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Two Terrific Quakes Felt ThursdayThe 25,000
Inhabitants In Panic Mother Dashes For Her
Babe And Dies With It In Her Arms.
Messina, By Cable. Messina ex
perienced two terrific earthquakes at
d r front 7:30 o 'clocks Thursday morn-
ing, which were accompanied by
roaring sounds and are said to have
had a stronger and more undulatory'
movement than the earthquake of
last December which destroyed Mes
Eina, Reggio and other cities, laid
waste 1 to many villages in Calabria
and killed 200,000 people.
Although the shocks Thursday hod
no such terrible consequences the
25,000 residents of this city were
thrown into a state pf terror. They
ran into the streets panic striken and
Thursday night nearly the entire pop
ulation was encamped in the open.
The broken walls of the old ruins
were thrown tqj the ground and Mee
. ina was for a few minutes smother
ed in a cloud of dust.
The casualties were few and the
only persons killed, so far as is
known, were a young woman and
her infant. The woman had ' come
here only a few days ago and had
settled in rooms, which the great
aarthquake had left relatively un
damaged. She was standing at the
ORVILLE WRIGHT MAKES THREE SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS
Washington, Special. Calm, confi
dent and nerveless, Orville Wright
W late Thursday encircled the Ft. Meyer
drill grounds time after time in his
aeroplane in three successful flights
while a crowd of thousands cheered
( him for success that attended his
persistency and pluck. While the ma
chine oscillated at certain points in
its flights and dipped and rose sud
denly at other points, it was evident
.., jfrom the regularity with which these
things happened that they were due
to the condition of the atmosphere
. and not to any fault of the machine.
For the first flight the machine got
away with a fine start. Down the
field the aeroplane sailed, curved
gracefully and came back up the east
side of the field along the edge, of
Arlington Cemetery. The machine
seemed to be behaving beautifully.
The first round was made in fifty sec
onds. Five times the machines skirt
ed the field, attaining a height which
varied from 15 to 30 feet.
On the sixth round Mr. Wright
came to earth within a few hundred
. feet of the starting point, completing
the flight in exactly five minuTes. The
landing was perfect, the machine
swooping down in successive glides
until Orville pulled the string which
stops his motor and the aeroplane
glided smoothly over the grass on its
skids until it came to a stop. The ma
chine was returned to the starting ap
paratus and again was placed in xsi
tioru and. another fiiirhl was essayedj
COMMISSION DECIDES ADVERSELY IN BISHOPS CASE
Washington, Special. The Inter
state Commerce Commission has de
cided adversely in the matter of the
complaints' filed before them by five
bislJfe of the African Methodist
Eflscopal Church, who claimed that
they had been the victims of discrim
ination while passengers on Southern
railroads. The complaints were di
rected against the Pullman Company
and the Richmond, Fredericksburg
STRANGE FREAK OF LIGHTNING IN MARYLAND TOWN
Cumberland, Md., Special. Light
ning" struck the house of Johnson
Collins, last Wednesday, four miles
east of Flintstone, while Mr. and
Mrs. Collins, their six children and
Mrs. Johnson, a neighbor, were in
the kitchen.- Mrs. Collins was putting
pies in the bake oven. When Mr.
Collins recovered from the shock he
found his wife and the youngest
MAY BE THE BODY OF
' New York, Special Although com
plete identification was impossible a?
yet, there appears to be a strong
probability that the body of a China
man, which was found floating in the
Hudson river in the upper part of the
city Thursday evening, was that of
Leon Ling or William L. Leon, the
murderer of ElSigel. The .man 's
height, weight general appear
ance tallies -with4 " of Leon Ling,
but as the body wayje except for
a silk undershirt, and, been in Urn
water for more than Th k, a thdr
eugh examination will U "'ressarrd theV weight 125 pounds, which
Coroner McDonald, who w,o
o ,rrm'
door when the shock occurred and
rushed inside to save her child. Be
fore she could escape from the room
the second shock threw down the
walls, burying both mother and child
under the 'debris. Soldiers and en
gineers who rushed to the rescue
beard the voice of the mother call
ing for help and they worked heroic
ally for several hours, when they
found the dead bodies, the mother
with her child m her arms.
The first shock was followed quick
ly by a second and th . people fled
pell mell to the American quarter,
which they seemed to feel was the
safest place of refuge. So great' was
the rush to the American huts that
the authorities were unable to check
the invasion and as a consequence
these structures, which were design
ed for the most needy of the popu
lace, were taken possession of by the
first comers. The soldiers, however,
soon drew a cordon around this
quarter and a guard was mounted at
the bridge leading to it. Many of the
panic stricken people were driven off
and orders were issued that no one
be permitted to occupy the American
quarter pending further instructions.
The start was as successful as the
first!! In the second flight Orville
made .much wider turns and rose to
a greater height. Wilbur Wright
watched every detail of the flight
with care.
' It was noticed that at times the
motor skipped, but this seemed to
have no effect on the progress of the
aeroplane. The starting rail runs
downward into a little hollow in the
field and whenever the aeroplane
passed over this hollow it dipped no
ticeably and whenever it "passed over
a vacant space between two of .the
stables, it was seen to rise as though
on biliow of air, but these atmos
pheric conditions were easily over
come by the clever manipulation of
the levers. On his second flight, Or
ville made nine rounds of the field in
a few seconds less than eight min
utes. In his last attempt he remained
aloft for a" few seconds more than
nine minutes and encircled the field
nine and one half times. For one
complete round he flew very close to
the ground, evidently preparing to
land. This he did within two hun
dred feet of the aeroplane shed. Dur
ing this last flight he went higher
than on his previous trials, reaching
a height of forty feet. Just before
making his landing the left wing
scraped the ground and raised a
cloud of dust, but Mr. Wright con
tinued to fly half way around the
field, before descending
and Potomac, the Southern and the
Central Railway of Georgia.
The complainants were Bishops
Wesley J. Gaines, II. M. Turner,
Evans Tyree, C. S. Smith and E.
W. Brampton.
The principle involved in the com
plaint was the old one of the "Jim
Crow" car, it being alleged that the
coaches furnished for the negroes are
not as good as those for white pas
sengers and that the negroes were re
fused sleeping accommodations and
food on trains.
child in her arms standing under a
tree in the yard. She could not tell
how she got there. One of her shoes
had been torn from her foot and the
flesh was scraped from her ankle
downward almost to the bone. The
roof was torn from the house, one
side of the building demolished, the
stone chimney shattered in pieces
and dishes in the cupboard broken.
ELSIE SIGEL'S MURDERER.
to inspect the body, believes that it is
Leon's as do a number of policemen,
but until measurements and facial
characteristics are carefully gone
over the identification will remain in
doubt.
' If it is Leon the cause of his death
will be another mystery although one
theory, that of suicide, would appear
reasonable. In salient features the
body bore a marked resemblance to
Leon Ling. The teeth were good, as
were Leon's, the height about 5 feet
4 inches, which was Leon s height,
. ar-n .Leon s. .
PLYMOUTH, N, C
'TREASURrCONDITION
Officials Pleased at the Showing of
the Governments Finances.
Washington, Special Treasury of
ficials are pleased at the present
showing of the government finances'.
Ordinarily a deficit in the govern
ment revenues of $89,811,156, as
shown by statement on July 1st,
would not be a matter for congratula
tion. Nevertheless at the close of the
fiscal year 1909 the treasury officials
express much gratification that the
official estimate of a deficit of $114,
000,000 made last December has not
been verified, and are hopeful for a
continuance of the improvement,
which has been especially noted dur
ing the last four months.
The customs receipts for the year
aggregated $301,209,863, which is an
increase as compared with last year
of $.15,000,000. The internal revenue
prodcued $246,329,003, a decrease of
about $5,000,000. Miscellaneous re
ceipts aggregated $56,893,919, which
is a falling off of about $6,500,000.
The receipts from all sources during
the year aggregated $604,432,846,
which is an increase over last year of
$3,250,000. .
On the side of expenditures the
total for the year was $694,244,002,
which is an increase over 1908 of
about $37,000,000. The civil and mis
cellaneous expenditures amounted to
$164,288,538, an increase of $5,000,
000 over last year. The War De
partment expenditures aggrgated
$164,100,242, an increase of $40,
000,000. The navy account is the
only item" in the list to show ' a de
crease, the figures for the vear being
$115,9S8,8G9 as against $118,780,233
for the year 1908.
Pension payments for ...the year
amounted to $161,689,423, an 'increase
of over $8,000,000.
Interchange of Students.
London, Special. A scheme for
the inter-change of university stu
dents ' betVeen the United States,
Canada and the United Kingdom,
rivaling in importance that estab
lished under the will of the late.
Cecil Rhodes, is in process of forma
tion, with every prospect of success.
The idea, which is supported by an
influential committee, headed by the.
Hon. II. H. Asquith, Prime Min
ister cf Great Britian and Loi'd
Stratheona, High Commissioner of
Canada, and which includes the heads
of tbo chief universities in the United
Kingdom, and has also the indorse
ment of the presidents of the Ameri
can and Canadian universities, aims
at providing opportunities to stu
dents of the three countries to obtain
some real insight into the life, pro
gress and customs of other nations,
with a minimum of mconvenience
to their academic work, and at the
possible expense. The promoters
suggest the provision of certain, trav
eling scholarships, the selection for
which should be along the lines of
the Rhodes scholarships, the select
ed candidate, in addition to his
academic qualifications, to be what
is popularly known as an all-round
man.
Twenty-eight of these scholarships
are proposed, fourteen, to be avail
able for universities in the United
Kingdom, ten for America ad four
for Canada,' the American and Can
adian students securing them to have
a week's tour in Great Britian un
der the guidance of a university man,
the British students, on the other
hand, to have a similar tour of
America and Canada, always during!
their respective "long vacations. Be
fore efforts. are made to obtain per
manent endowment for ,the scheme,
it is proposed that funds shall be
asked for its maintenance for an ex
perimental period of three years. The
total cost is estimated at $68,50 0 for
the three years, of which sum it is
proposed that the United Kingdom
shall contribute $36,000, the United
States. $22,500 and Canada $9,000.
Kaiser's Yacht Wins Race.
Kiel. Snecial. Emperor . William's
Metor, steered part of the time by!
His Majesty himself, won the 51-one
mile race of Eckernfoerde Wednes
day, covering the distance in 5 hours
and 10 minutes. Germania was see-1
ond, in 5 hours and 30 minutes, and
Iduna, owned by the Empress,, was
third.
Fire in Messina Ruins.
Rome, By Cable. Fire started in
the ruins of Messina Monday even
ing. Owing to the high wind and a
lack of water, the .flames extended
over a large area. The coal depot
was destroyed, as were stacks of
furniture and wood recovered from
the ruins, and several encampment;;
were threatened. Soldiers and blue
jackets, after two hours' work, suc
ceeded in establishing a water sup
ply and in diminishing but not ex
tinguishing the fire, which is burn
ing" itself out. The survivors of the
earthquake were thrown into a panic
and spent the night in the open.
FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1909.
OUTLAW CHIEF KILLED
Jikiri, the Moro Outlaw (Chief and
Hi3 Entire Band Exterminated.
Manila, By Cable. In a desperate
Sght near Patian, on Jolo island,
Monday, Jikiri, the famous Mbro out
law chief, was killed and his entire
band exterminated by detachments
af regulars and constabulary under
Capt. George L. Bryam, of the Sixth
United States Cavalry, operating in
zonjunction wifh a naval flotilla of
the mosquito fleet under Lieutenant
Commander Signor.
The American loss was one private
killed and' three officers and 20 en
listed men and one sailor wounded.
Private O'Connell, of Troop A,
Sixth Cavalry, was the one man kill
ed among the Americans. The officers
mounded are Lieutenants Kennedy,
Miller and Arthur II. Wilson, of the
Sixth.
Captain Byram's cavalry with a
few scouts and constabulary and a
letachment of sailors under Lieuten
ant Commander Signor discovered
md attacked the outlaws in the
mountains not far from the coast.
The Moros fled and took refuge in a
large cave. The column of troops
ind sailors surrounded the place, but
Jikiri refused to surrender. A con
certed attack was made, the Moros
lighting desperately from j;he mouth
of the cave until the last member of
the band was dead.
Fatalities in New York.
New York, Special. Four deaths,
337 injured, nine of them dangerous
ly, and one. so seriously that death
seems certain, was the Fourth of
July record in New York and Brook
lyn up to midnight Monday.
The list of dead up to 10 o'clock
Monday night follows:
Edith Brown, 6 years old, died
from fractured skull caused by ex
plosion of toy cannon.
Dorothy Di Martin, 5 years old,
died from burns caused by ignition of
box of matches.
George Malfredonia, a 10-year-old
boy, died of tetanus after wounding
bis hand with a toy pistol.
Giuseppo Pagano, 40 years old,
killed by random bullets supposedly
fired by a celebrator, though relatives
maintain that he was murdered.
Fire in city and suburbs were num
bered by the score, but none in New
York proper "did any great damage.
Senator Overman Scores. .
Washington, Special. Senator
Overman scored in the Senate Mon
day when he secured the adoption of
his amendment providing for a draw
back on cotton-ties. The Tar Heel
Senator introduced this amendment
last week in the hope that the
fianance committee would accept it.
This the committee was disinclined
to do, and so the amendement came
up in the Senate Monday. , It was op
posed by Senator Burton, but Sena
tor Overman rallied his friends, along
with the Southern Senators who were
unanimously for it, and the amend
ment Avas adopted. This drawback
on ties is of very large importance
to the cotton planters. They will be
able as the result of its provisions
to get back 99 per cent of the duties
on cotton-ties shipped abroad.
Begins Great Work.
New York, Special. Work has be
gun on the Cape Cod Canal, which is
to connect Buzzards bay with Cape
Cod bay and thus furnish an impor
tant link in an inshore coast route
from Massachusetts to the Carolinas.
The immediate purpose of the canal
is to shorten the distance by water
from Boston to New York and to
other Atlantic ports to the South by
about 150 miles. The .cut-off will
also greatly reduce the perils of navi
gation through Vineyard sound and
around Cape Cod one of the most
dangerous stretches on the Atlantic
coast. 'v NX
Early Responds to Skin Treatment.
New York, Special. John S. Ear
ly, the North Carolina leper, is at last
in a New York hospital, but the su
perintendent of hospitals says he has
already responded to Dr. Bulklcys'
treatment, who said he did not have
leprosy, but a skin disease and -that
he is entirely well. Early will be
turned loose in about two weeks.
Right Hand Shattered.
Louisville, Ky., Special The unen
viable distinction of having made the
most notable sacrifice to patriotism
by reason of Independence Day cele
bration this year, will probably fall to
Louisville through the death at Sey
mour, Ind., early Monday of Arthur
Granville Langham, former president
of the Provident Life Assurance Soci
ety. Mr. Langham had his right hand
shattered by the explosion of a can
non cracker late Sunday night and
soon died from the effects. ' ,
Mr. Langham assumed national
financial prominence in 1908 by gain
ing control of the Provident. .-,
ARE CRANWNEW TRIAL
Supreme Court Reverses Verdict in
the Cases Against the Murderers
of Captain Quentin Rankin on
Technical Grounds.
Jackson, Tenn., Special. The
cases of the eight night riders, 6 of
whom were under the death sentence
charged with the murder of Captain
Quentin Rankin, at Walnut Log, on
Reel Foot late, October 19 last,, were
reversed by the , State Supreme
Court Saturday and were remanded
for new trials.
The six men, who were under the
death sentence are Garret Johnson,
alleged leader of the night riders' or
ganization in Obion county; Arthur
Cloar, Fred Pinion, Sam Applewhite,
Tid Burton and Roy Ransom. The
other two, Bud Morris and Bob Huff
man, were convicted of murder in the
second degree.
The opinion in the case was deliv
ered by Special Justice Henry Craft,
of Memphis, appointed in the stead
of Justice M. M. NeiL
In reversing the case, he assigned
two principal reasons. The first was
that the grand jury which found the
indictments against the alleged night
riders, was not seelcted in a proper
manner. .The grand jury was select
ed out of a panel named by Judge J.
h. Jones, the tnal judge, whereas the
law provides the 'panel must be chos
en by at least three members of the
county court. The second error on
which the reversal was based is that
the State did not allow he defend
ants a sufficient number of chal
lenges. The eight were tried on one
indictment and trial court upheld the
State's contention that the eight de
fendants were only entitled to the
legal number of challenges, twenty-
four, which would apply if one man
was on trial.
When Justice Craft concluded his
opinion a storm of applause broke
out in the court room, but was quick
ly stopped by the marshal and his
deputies. The prisoners will be tak
en back to Union City and an effort
will be made to secure their release
on bail pending a second trial on
their cases.
Those most active in the prosecu
tion of the alleged riders of Reel
Foot lake consider the situation now
such as may again assume a serious
phase. That it will be difficult to
secure a jury to again hear the cases
is conceded and as yet no decision has
been reached by the representatives
of the-State as to their future plans.
An immediate trial of other pending
cases of a similar nature, however, i3
not looked for.
Killed Whole Family.
Aberdeen, S. D., Special. J. W.
Christie, a farmer living near here,
his wife, his daughter Mildred, aged
18 years, and a boy named Roymaine,
were murdered Saturday. Mr. Chris
tie was milking a cow in his barn
yard when the unknown person or
persons shot him dead.
The murderers hurried to the house
and fining Mrs. Christie and her
daughter and the Roymaine boy, who
was visiting at the house, they be
gan firing upon them. The first shots
took effect and the two women and
the boy fell dead.
It is supposed the men who com
mitted the crime were acquainted to
some extent with the Christie family
and their habits, for few people
knew that Christie kept large sums
of money in his house. It is believed
he had several thousand dollars in
his home at the time of the murden
The entire countryside is wrought
up. Bands of farmers were immedi
ately organized and search for the
murderers was begun. The farmers
threaten the murderers with lynch
ing1 if. they- are caught.
Mr. Christie was one of the most
prosperous farmers in the Northwest.
Continued Earth Shocks Keep Messi
na Alarmed.
Messina, By Cable. Seven earth
shocks of Saturday and Sunday
which have kept the populace in a
state of alarm. A fire broke out in
the wreckage, and while the troops
were trying to extinguish the flames
another fire started at Milazzo, a
short distance away.
A Woman'3 Heroism.
Mobile, Ala., Special. W. L. Sam
son, bridge-keeper for the Louisville
& Nashville at Bayou Sara, Ala.,
early Thursday night was in his loft
near the bridge when lightning killed
bim and threw his body into the
water in front of his wife and little
child. Mrs. Samson remained at the
bridge all Thursday night and the
greater part of Friday alone with her
child, seeing that trains could safely
pass the structure. As it was not a
stopping point she could not get as
sistance until Saturday when she
succeeded in flagging a train.
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The first bale of cotton for, the sea
son was sold at Houston, Texas, on
Monday. It brought $425.
Georgia's new governor, Joseph
Brown, has installed a long handled
gourd in the capitol out of which to
drink his ice water.
Little ' Lucretia Norris was born
six years ago in Omaha, Nb., with a
deformed jaw. 6ome days ago the
surgeons took away the bad part of
her jaw bone and inserted a chicken"
bone in its place. The operation ia ;
said to be a complete success. .
Joseph M. Brown was inaugurated
governor of Georgia last Saturday
and governor Hoke Smith retired ap
parently not in happy frame of mind.
"Wheatland," the home of Pres
ident James Buchanan at Lancaster,
Pa., was destroyed by lightning last
week. , .
The steamship Cartigo was 150
miles from New Orleans and by wire
less called to the surgeons on shore
for a prescription for a case of blood
poison. It was promptly dispatched
and when the ship arrived Friday tho
patient was improving.
Bernard J. Dobbin, while setting
a trawl got lost from his fishing ves
sel by a dense fog and drifted for;
eight days with a half pint of water
and a little raw fish, when picked up,
almost famished and brought into
Rockland, Maine, Monday. His mates
searched for him 24 hours and ha.
rowed his strength away trying to '
reach them. He saw a number of
vessels pass but could not attract at
tention. ,
A singular test was made in tha
Chicago Appelate court , last week, 1
where a physician claims that he ,wa3
to give patient treatment for life and
receive $100,000 at the death of the .
patient. The courts declared the
contract void in that such contracts
are fraught with the temptation, for
a physician to hasten the death of the
patient.
At the mortar gun practice last
week at Fort Monroe, two companies
made 50 per cent of hits while firing ,
so rapidly that each gun kept two
shots in the air at once all the time.
The Virginia Passenger and Power
Company will effect a complete phy
sical reorganization of its railway
lines in Richmond.
There is a strange phenomenon in,
New York in the case of one Mary
Moldon, a cook. She is known as
"Typhoid Mary." She is, immune
herself, but is infested with the
germs and conveys them . to those
with whom she comes in contact. She
has to be quarantined.
Evidence has been found that Leon
Ling tried to bury Elsie Sigel's body
under the floor of the Harlem laundry-
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A dray was driven down Market
street in San Francisco, Monday
morning, hauling $10,000,000 in gold,
Mrs. Louis La Bartia, in New York
on Monday fired four pistol bullets
into the man that killed her husband
a year ago.
Nine deaths in Philadelphia and
ten in Chicago were recorded last
Monday as heat fatalities.
Washington News Notes.
Marines have been restored to all
the battleships and cruisers. . . "
Ex.-Gov. W. M. 0. Dawson, of
West Virginia, has been appointed a .
United States commercial agent ia
China.
Fifty babies and six adults have
succombed to the heat in Washington
the past week.
New restrictions are imposed on
the Civil Service law by the'bill pro
viding for the Thirteenth . Census,
which was sent to the President for
his signature.
The income tax resolution was re
ported to the Snate from the Fi
nance Committee by Senator Aldrich
Monday.
At the very last moment cotton
bagging and ammonia which enters
into the Southern fertilizer business
wis voted into the senate tariff bill.
The Senate put cotton 'bagging and
binding twine on the free list Mon
day, and closed the discussion on the
Payne-Aldrich bill schedules.
Extensive experiments in wireless
telegraphy will be made by the At
lantic ileet during its war maneuvers
off the New England coast in July.
The Aldrich committee and the
Senate have made a thousand changes
in the House Tariff biH.
.for