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Jay Gould and Miss Ann
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Tornado taps (taonri
Viith Fatal Effect
Nine Dead Already Reported and De
tails Cannot Be Had As Yet Two
White Women Dead, and Two Men
Killed White Riding In an Automo
bile Property Damage and De
struction of Crops Heavy.
St. Lcuis, Mo., April 14. Nine per
sons are dead and nearly a hundred
injured as result of a wind and hail
storm, which swept over eastern Mil
souri yesterday afternoon, according to
belated reports reaching here. In this
city three are dead and property val
ued at two million dollars was destroy
ed. . . , ' -.
Two Women Among Victims.
Desoto, Moi April 14. With the
telephones south of here crippled, re
ports from the districts swept by the
tornado yesterday are coming in slow
ly. It will be late' today before com
plete estimates of the damage can
be compiled. Eight persons were kill
ed in the Valley Mines, Cadet and
vicinity. Four negroes were found
dead at the' Valley Mines and two
white women at Cadet. Two men,
John Powers, of Cape Girardeau, and
Jos. J. Boyers, of Desoto, were killed
while riding in an automobile in Jef
ferson county. A third occupant of
the machine is missing. The chauf
feur escaped and ; telephoned the re
port here. Great . havoc throughout
Jefferson county is reported. ';' Farm
buildings have been ' demolished and
there is great damage to crops.
CHAMPAGNE RIOTS ARE
PERHAPS ALL OVER
. Eperney, France, April 14. Calm
prevailed during the night throughout
the department of Marine, the scene
of the three days' riotous outbreak by
discontented wine growers. -The au
thorities this morning are hopeful that
the rioting is over. The Chamber of
Deputies vote, nullifying the action
of the Senate, with reference to delim
itation of champagne districts and the
expressed intention of the Premier to
refer the question to the council of
State for settlement it is believed have'
appeased the excited , populace The
army corps sent to quell the outbreak
and prevent further destruction of
property remains in the disturbed area.
ASSAULTED TWICE.
Awful Deed Committed In Louisiana
and Lynching lmminen.t r '
Monroe, La., April 14. Mrs. Leila
McKnight, victim of assault at tha
hands of two negroes yesterday,; is in
a critical condition. She has recover
ed sufficiently to make a statement.
She declares a negro named Allen was
the first to assault her and he was
followed by another, whom she did
not know, but would be able to iden
tify. A mob of several hundred citi
zens surrounded the jail last night.
The excitement is intense ,If the ne
groes are captured a double lynching
is almost certain. "
TEN THOUSAND GREET HM. .
Big Reception to Roosevelt Continues
In West.
Faren. N. D.. ADril 14. Former
President Roosevelt passed through
Fargo on a Northern Pacific train for
St. Paul on schedule time". Ten thou
sand nersons gave him a hearty re
ception as he appeared for five min
utes on the rear platform.
In the Recorder's court this morn
ing C. W. Futch was given a hearing
for hitting T. L. Ruth, and" judgment
was suspended on payment of costs,
There were no other cases. ',
All RAILROAD CONNECTIONS
BUT ONE CUT OFF
El Paso. Texas. Anril 14. The Le
rado gateway is now the only rail
road open fromt he United States
to the interim rif MtIp.O. the Rebels
having cut off communication " south
of Ciudad Porfirio Diaz by burning
six railroad bridees. This is the first
serious ' disturbance In the State of
Coahuila.-'
"A Flash of Light." '
Biograph production at Grand The
atre todiy. . It.
He Prepared the Bill Which Would
Place Over Hundred Articles On
the Free List How the Free List
Would Benefit the People.
Washington, April 14 The Ways
and Means Committee bills, one to rat
ify th.e reciprocity treaty and the other
to give the" farmers duty-free imple
ments and 'other necessities, introduced
will be hurried through the House.
-The bill to place on the free list ag
ricultural implements, cotton bagging,
leather,, boots and shoes; and other
things carries more than a hundred
articles, including many products of
i Beef Trust, the Steel Trust, the Farm
implement Trust, the Biscuit Trust,
the Sewing Machine Trust, the Leath
er Trust and the Salt Trust.
This list was prepared by Represen
tatiye Kitehin, a member of the com
mittee, and he studied it carefully
with a view to striking in the high
places. He said today: '
"The duty on bacon and ham is 4
cents a. pound. "Foreigners are able to
buy American bacon and ham for
about 2 cents less than we do. The
trust fixes the price here. We import
ed 11,350,000 worth of meat products
in 1909, including $94,885 of bacon and
h&ms. The duties are literally prohib
itive. These things we transfer to the
free list."
Lard is on the Underwood free list.
In 1909 this country exported '$53,000,
000, and imported $54,000 worth. The
duty was reduced by the Payne-Ald-ricn
ill- from '2 cents to 1 1-2 cents a
pound. " - -
In the farmers' implement list there
are at least one .hundred different
Idnds all carrying duties. " Common
farm wagons pay 35 per qent. A ag
on, thai sells fdr $100 in Canada brings
$135 here. Hay tedders, feed cutters
gralnV crushers, field rollers and ma
nure spreaders pay 45 per cent. '
Free cotton bagging and cotton ties,
it is argued, will save the farmers' 10
cents a bale, or $1,300,000 on a 13,000,
000 bale crop, . and sacks for wheat,'
corn and peanuts, $5,000,000 annually.
The. advalorem duty on coarse sacks,
is 33 per cenL
Wire, fencing pays a duty of 45 per
cent. The Underwood bill will save
the American farmer $5,000,000, its
framers say, and cheat the Govern
ment out of very little revenue. Lum
ber, rough, planed and dressed, comes
in free. It is estimated that this will
save Western people $20,000,000.
Flour is used as an illustration of
what the free ljst will do. The ad valo
rem duty is 25 per cent. Transferred
to tne free list, flour will cross the Can
adian line at a saving of $1.17 a barrel
to the "American consumer. Putting
Bewing' machines on ' the free list
should reduce the price by from $5 to
$7.50 a machine, as they had a duty of
30 per cent. ;
GEORGIA CONGRESSMAN WANTS
T4TH AMENDMENT REPEALED
Washington April 14. A bill intro
duced in the House by Representative
Hardwick, of Georgia, provides for the
repeal of the fourteenth amendment to
the constitution. . The measure seeks
to prevent Congress from limiting the
representation of Southern States be
cause of the disfranchisement of the
negro, which curtails the voting popu
lation of the. States. ,
GETS EIGHTEEN YEARS.
Sentance Passed on Virginia Mai
. Who Murdered: Negress.
Hampton, Va., April 14. M. J. Gar
land, found guilty of murdering Jes
sie Banks, a negress, at Pheobus ;n
December, was sentenced today to
eighteen years in the penitentiary.
. , . '
."Mother Nevyman Retires.
Wellsley, Mass., April 14 Mrs.
Anna Newmani known tb thousands of
Wellesley graduates the world over as
"Mother" and "Aunt," is to quit her
post as had of Noruinbega Cottage,
which she has occupied for twenty-five
years, f Mrs. Newman presided 'over
Norumbega destinies almost since it
was built and she was considered
among the undergraduates as a guard
Ian angel. The girls told her their
sorrows and joys and he advice was
always of the soundest. Ajlrs. Newman
is going to remove to Pittsfleld, Mass.,
where she is to retire to private life.
"Red's Request.
Great, drama by Selig Stock Com-
JpanyJ Grand Theatre today. . It
1911, by American Press Association. .
Mr. Gould and Miss Graham will be married in St. Thomas' church, NewTork city, on April 29. The wedding
'(will be a simple one. Owing to the recent death of Miss Graham's aunt a limited number will be asked to the
church, and relatives and a very few intimate friends.only have. been invited to the reception. .In the; picture Mr.
-Gould is seated at the wheel. In the rear seat Is Morgan J. O'Brien,'. Jr. The hatless young man Is George J. Gould,
Jr. This la tba first picture of Mr. Gould and Miss Graham taken together. . , . .. -
IUP0RTAI
Commis'sioner of Immigration for the
. Southern Commercial Congress to
Soon Enter Upon His Duties He
Talks In Interesting Way.
Washington, i April 14. LeRoy
Hodges, at present with the Tariff
Board, will inr a few months becoma
Commissioner of Immigrafion of the
Southern Commercial Congress. Injhe
Interval, he will co-operate with Sena
tor Fletcher and Managing Director
Dawe, in organizing to successfully
carry out the deljcate task' thus as
signed to him by the executive com
mittee. Mr. Hodges is in .complete
Sympathy with the Southern ' Commer
cial Congress in its repeated declara
tions that the lands of the South
would better remain empty than bring
on a second racial problem. In a
written -communication to the execu
tive committee, Mr. Hodges says:
"There is , a pressing demand now
In the South for skilled industrial la
borers, as well as for unskilled work
men, who can be relied on, and , who
will not further complicate our negro
problem. v ,
. "I would advocate, however, that
the energy of the Southern Commer
cial. Congress be . directed towards
turning agriculturalists towards the
South. The large tracts of land which
are now lying idle throughout the
South should be placed in condition
to produce not only subsistence for
the army of workers. who will be at
tracted, to the regidVin quest of em
ployment as our : industrial develop
ment: continues, but .also to furnish
the . raw cotton, tobacco.-sugar cane,
and the other, commodities which our
own mills and factories will require
outside of 'the export demands. While
this may be "made the main work ot
the congress for the present, I do not
mean-to say that the demand for in
dustrial laborers, and skilled artisans
should be overlooked, for I believe
that as far as it is practical an effort
should be exerted to supply this need.
But as these latter classes are sel
dompermanent settlers in any one
locality, the Southern Commercial
Congress can best serve the South by
guiding within her -boundaries those
who will become real factors in the
communities ; in which theyv take up
their residence.
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HILL STEPS DUI
Ambassador to Germany Tenders. His
Resignation, Which Is Accepted By
President Taft Comes In Nature of
Surprise. '
Washington, April 14. David Jayne
Hill, of Rochester, N. Y., Ambassador
of the United States to Germany, has
resigned, and his resignation has been
accepted by the President.
Neither in Hill's letter of resigna
tion, nor in the president's letter of
acceptance Js the reason given for the
Ambassadors action. The President
thanks Hill for his services at, Berlin
and says he is glad to know, he will
remain until July 1, when the resigna
tion becomes effective. Hill became
Ambassador to Berlin April 2, 1908.
His resignation was a great surprise
to officials in Washington. It was ar
gued that the fact that he is to remain
at his, post until July indicates there
was nothing urgent in the Ambassa-.
dor's action. ; ' ;
Mr. Hodges is a native of North
Carolina, although reared in Virginia
where he received his early education
in Gatewood's Naval Preparatory
school at Norfolk. His education in
economics and law was received in
Washington . & Lee University, and
at the University of Chicago. He has
spent abouttwo years in railroad and
general , engineering, having served
under the Seaboard Air Line and the
Augusta and Florida - railroads, , and
several construction companies.
From July 24th, 1908, until Novem
ber, 1910, with the exception of about
four months spent in the law school
at . Washington and Lee University,
he was a .special agent and the geo
grapher of the United States Immigra
tion Commission. Resigning his posi
tion with- the Immigration Commis
sion, he . was appointed commercial
geographer of the - Tariff . Board, No
vember 21st, 1910, .which position-he
now holds.
' , ; ' ' , The Orchestra. :. .
At the. Grand will play' "Judy For
get," today. , " . . It.
If your pair came from us, you can
bet it is the latest style. 1 Boylan &
Hancock. v . - .2t
blood nniniiiis
Mexican Insurrectos, Including Amer-
" icans, Capture An Important Point
Young .Virginian Killed in the Bat
tle. ' .' I' :
" Agua Prieta, Mexico, ?ift.pril l4.-j-The
Revolutionists, under "Red- Lopez,"
hold this town,' which they captured
yesterday, . after a three hours' -battle
with Mexican troops., . The town as
a port of entry is an. important point
The Insurrectos hope . by keeping it
to secure recognition from the United
States of their belligerency. Further
fighting is expected.. Fourteen. Amer
icans fought .with the - -, Insurrectos!
force and one of them,, J C. Edwards',
of Roanoke, Va,, was killed. .Two of
the Federal - officers and twenty-nine
of their njen fled across the Interna
tional linel' where they were disarm
edby American troops. . Thousands
of Americans stood upon: the border
witnessing the fight.
Battle Hourly Expected. ;
Douglas, Ari., April 14. .Citizens of
Douglas are hourly expecting another
battle across the line at Agua Prieta,
which may - result more disastrously
to American nonTcombatants than the
one yesterday. Three hundred rebels
are in full possession of Agua Prieta
today and the port is closed. Mexi
can Federal troops are believed to , be
approaching Agua 5 Prieta -from the
south, bringing with them machine
guns for an assault upon the- city.
A PREMIER BAIL PLAYER
PASSES OUT OF . LIFE
Toledo, Ohio.'Aprjl 14. Addle Joss,
the premier pitcher of tne Cleveiana
American League baseball 'team, died
this morning of tubercular meningitis,
aged thirty-one years. .He is surviv
ed by a wife and two children. . ,v
. Stage of water - in Cape" Fear river
at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a. m. yes
ierday 8.7 f eej. '
The most comDlete stock Ladies'
Low Cuts in the city. Boylan &r Han
cock. ' ' , 2t
And I'lll Hie So
for Sewa! Dais
Chairman Underwood Gives Notice
That -Nothing Will, Be. Allowed to
Bar Way of Canadian Reciprocity
v Measure Rucker Bill as to Public
ity fop Campaign Expenses, Will
Llkdy Pass the House Today.
Washington, April 14. The Cana
dian reciprocity will be the order of
business in the House of Representa
tives for the next few days, Chairman
Underwood ; made known this, morning
his determination to take up the re
ciprocity bill this afternoon and keeo
it before the House : until finally acted
upon. An effort to bring up the Ruck
er bill for the publicity of campaign
contributions before,, election was the
only' other - business "brought before
the House today. The Rucker bill
was brought up immediately after the
House coirvened with the understand
ing that it would be laid aside if it
threatened to delay consideration of
the reciprocity bill. : . ..v, ; ..
The Rucker bill providing for addi
tional publicity of campaign contribu
tions, is the second of the Democratic
measures taken up In the House. It
will1 be passed this afternoon with
many Republican,; votes in its favor.
This fact became clear after an hour's
debate , of the bill. When the pub
licity bill is disposed of the House
will ' proceed late this - afternoon r to
consider action on the Canadian re
ciprocity . measure. Several days will
be consumed in . debate -Chairman
Underwood, ... of . the ..Ways and Means
Committee, will . concede ample time
for debateboth td;the . opponents jand
friends of the measure. , 'k
HREPPOLWIDII
IN i HEWfORKs CITY
New York, April 14. Fire this'morn-
ing damaged "the Polo Grounds hase-
"ball grandstand and adjacent property,
doing two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars damage.. Three flre'men Iwere
seriously injured, when they were pre
cipitated upon the burning embers
when the stand collapsed. The New
York Nationals have ; been forced to
call off today's game.
CALLS FOR TROOPS
Sheriff Wants Such to Preserve Order
.r In Strike Zone.
' Muscatine, la., April 14. The Sher
iff has asked Governor Carroll for four
companies ,of State . Troops to .assist
him in preserving order among, the
button workers here, yrho have ; been
on a strike several weeks.
GEO. S. TERRY DEAD.
Assistant Treasurer qf . the United
'' " ' States Dies In the Souths
r Washington, April, 14. George ; S.
fTrry, f Assistant' Treasurer of ' the
United States at New York, died this
morning at a hotel" in Aiken, S. O.,
where-he had been ill for some time.
WELL KNOWN ACTOR PASSES
x OVER THE STAGE OF LIFE
West Swanzey, N. H.j April 141
Denman Thompson, one of America's
oldest and best known actors, ; th4
man who made famous - "The Old
Homestead," died today. Thompson
haS been ill with .heart trouble ,and
uraemia since last month. Thompson
was born in Log Cabin Beachwood
Hamlet, near Girard, Pa., in 1833: "
. , H ook Tears a Boy "Whip."
Middletown, Conn., April 14. In a
game -of snap-the-whip : Harry 1 le
Vaughn, Jr.; nine year? old, was at
the end of the" line. : When the snap
came he was swung against an; iron
hook on the side of a .barn I ' i;
The point "of the hook entered hi3
mouth and came out ; through hi3
"cheek. Playmates tried 1 to release him
and in their attempt , his cheek wag
ripped open to the mouth. In the hos
pital a score of stitches had to be tak
en to close the wound. His recovery
is in doubt. "
Easter Hosiery, all colors. 'Boylan
& Hancock. . , - ; - ' : 2t
, , , , The Orchestra.
At the Grand will play "Judy For
get," today. ' . : j. it.
Is Advice CiYsn bf Coy.
7ood
Wilson
row
He Clearly Denned the Line' of Battle
In His Address t to the National
League' of democratic Clubs Great
'. Speech Detfvered in Indianapolis."
Indianapolis, Ind, April 14. Urging
the Democratic party; , to ' ; state it
creed in the concrete and define clear
ly the especial forms of privilege it
declares against ; in a general cam- ,
palgn 'Tor the rights of, the people," r
Governor. Woodrw t, Wilson, of New
Jersey, in an address to the National
League of Democratic Clubs here last
night set forth the objects of Ahe par-:
iy as he" believed they exist and i
should be stated.- Governor Wilson .'
said, in part: ., r . '.; ' ' . ; :'.
"We are' fond of speaking of our- ":
selyes as, the party of Jefferson i and "
Jackson,; not because' we are a party
of old men reminiscent of thlng3 :
gone by. in love with what ' has been,
but "because we are a party touched
.with . the , ideals . which - made these
men great, whose' names we recall'
with such reverence and enthusiasm, -because
the breath of our party's life
is its utter faith in the principles of
Democracy. It 'is its' devotion to the
rights of the people of whatever class '
or degree as against all claims of priv
ilege, as against all selfish vested in
terests which seek control instead of
freely serving; the life and develop- .
ment of'the nation. 'V--.K. j- . ,
. "It is; so far from being a party of ;
mere " reminiscence, a party which .
tries jrto . draAV .the cquntr back to . , y.
policies which; belong to another time, '
to the circumstances, ot another age,,: , ?
that; it is, .above all others, a young, v .
man's party, because a, party of move;
ment, -of Readjustment a party that U X 1S'U-' J;
jstbard,h
shakeafalth, with unwavering confl- : . :
dence and ever renewed hopes and,
aspirations , for the- principles of free '. l; ,
dbm, which r are none other than the . ;:
principles of opportunity,-- the princi- " '
pies of men not made, but on the .
make; struggling from achievement to k
'.achievement '' in-' a : free .exercise of , ;
their powers. V - .
, "These things are embodied in Jef-. f
fersori," the thoughtful, philosophical,,
penetrating thinker for mankind, ' and
in the rugged Jackson, who seemed
to mut his way toward the right by .
rough instinct and! the mere energy,
of an honest, indomitable nature; and;
so we see embodied in them the two
sides of Democracy, Its thoughtful
ness, its vision of hope, its confidence
in the progress and liberation of man
kind, and 'linked with these its force
as of the common people, its abound
ing energy outside as well as within
the " field of cultivated thought. ;
"Democracy is not , a mere theory'
of ''Government - It is an energy of
life dwelling in the rank and file, in
terpreted - once and again : by. great
leaders, but not confined to their pri
vate cult' and understanding. Its 1
blood is the blood of the people. Its
purposes are the purposes shared by
all mankind- Its hopes are the hopes
of all rational civilization.
' This is the day upon which we
utter - Our creed and renew our views.'
It'behooYes us to ask ourselves what
our creed is, and to answer the ques
tiojn without subtlety or serphistica
tian, in the plain terms of everyday,
life. We must state our creed in the'
concrete, not in the abstract. Our
thoughts run back of course, to the
great Declaration of Independence
which Jefferson gave us,, but we can
not stop with that. The Declaration
of Independence did not mention the ;
questions of our day. It is a mere
starting point for our thoughts. It
Is of no consequence to us unless we
can translate its general terms , into
examples of the present. day ..and sub-,
stitute them in some vital, way for.
the examples it itself gives, so con
crete, so intimately Involved in the
circumstances of. the day . in which
it was -conceived and written. It IsJ
an eminently practical document
meant for ttie use of practical men,
not a thesis for philosophers, but a
whip for tyrants; not a theory of gov
ernment,1 '.but -a program of action.:;
TJnlesS' -w'e can-translate It into ques- V.
tions of our own day, we are not -worthy
of itT we are not , sons- of the -Sires
" who acted " in! responce to its ,
challenge. ' ' .V-' - : ' -".' '-:' V
"We say .that we are against, priv
ilege and for the rights of the people,
but privilege has worn' many forms.
What is ihe especial form of privilege
we now fight? How does it endanger
.1
the rights of the people, and what
do we mean to do in order to make
our contest against it effectual? What X
are . to . be the items , of our , new, dec- j
laratlon- of independence? x ,
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