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- '. . ..., .. . t ... . - - , , - . . i . . . , ' i . ... . ., . . . . , .. s . ,. . : . ; '"'p"? l : "'V" VOL. VI: NO. 38 : t r - - If jrou get It from Oestreicher & Co. it is "up-to-dte.1: xxx &G0: We call especial tatitention to our strong Ji s rf Dress Fabrics lor . ; Easter Wear. BOtli in Woolen anid Silk. In rvoolen soodis we Are dis playing the latest Weaves, sucti. las . Batistes Nun's Veiling Crepe de Chine and; Albatros, In, aill tt3iieaeadinig! icolofings. (Prices 50c ito $4.-0 the yard. In our Silk Diepar'tonen we are show ing the best selectioa and Iturgest variety of FouHards ever dis played 5n Ashevalle. (so well in- -farrned shoppers say. PRXCES 35 (to $:60 .the yard',; ' -. BUOCADED EVllTNG SILKS IN ViA(Ra!EfrT OF OOLOBS, 85, TO $1.25. COCO & Co. ,51 Patton Ave If we have it it la tfaie best. We hve just received a carload of COLUHBUS BUGGY GO'S VEICLES WUcii rnclude NBW AND ATTEACTP- rTE lints in open and-Top Buggies, Car. rtages. Surriea and Trap. V "Mil be Able to display to m abjort time, n4 Invite outf eall if you are in need of anything In HIGH CLiASS WORK. . . " Oestreiinfi Oestreicher e . " ; AHFVM I C U ADnAA DCr PA of retfevting the injured. Several per nonLY I LLC. nAnUYYAn L bU lcms were cut but of itlhe ruins of 8 B. Cor. Court Soiutre. Pbfon 87. Don't Boa d Any Longer Let Mrs. L. A. Johnson fur nish rooms for you, pay ber. on : installments and save money. 43 Patton Ave. ROCK! ROCK IT ROCKS! We are in control of four Stone Quar. s city and suburbs.. Are prepared "J? lurnishing building stone, ep- iones, hearth BbaxcaxVbizito.: la faCt any kind of Vynlltf Itvj irm AU grading side or yard walk and wvating work- . - BURGESS & MOORE, ASHEVILIiB, N. O. , - ' . wo. 25. , p. O. BOX 222. Masseur & Reagan., real estato office, i Coit Square Phone 223. WOOD'S SEEDS v A fun line of Wood'a.Gtolen' aad ntT' G,rass 'Sweet ''Pe w bsturttium Seeds in bulk. i GRAFT'S PHARMACY; HEADACHE bSS2S jrofcMr- relieved by -wins jdeadteHv rvre ' j GRANT'S PHARMACY, Y a 'X illniliillJlalMli ' .,.-St.I- '" Fifteen Persons Killed Outright and Number Fatally Buildings News of Death and Destruc tion Com in gin From the Surrounding Country. A DOZEII PiiSSOliS REPORTED KILLED AT TRU3SVILL Twenty-Five Houses Demol ished and Seven Kill ed at Irondale. Militia Guarding the Ruins From Thrives Macs Meetiug to be Held Today to Devise Belief Measures Birmlnghajnii, CMarch 25. A terrifin wind iand .radn-stonm (passed ov3r Bir- nanghanK and viciinity atoout 10 o'clock JSbis "morndng. doing great damage, and Kiinng and injuring anlany people. The "entire poliioe force, fire deiparitmient and aH the amlbulandes in ithe city, together wiun surgeons, were sumtmoned to the scene. . i i The sarnie storm swept over Inoaidale, seven smiles east of there, and diestroyed a large part of (the ibusdness 'portion of (the townV sPiratt'City ateo smffered. th rpuihlic school , tHUlldinig ibetnig untrtoof ed an4 he Flnafe Methjodiisst cWurciliL loavlag lis Bt&Ke famzi Ja&. QVIay,negri9 eab ins"wene wrecfeed and a mmiiber of.peo plecftttrfev jKTQTtfe SirmirgMjaa a;otBer a fearful gale and rain fell in ewornwus siheeta. . - TJwo hundred toouBes dn -tihis city are destroyed. The known dead so far normber 15. Several are fatally injured and a' score are less hurt . Repwts of deaths and destrvBctiian of property lareftoOBaing ifn; slowly from the sinwimding country. Tfhe itornado was first seen at 9:40 tlhte morning. It had a (petit 150 yards wSde and as it pasised through the" city rees were uprooted and Chouses fbJown down. A heavy rain? . followed the storm., .. " Uf. (G. C . CJhaipman, a 'prominent pfaysiScan stepped tinto la drug store to escape the rain. Tlhe (building1 was Tbfown down and' he was killed . Others .Troxnlnient attnloniff tthe dead were the Tvlfe land obild of (Democratic (State Ohairtman (Robert J. Uoiwe. The entire .police and! fire depart anents after tflie torhlado began the work houses. The injured were dared ior .in hospitals and the ihouses which scaped destrruictlon. TATiteh arftiilitia. are feruarding the wrecked hoanesifrom thieves. The mayor said! tonight tfliat 15 were dead in (the city proper and 150 injured, several of iwfhom1 could snot fpossitbly. re- cover. A .mass meeung wm uc. u morrow to devise relief (plans and he didl not think outside (help would fee necessary. The tornado passed f rom here to Irondale, six imi'les east, where twenty- five . houses are (aemoiisneu . rui whites and three negroes killed . there and) several fatally hurt. tAitf Cleveland (Mrs. Oeorige Ham was killed by iffightning. CAt Pratt City, NorUh Barmingnam, Grtsley, Green springs, 'auc-- Woodlawn and Gate sClty tme wimx iwe .mnfki nrA rfatrinrwdl out' bouses. It is? impossible to bear from "WeemS and Trussvl'lle, a stmall town 15 miles east. " it ds reported a -dozen - are killed. there. . .-' : - : : 'Ajmlong (the known dead Kere are the following: ' . - " ' - j. j)r,jCJ. C duapman, a tprominent pbysician of -uhis oify, IdUeA by (falling debris in Mentor's store on. South Twentieth gtreet.' . - V - Mrs. Robert J . - tows, yiw - . . . n-hott a iAfmmnmAie anm cnairmaDi v - (mlttee'and her infant teonv kiUe4, at Accurately Fitted i ... . i.- - Glasses M xlMlX- .omA- irA ((V.VN "'. Oleveyour - beadV ; p- ts ; '.-ache.- ilamlmtion ree. --7 ; EETTFIC OPTICIAN. ' . "opiorfte Postoffite.- St Patton aye " . a k "aw ' u mat .. "Ui -.t-llU n K 1 u'HM e Iujured Many in Ruins. their residence on South Hiands - ; Alexander, .merchant, kiuea in'hAs store at Avenue J and Tweny-,fourth W. P. 'IWckerson, aboWk-keeper, klll edin Mentor's store on. South Tlweri tleth street. T3iree-year-o!d daughter of B. ,B. Hudson, (mierchant. - - Ldzzie Glenn- - Carrfie Henry. 'Uzzie GoodJoe. Miary Johhistois. Oarrie Hudson. -(Magfgie Blevins. J. Myro. i ' : Fannie Steadmire, a megajo cook for B. B. Hudson., Ail three last imewtiioined are negroes and were killed outright . Among the fatally .injured are: !Mrs. R. H. Tlhomlas, fMrs. W. H. Thofmias, wife and tthdtlher of a iproimi ment real estate agent. The stortmi did its worst damage in the neighborhood of Avenue I and J from Tenth to Thirteenth streets, wreckinlg scores of buildings 'and creat ing terrfble havoc. This does not include the fatalities that have been reported from the out side districts around and about Bir mingham. " A reporter o the Birmingham News, wh2 wen to Irondale to investigate the storm damage, 'tie.pihcmed at 2 o'clock tint's afternoon that three "persons were killed afcitlhat place and ten injured. The dead' are: G 7W. iGardner, white, carpenter and two ohiildren of Clarence Hunter, col ored. . 1 ; Half a dozen stores were Iblown iJcwn and there were many narrow ' weapes. at 15 at 8 p. m.- The - iftfteentih dead body f ound' wais iat of a child of B. B . Hudson, a well kwawn' commission ner dhabt, who resides on-Avenue I. The total nusmber of injured is not known tCbotinued on the fif th c agr Oornellsvaiile, Pa., (March 25. A; spe cial train composed of a (box- car and! ja fasr engine brought inito CoraeHsville ttoday ithe most frightbfuf host of groan ing, blackened amd unrecognizable men evier ihauled into (ttuis town. These were the victims of Uerrible indue explosion at the Gales mine of the Eurekai Fuel eamspavty an. ttlhe mew Klondike. cok field m this CFayette) county. The mine ha a .bevn workedl only a few mon;th.s, and tihe cause of the explosion, was probably ajcxnimuilated! gas. Twenty-eigJit men iwetelt into the pit to work this porxurar. Of this (number sixteen were injured in the explosion.. '- As soon, af ter tne explosion as DELAREY DEFEATED WITH GREAT LOSS Many Boers Kled and Wonndsd and 140 Prisoners. T nWowVi: o- .Tr!':hioner. in a Pretoria despatoh. dated (March 25 says: Tifl.hin.eiton'B force, irifclud - .Sbekle- ULUlUUU'f ixmi -Mm r ' tn' innl.usnin,' t."V'" CDeLrev, 1500 strong south'WteiSt of Vandersdorp, and hajving defeatedi 'him a?Miowea ra up raoidlT. with (the result that the Boer . -j Jman 4n nmifl the COn- rear guaru ww - r , . voy, including guns, was wytu "Vaal Bank." TArt.a.T. (5va SL 11SX OI we uuo t ured . One mmnarett oners were taken, ana many ., . Tra were kill- were (taKera.'a.iJiu. , , r ed and wounded, were sligbt. The British losses SALISBURY NOT SERIOUSLY ILL. Tjmnsdon. -LMaTVih 2S: The vrebort that Uord Salisbury is 111 ds sojmwbiati0 ex- tosgiarta.'ted!.- He suffered' 'from a sttght ooddl in the head yesterday but is (better today. 5 ( - .i.- Chocolate Menier, Chocolate : z : Croquettes 7.iCHesfon'sy . -4 26 Soub Main street, "t.-. ' r KEENED TO DEATH IN A COLLIERY WASHINGTON yiul PIWTFST Browns fleniovai is Surrend- iafTlr.fluence mClea the In crdent H Caused Excite- men 1S(NIMGACT0 - . American interests IF CHINA pGfNS SOHlUiRiEAN (MORE TO SAY. Washington, Marcli 25.-spfficial con- imujwuwi, .'uue iQiismissar croni office of (M'olJeary. Brown, director general of oreafv cu stomo, was received at the state pepartimenit? Thematter is regarded as. important as snowing Russia's growinfei power in CoreaJ Brown's diismfissat is aocepted as tantamount a complete surren der oftlhe Ooireaatirone to Russian in fluenofe , This government lias taken cognlz anoe ctf Brown's removal in a commun ication to the 3titog of Corea, setting fortai the reasons wlhy the United Sitates regard the removal as injurious to American interests. There is (much American capital dn the oouAtry . and BrownX adonlnistration of the cuistoms service has been -very fair tia Amierdcan investmenitSi His removal may, aAd the substitution: of Russian influence will, ittis ibelieved, endanger the com mercial armnsements (between this countrytaid ICorea. . Aimexican official concern in the Rus so-CftSnese agreement regarding Man churia now thas achance to make itself f elt Inrview lof Russia's repeated ;aa aijmaKe any jon ce6aiiijranigei tlJ&lna witfliout the oonicuTrance of oilier pow- ra tihi-s eovernment felt it sb.ouid not question, ber good. faith in the Manchu rian matter. Brown's dismissal, bow ever, ifumiShes a reason for o'bje'ction a. foroe of men was put to the res cue. A great, crowd! of grief-stricken waives and relatives surroutoKfiea tne shaft, one by one the burned' men werei found, and sixteea were found to-oe Prriibl v burnedu Sevtemi died soon naf ter they were reached toy the rescuers Nine still livedi and .these fwere put into je box car. A (fast -engine was attached cmsti this hosroi tall exnoress was rushed ai fun Deed to (Cornellsiville, where they were placed in the hospital. Th,rftp ir four of the indured men wiU tyrobably die. All are terribly 'burned an i mn,e have lost their eyes. The dipiaA miners wer taken to their "deso- I dead miners were taken to their deso- are foreigners. JAPAN HAS, HOT YET GALLED RUSSIA DOWN Yokohama; (Marcli 25. itn the house of peers today lhe minister for foreign affairs said! JapaS bad not comimuni cated with Russia in regard to . the Manohurian "agreement. The matter of the dismissal from office of Minister (McCleavy Brown, director-general of ICorean customs, as announced yester day from Seoul, is reported to have been settled . . - NEWSPAPER REPORTERS STRIKE : IColiumfbus, O., Mareb 25. The entire floral staff employed on the Press-.P-t went out on a strike this morning. Tre propnetw or tne paper nadi .been gaven uotil 9 o'clock this imominguta sign! the scale of the newly formed fWriters' As sociation, tout failed ito d'o so. It is understood that the managemenit is making an effort to settle -the dispute. J FOR.-RENT: New 5-room cottage, ion nearby reside -10a street, . just' completed (neve- oocrupieaj. JUiaaena oon- . - - veniences. $16.50 per month. v Two nios residi nes on Mont fori avenue for rent from !AprU I. WILKIE &;LaBARBE, ; Real Estate Agents, 23 Patten Ave'Ph6ne661 EJIPBESSlSflFE.iM. RALEIGH " BLOW jFil J TiEVlS 5 Terrific Explosion Broke Frightened tha Burglars Away Empty Handed. , vv . - uiwriuii uwtyress company's office here was Mown' open tonight shortly before 11 o'clock by safe crack- ers. Hie concussion nras so snpeait it knocked) out a iplate glass window and foiled .the burglars ia their efforts to get money and! valuables. The office of Ue compaicQr is located on to Russia's attempt to get the upper band in the east and a cepresention wlil likely be made to lhave Russia un- aerstand that tihas couaitry must b considered a party in the settlement of If tomorrow, th last day given by irtussiar no uuna nor signing tne juan- churian agreement, (the Chinese (pleni potentiaries affix their signatures, this government may call the attention of St. Petersburg to the principle put forth by Russia that (one power should make no "private arrangement with China un1'-'" ttJH powers consent. Radical action is expected from Japan. TO RECOVER MURDERED MISSIONARY'S BODY A Crime That Shows Dangerous Con ditions in China. Pekin, Mlardh 25. Missionaries Owen ajndi Iigigia4 of the iLondoni imiflsion., staritedi today to -recover the bod'y of Missionary StKaiehouse, who was imlur- (dterad (Sialturday while crossing a ferry m the Tun'gan district, 60 miles south of Pekin. The roerpertrators of ithe crime were ia band of. robbers 'ianipHicait ed in the box-- movement. Thie; murder lustrates the 'dangerous condition of the surrouuding coumtry. Ixcal officials are forbidded to use na tive (troops to mainrtjain. order and hentce r they are (helpless ia the present easel .where , t'hiay are . apt responsible. Thel auaaevtpiowersnave,jajreaoy"piYjiaea . a large part--of : Chifi ?o!r iiito spheres nominally utrder. foreign comtrox, ibutt the troops are not 'sufficient to maintain .posts and protect missicnariles visiting wmvtehts (aiod securing dndeminities . Storehouse travelledj without escort through a troubled sedtioni. The mis sionaries fboldl that the onwrdier shows cJeairly ne mistake of 'the powers in ! refusing. ttoAnclude in the indeminity to be demanded ai list of 'the losses of con-. vers. Them inisters are thus left to ariiainge the matter by consultation! with odal officials, iwtho generaHy are ready to imieet their desires. :Tttie people of the Tumgani district have already suffered considerably from depredations of GermatnB and other itroops and! tMs has imade it difficult f ?r iMissionaries ito obtain redress. ENGLANG WILL HOT REOPEN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS Chamberlain's Statement in the House of Commons. London, March 25. Mr. Chamberlain w!nen asked' today im the house of com mons if it was possible to change the offer 'of peace terms to thie Boers, said the negotiations were closed and! there was no Itltention of reopening them. SNOW BOUND TRAMS RELEASED AIIO MOVING Omaha, Marchi 25.-r-Tbe Union Pa cific railroad reports thds morning that the four passenger trains that' were ficfoiw-bound most of the day yesterday and! last night an the vicinity of Ogal- lalfiei, Neb., have (been .relieved anid are making headway.. c Several snowplows last night clear edi tlhe tracks between North Platte aiad Julesburg. The storm has abated and! the damtger of further iblocfcadieds tbelieved to be past. MRS- NATION'S PROTEST TO A SALOON KEEPER St. Louis, March 25. Mrs. (Carrie Na- tion, the Kansas saioon smasher, passed ttnrougJi -here today en route to Cin oimiati . iwniie waitaag for 4ier train sne visited ' a laq?uor establishment on Market street audi vaindy expostulatec "Every woman is Batttiful at some time of ntr life." I -' . Victor Hugo. ; .jvery woman ds more ". beautiful J 0 win ugnts ana -positions tnan m others We find 4be most.be. a ;, minj: liht and positioni when we make. your. portrait j "JTe try to fh i the most tecomlrg expres ; sion. . Cthc natural ; on . ) , but : Caere is c-ibere we are dependent upon your be'!;'. . .57e aye. a pencil which a. work wonders - In Jtraightniuig - Irregular ; features and roundtug yiin; bosoms.' - Cur-- .pictures for, 1901 ,liall be , better . an ever before.- - -"- Z Yf9' Patton vc ...If:.we"d3 not make tout 'z'por.f , trails oe? 1 turn it- win because iU was taken, at the wrong' "time of "life.".-? ,r 'f Windows, Drew a Crowd and pnnotpa street of the Wty and icne (report or the explosion brought a crowd to the office. The safe iPkeI.?l there were three. ' t "ST TI WJ.- . : robUrT -"L rbanemL . ItoouW f h- have been secat f or .T r iaira3 with the iroDrleiv. fr- ria . ' I his estsablishment wftifr f wili meet her manager in Otaol'naati" clux twin rrocert Ti where she will lecture. ' Ky, A uHlLU SLA Ten v DIES OF REMORSE New York, March 25. -Charles Prled Tnan a taite, who in an insane fit on Monday last killed bis two children, one three years and tlhe other sixteen months old, at their home in Brooklyn by strangling one and beating out the brains of the other, died in Jail today eath was due to exhaustion. The man bad not slept since (Che death of -hia children. COnON MILL DESTROYED BY THE HURRICANE Chattanooga, March 25.-A Si received (here from Lynnville, Ga states that the large cotton mill at that Place, near Rome owned .by Ronceville Bros., of Rome, was destroy,ed by the' wwxm. xt is not reported whether any one was injured. FOR SALE. SOME ViALUABUB PROPERTY ON PATTON AVENUE. .Thirty City Lots Desirably Lo . . - cgfted. Jf failns 6 from cifer-adjoming eaclh other four miles south bf fiilrmore G.ol 11jnss njd out-Oiouses on one mwil fairly good, dweiiIn;ff on' S? "IJ1- contain- timbered'. AwdI-it well Clifford & Da vies - 37, Obrary BUjdlding AiSBJVILiLB, N. '"7"rl" Q ( AAA- . 1 U1U "le spiaer do when he cane out of he ark? Took a fly aSS -went home. y aBa C arnival is he next attraofciolci. interested not inj TO thOS; Street Fairs." fakes and ftikirs, but in an elab dlfPW of tbat js new and tasteful in new fabrics and millinery., Pialn printed words wtill not convey half the elegance or value represented'. 8 Silk Muslin so inches wide, hems'atch, in stripes, dots and erav. da va.r.. cream, 'Mackr blue and redi a cloth for easter dresses 46c Mousseline De Soie, 45 inches wide, Just Ithe fabric for hat trim:ning, black, white, blue, and piok., Usually sold ttt nn ,75c. For this sale.. .. 39c silk mmi, 45 inches wide; black, twhite, lav anderrPink, bluie1 and) yellow 190 ,splc-ndii- substitutes for chiffon New Millinery. Irresistable Fancies For Sprfng. - -The mUMaery- room is a scene of striking .beauty ;withra5bewil- : derirg array of fioralttues. The loveliness of jfaky&nd presented .for your -Inspection. . TBEET EEATS AJXEWMJLl UET JOSE THIS HINT SUiETBlCSOB. : $10 Hats for $4 95. V THE I .. Famous : From the Start, The first a we ever sold at - that price was 'a- (mascot; oonr our" J patrons are universal ia saying, "the greatest $4.95 bat ever put .: oat sale." Ribb'ons, , .iA -orofusioa of all- that is ner ' asddesirable; In- all tlfe color's of .the-rainbow. A sample, is 5-Ja. wide,, all silk, and heavy, finest' lustre Taffeta;. a fine 50. ' 1 ribbon .Vs. y.u 5c V , V.- - , :;6?:AlearsM V - Ik (k x .-- V J- j 1 . : - -r r . t - -' r ' r " ' , - t. . , . - . "t1 - ,t t-'-r-.v.r-.
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