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TORNADO IN
THE SOUTH
Second Disastrous Visita-
uon raus on ww.
HEW ORLEANS SUFFERS
Three Tornadic Gales Spring Up
in as Many Hours Mobile is
Not Badly Involved.
MUCH TIMBER IS WRECKED
Fine Burst of Wind Trirerw the
Country la Narrow Swath, Wreck,
log Everything That Confront!
. Them. . .
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 8. This region
wi tm iiv t ie center of cvelonw ait
turlnce, at least thre of which were
tornado, and caused the Iom of six
Uve, with nlue persons reported fa
tally Mured.
About ilny Hght heavy atorma broke
within one bund red miles went, north
and et of New Orleans.
Tonight all reports have it that the
sugar and cotton crops art blown down,
and of suitor mills destroyed In sever
al direction. The damage Including
that dm In New Orleans, ie placed at
one million of dollar.
The worst of the tornadoes near thli
city were between 5,50 and 7 o'clock.
It dcvatated portions of three parlhej
and although no Uvea were lost in thi
city, property la damaged at "half a
million, and about fifty persons, are In
jured, one fatally. Fully 800 bulldingi
are damaged, about seventy-five being"
blown flat. Most ' of the demolished
building were negro cabins.
MOBILE Oct. 8. Just before noon
today a tornado passed near Kushla, a
atation on the Molibe and Ohio railroad
12 mltea north of Mobile. The coun
try is thinly populated. No loa of 1'
i reported. The tornado cut a awath
a hundred feet wide and felled much
timber Mobile felt no effect of the
tornado,
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. B.-Seven per
eons were killed In today' cyclonlo dls
turbnnce, According to reporte which
reached here late today from the coun
try around Now Orlcani. Deaths were
reported by both St. Jamee and West
Raton Rouge, parishes.
Three tornadoes itruek New Orleans
and vicinity today, causing lossof life
and great property damage In sections
which a week ago today were mora or
lew devastated by the Gulf hurricane.
The first tornado wn at Tontchatoula,
La., 50 miles north of here; theeo
ond in New Orleans, and the third near
Biloxl, Ml, half way betwecn'here
and Mobile, on the Oulf coast.
The tornado ot Pontchntoula struck
the southern end of the town about 7
o'clck in. the morning. George Hawes
was killed lu his home, which was
blown down, and hie wife and four chil
dren were badly Injured, Three ne
groes also were reported killed at Tont
chatoula, 'C ',
The second tornado appeared In New
Orleans shortly after 8 o'clock, ripping
a narrow path through rive miles of the
city's residence and business section
and dolnj? $500,000 damage. No lives
wore lost here, but one neirro was fa
tally Injured by a freight car over
turning (upon1 him, and half a hun
dred other persons wer injurd, 11 of
whom1 Were taken to hospitals.
The third tornado passed seven miles
northwest of Blloxl, whore It over
turned an engine and three ears belong
ing to the Dan trier Lumber company,
slightly Injuring the engineer and fire
man, Immense tree which withstood
last Thursday's hurricane, were up.
rooted In this section.
Today's tornado was responsible for
report Immediately following the storm
that about 20 lives had been lost In the
city and surrounding country, '
The tornado entered the city near
Audubon Park, having crossed the Mis
isslppl River from the farming country
opposite that point. The wind was
accompanied by a low-hanging cloud
and a beary rumble. It traveled north
west until It reached the fine residence
portion of the city, St, Charlca and Na
poleon avenues, lfore the damage was
lightest done In any part of the tor
nado's eourse, From fit. Charles the
wind proceeded straight ahead to Ma
rlngo and Carondelet streets, where it
veered eharply to tha northward and
In thl direction passed out of the city.
The path of the tornado through the
city waa from 80 to 60 feet wide. This
narrow zone was strewn with bricks
from demolished chimneys, detached
boards, unrooted trees, fallen telegraph
poles and an occasional roof. It was
the falling of these obect which
caused most of the Injuries,
HAD PERILOUS FALL.
Bridge Collapses With Two Score of
Student! Upon It.
MENOMINEE. Mich. Oct. fl. While
a n'artv of twenty-five student of the
Oreanta, Wis., high school 'were stand
ing on Wis foot-bridge' over Oceanta
Fall, Wis. today watching the falls,
the structure collapsed, hurling the
whole party forty feet Into the stream.
William Ballon, aired fourteen, was
killed and Vlg Scntll, Hazel Denisen
and Frank Donley were seriously In
jured, Several other were injured. Th
bridge is two hundred feet long, but
the water was three feet deep. A large
number of sttidents had Just left the
bridge when It collapsed.
BATES WAS CHOSEN
Massachusetts Republicans Name
' Him for Governor.
MOODY GIVEN THE GLAD HAND
Fine State Ticket Nominated All
Hands Stand Pat for Theodore
Roosevelt Adopt Strong plat
formCommend Soot. '
BOSTON, Oct. 8.-ExCovernor John
L Rates was chosen chairman of the
Republican state convention which met
here today for the nomination of can
didates to be voted for at the Novem
ber elcctin. An incident of the work
of the organisation wa demonstra
tion given Attorney-General Moody
nfin ha arnuM in mnvt tha nnnolnt-
mcnt of the cmmlttel on resolutions.
The platform reported by thl com
mittee praises the work of Governor
Guild, President Roosevelt and Secre
tary Root on the completion of his
mission to South America.
Tho resolutions further declare ad
herence to the policy of protection, the
tariff to be revised when the Interests
of the country require it and urge that
representation In congress be reduced
In states where there Is auppression
of the vote. The "rule of the mob and
the atrocious crime which frequently
provokes It," are condemned. Tho res
olutions express sympathy with the
Jews in Poland and Russia and com
mend "the efforts of President Roose
velt to devise a just and effective meth
od for building up a strong merchant
marine." Opposition ' Is expressed Wi
the ownership of rialroade by state or
nation. ,
The convention by acclamation re
nominated the following etate officers:
Governor Curtis Guild, Jr.
Lieutenant-Governor Ebea Draper.
Secretary of State William M. Olin.
Auditor Henry E. Turner'.
Treomirer and Receiver-General
Arthur B. Chftpin. '
Attorney-General Dana Malone.
ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, J90G
SEVENTY AND
SEVENTH
Mormon Church Confer-
. ence Held Yesterday.
PROPHET SMITH TALKS
Opposes Mormon Children Being
Sent to Germany for Their
Education.
FORGETS THAT INDICTMENT
Advocate Purity of Life and Adherence
to Zioa and Pledge Eternal Peace
to All Hand, Despite Prosecu
tion and Prison.
SALT LAKE, Oct. 8. A long address
by President Joseph F. Smith was the
principal event at the seventy-seventh
semi-annual conference of the Mormon
church today. Smith advised Mormon
parents to discontinue, tha practice of
sending their children to Berlin to
study, saying that many of the Mormon
young people there held themselves
aloof from the church meeting in the
German capltaL
lie made no direct allusions to his
own Indictment for unlawful cohabita
tion with his five wives, but he said:
"Let every man live such an exem
plary life that there, can be nothing
said against bim. Let him be true to
bis people, let , him be true to Zion
and pure In his way and the one God
will uphold hlra whether he be deprived
of his liberty in prison cells."
REVOLUTION THE KEY NOTE.
NEW YORK, Oct. B.--A Buenos Ay res
dispatch to the Herald brings the news
that the Congress of Spanish republi
cans composed of representatives of the
majority of Spanish societies in the
Latin-American republics, dm just
closed. The congress approved declara
tions that most of the present politics
is incompetent and that revolutionary
action is necessary to re-establish a
republlo In Spain. They declare that
the disaster of the war with the Unit
ed States should be attributed to the
political incapacity of monarchial in
stitutions.
THE EVERLASTING BOY.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. V-Fetor
Salmi, a 14-year-old boy, was electro
cutcd late yesterday near the six-mile
house. He climbed up a pole supporting
a number of high tension electrio light
wires and grasped one of the feed wires,
A current of 1.300 volts passed through
his body.
ANOTHER MINE HOKkOS.
DENVER, Oct. 5. According to a
special to the News, fifteen men are be
lieved to have been entombed . In the
Dutchman mine at Blosshurg, Nv M..
early this morning, by an explosion.
Only eix men are positively known to
have been in the tunnel, but the usual
night-shift numbers fifteen and none
have been located outside the mine. Four
bodies hae been recovered. The search
continues, though firedamp makes res
cue work very difficult. ( 1
RAN OFF FROM 0UCHAK0FF.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5. General Ouch
akoff of the Russian army, who is pur
suing his eloping wife and her man
companion, sailed for Europe yesterday
on the rFench liner LaProvence. The
fugitives arrived here last week as Mr.
and Mrs. Eesshoff and were met by
Commissioner Watchorn and the Rus-
T
siao Consul, General Lodygemtky. The
latter persuaded them to sail for France
on the LaHavoie, which left on the same
day that they arrived. Cable dispatches
from Pari yesterday reported that the
couple had arrived at the French cap
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DISASTROUS ALTERCATIONS.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 5.-Clutched in
each other arms, two young men,
J, V. Bujits, aged thirty, and Harry
Wilfred, aged seventeen, fell from the
fourth story of the Lake Shore rail
rosd office building and were hurled to
their) death on the . pavement below,
thi safternooni The young men had
had some trouble and in the alterca
tion they fell through the open win
dow. During the flight through the
air deather relaxed his death like grasp.
SCHOOLING HER TEACHERS.
XEW YORK, Oct. 8. Alfred Moely,
the English educationalist, who sent a
commission of Englishmen interested In
education to America in 1902, is com
ing here at the end of this month pre
paratory to bringing over 500 teachers
of English schools. They will start
coming in batches of IS or 20 soon af
ter hi arrival. A committee of ten,
headed by Mr. Straubeninuller of the
Department of Education, is now pre
paring a classification of the public
schools of Greater New York in or
der to make it possible for each visitor
to see the kind of schools in which he or
she is most interested.
A FIGHT SCHEDULED.
LEWISTON, Mont, Oct 5. The two
Roscoes and Charles Brown, alleged
rustlers, who escaped from the county
jail here several days ago, wer aeen at
Two Dot early today, well armed and
moving along in leisurely fashion. The
officers expect to overtake the outlaws
some time tonight. If a contact is made
an exciting fight will probably follow.
GENERAL FOR A DAY
Kansas Man Secures Commission
from. Sunny Cuba.
RESIGNS TASK-DRAWS PAY
Old War-Scarred Veteran Who Knows
Hi Business Job Cost Him Twenty-Nino
Cent Intended to
Organize Regiment
WICHITA, Kans., Oct. S.-C. A. Mo-
sher of Wichita, received a com
mission as a general in the Cuban
army Wednesday and the next day he
waa asked to resign. Hi commission
came directly, from President Palmo.
Ho hod in mind to raise a regiment of
rough riders similar to the ono, led by
Theodore Roosevelt in 1898. In reply
ing, Mr. Talma Bent him a commission
as a general, dating the commission
back three months. -
When Secretary Taft arrived in Ha
vana Moeher was asked to resign and
return the contract sent him by the
Osbsjt jjovornment. In the same let
ter a draft wa sent him for his sal
ary as a Cuban general since the date
of hi commission. Mr. Mosher is more
than 60 years. old and is an old sol
dier. He served In the Union army s
a lieutenant in the Eighth Illinois in
fantry. Although he is more than $1,-
200 richer-, he is sorry that Secretary
Taft recalled his commission. His ac
tual expenses of securing the commis
sion was twenty-nine cents.
ESTIMATE DEAD AT SEVENTY.
BLUEFIELD, W. Va., Oct. 5. Twen-
tv-nine bodies have been recovered from
the Westfork mine at Pocahontas, Va.,
and 'a conservative estimate places the
total number of dead at seventy. The
rescuing party , ha reached the scene
of the explosion, but. the immense
amount of debris and wreckage Has
greatly hampered the search for bodies.
There is no evidence tnus iar ol nre.
AGITATION
HAS
BEGUN
St. Petersburg .Workmen
Hold Demonstrations.
HAVE A SOUND CAUSE
Trying to Save Fifty of Their In
prisoned Companions from
Sure Death.
ALL HANDS ARE CONSPIRING
Clique planned to Overthrow th Gov
ernment by Arming Workmen and
Creating Financial Disorders
in The Capital.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 6.-Agita-tion
by the workmen of St. Petersburg,
who for some time have beentranquil,
has begun again. .
Several largely attended demonstra
tion were held In various quarters of
the city tonight and last night, on ac
count of the trial of the fifty-one mem
bers of the Council of Workmen's Delr
egotes, a revolutionary organization,
which operated during the troublous
times of last October and November.
The men have been in prison a long
time and are accused of high treason.
The council planned to overthrow the
government by arming the " workmen
and endeavoring to precipitate a finan
cial crash.
LYTLE ACCEPTS AGREEMENT.
PORTLAND, Oct. 5. E. E. Lytle, as
president of .the Pacifio Railway & Nav
igation company, has accepted - the
acTeement of the "Tillamook business
men for furnishing a right of way for
the road from Tillamook City to where
the survey crosses the Nehalem and
notices of acceptance have been for
warded. Right of way has already been
secured for a-considerable distance, and
it is stipulated in the agreement that
$10,000 will be set aside by the resi
dents for the purchase of land through
a timber tract of about 20 miles. Or
ders have cone forth to organize a
construction party to begin work on the
coast and 40 head of horses will be sent
overland at once.. Equipment will fol
low immediately sad work will be ear
ned on during the winter, bteeii ana
other heavy material will be transport
ed by water.
BOSTON FOR TARIFF REFORM.
BOSTON, Oct. 5. A blow to Imme
diate tariff revision and to champions
of increased reciprocal trade schedules,
led by Eugene Foss, waa delivered at
the Massachusetts Republican conven
tion "which aaopieo; -wiMiui iciiGS
strance a platform calling for such tar
iff changes as might be found necessary
from time to time, with the under
standing that they be applied to all
sections of the country and to all indus
tries. Harmony prevailed at the convention,
which nominated by acclamation a state
ticket composed entirely of men now
in office, headed by Curtis Guild, Jr., of
Boston, for governor.
FORTY-DAY CIRCUM-TRIP.
VICTORIA, B. C, Oct 6. Mail ad
vices from Yokohama state that a con
ference held between the Russian
Asiatio Steamship company and Jap
anese lines at Vladivostok, it waa de
cided to establish weekly alternat
steamship service between North Ja
pan and Vladivostok and the Russian
Asiatio line announced it would extend
PRICE FIVE CENTS
its line to San Francisco. Officials an
nounced they would form connecting
arrangements by which a traveler could!
journey around the world in forty days.
FORTY WITNESSES CALLED.
NEW YORK, Oct. 8. The trial of
Dr. Frank Brower, charged with tha
murder of his wife last September, is
scheduled to begin Monday in Tom
River, N. J, before Supremo Court Jus
tice Hendrickson, The ease has at
tracted much public' attention. .... Dr.
Brower will be defended by I. W.
Carmichael of . Toms River and Ed
mund Wilson of Red Bank, who will
be aided by medical experts.
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WHITES AND BLACKS.
ATLANTA, Ca Oct. 5.-The grand
jury found true bill today in which
sixty negroes are indicted for .the mur
der of Policeman Heard at Brownsville,
on September 23. The jury returned
sixteen bills in connection with the riot
ing. It is understood that several of
these are against white men charged
with the same offense.
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MIGHTY POOR JOKE, ";
HARRISBURG, Pa, Oct. 5. A u-
picious looking package found in Gov
ernor Pennypacker mail today, wa
soaked in water by a cautious clerk and
upon being opened was found to eon
tain a small case, Tesembling a cart
ridge ehell, surrounded by black pow
der, and intended to be exploded by
the removal of the lid. The construc
tion was such no barm would have re
sulted had it exploded. From various
inscriptions on the wrapper it is be
lieved to hare been a" joke.
BASEBALL SCORES.
At Seattle Seattle, 8; Oakland, 3.
At Los Angeles Loa Angeles, t; Port
land, 12.
At San Francisco San Francisco, 9;
Fresno, 8. ' ,
Disarmament Will Be Concluded
On Monday.
REBEL RIFLES OLD AND POOR
Leaders Hastening in From Province!
to Surrender Thousand Hen Are
Camped .at Guinea Waiting a
'' Chance to Giv Up.
HAVANA, Oct. 6. While the disarm
ament of the rebel will not be com
pleted by Saturday night, it is confi
dently expected that the entire opera
tion will be finished on Monday, with
the exception of Puerto Principe pro
vince, which haa been less affected than
any other province, by the rebels.
The ereat maority of the rebel rifle
are old and poor, and many dilapidated
weapons have been turned it.
The rebel leaders in all the provinces
are hastening to comply with the de
mands of the American officer and are
giving up their arms willingly.
General Asbert with one thousand
men. is ciwvwl -. ti2V-..?sH''
Guines. This force will come in tomor
row and disarm.
COLLIDED IN THE YARD.
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RED BLUFF, Cal., Oct. 8. Two trains
of the Southern Pociflo company col
lided in the lower part of the yard
here yesterday, resulting in .: the in
jury of a man named Martin Kelly.
Kelly, it is believed, will die.
HE'S A SQUARE SPORT.
CHICAGO, Oct. 5. Sir Thomas Lip
ton was wined, dined and applauded at
a dinner given for him by the mayor
and people of Chicago, at the Chicago
Athletio association. The Commercial
Association will entertain Sir Thoma
at a dinner tomorrow. ,
CUBANS
CONVINCED