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SSMISJI T r r,T?rrlfic Quakes Pel habitants In Panic?fi Babe And Dies Wi ^ Crtl.-M.~u>. .xpaneneed two terrific earthquakes at bout 7:30 o'clock Thursday mornIbf, which were accompanied by oaring sounds and are said to have had a stronger and more undulatory movement than the earthquake of December which destroyed Messina, Reggio and other cities, laid waste to many villages in Calabria nd killed 200,jJO people. Although the shocks Thursday had no such terrible consequences the 25,000 residents of this city were thrown into a state of terror. They an into the streets panic striken and Thursday night nearly the entire population was encamped in the open. The broken walls of the old ruins were thrown to the ground and Mes-1 aina wag for a f?w minutes smothered in a cloud of dust. The casualties were few and the only persons killed, so far as is known, were a young woman and ker infant. The woman had come kere only a few days ago and had E/ . nettled in rooms, which the great ! earthquake had left relatively undamaged. She was standing at the ORV1LLE WRIGHT MAKES Tl ! Washington, Special.?Calm, confident and nerveless, Orville Wright late Thursday encircled the Ft. Meyer drill grounds time after time in his aeroplane in three successful flights while a crowd of thousands cheered aim for the success that attended his B| persistency and pluck. While the machine oscillated at certain points in its flights and dipped and rose suddenly at other points, it was evident from the regularity with which these Muugs nujijitiii'u niai uiey were due to the condition of the atmosphere and not to any fault of the machine. For the first flight the mnchine got away with a fine start. Down the field the aeroplane sailed, curved gracefully and came back up the east aide of the field along the edge of Arlington Cemetery. The machine seemed to be behaving beautifully. The first round was made in fifty seconds. Five times the machines skirted the field, attaining a height which varied from 15 to 30 feet. On the sixth round Mr. Wright came to earth within a few hundred feet of the starting point, completing the flight in exactly five minutes. The landing was perfect, the machine awooping down in successive glides until Orville pulled the string which stops his motor and the aeroplane | gnaea smoothly over the grass on its kids until it came to a stop. The machine was returned to the starting apparatus and again was placed in position, and another flight was essayed. COMMISSION DECIDES ADV1 Washington, Special.?The Inter- ' state Commerce Commission has decided adversely in the matter of the complaints filed before them by five bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, who claimed that thuy had been the victims of discrimination while passengers on Southern railroads. The eomplaints were directed against the Pullman Company and the Richmond, Fredericksburg STRANGE FREAK OF LIGHT Cumberland, Md., Spocial.?LightM ning struck the house of Johnson Collins, last Wednesday, four miles *- ?* wav ui iuuvmuue, wunu mr. ana Mrs. Collins, their 8ix children and Mrs. Johnson, a neighbor, were in the kitehen. Mrs. Collins was putting pies in the bake oven. When Mr. Cbllins recovered from the shock he found his wife and the youngest MAY BE THE BODY OF E New York, Special?Although complete identification was impossible as jet, there appears to be a strong probability that the body of a Chinanan, which was found floating in the Hudson river in the upper part of the eitv Thursday evening, was that of Leon Ling or William L. Leon, the inruerer of Elsie Sigel. The man's eight, weight and general appearlce tallies with that of Leon Ling, t as tho body was nude, except for suk undershirt, and had been in the eater for more than a week, a thorugh examination will be necessary, oroner McDonald, who was the first e?,ITlCAL PRISONERS Mi ttle, Wash.?A cable dispatch Nome, Alaska, describes a - outbreak of Russian political in tha Yakutsk District, and the ifht of the nmti-om the wilderns? less aid rails in mm effort to reach *. The dispatch says: vieee from Yladmir Station of Northern Siberia Conspany, Behring Strait, are to tho silt a band of prisoners in thai ;i shocked ? sion t Thursday?The 25.000 bU1 N eorpo I other Dashes For Her I lions. resolu th It In Her Arms. eoiiec m whate door when the shook occurred and o?*5?* rushed inside to sere her child. Bo- ^ fore she eould escape from the room tural the second shock threw down the than walls, burying both mother and child ma(le under the debris. Soldiers and enpounc gineers who rushed to the rescue qq th beard the voice of the mother call- Ine llLff f A* Knln mewl tknw a nlAM) ?^ uuu ?U?J WV1ACU IKUVMT I " ally for several hours, when they j found the dead bodies, the mother |jat with her ehild in her arms. *41R The first shock was followed quick- ed in ly by a second and the people fled pell mell to the American quarter, an<j ^ which they seemed to feel was the deciai safest place of refuge. So great was as to the rush to the American huts that *,on / the authorities were unable to check cont" the invasion and as a consequence ^ these structures, which were design- ameni ed for the most needy of the popu- pounc lace, were taken possession of by the I first comers. The soldiers, however, _ I ' in com ; soon drew a cordon around this Senat quarter and a guard was mounted at port the bridge leading to it. Many of the as a panic stricken people were driven off *ax' 1 and orders were issued that no one p^th be permitted to occupy the American Demo quarter pending further instructions, was i part HREE SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS ator The start was as successful as the ct first. In the seeond flight Orville a made much wider turns and rose to a%or, a greater height. Wilbur Wright a or watched every detail of the flight *' a with care. te. It was noticed that at timoa the . lI\ motor skipped, but this seemed to ' have no effect on the progress of the ' aeroplane. The starting rail runs v k c. downward into a little hollow in the , ea" field and whenever the aeroplane ePos passed over this hollow it dipped no- J1 a ticeably and whenever it passed over ^ a vacant space between two of the jnc stables, it was seen to rise as though jjons on billow of air, but these atmos- gena( pheric conditions were easily over- ^.ere come by the clever manipulation of w^o j the levers. On his second flight, Or- ODD^ | ville made nino rounds of the field in a few seconds less than eight min- gj j u,es- . Owen In his last attempt he remained iru-om aloft for a few seconds more than rU( nine minutes and encircled the field j nine and one half times. For one next complete round he flew very close t* as the ground, evidently preparing to on land. This he did within two hun- tariff dred feet of the aeroplane shed. Dur- Orv ing this last flight he went higher fu] fl than on his previous trials, reaching pQrt a height of forty feet. Just before remaii making his landing the left wing a|] to] scraped the ground and raised a feet, cloud of dust, but Mr. Wright con- por tinued to fly half way around the day, field before descending. ceedei ER.SELY IN BISHOPS' CASE 811-15 and Potomac, the Southern and the 8 Central Railway of Georgia. ^ The complainants were Bishops . R Wesley J. Gaines, H. M. Turner, Evans Tyree, C. S. Smith and E. , W Brampton. Unite, The principle involved in the com- p plaint was the old one of the "Jim- "j Crow" car, it being alleged that the aer^ i coaches furnished for the negroes are ^ not as good as those for white pas- jjv y sengers and that the negroes were re- . fused sleeping accommodations and , food on trains. fhe ? ( fiiphi in mailt land town ?tart" child in her arms standing under a tree in the yard. She could not tell pe^j how she got there. One of her shoes chare? had been torn from her foot and the p flesh was scraped from her ankle were , downward almost to the bone. The court roof was torn from the house, one jajjer side of the building demolished, tho willia stone chimney shattered in pieces g(j and dishes in the cupboard broken. preVei lsie sTgel's murderer. to inspect the body, believes that it is vent Leon's as do a number of polieemen, the t< but until measurements and facial resem characteristics are carefully gone co tri over the identification will remain in the S doubt. If it is Leon the cause of his death The will be another mystery although one marie theory, that of suicide, would appear the ti reasonable. In salient features the The p body bore a marked resemblance to to effi Leon Ling. The teeth were good, as must were Leon's, the height about 5 feet proch 4 inches, which was Leon's height, duty < and the weight 125 pounds, whieh dition was about Leon's. bill, ' ^ ^ ? ? ; r"_ airrppi A^L HASH f OK FREEDOM come I Yakutsk district revolted and killed tion t the guards and started on a retreat eatioi of 2,000 miles for East Cape, where Pr? they planned to take small boats and Wash make the mainland of Alaska, thirty- Bevei six miles away. ehildi Captain KalinnHtof, acting gover- Presi nor of the district, ordered Coesaeks brati< to overtake the prisoners. The fa~ 'the f gitires in amhnsk killed four Cos- Mood wsandsd twelve sthnrs^ j ter-ee WASHINGTON NOTES | ) Senate concluded its discus of the schedules of the ttttll , [onday and is now ready for the j ration and income tax quea- I Senator Aldrich introduced a ition proposing an amendment to ] t the taxes on incomes from ? sver source derived and without < tionment among the several ' i. 1 increase in the duty on strue- I iron and steel valued -at more t 9-10 of a cent per pound Was* by the Senate, the increase berom 3-10 to 4-10 of a cent per L. Cotton bagging was placed ^ e free list. ffectual efforts were made to ^ cotton ties, school books, bind- , wine and salt on the free list Egyptian cotton on the dutiable y 1 ? M rhat is whiskey 1" was discussthe Cabinet room of the White ?. President Toft listening to leys for rectifying distilleries lenders, who oppose the recent on of Solicitor General Bowers what should be labeled 'imitavhiskey." The hearing will be iued. '' er defeating Senator Tillman's iment for a tax of 10 cents a 1 on tea by a vote of 18 to 55, concluding the schedules of the bill, the Senate took up the e and corporation tax questions, or Aldrich said he would supthe corporation tax amendment means of defeating the income sxpressing the opinion that the !?j _#?.? * vuiu ut i^^caicu aiicr www jeura e rate materially lowered. The j, crats held that this position T a subterfuge on Mr. Aldrich's e to destroy the income tax. Sen- c Flint, who will hare charge of rporation tax amendment, spoke a vor of it. Senator Cummins in 1 of the income tax; and Sen- J Dixon in favor of an inheritance ilthough the latter said he would for the corporation tax Senator q said the corporation tax would g in his opinion, a revenue of c )0.000 to $50,000,000 a year, retary of the Treasury Macti made a call on national bank itories for a return to Treasf government funds approximate ^ 25,000,000. " ome and corporation tax ques- " were discussed Thursday in the 3. Among those who spoke Senator Root, of New York, t advocated the corporation and ed the income tax; Senator c i, of Idaho, who took opposite r with Mr. Root; and Senator? * and Clapp, who favored the e tax. 1 for the objection of one Sena- " At. Bulkeley, of Connecticut. Tuesday would have been fixed i date for a vote by the Senate f, i income tax amendment to the cl bill. n ille Wright made three successights in his new aeroplane at n Myer late Thursday afternoon. ning in the air about 22 minute* Y id and raising to a height of 4( 1? the fiscal year ended Wednes- b government disbursements ex- T 1 government receipts by $89,- w >6, according to the Treasury lent. C r Admiral Potter became chiei s buearu of navigation succeed- w ear Admiral Pillsbury, retired n' ive-hour flight of oratory in th? gi i States Senate by Senator tt lins, of Iowa, and a thirty-secflight of the Wright brothers' a lane were the principal happen>f interest in the national cap- t? Wednesday. nishap to Orville Wright's ma- it put an end to his flights for y< ay less than a minute after h< 81 i for his first flight. The dam3 the aeroplane, however, wai itions for rehearing on th< tl 5 against them for contempt ol Inited States Snnrpmp t. received by the clerk of th< from Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp a Jeremiah Gibson and Luthei ims, three Tennesseeans accus- a having failed in their duty t? s it a lynching. test against the effort to pre- h the use of coupons to Stimulat< obacco trade was made by repit atives of the so-called "tobacjst" before a sub-committee oJ enate finance committee. i Senate Saturday adopted th< num and minimum provisions of iriff bill by a vote of 36 to 16 irovisions of the measure go inect March 31, 1910, and 20 day? elapse before the President'i imation applying the maximun of 25 per cent ad valorem, in adto other duties, provided in th< will be operative. The Senat< d on the submission of an in tax amendment to the constitute the several Slates for ratifi i. isident and Mrs. Taft left ington Saturday afternoon foi ly, Mass.,, where Mrs. Taft an<, en will spend the summer. Th< dent, after speaking at the eele >n of the 250th anniversary ol bunding of Norwieh, Conn., ot lay, and participating is th? mtenary ealebration of the die y of Laka Champlain, will re tarn to Washington to await the ad [o Urn merit of Congieao. Orville Wright left Situday foi Dayton, 0V to get eloth for repair ing the lower plane of his machine irhich was badly ripped in strikiiif i tree Friday while the aviator wai gliding to earth. President T&ft Saturday was th< principal speaker at the unveiling o) >f granite monument erected in thii sity, as a memorial to the funder ol the Grand Army of the Republic if a j or Benjamin Franklin Stephen ion, of Iillinoia. The monument ii he first of its kind. NKWSY GLEANINGS. New York City realised only ' >00 from Its first day's tax sale The Senate refused to low* luty on cash registers or farm : nents. Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia, vas succeeded in office by Joseph M. grown. Protests against the President's nan ror a corporation tax flooded the (en ate. Abdallah, the strong man, killed tlmself In Ma home In a New York 31ty tenement. The bill appropriating 910,000,000 or taking the thirteenth census jassed'the Senate. The strike of the carmen complete7 tied up street car service in Pltts>urg, only one car carrying mall beng operated. Among early bills introduced In the Georgia Legislature was one to pro* libit intoxicated persona from operating automobiles. Scores of human skeletons and a letrjfled body, believed to be that of in Indian, were found by a party extlorlng a natural cave near Cordele, la. The Celtic brought into port at ?ew York City six Ballormen of the rhaltng brig Sullivan, who had driftid kIt davi and navon nl?hf? ??? oast of Africa. Four thousand men In Grand treet, New York City, attacked a moorman whose car had killed a little ;lrl and were driven back by the poIce with drawn revolvers. The Republic Iron and Steel Comlany joined the American Sheet and ?in Plate Company, a United States Iteel Corporation subsidiary. In delarlng for the open shop policy. SPORTIJKJ BKHVITLES. Verdun, owned by Baron Manrlee te Rothschild,, won the Grand Prix it Longchamps. J. R. Keene's Coronal won a selling take at Newbury, England, and was ild up to $3750. It took Harvard eleven tunings to lefeat Yale In the opening game of heir series at Cambridge. J. J. Lee, the Junior national cross ountry champion, won a ten-mile un from scratch In the gamed of he Cork Men's Association. The Stanford oarsmen will coach hemselves next season because the lonev allowed for rowing will not ermlt of re-engaging Dan Murphy. Miss Louise Hammond, of New 'ork, kept New York in the running or the national women's lawn tennis hamplonshlp by defeating her Mlnesota opponent. Miss Hazel Hotchklss, of Callforla, Is the new woman lawn tennis bamplon of the United Htntee rk? efeated Mrs. Barger Wallach, of New ork, by 6?0, 6?-1. Progress on Colombia's new ath?tlc Held Is rapid, and It certainly eglns to look like something now. here's a fine grassy Infield which ould do well for football. Dick Hyland's Ylctory over Leach ross In the forty-first round at Colla stunned the East Side sporting lement of New York Clty,.<as Cross' as regarded as a sure winner. Howe, of Yale, who won both urdle races In the Intercollegiate imes, ran altogether 660 yards over le sticks In semi-finals and finals on le second day of the meet. That Is pretty hard stunt for anybpdy. 8. C. Hildreth, who Is the first man i earn the distinction of owning and alnlng the winners of the three g spring handicaps?the Metropolan, Brooklyn and Suburban?In one sar, deserves the full credit for his iccess. FEMININE NEWS NOTES. The Queen of Rumania has written hlrty volumes. Florence Nightingale has entered er ninetieth year. Queen Alexandra Is said to be gainst woman suffrage. By a recent decree women are not llowed to engage In bullfights in ipaln. Patents for Inventions relating to ylng machines have been applied for y British women. Miss Mary Harrlman, eldest daugher of E. H. Harrlman, gave an Erie erryboat for a consumptive camp to irooklyn. Tha fllatarhnafl uBt opened a new branch in the form >f a home for Jewlah girls in East lixty-flrst street, New York City. Mother Frances Xavler Cabrini, luperior-Oeneral of the Missionary listers of the Sacred Heart, has reurned to this country from Brazil. Miss Josephine R. Upham has aeepted the post of woman missionary n the new American^Beamen's Friend lociety Institute in West street. New fork City. Mme. Poppova, a Russian woman, las invented a rudderless airship, ehlch she has named the annulated Iragon because of the peculiar shape if its body. Miss Charlotte Church, who Is caching in a new schoolhouse on the tecanlcum, Oregon, is "baching" In a :abln about a mile from her school, laving no near neighbors bat wild inlmals. wife in New York City who got i decree of separation in IdOl, with fit a week allsaony, told the court he other day that it haa coat her marly ltd every week steee that time eoUoet the fid. . ' \ Hit HEWS IH Hllff Ream of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Utt Items Osrerfag Erects of More or Less Interest at Borne aid Abroad. i Thj ' r*it bj ' <4ttuo ? tl ten* "?x w.'.. * '* ^ . M It brolftftit 1 ' t .a g ?j?av g i*er ' >* r.t: ftf >??'., ha v-.ii'- :!* ,i . .? . !? ! ^c\tt< .a ' cap.'t.i ,t v v.!, ?'h :o uab tee water. Little Loeretia Noma waa born six years ago in Omaha, Neb., with a deformed jaw. Some days ago the argeona took away the bad part of her jaw bone and inserted a chicken bone in its place. The operation is said to be a complete success. Joseph M. Brown was inaugurated governor of Georgia last Saturday and.governor Hoke Smith retired ap-, parenfly not in happy frame of mind. " Wheatland," the home of President James Buchanan at Lancaster, Pa., was destroyed by lightning lost week. The steamship Cartigo was 150 miles from New Orleans and by wireless called to the surgeons on shore for a prescription for a case of blood poison. It was promptly dispatched and when the ship arrived Friday the patient was improving. Bernard J. Dobbin, while setting a trawl got lost from his fishing vessel by a dense fog and drifted for eight days with a half pint of water and a little raw fish, when picked up almost famished and brought into Rockland, Maine, Monday. His mates searched for him 24 hours and he rowed his strength away trying to reach them. He saw a number of vessels pass but could not attract attention. A singular test was made in the Chicago Appelate court last week, where a physician claims that he was to give patient treatment for life and receive $100,000 at the death of the patient. The courts declared the contract void in that such contracts are fraught with the temptation for a physician to hasten the death of the patient. At the mortar gun practice last week at Fort Monroe, two companies made 50 per cent of hits while firing so rapidl}' that each gun kept two shots in the air at once all the time. The Virginia Passenger and Power Company will effect a complete physical reorganization of its railway lines in Richmond. There is a strange phenomenon in New York in the case of one Mary Moldon, a cook. She is known as "Typhoid Mary." She is, immune herself, but is infested with the germs and conveys them to those with whom she comes in contact. She has to be quarantined. Evidence has been found that Leon Ling tried to bury Elsie Sigel's body under the floor of the Harlem laundry. A dray was driven down Market street in San Francisco, Monday morning, hauling $10,000,000 in gold. Mrs. Louis La Bartia, in New York on Monday fired four pistol bullets into the man that killed her husband a year ago. Nine deaths in Philadelphia and ten in Chicago were recorded last Monday as heat fatalities. Washington News Notes. Marines have been restored to all the battleships and cruisers. Ex.-Gov. W. M. O. Dawson, of West Virginia, has been aDDointed a United States commercial agent is China. Fifty babiea and six adults have succombed to the heat in Washington the past week. New restrictions are imposed on the Civil Service law by the bill providing for the Thirteenth Census, which was sent to the President for his signature. The income tax resolution was reported to the Senate from the Finance Committee by Senator AJdrich Monday. At the very last moment cotton bagging and ammonia which enters into the Southern fertiliser business was voted into the senate tariff bill. The Senate put cotton bagging and binding twii^e on the free Hst Monday, and closed the discussion on the Payne-Aldrich b'\U schedules. Extensive experiments in wireless telegraphy will be made by the Atlantic fleet during its war maneuvers nflf *h. V.? J- T?1? I VMV *?vtt Uii^iaiiu V uoai ill Iiuijr* | The Aldrich committee and the | Senate have made a thousand changes in the House Tariff bill. Foreign Affairs. The thirteenth vain attempt of the militant suffragettes to obtain access to Premier Aequith by deputation resulted in exciting scenes in Parliment Square Wednesday night, and in the arrest of more than 100 women in London. later of Great Britain and Lord nmbia, is in London for his health and it is rumored that he will w# retprn to his Sooth dmarisan Stale bat he eeeer*~ t-> * <? ?his>i i 111 ? i m 'P' wm vmT r-wr . . , AREGRANTEDNEW TRIAL Supreme Court Reverses Verdict is ' the Oases Against the Murderers of Captain Quentin Rankin on Technical Grounds. Jackson, Tenn., Special.?The eases of the eight night riders, 6 of y whom were uider the death sentence charged with the murder of Captain Quentin Rankn, at Walnut Log, on Reel Foot late October 19 last, were reversed by the State Supreme i " ~ ' ' ' remand jd j i f * , > ? i"".. TiT' r H i ' . o-' rv i ... i ? J?h ?n. " ! i . '?) j.i r.?' . r *ia Ouva cv/uitij y aal'ii/ul Cloar, Fred Pinioi, Sam Applewhite, Tid Burton and ?oy Ransom. The other two, Bud Morris and Bob Huffman, were convicUi of murder in the second degree. s? The opinion in tie case was deliverpH hv Snppiol .Tndlao ? J Wfrvvawa v umiVC 11C1II ^ V/I U1 iff of Memphis, appoiited in the stead of Justice M. M. Nil. In reversing the <ase, he assigned two principal reason. The first was that the grand jury rhich found the indictments against tie alleged night riders, was not seelced in a proper manner. The grand jiry was selected out of a panel nan?d by Judge J. E. Jones, the trial judje, whereas the law provides the panelmust be chosen by at least three n-inhere of the * county court. The seond error oil which the reversal was jased is that the State did not allow the defendants a sufficient numbr of challenges. The eight were ried on one indictment and trial cour upheld the State's contention that te eight defendants were only enti'ed to the legal number of challenge, twentyfour, which would apply ! on8 man was on trial. When Justice Craft conluded hie opinion a storm of applase broke out in the court room, but vis quickly stopped by the marshal and hie deputies. The nrisoners willh^ lot en back to Union City and<, will be made to secure theii on bail pending a second > their cases. Those most active in the prose tion of the alleged riders of K Foot lake consider the situation n> such as may again assume a serif, phase. That it will be difficult l secure a jury to again hear the case is conceded and as yet no decision has been reached by the representatives of the State as to their future plans. An immediate trial of other pending cases of a similar nature, however, is not looked for. Killed Whole Family. Aberdeen, S. D., Special.?J. W. Christie, a farmer living near here, his wife, his daughter Mildred, aged 18 years, nnd a boy named Roy:nainef were murdered Saturday. Mr. Christie was milking a cow in his barnyard when the unknown person or persons shot him dead. The murderers hurried to the house .? and fining Mrs. Christie and her daughter and the Roymaine boy, who was visiting at the house, they began firing upon them. The first shots took effect and the two women and the boy fell dead. It is supposed the men who com- ^ mitted the crime were acquainted to some extent with the Christie family nnd their habits, for few people knew that Christie kept large sums of money in his house. It is believed he had several thousand dollars in VlVC nrv> A of * ! *? ^ 1 * ? * mo iivinc at i iic iline ox. xnf muraer* The entire countryside is wrought up. Bands of farmers were immediately organized and search for the murderers was begun. The farmers threaten the murderers with lynching if they are caught. Mr. Christie was one of the most , prosperous farmers in the Northwest. Continued Earth Shocks Keep Messina Alarmed. ? Messina, By Cable.?Seven earth shocks of Saturday and Sunday which have kept the populace in a . state of Alarm. A fire broke oat in the wreckage, and while the troops were trying to extinguish the flames another fire started at Milazzo, a short distance away. . A Woman's Heroism. Mobile, Ala., Special.?W. L S:r:eon, bridge-keeper for the Loi. - 1 * ft Nashville at Bayou Sara, v'-t., early Thursday night wds in h near the bridge when lightaing i . !!<-..! I him and threw his bodv into C water in front of his wife and ",!) child. Mrs. Samson remained the bridge all Thursday night ant 'ho greater part of Friday alone wi < 1 r child, seeing that trains could . <-1j pass the structure. As it was not & stopping point she could not get assistance until Saturday when she succeeded in flagging a train. Boll Weevil Reaches Mississippi. New Orleans, Special.?A reportthat the boll weevil in its flight east* ward has reached Pike county, Mia* aissippi, and that several specimens ' were fonnd near Magnolia, that State, is contained in Thb Picayune'a weekly summary of cotton crop conditions in Mississippi and Louisiana. | The pest appears to have gained an early start this season in the infested I territory and planters are abandonI ? rr-nl ridden eotton.