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held, the tracks south OF that point for
two miles being washed away. Train NO
g. due here at l2.l5 this morning, ran into
washout at Melton, between Harriston and
Port Gibson. the engine, baggage and mail
cars going into the ditch. Nobody was
seriously Injured. Passenger and freight
trains north and south OF this city are
stalled all along the road, the tracks belng
covered with water at a score of places.
In this city the damage Will amount to
several thousand dollars. Many stores and
residences in the eastern section have been
flooded to a depth of several feet streets
are washed out and many bridges under
mined At the National Cemetery many
terraces were cut to pieces and the fine
steel bridge across Mint Springs bayou,
built by the government five years ago, Is
on the point Of collapse and trafhc across
it has been stopped.
Horace Gibson, a planter living near
Russum had a narrow escape. The waters
rose so rapidly that Gibson and his fam
lily were compelled TO abandon their house
at midnight, the building being swept away
q few minutes later. They took refuge on
a nearby eminence.
. Very little news has been obtained from
the outlying districts: 1elePhone wires are
down in every direction The loss is un-
doubtedly heavy, and IL is feared there
were a number of casualties.
Work in the YaZoo & Mississippi Valley
Railroad shops at this point has come TO a
complete standstill on account of the en-
croachment of the water. Bakers creek
between this city and Jackson is out of its
banks, causing a suspension Of traffic on
the Alabama 4 Vicksburg road.
At Yazoo City the greater part of the
town is flooded and many buildings have
been undermined and washouts are re-
ported at many. points on the railroad near
there.
In East Mississippi the downpour has
been terrific, all the creeks are roaring tor
rents and much damage has been wrought.
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with the rovernment of Cuba coincide
with its ina dration, as we'll as to provide
a channel for the conduct of diplomatic
relations with the new state to open the
path for the immediate negotiations OF
conventional agreements TO carry out the
provisions of the act above quoted. 1t is
also advisable that consular representation
be established without delay al the princi-
pal Cuban ports in order that commerce
with the island may be conducted with due
regard to the formalities prescribed by the
revenue and navigation statutes of the
United States, and that American citizens
in Cuba may have the customary local
resorts open to them for their business
needs and, the case arising, for the pro-
Il therefore recommend that provision be
forthwith made and the salaries appropri-
ated to be Immediately available for:
"A. Envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary TO the Republic of Cuba.
$4,000
''B. Secretary of the legadon 81 OGo.
&C. Second secretary of the legation,
ID. Consul general at Havana $1,000.
"E. Consuls: At Cienfuegos. $1,000; SAINT
iago de Cuba, S3, ,000
Il do not recommend the present restora-
ton of the consulates formerly maintained
al Baracoa. Cardenas, Matanzas, Nuevitas.
Aguala Grande and San Juan de los Rene
dos. The commercial interests at those
ports heretofore have not been large. The
consular fees collected here during the
fiscal year 1861 aggregated S752. 1t is
believed that the actual needs OF the SIX or
fees named can be efficiently subserved
by agents under the three principal con-
sular offices until events may show the
necessity of erecting a full consulate at
any point.
THE commercial and political conditions
in the Island of Cuba while under the Span
ish crown afford little basis for estma ting
the local development of intercourse with
this country under the influence of the new
relations which have been created by the
achievement of Cuban independence, and
which are to be broadened and strength
ened in every proper way by conventional
pacts with the Cubans and by wise and
benefcent legislation aiming to stimulate
the commerce between the two countries
if the great task we accepted in 1898 is TO
be fittingly accomplished
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
white House, March q, 1902
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Tornado in Arkansas.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. March 27.-Advices
to-day from Beirne, Clark county, state
that a tornado swept over that town yes
terday, destroying much property and in
juring several persons. The Yeager hard
wood plant and the ]. G.. Clark mill were
unroofed The schoOlhouse, which was a
one-story frame building, was blown down.
part of j. r. Robinson's hotel a
cottage occupied by Jud Davis and another
occupied by w. b. Hay. The wife and baby
of the latter were injured. The family of
Davis mraculOusly escaped unhurtl
A string of twenty-five cars standing on
the Iron Mountain Railroad track was
blown almost an eighth of a mile down the
road.
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Return of Troops.

WASHINGTON, March 27.-Quarter-
master General Luddington has instructed
the deport quartermaster at New York
city to make prompt arrangements for the
transport Of all the troops in Cuba or
dered to various points in the United
States The Department has been advised
by General Wood that all the troops are
ready to move from Cuba at any time,
except eight troops Of cavalry from
Havana and two troops of cavalry from
Santiago. which will remain on the island
until May 20.
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Isolated by a snowstorm.

LINCOLN. Neb., March IA letter from
Chadron, Neb.. under date of yesterday,
says that town and district west and east
for a hundred miles has been practically
isolated as a result of the snow and sleet-
storm Of Monday and Tuesday. Telegraph
and telephone wires and poles are flat in
all directions, and not message has been
received or sent for three days. In the
Black hills two feet % snow fell and trains
are partly blocked. Wires are down in
Deadwood, and that place is nearly cut of
world.
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HEAVY FALL OF RAIN.
Nearly Eight Inches i'm Day-Serious
Flood i'm Mississippi.

VICKSBCRG. Miss, March 27-Nearly
eight inches OF rainfall in the past twenty
four hours has almost isolated Vicksburg
so far as railway traffic and wire communi-
cation are concerned. Not a train on the
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley road has en-
tered or left the city since $3.50 o'clock last
night, when a mail and passenger train left
for New Orleans. This train only sue
ceeded in getting as far as Port Gibson
twenty-five miles south, where IL Is sun
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General otis Goes to His old Hom,

CHICAGO. March 27.-Major General FL
we'll s Otis, retired from active service in
the United States army. left tonight for
his old home IN Rochester, N Y His wife
and daughters accompanied him East Re
fore leaving Chicago General Otis said.
while l have no definite plans. there are
two things I Will not do--write a book or
lecture
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GoMPERs PLAYS MEDIATOR.
Probably Successful I'm Adjusting the
Brewerymen's strike.

CINCINNATI, O.. March 27.-After a con-
ference with the brewery proprietors dur
ing the forenoon President Gompers vas
In conference again during the afternoon
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FLURRY ~ THE HOUSE.
Mr. RichardsOn's Resolution and
Captain Christmas's Charges.

WASHINGTON. March IA genuine
sensation vas caused in the House to-day
BY the presentation by Mr.. Richardson, OF
tennessee, the Democratic leader, Of
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TSILKA'SARREST ABSURD

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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-02

Washington, Sept 27.-David E.
thompson. who was yesterday ap-
pointed minister to Brazil. is the only
new appointment in the list an
nouneed, the remainder being ex-
changes from one post to another.
Thompson for many years has been
prominent figure in republican pol
ltics IN Nebraska. He began life as a
brakeman on the Burlington and Mis-
souri, river, was promoted into the me-
cnanlcal department and finally be-
came a progressive railroad man. He
is interested now largely in real es-
tate He was one of the leading fig
ufes IN the triangular senatorial con-
test among Meikeljohn, Thomson
and DIETRICH, which resulted in the
election of DIETRICH as senator. II is
said the senator is the principal spon.
sor OF Thompson in his diplomatic as
plratlon. The compensation of the
post to which he is appointed is s12.-
UU0 per annum, and while in recent
years 1t has not been the scene of any
particular diplomatic episodes. it is
believed that owing to the pending
dispute between Brazil, Bolivia and
Peru over the territory of Acre and
the necessity in the near future of
the Encouragement of the tariff be-
tween Brazil and the United States
Thompson's post will offer consider
able opportunities for personal dis
tinction.
The following important diplomatic
appointments were yesterday an
nounced from the state department:
Charlemagne Tower of Pennsylva-
MIA, now ambassador extraordinary
and plenipetentiary to Russia, to be
ambassador extraordinary and pleni-
potentiary to Germany.
Robert S. Mccormick of Illinois,
now ambassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary.
to be ambassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary to Russia.
Bellamy Storer of Ohio, now envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipo-
Tertiary to Spain, to be ambassador
extraordinary and plenipotentiary to
Austria Hungary.
Arthur S. Hardy of New Hampshire,
now envoy extraordinary and minis
ter plenipotentiary to Switzerland, to
be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Spain
Charles Page Bryan of Illinois, now
envoy extraordinary and minister
Dlenipotentiary to Switzerland
David E. Thompson of Nebraska to
be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Brazil
These appointments are to take eff
feet when Ambassador White leaves
Berlin in November.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-02
MISS TAYLOR
FILES NEW
DEMURRER

Washington, Sept. 27-The counsel
for Miss Rebecca ]. Taylor, who was
dismissed recently from the war de-
partment as a result of her published
criticism of the administration policy
in the Philippines, yesterday filed a
demurrer to Secretary Roots answer
to her petition for a mandamus to
compel the secretary to restore her to
clerkship. She alleges her removal
was without justice or authority of
law; that it was ebcause of her politi-
cal opinions, and that a clerk has vest
ed rights to once until removed by
proper authorities acting within the
range of their authority which she
disputes in this case. Her demurrer
contends that no head of an executive
department is empowered to remove a
subordinate in violation of the laws CT
congress or rules of the president
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-02

Syracuse, Sicily, Sept. 27.-The
stream flowing through Modica, swol-
len by the recent terrific storm, sud-
denly overlooked and inundated the
town. Many houses collapsed and
hundreds of people persisted. The
country in the vicinity of Modica is
flooded and the project, with a force
of troops, has started for that place in
order to render aid to the settlers.
For twenty-four hours before the
cyclone burst over the island violent
storm ragged on the eastern coast of
Sicily. Everything in the line of the
storm was destroyed. The sea swept
inland several kilometers, doing enor-
nous damage, while there were vio-
lent submarine agitations between
Sicily and the mainland. Along the
railroad from Catania to Palermo the
force of the cyclone was such that
rails were torn up and hurled a great
distance.
1t is reported from Modica that 100
bodies have already been found but
the number of dead bodies swept
away by the torrent is unknown. 1t is
believed 400 people have been killed.
The torrent destroyed everything on
the ground floors in the lower portions
of Modica. Bridges and roads disap-
peared and damage amounting to
many million lire has been done Ga
lire is worth about 20 cents) The sur.
vivors of the catastrophe have taken
| refuge in the hills. The disaster is
supposed to be due to a marine water
spout. The German steamer Caprers
| was wrecked at Catania after a terri
BILE struggle with the waves.
The number of tornado victims is
still unknown but 80 corpses have
been deposited in one church. Al
Soicli twelve persons were killed
Tasearo was destroyed and enormous
damage was done at Palazzolo, Acre
ide, Farla and Gerantana.
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SOLDIERS IDLE
in STRIKE REGION

Philadelphia, Sept. 27.-No disturb
ances of moment occurred in the
strike region yesterday. There was a
small riot at Centralia, Colombia
county, where some strikers attacked
non-union men on the way to the
mines and Sheriff Knoor asked the
governor to send troops to quell the
disturbance. In the Lackawanna and
Wyoming valleys universal quiet pre-
walls and soldiers were not called up
on to suppress the disorder, while AT
Forest City, Susquehanna county, the
extreme northern end of the anthra-
cite coal belt, the presence of soldiers
has had the effect of awning the rioters.
At Lebanon, where the employees of
the American Steel and Wire company
have been fighting against the impor-
tation of laborers there is a temporary
truce with likelihood that the differ
ences will be setLled and the men
shortly return to work.
Wilkesbarre, Sept. 27.-At the Of
fees of the coal com panies it was
stated that since soldiers are in con
troll large number of their old men
and those prevented from working
have returned and that the collieries
now being operated have more men al
work than at any time since the
strike began. At strike headquarters
it was stated the ranks of the strikers
are as firm as ever and that no deser
tons are reported anywhere in the re
gion.
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QUEER GROWTHS.
Roses Without Thorns and Apples
Without Seeds.

You cannot cross a gooseberry and
currant, nor. though the experiment
has often been tried, produce a fruit
half way between an apple and a
pear. Yet what the gardener, with
months of careful toll, fails in, nature,
in freakish mood. sometimes manu-,
features in startling perfection.
Last year, for instance, an aston
ishing flower appeared upon a rose
bush in garden at Violet Hill, Stow
market. The rose grows near an
apple tree. and as one of its largest
buds was bursting into bloom it was
growing in its center.
The apple blossoms opened as the
petals of the rose developed, making
a flower so strange as perhaps never
before was seen.
Even more amazing was the pro.
duct of a grapevine on the property
of Joseph Worl. at Peru, Ind. Little
apples were found growing on it in
stead of grapes. AS the vine was
partly shaded by an apple tree, 1t is
supposed that the pollen of the apple
blossoms combined with that Of tho
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PlERPONT MORGAN TO
RELIEVE MONEY STRINGENCY

New York, Sept Ell. P. Morgan
& Co. yesterday notlfied the share
holders of the various companies and
corporations for which they act as
fiscal agents that they would antici-
pate the October interest and coupon
payments next Monday, two days in
advance of the required time. These
payments, it is estimated, will approx
innate 100000. The action is taken
to relieve the existing financial con
dition.
The United States Steel corporation
announced yesterday that it would
mail checks today for the quarterly
dividend on common stock due Sept.
80 and that checks would be payable
Sept. 30 This amount is $5,0S3. O52,
and that sum will be released to the
money market.
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Will Locate Monuments.

Dubuque, Ia, Sept. 27.-Captain J. F.
Merry, chairman of Iowa Vicksburg
park commission has called meeting
of the members at Chicago Oct. 8
From Chicago the commission viii go
to Washington and Gettysburg to
view the soldiers monument The OBJ
ject is to gather information that will
better enable the commission to de.
eide upon the style of the monument
to be used in the Vicksburg national
park for marking the positions of Iowa
troops in the siege of Vicksburg. The
Legislature at the last session appro.
priated $150,000 for this purpose.
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WILL SEEK
DAYS PARDON

Minneapolis, Sept. 27-Arrange-
ments were completed last night for
the presentation to the BOARD of par
dons of Gu imposing petition for the
release of Frank Hamilton. former
newspaper man who is serving a sew
en-year term in Saltwater penitentiary
for killing Leonard Day. young mil
lionaire. Day was stabbed in an early
morning brawl in the West hotel and
for time doubt was felt as to whetn-
er Hamilton or another member of the
party had given the fatal thrust.
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grape flower, and SO produced these
extraordinary little fruit.
But, apart from the freaks of ma
ture as these, horticulturists have of
later years been producing a success.
sion of the most astonishing hybrids
OF one KIND and another They work
in three ways, either by grating one
stock upon another, by crossing one
flower with the pollen of another or
by simple selection.
! The gratis or buds of certain Plants
and trees do much better upon foreign
stock. Oranges, for instance, grated
on sour stock, make far more Wig
orous trees than seedlings, and are
besides always true to the grated
stock
A tree has been grown, different
branches of which have produced at
the same time ordinary Mediterranean
sweet oranges. tangerines. lemons and
citrons.
Peaches will grow freely upon an
almond stock, and apricots upon
common blackthorn or sloe In Hol-
land rose graft had been made to
grow upon an orange stock, but after
a year it died.
Extraordinary as it may seem, a
pear has even been grated upon a
mountain ash tree, and has produced
fruit. In this case the fruit was much
earlier in ripening than pears ordi-
narily are.
Sometimes the scion affects lie
stock A pasmine with variegated
leaves when grated upon the ogdi-
nary green leaved variety has been
known to cause all the leaves of the
latter To become variegated.
BY artificial fertilization of the bios
some well-known firm of seedsmen
have produced a new fruit which
partakes of the nature of both black
berry and raspberry.
One of the best known devisers of
strange fruits is Luther Burbank. He
has already succeeded in growing a
prune which has no real stone-only
kernel of very small dimensions.
Another chief goal of the gardener
is the elimination of thorns and
prickles from fruits and flowers.
Oranges can be grown without thorns,
and recently at one of Leopold de
Rothschilds' places an absolutely
thornless rose was produced.
Raspberries without thorns have
also been arrived at, and, no doubt,
blackberries, gooseberries and other
fruit trees will be similarly improved
within a very few years
Seeds, too, will soon be extirpated
from other fruits beside the orange.
The seedless raisin has long been a
familiar friend. We know it as the
sultana. Fine grapes are now being
grown which have hardly any seeds
Currants and gooseberries are double
and treble the size t..ey were q few
years ago, yet have fewer seeds than
their progenitors, indeed, of the for
mer fruit, practically seedless
variety, the corinth currant. is already
well known.
Apples without pips are the latest
development They come to us from
Canada and are of very fire flavor.
We are often promised nuts without
shells in the near future. Already
Ohio grower has produced a walnut
with a Shell almost as thin as paper.
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COAL JUMPS

New York, Sept. 27.-The coal short
age reached an acute stage yesterday
The price of soft coal jumped to IS a
ton, three times as much as before the
strike was inaugurated. The quoted
price of hard coal was SIS, but 1t
was merely nominal, as there was alb
solutely none to be had at any price.
Dealers assert the supply of anthra-
cite coal in the city is not 10 per cent.
of the demand and that the present
supply of soft coal is hardly rs per
cent. of the demand.
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Order Line of March.

Washington, Sept. 27.-Commander-
in-chief Terrence has issued an order
prescribing the line and order of
march of the Grand Army October 5 4.
The head of the column will move al
10 a. M, starting from the congress
slonal library and disbanding after
passing the white house. State de-
partments will march in the order Oh
their date of charters, Illinois leading.
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Millers Will by How.

Minneapolis, Sept. 27.-The mi1lers
have answered the demands of the
employees for an eight-hour day by
agreeing to grant the request, but at
the same time changing the wage scale
from the day rate so as to pay by the
hour. The rate offered is about five
cents per hour more than under the
present plan of payment. The millers
say if the proposition is rejected they
will close the mills cor employ other
men more reasonable in their de
mands."
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AT TEMPT TO
WRECK TRAINS

Sioux City, Ia, Sept. 27.-The lives
of several hundred passengers were
endangered in Union county, South
Dakota, last night by two attempts to
wreck Milwaukee excursion trains.
These trains left Sioux City thirty
minutes apart, and were crowded with
passengers. At place near Elk Point
a special struck a pile of ties. No
damage was done and the train pro-
ceeded. A special for Mitchell, thirty
minutes later struck another pile of
ties at almost the same place and one
tie was wedged in the pilot No mo-
tive is known for the act and there is
no trace of the miscreants.
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ANOTHER HORRIBLE
MURDER IN CHICAGO

Chicago. Sept. 27.-With face and
body terribly beaten, and clothing all
torn away, Mrs. Hulda Swanson, who
lived on Milton avenue, was found
lifeless last night in an alley at the
rear of the shoe factory at Kings
bury and Superior streets. The al
ley runs along the tracks of The Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad. 1t seems
clear that the woman was dragged
into it and murdered. Several ar
rests have been made.
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horrible crime, would not move my
hand to save him from justice.
HE is a hayward boy. but he never
had a criminal tendency. The only
explanation to my mind which can
connect him with this crime is that
he fell under the influence of some de
signing person who perpetrated the
murder and through whom my son &C
Quired guilty knowledge of the crime
or possibly became accessory after
the fact''
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REGULATORS" BRUTALLY
BEAT INDIANA WOMEN

Nashville, Ind, Sept. 27.-Edna Col.
son and Elizabeth Rush were brutally
beaten at Maple Heights, near Bloom
ington, by gang of self-styled reg
ulators" who have whitecapped "A
persons in Brown and Monroe coun.
ties within the past year. The gov
ernor and other state officers have
taken notices of the outrages and are
taking steps to furnish protection and
break up the gang.