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TIMES
Jfo Want a to See 2/ou /
Property Loss In Birming'
ham Over $300,000.
He has something to tell you about his new cash prices;
and something to show you in the line of
| In Terrific Cyclone Which j THE
Sweeps Over State of
Alabama.
WORK
New Spring Dry Goods, Clothing,
Furnishing Goods,
Shoes. Hats, Etc.
FATALITIES AT IRONDALE
Citizen. Subscribe StO.OOO For the
Immediate Want, of Those Unfor-
tunates Who Lost All by the Fury
of the Tornado.
Birmingham, Ala., March 26.— To
day’, effort, in the ‘tormstnekenpor.
day s eiions iu —
L Birmingham and Vicinity the Be- *« '“* “"S*”'52 SS
.tructlon of Property and I.o.s o owar ^ ^ of the torna do. Troops
Life Wa. Greatest, Though Net.I- the ' devastated district last
boring Towns Were Vl.ite njght an d firemen and policemen con
Suffered severely. tinned to search the mins, but no more
I Birmingham, Ala, March 35.-A ter- dtad bodl06 were found and so far as
. 1. • „ Vpro SPRING PERCALES in all ifi wind and ra instorm passed over I hns i^cn learned up to 0:30 ocloe n
A choice hn O * gu i ta b: e for early spring dresses. Birmingham and vicinity about 101 ad diti0M^death8^1mvej is directing the
figures, stripes and S s '. - ' , c...Window. Also I o’clock this morning, doing much dam- work, estimates that #10.®®° *}?
Shirts and Shirt Wants, just opened. SEE W IM»« Bge the exte nt of which is not yet JX‘ e w t ° Ue ’^mediate wants of ttaesuf.
1 \ /.nrinv thft demoralized condi-1 f Arfirj * The larger par n
■^Dimities-
relief work, estimates i™ ■ .
age, tne - r r, ,. I relieve the immediate wants of the suf
known owing to the demoralized condi- ferers . The larger part of thisJiM al
tion'of telephone and telegra* wireJ ready
A largo number of houses are reported ciUM^^ remal « der and to. more per-
to have been blown down in the south- {cc , ly organlI6 the distribution ^ the
western section of the city, and one re- relie [ funds. As the larger
oort savs that 1 000 persons have been the i oser s are negroes and the poorer
CV The entire police force, fire de- class of whites, the suffering
- e ot - |, m xnffi ss» t XoWg
At this season the housekeeper must look
specially after the baking powder.
As she cannot make good cake with bad egg ,
no more can she make cake that is light, delicious
and dainty with inferior baking P owder * ,
Royal Baking Powder is indispensable for the
preparation of the -.aest food. It imparts that
peculiar lightness, sweetness and flavor noticed m
the finest cake, biscuit, doughnuts, crusts, etc.,
which expert bakers say is unobtainable by the
use of any other leavening agent.
in beautiful array of patterns and color
ings. Lee Allen’s store is the place.
See this new line of—
The " Royal Baker and Pastry
Cook "—containing over 800 most
p TS4t n ?o««y^t C “n. I^i
There .re chesp t»hlnrPO.rdelv.
SSZ&SiS&SS'ffGRj
ROYAL-BAKING POWBEB CO., 100 WILLIAM ST.,'NEW YORK.
and Sirte Caps just opened.
Everything to suit the most fastidious in
Shirts, Clothing, Shoes, etc.
!&£^SlS3HS&l3l MADE AGAINST SPAIN
| blown on. ««, cabin, were hurt. The proporty los^esttmmer^y
N r o e rth e Bhm1ngh n a U “ b a e n r d 0 otC P .nbnrbi ^^“Birminghum and vicinity .tand.
also suffered. The wind blew a fearful a t 18.
gale and rain feel in enormous sheet. Th , Death Li.t RevUed.
and is .till falling. 1118 A i a March 20. — A
when full reports come iu the damage | Birmingham, A a.,
.... . i i, a «n Lcpn v«rv heavy.
fnll ronorts come ill tne aam»K® uirmisuma*. -—-
will be f Shown to have been very heavy. carefn i rev i.ion of the death list up to
, \ fnfftl number ox
_ . every Derby hat in this store
Remember 50 and $3 oo goes at
$1,50 Baoli
No Fake. We have them when you call
-ill be shown to nave uecu - careiui -
I Birmingham, Ala., March 2*.-Th«U““ ^f^edwat 13. several persons THE TOTJ
cyclone which swept over Jones valley, who were missing and had ^ h reI "l!L
in which Birmingham is located, he- dead having shown up. T *“ d I There Are
' tween 9 and 10 o'clock this1 ^edto^"d« wrecked bnild-1 @1,000,000,
Committee Has Received List
From Department.,*
REFUSES TO
sign The trej
Imperial Decree Issued
That Effect.
LEE ALLEN.
Jackson Street.
$30,000,000
tip ■ >
In' Exceis of
njest Single
- - If t ?hoy U MO U d U e l S,"thk''wiinn-l ^ n ’ e u^./oVer $2.0*1,000, That
“£hfnumber of dead is not definitely “nd !ota°l of 18 Mta Bit- of John W. Brock.
known, bnt at ^ f 80 o’^f°ck | m i ng ham and vicinity. The Rowing I ^ A8Tm ratO!f, The
mated at «.B. Of the*® a I ^ complete list of the dead: W I claims committee, of Which
“'r known deadarethe «•
l0 Dr Ug (J c. Chapman, a promtaenf PJf 8 -^ 11 HSdsom'Magg'ie^Blevins, against Spain growing out of tb®i“™^
physician of this city, Willed by f»UJ“g p^stedmoyer, school girl; Lizzie Good- reotion in Cuba, which were fi
debris in Mentor’s store, On Sout 1, 0 ‘ w . Li zzi i Glenn, cook of B.R Hnd- departmen t np to the fifteenth oft
Twentieth street. , . ’ j) ea d at lrondale—John Gardner, I , mon th.
ch^o^the-’.tato^m^atiocom. white; Mamtoand C = e Hunger, ne- The6o ^ aU of Ameri-
Se“rre S fd n e'nceonSou£Hl|ulanda Jeriou.^hnn to BirSh“mrso"nrf ““iethT government, of the United
J ’ A L”?“!!! r A m T erC .od n Twentr.fou?th whom tie expected to die. gtates and Spain undertook to adjust
OTHER POWERS NOT
a anspsp J. 1^, | ™J. A ’ e “ nller ’„ m ? r ^,rt n TwentT-fotirth | whom’twe expected to die. | gtate9 aud gpa i n nn(irrw» .
Vasiia T/TnTJPV’s Wortil. :^ Z, » BL ow ,-:-;rs^:^
X OUX iViOIloy s vv W* “**•
Threo-year-old danghter of B. B. Hud-1 ou» Damage Result.. I - - .1
con, merchant
-aasTSSHeaSS
S2-s---
grocery wants.
grocery want*.
You May Be Sure of Good Quality and Fair Oealmg.
,uu J . .. al- hod cer-
°The*following negroes were killed
Lizzie Glenn.
Carrie Henry.
Lizzie Goodloe.
Carrie HndBon.
Maggie Blevina
J. M. Yero.
Fannie Steadmire.
torm r.MM claims in excess oi
ous Damage Results I RuiZi w jd 0 w of the dentist who was
Jacksonville, Fla., March 28.—A se- kjU d iu a Havana prison, is a
ve?e wfndslorm passed over the city this for ,;5.q00. The^arge.t «ng> claim is
morning, but no very serious dnmngo in
. tnntoK front ifi vet
killed iu a Havana pnw>u, »» »
for 075,000. The largest single claim i.
that of John W. Brock, on ncconnt of
property lo>»e., estimated at $t,16z,014.
morning, um * '-•j
the city or along the water front i. ye - - c iiiqt
reported. Electric light wires were T H|NKS SENTE NCE WAS JUST
blown down and at the corner of Cedar - - -
and Beaver streets the fire department
Ln J ha i'filled OUt.
Fannie Steadmire. had to be called out.
fifin' cook for B. B. Hudson, all I q lineman received a severe bnt no
" 1 f ata i .hock. No fatalities reported.
We make a specialty «' the best set-
vice At a reasonable price.
W. H. GLOVER, Manager.
I coon
I killedf outriRbt.
Amon;; the fatally injured are:
Mra B. H. Thomas and Mrs. W. H.
! Thomas, wife and mother of a promn
nent real estate agent , , .
The storm did its worst damage in
the neighborhood of Avenues I aud J
from Tenth to Thirteenth streets, wreck
ing scores of buildings and creating ter
I rible havoc.
latai shock. *«t«**v—
RECEIPTS SHOW INCREASE
Statement of Iniernal Revenue Cob
lection. For February.
| Washington, March 27. -Tne monthly
I statement of the collections of internal
'* * ling scores oi Duuoiug. •»>*“ — Levenne show that for the month of
. rib ^e«Urefiro and police department. February, 1901, the total collection.
. z-h HaUCP ’Phone No. 123- turned out to render aid. and at this wer0 i^eeo,437, nil increase of 1,850
Under Opem notice. — I this hour are still engaged m taking the 7fil over the corresponding month last
turned out to renuer aiu,
this hour are still engaged in taking the
dead and injured from the debris and
j sending them to undertaking shops and
| Af Pratt City many buildings were
destroyed, and a number of people were
I more or leas injured.
FURNITURE
crockery
AMD
COFFINS
storm Strikes Lynnvllle, Ga.
| Chattanooga, March 25.—The hur
ricane which swept Alabama is said to
have struck the Chattanooga, Romo and
Southern railway, near Lynnvllle, Ga..
a small station south of Rome, and de
stroyed several miles of track. Neither
that line nor the Sonthcrn railway are
able to get any information as to their
trains, all wires being down. The
1 Southern officials state that all wires on
the Alabama Great Southern division
I are down.
wero fu;» iul.ivw.v
761 over the corresponding month laat
year. The collections from the several
sonroes of revenue are giveu as follows!
Spirits *9,677.764. increase *1,3.6,.4-.
Tobacco *4,623.115, decrease
Fermented liquors, f4,*8?,4dtf,
^Oleomargarine, *187,092. decrease.
^Special taxes not elsewhere enumer-
ated, $24,643, increase, ?2,b»9.
Miscellaneous, $2,803,56*3, increwo,
^For^the last eight months the total
collections were $203,100,1<A an in
crease over the corresponding period oi
1900 of $7,191,273.
COTTONAVE
HE SHOT HIS WIFE DEAD
Terrible Tragedy Occurs In Chlcugo
Millinery Store.
Chicago, March 25.—Charles Latti*
mer went into his wife's millinery store
at 500 West Sixty-third street today,
I U|- Man min H UULUR I walked np behind Mrs. Lattimer, who
I III- nlSI’ was examining a hat preparatory to do-
. ,u,*, M well as snffer- fivering it to a customer, and without a
is a nuisance to others a word shot her in the heart, killing her
•r himself. Hi Is inexcnsable when he inatantly . He the n placed tho weapon
* r “ excellent remedies to his own head and fired, inflicting a
can find bo many * . fatal wound. No reason is known for
,t Hndaon'B drugstore/ATtne, if “®l -
ha. aathma.it’. doubtful U he can ob-
DEATH RATHER THAN TRIAL
QftB BBlUtua, *•
tain a perfect enre. Batii’. rather late
for aethma. and there is relief for even
that annoying ailment Stop ending
Stop at Hudion’s ana
and oonghieg. —- —
getl.omcthing tojhelp yon onfc
the tragedy.
No Outbreak at Jlaneme*.
Marseilles, March 27.-Twcnty.flre
hundred men are working on the dock*
this morning, while the atreet car and
dray traffic of the oity H ataost normal
The atrikera nnaucoeaafnlly attempted
to get So drivers to quit. Numerous
jMtrols are on tho street, bnt everything
Young Jinn Near Union I’otnt At.
tempts to llnng lllmself.
Union Point, Ga., March 27.—Ed
White, who livos about 2 miles from
this place, had been charged with the
illicit selling of whisky nnd his case was
soon to bo tried in the county court, but
rather than face the court Whito tied
one eud of a chain about bis neck am,
the other to tho limb of a cherry tree
crowing by a fence and jumped.
His struggles were heard by two ne-
croos who happened to bo passing and
they*got him down. White soon recov
ered and was carried to his home at
Pope Mitchell’s.
SlacArthur Approves Fate Meted Out
to Mando-Ducat Lender*.
Manila, March 27 —General MacAr-
thur upproved of the sentence of t e
military commission which tried t «
leader of tho Philippine secret society
known as the 5Iando-Dncat, who n-ur
dered Qaishnirng. native president of
the town of Calaraba, on Bay lake, and
took his head to the headquarters of the
insurgent general of that district.
Five of the ringleaders of the ^au d o-
Ducats were sentenced to be bft) .^od at
Catamra April 5. one to impriv ument
tor litcimd four others to impruoi-mcnt
f °Captaiu Macanu, of the Thirty-ninth
volunteer infantry, who effected the
arrest and secured the conviction o
these Mando-Ducat u has been
highly complimented tor his w °rk.
Affairs in the Laguna P r °J lD f c ®. “i®
assuming better shape since the ‘“bab-
“tan“have been.largely relieved of the
terrorism which Existed from the insnr-
86 Uatbboae MuTt Slake ,,on<1 -
HaVjSSa, March 27.-Unes G. Rath-
bone.-former director general of posts
in Cabo, who is now out on bail nndtr
charges of fraudulent practices a id
whore rearrest has been ordered becatre
hi«i bondsmen refuse to continue on ms
bond will be given im opportunity to
l^cnre other bondsmen before the orders
for bis rearrest is carried ont.
Situation In the For Hast Becoj
Store "complex and Another
Cloud Appears on Horizon —
of Affairs In Peking.
London, March 27.-The offi
thd Japanese embassy confirm
port that an imperial decree
issued by the court at San Fa,
Lin Kan Yi, the viceroy of Nt
dering that the Manchurian con
should not bo signed March 26, t
fixed by Russia. An intimation
decree hns been telegraphed to
ous governments concerned.
Peking, March 27.—The Cl
not signed the Manchnrian
last night when the time exi
The ministers of the powers
consider that the murder of the
E. Stonehonse of the London M‘ J
society, who was killed by
brigands 14 miles cast of Tien-T
cently, affects the Chinese aitua*
lltically. They are perfectly aw
the country around Sheuan is i
with robbers who are naturally
to foreigners and woold take i
opportunity, a. in tho present
kill one. Mr. Rockbill, the spt-
miesidner of the United btatea,
does not oouRider it safe for p
travel alone in tho country diqjrj
guard, cannot be .applied w H
•ionariee, consequently tuosego:l
the country taktveonsideramo^
The district In which the mi
committed i« policed by forell
therefore China is not official
sible. The foreign troope
catted ‘ihi-Nan of every!
takini" and the people the— --
nant tgainst all th# foreigner
missionaries pttributo the mnrd
leniency of the powers toward
which makes them^oem to
The ministers have ^-^iiy dUXL-
ions on the indemmOps. wmch|
suit in consi^^ably delaying
tiatioua
THE
Schooner Ashore Near Mobile.
Mobile, March 27.-The American
schooner George W. Waltford. Captain
Myers, from Belize, running in the Ja
maica and British.Hondnra.fniittraae.
has gone ashore on Sand Ulmid, ontoide
Mobile bey. and U reported a total loss.
The crew got ashore saf.lv..
Fire In Michigan Mine.
republic, Mich., March 27.-Fire
Started in No. 1 shaft of the Repubho
mtno last night and resisted all efforts
to extinguish it. Today the flames were
rasing through the shaft and no esti-
Sfte of the loss can be made at this
time. The mine ha. been closed, throw
ing 500. men ont of employment. All
the miners escaped.
ropustiit aieei aii Clanton#
Clanton, Ala. March 27,-The Popu
lists held their convention here and
nominated u H. Reynolds for the con
stitutional convention. A resolution
wm offered and adopted oMUng n
_JLs!rfiA citizens to go to the pol
goffered Sd^adopted calUng upon aU
rMUErioCio citizens to go to tho polls and
vote against the convention and for the
£££» Sf the PopnUsJparty.^
vent
e Aid-
New 27,,—
Fang,
this oity EBB^^wseMiieil to I
concerned a lout the seizure of I
riaby Russiv and inclined td
that if other powers allowed |
be forced to port with the *>"'«
result wgoli be , P arti ™ “ |
membermgfft of China Hisj
indicatorthat he felt much i
thought that American inte.
this tinft would be the mo
aid China conld have. He L.,
formatibn about the attitnd*
powers toward China other l
been given in the newspapers. 1
Twelve-Year-Old 5Iuril|
Chattanooga, March
MflSncll, negro, aged 12 j
is t&e youngest prisoner
charged with murder. Ho
bound over to the circuit cou.j
ing Roy Ayers, tho 12-year-olJ •
prominent white citizen in fr> |
opAa house here a few days ! I
murder was unprovolrtd sn ! :
result of the facf that the Mi
had secured possessllTn of I,
wMohhe sought tho ilrrtexou;