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VOL. 28. SM3THFIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER J, L))(>!>. NO. 31
STORM S TOLL OF HUMAN LIVES
The Gulf Storm Which Swept Over
Louisiana Last Week Left Death
and Destruction in its wake. Story (
Of a Father's Heroism in Saving
His Child.
New Orleans, La., Sept. 26.?One ^
week ago tonight the white-winged !
seagulls, flying wildly inland from
the gulf, gave warning with their |
screams of the approach of a West I
Indian hurricane. Along the entire [
coast were countless happy fisherfollc j
and sailormen, the thousands of trim j
craft and comfortable homes bearing |
tot? if the ad"*.n* of a prosperous j
eettoo... . ????? vultures now hover J
over the devastated towns of South
ern Louisiana, strewn with innumer
able bodies of animals and men. The
scene is one of terror, desolation and
death.
Stunned by the damage wrought^ by
winds and waves, the work of relief
did not give the people time to mourn.
All energies were bent for the re
mainder of the week on the work of
rescue, and succoring those who had
suffered in the storm. Almost a
hundred human bodies have been
burned or buried in the marshes,
where they were discovered. Today
Louisiana found time to weep.
Those sections of the coast which
re-established communication with th
city first reported no loss of life and
rumors of many persons being drown
ed at Grand Isle proved to be with
out grounds. Then came further ru
mors of great loss of life in Terre
Bonne parish, but these were not be
lieved, and it was not for a day or
more that it was definitely establish
ed that fully fifty persons had lost
their lives there. These, together
with the persons killed here and
there throughout Mississippi as well
as Louisiana, brought the death list
up to seventy-five, but as the rescue
boats pushed their inquiry further
south through the bayous of Terre
Bonne, they returned only to report
further loss of life. Finally, the
death list in Terre Bonne alone; pass
ed the hundred mark and yesterday
conservative estimates of the total
number of dead ranged between 150
and 175.
Many stories of endurance, hero
Ism and sacrifice continue to be ad
ded to the incidents of Monday's
hurricane. One of the most striking
examples of courage in the face of
almost overwhelming obstacles was
reported at Morgan City, La., today.
Dick Taylor, residing several miles
south of that town, after seeing his
wife and three children engulfed in
an onrushing torrent before he could
save any one of them, managed to
keep his head above water for a few
foments. After some time he heard
a baby's cry and found the last of
his children floating on a piece of
timber.
At that moment one of Taylor's
hands was bitten by a moccasin
6nake. In some manner he managed
to rip off part of his shirt, bound
up his wrist and guided the frail raft
during a period of twenty-four hours
before help reached him. His child
was saved and it is possible that he
may recover.
TWELVE DROWN IN SHIPWRECK.
Unidentified Freighter Goes Down, in
Gale. Six of Crew are Saved.
Baltimore, Md., Sept. 20.?Battered
and tossed by wind and wave in a
terrific northeaster which swept the
Atlantic Ocean off the Chesapeake an
the Delaware Capes yesterday morn
ing, a small freight steamer is re
ported to have been forced to suc
cumb to the fury of the elements and
to have foundered, carrying down 12
members of her crew. Six others
were saved after a despemte battle
with the waves in a small lifeboat,
and are now marooned by nature's
forces aboard the Winter Quarter
lightship, which lies nine miles off
the coast between Capes Charles and
Henlopen.
President Taft preached a sermon
in the Mormon Tabernacle at Salt
Lake Sunday. His text was "A soft
answer turneth away wrath, but griev
ous words stir up anger." The
President made an appeal for amity
between the people, for attributing
the best rather than the worst mo
tives to the action of others when
possible to do so and not ti harbtr
1 cr aalaj"?i?y.
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Short Items About the Week's Hap
penings Gathered from the Dally
Papers.
Lee McClung, the treasurer of the
Yale University, has been selected! as
Treasurer of the United States to
succeed Charles H. Treat.
The Buckeye Power Mill located at
Edwards Station, 111., was blown up
Saturday afternoon. One man was
killed and several.others seriously in
jured.
William Kiser, of Des Moines, was
killed and many persons were hurt
by an interurban car from Boone
striking a street car in Des Moine,
la., Saturday. The accident occurred
on a trestle.
The French dirigble military bal- ]
loon Republique exploded in the air
five miles from Mouline and was
wrecked Saturday. Capt. Marchai,
Lieut. Phaure and sub Lieuts. Vin
cenot and Reux were killed.
Williaim H. Maire, who is now in
Battle Creek, Mich., has just com- j
pleted a fast of fifty and one-half
days. In performing the fast Maire
lost forty pounds in flesh. Through
out the fast he drank filtered water.
Violent electrical earth currents, be
lieved to emanate from the aurora
borealis, Saturday disturbed the tele
graph service over the entire country
and a time stilled the ticking of the
Morse instruments in the offices of
the great telegraph companies.
Otto T. Bannard has been nom
inated for Mayor of New York by the
Republican convention. It was an
nounced that the ticket would
have the cordial support of all the
anti-Tammany organizations except
the Independence League, whose del
egates withdraw from the conference.
It is estimated that the visitors
to the Hudson-Fulton celebration in
New York will leave $25,000,000 with
New Y'ork hotels and merchants. The
crowd of strangers is estimated at
from 800,000 to 1,000,000. Sunday the
sailors from foreign and American
warships were given the freedom of
the streets.
Robert Hoe, head of R. Hoe &
Co., printing press manufacturers, of
New York and London, died at
London last week after a short illness
Mr. Hoe had been in London for sev
eral weeks on his annual business
visit. He suffered an acute attack
of kidney trouble ten days ago and
his death resulted.
Public interest will follow Presi
dent Taft as his itinerary this week
takes him into the Northwest. From
Ogden, Utah, the President's train
reached Butte, Mont., Monday morn
ing. From there the course is west
to Spokane and Seattle; thence south
to Portland, where next Sunday will
be spent. The Chief Executive is
timing the subjects of his speeches
to the character of his audiences, and
his remarks this week are likely to
cover a wide range of topics of gov
ernmental and popular interest.
Commander Peary went to Bar Har
bor, Me., Monday, where he held a
long conference with Gen. Hubbard,
at which the preparation of the evi
dence to prove that Dr. Cook did not
reach the North Pole was discussed.
In an interview the Commander criti
cised his rival for leaving important
records with Harry Whitney and de
clared that the relations between him
sen ana vvnitney naa Deen tne re- |
lations ordinarily existing between
gentlemen." His reason for refusing |
to transport Cook's belongings in the
Roosevelt was "that Cook had tried
to take advantage of his supplies and
life work and that he did not propose
to be an express for Dr. Cook."
Harry Whitney, of New Haven,
Conn., the hunter who has figured in
the Cook-Peary controversy, is ort his
way home. In a dispatch from Indian
Harbor, Labrador, he confirmed Dr.
Cook's statement that Cook had
told him he had been to the North
Pole, and that he had cautioned him
to keep the secret from Peary. He
also said that Commander Peary had
refused to let him place Dr. Cook's
Instruments am! records on board
the Roosevelt when he came south.
Dr. Cook said '.hat the data he gave
Whitney was only a duplicate of
what he had, and that it was not es
sential, as he could compile his re
cords from the observations and data
he had reserved.
Magic lanterns were Invented in th
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HALF MOON LEADING MONSTER PARADE.
The replica of (lie Half Moon, or Halve Much, to In- more exact, was built
entirely in Holland, as was the original ship in which Henry Hudson dlscov
ered the Hudson river. The mimic Half Moon had the place of honor in tbf
recent parade up the Hudson, where she was greeted l>y the guns of eight;
warships, the largest International assembly of fighting craft ever gathered
In one harbor. In the mammoth parade it is estimated that there were at
least 1,400 vessels, the biggest maritime collection In history. The Illustration
Is from a photograph of the Half Moon as she passed the Soldiers and Sailors
monument at Eighty-seventh street on her way to the otHcial reception piei
at One Hundred and Tenth street, where she was presented by representatives
of the government of Holland to the officials of the Hudson-Fulton celebra
tlon. The vice president of the United States, the governor of New York
the mayor and other distinguished officials were present at the ceremonj
GERMANS LAUNCH BIG WARSHIF (
Will Carry Crew of 1,000 Men and '
Armed Witti 12-inch Guns.
Berlin, Sept. 25.?The Kaiser's first
super-Dreadnought, christened the
Helgoland, was launched at Kiel to
day. The dimensions have been kept
hermetically secret, but it is admit
ted that the Helgoland is in every
respect equal to the latest 20,500-ton
British Dread-noughts. She will car
ry the enormous crew of 1,000 men
and will be armed with twelve instea
of eleven inch guns.
In 1906 the heaviest battleship any
German, yard was capable of turning
out v. as of 13,200 tons. In line with
the policy of inviolate secrecy now
prevailing with regard to naval af
fairs it has just been officially an
nounced that the cost of new bat
tleships will not be made public in
advance hereafter, in order that for
eign nations may not be able to
calculate their size from the amount
invested. Henceforth the Admiralty
will keep the cost a secret until the
final installment is asked for in the
Reichstag. A German Dreadnought
hitherto represented an investment c'
over $9,000,000. The super-Dread
noughts, it is believed, will each
stand at not less than $12,000,000 of
tied-up capital.
VISITS MINE 1,200 FEET DEEP.
President Taft Descends to Interior
of Rich Copper Workings.
Helena, Mont., Sept. 27.?Mon
tana's great mining camp, Butte, re
ceived the President with open arms
today and dropped him underground
1,200 feet Into the depths of the rich
est copper hill in the world. It was
the famous Copper Mine shaft that
the President descended, and he
came to the light of day half an
hour later with this exclamation on
his lips:
"I would not have missed it for
the world."
The President left for Butte Hill
Just after having faced one of the
most Inspiring audiences he has met
on his trip. Fully 10,000 persons, the
most of them miners, had listened to
his speech in the city square.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland and her
daughters, Esther and Marion, and
two sons, Francis Grover and
Richard Folsom, sailed last week for
Gibraltar, Algiers, Naples and
Genoa. The Cleveland children will
enter a school at Lausanne, Switzer
land, and Mrs. Cleveland will take up
her residence near Lausanne for an
'q 'efinite period
WHIPPING POST'S BUSY DAY.
Fifteen Offenders Against Law in
Delaware Share 190 Lashes.
Wilmington, Del., Sept. 25.?Five
white men and 10 negroes, convicted
on various charges at the present
term of the General Sessions Court,
were whipped today at the workhouse
before a big crowd of curious. The
total number of lashes received by
the 15 men was 190. One of the men
whipped was an old man with gray
hair, Joseph Carroll, who had been
convicted of larceny. He received
10 lashes and stood the ordeal much
better than some of the younger men.
When John G. Drew was given 10
lashes for larceny he hugged the post
and gritten his teeth at every blow,
but made no outcry. John Henry, co'
ored, was given 10 lashes for larce
ny, and every time the whip fell on
his bare back he tried to kick Warde
Crawford, who was plying the lash.
Harry Daleman, colore 1, was given
10 laches for larceny. John Chase,
colored, was given 20 lashes for
breaking and entering, and Neal and
Henry llrickhouse, brothers, colored,
for robbery, received 20 lashes each.
Luke Nailor received 10 lashes; Ell
sha Rhodes, colored, 10; Louis Fab
rizie, 10; Walter Gray, colored, 20,
and Joseph Simpson, 10, all for larce
ny.?Philadelphia Record.
ROUNDS OUT THE FAMILY.
Child is Thirteenth of Thirteenth and
Seventh of Seven.
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Atlanta, Ga.. Sept. 27.?Judge Rich
ard B. Russell, of the Georgia Court
of Appeals, became a father again
for the thirteenth time today.
The baby is a boy with a proud
record behind him, for he is the thir
teenth child of a thirteenth child of
a thirteenth child on his mother's sid
and the seventh son of a seventh son
on the side of his father.
What name this youngest of the
Russells will bear is the decision
which the court has not yet handed
down for it is no easy matter to
name a thirteenth child, let alone a
thirteenth child of a thirteenth child
an' a seventh son of a seventh son.
The sect known as the Triune Im
merslonlsts, who have been patiently
waiting for the world to come an end
at West Duxbury, Mass., for
the greater part of last week have
left tho theater of their activities,
as the millenlum failed to appear on
schedule time, last Saturday. Hun
gry and tired most of the 300 have re
paired ic tlielr hou.es.
DIES FOR LOVE OF AGED.
Cincinnati Man Ends His Life When
Woman of Ninety-One Won't
Marry Him.
Covington, Ky., Sept. "J-.?Because
Mrs. Molly Perry, ninety-one, would
not marry him and had told him to
stay away from her home. Pierce
Haywood, thirty-four, prominent in the
musical circles of Cincinnati and Cov
ington, shot himself today in Mrs.
Perry's homo while she was absent.
Mrs. Perry had told him to stay
away, not because she disliked him
especially, but because she thought
she was too old to marry again.
Mrs. Perry says that when Ray
wood threatened each time to kill
himself unless she consented to mar
ry him she thought he was merely
trying to bluff her. It is said that
Mrs. Perry is in modest financial cir
cumstances.
Saturday's Magnetic Storm.
A magnetic storm of unprecedented
violence was experienced on Satur
day. It extended over the continents
of Kurope and North America and the
Atlantic Ocean, interrupting telegraph
ic and cable messages of half the
world for three or four hours. The
mysterious earth current swept the
telegraph wires in pulsations lasting
five minutes; relays were burned out
all over the country, and at the height
of the storm a steady glare of flame
from the keys brought work at the
telegraph offices to a standstill. Be
fore sunrise an aurora borealis of
extraordinary brilliance was observed
in the northern sky. The phenome
non has been only imperfectly ex
plained, and the little we know of it
baffles more than It lllumniates.
We know that magnetism and elec
tricity are convertible one into the
other. We know also that the earth
is a huge magic and the poles at
tract the poles of a magnetic needle.
The atmosphere, earth and sea are
traversed by electric and magnetic
currents, and we can catch some of
these currents by induction in a coil
of wire revolving transversely to the
electric or magnetic waves. It was
this disclosure that led to the in
vention of the dynamo. We know
further that at times the magnetic
waves are strong enough to charge
fixed wires inductively, and then we
have magnetic storms, such as was
the one observed; that at such times
compasses are agitated and deflected,
and the northern light glows in the
sky.
The most remarkable coincidence
of all, however, is that of terrestrial
magnetic storms with what we are
justified in believing to be similar
occurrences in the sun. Magnetic
disturbances, auroras and sun spots
have so often been observed simulta
neously that there can be little doubt
that they are related phenomena. The
great storm of Saturday last began
in Friday night and continued well
into the following morning. On Fri
day a spot of enormous dimensions
was seen in the sun. Its longest di
ameter was fully 40,000 miles. By
a properly placed magnet the lines
in the solar spectrum can be made
to appear double; in the laboratories
where such experiments are conducted
this doubling of lines in the spectrum
Is called the "Zeeman effect," after
the physicist who first discovered
this peculiar effect of magnetism on
solar light. Within a fewi months
I past the Zeeman effect has been ob
tained without the Interposition of a
magnet in the spectra of sun spots,
showing that the light rays originat
ing In the region of the spotB are
magnetically affected. The spots are,
therefore, manifestations of magnetic
storms in the sun. How these are
related to terrestrial magnetic storms
and the relation of the great magnet
which Is this earth to the still great
er magnet, the sun, we do not know.
The mystery is deepened by the
fact that while auroras and magnetic
storms are usually coincident with
the appearance of sun spots, the lat
ter are not always accompanied by
magnetic storms.?Philadelphia Re
cord.
The political movement out of
which the Republican party arose had
its mightiest Impulse in the great
west, and it looks as if the West Is
to accomplish the dissolution of the
Republican party now that it has
outlived Its political usefulness.?Phil
| a-'.eli-Ma RecrrU.
COOK'S RECORDS LEFT AT ETAH.
Dr. Cook Told Him He Had Been
to the North Pole and Pledged Him
Not to Reveal This Fact to Com
mander Peary.
New York, Sept. 29.?The follow
trig dispatch has been received by
the Associated Press from Harry
Whitney, the New Haven hunter, who
arrived at St. Johns, N. F., yesterday
by the schooner Jeanie, on his way
home:
"Stephenville Crossing, Newfound
land, Sept. 29.
"So many questions are being ask
ed of me by different papers that I
desire to make the following state
ment through the Associated Press:
"My reason for not going back to
Etah after Dr. Cook's things were
that the engine In the Jeanie, one of
the smallest boats that ever went to
the north Arctic, was not working
satisfactorily and we were depending
partly on sails, which later we had
to do entirely. There was no reason
why the Jeanie could not have gone
back, but, not knowing that Dr.
Cook's things left with me were of
such importance as they have since
turned out to be, I did not return.
In addition, I had promised the Es
kimos, who were with me after musk
oxen in Ellsmere Land, certain things
which 1 expected on the ship coming
for me, but they were not aboard the
Jeanie and I did not want to return
and disappoint the men. Another rea
son was that I wanted to prolong my
hunting trip.
i uo not ut'iieve mat euner ur,
Cook or Commander Peary .if placed
in my position .would have done dif
ferently. Or. Cook told me he had
been to the North Pole and I was
pledged not to reveal this fact to
Commander Peary, but I could say
that he had gone further north than
Pfeary in 1906.
"Commander Peary, to my knowl
edge, knew absolutely nothing about
what had been left with me by Dr.
Cook, except that I mentioned in
struments, clothes and furs, and also
a narwhal horn. Dr. Cook's belong
ings left in my charge were placed
In boxes, which were nailed up. Then
I saw the Eskimos cover them with
rocks.
"No one could have been kinder
to me or shown me more considera
tion than Commander Peary did
while I was on the Roosevelt and he
said he would be very glad to have
me remain aboard and return with
him, instead of joining the Jeanie.
(Signed)
"HARRY WHITNEY."
RICH BANKER GOES TO PEN.
President-maker Goes in Chains with
Other Felons to Hard Labor.
Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 26.?Chained
to other felons, William Montgomery,
former cashier of the Allegheny Na
tional bank of Pittsburg, the man
who is credited with having made
Benjamin Harrison president of the
United States, was started today from
Riverside penitentiary to the govern
ment prison at Leavenworth, Kansas,
where he likely will be placed at
breaking stones to subdue him.
Like the lowest of malefactors this
man, who was for many years the fi
nancial banker and confidential ad
viser of United States Senator Mat
thew S. Quay, was driven through
the streets of Pittsburg today in
chains.
Montgomery, who was for many
years the power behind the throne of
Pennsylvania politics, had been a
most unruly prisoner in Riverside and
It is hinted that he was at the head
of a plot to liberate many prisoners
soon and that this hastened his de
parture for the government prison.
His sentence Is for fifteen years.
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A GRANDMOTHER TO HANG.
Sentenced to Death for Killing Her
Two Baby Grandchildren.
Sudbury, Ontario, Sept. 25.?Last
night Justice Mag?e passed sentence
on Mrs. Annie Robinson that she
be hanged on Novenmber 24 for
the murder of the infants of her two
daughters.
Efforts will be made to have the
sentence commuted.
Leaving a $5,000,000 business.
James Corbin, an oil dealer at Belle
fontaino, O., has entered the evangel