Semi-weekly herald., 1910-05-05
TELEasAPAlc NEWS.

Telegraph and telephone wires are all
down and it is impossible to secure
details.
Santa Fe railroad reports are tha;
wind destroyed the telegraph liues
between Emporia and Hutchison. and
that this Is where the storm was most
severe. A force of men are at work
on the lines and are expected to be In
working order today. Trains are be
ing run west as usual by the assist
,.nce OF the block signals.
TOPEKA, Ksns., May At is re-
ported the village of Plymouth. six
miles southwest of Emporia, was en-
tlrely destroyed by tornado Sunday
night. Plymouth Is a small town with
400 population ON the Santa Fe rail
way.
The tornado which struck the west
ern section of emporia unroofed sew
eral houses and carried one off Its
foundation. large new barn was
crushed like an egg shell and several
small barns we're blown away, No
one was Killed or injured.
WICHITA, kans, May At Is re-
ported the drought over central Kan.
sas has experienced during the last
six weeks was broken last night by n
siX-inch rainfall, accompanied by high
wind and hail Fruit and growing
crops were damaged severely. Hun
dreds of dollars worth of window glass
was broken. The largest hail stones
measured three and three-fourths inch
es in circumference. Telegraph. tele-
phone and electric light wires were
blown down in many places. The rain
was general over the southern central
part of Kansas and extended into
north central Oklahoma.
WASHINGTON, May $50 many
differences exit in the senate and
house versions of the administration
railroad bill that 1t appears today the
wisdom of Solomon will be required to
prevent complete failure OF legis-
lation on this subject. Partial consid-
Grafton of the measure which holds the
boards in both branches of congress,
has already resulted in the adoption
OF conflicting changes of which com
promises will be reached only after
a heavy battle. The senate has agreed
with the president that judges of the
commerce court should be appointed
by a man in the White house. The
house has turned down the PROPOSE
tion. 1t also rejected the suggestion
that appointments be made by chief
Justice of the supreme court. The
house has decided that ali the jus
tees of The supreme court shall have
voice In the selection of the com
merce court judges.
WASHINGTON, May Theodore
Roosevelt, according TO local papers.
has written letters to President Taft.
indorsug the present administration.
The letters also show that he will not
be the presidential candidate in 1912
nor for any other office in the mean
time. IL is said he wants William
Loeb Jr to be governor of New York.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3.-Will the
Jeffries Johnson championship fight be
held at all? An element OF doubt is
steadily cropping into the affair and
the entire country is at high pitch.
Cincinnati ministers will head a
large delegation to protest in person
before the governor of California and
-, - fs -, 10 in, har U
with the movement, not only on ac-
count of Pugilist McCarthy's death last
week but because II is claimed the
law strictly forbids such contest.
Everybody is "in the air and the
wires are hot.
District Attorney Donahue today an
nounced at Oakland that 1t would be
the fault of the law and not his IL the
Johnson.Jeffries fight was not held on
next Fourth of July. III the law says
that such contest is Illegal, it will!
never be held he said.
NEW YORK, May "a communi-
cation addressed to the Roosevelt re'
ception committee calls attention to
fact that has hitherto escaped no:ioe,
tnat the date on which Roose"elr ia
scheduled 70 arrive in New York Is
the anniversary OF the battle of Wa.el-
loo. This discovery .ill probably
cause untold CONSERVATION among The
member of back from Elba,' says the
committees correspondent face .iously.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3-In an of
fetal statement made yesterday by
Capt George B. Baldwin. director OF
the census bureau, he estimated that
the census of residents now being
taken would show San Francisco's pop
ulation at approximately four hundred
and fifty thousand. Besides this Cap
tain Baldwin estimates there are n
hundred and fifty people residing at
neighboring bay points Interested in
business In the city
BRIGHTON, Colo. May 3.-Deep
mystery surrounds the murder last
night OF Jesse w. Love, aged AZ. a
well known truck farmer, at his home