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niHiininnnniiimn QftLy TAVEH. Tab li-thtd in iht County ' 7 -a yar , in A dxfanct tlllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIII t Medium t ThjwgVwhkh yoa reach th" ; 'people f Madison County t ADVERTISING RATES OH APPLICATION J , n 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 j in 1 1 in 1 1 1 1 1 it IIIiIiIIIIIIIHIIHIIIIIII POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING QF MADISON COUNTY. VOL. XI. MARSHALL, N..; FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1909. NO. 42. H mm ftraiiiv lecord. IAN0THER SOUTHfRN STORM, Oeath List 37, With Possibilities of Increase Sweeps Southeast Through Tennessee, Alabama and South Carolina. Memphis, Tenn., SpociaL With the known death list already reach-' ing a total of thirty-seven human lives and with thirteen others report ed dead, with scores seriously injur ed and many others painfully bruised, 'and with the property damage tan ning to a million or more dollars, the toll of the havoc and destruction. of 'the storm which swept middle and .West Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and portions of Arkansas, and South Carolina, late Thursday afternoon and Thursday night, grows hourly as reports are received form remote dis tricts and as wire communication id gradually restored to a normal con dition. The storm was the worst that has visited this' section of the South in years, being intense in its destroying fury and widespread in its area. Whole sections of counties were laid in waste, towns destroyed and plan tations greatly damaged. The list of dead reported is: Den mark,, Tenn, Albert Barnes; Mul berry, Tenn, Thomas Helm; Stanton ville, Tenn, Thirteen people reported killed (unconfirmed) ; Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., Mrs. West McDaniel, Otis Littlefleld, Luther Littlfield, Marshall Jordan, Ruby Jordan, I. W. Lemons; Near Stantonville, Tenn., Charles, wife and infant, Terry Wil bank, Mrs. Wilbank and their two children, Mrs. Sissom; Near Carters ville, Ga., Miss Pritchard; Scotts boro, Ala., "Miss Houston- Skelton, Milas M. Suder, a child of Jim Gal; Wyeth Cove, Ala., Eight people kill ed; Near Scottsboro, Ala., Mrs. S. H. Skelton; Stanton, Tenn., And' Johnson, a negro; Nixon, Tenn., five people killed; Near Marmaduke, Ark., Arthur Liggett.. Apparently the storm broke in all its fury over middle and West Ten nessee and proceeded in a southeast erly direction across the State into Alabama and Georgia, assuming the proportions of a hurricane. It came practically without warn ing and in some places the wind at PRESIDENT TAFT ACCEPTS Washington, Special. All. doubts as to what action the President would take with" respect to the resignation of Charles R. Crane, minister desig nate to China, was dispelled by the receipt of a dispatch from President Taft addressed to his secretary, Mr. Carpenter directing him to convey to Mr. Crane announcement of the fact that the resignation had been accept ed.; The telegram was dated Prescott, Aria, October 13, and reads as fol lows: ,' "V ,.-,':; "Convey to Mr. Crane following communication: ' 'I concur in the let ter under date of October 12, which the Secretary of State has addressed to you and I greatly regret that the circumstances found to exist By hint make it necessary for me to accept your resignation.' "TAFT Later Mr. Crane issued this state ment: ...'. . "I am greatly relieved jy the Pres ident's decision. - There has been no minute since I learned the attitude of the Department of State when I have. KILLS FATHER-IN-LAW AND Lincolnton, N.. C, Special. About 3 o'clock Thursday ' morning, ' near Bethpage church, 6 miles west of Lin colnton, Mr, W. S, . Wisp y killed his father-in-law, Joe Hallman, with an axe, then ran in his own home, bar red the door, undressed himself, fir ed his home and was incinerated; Mr. Hallman 's head was entirely severed FATHER. IS KILLED TRYING TO KILL HIS OWN SON Gastonia, N. C, Special Col. Rob- ert L. Abernethy, ownef. pf Open View: farm in River Bend., tqwnship, Gaston county, eccentric,,, stockman, fanner and politician, was shot and almost instantly 'killed at his home ' near Mount Holly, at o 'clock Thurs day morning after having fired three ;wild shots at his' son, Reuben, aged 18, and in the course of a.firece hand-to-hand struggle with the latter who was endeavoring to disarm him. One .bullet entered the right temple and the other struck him full in the fore tained a velocity of 00 miles an hour. While only one death occurred at Denmark, Tenn., the horrors of the storm were greatly heightened by the fire which followed the wrecking of that town. The fierce flames rapidly consumed what few dwellings and store houses were left 'standing and at night a scene of utter desolation is presented. Two hundred people were rendered homeless and have ap pealed to neighboring towns and cit ies for immediate aid. Reports of five deaths and- heavy damage come from McNairy county. Homes and stores were leveled to the ground and great trees uprooted. - Many handsome and imposing State monuments in the ShUoh nat ional park were torn from their pe destals , and the- superintendent's lodge and other buildings - were de stroyed. The property damage in this section is estimated at $100,000. Wire communication with Stanton ville, where thirteen lives are report ed to have been lost, has not yet been re-established. At Russellville, Ala., twenty-seven people were seriously, several fatally injured. A property damage of at least $10,- 000 is estimated at Cartersville, Ga., while that at Atlanta will run be tween $80,000 and $100,000. One life wa3 lost at the former place. Rome, Ga., Gadsden, Ala., Hunts ville, Ala., Decalur, Ala., and other smaller towns in the path of the storm ropert heavy property damage. At Gadsden, Alabama, hail the size of hen's eggs did much damage, loss es about $25,000. At Atlanta one woman was proba bly fatally hurt and two children wer9 also injured. At Cartersville, Ga., one woman is dead, another reported beneath the wreck of her home-, and $50,000 dam age to property. At Aiken, S. C, report say the path of the storm was several miles wide and probably 50 miles long. Great damage was done to the cotton crop. CRANE'S RESIGNATION not contemplated the possibility of a continuance of my official relations with thev deepest repugnance. Never theless, I have felt that my obliga tion to the President was to permit him to decide the issue. "I accepted the Chinense mission at his request and solely because of assurance that I could be and would be permitted to be of service to the country in constructive work of the greatest importance to it and of the greatest interest to me. It has been made perfectly clear that condition! here were not and are not such as to make this possible. To demonstrate this has involved a personal humilia tion "Buch as no self-respecting man who is drafted into the public service should be called on to endure, but I am grateful .indeed that I have had the test of official confidence and cop port .here rather than' in China and now rather than at some real crisis involving the honor of the interest of the nation. V . - .. .v .''.t- ."'; '"': , Mr. Crane' left, here Wednesday at 3 o'clock for New York. . . i BURNS SELF AND HOUSE by axe. Wise appeared rations up to a few momenta before he enacted the shocking' tragedy. 4 He awakened at an pearly" nonr and his strange re- marks caused his wife' to become alarmed, so she sent one of her chil dren to' her father's home, a half mile away, and asked for . some of her people to come to her aid. head. He . never regained conscious ness and died an hour later. ,. . At the inquest held Thursday after noon by jury empaneled by Magis trate W, B. Rutledge of Mount Holly a verdict was rendered, at fi o'clock to the effect that Abernethy eame to bis death from wounds Inflicted, by-a pistol in -his iown! hands, v His son, who was placed wider arrest soon after the tragedy by Deputy Sheriff J. S. Rogers pending an investigation, was released fronv custody and the matter is doubtless' st an end so far as any legal proceedings are concern ed. ; f ri BLACK HAND AT CANTON Mr. W. T. Sharp Receives Demand For "$1,000 to Be Placed at the Corner of Locust Field Church," Accompanied by the Usual Threats A Trap is Bet For the Hold-Up Man, But Ha Refuses to Pnt His Foot Into It. Asheville, N. C, Special A dar ing attempt to blackmail W. T, Sharp of Canton, one of the wealthiest men of the town and a very prominent merchant, came to light Saturday night, and along with it an attempt to blackmail certain other citizens of the town and' officials of the Cham pion Fiber Company, and although a trapwas well laid to catch the perpe trators no one came to claim the mon ey. Mailed at the Canton postofflce September 27, W. T. Sharp received a letter reading as follows: "On October 15 before 11 p. m. you place under S. E. corner of Lo cust Feld church $1,000 in large bills. Failure to do so means cetrain death to yourself and perhaps to your fam ity. Dynamite is cheap. Spies mean same thing. (Signed) "BLACK HAND." When received it Mr. Sharp at once became frightened and laid the matter before certain of his friends and after a consultation it was agreed to place the letter in the hands of postofflce inspectors. It was arranged that Mr. Sharp should deposit the money there and a num ber of officers would watch the spot to see if any one appeared. No one appeared. .. . After Dr. Cook's Scalp. New York, Special. Four more affidavits were made public here Sat urday in connection with the inevsti gation of Dr. Frederick A. Cook's expedition to Mount McKinley. Threo of them are by members of the Cook party Fred Printz, a guide; Walter P. Miller, photographer and Samuel Beecher, Their testimony relates in detail the movements of the party ex plaining that Cook and Barrill were alone together the period in which Dr. Cook claims to have reached the sum mit of Mount McKinley. All three say that Barrill assured them after that Dr. Cook's story was false. The fourth affidavit is that of Dr. John E. Shore, a physician of Leaven- r worth, Washington, who tells of a conversation with Oscar F. Blanken ship of the United States forestry service in which Blankenship said that Dr. Cook's claims to have climb ed Mount McKinley were false inas much as the feat was impossible in the short time which Cook and Bur rill were absent. Blankenship was located near Mount McKinley at the time Cook's expedition was there. A New York dispatch of the 16th says, "Having failed in his effort to get Professor Herchel C. Parker and Anthony Fiala to conduct an expe dition to ascend Mount McKinley, Dr. Frederick A. Cook announced here that he would abandon his lec ture .tour as soon as possible ami himself head an expedition to ascend Mount McKinley and recover if pos sible the records which he says he left there in 1906. Former V. S. Minister Found Dying. London, By Cable. William I. Bu chanan of Buffalo, N. Y., former Am erican minister to the Argentine Re public and Panama, who had been closely identified with several import ant American diplomatic missions, met a tragic death Saturday night on a London street. He was discovered lying on a sidewalk in Park Lane, near the American embassy, in a dy ing condition, a few minutes before 12 o'clock and was carried to St. George's hospital, a short . distance away. , Life was extinct' when the am bulance reached the hospital. The cause of death is not known positive ly, but physicians who examined the body state that it resulted apparently from heart disease or apoplexy and that there was no indication of foul play which wag suggested. - ' ' Western Express Wrecked. Poughkeepsiey N. Y.J Special. One passenger was killed and 15 others were injured when the rear section of train No. 28, the Western-Express on the; New York Central Railroad, was wrecked at Rhirwback early Sun day. 1 President Brown of the New York Central was on board the train, but was : not ;' injured. " ' President Brown himself directed the removal of the injured passengers. ,;'. " Greatest Balloon Flight Yet t CCkarleston,' S. - G,' SpeciaL Break ing all speed records for long distance flights, , the balloon St.' Louis No. 3 landed near Ridgeville, 31 miles' west of 'Charleston, ,at ? o'clock Saturday morning, after having left St. Louis, Me Friday.- at 5:30 . o'clock The balloon carried A. B. Lambert and S. Louis' Von J PuhL who arrived ; here Saturday ' night, ? after .i thrilling cross-country flight. , They had ; ex hausted their ballast and, seeing in the distance the waters of the Atlan tic, which they wen fast approach ing, they wen forced .to descend, v PEARY'S CHARGES Peaty Arctic Qub Gives Out Statement. ESKIMOS TRACE LINE ON MAP Did Not Need Much Supplies Stayed Within Game Region Cook Bmiles Undisturbed Expected as Much. The Peary Artie Club has again published-, a Statement accompanied with a map indicating the route trav eled by Dr. Cook and the principal events of the explorations as Peary and his party got them from the Es kimos, especially the two young man Itookashoo and Ahpelah. He says that he questioned them sep arately and their statements and tracings on the map shown them har monized. Most of fhe testimony, however, Commander Peary says was taken not in his presence, in order that the idea of his overawing them might not be claimed. He says the Eskimo laughed at Dr. Cook's story. The story as published says Cook and his party did not eross the open water encountered but turned west and southwest for some distance and then retraced their way not going be yond the game regions. The story credits the Eskimo with the ability to trace the entire route on a rude map and even with the skill to draw a map which produced some difference between the two but which was harmonized. It does not seem from the story, however that the young Eskimo had the instruments and the records that would be neces sary to make an intelligible map. The statement as to the testimony of the Eskimos is signed by Com mander Peary, Capt Bartlett, of the Roosevelt, D. B. McMillan, George Bjfr-up find Matthew A. Henson. Dr. Cok Not Disturbed. Dr. Cook at Cleveland, Ohio, Tues day evening was shown the state ment. He said: "I have replied to the points rais ed a dozen times," he continued. "The map published by Commander Peary in itself indicates that the Es kimos have respected their promise made to me that they would not give any information to Peary or his men. "The Eskimos were instructed not to tell Mr. Peary or any of his party of our trip over the Polar sea. Thej were told to say that we had been far north. They have kept their word. "Mr. Whitney has said that during the cross-examination conducted by Commander Peary and others of his expedition the Eskimos did not understand the questions put to them or the map which was laid before them. Their replies to the questions put have been twisted to suit a per verted interest. "I will not enter into any argu ment about the matter, but I will bring the Eskimos to New York at my own expense, and they will prove as did Mr. Whitney, all that I have claimed. " Dr. Cook would not consent to go over tho details contained in Mr. Peary's statement any further than this: ' r "The Eskimos," he said, "are only too willing to say something that they think will please their ques tioners.',' The explorer was not at all per turbed by the accusations. A con fident smiht flickered over his bronzed face when they were shown to' him. "I fully expected to see something of the kind," he said. , "The .docu ment looks formidable over so many signatures, and will probably appear so to the public. There is, however, nothing in it, as it is based upon the distorted and evasive replies of per son whtf were told not to give any details." : .''w-.-w,,, ; ,Ths doctor continued: , "Rasmussen, who will ' be here shortly, has seen the Eskimos and knows the real story. They , did not try to deceive him. He .was, "with them forv fourteen days. .t They know him and 'told him .everything. ".Ho. speaks the Eskimo language, for he is a semi-Eskimo himself and the people have the most complete con fidence in him." ' -' , He concluded That is all I have to say now.";.'',, . ' if -v He-then proceeded to the lecture hall ia the mtmost good humor and eonldenea to deliver hie lesUre. -: - WASHINGTON NOTES A substantial increase is shown iu the gross income of the Southern Railway Company during the year ending June 30 last, according to the fifteenth annual report of President W. W. Finley. The report says the return of business from the low level of panic conditions of 1907 was slow but substantial during the past year. The total gross income for the year was $17,737,699, an increase over 1908 of $3,890,733. While the operat ing expenses show a decrease of $753,610, compared with the year 1908, it is stated that this is due to the fact that the Tennessee Central Railroad and the Southern Railway of Mississippi were operated separ ately this year. However, comparing like for like, thirf year shows an in crease in the operating revenues of $606,766. At a meeting of the Southern Com mercial congress Tuesday, plans for building to be erected in this city were accepted. The structure will be built from contributions made by the various commercial organizations throughout the South, and John M. Parker, President of the congress, will leave soon on a speaking tour in that section. He goes first to Greenville, S. C, then tal Atlanta, Ga., and Brimingham, Ala. The com plete itinerary has not been complet ed yet. The work of organizing and canvassing the 16 states which will be called upon to contribute to the congress will, it is figured, ocupy more than a year. Record target practice scores of the vessels of the American navy for 1909 made public at the Navy Depart ment Thursday, show that the Wash ington is a trophy winner in the bat tleship class, the Charleston a trophy winner in the gunboat class, the Tingey the trophy winner in vessels competing for the torpedo trophy. The Pacific fleet, under Admiral Swin burne, leads the fleet in target prac tice with a record of 42. A trip to various coast points on the Atlantic ocean to participate in local celebration's has been arranged for'tflfe torpedo boats Stringham, Du pont, Biddle and Shnbrick of the At lantic torpedo flotilla. From Char leston, S. C, they are to go to Sa vannah, from November 1 to 7, to take part in a carnival. The next day they go to Wilmington, N. C, to be there during the President's visit. Later in the month, from No vember 22 to 27, the boats are to be at Jacksonville, where a carnival is to be held. After these boats get back to Charleston, they will be plac ed in reserve. The other boats of the Atlantic flotilla, eight in all, are to be placed in reserve at Charleston upon their arrival there, which is ex pected to be early 'in November. The Supreme Court Tuesday fixed December 13 for hearing arguments in the case of the government against the American Tobacco Company. The cases were instituted by the govern ment to obtain the dissolution of tho alleged trust. Their hearing was originally fixed for Tuesday, but the postponement was made to allow Attorney-General Wickersham to par ticipate in the arguments. Oorders were issued at the Navy Department Monday for a division of the Atlantic torpedo flotilla to bo present at Yorktown to participate in the celebration in commemoration of the anniversary-of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. The vessels, which have been cruising up th Hudson river as far as Albany and Troy in conection with the recent Hudson Fulton celebration, will sail from New York within the next two or three days for Hampton Roads and thence to Yorktown. After a recess of more than four months, and. with only Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Harlan,-Brewer, White, Holmes, MeKenna and Day present, the Supreme Court of the United States Monday began the reg ular term for the next twelve months. Justices PecMiam and Moody were absent on account of illness, reduc ing the court to unusually small pro portions. ; The question whether the ordinary insurance - policy . insures a man against death by legal . hanging is raised in the case of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, vs. J, William McCue and others, which was pre sented Monday . to the Supreme Court of the United States, - McCne is one of the children of the late J. Samuel McCue, who while serving a term as mayor of the city of Charlottesville, Va., was found guilty of murdering his wife and hanged for the offense in 1905.; About" aryear previous to the crime McCue took out an . in surance poliey of ' $15,000 in the If utual-Life. . V f WASHINGTON NOTES seMjeseAtajAseMBW CRIMINALS FOUND, Slayers of Mayor Newberry in Limbo. SHOT HIM IN HIS OWN DOOR Little Daughter Stood Beside Him and His Sick Wife in Bed. Beaufort, N. C, Special. The grand jury Monday brought in a bill of murder against S. J. Sanders, who had been arrested for the death ol H. Z. Newberry of Newport, who was shot' to death Saturday night at the door of his home there. Judge Gnion ordered the sheriff to summon 200 talesmen in order to get a jury. The case is set for Friday at 10 a. m. Sanders is locked in the Carteret county jail here, while his brother, B. F. Sanders, also is under arrest, held as an acessory. The prisoners were brought here Sunday night by Sher iff Hancock, after a coroner's jury at Newport had returned a verdict that Mayor Newberry's death resulted from gunshot wounds inflicted by S. J. Sanders and that his brother also was implicated in the shooting. The assassination of Mayor New berry was the direct outcome, it is said, of the prosecution of "blind tiger" cases. The mayor recently had , several persons arrested for il legally selling whiskey, and four of the men, including the two Sanders brothers, were bound over for court at Beaufort next Monday. It is al leged threats have been made against the mayor's life and after his assas sination Saturday night, suspicion was directed to the Sanders brothers. Great excitement prevailed in New port after the tragedy occurred Sat urday night. The dead man's wife was ill in bed at the time of the mur der, and his little daughter stood by his side when he was shot. Word of the shooting was sent to Beaufort and Sunday afternoon County Solicitor Abernethy, accom panied by Sh'erfff Hancock and a cor oner's jury, went to Newport on a special train. Upon arrival of the train at Newport the Sanders broth ers were arrested, and later the cor oner's jury ordered the hearing. S. A. L. Receivership Ends. Asheville, N. C, Special. Judge rritcbard Monday afternoon signed a decree to the effect that the Sea board Air Line receivership will end November 4, when it 'will be turned over to the railway company in ac cordance with the plan of reorganiza tion which has been approved by the stockholders. Leigh Rv Watts,'; gen eral counsel tor , the ' Seaboard; Air Line, and James F. Wright, assistant general counsel of Portsmouth, Va., appeared, before ' Judge Pritchard Monday afternoon for the railway company and Innes Brown of the firm of Burnett & Cutchins, of New York, appeared for the Continental Trust Company, of New York. it was upon the complaint of the Continental Trust Company .that the Seaboard Air Line on January 3. 1908, was placed bv Judge Pritchard m the hands of S. Davies Warfleld, R. Lancaster Williams and E. C. Dun can as receivers. The- Teceivershij will have lasted 22 months when it ends. This action means much for the development of the property and that section of the country through which it operates. It is said to be a fact that the Sea-1 board receivership was one of the most successful in the country. The debt was reduced, the bonds wer reduced and also the road mado money under the receivership. . Whitney Dam Property About to Ba Sold. , Asheville, N. C, Special. The Bankers' Trust Company of New York Monday in United States cir cuit court filed a bill against the Whitnev Company, John SHonder- son and Charles W. Smith, receivers. anu more than a dozen, subsidiary companies to foreclose an issue of $5,000,000 in first mortgage bonds, is sued in November, 1904. . .' President Taft On His Brother's ' Ranch, '., :'A . Gregory, Tex.,! Special President Taft 'arrived here ''Monday night shortly after 9 o'clockto- spend four days on the ranch of Charles P. Taft, his brother. " Reports as-to--the size of this ranch vary from 100,000 to 200,000 acres. In either event, it ap proaches the proportions 'of princi pality and duriug the time here the President, will be secluded from local committees, front the givers of ban quets and from the onerous duties of constant speech-making. When ask ed how he intended to spend the time he )taid in doin a he pleased. f '-! i:.
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