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I /IV KH AND PROPERTY LOST. Storing and Cyclone? Raged Thursday of I*i?st Week. Nashville, Tenn., March 13.-A cy clone st'-uck Pleasant Grove, Maury, county, about 1 o'clock thia after noon, demolishing practically every house in the place, and, according to meagre telephone reports, killing three or four men. Among those killed was George Williamson, a prominent farmer. Tho Loulsvi. Nashville depot was blown Into shreds, but a number of passengers at the depot at the timo walting for a train were uninjured. All creeks are out of banks, telegraph and tele phone vires are down and much dam age to property has been done. Passengers on incoming trains re port that the cyclone struck Lexing ton, Tenn., about 2.30, destroying the Scott Hotel, damaging the court house and demolishing about 15 resi dences. At a point below Lexington, a Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad station was moved from one Ride of the track to the other with out damaging the track or interrupt ing traille. Town All Hut Wiped Out. Alexandria, La., March 13. The town of Provencal, La., 12 miles west of here, was practically wiped out by a cyclone which Btruck hen? this morning. One person, a negro hoy, was killed, and 15 other people were injured. Two churches, a number ol' mer cantile houses and buildings ?vero demolished. The storm si rin k the town at 10 o'clock this morning and swept every thing before it in D path 300 to 500 yards wide. Two Count b's Storm Swept*. Gadsden. Ala., March 13.-One person is known lo be dead, another is missing and many ]>ersons were Injured in a severe wind and rain storm which swept Etowah and Cal houn counties to-day. .lames Hara Ison, aged 75, was kill ed and five men injured when the store of W. P. Duke, at Duke, Ala., was demolished. Tho home of H. Johnson, a mile from Duke, also was blown down and one of his ten chil dren is missing. Practically all wires in the path of the storm were blown down and estimates of the damage aro not available. Five Hurt Near AtSiwta. Atlanta, March 13.-Five people were seriously injured during a cy clone which demolished a large num ber of buildings and uprooted trees on the Flat Shoal and Glenn wood roads, about a mile from East At lanta to-night. Half a dozen hurriedly organized rescue parties went to ?he aid of the injured in tho storm. lt is believed that there ls considerable loss of live stock in several barns and sta bles which wore blown down. Three Killed by Tornado. Selmer, Tenn., March 13.--Three persons were ki Heil, several were probably fatally hurt and others suf fered lesser injuries when a tornado swept through the southern portions of McNalry and Hardeman counties late to-day, demolishing a number of farm houses and damaging the more substantial buildings in its path. Near Middleton, in Hardeman county, Henry Stanley and Joseph Waldrop were crushed to death. Mrs. Martha Brint was probably fatally injured. The property damage In the Immediate vicinity of Middleton ls estimated at $20,000. In McNalry county J. E. McMahon was killed and his grandmother, Mrs. Stanfield, and his wife wore probably fatally hurt. Hurt Cox was badly hurt and bis wife is missing. Three Lives Wore Lost. New Orleans. March 13.-Accord ing to reports reaching hore late to day three persona were killed in a cyclone which struck Many, La., this morning, Several were reported in jured. Thomas Goodman and his baby were killed when their homo was blown away. Ono child of Hud V.unasco was killed ami several mem bers of the family injured when their home was demolished. A high wind which struck New Or lean? about noon caused much small property damago and a boy was struck by falling glass. Tho boy in jured was Haul Taranek. He was cres-lng n street when a pane Of glass from thc window of a 10-story build ing fell on him. He was badly cut. Furious storm at Chattanooga. Chattanooga, Tenn.. March 13. Chattanooga to-day and to-right ex perienced ono of the mo?? furious Storms Of the season. ".'cally three inches Of rain bad fallen np to 7 o'clock to-night and tho c'ol UKO con tinues. During the afternoon ight Ding Struck the Normal Hark School, causing a panic among the pupils. No ono was Injured, Many chimneys and small trees were blown down. At 1.?,0 to-night an Immense smokestack was demol ished at the Ridgedale power house, tearing down the main wires. For nn hour during the height of the storm the city was in darkness and street car trafile was completely tied 1 \ ROBBED RICH HOMES AT NIGHT. Played Capital ist By Day-Chicago Burglar Confeaaea. A dispatch from San Francisco -says: Owen Conn, the Chicago burglar, who posed by daylight In the lobbies of fashionable hotels as a capitalist and made a specialty of robbing va cant apartments and houses at night, did not work single-handed. His partner was a young woman who carried an automatic pistol. This Information has been given out by the chief of police after the discovery of Conn's Identity, when ho confessed to more than one hundred robberies in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Oakland, San .lose and Berkeley, Farly last month the womrn de serted Conn, taking with her be tween $30,OOO and $50,000 worth of jewelry-half their loot. Her arrest is expected soon. Deafness Cannot He Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only ono way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an Inflamed condition of the mu cous lining of the Eustachian tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hear ing, and when it is entirely closed, deal ness ls the result, and unless the inflammation can bo taken out and this tube restored to its normal con dition, hearing will be destroyed for ever; nine cases out of ton are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mu cous surfaces. Wo will give one hundred dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh ('uro. Send for cir culars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists. 75c. Take Hall's Family IMlls for con stipation. adv. Convict Clerk $100,000 Short. Montgomery, Ala., March 14.-At the Instance of Governor O'Neal a warrant was isseud yesterday after noon for the arrest ot Theodore La cey, chief clerk of the State convict department, charging him with em bezzlement. Examiners at work In the convict department have so far discovered shortages running up to more than $100,000. up. So far there have been no casu alties reported. Storm Wrecks Building. Beaumont, Texns, March 13.-One person, a negro, ls known to have been killed and several persons seri ously Injured at the town of Brooke land, Texas, to-day when a storm wrecked half a dozen buildings and damaged others. The property dam age is estimated at $100,000. Brooke land is a town of 500 inhabitants, 100 miles north of Beaumont, near the Louisiana border, In Sabine county. Glyn Jesse, Collins Stevens and Warren Samuels and his six-year-old child were seriously hurt. The First Baptist church and the building oc cupied by the Sabine Mercantile Com pany were blown down. The Com mercial Hotel was badly damaged and three residences were demol ished. Four Killed; Several Injured. Tucker, Ca., March 13.-With a roar as of many big guns, a devas tating cyclone passed this t town, slightly to the south, at 7 o'clock to l ight and made complete its work of destruction and desolation at the homo place of Dr. C. T. Brockett, a mlle south of Tucker. His tine home and two tenant houses were laid low two negro boys were killed and on negro woman waa blown up into a tree, where her lifeless body still hangs, wedged in by the falling tim bers. Nearer Tucker the awful storm swept and completely demolished tho home and all the surroundings at the Limy Thomas place. Mr. Thomas . ad an arm broken and his wife both legs broken, while his daughter, Toy, aged 14, is not. expected to live, hoing badly bruised all over the body. Patti, his son, was not seriously hurt. Further on, at the Harrison place, a tenant house was blown down an 1 all the Burnett family injured, while Mrs. Sallie Nash and her small boy were crushed to death under the house, which fell. lt is not known how far the storm went, bul possibly died out near this place. Quake Follows Storm. Calhoun. Ga., March 14-A cyclone storm, followed by earthquake shocks, distinctly felt here at 1 1 o'clock last night, devastated a wide section between Curryvllle and Ro sacea. The loss of life ls estimated at 18. Property damage is heavy. All wire communication Is prostrated. Details are meager. At Rosedale fourteen are reported dead, Tho Bolt family of seven chil dren were practically wiped out. At Curryvllle three are known to ho dead, and half a dozen seriously in jured. MAY SHA KR PLUM TRES VKT HurletHMi Considering- Two Vlt? ti ve? Wi til Reference to .?ob*." Washington, March 13. Wilson's advisers have hit n <>:' Hons of two of the pol?tica pro) confronting the administra promised to be troublesci. kind of Democrats shall i plutos from the political tree and liotf thou sands of Democrats throi or. tho country can bo given chance at. least to get near the Within tho next few day ter General Hurleson is expo ted present for the President's ? on.si. tion a plan which will ope:, to 11 crats the 35,000 .third aol foun?, class pu si masterships placed to the civil service list recently 1 '.; ?. Ta, Mr. Hurleson said to-nl{ "IHM had not yet decided whe ' . i the President for a revoct I "?ti - order or not. Must Show Mot if he decides against a km ; foi revocation he will then s .)- 'si postmasters who benefite hy Taft order be required to ins a ti test, which would be o| others. If tho Presiden first course thousands of poi ships would he available il if he chose the other Den rat?, as ?ood a chanco as Rc cumbents. Ever since Mr. Taft, is: . I Ro der, which, witli a similai on- ? ?. lioosevelt, put every linn . ! fo class postmaster in the co int to classilled service, it has h a sub ? il to a vigorous criticism b p >>. crats. who charged that rm was to keep In office tin v dent Wilson's ndministr; sands of Republicans wi ivett d In sympathy with the adi ilsti and who were given sucl , rotf< merely to keep the Ropuh j cal machine in working < '<.:. lr, Hurleson has given the o der sei ?us consideration, and any rc .nani" Hon ho makes to the President likely to have much welg "Organization" Not M ?ich. Mr. Burleson and Chainaun Combs, of the D?mocrate Natif 'I Committee, have settled upon Inn for patronage distribution which also will be submitted to : n< 1 dent shortly. If lt is fo !ov?.'d question of whether a ca <!;ui office is backed by "or men or "antl-organlzation mel novt figure when he is wei ;heti ( place. The President will : l to go upon the principle mon who accepts the Democratic platform and shows his Democratic principles is flt for o?flce Persono 1 I course, will be considered the question of State factit convention alliances will ) i > lil weight. Elected President Pro 1 tore. Washington, March 13. . ; James P. Clarke, of Arkansas, Demo crat, was to-day elected president pro tempore of the Senate. He received forty-one votes; Senator Gallinger, Republican, eighteen, and Senators Clapp, Bristow and Borah, one each. Senator Clarke was immediately sworn and presided over the Senate during the election of other officers for the new Congress. Rheumatism Neuralgia Sprains Miss C. MAHONEY, rf 2708 IC. St., W. Washington, J >. O. yritca : " I >ut? fored with rbeumc.iltm for tlvo years and I nave Just got hold <>f your Lini ment, and ft baa . i.l.io BO much good. .My knees do not pain and Hie swelling lut? gono." Quiets the Nerves MRS. A.WKIDMAN, of .103 Thomp?on St., Maryville. Mo., writes : -" TU? nervo In my leg was destroyed live yearH ago and left mo with ? jerking at night HO that 1 could not Bleep. A friend told mo to try your Liniment and now 1 could not ?lo without it. I Und altor lb? UBO I eau Bloop." SLOAN'S UNIMENT "Isa pood Liniment. Ikeepiton hand all the time. My daughter sprained her wrist and used your Linime it, and it has not hurt her since." JOSEPH HATCHER, of Bolina, N. O., R.F.D., No, 4. At AU Dealers Price 26c, 60c., $1.00 Sloan'* tiook on how*, callie, tiOKt And poultry Rent free. Addrena Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass. WINKED ?IS'KYK, THE??1 SHCVT. Victor Wood?, o? Greenville, Shot by Hoy on Train. (Greenville News, 13th.) Shortly after boarding a Greenville bound G., S. & A. railway passenger train at Williamston last night H. Victor Woods, of Wost Washington street, employed with tno freight de partment of tho company, was shot by an unknown white boy, who im mediately leaped from the car and made bis escape. The pistol ball penetrated Woods' breast, just above tho heart, but turned soon arter going under the skin and came out near his right col lar bone. The wound ls not thought to be serious. Woods came on home on the car and weut lo his residence, where his wounds were dressed by a physician. The cause of the shooting is some what mysterious aa yet. According to Conductor Floyd Smith, on whose car Woods was traveling to Green ville, Woods boarded tho train at Williamston and took a seat near the boy, who later fired upon him. Tho conductor stated that the boy winked bis eye at Woods, whereupon Woods asked him why he did so. Without making any answer, it is said, the boy whipped out a pistol and fired straight at Woods. The boy imme diately made a dash for tho door, it ls said, and made his escape. Woods is well known in Greenville, having been empoyled as a motorman j by the Greenville Traction Company 1 before he took up his duties with the Greenville, Spartanburg & An derson Railway Company. Inasmuch j as his wound is not serious, it is pre- | I SUmed that he will be out within a1 j few days. i Three Hoys Placed in dall. (Anderson Mail, 1 1th.) Sheriff Joe H. M. Ashley has ar r ed and put in jail three boys who are charged with shooting Conduc tor Woods on an inten? ban car Wed nesday night. These are Lee Major, Henry Major and Fisher Strickland. They are charged with firing upon the conductor, but deny their guilt. Wednesday afternoon the two Major boys and Strickland were fir ing pistols on the road near Charley ! Ashley's home, two miles south of I Belton. Ashley told them to stop, whereupon they fired three &n~)*< at ', Ashley. Ashley returned their fire ! with a Winchester, none of the balls taking effect. Sheriff Ashley went to the scene with bloodhounds and trail ed the boys for some distance. War rants were issued. The three boys, on learning that 1 officers were hunting for them, board- I id the 9 o'clock interurban car bound j or Greenville. Shortly after getting j board the car the three boys became ? ngaged. In a conversation with j Woods, and the shooting of Woods )1 lowed. Woods is not seriously injured, the bullet fired by Lee Major producing merely a flesh wound. It is expected that he will be out again within a few days. The bullet entered bis left chest, just above tho heart, but was deflected by a bone and passed out near the right collarbone. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Your druggist will refund money If TAZO OINTMENT falls to cure any case o? Itching,! Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pile? In6 to 14 days. The first application givea Ease and Rest. SOC. 1 I "HUMAN FLY" FAILED TO FLY. Rodman*8 Hocket Did Not Go Up As Per Schedule. New York, March 14.-A steel rocket containing Rodman Law, the "human fly," in which he Intended to be shot 8,500 feet Into the air, de scending by a parachute, exploded when 8,000 pounds of powder behind it was fired. Law was hurled 25 feet from his seat in the rocket, but was little hurt. Protected by padding and a hel met, Law crawled into the rocket with bis parachute and gave tho or der to fire. The fuse was lighted and Sputtered for thirty seconds, when there was a burst of flame, a cloud of smoke and a terrille report. Hun dreds of spectators saw t ie rocket burst into fragments. Law was hurled violently to the ground. Ills hair and eyebrows were burned off. Ile got up and looked around. "Darn that thing" he exclaimed. "I thought 1 was going nj)." Panic spread among the spectators after the explosion. lt, seemed In conceivable that Law could have es caped being blown to bits and seve ral women boca nv Hysterical. His miraculous eseaj>e ; explained by the fact that the h. of the rocket on which ho stood, shoulder high in a hollow extension, was made of an extra thickness of steel. The rest of the rocket, six feet In longth and two and a half feet in diameter, was blown to atoms. Law walked unassisted to a nearby house to have his burns dressed. To Cure a Cold In One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It atop? the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. Druggists refund money If it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 25c. Lo w res TO THE Fertile Northwest ONE-WAY SPRING COIiONIST TICKETS ON SALE DAILY MARCH 15 TO APRIL 15, HM:*, to points in Western Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregou, British Columbia. ROUND-TRIP HOMESEEKERS' TICKETS ON SALK 1st and Sd TUESDAYS EACH MONTH to many points in the Northwest United States and Canada. Long limit and stop-overs. 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With all their talk we'll know but naught till Death shall lift the Cur A God there is who governs all by careful thought and reason; [son. There's naught He does but thought can solve, but this they term as trea A soul that scorns mere human creeds, and lives aright while here, Shall have no cause, my God has said, the Future Life to fear. No vision have I yet received of what my end shall be, But thrice my soul has asked me this: "What of Eternity?" Eternity 1 know not, nor whence it came, nor whither If thou, my soul, thlnk'st well of lt, then leave me and go thither. A few more days-a moon or so-perhaps the harvest sun And then in retrospect we'll see our clay-house journey done. Our souls shall sall the Silent Stream, and ere they're safely over, . Our bodies shall arise again and blossom In the clover. THE WILD ASSES ARE II UNG RV And "They Have Broken Into tho (?roen Com," Says Ben. ACCUSED OF $0,000,000 THEFT. A dispatch from Washington says: Senator Benj. R. Tillman, of South Carolina, has evinced his displeasure at the persistency of hundreds of of fice-seekers who have flocked to the capital since tho inauguration. With characteristic vigor the Sent?tor con demned the scramble for jobs. He said the situation reminded him of a Bible text. "I have forgotten just where in Holy Writ I read lt," he said, "but it fits the case exactly and runs something as follows: 'The wild asses of the desert are athirst and hungry. They have broken into the green corn.' " The Senator recalled that the text contained a reference to the "wild asses" trampling down the corn, but he said he would leave that out. He added that he had,full faith in Presi dent Wilson as a "herdsman, who would keep the wild beasts from do ing any damage." Nestor Wilmart, Funner Belgian Rail <ul Manager, Arrested. Curbs Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Curs. The worst cases, no matter of howlong standing1, arc cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. 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