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: ' 1 THE VOLUMK XV11. NC> ?A.MI>HN.S.O..Hal>AV.ClCT"W>? '? Promise of Temporary Occupation Received With Enthusiasm. 7 TAFT PROVISIONAL GOVERNOR s Agree to Disarm?Cuban I'iuK to Slay l'p?Political I'rls oihtm Iteleased? (Jen. l-'uiiHton Commuiuls United States force*. Havana, Cuba.?With far loss os tentation than accompanies the ac cession of a new municipal adminis tration, the Government of Cuoa was formally taken over by William II. VrTal't, Secretary of War of the United States, who, in a proclamation, couched in a kindly and diplomatic tone, Indicative of the policy he would pursue, declared himself Provisional Governor <rf the Island. Mr- Taft's announcement of the In tentions of the United States Is re- I garded as a masterpiece. It declared -that- as the Cuban Congress had failed to electi a successor to President Ualina,'\Vhoi>e decision to resign was irrevocable, the country was without a government and that the United .Stales 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 ho stated the necessity for the assump tion of control, a determination to es A feeliug of relief la ever) whftt# mnni'.t-sicd ovor what is regarded as the oiul of (In* strife in Cuba. The Cu ban Co\eminent officials and iiolicl < ians were not much In evidence, but ovon among them expressions of satisfaction wore not uncommon over the fact that a reliable Coverti ment had control of the island's af fairs. Everybody seems inclined to Agree that the future is much bright er than it would have been under other conditions. Implicit confidence is expressed in the good faith of the United States, and while no one in willing to predict the duration of the American occupation, the Cubans, as a rule are hopeful that /the soverlgn ty of the republic will eventually be be restored to them. AHMV OP OCCUPATION. Force of .VJ.12 Men Started l<*or Cuba at Once. Washington, D.C.?The President, acting on the request of Secretary Taft, ordered the troops, 565 2 in number, which had received "pre paratory orders," to sail for Cuba. The necessary orders were imme diately telegraphed to commanding officers of organizations and to staff officers. Special trains were 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 Sum ner will carry the first organization. With the troops which are to go forward and the marines and blue Jackols already in Cuba, the UttltSd States force will somewhat exceed 1 ft,000 men, and it is hoped that this number will prove sufficient to gar rison the island. Already there are 400(^sallors and 2000 marines in Cu ban waters. General Franklin Hell, Chief of Staff of the army, authorized the an ISLAND OF CUBA, OVER WhUh THE UNITED STATES IIAS AS ST.\i KD TEMPORARY CONTROL. fablish peace, and the Intention of ^continuing the country's constltu y^y?al.c"urso wlth its ovvn citizens up "** * Ifter the nev/ elections, which ktermine tlie futuru permanent government of the island. No ras menaced; nil were reassured, favorable reception of the procla was universal and pro iced. troops were landed. The Cuban ^remains flying in its accustomed Its courts aro unchanged and is no disturbance of the usual jr of things. It had been planned * ind 3000 marines and jackies _tlic licet in the harbor as soon jVas learned that the Cuban Con would not meet to ele'ct a sue to President Pal ma. These .to be camped in various open in the city for its protection, lis plan was abandoned. 1 ? ?resident Palma's request thirty js were sent from the Newark ird the Treasury, and this is> force that has beeu landed, ight of a large body of foreign occupying their city was thus the Cubans, and they appreciat fact and remained perfectly or The feelings of some were to be hurt, but the sight ?u own flags all day and the ab ~of a uniformed invader under ilmstances made them happy, beratlpn of sixty-odd political added to the general satis over the peaceful ending of lolerable situation. In the J^not the slightest friction oc jiywhere, and if fn the hearts politicians who brought on '.nfall of the first republic soreness, the great mass of le feel only joy at the pros a second more completely sategfiarded by their powerful friend on thej.north. Tfte Commission to superintend the P laying --down of arms by the rebels ur~ will Thtit all the rebel camps through out the island. It will also disarm the*vifilllanteer forces of the Govern mentHioavins the Cuban forces as thejr- ftxistPtl prior to the rebellion. Ths-Commission will be accoiupnuit'd by fe?Bil?ursing ofllcer who will pay the expenses of the return homn of the.rebels and thus avoid any dissat isfaction. ^ItyEfernor Taft received many prominent Cubans, Including the .May6f~and municipal olllrers and su t'jrifiMSm'wera and catt lo breeders of IrCam&gUoy. The latter complained to him that anarchy was rampant in the Province of Puerto Principe, that many of thoir-ffatle nnd horsas harl be?S*oleIh^nd\that some women bad been assaulted. Captain McCoy ainirwf them that lAmorican soldiers woatd be there wlyiln a week. Funs'.? n conferred with ?r.-- Tfr, iBiift regarding the location of 'or the first division of r'Tthti'^WPrlcan troops to be landed General Funston will com the troops In Cuba, but If eed the dimensions of a brl oftlcer of higher rank will be m the United States. It 1b fciBBiy certain, however,'that Ml ntingency will arlsu, as it Is h. 'CiflMUt that the maintenance of the mal GoverJiment will npt. re largc number of troops. \ KusUisnfc*. iU*4 of Army ammunition, en , Newport News and attached Jon Pacific train, caught fire ??c(n? snftrks and was cut. out train at Papilllon, Neb. F<rt* Stbe dti*ens stuck their He bullets from tho explod tridges fl^f in all directions. ^ Relief Reduced. ? r iandsco belief Corpora laced its ranging expenses $63,059 for October. nouncument 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 Btigadlpr-General Funston, now in Havana with Secre tary Taft. Although the present or dered destination is Cuba, different transports may go to different Cuban ports, according to recommendations from General Funston. Major-General Theodore J. Wint, now commanding the Department of tho 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 gliard at Newport News two companies of coast artillerymen from rtVort Monroe. The organizations to participate in the expedition to Cuba are the follow ing: Fifth Infantry, Colonel Calvin D. Cowles commanding:, Plattsburg Bar racks, N. Y. Eleventh Infantry, Colonel Albert L. Myer commanding. Fort D. A. Rus sell, Wyo. Seventeenth Infantry, Colonel John |T. Van Orsdale commanding. Fort McPherson, Ga. Twenty-aeventh 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 command ing, Fort Sheridan, 111. Seventeenth Battery Mountain Ar tillery. Captain- George I..eU. Irwin commanding, Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Eighteenth Battery Mountain Ar tillery, Captain E. M. Blake com I niaflding, Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Second Battalion Engineers, Major William C. LanglHt commanding, Washington Barracks, D. C. Company 1 Signal Corps, Captain George S. Gibbs, Fort Omaha, Neb. The total strength of the first. ex pedition will comprise 562 o(ftrevs and men made op as follows: j Two battalions with regimental headquarters and band, thirty-six officers and 555 enlisted men, from each regiment of infantry and cav alry, one machine gun for each platoon, twenty-one enlisted men. Each battery, Jive officers, 120 en listed 'men. Battalion engineer*, fifteen officers. 4 IS enlisted men. Signal company, three officers, ir>0 enlisted men. Medical department, thirty-six officers, f?71 enlisted men. Brigadier-General Sharp. Chief of tho Commissary, directed the imme diate 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 bough^ will last the 5600 men of the first ex pedition thirty days. Preparations are bsiug made for two shipments to follow the expedition, each large enough to feed the soldiers for a month. Thus they will be supplied N??at?r Itojley. A mut mectiaic of Democrats at Quitman, Texas, bas expressed its dis approval of Senator Bailey's course in acting is counsel for a Standard Oil concern. Newsboy For Harvard. Meyer Hitler, a Boston newsboy, was named by President Eliot to be tbe first holder ,of the scholarship in Harvard University founded - by tbs Boston Newsboy Union. - m with food for three months. After thai the commlKKary officers In t'yba will provide i Ivii own food under the direction of ihe comma tiding offi cers In iin? field. General Sha,rp also mndt> arrange ments for the immediate shipment to Newport New* of l'?,000 emurgouey rations. Thesu camu from Kansas City, where I hey uro manufactured. An emergency ration is in u sealed can, weighs hut twenty ounces aad has enough condensed food in it for three meals. 'Ine.se rations are used only in case:i of great necessity and will he given to the men who go out on long hikes which might take them awa\ from the base of supplies. Tbe^Hureau of Ordnance of tho War Department, of which Rrlgadler Geueral Cro/.lor Is the head, has a turnUdent supply of ammunition wilh in .easy reach to meet all possible jje mands. ? The transportatfo~n"'of troops to various parts of the island for Karri son duty will present no serious dif ficulty, for modern railroad lines now connect Havana with Santiago and with Pinar del Rio. The old high ways of the Spanish regime, little better than trailB in many parts of the island, have been replaced by macadamized roads between the chief cities, which will permit of ranld movements by cavalry patrols. The second occupation of Cuba begins In an orderly manner, without haste or waste, and tho reins of authority laid down at the evacuation In 1002 will be taken up as If there had beeu no interval of experimenting wlih civil government. PRESIDENT'S HURRIED RETURN. Spends Almost Entire Day Over Dis patches Krom Havana. Oyster Ray, L.I.?President Roose velt, who had been absent witnessing target practice of the fleet, returned to Oyster Ray on the Mayflower at 10.30 a. njahead of tho time ho was scheduled to arrive. It is under stood that the Cuban situation influ enced the President to hasten his re turn. Assistant Secretary I<att a went at once to Sagamore lliil with lengthy cables from Havana. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt, with Ethel, Archie and Queniln, left Sagamore Hill for Washington at o'clock a. m., arriving at the White House at 4.15 o'clock In the ufler noon. The President had met his neigh bors on several occasions during the summer and It was his wish that no special notice be taken of his depart ure. The station was roped off and the ofllclal good-bye for the village was said by a committee of citizens. The Foreign Offices of Great Brit ain, Germany and Franco approve the decision of the United States to take charge of the Cuban Government until order is restored. Conditions Which Forceii Intervention When the United States, in Janu ary, 1809, assumed control of the af fairs of the island of Cuba it was hound by a specific pledge, made by Congress, us fdll'ows: "That the XTniied States hereby disclaims any disposition or int.ent to exorcise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over said island, except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is ac complished, to leave the government and control of the island to its peo ple." When, in conformity with the above pledge, the Government was .transferred to the people of Cuba. PMay 2 0, 1902, the following right was reserved by Article III. of the Piatt amendment: '"'That the Government of Cuba consents that the United Slates may exercise the right to intervene for t.he preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government ad equate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba iinoosed 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 has fallen into a svatn clearly within the above provisions it has become the duty of this country tp play once more the part of the friend and pro-* tector of Cuba. The established Government has confessed Its in ability to maintaiu peace and order uhd afford due protection to life and property. President Palmu's ap peals to Washington j'or ' American aid have oecn insistent.. A state of anarchy existed and the condi tions grew worso and more hopeless day by day. The President replied to Palma's appeals and the com plaints and protests of property owners by sending Secretary Taft and Assistant. Secrevary Paeon as investigators, advisors and pacifica tors. 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 was impossible. A dark cloud of ruin overhung the great productive in dustries, 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 tho small farm ers. 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, wore once again destitute. With a comnletc realization of the serious ness of the step and a cloar apprecia tion of the disastrous results of fur ther delay Mr. Taft and Mr. Bacon, with tho full approval of President Roosevelt, pronounced the verdict. There is every reason to believe that ninety per cent, of tii?' people of Cuba heartily Indorse and approve Intervention. MINISTER QUESADA RESIGNS. Envoy at Washington Was the First Appointed by I*alma. Washington, D. C.?Don Gonsalo de Quesada, the Minister of Cnba here, has tendered his resignation to the Provisional Government of Cuba: It 4s stated that Senor Quesada has not taken this step as pn act of re sentment or aa evidence of any ill feeling toward President Roosevelt or the American Administration. GOV. TAFT ROYALLY HECtlVtU "Long Live the Republic of Cuba" in Closing Utterance of New Provis ional Govornor Upon Occasion of Ills Formal Assumption of Oftice in Speech Nominally Addressed to University of Havana. Havana, Kv Cable The presence of 111<* Secretary of War ? >! I In' I nit o?| Stall's in Havana and In* assump tion of tlu? government of Cuba was unreservedly and enthusiastically ap proved l>\ the highest in 1 ?? 11**?*tual, sor rial and business clement* of the cap ital. The scene was enacted in the au <Im<? i i11in of the I nivei-ily ami the audience, in addition to 7> students, v 1 >>, according to the custom here, giaduatc ;it the beginning instead of the close of 11|*? college year, con sisted of 70t) persons, ?1 i\ i?l?*ii equally between im-n ami women. The welcome aceorded io (iovernor Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Bacon was une\p. ctedly vigor ous ami spontaneous. It began from the moment of their arrival ami in itio moment of their arrival ami in creased as the (iovernor uttered sen timents regarding the American oc cupation, which found an answering response* in the hearts ol all present. Messrs. Taft and Bacon were deoly impressed ami encouraged by the evi dence that the provisional ijovern mcut will receive tell best aid of the I cad int* Cubans. In his address to the graduates (Iovernor Taft spoke in the most fe licitous manner of the occasion. Among other things be said: United States Disinterested. "It is saddening to ine to be call ed lo Cuba and still sadder to Presi dent Koosevelt, who isso identified with her liberation that we arc here at the time of a stumble in Cuba's progress toward popular government, but it has given us an opportunity to assure you in the name of the Pres ident and the American people that we are here only to help yon. With our arm under your arm we are lift ing you up again on the path qf that wonderful progress you have travel ed. We shall, I am confident, be able to point with pride to the fact that the I nited States is not an exploit in^ nation Init that she has sHeli dec}) sympathy with the progress of popu lar government as to he willing to ex pend her blood and treasure in mak ing the spread of such government in the world successful." White House Tenanted Again. Washington, Special. ? President and Mrs. Koosevclt and three ol' the children. Miss Ethel and Archie and Qucntin. returned to Washington at 4.20 o'clock Monday afternoon from their summer home at Oyster Bay, L. I., where they have spent the past three months. The President looked the picture of health as he Stepped from the train and cordial)/ greeted a number of acquaintances /who were awaiting his arrival. He and Mrs. Koosevclt entered their carriage and were driven to the White House.? The President and his party occupied a special car which had been attached to I he regular Pennsylvania Kailroad tijaiu from New Y<>rk. In addition to hjs family those with him included tlje wife of Secretary Ix?eb and he in tfant child. Mr. and Mrs. -Clifford Kichardson, of New York, intimate friends of the President and ? Mrs. Koosevclt, nml who are to be guests at the White House, and M (', Latin, the assistant secretary to the Presi dent .and several of th White House celrical staff. Ground to Death in Su^ar Cane Mill. (Sreenville, S. ('., Special.? A little daughter of Mr. P. E. Itcid, living at Ehcrnezer this county, met a tragic death by being crushed in a sugar cane*' mill. The child was playing around the mill when she >vas caught by the beam and before the mill could be stopped, she was horribly crushed. She died in a few minutes. Federal Authorities Hold Georgia Negro. Newport News, Ya.. Special.?-Tint ed States Commissioner A. C. Garrett held for the Federal grand jury Fred Bucks, the prisoner who was brought up on the cruiser Columbia from Cu ba. Bucks stabbed A. (5. Guanlnna mo last May. Since that time lie has been confined oji board the monitor Amphitrite. The prisoner and three witnesses, two West Indian negroes and a government laborer, were taken to Richmond by Deputy Marshal West. Bucks is a Georgia negro. Preparations at Newport News for Handling Troops. , Newport News, Va., Special.?Prep arations for handling troops going to Cuba are being completed here. The government has leased 20 Oacre? of lend .gu^he river above the city as a site for the commissary depot and encampment. A contract has been Jet to Grant & Co., of lumber to be u?ed in the contsruction of ware houses and corrals. . wtfelo WASHINGTON. The now 4\aturullzatlon law went Into effect. Secretary Shaw relieved tlx1 money market by ordering that $ J t>,00 0,0 00 of Treasury surplus be released through depositor) banks in the Uni ted State.** Acting Secretin') Newberry ap proved the plans for buildings to be erected at the naval training station on the great la key. This station is located at l<stk.e MJufl, about thirty miles north of Chicago. The Director of the Mint purchased 200,000 ounces of Hue silver at OK.7 0 cents, to be delivered at the Denver Mint. Difllculty is being experienced by the Quarlermaslcr-Heuerar.s depart ment of the army in obtaining horses and mules. Kvon at high prices good cavalry horses are scarce and nearly impos^blo to procure. A national temple of justice, or building for'the l!. S. Supreme Court, is proposed at Washington. It is stated that Mr. Klliott Woods, Super intendent of the Capitol, in conjunc tion with New York architects, will submit plans to Congress. Secretary Itonaparte withdrew bis approval of the Inquiry court s find ing relative to the collision between the battleships Alabama and Illinois, and Captain Comly will not be tried. Ol'lt ADOPTKD ISLANDS. Four towns in Cagayan province, Luzon, P. I., were reported destroyed by a typhoon on September IS. Heavy damage has been caused to crops. The trials of a number of outlaws, which began September 17, were ended at Cavite, P. I. Sakay, Mouta Ion, Devenia and Vlllafuerte were convicted and sentenced to death. In a speech accepting (lie nomina tion as representative from Hawaii Mr. Kalanianaole deprecated making the race question a political issue. The Increase of Porto Klcan sugar exports to the United States is from 104,000 tons in 1 li 0 li -' 0 :i to more than 200,000 tons in 1905-'00. I uomknvic. Aruin Tashjian, of New York City, confessed thai In* killed his brother and dismembered the body. The wife of former Senator Owens, of Brooklyn, sued for divorce in South Dakota. Two carloads of cold storage chick ens and ten carloads of meat were condemned at Chicago by inspectors. The event of lhe I'lke's Peak cen tennial at Colorado Springs was the unveiling in Antler's Park of the Pike monument. Henry B. -Irving, the actor, son of the late Sir rlenry Irving, arrived to begin lira American lour. Lizzie lialllday, a life prisoner at Matteawan, N. Y., for the murder of her son, husband and two women, murdered a woman attendant at the Stato Hospital; Fire which followed an explosion in the building occupied by the Pitts burg Plate-Glass Company, in Cleve land, Ohio, destroyed' ;yhe six-story structure. The dai&rfge was $100, 000. r * The laying of tae six-ton corner stone of the storage dam at Roose velt, Ariz., formally started the great irrigation project for that section, " A woman was burned to death and $100,000 property loss was caused by the destruction at Tacoma, Wash., of the Tacoma Eastern Railroad station and several adjoining buildings. Colonel James L. Lusk, of the United States Engineering Corps, committed suicide at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook. The explosion of a carboy of car bolic acid at the plant of the Republic Rubber Company, in Youngstown, O.* fatally burned two men. In less than four hours after his arrival In Chicago Paul O. Stensland began serving his sentc?M of from one to ten years. The Republicans nomi n s*> Henry A. Buchtel, chancellor of the Denver University, to succeed Philip B. Stew art as the Republican nominee for Governor of Colorado. An Indictment for murder in the second degree has been returned at : Stcubenvllle, O., against Roy \V. Tal bott, captain of the guard at the Bradley mines that killed a miner. Coroner Walsh, of San Francisco, figures that there were 4US deaths reported as caused by the earthquake and fire of April last. The peonage conspiracy ch.-.rge against Ilex and James 10. Smith, at Cape Girardeau, Mo., was not proven, t! e brothers being acquitted. FOREIGN. Excessive speed, causing the en gine to overturn. It bus been decided by the Board of Trade inspectors, caused the Salisbury, Eng., railway disaster of July 1 last, In which more than a score of Americans lout'tlSfir lives. In a few years with the aid of the railways China will'becomo a market , for machine tools of all kinds. Min ing Is active as never before. Cata logues in English are useless. Tho Chinese must see the goods. In consequence of the unanimoiiR refusal of the peasants in the Odessa district to pay arrears of taxes, the local Zemstvo has been notiftcd by tho Governor that it is impossible to maintain thp school ?_nrf ho??>!toi?, tTnsuccessrul lh aUc/npls to make a catch on the banfcs of Newfound land twenty Nova Scotia fishing schooners have gone home, heavy los ers on tho season's fprk. The rice famine In India Is slowly getting worse and Is extending to Bengal. Prices are abnormal, and as a result crowda are looting the shops. M. Lerrotf. the Author of an anti Jewish pamphlet urging on tho popu lation that It Is their sacred duty to kill Jows on slghtrfftas escaped with a fine of $50. ^ ( COIF STATES SWT BY FIERCE HUITRICANE Mobile and Pensacola Laid Waste by Wind and Water. IMMENSE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY I,oss fctftimnted at $.10,000,000 in (ho \Ki ions Sillies \ isi(i'<t hy f Itc? Storm?Much I .oss of I.iff Ito |IOl|('(l. i Mobile, Ala r.oss <?f life various ly estimated at from fivi> to fifty per sons, many people injured, 7000 homes damaged. tin* business quarter devastated and u property loss Of fully $0,000,0(10 is the effect of a foriy-eight-hour tropical hurricane In Mobile. Tho city is pract(rally In nil its. There are no reliable figu 103 to bo bad as to I bo loss of life. Thrcu ne groes are known to bo dead, and I hero are rumors that fifty persons nro lost, but as things are these ru mors cannot be verified ~ 11 is feared, however, that when all is known I he life loss will be heavy. The dly has been placed under mar tial law and looters will bo summa rily dealt with. Kvery church in the elty has boon damaged, though Christ Church an 1 St Francis Street lhiptist Church suf fered mon; than the others. Mobile's shipping sulVered severely. Many of her river boats are beached or sunk, all complete wrecks. Her i docks and those of private corpora-^ Hons are destroyed.'.? The revenue' cutter Alert has gone down In Mobile^ Ulver. 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 Koyal street to the river, was poveii feet. The wharves from Fraseatl, tho ex treme south end of the elty, as far up the river as Three Mile Creek are total wrecks. This also includes the aew Mobile and Ohio docks and tho Louisville and Nashville docks. Much fear is entertained for Fort Morgan, Ala., where the Government Quarantine is located and many sol diers quartered. The chances aro that much loss of llfo has been cnuscd by the storm to those living on Dau phin Inland and other outlying isl ands. During the hurricane trees, fell, roofs crashed by tho hundreds and thousands of pieces of slate and other debris were hurled about. Many peo ple wore seriously injured and cut by the flying slate and pieces of tin roofs. The fruit trees and the fall vege table crops al| over Southern Ala bama and Mississippi are ritiJMMl. So also are the cotton apd tl(Phr cane crops. One Mississippi planter said that ho would willingly accept $15 for his cotton crop. Tho Mobilo County Court House was badly wrecked. The clock in Its towor was blown away completely, and now nothing of the .clock re mains. \ All along the line of tho Mobile and Ohio Railroad huge trees lie flat with limbs torn off and twisted. The streams are all out of the banks and for twenty-five miles north of Mo bile, looking to "the right of the rail road, one sees only a solid sheet of water running swiftly toward Mobile. There ar? many farmhouses !n this inundated section and many people may have lost their live*. Pensacola, Fla.?The worst sen storm and hurricane that the Gulf Coast has experienced since the vil lage of Pensacola on Santa Rosa Isl and 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 Xavy Yard is under from five to ton feet of Water. Many women were taken from second story windows . and carried to safety in bo"ftts. The estimated property dam ago Is S3,000,000. Every house in Pensacola Bufferod 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 ? here the wharves once were. Big Iron steamships and many lighter sailing ships are lying high and dvy up in the city, whero the tide has never before been known to reach. New Orleans.--<!reat damage to the cotton crop was reported in dis patches to the Cotton JOxchango. Raton Rouge reported about twenty per cent, damage. Ciailmsn, Miss., reported rains which flattened the plant down in the mud, and Natchez, Miss., reported that there and imme diately across the river in Louisiana tho damage was probably twenty-tlvc per cent. No damage to ?ugar cane has been reported. Damage ?*? property aggregating more than $50,000,000 was done In the various States of tho South that ?be storm visited. t Two MiSKourimiN Indicted. The Grand Jury returned indict ments against Robert M. Snyder, of Kansas City, qfcirglng bribery la cou nection with the passage of tho Cen tral Traction franchise bill in 189>, and against former Councilman I rcd erlck G. Uthoff, now of Denver, ou the charge of having given perjured testimony on the *am?matt?r l*?forA I the Grand JuryTnT302. Cop Kills Womb ta Car. Because ha was jsalous, Policemaa Whitney D. Barrett ?nt^p4 a troltay at Psaacook. N. H., and Hot to dsatli Miss Julia Chadwlek. Hs then com mitted suicide. Hs was fifty and married. Plymouth Damaged oj Fiend. About 120,000 damt was doas at Plymouth. Mass.. >y the waters of Town Brook setting beyond control and breaking through a dam at 1*7 moutfc MUU. 1MB IMIIIBLSS KILLS GIRL NURSE Lizzie Halliday, inmate of Mat teawan, Takes Seventh Life. ACT PROMPTED BY AFFECTION Woman Kiiow^wvori(e Attendant i# About (o Leave Hospital and At tarkn H<?r Willi SIk-.ws?Stab* Victim ijtlto TftiicH. Matteawan, N. Y.? Mrs?. Lizxie Ilal llday, upon whoso head.rests tho guilt of slaying six mon and women, added a seventh victim to her 1 i?t in the hospital for insane criminals, when alio slabbed her nurse. Miss Nellie Wicks, aged twenty-four, to death. Miss Wicks had showed such tact and skill in tho management gf forty or fifty women patients* that sho was promoted to ho head attendant of the women's department.. Mrs. Ilalllday, a woman of middle age and somewhat imbecile, showed a groat fondness for her from tho outset, and the attend ant made her one of her most trusted patients. if Recently Miss Wicks announced her Intention of leaving the hospital to study to become a trained nurse. Mrs. Ilalllday took tho announcement to heart and begged her not to leave. The young woman laughed and humored her patient, but continue#' her preparations for departing. Rev oral times Mrs. ilalllday had said she would kill M!ss Wicks, before she would let her go, but she has made so many threats against different per sons since her incarceration that little -attention was paid to her. Least of all Miss Wicks feared hor. Miss Wicks entered a washroom at a quarter to K o'clock a. m. Sho was followed stealthily by Mrs. llalliday, who had in .her hand a pair of shears which she w^s allowed to have to do' sewing. Creeping tip behind Miss., Wicks, the lunatic struck her on the'1 head aud, felled her. Then taking the nurscni keys sho locked the door, leaving the key? in tho lock so tho door could not be opened from the outside. With the fury of a tigress she returned to the attack, and, using the Bhears. she stabbed the girl over 2 00 times over the h*art and in the face and neck. Miss Wicks' scroams brought help, and tho door was broken down. Mrs. Ilalllday 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 Wieks was hurried to a cot, hut died within an hour, without re covering consciousness. ..Mrs. Halli day laughed gleefully when told she was dead. When Coroner Goring asked her why she had committed the murder she replied: "She tried to leave me." Mrs. Halliduy will not be placed in a cell. Superintendent Lamb Bayfc she will be carefully guarded, but there will be no punishment for her. For years Lizzie Halllday roved the Hudson and Mohawk valleys as queen of a gypsy tribe that -mad* 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 Halllday, then in his sixty fifth year. Ho lived on hts small mountain farm with his baehelor brother. Later she married him. . She had been there tour years when the McQuillans, mother and daughter, who were lnred to til* farm, were killed by Mrs. Halllday at the same time she murdered her husband, and the crime was brought home to her.- Long before this she had but*hed the Halllday homestead, to the ground, and the imbecile antif crippled son of Halllday In it. After the flro, which did not **en ? cause her arrest, she was discovered stealing houses near Newburg, and a term iu an insane asylum saved her from prison-at this time. Set free once m6ref she remained quiet until the disappearance of Mrs. McQuillan and htf daughter, Sarah, started an investigation that resulted in tne dis covery of their mutilated ^bodies. Her trial and her final commitment to Matteawan are a matter of history. She had boon sentenced to be hanged when petitions wero circulated in her belialf and a commission, which Mrs. Halllday aided materially by her pre tended attempts at suicide in her cell ?always when rescue was near? finally adjudged her insane. Artemuji Brewer, anothor of Mrs. Halllday's hutilmnds. died after a year" of heatings at the hands of the pow erful woman, and yet George Smith, an old-time friend of Brewer,^ who ?aw him dlo, married the widow? She laughingly gave him a cup of pois oned tea one day and.left ?lm. When - the doctors brought him around the woman had fled with another man, one Hiram Parkinson. On the way to Matteawan Asylum Mrs. Halllday attacked Deputy 8herig [ Morris and bit him in the hand. Ho t later died of blood poisoning, caused i by the bite. She did her best on tho train to kill him. -- Six Sisters All BulcMk*, _ Miss Julia Winslow, who belonged to a prominent family living near NVarren, 111., committed suicide by saturating her clothes with kerosene and then setting fire to herself, 8h?. wm the )?>t of ?!; a? whom committed aulclde. Oasslo Cbadwlcfc Gives It TTp. Cassia L. Chadwlck has decided t* fight her case;no tsri??.ud; will serve out her ten years' seat lit the. Columbus (Ohio) PenKeot unless she can get a pardon. ; Hearst's Msrttee* Mttdisoa, 8<m?r* G City, was cwrdejHC meeting vt X v - -r> . t