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pATT 1 i ill j I t ! ' ' ' . i 'h, 1 . ' K ; i VOL. XXVII. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY. 14. 1909. No. 46 EDITORIAL BRIEFS They have managed to stir up a big row over the Pole-holder, even tf it Isn't election year. We learn that evidence against the trusts in thi3 State will at least be considered by the State authorities. Governor Glenn finds that preach ing pays better than practicing law. He will not practice law any more. Notwithstanding this region of "good government" we are having, crimes continue to stalk abroad at noon-day. If the Republicans continue to make gains In this State there will soon be a pie famine In the Demo cratic ranks. A New York farmer the other day plowed up $50,000 in gold. And still some people will contend that farm ing doesn't pay. It must be that the Democratic leaders are hopelessly divided or ev ery important question otherwise they would not discuss the tariff. Dr. Cook is getting one thousand dollars a night for his lectures. We can now see the good to be derived from the discovery of the North Pole. Taxes continue to increase under Democratic "good government." Had you ever stopped to consider whether you are getting your money's worth? It is reported that the ice trust in this State Is to be investigatei. Bet ter late than never but wonder why the authorities waited until the win ter time? The Democratic machine in this State promised to run the govern ment economically, but they are in- creasing your taxes every year in- stead. Mr. Bryan's daughter is now in I the race for Congress from a Colo- i rado district. Running for ofilce Bryan family. If the Democrats really expect to on what grounds they are basing their hopes. The Atlanta Georgian has offered a prize for the best specimen of a Georgia mule. It is a safe bet that the Democratic donkey will not win tne tropny. ...... A correspondent to the Charlotte Observer says that Craig will again be a candidate for Governor in 1912. . . , t , it uraig ana uryan seem to oe m me perpetual class. The News and Observer says that the Bell Telephone Company may be indicted under the North Carolina . . i tit. ! BUl,-iruH iaw- vve W1" ouu" out whether talk Is cheap. A conference on pellagra is to be held in Columbia, S. C. in the near luture. tne commiuee is com" posed of the average South Carolina jury pellagra guilty. will be found not Some of the Democratic papers want to know what would happen to the party if Mr. Bryan should be , a . nominated. The party would be de- teated Just the same as if any other I Democrat was nominated. The citizens of Dalton.Ga., are fllQ lmfl1 ntran r- A-m "no Tn nilQ ITtt" I buocks m mat town, uon t ge excu- ed, as the disturbance may have been I due to another split in the Democra- tic nartv. It seems that Congressman Pou has worked a bluff on the would-be Democratic candidates in the Fourth District. However, some of them may yet come out of their holes when they think the danger of frost is "i One of the Democratic candidates for Congress in the Fifth District has offered to side-step in favor of an - other Democrat. All them will prob- ably do the Alphonse act when they find out that the Fifth District pre fers a Republican. u artlCie m Mondays cnariotte Observer consumed over a column giving the names of a few of the! Democratic office-seekers in thla State. It may take a special edition . . . v to give a full list by the time the campaign opens six months hence. JOSEPn STEPHENS CONVICTED. Wilmington Sanitary Contractor Sen tenced to Electrocution at Peniten tiary, December 1st. Wilmington, N. C. Oct. 7. After a week's trial in the Superior Court here, Joseph Stephens, white, twenty seven years old, was convicted this afternoon of murder in the first de gree. He was charged with shooting to death E. R. Shields, a rival sani tary contractor, on the streets here last July. This is the first conviction of a white man for a capital felony since the civil war. Stephens will be sentenced tomorrow to electrocu tion at Raleigh, after which his at torneys will give notice of an apepal to the supreme court. Stephens re ceived the verdict with apparently no realization of what the verdict meant to him. He is exceedingly short of stature and is known about the city as "Shorty." He was employed as collector for the sanitary firm of Fur long & Co., here, and his victim held a similar position with another firm, the men having accused each other of collecting for work done by the rival firm. They had words for several days, and finally the difficulty result- j ing in the shooting early on the morning of July 9th. Stephens made r.o effort to get away and quietly gave himself up to a down-town mag istrate. Both the prisoner and the victim were married men and each has children, who were present in the court room during the trial. Stephens' attorneys made the!. fight for acquit- al on the grounds of self-defense, but the State was strong in its testl- n.onv of nremeditatinn. i The Judge sentenced Stephens to el- ctrocution in the penitentiary at Raleigh, December 1st. MRS. LEAVTTT FOR CONGRESS. Mr. Bryan's Daughter Will Be in the Race from the First Colorado DIs- trict. Denver, Col., Oct. 8. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughter of the Commoner, has announced her candidacy for Congress from the First Colorado dis trict. With the support of the Jane Jef- f erson Club, of which she Is presi- dent, of former Senator Patterson and his papers, and with her father's prestige in Colorado, she expects to nfrafn vi a 'Dwan KofnvA t m A nntlAii " T " ,7 uui iiaun uuu jxicui uei a uiucu uiu- Q T r old enough to be her mother, think that if a woman Is to be sent to Congress .from Colrado .the elder stateswomen should be considered I rPYtA Donnfilf Aon vrrrtm xn oia Vkirav I along the same line, and the wife of United States Marshal Dewey C. Bai- ley is likely to be a candidate before the Republican First District conven tlon FOUR BURNED TO DEATH. Two Negroes Arrested on Suspicion of Crime. Nashville. Tenn.. Oct. 8. In con nection with a fire in which four per- sons were burned to death, two ne- groes were arrested on suspicion. ine nre u uut wu" uwu" pants of the house were asleep. So great headway it had gained wnen discovered and so intense was the ex citement caused by the horrified screams of women that no organized attempt at rescue was made until af ter four flre companies arrived on the scene In spite of heroic efforts to enter their aDartment in the face of the flames bursting from the windows. every memeber of the Fishman fam- "u , t 77 I lYiarH-tSSUU, mts uiuei victim, uiou w the same apartment. Several Hundred Men Will Be Added to Pay Roll at Gold Hill Mines. Salisbury, Oct. 9. President Wal ter George Newman, of the Union Copper Mines, located at Gold Hill, Rowan County. Is authority for the statement today that the big mines at that place wiU resume operations at an early date. Mr. Newman, who has backed the mines through two financial panics and caused the stock to rise from 27 cents to $2. is enthu- r r I est yields In the history of the plant. It ig expected that several hundred n en will be added to the payroll at Gold Hill within the next few weeks. i . . Asheviiie Jjetter earner unargeu With Rifling Mail. Ashevllle, N. C, Oct. 11. N. W. Fain, one of the oldest letter carriers in service at the Ashevllle postoffice. I was late today placed under arrest I by a United States postoffice inspec- ,or 0i- tne cnarSe of riflinS th ma" Icl" a woman who resides on South- i . . , . i j Slat avenue, ne was later rweascu on a S5-00 bond to await the hearing I r.c.fore United States Commissioner I McCall Wednesday, and has been sus- 1 Paneled from service, pending the in vsi'?atim A Bold Robbery at Washington. Washington, N. C. Oct. 8. One of the boldest and most daring rob- hAflAR flvpr TiArnptrsfnrl in this citv took Dlace in broad daylight yester I day afternoon, when the office of Mr. A. Mayo, a justice of the peace, on I Market street, was entered. His safe broken Into and something over 1100 in cash taken. The. police are at work on caset but aa yet there I are no clues to the guilty parties. TAFT IN CALIFORNIA President Receives Hearty Welcome at Los Angeles. JOURNEY HALF COMPLETED Made Appropriate Address to School Children Visited the Deep Water and Inner Harbors of San Pedro- Guest of Honor at Shrlners Ban quet President Visits Ills Sister Driven Through Orange Groves, Then Leaves on Eastern Trip. Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 11. Presi dent Taft arrived in the hospitable flower land of southern California to day and received an enthusiastic greeting. He visited first the deep water and inner harbors of San Ped ro, below the city, and had a sail of an hour and a half inside the big government breakwater. Returning to Los Angeles at one o'clock he was taken for an automi blle ride of two hours through crowd ed streets. The President passed in review of the school children and made an ad dress to them in which he sought to inculcate a lesson on patriotism by catechising them as to the meaning of the fla& and theIr ldea of liberty which it represents. This evening Mr. Taft was the guest of honor at a banquet at the Shriner auditorium, w&icn, in point or numbers ana in lavlshness and decorating, proved to , be one of the distinctive features of ! his trip. j The President's trip to Los Angeles was arranged primarily that he mignt spena a aay or iwo wun nis sister, Mrs. W. A. Edwards. Mr. Taft rested at his sister's home for a time durjng the late afternoon and spent the night there. Tomorrow the President will be taken for an automobile ride to Pasadena and through the orange dis tricts of Riverside. Late to-morrow night he will start for the east on the latter half of his long trip, and both in point of time and in mileage his Journey will be half completed. Six Mexicans, arrested in this city last night for public utterances in de nunciation of Presidents Taft and Diaz, were held by the authorities to day and may be kept in custody until after Mr. Taft's visit to El Paso and Juarez, Mexicb, next Sunday. Diaz Preparing for Meeting. Mexico City, Oct. 11. President Diaz left here this evening on the Presidential train for Chihuahua, where he will be entertained for two days. Thence he will go to El Paso to meet President Taft. A salute of twenty-one guns was fired as his train pulled out. A pilot train preceded the Presidential special. President Diaz was accompanied by his staff and the minister of war and marine. SAD ACCIDENT NEAR WINSTON. Son of District Attorney Holton Se riously Wounded by Little Brother. Winston-Salem, N. C, Oct. 9. John Holton, the 11-year-old son of United States District Attorney A. E. Holton, was accidentally shot today by his 5-year-old brother, Frank, and his injuries are regarded as serious. he boys were at he farm of their father. Frank was fooling with a breech-loading shotgun. John was standing behind him and the gun un expectedly fired, the entire load tak- ng effect in John's legs. Over one hundred shot entered one limb. The boy was removed home at, once and attended by a physician bijf-lhe shot nad penetrated the legs so deep that not one could be removed. Negro Shooting Scrape Near Fayette- ville. Fayetteville, Oct. 9.- Bobert Mc Cain, colored, last night shot ana seriously wounded Mike bevy, a no torious negro of Seventy-first town ship, at a negro festival in that neigh borhood.. Levy had just completed a two-year term in the State penitent! ary for a murder committed in a 4th of July affray, and Is wanted by the police for disturbing a religious con gregation and assaulting the preach er. Search has been instituted for both men. Shot at Chicken; Wounded His Sister Fayetteville. N. C. Oct. 9. Moses McLean today accidentally shot, dan gerously wounding his sister, Hagar McLean, while attempting to shoot a wild chicken which the woman was assisting him to round up. A clump of weeds hid his sister from McLean's sight when he fired. Later in the day the home of James McLean, a brother of Moses and Hagar, was de stroyed by fire, the occupants barely escaping. The house was the proper ty of Oliver Evans. There was no in surance. Georgia Passenger Bates Increased. Atlanta, Ga., Oct 8. By unani mous vote the Georgia Railroad Com mission today granted authority to the Georgia Railroad Company to in crease its passenger rates In this State from 24 to 2 cents per mile, effective November 1st BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. Mrs. Jno. R. Temple, of Chapel Hill, died Saturday of pellagra. Mr. J. K. Doughton, Slate Bank Examiner, 1 ill of typhoid fever at Lenoir. The home of Mr. J. A. Culbreth at Falcon, Cumberland County, war destroyed by fire Friday night. The State Convention of the Daughters of the Confederacy Is be ing held in Wilmington this week. Calvin Neal, an aged colored man, of Charlotte, met death Friday after nooon while working in a well, which caved in on him. T. R. Livingstone, of Ashevllle, an employe of the Bell Telephone Com pany, met death at Greenville, S. C, Thursday, by falling from the top of a telephone pole. The main plant of the Moore Lum ber Company at Washington, N. C, was burned recently, entailing a loss of about $10,000. Randall Baker, charged with secret assault on Miss Freeman and Miss Lassiter, of Black Creek, has been captured and placed in Jail in Wil son. A gin house, belonging to Mr. Ed mund Battle, near Rocky Mount, was destroyed by fire Friday night. A lot of tobacco stored in the building was also destroyed. The new disease known as pellagra has invaded the western counties in this State. Several cases are reported from Cherokee and surrounding counties. Wilson led the warehouse towns of touacuu during the month of September, hav ing sold 5,083,637 pounds. Kinston came second, with Greenville third. Near Edenton, Monday, Jim Miller, colored, shot and killed Christian Mc Clure, white. Mr. McClure was chief engineer of the tug used by the con struction force who are building the bridge across Abemarle Sound. The boiler of Mr. J. B. Hasting's cotton gin, in Fork Township, Wayne County, exploded late Monday eve ning, killing Mr. Hastings Instantly and fearfully injuring Mr. Tobe V. Crocker, an assistant at the gin. Sev eral others were Injured but not fa tal Mr. C. R. Shafer, owner of a car nival company exhibiting at Washing ton, N. C, was knocked on the head with a club and robbed on one of the principal streets of Washington. The would-be assassin escaped. Mr. Shafer was taken to a hospital, where he lies In a critical condition. HEARST ACCEPTS NOMINATION. "Will Run for Mayor of New York Will Support Balance of Fusion Ticket in Order to Beat Tammany Ring. New York, Oct. 9. After two days of silence, William Randolph Hearst anounced to crowds of waiting con stituents, at an early hour this morn ing that he would accept an inde pendent nomination for mayor of New York, provided that his associ ates upon the city and county tickets be substantially Republican-fusion nominees, as already selected. His statement, outlining the conditions upon which he will accept, Is in part as follows: "Whether I am a candidate or not I will support the rest of the fusion ticket nominated in opposition to Tammany Hall. When the Indepen dence League committee withdrew from the fusion conference, it decid ed that it still stood ready 'to sup port a frank and honest expression of progressive principles and candidates, irrespective of party; this is your op portunity to substantiate that declar ation. Nominate me if you so desire with the greater part of that fusion ticket behind me and I will run. "The candidates nominated on the fusion ticket are worthy of support. The ticket is already in the field. If we nominate another ticket, both tickets may be defeated. If we nomi nate the fusion ticket, Tammany will be defeated. And if Tammany is de feated the citizens will win." More Than 750,000 Prairie Dogs Kill ed By One Man. Kansas -City, Mo., "Oct. 7. More than 750,000 prairie dogs have been killed in the last six months by J. W. Holman, the officially, recognized United States government poisoner o the pests in the southwestern States. "I am going to kill at least 1,500, 000 dogs during the next eight months," said Mr. Holman. "Strych nine is mixed with wheat and about a teapoonful is placed at the en trance of a prairie dog hole. - Each teaspoonful kills three dogs." The Government pays a cent and a half a head for killing the dogs. A Snowfall in Texas. Delhart, Texas, Oct. 8.- Snow is falling in this section today. It is the earliest snowfall the panhandle has ever experienced, and is now five inches deep. The downfall continues late this afternoon. IlLKINS IN CHINA It Is the Greatest of All The Countries In Population. COVERS A VAST TERRITORY Part of Country Densely Populated Some of Her Big Cities The Great Chinese Wall as Evidence That She is a Baby Chinese Women Hare Good Qualities Farmers' Institute Needed in China. Re form Badly Needed. Pekln. China, Sept. 30, 1909. Correspondence of The Caucasian-En terprise. Hit seems but a step from India to China. The two great countries touch elbows. But what a difference! The people do not look alike, do not act alike, air not alike. The three hundred millions ov people who live In India air crowded upon a com paratively small territory. The four hundred millions ov people who live in China hev a vast territory to roam over if they could but they can't. Why? Too many mountains, too many deserts. Hit iz a fact that nearly half ov China's great popula tion is crowded upon a bit of coun try probably three times as large az the State ov North Carolina. Still China hez territory. Hit iz sed that the Chinese flag floats over five million and three hundred thou sand squar miles. To put hit anoth er way, China iz nearly twice az large az the United States. In the Northern part ov China the climate z awlmost az cold az that ov Siberia, while in the southern part the people ive under a tropical sun. Az to the actual population, some allowance must be made. China hez rich men a few. But the majority ov the Chinese air poor an' hit would bankrupt the country to take an ac curate census. But even if the cen sus -wuz taken the Chinese air such infernal liars nobody would pay any attention to the census report. But China hez a vast territory an' stacks ov people. Pekln. Canton. Hong Kong, Shanghai an' other cities furnish proof ov the existence ov a large population and the facts az to territory air fairly accurate. The harbor at Hong Kong iz a fine one. But the water iz not deep enough fer the larger boats at Shanghai, Cheefoo, Taku, Tientsin or ekin, so the Chinese air at a disad vantage in dealln' with the people ov foreign countries. But they do not care to deal with their nabors to any great extent. They lack the thrift bund In America and the sturdy greed ov the English. Az a country or a nation China iz a great big baby. In their peculiar way the peo ple ov China do things. But they air two or three thousand years behind the times. China hez nearly two hundred times az many people az ive in the State ov North Carolina an' yet I could muster enough troops n North Carolina In three weeks. to whip China to a standstill. Little Japan whipped China only a few years ergo an hit only required a few days to do the job. Japan did that before she had a first-class army or navy, too. Az Japan lz fixed now, she could thrash China every morn- in' before breakfast, an' her soldiers an' sailors could work in the rice fields the balance ov the day fer Japan lz now a great little nation. But Japan wuz just az helpless thir ty years ergo az China iz to-day. Japan got up from her long, long sleep an' got busy. Perhaps China will reform in time. Do not misjudge me. I do not mean tnat nations ought to lite. But nations, like in dividuals, should stand up for their rites. Unless they do some other feller will get the rites. The greatest visible evidence that China lz an' hez long bin a baby iz the great Chinese wall which extends from. the ocean westward along the northern boundary ov China. There were some hostile tribes or Tartars to the north of China an' though they numbered not over a few thou sand az compared to the vast popula tion ov China, the big baby (China) went to work to keep them out ov China by building a great walL This wall still stands, though hit iz now in bad repair. Hit iz about twenty- five feet thick at the base and fifteen feet thick at the top. The wall va ries In height, ranging from fifteen to twenty-five feet, according to the locality. Hit Is built ov earth with a thin shell or stone to hold the earth in place. This wonderful wal lz about fifteen hundred miles in length and hit took a vast amount ov labor to build hit The principal Chinese cities - air surrounded with walls. The wal around Pekln la about 60 feet high and very thick. The wall iz only about four miles square an the city hez long since outgrown the walL The wall around Nan King, - the former capital ov China, lz about fif teen square miles in size. Durln the Taiplng rebellion this wall stood a siege that lasted fer thirteen years. But the walls would soon go if the attacking army had modem cannon. In the Chinese cities the bufldln's air low. Private residences air seldom more than one story an' business boildia's air two stories. As a rale the stores air very small little ahops. toe mmt beln inertly aa open door. The people ov China awl look alike In a way. though they differ la size. I am told, the people la the north tela' larger than those la the south. A little more than two hun dred an' fifty years ago the Man churian rulers in China caused the people to shave their foreheads an' plat their hair, the hair on the back part ov the head beln' allowed to grow long an' that is still a general custom. The Chinese men wear breeches an air tide around the ankles. They awlso wear a lonr. close-fittin' coat whlhe reaches the feet. The women wear breeches, too. an they awlso wear a coat some what shorter than the garment worn by men. But the women reach the height of foolishness In foot-blndin'. For ages hit hes bin the custom, an' hit iz yet. to bind the feet ov awl Chinese girl children. At the age ov five or six years awl ov the toes air bent back under the sole ov the foot an' securely bound so that the growth ov the foot is practically stopped. A few ov the people here hev stopped the foolish custom, but hit may be many years before this will be entirely done away with. If I git a chance to hev a good long talk with the Emperor I will make some very pointed remarks erginst the habit. But az the American women hev not awl quit tight-lacln' the Emperor may advise me to re turn home an' do a little missionary work. But I purty nigh stopped the practice ov tight-lacln In an erbout Bilklnsville several years ergo. Tight lacln'. prohibition an' the excessive use ov llcker hev awl done much harm In America durin the past fifty years to say nothin' ov the ravages ov the cattle tick an' the cotton boll weevil. The Chinese women do not wear low-neck dresses when they go to balls an to the theaters, which lz another pint In their favor. Not many ov the women "dip" snuff, but some ov them smoke clgaretts which z az ugly az snuff-dlppln'. If I wuz King they'd be mlty little snuff- dlppln In the country I'd rule over, though, In many respects I'd be mlty : easy on the people. Any country needln' a king will do well to cor respond with me, enclosin' stamp fer reply. In China most ov the people who farm live in little villages az they do n some ov the European countries. n most cases no horses or plows air used in cultivatin' the crops, the armer dlggin' up the little patches ov ground and cultivatin them with he oa or spades. He harvests an' car ries the paroducts home In the same old-fashioned way. If the North Carolina Board of Agriculture would hold a few farmers' Institutes here hit mite do gude. Some of the kid- glove, churn-hat farmers who hold farmers' Institutes an' other chlcken eatln' contests In North Carolina air a plum site when hit comes to tellln' people how to farm. But hit lz a sober fact that If you'd put one ov them perfessers ov farmln' on the best thousand-acre farm In North Carolina he'd starve to death In forty-five days. In China the children air subject to the will ov the parents az long az the parents air llvln. The boy does not say: "I'll be twenty-one years old next month an' then I'll be my own boss," az they do In America. In China, after the parents die the old est children hev full control ov awl younger than themselves. If a man lives to be ninety and hez a brother who is ninety-two, the ninety-year-old brother must obey the one who s ninety-two. In China marriages air arranged by the parents, a system that hez good points. But hit awlso hez bad points. Families usually live togeth er. When a young man marries he takes hlz wife to the home ov his parents. If there be several sons, of course there will be several daugh ters-in-law. Az neither the social customs nor the laws air against hit the sons may each her several wives an' that adds to the general con fusion in family affairs. If I wuz Em peror ov China I'd break awl that sort ov business, too. Up to recent years many ov the girl babies born in China were put to death an' the custom hez not bin abolished yet. I know that one country cannot under take to regulate another country, not in everything. But hit does seem to me that the United States and other countries should go a little further and Inform China that, the wholesale murder or children girl babies must an shall stop. The Christian peopleand I respect Christian people who air what they profess to be ought to take action, prompt action, to stop this wholesale murder business, in China. Hit will reauire force, or a show or force. Hit could best be done by a combina tion or rovernments. though hit may not be In accordance with In ternatlonal laws an hit may not agree with the views or the late Josh Billings who sed that the peo ple or America awl did az they pleased. Josh seemed to think the American rule a .gude one fer he Br ed here until he-died regardless or hlz had spelling Confudus placed propriety among the virtues. That rule holds good in China yet. That is why China lz so far behind the balance or the world. China never gives up a cus tom or anything else. She'd rather hold to an old form an be wrong than to change the stye and git rite. (Continued on Page S.) STORM HI i S FLORIDA Hurricane the Wont Key Weit Hat Ever Experienced. TOWN A MASS OF WRECKAGE Velocity of Wind Iteach On It and ml Miles an Hour IVoprrty Votm Is Over K2.0O0.O0O UandrM of Iloase Wrecked and Great Ktdt met Prevail UrtUl Law De clared and Guards Patrol the Ctty Storm !or Much Damage la Cu b Property Loa at Havana and Vicinity il.ow.OOO. Key Vet. Fia.. OcU 11. Welle the hurnctfue u ue ori inat Key west has evr eincatcu, iu local weather obberter auuwumva loaifbl thai la lnuiciiou ar lual tb ra ti r ekl coi ot J iuria 1U iuOr terribly turnout. Ot cue tiuuuivtl loc.il veU la the i alienor, wtuvi- brtttii 4fcr vu lu w or uwu wyvM m roui tire a a. ut UCiCm. an vi aa U.t wutldiUgS 4rwUttOul luo 1-44.; tMla Ltviu ii lur ui ua tt4i; - tua au MU luil C U tw u VdCf V ilvai U.U f fcttfiwU tUjUl J IMII vd 4vr . UttotuU lu Ml t,w, ut t , ueuces eiuir cuum - uv.u wr WiUnU IroUi lilttir f41-i. UMJ 4 f4es toeftt VT .tU u.ktv;4, uwna- lllg 11)0 ilaVU-l44,ei 4V.M., 4 t.OA, 4iCilOi, iVUy 4.U44, 4144 fietUui lomk, Cotve .ua nwii c.tr iuali ufaCUM" 4a. 'I lit) aiotiu itMCLed IU LeiiUl al 1 o'cioca mis aiiuiuuuu nueu i. 4U4 reacuea an euiuuea leiucuy ut miles an uour. As feoou u the wiud Lad sub-ided plunuenug bvau. iiio cuj puuee lurce was uuauie 10 cons uu iuv uaiion and lue major uocjuou io iae Biriu&tul Uie-ibure lo feuyprt: lite looun', bis proclaiuatiou ot marital law rebuking. Aluiobl every nauou- ality ia represented aiuou Uie city's population of more ittau 2o,oUt), about one-half of vthom are employed in the cigar manufacumea, bpuuae fisheries and salvage companies. As a result of the hurricane which struck the southern coast of Kionda this morning. Key West tonight is a mass of wreckage and the damage to property is estimated at 2,ugu,yoO. Martial laws was proclaimeu by the mayor at 6 o'clock and the Key West Guards are patrolling the c.ty. 'The United State government has been asked to dispatch troops here lthout delay to ajsit in patrolling the storm-swept area. Warning Along CoaU St. Augustine, Fla., Oct. 11. In response to urgent appeals from Jacksonville a fast launch left here at 4 o'clock this afternoon to warn res idents along the coast lo lands fer a distance of twenty miles south of the approach of a storm and of dan ger to life' and property. The Storm iu Cuba. Havana, Oct. 11 The most serious cyclone since the big blow of October 17, 1&06. struck Cuba early this morning, causing extensive devasta tion through the whole western part of the Island. In the city of Havana many minor buildings were blown down or unroofed; almost all the trees were uprooted and six persons were killed, one by an electric wire and the others by falling buildings. About twenty persons were Injured. The greatest damage done was In the harbor where forty or fifty light ers, launches and small tugs were either sunk or blown ashore. The total damage in Havana and vicinity is estimated at $l,0u0,0uv. A FATAL TIUI.V COLLISIOX. ieventeen Killed and Ten Seriously Injured in Wreck. Topeka. Kan.. Oct. 8. Seventeen persons were killed and ten severely .njured In a collision between a freight train and a construction train on the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe railroad near here today. The dead ire eleven Mexicans, four section foremen and two brakemen. Jerome Will Not Ran Again. William Trarers Jerome. D'-strict Attorney of New York, says be will not make another race for the oSce. "Money is the root of all evil," and grafting doesn't improve thi fruits November Smart Set. The real hero Is he who can bear his own troubles as stoically as he does those of his friends. November Smart Set. . It is reported that the Cuban Gov ernment has won $100,000 from Its citizens from the first drawing of the national lottery. . Cuba is sowing the wind and will surely reap the whirl wind. . - '-s'-vt.. -- 4 A blank cartridge may. make as much noise as a loaded one; but It brings no game to the marksman- Selected. ' i 1 5 S j ? s t. h 1 5 V It n 1 ! t i i i 1 1 i v j;
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