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A FRIGIITFULPANIC Eight Lives Lost in a Philadelphia Cigar Factory. OCCURRED AMONG GIRL WORKERS Caused By Accident to Deaf and Dumb Elevator Boy- Somebody Cried "Fire." Philadelphia, Special.-An unfortu nate accident to a deaf and dumb boy, Isador Baccus, was directly responsible for the death of eight girls and young - woman, the fatal injury of three others and the serious injury of more than two score of girls employed in the cigar factory of Harburger, Homan & Co., a branch of the American Tobacco Com pany, located at Tenth street and Washington avenue. The dead are: Mary Geneva, aged 15; Helen Tilini, aged .2; Elizabeth Tartine, aged 12; -_nnie Rosschneider, aged 18; LouSa DeSepi, aged 16; Ida Green, aged 18; Annie Ford, aged 13; unidentified woman, about 25 years of age, whose body is at the morgue. Fa tally Injured; Mary Mesine, injured internally, skull fractured; Josephine O'Ronco, injured internally; unidenti fled wc-man, fractured skull, uncon scious. The injuries of the others con sist mainly of bruses about the body and fractured limbs. The building in which the disaster occurred is a five-story brick structure and covers an entire block. Twelve hundred people were at work at the time, 90 per cent. of whom were girls whose ages range from 12 years up ward. The trouble began on the fourth floor of the structure. Baccus, who was jan itor of the building, started for, the fifth fioo*' for a ball of twine. The el evator was at the top of the shaft and Baccus pulled the rope to bring it down. He opened the door leading to the shaft and leaned forward to see where the carriage was. As he did so the elevator which was descending slowly struck him across the back of the neck, pinioning his head betweer the elevator and the floor. A stock boy released Baccus and cried for help. The foreman rushed from the building to call an ambulance and immediately there was a panic among the employes. Some of the younger girls faited while others not being able to control their feelings cried fire. Instantly there was a mad rush for the stairway leading into Tenth street. The girls rushed down the narrow staircase until they reached a bend in the exit between the second and third floors. In their eager ness to escape the frightened leaders fell. Others immediately following tripped oved the struggling mass of humanity and in less than a minute - there were hundreds of children and you~ng *omen struggling In 'the pas sageway. The shrieks and screams o1 the terre-stricken girls could be heard for a block or more. During the excite mnen an alarm of fire was turned in but before the engines could reach the scene several of the ocenipants of the building had rushed to the windows and jumped to the street, a distance of ovei- 50 feet. Helen Tolini, one of those to jump; was almost instantly killed. When the firemen and policemen ar rived every effort was made to quiet the terrorized girls. The firemen rush ed up the stairway and begged the girls to be calm, telling them that there was absolutely no danger, but the sight of the firemen seemed only to add fuel to the flames. While the policemen andi firemen were endeavoring to quiet the girls on the~ stairway, ladders we being run up on the outside of the~ buildeing and the employes who had clamored out onto the fire escapes and window ledges were quickly taken tc the street. After a few minutes the n.en were able to check the awful crush on the stairway and then began tbe work of rescuing those who had been trampled and crushed between the sec ond and third floors. A call for ambu lances had been turned in and as quick ly as the dead and injured were carried from the building they were hurried to hospitals. The number of ambulanced was entirely inadequate and patrol wagons were brought into use 'o carry the victims away. Agricultural Appropriation. Was' ington, Special.-The House Wednesday passed the agricultural ap propriation bill, the last but two regu lar supply measures. By the terms of a special rule adopted before the Dis trict bill was taken up it will be In or der to attach a rider to It to make operative the existing personal tax law of the District, which has been a dead letter for 24) years. Chairman Cannon estimated that there was $100,. 000,000 of untaxed personal property in Washington. The Goldfogle resolutioa -galling upon the Secretary of State for information as to whether American citizens of Jewish faith were exclude4 f-om Russia, was adopted. Senator Money Suffering. Washington, Special.-Senator Mon ey, of Mississippi, who suffered a sev "ere shock as a result, of his difficulty with a street car conductor, last week, has been confined to his apartments for several days past. It is doutdu whether he will be able to appear in court when the charge-s growing out of the affair arc to be heard. Americans Sti!l in Prison. Rome. By Cable.-The officers of the United States cruiser Chicago, who were arrested at Venice. remKa in prison there. An application for the-ir discharge has been rejected. The Ital, Ian law does not all:rw the court ti g:rant pardon in cascs of assault. The newspapers mention the casts of the lynched Italians in the United Statzs. It is considered probable. however, that the prisoners will be released by order of the King. June 1. the date of the .ete of the onstitution. IN CONGRESS. Detailed Doings of Our National Law makers. HOUSE. One hundred and third Day-Under aa special order, which allowed three hours debate but cut off all opportunity of amendment the House passed an emnibus public building bill which will distribute $17,405,450 among 174 cities. As the bill covers into the Treasury $1,585,000 the total amount carried by the bill is reduced to that extent. The bill provides for 77 new building and sites, six buildings on sites already purchased, seventeen buildings on do nated sites, and 58 increases in appro priation for buildings already author ized. It also provides for the purchase of 16 sites. The majority for the bill was so overwhelming that only nine members backed a demand for the ayes and noes on the passage of the bill. There was some criticism of the method by which it was proposed to pass the bill without opportunity for amendment, which Mr. Mercer, ch.ir man of the committee, answered by stating that if the bill had been subject to amendment the appropriations car ried by it would have increased to $60, 000,000. Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, op posed the adoption of the special or der. saying this method of legislation could not be justified by any course of reasoning. Among those who spoke on the bill were Messrs. Bartlett. of Geor gia, and Small, of North Carolina. SENATE. One hundred and third Day.-A spirited and at times heated discussion of the Philippine situation occurred in the Senate. It removed around the or der alleged to have been Issued by Gen eral Jacob A. Smith4o make the island of Samar a howling wilderness and to kill all male inhabitants over the age of ten years. The debate took a wide range, however, and many points were discussed. When the Philippine bill was laid be fore the Senate no Senator was pre pared to deliver a set speech upon it. Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, said he felt compelled to press it for considera tion. His remarks drew the fire of Mr. Teler, of Colorado, who criticised the Republicans for not participating in the discussion. This precipitated the debate and for more than two hours it continued. During Mr. Teller's remarks Mr. Till man, of South Carolina, said it was supposed that the government would be very polite to the warlike dattos of Mindanao and observed that consider ation was shown Mohammedans of that island, while cruel treatment was me ted out to the Christians of Samar. Discussing the alleged order of Gen eral Smith, Mr. Teller said he under stood that General Smith had tried to justify his order by what Is known as the "Tom Ewing order." During the civil war by it~ order thq population ed and their property destroyed. He was proceeding to characterize the ac tion of the Amarican army In the Phil Ippies as most cruel * and barbarous when he was Interrupted by Mr. Spoon er, of Wisconsin, with the inquiry: "Does the Senator not remember Fort Pillow?" "What does the Senator mean by his reference to Fort Pillow?" Inquired Mr. Carmack, of Tennessee. "I had in mind," replied Mr. Spooner, "what has been considered a massacre of colored troops there." Mr. Carmack Insisted with some heat that there was no massacre of troops or killing of prisoners at Fort Pillow. Mr. Teller was continuing his re marks about General Smith's order when he was interrupted by Mr. Fair banks. "I do not undestand," said he, "that the government approves of Gen eral Smith's alleged order. It has or deed a court-martial to try General Smith." Mr. Teller offered an amendment to the bill providing for a commission to be appointed by the President and to consist of not less than seven or mor. than fifteen persons to proceed to the Philippines and try to secure a lasting peace between the United States and the Philipinos, the United States to pay the commIssioners salaries of $10,000 a year each and all expenses. Mr. Teler continued his discussion of General Smith's order, which be said had shocked the public mind In this country, regardless of party affilia tions. He said he would despair of our government if the people should not repudiate such an order. "If," said he, "It be true that he Issued stich an order I believe the officer ought to be dis missed from the servise." He said lhe would despise himself if he did not enter his protest against such inhu manity as was evidenced by the order of General Smith. "In the records of Bin tha ngra wars since the Middle Ages," he said, "you cannot find such a disgraceful and wicked order as that issued by General Bell or by General Smith." Mr. Lodge said nothing was known here of General Smith's order until it was pleaded by Major Waller as a de fense for his action in Samar. As soon as Wallar had pleaded that order as his defense the President himself had di rected General Smith be court-martial ed He said ?e did not know whether the order of General Smith was verbal or written. Mr. Carmack, of Tennessee, insisted that the evidence indicated that orders of a very extreme character issued in the Philippines were being suppressed, not, he believed, by the War Depart ment. but by the military authorities in the Philippines. In calling attention to the report of the secretar'y of Batangas province that there had been so great mortality in the province as to reduce the popula tion from 300.000 to about 200,000, the mortality being due to disease, M.r. Tilman inquired whether the Philip ine committee had investigated that matter. When informed that it had not he exclaimed: "Well-, how long are we going to hold on to this bag of cats? What benefit is it to the American .?eo ie to pursue this infamous policy?" As the running colloquy continued, Mr Censnn asked Mr. Lo:e ifh endorsed the order issued by General Bell. "No, replied Mr. Lodge. "I do not endorse cruelty in warfare. General Smith's order is one which every Amer ican should regret. On the surface those orders seem to me to be revolt ing." In explaining-Ve great mortality among the inhabitants of Batangas, Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, expressed the belief that the disease among the natives had been caused by the laying waste of the province by war. Crops had been de stroyed and the inhabitants had been confronted almost by a condition of famine. Captain Dropped Dead. Berlin, By Cable.-Captain A. Albers, of the Hamburg-American steamer Deutschland, fell dead of heart-failure in the chart house of his vessel as she was approaching the port of Cuxhaven. He expired in the i arms of his first officer, who caught him as he fell. The long hours spent by Capt. Albers, on the bridge of the vessel after the loss of her rudder at sea, which occurred before the Deutschland reached Plymouth, and during the passage of the North Sea, probably hastened the captain's col lapse. Fatal Duel in Georgia. ( Wacross, Ga., Special.-Dr. r. M. Spence has received information that his cousin, James Spence, was killed in am impromptu duel at Pinebloom with a log contractor named Smith. I The two men had quarrelled some time ago. This morning they met at Pine bloom and each pulled a revolver and began shooting. Young Spence was shot in the neck and died almost in stantly. Smith received one bullet through the stomach and is said to be dying Spence was prominently con nected in this State. Smith is a na tive of North Carolina and is connec- I led with a large lumber company. i Information Wanted. Washington, Special. - Representa tive Hay, of 1irginia, introduced a res olution dtccting the Secretary of War to inform the House as to the cost of the army in the Philippines since May I 1, 1898; also the cost of maintaining the civil and military government in the island; the cost Incidental to the insular service of the War Department and other items of cost connected with the occupation and possession of the Philippines by the United States. Editor Britt Dead. Chicago, Special.-Adrian Britt, who I it is said, was editor of the Jackson ville, Fla., Union in 1876, is dead here, and will be buried in the Potter's field, unless his friends are heard from. He I died Tuesday and his body was taken i tp the morgue and labelled "unknown." ] His identity was liarned by detectives I working on the postoffice robbery case. Britt had served two terms in thefpen- 1 itentiary for robbing mail bo He was one timea ning-.nwwewditoM Afew character. THE NATIONAL CAME. The baseball season is in its first throes. Delehanty has been released by the New York Club. Pitcher Dad Clarke has re-signed with Minneapolis. Second Baseman John Morrissey hasI signed with Minneapolis. Collins, of Boston, says he will carry only fifteen men this season. Pitcher Potts and Catcher Ludwig have drawn their releases from Toledo. Harry F. Mace, of Washington, has been appointed a Southern League um pire. The latest addition to the Cincinnati1 twirling b)and is Ira Brown, a recruit1 from the Northwest. Joe McGinnity has worked harder than any,.of the Orioles, and is said to1 be in the best of condition. Cleveland will retain five pitchers.< They will probably be Moore, Wright, Joss. Taylor and Vasbinder. Tinker, the Chicago shortstop, has never played in that position before Third base is his regular position. Manager Selee, of the Bostons, thinks the Pat. Donovan has picked up two1 good outfielders in Smoot and Barclay. Pittsburg has the only infield in the National League that has worked to gether, and that will be a star feature of Pittsburg's pennant march. The first triple play of the season was made in a game between the Northwestern University and St Vin cent College teams at Evanston, Ill. There are four promising freshmen on the Yale 'Varsity team-Cote, Mul-4 ler, Green and Hazenwinkle. The last named is a first baseman, and said to be a "find." The National League captains this year are: Boston. Long; Brooklyn, Keeler; New York, Doyle; Philadel phia, Thomas; Pittsburg, Clarke; Chii ago, Lowe; Cincinnati, Beckley; St. Louis, Donovan. -- Guns of the Mikasa. The trials of the Improved Elswick gun mountings for the barbette guns of the Japanese nattieship Mikasa seem to prove that they are a long way in advance of anything yet in use in our navy, says the St. James Ga sette. From the after barbette, firing unaimed shots, the gun was on one occasion loaded and fired in thirty sec onds on the best previous performance. But the most remarkable result was achieved by the forward barbette, which, firing aimed rounds from openi gun, got off three shots in a net period of ninety-seven seconds, or at an av erage rate of one rounu in thirty-three and one-third seconds. As, however. tne gun's crew was merely a scratch lot, it is possile that the Mikasa will beat this performance in the future. She will, at any rate, approach the rate of two rounds per gun per min ute. which means that from her four 12-inch guns alone she will be able to hurl three tons of steel at an opponent witnin that time. &RP ON ACCOUNTS. :verybody Should Review the Day's Work at Close. ACII DAY SIIORTENS LIFE. (Ind Words, Charity and ;leasant Smiles Should Be Bestowed If You Want Happiness. A good merchant will count his noney and balance his cash at the lose of every day. It is a good plan 'or everybody to review the day's work tnd count up the good of it and the >ad of it. Give the Lord credit for all he blessings enjoyed, not forgetting ealth and food and raiment, sunshine tnd shower, good neighbors and good ichools and liberty of conscience. 'hese are'capital stock and do not vary nuch with the passing days. But in ,very one's daily life and in our daily )usiness there is an ever changing mul itude of little things-little ?leasures nd little pains and these should be ooted up and balanced. What good Lave I done, what pleasure have I re :eived and given to others today should )e a question every night. For as the oet saith: 'Count the day lost if the descending sun sees from thy hand no worthy action done." "Lost" is a sad word-one day lost hortens life that much, but how many )eople lose almost every day. No char ty, no kind word ; or pleasant smiles 10 sympathy for the poor, but go along hrough life for themselves only, or )erhaps muttering that selfish prayer. 'Lord bles me and my wife-my son [ohn and his wife, us four and no nore." I verily believe that selfishness s the most universal sin of mankind. fow is it possible for a very rich man :o covet more when there are thous Lnds near him who live and languish n misery and want I cannot under >tad. It was a sweet lady who wrote ;he "Emigrants' Lament" and said: TI'm very lonely now, Mary, For the roc, make no new friends, 3ut a';, ti:cy love the better far The few our Father sends." These millionaires deserve little cred t for their gifts to colleges and libra -es, while the poor are starving in the 5reat cities and are penned up In gar 'ets and hovels and earning a scanty lying by working for the rich. I was -uminating about this when I read that Ar. Holderby, the consecrated minister n Atlanta, was getting up an ice fund or the poor. What a blessing that will >e to the tired toilers who can only af ord the tepid water that comes from he .ty hydrants. How refreshing to -hr heds i'Y&no comfort that the rich''en oy. Tepoor we have always with us md most of them will suffer rather han beg. Mr. Holderby is always do ng good and can balance his books ~very night and lie down to pleasent reams. Education is a good thing and re are gratified at the recent move nents of northern philanthropi t, bjut L movement to lift up the poor and give them a chance would be a mcre iessed thing than to educate them in yooks. Peter Cooper and George Pea mody have a higher seat in heaven than lockfeller and Carnegie will ever each. George Peabody built whole locks of tenement houses in London 'or the poor. The rooms were all venti tesl and supplied with pure cold water md -the windows looked out upon ~rassy lawns and flowers and shade rees. There were bath rooms attached o every tenement, and a few pretty hromos on the walls and the :ent harged was only a pittance-enough o make repairs and pay the taxes. This ~as doing more for the poor than edu ation could do. A clean shirt and a comfortable home vill lift a boy up quicker than books. t has been said that a right hungry nan can't get religion, and I reckon a lungry child can't study to do much ood. Education is not always had in he schools. It is the life work of every me. Education comes by contact, by tbsorption from others, by reading and hinking, and by experience and obser ration. Some of the greatest men in the Pnited States never had a year's chooling; and my own observation las been that not more than ten col ege boys in a hundred made good use ,f their education. They lived and died md made no sign. But for the sake of he ten we must give the ninety a ~hance. These northern gentlemen who net in Athens seem intensely in earn ist and their speeches were in good ;on and in good temper. Judge Bleck ey's speecehi was the shortest and best >f all. "We will receive it not as a harity, but as a measure of justice," and Mr. Baldwin said, "Ye", that's it, lustice," and I suppose implied that hey owed us a debt and were going to pay it. That came pretty near being an poogy. Well, just let them shell out :he money and we will dispense with :he apology. This mo'rning I had a backset. The >d mare got into my garden and tram pled around and wallowed in thrce pla tes-on my strawberry bed and on my squash bed and onion bed. Diggihg wouldn't pacify me. It didn't let my holor down. I will set that down at ne hundred on the debit side. But my laughter, who wen to Charleston and bad a two weeks' vacation from the :are of her children, returned safe and aappy and refreshed. I set that down mt one hundred to balance off the old nare's trespass on my garden. Another narried daughter, who has been sick for a month, has recovered and can now take up hcr bed and walk. She ame up to spend the day and brought her children. Put that down at two hundred. A dear sister who lives at ollege Park is coming to see us tomor row. That news is worth a credit of fty. The mail has brought good, cheer ul letters from two of the far-awa:y boys. That is worth fifty. A good neigh bo sent me some fine tomato plants; that is twenty-five; and it is worth twenty-five to look at my strawberry garden, and I look several times a day. A visiting friend said it was worth twenty-five a day to see the long trains go by with their doubt engines. I can sit on my veranda and count the cars, from forty to sixty on every train, and not strain my mind. Every evening after school is out a dozen or more children gather in my lawns under the big oak trees and play tennis and hide and seek, and romp and swing, and it is worth twenty-five to see them so happy. There are three roses in bloom this morning, the first of the spring, and that is worth ten. Then again I eead Father Kelley's memorial speech in Savannah, and it comported me to iind one man bold enough to tell the two highest officials in the nation what they had done and what he thought of them. I will put that speech and the pleasasure of reading it at one hun dred. From the window where I write I can see the workmen raising the beau tiful Corinthian caps to the tops of the tall majestic marble columns of the new court house. The building grows into beauty every day and I am proud of it even though it will cost me a lit tle more tax money, I put down the daily sight of it at-ten. Then there are my strawberry vines loaded with ripen ing fruit. I will put them down again. One of our boys wrote me that he was coming home to see us, but I must p.-omise to take him to see the straw berries more than seven times a day. Now see how the account stands with all these credits and only one discount for the old mare. Verily the lines have falen to us in pleasant places.-Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. Tell Colored Redding that with the help of the children I have whipped the fight on the potato bugs. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The city of Memphis, Tenn., has pre sented to Rear-Admiral Schley a silver service. During his pontificate Leo XIII. has received bequests which amount to $G, 000,000. King Alfonso XIII. of Spain is a sportsman. and goes shooting almost every Sunday. Sir Wilfrid Laurier is expected to re sign the Premiership of Canada on ac count of ill health. President Roosevelt has accepted membership in the Daniel Boone Riilic Club, of Muncie, Ind. Count Zeppelin, the aeronaut, has, it is said, been ruined financially by his experiments with airships. Former Governor Foster M. Voor hees, of New Jersey, and his brother, Ralph Voorhees, have jointly added $20,000 to the general fund of Rutgers College. John Morley, who is writing a life of Mr. Gladstone, has just discovered among the late Premier's effects a diary covering most of the interesting periods of his career. Father Lorenzo Perosi, an Italian composer. is refusing all invitations to go abroad and conduct his oratorios. We has no present Intention of accept-e ing any offers to leave Italy. Judge David A. De Armond, of Mis souri, has accepted an invitation .to make an address before the cadet bat talion at the Virginia Military Institute on commencement day, next June. Senator Tilman Is the only member of the upper house who has recorded in his autobiographical sketch In the Congressional Directory that he was a farmer before his election to the Sen ate. President Harris, of Amherst Col lege. points with pride to the fact that there are proportionately more college professors who are graduates of his institution than can be found among the graduates of any other college in the country. - LABOR WORLD. Three thousand union plasterers have been locked out in New York City. Robert Howard, the celebrated labor leader, of Fall River, Mass., is dead. Labor organizers are at work In Ore gon. The general conditions of labor are good. The number of trade unions in St. Joseph, Mo., has almost doubled in the past three months. The sympathetic strike of the tug fireamen has spread in Chicago to the tugboat captains and engineers. Building contractors of Youngstown, Ohio, have refused the eight-hour day, and 4000 workmen decided to strike. Powder workers in Kansas have se cured an annual contract with an in creased scale of wages and a provision for the use of a union label. Ice deliverers of Chicago are rest less and threatening a strike over grievances entertained against their employers. The Secretary of the Clerks' Nation al Union reports 531 local unions, twelve of which were added during the past month. Unions were formed in California, Ohio, Nova Scotia and Illi nois. Union organizations in East St. Louis, Il., have increased their membership over 100 per cent. during the past six months, and substantial gains in wages have been granted to many of the trades. The Bartenders' Association of Greater New York, recently- organized, has for one of its objects the disciplin ing of all members who drink behind the bar. None but men knowvn to be of abstemious habits may join the union. The State Board of Public Lands and Buildings in Nebraska has closed a three-years' contract with a broom and duster company for convict labor at the State penitentiary. The com pany will pay forty-five cents per day for tbe use of each man. London doctors have issued a pro scription against the admission of the young woman who is engaged to be married as a probationer to the train ing schools for nurses, on the ground that she only dallies with nursing un til the time comes to marry, and thus stands in the way of those women who intend to devote themselves unreserv enly to the profession. Clemson Sophomores Rebel and Ge Ho0me r TUE ENTIRE CLASS SELF-BANISHED Demanded the Re-Instatement of Ca det Thornweli, Dismissed Because of Trouble With Prof. Brackett. Spartanburg. S. C., Special.-For some time past there has been friction between the faculty of Clemson Col lege and the student body. The matter was precipitated Monday when there was a misunderstanding between Prof. Brackett, of the chemistry department, and Cadet Thornwell. On account of this the faculty held a meeting and the student was suspended. The sophomore class drew up articles demanding Thornwell's re-instatement. The fac ulty thereupon refused to take cog nizance of this action and emphatical iy replied to the effect that the student would not be allowed to return. An other class meeting was held and the entire class witLdrew as a body from the institution. A large number of the class passed through the city en route to their homes. From these your correspondent obtained the foregoing facts-the stu dents' side of the regrettable affair. The members of the other classes are in full sympathy with their self-dis missed fellow-students. One class-the seniors-has gone so far as to pass re solutions of approval and to threaten similar action to that taken by the sophomores. The other classes will likely follow suit. The trouble is the outcome of several clashes that have occurred within the history of the collee. As ,.,ae student expressed it, the fa:ulty has been fin posing on the students for a longtime. Now the fight begins and will not cease until harmony is secured. It may go so far as to demand" the board of trustees the resignatio certain pro fessors who are now ~ er the ban of the sentiments of the student body. The affair is much lamented by the people here, friends of the students and the college. It is-hoped the matter will be settled satisfactorily for all concerned. The outcome will be watch ed with interest. Charleston, S. C., Special.-Tuesday 69 of the 74 members of the sophomore class of Clemson (the State Agricultur al Coliege) on the site of Calhoun's home, quit and went home. Two of the remaining five obtained discharges and also left, and it is understood that the remaining three will leave tomorrow. The actionnof the students in leav ing was the result of the action of the' faculty in suspending Cadet> Thor well, a grandson of the great Pres' terian theologian, a few days ago fos s taking four glass test tubes chemical labratory:withoat 'he members ofth be haeteen tr actions of this kind s'nd ~ given that the next offender would be severely dealt with. TIe~3.' ulty refused the request of his~ feltow. ;.-. students that Thornwell be re-instated Y and hence the exodus of the sopho.9 mores. The student body sympathizes deeply with the rebels and loaned thenL money andi exhausted the societies' treasury to pay their railroad fares home. President Simpson, of the board of trustees, says: "It is simply ' a question as to who should run the college, the faculty or the students." L.etters From Hill1 and Bryan. New York Special.-Writing to the~ Democrats of the thirtyAfirst assembly district, who held a Jefferson celebra tion, Win. J. Bryan said in part:- "It - especially appjropriate that the prinP pIes of Jefferson should be remembere at this time, for they can be applied t* i'. every condition and will furnish a so lution of every problem that now conu fronts us." Part of a letter from David B. Hill said: "The revival of interstj~ at this time in Jeffersorian principles 3' of Democracy is very en:ouraginlg. Nov is thetimeto prepare forthefext am pagn. The Democracy Is united for - personal liberty, for home ru1e for equal taxation, for the abolition of war taxes in times of peace, for revenue re- , form, for constitutional freedom wher' ever the American flag floats and for liberty laws everywhere." Booker Washington (lets $:,0o, Tuskesgee, Ala., SpecaL-Th M Ogden party reached Tuskeegee early Tuesday and were driven to the Alabama Conference College, where they were given a reception under a huge oak on the campus. Following this they visited the Tuskeegee NC& mal and Industrial Institute, Bookerl T. Washington's school for coloreJd students. Besid--a the Ogden party there were present Governor Jeths. of Alabama; H. M~. Atkinson, of Atlanta, and President Chas. Wikkersham,. of the Atlanta and West Point Rail way. Mr. Atkinson handed Principa& Washington a check for $100 to help ~ on the work. The foredooni exCle at the institute were devoted-'t the dedication of the Carnegie library. No FurthierArtlon. Washington, Specal.-t a now be lieved that no further consideration, - will be given by the President to the subject of vetiring Li t Gen- 7 eral M'iiles so long as t .mander of the army continues his present at.' titude of reserve, and that the case ~ s wlll be allowed to remain as it is un- . less General Miles himself should do something or take some action to re. vve the recent determfinae.7 of the President. A Severe hil Storm. Birmingham, Ala., Special-This city and suburbs were visited by a( ~ terrific rain and wind storm early Tuesday evening. The temperature fell 15 degrees in as many minutt * and the rain was accorapanied by heavy fall of hail. Several shiaf stores in unprotected parts of the ~ city gave way before the wind~ -a skylights collapsed under the wfight of accumulated hail stones. 'WIre ,'. communication Is greatly impalfed in all directions.