Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-12-03

A tornado that struck Dexter. No..
November 2zd, demolished fifteen
houses and wrecked the Stoddard
county fair buildings. including the
amphitheater. Two women and two
children were injured.
Pradham hall, the girls dormitory
of the South Carolina State Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical College, for ne.
groes. together with the dining hall
and kitchen. was burned q few days
since. Loss. $4,000: insurance, $780,.
Had It not been for the recent
trouble in Spain. King Alfonso would
have been a challenger next year for
the America's cup, according to re-
port published in New York. The
threatening troubles at home prevent
ed the issuance Of . challenge for the
International yacht race.
In order to attend the hunting party
Of the Marquis do Polignac at Berru.
in France, Hubert Latham flew In his
monoplane from Chalons. a distance
Of nineteen miles, in thirty minutes.
He killed q goodly number Of pheas-
ants and partridges and at sunset
turned to Chalons.
Negotiations have practically been
concluded At Paris whereby NJ. Paul
han, tho French aviator. will come to
America to participate in the exhibit
ton flights during aviation week at
Los Angeles. Later he will give exhi.
bitions at the Mardi !Gras at New Or.
leans and at other places in the South.
M. Paulhan will receive $4,000 .
month.
Three hundred Americans were
present at a Thanksgiving dinner in
Exposition Park. Berlin. where tho
American Exposition will be held next
year. Consul General Thackara pre-
sided and Prof. Benjamin Ide Wheeler
president of the University OF Cali
fornia. made the principal address.
The gathering sent an address OF
greeting to President Taft at Wash
ington.
Solon Chase, q celebrated figure In
the days Of the greenback agitation. 30
years ago. died Of heart disease few
days since at his home at Chases
Mills. in Maine. He was 67 years old.
During the height of the greenback
campaign Chase stumped the country
as far as the Middle West, driving .
pair OF steers hitched to a hayrack.
from the rear end Of which he deliv.
cred his speeches.
Reports were received at Nairobi
November 22d that all the members
Of the American hunting expedition
were well and would return to Lon
dianai November goth. During the
hunting on the Guas Ingisu plateau
Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit Roose-
welt. in company with the Chicagoan.
Carl E. Akeley. killed four elephants
for the American Museum OF Natural
History in New York.
The Wright Company Of New York
has been Incorporated. with $1,000
900 capital. ito manufacture. sell.
operate and otherwise use at any
place on the North American conti-
nent and the islands adjacent thereto
machines, ships or other mechanical
contrivances for aerial navigation"
The directors are Wilbur Wright. Or
VILE Wright. Of Dayton. Ohio: George
A. Stevens, Henry F. Hooker and A.
+. Barnes. of New York.
The widespread allegations OF de-
plorable conditions in Portuguese
East Africa, particularly in the islands
Of San Thome and Principe. credited
by recent English and American writ
ers to tho existence Of cruel slave
trade in African negroes among the
planters. are denounced as unwarrant-
ed fabricatIons by Col. J. A. Wylie.
Fellow of the Royal Geographical So
ciety Of England. who has just re-
turned from a tour of Investigation In
that region.