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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
NEW YORK FACTIONS
WATCH EACH OTHER.
GrOut VIII Resist All Efforts of Flu
siOnists to Gust Him.

siOnists to Dust Him.
New York, Oct. 3.-The feature of
the political situation to-day was Mr.
CIRCUITS formal declaration that he
would resist all efforts to force him
off the fusion ticket. What legal steps
will be taken by him to maintain his
position, or by the fusionists, to COM
pei his retirement. are yet undeter-
mined.
Tonight the situation is practically
unchanged, the fusionists waiting for
their convention on Wednesday and the
Democrats waiting for their opponents
TO make the first move before pro-
ceeding to take steps to keep Grout
and Fornes on the ticket.
Mayor Low returned from Chicago
to-day. After a long conference to-
night at his residence with leading fus-
ionists, the Mayor made public a letter
written by him to-day to r, Fulton
Cutting, in which he expressed him
self as being in accord with Mr.. Cut
ting on the attitude of Grout and
Fornes.
r. Fulton Cutting, chairman of the
Citizens Union Committee, sent a re-
Spouse to-day to the letter Of Mr.. Grout,
In which the latter declined to repudi-
ate Tammany's Endorsement Mr.. Cut
ting, in the letter. declared that Grout
had proved unequal to the situation,
and was apparently blinded ito the dis
astrous effect upon the good govern
ment movement involved in the cleo
ton of a Tammauy Mayor"
Mr.. Cutting took the ground that in
definiteness on the subject of Tam
many would emasculate CIRCUITS defense
of the Low administration during the
campaign, and might sacrifice the head
of the ticket
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
WINDS WILD WORK
KILLED SEVEN PERSONS AND IN
JURED MANY MORE.
ST. CHARLES, MIMI, RUINED.
WAS STRUCK BY TORNADO AND AL
MOST DESTROYED.

Now Cut OF From Communication
With Outside WOrId-Was Market
Day and Streets Were Filled With
VisitOrs-TOrnadO Came So sud
denly That Air Was Filled with
Parts of Buildings Before People
Realized Their Danger In Adj
ditiOn to Loss of Life Damage Was
Done to Amount of 100000.
St. Paul, Mimi, Oct. 3.-The little
town of St. Charles. in Winona coun-
ty, was almost completely wiped out
by a tornado this afternoon. Several
people were killed and twenty eight
were injured, many of them seriously.
The dead:
John Ebens, Sr.
William Ebens, his son.
Will Adams.
Oscar Crittenden.
George lesson.
Ed. Murphy.
Ed. Peters of Dover, Mimi,
The stricken village is altogether cut
off from wire communication. The en-
tire main street of the town was lit
orally wiped out, hardly a business
place being left standing. Forty-two
residences also were destroyed, and
the total property damage is estimated
at 100000.
This being Saturday, people from the
surrounding farms had gathered in
large numbers in the main street to
do their customary shopping. At 2:30
this afternoon the storm cloud was
seen approaching from the southwest
and there was an immediate scramble
for places of safety.
The tornado struck the town from
the southwest quarter. and made a
clean sweep through it, following al
most entirely the line of the main
street and devastating buildings on
either side. Residences further back
from the business center were struck
and many of them blown completely
away.
1t seems almost miraculous that there
was not a greater loss of life. Four
of those killed were in John Eben' S
saloon, when it collapsed, and they were
buried beneath the wreckage. Two
others were in dry goods store, which
was blown away, and they were killed
~ lAlC l1llltlG walls. refers Oh no
yer was killed in the wreck of a hotel.
The storm came upon the town with.
such suddenness that it was filling the
air with the debris of demolished build
ings before the citizens fully realized
the nature of the calamity. Many OF
those injured received their hurts from
the flying missiles, while others were
caught beneath the wreckage of their
business houses or homes, and remain
ed pinion down until rescued by the re-
lief party.
So far no reports have been received
of any loss of life in the country adj
jacent to st. Charles.
The storm, however, seems to have
followed very closely the boundary line
between Minnesota and Iowa, and dam
age to farm buildings, dwellings and
grain stacks, with injury to human be-
ings and death to live stock is report
ed from several points in that locality.
The fury of the storm, however seems
to have spent itself in St. Charles.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
POPE LEO REMEMBERED
BY POPE Plus X.
First EncycIicaI by New Pope Has
Been Issued.

Been Issued.
Rome, Oct. 3.-The Osservatore Ro-
mano publishes tonight the text of an
encyclicaI by Pope Plus X commemorate
ing Leo XIII. The encyclical, the
first issued by Pope Plus. is entirely
religious in tone. The most important
and interesting part is as follows:
eve proclaim that we have not in the
supreme Pontificate any other pro-
gramme than to gather all things in
Christ, so that Christ shall be all in all
There will not be lacking those, who,
measuring divine things by human
laws will try to discover what are the
secret intents of our soul. We say to
them that we do not wish to be, and
with divine aid, shall not be, before
human society other than the minister
of God of whose authority we are the
depositary. The interests of God shall
be our interests, for which we are de-
terrnined to spend all our strength and
life itself if it were asked In order that
we may gather all things in Christ"
His holiness recommends the edu-
cation of the young, particularly by
the clergy and expresses the wish that
Catholic societies may spread in the
cities and through the country and
declares that obedience to the laws
and submission to the government are
the duty of all citizens.
The encyclical closes thus. 1T is
evident that the Church instituted by
Christ must enjoy full and entire in
Christ must enjoy full and entie in
dependence"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
ROOSEVELT CAN'T ACCEPT.
Would Like to Go to Jacksonville
But Time Doesn't Suit.

Washington, Oct. 3.-Senator Talia-
ferro of Florida, to-day introduced to
the President Capt. c. E. Garner,
president of the Board of Trade of
Jacksonville, who on behalf of the
citizens of Jacksonville and Florida,
invited him to attend the business
mems carnival and celebration of the
rebuilding of Jacksonville since the dis
astrous conflagration two years ago.
The celebration is to be held from Nov.
2 to Nov. 9.
President Roosevelt said it would af-
ford him pleasure to visit Florida, and
particularly Jacksonville, but at the
same time indicated it would not be
possible for him to leave Washington.
He referred in terms of high praise
to the energy and enterprise of the cit
liens of Jacksonville restoring their
city in so brief a time after so great
a calamity.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
MADE W0RKMEN PAY TRIBUTE.

McKeesport, Pa, Oct. S.-General
Manager G. C. Crawford of the Nation
al Tube Works at McKeesport to-day
began an investigation in what is said
to be one of the boldest steals in the
history of the company among its en-
rloyes.
According to information given to
Mr.. Crawford, number of foremen.
sub foremen, superintendent and
heads of departments have been regu-
larly receiving tribute from the work
men in the mills, hundreds of whom
are compelled to pay certain per-
centage of their wages to the bosses"
in order to retain their jobs or to
gain steady work
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
ATLANTA POLICEMAN
KILLED BY A NEGRO.

Atlanta. Oct. BIN the very shadow
of the police barracks, officer Hans
E. Drasbach was stabbed to death by
a negro tonight and the murderer of
the officer escaped. The officer died
about an hour after he was cut, and
the negro who killed him has not yet
been captured. although several ar
rests have been made.
Officer Drasbach went into a sa-
loon on Decatur street to quell a dis
turbance and arrested a negro. While
leading the man out of the place, the
prisoner turned upon him and drove
long dirk into the officers left shoul-
der, the blade penetrating the heart.
Drasbach called out to those about
him to arrest the negro, but no one
came to his assistance. He ran after
his murderer and finally staggered into
the police barracks, falling into the
arms of fellow officers. Drasbach is
a dane and leaves a wife and family.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
into BIGAMY
THROUGH NOT BEING ALLOWED AN
EXPLANATION.
HE BLEW HIS BRAINS OUT
BECAUSE HE COULDN'T REACH
FIRST WIFE TO CONFESS.

Such Is Romantic Story of New York
Man-sccond Marriage Took Place
in Texas-Husband Babe Bride
Farewell and Started for New
Y0rk-Became Stranded in New
orIeans-WrOte IA Letter of Expln-
nation, Then Ended His Life-De-
cIared He'd Not Been Untrue to
First Wife.
New Orleans. Oct. 3-Under unusually
sensational circumstances, Jack Stew
art O'Neill, a New Yorker, but for
some time business manager of the Or
ange (Tex) Daily Tribune, committed
suicide at.the ST. Charles Hotel to-day.
ONeill, who was apparently rs or 26
years old arrived in the city last night.
He left letter saying that he had a
wife living in New York city, to whom
he had been devoted. Some time ago
he came South, located in Orange, and
fell in love with a young girl of that
city.
Recently the young lady's father
forced him to agree to a marriage.
Without giving him any opportunity to
say that he already had a wife,
O'Neill's statement says, the father in
sisted on an immediate ceremony, which
was performed.
After the marriage. the letter con-
tinues, 81 babe my new wife farewell
and started on journey to New York
to tell the whole story to my original
wife and assure her of my fidelity.
reached here, was unable to obtain
enough money to carry me further, and
decided to write a story of the whole
affair and blow my brains out"
The statement completely exonerates
the young woman, and says the mar
riage was not contaminated. A letter
addressed to her and another to his
father, ]. ]. O'Neill, real estate deal
er of Schenectady, N. Y, were also
found. O'Neill had spent most of the
night in writing and had probably
killed himself just before daylight
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
SHOT FROM BEHIND.
BrOther-in-Law and Wife of the
Murdered Man Suspected.


Columbia, S. c., Oct. 3.-About ten
days ago Smith Cockeral was shot
from behind by an unknown assassin
while sitting on log in the yard of
his home in Saluda county. whiting
a stick with his pocket knife. He
was instantly killed.
The coroner of Saluda county made
an investigation but failed utterly at
that time to find any evidence con-
Meeting any person with the crime.
The coroner's jury adjourned for a
week, and the Jurors, in the interim,
did earnest work. AS a result of their
investigation they secured damaging
testimony against s. B. Banks, who
is brother n-law of the deceased, and
the dead mans wife. When the jury
met yesterday afternoon they render
ed a verdict charging these two with
the crime, Banks as the principal and
Sally Cockeral the widow. as an ac-
cessory. Warrants were promptly
sworn out, and the arrest of these
two was expected to be accomplished
last night.
The assassination of Cockeral was
the fifth case of assassination to oc-
cur in the county of Saluda within a
period of three or four weeks.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
Will Pay Dollar for Dollar.
BY Associated Press.

Baltimore, Oct. 3-The committee
which has in charge the affairs of ].
William Middendorf & Co, and John L.
Williams & Sons has organized by the
election of Robert C. Davidson as
chairman.
Just at present the committee is en-
gagged in preparing an agreement for
creditors to sign granting an extern
sion of time to the two firms in which
to make payment. A large number of
the creditors have already indicated
their willingness to grant this extern
sion. With this agreement there will
be presented a statement of the assets
and liabilities of the two firms.
The liabilities are variously estimated
at from 100000 to 100000 Until
the accounts are examined there will
be no authentic information. Those di-
rectly interested say that the first
statement of the two firms, that all
creditors will be paid dollar for dollar,
holds good and with a reasonable eX-
tension the two firms will soon be back
in active business again.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
MAY STAMP OUT
YELLOW FEVER.
Train-load of Provisions Sent, starv-
ing People.

Train-lOad of Provisions Sent starv-
ing People.
Laredo, Tex. Oct. 3.--The yellow
fever situation continues the same as
forecasted yesterday and the weather
is favorable to the stamping out of
the disease.
To-day's official bulletin is as follows:
New cases, 6; suspects, 8; deaths.
none; total cases to date, 81 total
deaths, 4,
One death from yellow fever is re-
ported from Minera, a coal mining
town % miles from Laredo.
DR.. Guiteras was informed by the
authorities at Neuva Laredo to-day
that they thus far have had twenty
six cases, twelve of which proved fatal.
The matter of supplying provisions
to the starving people of Duval county
has been solved by sending a train
load of provisions into that county
to- day
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
WILL CARRY FIGHT TO POLLS.

New York. Oct. S,-Contrary to gen.
eral expectation,th the Kings County Dem
acratic Convention held in Brooklyn
tonight passed off quietly and without
the predicted bolt of the city ticket.
Resolutions were adopted, indorsing the
nomination of Mcclellan for Mayor, but
making no mention of the names OF
Grout and Fornes.
This was taken as an indication that
the fight will be carried to the polls,
and that the Tammany candidates for
controller and aldermanic president will
be generally knitted by the followers OF
Hugh McLaughlin.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
MRS. MOLINEUX
NOT YET DIVORCED.
Her own Statements May Have Made
Decree Illegal.

heK own statements May nave maze
Decree Illegal.
st. Paul. Mimi, Oct "a special to
the Dispatch from Huron, S. D., says:
Mrs. Roland d. Molineux of New York
has, according to Judge Charles Whit
ing, failed to secure from him a de-
cree of divorce from her husband. 1t
was reported that Judge Whiting had
signed the decree. He is holding court
here, and when asked if he signed pa
pers for Mrs. MolineuX, said he had
not.
1t is also certain that Judge Bennett
did not sign the decree, for he was alb
sent from the state at the time. The
fact that Mrs. MolineuX stated in an
interview that she came to South Da-
kOta to get a divorce would be sutti-
cient to cause any judge to withhold
decree, as such an admission would
make the granting of a divorce clear
violation of the law.
The rumor th2t Mrs. Molneux would
file a petition for divorce in Chicago
has been circulated here.
Mrs. Molineux won't Talk.
New York, Oct. S.-Mrs. Blanche
Moineux and her counsel, Alexander
c. Young, declined to-day to comment
on the report that Mrs. MolineuX has
failed to secure a divorce in South
Dakota and that her husband would
contest a suit she would bring in
Chicago.
Lawyers Say Divorce Was Given.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct. S.-Attorneys
who acted in the case asserted posi-
lively to-day that Mrs. Roland B.
Molineux was granted a divorce in
this state some time ago. Aside from
Nn11rhiI1p for this fact the LAWYERS re-
fused to talk, declining to say when
or where the decree was obtained. 1t
is believed here, however. that
the evidence was taken before
a referee in the district of
Judge Bennett of Watertown.
Mrs. Molineux gave up her residence
here about month ago.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
KILLED TWO IN WISCONSIN.

Lacrosse. Wis, Oct S.-Two were
killed, three fatally injured and score
Of others badly hurt in tornado which
swept Independence, Wis, and the sur
rounding country this afternoon. Many
farm buildings in the storms path
were torn down. At Eagle Valley, north
Of here, the Reformed Church was
DESTROYED and houses on the prairie
surrounding were demolished. Several
small buildings were overturned at La
Crosse. but no fatalities were reported.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
BERLIN'S NEGROES
GET BAD TREATMENT.
Attribute It To Lynch News Sent
Out from New York.

Attribute 1t To Lynch News sent
Out from New York.
Berlin, Oct. 3.-The negro residents
here, of whom there are about two
hundred, mostly American. have COM
planned to the police recently of vari-
Gus attacks made on colored men. by
stone throwing, etc. In two or three
instances in the east end, where most
of them live, negroes have been sub
jected to severe beatings.
These occurrences are ascribed To
the 1ynching news which the New York
correspondents of German papers are
particularly fond of cabling, the i'm
preston being produced on the east
side roughs that this is the proper way
to treat negroes. The members of the
black and white society, Schwartz
weiss Verein), composed of both races.
has issued a protest to the public
against this brutality. Colored men
have a measure of social equality.
Some of them marry white women.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
KENNEDY MADE LIBRARIAN.

Richmond, Va. Oct. S.-John Pentle-
ton Kennedy, of Washington city, was
tonight elected state librarian of Vir-
ginia. He is understood to be ma
tive of Winchester, this state, and to
have been some years in the congress
sional library at the federal capital.
There was quite a spirited contest
for the position he has been chosen
to fill, two of the Virginia aspirants
going to a Massachusetts college, and
taking special courses of instruction
there to equip them for the place.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04

which ragged here yesterday and last
night, has inflicted tremendous blow
to the commercial community. the loss
being enormous. Several large stores
were utterly destroyed, including their
stocks of goods. Most of the building
and stocks destroyed were we'll insured.
The Peteo Railways Office building was
DESTROYED,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
BATTLESHIP MISSOURI
MADE TRIAL TRIP.
VIII BE Tested Officially by Govern
ment Oct. 10.

Newport News, Va, Oct. 3.-The bat
tleship Missouri put to sea on her build
ers' trial trip this morning and return
ed this afternoon. The new warship
steamed out 100 miles beyond the capes,
and was put through the usual evolu-
tons.
yard ana the following naval officers:
Capt. Indl, Lieutenant Commander
Werlich, lieutenant Commander Fer
guson and lieutenant Commander Bit
Ter. A ptched crew from the ship
yard handled\the ship.
Supt. Post seports that the Missouri
is in every way a success. No attempt
was made to speed her past the con-
tract requirement.. The ship will be
given her official trial trip Oct. 10.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
COL. R. H. SAVAGE
HURT IN NEW YORK.
Rum Over by Wagon and Is in Sc
riOus Condition.

New York, Oct. 3.-Col. Richard
Henry Savage, author soldier and
lawyer, author of MY Official Wife"
and many other novels, was run over
on Sixth avenue to-day and now lies
in Roosevelt Hospital, seriously in
jured. Col. Savage was attempting to
cross the avenue near Forty-second
street when wagon ran him down,
the wheels passing over his body. A
surgeon found that be had sustained
fractures of five ribs, besides several
severe Commissions of the head. He
was hurried to the hospital and to-
night his condition was said to be
serious.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
Coal Miners Go out ON strike.

Knoxville, Tenn, Oct. a.--Between
400 and 500 men, employed by the Coal
Creek Coal Company struck to-day be-
cause Of disagreement over the wage
scale. Thistle and Fraterville mines are
involved. This company does not rec
ognize the union, but has always paid
the prevailing union wage scale
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
MAN HE KILLED"
IS STILL ALIVE.
But Tennessee Boy Must Serve 20
Years just the Same.


Knoxville, Tenn, Oct. 3.-The Su-
preme Court of Tennessee to-day af-
firmed sentence of twenty years i'm
prisonment passed on Clarence Peake.
an 1S-year-old boy, for the murder of
Silas Hulin, man, who, it - claimed,
is alive and well. One year ago, when
this case came before the court, Hulin,
the supposed dead man, was produced
in court, with affidavits that he was
the man supposed to have been killed
by Peake in a drunken brawl at Clin-
ton, Tenn.
To-day the court decided that 1t could
only hear the case on it's merits, the
afidavits having disappeared, and
Peake's sentence was affirmed. Peake
expects a pardon from Gov. Frazier.
1t is thought he killed some man in
the fight, but who perhaps will never
be established.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
GEORGIA MAN RELEASED.

Washington, Oct. 3.-The State De-
partment has received dispatch from
Minister Beaupre, stating that Charles
Radford OF Georgia, who was sentenced
to twenty years Imprisonment for muir
der, has been released by the Colom-
bian government.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04

Tllman's family all her life and that
the families are connected by mar
riage. Miss Roper said she had never
heard Lieut.. Gov. Tillman make any
threats towards Mr. Gonzales.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
CASHIER DEWEY
MAY GIVE HIMSELF UP.
Stockholders of Wrecked Bank
Withdraw Reward.


Charlotte, N. c., Oct. 3.-The stock
holders of the Farmers and Merchants
Bank at Newbern, ~ c., at a meeting
tonight passed resolutions withdrawing
the offer of a reward of $4,000 for the
capture of Thomas w. Dewey, the de-
faulting cashier of that bank. They
say they have reason to believe that
Dewey will return to Newbern and sur
render himself, hence their action in
withdrawing the reward.
A day OF two ago Dewey wrote a
letter to a paper in this state, express
ing penitence, and which was regarded
as a plea for mercy. The letter was
mailed on the train between Greensboro
and Goldsboro, and the circumstances
indicate that Dewey is in hiding at
some point between these towns.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
cut Down "a iron Output.

Birmingham, Ala, Oct. s.-The
Southern Furnace Mems Association
to-day agreed on s per cent. reduc-
ton Of pig iron OUTPUT and to main
tain existing prices. The association
was in session two days and a spirit
OF harmony prevailed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04

with the Seaboard Air Line. He has
been preparing the removal Of the com
panys transfer offices to this city. Ac-
cording to report, his first business ven
ture was the purchase of large block
OF the securities of the Seaboard Air
Line. 1t is also said that he is slated
for very responsible office with the
road"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
Mrs. Davis Rapidly Recovering.

Buffalo, N. Y, Oct. 3-Mrs. Jefferson
Davis is rapidly recovering from her
illness. Her physicians believe she will
be able to leave for her winter home
in New York next week.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
Carrie Nations Husband pead.

Wichita, Kan. oct. S.-David Nation,
divorced husband of Mrs. Carrie Ma
ton. died this afternoon at Medicine
Lodge.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04
CONVICT rs YEARS OLD
JUST RELEASED.
Served rs Years in Connecticut
Prison for Burglaries.

Hartford, Conn, Oct. 3.-John Hart,
rs years old, one of the oldest convicts
known to the criminal record of the
state. was discharged from the state
prison at Wetherstield to-day. He is
now on his way to Key West, Fla,
where he has property and friends. He
has been a charge of the commonwealth
the greater part of his time since 1865,
having been convicted of burglary five
times.