to the scene of the crime Reel Foot Lake, in the extreme north western part of the Bute, and two other companies are under arms at Memphis. Governor Patterson reach ed Union City, twenty miles from the scene, about midnight, end in response to his telegraphic orders, a company of one hundred militiamen met him at the station. Armed posses are searching the swamps and woods in the vicinity ot the lake, bat no trace of Taylor or the night-riders was found. The two victims were taken from Ward's Hotel, at Walnut Log, carried Into the woods, and while one was hanged and shot, the other was made away with la some unknown manner. LIVES LOST IN FOREST FIRE. Twenty Are Known to Have PerUb- etl Relief Train Derailed In the Midst of a Raging Fire A Great Lom of Property. Detroit, Mich., Oct, 16. Twenty- one known dead, scores ot others missing and probably dead, dozens more who escaped with life but bad ly burned, two sm&U towns wiped out, many others in 1mm lent danger, scores of farm houses burned, mil lions of dollars worth of property de stroyed, all this is to-day's story of the destruction wrought by forest Ares in Northern Michigan. Fifteen or more were burned to death when a relief train was de railed last night in the center of a hell of flames. In addition to these two farmers' families In Meti are known to have been wiped out. ome of the men who got through to Posau, a small village five miles away, had their clothing burned from their backs and their bodies scarred and blackened. Many of those burned to death on the relief train were women and children who had left their fathers and husbands at Metz to try to save their homes. Calls for help are dally coming In from many ot the villages in burn ing districts. BONAPARTE SHOWS RECORD Says Democrata Prosecuted Labor Organizations. Washington, D. C, Oct 12. At torney General Bonaparte today made an extended reply to Chairman Josephus Daniels, of the Democratic Press Committee, in regard to the administration's prosecution of trusts. Specifically answering the second inquiry of Mr. Daniels, the Attor ney General state that under the Sherman Anti-trust law, passed In 1890, there have been sixty-fire pro ceedings in all, fifty-six under Re publican and nine nnder Democratic administrations; forty-six since Mr. Roosevelt became President In Sep tember, 1901, and nineteen daring the preceding eleven years. Among the prosecutions of the Democratic administrations, the Attorney Gener al says, is 'included resistance to the petition of Eugene V. Debs for a writ of habeas corpus. It Is also asserted that five oat of nine proceedings under Democratic rule were directed against labor or ganizations and their leaders, and that under Republican role there have been In all three such proceed ings out of fifty-six. Negroes Lynch Negro for Stealing Cotton. Memphis, Tenn., Oct 15. A dis patch from Hernando, Miss., reports the lynching near that place last night of W. J. Jackson, a negro, by members of his own race. Jackson, it is said, was discovered while attempting to remove a bale of cotton, the property of another negro, from a gin Tuesday night He escaped but was captured late yesterday afternoon and white be ing taken to jail was secured and hanged by a mob composed of negroes. A Tornado and Cloudburst Sweeps Over Clayton Jf. M. Clayton, N. M., Oct It. Four per sons were killed la and near Clayton last night as the result of a tornado and cloudburst Twenty persons were injured, three of whom may die. 7 - 1 S.-l; u f 1 I ! n i ! ; I - - . e : t 'I! - i t 1 5 i i i 5! . 1 i n 5 : i i - J t i "si 1. gpai. i Iti
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