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' Southeastern Europe Flood-swept and
: -Reports Today Indicate That ' the
St Death Mat is Between 800 'ami
:Ai f'OOO Whole Villages Have Been
Wiped Oat and Many Towns Are
. tender Waterwlustrfa ! the' - Bal
; . kana and Armenia Have Suffered
Greatly COO Persona Are Home-
leis in Hungary Floods in"LTtue
Bnssia. M.- 5
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ID STOiluS
' . - v Vienna, June 16 Soutbeastern
' Europe 1b floo4-swept dnd ejort to?
't'A-'t, Reived today. Indicate that the death
: Itat ta between.800 and 1,000. Whole
. . tillages have been wiped out, and fer
J- : " tile valleys' today are lakes.- The
- property .daraaage cannot be deOnlte-
ly estimated but tpeagre advices a!
-; ready at hand ; show - that It will
, - ' surely be In excess . of , $2,B0O,QOO
. .-The sltuaUou has not teen equalled
in many years. ,
: ' . Austria, the Balkans and Armenia
' have suffered -heavily, ' Relief twork
: 4 it being pushed as well1 as possible
'"' . hut-wlth-.-roe.da-i wiped :ut, railroads
- tied" Up and wire, coramunlc(Jon 4n
-e . many sscUpi)s at a Btandstlll the dif
' i.- RuuUles of speedy relief appear: In
surmountably ' ' T ,
; - Ralnsware reported generally and
- . the floods continue. With every dls-
i. - patch the horror of the situation la
- creases '
" In the entire region affected It ts
believed that more than 20,000 peo
ple are homeless. - A . ?
"j .- ." Floods fa Turkey. .
Const an tlhople, June' id The gov
ernment" today began efforts at re-
- -i lief work in the flooded districts of
-European -and Asiatic TOrkey. It Is
believed that the roll of killed will
be fully BOO In Armenia alone. The
: - Western 'Euphrates and, the- Pasln
' . Aras rivers . are floded and several
'-.-.iY Tillages have been swept away. The
: , sltuatldn -Is almost unprecedented;
- : Situation In Switserland. ,
- . Geneva, . ilJune -a6-rMelUng snows
today increased the sertousaess of. the
flood situation in Switzerland and
- 1 Bavaria. - Four . towns on Jhe -bor
, ders ot Lake Constance are under wa
ter, according to dispatohea recelv-
. . , ed here today anf hundreds of their
. Inhabitants, are marooned. - The
. towns are Romanshorn, Rolitschach.
i Lindau and Frlederlchshafen. Lake
Constance is rising.
.The .lowlands of western Swltzer
. i.--.. laitoV" are ' .vtfarlicalarly affected.
- - Through the valley of the Orbe, ruB-
nlng. Xrom Lake Neuchtel Lto Lake
Geneva, , towns are flooced, bridges
- t v , (Continued On Page Seven-) ,
coy caoop ,
- ;-i:niD m:
. (By laied wlrs to .The Times.X
Columbus.- 6 June 1 A dirigible
bnlloon, h .property ;i of Cromwell
Dixon, a youth of this city, broke away
from Its 'moorings at Chlllicothe yes
terday -carrying with r It . Freddie
Mej-wi. aged 10. -The' balloon soared
to a height of half a mile fore hydro-
Ka - gas became1 partially exhausted,
amf then--desceDded. . Thousands- of
persons witnessed the thrilllna flfght-J
...Dixon.-. had Been giving exnimiions
-in Chillloothe during the Easle's Carnl
val. He- left Yocktange Park: while
there was a high wind, and his machln
: ery failing to work properly he made
- a landing In the ptreet.- ..
While lie was. at .work-on the balloon,
- Meyers was placed In the car to balance
It, A rope broke and the baloon with
' Its inexperienced 6ecupant ' shot Ipto
the air.. It made all sorts of evolutions
in the high wind and the boy could be
seen climbing from one end of the !at-
tice" work to the other. Several times
the balloon seemed as If it would land,
but each time It again shot Into the air
and was carried five miles out' of the
-. town-Tht fcny stepped out unhurt and
l-iiiifHed When It landed. Automobiles
-I J beon- hurried' after, him and he
' v HP y-delivered" Into the arms if
t .wed mother, 'Mrs. Mary
' (By Leased Wire to The Times).
, Washington, . Jfnne K18-ecretary.of
War Dickinson announced today -that
he - la to will, from , San Francisco -' on
June 88 for 'the Philippines via Hono
lulik and ifapan. On, July 4 the secre
tary will Inspect Pearl Harbor , and
the - military - post at. Honolulu: .; Five
days be spent In Yokohama and
Ave - weeks In . the Philippines. - -''
He wlll .be accpmpanled by. his wife
and son, and by General . and Mrs.
Clarence R. Edwards and Mr. am) Mrs.
Lars Anderson. The party Is to leave
Munila September' 1, returning Hy way
of the Trans-Siberian Railroad and will
call . from .Cherbourg. - October '10. ', " '
The secretary Is to leave tonight for
Nashville, Tenn., where-he will visit
several days.
DECIDES AGAINST HASKELL.'
Capital of Oklahoma Must Remain
at Guthrie." '
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Gdthrie, Okla. June1 16Holdlng
that the enabling act fixing the state
capital at Guthrie until 191S .was"!
blading .and that Governor Haskell
was amenable totbe otate courts of
AklaUoma. District - Judge A. H
Huston this morning overruled Gov
ernor Haskell's demurrer: to the-In
junctions, granted by the state courts
prohibiting, removal -of the state
capita) effects until the' election bad
been construed, .. - - :
Tie governor Immediately appeal
ed to the supreme court.- A decision
rrom. that . trlbonal . is expected with
in ttfn dava. ,
WIFELESS BILL
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, June 1C Tiie sen
ate today - passed a wireless tele
graphy bill Introduced by Senator
Depew, which seeks to regulate radio
communication by a license.. - The
measure Is aimed tov nr'event interference-
with -and. to give priority
n transmission . to wireless calls
an4 messages relating - to ships in
distress. and to the army and navy;
also, to prevent utterance of false
wireless signals of, distress and false
or fraudulent wireless signals ot
calls. ' ' ( '
A bill was passed authorizing. the
purchase of a site at Juneau, Alaska,
for the- residence of '. the governor
and a territorial library. .Also : to
appropriate $150,000 vfor a . public
building at Loralne, Ohio. '
'At 2-o'clock the statehood bill for
the, admission-, of Arizona and' New
Mexico to' the union was called up
by Senator Beverldge. . ' w- . "
It. Is Senator Elklns' Intention to
ask for consideration of the confer
ence report on the railroad bill late
thia afternoon.' : The statehood bill
will be temporarily displaced. - Tu
friend of the statehood measure 'be
lieve that It can be passed tomorrow,
however, and . that there will., be an
agreement, upon It In conference be
fore the adjournment. - S- - - .. '
HEAVY EARTHQUAKE. SHOCKS.
Seismograph , Records Several Severe
(By Leased Wire to The Times. )V
Washington, ', ' June - 16 Several
heavy earthquake shocks followed by
series of unusual tremors were re-
cordedon the seismograph at the
Georgetown - - University - here this
mornliig." The dlstapce of tbe shockd
la estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000 .or
more - miles. .'Preliminary .tremors
began at 1:48 o'clock..-; followed- by
tw heavy ahocka lasting from. 1:69
to 2:02, and from . 2.03 to 2:05.
Tremora continued until 2:0 8. ' .
Then there, waa another shock last
ing until.i:31 o'clock, flight trm
ors continued until 2:37. Then a se
ries of gllghter ones lasting, until
i 46 o'clock and , slight shock, from
61 to 2:52. Tremora continued
until t-Tho total tlms.Af th
tremors was two hours and twenty-
three minutes, . m ,
f - ' " Shocks, In Spain. ) , ,
(By cacie to me 'times.j .:.
Madrid,- Jtittt . i i-r-Heavy eaf th-
quake shocks were felt today : In
southeastern. Spain centerin&.in .he:
province of Almerla and- ahoiW-th.
ity or that name, several buuaings
were damaged but reports said that
ae persons were Injured., . j
A s! 1 1 selxnitc wave was expert-
eed l;i V s Eay of Almerla, on
Jrfll"nM4WBWi'J'rfnnji 4 AniiiBBn2BiBalBaBaaaaBiBaBiBiaaaa '
i i ,Stwl Hant Burned. -
"-'.
" (By Leased Wire to The Times.)
n Chicago, June lSFor the second
time in three years the architectural
tron and efceel-ftaantMacturina-: Diant
of .the Hansel! Elcock Company,- oc
cupying a full square between Twen-
ty-third Place and , Twenty-fourth
street, caught fire this morning and
was destroyed, with a loss exceeding
1300,000. , - - ,
The fire followed a terrillc ex
plosion that scattered blazing-oil to
all corners. In twenty minutes the
structure was doomed, as was Mh
large barn, In the rear, containing
twenty head of horses.
Kegro Lynched in Mississippi.'
(By Leased Wire to The Times) V
. Jackson, Miss., June 16 Advice
received today from Durant, Miss.
tell of the lynching of Otho Mitch
ell, a negro,' after he had tried to
kill three white men. , The negro
ran - amuck with a shotgun ; and
threatened to ''shoot up" the town,
4 Maddened . by drink, he fired at
random on the main street of the
town until fatally wounded by Con
stable Causey. The Injured negro
was then seized by a mob;
r . Mrs.-Doxpjr Again On- Trial.
St. Louis, Mo., June i C the pre
liminary hearing of Mrs. Dora E
Doxey, on a charge of bigamously
marrying William J. Erer, for whose
death she was. recently tried and ac
quitted, waB called before Justice of
the Peace Werremeyer at Clayton to
day. , Thirty-flve witnesses had been
summoned by the prosecution.
ram com
i. (By Leased Wire to The Times)
, Washington, June ' 16 The rail
roads affected by the recent decision
of the interstate commerce commlsr
alon, reducing . Pullman car ,n"raie
from Chicago to points In Nebraska
will be granted- a rehearing of,, the
case - tomorrow by. the commission!
At a-.'prellminary" hearing' fn. Chi
cago Oie companies , produced new
evidence, which they say has not b
fore been presented to the Inter
state commerce commission,
G. 8. Fernald, representing - the
Pullman, company, E. C. Llndley,' of
the Great Northerfi, C. W. Buns, of
the Northern Pacific, and Burton
Henson, of the Chicago. Milwaukee
and St. Paul railroad will present
the-case of '.he railroads.
aji$(iate for-floyeiraor of New York
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New torfc, June 16 The can
didacy" of William S. Bennett, con
gressman .r from? New i tork, -f or the
republican gubernatorial nomination
wa announced tod-y, -
phepmi::s EDR.
imco;iQEiED
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, June 16-MVith Theo
dore Roosevelt rapidly nearlng. the
port,- -of New York - on the liner
Kalserln Auguste Victoria, prepara
tions'' for the greatest welcome ever
accorded -a private, citizen are p tac
tically. complete. Police orders were
Issued today governing; (Saturday's
celebration and parade, and plans for
a. system of emergency . hospitals
were announced. ' : '
Police Commissioner Baker issued
special orders Nos. ' 159 and : 160,
giving directions to, the police for
tbe handling of the land and water
parades. V--,'.. -.":"' '';
: Along the line of march and about
the docks there will be stationed 3,
000 patrolmen. .
.Today's orders give instructions
to captains and Inspectors,
Telephone booths will be installed
every five, blocks along the route of
the land parade, and every ten
blocks there will be field hospitals.
Two- lines of police will guard the
procession Its entire length. - ' , -
For' the marine parade, nine po
lice launches are detailed to aid the
revenue cutters regulating traffic on
the North river and in the bay.
Along1 the water front will ", be
emergency hospitals, patrol wagons
and a. special telephone service? . Xn.
pierf will be Inspected before the
crowds begin to gather, ;
Tbe following message was sent to
Mr. JRoosevelt by wireless today:
"The American peace and, arbitra
tion league, of which you are honor
ary president, congratulates you' on
your safe return to , your, home and
countrymen." ,-: ' I.'
r ' Ex.-Govenjor James, B. WcCreary,
of Kentucky, is president of .the
league and Henry Clews is the. treas
urer.. , '.';... ,.;.v.,;-.-., ":"-,;
In Oyster Bay plans have .been
completed for a home - reception of
the ex-presldent. " A special tram
will take the Rooseyelt party and
the, Nassau county reception commit
tee from Long Island City to. Oyster
Bay and there the country people will
t gathered to shout a welcome, AD
the school children will be there also,
each waving a flag. ; The Oyster Bay
PUBLIC SPEAKING
' IN TIIE '
court nburjE
Oa Friday nlgltt at 8 o'clock ,
W.- Bone, Jr.'t W. Hinsdale,
Jr., . county officers,' and. pth-.
fra, nil! address the Mettihg. '
All Democrats - cordially' In
yitedL . ' , , t
silver cornet band will toot and three
speeches will be aimed at the colonel
and fired. Then the RooseveltSiWill
be allowed to go home to Sagamore
Hill. ,
GIRL KIDNAPPED.
Captors Fir" "Many Shots at Rescupra
: nnrl Get Away.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Detroit, Mich., June 16 After fir
ing no less than twenty-five shots
several Italians succeeded last night
in kidnapping Josephine Vomiera,
flfteen-years-old, from her home in
Ford City, a suburb of Detroit. The
shots were fired at the girl's father
and police officers who tried to pre
vent the kidnapping. At various
places between Ford City, and Detroit
officers who attempted to stop the
kidnapping party were shot at by the
Italians. Detroit detectives are try-
Ling to locate the-girl today.
FIREMEN HURT.
A $7?,00O Fire In Buffalo One Man
..: '- Collapses From Fright.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Buffalo, N. Y., June 16 Four Bre
men were hurt and one man collapsed
from fright at the sight of flames
that damaged the plant of the Buffalo
Mattress Company last night to the
extent of $75,000. "Of the injured
firemen. Lieutenant Peter Ryan was
the most seriously hurt. All will re
cover. ,; -.'"'. ' "
All traffic on the Michigan Central,
the New York Central and the Grand
Trunk'line8 from Canada waa block
ed for more than an hour. "-..-'
PLACE TO HOLD
PAIIAUA EXPOSITION
. (By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, June 16 The ' house
committee on .foreign affair today
authorized Representatives" Farrett, of
New York, to report to the house the
two bills for the Panama 'exposition;
San Francisco and New Orleans.-.
. The' committee amended the bill, re
quiring each 'city to subscribe $7,500,000
as h guarantee.' The city that raises
this sum first Is to be recommended
as the city for the exposition. If both
cities raise the sum at the same time
the question" is then to be presented
to th president for his decision, In
which event it is not 'Improbable that
he would deslgriute both cities to hold
expositions. - , .V
. Representative Fassett hopes to 'pre
sent his report to the house late, to
day, " '
Rpbinson Circus Train Wrecked, ,
Alloona, Fa. , Ju ne 1 6-The" Rob
InBou circus train, was wrecked early
today on the Cresceat- Clearfield
Railroad, near EdeHsbergr -- z. - -,
Many attaches of the circus were
hui't and some of the animals escaped
from their cages. ,-v.
PROGRESS OF THE
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
' Nashville, Tenn., June 16 The
Ghdden tourists left here at 9 o'clock
for Springfield, Ala., and were es
corted out of the city by two hun
dred or more local cars. The parade
through the city was led uv cars lin
ed with handsomely gowned women,
whose machines drew up in double
Dries at the custom house,, allowing
tbe travellers to uss between.:
A delegation from the Columbia,
Tenn., automobile club will meet the
tourists south of Franklin and escort
them to Columbia.
WHEN TO ADJOURN.
Xo Ileiinite Tl"e in Sight Yet for
--...Adjournment of Congress.
Washington, June 16 Opinions
differ -as-to the time when1 congress
will adjourn. Vice-President Sher
man guesses July 2. Senators
Crane and Curtis,. July 2'J. Repre
sentative; Payne and other :' house
leaders Who were at tiie white a'ouse
today say taat congress will end its
session between July 25 and' 29. ,
The president was In conference
this morning with the house and
senate leaders working to straighten
out the parliamentary tangle caused
by the seriate 'amendment to the
conservation bill providing a $30,-
000,000 issue of irrigation ' certi
ficates. Tiie president wants the
senate amendment adopted by. tbe
house but is meeting with 'opposition
from Representative Payne and
others. No definite understanding
was rf ached at tbe conference. -.'
BILL FILED IN SUIT
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Birmingham, Ala., June i 6 Aver
ring that the Southern . Wholesale
Grocers' Association, an organization
composed of about 500 jobbers of
seven southern states and the District
of Columbia, was an illegal organiza
tion in violation of the Sherman an
ti-trust law, the government has fil
ed a bill in equity ; in the United
States district court of northern' Ala
bama at Birmingham ,to dissolve the
association and to restrain its mem-1
bers from engaging in futt&er. alleg
ed combination t6 control the prices
of groceries. The bill was filed by
Special United States Attorney Jos
eph H. Montgomery on his return
from Washington yesterday after
noon, where he has been In confer
ence with the department of justice
In the preparation of the bill.
The move is' the result of a suit In
stituted in the circuit court of Jef
ferson county over two years ago by
Hlnton IG.'XJlabaugh," a Birmingham
wholesale-grocer. Clabapgh, after
filing a petition in bankruptcy, filed
suit for $130,000 against the South
ern Wholesale Grocers' Association,
alleging that t.he association had co
erced manufacturers to boycott him.
The suit is still pending. ' Recently
Clabaugh gave evidence -in Washing
ton to the government In reference to
the case. - "
Subpoenaes have been issued for
about fifteen firms who are, co-defendants
In the government's suit.
These firms are scattered throughout
the south. -' ,: ;
NO PLAIN SAILING.
President's Land Withdrawal Bill
Will Have Rough Time of It.
I". :- ' -
( By Leased Wire to The Times. )
Washington,' June 16 The presi
dent's land withdrawal bill which
passed the senate yesterday with an
amendment, appropriating $30,000,-
000 for the completion of existing
reclamation projects" in the far west
ern states, will not have plain sail
ing In the house, because of the
$30,000,000 amendment. Early In
Ifestly improper I write you this
bill to carry on tbe work of reclama
tion projects - but the house held It
up and in order to get the matter
before the home and senate placed
jt in the land withdrawal bill.
A lively light Is expected when the
bill comes up in tag house.
After Steel Trust.
"(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
. New . York, June- 16 The house
today- adopted the Stanley resolution
calling dn" the attorney general to
report- to congress any -Information
he-may have showing whether the
United States Steel Corporation has
violated the Sherman anti-trust law,
OFcBlS
at race
Raleigh. Citizens United and
Demamd of the Railrcads
Adequate Depot Facilities :
.... , . 4
HEARING HELD TODAY
.'.":" - : . -. :
Over One Hundred pf the Leading
Citizens of the City Attended the
Hearing In the Depot Matter Be-; ,
fore the. Corporation Commission
Today Petition - Amended ' and
I'nion Station Demiindf'dSpeech
by N. B. Bioughton, C. B. Aycock:
and Others; All Reciting the lnad-
' equacy of the Present Station and
Demanding Relief.
Over one hundred of . Raleigh's
foremost, citizens headed by that
splendid man, Hon. C. B. Aycock, met
in the halls of tbe Chamber of Com-.,
merce and Merchants' Association to
day at 1 1 o'clock and- marched to the
offices of the Corporation Commis
sion to lay the claims ot the people
before the commissioners la the hear
ing for a, new station. The hearing ,
between the roads and the citizens '
had been -set for It o'clock and the,,
body of splendid citizenship which. .
met at the Chamber .of Commerce
and marched tfpj Fayetteville street
past the capitol building over to the
Corporation offices was a sights long I
U be K.eu)beredc .-vie great throng
were aeked Into .the court 'Toen -et
the 'commlssionerst .packing ' ievery
available corner of standing room. '
" Mr. N. B. Brqugbn opened'7 the
discussion in a strong" speech for the
citizens of Raleigh on the subject Of
congestion at the present station,
showing how : poor the service had
been at the station for the past eigh
teen years and that the present "im'
provements could not be adequate, to
the growing city. He showed: how -Raleigh
had over 1,000 students wno
come into the city each year, the con
ventions and other large gatherings
coming almost .each month, 'So that
the congestion had become a constapt
thing and that the station not being
increased or the trackage Increased,
the facilities in the future could dot
be better. ' ' . .-.." )
Following Mr. .Broughton, oe
Boushall, a traveling man, made-
Very strong speech, comparing. Our
station with other over the state and
country. He showed that - present
improvements were not what the pub
lic actually needed and that what we
have had was a disgrace to the city
and state. : ' . , . .' , '
Ex-Governor C. B. Aycbck then -
to'ok the floor and reviewed the bis-
tory of the present old Btation down -
to the present day. He began bis
speech by submitting an amendment
to the appeal, making it for a "union
station," which would make it st ;
that all the roads coming into Ral
(Continued on Page Four)
THE EXPLOSION OF
BLACK HAND BOq
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, 'June 16 The ex
plosion of a black hand bomb In
tenement at 1143 First avenue-toi
day threw 175 persons info panic.
As the building rocked, the occu
pants fled to the fire escapes, being
cut off by the destruction of twe
flights of concrete stairs. They were
rescued by firemen. . . ,
The explosion followed threats te '
extort $5,000 from Frank Fassett
who, with his wife and two children,'
were thrown from bed by the force :
of the bomb. The lower part of the
building waa wrecked;."-: .-af
,. . ' . - j ' ,..'' M..
Cannon Lost His Smile. . '
(By Leased Wire to The Times) ',!.
Washington, June : 16 Speaker
Cannon who was - at the whltd
house today, loat his smile when a
newspaper man asked him. if he in
tended to join the happy throng
that is to greet Colonel Roosevelt
in- New York on Saturday. v -
''I can't leave here when congreps
is in session," he growled, and H ' ,
(