The Newark journal., 1903-06-12
News of the World

Gov. Bailey of Kansas has issued a proclamation calling for aid for flood sufferers in that state
 Hundreds of people in Chicago who take their meals in restaurants went hungry on account of general strike of walters.
 The Hargis- Marcum factions in Breathitt county, Kentucky, clash ed in battle near Jackson, in which James Gay, of the Marcum clan, was shot to death and two oth- CTS received slight wounds.
 Dispatches from Odessa state that the Jews there have been arm ed and will defend themselves from violence. It Is understood the funds for weapons has come from America, and that Jews in other Russian cities are to be equipped with arms.
 A satehel filled with dynamite was found near the Chicago and Alton railroad depot at Blooming ton, H., just before the arrival of President Roosevelt's special. The find caused big sensation, some ex- pressing the belief that the explo- siye was intended to do harm to the president.
 The navy department has opened bids for the construction of the Minnesota, Vermont and Kansas, the three sixteen-thousand-ton bat tleships authorized by the last con gress, each to cost not exceeding S4,212,000. The lowest bid was for $4,190,000, for one vessel, by the Newport News company, and the highest bid was for S4,192, 1000, by the eastern shipbuilding company, of New London, Conn.
 Washington adyices are to the eff feet that the state department has no present intention of making any move in the matter of Panama ca nal negotiations until the Colombian congress meets June 20 and has given some evidence of its disposi- ton toward the treaty. President Marroquin, it is understood, was satisfied, before calling the Colom- bian congress in special session, that the government would be able to command safe majority upon the question of ratification.
 The tornado which struck Gaines vile, Ga, at noon on the 1st inst. left trail of death and destruction most appalling. Nearly 100 people were instantly killed and as many more received serious injuries. The tornado did its appalling work in such an incredible short time that it is difficult to obtain a coherent description of its character. It ap- pears to have swept down from the southwest, striking the Gainesville mills with roar like the report of artillery. After lifting two stories from this structure, 1t swept on to the northward along Summit street, which is inhabited almost exclusive ly by negroes. Nearly a hundred cottages of colored people on this street were leveled to the ground, but by fortunate circumstance the tenants were all absent, having left the city in the morning to take part in negro picnic The furious wind next descended on the plant of the Paeolet Cotton Mills at New Holland, two miles from the South ern station. This is one of the larg- est cotton mills in the south, em- ploying more than 600 hands. The storm spared the Pacolet factory, but entirely demolished a hundred of its cottages, standing near by, and tenanted by its operatives. Here the fatalities were greatest, upward of thirty-fiye persons being buried in the ruins of the cottages. Bod les were blown hundreds of yards and many of them when picked up bore no semblance to humanity. The trunk of one young boy was found with the head deeapitated as if by the guillotine. The town of White Sulphur, with about 100 in- habltants, was also in the wind's $ path, and at this point about fifteen persons are reported as dead. Most of the victims are women and ehil- dren, and among the number was very few negroes.
 | A colored excursion train was wrecked near Columbia, s. C., by running into a washout. Five of the excursionists were killed and several injured.
 1 Former Senator James K. Jones, chairman of the democratic nation- al committee, declares the mention of Grover Cleyeland's name in con- necticn with the democratic prcsi-