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Newspaper Page TextConditions Greatly Improved in ' Wrecked Italian Provinces. SEISMIC SHOCKS CONTINUE But the Survivors Are Accustomed to Jars---American Relief Ships Have Arrived. - Messina, Italy.~-Balmy weather has prevalled for the past two or three days at this place, and it Is a great blessing, making it possible for the troops and survivors of the earth quake to llve more or less comtore ably in the openm, Occasionally there are earth shocks, but the people have become accustomed to them, Two gevere shocks brought down many broken walls in Messina. General Mazza, who is in supreme command, has adopted stringent meas ures in order to protect the people and the people's property. In addition to establishing a police service around the city, he has issued orders that any person found excavating without a permit will be shot. | General Mazza’'s command extends to both sides of the strails. In an in. terview he said that some semblance of order was at last being re-estab lished. The work is now systematiz ed, and the situation, he believes, is well in hand. | The official. death list has been plac ed at 164,000, | The United States supply ships.! Yaukton and Culgoa, have arrived and | are distributing the cargoes of provls-‘ jons they carried. | The United States battleships Con: necticut, Kansas, Minnesota and Ver mont, under Rear Admiral Sperry, the commander of the Atlantic fleet, have arrived at Naples. 12,470,226 BALES GINNED. The Census Bureau Reports on the Cotton Crop. | Washington, D. C.—The census bu reau reported 112,470,226 running bales of cotton ginned from the growth of 1808 to January 1 last, against 9,951, 505 a year ago, and 27,38 ginneries operated, against 27,276 a year ago. The percentage of the whole crop gin ned to January 1 is 90 per cent for 1909, and 90.4 per cent for 1908. The report includes 231,821 round bales, and 88,016 sea isl. nd bales for 1908. It counts round bales as half bales and excludes linters, The cot ton ginned to January 1, 1907, and 1906, were 11,741,039 bales and 9,725, 426 bales respectively. The total crop of 1907 was 11,057,822 bales, of which 92.7 per cent was ginned to January 1. The crops of 1906 and 1905 were 12,983,201 bales and 10,495,105 bales, respectively. The running bales by states, ginned to January 1 last and ginneries respectively, follow: Bales. Ging, Alabama, , . . .1,304,324 3,407 Arkansas .’ . . o .1,911,123 2,118 B . . O 255 Georgla .. . . . . .1,933,956 4,453 Kansas, Kentucky and New Mexico. . 1,672 6 Soulsiana. . . . . 466,188 1,691 ‘Mississippi . . . . .1,5618,707 3,465 assourt. . ...... . 53920 78 South Carolina, . , .1,176,743 8,219 fennessee. ~ . . . 917,343 6406 RS . . o s .8 SABOIO 4,147 B. . . i 4 e 25008 114 There were 179,694 round bales and 73,425 sea island bales for 1908, and 255,566 round bales and 54,275 sea island bales for 1907. The distribu tion of sea island cotton for 1909 fol lows: B - Laid aaee ey BT B ... o i wase 2 9 ONY R CRYOINE ..o cvse sssoscdihinl 25 MEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION In the Famous Leiter Colliery at Du quoin, llilinois, Duquoin, Illinois, — A most disastrous gas explosion, in which twenty-five men lost their lives oecurred in Joseph Leiter’s famous colliery at Zeigler, ' A spark from a trolley pole of an electric motor, com ing in contact with a pocket of gas, is assigned as the cause of the explo sion. Joseph Leiter perscsnally conducted the first relief party that descended into the mine to recover the bodies. 'The lone survivor of the explosion was an Italian youth, who escaped un harmed. The bodies taken from the mine are badly burhed, and identification is difficult. Twenty-six men entered the mine on the night shift, and the names of the victims are taken from the payroll. The explosion was peculiar, No noise or shock was heard or felt at the opening of the shaft—only a puft of smoke, The engineer, noticing the smoke, realized that an an accident had hap pened and summoned aid. The mine had recently been on fire and the fames probably sealed and confined to workings which were not in the vicinity of the present explosion. FINAL DRAFT IS PREPARED. Of Treaties Between United States, . Colombia and Panama. . Washington, D. C.—Final drafts in English and Spanish have been pre are& at the state department of the oposed treaties between the United +og of America and Panama, and sen the United States of Colom eeeadnd Panama. Their completion SRR he ending of long-pending "t and opens the way for the ! i of diplomatic and trade ] B\iween the two countries. e b has assumed the phase i wered affair because of , b anama to the United ~ | for the huilding of R | M NG R T 0 DEFINE COTTON GOODS. Committee Named by Secretary of Ag culture Wilson. Washington, D, C.—As experts to establish the nine official grades of cotton which congress directed to be prepared, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has announced Lhe appoint ment of a half dozen business men te act as a committee to meet in Washington on February 1. The committec follows: J. A, Alrey of New Orleans, Joseph Akers of At lanta, . W, Camp of Mewphis, John Martin of Paris, Texas; George W, Neville of New York City, Lewis W, Parker of Greenville, 8. C, all mem bers of widely known cotton firms, Nearly all the important cotton ex changes in this country and Europe have contributed their standards free of cost for the use of the experts in establishing the grades, The grow ers, manufacturers and exchanges have all cordially asissted in many ways, The cotton exchanges of the fol lowing cities have contributed copies of their standard: Augusta and Ma con, Ga.; Bremen, Germany; Charles ton, 8. C.; Charlotte, N. C.; Galves ton and Waco, Téxas; Little Rock, Ark.; Liverpool any Manchester, Eng land; Memphis, Tenn.; Mobile, Ala.; New Orleans, La.; New York City and Vicksburg, Miss. NIGHT KIDERS GuiLlY. Six Men Sentenced to Hang~—Two Others Given Twenty Years. Union City, Tenn.—Six night riders were found guilty of murder in the first degree with mitigating circum stances, They are Garrett, Johnson, Ted Burton, Boy Ranson, Fred Hin ton, Arthur Cloar and Sam Apple white. Bud Morris and Bob Hoffman, ths other defendants, were found guilty of murder in the second degree, and their punishment fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary. In passing sentence Judge Jones declared that he could see no mitigat ing circumstances, mentioned by the jury in the return of the verdict, and set February 19th as the day for the execution of the six first named de fendants, For the first time in six months Union City and Obion county breathes freely. The prompt conviction of the eight men on trial for night riding and murder has had a reassuring ef fect upon the public and more open denunciations of the men and tae crime is heard on the streets than ever before. FIGHTING PROHIBITION. Memphis Business and Professional Men Hold Big Meeting. Memphis, Tenn.—Memphis business and professional men met in mass meeting to protest against the pass age of a prohibition law, which will include Memphis in its operation. Resolutions setting forth the great harm that such legislation would in flict upon Memphis, and asking in stead for local option, segregation and high license were adopted. Com mittees were adspointed to go to Nashville in time to appear before the senate committee on liquor traf fie and protest against the passage of the blanket prohbition measure, and to secure the signatures of busi ness organizations and leading citi zons to a protest against the propos ed Holladay bill. Following the action of the Busi ness Men’s Club, City Club, Mer chants’ Exchange and other organiza tions, the city council went on rec ord against state-wide prohibition, ~ Lawless Act of President. Washington, D. C.—Characterizing the action of the president in direct ing the attorney general not to pros ecute the United States Steel Corpo ration for its absorption of the Ten nessee Coal and Iron Company as “another arbitrary and lawless act of the chief magistrate,” Senator Culb - son of Texas introduced 2a resolution in the senate instructing the commit tee on the judiciary to report at as early a date as practicable, whether, in the opinion of that committee, the president was authorized to permit such absorption. Mr. Culberson at considerable length criticised the president 'and insisted that congress had the right to give directions to a head of an executive department un der certain conditions. i ‘ Cure for Leprosy Found. Honolulu, Hawaii—Dr. T. W. Way son, a member of the territorial board of health, who has devoted much time and attention to the study of leprosy, has made definite an nouncement that a case of the dis ease has been found, and that a pa tient afflicted with leprosy had been restored to health, Dr. Wayson stat ed that the course of treatment pur sued would not be made public at this time, as he and his assistants were desirous of observing -other cases, N b i Queer Freak of Lightning. Little Rock, Ark.—A peculiar freak of lightning occurred at the residence of Lee Lofton, a farmer, near Ham burg. Lofton and his wife were standing in front of the fireplace, when a bolt of lightning descended the chimney, tore out the left eye of Mrs, Lofton, and knocked Lofton down; but did not injure him, SIOO,OOO Cifered Jefiries. Reno, Nevada.—According to a dis patch from Mazuma, & mining - camp in the center of the state, the Athlet jo club of that ceity met and decided to offer a purse of ~nojg.ooo for a fight between Jetfries and . ohn son, the fight to take place there, b et L SRR e Blocked By Jealousies Between - Agricultural Colleges. If Differences Between Two Factions Are Not Settled a Smaller Appropria tion Will Probaly Result. Washington, D, C.~—Jealousies be tween the agricultural colleges, ex periment stations and scientists other ‘wise attached on the one hand and the department of agriculture on tud other have come to the aitention of the house committee on agriculture so forcibly during the hearings be ing held on the agricultural appropri ation bill that its effect will, in all probability, be felt, in no uncertain ‘way on the finished bill, At the beginning of the hearing ;Secretary Wilson of the departmept iot agriculture called the attention of the committee to the difficulties the department was meeting as a result of the jealousies of outside scientistis, “We have an assoclation that 1s krown as the Association of Ameri can Agricultural Colleges and Exper iment Stations,” explained the secre tary. “There are a few of those men who are perpetually jealous of what we gre doing, To illustrate this very point, they are always raising com mittees to come and tell us what they hthink we ought to do, and how much of the work ought to be left to them alone.” The executive committee of the same association referred to by Sec retary Wilson had its inning. Amoug those present was Dr. H. C. White of Athens, Ga. The committeemen said in sub stance that the value of the soil sur veys of the bureau of seils of the de partment of agriculture, a work over which there has been much dispuce in congress, was “grossly exaggerat ed,” not alone by farmers, but by officials of the department itself. Furthermore, Dr. Alonzo D. Melvin, chief of the bureau of animal indus try, has informed the committee that owing to the attitude of local officials in North Georgia, and the cattle own ‘ers there, he would probably be com pelled to abandon the campaign against the cattle tick in that state. ‘When questioned concerning the op position, he said the antagonism arose out of political reasons. “Much of the opposition,” explained Dr. Melvin, “came from poor people, who had but one or two cows, and did not want to be bothered by having to keep them confined. They wanted them to run on the commons, and rather than have opposition the au thorities failed to enforce their own ordinances.” Another line of work in which there is a lack of co-operation between the state arfd the federal authorities came to the attention of the committee when Representative Watkins of Lou isiana addressed it in behalf of an increased appropriation for demon stration work in raising cotton to re sist the boll weevil. He said that al though the state appropriated money for demonstration work, the federal and state officials did not co-operate. “I have no hesitation in saying that there is no comparison between the work of the two governments, that of the department of agriculture being vastly superior,” testified the repre sentative. JOBS FOR EX-PRESIDENTS. Senator McCreary Proposes to Care for Retiring Executives. Washington, D. C. — To insure against any ex-president of the United States being “out of a job,” Senator McCreary of Kentucky will make an effort before the close of the present session of congress to have enacted his bill providing that former execu tives may be appointed members of international commissions and repre sentatives of the United States at conferences having to do with foreign affairs. The bill has been referred to the senate committee on foreign relations and several meetings have been held to consider it, SPECIAL AMBASSADOR RECALLED, Chinese Diplomat Now in Washing ton Asked to Return to China. Pekin, China.—Tang Shao Yi, who is at present in Washington on a spe cial diplomatic mission from the Chi nese government, has been recalled to Pekin. He will come back via Eu rope, leaving Washington immedi ately. The mission of Tang Shao Yi has been enormously ee«pensive, and in some quarters here his summary re call is regarded as giving color to the reports that charges of extravagance have been lodged against uan Shi Kai, the dismissed grand councillor, Tang Shao Yi started on his mis sion last fall, under the auspices and with the approval of Yuan Shi Kai. LR s MILLERS HOLD MEETING. Recommended That Uniform Food Law Be Adopted. Nashville, Tenn.—The Southeastern Millers’. Asociation, Which held its an nual convention here, recommended the adoption of a uniform food law, and will have such a measure drawn in conformity with the food laws of some twelve southern states and pre sented to the Tennessee legislature. The recommendation of such a meas ure was brought about because of the difference in the present statutes re garding the adulteration .of food and the consequent annoyagce to th 0,,% ers in conformity to tfle several laws | in the selling of fed§ in different states, T T Wek e S (S HIGHER FREIGHT RATES For Railroaps Are Sustained By U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ~ New Orleans, La.—A decigion of vast importance to the south and soulu west, because it affects the question of an increase in freight raies on prac tically all the raflroads In these sec tions, was handed down here by tho United States circuit court of appeals reversing the decree of Judge Emory Speer, of the southern district of Georgia, restraining the defendant railroads from putting the proposed increased freight tariffs Into effect, The decision was in the case of the Atlantic Coast Line Rallroad Cozu pouy and others, appellants, against i:xe Macon Grocery Company, appeal e, It I 8 expected that an appeal will be taken to the United States su preme court by the shipping interests, although the question of the proposed increase in rates is at present before the interstate commerce commission. The question involved a proposed increase in freight rates on food pro ducts from Georgia points to poinws west of that state, The appeallees secured an injunction and the rail road company’s appeal from this ac tion of the lower court is sustained by the appellate court’s dccision. Appeallees charged illegal combina. tion in restraint of trade by the ap. pellants, who are members of the Southeastern Freight Association, and that the object was to have a monop oly and destroy competition. The court below enjoined the enforcement of the freight rates and the latest ru ing reverses that decision. CALL ON NATIONAL BANKS. ‘United States to Withdraw $25,000, 000 of Deposits in Banks. Washington, D. C.—The secretary of the treasury has announced a call on the national bank depositaries for approximately $25,000,000 of govern ment deposits, $15,000,000 to be paid on or before January 23, 1909, and the remainder to be paid on or be fore February 10, 1909. This call on national banks for the return to the treasury of $25,000,000 is not made necessary by any urgent need of cash, the balance on hand and available for all purposes being fully $29,000,000 with the revenues show ing slight increases over one Yyear ago. The gecretary’s desire to provide ample funds for treasury needs at the begianing of the new administration tbout eight weeks hence is beli¢wed to be the only purpose in making a call at this time. The banks are said to be in condition to spare the cash without any embarrassment, and it is believed that most of them are quite willing to surrender a consid erable share of the government hold ings. ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE. It Will Erect a Large Pubtishing Piant Near Columbus, Ohio. Washington, D. <C.—The national headquarters committee of the Anti- Saloon League of America, at a meet ing in this city, decided to erect a printing and publishing plant involv ing an investment of approximately one hundred thousand dollars, near Columbus, Ohio, to be known as Lin coln Temperance Memorial, as head quarters for thc league’s official or gan, “The American Issue.” NEWSY PARAGRAPHS. Colonel Zanamitsky, chief of the Russian secret police of Vladiscostox, was sentenced to four years’ imprison ment for manufacturing evidence al the treason trials. : George LaFord, a chauffeur, is con fined in a hospital in Menohinee, Wis., in a critical condition as a result of a hip disease contracted while run ning an automobile. The constant jar of the machine and the use of the right foot upon the levers of the ma chine have developed the disease In an aggravated form, the right leg be ing useless. The police of Memphis, Tenn., are searching for a man who was par tially successful in an attempt to steal a coffin factory. The factory, which had temporarily suspended op erations, was a substantial brick structure located in an outlying and thinly populated section of Memphis. It was reported to one of the owners that the building was being razed and investigation developed that un der the direction of an unknown man a frece of workmen have been en gaged in' demolishing the structure, the bricks being carried away and sold by the wagon load. When the police arrived the master of opera tions had disappeared, leaving the workmen unpaid. “I need the money more than you do, so I will take it. When I get my pile Tl'll return it.” This mesesage was left by Ralph Crockett, an office boy for Joseph Pink, a Boston, Mass., lawyer. He left with SSOO in cash and checks. ; Plans looking to the publication of a book to contain the national songs of all nations, with words, transla tions and music, and to secure the publications by the United States bu ‘reau of education of a pamphlet giv ing comparative rates of tuition and cost of living at the leading American univ,ersities for distribution in for eigr} lands, were adopted at the sec ond annuil convention of the Asso ciation of {osmopolitan Clubs at Ann Avbor, Mic "The stai por commissioner of N[orth Card@ his annual report, fays there ! hundred and fif ty-two cottoWsss _ , operation in orth Carol ) Boting an in vested {anit p,OOO. They have 54,262 100,000 spin ‘dles and 55,08 B s Senator Tillman Said to Have Used His Office lllegally. Roosevelt Charges That Tillman Wished to Secure Land for Himself and Members of His Family, Washington, D, C.—By direction of President Roosevelt, the secret ser vice shadowed Senator Tillman ot South Carolina on the theory that he possibly was interested in an Oregon “land grab” and the result of that lr:vomgntlon is now before the sen a e. . President Roosevelt made public the details of an investigation by the postoflice inspectors and secret serve ice agents of Senator Tillman's con nection with an alleged “land grab” in Oregon, As he presents the evidence to Senator Hale, in response to the lat ter's request to the heads of the vas rious executive departments for a statement of the operations of the secret service, the president under takes to show; “That Mr. Tillman used his influ. ence as a senator in an effort to force the government to compel a railroad corporation to relinquish its contro]l of land grants from the Uni ted States in order that he and his family and his secretary, J. B. Knight, might profit through purchases of the land; that the senator used his gov ernment franking privileges in nu merous instances for the conduct of private business.” Comparatively few senators were favored with the opportunity of read ing the president’s report to Senator Hale, but those who did read the re port took a serious view of it, al though most of the senators refused to believe that Mr. Tillman had ever done anything in violation of his oath as a senator, The language of Senator Tillman in denouncing the St. Paul and Pacine timber syndicate of Portland, Ore., on February 19 of last year, is said to have been responsible for the ref erence in the president’s reply. That President Roosevelt dislikes Tillman is no secret. That Senatc‘lt‘ Tillman detests President Roosevel is equally well known, Several times® Tillman has hitterly attacked Roose velt on the floor of the senate. | WIRE SAVES BALLOONIST. Aeronaut Rescued in Daring Manner by a Fellow-Showman. Columbus, Ga.—Jack Paney, a bal loonist, who is making ascensions at the street fair now being given in Phenix City, Ala.,, can thank two lit tle telephone wires for the fact that he is not now a corpse, or, at least, badly, mangled. He started to make an ascension in that city, and the balloon took such a course that his parachute was drawn up under two wires, at the top of tel ephone pecles 30 or 40 sees from the ground. He released his parachute and clung to the wires in mid-air, al though the wi*es sagged to the ex tent that every moment the specta tors thought they would break. Paney’s rescue was effected in a daring manner. Another one of the show men climbed to the top of an oak tree, that was nearly as high as the wire. Reaching out, he grasped Paney’s foot, and pulled him out un til he was suspended over the tree, when the balloonist released his hold on the wire, falling straddle the oth er man’s neck., There was a great commotion in the tree top, but the men managed to swing on to the branches and reached the ground in safety. MANAGEMENT OF ARMY CRITICISED. Alleged Useless Expenditure of Over SIO,OOO in Horseman Tests, Washington, D. C.—Sharp criticism of the army and its management ils being heard about the capitol. Some of the most pointed remarks have been published in the official record of the testimony taken before the house committee on military affairs in connection with the army appro priation bill, It developed that $10,490 had been expended for mileage in connection with the horsemanship tests ordered by the president. This money, it was explained, was disbured in order to assemble the officers on what was deemed a proper course, such as at Fort Ethan Allen, in Vermont, and Fort Myer, in Virginia. Chairman Hull of lowa made a re mark that produced laughter. He suggested it would e well to have the officers ride in schools with some one to watch them, as he understood that at the last ride at Fort Myer “gome old colonel had to have a man on each side of him to see that he: stayed on his horse.” ANTI-TOXIN FOR TURERCULOSIS. . Scieptist’s Discovery May Mean Erad ' ' ication of Plague. \ Philadelphia, Pa.—By official alj' nouncement, the greatest discover in the war against consumption sin¢ the finding of the tuberculosis bacil lus bv Cov has just been made pub Yie. This is the discovery of Dr. R C. Roseburg, biologist at Jefferson ‘Medical College, th~t the tuberculosis germ can be readily found in the blood long hefore it reaches the lungs, that it is then in a condition whicn makes it readily amenable to destruc. tion .by simple treatment and fresh air, and that it will soon be possible to use a perfect anti-toxin which wil stamp the digease m -‘."r..n:v e !