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augussa . SAMOS . BANK, . . . s i.) tiroail StrocJ, .; : -TU GEOBliU. W. B. YOUNG, President. J. G. WEIGLE, Cashier. SAVINGS ACCOUNTS! solicited. Interest Paid On Deposits. JS.B Volume Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, August 24, 1901. Number 19. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, Augusta, Ca, ORGANIZED 1870 'Pays interest on Deposits. Accounts I L. C. Hayne, President. Chas. C Howard Cashier. ill jyi ill If so, come to our store and we will fit you at just one-half the regular price. New Shoes and all sizes. 90 prs, Ladies Shoes worth $1.50 tor 75 Cents. 50 prs. 75 prs. Mens 48 prs. <k Ch( ap 2.50 for 81.25 cts. 1.50 for 85 cts. 2.50 for $1.50. SEZ TTS QTTTOEEI Oppo. Citizens Bank, Waynesboro, Georgia. Nothing means more to our business than your confidence. There’s nothing we’d work harder to get and keep. We have a long, long list of pleased patrons who show their confidence by send ing us all their orders Almost everybody who buys of us comes again and again. The reason tor this may be sum ned up briefly; I rompt service. Exact Methods, Superior Goods. Reas nable Prices. You ought to call upon us when you want Lumber, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mould ings and Plain and Fancy Woodwork of any kind. 4uaustafurrp)er(| CHAS. F. DEGEN, Manager. SI aMCB GO)CPNIH , i l sv! fed S VJ rj £b W U a^J EJ SiNiio ifj m ■Mi Ri¥FR IIany Passengers Reported Drowned and Missing. LIST OF THE FATALITIES Boa: Was Upset While Trying to Land In Severe storm and Sank So Quick ly lhat the Passengers Ilad No ( hnncc to Save Themselves. Paducah, Ky., Aug. 20.—Duriug a n. v re storm last night the steamer city of Golconda upset while trying to laud at Crowells, 6 miles from this city. The i-oac turned over while the passengers vere at supper. There were about GO persons aboard at the time. The following is a list of those drown ed and missing: Miss Lizzie Graham, Grahamsville, "Ky. -s Trixie Graham, Grahamsville, Ky. Mrs. Charles Davis, Smithfield. Mrs. W. A. Hogan and three chil dren, Paducah. Colonel Turner, Smithfield. Cnarleyau Gordon, Smithfield. Mrs. David Adams, Smithfield. Watts Davis and wife, Livingston. Wihiam Swabb, Smithfield. Miss Lucy Barrett, Smithfield. Clarence Slaydeu, Lola. D. Jackson. Golconda. August F. Kriepke, Golconda. John Waiters, Golconda. Clarence Koker, Golcoda. Firemen and three negro deckhands. Engineer Hay denjmd son. Joseph McAllister, St. Louis. Two wnire men, unknown, peddlers. Mrs. Hutchinson, Evansville, Ind. Tnree children, D. Jackson. W. Wooue. Ge orge Stauberry. Howard Rondo. Several negro deckhands. Captain Jesse Bauer and Pilot E. E. Peck swam to shore and rescued all in sight. * Captain Peck stated that when the D a; - ruck there was no time to escape. Sne went down on her side in 10 feet of war r, and what few were found srrug- K-mg m rue water clung to a yawl ami reamed shore. After tnewind had sub- ; i the crew rowed to the wreck and a . iiptcdr to rescue all the women on bar Only one is known to have been sav> The books will have to be found her it can be determined who and kov. many are lost. The City of Golconda plied between here and Elizabethtown, Ills. The boat but Elizabethtown and was due to ar rive iiere at 7. p. m. She had an unusn- Dr v good passenger list, as she was the !, u:\ boat coming down yesterday. H. E. YVerton and N. S. Quartermens °p Hampton, Ky., escaped oy breaking trie glass in the cabin. Lie Illinois boat was valued at $2,500 ami !uvj been in the trade seven years. Lie wife of the engineer, Mrs. Hay- tb i:. was the only one saved. Captain Jesse_Bauer_saidj Job printing at the right prices. “In my opfsnou the peonie in the cabin were drowned instantly, as I did not hear a scream come from the cabin. Usually ill such an accident the steam boats will rock back and forth several times before turning over, but the Gol conda went over without any o: this, and it all happened so quickly that it is a wonder auy of us got out alive.” Two boats with three divers and sal- PREPARINC FOR FAIR. Savannah Will Secure Additional Sub- scriptious . o Stock. Savannah, Aug. 21.—A meeting oi the stockholders of the Savannah Fair association was held, when a report upon Its financial condition was made. This vage corta left here this morning for j showed that expenditures would be *r0, • work on the wrecked steamer. They I 750 in excess of estimated receints, so it report since noon that the loss of life! .... , ‘ , will exceed 20 and that the revised list was T DiaeQ 11 t0 f cu f ad « ltlonal f s ^‘ can not be had until the boat is raised j scn P tlons - f 11 subscribers adding o ne and the hooks as well as the bodies are am ? u f ? rhe >' subscribed; receivmg a -ru °first claim unon tne net receipts of the 7 ers - re .P° rt , that the i state fair. In the meeting *3,6*0 was caoiu, wmch as closed wnen the storm | subs( , ribeti Bnd it is expected that other o uea boaies. Tne , stockholders who were not present will speedily make up the rest. came up, was full of dead bodies. The bodies recovered up to noon were those of Miss Trixie Grimes, Miss Lucy Bar nett aud Mrs. Davis Adams. The boat is 75 yards from the Ken tucky shore iu 18 feet of water, head down the stream, difficulty of access every way and the recovery of the dead bodies is proceeding very slowly. RGE CITY, MO., IN HANDS ARMED MEN All Negro Houses In City Are Being Fired. ONE BLACK IS CREMATED CORPSE IN A TRUNK. Ghastly Find at Asheville, X. C., Re veals Horrible Crime. Asheville, N. C., Aug. 20.—The dead body of a negro woman named Willie Seaborn was found in her own trunk at home on Southside avenue yesterday, j The body had been cut up and doubled I into the trunk with a lot of woman’s j effects. j The woman was seen. late Saturday i night with John Miller, her paramour. ; They were quarreling on Sunday. Mil- Mcb Is Intent on Driving Ail Xegroes j i er appeared nervous and uneasy. He Out of Town—Has Broken Open \ asked where the woman was; then later said she had left Asheville, and he was THE ISLANDER DISASTER. Latest Reports Place the Loss of Life at Forty-Two. Victoria, B. C., Aug. 20.—The latest reports of the disaster to the steamer Islander places the loss of life at 42, but no further names are obtainable, except I that of Howard Fowler, which was given ! iu the list published yesterday as How ard Smith, second steward. Another name has also to be added to the list of saved, that of Quartermaster Hinstz. Purser Besque has returned to Skag- way to get a lull list of those who took passage on the steamer, but until he ar rives on the steamer Hasting in a few days, nothing more can be given. Pilot Leblanc and all the officers deny the report that either he or the cap tain were intoxicated, and assert that the Islander was well supplied with life belts. Robbert of Her Jewelry. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 20. — Mrs. James B. Houston of Auburn, N. Y., a passenger on the steamer Queen from Aiaskan ports, was robbed of a large amount of jewelry while the vessel was tied up at the wharf at Skagway. The total value of the jewels is anite large and in addition there was *150 in mon«y stolen. Senor Vicuna Dead. Washington, Aug. 20.—The state de- Work on the fair grounds is progress ing well. All the buildings will 09 com pleted by Oct. t, the officials say. The work of constructing the race track has been done largely by the county con victs. They were taken off a few davs ago, but were loaned again when appli cation was made. RAID BY REVENUE MEN. Two Moou.-diiuers and Much Mountain Dew Ta'keu Near Buford. Buford, Ga., Aug. 20.—Yesterday, 2 miles from Buford, in the public road, Deputy United States Marshal B. B. Landis and Deputy Clerk H. L. Rich ardson of Gainesville, iu company with Marshal Harrison Sudderth of Buford, i captured 45 gallons of corn whisky, to- | gerher with two good mules and a two- | horse wagon. This blind tiger outfit was in the pos session of two white men from Gilmer county. They showed fight, but were quickly disarmed aud handcuffed. One of them is said to be John Brooks aud the ocher is said to be his brother. They were taken to Gainesville. Local Military Arsenal and Secured | Improved R.fles. I Springfield, Mo., Aug. 20.—Pierce ; City, where William Godley aud Gene ! Carter were lynched last night, in con nection with the murder of Miss Caselle Wild, is today in the hands of hundreds of armed men who are intent on ariv- all negroes from town. All negro houses in the city are being fired and one ne gro, Pete Hampton, is said to have been cremated in his home. The arsenal of tbe io^al military com pany was broken into aud the mob is in possession of improved rifles. So much excitement prevails that it is almost impossible to secure a correct story of the situation, have left here for the scene. going to ship her trunk to her. He dis appeared soon after. A negro woman saw blood stains in the room, and the trunk was opened. Officers are after Miller. He is medium sized, rather black, with a scar on his face. The woman was killed with an ax, the coroner says. Negroes are greatly excited, and will lynch Miller if he is caught. BOER LAAGER SURPRISED. Twenty-Four Men Killed and Six Wounded Near Middieburg, MYSTERIOUS MURDER. T. S. Lathan, an Oid Man,' Assassi nated Near Buchanan. Buchanan, Ga., Aug. 21.—T. S. La- than, an old man, about 03 years of age, who resided 4 miles from Buchanan, was killed last evening, and his body thrown into-the river. He was shot in the back of the head with a shotgun. The whole affair is shrouded iu mys- terj - , as he was not thought to have had an enemy. Robbery is not thought to have been the incentive to the killing, . as iu money aud his watch were partmenc is advised by telegraph of the found on his person No clew as yet as death of Senor Don Carlos Morla Vi- ' to who did the killing. cuna, minister from Cnili to the United States, which occurred at Buffalo this morniug. Senor Vicuna was one of the best known South American statesmen. Great excitement prevails, and par ties are searching the country iu an ef fort to find the murderer. 0C‘0CQCOOOO<3OOOo6oOOOO€JOOC® 1 in I ^ 0 "W 8 eJ 0 o ]f you want Something real | fine and stylish g p - 8 in Jewelry, Sil- o J verw are, Cut § o Glass, Clocks, $ Diamonds, go to W-ailGEM., Jewelers, o Augusta, : : Georgia. ^X)QQ00qcx>0CXX9Q00000000Q90 Will Use Georgia Marble. Knoxville, Tenu., Aug. 20.—Itis re- ported here that Georgia marble will be used extensively in the erection of the Southern railway’s new passenger de pot in Knoxville. Nicholas Inner ot Atlanta has the general contract to erect the new depot. Thousands Sent Into Exile. Every year a large number of poor sufferers whose racked.with cou another climate, not always sure, when Dr. Kin lungs are sore and hs are urged to go to But this is costly and Don’t be an exile New Discovery for Consumption will cure you at home. It’s the most infallible medicine for Coughs, Colds, and all Throat and Luu a diseases on earth. The first dosebnugs relief. Astounding cures result from persistent use. Tidal bottles ree . - B. McMaSter’s. Price oOc aud *1-0 • Every bottle guaranteed. Prpraiture Explosion Kills Two. Premature i w , city, yesterday S C-, Aug. 20.—M YVai-LM j „„ TAX RETURNS Chan CORRECTED. es In Digesr Show Georgians Net Cains to 13<‘ $16,09-1,533. London, Aug. 19.—Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch from Pretoria, dated to day, says that a party of South African constabulary yesterday surprised a Correspondents i s t r0 ng Boer laager, near Middleburg, Cape Colony, killing 23 men. 5 nr DDc-pcoQ ppaop - The constabulary numbered 150 men; ont rhtrtrto rtAGt. ; but, owing to the strength of the ene- Nicaragua Will Not Mix Up In Istli- - ln - v ; <> 00 *° 80 ° men ’ the ^ wer , e u!labie i to follow up their success and, during j their retirement, they lost inian Troubles. San Francisco, Aug. 20 —Chester Donaldson, United States consul at Ma nagua, Nicaragua, has arrived hereoua two manths’ leave of absence, during which he wiil visit his old home in New York. Speaking of affairs on the isth mus, he said: •T do not beiieve that Nicaragua will join forces with Venezuela. The re public is at peace aud the'revolutionary spirit has died out altogether. President Zelaya rules with a strong baud ananas become very popular. He will not al low Nicaragua to become involved iu the troubles of \ the South American states. “In his last message to the Nicaraguan congress, President Zelaya took a de cided stand in favor of having the isthmian canal constructed by the United States. That is the popular sen timent. “In commerce with Nicaragua the I United States has been making great : progress during the past few years and • no w hoias first place* “The influence of the United States is j stronger in Nicaragua than that of any i other country, President Zelaya has i often said to me that he looks to the ! killed and had six wounded, men are missing. one man Fourteen Gets Tbree New .Mills* Durham, N. C., Aug. 20.—The Cot tonseed Oil company, which is under the control of the Virginia Chemical company, has acquired three new mills in this state and has options on a num ber of others. The mills recently ac quired are at Goldsboro, Wilson and Selma. The company now owns about 62 mills, located in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mis sissippi, Texas and Arkansas. Landslide In Tennessee. Chattanooga, Aug. 19.—On a section I of new construction work on the Cin cinnati Southern railway, at Harriman, Tenn., 60,000 cubic yards of earth have slid from the mountain side upon the new roadbed. The earth was loosened by the constant rains of the past week. It wiil require a large force of men until December to remove this earth. VIGILANTS AT WORK. Considerable Kxcit ‘merit Again Pre vails al Tampa. Tampa, Fla., Aug. 21.—The intense excitement manifest in the Latin quar ter creates the impression that the vigi lance committee is again at work. It is impossible at this time to obtain defi nite information. Evictions by renting agents are causing great excitement. It is believed that more than 100 women and children slept iu the streets last night. The central committee of Re- sisteucia union has cut down the soup house allowance to one meal a day. Another proclamation was issued yes terday in the name of “The People oi Tampa and Surrounding Country.” It urges that immediate steps be taken by all parries concerned to have the fac tories opened and states a determina tion to protect the industry of cigar manufacturers iu Tampa and the em ployes and laborers in such factories. It closes with the statement: "We proclaim to the cigarmakers that the citizens will not allow auy oppres sions or abuses or iil treatment imposed upon them.” [0 TUNNEL THROUGH HEART OF SIERRAS Preliminary Survey For Vast Engineering Project. IT WILL COST $5,000,000 TAMPA'S CIGAR TRADE. Early Iiesumption of Work Iu tht* Factories Probable. Tampa, Fla., Aug. 2i.—The ship ments of cigars for the week which has closed were heavier than for the week before by about 100 cases. Thi3 is be cause the manufacturers are getting more liberal with their stock on hand. They know, reasonably, when they will get back to work, and have not found it necessary to husband their stock so closely as they did the week before. There were 302 cases shipped for the week, while for the corresponding; week of last year there were 459 cases snipped, a decrease of 157 cases. The shipments covered every quarter of the Union. Tne shipments last week contained 1,560,000 cigars, while the shipments for the corresponding week last year num bered 2,295,000 cigars. There is every assurance that the man ufacturers will soon be ready to open, as the workmen will have become thor oughly dissatisfied with remaining out. Ic may be truthfully said that the men are clamoring for work. WANTS TAMPA BURNED. Food Changed to Poison. Putrefying food in the intestines pro duces effects like those of arsenic, but Dr. King’s New Life Pills expel the Atlanta, Aug. 21. Several changes’ United States as the protector of the poisons from clogged bowels, gently, ° small republics, aud in case of trouble , easily but surely, curing Constipation, would look first to this country. He ; Biliousness, Sick Headache, Fevers, all told me he would not make a treaty with auy power which would be detri mental to the interests of the United States.” were made iu the totals of the tax di gests of Georgia yesterday,* being cor rections of errors made in the first re ports. The Fulton county returns should show an increase over 1900 of *910,843 instead of *1,725.473, as published. The digest of Rockdale county now shows an increase of *42,139, instead of *41,000, as previously reporred. With these corrections, 122 counties show an increase of *17.802,616; 15 show a decrease of *1,10S.083, making tiie net gain for the entire state *16,694,533. Columbia, blown to ker and another negro were atoms while working in a rock Quarry at Blacksburg yesterday 'lhey had loaded the hole, when a drill was acci dentally dropped, causing instantaneous mw both men. Sugar Beduced Ten Points. New Yore, Aug. 19.—The American Sugar Refining and the independent comDanies have reduced all grades of refined sugar 10 points to the basis o. I5.-25 for standard granulated. There Is So Much News That even if it comes b y telegraph W e overlook some of it. “ fa elVs h Sy pup p h e a p V si° Advertised 'sev- wfrK have neglected to fr'v it “ An ounce of Dr. Caldwell’s oro* H.Q. Bell, Millen. Died Fri.lii Hat tier’s Bite. Savannah, Aug. 21.—An old negro man named Grant died from the bite of a rattlesnake on the farm of Deputy Sheriff Sweeny, about 3 miles from the A negro came in and reported the occurrence and Mr. Sweeny left at once for the farm with remedies. The negro who reporred the biting said tnat the old man was cutting hay aud that he had just killed one snake aud stepped back when another bit him on the leg. ^ Assaulted Negro Child, Shadydale, Ga., Aug. 21.—Alec Jo seph, aged 27 years, assaulted a little negro girl 9 years old within fhe city limits yesterday. The timely appear ance of the child’s mother caused the negro to flee. The child was badly bruised. The negro was soon arrested, and the evidence beieg conclusive against him, was bound over to the su perior court. There are threats of lynch ing. Mrs. S. H. Allport, Johnstown,Pa. says: “Our little girl almost stran gled to death with croup. The doc tors said she couldn’t live but she was instantly relieved by One Min ute Cough Cure. H. b. MCMaster. Liver, Kidney and Bowel troubles. Only 25c at H. B. McMastek’s. He Kept. His Leg. Twelve years ago J. W. Sullivan, of Hartford, Conn., scratched his ieg with a rusty wire. Inflammation and blood poisoning set iu. For two years he suf fered intensely. Then the best doctors urged amputation, “but,” he writes, “I used one bottle of E.ectric Bitters and _ 1>2 boxes of Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and j my leg was sound and well as ever.” I For Eruptions, Eczema, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Sores and all blood disorders Electric Bitters has no rival on earth. Try them. H. B. McMaSter will guar antee satisfaction or refund money. Only 50 cents. Newspaper For V. est Tampa. Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 21.—It is announced that W. J. Barnett aud P. C. Drew will commence the publication of a newspaper in West Tampa within a few days. Both are newspaper men of wide experience, known all over the state. They enter an unoccupied field, auu a town of more than 2,000 popula- Woman Anarchist Urges Revenge For Deportation of Strike Leaiers. Tampa, Fla., Aug. 20.—Excitement was created here last afternoon by an extra issue of La Federacion, the organ of La Resistencia, containing a very in cendiary article from Louisa Herera, the woman secretary of the Strippers’ union of Resistencia. Louisa Herera is an anarchist, and inaugurated the grer»t trouble here last winter. She is well known in New York and Chicago, where she has led a number of strikes. She calls for Resistencia to pack up and leave Tampa in a body “as a grinning skeleton,” using words too profane to reproduce. Her article is taken by the general 1 public to mean arson, and she says they j should leave if the blood of the officers have to run in reveDge for the men spirited away from here. A demand has been made for the arrest of the woman for the incendiary article. if Present Plans of E. H. Harriman Are Carried Out Trains Can Be Run Between San Francisco and ChiCcgo In Two and a Half Days’ Time. San Francisco, Aug. 20.—The long est railroad tunnel in the United States will be built in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, if the present plans of E. H. Harriman are carried out, says The Chronicle. Chief Engineer Hood has sent out a corps of men to make preliminary sur veys, and their work is expected to be completed in six mouths. The tunnel project, which wili involve an outlay of from |3,000,000 to *5,000,- 000, contemplates the boring of a hole 27,000 feet in length through the heart of the Sierras. Besides saving a climb of 1,500 feet, tne tunnel will shorten the road abovt 7 miles aud is expected to effect a great saving in operating ex penses. Ic is stated that with the Sierra tun nel bniit, and the other plans of the company for the straightening of curves ana reducing of grades in Navada and Utah completed, passenger trains could be run between San Francisco aud Chi cago in two and a half days, an average speed for the whole distance of not more than 40 miles an hour. S100— Dr. E. Deteneon’s Anli-Dlnrrtla May be worth to you more than SICO if you havo a child who soils bedding from inconte- nenceof water during sleep. Cures old and young alike; It arrests the trouble at once tl. bold by H. B. McMaster, Druggist, CONFESSED tO ARSON. Chipley, Fla., Negro Says He Was Paid to Fire a Store. Chipley, Fla., Aug. 20.—Early last week a fire destroyed 11 stores in Chip- ley, and Detective Thomas Watt3 was put on the case. He arrested Moses Brown, a negro, who confessed that ho had set fire to the store of former Sheriff C. G. Allen, after removing therefrom to Alien’s barn the better part of the stock, valued at about *1,500. The store was worth *1,000. Brown says there was *7,000 insur ance on the place, and Allen gave him a suit of clothes to set fire to it, A search of the barn resulted in the finding of all the goods discovered by Brown. Allen is under arrest, and denies all knowl- of the matter. Laid the Corner Stone. Patent For Florida Woman. Jacksonville, Fla., Ang. 21.—Mrs. Elma E. Morrison of Anthony has ob tained a patent for a folding umbrella for use on bicycles. She is said to have received' propositions from New York bankers, looking toward the organiza- Monticello, Ga., Ang. 21.—The j r i°u of a stock company for its mann corner stone of the elegant new church being built by the Baptists wa3 laid yes terday with appropriate exercisea Mrs. Martha Penn Rogers, the oldest mem ber, placed the first brick. Young Girl Suicides. Mobile, Ang. 21.—Edna Thrower, 15 years of age, the daughter of the late Henry Thrower, killed herself with a pistol last night because scolded by hex mother for a trivial fault. Relief In Six Hours. Distressing Kidney and Bladder Disease re lieved in six hours by New Great South- Americau Kidney Cure. It is a great surprise on account of its exceeding promptness in re lieving pain in bladder, kidnevs aud back. In male or female. Relieves retention or water almost immediately. If you want quick re lief aod cure this is the remedy. Sold by H. B McMaster. Druggist Waynesboro, Ga. Try one of our clubbing offers Short news items always desired. factnre. Keg Broke His Neck. Asheville, N. C., Ang. 21.—Sam Roberts, a negro, had his neck broken here by a beer keg. A negro porter threw an empty beer beg ont the back door just as Roberts stepped from under the back stairway. It was purely an accident, so there was no inquest. There is more catarrn l n 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 local disease, and pre scribed local remedies, and by constanti failing 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 and testimonials.; Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO., ; |@“Sold by Druggists, 75c. Toledo, O 4 Florida Day at Pan-American. Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 19.—The director general of the exposition has notified parties here that he has named Thursday, Sept 12, as “Florida Day” at the big Buffalo fair. The Florida Press association will attend these exercises iu a body, the editors taking advantage of the opportunity on their annual out ing to do honor to their state. Governor Jennings, and such members of his cab inet as can do so, will go with the asso ciation, as will the military companies of Tampa, Tallahassee Aid possibly of other places. Caterpillars In Florida. Tallahassee, Aug. 21.—The cater pillar has appeared in the cotton in the eastern section of Leon county. A few of the farmers are terribly frightened as to the probable damage to the crop, bat others do not apprehend anything of a serious nature from the worm, es pecially if the daily rains will stop with in a few days. The President Of thfl American Federation of La bor, Union 8,215, says: ‘ I am using your Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin myself and in my family, and fiod it does lots of good.—Yours truly, Geo. C. Campbell, Clinton, Iowa. Sold by h. b. McMaster, Waynes boro; H. Q. Bell, Millen. Eruptions, cutp, bump, scalds 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—DeWitt’s. H. b. McMaster. TOBACCO PLANT BURNED. Fire at Richmond, Va., Entails a Loss of $200,000. Richmond, Ang. 20.—Fire destroyed what is locally known as the J. Wright company plant of the American Cigar company at the corner of Twenty-third and Cary streets yesterday. There were about 400,000 pounds of leaf tobacco in the building owned by the American Cigar company, and this, with the ma chinery, it is estimated, was worth *115,000. The building, an immense structure, covering 19,200 square feet, was owned by the Continental Tobacco company. It was five stories high, built entirely of brick. A conservative estimate of its valae at the time of the fire is given as *60,000. It was completely destroyed. The total loss is placed at about *200,- 000; insurance *112,000. 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 effect, h. b McMaster. Advertising rates liberal. •saejo xaiqqnp ano jo eno Call on os when in the City.