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The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
TORNADO'S DEADLY WORK
Storm and cIoudburst Play FrlahtfuI
Havoc in Illinois ToWn-Four
Killed and Scores Hurt.

A tornado struck the village of Sor-
rento, Ills, 80 miles northeast of st.
Louis. Tuesday night, killing four per-
sons, injuring thirty five others, of
whom three will probably die, and do
ing a great amount of damage to
property. Forty houses were blown to
atoms or carried far from their foun-
dations. complete swath was cut
through the town. Everything in the
track of the tornado was reduced to
debris or blown away.
Telegraph communication with Sor-
rento was cut off and details were OBJ
tanned over the long distance tele-
phone. The four killed were in their
homes in different parts of Sorrento.
All were badly crushed. The storm
approached from the southwest and
the main residence portion of the
town. The work of the wind was done
quickly and then followed a heavy
QOWUpOur OIL Tdlu OmpdulSu NY
vivid lightning and deep thunder.
Those who escaped injury were for
the time panic stricken, but finally
rallied and set to work to rescue the
injured.
The storm also deluged Alton, ILL.,,
a few miles south of Sorrento, in the
nature of cloudburst, and st. Louis
suffered the fury of terrific thunder
storm.
Near Alton no loss of life occurred,
but the streets were turned into tenn
porary rivers. Fourteen miles distant
the village of Grafton was deluged.
Ten miles north of Alton, Chicago,
Peoria and st. Lonls freight train
struck washout and plunged down
an embankment containing six feet Of
water. Several tramps seen to swing
onto the train previously are believed
to have perished.
Engineer Frank Drew, Fireman H.
Ballard and Brakeman Albert Patton
were in the engine when it plunged
into the creek and all had to swim for
their lives.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
A AWELCOMED FROST
Brings Joy and Hope to Fe-
.ver Stricken States
FELL IN MANY SECTIONS
Temperature Varies from Snow In
Pennsylvania to 43 Degrees in
Georgia-Quarantine May Be
Lifted at Many Points.

The weather bureau at Washington
issued the following bulletin Thursday
morning:
"The frost line extends this morn
ing into the northern portions of the
gulf states, while heavy and some
killing frosts occurred in the Ohio val.
ley and in the Mississippi valley as
far north as Memphis"
Snow in Pennsylvania.
The first snow of the season was
reported Thursday from various parts
Of western Pennsylvania. An inch of
snow fell in the mountains and al
Greenville, Pa. Snow fell for five
hours, causing hundreds of trees to
break.
Train Inspection CurtaiIed.
Heavy frosts have prevailed in Ten
nessee, North Mississippi and Arkan-
sas. DR.. Albright of the state board
of health said that he would imme-
diately issue orders curtailing the
train inspection service in the more
northerly parts of Tennessee.
Earliest Frost at Jackson.
A good sized frost was visible in
Jackson, Miss, and surrounding coun-
try Thursday morning. This is the
earliest date on which frost has ap-
peared in several years, and it means
an early lifting of the guarantees.
The Mobile, Ala, weather bureau
has received reports Of light frost
from places in Mississippi and Ala
bama as far south as Jackson, Ala,
and Waynesboro, Miss. and Thomas
vile, Ga. The latter place reports
heavy deposit with a temperature of
43. Lake, Miss. repo. is a killing frost
with a temperature Of SO. Last year
the first frost to occur as far south as
Waynesboro occurred on October 21.
Will Lift Guarantees.
A Birmingham dispatch says: There
was heavy frost all over north Ala
bama Thursday night. Cool weather.
continues, and it is expected that quar-
antines will be raised at once.
Because Chattanooga had a heavy
frost the board of health has with.
drawn all inspectors and guards from
trains entering the city.
Joy Reigns in New Orleans.
A New Orleans special says: Still
colder weather, the mercury going to
So at New Orleans and under 40 in
many others parts of the state, with
frost in the middle section of the state,
Thursday increased the probability Of
the early extinction of yellow fever
throughout Louisiana and Mississippi,
the two states which have been in
fected since August last.
In both states conditions are consid-
cred to be of the brightest and with
fear practically passed and people gen.
orally utterly tired of the restrictions
put upon travel, it is anticipated that
the era of quarantine will soon be
over.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
NEGRO RoUsTABoUTs DROWNED.

Steamer Strikes Snag at vicksburg
and Goes to Bottom.
Heavily loaded with freight and with
crew of twenty-five men, the steam
q. Elk, while backing out froEl the
city landing at vicksburg, Friday.
struck snag and sunk In rs feet
of water.
From five to ten negro roustabouts
were drowned, but the exact number
will probably not be known for several
days. The loss on the boat and cargo
is estimated at $4,000, partly insured.
The Elk is local steamer, which
has been plying between Vicksburg
and Davis Bend.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
TWO SLAIN IN A FEUD.

Long Standing Family Quarrel Termi-
mates in Deadly Duel.
George and Edward Carter were
killed and several others were injured
Friday night at Moultrie, Flay after
a dance, as a result of feud between
the Osteens and Carriers.
The feud began several weeks ago
with fist fight between members Of
the two families.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
SpEER OvERRULED
By Decision Of High Court in
Noted Chain-Gang Case.
NO POINT is SUSTAINED
Had Court Sustained Jurist Every
Chain Gang Prisoner In State OF
Georgia Could Have Secured
Liberty.

A Washington dispatch says: The
well known mbish-Jamison case,
from Macon, Ca, was decided in the
supreme court Monday. The action af
Judge Emory Speer Of the southern
federal district of Georgia, was re.
yersed AMI the case remanded. The
effect of this is to uphold the record
er's court of Macon.
e. A. Wimbish is superintendent.
of the Bib5 county chaingang.
This is the case in which United
States Judge Speer interfered with
the sentence of a prisoner, Jamison,
a colored man, by a recorders court
of Macon, to work on the streets.
The opinion of the court, rendered
one week from the day of argument.
was the occasion of some surprise. 1t
was contained in few words only,
and contrary to the usual custom, was
not even reduced to writing.
IlOAl JNlhipOA no0 an CoIOu O'A
March 13, 1904, on a charge of being
drunk and disorderly, and being tried
before the recorder of the city of Ma
con, plead guilty and On two counts
was sente1ced to pay fine Of $50
or be committed to the county chain
gang for 210 days. Four days later
the prisoner, instead of taking advan-
tage of the usual remedies under the
state laws, presented a petition for
writ of haheaS corpus cum cauSa to
Judge Speer of the federal court, al
leging that his arrest and punishment
were illegal. because they were with
out due process of law and because
he was subject ito Infamous punish
ment in violation of the
constitution of the United States"
The case was finally argued in june,
1904, and Judge Speer, after having it
under advisement for week, ordered
the discharge of Jamison, holding,
among other things, that ''Jamison was
detained of his liberty and subjected
to infamous punishment without due
process of law"
Besides" the Judge ruled, "the SEN
tence against him is void, void for
want of due process of law and void
because one man cannot adjudge in
fanny
The coltentions of Wimbish, the
respondent in the lower court, were
in part as follows.
THAT Jamison should be remanded
to his custody as superintendent of
the chaingang, and should not be dis
charged upon a writ of habeas cor
pus, for the reason that he held him
under a sentence from police court
of summary powers, with jurisdiction
over the person and the offense, as
provided by the law of the state.
'That the case did not imperatively
demand Jamisons release by writ of
habeas corpus
The case involving the determine
ton of a light claimed under the con-
stitution of the United States, it was
appealed to the federal supreme
court with the result already stated
The decision quashes the writ of hab-
cas- corpus and dismisses the petition.
Had Judge Speer been upheld, fed
eral district judge would have been
given the over to release every per-
son confined at hard labor under the
processes of state courts, and the rule
that punishment by hard labor is in
famous punishment, contrary to the
fifth amendment to the constitution,
would have been established.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
MERE RAGATELLE OF CASES.

Fever scourge Is DwindIinq Rapidly
at New Orleans.
New Orleans fever record for
Thursday was as follows: New cases
8, total cases to date 3,343, deaths
none, total deaths to date 435, cases
under treatment 10S, cases discharged
2,805.
Thursday was the second day in
succession that no deaths from yellow
fever occurred. This is remarkable at
this stage of the epidemic, because, as
a rule, toward the end, the death rate
grows as the number of new cases di
minishes.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
AGAINST NOVEMBER ESTIMATE.

Protest Against Proposed Cotton Crop
Figures for That Month.
An effost is being made to have
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson to
give up his idea of having the de-
pnrtment of statistics prepare and is
sue an estimate of the conditions Of
the cotton crop on November 10. The
movement has the support of many
cotton factors throughout the country,
and great PRESSURE is being brought to
bear upon the secretary of agriculture.
Those protesting claim the estimates
simply amount to mere conjectures
and are unscientific. 1t is also claimed
they are menace to the business In
terests of the country.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
KING OSCAR SHEDS TEARS.
Sadly Depiores the Disunion of Nor
way and Sweden.

The extraordinary session of the
Swedish parliament was closed at
Stockholm Wednesday. King Oscar, in
a fearful speech expressing regret at
the separation Of Norway and Swe-
den, said he hoped for lasting peace
and a good understanding between the
two nations.
'It is ut critical moment" said
the king, that l raise my voice in
this hall. The union formed in 1914
between the people of the Scandina-
Wan peninsula, disunited for centuries
before, is ruptured. 1t is truly not
without deep grief that | see these
two closely related people again sep
arated."
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
ATTORNEYS NOT SATISFIED.
viii Make Further Fight Over Chain
qana Issue in Georgia.

Attorneys representing a white man
and four negroes now enjoying the
wfits of habeas corpus Of the federal
court at Macon, G.., make. positive
declarations that they will immediate
~ carry their cases through the state
courts ard thence to the United States
sulreme court. This is to be done
] seause Judge speer was reversed on
the question Of jurisdiction.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
WRIGHT TO RESIGN POST.
Tennesseean Dissatisfied With His Job

Tennesseean Dissatisfied With His Job
in the Philippines.
A washington special says: BY rea-
son of what appears to be dissatisfac-
ton with the situation in the Philip
pines, Luke E. Wright, governor gen
eral of the Philippines and president
of the Philippine commission, will re-
tire from that position about the
1st of December.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Taft, it is believed, have practically
decided upon his successor.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
JAPAN THOROUGHLY SATISFIED.
Mikado is Glad that Philippines Are
Held by Uncle Sam.

fISIu " 0ITVIC SdITIs
Declaring that Japan welcomes the
presence of the United States in the
Philippines, Mr.. Takahira, the Japan
ese minister, gave a statement to the
Washington Post Thursday, replying
to it's inquiry, in which he says that
Japan feels "great repose about the
Philippines, because they are occupied
by the United States with firm hold of
its authority over the archipelago, not
to speak of the many object lessons
being given there by the new owner
by Introducing modern improvements
in various ways
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
THE MAIN THING.

Playwright have decided to call
may new musical comedy THE Gig.
Cling Girl of Goshen
Manager-Tha would never do.
Not catchy enough, eh?"
Worse! 1t wouldn't fit the electric
sign in front Of the theatre!"
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
NEW WORKERS CHAMPIONS.

Worlds Professional Baseball Belt
Taken in Easy Fashion.
Amid the frenzied plaudits of more
than $4,000 baseball enthusiasts, the
New York National League champions
won the world IS professional baseball
championship on the Polo grounds in
New York city Saturday by defeating
the Philadelphia American League
team in the fifth game of the post
season series by the score of 2 to 0.
Of the four previous games New York
had woa three and Philadelphia one.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
AUTO cRUsHEs WOMEN.
Runs Down Party of Seven Returning
from a Theater Party,

At Pittsburg, Wednesday night, when
a party of seven ladies' was returning
home from theate1 party, an auto
mobile going at rapid rate crashed
into the party, seriously and probably
fatally injuring four.
The accident occurred at the corner
of Highland and Wellaley avenues,
East End. The ladies had just alighted
from a street car during heavy rain
ard while picking their way slowly
across the car tracks the automobile
at high speed ran them down.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
SIX VICTIMS OF A sHlPMREck.
Survivors Of Lost Vessel Tell a Pa

Survivors Of Lost Vessel Tell Pa
thetlc Story of Terrible Suffering.
A story of a north Atlantic ship
wreck, in which eight seamen suffer
ed so fearfully from exposure, hunger
and thirst, that six of them either
died outright, were washed away or
crazed by their fearful experience,
threw themselves into the sea, was
told in Boston Monday by the two sur
vivors of the coasting schooner Van
name and King of New Haven, which
was beaten to pieces by gale off the.
South Carolina coast on October
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
WANTED TO MURDER JEROME.
Unpaid Witness Goes After New York
District Attorney.

District Attorney.
An attempt to batter down the door
of the office of the district attorney,
Jerome, was made il, New York We'd
nesday by Jacob Meyer, who said he
wanted to kill Mr.. Jerome. Meyer at
tackled the door before the district
attorneys arrival and was found by
the. police trying to get through the
panels and shouting that Jerome had
failed to pay him sufficient fees for
his service as witness in the RED
Light" investigations few days ago.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-26
WILL BE NO RESTRICTIONS.

The President May Travel Freely
Through Mississippi.
The Mississippi state board of
health has not been officially advised
as to any of the plans for handling
President Roosevelt's special train
through the state next month, but
Secretary Hunter states that no re-
strictiong whatever will be applied.
and Mr.. Roosevelt can suit his own
pleasure about the matter.
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education had been IL good deal neg
lected, but she recognized her def
ciencies and never made blunders in
conversation. She possessed true natu-
raj tact; she readily found pleasant
things TO say. Her memory was good
useful quality for those in high po-
sition. Cnhappily. she was deficient in
depth of feeling and elevation of mind.
She preferred to charm by her beauty
rather than the influence of certain
virtues
Other writers say bluntly what Nine
de Remusut cEly hints ut - that Jo-
sephine's aunt lived openly with the
old marquis and that the widowed
niece DANA ,ed her reputation for
good conduct" in much the same way.
The beautiful Mime. Tailieu" was
simply French Aspasia.
One of the attractions that drew the
then quite friendless Napoleon to the
house OF Widow Beauhariafs was the
fact that lie met there menof influences
in the government. Frederic Mason
explains that men of position dids in
deed call there, but as bachelors" and
that their wives did not visit the
widow. =
Among JosepLiiiess intuential acc
Qualntances at the tine' We're Gene mi
Hoche, the most prominent soldier in
france, and Barras, a powerful men1.a.
Der Of the directory.
-Rarras says ID his: memoirs. that, .Jo.s
cssphine urged Hoche to get a divorce
from his wife in order, to marty her
Heehe on oie aoecasion% said . To- Zoe
sephine,2 "a man might nfor. the time,
being indulge iP having a. truh as his,
mstress hiip notoa for that take ssheasra.
unto htmse e as hts lawful Wife. "a
gHochh ACCUSED the. widow Of in:
, timacies With his owns7aids-de camp.
also E;.th his hostler, and, writing to-
Barraso Of her. persistent attentions to
him said As TO Rose lone of her bap-
usual s3a5als n names used by'ssher familiars
2 a ~ oSfsro which Napoleon substituted
thee less: worn Josephine .3she must
&ecease3 trembling me henceforth. q re-:
linqpish qlloclaims 70 her in favor of
eNanakre, my hostler. s% a
tits due. to my having been in pris. 4
on22wih her previous to the 9th Their. j..
+mldor overthrow Of RobespierreJ: that
l knew her So intimately. g Such. an
intimacy would be objectionable in a
man restored to liberty"
Barras himself admits having main.
tanned liaison with Josephine after
she left prison and says that she plead
ed with him to resume it while she was
Nine. Bonaparte.
1t was after her release from prison
that the widow Beauharnais was first
"ooed by Napoleon. Announcing the
engagement TO a friend, she wrote:
lou have seen General Bonaparte
at my house. Well, it is lie who is |
good enough to act as stepfather to |
the orphans of Alexander de Beauhar.
nais, as husband to his widow. Do
you love him? you ask me. No. -.
do not Then you dislike him? No.
out my state is ons of tepidity toward |
hlm- which is displeasing to me. and
winch, from a religious point Of view.
would shock the goody people,"
On another occasion, after reading a
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n STUDY of the man Napoleon
" is necessarily one sided TN
"a less the disturbing elements
in his environment are given
due prominence Josephine de Beau
harnais holds a conspicuous place in
the annals of Napolcon's court, and
the pathOs Of the role usually assigned
her-that of wronged Woman-ap-
pcals strongly to readers who interpret
history by the aid of sentiment. 1t is
plain that if Josephine had borne son
to Napoleon, other things being equal,
she would be as little known to the
world of today as is his second Wife,
Maria Louisa mother Of Napoleon III.
Nine. de Remusat, a lifelong friend
of Josephine, writes of her first mar
rage and widowhood rs follows:
THE Marquis de Beauharnais, father
of the first husband of Nine. Bona
parte, having been employed in mill
tary capacity at Martinique, became at
tached to an aunt of Nine. Bona
parte, with whom lie returned to
France and whom he married in his
old age.
This aunt brought her niece 10
sephine, to France. She had her edu-
Gated and made use Of her ascendency
over her aged husband to marry her
niece, at the age of fifteen years. TO
young Beauharnais, her stepsOn. OF
this marriage were born Eugene and
Hortcnse When the revolution be-
4
cooled. AT the commencement of the
Terror NJ. de Bcauharnais had no Ion
ger any relations with his wife.
Il do not know under what circum-
stances she became acquainted with
certain deputies of the convention, but
she had some influence with them. and,
as she was kind hearted and obliging,
she used it to do a; much good to as
many people as possible From that
time her reputation for good conduct
was very much damaged, but her kind
ness, her grace and the sweetness Of
her manners could not be disputed. |
Her husband (Beauharnais), being
suspected by the Jacobins, had been
thrown into prison in Paris and con-
demned TO death by the revolutionary |
tribunal. She also was imprisoned, but |
escaped the guillOtine. Being Il friend |
of the beautiful Mime. Tallien she was |
introduced into the society of the di |
rectory and was especially favored by |
Barras. Nine. de Beauharnais had |
very little fortune. and her taste for
dress and luxury rendered her depend
emf on those who could help her to in |
dulge it. Without being precisely
pretty she possessed many personal
charms.
'She was not a person of remarkable
intellect. A Creole and frivolous. her
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> j.. GO. Judging From Me fNsu1e.
tie Is "a W,lo,estIe sll1.ller 10 CREST
*nurss.: -: :: :. .:* &: =: g., :
-. so a.| broker Of ale tos,sttog wsite.
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a dinlple viii:
do more execu-
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etlon<: in Il min,
ute than gray
M after in Il
week. o
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An employer
never has to
take q man by
the throat to
force a higher
salary upon him.
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Talk is such an Acknowledged mart
VI tne game that we need not be sur
nrised If we find women trying to quail
ify as pugilists and going into training
as politicians.
q
MOST embezzlers try to persuade
themselves that they think they believe
that some day they are going to make
restitution.
sometimes children find it necessary
10 mlsbehave in order to attract a little
crumb of attention,
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-06
SWELL WEDDING
Took Place This Morning at MayfieId
Couple Came to Paducah.

Mayfield, KY, Dec. 6.-The we'd
ding of Miss Grace Darling Smith, OF
this city, daughter o: Mr.. and Mrs
II. Z. Smith, to Mr.. Drake Hyde OF
Nashville, Tenn, took place this
morning at 10 o'clock at the Cumber,
land Presbyterian church.
The bride wore a plum colored
travelling gown. Her sister, Miss Ruth
Smith, was maid of honor, and wore
white cloth costume. Mr.. Evil Craig
OF Birmingham, Ala, was best man.
The ushers were Messrs. Rudy Nor
row. Walter Albrltton. Bunk Gard
ner, and John Davis. of Mayfield.
The bridal party left for Paducah
TO be guests of Miss May Davis until
$3.50 o'clock this afternoon, when
they will leave for their home in
Nashville. Miss Davis will entertain
them at luncheon.