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r. iiMnniiiiitiiiiiiHiu tiiiiniiiiiiimnmiiii; i TJSe I Meditim) . ; ; Through whicK you reach (h I people, Madlsoo County '. ', V ; ; ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION ; , 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 iT " luhidin th County ! ' - 7 a yar in Adanci f sJfc trio rmrllir a4 Marty m iiiiiiiihiiiiiiihihh 1 .1 POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. VOL. XI. '-MARSHALL; N. CPRIDAY, JULY 9, 1909; NO. 27. .ml ill i. : . ' -w. s V !'?:,. I lieora Two Terrific Quakes Flt Thursday-Th 25.00Q Inhabitants In Panlc--MotherDashes For Her Babe And Dies With It In Her Arms. Messina By Cable. Messina - ex perienced two terrific earthquakes at about 7:30 o'clock Thursday morn ing, which were accompanied by roaring sounds and are said to have bad a stronger and more undulatory movement than the earthquake of last December which destroyed Mes sina, Reggio and other cities, laid waste to many villages in Calabria and killed 200,000 people. Although the shocks Thursday had' no such terrible consequences the 25,000 residents of this city were thrown into a state of 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 to the ground and Mes sina 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 ier infant. The woman had , come here only a few days ago and had settled in rooms, which the great earthquake bad left relatively un damaged. She was standing at the ORVILLE WRIGHT MAKES THREE SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS Washington, Special. Calm, confi dent and nerveless, Orville Wright -. late Thursday encircled the Ft. Meyer , drwl grounds time after time in his aeroplane in three successful flights while a crowd of, thousands cheered him for the 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 frum 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 . aide 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 machine1 swooping down in successive glides ; until Orville pulled the string which; , stops his motor and the aeroplane - glided smoothly over the grass on its skid until it came to a stop. The ma chine was returned to the starting ap- paratus and again -was placed in posi- tjpju and another flight was. essayed. COMMISSION DECIDES ADVERSELY IN BISHOPS' CASE Washington, Special. The Inter state Commerce Commission has de dded adversely in the matter of the complaints filed before them by five bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal 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, whUa. 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 eoni " -plete identification was impossible a jrcV there appears to 4be aJ stroug : probability that ,th -body of a,China r 'mid," which was found .J dating in the t Hudson river in the upper: part of the Uy Thursday evening, was that of , Leon' Ling or; William L. Leon,1 the - mnrdftref of Elsie SigeL. The man's height f' weight : and general appear ance tfcllies with that of Leon Ling, "but as the body 'was bade, except for , a silk undershirt, and had been in the . - watfr for more than a week, a thor- cnh examination will be necessarmd, tie weight 125 Coroner McDonald, who was the first' Jk aiout Leon's. door when the shook- occurred and rushed inside to save her child. Be fore she could escape from the room the second shock threw downX the walls, burying both mother and child under, the debris. Soldiers and en gineers who rushed to the rescue heard 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 in her arms.. The first shock was followed quick ly by a second and -the 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 panie 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. 4 In ' the second flight Orville made much wider turns and rose to a greater height. Wilbur Wright f-watched every detail of the flight witn care., It was 'nqticed-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 aa though on billow 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 seednds less than eight min utes. In his lost attempt he remained aloft for a few seconds more than nine minutes and encircled the field nine and one half times. For one complete found he1 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 tinned to fly half way around the seta Pej-PIK aesegnqing ' and Potomac, the Southern and the Central, Railway of Georgia. ' Tha ' complainants . were Bishops Wesley J. (James,- H. M. Turner, van TyreeTC S.. Smith and . E. W. Brampton. --r- . . , v " . . : The principle involved in the com plaint was the' old one of the '.'Jim Crow " ear, 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, V one side of the- building demolished.'the stone chimney shattered, 4n 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, gene over the identification will remain in doubt.. 'i i ii i S vl 4: - : ' If it is Leon the cause of .his death! will be another mystery although one theory, that of suicide, would appear reasonable. ; vIn 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 - inch p, which was Leon's' height, pound, , which TREASURY CONDITION - Officials Pleased at tie 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, its 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 ndt 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 $246,329,063, 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 $115,988,869 as against $118,780,233 for the year 1908. Pension payments for the year amounted to $161,689,423, an increase ofover $8,000,000. Interchange of Students. London, Special. A scheme for the interchange of university stu dents between the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, rivaling in importance that estab lished under the will of the Into Cecil Rhodes, is in process of forma tion, v.-itli every prospect of success. Tift; idea, . which is supported by an influential committee, headed by the 'Hon. H. H. Asquith, Prime Min ister of Great Britian and Loi'd Stratiiucna, High Commissioner oi C'nnncln. and which includes the heails of the 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 fcomo real insight into the life, pro gress and customs of other nations, with a minimum of inconvenience 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-roumi 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 ahd 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 askedfor its maintenance for an ex perimental period of three years. The total cost is estimated at $68,500 for the three years, of whichsum 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, Special. Emperor William's Metor, steered part of the time by His Majesty himself, won the 51-one mile ra ce of Eckernf oerde Wednes day, covering the distance in 5 hours and 10 minutes, Germania was sec ond, in 5 hours and 30 minutes, and Iduna, owned by the Empress, was thtfd. Fire in Messina Ruins. - ' Rqme, P.y 'CableFire "started in the ruins of Messina Mondays even ing; " Owing to the high wind and a laek,.rof 'water, .the, flames extended over, a large area, ine coal aepoi wasdestroyed," as were'" stacks' of furnifure and wood recovered from the , ruins',' and several encampments were threatened.-'' Soldiers and blue jackets, after two hours' work, sue eeeded in establishing a water sup ply and in 'diminishing but not ex tinguishing the .fire, which is burn ing itself put, 1' The-survivors 'of th earthquake were thrown into a panic and spent the night in tbeopeu. OUTLAW CHIEF KILLED rikiri, the Moro Outlaw Chief and Hii Entire Band Exterminated. ; Manila, By Cable. In a desperate Sght near Patian, on Jolo island, Monday, Jikiri, the famous Moro out law chief, was killed and his entire band exterminated by detachments at regulars, and " constabulary under Capt. George L. Bryam, of the Sixth United States Cavalry, 'operating in wtijunction with a naval flotilla of the mosquito' fleet Under Lieutenant Commander Signor. The 'American loss was one private killed andthree officers and. 20 en listed men and one sailor wounded: Private O'Connell, of Troop A, 3ixth Cavalry, was the one man kill ed among the Americans. The officers rounded are. Lieutenants Kennedy, Miller and Arthur H. Wilson, of the Sixth. Captain Byram's cavalry with a few scouts and constabulary and a letaoliment of sailors under Lieuten ant Commander Signor discovered ind 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 and sailors surrounded the place, but Jikiri refused to surrender. A con certed attack was made, the Moros fighting- desperately from the mouth of the cave until the last member of the hand was dead. Fatalities in New Tork. 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 night1 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 his hand -with a toy pistol.'':, Giuseppo Pagano, 40 years old, killed. Jiy random bullets supposedly fired by a celebratory though relatives maintain that be was murdered. Fire in city and suburbs were num bered by the score, but none in New l ork 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 fianancecommittee would accept it. This the committee was disinclined to do, and so the amendement paine up in the Senate Monday. , It 'was op posed by Senator Burton, but Sena lor Overman' rallied his friends, along ith the Southern Senators who weVe unanimously for it, and the 'amend ment was adopted. This drawback n ties is ot very large -importance in the cotton planters:"" They will be .;!Je 'as the result of its provisions to get back 99 per cent of the dutiea. on eotton-ies -shipped abroad. Begins Great Work. New York, Special. Work has be gun on the Cape Cod Canal,' which is to conpeet Buzzards bay with Cape i'od bay and thus furnish an important- link in . an inshore coast route ti-om Massachusetts to the Carolines. The immediate purpose of the canal is to shorten' the distance by water J'rom Boston to New York and to ether Atlantic ports to the South by about 150 miles. The cut-off will also greatly reduce' the perils of navi jration through Vineyard sound and around "Cape Cod one of the most dangerous stretches on the Atlantic coaste-.w : v Early Responds to Skin Treatment. New York Special.-rJohn S. Ear ly, the Korh Carolina leper, is at last in a New, York hospital but the su perintendent of hospitals says he has already responded to Dr. Bulkleys' treatment, who said he did not have n'prosy, but a skin disease ana mat iie isr entirely ' well. Early will turned loose in about two weeks. be , 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 unday night and soon died, from the effects. y .- , . :' Mr.- Lartghara assumed national financial prominence in 1908 by "gain ing control of the Provident : ARE GRANTEDNEW TRIAL Supreme Court Ee verses Verdict in the Cases Against the Murderers of Captain Quentin Eankin on Technical Grounds. Jackson, Tcnn., Special The eases 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 PReel Foot late, Oetober 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 Boy 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 flrst.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 -selected out of a panel named by Judge J. E. Jones, the trial 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 the 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 seeure 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, is not looked for. Killed Whole Family. Aberdeen, S. D., Special J. W. Christie, a farmer living near here, bis 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 tbem. The first shots took effect and the two women and the boy fell dead". 1 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 murder, .-.The entire countryside is wrought Dn. T3nnds rtf farm era wpra immAHt. fatoly organized' and search for' the murdorers was begun. The farmers threaten the murderers with lynch ing 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 hile the troops were trying to extinguish the flames another fire started . at Milazzo, a short distance away. . , a. A Woman's Heroism. Mobile, Ala., Special. W. L. Sam son, bridge-keeper for the Louisville ft Nashville at Bayou Sara, Ala., early Thursday night was in his loft near the. bridge-when lightning killed bin, and threwv 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 the succeeded in flagging A train, i - THE NEWS IN BRIff Items of Interest Gathered By W5re and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY' TO DAY Ure Items Covering Events of Mora or Less Interest, at Home and Abroad. The first bale of cotton for the sea son was sold at Houston, Texas, on Monday. It brought 1425. Georgia's new ' governor, Joseph Brown, has installed a long handled gourd in the eapitol out of which to drink his ioe water. Little Luer'etia Norris was born six years ago in Omaha, Nb., with a deformed jaw. . :Some days ago the surgeons took away the bad part of her jaw bone and inserted a chicken bone in its place'.'' The operation is 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 Catigo was 150 miles from New Orleans and bv wire less called to the surgeons on shore for a prescription for a case of blood poison. It was promptly dispatched and when ,t he ship arrived Friday the 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 he rowed his strength away trying to reach them. He saw 'a number of vessels' pass but could hot attract at tention. A singular test was made in the Chicago Appelate court last week, where a physician claims that he was 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 YWk 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 laun dry. 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 Chieago were recorded Inst Monday as heat fatalities. Washington Hews Notes. Marines' have been restored to all the battleships and cruisers. Ex.-Gov7 W. M. 6rbawson" of West Virginia, has been appointed a United States commercial .agent in VUMW ' . Fifty babies and six adult's have . succombed to the heat in Washington the past week. New restrictions are imposed r 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 Senate from the Fi nance Committee by Senator Aldrich Monday. 'v. At the very last moment cotton bagging ' and ammonia which .enter into the Southern fertilizer business was Toted into the en.t? tsriff bill. The Senate put cotton bagging and binding twine on tEefree 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 fleet during its war maneuvers off the New England "coast in July. ' The Aldrich committee ' and tha Senate have made a thousand ehangea in the House Tarift bilU,-.. - ' I 1 , t ' J I II