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. 1 FLAMES DEVOUR VILLAfiES THREE HUNDRED VICTIMS IN MNNESOTA FOREST FIRE. Bodies of Victims Being Brought in - From Devastated Territory by the Wagon Load. War Road, Minn., Oct. 9.?The greatest catastrophe that Minnesota has experienced since the Hinckley catastrophe occurred Friday night and Saturday when the whole Minnesota-Manitoba boundary country was ^ swept by fire, and as details become known the disaster assumes appalling proportions. The number of deaths to-night is estimated from 100 to 200; almost entirely among settlers in the woods fho fftwrte nf Rpandette. Pitt. ax vuuu viiv w ? ?? v ?? Roosevelt and Graceton. Very few V of the settlers are known to have escaped, and this estimate will likely fall considerably short of the actual number. Scenes of horror are reported on every hand. People lost their heads completely and ran aimless about bewailing their loss. Streets of towns were strewn with personal belongings which were thrown away in ^ their flight. Men Act Cowards' Part. Crowds of able bodied men, mostly workmen with no persons to care for, ran pell mell to board the waiting train at Beaudette, to the exclusion of women and children and refused positively to assist in saving property. An east bound freight went through a burned culvert near nu ana diucked the line. > The village of Pitt was burned Friday night and later the towns of Spooner and Beaudette, six miles distant, were in flames. A high wind was blowing at the time and within ten minutes after the appearance of the fire the inhabitants of the town were forced to flee for their lives, unable to save any of their property. Showers of Sparks. The fire was heralded by a shower of sparks and burning brands, which swept across the Beaudette river and the inhabitants had hardly time to reach the train which was waiting. Then was enacted scenes never to f be forgotten by those present. Sick people apparently by the score were carried or assisted to points of safety. There were five patients in a hospital which was burned. One woman who tiEd given Dirxn to a uunu iuc oam^ , evening had to be carried to the * office of the Shevlin-Matthieu Lumber company, in whose building many people took refuge. ARREST TEACHER. Angry Father Says Son Was Beaten Unmercifully. Spartanburg, Oct. 6.?For whipping Melvih McLaughlin, the twelveyear old son of J. P. McLaughlin, of No. 11 Hammond street, Professor James B. Hodges, principal of the Southside schol on South Church ' - street, was served yesterday afternoon with a warrant issued by Magistrat Silas M. Wetmore, charging him with assault and battery. He furnished a $200 bond for his appearance. The hearing will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. He wil likely demand a jury trial. The complaint was made by the t? father of the boy. Mr. McLaughlin was highly indignant and said that regardless of what Melvin's offense hnH heen. Professor Hodges had no right to inflict such a terrible whipping as he declared the boy received. According to the boy he was punished because he did not know how to spell in syllables. On Tuesday he told a reporter he was given the word "gladden" to spell. He knew how to spell it, but Miss Thomas, the teacher, directed him to spell in syllables and he didn't know how to spell that way. Prefer Prison Cell. Springfield, 111., Oct. 6.?Believing themselves safe in custody than free and exposed to the prejudicesJ of those who blame them for the interurban wreck in Staunton, in which 36 passengers were killed Tuesday night, Motorman Liedman and Conductor Leonard to-day refused to accept release on bonds of $2,000 offered by their friends. While there is not such beneral feeling against the men as to cause apprenhension, the prisoners themselves said they preferred to remain in custody. They were arraigned at Carlinville to-day and held for alleged criminal negligence. Mills Open Monday. Manchester, England, Oct. 6?The trouble between the Federation of Master Cotton Spinnners and the operators, which resulted in the lockout of 130,000 operatives, was settiort tn-dav and the mills will be re opened on Monday. The operatives agreed to arbitrate the case of George Howe, who was discharged from the mill at Oldham. The men agreed that Howe should be given work in another mill pending the arbitration of his grievances. SPINSTERS CONDEMNED. Hamilton Says They Are Unfit t Teach Girls "I do not believe that girls who ai just passing into young womanhoo are in the proper environment whe they are continually brought int close personal touch with elderly ui married women," says Presider Frederick Hamilton, head of Tufl college and widely known as an edi cator. "The large proportion of women colleges are in the hands of wome teachers, however, and the educatioi al atmosphere of the places is fern nine, the peculiar type of femininit developed by highly cultured, middh aged, unmarried women. Xow, whil the type may be very fine individi ally, it is not the proper one t create the atmosphere for girls at th formation period of their lives. Thes girls are receiving their most vali able impressions and forming thei future attitude toward the question of this time. Their outlook on lif< which I believe is the most impori ant part of college training, shoul be broad, and it can not be so unles formed in an environment of breadtl "The girls at college live in a pun ly academic nie. i ney are on imn resources and they face problems tha are quite new to them. They are t be trained to be competent and in: portant parts of life, we hope. The need a large outlook and a broa viewpoint. The elements "fchich g to give these must be brought int their lives at their psychologies time, and all elements which tend tc ward narrowness should be elim: nated."?Boston Dispatch to Ne^ York American. Foiled by Sheriff. Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 7.?At o'clock this morning a mob of 10 men divided into four parts, made rush for the county jail in four di rections with a view of overpowerin the jailer and taking John Adams the negro who killed Patrolman W T. Berry yesterday, and lynchin him. Sheriff Hood with seven dept ties, armed with shotguns, turne them back. A hurry call for all th police was sent out. The mcb die persed, as the sheriff threatened t kill the first man that approache the jail. Fisherman Killed Feudist. Henderson, Ky., Oct. 5.?Jim Hat field, a member of the famous Hat field feudist family, to-day was shot t death in a soloon by John Pickett, fisherman. The men fell out ove payment for drinks. Hatfield sehui ed an old anny bayonet haging o the wall and stabbed Puckel through the left arm and breas' Puckett then drew his pistol and she once, mortally wounding his antagc nist. Hatfield was a coal miner. H was connected with the famous Mc Coy-Hatfield feud. Tries to Kill Herself. Greenwood, Oct. 5.?Mrs. Ell Hall, white, living at the Grend< mill village, attempted suicide Sue day night, but at present it appear she' will recover. Mrs. Hall is abou 35 years old. For some time sh has been a victim of pellagra, and he mind has been unbalanced*. Sh slashed her throat with a pocke knife, but the wound does not no1 seem to be a fatal one. She is threai ened with pneumonia which, wit her other trouble, may prove fatal. S. A. L. GOES TO FLORENCE. Concessions Granted and Road Wii Enter Gate City. Florence, Oct. 8.?The Seaboar Air Line will come to Florenc< That is an undisputed fact. The dej was closed Thursday of this wee when Mr. Bonsai visited Florence an arranged all matters for the comin with a committe of citizens, who ha the matter in charge with ful powe to act in the premises. The site fc the depots and yards have been ai ranged for, but as the entire matte was kept so quiet and the newspape correspondents were completely i* nored and cut out from being advis ed of the deal, it will be kept a s< cret for several reasons until tb whole arrangement has been . thoi oughly closed. It is authoritatively stated, hov ever, that all concessions asked fc by Mr. Bonsai were granted, an there was not the slightest delay i "coughing up" on the part of Floi ence and Florentines. This is the best news that hs been handed out over the "graf vine" wire concerning Florence an Florentines that has been given 01 in a long time. The Seaboard has already starte work from McBee to Hartsville, Da: lington, and they will rush the wor on into Florence at the earliest pos sible moment. Rail is now bein laid on the McBee end, and it wi take only a short time to reach Hart ville, after which the Darlingto stretch will be begun and then th Florence stretch. / NAME FIDDLING BOB. o Regulars Nominate Taylor for Governor of Tennessee. *e Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 6.?United d States Senator Robert L. Taylor was n this afternoon nominated for gover;o nor by the regular Democratic conl vention, although his senatorial term tt does not expire until 1912. No oth;s er name was presented to the convenl tion, the demand being for Taylor and no one else. 's c Senator Taylor, at 7 p. m.. apn peared in the convention hall and, afl ter an ovation, accepted the nominai tion. y In the main, the convention, which ?- was largely attended, was harmone iuos throughout, though there was a i- little breeze when Senator Tolett o endeavored to have the platform e amended so as to provide for a re;e ference of the liquor question to a i- vote of the people. The amendment ir was nnauy votea aown, tne origiuai is platform being adopted. The tem3, perance plank reads as follows: t- "The Democratic party has at all d times been the consistent friend of ;s temperance reform in Tennessee and 1. other Southern States. >- "We therefore declare that the r temperance question should not be it an issue in a gubernatorial campaign, o "The great controlling issue in t- this compaign is whether Tennessee y shall be turned over to a boss-ruled d Republican machine in a bargain by o which the public offices of the State o are sought to be treated as merchanil dise for barter and sale between poli> ticians anci party bosses. The repui diation of this humiliating attempt v to barter away the honor of the State is the first duty of every patriotic Tennesseean." The platform is mainly devoted to State affairs. It is understood headquarters will 0 be opened at once. Senator Taylor a will take the stump within the week, i- - s ABORIGINAL ROASTING EARS. 3> ' Aborigines Were Eating Them When & Capt. John Smith Arrived. ld We do not know what the Indians e called roasting ears, but there is no question that this was one of the principal articles of diet of the aborigines ^ when Capt. John Smith and his fellow colonists established themselves in this virgin country. A man who was born in Maihe and has lived all about said that the term was first used in England; but we doubt that, t- "as the records would appear to show o that we were making laws in Virginia a before the Pilgrims landed at Plymr outh Rock or thereabout, one writer - saying that the first legislative assemn bly that ever convened in the coun;t try was held in Virginia "seventeen t. months before the eternally lauded it Pilgrims ever landed upon Plymouth >- Rock and ten years before the colony e of Salem and Boston increased their meagre numbers beyond the hundred.'<_ In Bruce's "Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century," a page 173, voluume 1, we are told: ?1 "The custom which the Indians foll lowed in eating their meals was s simple. A mat was spread on the it ground and on this the dish was e placed, the broiled fish and roasting ir ears being laid near at hand." Again, e in the same book, page 175, there is this note: "In June, July and Autv gust they fed on fish, the roots of t- the tuckahoe, berries and roasting h ears." The chances are therefore that corn, which was so important an ar tide of their diet, was called "roasting ears" or the equivalent in the In11 dian tongue, as it is reasonable to assume that they did not eat it raw or uncooked. We are of the opinion d that "roasting ears" is "a good Virginia expression, "inasmuch as in Virtl ginia the white man first used corn k on the table or mat after the mand ner of the indians, and as it was g roasted before it was eaten the pred sumption is that it was called "roaster ing ears." The term appears to have >r been used in Virginia since the seven: teenth century and doubtless before >r there were any Dutch in Pennsyl>r vania.?Richmond Times-Dispatch. r. Good Old School Days. The conductor of a Western freight e train saw a tramp stealing a ride on r" one of the forward cars. He told a brakeman in the caboose to go up <- and put the man off at the next stop. ,r When the brakeman approached the d tramp, the latter waved a big revoln ver and told him to keep away. r_ "Did you get rid of him?" the conductor asked the brakeman, when the is train was under motion again. (e "I hadn't the heart," was the red ply. "He turned out to be an old it school friend of mine." "I'll take care of him," said the d conductor, as he started over the tops r- of the cars. 1- . _ x T_ _ J J ^ ^ Alter tne tram uau uiauc auuiucj s- stop and gone on, the brakeman came g into the caboose and said to the conductor: s- "Well, is he off?" n "No; he turned out to be an old ie school friend of mine, too."?Everybody's Magazine. \ * 'r COTTON CROP CONDITIONS. Slight Deterioration Through Ravages of Insects. New Orleans, Oct. 9.?Based on reports from correspondents throughout the cotton belt, the Times-Democrat makes the following report of cotton crop conditions: Taking the belt as a whole, a moderate deterioration has occurred. The boll weevil has done extensive damage in parts of Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, and there are complaints of other insects in some sec tions. The ultimate outcome is still largely dependent upon the date of killing frost. Farmers seem disposed to sell enough to pay their debts and hold the remainder. Rice Will Admitted to Probate. Union, Oct. 5.?The famous Rice will case has come to a close as far as the probate court in this county is concerned. Judge W. W. Johnson, judge of probate of Union county, before whom the case has been held, decided and filed his decision late yesterday afternoon, that both the will and codicil were valid and binding. The case has attracted a great deal of attention as all parties are well known throughout the State. The will and codicil involved about $500,000. Under the decision Mrs. Spencer Morgan Rice, of Union, and Mrs. Jeter, the wife of Dr. Jeter, of Santuck, are the principal beneficiaries, though there are legacies left to other relatives of Miss Rice. TOWNS WIPED OFF MAP. Death List is Appalling and Will Probably Reach 300. War Road, Minn., Oct. 9.?Beaudette, Spooner, Hitt and Graceton, Minn., were wiped off the map by a forest fire. The bodies of 75 settlers have been located and it is thought the death list among the settlers will total upwards of 300. Wagon loads of human bodies are 1 1 1 ti. 1_ A- XI 11 ? _X ~ ueing Drougnt into me railway station at Beaudette. It is reported that many settlers, crazed with grief and the loss of families and property, are roaming the woods, and searching parties are consstantly looking for the injured, the dead and the demented. One family of nine, one of seven and one of five were destroyed on Friday night. Tornado and Fire. At 8:30 p. m. Saturday evening a tornado of fire struck Beaudette arid Spooner, and within three minutes after the first alarm, all the buildings were ablaze and within an hour were heaps of ashes. The people of these two towns had just sufficient time to escape from their homes. They were loaded onto a passenger train that was standing at the depot and taken to Rainey River, Ontario. The whole country east of here is on fire. Roosevelt, Swift, Williams and Cedar Spur are in great danger. All the women and children are being rapidly removed to places of safety. The Canadian Northern has stationed trains at every station at the service or tne people ana is aoing everyimug in its power to relieve the situation. Lose Their All. The people of Beaudette and Spooner and the settlers all through the north central part of the State have lost everything. Five thousand are homeless and the greater part of them absolutely destitute. Substantial help must reach them within the next day or two. The greater part of them are but half clad. It will be impossible to get details and the names of the dead and injured before to-morrow and some of the dead will not be found until next spring. The wind later shifted and, car" '1 <y flamee nwflV from RoOSe velt. Unless the wind changes again the town will be saved. Trains Stalled. Canadian Northern Railway trains have been stalled here since last night when a freight train went through a bridge near Pitt, The crew was saved and Conductor Monahan walked into Beaudette, which town he reported as destroyed, only the water tank, the school house walls and the depot standing. Monahan says he walked over human bodies on the way but could not say how many. Many settlers took to the woods and have not been heard from since. a mother and five children are known to have been burned. The fires are still raging and the smoke is dense. Men from War Road helped to save Roosevelt. Calls are coming in to help settlers 12 miles south. 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