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POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL' UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY.
VOL. XI.
MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY t9 1909,
NO. i8.
Madison
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A GYGLONE SWEEPS SOUTH
Property Losses Will Run Into. Many Millions,
The Loss In Tennesse Alone Being $1,000,000
Hundreds of Dead and Mangled Bodies
Atlanta, Ga., Special. Cyclones
and tornadoes, the like of which have
not been known for years, swept
through the South Thursday night
and all Friday ,leaving in their wake
hundreds of dead and mangled bodies,
and the dismantled wrecks of prop
erty worth many millions.
Tennesee was an especially heavy
sufferer. At 9 o'clock Friday night
careful estimates indicate that at
least .50 people were killed in that
8tate alone, with monetary losses
about $1,000,000. At Franklin and
in Hillsboro there was loss of life.
The latter town is said to be practi
cally destroyed, while at Centreville
and adjoining villages the loss' is re
ported very heavy both in lives and
property. Near Pulaski, Giles county,
the death list reaches twelve, and
many are injured.
In the vicinity of Chattagnooga the
storm was felt at its worst. Tele
phone and telegraph wires were
blown down and the movement of
trains was greatly hampered. The
hurricane followed the Cumberland
valley, wrecking small towns and de
stroying farm houses. At Ebenezer
4 eighteen houses were blown down.
At Charlestown the storm swerved
up the Hiasse river, destroying prop
erty. At Fayetteville three are
known to have perished. At Cuba
many houses were blown down and
at Gilestown not even a shed was left
standing.
Memphis reports heavy loss from
towns within a radius of 100 miles
in three States.
At Horn Lake, Miss., half dozen
lives were lost and the property
damage was very heavy.
In Arkansas eight persons were
killed near Mammoth .Springs and a
score of buildings wracked. Other
points in Arkansas report Tieavy loss.
Atlanta and most of -Georgia es
caped with only- slight property
losses during the blow. But two
young people, brother and sister, Wil
liam and Pearl Withra, lost their
lives here Friday afternoon by the
eapsizing of a rowboat during a sud
den squall.
The, hurricane continued upon its
course of destruction in Alabama Fri
day night. Huntsville sends word of
heavy, loss of property, with probably
several lives sacrificed near the Ten
nessee line. At Danville, in Morgan
county, Alabama, the storm struck
with terrific force. At Hartsell at
least one is dead and many hurt.
Soon after dark Friday night the
storm -winds began shooting across
the railroad telegraph and .telephone
lines connecting Atlanta with Chat
tanooga and Knoxville and wire com
munication, which had been kept with
great difficulty during the afternoon,
ceased entirely. The Western and
Atlanta Railroad offices here reported
that south of Chattanooga, near. Em
erson, Ga., several big trees were
blown across the railroad right of
way, tearing down wires and holding
up five trains.
The death totals were swelled Fri
SUGAR COMPANY PAYS U. S. CIVIL CLAIMS
New York, Special. The American
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. ougur neuiuiig vuutpaujr, vi. new w vr-
sey and the New York corporation of
the same name Tuesday paid into the
treasury of the United. 8tates $396,
00, completing a payment aggregat
ing $2,134,000 in . settlement of all
civil claims arising out of the fraud
ulent weighing of eugar on the docks
of the refineries in Brooklyn and Jer
sey City. The - companies further
agree to give up their right of appeal.
.The settlement was made upon the
advice- of the company's lawyers. "A
FARMERS PLAN A BIG
Charlotte, , N. C, SpeciaL Presi
dent H. Q. Alexander, of the North
Carolina division . of ! the .Farmers'
Union, is very much interested in the
plan proposed for the organization -f
the several cotton warehouses in the
individual Southern States into ons
gigantic corporation. The warehouses
which have been erected by the Union
THE MOSLEM DISORDERS IN! ADANA CEASE
Constantinople, By Cable. Awel-
come message was received Thursday
. form the town of Hadjin,' in the pro
- vince of Adana, where five American
.'.women missionaries have been alone
with thousands of - refugees who
ought safety there from bands of
Moslems seeking to put them to the
" sword.- Hadjin has withstood a siege
for the past eight days and the mis
sionaries have '-been? sending out
frantic appeals for help. . Thursday
a message reached here from - Miss
Lambert, the daughter of Bishop
Lambert, timed 10:22 a. in., which
said : "With th arrival of the troops
day night by three lightning victims
at Monroe, Ga. . Late in the afternoon
a rushing windstorm, accompanied by
blinding lightning, broke over Mon
roe and one of the bolts struck the
residence of M. B. Barrett, running
down the chimney. Barrett, his wife
and his 17-year-old daughter were
killed, and a 10-year-old v son and a
younger child were seriously shocked.
gflorm in the Middle West.
Chicago, Special. Belated reports
show that the death and destruction,
caused by the terriffio storm that
swept over the Middle West Thursday
night, were more extensive than at
first indicated by the meagre tele
graph carried over damaged wires.
Three men were killed in Chicago by
the collapse of a factory. Homeless
men, women and 'children spent Fri
day in strange houses in many su
burbs, where the storm had upset un
substantial houses.
In the path of the storm before it
reached the Great Lake region, great
destruction of property is reportnd.
At least eleven persons were killed.
At Golden, Mo., a part of the town
was destroyed and many homes were
wrecked. Jive persons lost their
lives.
At Summerville, Md., the wind cre
ated havoc and two persons were, bill
ed. Many were injured.
Tlio storm was furious in Southern
Illinois and at Texas City, near Car
mi, four persons were killed and many
seriously wounded. Tlio town was
wrecked.
Great damage to property and
crops was caused in Michigan on the
oast shore of Lake Michigan, Bentno
Harbor and South Haven being in the
yath of ..the storm.
In Wisconsin, for many hours there
ranged a severe snow storm, .causing
damage to property. At Lacrosse ana
Superior, traffic was hampered be
cause of drifts.
Many Killed in Storm.
Louisville, Ky., Special. Dis
patches, gathered throughout the
South by the Associated Press Friday
night, indicate that a least 114 per
sons met sudden death in the great
wind that Bpread havoc throughout
the region south of the Ohio. The
number of injured is probably three
fold that of the killed. It is substan
tiated that 114 persons were killed,
distributed among the following
towns:
Tennesee: Youngs Crossing, 5;
Fayetteville, 15 ; Noblesville, 1 ; Hart
man county, 1; Medina, 4; Clarks
ville, 1; Centreville, 1; Franklin, 1;
Hillsboro, 4; Somerville, 3; Laconia,
2; Bells, 2; Quito, 8; Giles county,
12.
Mississippi's most disastrous point
was Horn Hake, where 18 met death.
Arkansas has four dead near Hart
sell. 1 Missouri has seven killed at Somer
ville and 11 at Golden.
settlement from the latter was made
public Friday night in which they
say that the settlement seemed wie
because of the faet that the govern
ment had. threatened otherwise .to
bring other suits for amounts reach
ing nearly $5,000,000. The settlement
while it discharges all the civil
claims made by the government
against the companies, does not pre
vent the bringing of criminal prose
cutions . against the men responsible
for the use Of the fraudulent deviee
by which false weights were recorded.
WAREHOUSE MERGER
iu Georgia and. Mississippi have al
ready been merged into a State cor
poration, and the plan is meeting with
signal success there. President C. S.
Barrett, of the National' Union, is in
South Carolina- now engaged in an
effort to consolidate the warehouses
of that State and it is likely that a
similar move will be begun in North
Carolina at an early date.
the disorders in and about the city
have ceased, and wa are all safe and
well. Lambert." Adil Bey, perman
ent under-secretary of State in the
ministry of the Interior, said that the
government would make a searching
investigation into the cause of the
disorders and punish the instigators.
Reports received at the ministry of
the interior Indicated that quiet now
prevailed everywhere. The secretary
said that the government recognized
th necessity of providing food, medi
cine and shelter for the sufferers, and
had taken steps to provide these and
inaugurate other measures of relief.
ABDUL HAMIDA PRISONER
Deposed Sultaai of Turkey With
His Four Wives, Five Daughters,
Two Sons and Servants, Taken
From Yildiz Palace to a Large
House. With Walled Grounds on a
Height Overlooking Saloniki.
Constantinople, By Cable. The
former ruler of the empire, Abdul
Hamid II, is to be kept a prisoner in
a large house with walled grounds on
a height overlooking Saloniki, which
has lately been occupied by the Ital
ian commander of the international
gendarmerie. He is not to be put on
trial, as has been widely reported
in Constantinople, for he is consider
ed to be above the law.
It was thought yise to keep the de
posed Sultan in European Turkey, re
mote from the capital. His house
hold will be administered for hinn
npon a generous scale, and his life
will be safeguarded, as he earnestly
besought when notified of his death
by dethronement.
Abdul Hamid, with four wives,
five daughters, and two of his young
er sons, two eunuchs and a compara
tively large number of female serv
ants was taken from the Yildiz pal
ace Tuesday night and started under
an escort to Saloniki. The party pro
ceeded by steam launches to the land
ing near the railway and a special
train on which they were to be
placed, left at 3 o'clock in the morn
ing. The constitutionalists would
like to get back part of the great
sums of money that the former Sul
tan is supposed to have abroad, not
only because the government is in
need of the money, but because it. is
desirable that he should be deprived
of the resources for another coup
d'etat; Speculation places Abdul
Hamid 's wealth at anything between
$25,000,000 andf $200,000,000.
Many Slain in Mersina.
London, By Cable. A special dis
patch from Mersina, dated Monday
night, says :
jyTwo Turkish regiments,- wbioh
landed here Saturady,. proceeded to
Adana, where they 'resumed, late
Sunday night, tho wholesale murder
ing of Armenians and the burning of
their property. Thousands were burn
ed to death, while those who at
tempted tot escape were shot down
by the troops. The destruction of
the town of Adana is complete.
"The loss of life in the whole
province of Adana is estimated at
30,000. The losses of Europeans in
property are enormous. The British
and foreign warships here are in
active. Four Germans previously
reported as having been killed at
Bakdjevh, have arrived safely at
Mersina. All the Armenian popula
tion at Bakdjevh have been massa
cred." Arrives at Colon.
Colon, by Cable. The United
States dispatch boat Mayflower, with
Secretary of War Dickinson on
board arrived here Wednesday from
Jamacia. Mr. Dickinson was greeted
by Lieutenant Colonel Goethals and
other canal officials. He will make
an examination of the canal construc
tion work. The auxiliary cruiser
Prairie has landed 800 men here who
will be transferred to the auxiliary
cruiser Buffalo at Panama. ,
Bed Cross Aids Massacre Sufferers.
Washington, Special.-rThe Nation
al Red Cross Society has undertaken
to aid those who have suffered from
the massacres in Turkey." It" has
already sent $1,000 to ' Ambassador
Leishman at Constantinople for relief
work'. Wednesday -. Miss' Mabel
Boardman, of the execeutive commit
tee, announced that Hhe Red Cross
would gladly receive contributions to
be sent' to Ambassador' Lieshman to
be expended at his discretion.
Forger Implicates Two.
Chicago, Special. Peter Van Vils
singen, who last winter, confessed
that he had forged mortgages to the
extent of $1,000,000 caused a
great sensation in Chicago Tuesday
when he stated that his confession a
few months ago, was ante-dated by
four years by a confession made pri
vately to men, who held. $400,000 of
his spurious paper. -
I Hains Jury is Completed. v
Flushing, - N. , Y., SpecialThe
jury that is to try Captain Peter C.
Hains for. the murder of William E.
Annis, his one time friend, was fin
ally completed Tuesday. It took just
seven days to select the twelve men,
and in that time 450 talesmen 'were
called and examined. All the jury
men are married,' with the exception
of Otto J. Nicholas, who is 27 years
of age, and the youngest man in the
jury box! The defense has fought all
along for married men and peremp
torily challenged the few bachelors,
who have qualified. ;
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
. . . i
Items of Interest Gathered By
Wire and Cable
GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Livs Items Covering Events of Mere
or Less Interest at Heme sad
Abroad.
"Ike Morse has betrayed me. He
has been going with me for the last
nine years. He could not throw me
over and live." So said Gertrude
Douglas after shooting down the man
at .Nashville, Teen., last Tuesday.
Thirteen-vear-old Adele Boas, of
New York, created a sensation by
leaving home to see the world and
make her own living. - It was not a
case of kidnaping as was thought and
Adele has come back home worsted
and wiser.
A tornado wrecked a number of
buildings Wednesday evening and did
serious damage to crops and fruit at
Tupela, Okla.
One person was killed and 10 were
injured by a tornadc which wreck
ed a large portion of Douglas, Kan.,
Wednesday evening.
A group of Chicago capitalists have
leased the Geo. W. Vanderbilt hunt
ing and fishing preserve near Ashe
ville, N. C, for ten years at $5,000
per year.
Mrs. Gonzales was killed and four
other prominent society ladies were
injured at Pensacola on Monday by
contact of their automobile with a
street car.
A tug sank in the Mississippi
river, 49 miles south of New Orleans,
8 of the 15 persons aboard being
lost last bunday.
The danger from the iee at Niagara
Falls seems Over as it is flowing along
gently.
Admiral N. E. Ijichi, commander
f 1 the Japanese training squadron
now at San Pedro, Cal., had a long
talk Monday 'with Rear Admiral
Rebley D. Evans. They agreed that
there is no danger of war between
the United States and Japan.
Sixteen acres of the home where
Jefferson Davis was bora, within 12
miles of Hopkinsville, Ky., have been
purchased to be. made into a park
to perpetuate his name.
Samuel Dempsler, of Pittsburg, has
won a suit against Col. Wm. JJ.
Manny of Town Topics, getting ver
dict for $40,000 for libel.
James Boyle, the kidnapper is said
to be on the verge of a break down
The Daughters of the American
Revolution Congress in Washington
last week, declared for the preserva
tion of Fort McHenry as one of the
consecrated spots of the nation.
A number of women were hurt in
a Williamsburg (Brooklyn) bargain
rush.
Four persons perished in a hotel
fire in Topeka, Kan last Sunday.
Benson Bidwell and his son,
Charles, were convicted in Chicago
last week of swindling. The father's
health gave way and the son agreed
to abandon an appeal and go to the
penitentiary on condition that his
father receive a nominal punishment
of 10 days in jail. The scheme was
effected.
Washington Notes.
Senator Nelson set the Senate in
a fernxy Thursday in a speech on the
lumber schedule.
Senator Rayner in a speech Thurs
day declared free trade to be imprac
ticable. ,
Representative Hollingsworth of
Ohio wants congressional action
against the engraving of ex-President
Jefferson Davis on the silver service
to be presented to the Mississippi.
The remains of Major Pierre
Charles L 'Enfant have been taken up
from its country resting place and
placed in the Arlington National
cemetery where it will be suitably
commemorated in his honor for de
signing the plan of Washington city.
The American Red Cross society
has undertaken to render aid to the
desolqte in Armenia and has sent on
$1,0Q0. ; it will gladly receive dona
tions ""to the cause.
President Taft is very much con
cerned about the successful compe
tition of Germany over America in
the Chinese trade. . ,
-' ' Foreign Affairs.
Holland is' overjoyed that Queen
Wilhelmina gave birth to a daugh
ter on .Friday, 'the 30th.
It ' is estimated that 2,000 people
were killed in the battle at Constan
tinoDle last Sunday. .
The. Russian expedition formed to
restore order at Tabris, Persia, is re
ported to have been checked. : a
The new government at Constanti
nople has sent troops and has rescued
the remaining Armenian Cnnsuans.
WASHINGTON NOTES
Denouncing the principle of a pro
tective tariff as unfair in taking' mon
ey from one man to give another in
order to encourage him in the pursuit
of an otherwise profitable business,
Senator Bailey, of Texas, Monday de
livered a set speech on the Democratio
side in opposition to the pending: tar
iff bill.
The announcement that Mr. Bailey
would address the Senate Was suffi
cient to bring to the chamber almost
every Senator, and1 the galleries were
crowded to their full capacity. Mrs.
Taft occupied a seat in the Presi
dent's section and was an attractive
listener throughout the session.
senator Bailey was not interrupted
until he had proceeded with his re
marks for an hour or more, when
teveral Senators engaged in colloquies
with him. Senator Aldrich called
especial attention to a statement by
the Texas. Senator to the effect that
the duties of the pending biH might
be lowered 33 1-3 per cent and asked
whether he supposed the profits of
American industries equalled that
amount. Mr. Bailey replied that in
the case of the United States Steel
he believed tbey had, and he cited
the increased capitalization of that
organization as an evidence of en
ormous profit. He insisted that such
a lowering of the rate of duty would
not seriously affect importations be
cause he believed American manufac
turers would be stimulated by the
added foreign competition and would
continue to supply the markets.
On Tuesday, when Senator Scott,
of West Virginia, roso in his place in
the Senate to deliver a set speech up
on the tariff, the hum of conversation
by many Senators and their apparent
indifference to listen to . the speech
caused the Vice President to rap loud
ly for order in the chamber, and gave
the Senator occasion to administer a
mild rebuke to his colleagues.
"I do aot wish the Senate called to
order," said he, addressing the chair.
"I do not expect this argument to
shange a Vote and consequently I
un indifferent whether Senators retro-,
to the lobbies or indulge in con
versation, because I do not care
whether thev listen to my remarks or
aot."
"The chair does care," replied Mr.
Sherman.
He criticised the Senate bill and
ioes not believe it to be as good as
:he Dingley bill. He favors a proteo
se tariff.
The most important happenings in
the nation's capital Wednesday were
as follows: ,
Mehemed V, was formally- recog
nized by the State Department as
Sultan of Turkey, following the re
ceipt of official advices of his acces
sion to the throne. ,
The memory of Major L 'Enfant,
who designed the national capitol,
Whs honored by impressive exercises
held in the rotunda of the capitol,
previoas to the re-interment of the
iody in Arlington Cemetery, after
remaining for more than one hundred
pears on a Maryland farm.
George W. Woodruff, a former
Yale athlete, was nominated to be
United States District judge for
Hawaii.
Retention of the existing tariff on
nunber was strongly urged by Mr.
Simmons, of North Carolina, in an
sxhaustive speech in the Senate.
The present prospect is that the
proposed amendments by the Senate
committee on finance-to the tariff bill
will be postponed for 'some days pos
sibly until the beginning of next
week.
- The committee is understood to
have practically decided to place a
duty of $5 per ton on printing paper
and of $1.38 per ton on wood .pulp,
which is a slight reduction from the
Dingley rate in both eases.
The most important happenings in
the nation's capital Friday were as
follows :
President Taft attended the cele
bration in Alexandria, Va., of the
120th anniversary of George WasK-
ington's inauguration and dedication
ox a park to his memory.
The President cabled his congratu
lations on the birth of an heir to the
throne of The Netherlands.
Justice Stafford, in the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, de
clined to compel Secretary of Agricul
ture Wilson to vacate his decision to
institute prosecutions under the pure
food law against flour manufacturers,
who use the bleaching process. '
he , Senate finance committee re
ported its substitute for the maximum
anA minimum m-oviirion nf the Pavna
tariff bill, practically revising the lat
ter, in that any country to receive our
minimum rates must not in any w
discriminate against oar , products.
ADANA MASSACRES
Missionary to Turkey Writes
of the Horrors Perpetrated.
HER SCHOOL MENACED BY M03
Miss Elizabeth S. Webb, Missionary
From Illinois to Asiatic Turkey,
Writes Dramatically of tha First
Days of the Slaughter.
A special from Adana via Constan
tinople says: Miss Elisabeth 8.
Webb, a missionary from Bunker
Hill, DL, has written as follows of
the first days of the massacres ta
Adana when the girls' school to which
she was attached was in tha greatest
danger: '
"Our friends came to school as
usual on Wednesday. (April 21). Al
though we heard there was much, mt-
rest in the city, we went on witk
preparations .for a school entertain
ment, to be held next day. Soon
firing began and before noon wa war
afraid to send the day scholars hose.
There was constant firing. We tried
to go on with our annual meeting,
but were interrupted by the scream
ing in the streets and the shooting.
'Mr. Chambers attempted to go te
the government building for a guard,
but found it impossible to get
through the mob. Our Turkish chil
dren were present and we thought it
would be possible to send word of
our danger by a Turk who had com
take them home. Accordingly
notes to their fathers and to tha '
Governor were written, but there
no response.
"As night came on fires began to
flare up in all directions and we weret
fearful that the rioters would break
into the school buildings. Finally,
about 0 o'clock, there came a knock
at the gate and in walked the English
consul. He left three of his guard of
Turkish soldiers to take cars of as.
"All through the night we seemed
to be in a state of siege. In th
meantime fires about the city had in
creased and the sound of shooting;
could be heard from every point. At
last the consul passed. He was able,
to spare only one man, but thought
this one would be more useful than
the other three, who had run away.
Soon after fires broke out in the ad-
acent streets. Unless something was
done speedily our school building
must be destroyed. We bad nuns;
Turkish flags on all sides of tha
building, but this did not stop tbe
thousands engaged in the riots from
firing their weapons, although ap
parently they were not directed
against us.
"If our building burned, the Cham
bers house must bum also. Our only
safety seemed to be to check the
flames. The women and girls earned
water, while the men cut down the
shed and an old house in the eorner
of our yard. A shed on the opposite
side of the street was also town down.
About this time we were horrified to
learn that Mr. Rogers and Mr. Maurar
had been shot. It seemed that they
had been fighting the fire and were
not with the other men cutting down
the sheds. They were brought into
our dining room. Mr. Maurer already
was dead and Mr. Rogers only lived
a few minutes. The Rev. Stephen R.
Trowbridge, who was near them at
the time, escaped.
"A new misfortune overtook us.
Our guard of one man disappeared.
I came to my room, where the girls
were waiting. For me to tell them
what had happened would only cause
a panic, so I said: 'We have done
all we can now; let ns pray.'
"Before I had finished praying, tha
bugle of the consul's guard and the
Turkish officials with wnom be warn
patroling sounded. He could not
spare a guard, but promised to sendL
one immediately, it was a iemuu
situation; women and girls practi
cally alone in the building; a mur
derous, bloodthirsty mob outside.
with knife and bullet for the
Armenians, and the torch for their
homes. To add to the misery, there
were the dead on the floor below,
and the widow of one of them, Mrs.
Rogers, with her infant, 10 week
old, to comfort. The afternoon and
evening passed and no guard came.
The following day we learned that
tho British consul had been shot m
the arm.. That night young - mesi
from the Gregorian and Protestant
committees .patrolled the r .streeta
around our building. The situation
was erave; A great crowd, bent a
plunderingj had gathered at tho rear
of our house for an attack. Our
Armenians asked those below to send ,
one man to confer with a representa
tive of our side.
"This was agreed to, but in plaea
of one man, hundreds started t h :
come.' They demanded that we give)
up otir arms, but this meant certain '
death. We decided to take the girls
to Mr. Chambers house. Here refu
trpes cowered everywhere. : Both
honses and court apparently had be
overflowing with refugees before
arriwV'