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.ANOTHER FLOOD ?5? Threatens Montgomery and Several Other Cities / NO FATALITIES YET .v But Residents of North Montgomery Are Warned to Move to Places of Safety?The Negro Quarter Is luunuutcu?ureai^ nxina^ Has Ileen Done to Outlying l)Lstriots. Montgomery. Ala., March 14.? This city is threatened with the greatest tlood known in its history. There is danger tonight of the city being thrown into darkness, the waters threatening the steam plants of both the electric light companies and the gas works. The residents of north Montgomery were warned today to move immediately and all day the police aide^i families in getting to places of ^afety. Across the river from Montgomery there is a sea of water extending as fa r q a tho ovn no n ar?n f vuv v V/?n A 11 u of trees which formerly stood high oil the banks are barely discernible. The water is over the Louisville and Nashville railroad tracks at the foot of Commerce street, and the Union Railway station is in danger of being flooded. From Elmore county vague reports are being received about persons cut off by the high water on isolated spots only a few feet above the flood. The United States government boat Twining has started on a six milo trip up the river to rescue a party reported marooned 011 an island. Sunday the Twining will visit the negro settlements and other plantations along the river. Information reached the city this afternoon that the Tallapoose river has broken over its retaining banks on Lower Wetumka road and that several plantations were flooded. The state convict farm is completely isolated and it is predicted that serious trouble will be experienced there. Roads are submerged, making trnfbpn pxtremelv dan&rerous from washouts. Since noon the merchants of Wet tumpka have been moving their / goods from stores and business is JL practically suspended. Lowlands of middle Alabama are submerged for many mile? and while no loss of life is reported, a great many head of live stock are believed to have been drowned. The Tallapoose river, which empties into the Alabama river nine miles north of Montgomery, is a raging torrent. This river sweeps arrtnn'ri tho flnfi convict farm of the State which is under water. The most serioua effect of the high river here is from the back waters which have submerged the negro section and are encroaching on the manufacturing district. In Selma the plant of the Standard Oil Company has been abandoned and if the predictions are verified water will be pouring into the powei plant of the Selma light company be fore nightfall tomorrow. In Gadsden the big lumber plan of the Kyle Lumber Company is sub merged and the damage will be con siderable. From Selma tonight comes a re port that the home of a negro famil; In King's Bend, sio^ih of that city was swept away i nring Saturda; night and the hu? ^#d, his wife an< one child were drovned. The name are not known. WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERACY Commission Appointed to Raise Moil oy for Shaft. Qolumbia, Mnrch 12.?Governo Ansel has appointed the followin commissioners to take charge of th - ' - ?i ?i I... fund that, is 10 oe rmscu uj ?.?? people of the Sta>? for the monumen to the women of the Confederacy The commission named today Is t raise $7,500, and when this sum 1 in hand the State Is to give $7,50' out of the treasury. The commissioners named toda are: Col. T. J. Moore, Moore's Col. J. N. Brown, of Anderson; Gee C. Irvln Walker, of Charleston; Cap! John G. Richards, of Liberty Hill ? -Capt. Wm. E. Gonzales, of Columbia All the members of the commlsslo W' were Confederate soldiers or are th sons of Confederate soldiers. Dies of Old Age. Des Moines, March 11.?Mrs. Rut McPherson died here today at th advanced age of 102 years. She wa the oldest per^gp in Iowa and wa born In Grayson county, Virginia, o August 22, 1807. SUB j WARDENS BATTLE WITH FISHERMEN AND FOUR 1 PERSONS ARE HURT. Wardens' Party Arrested on Charge of Assault Hut Released Soon | After?None Seriously Hurt. Augusta, Ga., March 14.?Saturday night about 9 o'clock, Pink Williams and Charlie Weathersbee, game wardens of the Langley game ! preserves, Butler Weathersbee, tho Langley constable, and a party of fishermen who were fishing on the preserves without the knowledge and consent of the wardens, got Into a fight, which ended with several of the fishing party and one of the ' wardens' party being shot. It is said that Pink Williams and Charlie Weathersbee went out to j the preserves to see that no fishing i was being done. Upon arriving at the pond they found the party fish- j ing with nets. Weathersbee wished ' to have a witness for tho illegal ' fishing and sent Williams back to I Langley to bring another man as witness. While Williams was gone tho party of fishermen, it is said, : gave Weathersbee only a short time to leave, and ho left within the given time. In the meantime Williams, who had been ?ent back for a witness, rohirnorl with Hntlor WnnHiorolioo t lin Langley constable, who is a broth- . er of Charlie Weathersbee, and Will Ruck and Colte Watson. Williams, 1 Weathersbee, Ruck and Watson went j over to the party of fishermen and j asked what had become of the other Weathersbee. The party seemed lg- ' norant of the fact that they were constables that had come for their arrest, and told the officers what they had done to Warden Weathersbee. Upon the officers' trying to arrest the party, the fishermen opened fire. The fight ended when Charlie Weathersbee was wounded in his left arm. Jesse Hush, one of the fishermen, received wounds in both legs below the knee, and a hole through his hand. He made his escape, and it was thought he was dead. Later his hat was found, in which there were 16 holes. He returned to Langley yesterday morning. Proctor, another fisherman, received a shot in the head. Ripley, also a fisherman, was shot in tho head. The fishermen are s<aid to have gone to Langley from Warrenville. None were seriously hurt. Later in the day a warrant was sworn out by the fishing party against Williams, Weathersbeo and Ruck, who were charged with assault. They were arrested and carried to the Aiken court house. Dr. W. D. , Wright of Langley and Superintend , ent A. T. Smith of the same place went to Aiken and secured their release.?The State. POISONING SUSPECTED. Body of a White Farmer Has Boon Exhumed. Greenwood, March 12.?The body t of Mr. Anderson, who died several _ weeks ago, was exhumed yesterday - and the stomach taken out and sent to a chemist for examination. Certain developments made the y family suspect that his death was not , duet to natural causes. Mr. Andery son was a well-to-do white farmer, i living about five mile west of town, a lie was found dead the Friday night * before the very cold weather in February. He had left his house after ". dinner to go and fix a pasture fence. He did not return, and when searchers found him he had ben dead several hours. The ground around his body was torn up, indicating that he had died after a great struggle. r The night of his death a cat at the K house died in a peculiar manner, and e the next day all the other cats there e died very peculiarly. * t POLISH COUNT A STOKER, o ^ Nobleman Shoveling Coal on the Battleship Georgia. y Philadelphia, Pa., March 12.?The i. crew of the battleship Georgia, which recently returned to the Philadel5 phia navy yard after a trip around i- the world, claims the distinction of n having a real count as a stoker. Paul ft Unrnnnl Kf.yi i*nxisulr 1 la Vila n?mo A P. cording to his own statement, he was disinherited by his father in Poland while studying at Heidelberg, h That was six years ago. He came e to this country and settled in Milis waukee, where, after working a is short time, he enlisted. He speaks n several languages and is a good musician. SCRIBE F THUS IT GOES rhe FrazZted End of a Sinful Misspent Life. LEAF FROM THE PAST Woman for Whom a Millionaire Now York Hotel Keeper Shot uml i; :ii.wi ? it 1 A * imnn u iTuuiiiit'ut r mancior or j Now York, Now an Outcast Living j on Cold Charity. New York, March 13.?Josie Mansfield, the actress for whom Edward S. Stokes shot down and murdered Jim Fisk, Jr., in tho Grand Central hotel, New York, in 1 872, has been found living iu Watertown, S. I)., where she has been for the last seven years, her real identity unknown. The woman is 7 0 years old, penniless, and a paralytic, and is seeking entrance to a convent. For several months she has been living off tho bounty of friends, and money for her support has been raised by card parties and subscriptions. Thus is is that the woman who was the cause of one of the greatest tragedies in the hoistory of American finance is ending her days in harrowing obscurity, in company with her brother, she went to Watertowif, S. 1)., in 1 892. He built her a little cottage and kept her until he died two veal's Rtrn Ipavlnc lior lint lit tie money. She used this very savingly, hut now it is all exhausted, and It is only the bounty of her friends that keeps her from starving to death. Her identity was made known by a traveling man who recognized he-r by the traces of the beauty that cost Fisk his life and blasted the career of Stokes. Josie Mansfield made her first appearance on the stage in California in 1850. She was about 16 years old, extremely lovely, but ignorant. She became the wife of Frank Eawler, an actor, and they went East and lived in Boston until 1867. In that year she obtained a divorce, and went on the New York stage. She could not act, being cold and emotionless. After appearing in several companies without success, she found liersolf without money. She sought an audience with Fisk. It was said she told him she had only her beauty to commend her, but that was enough. Fisk became her slave. Her skin was fair. Her silky black hair was arrayed in clusters about her broad white brow. Her ears were small i n l.i ? J iu aim nut'iy inuiutHi, aim lriim iiiein deponded a pair of largo gold hoops, which gave her a gypsy attractiveness. Her eyes were light, but luminous gray. She flattered Fisk until she met Stokes, when she promptly transferred her "affection" to the younger man. The effect of this betrayal embittered Fisk, all the more as he had boasted in public of the woman. He had given her a house in West Twenty-third street. It was a a feast in that place he vaingloriously declared he held the legislature in the hollow of his hand, and thought he would have it change the name of New York to Fiskville. It was then Josie Mansfield, with her lips to his ear, whispered: "Why not name it after me?" "By ?" exclaimed Fisk, "you're beautiful enough to have this town wear your name. But what should it be? Josie is not dignified enough. You ought to bo Helen? Helen of Troy! If you were, I'd have New York called Helena." * GIVEN EIGHTEEN YEARS. Inventor Wlio Killed Broker Suydam Sentenced. New York, March 12.?John C. Lumsden, the young North Carolina inventor, who was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree on the charge of killing Harry B. Suydam, a broker, was today sentenced In the counrt of general sessions to not less than 18 years nor more than 19 years and six months In State prison. The broker was shot and instantly killed in his office on December 19, last, after an altercation with Lumsden over money matters, Lumsden claiming that the broker owed him $1,200 on some notes. Kills Girl and Self. New York, March 11.?Samuel Krobach, 26 years old, of Shady Side, N. J., shot and killed his swotheart, Miss Susa Pazalica, 2 2 years old, at her home tonight. Krobacli ' then shot himself through the head and died instantly. The girl had 1 . rofucrwl trt mnrrv him I row to STRONG PROTEST MADE AGAINST VISIT OF HOOK- i EU WASHINGTON. Charged With Associating With ( White People North und Hiding in Pullman Car in This State. In a card addressed to the editor of the Record, a prominent citizen . of Columbia makes a strong pro- ] test against the reception of Booker I Washington, who is to be in Colum- i bin on Monday on his tour through tho Stato and through tho South, i The gentleman who writes tho card ] is a Confederate veteran, prominent in political, social, religion's and fraternal circles and highly respected all over the State, llis card is as follows: Editor of Tho Record? As a citizen of South Carolina and as a Southerner, will it ho asking too much of you to publish in Tho ltoc- ' ord the views not only of myself, 1 but of many thousand Southerners in regard to Hooker Washington? We shall speak plainly and honestly and believe wo express tho views of : a large majority of our people. Hooker Washington stoppod at a white hotel in the North and caused ' a white girl to loso her place because she would not clean up his room. Hooker Washington sent his son and daughter to white schools in the North. Hooker Washington accepts invitations to white people' houses in the North, eats at their tables, sleeps in their boils and escorts white women to tho dining room. Now, Mr. Editor, wo say that the Southern people cannot accept Hook- j tri ? ukuiiikioii h assertion mat no (loos not want social equality. In ? every way and In every place, he , not only accepts social equality, but i forces It if he has the opportunity, I and we believe that if Booker Washington had the power ho would remove every barrier that wo now have in the South to prevent social equality and would not hesitate to make legal the marriage of a white girl to a negro. We understand even on this trip that white men are riding, sleeping and eating with and in the same private car with Booker Washington and the other negroes who are with him. This may be error, but we hear it is true. Knowing those ifacts, can any ' Southern white man respect him? ! Can any Southern man trust him I or believe him? If the facts are true, if even a part of them are true, do we want Booker Washington in the South? No, for the sako of our daughters, a thousand times, no. SOUTHERNER. SUPPOSED TO UK CATAMOUNT. Animal Dashes into Town and Carries Away a Dog. Pineville, N. C., March 13.?As Messrs. Tate Spencer and Alvah Culp wni'n lunlblnnr nltintr f h n of rot loaf " VI V/ II Ulivillf) UM/llfj VI IV OLI vt IUOL evening, they heard the pitiful yelp of a dog, which seemed to be in distress. In a few minutes an animal, with a little dog clenched between its teeth dashed in front of them. The boys immediately gave chase, and a rare race they had. Over gullies, across lots, through fields they went, often splashing in water over the tops of their shoes. The wailing cries of the little dog grew weaker and the unknown animal kept straight on, out-distancing the boys, who only desisted after utter exhaustion. Lated in the night the same animal made a disturbance on Clay street, and another dog disapD/aII n I'l c?? ru, I uiu,i;iii<ui > v ii u Xlaa boon investigating, and the general , opinion is that the animal is a catamount or a farm-famed santer. PERILOUS VOYAGE ENDS. Reaches Newport After Rough Trip From Jacksonville. Newport, R. I., March 15.?Short of provisions and water, and minus all her fore rigging, the three-masted schooner Mystic, owned by the Gilbert Transportation Company, of New London, Conn., put Into Newport harb&r a few days ago, after a disastrous encounter with the elements during her run from Jacksonville, Fla. The Mystic left Jacksonville with lumber for New Haven twentyone days ago. Last week, when off I Harnegat, an easterly storm, accom' panied by snow and tremendous seas, struck the vessel, and the fore top\ mast, flyfling Jibboom, fore staysail, l fore rigging and fore and main gaffs I went uvui mmni, lsuiuig mu frciiv I the Mystic was blown one hundred * and eighty miles off shore. * THE I BLACK HANDS \GENTS KILL NKW YORK OFFICER IN ITALY. !)fllcer Who Him Scut Many Blackmailer* to Prison uud ScntYold Lied Fi^htiiiK Five Assassin*. Rome, March 13. ? Detectlvo Joseph Petrosino, of the Now York [jolice force, was shot and killed in the streets of Patronio, while there an a mysterious case for the New York authorities. Detective Petrosiuo, who was one of the best known Italian detectives in the Unit I otl States, had been tho terror of ! the New York Italian criminals. His assassins are unknown, but it is believed his death was an act of Dlack Hand vengeance. Later reports say he was attacked in broad daylight by a number of men. lie bravely defended himself with the revolver until he fell dead, after receiving many wounds. It is believed the flvo assassins have taken refuge in the mountainous country back of the city. A company of carabineers is searching for them today. Lieutenant Petroslno left his hotel to go to the bank to cash a draft, lie expected to leave for tho United States within a few days. It is known that ho had gathered the most damaging kind of evidence against tho blackmailers' secret so- i ciety. The detective walked from tho entrance of the hotel down tho street, then turned a corner into a smaller side street. It was there the assassins were waiting for him. Apparently they had been keeping a watch upon him ever since his arrival in Patromo from Rome. The detective was riddled with bullets. Unofficial statements from the authorities are to the effect that they believe ho was followed to Patromo from New York by his assassins. * TAX ON GOFFER AND TEA Will Cuuse Republican Congressmen to He Rente 11. Washington, March 13.?The proposed tax on coffee and tea is giving tho Republicans some concern. Some Republicans declare that taxing of the breakfast table would make It Impossible for the Republicans to carry their district In tho next election. The National Coffee and Tea As sociation, in a communication to tho committee, wrote the a tax on coffee or tea "would be unjust to the consumer, detrimental to trade, irritating to the masses, and finally, will fall to produce any material revenue to the government for nearly two years." "A duty of five cents upon coffee would mean an immediate profit of at least $0.50 per bag upon every bag in the United States to the owners thereof," is the claim made in brief. "There being nearly 4,000,000 bags at present held here by lndividI uals, corporations, and Wall stret [ speculative interests, such a duty would moan a profit of $26,000,000 to the owners and holders thereof. Tint It would not mean one do.la.'s paid into the United States treasury." SURGEONS MAKE MISTAKE. Took Out Appendix for Enlargement of Tonsils. ITarrisburg, March 1.?..?Rosa Cohen, an eight-year-old girl, is convalescing in ti?o Harrisburg hospital after having been operated on Sunday for appendicitis by mistake. The child and her eleven-year-old brother were sent to the institution suffering with enlarged tonsils. In some unexplained manner the girl was given an anaesthetic and her appendix was taken out. The surgeons say that the appendix was somewhat inflamed and that they did not discover their mistake until the parents called. The humorous feature of the case is the assertion that the condition of the little girl's appendix showed that she would have developed appendicitis anyway and that the operation, therefore, was a fortunute mlsj take. Burned to Water's Kdge. Queenstown, Md., March 12.?The Chesapeake bay steamboat Lovt Point, Capt. Clarke, belonging tr the Maryland, Delaware & Virginia Railway Company, was burned to tin water's edge while lying at the wharl at Love Point at 11 o'clock las' night. i I0RRY H GREAT CHANCE For Democrats to Help Bring About the Desired END OF CANNONISM A United Stand Moans the IjisI of the Arbitrary Ilulos of Speaker Cannon ? Will Any Democrut I'rovo a Traitor and Stay Away and Aid Cannon? Washington, March 13. ? Any Democratic member of the house of representatives who Is not in his seat Monday to vote for revision of the rules "will be in disgrace," is what the Democrats here declare today, and the Democratic leaders are sparing no pains or telegraph tolls to let the absent members know what Is at stake. The Insurgents are united and militant, and there Is no doubt that they have more than the 2 4 votes necessary with all the Democrats to put an end to the baleful domination of Cannon. i n?... ? ? * * i iiu iiioiii gcitio i;uii uoi anora to 'Mnsurge" unless they qan surely win, and they can not win unless all tho Democrats are In their seats Monday. It Is a frightful bugaboo to declare that "numerous" DemoI crats have given Mr. Cannon assurances that in return for cortain favors to conn* they will stay away Monday. Champ Clark and practically all the Democrats here are let| ting their colleagues who are at ! home know in no uncertain terms I that the time is at hand to show their faith. The Cannon crowd, Including the speaker, "Jim" Waston, the whip, "Jim" Sherman, the vice president, and the president himself, are all scared almost out of their hjmts and are sending emissaries around to newspaper ofllcos tonight trying to bear the market of insurgency. Champ Clark Is naturally nervous. The only cool ones are the "insurgents," who say that now if tho tight against Cannon, bossism and tho house rules is not won, tho re sponsiblllty will rest on the Democrats. It is said all over Washington tonight that thoro are always enough Democrats who can bo bought off to have a sudden spell of sickness to insuro tho triumph of tho Republican machine and confidence In tho Democrats is very shaky, especially in Southern Democrats, whoso districts aro not so alive to tho issue It is recalled how two years ago after tho Domocrats and insurgents had won tho ship subsidy fight about three Democrats immediately disappeared from tho house, tho Hepublican machino crowd manoeuvred around, secured another vote and passed tho infamous measure which Senator Carmack fortunately killed by a filibuster. Such defections of more or less "trifling" Democrats, they aro say ing, always occur and will occur Monday. But since all eyes will he watching out for such Democrats Monday, if there are any, their districts wil certainly know about it the next day anil they can expect to be driven out of the party. The report published this afternoon that Theodore Roosevelt and the other editors of The Outlook, after a conference this morning, decided to support the insurgents, even though President Taft is against them, is vigorously denied by the Cannon men, who say that authentic denial will be given out in New York tonight. President Taft, "Jim" Sherman and others who are supporting Cannon have four new members from Wisconsin at the White House tonight. These Wisconsin Republicans are born insurgents, pledged against Cannon. The president and Vice President "Jim" are trying to proselyte them. ZACH McGEE. MANY LIVES IX)ST Ity Part of Mountain Falling in Isle of Jova. Victoria, D. C., March 12.?News of landslides burying three villages involving the loss of a thousand at Pendjolo, Java, was brought today by the steamor Kmpress of Chi' na. A part of Mount Kontjana fell? k destroying the village of Tglboeboe? han, and the towns of Wardengslte and Telokbangoe. Rut one man, one woman and tv.o children escaped to > tell the tale. Tons of earth were > slipping as the vessel left, c" >wi9 > were flocking to see the terilole i sights and recover the bodies, mostj ly burled deep below tons of eaith. T Pestilence was feared. Dogs and r birds were feeding on the bodies exposed to view. ERALD