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TORNADO IN SOUTH Storms Re&df' from Teas to Kentucky. SOUTHERN TOWNS AREHIT HARD CeVere Rain, Hail, Wind and Electri cal Storms Sweep Over South Cen , tral States, Killing and Injuring , 2ftany and Destroying Property Valued at Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars. Louisville, Ky., Special Death for probably a score. of persons, losses of hundreds of thousands' of dollars in property and the crippling of many telegraph wires resulted between noon and dusk Friday from a series of small tornadoes which swept the south central ' States from the Ten nessee line to the Texas Panhandle. ,The storms were accompanied in most ases by hail, darkness, terriffic light ning flashes and sheets of ram. .Most of the towns where loss of life occurred are off the railroads, so that news from them has heen "com ing slowly. Known casualties, are: Stuttgart, Ark. Mrs. Gerfield and a child of Will Story. Mrs. Story is reported fatally injured, i - Sulphur Springs, Texas. Mrs. James Ardis and Mrs. C. Caldwell. from Rolling Fork, Miss., just before the telephone wires broke word came that four had been killed. Booth, Miss., reported to Birming ham that six had met death there. In other towns such as. Ennis and Waxahatchie, Tex., and Boscoe, La., many dwellings are said to have been demolished by the wind. ; Arkansas and upper Louisiana rice fields were injured to the "extent of many thousands cf dollars, while the larger cities experienced rains and darkness and lightning bolts that made large buildings quiver. At Chattanooga there was a terri fic storm of hail. Reports from Birmingham state that Several persons were killed by a tornado at Cullman Ala. Friday afternoon. The home of George Stewart, seven miles east of Hanesville, Ala., was totally destroyed. His 2-davs-old child was blown half mile and killed. His 2-year-old child was blown into a grate- and probably fatally burned. Mrs. Stewart was caught under .some rafters in the' house and so badly in jured that she ; will . die'.: Mrs. Tom Bowner and a child - who were in the house were: fatally hurt. THE LARGEST WARSHIP . The Battleship Delaware Launched at . Newport News SaturgayDescrip- tion of the Great Sea-Fighter. : ' Newport News, Va., ' Special.The great battleship Dele ware was suc cessfully" launched from the yards of her builders, the Newport News Ship building and Dry Dock Company Saturday. The lauching was witness ed by 5,000 people. Compared with the battleships, completed or under construction, of the navy of any 'foreign country, the Delaware surpasses all. ' She is one of four sister ships authorized by Congress which will form an indomi table squadron. The other vessels are the North Dekota,' being built at Quincy, Mass. ; the Florida, which will be built at the New York navy yard, and the Utah, to be built at "Camden, N. J. " , The Delaware is to tarry as heavy armor an as powerful armament as any known vessel -of its class; willl have a speed of 21 knots, which is believed to be the highest practicable for a vessel of this type and class, and will have the highest practicable radius of action. The arrangements of .her main, battery . guns is .such, asuto permit a broadside fire 25 per cent ' greater than that of. , the broadside of any battleship now built, or, so far as is, known, nnder construction. fHejr '-defensive qualities, other than . those dependent upon armor protection,; are such as to give the maximum degree of protection to all the vital portions by means of unusually effective eom partmental sub-division, so that in conjunction with her armor protection the defensive qualities of this vessel are believed to be distinctly superior to those, of any battleship hereto de signed. The hull is protected" by a water line belt of armor 8 feet in 'width, whose maximum thickness is 11 inches. This armor belt gives effec tive protection to the boiiors. machin ery and mhgazine spaces. The sida above the main armor belt is protect ed by armor 7 feet 3 inches wide and of a maximum thickness of 10 inches. Above the main casement armor amid ships the side is protected by armor of 5 inches thickness, which effords protection to the smoke pipes, the ma jor portion of the secondary batter ies of of 5-inch guns and the hull structure. IT VIOLATES TREATY The Cafifcrnia AntHep Bill Conflicts. . ROOSEVELT SOUNDS A WARNING Fearing the Result of Anti-Japanese School Legislation' the President Sets Forth the Federal Govern ment 's Sido of the Case. Night Ihing bests' Tort Caswell . Satisfactory. - Washington, Sp::ial.-In ' tests mde at Fort Cacwell, N. C., Febru ary 1st and 2d of the new system of jE&as ' control "for rapid-fire guns, the .-cpa$t artillery corps made an aver age of 50 per cent of hits in night :'flring at a moving target at range rfrom 1,700 to 2,000 yards. The pro ;wtt32es :'were provided with lighted fcVaeors, and the target, which was 1Q feet by 24 feet was illuminated ' by searchlights. v The test was conducted by a 3-inch gun battery and was very satisfactory. - " Seven Dead in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala., Special.-r-Mayor George H. Briery of ' C.ullum, Ala-, wires that seven people are known to have been killed in that county Friday afternoon by- the cyclone which passed over this .section of the State but that wire communication is impossible with the stricken locality. At Kayosa, a mining camp west of Birmingham on the Southern Rail, way, five houses were blown down but only one man was injured, a Mr. Logan. The property loss in the ter ritory north , of Birmingham appears to nave been very lanre. Woman Brutally Murdered. Winston-Salem, Special. Charles Ferrell, a negro about 34 years old, brutally murdered his wife, Chrissie, Friday afternoon as she. sat in her home on Highland avenue. He, fired four shots from a revolver, killing her instantly. An eye-witness says Ferrell began firing: after hiswife told him she was afraid to live with him longer, she having left him after a, fight Christmas week. Mr. Taft Leaves Colon. Colon, By Cable. President-elect William H. Taft and party, left here at 6 o 'clock Sunday evening on board the cruiser, Noi tli Carolina for New Orleans accrnpamed by the cruiser Montana. Just previous to embark ing Mr. Taft gave out the following: ''I 'Tra not prepared to make a staler rnf as tc-the results of the trip to. the isthmus, except to, say that we have found the work progressing in a most satisfactory way; the organi zation better than ever before, the esprit de corps excellent and the de termination of all, even the humblest laborer, directed to the building of the canal. I am sure that, this has impressed itself upon every one of the board of visiting engineers as it has upon mc. - "With reference to the type of the canal and the continuance of the present plans, the engineers promise that they will be able to hand me their report by the time we land at New Orleans." . " Washington, Special. "The policy of the, administration is to combine the maximum of efficiency in achiev ing the real object which the people of the Pacifie slope have at. heart, with the minimum of v friction and trouble,, while the misguided men who advocate such action as .vthis against which I protest, are following a policy which combines the very minimum of efficiency with the maximum of insult. anxi wnicn, wniie totauy ; .uuims io achieve any real result for good, yet might accomplish an infinity . of harm." . " In this laguage President Roose velt Mondav in a' long telegram to Speaker Philip A. Staton, of the Cali fornia Assembly, set forththe govern ment's view, of the" 1 anti-Japanese school legislation now before that body. The President saidjn part: 11 trast'$here will b$Mp misunder standing of the Federal government 's attitude. We are jealousy endeavor ing to guard the interest of Califor nia and of the entire West in accord ance with the desires of our Western people. By friendly agreement with Japan we are now carrying out a pol icy which, while meeting the interests and desires of the Pacific slope, is yet compatible not merely with mutual-self-respect, But with mutual esteem. and admiration- between the Ameri cans ftnd Japanese. ' " "The Japanese government is loy ally and in good faith doing its part to carry out this policy, precisely as the American government ' is . ; doing. This policy aims at mutuality of obli gation and behaviour. In accordance with it the purpose is that the Japan ese shall come here axaetly as Ameri cans go to Japan, which is in effect that travelers, students, persons en-r-gcd in interratic::r.l: business, men who sojourn for pleasure or study, and the like, shall iiave. the freest ac cess frezi cne country' to the other, and shall be sure of the best treat ment, but that there shall be no set- lement in mass by the people of eith er country in the other. "During the last six months under this policy rr ore Jaoanese have left the country, than have come into it. A" --W8t( THE STANDARD ; ' j' S " ' THE SOUTH VIv"SG- r 17. S. Koyster Company, Norfolk, Va. DOINGS OF CONGRESS Summary of Important ' . Proceedinsi Enacted Prom Day to Day. vice were, vigorously defended by Messrs. Mann, of Illinois, and Weeks, of Massachuetts. s : Air attempts to amend the bill in any important particular failed. Its Senator Teller, of Colorado, -ot co'a?L.i:; ' T , Wednesday addressed the "Senate i. l ennnAnt V A A TJ 7. I I - . ouppun ui oeuaiur jacuu s resolu tion declaring that the Senate has a right to any information in posses sion of the executive departments Razor For Suicide. Asheville, N. C, Special. Telling wife that he was going downstairs to shave,: James M. Hyatt a prominent business man of this place, Sunday ed up his razor, and other shaving ma terial; Went' down stairs, locking the doors and; slashed his throat-with the razor, dying soon after the act was discovered by "Mrs. Hyatt, No cause other than iil health can be assigned for the rash act. The Senate Friday concluded con sideration of the -District- of Colnm-' and cited various precedents to sus- bia appropriation bill, carrying an tain his contention. He' claimed that aggregate of about $11,500,000. A! only in exceptional casess hPres- eonference report on the urgent, defi- ident warranted in withholding in formation and declared that Congress ciency bill was agreed to. It appro priates $12,000 for the purchase, naa never xauea to respect sucn ac- ' anA m ft:nnilft nf nntomobiles tion on the part of the executive for the President," , and $150,000 to enable the Secretary of .Agriculture when it has heen based on considera tions of public interest. to continue N to combat the foot and The Senate remained m executive fu .;eo wcoc rft1o session auring most oi tne aay con sidering the nomination -of Dr. W. D. Crum, to be collector of customs at Charleston, S. C, and at. 5:27 p. m. adjourned. r General debate on the agricultural appropriation bill in the House af- and the total number in the United forded critics and defenders of the States has diminished -by. over 2,000. 1 Department of Agriculture an excel Tbese fisrures are" absolutely accurate lent field day. - and cannot be' impeached. In other v.-mr. iever, oi &outn Carolina, led words, if the ! present -policy is con sistently followed and, works as well in the future as: it 4s: now working, all difficulties j and caiisps vOfr friction wrill disappear, while .at the same time each nation will retain its , self -re ject and the good will of the other. But Such v a bill as this school bill accomplishes literally nothing, .what ever in the line of . the object aimed at and gives just and grave cause for irritation; while in addition thetjnit 3d States government would be oblig ed immediately , to take action in the Federal courts - to test sueh legislation as we hold it to be clearly violation Df th treaty, ; off with an attack on the appoint men t and work of the referee board of consulting chemists, in the depart ment. Mr. Heflin, of Alabama, asked on behalf of' cotton growers for a governmental monthly report on the consumption of cotton. Mr. Sturgis, of West Virginia, urged an "extension of the forest service." Mr." Humphrey, of Washington, took an exactly rop posite view, while Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming, declared the bureau of forestry the most " autocratic govern A . resolution was adopted directing the committee on military affairs to investigate military 'posts and various phases of army . administration. After eri exeeupve session, in which the nomination of William D. Crum to be collector of customs of Charles ten. S. C, was considered. Private claimants by the score had their inninjrs in the House of Repre sentatives, the whole session being. given over under a special order to their consideration. The debate was not without its incidents, both humor ous and exciting. Mr. Mann provok ed the House to laughter by question ing the value of two Kentucky thor oughbred horses, and he charged htat the committee had accepted the valu ation o the animals as fixed by " an idiot 11 as against that of the claim ant's committee f conduct, Jiis,' af fairs. But it was left to Messrs. Hep- II . T . -t.. e A ment bureau outside of Russia. Mr. oaVVw"'' Ui ? Barthpldt, of Missouri, urged the is-. f"d Gal"es' cf a ennessee to furnish sue of bonds, for inland waterwav h? ex" inS -fe re ,f th Pr0Cfed; uigs. j. lie, o)eaKer oecame mvoiveu in the controversy and was called up on to make a ruling, and then Ir. CJaines threw the House into an up roar by char;inr that the rules pro hibited a square deal" to claim .n t.. " : " " ' .' The Presint's message vetoing I he, census, bill was read just before adjournment. . . . improvement and Mr. , Candler, , of Mississippi, complained of the tariff Navada Senate Will Back Anti-Alien I n agricultural , implements. Cliair- ' Bill man Scott, of the agricultural- com- Ciron Nev Sp-cial --The Aspto-"itee Closed the debate with ex bly bill prohibiting Japanese and Chi- g10 remf rks fon , th-e wFk donef nese from acquiring lands or acting ; b' the department during the past as' corporation agents, reached the e?. .... , Senate Monday. Instead bt referring ,WInl th s under considera- the measure to the Federal relations Tnn ".""7 -a !, a crease of $o00, to the salary of Solic- blv, the Senate sent it to the judiciary l V " . , : . , in;- ninc wUh , nt5-Jam-' HOO, was , stricken out on a point character of the Haskell Memorial Home Burned; ' Three Missing. - Battle Creek, Mich., Special. -The Haskell' Memorial Home was destroy ed by fire Friday morning. Three of the thirty-seven members of the "or phanage are missing. V Seven little , girls jumped from a third story win dow, but ii is - not thought " any of them are fatally hurt. James Arm strong, 12 years old, standing on a : shed urider the winclow from which the girls had to jump, directed them how to make their fall as easy as possible and caught twd of the small er girls in his arms. : ' Macon Has $40,000 Fire. Macon, Ga., Special. Fire originat ing in a cottage on Wilder street in south Macon," Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, driven by a stiff wind rapid ly spread to adjourning, dwellings, re sulting in the complete destruction of twenty-six residences, the loss on buildings and personal property amounting to approximately $40,000. Dies Protesting Innocence. U Spartanburg, S. C, Special. Will Foster, colored, who was twice con victed on the charge of. muredering John Young, a well-known white man of the country, in November, 1907, "fras, hanged in the county jail Friday morning. . Foster went to , his death declaring his -innocence. After the - black cap had been adjusted he was asked if he desired to makeany state- meiiL, aca ue.repnea mat an ne nad to say. was that he was innocent. General News in Brief. ': . Charlottesville, Va., suffered from a disastrious fire on Friday, the 4th. The loss : is estimated ; at $250,000. V Subpoenas have been " issued, by Judge Lattdis for a new trial of the Standard , Oil Xo- J udge Xandis : he fore imposed a fine of $29,240,000 ori the company which' succeeded in get ting a new trial. , It is proposed at this v late day to gather the a'shes of Major Pierre Charles 1 Enfant, the French engi neer,, and bury them at Arlington and to have a suitable monument- in rec ognition of his services to Gen. Wash ington in planning the Capital City. committee along with the anti-Japa nese resolution. - - ' ; File Protest Against Barney's Speech. Washington,' Special. C. C. Aros- emana, the Panama minister, Monday called at the State Department and filed; a protest from his government against the speech made, in; the House of Representatives recent! v by Rep resentative Rainev. of lllinnis, in which President Oboldia. of Panama, was severely attacked. The minister acted in pursuance of instruction. , Eight Die in. Boarding. Honse Fire.' of order." An. increase of the salarv of Di rector .Willis B. Moore, of the weath er bureau, from $5,000 to $6,000 suf fered a similar fate. bv Representative John R. Latob A sery stock, shall be subjeet to wJ( tion by experts of the Department i Agriculture, at such points of entij as t jje . Secretary of Agriculture designate. Little seems to have been done a Congress Monday. Representativ, Burke, of Pennsylvania, author of bill pneding 'in the House to reqnin all seacgoing vessels carrying as maaj as 50 passengers to equip themselva with wireless ktelegraph appantB called on the President and diseussed the subject with him. The President sent in the following message which was read to M bodies : f f Your attention is invited to recent events . which have conclusively monstrated the great value of 'radio telegraphys" an instrumentality k the presevion of life at sea. " While "tne honor of the first pm tical application of the scientific prin ciples involved mav belonsr to another country, it is gratifying to knowtk our inventors have been quick to sea upon , and develop the idea, and tb! several systems of approved scientii merit and commercial practicable have been put into operation in tin United States. " Furthermore through the liberal ity, of Congress and the intelligence and industry of the Navy Department our Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts are equipped with a chain of short stations,- designed primarily for tit national defense, but capable of re ceiving and transmitting messages by any of the systems of wireless tele graphy now in general use. Even oa distant , insular territories and Alasa are so equipped. 1 tfSo far as our own country is cerned, steps have thus been tate effectively to prevent the estabtoj ment of a monopoly in the pncW use of the new applied art. "Ideem it hiehly desirable tw the Congress' before adjourn' should enact a law, requirins: tnOfl reasonable limitations, as rlenninefl bv what the . government of the IflJ ed States has -already done and ? wliaf :mlont And nr02TCSSlVe owners have already found pracj able, that all ocean-going steainsJF carrying considerable numbers ot P sengers on .routes, wneie - . stallations would be useful, should required to carry efficient radio-t praunic livjtaiiauuiis jrf nrntnrs "TIip snbiect IS noW consideration oy ine kjvu.- lam advised that legislation tr en the same general purpose is w der consideration abroad. - "Our interest in its enactmcm keen on account of the great of steerage, as well as cabin P" Bryan Denies the Story. Jacksonville, Tla., Special Wil liam Jennings Bryan reached Jackson ville at 7 o'clock Sunday morning from Deland and emphatically, denies the story sent out regarding the alleged automobile accident near Tar pon, Springs, in whichit was said thaf he 'was badly injured and under treat ment in a. Tampa hotel. ... The splendid qnlifis of mind and late Senator William B. Allison, of Iowa, 35 years a United estates Senator, and eisrht vears a .- i . ' w member of the House of Representa tives were the subject of many eulo gies in the Senate Saturday. Nine- ' Before the bill;,.was taken up 'iiv teen Senators spoke in praise of the. general debate the House passed the public services of Senator Allison and" Senate pension bill for Federal during most of the day the number of judsres. ; , -v. ; Senators in, their places on the floor The monotonous tones of the read- and the attendance in galleries was ing cleark pf the Senate as he . labor- large. W The delivery, of the eulogies ed through the bill of over 100 pages consumed the entire day. The Sen making appropriations for the Dis- ate-adjourned at 4:56 p. m. . ; trict of ; Columbia constituted the Under special order, the House of rhief feature in the proceedings - of Representatives considered - the bill that bodv 'Thursdav. There was an nmenAainrxr nf tha I pvi1nt infrtnfinn evn -ilio tStirf. tf t Kp' I ntr Ian? . 12.! .t . -r Manchester, Special. Three work- j authority lengthen the time neces- Clayton, of Alabama, offered an; men- were - surfdeated to death Mcp- amendment repealingA the banki3ipt5yA . . , i ..if ! inS tne only obstacle to an. executive law of July 1st, 1898, with a proviso auy-morning m jaancurau! . -a f session for the further consideration W nrnU nA.l. i.-.- T--.T.. r. l " pvwuito uiiuci uic iav. jucsuu , wuu. v . tii.iii-ui . u. prior, io ,Tiie ,iinje acts snail ,tajsje,ei-" Crum to be collector of customs at feet shall not be affected. - Charleston, Si C. ; The first business of importance to On the Democratic side there was a claim the attention of the House of persistent demand for the most care- I Representatives was the President's Lful reading 'of he bilV and ocasio rnessage; vetoing the census bill. Mr. y, luemuei & . ux me uiiuuiji,jr ,vwuuiv rumpacKer te oved the' reference of involved in; a spirited-debate on items the bill and ; message to the census usually left vto the judgment of the committee. i; committee reporting the measure. The committee on rivers and har- When the Senate adjournexl at 5:18 bors improvements practically has o 'clock the reading : of only half of completed its consideration of the bill the bill had been completed. providing for emergencies for survevs In the House the forest service got? and for -maintenance which is to be its usual annual drubbing Thursday, reported within a few davs. The hill the criticisms against it coming prin- earries a total appropriation, of slight- uF.r omii-u, uj. vyaiiAuj- iy less man $10,U00,0P0. A survey lor nia, Mr. Cook, of Colorado, and Mr. the Atlantic deeper waterways pro- Mondell, of , Wyoming, all of whom ject, which ; contemplates an inside charged extravagance in administra- water route from New York to Flori- tion and the extortion of money from- da, is provided for, , as well as a sur- miners, farmers and even the owners vey for the interc'oastai canal through of bee hives. Mr. Cook attributed to Louisiana and Texas, to connect the Mr. Pinchot, the chief forester, .the Mississippi and Rio Grande rivprs. ulterior motive of scheming for Sec- Havine- for its hW tlio nrAmnHnn J retary Wilson's seat in the Cabinet. I nf th-. imnAriatmn np A0aQ0A nnr- I , Both Mr. Pinchot and the forest ser- gery stock a bill has been introduced 1 is-pTcad at 2,560.000.000 of a fire in a cheap lodgmg nouse. Fif teen of the lodgers were removed to a hospital suffering from the effects of the flames and smoke,' and subsequent ly five of these latter died. ? Three, hundred men slept in the house Sun day night, but most of them had gone towork before the fire started. A few were injured jumping from - windows. Captain Potts to Command the Geor- Washington,! SpeciaL-Captain f T. M. Potts, dn duty at the .Washington navy yard, has been selected to com-, mand ,thpr bittleshiplGeprgiai Staking the command - formerly held by Cap tain Edward F; Qualthrbugh , who was suspended from duty following trial by court martial at Gibraltar. . Cap tain Potts', last sea duty was in com mand of .the cruiser Des Jvlornes. -.'m 1 - . L pan irom our poit.. " already done along practical the United being the first nation to enact ute requiring the use of his saien In the Senate it was made clear thA minnrifv do not intend trw Tinim'not i nf Cmm shall be cofl , ed. Senators Tillman, Frazil rt : a frlbl sneeches ou race question in the South. Jft talked of the Crum case m pw f .nl ' fla;ncf nnlitTV of Pau H. groes in important official P where it i& necessarj for -a th them, ande H rally in cases where prarticaiy j the business of an office is by whito' people. ... 1 " 0f P The fact that the natives ; rambiaueVsay that the V&ws j produces an-oil superior xu olic not is not sufficient Was u Cotr zambique, shouts the Lotiisvu ier-Journal, that the natives traveling missionary's boxes grease and joined his churca hope of getting more cheese Korea's : averse annual .