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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-15

The Vignette club will meet Tues
day with Mrs. John CLANCY. Miss
Lane, of the State university, will con-
duct the lesson which will be a study
of the last chapter of the Return OF
the Druses,'' and the first chapter OF
1.-The Blot on the Scutcheon.''
At a meeting of the Good Govern
ment club Thursday, the officers who
served last year were reelected for
another term. They are: Mrs. Lee
Monroe, president; Mrs. Emma Sells
Marshall first vice president; Mrs. j.
d. Mcfarland, second vice president;
Mrs. E. E. Roudebush, secretary;
Miss Gertrude Barnes, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Lucia o. Case, auditor,
and Mrs. Fred Farnsworth, treasurer
Most of the candidates for the city
election spoke before the club, and
about 200 members of the club attend
ed the meeting.
The Thursday Study club met
Thursday with Mrs. H. S. Putney at
her home on Clay street. Mrs. Put
ney, who was elected president for
next year, was obliged to resign on ac-
count of i'll health, and Mrs. G. Law
renee was chosen to fill the vacancy.
Papers were read at the meeting by
Mrs. S. l.. Nelson and Mrs. W. S.
Amos.
A council meeting of the General
Federation of Women's clubs will be
held in Washington, d. c., April 81.
p, % and "a. Added interest is lent
to the occasion because it is the TWEEN
ty-third anniversary of the formal
launching of the general federation.
These council meetings have grown to
be of immense Importance to more
than a million women. The council is
held in the years between the biennial
conventions, and is advisory but nom
legislative. 1t canvasses the affairs
of the federation in an intimate con-
claVe that is productive of excellent
suggestions and plans. 1t is composed
of the board of directors, presidents
of state declarations, presidents of indi-
vidual clubs in direct mem bership with
the general federation, chairmen of de-
partments of work, and of general fed
Grafton state secretaries.
The April meeting takes on special
interest on account of being held
in the national capital. Today when
women are especially alive to public
questions and their relation thereto
Washington is alluring as the theater
of discussion of matters of public con-
Germ. Mrs. P. V. Pennypacker, the
president of the federation, will be in
attendance. One of the new standards
which she has set for the general fed
GRAFTON is a closer INTERPOLATION of To-
cal, state and national bodies, and one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-15

of the ways she is securing it is by
letter written regularly to cover ques-
tons OF special interest to club Wom-
en-. This letter appears in the gener-
al federation magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-15

| of the ways she is securing it is by a
letter written regularly to cover ques-
| lions of special interest to club Wom-
| en-. This letter appears in the gener-
| al federation magazine.
A brilliant general program will be
| given, and there will be a trip to Mt.
| Vernon, a day in Baltimore, and other
attractive features OF entertainment.
: Upon a call issued by the presidents
| of sixteen state suffrage associations,
| the suffragists of the Mississippi valley
| states attended a conference in Chica-
| go in May, and the conference decided
| to hold another session in 1913. The
committee on arrangements announces
| that the conference will be held in
| the Buckingham hotel in st. Louis,
| April 2 and 4. The general topic
| of the conference will be Campaign
Methods The St. Louis suffra gists
Will furnish entertainment of lodging
and breakfasts for those who wish it.
! Those who desire such entertainment
should send their names to Mrs. Will
lard Bartlett, 4257 Washington Boule-
ward, st. Louis. The states represent
ed in the conference will be: Illinois,
Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin.
Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missis-
sippi, Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Okla
homa, Nebraska, Louisiana, South
Dakota and Missouri.
A delegation of Kansas women, in
Guiding a number of Topeka people,
viii go to st. Louis for the conference.
The w. T. K. club will meet Tues
day, March IS, with Mrs. W. E. Scot
ton, Gil Clay street.
Some Topeka women who were in
Washington at the time of the inaug-
uration and who saw the suffrage
marchers when they arrived in the
city, report that the condition of the
suffragists has been much misrepre
sented; that their shoes were not worn
to tatters, and that they did not have
the appearance of fanatica1- frumps
at all, as many of the reports would !
lead one to believe. Miss Rosalie |
Jones, the leader, is young and hand |
some and wealthy. She is socially |
prominent in her city and is much ad- |
mired in many ways. Last summer |
Mrs. Jonathan Thomas, of Topeka, |
spent the season at a summer resort |
in the east, and became well acquaint- /
ed with Miss Jones, who was living at |
the same place. Miss Jones was at |
that time much interested in suffrage |
and the campaign in Kansas in parti- |
cular which was as yet undecided.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-15
MRS. BoWsER TELLS TT.
The Evening Began Wrong, but
Turned Out Happily.
I knew that I was in for it.

If Mr.. Bowser came home feeling
good-natured there might be only a
few "humphs'' of disgust, but if things
at the office had gone wrong then
he would break loose.
I had three hours in which to make
up my mind, and when he arrived I
had decided what to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-15

Raphael Hernandez. minister of i'm
provements in the cabinet of former
President Madero of Mexico, IS in the
United States. He says that should he
return to Mexico during the reign of
Huerta he would undoubtedly be killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-15
W0MEN'S CLUBS.

The Vignette club will meet Tues
day with Mrs. John Clancy. Miss
Lane, of the State university, will con-
duct the lesson which will be a study
of the last chapter of the Return of
the Druses,'' and the first chapter of
1.-The Blot on the Scutcheon.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
TWO CHILDREN
KILLED IN MADISON

Huntsville, March Special "A
cyclone moving from the southwest to
the northeast swept a belt of destruc-
tion a quarter of a mile wide through
the northwestern section of Madison
county early today, killing two per-
sons and blowing down many houses
and barns. The read are children of
Jonas Roberts, whose house was blown
away, third child being badly in
jured. The storm struck at about 2
o'clock in the morning and was i'm
mediately followed by terrific hail
and rainstorm. L. D. Whites gin mill,
l. ID. Buford's house, Jerry Horizons
house and barn, negro church, John
Seay's store and barn, and the Matthews
house, were blown away>at Whites
Cross Roads. The Methodist church at
Meridianville, the store of William
Mitchell, the store of Clarence Thomp-
son, Hampton school and other build
ings were badly damaged. Nearly all
of the trees in the path of the storm
were swept away. Complete reports are
impossible, all wires being down.
Huntsville, March 21.-(Special. Mrs
Francis Tappri, wife of the pastor of
the First Presbyterian church, received a
long distance telephone message tonight,
notifying her that her sister, Mrs. l.. G.
Bryant and four children were killed in
a cyclone at Camden today. The same
message said IS people were killed in
Camden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
LARGE DEATH TOLL
NEAR CHICAGO

Chicago, March 21.-Spring arrived in
the central west today on the wings of
the most destructive storm of the year.
Snow, sleet and gales of wind brought tel
ephone and telegraph poles to the ground,
wrecked buildings and sunk vessels on
the lakes. The toll of death will be
large.
Worse than the storm OF Washington S
birthday" was the expression of the wire
chief of the Western Union Telegra ph
company. His opinion was echoed by
Postal Telegraph chiefs and those of the
American Telegraph and Telephone com
pany. More poles are down than in any
storm of recent years, and several days
probably will elapse before wire condi-
tiors will approximate the normal.
Throughout the day Ahere were practi-
caly no Western Uion wires working out
of Chicago. The same was true of the
Postal company, but strenuous work sue
ceeded in getting several wires of each
company working at intervals by night
fall.
In Chicago many trolley lines were tied
up. During the worst of the storm in the
morning street traffic was suspended
The sidewalks were covered with fallen
branches unable to stand their load Of
ice. Half dozen persons were reported
seriously injured as direct result of the
blizzard Some of them will die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
THE AGEHEBAlD, SATURDAY, MARCH %, 1918

early today, did damage estimated at 81
100000. The late reports from over the
state increased the damage but the death
list remained at two, although several
were reported fatally injured. The dead
are: Omer Avice. cab driver, at Frank
fort, crushed by falling roof; Henry Wal
ters. Lafayette, killed by falling sign.
Walters was on an errand for his sick
wife when killed.
Many persons In various parts OF the
state were injured and many had narrow
escapes
The wire service of the state was de-
moralzed and many places were without
communication. Churches did not es-
cape the ravages of the storm. The Meth
odist church at Upton was unroofed.
The smokestack of the Holy Angels Cath
Ollie church here was blown down and
crashed through the roof onto an altar
decorated for Easter The Methodist
church at Harmony was wrecked. Three
churches at Franklin were damaged.
A cold wave following on the heels of
the storm added to the suffering. as many
homes had been unrooted and windows
broken. A drop of 80 degrees, bringing
the temperature down TO about 20 above
zero. was predicted for the state.
The streets of indianapolis were Uttered
with debris today. MANY of the night po-
lice We're called out to assist in guarding
dangerous places in the downtown dis
trict
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
FIVE KILLED IN
NORTH MISSISSIPPI

Memphis. March 21.-F'ive persons
are known to have been killed. a num-
Der injured and several towns dam
aged by a storm which cut a path
through half dozen counties in}north-
ern Mississippi western Tennessee and
northern Arkansas last night and early
today Wire communication with the
greater part of the storm swept area
is impossible tonight and what is
known of the havoc wrought is largely
told In mail advices prepared before re-
ports had been received from the small
err towns and farming settlements or
reports brought by messengers who
came to the edge of the storms path
today for aid.
The towns of Ruleville. in Missis-
sippi. and Hoxie, Ark, report the great
est damage. At Ruleville the property
loss is estimated at sl50,000 and at
Hoxie, s100, 900. Two negroes were
killed near Ruleville and one near
Hoxie. Two persons were killed at
Sails. Miss.
Senatobia and Louisville, Miss, We're
also damaged At Senatobia the loss
is estimated at $4,000 and at Louis
Vile 10 buildings were wrecked, In
cluding two churches and about so ne
gro cabins on the outskirts of the
town were carried away by the wind.
A number of other towns in the three
states report minor property damage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22

broken and skull crushed. probably die;
Albert Henderson. Murfreesboro,. badly
cut by broken glass.
The storm swept Smith, Rutherford,
Lewis, Maury Marshall. Wilson. Dekalb
and Childs counties. infiicting severe
property loss. At Murfreesboro the great
est damage was done. The fair grounds
were destroyed and many residences
blown down. The Presbyterian church
was wholly demolished. A list of the
storehouses and warehouses destroyed fol-
lows: Avent & Price. Butler & Hooper,
c. II. Byrn, Lythe & Partee, The Home
Journal, Kerr Drug store Woodfin Il
Moore, Smith & kittrell, Cason & Shack
lett. Todd &c Mccullough.
The famous Roseerans headquarters
used By General Rosecrans during the
civil war, an ante-bellum residence, was
unroofed at Murfreesboro. Lightning
struck King Ragland company. igniting
the building. A fire loss of $4,000 re-
suited.
The path of the tornado was about 100
yards wide at places where the most
damage was inflicted, path two miles
long was swept bare.
In Marshall county three lives were
lost and the property damage will be
tremendous. The dead are Frank Walker
Is years old, son of Knox Walker who
was at the home of his grandfather
near Lewisburg; a negro child near
Lewisburg, and an unknown negro man
at Chapel HILL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
SYLVIA PANKHURST
is RELEASED FROM
PRISON IN LONDON
Continued From Page one)


arrested for endeavoring forcibly to en-
ter the house of commons to see David
Lloyd-George, chancellor of the ex-
chequer. For this she was given a fine
or an alternative of spending two weeks
In prison. She choose the latter. but af-
ter two DAYS in jail some unknown friend
paid her fine and she was released.
Again on February II, Miss Pankhurst
was found guilty of smashing windows
and given a fine imprisonment In
Holloway Jail. A friend paid this fine
and she was permitted her freedom.
Three days later she was taken into GUS
tody for window smashing and detained
untl today.
A band of Spiritual militant suf-
fragettes" attired in mourning and wear
ing broad orange co1ored sashes, attend
&c service in the city temple today. Re-
ferring to their presence there of which
Reginald ]. Campbell. minister of tho
temple, said that while individual excesses
might be blamed to the woman suffrage
movement the movement was animated
by spirit which rendered its ultimate
triumph inevitable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
TERRIFIC CYCLONE SWEEPS
THROUGH STATES OF OHIO
AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEYS
Continued From Page one)


by another strein early this morn
ing. The storm Travelled in two sec
tfons, one going to the west of the
city and the other to the east. In the
city of Talladega one was injured
many small cottages were blown down
and almost every house in the city had
a chimney blown down or windows
smashed. The sower on the court =
house which was dmaaged by the
cyclone of last summer was again
slightly damaged. The windows were
broken out and some of the tin roofing
was torn up. The damage is sriar
Probably the greatest damage done
in the city was to the electric plant
and telephone company Wires are down
all over the city At least 100 phones
are out of commission. Several houses
We're unroofed in the city.
The greatest damage was done in
the. country outside of Talladega. There
are at least so families homeless. All
of their possessions were destroyed Up
to last night only six people had been
reported injured and of these w. p
Morgan was the most seriously. His
shoulder was broken.
The estimated loss in Talladega and
surrounding territory is about $4,000.
The farmers are the pricipal loses Not
only were many of their homes de-
stroyed but their barns were blown
down and their stick killed. Chickens.
cows and all kinds of stock are dead
and other injured could be seen In the
stricken section.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
Refuses to Comply With Demands

Vienna, March 21-Beyond promising
that the future bombardment of Scutari
will be directed against the Notifications
and not against the town, Montenegro's S
reply to Austrias remonstrance is a re i
fusal to comply with the Austrian de-
mands.
The note declared that for military
reasons Montenegro must refuse to per-
nit civilians to leave Scutari and that
she cannot allow the Austro-H Hungarian
consul in Scutari to take part In the in
ouiry of the death of the priest Pale or
the alleged conversion of Catholics. de-
claring that such an Investigation by a
foreign official would be incompatible
with the sovereign rights of the King OF
Montenegro.
Finally the reply contains some evasiVe
remarks concerning the alleged molesta-
ton of the steamer Sl-odra at San Clio
vanni di Medua. Austria demanded pun
ishment Of military and civil authorities
responsible for ordering Captain Blasich
to assist in landing Servian troops and
war munitions and to help drowning men
from transports which the Turkish crui-
ser Hamidieh had sunk.
The Austrian government will now send
a more energetic note to Montenegro, re-
peating the demands already made AMI
requesting that definite answer be made
within a short period. Should the reply
to this note be deemed inadequate an
ultimatum will then be issued.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
TERRIFIC STORM
VISITS DETROIT

Detroit Mich, March PA terrific
windstorm. at times reaching velocity
of Sc miles an hour, the highest ever at
tained in this city during any five minute
period in the history of the local weather
bureau swept Detroit and practically all
of Michigan today, leaving death and
great property damage in its wake. 1t was
estimated that the property damage
would reach nearly $1,000,000.
Tonight only one death had been re-
ported, but local hospitals reported many
seriously injured and neager reports from
out in the state brought in the same de-
tails. Wire traffic was demoralized. In
many sections miles of telegraph and tele-
phone poles were down.
The wind struck the city about o'clock
in the morning. By noon every policeman
on the local force had been ordered on
duty until further notice, and every pre-
caution was being taken to prevent pos
sible loss of life.
Women were thrown ito the street
buildings unroofed and all frail structures
practically demolished. 1t was flying
debris that injured most of the persons
who were taken to hospitals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
TWO ARE KILLED
NEAR TRINITY

Decatur, March 21.-(SpecialO-A severe
windstorm, which developed into almost a
cyclone, passed over this section last
night. The Masonic theatre in New De-
catur was unroofed. number of trees
and billboards in the Decaturs were blown
down and for several hours today the
Decaturs were cut off from telegraphic
communication to outside points.
The storm was the hardest near Trinity,
seven miles west in this county. In the
town of Trinity the Episcopal church was
blown down. Near Trinity, on the Lille
place. a large two story residence was
blown down and Joel Sheriff., aged s
years, was killed outright. Capt. Jack
Rose was badly cut with glass from the
windows in his home, which were blown
out by the storm. A large barn belonging
to Dixie Echols of Decatur was blown
down. A dozen or so tenement houses on
a plantation west OF Trinity, belonging
to George A. Nelson of Decatur were
completely wrecked. Not a building on
the place was left standing.
Numerous other houses around Trinity
are blown down, but no other deaths were
reported
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
Two Killed Near Buffalo

Buffalo, n. y, March 21.-The storm
which has been sweeping through the
west for the last "a hours struck west
ern New York this afternoon. Two lives
were lost on Cuba lake and a score of
fishermen narrowly escaped death on
Lake Eric off Buffalo harbor through
the sudden breaking of the ice.
About 30 were fishing through the ice
when the storm broke and all started
for the shore. Half the party were safe
in the harbor when an immense field
parted from shore. Ten men were res
cued by companions in fishermen's boats
and the remainder We're picked up by a
fire tug.
At Cuba lake. Eugene Jones and Bishop
Ackerly, freshmen at Syracuse university
home for the Easter vacation were max
ing canoe trip when the gale broke and
overturned their craft Both disappeared
before a boat could be sent to aid them.
The velocity of the wind at o'clock
tonight was IS miles an hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
SIS, 900 DAMAGE
NEAR PELL CITY

Pel1 City, March 21.-(Speclal)-A tor
nado struck this section this morning at
3:15, doing considerable damage
At Eden, the Methodist church was
completely demolished, the school build
ing wrecked, the new house recently built
by E. NJ. Truitt was blown off its foun-
dation and is said to be damaged be-
yond repair. Mr.. Truitt's barn was
blown away and the canning factory was
totally wrecked, and many other houses
damaged.
One mile north of Pell city six houses
belonging to DR.. p G. Dunlap We're COM
pletely torn to pieces. and the timber
wrenched and twisted and pulled up Ly
the roots. 1t seems this was the focus Of
the storm.
The estimated loss is about $4,000 to
$1,000
The house and barn belonging to C. X.
Polk were blown down, and from all ac-
counts Mrs. Polk is in serious condition
from the fright received.
No especially damage ~as done immedi-
ately in Pell City. but the wind at this
place was no ordinary one. Most of the
citizens were up and dressed expecting a
collapse of building at any moment.
The little daughter of Mr.. Steed, VINO
lived in one of the Dunlap houses, was
badly hurt, but is doing well at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
DEATH LIST is
SWELLED TO FIFTY

Louisville, March 21.-Reports COM
ing into the centers of population in
the south by crippled telegraph and
telephone wires and by courier tonight
indicate that the death list, as a result
of last nights storm, will be about so.
MANY sections known to have been hit
by the series of varied upheavals have
not been heard from and II is pos
sible the death list will be increased.
Alabama was the worst sufferer, 27
persons being killed when the town of
Lower Peachtree was wiped out. Three
deaths have been reported IN tennessee,
two In Louisiana and one in Texas.
Tn Mississippi today the governor was
authorized to borrow 5000 for relief
of the sufferers from a storm that
devastated a part of the state only 10
days ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
Toledo Swept by Gale

Toledo, o. March 21--Never in its his
tory was Toledo swept by such gale as
that which held the city and surround
ing country absolutely at it's mercy for
several hours today paralyzing the entire
district. playing havoc with property and
almost completely segregatng Toledo
from the outside world.
The So miles an hour gale was no re-
spector of men or their possessions and
shattered alike the plate glass fronts OF
big financial concerns and the humble
dwellings of the working classes. Numer-
Gus men and women who braved the
rage of the elements and endeavored 10
pursue their regular daily business were
swept from their feet hurled to the pave
ment and suffered more or less serious
injuries. Seven persons We're injured ana
property was damaged to the extent OF
thousands of dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22

done by the storm today. William wieks
aged %, was killed when a smoke stack
at the county infirnary fell. Richard
Plmmer. Columbus contractor was
killed when the walls of = brick building
on which he was working was blown
down, burying him and three other work
men. The latter were seriously Injured
The third known victim, Nicholas Boyer
a painter in Cleveland, was killed when
he was blown from a seaffold.
Great havoc was wrought in the oil
fields.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
THE PRESIDENT OF
HONDURAS IS DEAD

Washington, March 21.-President Man
uel Bonilla of Honduras died at Teguci-
galpa today of kidney trouble according
to a private telegram received here late
today.
Francisco Bertrand. vice president OF
Honduras. will succeed Immediately 10
the presidency, the message said.
DIR. Bonilla has been afflicted with
Bright's disease for about a year and a
half. Ills condition grew worse and for
the past few days he had had several
severe commissions. It is believed his
death came through one of these spells
Bonilla became president on the wave of
revolution about two years ago. He
was about 20 years of age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-22
THE STORY BEHIND
THE CONVICT LOOT

Official records show that but one man
had the temerity to oppose the passage
through the legislature In 1907 of that
bill which changed the code of 1896 in
reference to the handling of the funds
of the state convict department.
OF the history of the change inthe code
which change made 1t possible for Theo-
dore Lacy to loot the convict fund of sao.-
0O0-Hugh w. Roberts will write in Sum-
days Age-Herald.
This story will be the most interestin g
and important of all to be written con-
cerning the scandal which has shocked
the people of the state.