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DISCHARGE ACT IS APPROVED Southern Cotton Association Up holds President Roosevelt IN BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR .Second Day's Session of Annual Mect i ing Full of Interest—Two Gov ernors Make Addresses. * Speeches of two distinguished south ern governors were the teatures of the sessions of the Southern Cotton Association at Birmingham, Ala., Fri day. Governor-elect Hoke Smith ot Georgia spoke during the morning, and his words, urging united effort in seeking to control the cotton situ ation, were enthusiastically received. Former Governor D. C. Heyward spoke in the afternoon, and his re marks were along the same line, al though, as president of the Southern Immigration and Industrial Associa tion, his remarks were move general than those of other speakers. Joseph H. Hoadley was introduced in the afternoon and spoke of the workings of the New York cotton ex change. He said there were honest men on the exchange, strange as it might seem to some of his hearers, but he added that there were also human vultures up there, whose in terests were entirely selfish. A feature of the afternoon session was the adoption by a unanimous ris ing vote of a resolution which com mends President Roosevelt for the stand he has taken in the Brownsville matter. A special dispatch will be sent the president to this effect. The resolution was presented by C. R. Mc- Creary of Opelika, Ala. A largely increased attendance was present at the opening of the second day’s session. When President Harvie .Jordan called the convention to order he immediately proceeded to intro duce the first speaker of the morning program, Governor-elect Hoke Smith of Georgia. Mr. Smith’s subject was “Practical Means of Making Lint Bring the Far mers a Just Price.” Mr. Smith said, among other things: “Realizing how important it is that the farmer should receive for his lint cotton a just price, we should find its true value, and we should seek to remove as far as possible those influences which cause fluctuations in the market and which depreciate the price while it is in the hands of the farmer. “Lint cotton is the great raw ma terial from which the people of the world are clothed. “Lint cotton must be sold at a price at which it can successfully compete with wool, flax and silk as the raw material out of which clothing and similar goods are to bo made. “The true farmer should be inform ed as to the true value of his cotton. He should reach a decision as to the price it is worth, and he should not sell until he receives that price. We must get away from the practice of letting the man who has the cotton to sell leave to th e man who pro poses to buy the exclusive right of determining what he will give for the produce. The man who raises the cotton should fix the price at which he will sell.” F. H. Hyatt of Columbia, S. C., treasurer of the Southern Cotton As sociation, wa3 the second speaker of the morning. His subject was “How Shall We Finance the Cotton Crop.” An address by S. A. Witherspoon of Meridian, Miss., on “Probable Prof its to Stockholders in a Corporation to Buy and Sell Cotton and the Best Plan to Operate On,” was the last set address of the morning program. Former Governor D. C. Heyward of South Carolina addressed the con vention on “Best Method of Obtain ing Necessary and Desirable Immi gration for the South.” Friday night’s session was devoted chiefly to business matters. PRtSENT LAW GQUJ tNOUGH. Prominent Hebrews I'rge Jhat Present law Be Not Changed. Features of national interest marked the opening session in Atlanta Tues day morning of the Union of Ameri can Hebrew Congregations. Most strik ing of these was a resolution introduc ed" by Simon Wolf to the following •‘lfcac a message be sent to Speaker Cannon of the house of representa tives, urging in the name cf the union, that no changes he made in the pres ent United States laws on immigra tion.” TROOPS ON THE SCENE Of Disastrous Fire in Beaufort, South Carolina--Negroes of City Threat ened an Uprising. The most disastrous lire in the his tory of Beaufort, S. C., ccourrad Sat urday afternoon. The loss is estimat ed at between $500,000 and $700,000, about one-third covered by insurance. The fire originated in the Darn and stables of F. W. Scheper, cm Bay street, and its spread was rapid, as a high wind was blowing. The water supply failed and efforts to fight the flames were fruitless. They only stopped when they had nothing more to feed upon in the direction in which they were being blown. Among the losers was the city, the town hall and the market being con sumed. The large grocery store of F. W. Scheper was destroyed, as was tho People’s bank, of which Mr. Scheper was president. The bank’s funds and papers were saved. A score of other buildings, both stores and residences, w e re reduced to ashes. For a time it looked as though the whole town would be destroyed. As an aftermath of the conflagration murmurings of negroes Sunday caused apprehension of an uprising, and the authorities at once sought to secure military protection for the city. The mayor telegraphed Col. R. W. Patter son, in command of Fort Screven, Ga., asking for a company of regular troops, to be dispatched to Beaufort for the preservation of order. In re sponse, at 8:35 o’clock Sunday night, forty-five men, fully armed and equip ped for service, arrived under com mand of Captain Joseph Wheeler. The detachment came on the tug Gibbons, and immediately guards were estab lished and patrols formed. The discontent among the negroes was caused by the killing of William Bennett, a negro, by a guard early Sunday morning. Tim negro was dis covered hanging about the ruins of the People's bank, one of the build ings destroyed by the fire. To the challenge of the guard on duty there, no satisfactory response was made, it seems, and the guard fired. The arrival of the United States troops relieved the apprehension of the citizens. The negroes, impressed by the presence of the regulars, ceas ed their hostile demonstrations. civacating flood ai louisville. Ten Thousand People are Homeless and Great Ocim-iqe is Bcinq Done. With the Ohio relentlessly pouring its floods southward and . maintaining a steady rise of an inch an hour, Ken tucky streams contributing their vol umes from the- mountain regions, a high wind blowing up stream all day damaging shipping and preventing the rapid passage of the current, Louis ville, Ky., Sunday faced a flood situa tion tvhich promised to equal before the crest is passed the stage of 1884, the greatest flood ever known to the city. Ten thousand people are home less and are housed in school build ings, warehouses and other structures. Factories in Louisville, Jeffersonville and New Albany are closed, throw ing hundreds of people out of work; stocks of merchandise In the business houses along the river front are ruin ed, much lumber has been washed away and many small houses with their contents toppled over into the water. A conservative estimate of the damage with the crest of tho flood yet due is a quarter of a million dol lars. BUFFALO SWFPI BY GALE. Vessels Torn from Moorings and Grounded and Much Property Destroyed, an hour at times for 18 hours Sat urday night and Sunday irorniug, did $1,500,000 damage to shipping in Buf falo, N. Y. Five large lake liners, wintered ju3t inside the breakwater wall, were torn loose from their mooring and driven aground. Fcr hours the gale swept the wa ter front, tearing awiy every thing that stood in its path. DR. YYOOoKO <Y GLAIMtU BY DLAlll. Well Known South Carolina Divine Passes Away in Columbia. Dr. James C. Woodrow, an eminent divine, died in Columbna, S. C., Thurs day, aged 76. He was once president of the Sodth Carolina university and professor in the theological seminary. He was author of the Woodrow evo lution theory, which involved the southern Presbyterian church In a heated controversy for a score of years. He was a chemist for the con federate government and made pow der in Columbia. TWO DISASTERS DEATH DEALING Rail Horrors in Indiana Take Lives of Many People. EXPLOSION AND COLLISION Car cf Powdzr Set Off ar.d Whole Train Demolished--Passenger and Freight Ccliide and Haiocaust Follows. Big Four accommodation train, No. 3, which left Terre Haute, Ind., at B:3G o’clock Saturday night, was de stroyed by fire by the explosion of a car of powder at. t lie siding of San ford, twenty minutes later. Fifteen persons were killed outright and the death list probably will reach twen ty. with thirty or thirty-five injured. The engine, two coaches aud baggage car of the passenger train were de molished. Two ether bodies were taken frem the wreekagt have .lot been identified. The first intimation people had of the disaster was a shock, which was felt at Terre Haute, and as far as Brazil and as far south as Sullivan. The wires were blown down and it was some time before the Big Four officials in Terre Haute learned of the explosion. Relief trains were csdered from Terre Haute and Paris, til., and the dead and injured were taken from the wreck to noth cities. The work of tho rescuing parties was impeded by tho almost total de struction of the train. A later dispatch says: Twenty-two charred and mutilated bodies have been taken from the smoldering ruins of the passenger train No. 3 on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis (Big Four), wnich was destiey ed by the explosion of a carload of powder as it passed a freight train at Sanford, nine miles west of here, last night. The number of injured will reach at least thirty-five. The entire train was blown from the track, the coaches demolished and the engine hurled 50 feet. The pas sengers either were blown to pieces, cremated or rescued in a more or less injured condition. The full extent of the disaster wa3 revealed at daylight Sunday morning, but the death list will pot be com plete uniil workmen have finished re moving the debris. According to the trainmen of ti e freight, the powder was exploded by the concussion made by the passen ger train, which was slowing down for the station at Sandford. Another theory is that gas escaping from an oil pipe line nearby entered the pow der car and a spark from the pass ing engine ignited the gas. In Frightful Collision. A special from Fowler, Ind., says: At least sixteen pers ons were crusneq or burned to death early Saturday in a collision on the Cleveland, Cincin nati, Chicago and St. Louis railroad between the “Queen City special,” which left Chicago at 11 ’3O Friday night, and a freight train. Ten per sons were seriously injured and sev eral badly hurt. The passenger train was running at a speed of 50 miles an hour. The entire train was destroyed by fire except a private car, and the In dianapolis sleeper. Sevan of the dead have been identified. Eleven of the victims met death in the combi nation coach, and just two of them have been identified, as the bodies were almcst entirely consumed by the flames. With one exception e-very mtmber of the passenger train crew perished. The collision occurred LOO feet from a switch near Fowler. The passen. ger train, in the heavy fog, ran by a telegraphic block signal to stop. The read light was not obeyed. The engine and tender crushed the combination coach, making a mass of wreckage under which the passengers in the car were wedged. Seats were whirled through the roof and it was here that the dead were burned, many of them beyond recognition. The noise of the collision awakened nearly every person in Fowler. Among the first persons to reach the wreck were County Recorder Ray Gillespie and County Auditor Lemuel Ship man. These men secu r e-l hand saws and before the flames had reached the coaches began the work of rescue. Coroner Comley superintended the removal cf the bodies of the identified dead and took charge of the bodies. Saturday afternoon enough frag ments to make eight bodies had been taken out. PRESIDENT A WINNER In Senate W angle Over the Browns ville Atiair--Tillman Roasts Every body and Then Apologizes. Whipped into line by the democratic minority, led by Senator Blackburn, the republicans of the senate Monday morning adopted a modified resolution the Brownsville incident. The resolu providing for the Investigation of the Brownsville Incident. The resolution, which was offered by Mr. Foraker, does not question the "legality or jus tice of any act of the president in connection with the discharge of the three companies of negro soldiers.” The modified resolution was accept able to the democrats and likewise acceptable to the president. The news that the president was telling his friends that he would re gard a vote to table the Blackburn amendment or a vote against it as a vote against himself, gave the less courageous of his party supporters In the senate anew stiffening of the backbone. An almost overshadowing incident of the day was Senator Tollman's speech in reply to Spooner, the re plies by Spooner of Wisconsin aud Carmack of Tennessee, the parliamen tary maneuvers, and party strategy, growing out of the democratic ef forts to force acceptance of the Blackburn resolution endorsing the president. Senator Tillman ran the gamut of oratorical efforts in his spectacular address. He made incursions into ev ery field of fun and fury. He ridiculed his colleagues, he defended lynching for the unnamed crime; he scored his opponents, he blistered his enemies, he pleadd for a solution of the south’s tragic problem, and for some inspired plan that would meet and settle the irrepressible conflict. The speech, as a whole, aroused the ire of the senate, and ended in the South Carolinian making an apol ogy and asking that the portion of his remarks holding up to ridicule his colleagues, he expunged from the rec ord. If he had not done so, the sen ate would have ordered the remarks omitted. Senator Tillman’s introduc tion was undignified, ill-advised and his antics savored of modern burnt cork minstrelsy, but when he launch ed into a defense of the south, and his section’s determination to defend its race integrity and its Caucasian ra cial heritage, he was powerful, con vincing, and rendered dignified by the very force of his conviction. Senator Tillman fully justified his promise that he would add to the gaity of nations and to the amuse ment of his brethren. That little freak of fancy cost him dearly. It led Carmack of Tennessee to deliver one of the most artistic and scholar ly rebukes heard this year in the senate. It provoked Bacon of Geor gia to declare that the gentleman from South Carolina made the United States senate take on the air of a vaudeville playhouse. Few features of the spectacular were missing from the proceedings. TRAIN WRECKED AND BURNFB. No. 88 limited, on Coast Line, Collides With freight and is Destroyed News was received in Charleston, S. C., Monday night of the wreck and destruction of northbound special New York and Florida vestibule train No. 88, Atlantic Coast Line, at 8:20 o’clock at Yemassee, a junction point 59 miles from Charleston. The train went, into an open switch and crashed into the engine of a freight train on the siding. Engineer Johnson of Flor ence, S. C., cn train No. SB, was killed and Engineer Horton and three train hands of the freight were Injured. The train, composed of a baggage car and seven Pullmans, caught fire at once, and all except one car were burned. It was said that there wero only a few passengers north bound on board, and only one wa3 hurt. FX HASGt VI f N St IK COVtR. Members Meet and Decide to Make ( hanq -s in Method* of Dusinesv Tho members of the New York cot ton exchange Monday approved seve ral amendments to the by-laws of the 1 exchange a3 proposed by the board of j governors, and ordered a meeting to; be held lor balloting on the amend ments. NOIL ISMJt BY Hit bOUIHFRN Is Arranged Through firm of .1 P. Morgan and Company. A New York special says: The Southern Railway company has ar ranged to issue through J. P. Morgan (St Cos., $15,090,000 three-year 5 per cent notes, according to an announce ment made Monday. His Sudden Inspiration. "I know you are a busy man,” be gan the caller, “and I want to occupy your time only a few minutes. I am handling an edition of the complete work of Bawlzack, which Is so cheap that the poorest man on earth can afford to ” “It’s just the thing I am looking for,” interrupted Ardup, “only I want an edition de luxe, printed on vel lum, illuminated by hand, bound in Turkey morocco and gold and sell ing for SSOO a volume. Have you got that? No? Then we cant do any business. I'm awful sorry. Good day.”—Chicago Tribune. REALIZE THIS? “The time when two heads are bet ter than one,” remarked the Observ er of Events and Things, “is wneu there is nothing in one of the heads —Yonkers States man. Dutfii'K* C!fnnot II- Cnr-A by loco 1 applications a9 they cannot reach the diseased portion of theear.’ Tlierels only one way to cure deafness, aud that is by consti tutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an inflamed condition ot tno mucous lining of the Eustaohlau Tube. When this tube lulu flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, and when It is entirely closed Deafness is tho result, and unless 1 he inflam mation can be taken ou: and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Niue cases out of ten ure caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars lor any case of Dettfiiess(caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure, bend for circulars tree. F.J.Chknky & Cos., Toledo, O. Bold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. Never hurt those whom you love; they will avenge themselves after death. —Carmen Slyva (Queen Eliaar beth of Roumania). To Cure i Cold in One Take Laxative Broino Quinine Tablet*, Druggists refund money it it fails to cur*. E. W . Grove’s signature is on each box. -sc. “Hip! Hip! Hurrah!” “Hip! Hip! Hurrah!” Is the mod ern phrase. The “hip!” and “hur rah!” do not seem to have come to gether before the nineteenth century. In the eighteenth century “hip!” amounted to just “hi” or “hullo?* while “hurrah” was then usually “huz za!” It is like the Cossack shout “ora!” but it is supposed to have b°en a German cry of the chase, adapted by the German soldiers to war, and 'borrowed from them by the English, perhaps first of all at the time of the thirty years’ vyar; “hiirsa!" is said to have been the battle cry of the Prussians in the war of libera tion (1812-1813). Still, the curious fact that seventeenth and eighteenth century writers call “huzza!” a sail or’s shout lends support to the con jecture that It may really have been the hoisting cry, “hlssa!Kansas City Journal. Something of a Psychologist. When Jenkins received an auto graph copy of his friend Clement's latest book on the “Genetic Theory of Knowledge,” he immediately sat down and acknowledged the gift, saying that he “anticipated great pleasure in its perusal.” “Why didn’t you read It first?” ask ed his wife. “Then you could havq said something much nicer than that. ’ "Ethel,” said Jenkins, as he gave Clement’s book a conspicuous place on the library table, “I have a feeling that this is one of the times when my forethought -would be better than my hindthought.” WHITE BREAD Makes Trouble For People With Weak Intestinal Digestion. A lady In a Wis. town employed a physician, who instructed her not. to eat white bread for two years. She tells the details of her sickness, and she certainly was a sick woman. “In the year 138 7 I gave out. from over work, and until 1 901 I remained an invalid in bed a great part of the time. Had different doctors, but nothing seemed to help. I suffered from oerebro-spinal congestion, fe male trouble and serious stomach and bowel trouble. My husband called anew doctor, and after having gone without any food for 10 days the doctor ordered Grape-Nuts for me. I could eat the new food from the very first mouthful. The doctor kept me on Grape-Nuts, and the only medicine was a little glycerine to heal the alimentary canal. “When I was up again doctor told me to eat Grape-Nuts twice a day and no white bread for two years. I got well in good time, and have gained In strength so I can do my own work again. “My brain has been helped so much, and I know that the Graoe- Nuts food did this, too. I found I had been made ill because I was not fed right, that is, I did not properly digest white bread and some other food I tried to live on. “I have never been without Grape- Nuts food since ar.d eat it every day. You may publish thi3 letter If you like, so it will help someone else,’* Name given by Po3lum Cos., Battle Creek, Mich. Get the little hook, ‘‘The Road to Wellville,” In pkgs.