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Washington telegraph., 1907-03-08
Damages Cannot Be Correctly Estimated At This Time
May Be $4,000 Or More Very Little
Cyclone Insurance.
MANY PEOPLE RENDERED HOMELESS
Only One Killed, Several Injured
And Several Narrow Escapes.

The cyclone which struck this
place Thursday night OF last week,
aS reported in last week $ Telegraph
was bad enough, but it tIrned ont
to be much worse than was known
ut that time
The cloud seemed to come from
the north east and then swing
around in an oblong circle from
north east to southwest, spreading
desolation and ruin i'll It's track COW
ering about mile and half OF
territory from the depot Of the
Arkansas and Louisiana Railway
to the old Bouldin place southwest
of town. On the south side Of the
circle fTIe fallen trees all point
northeast and on the north side
southwest, the south side seemed
to have been in the most fearful
force Of the wind, us ON that side
they are twisted off from ten to
thirty feet from the ground. One
man who saw the cloud, in describ-
ing it said; There were Two clouds
when my attention was first attrac-
ted to them, travelling fast and to
ward each other, they soon came
together, formed a funnel shape
and dipped, all was intense dark
ness for perhaps half minute
when the cloud rose and it became
light enough for me to see it pass
off.
The store of 7. Williams and
Company at the depot was torn
half into and its contents practi-
cally destroyed; the feed store
belonging to the same firm had the
front torn off and its contents badly
damaged. The planer and grist
mill near the depot belonging to
0. Vanriper and Company was
demolished and the machinery
badly damaged, Residence of r..
II. Prince, one end knocked out.
Mr.. Prince was blown out i'll the
yard and buried under the fallen
timbers of his house. Colored
Baptist church, completely destroy
ed. Store of Trent and Brother,
unro0fed. Residence of Sheriff
Cobb Wilson blown from its foun-
Washington telegraph., 1907-03-08

datlon and broken intwo. Pre- shy
terian church blown from its foun-
dation and badly twisted. Resi-
denee of L. j. Prince blown from
Its foundation and badly torn up.
Livery and feed stable of Patterson
Bro s., completely wrecked, several
horses killed and contents practi-
callY destroyed. Residence of
Mrs. Page unroofed Episcopal
church completely destroyed. Resi-
denee of Captain c. +. Royston
unroofed and badly broken up,
brick kitchen and servants house
demolished, one killed and one
fatally injured. Residence of Mrs.
i. J. Wallace badly torn Colored
Methodist church completely
wrecked. Residence of w. II.
Etter completely destroyed. Rest
dence of j. IL. Gold partly un-
rooted and badly twisted. The
residences of Susie Walker, N. b.
Robertson, Frank Golston, Oliver
Jones, William Mitchell, Amanda
Johnson, Josiah Green, John Col
ston, Brooker johnson and several
others, all colored, were com
pletely destroyed. The colored
public school building was also
completely destroyed.
Washington telegraph., 1907-03-08

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A Few OF The Freaks

Blew the glass nv s5ut of a
medium sized clock Which was sit
ting loosely on shelf within a
few feet Of an outside wall that
was blown down, and didn't move
the clock. The horns were pulled
off of COW belonging to Josiah
Green leaving only the pith. A
horse belonging to Sheriff Cobb
Wilson was lifted over "a high wire
fence and left in the street. A
stick of freshly split stove wood
was picked up in the street the
morning after the storm with a nail
driven entirely up in it and no
bruises to indicate that it had been
driven with Il hammer or other tool.
Although r. j. Princes house was
lifted from its foundation, moved
several feet, and badly torn up
an umbrella that was leaning
against the wall of the front porch
was not even blown down.
A door at the home Of Mrs. Il, j.
Wallace was blown half open, and
Miss Wallace on running to the
door to close it could not do so,
neither could she open ii any wider.
An s by 10-16 #. sill was blown
from the colored Methodist church
and deposited several hundred feet
away. The back side Of the roof
of the residence of Rev. j. III. Gold
was blown off, and the front side,
that next to the storm, was not hurt.
the Episcopal church was
entirely demo ished the center. row
of benches, which were not nailed
to the floor and crawling baby
could have showed over, were not
moved. A negro man, whose
house was so completely blown
away that nothing, save a few
blocks remained to show where it
had stood, was picked up and sailed
through space aligting several hun
dred feet away in pine thicket.
The most remarkable feature of
all is that Il large number of people
were not Killed.
Washington telegraph., 1907-03-08

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Washington telegraph., 1907-03-08
WARNING ORDER.

VS. Court.
Ellen Browns
The defendant Ellen Brown is
warned to appear i'll this court
within thirty days and answer the
complaint OF the plaintiff Joseph
Brown.
c. Z. RoYsToN, Clerk.
Washington Ark. Feb. 2lst, 1897.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
INDICTMENTS FUR
 RAILROAD AGENT Passenger Rate Law Violated in
 Selling Tickets JUDGE ENDORSES COURSE
Clash Between Federal and State Court Is Expected to Follow Tenn porary Injunction Filed By
 Judge Prltchard.

Raleigh. N. C., July 1S.-The grand jury of Wake county returned three true bills of indictment aganst T. D. Greene, the city ticket agent of tHe Southern railway, for selling railway tickets at more than the 2A cent rate prescribed by the last legislature, the law having gone into effect July l. The warrants were served Monday. Viola tion of the law is made misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment In the discretion of the court. The in dictments follow the charge of Judge Long, who endorsed the course. The enforcement of the rate on the South ern and Atlantic Coast Line has been enjoined by Judge Pritchard in the federal court and a clash between the state and federal courts seems likely.
 The temporary injunction was filed here today by Judge Pritchard of the United States court, directed to J. A. Spence, an attorney of this city, and seventeen of his clients, restraining them and all other persons from con tinuing or beginning civil suits for damages of $500 each or from insti- tuting criminal proceedings against any agent CT employe of the Southern rail- way. Spence had commenced the suits for the penalty of $500 each for his clients, who were charged over 2A cents railroad fare by the Southe ern. The hearing is set for Friday, August 12, at Asheville, N c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
BIG FIRE SCARE
Caused By the Explosion of a Tank of
 Gasoline.

Boston, July 13.-One of the worst fire scares which the Boston department has had in months came today when a tank of gasoline on the top floor of the sixth story brick building in Congress street, South Boston, occupied by the Columbia Counter company, exploded, setting the place on fire. In the locality are num- Der of large manufacturing plants. as well as the extensive dry goods store house of Jordan Marsh 6 Co. Compar- atively no damage was done, however, outside of property of the counter com pany, the loss to which estimates at from S60,000 to $75,000 The persons were injured in connection with the uplifting of tho apparatus through the crowded streets. Franklin Meade, S5 years old. was run over by a wagon. William McGlinchey, 12 years old, in crowd near the fire, falling back to give the department room to operate, came in contact with live wire and was removed in an unconscious condition to hospital. Both will re- cover.
 As it was Saturday afternoon the Colum- bia Counter company's plant was prac- tically unoccupied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
ENDORSES FIGHT
 AGAINST GRAFT
REV. IRA LANDRITH CALLS MIR, BRYAN AND PRESIDENT RooSE- WELT THE GREATEST FIGHTERS AGAINST CORRUPTION.

Seattle. Wash, July 13-Before a large gathering of Christian Endeavorers in Tent Williston today, Rev. Ira Lendrith, regent of Belmont college, Nashville, Tenn, in an address on the subject, Graft and Grafters.' linked the names of Roosevelt and Bryan together as the greatest fighters the country has ever known against graft and corruption, he stated that gEaft, such as is practiced in many portions of the country, is little less than murder, bringing as it does, impure and adulterated food which cause alarming mortality.
 The Rev. Edwin w. Pele Delk, pastor of St. Mathews Luthern church, Phila- delphia made address on Training and Civic conscience" In which he de- nounced In no unstinted terms the action of the governor of Idaho in the alleged kidnapping of Mover and Haywood and asserted that the judiciary of Idaho was corrupt.
 considerable f1utter was caused among the women in the big tent by an ad- dress by General Secretary Shaw, in which he denounced bridge whist and declared that a beneficial social revolu ton would take place if women of the United States would devote tho same en- ergy to promoting the patriots league, as they do to whist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
SETTLEMENT IS EXPECTED.
Commissioner Nell Is Trying to Set.
 tie TeIegraphers' Strike.

San Francisco, July 13.-With the ar rival last night of United States Labor Commissioner Charles P. Neill of Wash ington and Vlce-Presdent S. J. Konon- Ramp, M. J. Ready and Joseph M. Sulli- van of the national executive commit tee of the telegraphers, the result of the final efforts to prevent an extension of the telegraphers' strike probably will be known by tomorrow or Monday Commits sioner Neill lost no time in getting in touch with the local situation and lasC night held conferences in Oakland with representatives of both sides to the con- troversy. Although at the conclusion of a conference lasting for an hour with l. N. Miller, assistant general superin- tendent of the Western Union, the com missioner declined to state what the out Q come of the meeting was. It Is expected he will meet General Superintendent Storer of the Postal company today.
 A mass meeting of the telegraphers will be held in Oakland tonight when Commis- sioner Nel said he would attend The officials of both telegraph companies have also been invited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
RAIN IS NEEDED
 FOR CORN CROP
CIRCUIT COURT ADJoURNS AFTER CONTINUING MANY CASES-A NEGRO IS CHARGED WITH CON. SPRING TO BURN A HOUSE.

Prattvlle, July 1s.-(speeial) )-Farmers in nearly all sections of this county are needing rain for corn crops. Cotton is doing well here. It has been cleared of grass.
 Circuit court. July term, adjourned last night after continuing quite a number of cases, because there was not time enough in one week to try but few of the crim- inal cases. The civil docket is up for the first two days The jail has been cleared again, and several cases were disposed of during the two days that the docket was up.
 Griffin Howard, a negro, who was caught in Pensacola, Fla, some weeks ago. was tried yesterday charged with conspiracy in burning the dwelling house of Samuel P. Steele In August, 1902 In the fall of that year three negroes, Dave Lee, Burden Bates and Andrew Howard, brother of Griffin Howard, were tried and convicted of burning the residence of Mir. Steele, and sentenced by the jury to hang. but prominent citizens intervened and the governor commuted the sentence to life imprisonment Since that time two of these eonvicts have died. Andrew How ard Is still living. His brother, Griffin, will be sent to prison in a few days to serve out a term of twenty-tive years, which the jury of his county awarded him last night after considering his case for many hours. Considerable interest Is aroused among the citizens of that sec- ton of the county near Mulberry on ac- count of the testimony of one witness that he heard the four negroes mentioned above as being connected with the burn ! ing, planning to assasslnate many prom l inent citizens and burn their homes in that immediate section.
 The town primary coming on for Monday is warming up to fever heat towards the last of the campaign. There is only one candidate for mayor but there are eight or nine for aldermen and only five are wanted in the general election. It is a scramble with all the other candidates as to the winners. None of them are abso- lutely certain. The general election for the officers of the town will be held on the first Monday In September, next Heretofore there has been but one ticket, but if the primary gets much warmer there may be more this time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
COURTMARTIAL
 FOR GEN. STOESSEL
PORT ARTHUR'S DEFENDER AND OTHER OFFICERS MUST AN sWER CHARGES OF coWARDlcE AND DESERTION IN WAR.

St. Petersburg, July 13.-A document containing the indictment against Lieu tenant General StoesseL the defender of Port Arthur; Lieutenant General Fock who commanded the Fourth Siberian dl- vision at Port Arthur; Major General Ress, chief of staff of General Stoessel, and Lieutenant General Smirnoff, who preceded Lieutenant General Stoessel in command of Port Arthur, was made pub lie here today. These officers are be- ing tried by courtmartial on charges of cowardice and assertion. The indictments set forth that Stoessel and Foek delib- erately sent false reports of battles that never occurred recommended their own frlen1s and generals, who had lost bat ties, for decorations and surrendered Port Arthur fortress in spite of the fact that they had at hand ample means for resistance. All the crimes with which Stoessel, Reiss and Fock are charged are capital offenses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
SERIOUS DAMAGE
 FROM CLOUDBURST
NEARLY A MILE OF RAILROAD TRACK IS WASHED AWAY AND PROPERTY IN AND AROUND VICkSBURG SUFFERS LOSS.

Vicksburg. Miss, July 19.-This city and surrounding country suffered greatly by a cloudburst which struck here early this morning. Nearly every bridge in the city and county was washed away. Retaining walls gave way and property slipped out into the streams. The flood took one house away. The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad reports to- tai of s4O0 feet of track washed away a few miles below Vieksburg and as result traffic over this line is at a standstill. The big black river, in the vicinity of the railroad trouble, rose fifteen feet during last night and was still rising to- day. Crops have been seriously damaged. Outside of the cost to the railroad the storm damage in this city and county
 is at least $150,000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
CLEARING HOUSE
 PROVES FAILURE
ORGANIZATION FOR POOLING FREIGHT CARS WILL QUIT BUS- NESS AFTER TRIAL OF EIGHT MONTHS.

Chicago, July 19.-The American railway clearing house, which for eight months has been trying to perfect a pool of all the freight cars of the country, is in pro- cess of disintegration, according to the Interocean. The Chicago and Alton raii- road, which was one of the strongest ad- vocates of the car pooling scheme at the outset, will withdraw from 1t July S1
 The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad has already withdrawn and many of the big roads in the east and west have determined to abandon the project
 The association has failed in it's prime object, to insure each road having on it's own rails all the time the number of cars now owned by it. It has failed to do this because 1t had no power to penalize the roads for disobeying it's mandates beyond the imposition of the established rate or rental per diem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
PARIS IS DECORATED.
Gay Parsians Are Preparing to Cele-
 brate the Anniversary.

Paris, July 13.-Paris Is profusely decorated tonight with flags and bunt- ings for the pational anniversary to- morrow. The municipality prohibited music on the streets, but as night wore on the people were dancing and singing in the streets. The confederation of laborers attempted to hold a big anti military movement, was almost a dead failure, The haranguos of Gustave Pereves and other agitators, who at tempted to prove that the military re- view tomorrow is d mobilization, with the purpose of intimidating the pro- letariat, fell flat.
 Dispatches received here from the provinces relate that at various places where the confederation tried to hold similar meetings the irate populace took down the posters and the efforts were discontinued.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
COURT REFUSES
 MANDAMUS WRIT
MAYOR SCHMlTZ, IN HIS PETl- TON, CHARGES THAT JUDGE DUNNE WAS BIASED IN HAND LING HIS CASE.

San Francisco, July 13.-The district court of appeals today refused to grant Mayor Eugene Schmitz a writ of man damus, compelling Judge Dunne to set a date for settlement of the bill of ha- beas corpus proceedings in the case in which he was convicted of extortion and sentenced to five years In the state prs- on at San Quentin.
 Schmitz' petition charges that Judge Dunne was biased, that he had refused to settle the bill of exceptions and that he had purposely hindered the perfec- tion of the appeal in order to keep Schmitz in jaiL
 Presiding Judge Cooper. of the ap- pellate court, ruled that as a question of fact was involved, the court would not attempt to issue a peremptory writ until the issue had been settled. The hearing was thorough, though indefinitely continued. the court expressing a belief that Judge Dunne would do his duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Man and Wife Are Put Under ArpSst
 In California.

San Diego, Cal. July 1S.--Fied II. Magill and wife of Clint n, ILL, ~ero arrested here tonight on charge of murder, alleged 70 have been commit ted in the Illinois town.
 Com aratively litne 1: know n here about the case
 Magill and wife were accompanied by his daughter by a former wife. The daughter, a girl of Is years, is being 'rared for by the matron of the hotel. tThe party had been her. two dayq and was stopping at the Hotel Roblnsoi, where the arrest was madc. The re- port here IS that Magill Is q banker and that the murder for which he IS &C., cused was that of his Corner wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
CASTRO MUST REPLY.
Secretary Root Has Sent Demand for
 Satisfactory Answer.

Caracus, Venezuela, July 13. via Will liamstadt, Island of Curacoa-The Amer ican minister, MT. Russell, on July ? handed President Castro Secretary Root S reply to the Venezuelan presidents an- swer 10 the American demands of Febru- ary 20 and February 2s. for the arbitration of the five American claims against Ven ezuela. MT. Root said the department could not accept President Castro's an- swer, which refused to grant the Ame.i- can demands on the gruond that the claims were not matters for diplomatic intervention, and he again requested the president to consider immediate the ad- visibility of giving a satisfactory reply to the claims presented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
Old Fashioned OratorY.

From the New orleans Times-Democrat.
 We don't have no sich forensic oratory as we used to have" said the old set tier. Lawyers nowadays don't crate; they only Just talk.
 Take old Bill K. Simmons of EN Claire. If Bill was defendin' a lowly chicken thief he'd speak with the tongue of angels. I'll never forgit the peroration of his impassioned philppic in the Clay Bill case about the poisoned cat It run like this here"
 The little, thin old man rose, reared back in q defiant attitude, and shouted in the cracked treble of age:
 "Restin upon the couch of republican, liberty as I do. covered with the blanket of constitutional panoply as l am, and protected by the aegis of American equal fly as 1 feel myself to be, I despise the buzzln' of the professional lnseck who has just sot down, and defy his attempt 10 penetrate with puny sting the inter- stees of me imperyious coverin'."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
A Hair NeedIs.

From the New orleans Times Democrat.
 reporter, fin search of a story was walking through a needle factory. The eye-making section interested him It. tle
 T don't see," he said, how you man age to bore holes in these extremely fine needless"
 Twill you give me a hair from your head?' said the man at the boring ma chine.
 Though the reporter-alas, he was no longer young-could i'll spare a halr he complied
 Here you are" said the workman. and in a jify he bored an eye fin the hair. threaded 1t, and returned 1t to It's owner.
 This ought 10 make a story for you" he said.
 s"Oh, 1t will make a paragraph" the reporter agreed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
Tobacco Dealers Yield,

Havana, July 13.-At a meeting held here tonight representatives of the inde- pendent cigar manufacturers and the so-called trust, the latter declared their intention to reopen their factories im- mediately, accedng to the workmens de- mands, that wages be paid in American currency. The Independents demurred, de- slring to continue their payment of wages fin Spanish gold. for one week for the purpose of filling existing orders. They too. however have decided to open their factories at once
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
NEWSBOY WINS HONORS.
Receives Grand Prize for Playing Cor
 net at Paris.

Milwaukee, Wis, July 13 Ben Van Asek, wl.o, five years 1go, selG news" papers on the streets of Milwaukee and played a cornet In the Miiwaul;ee Tour- mi .ncwsboy band, has been awarded the grand prize for corn-t plaVirg ty the National Conse " lto-y cf Nitric at Paris France an lrstitut,of supported by the French government. Young Van Asek is said to he the tv entIcth Amer ic;ln in 00 years 10 be awarded grand prize at the French institution. inc young man was sent al.roa1 by MIL wlukce friends four years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
AGREE WITH HARMON.
Must Deal With Railroads lndepend-
 ent of Federal Courts.

Lincoln, Neb., July 13.-Railway Com missioner H. T. Clarke. Jr., today de- clared himself in accord with Judson Harmon of Cincinnati and other men who have lately stood for the right of the state to deal with the corporations independently of the federal authority. MT. Clarke as well as Commissioner Will Hams, have expressed opposition to the ideas of the President looking toward federal control of the railroads.
 State control coupled with the crimi- nal proceedings of some of the leading corporation officials, will solve the prob lem, said MT. Clarke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
VIOLENT STORMS PREVAIL.
Many Lives Are Lost and Property Is
 Badly Damaged In Russia.

London, July 19.-A despatch to a news agency from Odessa, says that after tropical heat. violent storms have been experienced through out the souther provinces of Russia Reports show that over a quarter of a million acres of cereals were destroyed, a num- Der of lives were lost and heavy losses of live stock were sustained. In Bes- sarabia large tracts of vineyards were rayaged and orchards all over the pro- vince suffered.
 1t Is estimated that the south Rus sian crops of wheat, rye and barley this year will be below that generally described as Tow to middling yield.p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
LOSES LIFE FOR
 PAIR OF SHOES
Tom Jackson Is Killed While Making Away With Stolen Shoes From
 a Store.

Tom Jackson lost his life last night for a pair of shoes. The negro was es- caping with pair of shoes from the Hall department store on Second ave. nue between Twenty-third and Twenty fourth streets when a clerk by the name of Vaughn intercepted him.
 Jackson drew back, put his hand to his hip pocket, and the next moment MT. Vaughn fired. The negro immediately dropped dead.
 It seems that this negro had been stealing from the store every Saturday, and Vaughn stationed himself at the door to watch. After the shooting, poor Jackson and his pair of stolen shoes lay on the floor side by side.