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A DEADLY TORNADO'
Invades Parts of Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama.
THIRTY LIVES ARE TAKEN
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Portions of Four Towns Are Wiped
Out, Alexandria, La., Being Main
Sufferer ? Property Loss is
Half a Million.
Probably fifteen lives v/ere instant
ly blotted out Friday by a tornado,
which swept across portions of Louisiana.
Mississippi and Alabama, ana
which was distinctly traceable for a
distance of three hundred miles. The
tornado moved from west to east,
crossing the southern extremities of
Louisiana and Mississippi, and striking
. into Alabama for a short dis-1
tance.
Portions of four towns were devastated,
and damage probably exceeding
half a inilion, for, in addition
to the places in which the tornado
manifested fatal violence, the
disturbance uid general damage to
property, crops and telegraph wires
throughout its 300-mile course.
The tornado began at Alexandria,
La., soon aTter- 1 o'clock Friday
morning, instantly killing four persons
there, probably fatally, injuring
three, and seriously injuring thirteen
others. Soon after daylight it neared
the Mississippi river, instantly Killing
five persons at Jackson, La., whiis
at Bayou Sara, La., at least half a
dozen others are reported killed. The
tornado next appeared at Carson,
Miss., where great property damage
was done, and the last heard of it
was about noon near Selma, Ala.,
who thA inhabitants saw whirling
clouds rise into the air as they crossed
the river.
Alexandria, La., which is a town
of about 16,000 inhabitants, had a
fearful experience. When the tornado
struck the electric lights went out,
the cracking of falling buildings
could be heard amid the noise of the
wind and vivid lightning flashes
showed such sights as an empty Iron
Mountain passenger train rolling
over and over, immediately after tna
wind spent its violence a heavy hailstorm
added to the general discomfort.
Luckily, the main portion of
Alexandria escaped the worst of the
tornados which cut a path through
the northern part of the town, a residence
section. About a score o?
homes were completely wiped out,
fifty* were damaged and altogether
about 100 buildings were seriously
wrecked, including several business
houses.
tornado cut down trees and small
/>?Kme in r narrow line about nine
miles long. Several houses were
blown down at Plneville and in.iu-,
ries were reported. The hail did much
damage to crops.
At daylight Alexandria began the
work of clearing the debris, Mayor
Turner organizing a relief movement
at noon. The damage was estimated
at $200,000.
CARNEGIE GIVES MORE CASH.
Turns Loose Six Millions for Institute
at Chicago.
W. N. Frew, president of the board
of trustees of the Carnegie institute
at Chicago, Friday, made public a
letter annomncing that Mr. Carmegio
has given $6,000,060 for endowment
to the institute. This gift is in addition
to the $4,000,000 given some
time ago. This latest endowment
provides $4,000,000 for the departments
of fine arts, Carnegie schools
of technology and museum, $1,000,000
for additions ts the technical schools
and $1,000,000 as an endowment fund
for the schools. Mr. Carnegie also
established a pension fund for the
benefit of those connected with the
Institute, which after the death of the
recipient is to be continued to the
widow when needed.
RECESS IN BROWNSVILLE CASE
Investigating Committee May Go to
Brownsville Next Fall.
A Washington dispatch says: Tta
senate committee on military- affairs,
which is making an investigation of
the Brownsville affray, agreed Friday
4 ~ 4until Mav 14. It i8
lu IdAC CL K.VWWM ?v? not
thought likely th&* the committee
will go to Brownsville until fall
when a trip will be made merely fo?
the purpose of giving the committee
an opportunity to look over the town
and see for themselves the marks of
bullets in the various buildings.
DEAD LETTER RECORDS BROKEN
Department Returned 374,279 Nlissent
Packages During March.
The division of dead letters at
.Washington broke all records by returning
to senders during the month
of March 374,279 undelivered letters
and packages. The record for a single
day was also broken during the
month, when 14,488 letters were returned
on the 28th.
TtDDY STILL TALKING.
Has More to Say of Railroad Magnata
Harriman?Likewise,, He Shies a
brick at Aiton B. Parker.
A Washington special says; President
Roosevelt discussed with a number
of his callers Weduesday various
features of the controversy between
Mr. Harriman and himself growing
out of the publication of the letters
between them. He desired not to be
quoted in the matter, however.
To his friends the president made
it plain that his version of Mr. Harriinanls
visit preceding the election
of 1904, was that Mr. Harriman wanted
assistance from the national republican
committee to help Chairman
Qdell in the New York campaign towards
whose expenses he t Harriman)
had raised $100,000. The president
promised to communicate with Cortelyou
and Bliss to see what could be
done. He did in this case, he declared,
just what he had done in other
instances, where he had been appealed
to help in state campaigns.
To some of his visitors, the president
referred to the statement made
public Tuesday night by Alton B. Parker
in Albany, in which he said that
it has never been denied that $150,000
was turned over by .the Equitable, Mutual
and New York Life insurance
Companies to Mr. Cortelyou's committee,
and that congress has refused
to make an investigation into the
corporate contributions of 1904 or to
pass a law prohibiting such contributions
in the future. On this subject
the president referred to a statement
which he made on November 4, 1904,
in which he said iu part:
' That contributions have been
made to the republican committee as
contributions have been made to the
democrats, is not the question at issue.
Mr. Parker's assertion is in effect
that such contributions have been
made for improper motives, either in
consequence of threats or in consequence
of improper promises, direct
or indirect on the part of the recipients
. . . but there is not one
particle of truth in the statement,"
etc.
Neither Mr. Parker nor his supporters,
the president declared, have been
able to traverse or question the statements
made in that answer.
The president said that to his own
knowledge about a dozen contributions
offered by corporations had been
declined by Chairman Cortelyou, but
that others had been accepted. A contribution
by the American Tobacco
Company, he said, had been returned.
prominent man had made a contribution
of $20,000 to the republican
campaign fund. Subsequently this
man had made known his desire for
an appointment in the diplomatic
service in the event that the president
was elected. As soon as his motives
were understood the national
committee returned his contribution.
The president asserted to his callers
that none of the corporations that
contributed to the campaign fund in
1904 had come to him for favors, either
directly or indirectly.
It was authoritatively declared at
the White House Wednesday that tho
real reason for Mr. E. H. Harriman s
interest in the election of the state
ticket in New York in 1904 was that
he wanted the position of senator now
filled by Depew and that this was the
reason why he was anxious to have
him appointed ambassador to Paris.
The inference from Mr. Harrknan's
attitude was that if Senator Depew
could be induced to go to Paris that
Governor Higgins was prepared to appoint
Harriman to the vacancy.
Secretary Loeb stated that there
would not be any further announcement
from the president bearing on
the issue between him and Mr. Harriman.
STRIKE OF BREWERS ENDS.
Three-Year Contracts Are 6igned ana
All is Serene Again.
Contracts for three years were
signed by the representatives of the
various breweries at St. Louis, and
the striking employes, and the strike
was officially declared terminated,
The brewery proprietors insisted oa
the insertion of an arbitration clausa
in all contracts. The increase in
wages granted and the changes in
hours go into effect immediately.
SOLONS ROAST KEARST.
Condemnatory Resolution Passed In
Florida Legislature.
The Florida house of representatives
Wedaesday unanimously condemned
William Randolph Hearst as
publisher and Richard Barry as aut-Unr
nf nrtinlp annearins: in the
March number of the Cosmopolitan
Magazine referring to peonage cases
in Florida.
WHITE'S BELONGINGS SOLO.
Affects of Thaw's Victim Bring $125,(
805 at Auction.
The sale of the furnishings and
decorations of the home of the la;e
Stanford White was completed at New I
York Saturday, the total for the entire
sale reaching ?125,805. The most
important article sold was a sample
of the grand Gobelin tapestry, which
Drought ?10,500.
TO STOP SQUABBLE I
In Central America Secretary
Hoot Makes Move.
JOINS IN WITH MEXICO
Holds Conferences With Mexican Ambassador
at Washington to Adopt
Some Plan of Action for
Lasting reacc.
Secretary Root and Mexican Ambassador
Creel, at a conference In
Washington Saturday, decided that
the time was ripe for concerted action
to terminate hostilities in Central
America if that result could be
accomplished by moral suasion and
earnest representation, beyond which
point neither the United States nor
Mexico is willing to go.
The appearance in Washington of a
minister ironi Salvador with large
powers, believed to be authorized 10
speak for Honduras, seemed to afford
the opportunity for diplomatic
action at this end. Therefore a series
of conferences began early Saturday
morning at the state department
between these interested parties,
which it is stated by -the participants
will probably lead to a peaceful j
settlement of the trouble, and more- j
over one iiwi win euuuic iuugci uuw
the few months that frequently marks
the life of these Central American
compacts. The basis for the agreement
is yet to be defined in its details;
indeed it was stated that beyond
the agreement among the parties
to the conference, that the time
had now come for action by them,
that the plan had not been perfected.
A notable fact was the absence of
the Xicaraguan minister, Senor Corea.
It was suggested that the purpose
of the conference is to frame an agreement
for the future settlement of all
disputes between Central American
countries and then submit this to
Nicaragua and request her adhesion,
failing which that country would find
itself standing alone among the Central
American states and without
their sympathy. It is believed that a
few days will bring about important
developments and that either peace
will . be declared or a general war
will follow between Nicaragua and
the four other states.
DAIRYMEN BOOST PRICES.
About Four Hundred Meet in Atlanta
and Form Combine.
Some 400 dairymen held a council
in Atlanta Saturday night, agreed
upon a scale of prices, an increase
over the existing ones, formed a un
ion and decided to employ a mi lie inspector
of their own.
In future milk will "be sold to the
retail trade at 44 cents per gallen, an
increase of 10 per cent; to hotels, restaurants
and soda fountains at 35
cents, an increase of 16 cents; to the
dealers at 25 cents, an increase of
I 25 per cent. Cream will be sold to
the retail trade at $1.80 per gallon;
j to hotels, restaurants and soda fountains
at $1.40; to the dealers, $1.
GRAIN PRICES JUGGLED.
Telegraph Operator Tells of Crooked
| Work of Board of Trade.
A. W. Harris, former telegraph
operator of the Superior board of
trade, at Minneapolis, testified in the
federal inquiry, now on in tnat city,
that grain quotations were there manipulated,
and then telegraphed to St.
Paul, Cincinnati, Kansas City and
Omaha.
.Inis evidence was brought out Saturday
in the suit of the Minneapolis
chamber of commerce against the superior
board of trade to restrain it
from using the chamber's market quotations.
CABLE FROM COLON TO CUBA.
Permit Issued by War Department for
Landing at Guantanamo.
The acting secretary ef war has
! issued a permit to the South and Central
American Cable Company to land
a submarine cable at Guantanamo,
I Cuba, connecting that naval station
with Colon. It is believed that the
establishment of this line of cable under
private ownership will relieve the
government from the necessity of layi
ing a purely military cable connecting
the isthmus with the United States
by way of Cuba.
KNOCKS OUT MIDDLEMEN.
I New York Hotel Keepers Are Forming
Strong Combine.
To save the profit that now goes to
the middleman proprietors of larga
hotels and restaurants of New York
are considering llie organization of a
co-operate corporation which will deal
in all kinds of hotel and restaurant
supplies. Possibly a company with
$lh,O00,0G0 capital will be oigamse.l,
and stock will be sold only to pro
piietors o: hotels and restaurants.
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iTiSPECIAT IMESSAGE
(Transmitted to Legislature by Gov.
Broward Regarding Charges
Against Trustees.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House ot
Representatives:
j Certain persons have, through newsj
papers an.d other publications, enenj
iated many falsehoods against ttie
present trustees of the internal liiiprovement
Fund, which may deceive
the people as to the honor, integrii v
and ability of those state officials, 13y
innuendo and otherwise, they have attempted
to traduce not only your
trustees, but to create in the minds
| of the people, even beyond the co.i
lines of the state,'the belief that the
trustees were guilty of mismanagement
of the internal Improvement
Fund.
Those officials are composed, as you
know, of the governor, comptroller,
attorney general, treasurer and commissioner
of agriculture.
it is charged by these certain individuals
that the trustees have violated
the laws, which laws they are sworn
to uphold, by diverting public funds,
charging that your present trustees
have used school funds to build
dredges and do drainage work; that
they have used money appropriated to
the purpose of good roads from thai
purpose to the purpose of building
dredges and draining lands; that they
have also diverted money from the
state treasury, derived from taxation,
lo the purpose of building dredges
and- reclaiming lands and paying unwarranted
attorney's fees, etc., and it
is safe to assume that these papers
and literature bearing these charges
ulie! unci ir wnnlfl Iih ;i
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miracle if one hundred men can Le
gathered here, whose coniidence has
not been ail'ected more or less harmfully
by the charges against the present
trustees, who are composed of
the highest state officers, and teeling
that nothing should estrange the relationship
that should exist between
the legislature and the trustees as
servants and representatives of the
people; therefore, I earnestly recommend
that a numerical.':/ strong committee,
equipped with sufficient technical
knowledge to make a searching
investigation, be appointed at once,
composed of members of each house,
to investigate the charges and innuendoes
intended to reflect upon the present
trustees, and make report of their
findings at the earliest possible date,
and i ask that the committee be given
power to summon persons and administer
oaths in swearing witnesses, add
to require them also to bring books,
accounts, newspapers, circulars, literature
and hand-books, bearing upon
this matter in any way that the committee
may deem best and necessary.
This recommendation, is not madi
by me 011 account of any lack on my
part of confidence in the innocence
of the present trustees, as i know them
to be innocent of the iunuendoes an i
false accusations, and I further know
that they are patriotic, painstaking,
able and industrious state official*,
and that they are entitled to the utmost
confidence of the people; but I
feel that it is my duty to you and to
. hnnesr.
tile trustees aim IU Hit VMV
people of iIls state, that a full investigation
be had, and that a report be
made of the actual findings, that the
legislature and the people of Florida
and the "people of other states may
not longer be humiliated by any question
of the integrity of the highest
officials in a sovereign state.
I further recommend that the writers
on the seven newspapers referred
to by me in my message of this morning,
be summoned, and also the writers
on the newspapers referred to in
that message tinder the head of "two
or three others," one of which is the
DeLand Record.
I have learned that the ownership
or management, or both, of the other
*1,0, i QLrolanri Suil
tWO newspapers, lac uuuv?
and the Fernandina Star, have changed
management and ownership within
the last six months, and I suggest
that the former writers on those two
papers, if they can be found, be summoned
also; these, together with the
writers on the other papers named,
should be able to give you the sources
from which they obtained their misinformation.
Respectfully submitted,
X. B. BROWARD,
Governor.
POiSON IN WALL PAPER
Knocked Out Three Successive Wives
of Man in Indiana.
Mrs. Zachariah Watson, the third
wife of a farmer in Posey county, Indiana,
died a few days ago and Morday
it was discovered that her death
was due to the wall paper in the
parlor that she cleaned two days do*
fore taken ill. The wail paper was
examined and found to be impregnated
with virulent poison. Watson's
first two wives died in the same way,
their deaths occurring one and two
years ago.
If a woman spends more than ten
minutes in arranging her hair the
result is a coiffure, notes the Atchison
Globe.
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RICH MEN COMBINE!
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To Make Fight on Roosevelt
is Current Report,
CONSPIRACY IS ALLEGED
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j Scheme Divulged at Recent Dinner of
Multi-Millionaires ? Plan is to
Euy Up Newspapers to ./ight
the President.
A Washington special says: Quito
the most startling t*.-velopment since
the president's application of the
word "liar" to Mr. Karriman was the
statement given out at the white
house Thursday that a conspiracy
is on foot to defeat the president's
reform policies, and that the opposition
has already subscribed $5,000,
OQO to prosecute such a campaign.
With a barrel of this proportion
at their back and a determination
based upon thorough realization of
the struggle in store, it is apparent
that the future holds some interesting
things in store. The spokesman
of the administration said:
"The trail of the conspirators goes
right across-me continent. They will':
stop at nothing and will buy legislatures,
newspapers and votes, if necessary,'
to accomplish their purpose
and down the president.
"Tf toomc thnr rliA firr.t inkline Of
! this conspiracy, the existence of
I which is firmly believed at the white
i house, was obtained from an ill-con;
sidered remark made at a banquet
| oy a friend of the alleged "Harriman:
Hearst-and-Rockefeller' combination.
The gentleman who made the slip
is understood to be Senator Penrose
of Pensylvania, who is close to
Rockefeller.
| "Senator Foraker is supposed to be
j in the advisory counsel of the conj
spirators, and the president has also
; issued a defy to the Ohio senator. The
negotiations between them in future
will be all in the open, and a rough
and tumble fight is inevitable. The
j president believes Senator Foraker
I will receive the backing of the interests
who are opposing his plans."
It was also stated authoritatively at
the white house that part of the plaa
to encompass the defeat of the president's
policy is the election of state
delegates to the nationa^ convention
from those states known to favor the j
president, tnese delegates 10 oe instructed
for .President Roosevelt
with the knowledge in advance that
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the president would not be a candidate
for renomination. Then, according
to the statement made, these delj
egates, upon the president declining
i to be a candidate for renominatiou,
| as he has said he would decline, l 4)
' delegates are to consider themselves
i free, and are to be switched over to
J some opponents of the president, and
! the policies for which he is stand I
iag.
The men behind this movement are
! said to be E. H. Harriman, J. Pier|
pont Morgan, the Rockefellers and
! other Standard Oil interests, the toj
bacco trust and certain other capitalj
istic combinations which have suffer!
ed from the president's activity.
rfhA mnwmpnt is niueh lfee what
| is known as the 'Rich Men's Conspiracy
of 1904," when, at a meeting,
Harrlman, so the president ha3
been informed, solemnly expressed
his conviction that he could deliver
the delegates to the republican convention
from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
Idaho, Colorado and California to an
anti-Roosevelt man. Investigation
demonstrated that this claim was preposterous.
It was apparent from what the
president said to newspaper men that
he is not at all concerned about the
movement which has been started
against him. The president is quite
content to accept the gage of battle
offered by Harriman and the other
trust magnates. It is out of the question
now for him and Harriman ever
to resume friendly relations.
ARMED WITH A RIFLE
Louisiana Woman Held Sheriff and
Four Deputies at Bay.
Armed with a rifle and standing
guard over her dead husband's bJdy,
Mrs. L. C. Drew held a, sheriff and
four deputies at bay for over twenty
hours at Water Talley, La. It is
charged that Mrs. Drew shot her hus!
Jjand. '
When the sheriff'3 posse arrived to
j arrest the woman she opened fire anil
S ran them off. She did not hit her boI
siegers, but they did not capture her
I until darkness hau fallen aDd her am|
munition was all used up.
MUST PAY HEAVY LICENSE.
j Dealers in Futures in State of Alabama
Are Hard Hit.
j A Montgomery, Aia., special says:
j Attorney Generaf A. M. Garber has
ruled that the dealers in futures in
Alabama will have to pay the increased
license of $5,000 imposed by the
state for this year, under the new
law, although they may have pam
the fees heretofore enacted.
THAW DECLARED SANE 11
By Lunacy Commission and Trial
Must Proceed?Prosecutor Jerome |i*
Dissatisfied and Will Appeal.
A New York dispatch says: Harry
K. Thaw is declared sane by the ;J
unanimous report of the commission /*$
in lunacy, appointed to inquire into |j
his present mental condition. Tha
moment the decision was handed
down from Justice Fitzgerald's desi
Thursday, District Attorney Jerome h
was on his feet, vigorously protesting
against its confirmation by the 4
court. He charged that he had been frnm
rhr? SPSSlOtl Of Tfi
the commission, and demanded to bo
allowed to have access to the minute*
and stenographic notes of what trans' ,|
pired at the final mental and physi- ||
cal examination of the defendant.
When Justice Fitzgerald declined- to ^
turn the minutes over to the dis
trict attorney, Mr. Jerome declared
he would carry the case to the ap- ;
pellate division o! the supreme court,
asking that a writ of prohibition or ^?1
mandamus be granted to prevent a
continuance of the Thaw trial until -j-ji
the higher court had ruled upon the 38
legality of the commission's course ^
Justice Fitzgerald reminded Mr. Jerome
that he had waived the statural
tory right of attending the last sesston
of the commission by suggest- ':: 'M
ing himself that all the attorneys be "Ji
excluded from the sitting in quea-y7^B
tion. He then granted the district Jig
attorney an adjournment until Mon- ^
day in order that he might have time
to prepare his application to the ap- .
pellate division. Mr. Jerome protest*';^:
ed that the time was not sufficient, .^11
but Justice Fitzgerald cut him ghort $w|
frith the announcement that the trial
must be concluded forthwith.
It was authoritatively stated late
Thursday $ night that District Attorney Jerome
will appeal from the decision '^9
of Justice Fitzgerald. The-appeal will'*Jj
be in the nature of an action to ob- JjS
tain areview of the justice's decteh'^S
ion, and will be taken in the appelate
division of the supreme court.
FOR SELLING STOLEN LETTE&l9
Former Stenographer of Harriman
Placed Under Arrest. !
Frank W. Hill, a stenographer, warM
arrested in New York Thursday nfghth^'
charged with having sold to a
paper a personal letter of E. H. Harr J riman.
The warrant was sworn to
Alexander .Miller, secretary of the ; J
Union Pacific Railroad company,
which Mr. Harriman is the president^
and was served by a detective frenulM
the district attorney's office. Hill
locked up at police headquarters. *
The letter in question was addres??{.W
ed by Mr. Harriman to Sydney Web- |
ster 'and was first published by The
World last Tuesday morning. State^H
ments therein contained called forth:*|j .
the controversy between President
Roosevelt and Harriman. Hill is 3? Jfyears
of age and lives in Brooklya^lgB
Action against Hill was taken un-|
der the section of the penal codtv:^||
which defines as a misdemeanor the " 3 \
act of "a person who willfully &n&
without authority either "takes a let- ;|jj
ter, teiegram or private paper beCjfl
longing to another, or a copy there-. >!$?
^ and publishes the whole or any ^^9
portion thereof.*'
FIFTEEN DIE IN FLAMES.. .
Holocaust Occurs in Dago Boarding J3
House at San Francisco. ^
Fifteen Italian laborers were
ed to death and a score badly barn* rl
ed or injured in a fire which
stroyed a lodging home in San Fran- >?if
cisco early 'inursday morning.
The names of the dead, with two}^m
exceptions, are unknown. The victims
were asleep in their rooms when the fre
started. Before fhey could be 'M
aroused, the flames had spread
through the building. \.;J|
The inmates were burned in the
ruins, twenty being taken out dead 'M
and dying.
state can tax notes.
Louisiana Wins Important Case Be- |j
fore U. S. Supreme Court. VJ|
The constitutionality of the Loul3iana
law of 1898 making taxable ia
that state notes taken by non-residents
on account of business tramy
acted there was brought into question >3
in the case of the Metropolitan Life /J
Insurance Company of New York, v.'i
the city of New Orleans, which was
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decided by the supreme court vl
United States Monday in favor of the ??
city. ;
MACHINISTS OUT ON STRIKE. |f
Employers Refused to Agree to a ' j
$3.50 Scale.
About ISO machinists and helpers J
went on strike at New Orleans because
their employers refused to
agree to a minimum wage scale of J
$3.50 per day. Thirteen firms, com-prising
the New Orleans Metal Trades |
Association, are affected by the strike. ' * ^