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HATTIESBURG. MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY MORNING MAY 15 1908
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IN LOUISIANA TORNADO
Reports From Stricken District Are
Still k Meager and Mnch
Anxiety is Felt.
RELIEF TRAINS RUSHED
TO THE DEVASTATED TOWNS
Nineteen of the Known Dead Are
White, Eleven Negroes—Town of
Gilliam, Bollnger and Oil City Are
Demolished.
-Hearst News Service.
Bhreveport, La., May 14.—The death
list from yesterday's tornado con
tinues to Increase. Nineteen white
people and eleven negroes are knotfn
to have been killed and the list of se
riously injured will approximate 200.
.The towns of Gilliam, Bolinger and
Oil City were practically destroyed,
only a few buildiilgs being left stand
ing.
Relief trains have brought the ma
jority of the Injured to Shreveport,
where they are being cared for in the
local hospitals.
The tornado came from the south
west and laid waste a Strip of territory
one-half to a mile wide and over 150
miles long.
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SIX DEAD AT BOLINGER.
Hearst News Service.
May 14.—The big saw
ttj^>fJLH. Bolln
Bolinger,
mill and c;
ger at this
wrecked U
were instfl
twenty serj
The dead
MRS. RAY DAVIS. T^^BB
MRS. MARSHALL DAVIS.
WILLIE M'DONALD.
IDA M'DONALD.
NATHAN MARTIN.
WILL STRINGER.
Two unknown negroes are fatally
Injured. Almost every building in
the town Is a total wreck.
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-■ ELEVEN DEAD AT GILLIAM.
Hearst Kews Service.
Gilliam, La., May 14—A partial list
of the killed in yesterday's tornado is
as follows:
MRS. JOHN GARDNER.
MRS. HENRY GODFREY.
JOHN SIMPSON.
EIGHT NEGROES.
Several other members of the Gard
ner and Godfrey families are serious
ly hurt.
Four miles south of Belcher Martin
Lampkin and wife and four children
were instantly killed. The children
ranged from 4 to 10 years of age.
The entire town of Gilliam is a mass
of ruins.
Nearly a hundred injured have been
sent to hospitals in Shreveport and
New Orleans.
DAMAGE IS HEAVY.
Hearst News Service.
New Orleans, May 14.—Scattering
and Incomplete details from the path
of yesterday's tornado indicate that
the loss to life and property has been
little less than that of the disastrous
cyclone which swept through South
Mississippi on April 24, devastating
the town of Purvis.
Trains bearing physicians, nurses
and supplies have been sent from New
■Orleans to the storm swept district.
Several relief trains have gone from
Shreveport.
DISCUSS INSANITY PLEAS.
Hearst News Service.
Cincinnati, 'Ohio, May" 14.—Consid
eration of several papers relating to
medico-legal matters, with special ref
erence to Insanity pleas in . murder
trials, occupjTbd today's session of the
American Medico-P>ycholoblcal Asso
ciation^_
LEVEE BOARD SCANDAL
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-JVaiiv News Special.
I Jackson, Miss., May 14.—Major
} W. B. Gibbs, of Bentonia mem
ber of the state senate and chairman
of the senate committee appointed to
Investigate the manner of the organ
ization of the Yazoo-Mlsslsslppl levee
board, was In the city today. He
states that the committee, which has
just finished Its work after three days
at Investigation, hag gone Into every
feature of the case except the finan
cial one, which is to be looked after
by the state revenue agent.
The committee's report la not yet
ready for filing, being still In the hands
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THREE CHILDREN
WERE CREMATED
BY BLACK HAND
Hearst News Service.
New York,.- May 14.—Guisseppus,
Prevldencia and Eleanora Ottuse,
children of GulSBeppe Ottuse, Were
cremated in a fire which destroyed
their home at Pasaic, N. J., today.
The father and mother of the children
and two firemen received serious in
juries while trying to rescue the suf
focating children, who cried piteously
for help.
After the blaze was extinguished, a
bottle of kerosene was found in the
basement. The fire is believed to
have been the work ft the Black
Hand.
ARMY OFFICERS
SELDOM RESIGN
LIEUTENANT AYERS 18 THE FIRST
THIS YEAR.
Four West Point Graduates Retired
Last Year After Brief 8ervice.
Resignations Were Frequent in For
mer Year*.
lervlce.
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Sam, is second EreallBIInt
fax Ayres Seventh Cavalry, who
leaves the army today. Last year
four officers resigned within three
months after leaving the Military
Academy. This was considered an un
usually large number, and was partly
responsible for Mr. Taft's telling this
year's graduates that the War Depart
ment expected them to stay in the
army. It was therefore rather un
expected that Lieut. Ayres would have
so little difficultly in getting his res
ignation accepted. Apparently the
War Department Is not going to
stand on the letter of the law which
binds a lieutenant to serve eight years
from the time of entering West Point.
In the early. part of the last cen
tury there was a different feeling
about resignations of graduates. There
was so little chance for promotion be
cause of the absence of a retired list
tha.t many officers resigned. A classic
example of this is afforded by the class
of 1831, which had some distinguished
officers in it and numbered in all 36
graduates. Within six years after
leaving West Point twenty-three of
that year's class had left the service
for other pursuits. The first five of
1831 resigned within five years after
graduating, the sixth on the list died
in Florida In is39, and the next two
also resigned Within,, five years. Three
of the members of thal, class died with
in eight years, leaving but Beven offi
cers on the- rolls.
KING EDWARD WILL
ATTEND THIS WEDDING
London, May 14.—King Edward will
attend the wedding of Miss Jean Reid,
daughter of American Ambassador
Whitelaw Reid, to Lord Hubert Ware,
brother of the Earl of Dudley and
equerry In waiting to the king. The
ceremony will be performed in the
chapel of the Royal St. James Palace
on June 23, _
of the stenographer, but will be ready
within a few days, when It will be
filed with the governor, and such ac
tion as he may deem proper will be
taken with reference to It.
Maj. Gibbs declines to give out any
information in regard to the investi
gation, which was a strictly star cham
ber proceeding, and Us publication will
be discretionary with the governor on
ly. As the matter is one of public In*
terest and eonedrn, however, there can
hardly be any good reason why It
should not be published, and It will
doubtless be given to the press in due
time.
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VOTING TRUST OF
RAILROAD DISSOLVED
Hearst News Service.
Baltimore, May 14.—As the result
of the decision of the voting trustees
of the Seabord Air Line, made at a
meeting last March, the exsisting vot
ing trust of the road will be formally
dissolved tomorrow. Holders of vot
ing trust certificates have exchanged
them for actual stock of the railway
company, arrangements for such an ex
change having been made by local
trust companies.
Practically the entire capital stock
of the railway, including $25,000,000 of
preferred stock and about $37,000,000
of common stock, has been held since
I the organization of the Seabord sys
| tern about eight years ago by eight
I voting trustees. These trustees are:
Johd Skelton Williams, of Raymond;
S. Davies Warfield, of Baltimore;
Thomas F. Ryan, James A. Blair, John
B. Dennis, T. J. Colltdge, Jr., B. F.
If oakum and H. C. Pierce.
DISAGREE ABOUT
DEPOT LOCATION
The people of Meadvllle don't know
where they want the new depot, as is
shown by the following from the
Jackson Evening News:
The railroad commission will go in
a body to Meadville on May 20, at the
request of both the citizens and the
officials of the Mississippi Central
Railroad Company, for the purpose of
fixing the location of the new depot
to be erected there.
The railroad officials had decided
upon a location and land had been
deeded them for that purpose, when
there was a disagreement among the
citizens of the town as to whether It
should be located there or at a differ
ent point. The citizens themselves
admit their Inability to get together
on the proposition, and the city of
ficials have just passed a resolution
inviting the commission to act as
arbiter.
The railroad company some time
ago requested that the commission
settle upon the Bite, but until the
they re
licy
it
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MINNESOTA
SNUBS BRYAN
Proposition to Name Nebraskan
For Vice President Was Even
Voted Down.
Hearst News Service.
St. Paul, Minn., May 14.—The Dem
ocrats ofi Minnesota, in state conven
tion here this afternoon declared in
favor of the nomination of Governor
John A. Johnson for President and
instructed its delegates to vote for
him.
A resolution placing William Jen
nings Bryan before the convention as
a candidate for Vice President was
voted down by an overwhelming ma
jority.
Mr. Bryan, however, had consider
able following and bis firends stuck
to him throughout the day.
The platform adopted declares _in
favor of tariff revision and against
the centralization of power in the
hands of the federal government.
EMPIRE BUILDER
OF GREAT WEST
TALKS TO
POINT
Hearst News Service.
Washington, May 14.—James J. Hill,
prominent railroad constructor, known
throughout the west as the "Empire
Builder," in a speech before the con
ference of governors today declared
that unless present methods were re
vised and the resources of the country
conserved, men now llvin'g might see
the pillars to the national temple town
down.
Governor Glenn, of North Carolina,
said that the South was told after the
war that it could get what It wanted
from the national government, but that
the first request that the forests be
preserved had been turned down by
congress.
The effect of these talks will prob
ably be emphasised In the pronounce
ment of the commute*
morrow, and It Is b<
on resolutions
Iteved that the
next session of congress wlU be com
pelled by overwhelming public senti
ment to take action.
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King's Daughters Have Gone Home
After a Pleasant and Profit
able Session.
NEXT CONVENTION IS TO
BE HELD IN DROOKHAVEN
Rescue Home, Old Ladies' Home and
Numerous Other Important Sub
jects. .Discussed — .Officers. Were
Elected.
The election of state officers of the
King's Daughters resulted as follows:
irs. R. L. McLaurin, of Vicksburg,
re-elected member of the Central
Council.
Mrs. C. J. Weatlierby, of Biloxi,
re-elected state secretary.
Mrs. Samuels, of Natchez, record
ing secretary.
Mrs. Dulaney, of Grace, correspond
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ing secretary.
Mrs. Klein, of Vicksburg, re-elected
treasurer.
The executive board Is composed as
follows: Mrs. Longre, Hattiesburg;
Mrs. Kemp, Greenville; Mrs. A. Gor
don, Jackson: MrB. Collier, Vicksburg;
Mrs. Hill, Meridian; Miss McCabe,
Vicksburg. «
Resolutions.
The committee on resolutions re
ported as follows:
Whereas, The eighth annual con
vention of the Mississippi branch of
the King's Daughters and Sons has
been so royally entertained and such
generous hospitality extended on every
side by the good people of Hattiesburg
Be it Resolved,5 That our sincere
thanks be given to our hosts and
hostesses, to the Rev. Geo. S. Gibbs
for the soul inspiring communion ser
vice, to the Revs. Hall, Currie, Hol
■Mnan and Jones
tor their words of
Ftr-te-' our Central
rs. H. L. McLaurin.
14 he lp, to all who
HMUdbuted to the
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rhe president of tlip OoMBBSjff SSaJJ
for souvenirs, to the press fWB9Sl
lng onr sessions, to the railroads^D
courtesies, and last but not least the
local King's Daughters for the charm
ing recejqion at Hotel Hattiesburg and
their untiring efforts to make our stay
with them pleasant and profitable—
one never to be forgotten.
Proceedings.
The eighth annual convention of
the Mississippi branch of the Interna
tional Order of the King's Daughters
and Sons closed a pleasant and prof
itable session yesterday afternoon at 5
o'clock.
Brookhaven was chesen as the next
place of meeting. Greenwood's dele
gate presented a cordial invitation for
the convention to assemble there ana
made an eloquent plea in support of
her Invitation. The ballot resulted in
favor of Brookhaven which gave way
a year ago in-favor of Hattiqpburg. The
Brookhaven delegation was exceeding
ly happy over the result and a royal
time is promised the members of the
convention who may assemble there.
The devotional exercises were led
yesterday morning by the Rev. J. R.
Jones. Mr. Jones spoke commenda
tory words of the order and of Chris
tian womanhood under whatever ban
ner enrolled. He acknowledged his
unfamlliarly with the order and re
ferred to jt as an organization of pro
testant women. To this the Catho
lic delegates took exception for the or
der is non-sectarian and every one who
is a daughter of the King is eligible
to membership whether Catholic or
Episcopal or Protestant. Some of the
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Washington, May 14.—For Missis
sippi: Showers Friday, with station
ary temperature. Warmer Saturday,
probably thunderstorms.
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BRADWELL'S FUNERAL
DAB TO BE DEFERRED
Dally News Special.
McComb City, Miss., May 14.—The
remains of C. Q. jiardwell, a former
resident of this -place, who died at
Sumrall, Miss., yesterday were
have been brought here for burial on
train 33 this evening and after reach
ing Brookhaven, over the Mississippi
Central, the Illinois Central officials
refused to accept the remains for ship
ment here owing to some error In the
making out of the death certificate.
Everything was In readiness here for
the funeral on the arrival of train 33
at 2:45 p. m„ but it had to be post
poned. A team was secured in Brook
haven and the remains will be brought
through the country tonight, a distance
Of twenty-four miles. The funeral ser
vices will. be held tomorrow morning
under the auspices Of £Tie Woodmen
of the World, conducted by RftV, F. N.
Buffer, pastor of the East McComb
Baptist church. The deceased was*29
years old and had recently gone to
Sumrall, after losing his wife here In
February last.
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entation of the work accomplished for
child betterment, including hygiene
and nourishment, the care of the new
born, dress, instruction, physical and
moral education and all the surround
irtfcs of early life.
Ehibits, demonstrations and lectures
will educate mothers in the proper
care of their youngsters.
The work of kindergartens, hospitals
and charitable institutions is shown.
The Industrial section contains fea
tures in the amusement and care of
the child, and treats of the phase jot its
life from the time the physician Leaves
It to where the teacher begins to moulfi
its future.
MOTHERS CONSIDER
DIVERS PROBLEMS
New York, May 14.—A convention of
mothers to consider educational hy
gienic and other questions relating to
child culture will be a feature of the
Mother's Exposition which has been
installed in Madison Square Garden
and will remain open for a week.
The exposition is an annual pres
TAFT GETS NORTH DAKOTA.
Blsmark, N. D., May 14.—After a
stormy session of the Republican state
convention here today, William H.
Taft was endorsed for President.
N SKULL
Police Believe It Part of the Body
of the Arch-Murderess,
Mrs. Guinness.
Hearst News Service.
Laporte, Ind., May 14.—The finding
of a skull In the ruins of the burned
home of Mrs. Bella Gunness today,
with the hair burned off and the fea
tures unrecognizable, has convinced
the police that the headless trunk
taken .from the ruins soon after the
fire was really that of the arch mur
deress.
. Physicians who have examined the
skull disagree in their conclusion as to
whether it is that of a man or wo
man.
A heap of human bones found in the
cellar of the burned house today is
believed to be the remains of the sev
enteenth victim of the woman.
Digging where the storehouse for
merly Btood, and where a housemover
claims to have discovered fresh earth
several weeks ago, was abandoned this
mornthg because of-the crowds who
thronged the place and prevented the
workmen from performing the duties
assigned to them.
The grand jury has not as yet taken
up the case against Lamphere, but It
Is believed that an Indictment will be
returned during the week, and that the
trial will begin Monday.
CRUISER MARYLAND
WINNER OF TROPHY
Hearst News Service.
Washington, May 14.—The armored
cruiser Maryland won the trophy In
the target practice of Admiral Evans'
fleet at Magdalena Bay. The trophy
is now on Its way to the commander
in chief of the fleet by whom it will
be presented to the .successful crew.
The score of the winner has not been
announced.
OKLAHOMA FHY8ICIAN3.
Hearst News Service.
Sulphur, Okla., May 14.—Physicians
of the new state today t'egan their
annual convention, which will last
through tomorrow.
VREELAND CURRENCY BILL
PASSED AFTER HARD FIOliT
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GARDEN PARTY
Washington, May 14.—Two elabo
rate social functions will mark the
conference on national resources iioW
being held at the White House, at
Which numerous governors and other
distinguished men are in attendance.
Gifford Pinchot, chief forester of the
government, will be the host tonight
and will entertain the visiting notables
at an elaborate reception. Tomorrow
afternoon Mrs. Roosevelt will give a
lawn party on the south grounds of
the White House, to which all dele
gates to the conference with their
wives, sisters and daughters, have
been invited.
The residence of Gifford Pinchot,
the government's chief forester, who Is
to give a reception tonight to all the
members of the conference, is situated
on Rhode Island avenue, just removed
from Scott Circle. It Is one of the
largest houses in the city of Wash
ington, and It Is admirably adapted for
entertainment purposes. Mr. Pinchot,
as most people probably know. Is an
exceedingly wealthy man, who has ab
solutely no need for the small salary
which the government pays him for
his hard work, but who follows the
work because of sheer love for It.
There will be no ladies invited to the
reception at Mr, Pinchot's residence.
Large as the house is, it could not con
tain the throng that would be present
if the Invitations were to be made gen
eral.
The really picturesque entertainment
for the visitors will be Mrs. Roose
velt's garden party tomorrow. There
are several acres of ground enclosed
by the iron fence on the Potomac
side of the White House. , There are
great forest trees within the enclosure,
and the grass is a green carpet. The
south porch of the White House,
guarded by its white pillars, overlooks
the lawn and the old-fashioned gar
den, Mrs. Roosevelt's own creation. It
ts many years since the White House
grounds have been used for enter
tainment purposes except only In the
case of the children of the city, who,
on Easter Monday, are allowed to
gather there for their "egg rolling"
festivities.
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GOVERNOR
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sippi is lo
President's
yesterday's meetin|^H$e'^i
of Governors." ;
The above is a copy of^^
sent this morning by Acting
Luther Manship to Governor Noel, who
is new in Washington attending the
White House conference.
The acting Governor read in the
press dispatches that Governor Noel
was called to the chair yesterday af
ternoon by the President and. In com
mon with all Mississipplans. was much
gratified that our executive should he
selected for this exceptional honor.
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mon the
CHICAGO SWINDLER
IS UNDER ARREST
Hearst News Service.
Chicago, May 14.—James T. Mnl
halL a wealthy commission merchant,
was 'arrested today charged with a
$100,000 fraud in the use of the United
States mails. It 1? alleged that he
operated a commercial swindle in deal
ing in butter and eggs. Mulhail's six
teen-year-old son, who claims that he
was unmercifully whipped by his
father because he would not follow in
the footsteps of his betrayed parent,
furnished the evidence on which the
arrest was made.
AN EARLY MORNING
WEDDING AT HOTEL
A novelty In the way of a marriage
occurred at the Hotel Hattiesburg at
a very early hour Thursday morning.
It was what might be called a "Be
fore Breakfast Wedding," for It came
off at such an early hour that very few
of the guests bad arisen for breakfast.
The contracting parties came from
Louisiana and they were anxious J||
have "the tie that binds" fixed jp,
pyoper shape so that they could
on the Mississippi Central. ,9
The contracting parties were BB
W. M. Jordan and Miss Ella DevereHl
and the ceremony was performed
Rev. D. C. Rawls.
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More Than Twenty Repubiitant
Voted With Democrats in Ef
fort to Defeat It.
PARTY LASH WAS APPLIED
• TO WHIP THEM INTO LINE
Measure Will Now Go to Conference,
Where a Compromise May Be Ef
fected With the Supporters of the
Aldrich Bill.
Hearst News Service.
Washington, May 14.—After one of
the bitterest debates of the session,
the Vreeland emergency bill passed
the house late this afternoon by a vote
of 184 to 145, over 20 republicans vot
ing with the Democrats in an effort
to defeat the measure.
As passed, the bill provides for an
issue of emergency currency not to
exceed $500,000,000. It also embodies
that provision of the Fowler bill auth
orizing the appointment of a currency
commission to frame a permanent cur
rency measure to be submitted at the
next session of Congress.
The bill as passed by the house will
go to conference and the Republi
cans will probably effect a compromise
between it and the Aldrich bill.
Democrats assert that a great many
Republicans who had previously ex
pressed the intention of voting against
the Vreeland bill were whipped into
line at the last moment and that the
line up was secured as a matter of
party harmony and a general agree
ment to placate differences for polit
ical reasons.
IMS HANO
Cincinnati BuckeUhops Will Be
Prosecuted For Using the
United States Mails.
EVIDENCE IS ACCUMULATING
AGAINST STOCK GAMBLERS
;t Odell Company
j^B^^vidence to
Federa^DDJ^BB
Expected Today?
: anures
Heat^t News Service.
Cincinnati, May It—It became
known today that the government has
been investigating the methods of the
bucket shops in this city with a view
of instituting prosecutions against
them for using the United State? malls
to defraud. A large amount of trad
ing checks and correspondence be
tween the companies and their clieuts
has been secured and will be used as
evidence. All of the correspondence
of the Odell Company, which recently
failed, was taken from the possession
of the receiver today by federal au
thorities.
It is rumored that several other lo
cal bucketshops will close their doors
in this city tomorrow.
ACQUITTED,
OF SERIOUS CH ARGE
LEWIS
Hearst News Service.
St. Louis. May 14.—Edward G.
Lewis, who organized the National
People's Bank with mail order depos
itors, and whom it ts claimed that Cor
telyou and Roosevelt prosecuted be
cause he defeated the government pos
tal savings bank scheme, was today
acquitted on charges of using rhe^
mails to defraud made by the govern-*^
ment.
£ MONTANA FOR TAFT.
B Hearst News Service.
Ite, Mont.. May 14.- Montana's
fin the Republican rations' eon
bn will be solidly fbr Taft, ac
ng to the sentiment f party lead
rho are here vsdat Jr the stats
Yntlon.