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LIVES ARE LOST
IN EXPLOSIONS
A Disastroas Accident Occurs In
the Heart of New York City.
CAUSED BY DRU 6 STORE FIRE
Exploding Chemicals Wreck
Buildings and Many V ictims
Are Buried Under Burn
ing Debris.
A New York special says: The loug
list of fire horrors that have occurred
iu and around the city of New York, a
list that includes the Royal hotel fire,
the Fark Place disaster and the Wind
sor and Hoboken fires, was added to
Monday by a fire and explosion that
shook the lower end of Manhattan like
an earthquake, hurled a seven-story
budding into the air aud set fire to
two blocks of buildings, with a loss of
life that only the efforts of hundreds
of men who were rushed to the work
of digging away the ruins as soon as
the fire was extinguished will reveal.
The big building of Tarrant A Cos.,
makers of medicinal specialties, stand
ing nt the northwest corner of Green
wich and Warren streets, and filled
with chemicals, took fire in some way
that may never he known, at about a
quarter after 12 o’clock Monday after
noon. It was sixteen minutes after
noon that a citizen rushed into the
house of fire engine 21*. on Chambers
street, near Greenwich, and shouted
that Tarrant’s drug house was on tire.
Ho had seen a volume of black smoke
coming from the third atoiy window.
An alurm was turned iu.
Soon afterwards second and third
alarms were turned in. One fire com
pany had just arrived when a terrific
explosion occurred aud threw the en
tire engiue’s crew down the stairway.
The firemen, realizing the danger of
their j osition, rushed out of the build
ing to the street. The explosion had
filled the street in front with a shower
of falling glass aud small debris, which
sent the crowd, which had already
gathered on the opposite sidewalks,
fleeing for psfety.
Captain Devauney, of the company,
ordered his crew back into the build
ing again. The were dragging the
line to the doorway a second time
when another explosion, more terrific
than the first came, and the whole ,
crew was hurled across Greenwich
street.
Iu the meantime the other engines
that bad responded to the alarm had
collected, and the firemen were rescu
ing people from surrounding build- i
ings. Firemen had already taken many
girls dowu the only fire escape upon
the building, and more persons had
been carried down tho escapes of the
Home Made restaurant, next door, and
the buildings adjoining upon Warren
street.
The second explosion occurred About
five minutes after the first.
From the accounts of witnesses, the
building seemed to leap into the air,
and iu a moment massses of brick
wall, timbers aud stone were falling
into the streets. Tho force of the ex
plosion tore away the walls of tho big
commission store house frontiug on
Washington street, and caused them
to collapse.
Across Warren street to the oppo
site buildings the flames leaped, set
ting them all afire at once, the force
of the explosion demolishing windows
and all wooden structures about the
houses. In a moment Warren street
was choked up with a mass of debris
and the whole place was aflame.
The great explosion was followed by
half a dozen more scarcely less in
tense, aud by a countless number of
smaller ones. By this time the fire
apparatus was arriving from every di
rection, and a fifth alarm sent out, fol
lowed by a general call for ambulances.
The explosion and fire together had
now assumed the proportions of a
great catastrophe, and it was at first
thought that hundreds of lives had
been lost. Throngs of people were
rusbiug about the nearby streets,
many of them panic-stricken, fleeing
from the fire.
MERREKFK BRANCH ii a NGED.
Who Kll]-l (ieoigc |tei: I’nys the
Penalty of Hi. Crime.
At Elbcrtoo, (ia., Monday nt noon,
Deputy Sheriff Alexander sprung the
trap and Will Branch, the negro mur
derer, was launched into eternity.
The rope slipped aud the neck was
not brokeu. He died from strangula
tion in 33 minutes without a struggle.
The body was cut down and turued
over to relatives.
Over 5,000 people witnessed the ex
ecution. No ouo but relatives and
friends of parties who were interested,
newspaper men aud ministers of the
colored race were allowed inside of the
ropes.
FOR HARBORS AND RIVERS.
Improvements Recommended In
the South By Chief Engineer
Wilson In His Report.
A Washiug'oa special says: The im
portant subject of coast defense is the
first consideration in the annnal re
port of General J. M. Wilson, chief of
engineers. Generally spenking he ig
ports most gratifying progress in the
execution of the various projects during
the last fiscal year. Because the re
port included the fiscal year only, the
subject of the destruction of the Gal
veston defenses by the September hur
ricane is left for treatment in s subse
quent report.
The estimates above $25,000 for the
river and harbor work next year in the
south are as follows:
Inland waterway from Chincoteague
hay, Virginia, to Delaware bay, s6o,*
300; Patapsco river and chancel to
Baltimore, 8522,302.
Harbor,southeast Baltimore,Bßo,ooo.
Potomac river,Washington,s2oo,ooo
Potomac, below Washington, SBO,-
400.
Rappabanuock river, Virginia,
$25,000.
James river, Virginia, 8390,000.
Norfolk harbor,Virginia, 856,700.
Waterway from Norfolk, Vs., to the
sounds of North Carolina, $29,870.
Pamlico and Tar rivers, North Car
olina, $02,500.
Cape Fear river, above Wilmington,
N. C., $25,000.
Cape Fear liver, at and below jWil
liington, N. C., $200,000.
Winyah bay, South Carolina, $525,-
000.
Hantee river, South Carolina, $38,-
000.
Congaree river. South Carolina, Co
lumbia to Granby, $50,000.
Charleston harbor, 850,000.
Savannah harbor, Georgia, $30,000.
Knvanuah river, Georgia, SIOO,OOO.
Doboy bar, Georgia, $30,000.
Altauiaka river, Georgia, 820,000.
Ocnmlgee river, Georgia, $40,000.
Cumberland sound, Georgia and
Florida, $400,000.
fvt. Johns, river, Florida, 8400,000.
St. Johus river, at Orange mills
flats Florida, 810,000.
Key West harbor, Florida, 8100,000.
Sarasota river, Florida, $37,500.
Tampa hay. Florida, $137,000.
Hiilsboro buy, Florida, 8175,000.
Apalachicola bay, Florida, $41,000.
Fliut river, Georgia, $303,001*.
Chattahoochee river, Georgia and
Alabama, below Columbns, SBO,OOO.
Pensacola harbor, Florida, SIBO,OOO.
Coosa river, between Rome, Ga.,
aud the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad, $450,000.
Coosa river, between the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
bridge and Wetumpka, $35,000.
Mobile harbor, Alabama, $350,000.
Black Warrior river, Alabama, $53,-
07fi.
Warrior and Tombigbee rivers,
$255,000.
Tombigbee river, from its mouth to
Demopolis, $200,000.
ON CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.
Albert llowdll. Sr., Is Placed on Trial In
Atlanta, (lit., Court.
The case of Albert Howell, Sr., in
dicted for alleged embezzlement of
$30,816 from the Atlanta and West
Point railway, was taken up iu Atlanta
Monday morning. The defendant filed
through his attorneys a demurrer to
the indictment.
The first paragraph alleges that the
charge of conspiracy between Mr.
Howell and Thomas J. Hunter is
barred by the statute of limitations
and should be stricken.
The second paragraph says that the
ootirt iu the iudictmeut does not with
sufficient particularity set out the sum
charged to be embezzled within the
statute of limitations, the indictment
alleging the embezzlement of a certain
sum, part of which was without the
statute of limitations.
Judge Candler overruled the objec
tion aud ordered the trial to proceed.
Some difficulty was experienced in
getting a jury, each side being ex
ceedingly careful iu regard to qualifi
cations.
Mr. Howell did not appear to be in
as good health as usual. He pleaded
not guilty.
It will be remembered that Thomas
J. Hunter, co-jointly indicted with
Mr. Howell, waa sentenced to five
years’ imprisonment on April 27th,
1900.
SMITH LEAVES A .AW. P. ROAD.
succeeded no President and General Man
ager It)- Charles Wlckersham.
George C. Smith, president aud
general manager of the Atlanta and
West Point railroad and Western Rail
way of Alabama, has resigned his post
to be general manager of a division of
the Southern railway, which is to
comprise both the present Air Line,
and the Lonisville division of the
Sonthern, running from Louisville to
Lexington, Ky. The appointment will
become effective November 15th.
Charles A. Wickersham, general
superintendent of the Alabama Great
Southern, will succeed Mr. Smith.
Legislative
• • • ‘Brevities
Nominations Confirmed.
Monday afternoon the senate went
into executive session and confirmed
the following nominations for county
jr.dgos and solicitors sent in by the
governor:
B. T. Caste!low, judge county court
Clayton county.
Levi O. Stein, solicitor city court of
Douglass in Coffee county.
Richard Hobb, judge city eourt
Albany.
E. K. Wilcox, solicitor county court
of Eehol*.
N. J. Norman, solicitor connty court
of Liberty.
P. W. Williams, judge city conrt
Tattnall connty.
F. P. Dongley, judge city court of
LaGrange.
W. T. Tuggle, solicitor city court of
LaGrange.
John P. Cheatfield, judge county
court of Wilkinson connty.
W. F. Eve, judge city conrt of
Richmond county.
D. L. Henderson, judge of the
county court of Doerfy county.
W. M. Weaver, judge of the county
court of Greene.
P. P. Profitt, judge city court of
Elberton.
P. N. Ramsey, judge county conrt
of Jefferson.
Robert U. Hardeman, solicitor coun
ty court of Jefferson.
James P. Clements, judge of couuty
court of Irwin.
R. W. Roberts, judge of the county
court of Baldwin.
The senate also confirmed tho fol
lowing as trustees of the State Uni
versity:
Clark Howell, for the state at large.
A. O. Bacon, Sixth congressional
district.
D. B. Hamilton, Seventh district.
• • •
May Repeal Dog Law.
The dog law fight is to-be revived.
Two hills were introduced in the house
Monday morning to repeal the cele
brated dog law of“Dewesof Randolph,”
passed at the last session of the legis
lature.
These bills were introduced by
Foster of Floyd and Stewart of Cal
houn. They provide for the uncondi
tional repeal of the present law, which
becomos operative in auy county of
the state upon the graud jury recom
mending its adoption.
The law is very popular in some
sections of the state aud very unpopu
lar in others. These bills wiil pre
cipitate one of the warmest fights of
the session.
s * *
Five Contests on File.
Clerk Boifeuillet received Monday
morning another notice of contest over
a house seat, making five contests in
all that that body will be called upon
to decide at this session. The latest
notice received was from W. A. Buch
anan, who contests the seat of Repre
sentative C. R. Narramore, of Early.
The other contests, of which notice
has already been received, are as fol
lows:
W. E. Mann, who contests the seat
of Representative W. H, Yates, of
Catoosa.
A. Wilson, who contests the seat of
Representative E. J. Stafford, ot Cam
den.
Henry J. Stricklaud, who contests
the seat of Representative Calvin
Thomas, of Pierce.
Thomas A. Brown, who contests the
seat of A. S. J. Hall, of Fannin.
All notices of contests will first go
to the committee on contested elec
tions as soon as that committee is ap
pointed by Speaker Little.
• • *
Will Tackle Income Tax.
Efforts will be made at the present
session of the legislature to pass an
income tax law for Georgia, similar in
its provisions to the late federal in
come tax law. Such a bill will proba
bly be introduced 1 y the chairman of
the appropriations aomraittee, who will
be Colonel Ed Wight, of Dougherty.
It will come as a part of the geuernl
tax act, aud the iudications are that it
will pass.
• 0 *
To Limit Taxing Power.
Senator Chappell laid before the
senate Tuesday his scheme to limit the
taxing power of tho legislature. His
bill provides that after January, 1905,
it shall be unlawful for the general
assembly to impose a tax exceeding
five-tenths of one per cent. The hill
provides that the question shall be sub
mitted to the people at the next gen
eral election.
• • •
Test Vote on Terminal.
A test of strength on the Atlanta de
pot bill was made in the house Tues
day morning, and the friends of the
depot bill came out with flying colors,
notwithstanding ths strenuous effort of
Mr. Hall, of Bibb, to item the tide.
The vote was 72 to 48. This was on
the King substitute to Senator Allen’s
resolution to appoint a joint committee
of seven from the senate and ten from
the house to consider all questions af
fecting the depot problem. The King
substitute made this committee a
stauding one, and conferred upon it
the piower to send for men and papers,
take oral testimony and report in
writing their findings.
mm*
A Good Bill.
Mr. Park of Green introduced a
measure providing for the admission
of females to the textile department of
the school of Technology. The devel
opment in cotton mill building in
Georgia for the past few years has
made this step imperative, and opera
tives in these mills will be m great de
mand in the near future.
mm*
Wants Negroes to Pay.
The senator from the 39th district,
Mr. Bell, is the father of a proposition
to make the negro pay for the educa
tion he gets. He sent in a bill Tues
day morning forbidding the appropria
tion of any taxes to the edneation of
the negro except those pail by per
sons of his own color.
m • *
Constitutional Convention.
A bill was introduced by Mr. Ellis
in the senate Tuesday morning to hold
a constitutional convention on the
fourth Monday in July, 1901. The
bill provides that the election of mem
bers to the convention shall be held
on the first Wednesday of the same
month. This action ha3 been antici
pated for some time.
LED BY WHITE TRAITORS.
Filipino Rebels Go Against Amer
ican Troops and Desperate
Fighting Takes Place.
A Manila special under date of Oc
tober 28 says: While scouting near
Looc a detachment of the Twentieth
and Twentieth-eighth regiments, un
der Captain Beigler, were attacked by
400 insurgents armed with rifles, un
der the command of a white roan whose
nationality is not known to the Amer
icans. The insurgents for the most
part were intrenched. After a heroic
fight Captain Beigler drove off the
enemy, killing more than seventy-five.
The fight lasted for two hours. Cap
tain Beigler and three privates were
slightly wounded aud two of the Amer
icans were killed.
An engagement (noted in previous
dispatches) took place October 24 be
tween detachments of the Third cav
alry and Thirty-third volunteer infan
try and a force of insurgents,including
400 riflemen and 1,000 bolo men. The
fighting was desperate. Finally, un
der pressure of overwhelming num
bers, the Americans were compelled to
retiie on Xarvican. Lieut. George L.
Febiger and four privates were killed,
nine were wounded and four are miss
ing. Twenty-nine horses are missing.
A number of teamsters were captured
by the insurgents, but were subse
quently released. The enemy’s loss is
estimated at 150.
A civilian launch, towing a barge
loaded with merchandise near Arayat,
was attacked by a force of 150 insur
snrgents, under David Fagin, a de
serter from the Twenty-fourth infan
try. The American troops on hearing
the firing turned out in force before
the boat could be looted and recap
tured it.
Fagin, w ho holds the rank of general
among the insurgents, has sworn spe
cial enmity toward hi3 former com
pany. Of the twenty men he captured
a monih ago eeven hnve returned. One
was killed in a fight, his body being
horribly mutilated. Fagin sends mes
sages to his former comrades threaten
ing them with violence if they become
bis prisoners. It was Fagin’s men
who captured Lieutenant Alstaetter,
who is still a prisoner.
MURDERER FKIIRILL CONVICTED,
** ii 1 * Klcttrorutioii —Coit<lc*innt)(l
Man Attempts Mi citlc.
The jury in the Rossiyu Ferrill case
at Marysville,o., returned a verdict of
murder in the first degree without re
commendation against the accused for
the murder on the night of August
10th last of Charles Lane, aif express
messenger ou the Pan-Handle train.
The murder was committed for the
purpose of robbery. Ferrill secured
SI,OOO iu money from the way safe of
the Adams Express Company. The
verdict carried with it the death pen
alty, which in Ohio is electrocution.
After the trial Ferrill attempted to
commit suicide by smothering himself
to death. He wrapped the bed cloth
ing iu his cell tightly about his head
and turned on his face. When his
purpose was discovered the guards
pulled the clothes off while Ferrill
fought to prevent their removal.
JUDGE JAILS ALDERMAN.
/•
git cur ltr fuses To Testify In Cleveland
Coancllmsnic Bribery Cases.
Judge Wing, of the common pleas
court at Cleveland, 0., Tuesday, or
dered Presidcut D. B. Sheur, of the
city council, sent to jail for contemp.
in refusing to tostify ia the council
manic bribery investigation. lhe
court held that the council committee
bat! full authority to compel witnesses
to answer questions, and tint if they
refused to do so they were guiliv
of contempt. The writ of habeas
corpus sought by Sheur was denia.l.
Two Mew Brooches-
Two kinds of brooches are being
♦vorn by the smart set. One is a Louis
XV. basket filled with flowers, tba
basket executed In finest of gold cord
work, and the massing of flowers done
in various colored Jewels. Asa corsage
ornament among lace* it Is a bewitch
ing thing. The price is $75. The other
goes by the name of the ‘‘baroness
pin.” It has a rosaeeae form, with
five short gold spikes acros the top.
each spike pearl headed. Five stones
form the rosaeeae. Two emeralds,
with a centre stone of yellow topaz, li*
directly under the half crown of gold
en spikes, while below these there are
two discs of the finest cut steel, with a
smal diamond in the centre of each.
A blue sapphire pendant pear-shaped,
but medium in size, swings from the
centre below.
Under Blankets.
“And this,” said the summer board
er, as he mopped his brow and listen
ed to the orchestra of the frogs, “is
where one is supposed to sleep under
blankets every night.”
“Fact” said the landlord. “We got
the attic full of ’em."—lndianapolis
Press.
Still More Counterfeiting.
The Secret Service has unearthed another
band of counterfeiters and secured a large
quantity of bogus bills, which are so cleverly
executed that the average person would never
suspect them of being spurious. Things of
great value are always selected for imita
tion, notably, Hostetler's Stomach Bitters,
which has many imitators but no equals for
disorders like indigestion, dyspepsia, con
stipation, nervousness and general debility.
Always go to reliable druggists who have
the reputation of giving what you ask for.
A Surfeit of Duck*.
In Colorado wild ducks have become so num
erous th at they are regarded as a nuisance, and
some counties are offering premiums (or iheir
destruction In nearly all the stares these
wild fowls are protected by game laws.
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freed by an easy, regular move
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affable, gracious, kind. A £ No’
from their mouth comes with
more grace than a ‘Yes’ from
the mouth of one who is con
stipated.”
Such is Voltaire’s testimonial
to the value of Ayer’s Pills.
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