The Present Standing of the Parties Rioting Begun by Negroes as Protest Against Cremation of Corpses Washington, Sept. 20.
The desperate plight of the sufferers from the hurricane which recently raged through Fiori portrayed in a report to the Ameri can Red Cross Society, which cites as an instance of the appalling sanitary conditions which prevail that along Lake Okee-Chobee, a large piece of water 40 miles long, northwest of Palm Beach, bodies, mostly Of negroes, continue to rise to the surface and have to be piled up on the shore awaiting transport to higher ground, where they have to be buried without identification.
Hundreds of negroes at Pahokee fave reported to have rioted as a protest against the cremation of the bodies of persons who have been. drowned o- killed in the disaster Reuter.
Religion and the Voter: Overcoming Prejudices of the Protestants Oklahoma City, Sept. 20.
Governor "AI" Smith, the Democratic candidate for the presidency, made" significant speech here to-day. He is endeavouring orcretie the preioaice of Pretest. ants against him on the ground that he is a Roman Catholic.
Governor Smith declared emphatically that he did not wish any Roman Catholic to vote for him on grounds and added ly any person who voted of his religion was not, in his opinion, a good citizen.
The speaker declared that absolute separation of the Church from the State was part of the fundamental basis of the American Constitution: he believed in that and all it implied—Reuter.
Stockholm, Sept. 17.
Death Roll of Seven Hundred The elections to the Second Cham-
West Palm Beach, Florida,
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