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JACKSON DAILY EWS THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN JACKSON. year. JACKSON, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1916. CITY THE COTTON MARKET NO LOSS OF LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI COAST G. S.

I. PASSENGER TRAIN WAS WRECKED BY WASHOUT UHI NOTE HANDED THY 10 MENU Storm Caused Considerable Property Damage, But Chief Destruction Caused by Tropical Hurricane Was to Growing Crops. TRAIN SERVICE IS BEING RESUMED TODAY Chas. Carroll, Fireman, Instantly Killed, and Bob Thompson, Engineer, and A. L.

Smith, Baggagemaster, Are Seriously Injured. THE WRECK WAS CAUSED BY A WASHOUT. Wind Was From the Northeast, and This Prevented a Tidal Wave Damage to Shipping Very Small Seventeen Negroes Killed in an Alabama Town. Coaches Left the Rails, But None of the Passengers Were Injured Train Running Only Fifteen Miles Per Hour at the Time. taken place only a short time before the train reached It.

Engineer Thompson couldn't see the A Summary of the Damage Caused By the Tropical Storm While the property damage was exceedingly heavy, amounting to several million dollars, and the destruction of crops was heavy, reports from the path of the tropical storm of Wednesday night and Thursday morning show tha tthe only loss of life was at Beloit, where seventeen negroes were killed. There wag no Iohs of life at any point on the Mississippi coast, and the storm between I'ascagoula and Way St. Louis was not so heavy as between Mobile and Pensacola. Train service has been resumed on the Gulf Ship Island road, and the telegraph and telephone companies are rapidly getting their lines in order. Laurel was hard hit by the storm, the damage to lumber manulsviur-ing plants and other property at that place being estimated at $200,000.

Train service has not yet been resumed on the Louisville Nashville road along the gulf coast. The Mississippi and Gulf Coast Traction Company Is alsso out of commission, its tracks being washed out at several places. There was no tidal wave, the direction of the wind preventing an inrush of waters. Reports from nearly all points in Mississippi and Alabama visited by the storm show that the heaviest damage was to growing crops, this item ulone amounting to several millions of dollars. There was considerable damage to shipping In the harbor at Pensacola, but the damage at was slight.

Jump of Twelve Points is Due Chiefly to the Heavy Storm. New Orleans, July 7. The tropi-Ical storm was centered over North Mississippi this morni having moved slowly northward uiung In torrential rains In Alabama and Mississippi, heavy in Louisii.ua and Georgia, and press advices arp to the effect that the damage to the crops is considerable. Accordingly the market was about 12 points higher this morning but us the barometer in the interior was rising, 29.75 vs 29.40 yesterday indicating Improving weather and as there is the fear of the resumption of German submarine activity, value worked lower by noon. While the reported advances of the Allies is a bullish feature, a resumption of unrestricted use of the submarine by Germany would be unfavorable, as trouble with the United Stales would likely follow.

The high winds and general heavy rains In the central and eastern portions of the belt, aside of retarding cultivation is favorable for the increase and spread of weevils. Next Monday the New Orleans Times Picayune will Issue Its first monthly report of the season and as results from the present storm will likely figure In the returns there may be complaint of too much rain and damage by weevils in the Mississippi Valley and South Atlantic states. The spot demand South seems to have fallen off, sales light, but offerings are scarce, holders asking full quotations, are about the highest price of the season, no weakness being detected at any point. However, the price is comparatively high for this time ot the year, new crop deliveries in particular and if clearing weather sets in, or if there are Bigns of Germany contemplating resorting to unrestricted submarine warfare, the market may work lower. Liverpool.

Yesterday Close. 7.67 7.67 March-April .7.67 April-May 1.66 May-June July ...:.7.84 July-Aug .7.84 7.78 7.73 'A 7.70 Dec-Jan 7.66 Spots 8.03 Tone Steady. Sales 7,000 Today Close, 7.74 7.74 7.74 7.7J 7.72 7.91 7.90 'A 7.88 7.85 7.80 7.77 7.75 8.04 Steady. 4,000 New York. Open.

High. Low. Close January 13.32 13.39 13.25 13.27 March 13.55 13.55 13.44 13.44 August 13.07 13.07 12.96 12.9S October 13.09 13.16 13.03 13.05 December 13.29 13.33 13.20 13.22 Spots closed quiet, 10 points up. Middling 13.10. No sales.

New Orleans, Open. High. Low. Close. January 13.14 March 13.36 July 12.86 October 12.90 December ..,.13.05 13.20 13.38 12.87 12.96 13.11 13.09 13.35 12.72 12.S3 12.99 13.09 13.30 12.74 12.85 13.00 Spots closed quiet, unchanged; mid dling 13.00.

Sales 255. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Yesterday Open OF BIG DRIVE BYTHE BRITISH Artillery Opens All Along Line Against German Entrenchments. BEING REINFORCED FROM VERDUN LINES Germany Finds It Necessary to Bring More Troops Into Action. London, July 7.

The second phase of the "big drive" along the western front was started this morning. The artillery is battering the German defenses as far north as Labusse and Armentiers. The British official report records the resumption of the offensive by the Infantry in some sectors, but just where the brunt of the new attacks will fall Is uncertain. The capture of a German trench one thousand yards long is reported at East LardisBelie. Substantial progress is being made in the vicinity of Ovillcrs and Contal-maiaon.

Heavy fighting Is in progress near Amore. The Germans attacked heavily and regained some ground near Thlepval. The Anglo-French offensive is reported to have compelled the Germans to withdraw some Of their forces from the Verdun front. Consequently it is expected here that the army whicn for nearly five months has withstood the German attacks there will have some relief. On the eastern front the Russians appear to pass from one phase of fighting to the next without a pause.

Apparently they have a bitter supply of guns and ammunition than the Teutons. General Letchltzkyg army, which conquered Bukewln and cut the railway between Belatyn and Koro- smzo Is advancing In an effort to com pletely defeat the Austrians. General Kalebin's army continues Its heavy strokes against the Teutons around KoveL With these operations In full swing the Russians to the north have inaugurated an offensive from Rega to Barnavoiohi along the northern end of the line and from Rega to Bvinsk the great bombardment has begun. From the east of Vilna to Barannvlchi infantry attacks followed the artillery preparations. The Russians report many prisoners rear Smorgen, where a great battle Is raging.

Rumania, it is said here, awaits some move by entente forces at Salnoik. In the Caucasus and Mesopotamlan battles, the Russians advancing toward Bagdad have fallen back eighty miles under pressure of a great Turkish force. Elsewhere from the Black Sea to the Persian frontier the Russlanr claim to be more than holding their own. There is no recent news from the British Mesopptamian army. Germans Claim Victory.

Berlin, July 7. The German line in Volsynia is projecting toward Cazar-torysk, which was abandoned under superior Hussian pressure, and new line defenses have been selected, says the war office. The result of heavy engagements north and south of the Somme district, on the Western front, all last night, was highly favorable to the Germans, the official statement says. Russians Pushed Back. Berlin, July 7.

The repulse of Russian attacks on both sides Sokul in Volhynian region is reported. Heavy attacks by the Russians againBt Field Marshal Hindenburg's forces are under way south of Lake Narocoz Batenoff. VILLA SHOWS UP This is the Report That is Received by General Pershing. San Antonio, July 7. General uFn-ston'g reports from all points along the border show no change in the situation.

General Pershing reports a rumor that Villa has reappeared south of Parral, and his force is estimated at from 800 to 2,000 men. Trains bearing guardsmen to the border have greatly lessened in number during the past twenty-four hours. aaaaaoooaoao DEATH RATE FROM INFANTILE PARALYSIS. New York, July 7. There have been 22 deaths, nineteen of them In Brooklyn, from infantile paralysis, in the last twenty-four hours ending this morning.

All were children. Eighty-seven new cases have been reported. The city, State and Federal authorities are fighting the disease. principal damage was along the water front, and to shipping. All Mississippi coast cities have been heard from.

Damage to that section has been reported not as severe as was at first expected. Apparently the greatest property sissfppi, Alabama, and in the neighbor howl of Jackson, Meridian, Hatties-burg and Laurel, Mississippi, and Beloit, and Tallhasei', Alabama. In Southern Mississippi, according to reports, entire Melds of corn and cotton were leveled. Heavy rains in Mississippi and Alabama are expected to increase the spread of the boll weevil in sections where cotton was not seriously damaged. There has been much loss in lumber in Mississippi by the destruction of of standing timber.

Mobile reports that a number of vessels have been beached, or lost while trying to enter the bay during the storm. No reports have been received from the resorts around Mobile, where many have summer homes, and it is feared that there had been heavy damage there. Arrivals from Biloxl reported that five schooners, of six men crews each, are believed to have been In the Gulf when the storm started. These have not been reported. Dozens of small crafts have been washed ashore, between Biloxl and Deer Island.

Virtu. Friendly in Tone and Asks For Quick Action in Quieting Border. MAKE ADJUSTMENT THROUGH DIPLOMACY The United States Will Deal With Defacto Government of Mexico. Washington, July 7. The note formally accepting Carranza's proposal that differences between the.

United States and the defacto Mexican government be settled by direct negotiations was handed to Arrendondo today. Secretary Lansing took a dratt of the note to the cabinet meeting. It was delivered after the cabinet ad journed. The note is addressed to Arredondo with the request that he forward it to the foreign minister at Mexico City. The text follows: "I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of youh courteous note trans mitted to me by Senor Arrendondo on the 4th in which you refer to my notes of June 20th and June 25th, and to as sure you of the since gratification ot my government at the frank state ment of the difficulties which have unfortunately marred our relations along the international boundary and the unreserved expression of the desire of your government to reach an ad justment or these dimcuilues on a broad and amicable basis, and for the same spirit of friendship and of soli tude for a continuance of cordial re lattons between our two countries.

My equally desires an immediate solution of the matters of difference which have long vexed both governments. "It is especially pleasingr to my government that the defacto government of Mexico is disposed to give a quick as well as practical consideration in a spirit of concern to the remedies which may be applied to existing conditions. Reciprocating this same desire the government of the United States is prepared to act immediately on an exchange of views as to a practical plan to remove finally and prevent a recurrence of the difficulties which have been the source ot controversy. RU55 Al JAP Terms of the Agreement Made in Petrograd Announced at Tokio. Tokio, July 7.

The Japanese foreign office announces as the substance of the Russo-Japanese convention, signed In Petrograd on July 1st, the following: First: That neither nation participate in any arrangement or political combination directed against the other. Second: In case territorial rights or special interests in the Far East of on contracting party, which are recognized by the other contracting party, are menaces, Japan and Russia will consult with each other on measures to adopt with the view of supporting or extending assistance for safeguarding their respective rights and interests. HE GERMAN FLEE! AGAIN GETS BUSY One Vessel Torpedoed, and Another is Seized as a Prize. London, July 7. The British steamer Sannet, sunk by a German torpedo yes terday, was unarmed.

Advices from Berlin state that the German high sea fleet has seized the British steamer Lestris, and is holding same as a prize, ooooooooocoooooou 0 0 DAMAGE AT MERIDIAN STORM'S BIG INCREASE Meridian, July 7. (Special) A report from all sections this morning indicate that the crop damage will reach more than a million in Lauderdale county. Other damage will reach a big figure but there is no loss of life. Corn and cotton were ruined all over this section. ooooooooooooooooo Hattiesburg, July 7.

(Special) The northbound Gulf Ship Island passenger train, due in Jackson at one o'clock this afternoon, was wrecked at Bond, about 20 miles south of here, early this morning. Charles A. Carroll, fireman, was instantly killed, Hob Thompson, engineer and A. L. Smith, baggage master, were wrlously injured.

I'hyslcians state, however, that Thompson and Smith will recover. None of the passengers were Injured, although all the conches except the parlor car on the rear of the train were derailed. Fortunately the train was running at a rate of only 15 miles per hour. The wreck was caused by a washout. The train was running an hour behind time, the engineer showing extreme caution on account of bad tracks.

The engine and tender turned over, carrying the baggage car along. Engineer Thompson stuck to the throttle, and was thrown from his cab when the wheels left the rails. He was badly scalded by escaping steam, and was taken to the hotel at Bond. A relief train was sent from Hattiesburg at 11 o'clock. Chas.

Carroll, the dead fireman, re-sided at 434 South Gallatin Street, In Jackson. He is survived by a wife. Bob Thompson, the engineer, has a wife and two children residing on Clifton Street in Jackson. The wreck occurred about 9:45 o'clock. The passenger train was running late but going very slowly be cause of wet roadbed.

The point where the accident occurred is at the end of a sharp curve where a washout had Bureau Says That It is Not Causing Any Additional Destruction. Washington, July 7. The tropical storm which struck the Gulf coast last Wednesday appears to have spent it self, the weather bureau reports. The Indicated storm cetner is over North ern Mississippi, with a tendency to wards the northeastward, and the movement is with diminishing energy. The first reports from Mobile and Pensacola since the storm show that the wind reached a maximum velocity of 106 miles per hour at Mobile and 80 miles at Pensacola.

No high winds were reported from the interior after the storm passed inland. Torrental rains fell over Alabama and Mississippi. II AMERICANS I Both Were Driving Ambu lances Carrying wounded From Battlefield. Paris, July 7. Harry Howard Hol-linhead, of Spuria, N.

and Jacob M. Wendall, of New York, drivers of American automobile ambulances, were wounded when a shell on the Verdun front struck their ambulance and wrecked it. No wounded French soldiers were in the ambulance when struck. The two Americans were returning to the battfield after having delivered a load of wounded to the base hospital. SMITH SAYS IT'S SPITE.

hullciiKt'H Right of omuilNHlou probe Ilia Office. Washington. July 7. Milton to H. Smith, president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, challenged the right of the interstate commerce commission here to investigate his political activities in the railroads, in answer to the commission's petition asking the District of Columbia Supreme Court to compell him to testify regarding his alleged campaign contributions.

The answer declared that the commission's Investigation is entirely the result of the personal animus of Senator Lea, of Tennessee, due to an old controversy between the Senator and the railroad. GUAIX CHOP HKI'ORT. Washington, July 7. The agricultural department estimates the corn acreage at 108,620,000 acres, and condition on July 1 at 82. Spring wheat condition is 89.

The yield of winter wheat is estimated 489,000,000 bushels and spring 270,000,000. The corn crop is placed at 2,866,000,000 bushels. STQRMGENTER MOVING NORTH unsafe condition of the track until he was right on it. He reversed the brakes but too late. The engine and tender turned completely over.

Engineer Thompson was thrown from a window of the cab, but before he could get to a place of safety the escaping steam had scalded him badly. Carroll was caught under the cab and his life crushed out of him Instantly. Smith was in the baggage car connected with the tender and was Jostled, about for a few minutes and badly bruised. All passengers on the train were badly Jostled but none reported hurt. A relief train left here at 11 o'clock and the passengers, mall and baggage will be transferred.

It is believed the washout can be repaired by night, as a double crew is now working on it. Thompson and Smith are at the hotel at Bond and will remain there through the day, receiving medical attention. The body of Carroll will be taken to Jackson. Wreck on Northeastern. Hattiesburg, 7.

Ten freight cars were derailed on the New Orleans Northeastern road Just south of Poplarville this morning when a trestle gave way. No members of the train crew were injured. N. O. N.

E. trains will be handled for the remainder of the day over the Gulf Ship Island and Illinois Central tracks. It Is expected that tha trestle will be rebuilt by night. i GENERAL DRIVE Artillery Destroyed the German Trenches Along the Riga Front. London, July 7.

The Russians begun a tremendous offensive on the Riga front this morning, and the artillery is destroying the German trenches, Bays an Exchange Telegraph, report from Vienna, via Copenhagen. The bombardment started yesterday, and was kept up oontlnuously fop twenty-four hours, followed by fierce Infantry attacks. The Germans were helpless before the Russian artillery, which has been greatly improved, and can now tire fifty shells where only one could be fired at the beginning of the war. Hand Blown Off by a Bomb or Full Charge From a Shotgun. Nogles, N.

July 7. A mysterious explosion last night blew ott the hand of Charles Nelson, a private in Com pany of the 12th infantry. The explosion followed an attack: by two unidentified persons, he said. The surgeon says that only a bomb, or the point-Wank jdischarge of shotgun could inflict such a wound. The assault occurred one hundred, yards outside the camp.

MAIL WAS SEIZED. New York, July 7. The Holland-American Line steamer Nleuw Amsterdam, with 534 passengers, reached here today from Rotterdam, Kirkwall and Falmouth. At Kirkwall the captain said the British authorities seized 369 sacks of mail, leaving on the vessel only one sack for the Dutch embassy at Washington, one for Montreal and a package of parcel post for an express company in New York City. looooooooooooooooo Moniu: shows tp WITH DEATH LIST.

Sc-lma, July 7. message received here today from Mobile over a railroad, wire says that at least three or four people were killea during the hurricane last Wednesday. Much damage was done to shipping and the water front property. No word has reached Mobile from Pensacola or other gulf coast points. ooooooooooooooooo a Gulfport, July 7.

Damage to property on the Mississippi coast as a result of the tropical hurricane will not exceed $80,000. Reports cqme from the Interior xif the coast (country, however, of very serious damage to growing crops, especially corn, which will greatly swell the total. There were no casualties at any point on the Mississippi coast, so Tar ns could he learned up to the noon hour today. A portion of the drawbridge over Rack Bay at Biloxl was carried off during the storm. The Mississippi Gulf Coast Traction Company, after being tied up I since Wednesday afternoon, hopes to be able to restore partial service during the afternoon.

Due to the fact that the wind was from the southeast, there was very little flooding- at any point along the coast. At some points whore the convolutions of the coast made it possible, there was an Inrush of waters, but no great damage resulted. Many sensational reports were current yesterday that schooners had been sunk in the gulf, but there has been no confirmation of thl, and the harbor masters report all vessels for. A number of small frame houses between Gulfport and Biloxl were badly damaged, and, in a few instances, almost demolished. All the cities and towns along the Mississippi coast in the path of the storm were heard from today, after being cut oft from communication since yesterday.

The damage in these cities was reported not so great as had been feared. Judging from the severity of the storm. Several hundred nxcurslonists, who left here Wednesday morning, returned tonight from Oceans Springs and Biloxl, and reported the damage at those points was not heavy. Several houses were unroofed and trees uprooted, but there were no casualties. Shipping in the harbor suffered little damage.

Similar conditions were reported from Pass tian and Bay St. Louis. Orleans Report. New Orleans, July 7. Direct reports from virtually every point in the area, swept by the tropical storm last Wednesday and Thursday indicated that property damage, in Mississippi, Alabama, West Florida, and South Eastern Louisiana, aggregate several million dollars.

The only life loss is reported from Beloit, Alabama, where it was said that seventeen negroes have been killed, and eight persons hurt, by the tornado yesterday. Damage at Pensacola. Mobile, July 7. rensacola is without wire communication. Reports by a courier today, placed the property damage at about a $107,000, and no lives were lost.

The storm raged for twelve hours at Mobile. Meagre reports from Tensacola suid that the OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EARTHQIAKES today 1 ITALIA PROVIXCES. Naples, July 7 Strong earth- quake shocks in tho Neapolitan and Calabarian provinces oc- curred this morning. They are believed to be connected with the telluric movement which is causing such d.saster in the Si- rS Lilian BHInknl. mlmata cilian eulphur mines.

0 ol ooooooooooooooooo O.in Close Opening Close Wheat-July 103 103 103 September 100 106 105ft Corn tluly 76 77 V4 September 74 74 74 Oats-July 88 38 39 38 38 38 Pork-July 25.30 25.20 25.40 September 24.70 24.50 24.87 Lard-July 13.25 13.22 13.22 September 13.40 13.37 13.35 Ribs-July 13.67 13.62 September 13.70 13.65 13.67 ally all railroads are operating regular trains in and out of here today, with some delay. No through trains have passed pn the Louisville and Nashville. Biloxl la Safe. Biloxl, July 7. (Special) For ten or twelve hours the gulf "oast region was lashed by one of the most furious and serious land storms that has swept this section in the last eight to ten years.

The damage will by no means compare with, that entailed during the tropical hurricane on September 29 of last year, as the wind was from the northeast and did not dash the water from the gulf over the beach front to any considerable extent, but, at the same time, the wind, which at times reached a velocity of at least 75 miles an hour, proved destructive to property and crops at inland points and along the gulf coast. Biloxi and other gulf coast cities owe their escape to the fact that the wind was from the northeast, as a southeast wind, reaching such a high velocity, would undoubtedly have beat down the entire gulf coast region. The mid-summer storm, which at times resembled a hurricane, damaged various points in Southern Mississippi to the extent of thousands of dollars. Trees were uprooted by the gale, fences were carried away, and, in some instances houses went down, un der the fury of the wind. The beach front from Biloxl to Pass Christian, a distance of 27 or more miles, is intact, but badly battered and washed and the preliminary work done by Harrison County authorities for the construction of a beach highway be.

tween these points was practically destroyed by washouts. Members of the Harrison County board of super visors are congratulating themselves they had not begun active work the construction of the teach high- Qlway, which was destroyed by the trop ical hurricane of last September, and which will be rebuilt this summer. A score or more of boats, for the most part schooners owned and operated by Biloxi packing companies, WorA hPIlChod. hilt tho trrnntar not appreciabIy damage(j. 0The Earatarla pacUing company had three BChooners, the Phllamena, (Continued on Page Two).

New York Stocks. Open. Amalgamated Copper 83 Atchison 105 Lehigh Valley 79 L. 133 Missouri Pacific 7 New York Central 105 Pennsylvania 58 Rock Island 22 Reading 100 Southern Railway 24 Southern Pacific 98 Union Pacific 139 V. S.

Steel, common 86 U. S. Steel, preferred 117 Close. 82 105 79 133 7 101 57 22 99 24 98 139 86 117 THE, STOCK MARKET. Wall Street, July 8.

Early prices were regular within very narrow lim its. Copper was fairly active at nominal losses and gains. Rails were uncertain and increasingly dull at midday, with specialties malting slight gains. Later prices went to lower levels when call money went to four and a half per cent. DAMMT HOLDS IP STAGE.

Yosemite Valley, Cab, July 7. A bandit, single-handed, held up four stages today at Wawona, Just outside of the Yosemite Valley National Park, and from 28 people collected $100 in cah and some jewelry. aaanaDaDaaassgaaa.