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OVER THREE HUNDRED Number of Fatalities as Resitt of Southern Toraadees. SCORES OF PLACES SUFFER Storm Raged for Twelve Hours and Covered Georgia, Louisiana, Mia sissippi and Alabama. 4,+ *5,4, 4* ,H, MORE THAN 300 DEAD. An almost complete list of dead and injured in the South- 4* em storm, made up from tele- 4* graph reports from various points, places the number of 4* killed at 350 and injured at 4 1,200. A partial summary of 4* •f- the dead follows: -s* Albertsville, Ala 25 *5* Bergen, Ala 4 4* Cedar Creek, Ala 8 4 •b Democrat, Ala 5 4* j£ Fort Deposit, Ala 3 4* 4* Reids, Ala 2 4* t4» Thomas Mill, Ala 2 4* Warrior, Ala 3 4 .•5* Amite, La 15 4* 4* Angie, La 2 4 4* Caddo Parish, La 2 4* »i» Richland, La 4 4 ji- Adams County, Miss 25 4* Baxterville, Miss 6 4* Church Hill, Miss 35 4 4* Fayette County, Miss 3 4* !4» McCallum, Miss 12 4* McLain, Miss. 8 4* Natchez, Miss 69 4* Port Gibson, Miss 1 4* 4* Purvis, Miss. 62 4 4* Wahalak, Miss. 8 4- Wlngate, Miss. 3 4• 4-4-4*+4-4-4'4*4*4'4*4*4*4*4'4- New Orleans, April 25.—The dead piore than 300, the injured at least 1,000 these are the grim facts which 'came to light when the wreckage of the tornado in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama had been oleared away. The tornadoes lasted ^altogether about twelve hours, strik ing promiscuously one town alter the other. Many hours after they struck trains bearing nearly 200 injured came brawling cautiously out of the tor nado districts, leaving behind them nne town, Purvis, Miss., utterly de molished, five others practically blown laway and forty little villages in more or less acute stages of ruin. With these wounded came the details of one of the worst wind disasters in the history of the Gulf states. First of all it became known that negroes comprised most of the dead, «hat the picturesque darky cabins, noted for their flimsy, happy go lucky construction, had been converted by the wind into wholesale death traps. It was in the fall of these cabins, which went down almost without warning, that most of the negro deaths occurred. These always overcrowded cabins also furnished most of the feadly wounded. The destruction of Purvis, Miss., was complete in a few minutes time. Of about 200 dwelling houses only seven were left standing. The court house, the only other building in town to withstand the wind, was immedi ately packed with dead and injured and served as the only available hos pital within many miles. Amite, La., Under Martial Law. Amite, La., was so badly damaged that it was put under martial law by order of its mayor. The storm killed two white persons and thirteen ne groes outright and injured many oth ers, mostly negroes, so badly that physicians say the total death list of Amite would reach at least twenty five. Rev. Father Felix Rumpf was possibly the first person killed. He was in the bell tower of his chureh, having just finished ringing the bell. He was crushed to death by the fall ing tower. The path of the tornado was about two and a half miles wide and when it had passed Amite stood a wreck. Ltrge numbers of. farm animaia were kJU*L Forty-six towns report serious wreckage bj the storm, in which 2, 600 business houses and habitations mere laid in ruins. The following is list by states of the ferty-gix towns reporting more or less damage: Louisiana—Lncerne, Kenmore, La moorle, Richland. Amite, Essie, Pine, B, Franklin ton, Sheridan. Avard, ee. Total, twelve. Mississippi—Gflles Bend, Purvis, Churchill, Lorman, Tillman, Malton, pSaxterville, Braxton, Sunflower, Wa jhalak, Wlngate, Columbus, Walls, Plirchilds Creek, Quitmans Landing, fileLanrin, McCaffum, Winchester, Pine Ridge. Total, nineteen. I Georgia.—Columbus, Cbipley, La Orange, Harris, Griffin, McDonough, Locust Grove, Cedartown, Cave Springs. Total, nine. Alabama—Albertville, High Mound, Hatton, Leesburg, Settlement, Blounts vllle- Total, six. Evans May Paso RoWss Hot Springs, Cal„ April 17.—It irfanowMd that if Rear Ad tairal Svaas continues to improve as rapidly as he has been during the past two verts he wffl join the fleet at Monterey and he fat command when the bis ftgfrtfof ships pass throagh the Oslta Gate. Another excellent night's jrmt leaves the admiral is a ktnw'iteerlU condition. BUT SCANT ATTENTION. Given by Senate and Hocce to Presi dent's Message. Washington, April 2S.—Conditions is both the senate and the house were such that the special message of the president, further outlining his views as to legislation, which was sent to congress, received but scant attention. The message arrived late in the day and the house was so tied up under its new rules that it could not official ly receive the message, while the sen ate was in the midst of the considera tion of the naval appropriation bill under the ien-minute rule when the document reached that body. Unlike the house, the senate permitted the formal presentation of the message, but it could not at that time be laid before the senate and by the time the naval bill had been disposed of the hour was so late and the attendance so small that no attempt was made to read the document. The first few lines only had been pronounced by the clerk when it was suggested that the further reading should be post poned for a day. This suggestion was adopted, and the senate adjourned. The message deals with corporation •vils and asks, among other things, that legislation be enacted to govern the use of the injunction. The pres ident says that his personal belief is that a national incorporation law should be passed at some time in the near future and that a commission should be established to regulate cor porations. He points to the recent de cisions of the supreme court of the country in regard to railroad troubles in Minnesota and Norrh Carolina as proof that the states are utterly un able to cope with the situation. THIRTY DEAD IN LANDSLIDE Canadian Hamlet Half Buried by Sudden Disaster. Buckingham, Que., April 27.—A large portion of the little French ham let of Notre Dame de Salette lies bur ied under a sliding mountain and at least thirty of its population are known to have perished. The River Lievre winds at the foot of the hamlet and a mountain towers behind it. Spring rains for days have been melting the snow and ice on the mountainside and streams have been coursing down into the river. Just as the little hamlet began to stir itself for the day part of the mountain started to slide toward the river. It left a path of death and destruc tion in its wake and those who were not killed when their homes were en gulfed were left buried under the mass of rock and earth. The sliding mass rushed with a roar and spread fanlike over part of the place and dumped itself in the swollen stream at its foot. Those first on the scene found De Salette in a panic with the uninjured ones packing their belongings for flight. The first messengers to Bucking ham ordered twenty-five coffins to be sent to De Salette and all the physi cians of the town were hurried across country with rescue parties. DUC DE CHAULNES DEAD. Nobleman Who Recently Married Miss Shonts Expires Suddenly. Paris, April 25.—In the presence of his bride of less than three months, Emmanuel Theodore Bernard Marie Albert de Luynes d' Ailly, ninth duke of Chauines and of Picquigny, and marquis of Dangeau, died suddenly from heart failure in his apartments in the Hotel Langham, in the Rue Boccador. The physicians summoned to attend the duke in his sudden seiz ure officially gave the cause of death as embolism of the heart. The Due de Chauines and the duchess, who was Miss Theodora Shonts, youngest daughter of Theo dore Shonts of New York, were mar ried in New York on Feb. 16 of this year. The wedding was a brilliant social function and the end of the brief honeymoon was sudden and tragic. Since the arrival of the couple here a month ago they bad lived com paratively quietly at the Hotel Lang ham. RIVER STEAMER CAPSIZES Twelve Persons Lose Their Lives Near Helena, Ark. Helena, Ark., April 27.—Twelve per sons were drowned, one a woman, when the showboat Marion capsized eight miles above the month of the Francis river. The Marion, a strty-five-ton boat, left Helena Sunday afternoon, carry ing members of a carnival company that had been playing here. The boat was struck by a storm and was cap sized. The sixty-two passengers and members of the crew climbed on top of the overturned boat and the engi neer and a negro set ont for shore in a skiff. Waves capsized the skiff and both were drowned. Tenrfoot high waves swept the over turned boat and wiy were washed from their hold, drowning before the «T«s of their helpless companions Twelve hi all were drowned. High Wi Muskegon, Mich, Asrfl 2T.—Mr. and Mrs. Wfflard Stone and Boyd Ward were-drown«d in Muskegon hire when their boat was overturned by Ihe fcigfc wave*. Mlm Ethel Stewart rftmg to the boat and drifted a to tb* shore. BRYAN MEN BEATEN New Jersey Dements Defeat Res- elsties of Enbrseseat DELEGATES UNINSTRUCTED Former Senator Smith Controls Con vention and Heads the Dclega» tion to Denver. Trenton, X- J-, April 29.—The Dem ocratic state convention to elect dele gates to the national convention at Denver selected a delegation that is uninstructed except as to voting un- 1 der the unit rui%. A resolution to in struct the delegation in favor of Will- 1 iam J. Bryan was voted down. Former United States Senator James Smith, Jr., who is an anti Bryan man, was in full control of the convention and succeeded by a large majority in defeating the aspirations of Robert Davis of Hudson county and James E. Martin of Union county, the latter a personal friend of Mr. Bryan, who wanted to go to Denver as dele gate at large. During the election of delegates at large the convention was in a con tinual uproar. THOUSANDS IN ATTENDANCE Catholic Celebration Held in New York City. New York, April 29.—Not since the last plenary council of Baltimore has there been such a gathering of Catho lic hierarchy as that which assembled in St. Patrick's cathedral and offered public thanksgiving for the completion of a hundred years of Catholicism in New York. With two exceptions, every archbishop in the country was present and all of the leading bishops and numerous heads of the various religious orders. The archbishops were Ryan of Philadelphia, Ireland of St. Paul, Glennon of St. Louis, Keane of Dubuque, O'Connell of Boston, Blenk of New Orleans, Quigley of Chicago, Moeller of Cincinnati and Farley of New York, and Bishops Canevin of Pittsburg, Fitzmaurice of Erie, Colton of Buffalo, O'Connor of Newark, McQuaide of Rochester, Burke of Albany, Ludden of Syracuse, McFaul of Trenton and others, and at their head America's representa tive of the sacred college, Cardinal Gibbons. Monsignore Falconio, the apostolic delegate, represented the Vatican. TROLLEY CARS COLLIDE. Nine Persons Killed and Many injured in Michigan Wreck. Detroit, April 29.—Two large inter urban trolley cars on the Detroit, Jackson and Chicago railway, a part of the Detroit United Railways sys tem, running from Detroit to Jackson, collided head-on while running about forty-tive miles an hour twenty-five miles west of here, near Ypsilanti. Nine men were killed and about thirty men and women injured, some of them seriously. All of the severely injured were taken to the university hospital at Ann Arbor. A mistake in orders on the part of Motorman Isa Fay of the limited car. who was crushed to death beneath his vestibule, is alleged to have caused the collision. It is charged that he overran his orders. BIG VESSELS COLLIDE. Liner St. Paul Crashes Into British Cruiser Gladiator. Portsmouth, Eng., April 25.—The American line steamer St. Paul and the British cruiser Gladiator were in collision off the Isle of Wight. A heavy snow storm was raging at the time. The Gladiator was badly damaged and has been beached. Her crew took to the boats and during this operation some twenty men are reported to have lost their lives. The passengers and crew of the St. Paul all are safe. The St. Paul sustained a damaged bow. She is now standing by the disabled cruiser. ILLINOIS FOR BRYAN. Nebraskan Secures the Delegation From That State. Springfield, I1L, April 24.—The Illi nois Democracy adopted the unit rule and instructed its delegates to the national convention at Denver to vote for William J". Bryan and to "use all honorable means" to secure nomi nation. After a hot fight in the resolutions committee, which was carried into the convention, the party adopted a plat form plank declaring in favor of the 'greatest possible personal liberty" to individuals, provided such liberty did not infrange upon the rights of other people. BANK ROBBED OF $60,000 Trusted Employes of Manila institu tion Accused. M—fla. April 27.—-The Banco Es panola flUptao has teat the victim of axteastve frauds totaBag over 75,000 poses, or a»o«t fIMM fa gold. The casttar says that tkroagh trusted em-I pfeqrea, wfco have beea operating with wrtsidr aecoiapiiees and honoring chads against lOBCTlatfBg accoonta, altering tke books to conceal the facts, fhia leak has been going on Cor years. R0WNED CR0SSIN6 LAKE Cathode Priest Loses His Life Near Minneapolis. Father J. H. Keil, thirty-five years of age, pastor of Holy Name par ish, near Hamel Station, in Henne pin county, was drowned in Dit ters lake. A heroic rescue by Father Laventure brought the drowning priest to shore, but he died shortly afterward without regaining conscious ness. Father Keil, together with his guests, Fathers Laventure and Mc Caren, were crossing the lake in a rowboat. The waves were running high and while Fathers Keil and Laventure were about to change places in the boat so as to give the former the oars a big wave over turned the frail craft. The three men struck out for shore, some distance away. Suddenly Father Keil sank. Father Laventure turned back to his assistance and succeded in bringing him to land. DULUTH POLICEMAN KILLED Officer Pound Lying Dead Across Body of His Prisoner. Arthur H. Briggs, lieutenant of po lice, was killed while making an arrest in the rear of a Chinese laundry in West Duluth. An unknown, intoxi cated Scandinavian was making a dis turbance in the laundry and the pro prietor called for the police. UpGn the arrival of Lieutenant Briggs the foreigner ran out the back door and was pursued by the policeman. A minute later men who followed them found the policeman dead with an ugly wound over his eye. He was ly ing across the body of his prisoner, who was taken into custody. The wound evidently was caused by a blow with a sharp instrument or by com ing into contact with some sharp ob ject in falling. FOR MURDER OF WIFE. John J. Mooney of Waverly Given Life Sentence. After being out an hour and three quarters the jury at Buffalo returned a verdict finding John J. Mooney, the Waverly real estate dealer, guilty of murder in the second degree and he was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Mooney killed his wife and made a desperate fight in court to escape punishment. The prisoner received the verdict and sentence with little show of emo tion. He remarked that he "was worthy of the sentence." Mooney ap parently expected the outcome, for he seemed to be determined to accept his fate calmly. Execution of the sentence was stayed until May 4. No attempt will be made to appeal the case. Stolen Cash Recovered. The police of St. Paul have recov ered all of the money and other property stolen by Robert Kehle, the "convent burglar," from the several institutions robbed by Kehle. Detec tive Fraser and R. D. O'Brien, county attorney, have returned from Judd, N. D-, where they recovered $375 from Kehle*s brother, Herman Kehle, to whom the burglar sent the money the day after robbing the parsonage of St. Louis Catholic church. The police also located the place where Kehle roomed in St. Paul and here they found a valise containing $500 and other prop erty. Wounds His Son-in-Law. Without warning other than the words "I'll kill you" Watkins Hall, colored, shot and seriously wounded his son-in-law, Sam King, in the pres ence of the Iatter's wife, who was nursing a child three months old in their home at Minneapolis. Hall was ready to send a third bullet into his victim when Mrs. King rushed between the struggling men with the baby in her arms and begged her fath er not to shoot again. The men quar relled o\er a grocery bill. King may recover. Engineer and Fireman Injured. C. R. Williams, an engineer for the Soo railway, is in a critical con dition at St. Joseph's hospital at St. Paul from scalds received by the collapse of a filling at Courtland ave nue on the line the road is building into the city. George Benepe, the fire man of the engine, was also badly scalded and his presence of mind in "killing" the engine probably prevent ed the immediate death of the engi neer. Rain Puts Out Fires. A heavy rainfall has given the northern part of the state relief from the destructive fires which daily were destroying farm buildings and had grown so rapidly that several villages were seriously threatened. Late re ports from the northern part of the state were that hundreds of men were spending most of their time trying to save their homes, but rain win end their troubles in this direction. Bank Safe Dynamited. The People's State bank at Mon terey, in Martin county, was broken Into and the safe blown with nitroglycerin. The burglary was not I discovered until the bank officials reached the scene to open np for busi ness. Between $1,500 and $2,000 was secured- Public School Burned. The public school at Springfield has been destroyed by fire, caus ing a loss of $25,000, of which $22,000 is covered by insurance. The high school and seven other departments Qre without quarters* CqiDB3IEflEI[Elfia rvireiiic^qmm^i 1211. I I I I WORK OF KRESS Thursday, April 23. Senate—Amendment to naval bill adopted appropriating $7,000,000 to be gin construction on the two battle ships authorized by the bill as it pased the house, but for which no ap propriation was made. Mr. Rayner (Md.) spoke on the constitutional rights of the states and executive en croachment. House—Senate joint resolution au thorizing the attorney general to file suits against the Oregon and Califor nia Railroad company for the for feiture of all or part of 2,800,000 acres of land grants In the western part of Oregon adopted. Friday, April 24. Senate—Arguments in favor of the president's programme for four battle ships consumed most of the session. Senators Piles (Wash.) and Beveridge (Ind.) made the principal speeches in favor of the proposition. House—Business proceeded at a rapid gait, despite the fact that the Democrats forced six roll calls. Ovei 1,000 pension bills were put through, the largest batch of the session. Monday, April 27. Senate—The amendment to the na val appropriation bill providing for four battleships instead of two failed of adoption by a vote of 23 to 50. As finally passed the bill carries $123, 115,659. House—The keyed up rules to meet the Democratic filibuster reacted to shut out a message President Roose velt had prepared and planned to have read. Sundry civil appropriation bill under discussion. Tuesday, April 28. House—Session devoted to speeches covering a wide range of subjects, al though the sundry civil bill was osten sibly under consideration. Special message from the president read. Senate—Pension and District of Co lumbia appropriation bills passed and a number of minor measures consid ered. BY UNANIMOUS VOTE. House Committee Decides Not to Im peach Judge Wilffey. Washington, April 24.—Impeach ment proceedings will not be insti tuted against Lebbeus R. Wilxiey, judge of the United States court for China, against whom charges of mis conduct on the bench were brought by Lorin S. Andiews and other Amer ican lawyers resident in Shanghai. The house judiciary committee, by unanimous vote, adopted a report de claring that facts sufficient to justify the impeachment of Judge Wilfley have not been presented to the sub committee, to which the charges were referred. The report of the sub-committee, al I ready made public, is not a complete exoneration of the accused judge, but establishes that his conduct was not, within the constitutional limitations, impeachable. I MARKET QUOTATIONS. I Minneapolis Wheat. I Minneapolis, April 28.—Wheat— May, $1.04% July, $1.03% Sept., 89^c. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.08% No. 1 Northern, $1.06% No. 2 North ern, $1.04% No. 3 Northern, 96%c@ $1.01%. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, April 28.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.00@6.75 fair to good, $5.00@5.75 good to choice cows and heifers, $5.00 veals, $3.75'5!5.25. Hogs —$5.25@5.40. Sheep—Wethers, $6.00 @6.25 good to choice lambs, $6.75@ 7.00. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, April 28.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.07% No. 1 Northern, $1.06% No. 2 Northern, *1.01% May, $1.02% July, $1.02% Sept., 83 %c. Flax—To arrive, on track and May, $1.18% July, $1.20% Sept. and Oct., $1.21%. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, April 28.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.50@7.15 Texaos, $4.40@5.50 West ern cattle, $4.60@5.90 stockers and feeders, $3.50@5.65 cows and heifers, |2.40 @6.40 ealves, $4.50 @6.25. Hogs —Light, $5.15@5.60 mixed, $5.15@ 5.65 heavy, $5.10 @5.62% rough, $5.10@5.3Q good to choice heavy, $5.30@5.62% pigs, $4.10@5.00. Sheep, $4.S0@O5 yearlings, $6.50® 7.00 Iambs, $6.00@7.60. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, April 28.—Wheat—May, July, 86%c Sept, 83%c. Corn —May, «6%@66%c Jnly, Sept, «l%@«l%c. Oats—May, old, 53%c May, 52%c Jnly, old, 45%e July, 43 %c Sept., 36%@36%c. Pork —May, $12.32% @12.95 Jnly, $13.25 13.27% Sept., $13.57% 13.60. Batter —Creameries, 20@25c dairies, 1S@ 24c. Eggs—14%c. 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