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Six Persons Known
Perished.
;o Have
ABE MISSING
jix Buildings Were Blown to Atoms
and : cores of Others Were Wrecked.
I'iromcn Searching t!:o Ruins For
Bodies—Distressing Scenes.
Philadelphia, Ang. G.—Sis persons
are.known to bo dead as a result of the
terrible gasodne explosion last night,
which tore to atoms six buildings on
Locust sireet, between Tenth and
Eleventh streets, and wrecked over a
score of others. As to the number that
yet remain in the ruins of the wrecked
buildings all is mere speculation.
Only one of the six that perished has
been identified. This is Annie Harris,
r child 4 years old, who lives at 1013
Locust street, on the opposite side of the
sireet from the building in which the
explosion occurred.
The unidentified dead are: A child
about 2 years old, two women and a
man at the Pennsylvania hospital and a
man at the Jefferson hospital.
Searching Kor Bodies.
It was 7 o’clock this morning before
me firemen after working bard all night
had the smouldering ruins sufficiently
cooled off to enable them to begin a
search for the bodies which are sun-
; osed to be beneath the wrecked buiid-
Ot mis hunifier six prooaoly are lataiiy
injured, 28 are suffering ironi fractured
limbs and burns, while the injuries of
the others consist of slight cuts from
firing debris.
The building where the explosion is
supposed to have occurred is in the cen
ter of the group of houses situated be
tween Alder and Warnock
small thoroughfares running parallel
with Tenth street. In this space on the
south side of Locust street the demoli
tion is complete, while on the opposite
side of the street not a pane of glass nor
a door remained intact. The force of
the explosion was terrific.
The scene at the wreck and at ths
hospitals this morning is sickening.
Persons who had relatives and friends
living in the wrecked structures are
standing weeping and almost distracted,
hoping that their loved ones may have
escaped a terrible death, but fearful of
the worst.
The work of searching in the ruins is
necessarily slow. There is a steady
downpour ot rain, which makes the
debris hard to handle. The property
loss will amount to about $75,000, on
which there is small insurance.
Night Was Her Terror.
“I would cough nearly all night
long,” writes Mrs. Ciias. Applegate, of
Alexandria, Ind., and could hardly get
any sleep. I had consumption so bad
that if I walked a block I would cough
frightfully and spit blood, but, when all
other medicines failed, three $1.00 bot-
ikmmi jties Dr. King’s New Discovery whol-
[ iv cured me and I gained 58 pounds.”
| It’s absolutely 7 guarantee to cure Coughs,
•' Colds, La Grippe, Bronchitis and all
Throat and Lung Troubles. Price 5Oe
and §1.00. Trial bottles free at H. B.
McMaster’s drug store.
DELIBERATE SUICIDE.
Heirs to $52,000,000.
Forsyth, Ga., Aug. 5.—H. F. Tyson
I of this city, one of the heirs of John
J Tyson, who died at Melbourne, Aus-
j tralia, two years ago, leaving an estate
! said to be valued at §52,000,000, will at-
j tend the meeting to be held at Fore
I Worth, Tex., on Aug. 13 of the Tyson
heirs. The call for the meeting has
been issued by Thomas U. and William
Tyson, nephews of the deceased, and
there are 20 heirs to the estate, as far as
obtainable. It is reported that United
States Senator Culberson of Texas has
been retained to assist in settling the
vast estate.
■ After Careful Preparations J. K. Jol-
' lie Puts Buiiet In His Drain,
j Bremen, Ga., Aug. 7.—J. E. Jollie,
j the Central depot agent at this place,
! committed suicide yesterday morning
i by shooting himself through the head,
I the bail entering the right temple. Jol-
j lie deliberately planned his death. He
| left two notes, one to his wife, advising
S her where to bury him and how to man-
i age his business. The other letter was
| to his assistant clerk telling him to meet
j him in heaven. Jollie was agent for
i the Chattanooga, Borne and Southern
| railroad for years until the Central took
i charge a short time ago. His accounts
! with the company are straight and no
! cause is assigned for the seif murder.
Mrs. Jollie had gone down stairs to
j attend to breakfast, leaving Jollie in his
j room. He got up, made down a pallet
j on the floor, laid down on it and fired
i the ball into his brain. He lived about
! two hours, but was never conscious. He
I leaves a wife aud an adopted child. He
j was a member of the Methodist church
! and the Woodmen of the World.
Smelter Is Located Sear San Francis
co Day and the Plunder Is Sup
posed to Have Been Carried Away
In a Boat.
San Francisco, Aug. G.—News has
just been received here from Selby
Smelting works at Yaiiejo that §500,000
worth of gold bullion had been stolen
during the night.
The Thieves had tunnelled under the
works and gained access to the strong
room where bullion was stored.
The works are located to San Fran
cisco bay and the tunnel extended from
the waters’ edge under the building. It
is supposed that the thieves took their
plunder away by boat.
The Selby Smelter is the biggest on
the Pacific coast and ores are sent there
from ail parts of the western country
to be reduced.
KNiGHTS TEiViPLAR.
Xh'Tr attention was first directed to
10! 8 Locust street, the building occupied
by Albert D. Mountain, grocer. In this
building at the time of the explosion
there were Robert and Dalton Moun
tain aud Lizzie Mountain, children of
the proprietor of the store. None of
them have been accounted for.
No. 1018 Locust street was occupied
by Patrick Quigley as a grocery. Quig
ley, liis wife, three children anu an
uncle were in the building when the
explosion occurred. The ouly oue in
this family thus far accounted for is
Quigley and his uncle.
"At 1014 Locus: street George McOien-
ny, also conducted a small grocery 7 . It
was here that the explosion is thought
to have occurred. Tfie building was
occupied by 7 McGlenny, his wife, a clerk
and a servant. At the time of the dis
aster Mrs. McClenny was visiting in
West Philadelphia, and the others are
thought to have been in the building.
Probably the greatest number per
ished at 1012 Locust street. Here Wil
liam Jones, a negro, conducted a board
inghouse. He had a score cf boarders,
but the number in the building at the
time calmot be learned positively. The
police officials say, however, that it is
probable that half a dozen bodies will be
taken from the debris of this building
alone.
Blown Forty Feet.
At 1010 Locust street M. Rosenthal,
wife and five children lived. They es
caped with broken limbs and contusions,
but the building was completely
wrecked. Iti the Rosenthal home was
a boarder named Frank Schmidt. He
was seated at a third story window
r u ling when the exjfiosiou occurred.
Schmidt was blown ttirough the win
now and landed on the top of a stable 40
feet from the wrecked buildings. He
escaped with a few bruises.
Farcy-eight persons, all told, were
taken, to the.two hosnitals-close anlwnd.
Disguised to Escape Mob.
Macon, Aug. 7.—Josh Walton, a ne- i
gro, was brought to Macon last night j
and placed in Bibb jail for safe keeping, j
He is charged with attempting to mur- j
der the marshal at Fiovilla a short time ;
ago by shooting him. There has been a ,
reward of $.250 for his arrest. He was ;
captured by two negroes at Dames ferrv.
between Macon and. Fiovilla, in which !
vicinity he had been hiding some time. ;
It was reported that attempts might be !
made to lynch him and in order to es- |
cape this he was dressed in women”
DRAGGED TO MIS DEATH.
Man
Terrible Accident to u Ycun
in Dike County.
Zebulon, Ga, Aug. 5.—Elijah Mau
ley, a young man 25 years old, who
lived near Holtonviiie, in this county,
was returning to his home from Pine
Mountain Springs late yesterday even
ing with W. T. Driver in the buggy 7
with him, when his horse became
frightened ana runaway, throwing both
out of the buggy. In falling Mauley’s
foot was caught under the spring of the
, - , , , , , ,, . bnggv aud he was dragged about 1 mile
clothes and secretly brought to Macon, j be f 0 c r ' e the horse broke loose from the
Lawrence Mitchell Drowned. ! When found he was dead aud
• his body bacxly mangleu.
Atlanta, Aug. 7. — Lawrence G. j Driver was considerably braised, but
Mitchell, son of Hon. I. S. Mitchell, :• ] not seriously injured.
printing at the right pticor.
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former alderman of Atlanta, and one of
the most prominent young men of the
city, was drowned at Beaulieu, near
Savannah, yesterday afternoon. Mr.
Mitchell was in Savannah attending a
house party at the home of A. A. De-
DIED OF HYDROPHOBIA.
Gainesville
Woman a Victim of the
Dread Malady.
Gainesville, Ga., Aug. 5.—Mrs. Dick
Loach." He went out bathing with a i Chatham died at her home on Summit
party, and ventured too far from laud, i s j ree f; tfiis city, Yesterday of hyuropho-
when he was caught in a strong current | ;
aud went under before assistance could
reach him. The body was removed a
few hours after.
Poison In the Cream.
Leesburg, Ga., Aug. 6.—Ten persons j
were poisoned by ice cream at the j
home of Mrs. W. R. Buukley of this |
place. W. R Bunkley died yesterday j feared that she, too, will have hydro
bia. She was bitten by a mad dog sev
eral days ago. The bite at first caused
no alarm. Saturday, however, she be
came much wbrse and her sufferings
were intense. The poison had evidently
gotten in its worst work, for she raved
until death relieved her.
Her daughter was bitten by the same
pet pug at the same time, ami it is now
afternoon from tho effects and Mrs. J phobia. Mrs. Chatham was prominent
Bunklev aud daughter, Willie, are both
critically ill- The rest of the family
aud guests seem to be recovering.
Drowned Herself In Well.
Eaton, Pa., Aug. 6.—The body of
Miss Emma /1’izzard, daughter of the
late W. B. Tizzard, a well known ed
itor, was found in the well in the rear
of the family home at an early hour this
yesterday afternoon from Canton, bring- J morning She had been suffering with
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Quick Trial For Ross.
Atlanta, Aug. 7.— Major W. W. Bar
ker and the three companies of the Fifth
infantry under his cofiimnnd returned
here and owned considerable property.
Official Program of the Twenty-
Eighth Triennial Conclave.
Louisville, Aug. 7.—The official pro
gram for the twenty-eighth triennial
conclave of Knights Templar, to be held
here the last week of this month, was
announced this morning by the execu
tive committee, which has had over
$100,000 to draw on to make the fea
tures of the entertainment attractive.
The week wiii open Sunday with pub
lic worship at the Broadway Methodist
church, conducted by Very Eminent Si:
J. C. W. Coxe of Washington, Iowa,
grand preiate of the grand encamp
ment.
Aionday will be devoted to receiving
at the depots aud escorting to quarters
all arriving commanderies. The escort
committee is made up of GOO stalwart
Kentuckians. Monday night will wit
ness the inaugural of festivities in the
formal opening of headquarters of tho
grand commandery of Kentucky in the
customhouse with a reception. This is a
function that will be repeated each af
ternoon aud night during the conclave,
four hundred well known Kentucky
matrons and their daughters serving on
the reception at c-ach one.
Tuesday morning the parade will
take place, and at night a grand recep
tion wiii be held.
The committee on elective drill, the
first since the San Francisco conclave in
in 1883, is scheduled for Wednesday, at
Churchill Downs, where the Kentucky
derby is run every spring. The five
prize trophies, costing over §7,000, to be
awarded, were put on display by local
jewelers this morning. Commanderies
from San Francisco, Denver, Chicago,
Cincinnati. Parkersburg, W. Va., Pitts
burg aud Washington are entered in
the drill. Four United States army
officers will act as judges.
Oil Thursday night the grand ball
will fee given at the horse show build
ing. Mrs. J. G. W. Beckham of Frank
furt, the governor’s bride, will be one
of the matrons of honor.
Friday will be devoted to side trips
through Kentucky, to the Blue Grass
region and Mammoth cave.
About $73,000 Will Bo Expended In
improving Florida's Capitol.
Tallahassee, Aug. 8.—It is probable
that work will be commenced during
the present month upon the enlarge
ment of the state capitol budding as
provided for by an act of the last legis
lature. That act went into effect last
Saturday, and in compliance with its
terms, Governor Jennings at once ap
pointed Hon. William A. Blount, a Pen
sacola lawyer; Hon. Herbert J. Drane,
an insurance man of Lakeland, and C.
M. Brown, an Ocala merchant, who,
with the governor as president, and the
state comptroller as secretary, will con
stitute the capitol improvement com
mission.
This commission is directed by the
act to take charge of aud direct the en
largement of the capitol building in ac
cordance with the general plan sub
mitted to the legislative committees by
Architect Frank P. Milburn of Colum
bia, S. O. It shall let out the work for
such enlargement and repairs, and make
ail necessary contracts, and see that the
work is completed as nearly as possible
in accordance with tho Milburn plan.
Seventy-five thousand dollars was ap-
d for this work.
Architect;
We are fitted to work
plans and specifications.
We carry a well-selected line of Build
ers’ Hardware and a large assortment of
i lain and Ornamental Glass
Never mind how big or little your
order nay be, we want it. We quote as
low prices on small orders as on big ones,
and give just as careful attention to the man
who wants a dollar’s worth as to the man
who wants a thousand dollars’ worth.
We have a little catalogue of 112 pages
that we would like to mail to you. Send for
it. It contains pictures of doors, etc., and
special information about building that you
will find valuable.
propnate
WHOLESALE PARDONING.
Governor
ramp
Jeiks Gives Many
Convic s Freedom.
Montgomery, Ala., Ang. 7.—Gover
nor Jelks is pardoning the Butler coun
ty tramp convicts as fast as they apply
for clemency. Twenty-six vagrants
were picked off the Louisville aud Nash
ville trains at Greenville in July and
sent te the coal mines for beatiug their
way. Among them were two Mont
gomery boys name! Eiiis, who had
started cut to see the world. These
were pardoned as soon as their applica
tions were received. Yesterday another
application was received from a young
man named Daniel Knox, and he wa3
promptly released.
The only reason given by the gover
nor is that they have been sufficiently
punished. Those who have talked with
the governor say lie will turn them out
as fast as the authorities can send them
up on the ground that the punishment
is out qf proportion to the offense. On
the other hand, tue railroad people in
sist that they have a right to protection
from deadheading. The sentences
range around 70 duvs.
THEIR HOMES GUARDED.
Citi2
v JiuflUsSfc (p?
CKAS. F. DEGEN, Manager.
WAS HE KIDNAPED?
of Tampa Taice Precaution
Against Incendiaries.
Tampa, Fla., Aug. 5.—Guards have
been placed around many homes in
Tampa to prevent incendiary fires.
These wnose homes are gnarded are
known leaders in the anti-Resistencia
strike movement, and rumors of pos
sible incendiarism have been rife tor
two days. Ail ol the closed cigar fac
tories are kept guarded.
It is believed that the crisis in the
strike situation will bo reached this
weak. The business men are rasing an
active hand in the negotiations and
while the officers of the striking union
claim to be satisfied at the situation,
many of the men openly express their
discouragement at the outlook. As yet
there have been no attempts at violence
aud every precaution has been taken to
prevent it.
An Atlanta Boy Mysteriously Disap
pears From liis Hem?.
Atlanta, Aug. 5.—In a maimer that
mystifies his relatives aud friends, and
that has so far, baffled the skiil of the
police, Arthur Sctrieklana. the 15-year-
old son of a widow who resides at No.
£3 Broyles street, disappeared Saturday
night, and nothing can be learned of
his whereabouts.
The boy went to the Young Men’s
Christian association Saturday evening,
and left there at 9 o’clock to return
home. That is the last trace that can
be found of him.
So steady has he beeu in his duties,
so careful not to do anything to distress
his widowed mother, ana so regular in
his habits, that no one who knows him I
CONDITION OF COTTON
IN SOUTHERN STATES
Monthly Report of Depart
ment of Agriculture.
AVERAGE FOR JULY, 1801
In Some States an Improvement Is
Shown, but In others a Decline In
Points Is Reported Owing to the
Drouth.
Washington, Aug. 5.—The monthly
can be induced to believe that he has j re P ort of the statistician of the depart-
rmrposely absented himself from his i ment of agriculture shows the average
home. I condition of cotton on Julv 25 to have
Never before has he stayed away from j been 7r 3 as com p are d with 61.1 on the
ms family without telling them where t , .. .
ne was going and how long he would j twenty-flith of the preceding montn, ,6
remain. W'orking hard during the day j on Aug. 1, 1900, 74 ou Aug. 1, 1899, and
j a ten-year average of 84.
This was an improvement of conai-
IV1ET TRAGIC DEATH.
Ex-Governor Jonc^ Daughter Terri
bly Mangled by Electric Car.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 5. —Miss
Caroline Jones, the daughter of former
Governor Thomas G. Jones, was ground
to death in a street accident this morn
ing at 8:15 o’clock. Governor Jones
was a helpless witness to the distressing
accident.
Miss Caroline had left her father on
the veranda of their home, corner of
Hull aud Adams streets, saying, “Wait,
I am going to get you a flower,” and
started across Hiiii street to a neigh
bor’s house. lu crossing the car track
she was struck by a Cloverdale car
and dragged under the wheels. The
motorman lost his head aud forgot to
turn off the current.
The body was dragged 100 yards and
was fearfully mangled.
The youug lady was 23 years of age
and was an invalid, and had been under
the coustant watch of an attendant.
in" with them the negro rapist, Ray
inoud Ross, who was tried, convicted
and sentenced to death yesterday morn
ing within less than 40 minutes.
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Attachments Filed.
Savannah, Ang. 5.—’Marion Erwin,
special assistant attorney general of the
United States, today filed in the United
States court attachments against all
loans and securities in Savannah hela
bv ex-Captain O. M- Carter, engineer
■jj i.; They amount to thousands oi
dollars. *
New Rabbi at Columbus.
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 7.-Joseph Blatr
of Cincinnati, a graduate of the Rab
binical college of that city, has been se
lected rabbi of Temple B’nai Israel in
Columbus. The synagogue has been
without a rabbi since Dr. E. B. M.
Browne resigned several months ago.
Jacobi Guilty.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 7.—Sanford
Jacobi, who has been on trial the third
time for assaulting Miss Mabel Parker,
was found guilty in the city court yes-
became ill, supposedly from having
poison. A brother who lay in the door
way to prevent her escape fell asleep.
Some time during the night Miss Tiz
zard made her way over his body ana,
lifting the cover from the well, leaped
in.
Fatal Street Fight.
Jackson, Miss., Aug. 6. — W. J.
Ligon, a sanitary inspector in Jackson,
killed David L. Shelton yesterday even
ing on one of the principal streets,
shooting him through the heart. The
men had had a personal difficulty earl
ier in the day. Shelton returned to the
attack with a stick. Both are promi
nently connected. Shelton marrying a
daughter of late Congressman McGee
during the war with Spain while in
camp at Chattanooga.
terday. He will appeal the case.
Belief In Six Hours.
lieved m six hou it. is a great surprise
American Kidney Cure 1 is „ sg jn re .
on account ofdte exceed» |JJ evs and back. In
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Trouble Brewing Among Indians.
Helena, Mon., Aug. 6.—Trouble is
brewing in the Flathead Indian reser
vation between Indians and halfbreeds.
Yesterday, near Roman station, three
Indians and three half breeds exchanged
a number of shots, one Indian being
shot in tho arm. The Indians object to
halfbreeds picking np cattle on the
reservation. Both sides are reinforcing
and more trouble is anticipated.
Mrs. S. H. Allport, Johnstown,Pa.
says: “Our little girl almost stran
gled to death with croup. The doc
tors said the couldn’t live but she
was instantly relieved by One Min
ute Cough Cure. H. b, MCMaster.
Washouts and Landslides.
Knoxville, Ang. 7.—East Tennessee
has been drenched by rain the past two
days. The Southern railway has suf
fered seriously on account of washouts
aud landslides aud trains have been de
layed as much as three hours iu some
instances. Reports from points ou the
Norfolk and Western are that there have
been a number of serious landslides east
of Bristol, Tenu. Rivers are rising rap
idly and there are fears for the safety
of rlio Southern’s temporary bridge ovei
the Wautauga river.
Mentai Science Association.
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 7.—The
International Mental Science associa
tion wi:l hold its convention in Sea
breeze, Fia., Nov. 28 to Dec. 3 next. It
is announced that over 50 delegates
from Europe will attend, and nearly ev
ery state iu the United States will be
represented.
A Fireman’s Clo^e Call.
“I stuck to my engine, although
ever}’ joint ached and every nerve was
racked with pain,” writes G. W. Bel
lamy, a locomotive firemen, of Burling
ton, Iowa. “I was weak and pale, with
out auy appetite and ail run down. As
I was about to give up, I got a bottle of
Electric Bitters and, after taking it, I
felt as well as I ever did in my life.”
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IMPRISONED ON SHiP.
Resistencia strike Leaders I’uton Ves
sel and Sent Outside the Bar.
Tampa, Fla., Aug. 6.—Last night 100
business men, in order to end the strike
of the Resistencia union cigarmakers,
searched the streets of Tampa and
seized many cf the strike leaders, and
it is rumored they were sent on a vessel
outside the bar and to the gulf. Ex
citement prevailed, but no rioting oc
curred.
It is said that an attempt was made
to assemble the strike leaders in a con
ference and capture them all together,
but the strikers heard of it and dis
persed. The search through the streets
followed. The rumor as to the diposi
tion of the captured men is not fully
confirmed.
he has been trying to educate himself
by attending night schooL
Friends and neighbors speak of him
as a most exemplary youth and one en
tirely without any of the evil habits of
most boys of his age. All of this makes
the disappearance of Arthur Strickland
a most mysterious affair.
Is this a second Bass Fraser kidnaping
affair? The police are asking that ques
tion and there seems to be much ground,
they say, for such a supposition.
A most thorough and diligent search
has been made for the boy, but not a
single trace of him ha3 been found.
GEORGIA PENSIONS,
Justice Carter May Resign.
Tallahassee, Aug. 5. —It is rumored
here that Justice Francis B. Carter of
the Florida supreme court will soon re
sign his present position, and that his
resignation will be immediately fol
lowed by his appointment as judge of
the first or West Florida circuit.
There Is So Much News
That even if it comes by telegraph
we overlook some of it. Isn’t it a
fact that you have seen Dr. Cald
well’s Sypup Pepsin advertised sev
eral times and have neglected to
try it? An ounce of Dr. Caldwell’s
Syrup Pepsin is as good as a three
week’s vacation. Ask any druggist
or anyone who has taken it.
Sold by H B. MCMaster, Waynes
boro; H.Q Bell, Milien
Short news items always desired.
Florida Realty Company.
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 6.—A big
real estate company is being formed iu
Jacksonville for the purpose of adver
tising and putting on the market Flori
da real estate of every description.
While the company will have its home
office in Jacksonville, it will be by no
means a local organization. The com
pany will have branch offices in every
county in Florida. Its stockholders in
clude leading citizens throughout the
state.
Chief Engineer Resigns.
Birmingham, Ala, Aug. 7.—Erskine
Ramsay, chief engineer of the Tennes
see Goal, Iron and Railroad company,
has tendered his resignation, but it is
expected that he will remain with the
company for some time yet until the
new engineer is acquainted with condi
tions. His successor has not as yet been
selected. Mr. Ramsay is. one of the
best known mineral experts and devel
opers in the district.
New State Chemist.
Tallahassee, Ang. 6.—Captain R. E.
Rose of Kissimee will succeed Hon.
William A Rawls of Tallahassee as
state chemist. Mr. Rawls retires vol
untarily from this office after eight
years of faithful service, during which
he has extended the scope of the work
of this department as well as enlarging
its usefulness.
Roil Will Show an Increase of Proba
bly $1.30,000.
Atlanta, Aug. 6.—The iudicaticns
are that the pension roil next year will
be increased by something like $125,000
to $150,000, if not more.
Commissioner of Pensions J. W. Lind
sey stated yesterday that he had already
approved the applications of Sol new in
digent pensioners, 44 in the disabled
class and 10 of the old class of widows.
This makes a total of 904 new applica
tions that have been approved.
In addition to the foregoing the pen
sion commissioner has already approv
ed, as has beeu stated, the applications
of 1,047 widows of the new class pro
vided for under the act of the last legis
lature, and known as indigent widows.
It will be seen, therefore, that there are
already nearly 2,000 new names to go
on the pension list.
From his past experience, and at the
rate at which the applications are com
ing in now, Commissioner Lindsey says
that there will bo at least 500 more ap
plications approved by Oct. 1 next, mak
ing a total of about 2,500 new ones m
addition to those alreadv on the rolls.
$ays He Was Tortured.
“I suffered such pain from corns I
could hardly walk,” writes H. Robin
son, Hillsboro, Ills., “but Buckleu’s
Arnica Salve completely cured them.”
Acts like magic ou sprains, bruises, cuts,
sores, scalds, burns, boils, ulcers. Per
fect healer of skin diseases and piles.
Cure guaranteed by H. B. McMaster.
25 cents.
tions during July amounting to 6 points
in Georgia; 5 points in South Carolina,
2 in Alabama aud Mississippi and 8 in
Virginia. On the other hand there was
a decline of 19 points in Missouri, 15 iu
Arkansas aud Tennessee and 13 in Ok
lahoma and Indian Territory, 12 in
Texas, 7 iu Florida, 4 in North Carolina
and two in Louisiana.
The impairment in condition is large
ly due to drouth; but, in a portion of the
eastern section of the cotton belt it is
attributable to the prevalence ot exces
sive rain during a large part of the
month. While the condition in Missis
sippi is 5 points above the state’s ten
years’ average, every other state re
ports a condition below such average,
Virginia being 1, Louisiana 2, Alabama
3, Texas 7, Georgia 8, South Carolina
and Florida 9, North Carolina 17, Ar
kansas, Tennessee and Missouri 16
points below their respective ten year
averages:
Tne average of condition in rhe dif
ferent states are reported as follows:
Virginia, SO; North Carolina, 73; South
Carolina, 75; Georgia, 78; Florida, 79;
Alabama. 82; Mississippi, 88; Louisiana,
82; Texas, 74; Arkansas, 69; Tennessee,
70; Missouri, 71; Oklahoma, 78; Indian
Territory, 79.
$100— Hr. K. neicheon’s AuU-Diorctl*
May be worth to you more than $100 if you
havp a child who soils bedding from ineonte-
nenee of w’ater during sleep. Cures old aud
young alike. It arrests the trouble at once
$1. bold by H. B. McMaster, Druggist,
Ex-Congressman Paralyzed.
Macon, Aug. 5.—News has been re
ceived in this city that ex-Congressman
James H. Blount, who represented this
district iu congress for 20 years and who
was sent to Hawaii by President Cleve
land as commissioner at the time of the
revolution in rhe island, has suffered a
stroke of paralysis and is in a critical
condition at his country home near here.
Georgia’s First Bale.
Albany, Ga., Aug. 7.—Georgia’s first
bale of new crop cotton for the season of
1901-2 was brought to Albany and mar
keted yesterday. It was from the farm
of a Dougherty county negro. Deal
Jackson, who was also last year’s first
bale man for Georgia. The bale weighed
330 pounds and was classed as middling.
It was sold on A. W. Muse & Co. ’s table
for 10 cents per pound, the Georgia Cot
ton company being the buyer.
Wires Must Go Underground.
Augusta, Aug. 6.—Au ordinance was
introduced iu council last evening pro
viding for underground wires. Under
the terms of the ordinance wires in the
fire limits, except trolley wires, are to
be put under ground within 2 year3
from the date of passage. It was read
for the first time, and goes over to the
next meeting.
John Must I’art With Cue.
New York, Aug. 6.—An order issued
by the head of the Chinese Reform as
sociation calls upon all Chinamen in
this country to remove their cues. It is
said that upon members of the associa
tion it wiii be more binding than an im
perial edict from the hand of the em
peror of China. It will affect several
hundred Chinese in this city.
Eruptions, cuts, burns, 9calds and
sores of all kinds quickly healed by
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Cer
tain cure tor piles. Beware of coun
terfeits Be sure you get the origi
nal— DeWItl’s. h. b, McMaster.
There is more ciuarrn In this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until thelast few years was supposed to
be incurable. For a great many years doc
tors pronounced it a ioc-al disease, and pre
scribed local remedies, and by constantl-
fafling to cure with local treatment, pro
nounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only con
stitutional cure on the market. It is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to a tea-
spoonful. It acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case It fails to
cure. Send for circulars aud testimonials.
Address. F. J. CHENEY * CO.,
J®*Sold by Druggists, 75c. Toledo, O
The President
Of the American Federation of La
bor, Union 8,215, says: *T am usiDg
your Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin
myself and in my family, and find
it does lots of good.—Yours truly,
Geo. C. Campbell, Clinton, Iowa.
Sold by h. b. McMaster, Waynes
boro; R. Q. Bell, Milien,
Peculiar Damage suit.
Raleigh, Aug. 6.—A peculiar damage
suit will be tried at Wilmington next
week. R. M. Murray of that place sues
the mayor and superintendent of health
for $10,000 because the health officer
moved Murray’s dangerously sick child
from one room to another, having
washed the child and reclothed it, and
having disinfected the room it had oc
cupied. It is said that the officials made
a mistake in removing the child, as the
intention was to remove another patient.
Murray brings the suit on behalf of the
child, who is 2 years old.
In cases of cough or croup give
the little one One Minute Cough
Cure. Then rest easy and have no
fear. The child will be all right in
a little while. It never fails. Pleas
ant to take, always safe, sure and
almost instantaneous In efifeet. H.
b. McMaster.