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A dispatch from a news agency from St. Petersburg purports to quote M. De Witte, the Russian finance minis ter. as saying that the statement is sued by Secretary Gage, in explanation of the United States treasury depart ment’s action in imposing countervail ing duties on certain Russian products shows the question is not fully under stood by Mr. Gage. M. De Witte says that he cannot imagine that Mr. Gage would inteuTionaliy mislead the people of the United States, and therefore he can only conclude that Mr. Gage is not possessed of all the facts in the case. HUNDREDS LOSE EIFE IN FLOODS Fearful Cloudburst Sweeps Down West Virginia Valley. A SCENE OF DESOLATION _t_ Mad Waters Rush Through the hontac Coal Region Leaving Death and Destruction In In Their Wake. Tf’4> entire section of Bluefleld, W. Va., has been visited by a flood, the extent of which in all probability will equal that of Johnstown in 1889, so far as the loss of property is eoncem ! ed. Early Saturday morning, shortly after midnight, a heavy downpour of rain began. accompanied by a severe electric storm, which steadily increas ed in violence until 10 o’clock in the morning, then ceasing for several hours and beginning again with re newed violence. This continued throughout the entire day and night,, and at 10 o’clock Sunday morning, while the storm had abated, the lower ing clouds indicate** another terrific downpounr at any moment. Many miles of the Norfolk and Western rail road track, bridges and telegraph lines aro entirely destroyed and communica tion is entirely cut, off west of Elkhorn, so that it is impossible to learn the full extent of the loss of life and prop erty. but officials of the coal operations located in the stricken district have sent out messengers to Elkhorn, the terminus of both telegraphic and rail road communication, and have receiv ed a report that a conservative esti mate as to the loss of life-will easily reach two hundred. Some of the drowned are among the most promi nent citizens of the coal fields. The Pocahontas coal field is located in a basin with high mountain ranges on either side. Elkhorn creek flows through the center of the basin, which ranges from one-fourth to one mile in width. From Ennis. W. Va., to Vivian Yard, W. Va., a distance of ten miles, miners’ cabins, coal com pany commissaries and coke plants line this basin. Elkhorn creek, being fed by numerous small streams coming from the mountain sides, rises very radldl.v and this waterspout came so suddenly that tne entire oasin between the two mountain ranges was flooded, and before the terror stricken people realized what was upon them they were carried down by the flood, which swept everything in its path. A rough estimate places the num ber ot bridges washed away between Bluefield and Vivian yard, a distance of twenty-eight miles, at from fifteen to twenty, and from present indica tions it will be impossible to get trains through to Vivian and points west of there under a week or ten days. This will render it impossible to get relief into the stricken district, and with those who escaped with their lives, homeless and without food, inde scribable suffering Is inevitable. Details Are Meager. Details of the great Pocahontas coal field flood are hard to obtain, owing to the inaccessibility of the mining ; district where the fury and havoc of j the angry r waters caused the most ap i palling loss of life aud property. At Keystone the water began to rise ' at 9 o’clock Sunday morning, and by j 11 o’clock the flood had spent its fury | and at least .two-thirds of the little city | ha., been washed away or demolished. It is known that sixteen residents of , the north side lost their lives, and at TO ASSIST FLOOD SUFFERERS. West Virginia Authorities Take Prompt Action to Relieve Homeless People. A Charleston, W. Vn„ special says. Secretary of State Dawson, in the ab sence of Governor White, sent a mes sage Sunday night to Colonel J. C. Hewitt at Bramwell to take full charge of the situation in the flood stricken district and to wire the governor his needs. The company of national guard at Bramwell was ordered out to assist in guarding the property, and more troops win be sent as soon as possible to get them there. A supply of tents at Bramwell was ordered to | be given out to the suffering. — DR. KERFOOT DEAD. j Corresponding Secretary of Baptist Home Mission Board Passes Away. Dr. Franklin Howard Kerfoot, cor responding secretary of the home mis sion boprd of the Southern Baptist con vention. died Saturday night at his residence in Atlanta. Ga., after an ill j ness covering a period of eight weeks. Dr. Kerfoot went to the Southern Bap tist convention which met in New Or leans May 9th aga'nst the advice of his physicians, and, being too ill to re main to the end of the session, return -1 ed to Atlanta on the 11th. since which time he was unable to leave bis bed. ANOTHER BOER VICTORY. Redcoats Lose Eight Men Killed and Sixty Captured. Advices from Cradock. Cape Colony, state that in an engagement at Water kloof June 20th the British lost eight men killed and two mortally wounded and flail four men seriously wounded. In addition, sixty men of the Cape Co lonial Mouuted Rifles were cap tured. n. Boer captain was wounded and a private killed. THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERS, iLLE, GA. least fifty of those living on the south or lower side were drowned. At Burke, a suburb of Keystone, a ! number are missing and eign. are re ported as dead. It is now certain that the total list of tho dead from one end of the Elk horn valley to the othtjr, will reach two hundred. A full list of the names of the victims cannot be ascertained at this time. Hundreds are missing, hav ing taken refuge in the mountains to escape the fury of the flood. At least three hundred mine mules were drowned, and at least twenty-five could be seen swimming about in the flood and making an unusual fight for iife. But little damage i3 done to mines proper, as the drift mouths were high up the mountain sides, beveral hun dred are reported flooded, but it is im possible to ascertain the extent of damage. On the North Fork branch of the Norfolk and Western, which is five and one-half miles long, there was no loss of life as far as known, but hundreds were rendered homeless and are at present camping in the mountains. The damage to property on this branch is very heavy, only one of ten colleries located on this branch escaping, the Ashland, it being located at the head of the stream. The McDowell Coal Company lost twelve residences. The Roanoke Com pany lost three boiler houses, and the one hundred horsepower boilers were swept four miles down the stream. The Louisville Company’s store- j house is a wreck and the stock of goods a total loss. At Rolfe a large number of miners’ houses were sw r ept away, as well as the handsome residence of the com pany’s physician. Twenty-five houses j are jammed together in one complete mass of broken timbers and debris. At the Gilliam Company’s colliery the powder house and fourteen houses aro demolished. At Indian Ridge the company store was considerably damaged and tho stock lost. The house of Captain Bets ford, the manager, is wrecked; also the North Fork track is nearly all washed away, all the trestles being gone except one. In the Elkhorn valley it is estimated that the loss to the railroad and coal interests will reach .nto millions. Out of twelve miles of main double track only one mile remains and all the bridges are gone. Some of them were of the heaviest masonry and iron, but they could not resist the force of the flood. The Cozer Company, one of the larg est in operation, lost a thousand horse power electric plant and many build ings and coke ovens. Their loss is said to be $50,000. The Tierney interest, consisting of four collieries, will lose $75,000. There are over twenty collieries whose damage is great, many miles of their tracks leading to ovens and mines being gone. In some instances ; nine locomotives and ears have been j swept for miles down the stream. Fifteen hundred laborers have been J rushed to tho scene to work on repairs, ! and it is expected that telegraphic j communication will be established in Ia short time. | Later advices from the Clinch val | ley division confirm the reported , drowning of ten persons. A family ! named Hook, living near the river at I Rounding Mill, were all drowned, six | perishing. STRIKERS AND GUARDS FIGHT. Trouble in Thackcr-Matewan Coal Fields Reaches an Exciting Stage. The miners’ strike in the Thacker- Matewan coal fields, in West Virginia, is growing critical and resort to fire arms has been the result. The whole field is in a state of excitement and serious trouble is feared. Already two or three conflicts have occurred be tween the striking miners and guards. The trouble has grown out of the non-recognition of the union by the operators. The operators declare they will not recognize the union and the miners are equally as persistent in de j manding that they shall he recognized. EX-CONSUL HAY KILLED. Supposed to Have Accidentally Fallen From Window of New Haven Hotel. ! Adelbert S. Hay, son of Secretary ' Elay and former cousfil to Pretoria, j was found dead on the sidewalk out i side the New Haven house, at New Ha ven. Conn., at 2:30 Sunday morning. Mr. Hay retired to his room at 1 o’clock after spending the evening with friends in apparently excellent | spirits. At 2:30 o’clock a passer-by noticed the body of a man lying on the side walk by the hotel. The night clerk recognized the young man as Adelbert S. Hay. DEMOCRATS SHY AT FUSION. Refuse to Join Issue With New Party Being Organized in Kansas City.* The democratic state central com mittee of Kansas has refused an invi tation from the populists to join in the formation of anew fusion party under a distinct name. This action was taken at a meeting in Topeka Sat urday night of the democratic commit tee. Twenty-three members of the committee were present STRIKERS CAUSE BLOODSHED. Large Force Attacks Non-Union Men Employed at Southern Shops In Columbia, S. C . The first blood shed in a strike riot In South Carolina was spilled Sunday morning at 4 o’clock in the Southern railway shops in Columbia. These are large shops and the strikers there hvae made strong efforts to keep them idle. Information got out Saturday that there were forty men at work in tho shops despite me many brought from distant points who had been induced to desert the company. Just before daylight Sunday morn ing about one hundred and twenty-five men, with faces blacked or wearing black masks, attacked the north fence of the yards, which comprise twenty acres, quickly made a break and marched in. There were forty-two men in the yards, sleeping in two cars. One of the cars was, during the night, switched to a remote corner and es caped detection. The strikers advanc ed on the other car in which twenty men were asleep. There was one guard, a man named Myers, at this car. He saw the col umn silently advancing and ordered the masked mob to halt and state their business. A spokesman said that they had come to release men being held against aieir will. Twice the guard ordered a halt, and when the leaders were within thirty yards, fired both barrels of a shotgun into the midst of the mob. At the same moment a pistol ball struck My ers in the temple, but glanced around the bone. He got behind cover and used his revolver. The strikers attacked the car. They callea on the men within to come out. There was no response and the rioters opened fire. The ear looks as if it had run the gamut of Boer sharpshooters. There are two hundred bullet holes in it. The occupants escaped by throw ing themselves on the floor. Finally all crawled out and were tied up by the strikers, who marched them north up the Southern tracks for two miles, beating every one along the way with sticks and pistol barrels. The policemen begged the strikers to be merciful. Two hours later an engine, with the master mechanic and yard master, proceeded up the road and between the three and seven mile posts, picked up nineteen of the beaten men. Only one refused to return with their rescuers. A hah nour after the attack two physicians received hurry calls. They reported attending four men wounded in thigh, abdomen and head. On application, Mayor Earle de tailed a squad of policemen to guard the shops. It is believed at least half a dozen strikers were wounded by Guard Myers. CHAUNCEY IS PERSISTENT. Senator Irrevocab’y and Deeply im bued With Third Term Idea. Senator Chauncey M. Depew has senf a’ letter to Representative Gros venor, of Ohio, on the subject of a presidential third term. Mr. Depew stands by his opinion in favor of a third term for President McKinley, saying that it was “expressed at a pri vate dinner in Washington while Pres ident McKinley was receiving such re markable ovations and welcoming speeches in the south one the lines of the interests of the southern states in expansion and our new possessions; in other words, the general indorse ment of the president’s policy.” TO CONCILIATE RUSSIA. State Department Is Anxious to Smooth Out Tariff Tangle. The state department has addressed to the Russian government, as repre sented by Count Cassini, its ambassa dor, such representations respecting the sugar and petroleum tariff contro versy as are deemed necessary to meet the Russian action. The purpose of the letter is to smooth, if possible, the friction that has been engendered be tween the two governments. Order Establishing Civil Government. Saturday Secretary Root issued the order of the president establishing civ iil government in the Philippines. The order announces Judge Taft as civil governor of the islands, his commis sion to take effect July 4th. DIPLOMAS LONG DELAYED. Princeton University Recognizes Two Students Who Graduated in 1861. Captaifi J. H. O'Deal and Thomas Helm, prominent citizens of Jackson. Miss., have received from Princeton university the degrees which should have been conferre- on them forty years ago. They were members of the graduating class of 1861, but left the university several weeks before com mencement and returned home to join the confdrate army. Thursday they received their diplomas for the B. A. degree. Teething Then the baby is most like ly nervous, and fretful, and doesr-’t gain in weight. Scott’s Emulsion is the best food and medicine for teething babies. They gain from the start. Send for a free sample. SCOTT ft HOW NR, Chemists, 409-415 Peart Street, New Yo:b. 50c: pad $1.00; all druggists. PAHIHCTm ~ - jM Your mirror \ today. Take > gjf A \ >Jj| 2 last look at J your gray 4 ||PL\ hair. It sure- ) ||pP J#-a| ly may be * the last if < you want it so; you „ W needn’tkeep < * your gray \ r J hair a week longer than ► y you wish. There’s no * guessv/ork about this; * it’s sure every time. To re / After $ using ir \J for two! or three weeks notice how much younger you ap pear, ten years younger at least. Ayer’s Hair Vigor also cures dandruff, prevents falling of the hair, makes hair grow, and is a splen did hair dressing. It cannot help but do these things, for it’s a hair-food. When the hair is well fed, it cannot help but grow. It makes the scalp healthy and this cures the disease that causes dandruff. SI.OO a bottle. All druggists. “ My hair was coming out badly, but Ayer’s Hair Vigor stopped the falling and has made my hair very thick and much darker than before. 1 think there is nothing like it for tho hair.” COKA M. I.ha, April 25, 1899. Yarrow, 3. T. Writ a tho Doctf>r. If you do not obtain all the benefit* you desire from the use of the Vigor, writ* the doctor about it. Address, Da. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. THREE SUSPECTS HELD. Slayer of Atlanta Policeman May Ee In the Law’s Clutches. Three negroes are confined in the Atlanta, Ga., city prison on suspicion of being implicated in the murder of Policeman Deßray, who was shot to death in West End Thursday night. The negroes under arrest are Jim Erwin. Jim Loya and Tom Hammond. Isaac Hammond, the negro who was w .n Officer Deßray at the time of the shooting, positively identifies Erwin as the negro who did the shooting, and he says Jim Loyd was one of the three. Tom Hammond is a brother of Isanc, and Isaac says Tom was not in the crowd. PLAGUE INFECTED SHIP. Arrives at San Diego—Five Deaths From Bubonic Occurred on Board. Surgeon General Weyman at Wash ington has been informed by Dr. Mc- Kay, quarantine official at San Diego. Cal., of the arrival at that port of a plague infected ship. The vesel is the Carlisle City, sail ing from Hong Kong May 16th and coming via Yokohama and Honolulu, reaching San Diego late last Saturday. Dr. McKay reports that there were six deaths en route, five of which were ertainly caused by pkigue. RAN INTO OPEN SWITCH. Five People Killed and Forty Badly Hurt In Wreck cf a Train, By the wrecking of train No. 23 north-bound on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad, which ran into an open switch an Monaca, Pa., twenty-six miles from Pittsburg, Monaay evening and went over an embankment twenty five feet high, two persons are dead and three fatally injured and forty others more or less hurt. Tax Receiver’s Notice for 1901 I will attend at the places named below on the days stated for rece.ving Tax Returns for the year 1901, to wit: Cartersville, April 1, rB. May 15, June 3. S, 13, 14 and 15, Wolf l'en, April 13 May io and 29. ’Stamp Creek, April ij, May 12 and3*. Allatoona, April 16, May 13 and 31. Emerson, April 17, May 14 and Jim* 1. Fine I.og, April 11, May 7 and 27. Salacoa, April 12, May Sand 2S. Gum Springs, May 6, at night. Sixth, April 10, May 6 and 24. Bobo’s Shop, May 4. Adairsville, April 9. May 3, and 23. l.mwood, May i ( p.m Batnesleys. May’ 2, a. m. Cement, May 1, a. m. Kingston, April 8, 30, May 22. rord, April 26, a. m Iron Hill, April 5, 25 and May 2!. fcuharlee. April 2. 22 and May 16 Taylorsville April 4. 24 and May 20. Steesboro, April 3, 23 and May 17. Cassville, April 6, 29 and May 2; Cass Station, April 20, 2 p. m. hogers, April 20,9 a. m. T.aads, April 19 Douthets, May iS, a. m. Whites. May 11. Hitchcock’s Mill, April 26, p. m Sugar Hill, May 9. V read carefully. All property, money, etc., held on i?th dav of March, 1901, must be returned. n .,„ n , d< ' r, ? ce !! tlawsand , relations require the SroA tIODS 1)6 ans,we f. ed and sworn to in my answered Kver> ques lon on the ta * lists must be c ity and town property must be returned, giving its location, street, etc. o^ he , Kiven names of ‘ ax must be given o"hJ e ner r s n o S nT. USt ** lntermin ek with that ol Each white tax payer is required to give a list and to\ < ea r r?of m age ln h,S eniplo > ment 21 freeho 'der or agent is required to make rel ,v. n to me na,nes of all tax payers residin* on their premises on April Ist. V y resl “ lr >g Many other ohanges have been made whick 2?]* ** suggested by Oie tax lists. I trust all per having{hfm&ed CarefUl altenti ° n anJ uvoi< W. T. PITTA RD, March , 5 . I90 J“ ReC6 ‘ Ver Bar ‘° W CUnt * DEATH AND DISASTER Follow In Wake of Two Terrific Explosions Among Fireworks. SIXTEEN LIVES REPORTED LOST Many Harrowing Scenes Witnessed While Building Burned—Force of Concussion Was Felt For Many Blocks. Sixteen people are believed to have been killed and a number injured Ffi. (lay in a fire following a series of ex plosions among a quantity of fireworks in the store of Abraham M. Rittenberg at Paterson, N. J. The store was on the ground floor of a four story frame tenement building. The cause of the explosion is not known. The property loss will not exceed $35,000. Tho explosion occurred shortly af ter noon and many of the occupants of the building were out at dinner. The building in which the explosion oc curred was a frame tenement, four stories high, with stores on the ground floor. The middle store was occupied by Rittenberg. Ten families occupied the flats in the building. So great was the force of the explo sion that a boy playing in the street half a block away was lifted from his feet and hurled against an iron fence. One of his legs was broken. A trolley car was directly in front of the build ing when the explosion occurred. The burst of flame blown out into the street scorched the sides of the car and sing ed the hair of the passengers. A number of those who were on the ' upper floors of the building when the explosion took place were either stun ned and then burned to death or found escape cut off and were suffocated. Af ter the first explosion there was a se ries of smaller ones and then came a second big explosion, which was muf fled and deadened and probably occur red in the cellar. Every window’ seemed to be emitting flame within a minute after the first explosion. A woman, with her cloth ing on fire, leaped out of on- of the windows and fell to the yard below. Her dead body was dragged out of reach of the flames, but tne flesh was roasted and dropping from the bones. She later proved to be Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Williams’s husband was a crip ple. His wife is supposed to have re mained longer than she could with safety in an effort to save him. He was found burned to a crisp m his bed. Some of the occupants of the roams dropped from the windows and w r ere bruised; others hung from the win dows until the firemen came ana twen ty persons were taken dowm in this way through the fire and smoke by the firemen, while others dropped into life nets. Dan Dooly, who was in the yard when the explosion took place, saw the two Rittenberg children in the rear room and rushed into the flames for them. He got one of them and carried it out and triea to go back for the oth er, but the room was then one mass of fire and he was too late. He was baly scorched in rescuing the first child. While the rescues were going on the firemen were fighting the flames. Cap tain Allen led with a hose line in an effort to keep the fire from the upper floors, where it was-said many were penned in. The men had hardly taken their positions and begun on the side walk to throw water into the upper floor when without any warning, the whose upper part of the building above them sagged outward and fell. The captain and two of his men were bu ried under the blazing debris. One of me men is badly hurt. The building in which the explosion occurred was entirely destroyed. MOTHER AND BABES BURNED. Pathetic Tragedy Caused By Explosion of a Kerosene Can. At Rogers, Texas, Friday Mrs. Miley Calhoun and ner three children were burned to death by the explosion of a kerosene can with which Mrs. Calhoun was filling a lamp. One of the children struck a match causing the catastro phe. Mr. Calhoun was also badly burned. STRIKERS ARE ENJOINED. Sweeping Court Order Issued For Pro tection of Manufacturing Company. A sweeping injunction cf widespread scope and importance relative to the strike of the machinists was issued at Milwaukee Saturday to the Vilter Manufacturing company. The order prevents strikers from in any way interfering with the workmen employ ed at the Vilter works; from gathering about the works; from posting pick ets; from combining for the purpose of preventing tradesmen selling to workmen who have refused to quit, and from doing anything that will i n any way operate to damage the said company. EMBEZZLER PARDONED. President Extends Leniency to Cashier Who Swiped SIOO,OOO. The president Tuesday pardoned Charles W. Mussey, former cashier of the National bank of Rutland, Vt.. who was convicted last year o. the misap plication of SIOO.OOO cf the tends of the bank and sentenced to seven years in the house of correction. Mussey > s in ill health.