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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES-CALL. ‘VOLUMEXI• NUMBER 26. 1111 lljffl Mirny Em All Quarters PonriiE Rapidly Into Galyeston. ' BUI II IB All NEEDED The Relief Committee Expeots the Amount to Run Up to Million and a Half Today. Au.tln, Sept. 14.—The Galveetcn re lief fund now aggregates something over a million dollar* and the com mittee expects to receive five hundred thousand tomorrow. Not only la the money coming In from America but from many Europ ean 'Vnnfrlhs, -*■' Vr |L.,_ Woney Badly Needed " York; slept. U.—ifhe {Glowing hee been received-from Thomas Tay lor, at GalyfestonT "To Sam Hubbard, President Cohort Wliaoge, New York: Nel her words nor pen ean our ruined city. Fully fiye thousand pereons wire drowned. busy burying the dead at sea and burning the bodies to ayoid a plague, Bumnep* has been suspenetd until the dead are removed from the ruins. Thousands are homeless and ruined. Will you please start a subscription at your ex change, as ready money Is badly need-. et3, and the city officers will communi cate with you later.” ADMIRAL SICKARD DEAD. Expired At HU Home In R me, N. Yv, Yesterday. Rome, N. Y., Sept. 14.—Rear Ad rlirf.’l Montgomery Sickard died at his jmo in Ibis city today of a complica on of diseases. When the war with Spain begun Ad miral Sickard outranked Sampsin, hut was placed on the retired list during the fi<rh'. WILL NOT STRIKE. St. Joseph, Mo.. Sept. 14 .—The new wage scale goes Into rffect tomorrow among the packing-house employes : M (bis city and elsewhere in the stat* a abort time ago it was said tba-nbls Would cause a general strike, mu the part of the employes. The signs of a Strike, however, have disappeared and none Is expected . • WILL PARADE. New York, Sept, 14.—Fred Diecher, of the National Board of United Mine Workers of America, will escort fiye thousand rate boys here and parrde. A BLOW HEBE TODAY: But the Weather Bureau Says It Will Be Ligh‘. Infotmaiiou received at the Timbs- Call office last night was to the effect that tha storm off Mobile was doing considerable damage and was moving slowly along the coast. The bu letin from the weather bur eau s'ated that Brunswick would ex perience a slight blow from it today, but It was not expected to prove serious here. From the tone of the message, the Truss Call sees no reason for fright. The weathar bureau has storms down to a fine point and when It says it will do the damage the statement can be put down as true. BLOW AT MOBILE. Mobile, Ala , Sept. 14, —A strong gale has been blowing here since morn ing. The reached ihirty-six milts, the lowest barometer readira 29 69: There is some apprehension Ihat the wharves and Front street may be flooded. ABOUT THE WEATHEK Temperature Changes Unimportant u • thcwtaMttti:! n States. ■' The weather bureau bar given.oui the WfloVviug coacauxingthe wWtfieri fit - r I* VS* Bbu'Mn-rn stales: -tTMaHMn Curious to hep yy>rains have fallen in the East Gulf and the Lowet Sooth Atlantic. The amounts \yere greatest in tbo Lower, Mississippi and Ih Ala* -flame, being due to a storm central in the Lower Mississippi Valley, *lth a pressure measuring 29,79 Inches. A relative high wind Is over the Nor thern Lakes, 'With a second storm cen ter In Montane: The pressure Is falling l gcnorally along the Eastern 31cpe, with vnwuner weather In the Upper Valiev* and Lower Lakes. The changes In the tempiratnre have been unimportant in the Southern states. Thunderstorms appear Irregularly, with light to fresh southerly winds in Florida, EXPLOSION ON A STEAMBOAT. Omaha, SepU 14,—8y an explosion on the excursion steamboat, Jacob ftiobmao, last night, four persons j were dangerously scalded. Tbere >s | a panic among the thousand m*n, vn ej ' men and children, who wf,passen ger*. The accident in mid stream, three mpUrabove Omaha. Steam and ooals were thrown over the among the passengers, that flnallwtbe boiler beoame mansge aolr, and (be boat proceeded to her mooing*. The orew aoted bravely, Jpd prevented the frightened passen gers from leaping into the river, A stay bolt gave way, causing the acci dent. FIRE IN WASHINGTON, N. C. Suffolk, Va., Sept. 14—The buelneis portion of Washington, N. C., was burned last night. The loss is conserv atively estimated at sl4ojloo, but may go much higher. The blaze started at Pam 1100 river and swept to the river front over Water, Market and adjoining attests. BRUNSWICK, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1900. i in m hi i pa Tyiioil Foyer Jjcoif an FjiJoiio. THREE HUSIMSI City Authorities Appeal to United States '-Marine Hofr pital for. Aid. "J|fe Gaivettoa, jtspt. 14.—Three hundred oittes of typhoid fever to day Seditions in the *’'T ’ -;.. The’chairmsii of the state boii&HW health his taken charge#! the sanitlfry situation. General Mciubben, cojj|*, manlier of the Department of has ordared that try) pities ot wreckage along iho bench which i* honeycombed S' with pulrdfyirg corpse*,-be flrtd, de spite the danger to the city, .Camp To be Established. Galyesiob, Tax.,,tjepH •foienoe was feiCUt tfe. It wae decided t6’accfpv ton omf of the* Called States Marine Hospital Ser vice and establish a large camp at Houston, where the deriitute and slek can be tent and properly car rtf 'fir. THEY ENTERTAIN WHEELER. <r . * , 9 . ‘ The General Will Arrive at Decatur, Ala,, This Morning. Decatur, Sept. LE~-Ueneri Joseph Wheeler thia oity thi* morning and wiljjjifmet at the train by a oommtttee of Wujitieens of De catur and New will es cort him from the train to the court house, 'where he will be giveo an ove tion, and will then deliver an address on bis experencei iu our country’* foreign wars Un will then he enter tained at member of private homes. WINTER CRUISE. Norfolk, Va , Sept. 14.—The U. 8. 8. Topekn, which has betn in Hampton Roads for some time, starts upon her winter cruise tomorrow. She will visit Lisbon, Gibraltar, Villefrancbe, Ge noa, Leghorn. Naples, Algisrs, Tang lers, Funchal, Barbadoes, Lucia, St. Kitts, Vera Cruz, Guantanamo Bay and return to Hampton Roads about April Ist. VISITED THE MINISTERS. Pekin, (via. Shanghai,) Sept. 14. Cbing, accompanied by two members of the Hung Lt Ysmen, last,.night called on the ministers. The German representative refused to receive him, saying that the call was personal. Cbing’s visit was largely of an unoffi cial nature, and no overtures were made. Negotiations are expected with in the next few days. ill 1! II IflL -<•••• •Nl '' '*’■ S Comiitteas Name! to Si licit Fills. Jhey Will Begin Work Today and the Total Subscription Will Probably Reach SI,OOO. In response to the oall issued by Mayor Atkinson in yesterday’s issue of the Timbs-Caxx, a number of ladies E & # And gentlemen met at the olty MU last, night to-diecuss mean* for send ing felief te the Galv<*ton sufferers. "Mayor Atkinson called the meeting to order, and after §tatidlPthe object of the meeting, requested Dr. J. A. Butts to address the audiacoe. Dr. Butts respuDded, and in a few well ohosen wofde graphically portrayed the con dition of the stricken oity, and refer red to the times when JJrunswiok had suffered, and the country responded fliutts was Wowed by Mr, Ed- aM Mri, F, E.Ywitfy, each of whom hriefiy urged the neces sity Of giving aid qniokly to the suffer ing people. Mayor Atkinson then announced the names of those appointed to serve as soliciting committees, and the parts of the oily thßy have designated to work in. The committees' appointed are : On the River front. -A. C Hanks, N. Emanuel. On Bay street to Newoaatlr.—T. Newnrnn, Julius May. Neweast’u atreet, east.—G. W. Cline, ( -stance Miller, C. D. Ogg. Ladies Committee.—Mrs. Bolling Whitfield, Mrs. G. W. Blanton. The lad'es are requested to appoint' sub-committees to assist in their work. Oo motion of Mr. Twitty, Mayor Atkinson was named as oustodian of the funds received by the various com mittees. Indications point to a large amount being subscribed by Hrunswickiane. This oity has been the recipient of much aid in times of need, and now that others arc suffering, Brunswick lans will be prompt to respond. STRIKE ON SHIP. San Francisco, Sept. 14,—A report has come to this city of a revolt on the hos pital ship Relief at Nagasaki, Japan. A large number of the officers and men are said to have refused to sign the new service contracts. Army officers here deny that there is serious trouble on the ship, but First Officer Crosky, of the Grant, has been ordered fo the relief as master. THREE NEGROES LYN ’ C^Bf Ttnlca, Miss., Sept. 'IE—A masked mob of about sixty brole into jail here today and took out three negroes whom they strung up on a tree. COTTON REPORT. It is Not at All Encouraging—. Crop Averages Less Than Last Year. "i W?*SP on thly bulletin issued this the State agricultural depart >vv , ment shows the ootton orop to be in a luuob poorer condition than it was at the same time last year. The average plaoed crop by the government last on the Ist of September was 69, while this year It isjjnly 67. The average for Georgia is placed by the State agricultural department at 67, a deorease of 7 points sinoe the August bulletin. It is now believed that the Georgia orop will be shorter last year by many tbou sar.dbalee. The report is based on the reports reoeived from the correspondents of the agricultural department injthe va rious oountles of the State. The re ports came on the lßt of September, and since that time Commissioner Stevens has been busy compiling the figures. Other crops also show a decrease, and the average, which has been 100 as a basis, bas taken a considerable drop. This is attributed to the dry wegjher duringthe months of Jolyand August. The farmers are still complaining of the weather conditions. In many parti t>:§j,e the •Wtsjll affected with tbs Hrtt. In South Georgia nearly ail the jeatton is open, and in some oounttes liie farthers have completed picking. THE DEMOCRATIC CLUB. Membership Committee Getting Many New Names. ' The democratic club is growing in membership at a rapid ra.e and wlihtn the next few days the list will be a very largo one. The committee who are doing this part of the work, Messrs. G. W, Cline, L. F. Memory and J. M. Biocdwotth will circulate member ship lists Id every part of the eTty, and ■ V ' v v. it Is safe to say that they will get a great many new,members as all three are good bustlers, MARKETS BY TELEGRAPGH PRODUCE MARKET. New York, Sept/14. —The leading futures ranged a# follows in the New York Produce Exchange today. Wheat,No. 2.—Open. High. Low. Close Sept SO 5-8 80 8-4 80 t S 801-4 I*o B*l-8 881-4 815-8 82 5-8 Corn, No. 2 Sept 46 4Sk-1 401-4 46 3-4 Bee 417-8 42 41 8-4 41 7-8 NEW YORK COTTON. New York, Sept. 14.—The following table shows prices of cotton for th dif ferent months; Open. High. Low. Close October 10 12 10 24 8 0S |) pf December 9 90 0 01 ( r, p 70 January ... Opt 593 002 9 m •July 9 84 r,B <j l ga RICHMOND SENDS PURSE. Newport News, Va., Sept. 14 -A telegraphic money order for about •1,500, the proreeds of a single day’a canvass of the dty in aid o*' —Gal veston sufferer*, ft ~ ,| toi p<wh of Celtient.. morrow to God, ’ j i- Iness Men’s Assoc PRICE FIYE CENTS. infill Formally Toilers ResiE nation as Presiieat of tie Transvaal. BOER WAR ABOUT OVER Kruger is Safe From Capture, Being On Neutral Territory. Will Sail for a European Port Shortly, Pretoria, Sept. 14—Lord Roberta has issued a proclamation to ths Burghers, stating (hat Kruger has fled to Lorenzo Marqutz, on neutral terri tory, and has formally resigned ths Presidency of the Transyaat. Owing to the fact that Lorenzo Mar quez is Portugese territory, the fugi tive ex-President oannot be captured by the British, It ie believed Mr, Kruger, with his wife and a Jrfw faith ful personal shortly take a etesmflV for Europ* JTht flight of Kruger, it is generally believed, praotioaily ends tfe&2£* r - ATLANTA TO THE SEA. • 0 Tho SoutUefJiyifcTeld Has a Lengthy TheMgfl the September issue ffpra wmk Field: "Ath#" Tk direct communication wllh **# E - roUs aud growing port ol which is reached by a brarfeh of the Macon division of the ■ithern Railway. The distance be- Atlanta and Brunswick is about 277 miles. Between these points is the city of Maron, the growing towns of McDonough, Jackson, Cochran, East— > man, Baxley, Mcßae, Jesup and many smaller places. Fifteen counties are traversed by this line, and following as it does for many miles the vailey of the Ocmu’gee, and beyond the Junction of the Ocmulgee with the Oconee, the val ley of the Altamaba, it opens up a wido stretch of fertile country, rich In agri cultural resources. The altitude varies from 1,050 feet at Atlanta to 13 feet at Brunswick. The chief products shipped to other markets are naval stores, lumber, cotton and cot ton products. There are vast areas of timber lands awaiting development and easy of access, lands adapted to the raising of rice, sugar cane and cotton, besides splendid openings for stock rais ers, fruit growers and general farmers. Melons and truck products are exten sively raised.' > LI GOES TO PEKIN. Shanghai, Sopt. 14,-Chang left to day for Pekin. When Interviewed and Informed that Conger lost seventy pounds he said: “It Is a b*d recom mendation for horse (1 sb.’’