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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
North. State Brevities.

Mr.. L. A. Dod5 worth, of the Char
lotte Cotton Exchange and Board of
Trade, has secured an itemized list of
all goods that wer3 shipped. eihteT in
or out of Charlotte in car load lots,
during the past month. During
March, 1851 ears of commodities, all
classes, were shipped out while 2,61S
were shipped in, making a total of
1929 cars handled during the month.
The North Carolina Christian Ad-
vocate says that a letter from DIR.
Lambeth, secretary of the board of
missions, announces that Rev. Ste
phen A. Stewart, a member of the
Western North Carolina Conference,
now at Harvard University, has of
fered himself to the board for work
in the foreign field. Mr.. Stewart is
a son of Mrs. S. NJ. Stewart, OF Mon
o sA
Mr.. P. III. Elkins has purchased the
Siler City Grit and will edit it, sue
ceeding Mr.. W. E. Lawson, who has
made it good exponent Of Western
Chatham.
Pastor T. B. Justice writes that he
has just moved into the new $4,000
home built by the Franklinton church
for their pastor.
Mr.. 6. F. M. Dial has a contract to
move about two million feet of tim
Der to the creek from the E. C. Cobb
and E. C. Edwards lands near Con-
tentnea, N. c.. He is now building
him a tramroad for that purpose, the
contract price runs up In the thous-
ands. Geo. is a hustler.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
Russia Big Loan.

st. Petersburg, By Cable.-It was
positively Stated that a loan had been
arranged In principle to the amount of
between $20O,0OO,000 and $3.50, OOO 900
Finance Minister Kokovsof has gone
to Paris to conclude final negotiations
Details of the loan are not available.
1t is y~ariously reported hat the loan
will bear 4 IL and 5 per cent. inter
est, the emission price being 90 or
90, with I IL per cent. commission.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
Beat His Wife 90 Death.

Baltimore, Special.-Because his
n~ine-year old son Thomas did not
cook a meal quickly enough to please
him John T. Kennedy created a dis
turbance that attracted his sick wife
from her bedroom and in a fight that
ensued between the man and his wife.
the latter was so badly beaten that
she died soon %afterward.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12

Naples, BY Cable-Reports of fata-
lities consequent upon the eruption of
Mount Vesuvius are coming in. Ac-
cording to information received late
Monday night, more than 500 perish
ed in the district of San giuseppe,
while from the ruins of a church
which collapsed ewing to the weight
f ashes ON the roof, 40 corpses we're
extricated, and it is asserted that
at Sorrento, 81 persons were killed
by fallinf houses.
Cavalry proceeding to the succor of
the inhabitants of the devastated sec
ton have been unable to make prog
ress, the rain falling on the ashes a
foot deep having made it impossible
for the horses to travel.
The g is greatly agitated. The
sky has cleared, but heavy clouds
hang over the east, threatening a fur
tdCl NONupOuI.
The streams of lava are almost sta
tionary. Troops are erecting barriers
in the direction of Pompeii to pre-
vent further danger in that quarter.
Situation More Hopeful.
This has been Il day of terror for
the cities, towns and country about
sMount Vesuvius. At midnight the
situation appears more assuring, the
lava streams having diminished in
volume, and in some directions having
stopped altogether, while a copius
rainfall is cooling the lava where it
lies stationary.
Almost equal with the devastation
wrought by the lava is the damage
done by cinders and ashes, which In
considerable quantities have been car
ried great distances. This has caused
the practical destruction of San Guies-
eppe, a place of 5000 inhabitants.
All but 200 of the people had fed from
San ;Guiespee, and these 200 assemb-
led in the church to attend mass,
while the priest was performing his
sacred office the roof fell in, and
about 60 persons were badly injured.
These unfortunates were for hours
without food or medical attention.
The only thing left standing in the
church was a statue of st. Anne. the
preservation of which the poor. home
less people accepted as a miracle and
promise of .deliverance from their
peril.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
BANKER SLAIN AT HIS. DOOR.

Prominent Indian Territory Man Muir
Gered After Political Triumph.
Eufala, Indian Territory. Only a
few hours after his reelection to the
City Council. J. Burdette, President of
the First National Bank. and owner of
the largest department store here. was
murdered. His body was found on the
back porch OF his home, a bullet pierre
ing the brain. There is no clue.
Burdette'S store has twice been de-
Stroyed by fire. \ few days ago he
confded 10 Il business associate his
fear of assassination, as his life had
been t~hreaIened.
Burdetre was one of the best known
men in Indian Territory, and was con-
sidered wealthy. When last seen
alive he was in the best of spirits.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
Danced While Wife Burned.

Mrs. Martin Van Hof, of Grand
Rapids, Mich, was burned to death.
Her husband is held at the county
Jail. The twelve-year-old son of the
couple was aroused by his mothers
cries and rushed down stairs to find
her body on the floor surrounded by
flames and his father dancing around
the room, apparently demented. He
says his father held him and would
not let him go to his mothers assist
ance,
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
Loss-of Life in Pacific cyclone.

The steamer Moana. which has ar
rived at Honolulu. Hawaii, reports
that 121 persons were drowned in the
cyclone which recently swept over Ia
hiti and the neighboring islands. OF
these victims. one persisted on Tahiti,
ninety-One natives and four whites on
the Tuam0tuS. and twenty-f0ur natives
and one white on the other islands.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
Zuiu Wins co,umbia Prize.

Columbia ~University's highest ORA
torical hon9rS went this year to a full
blooded Zulu. who Won the annual con-
test in New York City for the George
William Curtis medal. KI lSaka Seine
is the name of the winner. He is a
mission student and a member of the
class of 1906. His subject was The
Regeneration of Africa
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
WON'T TAKE cARNEGIF,s LUcRE
Iowa Village Says It's Tainted Re-
fuses $4,000 Library Gift.

1uSSS YOOOO- AAIDANAl AZ
Guthrie Centre, Iowa.-After the bit
terest elect On fight in its history this
town has refused to accept $1,000 of
fered b. Andrew Carnegie toward
building a library. The GIT was con
tingent upon the city'S voting $500 an
nually for the support of the institu-
ZION.
A remarkable feature wa; the way
in which women voters organized
against the proposition. insisting Tha
it would be a disgrace to accept the
tainted IN rey" OF an Eastern pluto
crat.
Women worked at the polls al day
long, and when The ballots were
counted the project was defeated by
ninety-one majority. Three hundred
of the GIG votes cast were by women.
OF the votes cast by men there was a
majority of tWenty-n-ne against the
proposition.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
Womar's Suffrage Bill Passed.

The Woman's Suffrage bill. providl
ING that women as we'll as men may
participate III the election of Presiden-
tial Electors, was passed by the Rhode
Island State Senate. Providence, by a
vote of % 10 !. The Senate gallery
was filed with women during the con-
s~ideration of the measure. =
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
Receiver For Rosebrock Comnanv.

Fred r. Rosebrcck & Co~tcorpora-
tom, butter and eggs com mission mer-
chants, New York City, q. e of rne
largest pnoerns in the trade, withaex-
tensive Western Connections. is IN fin
ancial difficulties. WITH liabilities SILL
900 and assets $315,OIV.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
Higgins Signs Gas Bill.

Governor Higgins. signing the New
York City Eighty-Cent Gas bill, de-
clared the remedy for extortion was
wise regulation of corporations, not
municipal ownership. -
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
CREvAssE IN OHIO CITY.
Street Car and Railroad Tracks -Swal-
lowed Up. by Quicksand.

Steubenvilie, Ohiu.-A veritable Gre
vase, 700 feet long, 200 feet wide,
and twenty-five feet deep. has result
ed supposedly from quicksand, on the
West Virginia side of the river here.
A paved boulevard, the tracks OF tie
Steubenville and w llsburg street rail-
way, the tracks of +ne Pittsburg,
Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad, and
three natural :Gs mains have sunk
with the ground.
Traffic on the street car and railroad
lines vas blocked and the gas supply
from the three mains was shut of.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
Bill Lecalizes Picketing.

Al bill which provides that one picket
; may be established for every twenty
men in cases of strike. if such pickets
he maintained peacefully, was passed
by the Massachusetts, House of Rep
r~esentatives, Boston, by a vote of 81 TO
HI
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
s;s.a Jobnscn Dead at s..

Eastman=Johns1n the distinguished
painter. died suddenly at his home, in
New York City, in his eighty-secOnd
-year- Mr.. Johnson had been ailing
Tor almost a year. %H&4A
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12

IN test for cake. white paper snou
Yellow in Eve minutes u 4"
even Ia the right temperature
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The WORST sEtms 10 BE- lAST

Streams Of Laws From Vesuvius Are
New Almost Stationary, but Guam
tity of Ashes and Cinders Thrown
Up is Unprecedented and Has
Caused Complete or Partial De-
struction of Numbers of Towns and
Cities
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BRACES INVASION OF KENTUCKY.

with one another, had their commands
separated by considerable distances.
Col. Lester. of the Sd Mimi. was in
nominal command, but not receiving
much consideration from his subordi-
mates. Forrest attacked the garrison
very skillfully. prevented it's concentra-
tion. and forced the first five companies
Of the 9th Mich. and a squadron Of
the 4th KY. Cav. to surrender. Then
he captured another force in the town
of MurfreesbOro, and with II Gen. Crit.
tenden, the division commander, him
self. Col. Lester, after feeble resist
ance, hoisted the white flag. surrender
ing nine companies Of his regiment. BY
this success Forrest gathered in a large
number Of prisoners and q great guam
tity of stores and ammunition, and was
able to infiict heavy damage upon the
railroads.
Gen. Buell. did not interpret these
raids as premonitOry Of the general ad-
vance Of his enemy. but regarded them
Tas merely efforts to interrupt his COM
Fmunications ard embarrass his advance.
He sent Gen. Nelson forward with his
division to intercept Forrest. but there
was the usual failure Of results when
infantry attempted to chase cavalry.
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AR|n|'lYd%G| N %G||N!1BERlI!!AI|I IN
AND = THE
Great Central CAMPAIGN
The Important Position Of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Ry JOHN McELROY.

to be there reinforced until he had
about 1900 fine riders and shots. with
whom he entered Kentucky by way of
Sparta, Tenn, and defeated Maj. Jor-
dan, with small detachment of the
1th Pa. Cav. at Tompkinsville, Ky.
Morgan then made a wide circuit
through Kentucky, despoiling railroad
bridges, capturing garrisens. guarding
large stores of supplies. going as far
north as Cynthiana, where he obtained
considerable success over Lieut.. Col.
Landrum, who had but few hundred
Home Guards with 40 Regular soldiers.
Later Gen. Green Clay Smith came up
and drove Morgan out Of the town, but
not until he had burned a lot Of val
liable stores. Morgan soon found forces
closing in upon him from every side.
and made all haste to get back to
Sparta, Tenn. taking with him several
hundred young Kentuckians whom his
exploits had melted to emulation.
Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest began
his career OF successes by sweeping
down on Murfreesboro. There he had
that singular good fortune which at
tended In SO many instances. There
was a brigade at Murfreesboro, but
much bitterness and jealousy existed
among the commanders OF the regi-
ments. The regular commander OF the
post was not In command, and the Col
onels. indisposed to any cooperation
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than any other similar area Of land
upon the face OF the earth; and
Whereas its development is retarded
from the need Of cheap transportation
70 the seaboard; and
Whereas water is the cheapest trans
portation known TO commerce: and
Whereas the city Of Chicago has con-
'tructed the largest ship and drainage
canal In the world, at a cost OF $50
10000 TO date, which when completed
will have cost Chicago SIS, 100000: and
Whereas the Chicago Ship Canal is
capable OF carrying on its bosom from
the mouth OF the Chicago River at Lake
Michigan 10 the city of Joliet. on the
Des PLANES River, q distance OF 40
miles, the largest ships that sail the
Great Lakes, carrying the maximum
burden and drawing 21 feet of water:
and
Whereas improving Des PLANES River
from the mouth of the Chicago Ship
Canal. at Joliet, to the headwaters OF
the Illinois River, deepening the ILL.,
nois River TO its mouth, the Mississippi
River. at Grafton. will establish a
through waterway from the Great
Lakes TO the Gulf Of Mexico; and
whereas this improvement will con-
meet by water the cities Of Buffalo and
Oswego, y. Y; Erie. Pa: Cleveland,
Sandusky and Toledo, o.: Duluth.
Mimi; Milwaukee and Greenbay, Wis:
Detroit st. Joseph, Benton Harbor
Grand Rapids and Bay City, Mich:
Michigan City and Indiana Harbor, Ind:
Waukegan and Chicago, H.. and all
other cities on the Great Lakes with
the cities on the rivers. Joliet, Cairo and
Peoria, Ill.,; st. Louis, Mo-; Memphis.
Tenn: Helena. Ark: Greenville, Vicks-
burg and NatcheZ, Miss, and the great
Atlantic seaport of the South, the city
OF New Orleans. La: and
Whereas with the completion of the
canal on-the Isthmus and the improve
.ment OF the Mississippi Valley water
ways the greatest inland waterway in
the world will be created. connecting
the central Western and Southern States
with the Atlantic and Pacific coast
States, Hawaii, Alaska, the Philippines
the Orient, and every seaport I'm Eu-
rope: and
Whereas Congress appropriated $780,
600 TO make q survey of the Mississippi,
Illinois and Des PLANES Rivers from st.
Louis. Mo-. to Lockport, Ill.,. or to the
mouth OF the Chicago Ship Canal. to
determine the feasibility OF establish
ing a 14.foot. waterway from Chicago
to st. Louis; and
Whereas the survey has been COM
plcted and the feasibility Of q 14-foot
waterway from Chicago to ST. Louis has
thus been established: and
Whereas it Is estimated by the en-
gineering Corps Of the War Department
can be finished for $31, ,060, zoo: There
fore
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the United
States OF America In Congress- aaseua-.
bled. That $31. 600. 900 be. and is here
by, appropriated, ont OF any money In
the Treasury not otherwise. appropriat-
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ed 10 complete a 14-foot waterway from
Chicago to ST. Louis in conformity to the
survey just completed by the War De-
partment.
Cost OF the Proposed Canal.
So thoroughly has been done the work
on the Drainage Canal that there re-
mains little to be done TO convert it
into ship canal from Chicago to Lock-
port. The work expected OF the Gov
ernment is to deepen, straighten and
otherwise improve the Illinois River
from Lockport to its mouth and the
channel between the mouth Of the Illi-
nois and ST. Louis. The survey reports
that $9,060,952 will be required to make
a seven-foot channel from Lockport to
the mouth of the Illinois, with about
Sc. 100000 more for the Mississippi
channel between that point and ST.
Louis. To make 14-foot channel in
the Illinois River will cost $23,543,5S2.
To make a 20-foot channel will cost
$1,376, 900 for enlargement of the locks
At present 14foot channel is all that
TO asked for, because that is about the
depth that can be maintained in the
Mississippi from st. Louis TO New Or
leans. There is much talk among the
advocates of the canal about its admit
ting Of direct trade without trans-ship-
ment between Chicago and China when
the Panama Canal is finished. but this
seems somewhat visionary. as that trade
Will be carried in ships of much deeper
draft than 14foot. However. a great
trade may be built up by transfer OF
freight at New Orleans from the deep
draft ocean vessels to the 14-foot river
and canal vessels, and this will serve to
hold in check the railroads.
MIR. LorfIncr's SanSuine Views.
Representative Lorimer says:
THE trend of commerce will be
changed from East and West to North
and South. Wheat will be shipped from
Chicago to New Orleans for two cents a
bushel, instead of the present rate OF
10 or IL cents. The cheap water rates
for bulk shipments will reduce the rail
rates. and with that advantage the busi-
ness going out from the Mississippi VAL
ley to the Orient. Europe and South
America will be tremendous.
The economic results would be in.
calculable, for the center Of wealth in
this country would shift and the SOUTH
ern part of the valley would blossom
with manufactures and the development
Of all its resources"
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ordered with his brigade to march from
Athens to Decherd. The Surgeons tried
to induce him to go back to Nashville,
but he was determined to remain with
his brigade. and had rigged up for him
self an ambulance in which was a camp
cot. He was attended on the march by
Capt. Hunter Brooke. Of his stan; Maj
II. b. Roynton, OF the 35th Ohio, and
some nine or 10 mounted men. When
near the Tennessee line there was some
mistake made by the officers in march
ing the regiments which Gen. McCook
attempted to rectify by sending mes
sages to the COlonels to take roads
which would bring them together. He
drove on in his ambulance to seek for
suitable camp ground for the brigade.
and presently, without being aware Of
1t, was some two or three miles away
from the nearest regiment. They came
to an ambush, In which were some 40
soldiers Of the 4th Ala. Cav. and some
SO or 10 Partisan Rangers" all under
the command OF Capt. Frank Gurley.
These fired into the ambulance and
stampeded the horses and what few
men still remained with II, the only
officer being Capt. Hunter Brooke. Cur
ley and some other mounted Partisan
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McCook. Of Ohio. Gen. r. L. McCook
was the fourth son of Maj. Daniel
McCoOk, and was born in Columbia
County, Ohio, Dec. %, 1927. The Nc
Cook family had been noted in the
early history of Ohio, and Maj. d. Nc
Cook was Clerk of the Court of Carroll
County. All of his sons became noted
soldiers in the Union army, and the
father himself fell in the fight with
Morgan at BuffingtOn's Island Robert
L. McCook had been educated for the
law, largely in the Office Of Stanton &
McCook. the great War Secretary hav-
ing been partner Of his father. He
afterwards went TO Cincinnati, entered
upon the practice OF law there, became
connected with Judge Stalio, q leader
among the educated young Germans
who had fiocked to Cincinnati after the
suppression Of the German Revolution
of 1848. Judge Stallo occupied a prom
inent place at the Cincinnati bar. Nc
Cook formed a partnership with Stallo,
and for some years. until the outbreak
of the civil war. the firm of Stallo &
McCook was well known in Cincinnati.
Like his brothers, Robert promptly
avowed his allegiance to the Union and
his readiness to fight for the Govern
ment, and thus ii came to pass that he
was elected Colonel of a magnificent
regiment Of young Germans. which
afterwards won enduring fame as the
9Th Ohio. He proved an admirable Col
onel, we'll suited to his men. insisting
upon the most absolute discipline and
the perfection Of drill on their part, and,
on the other hand. equally rigid that
they should lack nothing to which they
were entitled by the regulations OF the
army. or which could be obtained in
the country. McCook and his Bully
Dutch" as he loved to call them. made
great deal Of reputation in Rosecranss
West Virginia campaign, and McCook
was soon promoted to a Brigadier- Cen
eral Of Volunteers. He made it a con-
dition that his brigade should include
his Bully Dutch" and with them join
ed the Army Of the Ohio.
McCoOk's career as commander of a
brigade was as successful as that OF
Colonel Of regiment, but he wore
himself out by his arduous labors, and
was prostrated by severe attack OF
dysentery at the time when he was
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CHAPTER X.

THE LONG. THIN LINE INVITES
BREAKAGE.
The COnfederates Assume the Aggres-
sfye-MOrEan, Forrest and Wheeler
Begin Raiding-Murder OF Gen. Bob
McC0Ok-BraEG Advances, and Kirby
smith Marches Through kentucky.
Battle of Richmond.
The Confederates Aggressive.
The success which the Confederates
had achieved in throwing back McClel-
lan's army from Richmond to WASH
ington induced the ambitious plan for
q similar campaign in the West to re-
cover all the ground lost south Of the
Ohio. Halleck. and the War Depart
ment at Washington, seemed entirely
satisfied that the retreat of Beauregard
from Corinth ended the war for the
Summer. The country was given the
be needed, recruiting virtually stopped,
and the Armies of the Mississippi and
Tennessee took up position from the
Mississippi to the Tennessee Rivers, set
Ting down for the warm weather. Hal
leck did not even deign, when he left
for Washington, to give Gen. Grant any
instructions, or even to formally re-
instate him in command of his old
army. He went no further than to in
innate to Grant that he was leaving for
Washington, and that he, Grant, as sec
ond in command, would assume his du-
ties. Presently he called Gen. Pope
after him, and the Army Of the Missis-
sippi became merged into that of the
Tennessee.
jeff Davis saw his opportunity and
proceeded to improve 1t. The Union
line was now very long, thin and there
fore easily broken. 1t extended from
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nection between the Great Lakes and
the Mississippi.
When the sanitary exigencies COM
PEELED Chicago to make an outlet from
the Des PLANES River into the Illinois
to carry away the city's sewage, the
Drainage Canal" as it is officially
termed, was made large and deep
enough to serve as a ship canal when
ever the Government could be induced
to undertake the work. This showed
great forethought on the part Of the
Chicago people, who have already spent
about $50,000,000 on the Drainage Cam
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SOME GREAT CANALS.
New Era Of Great Artificial Waterways Interior Trans
p0rtaion.
portation.

From 1915 to 1845 was the great era
Of canaf digging in the United States.
In all Of the older and many Of the
newer States the work of making arti-
fetal waterways went on with the same
feverish energy that in the next decades
was exhibited in railroad building.
George Washington was the pioneer
in canal construction, and as early as
1874 he secured charter from the
Virginia Legislature to connect the nav
igable waters Of the Potomac at George
town and Alexandria with those Of the
Ohio by way Of Cumberland, Md. The