The Weekly Times from Selma, Alabama • 5

SALT LAKE CITY SWEPT BY STORM Blizzard Raged, Doing Great Damage. MANY NEW BUILDINGS WRECKED Great Portion of the Northwest In Icy Grip of Terrific -Snow Falls In Many States, Impeding Telegraphic and Railway Traffic, Salt Lake City, March midnight until daylight Tuesday Salt Lake was in the grasp of the worst storm in years. Beginning with a drizzling a wind which attained de one time a velocity of 60 miles an hour, soon followed. Signs were wrenched from their fastenings, chimneys were in many instances shattered, electric light wires broken and in some instances roofs were carried away. New buildings in course of erection throughout the city were rendered wrecks and the loss to the uncompleted structures will be heavy.

The Warm Spring bath houses just north of the city was damaged to the extent of several thousands dollars. Telegraph wires were paralyzed, but one out of Salt Lake being available. The wind was followed by one of the fiercest blizzards ever seen here. The street car traffic is delayed, and street travel Tuesday morning was Impossible. Snowstorm Strikes Iowa, Des Moines, March heavy showstorm struck Des Moines and Iowa' early Tuesday and increasing in severity.

Trains have thus far been able to make their schedules, but cannot in a few hours if the storm Street railway traffic is impeded. The Des Moines weather buread reports the snow general all over the state. Montana in Throes of Blizzard. Butte, March was in the throes Monday night, of one of the worst blizzards of the winter. In the Butte district thermometer ran down from 12 to 20 degrees below zero.

On the mountain side it was still colder. Street car and wire services is badly crippled. Snow Falls in Ohio. Columbus, March has been snowing steadily all morning throughout central Ohio and farmers are finding it difficult to keep their stock well fed. There is seven and one-half inches of snow on the level in Columbus.

Cooke Is Jailed for Contempt. New Orleans, March he wrote a letter to the opposing consul criticising the court's decision, and refusing to allow a court order arrest him, William A. Cooke, presIdent and general manager, of the New Orleans Adjusting company, was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and serve 20 days in the parish prison for contempt of court. Sentence was pronounced by Judge Fred D. King, of the elvil, district court, who claimed the Cargnity of his tribunal and his own integrity were questioned by' the insurance man.

Negro Attempted to Assault Girl. Rock Hill, S. March brutal assault was attempted here by a negro named Will Crosby, his intended victim being the 13-year-old daughter of W. L. Swett, of the Arcade mill village.

Before the news had gained and circulation the police had captured Crosby and took the prisoner before the girl and her companions who postively identified him. He was immediately sent to the county jail at Yorkville, 15 miles away. Five Are Killed in" a Riot. Lodz, Russian Poland, March Maritvitism, a new Catholic sect, which is gaining converts by the thousands, is arousing intense hostility on the part of the Orthodox Catholics here And serious clashes are occurring. A procession of converts came into conflict Tuesday with a crowd of workmen during which a priest was shot whereupon his followers attacked and killed five people.

Robbers Loot Bank. Mushkegee, I. March has been received here of the robbery of the state bank of Inola, a small town 15 miles northeast of here on the Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma railway, by masked men. The robbers secured $300 and all of the valwable papers of the bank. The robbers made good their escape.

Famine Being Rapidly Relieved. Chicago, March Sato, first secretary of the Japanese legation at St. Petersburg, stopped at Chicago on Monday on his way to Russia, where he will assume his official duties. Mr. Bato said that the famine conditions in Japan are being rapidly relieved with the help received from other nations.

Fear Agrarian Troubles. Moscow, March battalion of army reserves has been sent to Rybinsk owing to fear of agrarian troubles in the upper Volga regions. WOMAN IS FREE ON $5,000 BOND. Judge Roan Allowed Mrs. Willie Standifer.

To Give Bail. Atlanta, March Willie Standifer, who shot and killed her sisfer, Miss Chapell Whisenant, has been released on a $5,000 bond by order of L. S. Roam. Judge Roan said that prisons were made to force people into court and he believed Mrs.

Standifer would be on hand ready for trial if she was out under bond. The bond was signed by Robert Gordon, a whisky dealer at 16 Marietta street; M. W. Reed and W. U.

Cotton, Mrs. Standifer's brother-in-law. Standifer, who was bound over in a $1,000 bond on the charge of adultery, is still held a prisoner in the Tower, as he has so far not been able to make the bond. Mrs. Standifer returned to her boarding house, 203 West Alexander street, as soon as she was released.

Her brother, Ross Whisenant, who came to Atlanta from Littleton, will remain with her for awhile. Mr. Whisenant said that he had not made any threats against Standifer, and he was at a loss to understand how such a report became circulated. When Mrs. Standifer learned that Judge Roan had decided to let her go on bond she said that she believed all along that she would not be kept in jail.

Drs. W. S. Wood and E. D.

Richardson, testified before Judge Roan they knew Mrs. Standifer, and believed she was not in a physical condition to remain in a prison. They said she had tuberculosis, and was physicially unable to endure close confinement. SAY HE DEFRAUDED EX-SLAVES. Postmaster, General Issues Order Against Rev.

Walton. Washington, March General Cortelyou has issued a fraud order against a certain Rev. Isaac L. Walton, of Savannah, charged with being head of a scheme to defraud credulous negroes of the southern states. Walton is, or was until.

recently, the head of an organization which has headquarters in several parts of the south, purporting to have for its object the securing of pensions for exslaves. At least, such is the report of the inspectors, who have caused several fraud orders to be issued in the past against the order, which is known by various names, such as the Independent Order of the National Industrial Council of America, Fraternal. Rev. Walton, say the inspectors, has a bad habit of distributing the money he gets through the mail from applicants for membership in his organization among a few of her close friends and himself. Most 'of it, however, going into his own pocket.

The head of this order promised the authorities last December that he would have nothing more to do with the organization, and would not connect himself with any scheme for securing pensions for. ex-slaves in use of the mails, but it is reported that he has broken his word, and is at it once more. The fraud order has now been issued against all of his personal mail, with the hope of putting a final stop to the plan. Peasants Elect New Men. St.

Petersburg, March returns from the peasants' elections tinue generally to show the selections of elders, priests and village scribes to represent them at the next district convetions, but there are notable instances of apathy or of a demand for a complete new electoral plan. At Ardatoff only 83 out of 1,300 small farmers participated, and in the provinces along the Volga almost without exception the peasants continue to elect new men. Conried Is Acquitted. New York, March Conried, director of the Metropolitan opera house, was acquitted Tuesday on a charge of violating the law regarding Sunday theatrical performances. He was arrested recently for giving Sunday night concerts at the Metropolitan opera house, his arrest being made as a test case.

Verdis requiem mass was the production upon which the charge was based. Distillery Is Robbed. St. Petersburg, March city, which thus far has been singularly free from the carnival of robbery and murder prevalent in the interior cities, was the scene Tuesday of a daring robbery in broad daylight. A dozen men armed with revolvers entered a government spirit distillery on the Schlusselburg embankment, held up the employes and rifled the safe.

Accept Wage Scale. Washington, March -The committee of five representing the telegraphers' and station agents of the Southern railway have agreed to accept the wage scale of that road. The wage scale, as agreed upon, does not contemplate a minimum or maximum wage, but has been adjusted with a view of fitting each individual case. Four Men Horribly Burned. Cleveland, March men were frightfully burned in an explosion of hot metal at the plant of the National Malleable Castings company.

Three of the four injured will die. SUSAN B. ANTHONY PASSES FROM EARTH Had Been Unconscious Since Sunday. HEART FAILURE CAUSE OF DEATH Long and Eventful Career of Noted Woman Ended Peacefully--In Last She Was Engaged In Planning For the Future. Rochester, N.

March long and eventful life of Susan B. Anthony ended at 12:45 o'clock Tuesday morning. The end came peacefully. Miss Anthony had been unconscious practically for 24 hours, and her death had been momentarily expected since Monday, night. Only her wonderful constitution kept her alive.

Dr. M. S. Ricker, her attending physician, said Miss Anthony, died of heart failure, induced by double. pneumonia.

She had had serious valvular heart trouble for the last six or seven Her lungs were practically clear, and the pneumonia had yielded to treatment, but the weakness of her heart prevented her In spite of her 86 years, her mind to within a day has been clear and strong, and even in her last sickness she was actively engaged in planning for the future. Since she retired from the presidency of the suffrage party about three years ago, Miss Anthony has traveled widely and lectured more than was wise for one of her age. In 1904, she went to Germany to a attend the international congress of women, the result of a plan which she devised in 1898 at the fourth anniversary of the first woman's rights Miss Anthony was received at the court by Emperor William and his wife, whom she charmed by her simple manners and dignity. In the following year Miss Anthony was at Portland, at a great gathering of woman suffragists. This year she went to Baltimore, and it was this journey that overtaxed her strength.

She was attacked by neuralgia, and had to take to her bed. She was obliged to cancel an obligation to attend a dinner given in her honor in New York city, as symptoms of pneumonia were detected. Miss Anthony was greatly beloved in this city, which had been her home since 1845. She lived to see a decided change in sentiment from the time in the winter of 1861, when she was hissed and hooted when she attempted to give a lecture on abolition in CorInthian hall. She lived with her sister.

Rev. Anna Shaw said: "On Sunday, about two hours before she became unconscious, I talked with Miss Anthony, and she said: 'To think I have had more than 60 years' of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so "Then I replied: 'Your legacy will be freedom for all womankind after you are gone. Your splendid struggle has changed life for women "She replied: 'If it has, I have lived to some and she begged me to promise that I and her niece, Miss' Lucy Anthony, would stand together until the end of our lives and work faithfully for the cause as she and her sister Mary had." With the exception of Julia Ward Howe, Miss Anthony was the sole survivor of the early suffrage advocates who took part in the movement inaugurated at the famous convention held in Seneca Falls, in 1848, which was the first woman's rights convention. Miss Anthony has said almost every reform which she advocated had been accomplished, with the exception of the right of suffrage. She was one of the first advocates of coeducation and dress reform.

She adopted the bloomer costume in 1858, and clung to it a little more than a year. She said later in life that she found it a physical comfort, but a mental crucifixion. She also carried her interest in the advancement of women into the practical affairs of every day life. She always assisted the woman in business when she could. Her photographs sent all over the country, were taken by a woman photographer.

She was attended throughout her illness by a woman physician. In her relations with the Rochester newspapers she never gave an item to a man, when the paper had a woman on its staff who could be reached. Repairs of "Dewey" Being Delayed. Washington, March -The following cablegram from Commander Hosley concerning work on the dry dock Dewey, dated at Las Palmas, Canaries, March 12, has been received at the state department: "Material received March 6. Work is being delayed by the lack of riveters.

Should be finished March 16th." Minister's Son Drops Dead. Utica, N. March H. Bachman, son of Reverend Dr. Robert B.

Bachman, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Knoxville, entered a cafe here Monday night and after giving an order, fell dead. He was 22 years of age WAR DECLARED ON SALOONS. Three Prominent Birmingham Saloons Clased by the Police. Birmingham, March on instructions from Mayor Ward, Chief of Police Weir has closed three of the prominent saloons of Birming ham and gave out a statement in which he declared war on the saloon men who violate the Sunday law. The situation -is tense here, as the mayor will close several more saloons tomorrow, three of which are among the biggest and richest in the city.

The mayor's interview was as follows: "Saloonkeepers who 'have no respect for our laws might as well make up their minds right now that the war is on--the city has got to run over them or they will run over the city. The Birmingham police department is trying to do its duty and must be backed up. The breweries, which finance these dives and pull wires for them when they are in trouble, can also come into the fight if they think more of the saloons than they do of the lawabiding saloonkeepers who are trying to assist the authorities in placing the liquor traffic on a higher basis." There are half a dozen convictions every week in the police court for saloonkeepers violating the Sunday law, and the new city code gives the mayor and chief of police absolute authority in the matter of closing the saloons. 70,000 PERSONS ARRESTED That Number of People Have Been Held by Government. St.

Petersburg, March government has sent a circular to the governor-generals and governors of provInces instructing them that persons taken into custody for political offence must within 24 hours of their arrest be confronted with the charges and allowed to make explanations. The circular also generally insists on expedition in the trials of political prisoners. This step on the part of the government is the result of the tremendous outcry raised against the arbitrary outcry of the local authorities in arresting suspects and holding them without trial or exiling them by adminIstrative Over 70,000 persons have been arrested in European Russia since the government entered on its active campaign against the revolutionists. Woman Placed Under Bond. Los Angeles, March Mrs.

Margaret Sauer, alias Margaret Graham, the phychic, who is vigorously resisting extradition to San Antonio, on a charge of having embezzled $30,000, had a strenuous day in court Monday. Judge James overruled the petition for habeas corpus and she was at once remanded to the custody of the sheriff. The decision was no sooner rendered than another writ was sworn out by one of her numerous attorneys on technical grounds and the court granted an immediate hearing. The arguments proceeded, an dat the close of court the matter was taken under advisement. Mrs.

Sauer is now under $5,000 bond. One Killed; Seven Injured. Omaha, March a collision at South Omaha Tuesday between north and south bound street cars, one man was killed and seven persons injured, six of whom were severely injured. The dead: Unknown laborer, aged about 40. Seriously injured.

William Richt, South Omaha, will die; Fred A. Hoffman, of Albright, aged 18, will, probably die; Joseph Rynkar, of South Omaha; F. Iga Anderson, aged 4, badly hurt; Mary Maloney, of South Omaha; Miss Cooler, of South Omaha. Want Divorce Proceedings Amended. Paris, March Boni de Castellane, accompanied by Edmond Kelley, her lawyer, appeared before Judge Ditte, president of the civil tribunal of the Seine and asked for permission to amend the proceedings in, her application for a separation from her husband, so tuat the decree will give her an absolute divorce.

The application asked for separate domicile and custody of the children pending the legal proceedings. New Bank for Chicago. Chicago, March -Chicago is to have a bank that will be open for business day and night, the only exceptions being Sunday, Christmas and New Year. The capital stock will be $250,000. Connected with the enterprise will be safety vaults and these will also be kept available any hour of the day or night.

The new concern will be open for business April 1. Sogiano Savagely Assaulted. Madrid, March the royal cortege was passing the chamber of deputies a nephew of General Primo Riv. era, the former commander of the Spanish troops in the Phillipine isles, savagely assaulted Deputy Sogiano for criticising the acts of the Spanish general in Cuba and the Philippines. Senor.

Sogiano was knocked down and lost two of his teeth. Two Found Guilty of Murder. Chattanooga, March the circuit court at Kingston William Frazier and John Williams were found guilty of murder in the first degree, with mitigating circumstances. Last August the men convicted shot from ambussh Jordan Miller and two of his sons. FUNERALS HELD FOR VICTIMS OF DISASTER Hundreds Of Funeral Services Held Tuesday.

1,212 VICTIMS OF MINE EXPLOSION Twenty-Six More Bodies Have Been Recovered--The Heroic Efforts of the German Rescuers Are Exciting Admiration and Praise. Paris, March of funerals were held Tuesday at the towns surrounding Courrieres, where the disaster occurred Saturday and resulted in the loss of more than a thousand lives. Snow had fallen, the lines of mourners filled every road, many of them carrying caskets, as the number of hearses obtainable were insufficient. At Billy Montagny, a rough altar was erected in the open air and funeral services were conducted over 60 bodies. Another and similar cerem occurred at Mericourt over the unidentified dead.

The company's latest figures show that there were 1,212 victims of the explosion. Mining Director Meyer, of Herne, Prussia, with his rescue corps of the Westphalians, recovered 26 more bodles Tuesday morning. The heroic efforts of the Germans are exciting admiration and praise. Negro Shat to Death. Franklin, March J.

J. Daniel's plantation near this place, Woodley Lockett shot and instantly killed Shock Crowder at a negro frol1c. It appears that bad feelings existed between the negroes. sent Crowder word that if he came to the dance he would kill him, and when Crowder arrived at the dance Lockett walked up near him and fired his pistol in the air, then Crowder shot him in the jaw. Lockett returned the fire, shooting him through the head, killing him instantly.

Lockett made his escape. He has only been out of the chaingang about three weeks. Negroes Arrested for Robbing Cars. Winder, March some time the Seaboard agent at this place has been annoyed by shortage in the freight deliveries. A sack of flour from this man, parlor rifles from another, shoes from another, balls from another.

This knd of pilfering had been carried on until the agent here reported the matter to the Seaboard officials and the town authorities with the result of an arrest of four negro boys, draymen, and two girls as accessory to the stealings by receiving and concealing stolen goods. Will Make Favorable Report. Washington, March 13. The house committee on interstate and foreign commerce has decided to make a favorable report on the Townsend joint resluation providing for an appropriation. of $50,000 to enable the interstate commerce commission to investigate railway monopolies under the Tillman-Gillespie resolution.

The Townsend resolution also corrects other defects in the Tillman Gillespie resolution pointed out by the president. Terrible Storm at Hamburg. Hamburg, March -A hurricane is blowing the water into the harbor, flooding houses and driving vessels to shore. The country down the is flooded and the land batteries are continuously firing alarm guns as the landmarks are invisible owing. to snow storm.

Emperor William has given up his proposed trip to Heligoland on board the battleship Kaiser Wilhelm II. Several minor shipping wrecks have. been reported. Fire Caused a Panic. Pittsburg, March -A slight fire resulting from an overheated furnace caused a panic among the 150 guests of the Irondale hotel, of Donora, about daylight Tuesday.

Many of the guests in their fright rushed from the building into a snow storm scantily clad and in their bare feet. The fire was controlled with a loss of $3,000. No one was hurt. Playwright Commits Suicide. New York, March DeLange, a playwright whose home was formerly in Philadelphia, committed suicide here Tuesday by cutting his throat.

DeLange collaborated in the production of "Pousse Cafe," and was the author of "The Globe Trotter," "The Battle Host," and "Sweet Anne Page." He was formerly an actor. -Are Searching for Outlaws. Vanita, I. March Darrough and his posses continues the search for the Wickliffe Indian outlaws. It may be several days before the outlaws can be located, owing to the good start they have, and to the fact that the country affords many means of escape and places of concealment.

Seriously Injured. Cincinnati, March -Former Mayor Gustav was struck by a street car on Walnut Hills Tuesday and seriously injured. On account of his age, his condition is regarded as very serious. SHOT TO DEATH BY ASSASSIN. Prominent Waycross Citizen Is Slain While Crossing Own Yard.

Waycross, March 13. John S. Sharp, one of the most prominent and largest real estate owners of Waycross, was 3 assassinated in his own yard on lower Plant avenue Monday night about 8:15 o'clock. His family had gone to church, and the horrible deed was not known until his wife and children returned from church about 9 o'clock, when they discovered his body and gave the alarm. Neighbors heard a scream in the direction of the Sharp residence, but thought no more of the matter until his dead body was discovered.

The assassin, it seems, was hid under the front steps, and as Mr. Sharp stepped out and started through the yard two loads of buckshot were fired into his back, killing him instantly. As soon as the news of the assassination was started great crowds gathered on the scene and viewed the body, which was not disturbed until the coroner could arrive and hold an inquest over the remains. Coroner Germes was soon present, and the inquest over the remains came to an end about 11:30 o'clock. There was no evidence introduced as to who committed the crime.

Neighbors testified that they heard Sharp scream just before the gunshot reports. Nipped in the Bud. Savannah, March 13. -The course of true love, it developed Monday, received a rude shock when E. A.

Turner, of Higgstown, and Miss Pearl Coleman, of Savannah, were not married as they had hoped to be. As the words "I pronounce you man and wife" hung on the lips of Rev. Robert Vandeventer, the mother of the would-be bride dashed in upon the assemblage. Striking apart the two hands that were about to be united forever she forbade the marriage. Fainting, the bride fell to the floor and the groom stood with staring eyes at the prevention of the fulfillment of his long-planned elopement.

When the license was procured the age of the girl was given as 18. She wears short dresses. Driven to Suicide by Love. New York, March 1 The police investigation into the mysterious death of Mrs. Ruth Rogers, a handsome woman, 25 years old, resulted Monday in the finding that she probably committed suicide.

The young woman was found dead in a West Eighty-fourth street flat, with a bullet wound in the head. John S. Williams, who was occupying a room in her flat at the time, and who found the body, was held as a witness. He said he did not see the shooting. A friend of the young woman told the police that Mrs.

Rogers killed herself because of a quarrel with a man with whom she was in love. Seaboard Warehouse Burned. Raleigh, N. March has destroyed the large warehouse of the Seaboard Air Line railroad company at the edge of the city. A dead wall of brick prevented the burning of 000 worth of cotton.

The building was about 400 yards beyond the city limits, and was 100x400 feet in size. It was deemed of great value, as the railroad company was widening yard tracks and would have removed it in a short time. Father Slain by Son. Tampa, March "hold up," Charles Ryals, 10 years old, pointed a shotgun at his father, J. 0.

Ryals, at Branchton, and crying "hands up," pulled the trigger. The gun was loaded and the charge entered the elder Ryal's breast, he dying in a few minutes. The boy believed the gun was not loaded. Ryals was one of the most prominent farmers In this section. Mann Indicted for Perjury.

New York, March 13. Colonel William D. Mann, editor of Town Topics, has been indicted for perjury by the grand jury. The indictment was based on his testimony in the recent trial of Norman Hapgood, editor of Collier's Weekly, on a charge of criminal libel. Negroes Rob Rube Waddell.

Montgomery, March Geo. Edward Waddell, pitcher for the Philadelphia club of the American league, has made complaint to the Montgomery police that he had been held up on the outskirts of the city by two negroes and robbed of $40 in cash. Rider Killed by Horse. Atlanta, March B. Hightower, a stock drover, was thrown from a horse and killed Monday evening.

The accident occurred on Decatur street, near Piedmont avenue, and Hightower died a short while afterwards in the Grady hospital. Left Fortune to Pets. Chicago, March a will which was filed for probate George C. Watts, a contractor, and board of trade operator, left $20,000 to provide a home for his fox terrier, "Bill," and $300 year for the care of his old riding horse, "King." Veteran's Pensions Raised. Washington, March senate committee on pensions has voted to raise the pensions of Mexican war veterans from $12 to $20 per month..