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I (Jreat Damage in the Country E The Injured Estimated as High as Five Hundred PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY - Prominent People Among the Killed and Fatally Injured Seven Fatalities Reported at Irondale Other Sub urban Towns Suffered Se verely Wires Down and Detailed Reports Came in Slowly Birmingham, Ala.,. March 25. At 10 ncinik tnis morning a loruauo sHqu Hi!- niirh tin- valley m wuicn .Dirimngnani i , 1 "T k . 1 ami suburban towns are loeated.the storm min;: frt'in the southwest, anil great aaiu;! tr nas neen none, nam in ims cilj ami tin1 surroumiing country. ; Vt lijon the number of dead in the citv (t lDinmiigflam was esumaieu at twenty, wit a nve hunureu injured. Anions the (lend are: Dr. C. Chapman, a prominent physician, who was in Min- tor s store, which was blown down; jlrs. IiobiTt V. Lowe, wife of the chairman itw ratc Democratic committee, ana her four-wei ks-ohl infant; Mrs. . . H. rimmas, wife of a prominent real estate :iiront : George Alexander, a grocer; Liz zie Glenn, colored: Carney Henry, col ored; Lizzie Goodloe, colored; Carrie llmlson, colored. . II. L1IJ1I1U. lllf It-ill llilll- ilnij and his mother are fatally injured. At noon the entire police force, lire department and all the hospital aralm liuiees and physicians were summoned to ;he smith side of the city, where hun !re:U (if persons are said to he suffering lnn:i injuries received during the storm. The Second Presbyterian Church in this city was demolished, and a nmu hv ef residences on the south highlands, a t.i.-aiionahle residence quarter, were un rmlVd. It is feared that later reiorts vr sliow considerable loss of life in this seeti ei of the city. In North Birmingham a number of buii'iiims were wrecked. As the wires are down, it is difficult to secure details of the damage from sur numling towns, but it is known that tlie property loss is heavy and it is f'.ireil That many persons have been killed. It is reported that the town of Iri'Milale, seven miles west of here, has luiii wrecked and that seven men met 4ea:h during the tornado. All the busi ii"s houses in tjie place are said to liavc lieen destroyed, and there is general di-tres. , At Pratt City the public school build-Hi-' and the Methodist church were un '""I'nl ami scores , of negro cabins in 'di''- 1m ttoins razed, the occupants fleeing thi-y hoard th storm approaching. lie Tennessee Coal and Iron Company's ''utniai-y was lifted bodily from the Pi'"iud ami blown away. Many people hurt there. The Storm-Swept District A cnrcfnl survey of the storm-swept f'i-'iicf sh .ws that two hundred houses w'tp wrecked, fourteen persons in this ity were killed, and -150 injured. Of the Inter several will die. Reports from tnf' snrro'iriding country will swell the !' -d ef casualties considerably. Smaller I1'-1"1 in the path of the storm suffered tirriMv. At !i;4o o'clock this morning a huge 'Lick .-loud was seen rolling eastward J-' chb r- living on the South-High- T :v darkened nuieklv. and. fpnrmsr : nowiiT.rcM- TiPnillo CA11 f-ll f l-oii rod. ik-cs to escape- the rain. Then was '(")d r, era- kiing noise like a fast freight, .in ijf, i'Avn icrade, and the tornado ity. It was in spiral form up, rm ('it i I , ;'l t 1 I 1 I Iff oliAllf $- -,-.-..1 v. -1 BMU i,fi yards wide. It dipped and ' ll) t !ll-n avni.- .. !,.. 1.-., ,.. After t n M ind had passed over, leav- : H i i until. th rnin hamn -fallina 'ns n 1,1 l PnT" Tn's rind a11 ires, poles, iB f ,!i0r things, were swept mray IheV i?1' i S thp nrm has passed over jo, lh" work of relieving the in birnpd ' ka:i' A ceneral fire alarm was th- f t"'" taonch tMfre.was no rire, and ThefT1? 1,0,ice' fo-e was : summoned, riiiof 't' 2"',!ntnnt went to -work under '".lilted v.. Ji'lS. -""iiUJ, gening tne dead and 1 "' from under the fallen de- Inmil.T10,'' K1 'lostrnJ'etl mre than two vliieii",. '""m's '' greater part of lr.' (Vr " .'"'('u,,iod ly nsro families. Han ,!;..! ' ',!liMn!ni a prominent physi- heavv , , . 0111 nw nffy, seeing ths. i(J.pj.v and went into Minter's taneii, 1 lue iiighlarids to es- rhfands to es The store was uieiiCJinig ri rain. DEAD Hill City and Surrounding r torn down and the doctor was killed as was W. P.. Dickerson. who was with him. Dr. R.. V. Miobley, another physi cian, was on the Highlands responding to a call, when the wind came alon and picked his horse and buggy up as a toy and tumbled them oyer and over, He lies in a precarious, condition. At the residence . of Hon. Robert J. Lowe, State chairman of the Democratic party, the house was shattered like an egg shell. His, wife and infant son were, killed instantly. The residence of Prof. Fred L. Grambs was torn asunder and his wife and mother-in-law hurt. The fire department cut omX Mrs. AV. H Thomas, mother of a prominent real -es tate agent, from the ruins of her home, She died later. Mayor W. M. ,-Drennen was on the scene shortly after the storm and imme diately established headquarters, in the stricken part of the city: The military companies were called out and a guard placed over the territory to prevent dep redations. The following is the correct eu list of the dead. "Whites Dr. G. C. Chapman, Mrs., Itqbert Jj- Lowe and in fant son, three year old daughter of 1. B. Hudson, prominent commission mer chant; W. P. Dickerson. relative of Dr. Chapman; Mrs. W. II. Thomas, J. Alex ander, grocery merchant. Negroes F. Myro, collector tor Mutual Benefit Association of Iolyte; Maggie II levins, Carrie Hudson,' Lizzie Goodloe, F. Steadmire, Lizzie Glenn; unknown carpenter. The fatally hurt are Mrs. D. D. Mc Laughlin, -Mrs. K. P. Thomas Mrs. J. Ferguson, Mrs. Mylum, Prof. Grambs' mother-in-law, white; Carrie Elin, col ored. v The injured, some of whom may die, include John Dillon, J. E. Mintor, Ham- bright Dethro, child of Mrs. McLaugh lin, Mrs. Stephens, L. L. Holton, Mrs. Kates' and daughter, Mrs. F. G. Schafer and baby, Mr. and Mrs. Doerr, "W. W. Doerr, Mrs. Joel E. Giacopazzi, Mrs. Jane Dane, Frank Krimsey, white; Al bert Glenn. Carrie Elmore, Dave El more, Lougine Martin, Kehea Curry, Jim iJVilson, Ned Thomb, -Lee Richardson, Sarah Thweate and many other negroes. The storm did not strike St. Vincent Hospital, which stands on a little hill just in front of the valley through which the storm n-assyk Had fiiis gone down there would have been two or three hun dred more killed and wounded. From Birmingham the storm swept on to Irondale, six miles east of .the city, where it continued to play havoc. Twenty-five houses, including a brick store, were demolished. In the store were four white men. WV G. Gardner, a negro carpenter, was killed ott right and Murck Triplett, Glay Moore and "Will Gardner were fatally hurt. Two negro children of Clarence Hunter were also killed at Irondale, while a dozen -whites and blacks were more or less hurt. At Cleveland, a suburb three miles west of the city, the storm tore down fences and uprooted trees. Mrs. ieorge Hall was struck by -lightning and in stantly killed. At Pratt City, . North Birmingham, Ensley, Green Springs, Avondale, "Woodlawn and Gate City, suburbs, the wind tore off roofs and destroyed out houses. . A mass meeting has been called for tomorrow at noon When the matter of relieving those in need will be taken up. Mayor Drennan, with his iorces, is in the stricken part of the city and is dealing out food and rations to those in need. He gave out a statement tnis afternoon saying that it would be definitely decided tomorrow at the mass meeting whether or not help from the outside world would be requested. He says that no less than 2,000 people are affected by the storm. Ten blocks in the city were passed over by the storm, and of thi number fiv of them are destroyed. . The militia and police tonight are pre venting any thieving and other depreda tions by patrolling the stricken district. The injured, people: are all in the infir maries 4ind hospitals, frhile every phy sician in the city is rendering aid to them. . - -' There will Be two or three deaths "be fore tomorrow night. It is impossible to hear anything f rom 1 Weems and Trussviile, small places fifteen miles east of the city. It is rumored that a dozen people have been killed in those places. The telegraph companies have no wires to that point messengers must be waited for. The mayor of the city, late this after noon said that he had information that there were fourteen dead in the city city proper and one hundred and fifty in jured, several of whom could not possibly recover. He said that as i ar as he jcould see and from the indications of the response' to be made by the citizens tomorrow,- he is of the opinion that those who liave been stricken will get -assistance right at home as much as is nec essary. It is impossible tdnight to fig nre up the damage done to property by the storm. . ; ' Pratt City, a mining suburb, had a double experience with the storm. At seven -o'clock the: wind, struck there and tore off the roofs of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company's commis sary and several .other .buildings. Three hours later the storm returned iind wiped up a dozen buildings and unroofed the new high school Jnillding and nearly ev ery church, in the place. No one was killed, though several were severely in jnred. v . The city has been flooded all day with j telegrams from tb outside, making in-j . A.- 1 l.:il ' Af nw rrr i Swept Acroti Alabama Chattanooga, Tenn., Marcn "23. Rail road officials here have 'been notified of a terrific hurricane that struct this morn ing, near Lynville,; Ga., a few' miles south of Rome, tearing up everything in its wake, and crossing the entire State. of Alabama, wrecking bouses, killing and injuring 1,500 people.. Birmingham and all towns in Central Alabama are. cut off and detail are unobtainable. ' A message from -Roane states' that sevr eral miles of the C. R. & . track were destroyed. k " The Southern Railway is unable to hear from any of its trains, and the of ficers' can only say: "Wires are down and nothing can be heard." . t It is reported that the storm was the heaviest in the vicinity of Birmingham. Georzta Towns Struck Hard Rome, Ga., March 25 A terrible wind, rain and hail storm broke over this city this morning at . o'clock and raged for an hour. Heavy damage was done at Chambers, twelve miles from Rome. J. A. Rounseville's summer residence, a mill and three barns belonging to Roun seville Brothers werer wrecked. Fifteen cows and twelve mules were killed. South Carolina Geti a Touch Columbia, S. C, March 25. A tornado passed through Florence and Darlington counties late this evening. Its extent cannot be ascertained tonight, but pas sengers on incoming trains report that trees and houses in the path of the wind were levelled. Mr. and Mrs. George Mc-Cown were crushed in . their home near Darlington. Many negro cabins were destroyed. Change of Secretaries Washington, March 25. The President has accepted the resignation of Joseph H. Choate, Jr., third secretary of the United States embassy in London, and appointed William Corcoran Eustis, of Washington, to the vacancy. Mr. Choate is the son of the American ambassador in London. He will return to .New York to resume the practice of law. Mr. Eus tis is the nenhew of the former senator from Louisiana and former ambassador to France Eustis, and grandson of the late Win. W. Corcoran, of Washington. -J- ; , General Cheek Buried Henderson, N. Ci. March 25. Special Gen. W. II. Cheek was buried today with military and Masonic honors. The Vance Guards fared a salute, as requested by the old veterans, at General . Cheek's request, through Sergeant W. R. Green The active oallbearers were D. Y. Coop er, J. D. Cooper, W. E. Gary, W B. Shaw, G. C. Lamb. Melville ..Dorsey; honorary, Rev. Dr. J. D. Hu.fham, E C. Hines, J. Baily Owen, A. C. Zolhcoffer, Henry Perry, A. J. Buford. . ;, Exciting Scrap in Wilmington - Wilmington, N. C, March 25. Special A sensation was created here today by a personal encounter between J. A. Perry, superintendent of streets and rrank T. Mills, a prominent liveryman and bar ness dealer. The fight grew out -of charges by Mills that Perry, in buying teams and harness for the city, insisted on being given a bonus for himself on each transaction. : g Done With Two Bullets Chicago, March 25. Charles Lattimer entered his wife's millinery store today in Sixty-third street, walked up behind Mrs. Lattimer who was examining, a hat preparatory to delivering it to a custo mer, and shot her' to death. Lattimer then turned the weapon to his own head and fired, inflicting a" fatal wound. No reason is known for the tragedy. A Crazy Man's Death New York, March. 25. Charles Fried man, a tailor, wlflo in an insane fit last Monday, killed his two children, one three and the other 10 months old, by straggling one and be ating out the brains of the other, died in jail today. Deatli was due to exhaustion. The mm had not slept since the death of his children. Carnegie's Offer Accepted Charlotte, N. ., March 25. Special. At a meeting of the 5oard of Aldermen today it was decided to accept Andrew Carnegie's proffered gift of twenty thou sand dollars toward a public library here. on condition that the city provide for twenty-nve hundred dollars annually for the support of the library. The aldermen will raise half the sum and the school commissioners the other half. DELAY REQUESTED Winston Wants a New Deal - on the Public Building Winston, N. Cv March 25. Special. The Chambe of Commerce met this af ternoon and adopted a resolution re questing ' the secretary of the treasury to defer action looking to the'erection of a public building in Winston-Salem until after the next meeting of Congress in December, to the end that steps may Be taken to exchange the present site of the county court house for the. posfoffice. and the secretary is furthe requested by the chamber to send a suitable Archi tect or agent of the government to Win ston to inspect the court house building with the view of ascertaining whether the exchange sought to be made will be feasible and to the best interests Of the government and this community. - renator I'ntehard. Congressman Black burn and Captain R. D.-Glenn went to Washington tnmVfi r rrn for with thp lU17 as LU peupie Alliru, . jumijr ;nae making inquiry as to the safety of rela tives ' ' V -y "- Secretary of the treasury in regard to the action of the Chamber of Commerce. . - " " - . mm ' - ' .- s- . . - it , - . ? Why the Senate Amendments Were Rejected SHE CLAIMS RIGHTS Would Be Placed at Disad vantage by Acceptance of I the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty as Amended Washington, March 25. The British government's note declining to accept the Senate amendments to the Hay Pauncefote treaty was made public to day. - -. , ; T ; It is in the form of a communication from Lord Lansdowne to Lord Pauoce fote, a copy of which the latter delivered to the Secretary of State March 11th. The circumstances under which the convention was - signed by the British ambassador and the Secretary-of State are set forth at some length, showing that the negotiations were initiated by the United States, and that the British government "accepted the contention un conditional! v as signal nroor of ; their friendly disposition and of their desire not to impede tae execution of the pro ject declared to be of national import ance to the people of the United States." Three amendments of the Senate are then senaratelv considered. Lord Lans downe begins by saying: "The Clayton-Bulwer treaty is an in ternational compact of unquestionable va lidity, a contract which, according to the laws of international usage," ought not to be abrogated or modifietl, save with the consent of both the parties to the contract. In spite of this usage, his majesty's government find .J themselves confronted by a proposition communica ted to it by the United States, without any previous attempt, to ascertain their views for the abrogation of the Clayton Bulwer treaty. - Lord Lansdowne shows Ihat njadgr Ar tide I of the; Clayton-Bulwer treaty the two parties agreed that peither "would occupy, fortify, or colonize, or . assume or exercise dominion over any part . ot Central America, nor attain-any of the foregoing objects by alliance with any State or people of Central America. There is no similar agreement in the con vent'on. If, therefore, the treaty were wholly abrogated, both powers would, except in the vicinity " of 4he ; canal, re cover entire freedom of action in Central America. This change, he thinks, would certainly be of advantage to the United States and might be of substantial im portance. ' - The other two amendments, in the opinion of Lord Lansdown, present more formidable difficulties. .The first of them the so-cailed Davis amendment which reserves to the United States the right of taking any measures which it may find necessary to secure by its own forces the defence of the canal, appears to his majesty's government to involve a distinct departure from the principle which has until now found acceptance with both governments the principle, namely, that in time of war, as well as in time of neace. the passage of the canal is to remain free nnd unimpeded and is to be so maintained by the power or powers responsible for its-control. With this . amendment acmea to tne convention, the United States would, it is presumed, be within their rights if at any moment when it seemed to them that their safety required it. in view of war like preparations, not yet commenced, but contemplated or supposed to be con templated by another power, they re sorted, to warlike acts in or near the ca nal; acts clearly inconsistent witn tne neutral character which it has always been sought to give it, and which would deny the free use of it to the com merce and navies of. the worlds r 1 Lord Lansdowne goes on to show that there is no analogy between the tenth article of the Suez Canal convention and the Davis amendment. "The banks of the Suez Canal are within the dominions of a territorial sovereign who was a par ty to the convention whose established interests it was necessary to protect; whereas the Nicaragua Canal will be constructed in territory belonging not to the United States, but to Central Amer ican states, of whose sovereign ngnts other powers cannot claim to dispose." Lord Lansdown goes on to state his objections to the amendment wincn strikes out Article III of the convention, under, which the high contracting par ties engage, Immediately upon the con vention 'being ratified, to bring.it to the notice-of other powers and to invite their, adherence. v j 'If that adherence, he gays, "were . criven, the neutrality of the canal would be secured by the i whole of the adhering pdwers; without that adherence it would ClOpenU Upon lUC guaiauirc ui .me iwu contracting parties." The amendment he thinks, not onlyN removes a11 prospect of the- wider guarantee, but places Great Britain in a position of marked disad vantage compared with other powers. Continuing he says: If his majesty's government were to agree to such an arrangement while the 1 United States would have a treaty right to interfere with the canal in time of war or apprehended war, and while er powers could with a clear conscience disregard any of the restrictions imi; posed by the convention, Great Britain alone, in spite of her enormous posses sions on the American continent, and in spite of her Australian colonies and her interests in the East, would be absolutely precluded from resorting to any such ac tion, or from taking measures to secure her interests in and near the canal." Lord Lansdowne instructs the British ambassador to explain to the Secretary of State the reasons set forth in this dispatch why his majesty's government feels unable to accept the convention in the shape presented to them by the American ; ambassador, and why they prefer, as matters stand at present, to retain unmodified" the provisions of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. "His majesty's government have," he says, "throughout these negotiations giv en evidence of their earnest desire to meet the views of the United - States. They would in this connection, have been ready to consider in a friendly spirit any amendments of the government of tho United States, not inconsistent with the principles of both governments which the government of the "United States might propose, and would sincerely re gret a failure to 'come to an amicable understanding in regard to this import ant subject. . ' STOPPED BY RAIN : r University and Lafayette Were Playing Beautiful Ball Chapel Hill. N. C, March 25 Spe cial The first game of base ball for this season was played ' today between the University and Lafayette. The game started out beautifully, and no doubt would have been hotly contested - if a heavy downpour of rain had not stopped ij: in the fifth inning before the side was retired. The score ; at the end of the fourth was two to nothing in favor of Carolina: The battery work of bota teams Tva good. ..- Cunninghamr of Car olina, pitched magnificent ball. Carr at short played well. . The feature of the game; was a triple play by jafayette in the third inning. 'Another game will be played tomorrow. The batteries in today's game were: Carolina Cunningham 'and Graves; La fayette Pritchard and Ernst. Hits Carolina 4, Lafayette 0, Errors 1 and 1. KILLED BY FIRE MM Only Nine Left Out of Sixteen Coal Miners Connellsville, 'Pa., March 25. A spe cial train composed of a box car and a fast engine brought into Connellsville" to day the most frightful nost of groaning, blackened and unrecognizable men ever hauled into this town. They were the victims of a terrific mine explosion at the Gates mine of the Eureka Fuel Com pany in the new Klondike coke field, in this (Fayette) county. The mine has been worked only a few months. It is too early to hazard a guess at the cause which led to the accumulation of enough gas to make such a fatal explosion. This morning 2S men reported ior duty and went into the pit. " Of this number 16 were caught in the awful grip of the scorching breath of the firedamp and were singed and blackened. As soon af ter the explosion as possible a force of men was sent to the rescue. A great crowd, of grief-strucken wives and rela tives surrounded the shaft. NOne by one the burned men were found, and all of them Were dead 'or terrible burnedJfNine still lived and they were put into a box gar. A' fast engine was attached and tnis ihospitalr express was rushed at a mile a minute speed to Connellsville. The ambulance made several fast trips and landed all the wounded men in the Cot tage State Hospital. ' Fifty Years a Hobo Reading, Pa., March 25.' John' Lynch, who claimed) to be the oldest tramp in the United ( States, died today at the county alms house, aged 80 years. He claimed, to have been a, hobo on the road for over fifty years, circling principally in New York, . New Jersey and Pennsyl vania. Before he died he said he was bom in Ireland, had been educated for the ministry .but owing to. bad luck he left home and f riends-- and took to the road in America where he arrived sixty- two years -ago. He said he had no rela tives in America, The county authori ties will bury the old man rather than send his body to the dissecting room. Viclroys Kicking Hard Shanghai.. March 25. The. viceroys are still vigoromdyi opposing the ratificaition of the Russo-Chinese convention regard ing Mattehurial -'rhe viceroys of Canton and Nanking yre-. leading the opposi tion. Sheng, i director, of railways and telegraphs,,, had interviews yesterday with the British, - American, Japanese and French consuls,, and urged them to oppose the treaty. All fear that -the ratification, of the convention will -mean . . , - - m - 4:1.: j., . tne Degmuiug vl me.-, yaruiiuu oi xne empire, tocar business is at a stand still awaiting results. : - . g-u Lightning Strikes a Cathedral Grand Rapids, Mich., March 25. St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral was destroved today by nre, resulting from n stroke of lightning. The loss is $50,000 with only $20,000 insurance. The ar?JJ was etruet by lightning about 10:30 last night, but the flames were not discovered oth-juntu 2:15 this morning, when the.v were beyond control of the nremen. The Situation in Russia Be t.' coming Worse LITTLE LEAKS OUT Fragmentary News Leads to Expectation of a Violent Outbreak-Nihilists in Paris Are Well Informed 5 nc London, March 25. The situation in Russia is believed to be. growing worse, although it is difficult to obtain detail ed advices from St. Petersburg. There is every' indication that the state of af fairs is becoming ominous and it is be lieved here that dispatches detailing the actual condition of affairs cannote sent out of the empire. ; ; ' Fragmentary; telegrams from differ ent points are being received here today, but so far as- details are concerned they are ' eminently unsatisfactory. They show, however, that the' revolutionary movement continues and the crisis 7 has not been passed. , - ; j The. character of the information at 'hand leads to expectations of the most violent 'outbreak ; at any time, as it is known that the military have .been pro vided with plenty of ammunition and the students and working elements, of the population are wrought up to a danger-, ous pitch. So far as can be learned, the Russian authorities have taken no measures.to calm the people,, but have simply pre pared to resist by force mhy moyement that may take place under the 'aus pices of. the revolutionary elements.. The Nihilist colony in Paris is proba bly better informed as to the actual situation in Russia than sympathizers at any other centre, for its members have maintained a code of? correspond ence with, the Russian agitators in spite of a vigorous . censorship, and it con tinues to secure information.'- The Nihilists in the 'French capital have been advised that several Russian revolutionists, who had taken -refuge in Paris, recently stole back to 'Russia, and it is. supposed that they are active in tho present plots against the czar , and his ministers. - . ' - It is said that the Nihilists gave Czar Nicholas warning some time ago that re forms were expected, and because their warning was unheeded they have renew ed the conspiracies, which made the life of the late czar miserable. STORM AT WINSTON Hail Stones We re as Big as They Make 'Em Winston-Salem, N. C, March" 25. Special. This section was visited this afternoon by the worst storm in. the his tory of Wihston, It was almost a cloud burst. Rain and hail fell in torrents. Some of the hau stones measured eight inches in circhimf erence, : Many glass in windows were broken and tin roofs badly damaged. ' At Kernersville the Methodist parsonage was damaged and a stable and. small residence demolished. A CYCLONE STRIKES , GRANVILLE COUNTY A Farmer Killed and a Child's Arm Broken ' I . : - ' ' Durham, N. C, March 25. Special A report has reached here of consider able damage done by a cyclone in Gran- vill county late this afternoon. All reports of .damage obtainable at this time came from Creedmore station, on the Durham &' Northern road, seventeen miles from here. The home of Ned Jack son, two miles from Creedmore, together with all out-houses, is reported destroyed A little daughter of Jackson had an arm broken.. No other members of the family are reported hurt. . ? . ' ' - The next report of damage il at the home of Paul Cannady. His home was unroofed and Mrs. Cannady -was blown into the yard. Cannady went to her assistance, and as he stooped to pick her up a piece of 'flying debris struck him, killing him instantly. The deceased was well, known to a number of. our people. He was a well-tonio farmer, of good family, and was widely known. "! -He had been married two years. This was all the particulars of the work of the cyclone learned here tonight. -The blow in Durham" was terrific for a few minutes about 5 o'clock.' The wind was accompanied by a tremendous down fall of rain. The only damage reported tonight is to a few tin -roofs. . The direction of the Granville cyclone was reported to be from southeast to northwest. " . - 3 Blizzard in Western Kansas ?- Toneka. March 25. The worst blizzard of the winter has been raging in West- jern Kansas for thirty-six hours. All i traits are tied up and a half-dn7en hi mountain snowplows are at work do ir ing away the drifts. Hundreds of cnttlrt will perish in this storm. Thousar,! of head are: being carried 'through winter on the grass they are ablo"t. et on the prairies. This is suffio..,- keep them in good order, but with tw,i to four feet of snow on the ground tha situation for cattle men becomes seriuus , : . ' Affray With Sabres Tien Tsin. March 25, In an affrny last evening two members of the Wr-lch' Fusiliers regiment and a member of tha iVictorian contingent who were acting policemen, were sabred and bayonet ted. It is alleged that Germans were the nihil cipal culprits.- ' - ; . ' - Severe Blow in Texas Fort Worth, Tex., March 25. A nnmv ber of houses were wrecked by a cyclona at Olive last night. Two churches, a school and an Odd Fellows' and Wood men's buildings were demolished. Small buildings, fences and trees were swept away. No one was killed, but several were injured,,,- . , Trains Meet Head-On Washington, March 25.. head-on col lision' lt ween two passenger trains on the .Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Electric Railroaa occurred hin morning shortly before 7 o'clock, aliout " four miles south of this city. Nobody was killed,' but ma ny passengers were in jured, two possibly fatally. The acci dent occurred in a dense, fog. ' Executive Appoirtments ". Washington, Ma rch 25. Thef ollowing appointments made - by . the president were, announced today: State George E. Baldwin, of Ohiotar be consul of the United States at Nurem berg, Bavaria; Henry B. Miller of Ore gon, to be consul of the United States at Niuchwaug, China. Justice Marion Erwin, of Georgia, tar be attorney of the United States; for th Southern District of Georgia. ... ; S : Boers Approach Queenstown Queenstown, Cape Colony, March 25.- The town guard here has been called out, owing to reports that a force of Boers is near the town. Business had been, shut down in ; order to allow the em-' nloyes to man the trenches and forts day and night. The Boers, who are said to-be . twenty miles oft, are alleged to have crossed ;the railroad near Drum morid. - , ' ( ' Queenstown is situated in Cape Col ony, about, one. hundred miles tohe poirth of : Orange river. It is about .loO miles from the coast. . . . . Dishonest Postal Employes i New York, Mar.ch 25. Judge - Thomas of the United States Circuit Court, sen tenced today four postoffice 1 employes 1 guilty of stealing from the mails, to im-! prisonment for two years anutaix months' each. Joseph A. Conlin, the postoffice clerk' who stple a registered mail pouch con taining cash and securities to the" value: of $40,000 from station II. last. October, was today held in $10,000 bail by Judge Thomas to await .trial Friday. He pleaded not guilty. 1 , ' " . - New Ruse By Strikers V Marseilles, March 25. An incident 00 curred today which showed the desperatf character of many of thosewho are en gaged in the present strike. Twelve cement workers were arrested for rioting.. The strikers were unable to prevent the police from seizing tha men and putting them in the police vans, but they stopped the vans from driving off. with the prisoners by throwing them- ' selves down in the street and making it impossible for the vans to proceed with out driving over them. It is said that an arbitration plan is now on foot aud that the dispute may soon be settled. HADLEY'S ADVICE TAKEN President of Yale Will Find How It Is Himself New Haven. March 25. Acting on the oft-repeated advice of President Hadley ' of Yale, that every citizen should, regard it as his bounden duty to attend political caucuses and primaries and -not' leave .this work entirly to the politicians, the anti-administration Democrats of New Haven have placed at the very head of list of the eighth ward committee the name of President Hadley. He is in California at present. It is even pro-; posed to. run President Hadley for alder man of the ward to -give him a tasta of practical polictics. The administrate men are supporting Mayor Cornelius T. Driscoll for renomination. . His twe 'years term as mayor will expire in"twe months and he wants another term. There is a bitter fight against him. With President Hadley on the ward committee are Professor W'illiam G. Sumner of the political economy and social department of Yale, Colonel N. G.Osborn, editor of theuNew Haven Register, an Out and out gold man. Alex. Troup, William J. Bry an's most ardent advocate in the New England States. In tire last Presiden tial campaign President Hadley came out flat-footed in favor.of President Mc Kinley and Professor Sumner was clas ed as a McKInley man too. It is inter esting to note that both are now put at the head of a Democratic ward i?ommit- tee arrayed against a Yale man, too, foe MayorDriscoll is a graduate of Yale ami wants the honor of having a Yale man at the head of the city government dur ing Yale's bi-centennial eelebrattoin. Its was stated tonight that President Had ley and Prof. - Sumner come under the; head of Cleveland Democrats. 'A V 'ft
The Morning Post (Raleigh, N.C.)
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