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F > VOL. XII. CABINET TROUBLES^ Count Hedervary Has Audience With Emperor Francis Joseph. THE HUNGARIAN CRISIS IMINENT A Total of Four Vacant Cabinet Positions and O.ie Secretaryshly Now at the Disposal ef Hr. Balfour. Vienna, Special.?Count Hedcrvary, who placed his resignation as Hungarian Premier in the hands of Emperor Francis Joseph, some tfme ago, had audiencies with the Emperor, which, It is reported, have led to the solution of the Hungarian cabinet crisis, and a ministry will be formed either by Count Julius Audrassy or M. Kolomna S. Zell. Should this news be confirmed it will bo iluc to the correct and patriotic attitude of Francis Kossuth and his party. Kossuth declared resolutely against anything in the shape of a resolution and even forbade any street demonstration on the anniversary of his father's birthday. It is understood that the official communication explaining away the unfavorable construction placed in Hungary on the army order issued by the Emperor. September 17. will Ik* issued in the form of an imperial auto graph rescript addressed to Count Hedervary and this proof that the Emperor did not desire to ruffle Hungarian susceptibilities will be oniphasized by another imperial visit to Huda-Pesth as an indication of his continued confidence and good will. London. Special.?Lord Balfour, of Burleigh, Secretary for Scotland, and Arthur Ralph Douglass Elliott. Financial Secretary to the Treasury, have resigned and their resignations have been accepted by the Kiug. Mr. Elliott was not in the cabinet. These two resignations make a total of four vacant cabinet positions and one secretaryship at Mr. Balfour s disposition. With the resignation of Lord Balfour and Financial Secretary Elliot, both strong free traders, it is understood that the ministerial resignations are completed and apparently the Ihine of Devonshire has decided to remain in the cabinet. It is practically certnin t V* o* A ni i ? - - v..... nnouii viiAiniKtriuin, ljnra Milner and Mr. Ilrodrick will take the Exchequer, Colonies and India portfolios, respectively, and the only surprise In the new appointments is likely to be the nomination of a strong man to the War Office to determine how far the recommendations of the South African war commission can be carried out. Home Secretary Ackers-Douglass started for Halmoral and he probably will be involved in the reconstruction changes. Th.1 Sultan Hxplains. Constantinople, Ry Cable.? In an audience with M. Zlnovieff. the Russian ambassador, Friday, the Sultan expressed his regret at the excesses committed by the Turkish troops in the vlllayets of Monastic and Adrianopie. Ho said that orders had been sent to the authorities concerned to prevent their repetition and he gave the Russian ambassador to understand that the guilty parties would be punished. The fie man ambassador, llaron Ma schall Von Bloherslcin. also had an audience with tho Sultan, who showed himr.elf most optimistic. The latter declared that the insurrection was drawing to a close. In fact, it had a!- 1 ready been suppressed in some clis- j triefs and the Potte. therefore, immediately would issue proclamations an- i iiouncing the resumption of the application of the reform srheme. After the granting of these audience an extraordinary council of ministers was held at the Yiosk, and the deliberations were continue l on Saturday. Ofllrial dispatches from the villayets of Salonica, Monastir and Adrianople report numerous encounters which resulted in favor of the Tu-ks. Arrest of State Senator. Ringhamton. N. Y., Special.?An arrest which has been expected for some time occurred when Postofffce Inspeitor Mayer, of Chicago, and Deputy United States Marshal Blaek cf this city, arrested State Senator fieo. R. Green, at the ofli'e of his attorneys, Roberts. Tuthill &. Rogers. Green was arratgnod before United States Commissioner Hall and entered a plea of not guilty and his bail was fixed at $5,000. Robrrt Enim-tt's flarty rd<>m. New York, Special.?The Academy of Music was filled to overflowing Sunday night by a meeting held under the auspices of the Clan-Gaol, to commemorate the centenary of the martyrdom of Robert Emmet. The auditorium was draped with American an ' Irish flags and the Irish national 3pir: found expression in continuous applause as the speakers dwelt upon I v land's wrongs and the hopes of ire land's sons. Resolutions were pn.-si,e declaring the only proper settlement c the differences between Ireland am' England to be the abolition of Engib rule in Ireland and pledK^d the Clnn na-Gael to work for the establishment of an Irish republic. OR! fo: TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. f Young Man Shot to Death for the Crime of Seduction. Salisbury, Special.?A homicide with peculiar tragic circumstances occurred at 7 o'clock Thursday morning at Mt. t'lla, a station in Rowan county on the Mooresville-Winston Railroad, about seven miles from Mobresville and 16 miles through the country from Salisbury, Russell Sherrill, a young man of prominent family, being shot and killed by Thomas J. and Chalmers I.. White, of Concord, in an altercation ' growing out of the seduction bv Slier- I rill of Miss Annie White, the orphan > niece of the two slayers. All those Involved In the affair arc of prominent family and of high personal standing. Immediately after the shooting the White brothers set out for Salisbury, driving at high speed, with the intention of surrendering themselves to the | sheriff. County Commissioner Joseph Hall and several other citizens of the i | vicinity started out in pursuit, but i learning the purpose of the brothers on I coming ivithin signaling distance, they accompanied them to the end of their I journey. Senator Ixm? S. Overman. ' i Congressman Theo. F. Kluttz and lodge W. J. Montgomery were retained as counsel. Judge Montgomery arriving from Concord by the 11:25 train in | response to a telegram. After consultation with their attorneys, the Messrs. White expressed their willingness to go to jail without a commitment. While showing the concern natural to quiet citizens finding themselves for tno ursi ume in collision wiin tne law, they gave no indications of a sense of guilt and boldly declared themselves abundantly justified in what they had dene. In the Superior Court this afternoon their counsel gave notice of a motion to set a date for a hearing on the question of bail. Judge Brown stated that he would notify Solicitor W. C. Hammer, whose home is at Asheboro. and after his arrival, which is expected, appointed the date for the hearing. The following statement was made reived a letter from Mrs. Samuel Archer, whose first husband was their brother, James White, the father of the young lady in the case, the letter reading. Annie is ruined. My God! What shall I do? Please come at onee." These gentlemen, being the unrles and nearest male protectors of Miss White, their dead brother's daughter, hired a team in Concord and drove to the home of Mrs. Archer, where they spent the night. They found Mrs. Archer and Miss White in great distress. This morning, shortly after C o'clock, they went to the home of Mr. Sherrill, who had seduced their niece under promise ; ^f marriage, and afterwards refused to marry her, and conversed with him on the porch. They asked him to keep his promise of marriage and he answered that he would die first. They still insisted thnt he marry her, and he started , towards Mr. Chalmers White in a ; inrcuirmug muuinp. nom inc iiroia' ors retreated to the end of the porch | and told him to sit down and reason | p.bout the matter; that all they asked was that he marry Miss White. Sherrill continued to advance in striking ; attitude and both the brothers fired." River Steamer Burned. Jacksonville. Special.- The now steamer Eunola was burned in the Appalachicola river at Chattahoochee, last Monday. She had just landed with a cargo of naval stores and spirits of turpentine, all of which was a total loss. Several of the crew had to jump In the river and swim ashore. The engineer was badly bruised about the hands and arms. The mate in attempting to jump had ins leg broken. The wires are still down to the west and the first through train arrived last night. Fresh From ?he Wires. A New York dispatches says: *At a meeting of the hoard of directors of :ho New York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company here Saturday. ~has. S. Mellen, was elected a din ctor to fill the vacancy caused by tue icath of Carlos French. Richard A. MeCurdy, of New York, president of .he Mutual IJfe Insurance Company. nus uiou viei'icu a uiri'ciur in piuce 01 JoseDh Parks, deceased." A dispatch from Luxora, Ark., says: 'Negroes overpowered the sheriff here, cok out a negro named Hellom and >angrd him to a water tank, where his oody was left dangling until this Tiorning. Ilellom was charged with issaulting two negro girls, aged 5 ami 10 years." Judge John M. Lea, of Nashville, '.led at midnight at Monteagle. Tenn., Saturday night. He was' in his 8.itit .car and was one of the wealthiest and jest known citizens of Tennessee. Debates continued in the Socialist congress at Dresden. Cardinal Gibbons arrived at Cherbourg on his way home. The Feast of the Cross passed at Beirut without disturbance. " mi: RT MILL, S. C., WEDN PRESIDENT SPEAKS^ His Speech Delivered During a Heavy Downpour of Rain. 4NTEITAM MONUMENT UNVEILED. Gov. riurphy Acc pts the Honumcnt for the State and tlie President Acc.-pis It on B.liaif ot the I cd-.-ral Government. Sharpsburg, Md., Special.?Under lowering skies, the magniticent muuumeat erected on the historic battlefield of Antietam by the grateful State of New Jersey to its men who fell in the great engagement, was dedicated Thursday. Tue occasion was rendered particularly notable by the participation in the ceremonies of the President of the United States ami of Governor Murphy, the Chief Executive of the Siate which was honoring us heroes. The monument is in the form of an ornate Corinthian column of granite, 40 lcct high, surmounted by a heioic sgure lii oionze of an oiticer with up| raised sword leaning iiis men 111 a charge. Governor ruuipny, of New ' Jersey, accepted the monument m au addiess. President Roosevelt, as he arose to accept the monument on behalf of the Federal government, was accorded an ovation, lie spoke in part as follows: I Governor Murphy; and you. Veterans j of New J?.rsey; and you. men of tho ' Grand Army, and all others here. 1 greet you; I thank you of New Jersey for tho monument to the troops of New Jer- | ; soy who fought at Antletam, and on 1 i behalf of the nation 1 accept the gift. I i \\ e meet upon one of the great battle- j ' holds of the civil war. No other bat- i tie of the civil war lasting but one 1 (lav shows as ureal. a IHiriontn loss as thai which occurred here upon the day on which Antietam was fought. Moreover, in its ultimate of- ! fecis this liattle was of momentous ! and even decisive importance, for when it had ended and L.ee had ; retreated south of the Potomac, IJn I coin forthwith published that immor- | tal paper, the prelimiuary declara- j tion of emancipation; the paper which decided that the civil war, be- ! sides being a war for the preserva- i tion of the Union, should be a war for the emancipation of the slave, so that from that time onward the cause of Union and of freedom, of national greatness and individual liberty, were one and the same. Men of New Jersey, I congratulate your State Ixxause she has the right to claim her full share in the honor and glory of that memorable day; and j I congratulate you. Governor MurI phy, because on that day you had the high good fortune to serve as a lad ! with credit and honor in one of the I five regiments which your State sent to the battle. Four of those rogii ments, by the way, served in the dlJ vision commanded by that gallant sol; dier. Henry W. Sloeum. whom we of New York can claim as our own. The j otlnr regiment, that in whieh Gover; nor Murphy served, although praetli cally an entirely new regiment, did work as good as that of any veteran | organization upon the field, and aufI fered a proportionate loss. This regii ment was at one time ordered to the i support of a division commanded by j another New York soldier, the gallant j General Greene, whose son himself i ?crven us u major-generai in tne war with Spain and who is now as police commissioner of New York, rendering i as signal service in civil life as he had already rendered in military life. If the is.-ne of Antietam had been other than it was. it is probable that at least two great European powers would have recognized the independence of the Confederacy; so that you who fought here fortv-one years ago have the profound satisfaction of feeling that you played well your part in one of those rri ces big with the fr.te of all mankind. You men of the Grand Army bv your victory not only rendered all Americans yonr debtors forevermore, hut vou rendered all humanity your debtors. If the Unior,ha 1 been dissolved, if the great eniflce built with blood and sweat and tears by mighty Washington and his rompeers had gone down in wreck and ruin, the result would have been an incalculable calamity, not only for our people?and most of all for those who. in such event would have seemingly triumphed?but for all mankind. The great American republic would have become a memory of derision; and the failure of the experiment of self-government by a great people on a great scale would have delighted tho honrt r.f Avnrv fnn />f r/.nnl.i!. ' ? institutions. Our country, now so groat and so wonderful, would have been snlit into litt 1? janeling rival nationalities. oaoh with a historvbc.th bloody and contemptible. It was because you. the men who wear the button of the Grand Army, triumphed in those dark years that every American now holds his head high, proud in the knowledge that he belongs to a na tion whose glorious past and great j present will be succeeded bv an even mightier future; whereas had vou failed we would all of us. North and South. East and West, be now treated bv other nations at the beft with contemptuous tolerance; at the worst with overbearing Insolence. The president then argued that the need of thn world's ltbertv and ore- ! gross demanded that the fr>dp-al , armies should win the fleht He moke ! of the great gallantrv of both a,-ral->? ; His audience listened with good attention although a drenching rain was falling. LL ' ESI) AY, SEPTEMBER THE STORM'S WORK Reports of Destruction Wrought By the Southern Gale i Ml'CII OF THE AREA STILL CUT OFF j Wires Down rod Trains Running Ofi j Time?Some Loss cf Lit; and flach J Damage to Property. Jacksonville. Special.?Further news of the storm continues to arrive, though a large part of the storm ji?i |n urea nas noi neen ncaru irom. Wires are still down and it is impossible to get trains through on aecount of washouts. Three negroes w< re killed by falling timbers at the camp of the Cummer Lumber Company, near flainesville, and another was seriously hurt and he will probal lv die. A dwelling and several cotta; os were w ocked. At Mulberry the phosphate plants are reported ns greatly damaged. They have been compelled to shut | down until the water subsides. At liar- ; tow the roof was blown from the liar- ' tow House and from the residence o' j the president of the South Florida Military College. A number of mutes were killed by the falling of an old shod at Phosphoria. From all parts of the State great damage to the tur- . pe.it ine industry is reported. Wire connection was made Tuesday ! night with Arcadia, in DeSoto county, j about 40 miles further south than Tampa. A special from that, place to The Times-Union says: "Reports are slowly coming in of i dam aire done hv th<> hiirripnnn wniov I night and Saturday. No trains are I running south of Zolfo. The damage to the orange grvm s is very groat : Orange men estimate the loss of the : crop from 25 to 40 per cent. The loss | to the county by damage to bridges ! and the roads will amount to |10.000. j Many orange trees were torn to ; pieces, the fruit splitting and dropping to the ground. The roads are impas- : sable, the farmers having difficulty in ! getting food supplies. Many houses j were blown down, but the only loss of life is Hugh Morton, who was drown- j ed at Wilder's saw mill." A train got through the storm dis- J triet of middle Florida. The damage j is not as heavy as was supposed. The 1 cotton crop was greatly injured by 1 the heavy rains and the turpentine industry is Injured. New York, Special.?The Munson Line steamer Olinda arrived in port j from Havana in a disabled condition. Cm September 11 the Olinda encountered the hurricane off the coast of * Florida. Tremendous seas swept the | decks repeatedly, carried away a life ; boat, and disabled the steering gear, i After considerable difficulty control of | the steann r by the hand-gear was oh- 1 tained. Capt. Hanson estimated the force <if the wind at 00 miles an hour at. its height. The Olinda after the storm was steered with the partlydamaged hand-sti ering gear. Macon, (la.. Special.?The Telegraph's dispatch from Molutrie, (la., i says a cyclone from the southwest struck the northern part of the town ( at 2 o'clock Tuesday morning and j caused damage to the amount of about 1 $20,000. Three churches, including the Primitive Ilaptist. which was valued at $10,000, were practically destroyed. A pine products plant and a cotton seed oil mill was wrecked and a score or more of small houses were blown clown. Tin re; was no loss of life. It is believed that the storm spent Itself in the vicinity. Fire !n liahlmorc. Baltimore, Special.?A fire destroyed the buildings, rlan and stork of the Itasin Monumental Fertiliser Company, at Fairfield. Anne Arundel county. The loss is estimated at $.",00,000. The plant was Insured for $323,000 and the stork for $117,000. Fifteen buildings scattered over 20 acres woro consumed. Two hundred and fifty men were thrown out of work by the fire Labor Agent Lynched. Conterville, Miss., Special.?William Williams, colored, was lynched on Main street here by a mob of several hundred people. Williams, who was a labor agent, has been here several clays employing negroes for contractors in other section of the State, and It is alleged that he enticed several employes to leave. James II. Germany remonstrated with him about his con duct. A quarrel followed and Williams drew a revolver and shot Germany dead. The negro attempted to escape hut a mob was quickly on his heels and he was captured and shot to death. riME 23,1903. LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. | Msny Alottcrs of General Interest In Short Paragraphs. Down in Dix e. Furnifold CI. Simmons, the aged father of I'tiited States Senator F. M. Simmons, was murdered near Polled, svi lie. NT. C. At least nine lives were lost in the Florida hurricane, many vessels were I wrecked and the property loss may tea h millions of dollars. lit v. Mr. Kllcnhorg. leader of the Holiness sect in Anniston, Ala., was arrested for refusing medical aid to his little daughter. The report of army engineer officers | ' a a.nu ui rsumaii' tut* cost of a inlaiul j water route from Now York to Beaufort Inlet, N. (\. to bo $15,000,000. Dr. Don. CI. Broughton. pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle. of Atlanta, and formerly of Raleigh. and Roanoke, I Va.. has been railed to the pastorate of the Clarendon Street Baptist church, j the largest church In Boston, and the , presidency of Cordon Missionary i Training School. In thai city. At Th'* National Capital. Prrsident Roosevelt explains that | the Dipton dinner incident arose from his disinclination to attend a semipublic dinner, and that he had no objection to meeting Sir Thomas. Secretary Hitchcock announced the | removal of John A. Sterrett, of Ohio, ; as townsito commissioner for the Cherokee Indian Nation, in Indian Territory. and the appointment of Dwight Tut tie. of Connecticut, as his suet i saor. At The North. Ttohcrt S. Hatcher, who was well known In Washington, committed sui- j cide in St. Ixnils. President Roosevelt and wife were caught In a storm Wednesday and their yacht came near foundering. The National Association of Rural Lotter-Carricrs elected P. H. Cunningham, of Nebraska, president. District Attorney Jerome, of New j York, is said to have declared Mayor Low cannot be re-elected. Although martial law cannot be declared, militia officers at Cripple Creek. Col., say they will ignoro the civil authorities. Save in New York city, where misgivings are not strong, however, there seems to be a general confidence in the continuance of prosperity. In a speech at Chicago Representative Joseph G. Canon said: "Our currency is better than any currency in the world and we will keep it good." A New York dispatch says that an additional chapter in the history of the world will be published there and London, by the Frederick A. Stokc3 Company. It consists of the correspondence between Bismarck and William I. and other letters from and to statesmen. From Across The Sea. The insurgents decided to adopt guerrilla tactics in Eastern Macedonia.; Order continues at Beirut. Syria, and J the recall of the American squadron i3 ( expected soon. A large number of recent crimes in ' Armenia are blamed on a secret organization resembling the Mafia. Great Britain and Japan decided to protest separately to China against accepting the latest Russian demands in icgard to Manchuria. An expedition which went to Cocoa Island, in the Pacific, In search of buried treasure rctu.ned empty-' handed. Joseph Chamberlain was hissed by i workingmen before a meeting of the Cabin't in London. Chancellor of tin* Exchequer Ritchie is expected to resign. owing to bis differences from Mr. Chamberlain. j 1 Ml-c 'Urn mmis flatters. A fear that the gulf storm would in- ' jure the crop paused a rise of 30 points ' in September eoiton in New York. The second anniversary of the death j of President MeKinley was observed < in different sections of the country, a 1 heroic statue being unveiled at Tole- 1 do. Ohio. , Senator Hall, of Delaware, declares j he protested to Postmaster-dene, al j Payne against the removal, one of | whom was Miss lluhla Todd, of ? Greenwood. t The United Stales Realty and Con- r struetion Company underwriting syn- i dieate was dissolved in New York at' < a heavy loss. | 1 Alleged Irregularities In the elgar I ' department of the Rastern Penl-! 1 tentiary at Philadelphia are being investigated by Internal Revenue of-: ' f'.cors. At a colored conference in Newark, N. J., a negro preacher defended lynching. Rural free-delivery carriers have formed a national organization with a view to securing certain reforms. President Castro, of Venezuela, is massing troops aP-ng the Colombian frontier and there is talk of war. Ouiet continues n? hut ?>m Christian refneees encamped in the [ mountains refuse to return. Premier Combes, who made n t speech at the unveiling of a memorial , to Kin est Renan at Tiegulcr, IJrit- ^ tnny. was hissed and the troops were j called to suppress disorder. ?, Prince Chlng. head of the Peking f Foreign Office, is inclined to accept \ the new Russian propositions for the p evacuation of Manchuria. a NO. 27. CONVICTS PARDONED The Peonage Cases Settled tjr Release Fri tn Trison. o ALABAMA PHSONERS SIT FREE. Reasons for Exfcuilve Cl.m;ncy Given?The President Ac's In tlia Interest of Mercy. Wasth inert on. Snprinl.?Th.? Onwl. dent has granted full and unconditional pardon to Goo. Davis and Harancas F. Cosby. convicted at Montgomery, Ala., of violation of the peonage law. These men were Indicted for holding Pike Swanson in a condition of peonage, pleaded guilty on June 30. 1903, and on the same day were sentenced to imprisonment for a year and a day in the United States penitentiary at Atlanta. Ga. They have been imprisoned ev? r since, and were released on telegraphic instructions from the Department of Justice. During the month of June more thai* eighty indictmcuts against a number of individuals, fur violation of the peonage law, were returned by the grand jury at Montgomery, and several convictions were secured, the sentences imposed ranging from the minimum, one year, to the maximum, five years. The President granted the pardons in the above cases upon the earnest recommendation of Judge Jones, who sentenced the prisoners. In his letter to the President, Judg<* Jones says: "The favorable recommendation uun uiauv |u urtvilN (Ml [III 1UI *. I lliru the sentences were unjus,.. hut solely from the conviction that the punish merit already undergone hy the priwooers has accomplished all the real end* of the la v in these eases. "The prisoners have undergone thehumiliation of imprisonment in the penitentiary, the sting of condemnation by their neighbors and associates and the wide publicity of their offense. They have been separated from thoir families, and hs>vo worn stripes. There is no ground for believing that they will ever again, under any circumstances. whatever, engage in like practices. They attempted no defense, but pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity. They were contrite and admitted that they justly deserved punishment. The reform of offenders themselves, so far as the law contemplates that has been completely effected by the punishment. "The question of pardon may, therefore. be properly considered now solely as regards its effect upon the ad inxiii?iimurn i.i jiK-ure ?\n11 me puoiic welfare. The law has been thoroughly vindicated, and the evil against which it was directed, in there communities, has been completely crushed. Connivance with the abuses of corrupt magistrates in that locality in the exercise of power to hire out of fenders for payment of fine a*"! c~u's on conviction for small and ofu r? sham offenses, in order to reap profit for the hirer, has been thoroughly exposed and broken up. It lias met the hearty reprobation of the gr at mass of the people in all walks of life. Tin example has been all sufficient to deter others from like offenses in the future. "The press, the pulpit, the bar an I the people at large, as well as those in Tallapoosa county, have lie n outspoken in their gratification that the evil has been broken up and hav heartily commended the cour e of the authorities in dealing with it. This spirit, as you will .< > by the nreom panyng petitions, actuates the pc.iplo of that county, who, in numerous meetings have askc d the pardon of the prisoner. Among th si ae-.s of petition \ for pardon are many negroes. They Veel safe from anv repetition at* like offense, and join with thoir whito neighbors in thos petitions for rdeinency, believing, in thi- instance, that it will redound to the public :;ooil. and Bnvir.tii 1 eo rclnth ns he Lween the races. The f?r at l?odv of the l??ople|<jf Tallapoosa comity have, in 'tToct, became sponsors for the good jehavi.jr of tho prisoners, and the oval observance of the law In till : ospect by all others in the future. A niblic opinion, stroiif-'cr even than the lower af tho law, has been a rouse I o stanl tip in the future for ju the :nd fal* plav to tlif weak. Granting he pra-'cr of these petitioners would eccBniro and strengthen these moral nfluenecs. which, at last, are the only mdurlnp foundations of a rflgn or aw. I cannot doubt that Rood would (,rac from granting the prayer i f the letltloners. After much reflection and onsiderptlon of the rr.e.tUr. I unhealntinpdv recommend :n imniediai an t inccndlt' mal pardon." V Cyclone at Atlantic Cl'y. Atlantic City, N. J., Special.?The ;torm which utrurk the Now Jersey oast early Wednesday morning was >ne of the stvcrest experienced for a ong time. The wind blew with htirieane force and tvHlo it lnsied kept jp a speed of 70 fn'.ies an hour. The. itorni wes terrifying to a decree, but he damage was not as great as was it first b dleved. A conservative guess dares th? entire tfnmage at $25,000 or >50.000. The telefftaph and telephone inca leading out of the city are down ind the fact that the city was cut off rom connection with the outside vorld started wild rumors that the treat resort had been entirely swept iway. I m,.