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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1904.
NUMBER 41
La Grippe—La Grippe.
CHICAGO, ILL;,
MR. A. B. GIRARDEAU,
Savannah, Ga.
DEAR SIR:—My son, a man bf 30 years,
was attacked with La Grlppe f and believe-
ing it' to be of malarial origin, took .your
Johnson's Tonic as directed for Chills and
Fever. The result was he escaped the Fever
which follows the severe aching, and was
able to be at work the second day. I was
taken with the disease. Every bone in me
began to ache, and my suffering was great.
I was competed to go home and tq -fced. I
fully expected to be there a week. My‘ son
eld-m e of his. experience and urged meto take
Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic, I did so -
took it with regularity all through the
night—and was agreeably surprised to see j
that no Fever came. I continued until 1 had
taken eight doses—felt weak, and exhausted,
but no fever, and aching disappeared. Next
morning 1 had a good appetite for my
breakfast, and felt quite well, and went to
my business as well as 1 ever was. Since
then I have tried it with like results on two
other cases. Ypurs truly,
' W. >V. CALDWELL,
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The Kind Too Have Always Bought, and which has been
la use ftsr over 30 years, has borne tlio signatnro of
— and has been made under hispsr^
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fire Started In Wholesale Dlitrlct and
Swept Relentlaeily Deeplte the Ef
fort, ef Fire Department—Will Rank
Among Famous American Fire,.
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 8.—The most
destructive' conflagration In the his
tory of Baltimore occurred here yi
torday, raging practically unchecked
during many hours, completely de
stroying scores pf the largest bust
ness bouses In the wholesale dis
trict, involving losses which cannot
yet be.estimated. Owing to the wide
extent of the calamity, it will bo to
morrow before even an estimate can
be made though it is certain that
it has already exceeded 125.000,000.
The Are broke out short)/ before
11 o'clock .In-thii wholesale , dry goods
store of John E. Hurst & Co., on
Hopkins place, in the heart of the
business district, with a s.erles of
loud explosions, which' were heard
In remote parts of the city and
spread with fearful rapidity.
Iif a half of hour, there were
dozen big warehouses In the wholesale
dry goods and notions district burn
ing flerosly.
The entire elty Are department was
•Idled out, but wss utterly powerless
to check the spread of the flames,
which were aided by high winds, and
by noon there were aavag. Are* in
at least thirty big, warehouses and
the conflagration vrkg steadily eating
its way into 'successive blocks east,
north, west and south.
Building after building fell a prey
to the flames, and apparently there
was no check to tre onward sweep of
destruction. '
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Baltimore, Feb. "8.—There was no
sleep for the 700,000 residents of Bal
timore last night because of the'eon-
flagratlon which started Sunday after
noon and at this hour—9 o'clock
m.—Is still raglhg.
So far as known, no lives were lost,,
and. estimates oh the monetary loss
Is now estimated as high as 9200,000,.
000. Some of the most valuable prop-
el^ty In the dry goods, produce, lum
ber, shipping, railroad and financial
district has been destroyed^ notwith
standing the heroic efforts on the part
of the local tire department, reinforce*
by almost numberless firemen from
Washington, Philadelphia, Newark, N.
J., Newark, Del., Harrisburg and New
York city.
The lire Is raging as furlousiy as It
was an hour after It originated in the
cellar of the John E. Hurst company
at Liberty artd Gorman streets. Its
origin Is said to have been from spon
taneous combustion, but no evidence
to this .effect has thus far been se
cured. 7
* Area of Fire District.
JAPS ARE VICTORIOUS
OVER RUSSIAN BEAR
of national repute, Including the
buildings of Alexander Brown & Sons,
the Continental Trust company, the
Union Trust company, the Atlantic
Trust company, the offices of the Bal
timore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania
Ro!!t r h^ c . 0 n7^ le8; 1 Maryl “ d I They Put Several of Czar’a
Southern and Cresapeake railroad, a1 *
eral steamship companies, all the larg* Ships Out Of Business,
est wholesale houses, many of the I ■ ■ — -
principal retail stores and thousands of | RU88IAN VICTORY ON THE YALU.
smaller business establishments. Many
of them carry little or no Insurance, I Private Advices Received at Vladlvo-
and It Is doubtful If many of the in
surance companies ars able to pay*
their losses dollar for dollar and those
that do will probably require time In
which to arrange for the payment.
8tart of the Fire.
The start of the fire was In the base
ment of the Hurst & Co.’s wholesale I Russian volunteer
stock State that Chemulpo, Korea,
Has'Been Occupied by Russian Sol
diers and Marines.'
London, Feb. 10—A special dispatch
from Toklo, dated today, says It
reported that tb(ee transports of the
fleet, conveying
dry goods house. After burning for Shout 2,000 troops, have been capfur-
ten minutes or so, there was a loud by the Japanese off the Korean
explosion from the Interior of the'I coast.
building as the gasolene. tank used
for tho engine In the building let go.
Immediately the Immense structure
collapsed, sending destruction to ad
jacent buildings In all directions and
putting tho Are at once beyond the
control of the firemen.
The first attempt at dynamiting was
in the large building or Strong, Cater
& Co., but It failed to collapse and at
tention was turned to the building at
the southwest corner of Charles and
German streets, where , six charges of
dynamite, each charge containing a
hundred pounds, were exploded.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 10.—Some oi
the newspapers here print extras
claiming a Russian victory at Port Ar
thur. Three Japanese warships and
four torpedo boats are reported to
have been seriously crippled. One
reports says the Japanese battleship
8blkishima was sunk.
The people are demonstrating, but
there Is no official confirmation of the
report and the announcement Is dis
credited. •
Vladivostok, Feb: 10.—Private tele-
The tremendous force of the explo- eram8 recelTed here roport com '
.a. > - I ntnln mill r\f 111n TonanAnn Nn A
slons tore out the massive granite col
umns that supported the building and
left ft with apparently no support, but
the walls failed to collapse.
They stood until the flames had
crossed Charles street, and bad eaten
Into the block between Charles and
Light streets.
The Are then communicated to
row of buildings on south Charles
street between Gorman and Lombard
ah Hji
pleto rout of the Japanese by the Rus
sians on the Yalu river.
These advices also claim that Che
mulpo, Korea, has been occupied by
Russian soldiers and marinas.
streets and all those places, occupied
St. Petersburg, Feb. 10.—No further
detalle of tho fighting off Port Arthur
have been made public here beyond
the offlolal bulletins.
Telegrams from abroad Concerning
the attacks have been recelvbd.
principally by wholesale produce and! newspaper dispatches over the Siberi
an dealers, were quickly destroyed.
Carrollton Hotel In Flames.
-The area of the Are district extends
from Liberty street on tbe west, to
Jones Falls on the east, a distance'ot
about three-quarters of a mile, and
from Fayette to Pratt streets north
and south, a distance of four city
blocks. Included In this territory
The recent marriage 1
of a couple of cripples,
each having only half
the proper comple
ment of arms
and legs, was
noted by- the
press as a "con
nubial curios- i
ity.” But who >
'notes the mar
riages which
occur daily in
which both par
ties are cripples ,
in health. '
'Crippled health
means, as a rule, in-
sufiirient nutrition,
and lack of nutrition ,
points. to disrate of'
the stomach and di
gestive and nutritive
tract. Doctor Pierce's \
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stomach and
Shortly before midnight the Carroll-
timore street was out;ot exiateuco I
most before It was realized they were
on Ore. For a time It was hoped the
Are could be kept from crossing tbe
north, side of Baltimore street and the
firemen made a desperate stand. The
cftoif w'as useless, however, nnd.spon
the tall,.narrow buildings,of Mullln’s ]
.hotel ptaen to show tongues of flame. [
an line have been stopped and the
telegraph office refuses to accept pri
vate messages for the Far East ex
cept over the Persian line.
Scepticism Is expressed In aertain
quarters that the full extent of the
Russian losses has not been given
out, but In government circles the of
ficial bulletins are accepted as accu !
rately representing the extent of i
disaster,- the-general expression being
that the Russian authorities did not'
the remainder of the buildings be-1 expect e * rly euccesses, especially at
tween Sharpe and Liberty streets were I se “‘‘
tuickly ablaze and the Are began Its , T he , " hoIe clty anxiously awaited
march to the north. Iast nlsht for official news. Extraor-
In an Incredibly short time tbe en- dlnary 8cenes werc witnessed in and
tlrwiouth side of Fayette, street bad around th e newspaper offices and
added Its material to tho roaring I crowd of people literally besieged the
flames. Down Fayette and Charles ministry of the Interior, where the Of-
streets they swept, and In a twinkling ** clal Messenger is published, smart
'the building occupied by Putts & Co., I carriages driving up In quick succcs-
on the corner, was doomed. I Fion an< l the highest and lowest of the
Seeing that nothing could save It, It | inhabitants waiting In the ante room
was decided to destroy the building I or camping in tbe snow-covered
with dynamite In tho nope ow prevent- street waiting patiently far Into tbe
lng tbe Are from crossing Charles morning for the numbers containing
street The explosion was successful, I the official bulletins. The text ot
but-the effort failed. The entire cor- these communications had leaked out
ner collapsed Instantly, but this ha< I among the newspaper men, but as tbe
apparently no effect on the progross law forbids publication of such docu-
of tbe Are, for almost before the sound I ments .until they have appeared in
of the falling walls bad died away the Offlolal Messenger, tbe editors had
tbe buildings on toe east side of to wait until tbe government organ
Charles and 8t. Paul streets were printed the news before starting their
doomed. own oVeoses.
It was a desperate but fotlle at- The Associated Press represent*-
tempt to prevent tbe Are going further * ,ve < calling on a well known editor,
found him surrounded by a throng of
one was iou reet long, 52 «et in beam
and had a depth of hold of 20 feet.
Tho Varlag armament consisted of 12
8-Inch quick-firing guns; 12 12-pound
er quick-firers; eight 3-pounders; 2
l-pounders and 8 torpedo tubes, two
of which were submerged. *
The Korletz was built In Stockholm.
She was of steel and was 208 feet In
length, 35 feet beam, 1,433 displace
ment and 1,600 Indicated horse power.
Her speed was 13 knots. The arma
ment of the Korletz consisted of two
8-Inch breechloaders, one 6-Inoh
breechloaders, four 4.7-lnch 1 quick-
flrers, two 8-inch fir were, two torpedo
tubes.
Reserves Held Ready.
New York, Feb. 10.—All the mem
bers of the naval reserves were com
manded bto remain at their present
abodes so that they can be found ready
when It Is decided to call them out,
says a dispatch to Tbe Times from a
Russian correspondent, who adds that
one company, of every regiment of
guard troops In the districts of St.
Petersburg and Moscow is to be ssnt
to the Far East.
Cabling from Moscow, a Times cor
respondent says:
Russian military men do not conceal
their satisfaction at the succesa of
Russia’s five months delay. They de
clare their country today Is ready for
contingencies which would have been
awkward a few months ago. They
appear to be satisfied that Japan
never can succeed In forcing Russia’s
land position, even though she cornea
out uppermost In tht naval campaign.
Japan’s Fleet Returned.
London, Feb. 10.—A dispatch to the
Central News from Port Arthur sayd
the Japanese fleet returned there
Tuesday afternoon and again bom
barded the Russian fleet and forts
but that it soon withdrew.
The losses to tbe Russians, the dls-
patoh says, was small. During the
firing a Japanese cruiser grounded.
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Many Buildings Dynamited.
Building after building jras dyna
mited but it' was of no avail, and the
lire proceeded steadily onward. The
new court house was one ot the build
ings ibst became a prey to tbe fire
about this hour.
All of the buildings of the Balti
more newspapers. Including tbe off!
cea of The Associated Press were de
stroyed by midnight Several of the
publishers arranged Immediately to
have their editions printed on the
presses of the Washington papers.
These editions, containing full and
accurate accounts of The fire arrived
here early this morning and were de
livered to their regular customers.
All electric power * has been de
stroyed and no,street- cars are run
ning.
Baltimore, Feb. 8.—'Tho News-Union,
In lta editorial today says:
. "Acres of buildings, covering terri
tory more than half a mile In length
and from three to six blocks In width,
were destroyed In Baltimore's great
Are, which started yesterday morning.
No one can tell today the exact ex
tent of the disaster which has now
reachcr great proportions. To haz
ard an estimate of the total loss Is
tolly. The wholesale drugs, produce,
lumber, railroad, shipping, and finan
cial Interests have been destroyed,
notwithstanding heroic efforts on the
part of tho fire department, reenforc
ed by almost numberless firemen from
Washington, Philadelphia, Wilmington,
Newark, N. J., Harrisburg and New
York city.
Starting in tbs wholesale section tbe
fire burned out every wholesale bouse
of noto in the city, swept along
Urougtf '-the Baltimore and Favwtte
fctoeet sections.
officers and prominent citizens Implor
ing him to read to them tho telegram
be had Just received. The editor,
pale with emotton, recited the narra
tive of the bombardment of Port Ar
thur. More people kept coming In
and the editor was compelled to read
It over and over again. The crowds
expressed furious Impatience at tffe
Met that nothing was said abqut In
juries Inflicted upon the Japanese
warships..
The Intense Indignation with which
the news of ‘‘The stab in the back In
flicted by Japan” was received hero
seems to bo general throughout the
Russia*. The whole empire Is Area
by the war fever.
The state of feeling here was illus
trated at the theaters last night when
people demandedthe-national iyithem.
JAPAN WINS FIRST BLOOD.
Na<ral Engagement Occurs In Which
Russia Loses.
Toklo, Feb. 10.—The news has been
received hero and confirmed that the
Russian cruisers Varlag and Korletz
•wve been, destroyed bv the Jaoanese
fleet at Chemulpo.
The cruiser Varlag, wblcK was built
at Cramps sblp yard, Philadelphia, In
1893, was of steel and unsheathed.
Sho was of 6,500 tons displacement,
and her Indicated horse power was
20,000. On her speed trial she made
24 knots per hour for eight hours.
Japanese Minister Speaks of Reoent
Naval Engagements.
London, Fob. 10.—“We wero slow In
negotiating so wo aro making up for
lost time by quickness In action,” said
Baron Hayashl this morning.
"TJ10 engagements at Port Arthur
and Chemulpo wero merely In accor
dance with plans'Iqng matured. As
soon as our forces are landed In Ko
rea I look for an Important fleet ac
tion at Port Arthur. The Russian
vessels aro not likely to give up tho
advantage gained by being under the
cover or their land batteries. By
going to tho Chinese side, however,
the Japaneso fleet, by high angle-firo, a .
can drop In shells which should make ^ ■
It very uncomfortable for the Russian
ships lying moored close to ono an
other. Thereby It Is hoped to drive
out Viceroy Aloxleff’s forces. Possi
bly, llko Admiral Corvera, he may
anticipate fate and come Into the open
of bis own accord. The present
events merely go to show the utter*,
uselessness of Port Arthur from a
strategetlc viewpoint.
Dealing with Secretary's Hay note
to tho powers on subject of pre
serving the Integ: .. ..f China, Baron
Hayashl said:
"The neutrality of China was first
suggested by my government and we
received assurances that Chlneso neu
trality would be observed, Japan will
certainly -tgreo most heartily to Sec
retary Hay's proposition, which ap
pears chiefly to be duo to tho auspr-
cion that Russia might find pretext
for International action cgalnst China.
If, however, the Unulted Statca and
other powers contemplate the neu
trality of Manchuria, the caso becomes '
complicated. So long as there are
Russian troops In Manchuria, Japan
cannot regard It as neutral territory.
1 scarcely think the United fttates.
Great Britain or any othor power,
would he willing to drlvo the Russians
out of Manchuria, however, much they
might Insist that Manchuria Is part ot
neutral China. Soy while we are an
xious to assist in assuring the neu
trality of China proper w# have ever/
Intention of waging an . ggresslve land
campaign in Manclu,: la Itself. Hav
ing resorted to arms', wo shall proba
bly go further than our modest d«-'
inands made durli g the negotiations.'*
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SUPREME MANIFEST.
Autocrat of All the Russlas Issues
Note to Subjects.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 10.—The offi
cial messenger this morning contains
the following, "supreme manifest:”
"By the graco of God, we Nicholas
HI, emperor and autocrat of all the
Russlas, etc., make known to all our
loyal subjects: ,
la J>ur callnUyda fnr tk. mstntvC-,.
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