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:T V . V VV v twenTv^ikedead Left in Wake of Frightful Cloudburst and Tornado. LONG LIST OF INJURED Twenty-One Corpses in One Little Kentucky Town, Which Was Engulfed by Cloudburst While Victims Slept. Twenty-nine known dead and'forty * persons injured constitute the list of casualties resulting from storms of - V tornado severity which swept over jsuuuitrii i.miiuis ana maiana ana central Kentucky Friday night and Saturday. These fatal visitations came in the shape of cloudbursts, high winds and electrical disturbances. The property damage will reach many thousands of dollars. Houses were swept away, bridges demolished and thousands of acres of growing crops destroyed. Gradyville, Ky.t was the worst sufferer. A cloudburst deluged that village of 150 persons shortly after midnight Friday night. At New Minden, 111., a tornado Saturday morning killed five people and injured a half dozen others. At York, 111., on the Wabash river, three persons were killed and thirty injured. At Duquern, ilL, many houses wereb lown donwn cn the outskirts of the town and four persons were injured. Twenty-one persons dead, the vil- j iage devastated and several thousand acres of growing crops ruined, is the sum total of the havoc wrought by the '> cloudbursts that descended on Gradyville, and vicinity Friday night. ,A11 the dead are residents of Grady- , ville, and although reports are meager, owing to the remoteness of the place and the prostration of telephone and telegraph wires, it is believed that no further fatalities will be reported from the surrounding country. The disaster was due to the erratic behavior of Big Creek, ordinarily a small stream, but which was already swollen by recent rains. When the cloudburst precipitated three inched of raip in an hour on Gradyvilie and vicinity, the greek ieaped from its bed and took a new course with the impetuosity of a tidal wave. The inhabitants of Gradyvilie had no warning and nearly all were abed when the foaming waters struck the place, carrying away six larger residences, a mill and a number of smaller houses. Nearly all the victims were drowned, but four were crushed by the collapse of their dwellings when the torrent struck them. As soon as the news of the disaster reached Columbia, Ky., the nearest town of any size, several hundred cit-' izens departed at once for the scene with wrecking appliances, food and clothing, all the physicians available \ ^pcompanying them. They found the residents of the devas:ated village dazed and helpless, but by nightfall all the relief possible had been afforded. Several persons had been injured, but it is stated that none of these will die. ? JIM CROW QUESTION UP. Case of Negro Woman Heard by Interstate Commission. f Whether railroads have the right, under the law, to provide separate cars for white and colored passengers in interstate traffic practically is the question which was argued Saturday before the interstate commerce commission. The case was that of Georgia Edwards, a negro woman, against the Is'ashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Uailway company .operating the Western and Atlantic railroad. The complainant alleged that on August 31, 1306, she purchased a first class passenger ticket from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Dalton, Ga., and was compelled by . the defendant company to ride in an inferior coach; popularly known as a jim crow car, although on the same train white passengers were permitted to ride in a first class coach. She maintained that she was discriminated against. She seeks reparaiory uamaacs and a construction of the law. STREET CAR TURNS TURTLE. * Two Passengers Killed Outright and Fifteen Others Badly Hurt. Two passengers, a man and a wo- j man, were almost instantly killed and fifteen, others were more or less seriously injured Sunday when a city bound car on the Los Angeles railway jumped the track while rounding a sharp curve at Colorado and Center streets and turned over. AFTER SQUANDERING FORTUNE Mining Broker Decided to End His ! Earthly Existence. Having exhausted a fortune of I 000 which he inherited from his sis- j ter, a victim of the Windsor hotel fire I in New York, Richard .M. Bourne, clubman and mining broker at Salt Luko v^ity, v.ro.e an open avttcr to tne world, recounting his folly, and took his own life by drowning. ' ' i ' ri: - 1st : ' . - t'as-a*-. * H.-r; . NO TAR AND FEATHERS J i Await Forakcr Should He Elect to ; Visit Brownsville?Assurance Giv- 1 en and His Fear Allayed. A Washington special says: Senator Foraker was given assurance on j Wednesday that it would be safe for j him to visit Brownsville regardless of j his efforts to prove that negro sol-1 diers were not guiky of shooting up ' the town. At the conclusion of the j testimony of Lcuis (Jowaa, of Browns- j ville, who was a witness before the } senate committee on military affairs, Cowan said he had been quoted in I special dispatches from St. Louis as I saying that if Senator Foraker wen: to Brownsville he would be tarred and feathered. Cowan denied that he had made any such remark. "Then you think it would be per- j fectly safe for me to go there?" asked Senator Foraker. "Oh, yes, sir," said Cowan. "i greatly appreciate this assurance," said Foraker. The senator then referred to another special dispatch, saying that Cowan, on his way to Washington, compelled a negro porter to make up a berth in a Pullman car by threatening to j shoot him. Cowan also denied the { truthfulness of this story. Senator Foraker told Cowan that he j had seen the stories, but thought so j little about them that he had forgotten i them. At the afternoon session of the com- j inictee Cowan was examined closely i concerning ammunition he purchased | the day of the shooting, but this pur* j chase was not connected in any way j with the affray. He testified that he saw the flashes j of shots from company 9 barracks as he stood in front of a saloon on Elizabe.h street, but he did not see any negro soldiers. Bernard Kowalski - testified that he attended a party at Cowan's house on the night of the shooting and as he sat in a window facing the alley some negro soldiers passed. The witness said that one of the negroes remarked that the people in the house were having a good time, but would not be in half an hour. R. B. Creager, United States commissioner at Brownsville, was examined concerning the investigation by citizens of the shooting. CANNON'S SPEECH SUPPRESSED. "Uncle Joe's" Remarks at Banquet Were in Defense of the South. Stating that it got its information from a prominent Lexington man, who was present, the Lexington, X. C., Dispatch prints a story about Speaker Cannon's recent speech at the banquet at Guilford college, which, it says, has not been published by any paper, and in which it says Speaker Cannon made a sensational talk,. so ultra-southern that his private secretary secured promises from newspaper men who were present not to print the speech at all. It is said that Mr. Cannon openly declared that the south was handling the negro question like it ought to be handled. He said that only the south ?tV?r\ inc? OTlrl Ante f era peupie nuu>> mc aUU the problem and his sympathies were with them. Without calling the constitutional amendment by name, he praised such a measure, throwing restrictions, as it does, around the ballot box. I: is further said that he spoke strongly for state's rights. His hearers were amazed and his friends alarmed, for there was no telling how much damage he might do up north among the negroes, should such a tale leak out. Accordingly it was suppressed and the Lexington man expressed deep surprise that the story was not handled while hot and fresh. COLD LEAD FOR TWELVE. , ! Would-Be Assassins of Guatemalan President Sentenced to Death. According to a telegram received in Mexico City twelve of the nineteen men condemned to oeath by courtmartial proceedings beqause of an alleged attempt on the life of Pres. ident Cabrera of Guatemala, will be fveented Eleven of these men are Guatemalans. One of the Mexicans accused, Jose Mendoza, was exonerated. The other Mexican implicated, Nazaro Mendoza, was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment. Two of the Italians charged with complicity were each sentenced to fif:een years imprisonment. One of the other foreigners, a Spaniard, will be executed. The dispatch characterizes the condemned men as honorable and inno- | cent victims. I FORTY YEARS M. KING. Ruler of Hungary Celebrates by Decreeing Far-Reaching Amnesty. Emperor Francis Joseph, in celebration of the fortieth anniversary of his coronation as king of Hungary, June S, 1S67, decreed far-reaching amnesty, especially for persons sent up for lese majeste. Budapest was gaily decorated and the day was observed as a general holiday. FOR LOWER RATES Railroad Commissioners of Georgia Finally Decide. FLAT FIGURES ADOPTED Barring Injunctions, Etc., by Roads, Passengers in Empire State of the South Will Be Riding C!iean?r Af *?>r O The Georgia railroad commission, Friday, finally adopted its much-talked-of order reducing the passenger rates in Georgia. The decision, as a whole, was the decision of Commissioners H. W. Hill, chairman, and 0. B. Stevens, Commissioner Joseph M. Brown dissenting from that portion of it which put the railroads named in the 2-cent and 2 1-4cent classes. His opinion was that these roads should have been put on the same basis as the others named. ! To the rest of the decision, however, j he gave his hearty approval. There appears to be no doubt from the comment that the commission has given the people just what they wanted. The reductions are material and at the same time are not too severe upon the railroads, though there seems to be little doubt that they will j be contested in the courts. The commission reclassifies the fol- | tnwiiis' marts iinrt nrnmnlatpp^ the I following ra:es for ea h of said roads I to become eifective on and after Sep- j tember 2, 1907, to-wit: The following lines are placed in j passenger class A, and will be allowed j to charge as fall fare for the trans- i pcrta;ion of passengers between points ! in this state, 2 cents per mile: Class A?Atlanta and West Point Railroad company, Western and Atlantic railroad. Subject to the foregoing the following lines are placed in class B, 2 1-4 cents per mile: Class B?Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company, Georgia Railroad company, Charleston and Western Caro- i lina Railway company. Subject to the foregoing the follow- | ing lines are placed in class C, 2 1-2 cents per mile: Class C?Alabama Great Southern Railroad company, Central of Georgia Railway company, Georgia Southern and Florida Railway company, Seaboard Air Line Railway company, Southern Railway company. Subject to the foregoing the following lines are placed in class D, 3 cents per mile: Class D?Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad company, Albany and Northern Railway company, Augusta and Florida Railway ^company, Augusta Southern Railroad company, Chattanooga Southern Railroad company, Douglas, Augusta and Gulf Railroad company Louisville and Nash ville Railroad company, Macon and Birmingham Railway companj', Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad company, Millen and Southwestern Railroad company, Milltown ^ir Line, Ocilla and Valdosta Railroad company, Dublin and Southwestern Railroad company, Flint River and Gulf Railroad company, Flint River and Northeastern Railroad company, Gainesville Midland Railway company, Garbutt and Donovan Short Line railroad, Georgia, Florida and Alabama Rail- I way company, Georgia Northern Railway company, Hawkinsville and Florida Southern railway, Register and Glennville Railway company, Savannah and S;atesboro Railway company, South Georgia Railway company, Talbotton Railroad company, Union Point and White Plains Railroad company, Valdosta Southern Railway company, Wadley Southern Railway company, Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad company. Subject to the foregoing the following lines are placed in class E, 4 cents per mile: Class E?Fitzgerald, Ocmulgee and Red Bluff Railway company, Georgia Granite Railroad company, Hartweil Railway company, Sylvania and Girard Railroad company. Special Group?The Georgia Coast * r>* - * ? A m i In AY. ana jrieamom, *t ucms yci wu>,, | cept between Glennville and Ludowii ci; Floviila and Indian Springs rail' way, Lexington Terminal railroad, i Smithsonia and Dunlap, and the SanI > j dersviile railroad allowed a minimum charge of 23 cents; Tallulah Falls ' Railway company, 3 1-4 cents per mile; Louisville and Wad ley Railroad company, 4 1-2 cents per.mile. CHARLOTTESVILLE OUSTS BOOZE i Prohibitionists Win by Small Majority in Strenuous Election. \ The city of Charlottesville, \ a., has gono "dry" by forty majority, after one of the warmest fights, political or social, ever fought in that burg. Ministers stood in the rain at the polls throughout the day and the church bells were rung every hour. "j. j> ] JAPANESE WRATHY i Indignation Over Acts of 'Frisco IVlob Won't Down. REPARATION DEMANDED Punishment of Guilty and Pay for Damage Expected by Tckio Officials?Popular Feeling Reaches a High Pitch. The leading papers in Tokio, Japan, J whose opinions are worth quoting, are j silent on the question of demanding l an indemnity for the so-called bom; bardment of Japanese establishments | in San Francisco. Reparation for the damage inflicted and punishment for the culprits is expected and it is believed that the government is taking proper steps in the matter. Though the Tokio public is irritated at the tardiness displayed in effecting a solution of the difficulty, opinion has not yet reached the stage of making an appeal to hostile demonstration in any form. It is true, however, that popular indignation has reached a degree never before witnessed in the hisi lory of Japan's relations with the United States, it is thought by influential Japanese- that the quicker the facts regarding the negotiations now on in Tokio and in Washington arc* published the better it will be for all concerned, as a stage has now been reached when it may prove dangerous to keep the people in suspense i or ignorance of what is being done. The Hochi. which is supporting Count Okuma in his position on the American question, publishes the following': "The San Francisco outrages are worse than the murder of a missioni ary in China, which resulted in. the occupation of Kiou Chou. "Who would blame an appeal to the last measure if au impotency to pro j tect treaty rignts is pruveav "We hope, however, that Ambassador Acki will be firm enougn to make the Washington government take measures to mete out justice to the Japauese." GOULD ROT IS AIRED. , First Hearing Given in Salacious Divorce Suit in New York. The case of Mrs. Howard Gould,whohas instituted suit for a separation from her husband was given its public hearing in court at New York Thursday. The occasion was the hearing of argument on motion of counsel for Mr. Gould to strike out certain allegations in Mrs. Gould's complaint. The grounds on which Mrs. Gould is suing her husband, as shown by parts of the complaint read by counsel for Mr. Gould are, first; abandonment of Mrs. Gould by her husband; second, the allegation that the habits and conduct of Mr. Gould are such that it was improper for his wife to live with him; third, that since September last he has neglected his wife and refused to provide for her except that he paid for her support at a New York hotel since <aat time; and, fnnrt-h that .Gould has treated his wife with extreme cruelty, employed spies to harass her, caused her mail to be opened; had relations with women of bad character, and employed an exconvict and several New *ork detectives to procure improper evidence against Mrs. Gould. WOLF TRAP HOLDS A BURGLAR. South Dakota Meat Market Man Outwits Trio of Robbers. . His place having been burglarized three times in one week, the proprietor of a meat market at Mitchell, S. D., placed four wo:f traps near his i shop. Waiter Vandenhurg, aged 11, j sprung one of the traps, catching his I fingers. Later he confessed, implicaci ing another boy and a man. MISSISSIPPI COTTON CROP. Bulletin Shows Condition of June 3, of Fifty-Nir.e Per Cent. Commissioner of Agriculture Blakeslee of Mississippi has just given ! nnt n bulletin showing crop condi I VWV Vfc ^ J tion on June 3, and estimating the average condition of the cotton on that date at 59 per cent, against, the government estimate of Go per cent. The difference is attributed to the considerable bad weather between May 31 and June 3, the dates on which the i data was compiled. i __________ PICKED UP IN PIECES. Recklesb Dago Falls from Balloon High in the Clouds. | As a balloon ascended from the gas works at Barcelona, Spain, Frii day, a glazier took hold of the cord i and evidently wanted to make the ascent with the aeronauts. The balloon ascended rapidly to a height of 1.0C0 feet, when the man lost his grip and fell to the ground. He was picked up in pieces by some i peasants. N OLIVER SIGNS CONTRACT! For Building New Railroad from Sa- | vannah to Chattanooga at Cost Approximating $12,0C0,G00. The William J. Oliver company of j Knoxville, Tenn., the largest railroad i contracting firm in the south, Friday, i i signed the contract to build and con- I struct a railroad from Savannah, Ga., { to Chattanooga, Tenn., with a cut-off ! to Augusta, Ga. The total distance of the road will i be 420 mile3, and it will be known j as the Savannah, Augusta and North- j ern railway, running from Savannah ! tn Chattanooga. Work will begin at ! once on the construction of the new j line. j William J. Oliver, when asked about I the matter, stated to the representa-^ tive of the press that he had signed J the contract. The cost of construction j is estimated at more than $12,000,000, j which includes the building of all the | bridges and small depots on the line, i The new road will follow the Savannah river and its tributaries on the south side to the Blue Ridge mountains, and then into Chattanooga, j Mr. Oliver is the best known rail- j road contractor in the south, and has i for some time been doing all the work j on the Southern railway. His head-. quarters and large manufacturing J plant is located in Knoxville, and j within a short time he will organize j j his force and begin work on this new ; line that will open up an unaevelop- ! ed section from a railroad standpoint | and give Chattanooga a direct line to i the sea. ; . I When asked when he would begin ! work, Mr. Oliver said: "I have just i signed a contract for the construction j of the road. Within the next few days j I will place a large force on the line j { and begin work." STRIKERS GIVE UP FIGHT. r.oncedo That Railway Company Has j Best of the Argument. The Birmingham Union of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, practically gave up the fight 011 Thursday afternoon against the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company. A statement was issued calling upon union men to refrain no longer from ridmg the street cars and using gas and electricity and thanking them for j the support given during the strike, j The statement recites vhat it is re- i garded as useless to continue the boycott and the members of the committee ask financial assistance from brother unions until they can succeed in getting work elsewhere. Ben Commons, the man who organ- 1 ized the local union and who has been j leading the fight, rode to the baseball j park Thursday afternoon on an elec- j trie car. - ; -I? i MURDER CHARGED TO DOCTOR, i I Poisoning Alleged in Order to Make I V/ay for Wedding Victim's Wife. j At Henderson, N. C., Friday, Dr. D. j S. Rowland was formally charged with j the murder by poison of Charles R. ; Strange of the Seaboard Air Line, : and a warrant issues against bim. Rowland is alleged to have poison- j ed Strange about two months ago, j when he was called to attend him. J Within six weeks Rowland and Mrs. j Strange went to Norfolk, where they { were married. I ) KNOX IN RECEPTIVE MOOD. I Pennsylvania Senator Willing to Be \ Candidate for Presidency. United States Senator Knox of 1 Pennsylvania has announced his will- \ ingness to become a candidate for the I presidency An 190S, should the re-'J publican party see St to nominate | him-. Senator Knox's position was ; J made known in expressing his appre- j ciation of the action of the Pennsylva- j, nia republican state convention, which j endorsed him as a candidate for that i office. i SUICIDE RECORDS BROKEN. j | Chicago and Cook County Shows Long j List for Month of May. | Chicago's suicide record was broken in May when 55 persons in the ' city ended their lives. In Cook coun- j ty there were 199 cases of self-de- ; j straction up to June 8, and the ef- j j feet of the weather is to be seen in i I the increasing scale. ? The eifect on all sorts of crime \ J also was manifest. In the first five j months of the year there were 75 j murders, 22'of which were committed in May. * j i FOR ILLEGAL REGISTRATION. j ?Many Warrants Issued and Arrests Being Made in Valdosta, Ga. i The prohibition campaign in J Lowndes county, Georgia, took a sen- | j sational turn Wednesday, when be-1 I tween seventy-five and one hundred j warrants were sworn out by prohibi- : I tionists against an:is, whom, it is al- ; leged, had registered illegally. Llcst | of the warrants were against negroes ; and a number of them were arrested. -yyffaa TTRAIL OF BLOOD' Was Left By Orchard, Star | Witness Against Haywood. :|g ASTOUNDING STORY TOLD | Self-Confessed Multi-Murderer Makes }'? Revelations on Stand That Appall Great Crowd in Boise Courtroom. ( Alfred Korseley, alias Harry Orch? r*p ard, the actual assassin of Frank Steo* -J, nenberg, went on the stand ii* the dietrict court at Boise, Idaho, Wednea- J| ?Si.? : ? u untune n aay a wnuess agaiusu rviiiiam u. wood, and made public contessiofL of ^ a long chain of brutal, revolting-v|| crimes, done, he said, at the' inspirar ^ tion and for the pay of the leader* of the Western Federation of Miner*. .JS The promise by the special proav^S ecutors for the, state that they would ||j by later proof and connection ,legitl- -We matize his testimony opened the way 7 JS like a floodgate to the whole diaboIi- ^lB cal story, and throughout the entire day Orchard went on from crime re? .^aj cital to crime recital, each succeed- :? ing one seemingly mbre revolting thaat|?| those that had come before: Orchard confessed that, as a roeja-^Sg ber of the mob, that wrecked th? Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill, in the Coeur d'Alene, he lighted one of the fuses that carried fire to the giant explosives; confessed that he set the death trap in the Vindicator mine, at -f|l Cripple Creek, that blew out the Itres^B of Superintendent McCormick and ; Foreman Beck; confessed that cause he had not been paid for his wj first attempt at violence in the Via?-|ji^ dicator mine, he had been treacherous 3? to his associates by warning the agers of the Florence and Cripple ; Creek railway that there was a plot-M ,! to blow up their trains; confessed tha&lg he cruelly fired three charges of buck-vpl shot into the body of Detective LyteJS ^ Gregory t o! Denver, killing him stantly; confessed that for days he^gH stalked Governor Peabody about ' } ver waiting a chance to kill him; fessed that he and Steve Adams, dls^lj * charged the mine under the depot at.-W Independence that instantly killeJ^H fourteen men and confessed that fail- .' ing in an attempt to poison Fre^^H Bradley of San Francisco he blew himt1S| and his house up with^ a bomb. ^ And he has yet more brutal crlmdTCjX to tell that will bring his bloody citm ] reer down to its end at CaldwelL^ji where, with a great bomb, he killed IjjjH Governor Steunenberg. Orchard rq^H tained control of himself almost from - ^ the moment he took the s:and, and if he suffered he did not show it. seemed at first to lose a little of physical control, for he walked t steadily as he neared the stand and reached in an indefinite way for the jB arm of the chair. He had trouble In --'B * - ^gE finding his voice for a few minutea>)\ bu: only a few moments. He quickly >Js steadied himself and was soon talk-?J * ing in the soft, easy tones that char?'<|| acterize his speech. vljH Orchard was on the stand when ad- ;|8 journment for the day was taken. Five f|B witnesses, who at various times prior & to the Steunenberg murder" traced JiB Horseley and Jack Simpkins, and rur-f^ ther fixed their movements by i&enU* fying hotel registers, where tney signed their names, consumed the first hour of the morning session. "|aB FIFTY-SEVEN WERE INJURED Plunge of Southern Passenger Off a 15Foot Embankment. ftninc afr a orvaa^ r\9 hofmoiin 'CB and thirty mile*; and hour, Southern 'i|S passenger train No. 2, leaving Nash- j ville, Tenn., at 10:30 a. m., plunged off a 15-foot embankment at- Blank Branch, near Lebanon, thirty-three-SIS miles east of Nashville, shortly after .3 11 o'clock Wednesday morning, injur- |ja ing some fifty-seven people^ out of a list of sixty od board. CONSPIRACY CHARGED JUDGES. <|| Sensational Affidavit Lands Secretary yg of Oil Company in Jail. -_*|? Judge Hook of the United State? 41 circuit court at Leavenworth. Kansas, "*1 Wednesday sentenced H. H. "Tucker, .'Jf Jr., the indicted secretary of the Un- | cle Sam Oil company, to serve three months in jail for contempt of court, the contempt being a sensational affidavit filed by Tucker, alleging a conspiracy between federal Judges Pol- || lock, McPherson and Phillips and the Standard Oil company to drive the - | Ui-cle Sam company out of business. -j ness. y*4 TRAIN MANGLES TWO BOYS. / 'M Unfortunate Victims Drove Upon ^ Crossing in Front of Engine. As the Ocilla and Valdosia train. 'M was crossing Central avenue at Fitz-' 1 gerald, Ga., Saturday, it ran into a one-horse wagon containing two small ?? boys, Jud and John Cook, aged nine ^*1 and eleven. The boys and horse were ,M horribly mangled and killed. The coroner's jury rendered a vei* diet of accidental, death and attached '-jig no blame to the railroad. ... .