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oooo Special Ribbon iWe "will put on sale 100 pieces tof : fancy Ribbon, the" regular; 25c quauty, at 12e the yard.; 25 pieces colored and white Taf- feta (Ribbon, (Nos. B to 7, wortlx 8c, special price Sc. 1 I 50 pieces 9, 12 and 16 Colored and white Taffeta, regular price 12o to 20c, special price, 10c 20 pieces 22, 40 and 60 .colored and white Taffeta, regular price av erage 25c, special price, 1SC. Devastated St::!!' Petrolled by Soldiers and the Strictly Guarded Relief. - 2 Jacksonville, Fla.iM&y 4.The Hot ; Mar sun rose over tooke-enstaouded and devasted xity. ! The fire which broke out yesterday at noon and) aided in its work by a. southiwest gale spent its force by9 o'clock last .night.- The damage is ejiermous. one nunorea ana forty-eight' blocks cwere swepJ;by- the flames and aslfar as knonvn' seyent peo ple lost tbeir lives. A -re-port to circula tion that a iparty of twenty people driv en to tbe docks aHohg the St Johns river 'were forced" into. be water, all attempts at rescue by boats being fu tile. The river is being- searobed. The city was placed under martial law at 4 o'clock this morning, companies of the state anilitia top on duty since midnight fhrmiffh Governor Jennings, Local have and, military companies from four cities were order ed to Jacksonville by special train. , 'Negroes are huddled in groups, in dif r irpntfc marts of the city and the fear of I an attempt at lawlessness toy them, al though not openly expressed by the J whites, is the reason for the large mlu- torr force oraerea nere. Fire companies from Savannah; !Fer- wandina, Ocala and other cities wr. necessary to quench the flames - It is believed that the fire is the lar gest in proportion to the size of the Diace that has ever visneu. " U10UCOO"0 ' 1 Tntn.nv been moved to supposed places of saf e- office where they sought saMfety. pr Dean oollaipsedon the street after an all night -- searob. and la falling (Was. seriously injured., f i - f ; V ' W. B. tBaroett, president of the First National Bank of Jacksonville, also (Sainted lasft riight during the progress of the flrej He fell into some smouldering-ruins, Bind Ibis. hair, beard "ani face, were burned before be was ,res cued. The terrific strain added id the twaran weatihe, is telling on aniany of those fwiho were active yesterday and last nigfo't in rescue iwork,- a number of cases of prostration being reported vtp to noon. Fire Chief Haney. is -some whajf improved. . He. rwas brought? do?n .: town iiuriag tiie day in ttoecare of twON or three firemen to view the xtiins.Sec-- rotary of War Hoot jwired the mayor of S. Augustine for the refugees.- The offer was in turaransmWtied to Jack sonvflle. St. Augustine, offers "aiso to .take care otf 1000 refugees. - " Before tbe fire meaJcihed the : teounty jail Sheriff Price assemlbled a31 his pris oners, 35 in.nuonber, and summoningall his deputies ; andi risoinr guards, (marched the men to Riverside.. Here they fwere 'kept under iguard ail night and this morning removed) to Jlen Cove and SU. AugustJme. A biH.will be intao druioed ia the ttaglslaiture imimediately 'to at once bond Duival county for,,500,000 to rebuild the court) bouse and Jail.'. A bill for a similar twnomnt will be also brought before the legislature to be used to covering an old debt, and to erect buildings destroyed by be fire. Owing ibo the tremenoous pressure union .'rei Oestreicher ty. t 00; 5 1 patton Avenue clocks, on the iWe have a good plana for-tW to save money, and insJteadT oif pay ing out eacb mxanttb, witb lt A FEV MINUTES' EVERY OTHER DAY this money may fbe yours. Sbave yourself with . i u . - GOOD SAFETY RAZOR ASHLV1LLE HARDYABE COMPANY. )nf ifiaiRitipsR th .Western families of their libraries, pianos egra-ph corwpatoy has given wnjaXl at- xney u tempts to aeiiver imessqffca. i" is crowded! to suffocation by people en deavoring to get their tmdtesages on the wires and to reaicb telegrams awaittng thiem. Outside off tae iueiegraiu wuc people are seen witb blanks up against the building wrltlnr despatches. Money is pouring;4n f rom all Florid cities by. wire and eaawess. . The f?, and Jitizen 'bfcs beaded a tflaudwhicb is growtor rpidlyw It is admitted by everybody hat the situation Is a seri ous one, and tfihat ejp will be needed fromi the outside world. That ipart otf tbe; city borderihgoa f RTrtoulderine ruins v is r ln Bdme danger from flying eparks. , breeze sprang up aoonx x " fanned the smouldering enwrers : a rt-mimmv ol bosemen was -pe-nt tto one locality near Bay and Ho- gan streets and kept w otk v hours playing on xne nwxna. rr. . " , it. .ihqti'o rlipf meet- was taraen ai me viu in this imorning, an' eaoouni.u jg inl taken till two o'clock .m jwh the tei'ty council wnnu'-. number of prostranons wB iv. today. , . . x ; owe has been at a comi- plSTrtStoS since yesterday after S.The city was in dakness last Z'nieht. Electrio-iignx 2.51 tT, eas plant destroyed. i A, conservative estimate Platte :Wnbebf homeless people in .to r city Tat 10.000. Most of these spent the night t tr&rtca. on the nariat feW hnrtres and some " . tilings they managed to save from ;Uie Seu " ... -ra dp- rph St. James notei, -wmi stroyed, has been closed The loss on this building was .W.000. Among the buildings destroyed are I,., w. .Auditorium. Board oi Trade, St. James hotel, Winsarbote rt POOD WIXJCi 2STOO? U coNTlAMlWATEr ' 11 in the II ODOROUBSS BiElEpiIGlE3RA?IXyR. ii Buy one from" , 11 Mrs. L. A Johnsd43jjpfet; P Avenue.. - ,-. " Eock! Bdckll ball and 2? largest office munains r bard Wilding. ' . . Mayor (Bowden said to an jbu press Teporter th)s morning. . "Say to the world, please, ia in Jacksonville is greater than ever before inflicted by fire - in .xne south. T estimate the loss or vi -p-w ,c jvaa AAft Thpre is no bint or law- lessness,. The people of every race and ndltiohave shown a most belpI c wotv each other and I cannot vmmendation enough to j x1r-nt1r,-n of the WOTK express mjr ouiuu -tl rm,n -nrrteress of the fire was so -. beat so fierce that it was 4i, ,0iTifTiiness and obedience -r- . terrible loss of SllOWn inai At 10 this morning a; cordon compos- m.iiitiA- dbuty sheriffs and po- licemen was thrown around the entire -. -.t. iatHrt. The fire is still ure ci r - v, flMlv in many sections or K.- v.1t hn ihe exhausted firemen, m,. frtr a time, sought ! rest, leaving the (fire to burn itself out ttat Trom ine o , temperature being 90. . Tlbe fire ! ofimpanles from jSavanwafc, JFernandma, OcaTa .ajnjd 02fJ?2Sf ,worked the entire nignton a soaking rain iwm " S-STHi- the flames. The losse by tihe flrewa :mj """" (week, , The patn thirteen woora v: mffles long, ."ZiS sonvillebsastoeen ojesravyw, '""5 JL V.il-Tw. atibirrbs and river- side, m? & toian tePort e-:- rte- txm aar-1 drtt,Seien wJ.v-. 0t fit of the damage cannot be told cntii to-morrow. : s -'- : r . Thtaisands of persons are on ,the f feets to-night, bomeless, wftb practi. ilfr aB their worldly possessions upon Mrelr3acfcs. The denote of the rail- rdstua.ted ba tbe southeastern seo ttSn have 0een turned into temporary Citfng-hotfses and hospitals. .W'ti J: not khowb vet if an anneal for ,bfe5p wtfl be 4ssued, though it is thought Ukel'v that the exigencies of the occa S0a wfU demand such action. It is h&bed that an atmeal can be avoided. favor Bowden this morning says the prptrty loss wfll exceed fifteen mil Uda Ten to fifteen, thousand people are bomeless. . .. ne plans-. oC the city as prepared by' the city surveyors shows that 130 .blocks were - burned and a part of an other block. The estimates of resi- denc s to the block in the residential dlstiict is ten, and in the business sec tions the. blocks were solid. iTbe Chief or Police ordered all sa looas closed until, further notice. i ) When Uie fire reacbed Julia street it waa a :roaring turnace' without any orospeet of being-sput under control. TheJicioal military companies wer called but to keep back the crowds an! the fire department began to use dyna mite to haw up the houses a block, from the fire and thus prevent the fir I from spreading. SO fierce was the blaz however, and so strong had become th wind, that millions of sparks and fly ing. burning shingles spread over five or six blocks, setting fire -to tne rooii of t the bouses in advance of the depart merit. Soon Senator Taliaferro's real dence, then the adjoining houses on thtti block were ablaze, and in spite oi all 'efforts to save the Windsor and tb! St-James Motels both houses wer quickly enveloped In flames.- For about an tinnr ttm Ernests in the Windsor had been busily packing their trunks and then went away loaded with trunks and arms, some unfortunately to the Uniteq ctooc TTrvti but most of them t Kdverside. ' Les-ping madly aeross the street from fbe -Windsor the Seills House caugn Arft And then the Methodist parsonage ami fn a. fw jminutes the Trinity. M. B. nharrii was a mass of flames. Tha rTrk HmKe block: follow ea ana ma ... . ji . Richards and lilvingstone Doaramg' houses. A desperate effort was made to save titk Baldwin mansion, which, was reeely puwhased by the Elks for ti&,- 000: No earthly power coura sye building and that entire oiocit ana,ma one west of it was quickly a mass of Cames. XDnce the fire got smarted on mb . "m x T TIT T n went: one after tne otner. t raint siiuvb ith -barrels of on were pienxnm iu. his district and as they caught on fire, one after the other, the blaze arose hundreds of feet high and quickiy set lie other buildings across the street un fire. Then the Hubbard, hardware store -auht and the people scattered when they saw what had happened. Hun 3reds of pounds of powder and a great I'eal of dynamite was stored in this building. Ten: minutes passed when . suddenly there' was a roar anu ilub 'f.irilding eoliapsea use an ess dynamite and" the powder had . ex ploded. Here again there was much danger for the firemen. Cartridges be aa to exptode'and bullets began to Hy around, and-the effort to fight the fire at this point had. for a time te M abandoned- This Was only the startol the most intense part of . the fire. Thf new jj-urcngoix uuiiuu6 y TT'k ablaze arid then !quickiy the j5 building was alsb1 a mass " fi Down the street ;-the. fir..SPTead .wittt rapidity and the-entire section of Bay street from"Market: to Main street and Sending for Ave blocks back, was Statemeni to the Public by the Citizens1 Executive Committer Corporate Influences at work in a So-eallf d Dtnocrat ic Campaign. REASONS FOR CHANGE OF ADMINISTRATION. A Hundred Thousand People Welcome the President at San Antonio. Today to be Spent at El Paso After a Remarkable Kailwa Ride. STORY OF THE FIRE. To oWwiUe "Fin May t 1 a. m. The most disastrous fire in the history of this city began yesterday shortly. a& ter noon in a small factory , nrgiu a. fective wire, according. to the. best be lief, and burned for nearly-ten hours; r Ytmt 4the a oroDerty damage esti mated at from $10,000,000 to $15,060,00 was effected. mm j AS-. . w t-. -r-w . All A- Tl11Tt" According 10 iue cn, , all at once. ' ' . m dred and thirty oiocks were Tne city building went, tne nre oartment building, the armory. m. -w,whci tvi rJerk's office, courthouse, the -city jau auu pchools and the Catholic Churcbnnd many of them in the heart of tne busi ness and residence section, ine esw mate of houses to the block Is: ten, hence 1300 of them went up in smoke. Many of the finest public and private buildings were destroyed, f?4 tels, theatre, churches and residences. rrry. noiHPi pan'not be accurately That . mere - w c w At P. tbefire checked at To Ithe citizens of Asheville: The executive committee of the Citi zens ticket wish to place before the business men of the city the cause for the fight that has been and is (being waged by those who advocate the inde pendent move in ithe approaching mu nicipal election. First: Because the administration which is just closing has been a very unsatisfactory one from a business man's standpoint "with an exception or two." While we who have bad in' charge the management of the inde pendent ticket bave refrained from in dulging in personal abuse, either of ithe candidates or anyone connected with the so-called "democratic" v ticket, we shall -frankly state our job J actions to the administration of the city government during the past two years, and why we think all the business men of the city, irrespective of politics, should avoid a repetition of the same. It goes without denial that the same influences which have controlled the administra tion during the past two years are now in charge of the "democratic" machine. The Citizens' ticket and -J advocates have been charged with being' nothing more or less than the regular represen tatives of the republican party, and it is rather amusing to. see who makes Ibis grave charge ..C A. Webb, chair roan of -tae 'democratic" - executive committee stated in The Citizen of a few days ago- "it is the same old thing," While SMr. 'Webb and J. C .Martin are known to be the attorneys for the "Gen eral Electric company, the head " of which Is a life-long republican, hailing from Bangor, Maine,- and contributing to the republican campaign fund In every national, state and county elec tion that has been held since he has been In the state of 'North Carolina; and yet C. A. "Webb says that the so called Citizens' ticket is nothing more than a republican ticket. It bas been charged repeatedly dur ing the present campaign that the General Electric company was the con trolling factor. It bas been frequently charged aad as yet has never been de nied until yesterday, afternoon at thfei end of the election and besides it caft. properly be in ferred from the Interest taken in (the election by J. C (Martin, attorney for the Electric company, and The Citizen .the organ of that company that the charge is a; true one. - The people, of. Asheville are too well acquainted" with- he-ecord of the past admmistration" in connection with the General iEIectrc company to speak fur ther about It. We will, however,' call attention to the fact that Asheville pays more for its lights than any other city of its size in the South, and we will, make this assertion that the Gen eral Electric -company furnishes the poorest lights in the city , of Asheville t that we bave ' ever bad since the city has been using electric lights. The cft izens of Asheville have not forgotten how 'Mr, iCutler, with the assistance of the present board, has been jabre te erowd out every street railway and Del Rio, Texas, May 4. President McKinley today passed through a re gion which at different times has re cognized seven sovereignties. The fea ture of the day was a visit to San An tonio, which boasts the most cosmo politan population of the country. The president was driven about the place for nearly three hours and warmly greeted by Mexicans, Spanish, Italians, Germans, French and Irish. Governor Say res greeted the president here and escorted the (party on a drive through the oity. At least 100,000 person thronged the streets. Fort Sam, Hous ton was among the places visited. Here salutes were fired. Finally the carriages reached the Plaza Alamo where a stand had been erected, from which the president made a brief address. At noon the presidential party left fofr San Antonio, a run of 624 miles from El Paso without a scheduled stop on the way. The train of eight cars was drawn by two huge locomotives. Sunday will be spent at. El Paso. While the engines were being changed tbepresident addressed several hun dred persona at Del Bio. Special Sa e Monday, Tuesday, ednesday . . tttqii aiirtttnticateai seveTai Beem f"! ' V x .ta Bay Among them was tnat io me the iatersecxioo - w. r'" nt.ia oereTXo? thesalos cloaho f hs imnressed neip xo ciear iaratern uo o6 .- , . vvt Z : ' Ltrt and not-damaged. . - ,.LA1 member that, da maror at a late hour stated thai tbcpnttinent. bocexs cVitier basi' the sole control ; of be estimated the loss atuw ;were tte Jar e that 10,000 to l&.uuo peojHr 'TT I " - " . ' - - WOUTfi BBiWHO. Our Howe Wrappers are Home Maker. To the "stay-!at-hiome," ease toad ; comfort are taportiant consideratHons .: THDE SCANT WKACPPIDR NOT IN IT. Aimple wixStbi,- tpxopeT Alness, and sensible styles are the tbree point excellence that hare onade our wrap pers famous. Wrappers of Best Percale,, iwjalac lined, extr.fw-tt-tolis.,wld skirts, perfect flttinig, exactly like iplc- monopolizfi the : same into the control of ltmwu so- less. The situation is one approaching des olation in a large Beeuonw i - 91Z1 w...VHfitrict-i-reaches froffl Bainbrldge vZr, laree a. rlceslnvitb page. oar large ad . Sem wldtb; j&t9 LohSed weris : eleven blocks g prices. J. H.iwV PaltWiWtte. i""' . niafiv 'irvmrrm-i ------- Within . tM spaw - t 1 . .3 . . m r . ... ticket must re- itbe future Mr.. the only "democratic"-' paper thats Asbe called democatlc' paper. ftbt'Ashe- vUle bad, and the part .that we regret so mncbio'see. Is tbat all of this bas been acconiplfebed with' the assistance of a "democratic administretioni with in less 4haii two years; There Is another . oaawer. wmca we fCorittouedT on tbe fifttfli page.) NEW Sale Price 98 Cents GOODS' ISIRRIBIVING DA3XT. v ar - aw a -i. mm mm -t S3 South- tor furnishing stones, hearth rriX -frl . 5 L1Tm .ut of Laura, on Bay, is gone. . etonaes,- Also for grading side or yard wJkai excavating. BlXRGliiS ilt ABbeviUe, N. C. Pbone Wt,x BRmicomM 1 - ;1 This is a tffoflteble cwp JW. We oan Supply Wood's Irffrwea . Evergreen BrbomtcOrn at y per pound. ttttg taii oi -AWl al 10:16 O'OlQCIt vnf.:-t 3T";-TTr?l-; control, Having .XWjS2SliS ett out. Tbet suburban tUemen. unncn unnccxnR U 1M 11 bH UUlll t v i GRANTS PHAMIACX' f 1 Watermelon. Jackson, Dixie, 'Peerless, Man tatn Sweet, Blue Gem,1 Jones fana: other standiard! varieties Wftn m - V uLLuce or tpouiiu. . - j i- i-i-LJL 1Ti1mA k? aimoTirat- to eppl fMQKSK JjK"iZtot tfiam broken, :M -.who wear Kl"? "r iarkln thla line. L.-r-W.e mass .h- thev are we ean dnTUcato them on bort notice. ( - nammxcKs Jioa; Tousfc ujvw , . fiiMiinw rpImerB ire the best;:-Becelred ' -ins ! teaitttigna? HnrnflTwoksIl . prices fnuAlMry I tiesioii&Sons, , We are now xvaponflancs jt. ni4ia . twwbik' ifnioulbern rjeorole wlbo rwisbto ent Mo8V tf ted blouses tlW-lBfl9ePrt'S'lZ of ttbe partlesr iwabt bouses wifbiuj x the citywhue otners prerer wr.. .wKom TwddTWa "we also bave j X '.rmfrtefli for 'aniallunfurnlsbed - bouses wltb:inodern jconrenteii-: X "f nnisAa for-rent iwe jwouM. be.sSad j to list " same jandjwUl promise f our best efforts find a, tfeslrK. I tablei tenant Pttttoo Ave. , -1 Phone 68ll I '- - .. ; 5 iiAr , . .ciiAfnrrinlrVt?'i: r ' 1 r .-IF Wa cotftage is all very weaaa LeaVeS UJSrUVe oeffiaKonsf lbe flour barrel Utt't r. m Droduoe . ebiarged portraits In eraycti anid pastel. V fe away a vaiuea ramaiy ; 9 - . ....--r. w ,-- I- i ets. jvaw - ice-coa weu, wjppvic 'than tbose some copying Jwasef 9 'agetrf offers yon, but yle ; Is ifflfference in quality wblcBls .j J " oot- computable In dollars land ,een)tB N. Brock, 29 Patioh Ave. : j;?-hri . . nwi rtak crrove. s acres, cdeaxeoi,- acres well set In grass, Gtablea and other outbuildl tme orjcjbjard,- ' to.': z One other farm six imSles .crwatf-Asbi-ville, on HenoersonivlUe vtoadi.'7 New 7 rnorm (Kojise- 600 fruit trees. Beautiful lbcatfcm and good up and bottom land.- Apffiy eamy. w - - j- - i - . CLIFFORD & DAV1ES, . . jjuwary- imarar-St AJTiu x n: r t :'f. 4 II ,1 n ' 1 f' fe - 4 '4 7 Ltson klleW : GRANT'S PHARMACY; i ooort Bquare. r- -;.T : 5 r
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