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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. 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