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Bp | ^ CUBAN FACTIONS WELCOME I AMERICAN INTERVENTION U; _ ___________ Promise of Temporary Occupation Received With Enthusiasm. TAFT PROVISIONAL GOVERNOR Ly Insurgents Agree to Disarm?Cuban Flag to Stay Up?Political Prisoners Released ? Gen. Funs ton Commands United States Forces. Havana, Cuba.?With far less ostentation than accompanies the accession of a new municipal administration, the Government of Cuba was formally taken over by William H. Taft, Secretary of War of the United States, w&o, in a proclamation, couched in a kindly and diplomatic tone, indicative of the policy he would pursue, declared himself Provisional Governor of the island. Mr. Taft's announcement of the intentions of the United States is re garded as a masterpiece. It declared that as the Cuban Congress had failed to elect a successor to President Palma, whose decision to resign was irrevocable, the country was withouta government and that the United States would provisionally take charge of its affairs until its people could form constitutionally another republic. Without accusation, threat or reproach, in a few brief words he stated the necessity for the assumption of control, a determination to esf - - i ISLAND OF CUBA, OVER WHICH SUMED TEMP tablish peace, and the intention of i V> continuing the country's constitu' tional course with its own citizens up j to and after the new elections, which shall determine the future permanent . native government of the Island. No ' one was menaced-; nil were reassured. The favorable reception of the proclaim mation was universal and pronounced. No troops were landed. The Cuban flag remains flying in its accustomed place, its courts are unchanged and there is no disturbance of the usual order of things. It had been planned to land 3000 marines and jackies from the fleet in the harbor as soon its 1L was icaiucu iuai iuc v/uuau v>uugress would not meec to elect a successor to President Palma. These were to be camped in various open places in the city for its protection. But this plan was abandoned. At President Palma's request thirty marines were sent from the Newark to guard the Treasury, and this is all the force that has been landed. The sight of a large body of foreign troops occupying their city was thus V saved the Cubans, and they appreciated the fact and remained perfectly orderly. The feelings of some were ready to be hurt, but the sight of their own dags all day and the absence of a uniformed invader under the circumstances made them happy. The liberation of sixty-odd political prisoners added to the general satisv faction over the peaceful ending of an Intolerable situation. In the change not the slightest friction occurred anywhere, and if in the hearts of a few politicians wno Drougni on * the downfall <Jf the first republic there Is soreness, the great mass of the people feel only joy at the prospect of a second more completely safeguarded by their powerful friend on the north. The commission to superintend the v laying down of arms by the rebels will visit all the rebel camps throughout the island. It will also disarm the volunteer forces of the Government, leaving the Cuban forces as they existed prior to the rebellion. . The commission will be accompanied hy a disbursing officer who will pay the expenses of the return home of the rebels and thus avoid any dissatisfaction. Governor Taft received many prominent Cubans* including the Mayor and municipal officers and sugar growers and cattle breeders of h. Camaguey. The latter complained to him that anarchy was rampant in ' the Province of Puerto Principe, that 4-Vio?k Aofflo onH hnraaa horl luauj VSf tUUAl UUU UV1 WVU been stolen, and that some women had been assaulted. Captain McCoy assured them that American soldiers would be there within a week. : ' \ General Funston conferred with Air. Taft regarding the location of the camps for the first division of the American troops to be landed h here. General Funston will command all the troops in Cuba, but if i* they exceed the dimensions of a brigade an officer of higher rank will be sent from the United States. It is practically certain, however, that no such contingency wili arise, as it is apparent that the maintenance of the Provisional Government will not require a large number of troops. r? ~?f ? Burning Car's Fusillade. A carload of army ammunition, en route to Newport News and attached to a Union Pacific train, caught fire from engine sparks and was cut out or tne train at raynuuu, x>eu. rui two hours the citizens stuck to their cellars while bullets from the exploding cartridges flew in all directions. San Francisco Relief Reduced. The San Francisco Relief Corporation has reduced its running expenses for the camps $63,069 for October. About Noted People. Henry M. Neill, one of the best known cotton statisticians, is dead. Dr. Lapponi, the Pope's physician, is seriously ill witn cancer ui me stomach. A committee has been appointed in San Francisco to receive Roland Amundsen, the Arctic explorer, "s ' en he visits that city. Bishop Coleman, of Wilmington, Del., is resting ?.fter his yearly t. :.mp across ountrv. "I walked 210 miles in ten days," he says, "and that's not a bad record for a man of seventy." ' "/ % ' ' A feeling of relief la everywhere manifested over what is regarded as the end of the strife in Cuba. The Cuban Government officials and politicians were not much in evidence, but even among them expressions of satisfaction were not uncommon over the fact that a reliable Government had control of the island's affoiro PvorvhnHv appiriR inplinpd to agree that the future is much brighter than it would have been under other conditions. Implicit confidence is expressed in the good faith of the United States, and while no one is willing to predict the duration of the American occupation, the Cubans as a rule are hopeful that the soverignty of the republic will eventually be be restored to them, ARMY OF OCCUPATION. Force of 5652 Men Started For Cuba at Once. Washington, D. C.?The President, acting on the request of Secretary Taft, ordered the troops, 5652 in number, which had received "preparatory orders," to sail for Cuba. The necessary orders were immediately telegraphed to commanding officers of organizations and to staff SnoMnl trains werp in readi ness at nearly every point and these started as soon as the troops got aboard. The troops were taken by rail to Newport News, Va., the point of embarkation. The transport Sumner will carry the first organization. With the troops which are to go forward and the marines and bluejackets already in Cuba, the United States force will somewhat exceed 16,000 men, and it is hoped that this number will prove sufficient to garrison the island. Already there are 4000 sailors and 2000 marines in Cuban waters. General Franklin Bell, Chief of Staff of the army, authorized the anof '# THE UNITED STATES HAS ASQRARY CONTROL. nouncement of the composition of the first expedition, which will sail from Newport News for Cuba. This expedition will be commanded, when it reaches Cuba, by Brigadier-General Funston, now in Havana with Secretary Taft. Although the present ordered destination is Cuba, different transports may go to different Cuban ports, according to recommendations from General Fsnston. Major-General Theodore J. Wint, now commanding the Department of the Missouri, with headquarters at Omaha, has been ordered to Newport News to command all troops as they arrive. General Wint will have as a provost guard at Newport News two companies of coast artillerymen from Fort Monroe. The organizations to participate in the expedition to Cuba are the following: Fifth Infantry, Colonel Calvin D. Cowles commanding, Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y. Eleventh Infantry, Colonel Albert L. Myer commanding, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. Seventeenth Infantry, Colonel John T. Van Orsdale commanding, Fort McPherson, Ga. Twenty-seventh Infantry, Colonel William L. Pitcher commanding, Fort Sheridan, 111. Twenty-eighth Infantry, Colonel Owen J. Sweet commanding, Fort Snelling, Minn. Eleventh Cavalry, Colonel Earl D. Thomas . commanding, Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Fifteenth Cavalry, Colonel William M. Wallace commanding. Fort Ethan Allen, Vt. Fourteenth Battery Field Artillery, Captain George G. Gatley commanding, Fort Sheridan, 111. Seventeenth Battery Mountain Artillery, Captain George LeR. Irwin commanding, Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Eighteenth Battery Mountain ArHllprv f!?ntn!n M Rlakfl pom manding, Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Second Battalion Engineers, Major William C. Langfitt commanding, Washington Barracks, D. C. Company I Signal Corps, Captain George S. Gibbs, Fort Omaha, Neb. The total strength of the first expedition will comprise 5652 officers and men made up as follows: Two battalions with regimental headquarters and band, thirty-six officers and 555 enlisted men, from each regiment of infantry and cavalry, one machine gun for each platoon, twenty-one enlisted men. Each battery, five officers, 120 enlisted men. Battalion engineers, fifteen officers, 418 enlisted men. Signal company, three officers, 150 A?1ln4A>1 *> r\ w\ If Aill/tal /1or\(n?+mar\ + CU1I91CU 1UCU. xucutoai VJ-UWUVy thirty-six officers, 571 enlisted men. Brigadier-General Sharj), Chief of the Commissary, directed the immediate purchase of 171,000 rations by his agents in various parts of the country. A ration is composed of sufficient food for three meals and that which has been ordered bought will last the 5600 men of the first expedition thirty days. Preparations are being made for two shipments to follow the expedition, each large enough to feed the soldiers for a month. Thus they will be supplied Condemn Senator Bailey. A mass meeting of Democrats at Quitman, Texas, has expressed its disapproval of Senator Bailey's course in acting as counsel for a Standard Oil concern. Newsboy For Harvard. Meyer Hiller, a Boston newsboy, was named by President Eliot to be the first holder o? the scholarship In Harvard University founded by the Boston Newsboy Union. Mrs. Dowie Sues For Home. Mrs. Jane Dowie, wife of John Alexander Dowie, deposed leader of Zion City, has begun action in the Circuit Court in Muskegon, Mich., to recover the $25,000 summer home at White Lake, in that county. She deeded the house to Dowie September s. i9or?. Killed Woman Who Rejected Him. Angry because she would not marry him, William Shorts killed Miss Nannie Miller, at Bridgeport, Ohio, and shot himself, but will recover. A,'. ...... .... . 1 with food for three months. After that the commissary officers In Cuba will -provide their own food under the direction of the commanding officers in the field. General Sharp also made arrangements for the immediate shipment to Mftwnort News of 15.000 emergency. rations. These came from Kansa3 City, where they are manufactured. An emergency ration is in a sealed can, weighs but twenty ounces and has enough condensed food in it for three meals. These rations are used only In cases of great necessity and will be given to the men who go out on long hikes which might take them away from the base of supplies. The Bureau of Ordnance of the War Department, of which BrigadierGeneral Crozier is the head, has a sufficient supply of ammunition within easy reach to meet all possible demands. The transportation of troops tc various parts of the island for garrison duty will present no serious.dlf-. Acuity, for modern railroad lines now connect Havana with Santiago and J* -% TT> t - mu ~ ^1,1 U I rv V? wun finar aei xuo. me uiu mi&uways of the Spanish regime, little better than trails In many parts ol the island, have been replaced by macadamized roads between the chief cities, which will permit of rapid movements by cavalry patrols. The second occupation of Cuba begins in an orderly manner, without haste or waste, and the reins of authority laid down at the evacuation in 1902 will be taken up as if there had been nc Interval of experimenting with civil government. PRESIDENT'S HURRIED RETURN. Spends Almost Entire Day Over Dispatches Prom Havana. Oyster Bay, L. I.?President Roosevelt, who had been absent witnessing target practice of the fleet, returned to Oyster Bay on the Mayflower at 10.30 a. m., ahead of the time he was scheduled to arrive. It is understood that the Cuban situation influenced the President to hasten his return. Assistant Secretary Latta went at once to Sagamore Hill with lengthy cables from Havana. rr,t- - ^ -a Tk/T~r. D^AOOtraU A Lit; rrwiuoui auu xuio. iwuuocrvivt with Ethel, Archie and Quentin, left Sagamore Hill (or Washington at 9 o'clock a. m., arriving at the White House at 4.15 o'clock in the after* noon. The President had met his neighbors on several occasions during the summer and it was his wish that no special notice be taken of his departure. The station was roped off and the official good-bye for the village was said by a committee of citizens. The Foreign Offices of Great Britain, Germany and France approve the decision of the United States to take charge of the Cuban Government until order is restored. Conditions Which Forced Intervention When the United States, in January, 1899, assumed control of the affairs of the Island of Cuba it was bound by a specific pledge, made by Congress, as follows: * "That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intent to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction of control over said island, except for the pacification thereof, arid asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people." When, in conformity with the above pledge, the Government was transferred to the people of Cuba, May 20, 1902, the following right was reserved.by Article IIL of the Piatt amendment: "Tiat the Government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the Treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the Government of Cuba." For the reason that the island haa fallen into a state clearly within the above provisions it has become the duty of this country to play once more the part of the friend and protector of Cuba. The established Government has confessed its inability to maintain peace and order and afford due protection to life and property. President Palma's appeals to Washington for American am nave ueeu maismuu a bmio of anarchy existed and the conditions grew worse and more hopeless day by day. The President replied to Palma's appeals and the complaints and protests of property owners by sending Secretary Taft and Assistant Secretary Bacon as investigators, advisers and pacificators. The Cuban leaders failed to agree and refused to compromise. The step taken by the American peace commissioners was the only course possible. Further delay waa impossible. A dark cloud of ruin overhung the great productive industries, on which the very life of the island and the people depends. Nearly twenty thousand men in arms were living by the seizure of cattle, hogs and poultry belonging to the large planters and the small farmers. Thousands of working oxen had been slaughtered already. Thousands of peasants, who by patient toil had restored their little farms, wrecked by the last revolu-^ tion, were once again destitute. With a complete realization of the serious ness of the step and a clear apprecia tion of the disastrous results of further delay Mr. Taft and Mr. Bacon, with the full approval of President Roosevelt, pronounced the verdict. There is every reason to believe that ninety per cent, of the people of Cuba heartily indorse and approve intervention. MINISTER QUESADA RESIGNS. Envoy at Washington Was the First Appointed by Palma. Washington, D. C.?Don Gonzalo de Quesada, the Minister of Cuba here, has tendered his resignation to me .rrovisional (joverumem ui v/uua. ; It is stated that Senor Quesada has 1 not taken this step as an act of resentment or as evidence of any illfeeling toward President Roosevelt or the American Administration, The Field of Sports. British oarsmen favor the plan for the American University Cup. Revised football was given its first try-out at Cornell, and proved a revelation. Good football punters and sure catchers will be more in demand than ever this year. President Roosevelt presented his cup to the winner of the recent international vnrVit rapes. Governor Francis won the $10,000 Futurity trot at Cincinnati's Qrand Circuit meeting in straight heata* v ">*> gR i?!v,?:w;". p HAD MURDERESS . KILLS Sift WSE Lizzie Halliday, Inmate of Mattea wan, Takes Seventh Lifer ACT PROMPTED BY AFFECNUN Worn?* Knows Favorite Attendant is About to Leave Hospital and Attacks Her With Shears?Stabs Victim 200 Times. Matteawan, N. Y.?Mrs. Lizzie Halliday, upon whose head rests the guilt of slaying six men and women, added a sevehth victim to her list in the hospital for insane criminals, when she stabbed her nurse, Miss Nellie Wicks, aged twenty-four, to death. Miss Wicks had showed such tact and skill in the management of forty or fifty women patients that she was promoted to be head attendant of the women's department. Mrs. Halliday, a woman of middle age and somewhat imbecile, showed a great fondness for ner irom tne ouisei, ami me ati-euuant made her one of her most trusted patients. Recently Miss -Wicks announced her intention of leaving the hospital to study to become a trained nurse. Mrs. Halliday took the announcement to heart and begged her not to leave. The young woman laughed and humored her patient, but continued her preparations for departing. Several times Mrs. Halliday had said she would kill Miss Wicks before she would let her go, but she has made so many threats against different persons since her incarceration that little attention was paid to her. Least of all Miss Wicks feared her. Miss Wicks entered a washroom at a quarter to 8 o'clock a. m. She was followed stealthily by Mrs. Halliday, who had in her hand a pair of shears which she was allowed to have to do sewing. Creeping up behind Miss Wicks, the lunatic struck her on the head and felled her. Then taking the nurse's keys she locked the door, leaving the keys in the lock so the door could not be opened from the outside. With the fury of a tigress she returned to the attack, and, using the shears, she stabbed the girl over 200 times over the heart and in the face and neck. Miss Wicks' screams brought help,, and the door was broken down. Mrs. Halliday stood at a window, calmly watching the death struggles. A maniacal smile of triumph lighted her face. "She won't leave me now," she said, and laughed as she spoke. Miss Wicks was hurried to a cot, but died within an hour, without recovering coneciousness. Mrs. Hallilay laughed gleefully when told she was dead. When Coroner Goring asked her "rhy she had committed the murder /he replied: "She tried to leave me." Mrs. Halliday will not be placed in a cell. Superintendent Lamb says she will be carefully guarded, but there will be no punishment for her. For years Lizzie Halliday roved the Hudson and Mohawk valleys as queen of a gypsy tribe that made a living chiefly through raids on the farmers. It was in 1893 that she led her band Into Sullivan County, when she met old Paul Halliday, then in his sixtyflfth year. He lived on his small mountain farm with his bachelor brother. Later she married him. She had been there four years when the McQuillans, mother and daughter, who were lured to the farm, were killed by Mrs. Halliday at the same time she murdered her husband, and the crime was brought home to her. Long before this she had burned the Halliday homestead to the ground, and the imbecile and crippled son of Halliday in it. After the fire, which did not ewen cause her arrest, she was discovered stealing horses near Newburg, and a term In an insane asylum saved tier from prises at this time. Set free once more, she remained quiet until the disaoDeal-ance of Mrs. McQuillan and her daughter, Sarah, started an investigation that resulted in the discovery of their mutilated bodies. Her trial and her final commitment to Matteawan are a matter of history. She had been sentenced to be hanged when petitions were circulated in her behalf and a commission, which Mrs. Hallldpy aided materially by her pretended attempts at suicide in her cell ?always when rescue was near? finally adjudged her insane. Artemus Brewer, another of Mrs. Halliday's husbands, died after a year of beatings at the hands of the powerful woman, and yet George Smith, an old-time friend of Brewer, who Baw him die, married the widow. She laughingly gave him a cup of poisoned tea one day and left him. When the doctors brought him around the woman had fled with another man, one Hiram Parkinson. On the way to Matteawan Asylum Mrs. Halliday attacked Deputy Sheriff Morris and bit him in the hand. He later died of blood poisoning, caused by the bite. She did her best on thft train to kill him. Six Sisters All Suicidcs. Miss- Julia Winslow, who belonged to a prominent family Jiving near Warren, 111., committed suicide by saturating her clothes with kerosene and then setting fire to herself. She was the last of six sisters, all of a/hnm suicide. Cop Kills Woman in Car. Because he was jealous, Policeman Whitney D. Barrett entered a trolley at Penacook, N. H., and shot to death Miss Julia Chadwick. He then committed suicide. He was fifty and married. Plymouth Damaged by Flood. About $20,000 damrge was done at Plymouth, Mass., by the waters of Town Brook getting beyond control and breaking through a dam at Plymouth Mills. VAtrow HIahninera China is to have a constitution. The price of diamonds keeps soaring. Pittsburg is to have an all-night bank. Valparaiso will be rebuilt on the same site. A plot to massacre Jews in Odessa was frustrated. English is being introduced into 5000 new schools in China. Russian Government decided to continue its policy of rigorous repression. - v 1&&I ; M ./ . ' ./.* / , . - : * - - ' ; . ; rnicl bin omi wl Lieut F. P. Lahm Semi-Officially - Declared the Victor. Santos-ftnmont Hurt?Seven of Fifteen Competitors Who Started ! From Paris Reached England. Pari3.?The Aero Club s^mi-of^iCia,.ly announced that Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm, of the Sixth United States Cavalry, one of the American contestants, was the victor in the first competition fbr the James Gordon Bennett Cup for international aeronauts. Slgnor VonwiUer, of Italy, with th? Elf, was second, and Count de la Vaulx, of France, third. $The race wa3 started when fifteen balloons, representing seven countries, sailed away from the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. Seven of them reached England. The performance of Lahm and Hersey in the balloon United States in reaching fifteen miles north of Scarborough. England, is the best record attained by any one of the fifteen starters. The members of the Aero Club are inclined to believe that the United States was only prevented from proceedingfurtherbecausea current of air again threatened to carry it out over the North Sea, with no apparent prospect, unless the direction of the wind changed, of finding land before making the coast of Norway. . Lieutenant Lahm descended about one mile inland at Desmene Farm, Flyingdale. He said he had been .carried by way.of Caen across the charinol to Chichester. The actual crossing took from 11 o'clock at night until 3 in the morning. He then passed to the northward, but finding that he was being carried toward the open sea he decided to alight. Owing to the dryness of the moors his anchors at first would not hold, and the balloon passed dangerously near some farm building. The balloon was in the air for twentythree hours. Lieutenant Lahm is an instructor in cavalry practice at West Point, and with M. S.antos-Dumont represented the Aero Club of America in the balloon contest. Mr. Frank Lahm, father of Lieutenant Lahm, was to have sailed in the balloon United States, but the Lieutenant replaced his father. Lieutenant Lahm's .balloon has a capacity of 2000 cubic meters. Mr. Lahm, Sr., although he has lived in Paris for many years, where he is recognized as one of the leading merchants,' ia an American by birth. In the meantime, news of an accident to Santos-Dumont aroused general sympathy, the Brazilian being very popular here, but his subsequent arrival at the Aero Club with one arm bandaged relieved the tension regarding the seriousness of his mishap. He explained that the sleeve of his coat caught in the mechanism while oiling the motor of his balloon, the flesh of his arm being torn. Later the arm became numb and stiff with the cold, and he had to descend to have the wound dressed. MOBILE STRUCK BY HURRICANE. Many Persons Killed and $8,000,000 Damages Done. Mobile, Ala.?With 125 lives lost and property damaged to the extent of S8,000,000 in this city and its vicinity, the Gulf storm which raged for thirty-six hours has left behind a devastated section which it will take a long time to rebuild. Alfformcpli J n "\TnhJ 1 n nrnriar Anlv ntbuvu^u i'lv k/ i iv uiv]/oi vui; uuw re-establishment of telegraph, telephone and railroad communication is needed to resume business on nearly a normal basis, It will be months before the residents of the outlying sections along Mobile Bay will be able to repair the damage done by the storm. Pensacola, Fla.?The entire water front here is a mass of tangled wreckage. The big bridge of the Louisville & Nashville road, spanning Escambia Bay, was demolished, and trains eastward were stopped. Officials of the road believe, however, that the foundations of the bridge are intact and the work of rebuilding will start at once. t Almost every house in the city 'was damaged in the storm, and it will be several days before the city even begins to emerge from the confusion. THREE WOMEN KILLED. I | Collision Between Two Trains on the Pennsylvania Railway. f Eddington, Pa.?Airbrakes went I wrong on two fast trains of the Penn syivama Kanroaa ai>out i.ne same time. The result was that a fast New York-Philadelphia express went smashing into the rear end of a stalled Long Branch "shore train," near this station. Three women were killed and twenty-eight others were more or less badly hurt. The dead are: Mrs. W. H. Connell, forty years old, unidentified except by trip pass between Philadelphia and Trenton; Mary Cronin, 3511 Darlen 3treet, Philadelphia, internal injuries, died in a Philadelphia hospital; Mary A. O'Malley, sixty years old, identified by a Philadelphia savings bank account as the wife of a trainman in tne employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad. W. J. Conners Chairman. William J. wuucrs was tuuscn Chairman of the New York Democratic State Committee with but one dissenting voice. r Threw His Son From a Bridge. Patrick Coyne threw his threeyear-old son over the Twenty-second street bridge into the Monongahela River at Pittsburg, and followed after him in an evident attempt at suicide. The boy was drowned, but the i father was rescued. Barber Kills Wife and Himself. | After deserting his wife, Fred. Ethenstadt, a barber in Chicago, went back to her, killed her by cutting hei : throat and then killed himself. l ilt' r it*iu ui jju uui Over 1000 bartenders of New York City will demand higher wages. There are at present fifty-six dif-! ferent union labels and ten shot j cards. The California Labor party has declared against the nomination of a State ticket. A Royal Commission ; to be appointed to inquire into the sweating prevailing in Tasmania. The United Garment Workers ol America have won their strike in Le eum's factory at Baltimore. McL ^njgf GULF STATES SWEPT B1 FIERCE HiRIME Mobile and Pensacola Laid Waste by Wind and Water. IMMENSE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Loss Estimated at $50,000,000 in the Various States Visited by the Storm?Much Loss of Life Reported. Mobile, Ala.?Loss of life various-> ly estimated at from five to fifty persons, many people injured, 7600 homes damaged, the business quarter devastated and a property loss of fully $5,000,000 is the effect of a forty-eight-hour tropical hurricane in Mobile. The city is practically in ruins. There are no reliable figures to be had as to the loss of life. Three negroes are known to be dead, and there are rumors that fifty persons are lost, but as things are these rumors cannot be verified. It is feared, however, that when all is known the life loss will be heavy. The city has been placed under martial law and looters will be summa rily dealt witn. Every church in the city has been damaged, though Christ Church ani St. Francis Street Baptist Church suffered more than the others. Mobile's shipping suffered severely. Many of her river boats are beached or sunk, all-complete wrecks. Her "docks and those of private corpora-' tions are destroyed. The revenue cutter Alert has gone down in Mobile River. She was rammed by some un'known vessel and sank Immediately. The depth of. the water in the wholesale district, which includes the section from Royal street to the river, was seven feet. The wharves from Fraseati, the extreme south end of the city, as far up the river as Three Mile Creek are total wrecks. This also includes the new Mobile and Ohio docks and the Louisville and Nashville docks. Much fear is entertained for Fort Morgan, Ala., where the Government Quarantine is located and many soldiers-quartered: The chances are that much los3 of life has been caused by the storm to those living on Dauphin Island and other outlying islands. During the hurricane trees, fell, roofs crashed by the hundreds and ?i thousands of pieces of slate and other debris were hurled about. Many people were seriously injured and cut by the flying slate and pieces of tin roofs. me iruit irees anu me lau vege? table crops all over Southern Alabama and Mississippi are ruined. So also are the cotton and sugar cane 3rops. One Mississippi planter said that he would willingly accept $15 for his cotton crop. ^ i The Mobile County Court House was badly wrecked. The clock in ito tower was blown away completely, and now nothing of the clock re mains. All along the line of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad huge trees lie flat with limbs torn off and twisted. The 3treams are all out of the banks and for twenty-five miles north of Mobile, looking to the right of the rai4road, one sees only a solid sheet ,of water running swiftly toward Mobile. There are many farmhouses in this inundated section and many people may have lost their lives. Pensacola, Fla.?The wor?t Sea storm and hurricane that the Gulf Coast has experienced since the village of Pensacola on Santa Rosa Island was swept away 107 years ago has struck here. Many lives have been lost. A large area of the section between the city and the Navy Yard is under from five to ten feet of water. Many women were taken from second story windows and carried to safety in boats. The estimated property damage is $3,000,000. Every house in Pensacola suffered damage and many roofs were blown off. The water front is strewn with wreckage for miles, on either side of the city, and vessels are piled on the wharves, or rrhere the wharves once were. Big iron steamships and many lighter sailing ships are lying high and dry up in the city, where the tide has never before been known to reach. Ne^r Orleans.?Great damage to 1 the cotton crop was reported in dispatches to the Cotton Exchange. Baton Rouge reported about twenty per cent, damage. Gallman, Miss., ' reported rains which flattened the plant down in the mud, and Natchez, Miss., reported that there and immediately across the river in Louisiana the damage was probably twenty-tive per cent. No damage to sugar cane has been reported. Damage to properly aggregating more than $50,000,000 was done in the various States of the South that the storm visited. | Two Missourians Indicted. The Grand Jury returned indictments against Robert M. Snyder, of Kansas City, charging bribery in connection with the passage of the Central Traction franchise bill in 1S9S, and against former Councilman Fred- j erick G. Uthoff, now of Denver, on the charge of having given perjured testimony on the same matter before the Grand Jury in 1902. Cassie Chadwick Gives It Up. Cassie L. Chadwick has decided tc fight her case no further, and she will serve out her ten years' sentence in the Columbus (Ohio) Penitentiary unless she can get a pardon. Hearst's Madison Square Mooting. Madison Square Garden, New York City, was crowded at the ratilication meeting of the Hearst ticket, the <;ne?i?rh helne made by W. H. Hearst. Feminine News Notes. Chicago women have started the fashion of hoopskirts. A Newport belle recently gave a birthday dinner to her horse. Rime. Albani. dear to the memories of childhood of forty years ago, Is still singing in Canada. One of the caprices of the woman to whom money is no object is tc dress all in white when motoring. Miss Helen Gould has given >215,000 to build a railroad Y. M. C. A. building near the Union station; St Louisi ?jM?m licflH^H With Arrested and Bo^hhH^^^H^H|^H9 Court? With Birth of Forty-third CMkL ' , ' 4 : ???^?? ' VV^V,-? Salt Lake City, Utah.?Joseph P. Smith, president of the Mormon Church, was arrested and bound ovei to the District Cour^n ;the charge of living unlawfully with- five wives. The complaint was sworn to by a' Mormon deputy sheriff, the warrant was served by order of a Mormon sheriff,t and tbe committing magls* trate i#also a Mormon. 5 President Smith was arraigned Immediately after his arrest and waived preliminary hearing. Afterward h? was released on his own recognizance. Smith reached here two days before on his return from Europe. He ... . , , __ V- - J tnen learnea mat aa attempt uau been made to secure his arrest for a statutory offense in connection with' -1 the birth of his forty-third child. Tilt complaint was made from a distinctly anti-Mormon source. The county attorney who refused to approve a prosecution oa thil charge, was cited to appear in court, and was sustained by the court in hii refusal to prosecute, because tlft complainant offered no evidence thaf the mother of the child was not 4W wife of President Smith. 1 Whatever is back of the proceed* ings, the effect will be to disarm tht- .) i criticism that has been directed . against the'JUrthorlties for their fall* ure to take cognizance of the admls* sions made by President Smith be* . fore the Senate committee' during I the investigation of the Smoiot case. * ??rr?????? MOBILE MOB STORMS JAIL* T Special Officer Hoyle Shot While De* 1 fending Negro.' ^ Mobile, Ala. ? Mobile In 4 ; state of frenzy bordering on madnea* because of an outrage committed oj twelve-year-old Ruth Sessaman, 3 school girl, daughter of J. BlqunK Sessaman, residing four miles wesf of Mobile, by James Robinson,-an eighteen-year-old n$gro, who %a^ captured, taken before the girf&nd /'positively identified as her asgaftant. Soon a m6b?of about 5.00 attacked the jail, demanding thft~ negrot Sheriff Powers met the leaders and informed them that the man the; were .seeking was not-ia' the jail and never had been brought there. H4 ) let about forty men walk through thtf ' ' corridors to assure the mob that the negro was not tbeiire. While this search was going on pis? ' tol shots rang out, and Special Offlcef j Roy Hoyle, of the Mobile and Ohlc , ' Railroad, who was among a numbel of men endeavoring to pacify the crowd, fell to the ground mortally wounded. 1 i "AL." AD AIMS A SUICIDE. Business Troubles and 111 Health Caasc Policy King to End Life. New York City.?After talking to his wife over, the telephone and call- f ing up a friend to say "good-bye," Albert J. Adams, better known as "Al" Adams, the "Policy King," ended his life with a revolver at the i Ansonia apartment houqe, where he has been living alone for some time. > Failing health and recent financial reverses are said to have le4 to the act of the one-time noted gambler, convict and reputed millionaUe. Adams made millions from the 1 poor. For years he controlled the gambling business patronised by the humblest classes of New York and served a term at Sing Sing when convicted of running a lottery. ? 44 LIGHTHOUSES SWEPTINTOSEA . Four Keepers Perished in Destruction of Gulf Beacons. New Orleans, La; ? Forty-tour lighthouses swept into the sea and lost or the structures so badly damaged that no lights can be shown, and four lighthouse keepers drowned during the hurricane is tlfe summary. of the renort made hv United State* Lighthouse Inspector Sears, of New, Orleans. These lights were located on the coast and adjacent islands between the mouth of the Mississippi and Mobile. Mr. Sears did not investigate the lighthouse losses between Mobile and Pensacola. He has not yet made public an estimate of the money loss involved. . SHORT WEIGHT PACKERS PINED. Plead That Weight of Cans Should ^ Count as Contents. '] Chicago.?The Omaha Packing Company, Armour & Co. and Libby, ; ? McNeil & Libby were adjudged guilty, of selling short weight lard, and a fine of $25 was imposed upon each. firm by Justice Sheldon. The pack-* ers, through their attorney, contended there was no violation of the law so long as the lard and its package equaled the weight of lard they pur- 4 poituu to sen. .Fighting Yellow Fever. American civil and health officials are concerting measures to prevent the spread of yellow fever in Cuba, and former Governor Magoon, of the Canal Zone, is slated to become Governor of the island. Climbs Mt. McKinley. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, of Brooklyn, has reached the summit of Mount McKinley, which, towering 20,464 j feet above the Pacific Ocean, is believed to be the highest point of the North American Continent. Dr. /-I t-t_ C 4 J_ LI 1 ? _1., I Ltiun b leat is iJdiiiuuiaii/ iiuiai'ic, as this is the first ascent of the mountain on record an ' followed repeated failures. The meat packers in session in Chicago organized a national protect- ive association. W The National Game. ' Lajoie is of opinion that Cleveland secured the cream of the good ^ninor le^ue talent. Lajoie says Altizer, the Washington shortstop, is a great nlaver rnd ft second Hans Wagner. C> Young is pitching great bail present. Catcher Criger's return to the game braced the old man up wonderfully. Red Morgan has improved in both batting and fielding since joining the Boston Americans and is expected ta be still better next year. iiT't ' ft *"i ')' t irTr'i