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Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
LOATH TO SEE HIM GO.
President Roosevelt Pays Remarkable and
Affectionate Tribute to His Retiring
Secretary of War,

Washington, Jan, 30.-President
Roosevelt, Secretary Root and Gov.
Taft were the principal figures at Fri
days cabinet meeting. The meeting,
after the transaction of the usual de-
partmental business, developed into a
farewell for Secretary Root and re-
ception for Gov. Taft. President
Roosevelt spoke with deep feeling OF
the retirement of Secretary Root. He
wished it understood that, while, in the
circumstances. he could make no pub
lie expression of his feelings without
the appearance of trenching upon pro-
priety, he was sincerely indebted to
Secretary Root for the great work he
had accomplished. Especially had all
this been true of the secretary's work
during the past six months when he
had expended lavishly of his energy
and ability. without thought of credit
to himself, but solely with the idea o.
advancing the interests of the pres
ident his successor and the people of
the United States. In the presidents
tribute to Secretary Root the other
members OF the cabinet cordially
joined.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
GIRLS In A PANIC.
Explosion of Chemicals in Chicago
Building Caused Wild Rush.
william Randolph and Edward Stokes
Risked Their Lives In Rescue Work and
the Latter May Die from
Injuries.

Chicago, Jan. Notwithstanding
recent experience with smoke and
fame tenants of the Masonic temple,
a 20-story structure, failed to scare
Friday when fire broke out in the
Cosmopolitan building adjoining.
Edward Stokes, who assisted in the
rescue of Miss Verba, was probably ia
tally burned and was taken to the
county hospital. OF the 80 people on
the floor where the fire started 25 were
girls and women. The panic started
with the explosion of the chemicals
and the excitement was increased when
Miss Verba ran from the room with
oloJhing in flames Dropping every
thing the girls made rush for the
door. AS they neared the center Of
the room the foremost of them fell and
the next moment nearly all of them lay
in a heap on the floor screaming.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Randolph, with Miss
Verba in his arms had begun to de-
scend the fire escape amidst the cheers
of thousands of people who stood in
the street below. At the fifth floor,
almost overcome by smoke, Randolph
gave his unconscious burden to Ed
ward Stokes, who carried the girl to
the street This duty done, Stokes
succumbed to his own injuries and
was taken to the hospital While the
rescue was being performed the safety
of the other girls was attended to.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
ON PLEA OF INSANITY.
Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy Kramer Acquit-
ted at Kansas City of Killing Her First
Husband Two Years Ago,

Kansas City, Mo, Jan. 30.--A jury in
the criminal court returned verdict
acquftting Mrs Lulu Prince-Kennedy-
Kramer, on trial a second time for the
murder of her first husband, Philip II.
Kennedy. contracting agent of the Mer-
chants Dispatch Transportation COM
pany,
Mrs. Kennedy killed Kennedy about
two years ago in the New Ridge BUILD
ing, month after they had been mar
ried, because he refused to live with
her. He had brought suit to have the
marriage set aside, alleging that he
had been coerced into it by the wo-
mans father and brother Mrs. Ken
nedy pleaded emotional insanity and the
verdict of the jury was to the effect
that she was insane at the time of the
shooting, but that she has since recov-
cred her sanity. At her first trial Mrs,
Kennedy was found guilty and sem
fenced to ten years in the penitentiary.
While out on bond awaiting action on
her appeal to the supreme court, she
married John Kramer, Kansas City
lawyer.
VIII Prince, brother of Mrs. Ken
needy, served two-year sentence for
completely in Kennedy's murder. An
other brother, Bert, was drowned in
Puget sound month ago,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
THE RED STAR OF GEORGIA.
Georgia's Flag Replaced the Stars
and Stripes Before Fort sum.
ter Was Fired On.

A flag which forms part of the
decoration of the Office of r. z. Al
len will be an object Of interest to
every visitor and every citizen of
AuguTa. The flag is plain white
one with red star in the center, EN-.
blematic of Georgia, which at the time
the banner was first unfurled to the
breezes was an independent state,
having by act of legislature broken
the bonds uniting her to the United
States government, and not having at
that time become an integral part OF
the Confederate States of America.
The flag is no other than the one
which was run up on the flag staff
at the arsenal when that post was
captured by the state militia and the
stars and stripes pulled down from
the place of honor. This flag was the
first one placed by an independent
precedence over the claims made by
other states and cities.
Those were stirring times. South
Carolina has seeded in December,
Mississippi and Alabama had followed,
and on January 10, 1861, the legisla-
ture of Georgia, in session at Mil
ledgeville, severed its connection with
the Union and it became sovereign
and independent state, On the 21st the
official hand and seal of Gov. Joe
Brown was affixed to the proclama-
ton, and on the 22d the chief execu-
tive reached Augusta.
There was a hurrying to and fro Of
the military officers of the city and
a gathering of the forces. Waynes-
boro was also communicated with,
and up from Burke came twocompanies
to take part in the first victory against
the federal troops, which, however,
was without conflict, and the first flag
was not born with a baptism of blood.
On the 23d Gov. Brown made a for
NAL demand on Capt Arnold Elzey of
the I'd United States artillery, in COM
mand of the arsenal, that the post be
turned ever to him. In his demand
he stated that Georgia was no longer
a part of the general government, and,
while she desired to be on good terms
with the United States, that the ar
senal was needed by this state and
an armed force of an alien nation
would not be tolerated within her
borders.
After communication with Washing.
ton Capt, Elzey held a parley and
agreed to evacuate, his troops being
allowed to march out with the honors
of war and to leave the safe with
out molestation. This was agreed to,
and on January "a, 1861, nearly three
months before the guns were trained
on Fort Sumter, the surrender of the
arsenal was made and new flag
supplanted the one Of the. republic.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04

The future of the south is bright,
and its people, in their darkest hour,
never gave way to gloom. The fever
of unrest has not possessed them as
yet. They value this worlds goods
with the wisdom of those who have
had and lost, they never lost caste
And then they are SO devoted to their
land. You might wonder at this
sometimes, until the spell of the south
enmeshed you. Ensnare you it will, if
you remain there long enough for the
first strangeness and sense of depri-
walton in such things as municipal
comforts to wear off, and before you
know that it has done so the barren
ness will have assumed tone and col
or, picturesqueness will have taken
for its own what at first appeared
spiritleS and tame, the air of the day
will have asserted its wonderful soft
ness and balm and the night will have
become the vibrant pulsings of a new
life. No one knows the south or can
understand the powerful influence it
exerts upon those who do know it,
until he has yielded to the charm of
It's quivering moonlit night, or to that
even rarer spell Of the immense ST.
lence of its sightless night. 1t is in
the night that the south relaxes and
forgest its poverty, as we'll it may,
md then that the plaza becomes
the temple of it's best and bravest
faith.-R, A. Browa, In Gunton's
Magazine.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04

There's nothing worth hurrying
about but quarrel and a fiea," once
remarked an old farmer. There is a
foundation of wholesome truth in the
observation. For hurry does not go
unattended. Worry is her almost in
separable handmaiden. When We
consider how the joy of life is Slapped
by restless, needless hurry, it must
give us pause. Take things more
easily and naturally my friend. En-
JOY your work and pleasure now. You
are living this moment as much as
you ever will live at any moment in
your whole life, and yet you are hur-
rying and worrying as if you could not
really begin to live until the present
task was done!
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Build Stronger Cars,

Statistics gathered from railway &C.
cidents indicate that one powerful fac
tor in the preservation Of life is stronger
built cars that will resist the wrecking
and entire humiliation that so frequent
ly occurs. According to figures given out
by Bradstreets during the past three
years the Pullman company has carried
32,639,341 passengers, and out of this
number only six persons were killed in
wrecks and four injured. AS opposed to
this statement the official result figures
for the number killed in railway acct
dents during the year 1902 amount to
345 persons killed and 6,6S3 injured. In
other words, the Ian who enters Pull
man car has SO chances to one of reach
ing his destination in safety as COM
pared with the person who takes passage
by a regular passenger day coach. The
reason for this great variation is due
to the construction of the cars. In case
of a wreck it frequently happens that
the day coaches are entirely broken to
pieces, while the Pullman, save in ex-
IRENE cases, does not leave the rails. The
light construction of one and the ponder
GUS strength of the other Is the main
reason for the marked resistance TO
hard usage under trying circumstances
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Gaines New Bill.

Representative Gaines contem-
plates introducing bill in congress
providing for the appointment of
court of pensions similar to the court
of claims, to pass on pension mat
ter that are continually flooding con-
gress. He contends that the pension
commissioner is merely figurehead,
and many of the cases are passed
on after hasty examination by
clerks in the office. With such a
court he thinks congress would save
time in the consideration Of these
bills, besides having before it the in
vestigation and statements of facts
from the court.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
LOUISIANA IN OLD BOOKS.
The Geography Compilers of 1920
Had Some Queer Ideas Of the
Western Country.

Speaking of the big show which is
to come off at ST.. Louis, reminds me
of an interesting thing l came cross
in an old school book the other day,
and it shows, among other things, that
the world do move The book is an
ancient and modern geography and
was apparently printed in 1920 Here is
what it has to say of Louisiana:
Louisiana is divided into the state
and territory of Louisiana. The terri
tory is of great extent, but its bounda-
ries are so indefinite that they can not
be given.
"The towns are given as New Or
leans, st. Louis, Arkansas, st. Gene
We've, New Bourbon and New Madrid
The rivers put down as being within
the state are the Mississippi Red, Ar
kansas, White, st. Francis Missouri
and also many others little known 1t
is added that the Mississippi is the
principal river of Louisiana, and one
1t rises in the unexplored country
northwest of the United States, 1t is
generally deep and rapid, and seldom
more than a mile wide
Referring to the country through
which the river passes, the author says:
The country through which the Mis-
sissippi tiowes, especially on the west,
is a marsh or swamp Of great extent,
and lower than the river itself, except
a narrow strip sometimes mile or two
wide which forms bank and confines
the water in it's channel This river, in
its foundations, which are annual, and
generally from March ] to June, rises
to the astonishing height of forty or
fifty feet, sometimes sixty perpendicu-
lar, and deluges the country in many
places to the distance of thirty or forty
miles
There is also to be found this in
teresting bit of information about New
Orleans: New Orleans, the capital of
Louisiana, is situated on the Mississip-
pi, about 100 miles from the mouth. 1t
is place of great and increasing
trade, and from its situation will prob
ably become one of the most important
places in the world IN. o. Times
Democrat.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04

The picturesqueness of shipping suf-
fered from the introduction of steam in
place of sails, and has further declined
since the "fore-and- after" has super
seeded the square-rigged craft. Still an
other change is taking place-the loss
of topmasts, The experiment has been
made successfully on the Pacific coast,
and is being made on the Atlantic sea-
board A new four-masted schooner
lately launched at Mystic, Conn, has no
topmasts. The reason for the change
is the same as that which has made the
other NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Fewer
men can handle schooner without top
masts, and the topsails which are thus
abolished are said not to be worth the
additional original cost and the expense
of handling.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Advocates OF Good Rnads.

Ormond. Fla, Jan. 30.-The opening
session of the National Good Roads
association was marked by large at
tendance. Gov. W. S. Jennings, in his
remarks, Endorsed the Brownlow bill,
which proposes to divide the expense
of road construction between the gov
eminent and the districts through
which the roads are built. President
W. H. Moore, of the National associa-
ton, did not favor the bill in its pres
ent shape. He believed that with more
comprehensive ideas it would be pos
sible to secure government aid He
approved the plan for the employment
of convicts in road construction.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
YOUNG REPUBLICANS FEAST.
Five Hundred Attended the Kansas Day
Banquet In Topeks-SeDator Bur-
ton Did Not Speak.

Topeka, Kan, Jan. 30.-The thir-
teenth annual banquet of the Kansas
Day club was held here last night in
representative hall. Covers were laid
for 500. Republicans from every nook
and corner of the state were present
and the banquet was pronounced one
of The best ever held by the club.
Everything went off very smoothly.
The only decorations in the hall were
American flags. A carnation-McKin-
ley's favorite fower-was given to
each guest in recognition of the fact
that Kansas day is also McKinleys
birthday.
Lafayette Young, editor of the Des
Moines Capital, was the orator of the
occasion. He made a mastery adj
dress on political affairs. Before
launching into his subject he tossed
several large bouquets at Kansas. He
brought down the house when he said
that he had made the request that
when he was born again he be born
in Kansas. He spoke of the pride Kan
sans had for their commonwealth.
He said he had never yet found man
or woman from Kansas who did not
stand up Loyalty for the state.
Victor Murdoch was POSTMASTER.
His address was brief He reviewed
hurrledly what the republican party
had done in the past and told what
work still lay before it to accomplish.
r. II. Faxon, of Medicine Lodge
secretary to Senator Long, responded
to the toast Kansas" A native-born
Kansan always has this subject.
A. f. Williams, of Columbus, gave
Some Lines on Kansas Politics in
verse
W. H. England, of Dexter, docket
clerk in the supreme court, talked on
Party Harmony
In response TO the toast, Let Us
Pass On A. c. Molloy, of Hutchin-
son, took a rap at republican factional
politics in Kansas.
In response to the toast, "A Few Re-
marks" J, f. House, of Topeka, made
a hit. He handled the political situa-
ton from the viewpoint of one who
isn't looking for nor expecting an Of
fee.
THE Farmer in Politics" was re-
sponded to by Ingram G. Clark, a
prominent young republican of Walton,
Kan.
Harry O'Donnell, of Ellsworth, in
response to the toast, What Shall the
Harvest Be-Out West in Kansas"
paid glowing tribute to the settlers
of the western plains.
Senator j r. Burton, accompanied
by his wife, arrived in Topeka at noon
yesterday from St Louis and registered
at the Copeland The senator mingled
with the politicians during the after
noon and took in the Kansas day ban
quet at night. but didn't speak. Neither
did he discuss Kansas politics. He
has gone into eclipse on that sub
ject while his case is pending in St
Louis, 81 neither want to talk politics
nor discuss my case now said he. Il
will meet the charge against me in the
forum where it was lodged and am con-
fident of the outcome"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Powerful Backing.

1t is stated by parties in interest
that Meikleham, Dunsmore & Acker-
man, of New York, and Bingham
ton have agreed to take $2,000,00O
in stock and bonds for the Great
Falls Power Company and that work
on the plant will begin at an early
day. The new plans call for a min
imum of 10000 horse power. The
company will develop the Caney
Fork falls and hope to supply power
and light to Middle Tennessee towns.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Want More Land.

At the session of the Masonic
grand lodge of Tennessee last week
the home committee submitted a re-
port as to the ACCESSIBILITY and prac-
ticability of purchasing 500 to 1000
additional acres Of land for the use
of the widows and orphans home
located near Nashville. The COM
mittee was instructed to secure op-
tons on lands and report at the an
nual session in 1905. 1t may be nee
csSarv, in order to secure the neces-
sary land, to change the location
and rebuild the home. The number
of inmates demand larger quarters.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Sentence COMMITTED.

The sentence of William Smith, a
negro murderer, who was to hang
February /, at Clinton, has been
committed to life imprisonment.
Smith killed his bunk mate, James
Harris, in a dispute over one cent.
In his communication Gov. Frazier
says: "Intoxicauon is no excuse for
murder, but facts and circumstances
should have some influence"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04

Topeka, Kan, Jan. t0.-At the meet
ing of the Kansas State Cooperative
union yesterday the members discussed
favorably the organization of a state
agency to do all the buying, esti-
mated at $3,O00,000 year. for the So
cooperative retail stores in Kansas.
The central buying agency will be but
the preliminary step to a great CO.
operative wholesale house which it is
proposed to establish.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Plans For installation.

Capt. j. G Kendrick, of Clarks-
vile, representing the ST. Louis
Worlds Fair commission, left last
week for st. Louis to submit plans
for the installation of exhibits at
the Worlds Fair. Already about
$50 packages have reached Nashville
and Others are coming in daily. a
shipment to st. Louis will be made
just as soon as space in the different
buildings is prepared for them.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Worlds Fair Meeting.

President Stahlman, of the Ten
nessee Worlds Fair Association, has
called the association to meet at an
early date to consider a number of
subjects connected with the increas-
ing of the Hermitage building fund
and the maintenance of the build
ing. The vice presidents from each
of the congressional districts have
been invited TO attend.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04

ney trouble which had annoyed me for
months. | think cold was response
BILE for the whole trouble. 1t seemed
to settle in my kidneys. Doan's Kidney
Pills rooted it out. 1t is several months
since used them, and up to date there
has been no recurrence of the trouble"
Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all
dealers. Price, so cents per box.
Foster-Milburn CO., Buffalo, N. Y.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Home From NORWAY.

E. 5. Cunningham, United States
consul at Burger, Norway, spent
few hours in Knoxville last week, en-
route to his home at Maryville, to
enjoy a leave Of absence. Mr.. Gun
bingham said that not much Amer
lean news reached Norway, except
through the London papers. Mr..
Cunningham served as consul at
Alden, Arabia, previous to his trans
fer to Norway.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04

Fayetteville, w. Va, Jan. 30--At a
meeting of more than 20 coal operators
on New river, employing in the aggre-
gate 5000 miners, it was unanimously
voted not to reduce the wages of min
ers this year. This means no strike in
New river territory.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
An Empty Jail.

Benton county is in luck, having
no lawbreakers in the county Jail
and none in the Camden calaboose,
and there are not a half doz-
en- inmates in the poor house. The
county is out of debt and has money
in her treasury and all warrants are
paid on presentation.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Banquet to II. Clay Evans.

The chamber of commerce at
Chattanooga gave banquet last
week in honor of Hon. H. Clay Ey-
ans, consul general to London.
About $50 guests were present, in
Guiding some Of the highest officials
of the Southern, and NJ. J. O'Brien,
president of the Southern Express
Company and several army officers.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04

Washington, Jan. Counted States
Minister D. E. Thompson, to Brazil.
called at the state department Friday
and had conference touching matter
of importance to the milling interests
of the north west. The minister prac-
tically has succeeded in opening the
vast markets of Brazil to American
-four.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Ten Years For a Hold-Up.

Dan Noel, a negro hold-up, who
threw a sack over the head Of his
victim and robbed him, was sentenc-
ed ten years in the penitentiary IN
the Criminal Court at Knoxville
last week.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04

Hutchinson, Kan, Jan. 30-The re-
publican county convention instructed
for Hoch for governor and Dayhoff for
superintendent J. H. George, a whole
sale grocer here was put in the race
to oppose J. G. o. Morse, Hutchinson
member of the state railroad board.
A resolution indorsing Victor Murdoch
for congress was voted down.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Three Missionary Institutes.

1t has been decided to hold three
missionary institutes within the
bounds of the Tennessee conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
as follows; Erin, March 10, u, IL,
for the GAINESVILLE and Dickson cir
cults; Mt. Pleasant, March 20, 80,
81, for the Columbia, Fayetteville
and Savannah districts, and the 9TH
er probably at Nashville for the
Nashville, Lebanon and Franklin
districts,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Measles and Mumps.

The town of Humboldt is in the
midst of the greatest affection of
measles, mumps, whooping cough
and chickenpoX ever known in the
history Of the place. H'he schools
are running with about a half at
tendance. There are over 200 cases
reported.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Gaines Bill Favored.

The GAINESVILLE Tobacco Board of
Trade has adopted a resolution IA
voring the Gaines tobacco bill now
pending before congress, seeking TO
remove the war tax from tobacco,
and the Hon. c. P. Warfeld, of that
city, was selected to go to Washing
ton to appear before the committee,
February 4, to represent the tobac-
co market in urging the passage Of
the bill.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
CraWIed Into the Fire.

Last week at Humboldt a little
negro child, being left alone by its
mother, crawled into the fire and
was burned to death. Some white
men passing by heard the cry of the
child, and in an effort to save the
life of the child received severe burns
on their hands.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04
Beaten Up BY Negroes.

L. T. Thompson, of Camden, who
was attending the Masonic grand
lodge in Nashville last week, was
beaten up and robbed while en- route
to the home of friend in the west
ern portion of the city. The deed
was committed by two negroes, who
secured only small amount of cash.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-02-04

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 30-As the result
of an explosion following an attempt to
hurry fire with oil, Mrs. A. F. Gray,
Of North Zwickley, is dead; Ethel, a
daughter, is fatally burned and five
other members Of the family are Sc
riously injured.