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VOLUME XVI RAGING ELEMENTS PLAYING HAVOC Snow. Icy Blasts and Rain Do Untold Damage. COLD WAVE IS WIDE SPREAD Sunny South Gets Heavy Touch of Winter Weather and Disaster Follows. Roaring storms, continued liigli winds and heavy precipitations of rain and snow have been conditions in many of the states of the south at the close of the past week. Little damage was done by the winds, though it is feared that in some localities young crops have been stunted or kill ed by the frost or cold. At many points, particularly in eastern Ken tucky, eastern Tennessee and Vir ginia, the temperature was lower than known in a decade at this time of year. In Kentucky Saturday reports were received by the weather bureau from fifteen cities or towns and in most of them the minimum temperature of Fri day ranged between 30 and 34 degrees. The maximum for the entire state was 38 degrees at Earlington, in Kentucky. The coldest section was the blue grass, in and around Lexing ington. This is the best fruit grow ing part of the state, and here, it is feared, there was damage by frost, not only to fruit, but to vegetable and to bacco crops. In the mountains of Kentucky the snowfall was unbroken and fourteen inches were reported at Loudon and Middlesboro. All the streams thero were bankfnll and general prepara tions were being made to vacate the homes in the valleys before the thaws and the expected floods should swoop down upon them. There has been much suffering among the poor mountain eers. Around Louisville there has been no damage of cousequeuce. GEORGIA COTTON KILLED. It is probable that much of the cot ton orop in the southern part of Geor gia, particularly about Americus, will have to be replanted on account of the damage done by the severe weather of the past few days. leather Forecaster J. B. Marbnrv at Atlanta received reports from that section Saturday indicating that the cotton crop had fared badly at the hands of both rain and wind. The rain, it seems, first put the fields in snch condition that when the high winds of the past day or so came the tender plants were blighted. Prof. Marbury is of the opinion that the fruit crop is still safe, but fears that the young vegetation in many sections of the state may have suffered considerably. ‘‘This is one of the most continuous wind storms that I have ever known,” said Mr. Marbury. “For more than thirty-six hours the wind blew at a rate varying little from forty and forty five miles an hour. It even reached a velocity of fifty miles an hour, but this did not last for any length of time.” According to the weather bureau the temperature for the past few days has rather encouraged frost, but the high winds prevented it. Had there been no wind it is more than probable that the entire state would have been vis ited by a killing frost, which would have laid waste vast sections. SNOW STORM IN OHIO. Saturday North Ohio was swept by a furious storm of wind and snow that prostrated telegraph and telephone wires in all directions. The wind came from the north and during the early hours of the day reached a ve locity of 55 miles and hour. AH telegraph communication was severed between Cleveland and points east and south. A few wires were patched up to the west, but even these were reported to be working badly. In some respect the storm was the worst experienced during the entire winter. The heavy wet snow came down in blinding sheets and the streets in the city were covered with slush. HEAVY LOSSES IN PITTSBURG. Conservative estimates of the total damage in the Pittsburg, Pa., district from high water in the Monongahela river is between 32,000,000 and 83,000,- 000. Fifty thousand workers are suf fering from enforced idleness. While there have been greater floods at this point, there was never one that caused no much financial loss and discomfort. This was‘due to the denser population, caused by the recent rapid growth of the two cities, and to the fact that all the manufacturing plants on the river banks were in active operation, most of them working night and day, until the rising water put out the fires and drove the workers to higher ground. The loss to thi railroads entering Pittsburg from flood, landslides wreck ed bridges, heavy snow and the inter ference with traffic is roughly esti mated at $1,000,000. €!)c Jlloutijommj ilium tin*. SUICIDED TOGETHER. Disgraced Bank Officials End lh;ir Existence With the Same Weapon. Charles Brown and E. L. Canby, president and cashier respectively of the First National back of Vancouver, Washington, which was closed Satur day by the comptroller of the curren cy, committed suicide Saturday night two inilee from the city, by shooting themselves with a revolver. Their bodies were found Sunday morning lying together in a small clump of bushes about one-half mile north of the Columbia school, which is situated on the outskirts of the town. They both used the same weapon, and Canby evidently died first, as the revolver was in Brown’s hand. It is evident that Canby put the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth and blew the top of his head off. Brown then took it and shot himself in exactly the same way, falling over Canby’s body. The fact that Brown’s bicycle and an umbrella belonging to Canby were found a short distance out of town led to the belief that the two bank of ficials had taken their lives. Early Sunday morning a searching party started out and alter several hours’ hunt the bodies were found. Friday evening, Cauby, upon being told by Bank Examiner Maxwell that the bank would not be permitted to open Saturday, went out in the yard behind the bank and attempted to shoot himself. His revolver failed to explode, although all fivo chambers were loaded. After failing to shoot himself Canby went back into the bank and he and President Brown left together, the latter taking his re volver. When Examiner Maxwell confronted the bank officials with the shortage of 881,000, which he had discovered, both men admitted their guilt. It is admitted that Brown and Canby had been speculating in stocks. Beside Brown’s body there was found a pack age containing 825 and a note saying that the money belonged to his daugh ter. Upon Oenby’s body the following brief note was found: “My Dear Wise —I feel what I am about to do is for the best. Forgive me if you can and try to live for our di »r children. God bless yon all. Good-bye. Ned.” Awhile Bank Examiner Maxwell, who is now in charge as receiver, has made no official statement, it is known that the bank has loaned a large sum of | money on insufficient security. Ac- I cording to his report to the comptroll j er of the currency there is a shortage | of 881,000 in the hank’s accounts and i it is understood that a considerable ! portion of this was loaned to Brown and Cauby on their personal notes. About a year ago the bank reduced its | capital stock from 8100,000 to 850,- 000. At that time about one-half of the so-called bad assets was “charged off.” RICHARDS ROASTS CARTFR. Solicitor General Defends Mis Position Before the Supreme Court. A Washington special says: Solici tor Genoral Kichsrds filed in the Unit ed States supreme court Saturday a ! reply to the motion made by the eonn | sel of Captain Carter, to strike from the tiles of the court as “irrelevant and scandalous” the solicitor general’s brief in opposition to Carter’s motion to be admitted to bail pending the de cision of his appeal in bis habeas cor pus proceedings. Mr. Richards denies that he went I outside the record in the case, and as serts that he always tries to observe j strictly the rules of the court requir ing counsel to confine himself to the facts of record in the discussion of a case. He sets forth that Carter’s ap plication for bail is supported by af fidavits of 1 lysicians to the effect that , the prisoner’s hralth is impaired, and I this, Mr. Richards says, is not only entirely outside the record, but is ! false, Mr. Richards also says that Carter’s | counsel went outside the record in the appeal case in averring that Carter is an innocent man and wants to be re leased in order to be tried in the crim inal case in Georgia. He adds that to demonstrate the falsity of this last j statement it was necessary for the so : licitor general to state what the gov ernment has done in prosecuting the indictment against Carter and others in the federal courts of Georgia. - AGGY IN A NEW HOME. Noted Prisoner Is Transferred to Pri. vate Residence In Manila. A Manila dispatch says : Aguinaldo has been removed from the Malacan ang Palace to a private residence, No. 56 Solano street. The guard placed over him has been modified. General MacArthnr informed the representative of the Associated Press that the effect of Agninaldo’g address to the Filipinos wonld undoubtedly be beneficial. j Aguinaldo composed his address without assistance. The otiginal was in Tagalog. It was afterwards trans lated into Spanish. ML VERNON. MONTGOMERY COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY. APRIL liiol. AGUINALDO ISSUES HIS MANIFESTO Long Lxpected Document Is Made Public. IT IS AN APPEAL FOR PEACE Tells His Countrymen the Time Has Come For Cessation of Hostilities. The following is Aguiaaldo’s nd dress to the Filipino people, made public at Manila Friday evening: “I believe 1 am not in error in pre suming that the unhappy fate in which my adverse fortune has led me, is not a surprise to those who have been fa miliar with the progress of the war. The lessons taught with a full mean ing and which have recently come to my knowledge, suggest with irresisti ble force that a complete termination of hostilities and lusting peace nre not only desirable, but absolutely essen tial to the welfare of the Philippine islands. “The Filipinos have never been dis mayed at their weakness nor have they faltered iu following the path pointed out by their fortitude and courage. The time has come, how ever, in which they and their advauce along this path to be impeded by an irresistible force which, while it re strains them, yet enlightens their mimls and opens to them another course, presenting them the cause of peace. This cause has been joyfully embraced by the majority of my felloiv country men, who have already united around the glorious sovereign banner of the United States. In this banner they repose their trust and belief that un der its protection the Filipino people will attain all those promised liberties which they are beginning to enjoy. “The country has declared uninis takably in favor of peace. So be it. There has been enough blood, enough tears and enough desolation. This wish cannot be ignored by the men still in arms if they are animated by a desire to serve our noble people,which has thus clearly manifested its will. So do I respect this will now that it is known to me. “After mature deliberation I reso lutely proclaim to the world that I can not refuse to heed the voice of a peo ple longing for peace, nor the lamen tations of thousands of families yearn ing to see their dear ones enjoying the liberty and the promised generosity of the great American nation. “By acknowledging and accepting the sovereignty of the United States throughout the Philippine archipela go, as I now do, and without any res ervation whatsoever, I believe that I am serving thee, my beloved country. May happiness be thine.” To signalize this important step in the pacification of the country, Gener al MacArthur orders tho release, on swearing allegiance to the United States, of 1,000 insurgent prisoners. EFFECT WILL BE GOOD. It is believed by the administration that the manifesto of Aguinaldo will have a decidedly good effect both in the Philippines and in this country. It will take some tune for its dissem ination among the Filipinos, but it is expected to be of considerable service, and to make more rapid tho improve ment in the situation which set in some time ago and has become quite marked of late. Especial gratification is felt at the unreserved tone of the document, and tho full acceptance it indicates of American rule. This, it is felt, will bring to the support of the government many Filipinos, who, while wishing for peace, have hesi tated to assist the Tuft commission. In this country it is expected to re duce the criticism of the administra tion, and to cause less discussion of the war in the islands, and more con sideration of the important matter of the best administration to be evolved for their government. It is to this work that the Taft commission is now bending all its energies. Aguinaldo, now that he has accepted American sovereignty, probably will be given considerably more liberty than be has enjoyed heretofore. His services will be used as far as possi ble in the pacification of the islands. RIPLEY’S FATE WITH JURY. Testimony Is Completed and Judge Makes Lengthy Cherge. At Frankfort, Ky., Thursday, Judge Cantrill delivered his instructions to the jnry in the case of Captain Gar nett Ripley, the Goebel assassination suspect, and argument of the case was begun. The instructions are practically the same as those given in the c.se of Caleb Powers. The first holds that the defendant must be found guilty if the charge that Ripley conspired with Taylor and others to procure Goebel's death, as alleged, has been proven to the satisfaction of the jury. STORM IN ALABAMA Great Damage Done In Selma, Huntsville and Other Places In the State. One of tho most disastrous wind storms in that section of the stato swept over Selma, Ala., Thursday morning between 2 and 3 o’clock. The wind came with fearful force from tho south and did a great deal of damage to the wholesale grocery houses on Water street. The wind tore off’ the roofs of tho majority of these stores and they were flooded with the rain which followed, ruining many thou saucl dollars’ worth of groceries. A conservative estimate places tho loss in the city iu tho neighborhood of 830,000. Freight, train No. 73, on the Soutleru, betweou Helma and Mobile, rnu*#n to a pile of sand five feet deep, which had been washed ncross tho track t»y tho rains following the puss ing cyclone. Tho engine was turned over and Engineer H. G. Ellwood was almost instantly killed, n negro fireman named Killian was seriously if not fatally injured. A special to The Birmingham Age- Herald from Gadsden and Gunters ville stated that a severe windstorm swept those two places Thursday morning from 1 to 2 o’clock, doing considerable damage. Three churches were almost totally destroyed, as well ns about twelve cottages. The storm played havoc with shade trees and telephone wires at Hunts ville. The Huntsville cotton mill was unroofed by the wind and operation of the plant was delayed for a time. Small frame buildings in various parts of the city were more or less damaged. At Carrollton, Ala., the wind un roofed the jail, courthouse, several residences and a church. The drug store of N. B. Upchurch and a large mill were demolished. BRITONS PAY DLARLY Enormous War Debt Calls Fir Many flillions to Even lip the Score. A London special says: Tho ex ceptional interest taken in this year’s budget statement was evinced by the crowded condition of the house of commons wliou it reassembled Thurs day. The attendance of members was unusually lurge, while the appearance of the galleries testified to the deep interest of tho public in the fresh tax ation proposals required to meet the expenditure for 1901-1902, which, ac cording to a parliamentary paper, to tals £187,142,000 ($835,710,000), in clusive of war charges, this being an increase of £32,901,000 ($164,005,000) over last year. The national balance sheet for 1901- 1902, as shown by the same paper, stands as follows: Revenue, £130,385,- 000; expenditures, £185,592,000; net deficit, £53,207,000. The budget adds 2 pence to the in come tax, making it 1 shilling2pence. It does not provide an increase in the duties on beer, wine or tea, spirits or tobacco. A duty of 4s2d per cwt will be imposed on refined sugar. A duty of 2s per hundred weight is imposed on molasses. West Indian sugar is iut excepted. A duty of 1 shilling and 8 pence per hundred weight is im posed on glucose. A shilling per ton duty is imposed on exported coal. Raw sugar polarizing below 98 is to pay a duty gradually diminishing, ac cording to each degree of polarizaiion to a minimum of two shillings at a polarization of 70. The total expected yield of the new taxation is £11,000,000, of which £2,100,000 will be from coal. The chancellor of exchequer asked for permission to extend the present borrowing on consols. SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS Brought Out By Assassination of n Tennessee Physician. A Memphis special says: Sensa tional developments have been made iu the Dr. Scruggs assassination case and strong evidence is being accumu lated which may uncover a plot with a number of persons implicated as the result of a political feud in the com munity in which the physician lived. J. W. Skinner, a wealthy dairyman, anil John Phillips, a carpenter, are be hind the bars charged with the deed, and other equally sensational arrests may follow. APPEALS ARE USELESS. Itinerary of President to the West Cannot Be Changed. A Washington dispatch says: The ‘ itinerary of the president’s tour to the I Pacific coast is now complete and no , further appeals for changes in route ;or strips will be consideted. Tho ; party will spend Sunday, June 2d, at Salt Lake City, as originally planned. Liquor Dealers Go to Wall. i W. H. Thomas A Son, wholesale liquor dealers at Louisville, filed ape , tition in bankruptcy in the United i States court Thursday. They owe I 3500 532.14, and ric assets are listed. CHINESE MINISTER BANQUET ORATOR i rir. Wu Ting Fang Guest of Charlotte. MAKES INTERESTING ADDRESS ' Shows What a Wide Field His Country Offers For American Cotton Goods. Mr. Wu Tiug Fang, Chinese minis ! ter, was the guest of honor at n din ner at Charlotte, N. C,, given Thurs i day night by the Southern Manufac turers’ club, of which Mr. 1). A. Tompkins, a member of tho United ! Stntes industrial commission, is presi dent. Ho spoke on the cotton goods trade in China. Senator John L. Mc- Laurin, of South Carolina, was also a guest of the club, and read a paper on /‘Our Present Condition In the South and Our Duty For the Future.” Mr. Ellison A. Suiythe, president of the I’clzer Manufacturing Company, spoke on “The Question of the Hour, or tho Need of au Early and Peaceful Settlement of the Oriental Question from the Standpoint of a Southern Manufacturer,” Dr. Charles W. Dabney, president of the University of Tennessee, spoke on “The Possibilities in Cotton.” Among other prominent guests was Senator Pritchard, of South Carolina. In his address at the dinner Thursday night Mr. Wu gave a general review of tho trade conditions between the south and the orient and of China’s import ance as n market for southern goods. After quoting from advance sheets of tho consular reports for February, 1901, he said in part: "Large ns is the amount of Ameri can cotton goods which China imports every yeur, it forms only one-sixth of the quantity she buys from abroad. Indeed, only the outskirts of the coun try have been entered. It is well known that the bulk of the American goods is shipped to Manchuria and the province of Chi Li. Now Manchuria has a population of 7,000,000 und Chi Li n population of 18,000,000. These I lies care by no means the most thick ly populated parts of the empire. There ure seventeen other provinces of China proper, many of which have a denser population than either Chi Li or Manchuria. Thero is no reason why American cotton goods cannot find ns ready a market in the provinces ot central and southern China us in tho north. ‘ It is manifest,” ho said, “that the cotton growers und manufacturers of these southern states have not only gained u foothold in Manchuria and north China, but cun, with a little effort, easily find a large market for their goods throughout the whole of central and south China. Tho only | thing tho American manufacturer bus - to keep in mind is that, he should make goods suitable for the Chinese market. I “if properly placed before the Chinese, American cotton goods will obtain Hie same foothold in southern China that they have in northern. The present importations are not nearly sufficient to meet the requirements. It must be borne in mind that the Chinese never wear wool not even in tho depth of winter; that, generally speaking, the entire population clothe themselves in cotton all the year round. Their bedclothes, umbrellas and, in a few instances, boatuails, are made of ; cotton, and the consumption is prac | tieally unlimited if they ore made iu accordance with native requirements. “The recent troubles in north China | have undoubtedly injured the Ameri can cotton trade in that country, for the ! market for such goods has become a vast camp for armed hosts. In the midst of warlike operations trade and commerce cannot continue to flourish. The restoration of peace and order to ; that distracted region will he a boon j not only to the inhabitants of north ! Chine, who have already suffered un told losses and hardships, but also to j southern planters, manufacturers and I laboring men of all classes in this | country, who depend upon the nor mal trade conditions in the Chinese j empire for their continued prosperity, ! and I sincefely hope and trust that | this will not he long delayed.” INVESIED WITH PALLIUM. Archbishop Keane Honored With In* sigula of High Position. At Dubuque, lowa, Wednesday, i Archbishop John J. Keane was in vested with the pallium, the insignia ,| of the high position he occupies in the Roman Catholic church. The cer ; emony occurred in Ht. Raphael’s ca thedral. The scene was one of great brillian cy. Monsignor Martioelli was not present, but Cardinal Gibbons was there and archbishops and bishops from all parts of the United States. The attendance of laymen from abroad was very large and but few states in the union were uuiepresented. I LOOMIS NOT GUILTY. Venezuelan Minister Did Not say Derogatory Things Attrib uted to Him. Frank I!. Loomi*. United Htates minister to Venezuela, after a uight in quarantine with the other passengers on the lied “JJ" liner Careens, in which ho came from Porto liico, dia embarked at New York Wednesday. To an Associated Press representative Mr. Loomis raid: “I did not say any of the unpleasant things that have been attributed to me about President ('astro. Tbo fact is 1 like Castro very much. 1 was inter viewed at Sau Juan, but it was more a pleasant chat than anything else. There wore others present who said some unkind things, hut I certainly diil not. I am quoted as saying that President Castro drew hut $1 ‘2,000 a year salary, yet had made 82,000,000 in two years. Ido not even know that the president gets the salary named, and I know nothing of what he bad made. “I must also deny that l snid he plotted to secure my recall or removal. “L cannot discuss the recent diplo matic incident with Venezuela. There are several points in connection with | it on which 1 will report to the depart j meat and naturally they are confiden tial. I may say, however, that the preliminary steps toward a legal set tlement of the nsphult eases have been taken in the Venezuelan courts,” CANDLER TALKS GEORGIA. Tells New York Reporter That State Is Booming Right Along. A New York dispatch says: Gover nor A. D. Cundlcr, cf Georgia, who is at the Fifth avenue hotel, in an inter view, said: “Georgia is in a better condition to day in every way than she liiih been for a generation. There are contentment and prosperity among all classes. The last cotton crop was a good one, and the planters and farmers are ncurly nil out of debt. Mauufnctiiridg is spring ing up all over the state, and many ootton mills are being erected. “While our coal ami iron interests lire not so large ns those of some other slates.it is not improbable they will he absorbed by tho trusts. That seems to be tho trend of events. “1 have been to Washington, set tling up some claims of the state against the general government grow ing ont of the Spanish war. “I am glad to say that there bin been a marked deci-euse in the number of lynehiugs in our state, and I hove been cordially aided by other oltic-ale in employing every recourse to secure a fair trial to all men accused of crime. Thee were only six lynching* in Georgia lust your, while in I8!t9 there were more than twice that many. The abominable Crimea of which lynch ings are the result are not the work of Georgia-horn negroes. These are com mitted by colored men who are fugi tives from other states.” FILIPINOS S IILI. FIUHTINU. Town of Bay Attacked, Hut a Rout Quickly Follows. Fifty insurgent riflemen attacked tho town of Hoy, on Hay lake, in Laguna province, southeast of Manila. The insurgents wero quickly routed. Lieutenant William H. Nipes, of the Thirty-second volunteer infantry, hue captured a hearer of dispatches from the insurgent General, Noriel to Gen era) Mulvnr. Nortel directed Malvar not to surrender, saying lie would send him 2,000 recruits, money and ammunition when Agm naldo was re leased. • TROLLEY CARS BURNED. Blaze In Birmingham, Ala , Entails l oss of si3S,oon. The ear barn of tho Birmingham, ; Ala., Htreet Railway, Light and Power I Company was burned Wednesday morning, together with twenty five I trolley ears. Tho Third Presbyterian church and parsonage and half a blqi k of cottages adjoining wei • also burned. The total loss is estimated at SI3C,- 000, the largest part of which falls on the street car company, and is covered by insurance. The origin of the lire is not known. Bank Han.-iger Levants. The Lemnra National bank at Le mars, la., did not open Wednesday morning. T. F. Ward, vice president und manager of the institution,is a self confessed embezzler to an amount of from 82.0,000 to $30,000. He has also absconded. If yon have something to sell, let the people know It. An advertise, merit iu (Ills paper will do the work. PLUNGED EIUHI Y FEET. Car Falls From Railroad Bridge—Two Killed and Four Injured. A derrick car and a gondola top pled over u bridge over Figbtecn rnile creek, eighteen miles from Buf falo, N. Y., on the Nickel Piute rail road Tuesday evening, bis men went with them to tho rocky bed eighty feet below. Two were ho badly in jured that they died within half an hour after the accident. Four Others were sent to the hospital. NO. 3