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c. H. NOBLE PROMOTED
NOMINATED TO DE COLONEL IN THE
UNITED STATES ARMY.
Popular officer Who Formerly Was In
Charge of the Recruiting Station
mt indianapolis.

WASHINGTON. June 1O.-The President
to-day sent the following army promotions
to the Senate:
Cavalry-Lieut. Col. Jacob A Augur, TO
be colonel; Maj. Clarence a. Stedman, TO
be lieutenant colonel; Capt. William ID.
Beach. TO be major; First Lieut. Charles
+. Stodter, to be captain.
Infantry-Lieut. Col. Charles II. Noble.
to be colonel; Maj. John A. Baldwin, to be
lieutenant colonel; Capt. Abner Pickering,
to be major. and First Lieut.. Preston
Brown, captain.
Brigadier Generals Sumner H. Lincoln
and Samuel NJ. Whiteside, recently pro-
NOTED, have been retired.
The House committee on military affairs
to-day voted to against making a favor
able report on the bill which recently
passed the Senate authorizing the advance
ment of the senior major general of the
army. General Brooke. to the rank of lieu
tenant general and his retirement at that
rank. The vote was not on party lines
Members of the committee said the adverse
action was due 10 the course taken by the
House against the bill advancing Surgeon
General Sternberg, and also because Of op-
position within the committee to retire
ments al advanced grades.
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BIG SING SONG"
Beers and British Are still Fraterniz-
ing in south Africa.

PRETORIA, June 10.-Boer commandos
arriving here bring reports of fresh in
stances OF determination between the Beers
and the British troops. The surrender of a
commando at Balmoral. Transvaal. was fol-
lowed by a big "sing-song. The British
soldiers stationed at the block houses be-
tween Balmoral and Pretoria in some in
stances held up the trains and proffered
coffee and tobacco to their late enemies.
The Beers generally hold unfavorable es-
Inmates of their foreign allies, except the
Americans whom they declare 10 be crafty
and great fighters. A prominent command
ant said: "All the Germans are III for is to
give horses sore backs
A proclamation has been issued substitut-
ing a tax of 10 per cent. net on the profits
OF mining operations for the per cent
tax that was imposed by the late Volks-
raad.
AIIWAL NORTH. Cape Colony. June 10
-Cornmandant Fouche. in supervising the
surrender OF various Boer commands here
said the Beers had been good citizens of
their own country and they would be
equally good citizens under the British
government.
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In the factional fight.
LOST THEIR TEMPERS.
Mr.. Elkin said he would be willing to
trust any committee which the state chair
man would appoint, because he believed it
would be fair and honest. I'VE only ask"
he continued, that the delegates who have
been fairly elected be seated. We don't
want any nomination that does not come
fairly"
You will get no nomination that comes
any ways" retorted Senator Quay.
Instantly Mr.. Elkin was on his feet, and,
shaking his finger in Mr.. Quay's face said :
81 will get the nomination if the people
have their will in Pennsylvania. Fair play
is what we want"
That's what you are going to get" re-
piled Mr.. Quay, who also was on his feet
shaking his finger at Mr.. Elkin.
II don't care" said Mr. Elkin, whether
you put these two men on the committee
or not. You can pack it if you want to-;
but you have got to reckon with the people
and that reckoning will come"
The motion that Messrs,. Penrose and
Shields be added to the committee was
adopted by 70 to 45. Contests were fled
with the committee on contests from the
Twenty-eighth Philadelphia district, the
Fifth Luzerne district, the First LuZerene
district and the Fourth Sehuylkill district.
The Philadelphia contest was thrown out
by the committee and that from the Fifth
LuZerne district was withdrawn In the
First Luzerene district the sitting delegates
were unseated and their seats given to the
Watres adherents. In the Schuylkill dis
trict the two delegates were unseated and
Pennypacker adherents were given their
seats. The four delegates who were un-
seated were pledged to Elkin. The action
OF the committee was sustained by the
state committee. The Elkinites will carry
the contest into the convention.
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TORNADO in MINNESOTA
FIFTEEN PERSONS REPORTED TO
HAVE BEEN KILLED.
Destroyed-SeveraI Towns in
Iowa Damaged.

ST PAUL, June 10-A tornado of marked
sections of Clay and Becker counties and
across the southern portions of the White
Earth Indian reservation. 1t is reported
that fifteen lives were lost, many people
injured and great damage done to farm
property, many dwellings, barns and out
buildings being destroyed. Grain was level
ed by hail which followed the wind, but the
crop is not far enough towards maturity to
be seriously injured. The region through
out which the storm prevailed is compara-
lively sparsely settled and remote from
telegraphic communication, and details of
the storm are therefore meagre.
The storm seems to have first struck
northwest of the town of Clen, in Clay
county, whence it travelled southeasterly
across the northern part of Becker county,
striking the towns of Foss. Atlanta and
walworth. along the lower edge of the
White Earth reservation. At Atlanta a
large Norwegian Lutheran church was
completely demolished and a number of
other buildings partially wrecked. The path
of the storm was about mile and half
wide and from thirty 10 fifty miles in
length.
a dispatch from Park Lake Mimi, says:
Provisions and supplies have been sent by
the merchants OF this city 10 the section
yesterday visited by a tornado, fifteen
miles northwest of here. One person was
killed ten were injured and the homes of
nine families were destroyed. Mrs. Berg,
whose home was near Voss postOffice, was
killed by flying timbers, while seeking
shelter The Spangelo church was demol
ished as were several barns The path of
the storm three miles long and mile
wide Every structure in this tract was
demolished. There are rumors of other
lives lost, but these cannot be substan-
tiated, and persons who have visited the
scene discredit the stories of greater loss
of life. The Norwegian Lutheran Church
at Atlanta was destroyed. ole Johnson
berg and his son were picked up and car
ried a quarter of a mile, but were unin-
jured. The property loss will approximate
500 600
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REPuDrATIoN OF J. X. JONES.
James l.. Clarke Declared to BE the
Nominee for Senator.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. June 10.-The fea-
ture of the Democratic state convention,
which opened at noon to-day, was the ova-
tion to former Gov. James p. Clarke, who
was declared by the convention to be the
Democratic nominee for United States sena-
tor TO succeed James X. Jones. Some of
the friends of Senator Jones opposed the
resolution and it was stated that Senator
Jones demurred TO the jurisdiction o. the
convention. The resolution was adopted by
a vote of 420 to -, and formal declaration
was then given on the basis of the vote in
the Democratic primary elections of March
% last. making Clarke the nominee for
senator
Gov. jefferson Davis was unanimously
renominated, the name of Col. f. w Rec
tor, of Hot Springs, being withdrawn. Gov
ernor Davis, in addressing the convention
and accepting the nomina tion, announced
himself a candidate for United States sena-
tor TO succeed Senator James H. Berry
whose term expires in 1905
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FoDREA MURDER TRIAL.
Eleven witnesses Give strong Testi-
mony Against the Defendant.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
NOBLESVILLE. Ind. June 10.-Fair
progress has been made to-day in the Will
liam Fodrea murder trial The trial has
become a large attraction for the people.
and standing room in the courtroom Is
eagerly sought. The first witness called
this morning was DR.. F. A Tucker. who
was the first doctor TO reach Seay after
he was shot. He gave detailed descrip-
lion Of the fatal wound and said he be-
neved seay was instantly killed. He said
fourteen grains Of No. / bird shot took
effect in the neck and head Of Seay.
ering the jugular vein and arteries in the
hack OF the neck and entering the brain.
Several employees Of the mill testified
10 seeing the dead body OF Seay. and the
location of the body 60 the window
through which the shot was fired. Walter
solel testified as 10 hnding a felt gunwad
on roll near the window. The State
expects 10 prove that this Wad was from
the eun that was found near the home OF
Fodrea. clash was raised between the
attorneys over this evidence. and the de
fense moved 10 strike II from the record.
The court took IL under advisement.
William Shein. employed AZ the min.
caused cold chills 70 run through the audi-
ence when. in answer 10 the question. In
him. replied. He was opening and shut
Daniel n MeDougan head miller. tes-
tined that Fodrea had made three appii-
cations for work The last time he an.
piled ne offered 10 work for nothing In
order AZ ne, seid, TO just get the run OF
affairs fie also testlned as 10 having
seen Fodrea around the mill on three dif-
Iohn Knarr testified 10 having seen Fod.
rea around the mill at 10 o'clock on TIA
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TO prevent IL is a crime. and we cannot
even by implication sanction such course.
II is no concern Of this company whether
the men belong TO an association or not II
is their inalenable right 10 take elther
course that they may deem for their best
interests.
You ask this company TO join the rep
resentatives OF other anthracite coal IN
terests and a representative OF the mine
workers TO formulate a scale OF wages ana
conditions of employment which shall gov
ern the coming year. In our judgment
this is impracticable and the best inter
ests of the companies represented, no less
than those of the miners themselves. rem
der impractic BILE any such efforts This
company prefers 10 deal with its own en-
ployes. TO remedy any injustice Of which
they may complain. and in every manner
within our power 10 make pleasant profit
able and permanent the relations between
us.
the Ontario & Western, r. NJ. Oliphant. Of
the Delaware & Hudson. and Alfred Wal
ter. OF the Lehigh Valley. are brief and OF
similar import. Mr. Ohphant says Mr..
Mitchelrs communication carries an in
t1mation that the wage scale is TO be re-
viewed yearly. This he calls condition
''at once unbusinesslike and opposed TO
the proper conduct of the anthracite min
ing industry
The operators follow these replies with
the notice posted in the collieries March IA,
1902, continuing the wages then In effect
until April l, 1903.
BASIS OF FIRST CONFERENCE.
The history of the strike. from the Sha-
mokin convention to May s, is then out
lined and the following is given as PROPOSE
tions by Mr.. Thomas, understood to be
the basis of the first conference of the coal
presidents and the mine workers and Civic
Federation officials:
"First-The anthracite companies do not
undertake in the slightest manner to dis
criminate against members of the United
Mine Workers of America but they do in
sist that members of that organization
shall not discriminate against nor decline
TO work with nonmembers of such associa-
ton.
'Second-That there shall be no deteriora-
tion in the quantity or quality of the work;
and that there shall be no effort TO restrict
lCONTINIED ON PAGE s. COL. 81
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STILL AT LIBERTY.


SALEM. Ore. June 1O.-During the night
Tracey and Merrill, the escaped convicts
who killed three guards al the penitentiary
in getting away yesterday. returned here.
stole clothing from two men. took a team
OF horses from a third man and started
northward. The convicts met ]. w Rob-
erts a citizen returning 10 his home in
South Salem about 10 O'Clock last night
They robbed him OF his clothing and then
commanded him 10 enter his house which
was near by. and remain there all night
under pain OF death. The convicts later
met an expressman. and from him they
took an overcoat and a pair OF overalls
They then stole team belonging TO Felix
Labranche and drove northward. At 4
his home.
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Pleaded Guilty TO Murder.

ST LOUIS. June 0-~By. agreement OF
counsel William Strotners, the negro Turk
ish bath attendant who was arrested last
January for the murder Of A Deane Coop
er. the millionaire proprietor, pleaded gull
" to-day and will serve nfteen years in the
Missouri state penitentiary. Formal SEN
tence vsill be pronounced later.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-11

President Roosevelt and party. who are
going to West Point to attend the CEN
tennial celebration, left here at 1910 o'clock
tonight via the Pennsylvania Railroad.
They occupied a special train, which ran
as the second section OF the regular mid
night express. The President will return
TO the city Friday. The personnel of the
party was. made public yesterday Gen. s.
NJ r. Young. one of those named preceded
the party, leaving here this afternoon.
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PROBABLY A FAKE STORY.
President Thorne Knows Nothing
About Alleged Bank Combination.

NEW YORK. June iO.-President Thorne,
OF the North American Trust Company.
said to-day that his company not di-
rectly nor indirectly interested In the pur-
chase OF banks. and that IL knew nothing
OF the formation OF company 10 purchase
bank stocks. as reported in dispatches from
Chicago.
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The Nicaragua route is beaten by about
twelve votes. according TO the latest poll
Of the Senate taken by Senator Hanna and
his friends Senator Perkins, who is
stanch advocate Of the Nicaragua route,
said to-day IL was pretty clear that Hanna
had them beaten. He has about ten votes
the best of US. said Mr.. Perkins This in
dicaics that the Spooner bill will pass the
Senate and go against the Hepburn bill In
conference. The SpOoner bill requires the
President 70 purchase the Panama Canal
Companys rights, if title can be obtained.
ana construct the canal on that route. or
on the Nicaragua route if the Panama title
Is not good.
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Secretary Moody to-day addressed a let
ter to the chairman Of the House commit
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5. COL. p
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The President had as his guests at dinner
tonight Attorney General Knox, Postmas-
ter General Payne, Secretary Moody and
Senator Hanna. Senator Beveridge came in
later and remained for some time The
gathering was of social character, simply
for good fellowship" as one OF the party
remarked on leaving the White House, and
neither the strike situation nor other i'm
portant public questions were discussed.
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morning that the storm had done much
damage in the western part of the State
and i'm eastern Illinois. A telephone mes
sage from Terre Haute a. a m. said there
had been no serious damage there and that
none had been reported from nearby
places.
1t was reported that the courthouse was
DESTROYED at Danville. H., but this could
not be verified. All wires, telephone and
telegraph, were down, but the storm is
known 10 have been very severe there be-
tween II o'clock and midnight. The last
telephone wire parted little before mid
night and all telegraph wires are down
west of ROachdale.
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Senator McCumber has introduced bill
providing for the erection and maintenance
OF a permanent exposition building at
Shanghai, China, for the exhibition of
American products.
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BAD STORM in ILLINOIS
RUMORs OF TORNADOEs AT BLOOM
INGTON AND DANvILLE.
Telephone and Telegraph Wires Grip
pied, and Details of Damage
Not ObtainabIe.

CHICAGO, June 10.-Reports of a tornado
near Bloomington are current. Neither the
telegraph companies nor the railroads have
any wires working into that city. Com
munication was lost suddenly. The COM
pleteness of the interruption caused a be-
lief that the storm was one of exceptional
severity. The area affected extends from
Freeport H., on the west To Clinton, H.,
in the south. The long-distance telephone
wires, as well as those belonging 10 the
telegraph companies and the railroads, have
been totally paralyzed.
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LOST THEIR TEMPERS.

pointments without any regard to factions
and that he did not know how they stood
In the factional fight
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or monument 10 the memory Of Samuel j.
Tilden, 10 be erected in Washington at a
cost of $50 600
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Legislature win Not Meet.

There will be no extra session of
the Mississippi State legislature.
The Governor bases his declination
to convene the Legislature in extra
ordinary session upon the fact, as he
finds it, that the necessary relief
would not come by this step. His
poll Of the legislature developed the
fact that only fifty-five members
agreed to vote for an amendment to
the valued policy law exempting all
personal property from the operation
of the law. The Governor found a
majority of the members in favor of
amending the law as to cotton alone.
The Governor also found hal the in
surance companies would not write
blanket policies on an amendment
as to cotton alone, and hat many of
them would not write them at all I'M
less the entire valued policy law
was repealed as to personally. Only
fourteen members of the legislature
were in favor of repeating the law in
toto.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
A Pension Problem.

Pension Clerk Simonton of the
auditors Office is becoming some
what bewildered over the prospect
for the pensioners under the forth
coming distribution, which will be
made in November. About one-half
of the counties have made reports for
the new roll and all of them show
heavy increases. The increase in all
classes, from the present outlook,
will materially reduce the pro rata
in each class. The last legislature
appropriated literally for pensions,
but wen with the large increase in
the appropriation made the pros
poets are that the non-preferred class
of pensioners will not get more than
SIG. This would be less than they
have ever received. There is a nota-
bic increase in the number of wo-
men pensioners and the classes that
show total disability or almost total
disability.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
THE PRESIDENT AT ST. LOUIS.
President Roosevelt VIII Meet the
Governors and State Commits.
siOns Mt Worlds Fair Site.

st. Louis, Sept. 22.-President
Roosevelt will visit the Worlds fair
grounds on Wednesday, October /, to
meet the governors and state COM
missions for the thirty or more states
who will gather here to receive the
allotment of sites for state buildings.
A dinner in honor of the president
will be given by the Business Mems
league in the evening at the Mercan-
tile club, attended by $50 guests. The
president will be escorted by the
league to the coliseum, where a public
reception will be held at 9 p. m. The
president will deliver an address.
Seats have been provided for 10000
people. The president will leave ST.
Louis the morning of the I'd.
The ceremony of allotting sites for
state buildings at the Worlds fair
will begin Tuesday, September 30, con-
tinuing three days. Sites will be as
signed in advance of the ceremonies,
and each site marked by a state flag.
Each ceremony will be as .follows:
The president of the exposition, Hon.
David r. Francis, and the director of
works, Isaac S.. Taylor, will take their
places at the flagstaff. The chairman
of the committee on state and terri
torial exhibits, Charles H. Huttig, will
advance with a state commission. The
oho,r,,o, will i~trAI,,nA {Ln oo,.-
sion to the president and
their desire to receive the site allotted
for their state building. The presi-
dent will acknowledge the introduce
ton in a few words and will instruct
the director of works to deliver the
site. The director of works will raise
the staff and deliver the flag
the chief commissioner, who will ac-
knowledge it in a few words and in
troduce the speaker chosen by the
commission, who will deliver a ten
minute address. The party will then
move to the next site. Formal allot-
ments of sites will be made also to
the commissioners-general of the
Philippines, Mexico and Canada.
The governors, the national commits
sion, state commissions, board of lady
managers, government board and 9TH
er guests will be given a luncheon at
the Worlds fair administration build
ing on Wednesday, October 1, at 1870
p. m. At 4 pm. President Roosevelt
will receive them atthe administration
building. On Thursday evening a the
alter party will be given for the
gueStS.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
Strike and lockout at Once.

He tried the door with his keys, says
the Baltimore Sun, but the thing was
locked on the inside, locked and bolted.
And, just as he was about to apply the
knocker, a voice, stern and admonito-
ry, reached him from above.
"Halloa! Who are you? What do
you want?"
my DEAR" he called, isn't that a
trife gratuitous? want to come in.
Dye see?"
"Club, my darling. Been down dis
cussing the strike"
Very well, then. Now, you can go
back and discuss the lockout. Does it
still rain?"
The Tupelo journal., 1902-09-26
A NEW FIELD FOR oRcHARpMEs.

Humanity is constantly undergoing
. change. What was considered a new
and useful invention or improvement
ten years ago, is now passing away
and something more up-to-date has
taAen its place.
Americans must of necessity have
something new to occupy their surplus
energy. This applies to farms, crops,
stock, ETC.. az we'll as to machinery,
merchandising and what not. Look
today at our beautiful horses, our fine
cattle, and instead Of the ~long-nosed
rooters we must have today the hog
that will fatten quickly and on less
feed, and bring a higher price. This
same thing applies to fruit. We must
have the seedless orange, and now the
seedless plum, and the latest is a
peach without a stone. When will this
ever end? Never, the writer hopes.
Orchardmen are looking for land
that will produce the peach, the apple
and plum with the least element Of
chance and the lowest cost, and ma
ture early. They nc longer look for
nearby markets. With our fast trains,
our refrigerator cars, we can place
fruit in any market in good condition.
Fruit land in this country is limited to
a certain extent, and the price of land
in the older fruit belts has advanced
to such an extent that we must now
find a locality with cheaper land, that
will enable the man with limited
means to engage in this delightful oc-
cupation Of growing fruit.
The South offers today the best op-
portunity for developing this industry.
No only have we the soil, but our
early springs and long, delightful sum-
mers, with the bright sunshine and
cheap lands makes this the ideal place
for the future orchardman.
The South has been neglected in this
respect. The white men of the South
turned over their farms to the negro,
and he knows nothing about the cul-
tivatlon of an orchard, neither has he
any considerable desire for fruit. 1t
is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity.