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THE SANDERSVILLE HERALD.
The Toledo Blade thinks that if it
is true that Mr. Carnegie has talo n
to writing poetry" the world will he
no longer in doubt that he intends to
die poor. ,
Exclaims the Columbus (Ohio)
.Iourn.nl: Why it is that the postman
never stops at your house when you
are expecting a check and always does
when you are expecting a bill.
Prof. George E. Palmer of Harvard
university, in a recent lecture, said In
substance: The scientific world swung
to Darwinism and then swung hack;
the religious world swung over to the
scientific position, and is swinging
hack.
FLOOD LOSS $2,000,000
Railroads Heaviest Losers--Crops
Badly Damaged.
AUGUSTA WAS RAGING SEA
Main Butineai Street Eight Feet Under i
Water---Sixty Lives Were
Probably Lost.
Augusta, Ga.—The most serious
The average citizen stands a thou
sand times greater chance of falling
out of a window while asleep or being
hit by a dislodged signboard than he
docs of dying of hydrophobia, main
tains the Now York World. Evfl in
cases of dog bite the real danger is
usually blood poisoning or lockjaw,
not rabies.
The nation's prosperity really rests
on farm products. So long as these
reach up to the value of former years
—approximately $7,500,000,000 in 19n7
—this must continue to ho so. Tliercs.
has probably never been a time in this
generation when such splendid gener
al crop prospects existed, avers the
Review of Reviews. The empty cars of
today will all be enlisted to move the
wheat, corn, oats, and cotton now
seeded.
The metropolis of the future is only
beginning to he; but London is al
ready becoming more and more fasei- I
Dating to those who are most widely
acquainted with tlie world's cities,
boasts the London Observer. With the
atmospheric magic of At vistas in j
spring nnd summer, witli the glory of J
her parks, with the great sweep of
her river, with the living ttyle of her
people, with her heritage from the
past and the rising splendor of her
modern streets, the capital of the em
pire has become a central and per
petual pageant for all civilization.
From Springfield, Ohio, a citizen
writes to the New York Sun about a
door opening eat owned by one of the
neighbors. "In tho midnight hour," re
lates the Ohioan, "the children of the
i
household would bo thrown into a ^
state of abject terror by hearing
noises from the front door that sug- [
gested an idea of burglars tampering ,
with the locks. These noises remained
unexplained until one afternoon, the |
front (loop being shut, a member of ■
lho family, unobserved, noted what
appeared to bo strange, uneasy actions
on ihe part of the cat. Suddenly the
cat sprang high, clasped tils forepaws
about the door knob, so that the toes
met at the top. and then threw the full
weight of his body to one side, there
by Imitating the movement of a hit
man hand in turning a door knob.”
Ambassador Bryce pleased the grad
uates—old and young—at Madison,
Wis., by sneaking of their institution
as standing in the front rank of Amer
ican state universities. He spoke of
the newness of such institutions in the
world, and the interest they have for
inquiring strangers in the United
States. He was glad to learn that in
the University of Wisconsin the col
lege of liberal arts hud as many stu
dents as all other departments put
together. “That is as it should be,”
he said. "The study of the liberal arts
fits men to profit by the teaching they
will receive from other colleges. They
will be all the better chemists, or en
gineers, or lawyers, or bankers, be
cause they have received a training
»■
in scientific theory or in language or
literature, which lias given them a
true outlook over the field of knowl
edge.”
Undoubtedly there are, none the
less, many women who have never
given a thought to any civic duty.
Many intelligent women honestly dis
approve of woman suffrage. Still oth
er women believe they are entitled to
vote if they wish, but can see uhder
present conditions only a multiplicity
of votes to be gained, with no re
sulting advantage. All this is apart
from the question whether woman
suffrage is the greatest reform that
can come to the world, insists the
Boston Transcript. Just one point is
certain—all womcv are no more Hypa
tias than they are Cleopatras. What
is more, they know if. There are many
women who are interested in their
country and their kind, women re
sponsive to the best in the arts and
Hie immunities, women .who live and
love and serve their fellow-man, who
yet are, if the truth be told, bored by
the clamor over suffrage.
OF POLITICAL INTEREST.
it is announced that Mr. Bryan will
not come into the south during the
campaign, but will devote all his time
to the doubtful states.
4- lt puts u premium on reckless
banking nnd is an inducement to
reckless banking.” Thus said Mr. Taft
in response to a direct question, state
what, in his opinion, is th# vital ob
jection to the proposed plan to guar
anty deposits in national banks.
Eugne W. Chnfin, prohibitionist
oandidato for president, in a speech
at Minneapolis, Minn., said: "If 1 am
elected president of the United States
„ , , . , . and inaugurated on the 4th day of
flood In twenty years swept over An- ni , xt March( , will ( . all a spec)al ' se s-
gusta and other cities in Georgia and slon of the congress of the United
the Carolinas, resulting in the report-! States the next day and ask the mcm-
ed death of twenty-two persons, a ,0 leRlsjnte the liquor traffic out
. . . * ; of existence,
property loss of approximately over i _. ...... , ,
, „ .!* . ' . The prediction of increased strength
a million dollars, blocking traffic Htid in the Iiatloiia i prohibition movement
cutting off all communication by wire this year is based on the remarkable
nnr i ipipnhnno ' gains that local prohibition has made
unu uupnone. in a large number of states. At the
Following the break of the big dam l .t, egIlin , nR of the year tUere were slx
at the head of the Augusta canal, prohibition states in the union—
practically every street in that city Maine, Georgia. North Dakota, Kan-
was covered with water and many of S as, Oklahoma and Alabama.
PREDICTS RECORD CROP
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
Optimistic as to Outlook.
FARMERS ARE PROSPEROUS
Estimate* 13,000,000 Bale Cotton Crop
Which Sold at 9 1-2* Centa Will
Bring in $600,000,000.
the stores were abandoned.
The river at Augusta reached
height of thirty-eight feet nnd the wa
A monument in the Bethel ceme
tery, near Montgomery, Mo., has this
ueigiii ui uuri.veigiu m mcmorable for Mr . Urvan as
ter was two and one-half to four feet an e , )itah for the late „ „ fc orri8;
deep in Broad street.
"Kind friends, I've left behind,
Cast your vote for W. J. Brian.”
•
Sacred to the memory of B. H. Nor
ris, died April 9, 1900." Age 50 years.
Arrangements for Wt"’°"' H. Taft’s
d
The canal dams broke and added
to the seriousness of the situation.
The losses to the railroads on ac
count of damage to tracks and des
truction of trestles nnd bridges are
enormous.
The water completely flooded * * 1 • * In I oledo, where ne will attend
Broad street, the principal street, and *, *'• ^ reunion, have been com-
the plant of the Augusta Herald was J'" 1 ’'d- A special car will carry Mr.
put out of business. ral ^ correspondents and secretaries
On the Ocmulgee river are Haw- an ^ speeches will be made from tlie
klnsville and Abbeville and on the 1 (ni Platform.
Oconee river is Dublin. All three of On occasion to his visit to his
these places were flooded. birthplace at Salem. 111., W. J. Bryan
While the waters were rushing like | was greeted by an immense crowd,
n great stream through the streets of Mi\ Bryan inspected. the Bryan-Hen-
August a, fire broke out in the Nixon
nett library given by himself and Phil
C. S. Bennett, to the city of Salem.
. .. , ,, The llbrarv Is built on the spot on
for a time threatened surrounding wliicli was located the house in which
cotton and grocery warehouses, and
property.
The lire department ivas absolutely
Mr. Bryan was born.
William Randolph Hearst on being
helpless, and citizens gazed at the asked to resign from the Iroquois club
l)luze doing its work, and hoped for a democratic organization of San
the best. The buildings were destroy- Francisco, sent in his resignation, to
ed, but fortunately the horrors of a gether with a letter in which he stat-
general conflagration were spared the <>( I Hint he w ** s n ° longer a democrat
i.,v, .u„ and asked the club members: "Are
you 1902 democrats, or 1906 dfcmo-
panie-stricken Inhabitants, nnd the fire
was confined to the warehouse. It is
said the blaze was started by the wa
ter reaching some lime in one of the
warehouses, causing an explosion.
As the water receded many build- an democrats?
crats, or 1900 democrats, or 1904 dem
ocrats, or are you 1908 democrats?
Are you Cleveland democrats? Are
you Parker democrats or are you Bry-
ings collapsed, their foundations hav-
A statement has been issued by
lng been undermined by the water T "asuror"’HaskelT^of"the democratic
Among the most important buildings cam))ai g n conim ittee acknowledging
destroyed in this manner are the Na
tional Biscuit company's building, the
Central Grammar School, the David-
$19,458 turned in to the campaign
fund by five daily newspapers and
„ ..... The Commoner, Mr. Bryan's paper,
son Grammar School (both schools are ... , , .
the propetry of the eitv of Augusta), | U " on 1 ^ or B . oquatio " in ,hf ; de t Z
the Nelson-Morris warehouse and the ocmlc^ national^ ca«n,mi*h and ,j ie
Triangular block.
plans that have been, formulated by
officers of the American Federation of
As to the loss of life, twenty-two V,‘ , V, ‘ “ , ,/TY‘u’
. . , * . Labor to swing tlie labor vote to Mil-
bo os have been recovered, and „ j Bryan? were subject matters
™ r j )se « ar ? found every hour or so. of a 8erlof ? of conferences in Wash-
The captain of the river steamer
Swan reports that he saw on the up-
trip at least twenty-five corpses. All
of them are
ington, D. C., between National Chair
man Norman E. Mack and Samuel
Compere, president of the American
. . 10 n egroe8 one > Federation of Labor, Secretary Mor-
a white man. There are reports of; rl80n of tho Federation, nnd Presi-
tnany drownings among negro farm ( j ent McConnell, of tho Machinists’
hands in the lower valley. The Au- un { Hn
gusta Chroicle estimates the death
list at sixty.
The Savannah river valley
farmers worked like demons
hauling crops and farm implements
and driving cattle to the Uplands out
of reach of the water which flooded
that district. Railroad schedules
were deranged. Ten washouts were
reported on the Charleston and West
ern Carolina and several on the
Southern, between here and Colum
bia.
Camden, S. C. — The Waleroe
Mr. Taft is spending the week on
Middle Bass island in Lake Erie fish
ing and resting before starting on a
speech-making trip in Maryland.
A. large hale of hay reached Lin
coln, Neb., from the Bryan-Bailey
club of Forney, Texas, addressed to
the man who keeps the democratic
mule, Lincoln, Nob. It was delivered
to the mule who seemed to appreciate
it.
The officials of the Georgia State
fair have written Mr. Bryan offering
bridge at tills place was washed lo contribute $50 a week to the dem-
away with the probable loss of nine- acrat Ic campaign fund for the prlvl-
teen lives i lege of exhibiting the famous dejiio-
The river, greatly swollen by the j c ra tic tr'ick mule at the state fair in
tremendous rains of the past forty-
eight hours, caused the bridge to give I It is said that in the event of Sam
way when a number of rafts and uel Gompers, president of the Amerl-
other craft jammed into the iron j can Federation of Labor, making
structure. The destroyed bridge cost
$18,000.
Columbia, S. C.—Reports from Spar-,
tanburg and Anderson counties tell
of unprecedented rains in the Pied
mont section of South Carolina, re
sulting in great damage to property,
forcing power plants to close down,
tints cutting off the source of power
of a number of cotton mills, electric
light plants and other enterprises.
peeches during the campaign favor
ing Mr. Bryan, Secretary Strauss, of
the department of commerce and la
bor would answer the argnments for
the republicans.
“If elected I shall* call the Sixty-
first congress together in extraordi
nary session to revise the tariff at the
very earliest moment 1 have authority
to do so. I consider such action to
be my obligation under the tariff
Spartanburg county was under wa- plank of the republican platform.”
ter for forty-eight hours. Ii is estl-1 The foregoing is William H. Taft's
mated that $150,000 will not cover statement made in expressing his
the damage to bridges in the county, j views regarding the revision of the
a dozen or more having been wash-j tariff.
ed away. 1 Mr. Bryan will make a determined
The great dam across Lawson's | effort to place New York slate in the
Fork at Whitney Mill, three miles democratic column. He will speak
north of Spartanburg, was swept away j in New York city, Syracuse and Ro
by the flood. A train on the Charles
ton and Western Carolina railway
van into a washout and the engine
was ditched.
Athens, Ga.—In a period of thirty-
seven hours, a little more than twelve
inches of rain fell in this city. The
Oconee was above tlie hii#_-st mark
in the recollection of the people here,
and at places nearly a halt mile
wide. Three city bridges were wash
ed away and the two remaining ones
rendered unsafe for traffic.
The northbound Southern from Ath
ens barely escaped going into the riv
er, at the trestle two miles out from
Athens. Some boys seining heard
the trestle crack and saw It rocking.
They rushed to the bank and suc
ceeded in flagging the approaching
train just before it reached the tres
tle. The streets of the city are dam
aged at least $10,000. Total damages
here will not be less than $50,000 in
all lines.
Charlotte, N. C. — Unprecedented
rainfall—which has broken all weath
er bureau records since 1803—has
wrought untold damage in this vicin
ity. Street car traffic'to tire suburbs
was suspended and residents along
creeks adjacent to the city have been
compelled to seek higher ground for
safety.
Asheville, N. —A Southern rail
way train was ditched by a washout
between Saluda and Flat Rock. En
gineer London and Fireman Phillips
were killed, being caught beneath the
overturned engine.
Chester, between September 16 and
20, and early in October will Strain
speak in New York city and in Buf
falo.
Mr. Taft has foiled the plan to get
him Into the West Virginia republican
tangle. He has refused politely the in
vitation to "visit, a few prominent
West Virginia towns in the mountain
resort thirty miles from Hot Springs.”
The refusal is of such a manner as
j to smooth the feelings of both fac
tions. He gives as the reason that a
| visit would be misconstrued.
It is said in New York that Tam-
any Hall will trtn support Martin W.
Littleton for governor of that state.
This comes as a surprise to the dem
ocrats of New York.
in American politics none of the
minor parties has enjoyed so long a
life as the prohibition party. For
more than 35 years a prohibition na
tional ticket lias been in the field at
j every presidential election.
Thomas Watson, the populist can
didate for president, was forced to
stop in Athens, Ga.. for twenty-four
hours on account of the Hoods in that
district. He tried to hire a special
train to take him to Augusta where
lie was to speak, but was unsuccess
ful.
Practically complete returns from
, the democratic primary held In South
Carolina show that Governor M. F.
Am-el has defeated Cole L. Bicase ior
governor by a plurality of 19.174, 91,-
1380 ballots being cast in this con
test.
Washington, D. C.—Just before leav
ing Washington for bis farm in Iowa,
Secretary Wilson, of the department
of agriculture, said that this year's
crops would exceed any ever produc
ed in former years. Tills statement lie
said, he was willing to make not from
hearsay, alone, but from facts which
he had gathered from every section
of the United States,
That the secretary is not guessing
about the yield this year is borne out
by the fact that the corn crop, ac
cording to present estimaes, will yield
2,700,000,000 bushels, which, if sold
at 72 cents a bushel, the September
price, will bring in $1,700,000.
The wheat crop, with u yield of
about 675,000,000 bushels, at 93 cents,
per bushel, will amount to $627,000,-
000.
The cotton crop, which promises to
be at least 13,000,000 bales, will, If
sold for 9 1-2 certs per pound, bring
in $600,000,000.
All the crops of tho Inst year were
estimated by the government ofay
estimated by the department of agri
culture at a caluation of $7,412,000,-
000 on the farm, and. in view of the
large yield this year and the good
pi ices generally obtained, it is only
reasonable to expect that this year
the farmers will produce net wealth
worth at least $8,000,000,000, if not
more. This amount has never yet
been realized from the sale of farm
products.
The farmers of the United States,
ns n whole, are in a better financial
condition than they liave ever been
before, according to statistics secur
ed by the census bureau and given to
Secretary Wilson, nnd, since fewer
mortgages exist, they will be enabled
to do still better next year by being
nble to pay cash for all supplies and
other commodities required in their
work.
From the far western states, here
the large hay nnd corn crops are
made, and where thousands of bush
els of the yellow grain are soon to
be housed and later turned into mon
ey. reports come that the farmers are
preparing to take advantage of the
present good times bv enlarging their
holding, erecting new buildings and
generally investing their earnings to
better advantage.
Just as Mr. Wilson was leaving
Washington he called a number of
workers in the agricultural depart
ment Into his private office, and to
them and a group of newspaper men
said that from all indicatierm there
would be excellent harvests litis fall,
that money wouldl be plentiful and
that every one, especially the farmers,
should be thankful for the bountiful
yield.
EDITOR ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.
Opening Grip to Get Cigars, Pistol
Was Accidentally Discharged.
Stone Mountain, Ga.—T. J. Chaffee,
associate editor of the Augusta Her
ald, was accidentally shot and killed
on board a Georgia railroad train Just
beyond Decatur, Ga.
He was seated with Mr. Steiner of
Augusta, talking when it was sug
gested that they go to the smoker and
purchase some cigars. Mr. Chaffee
said that this was not necessary, as
he had some cigars in his grip. Ho
went back to where his grip was lo
cated, and opened it. As he did so
a shot was fired and Mr. Chaffee ex
claimed “I am shot!”
It seems that there was a pistol fas
tened some way in his grip, and in
opening the grip the pistol was dis
charged, the bullet striking him in
the abdomen. He was taken off the
train at Stone Mountain and died in
alyout thirty minutes.
COTTON SOUTH’S MAINSTAY.
Boll Weevil Must Be Fought By the
Farmers.
Natchez, Miss.—Cotton willl con
tinue to be the south’s mainstay in
spite of the boll weevil, and the farm
ers must learn to raise their own pro
visions, hay and stock, is a summary
of-the lectures delivered by the scien
tific agriculturists representing the
United States department of agricul
ture, who addressed the Farmers’ in
stitute, which has been in session
here.
A new thought was expressed when
Professor Lloyd, Mississippi director
| of tho farmers’ institutes, said that in
his opinion the time is coming when
the white man can look after politics
and the negroes can do the farming.
American Arrested In Paris.
Paris, France.—The police here ar
rested an American thief, known un-
Ider the name of Benedict Lupraska,
i of San Francisco, who, the police say,
lias for a long time been victimizing
! Paris jewelers. It is estimated that
liis total recent robberies foot up to
more than $50,000.
National Storage of Wool.
Salt Lake, Utah.—Resolutions ap
proving the plan for national storage
of the western wool crop were adopt
ed unanimously by the National Wool
Growers’ association. The president
was authorized to select a city where
a central store market will be estab-
| lished and to form a corporation.
Fleeing Danker Caught in Brazil.
I Cleveland, Ohio.—A cablegram to
| County Sheriff McGorday from Rio
Janeiro, Brazil, says that two Cleve
land officers have arrived there, hav
ing in custody Anton F. Bonelli, tho
Italian banker who is charged with
having misappropriated $30,000 be
longing to depositors or his bank.
Bonelli disappeared about three
months ago. Eventually lie was trac
ed to Brail, where he was taken into
j custody by the Brazilian authorities.
BRITISH SHIP SINKS.
Of Fifty-Three Hands Only Two Eicap-
ed From Typhoon.
Tokio, Japan.—News of the sinking
of the British steamer Dunearn and
the loss of all but two of the fifty-
three members of her crew in a ty
phoon which raged off the port of
Goto, on the island of Kiuhlu, has
reached here in a report received
from Moji, a town on the same island.
The names of the survivors are given
as William Phillips, an engineer, and
John Lnnman, a seaman, botn of
whom were picked up in mid-ocean
by the Japanese steam SakOy Maru.
The Dlnearn was bound from Mlko-
iaiesk, Asiatic Russia to Singapore,
and put in at the port of Kartsu for
cQftl. Again putting to sea the ship
| ran into the very center of a typhoon,
which sent her to the bottom. The
two survivors are prostrated from ex
posure and hardships, and a subscrip
tion lias been taken up for them
among the crew of the Sakoy Maru.
The Dunearn was a steel screw
steamer of 2*220 tons, commanded by
Captain G. Graham. She sailed from
Hamburg for Xtkolaiesk on May 27,
and arrived at the latter port on Au
gust 21.
GENERAL A. P. STEWAR1 DEAD.
WaB Lieutenant General in the Con
federate States Arm/!
Biloxi, Miss.—General Alexander P.
Stewart, one of Hie last two surviving
lieutenants general of tlie confederate
; states army, died at his home
here. Although in his eighty-seventh
1 year, and suffering from the infirm!-
| ties of old age, General Stewart's
death was sudden, and came as a dis
tinct shock and surprise to his rela
tives, comrades and friends. Death
was due to heart disease.
General Stewait was a native of
Tennessee, and lived the greater part
of his life in that state, but of lato
i years had been making his homo in
Biloxi, where he found the salt air
and pine woods of great benefit to his
health.
When the civil war broke out, Stew
art was one of the earliest volunteers
in Hie confederate army. He offered
his services to lsharn G. Harris, then
governor of Tennessee, who made
him a major in the artillery.
General Stewart participated in
many of the battles during the war,
belpg especially active in the Tennes
see canipnign and in the battles
around Atlanta.
After the finnl surrender of the con
federacy, General Stewart returned
quietly to ids home. For five years
he was engaged in business, when
once again his profession called him.
He was unanimously elected chancel
lor of 'the University of Mississippi.
He remained at the head of the uni
versity for twelve years.
A tribute to his steadfast character
is the sobriquet given him by his sol
diers in battle when the cry, "Follow
Old Straight," would turn a rout to
a victory, a retreat to a glorious suc
cess.
General Stewart’s death leaves only
General Simon Bolivar Buckner as the
only surviving lieutenant general of
Hie confederate states army,
FATALITIES IN COAL MINES.
Conference Dealing With Mine Condi-
tions in America.
Pittsburg, Pa—A conference deal
ing with mining conditions existing
In the United States and the great
number of fatalities resulting from
mine accidents, is being held here
Victor Watteyne, chief of the Belgian
department of mines, is conferring
with Clarence Hull, of the United
States geological survey, who is in
charge of the government experiment
al station here, and J. W. Paul, chief
of the department of mines of’ West
Virginia.
A thorough Investigation of the re
cent mine disasters in Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Alabama will be
made. Captain Desborrough of Eng
land, nnd Herr Meissner of Germany,
both expert mining engineers, will
Join Mr. Watteyne in the investiga
tion for which congress lias appro
priated $150,000.
DECLARES WAR UN liAMBLERS.
Governor of New Jersey To Use Mi
litia Against Atlantic City Barrooms.
Seagirt, N. J.—Flagrant, open and
defliant violation of the law at At
lantic City, the largest pleasure re
sort in the United States, having been
charged In presentments made lo Oov-
i ernor Fort, that official has Issued a
I proclamation in which he threatened
i to restore order and enforce respect
j for the law by means of state troops,
I if necessary. For some time it has
| been charged that there lias been no
| observance of the Sunday laws nor
'of tho anti-gambling laws in Atlantic
City, and that it was impossible to
obtain enforcement of the statutes in
these respects.
KERMIT ROOSEVELT A HERO.
President’s Son Rescues a Woman
and Two Sons.
Oyster Bay, L. I.—Kerralt Roose
velt, second son of the president,
stopped a runaway pair of horses af
ter a wild chase on horseback, and
probably saved tho lives of Mrs.
Frank Hilton, of New York, nnd her
two small sons.
The feat was a most perilous one
and as the young man, who Is in his
twentieth year, raced along be Jo
the runaway, dozens of persons who
were watching held their breath. Mr.
Hilton, who had been driving the
team, was thrown out when the
horses too fright.
THEATY OF FHIENUSHIP.
Colombia 'and Japan Also Arrange
Trade Agreement.
Bogota, Colombia.—The present ses
sion of the national assembly ^ias
come to an end and there lias been
1 issued a statement relating that Co
lombia has adopted a treaty of
friendship and commerce with Japan;
another with Switzerland; a cominer-
■ <ial and industrial treaty with Great
i Britain and a tiscai convention with
j t he holy see.
FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS
♦
Destroys Two Million Dollars
Worth of Property.
BUSINESS DISTRICT BURNED
Many Wholesale Houses in Ruins—Fire,
men at a Picnic When Fire
Broke Out.
New Orleans, La. _ Fire, which
broke out in the center of the coni-
merclal district here, swept over por
tions of three blocks, destroying a
large number of wholesale houses
manufacturing plants aml 8ma ,|
stores. Originating at Bienville and
Chartres streets, the flames worked
their way north as far. as Conti
street und west toward Royal, bring-
ing about a property loss of over t\ V0
million dollars before they were final-
ly subdued.
Several circumstances combined to
five the fire a headway which proved
hard to overcome. At the time the
alarm was turned In, the New Orleans
firemen were in the midst of their
annual picnic at a suburban . rii
and Hie engines and patrols respond
ed with a mere hundful of men it
was fully an hour htflbre the depart-
in on t was in a position to make ‘any.
thing like a successful flgln ngEin^i
the tiro, and even then the hamlieaii
against it was added lo by an inade
quate supply of water.
The fire was one of the most spec
tacular that has occurred in New Or
leans during recent years. The sec
tion devastated was made large!. 0 f
old buildings, some over a halt-ccn-
tury in use. They proved like * 0
nuit'li tinder to the flames, and fanned
by a high wind, the fire made rapid
progress.
Two warehouses, filled with wines
and liquors, were among the buildings
destroyed by tho flic. As they burned
th6 barrels of whiskey and brandy ex
ploded with thunderous roars which
could lie heard for blocks and which
shook the walls of adjoining buildings
and endangered the lives of firemen
engaged in lighting the flames.
It was not until several hours had
elapsed that the lire was gotten under
control, and even that it continued to
burn well into the night.
COTTON CROP SLOW TO OPEN.
Damage Caused by Flood—Boll Wee
vils Active in Louisiana,
Memphis, Tenn.—Tho Commercial-
Appeal’s weekly cotton crop summary
i« as follows;
Reports of the two Carolinas show
that with tlie close of the week many
of the lowlands were still under wa
ter. The crop on these lands has
been damaged, but to what extent has
not been determined. The area cov
ered by water was not large. In
many districts the cotton is raised
tjie uplands and the ”orr. in the bot
toms. The rains were long-continued
and the grade of the open cotton on
Hie uplands was lowered, but other
wise the damage was small. Only a
few counties in northeastern Georgia
were affected by floods. The Georgia
crop is opening rapidly and the out
turn is not so heavy as was earlier
anticipated.
The crop in northern Alabama and
Tennessee 'is excellent. There are
no complaints, and only some unusual
weather development can prevent a
large yield. In the southern half of
Alabama and Mississippi moderate de
terioration has taken place, due prin
cipally to shedding. Reports, however,
indicate that this complaint is less
general than one week ago.
Boll weevils are active almost
throughout the state of Louisiana and
are the cause of much damage and
apprehension. Elsewhere they are not
a factor.
The crop, as a rule, is not opening
rapidly nnd picking is not general.
REAR ADMIRAL HILL ».
High Chilean Naval Officer Cnee
Lieutenant in United States Navy.
Pensacola, Fla.—Charles H . Hill,
for twenty years holding a commis
sion In the American navy as first
lieutenant, which lie resigned to be
come captain in the Brazilian navy,,
commanding Hie cruiser Xichlherov.
and who afterwards was rear admiral
in tiie Chilean navy, died here.
In addition to serving in three na
vies, Hill was a captain of volunteers
in the Spanish-American war, a"
when later was mustered out of sei-
vice, went to Soutli Africa, where n
was commissioned a captain in 1
Boer army, serving under Genera
Cronje. , ...
It is said that Hill, at bis defttni
was reduced financially to Hie veifc
of pauperism.
Bostin Fears Bubonic Plague.
Boston,'Mass.—As a precaution
avoid the introduction into "lis ,p
of bubonic plague, two hundred s
age passengers aboard the White
liner Romanic were detained t"
examination at the quarantine
tion.
Castro Fines French Cable Company.
Caracas, Venezuela.— T,ie 'La
court of first instance him
down a decision declaring
French Cable company g ullt > 1 j ns t
pllclty in the Matos revolution jt
President Castro and condem . *o ^
to pay damages to the anm
nearly $3,000 000. In
company must pay u i ull “
to be assessed later by exi |C1
Beer Emptied Into Sewer.
Oklahoma City, 0kl . a ' _ 1 1 ’^'$80,000/
dred barrels of beer, valued • t , olB .
belonging to a local brewei) jB
puny, were emptied into a Dlf ,
tills city in the presence o - an( j
pensary Agent Robert L-
Internal Revenue Collectoi ^ atten ii'
I II IUI lltll IVL VUIlUVv j
Howard. Two thousand peoP buc keW
ed the opening, some 1 j ian c0 °*
and pitchers, hoping to* . .joint^’
salvage. This hope> was “‘Jibe P r0,
The beer was on hand vHie