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Weather To-Dav: FAIR: CONTINUED COLD. • o u \ •- * i ;s7. DfBATE ABIUT, Vic NtRV a son A Rather Spirited Coll »qu> Between Hoar and Wo *lcott, DEWEY 08-iAN A/Ml<Ai TIIE APPROPRIATION BILL MAT TERS WILL TAKE UP MUCH TIME. St * A <H It M N 6 l S a | 'o U Vi h e r r ce *o B'iglv in ■** 'stand o'tnn and Water Hlo s he farm r cm * mO. ce, Washington, Feb. 13. —At no time dur ing the session of the Senate today was a quorum of the body present, a major ity of the members being snow bound at their homes. For the first time in many years no invocation was pronounc ed at the opening of the session, neither the regular chaplain, nor any other min ister being able to reaeh'the capitol. A sharp debate over the unanimous con sent agreement reached Saturday after noon to vote on tin* McEuery resolution tomorrow afternoon was precipitated early in the session. Some feeling was manifested by Senators who object to the adoption of the resolution but none of ihem indicated what might be their action tomorrow. In connection with the consideration of the resolution, the Senate decided to meet at 11 o’clock to morrow morning. In response to some of the statements made, >;r. Me Laurin, <S. C\). explained hov the unanimous consent agreement ■ reached and then said: • J do know that there are Senators hi this chamber'who would not have vot 'd for the treaty if they had not been assured of an opportunity to vote upon the McEnery resolution. If any Sena tor was not present when the unanimous consent agreement was made it was his ov n fault. I give notice therefore, that 1 -hall object to any vacation of the unanimous consent agreement.” Mr. TToar, of Massachusetts, said he had just received a telephone message from Mr. Mason. (111.1. who requested on account of his illness, today, that discussion of the unanimous consent agreement go over until tomorrow when he might be present. Mr. Wolcott. (Col ): “Poes the Sena tor from Massachusetts understand that the unanimous agreement reached on la*t Saturday carries with it a unanimous consent not to discuss the question n the absence of the Senator from Illinois?” With some feeling Mr Hoar replied: “I do not think the Senator from Col orado ought in fairness to address such a question to me.” He then proceeded to explain how ho happened to have made the statement received by h>m from Mr. Mason. After Mr. Wobott and Mr. bad had a colloquy that was not audible to th<* Senate. Mr. Ilale. (Maine), rose and sa'd: “Let the Senators adjust their differ ences outside.” , Adverting to the pending matter Mr. Hn'e said he could not comnreliend the object of the onponents of the resolution and added that he would like to know “the inside of this never ending objection to those resolutions.” Mr All'son. (Iowa), said it was well understood that if the resolution was de bated it would occupy the* remainder of the session. TTo maintained that the unanimous consent to vote upon the reso lution implied that there should be no debate. Mr. Allison at the request of Mr. Hale then made a statement of the condition of the various appropriation bills." “Tt is manifest.” said he. “that these bids will occurv a great deal of the time of the Senate.” ai> TTnle chairman of the Naval Com mittee. favorably reported a bill creat ing an Admiral of the Navy. The bill reads: “That the President ! s hereby author ised to appoint, by selection and promo tion. an Admiral of the Navy, who shall not be placed upon the retired list ex cept upon h'« own application: and v henever such office shall be vacated by den f b or otherwise the office shall cease to exist.” The bill it i« well understood is made to fit Roar Admiral Dewov and it is ex pected that when the bill bpoomes law. be wii] Vp nominated by the President for the offiep. Th« b'll was passed. A Senate bill anthnriwng the exchange i f the old custom honsp lot at St. An guctine. Fla '‘nr lands adioining the pov dor bonse lost wa* ftossed Consideration of the Agricultural ap propriation h' l ! was then bo<*nn. A joint resolution appropriating 82(1,- Pt ft for the removal of --now and ice from the streets of Washington city was adopted. '■"he appropriation for vegetable path ological tnvostf gaf’ono was increased from «'°2 "fin to ?'(•;> "iPO. provided (hat yr 000 should be nsed for the investiga tion of the disease known as “Little reach ” Mr THlman offered an amendment ap propriating $7.."00 for “investigation and experimentation with fertilizers and The News and Observer. LEADS ALL MOM CAOMNA DAIUES i lE*S ADD CM&OTMM fungicides, on the causes of blight in sea island cotton and in water melons and the remedies for the same." | The amendment was agreed to. Mr. Tillman also offered tin* following amendment which was agreed to ‘to en able the Secretary of Agriculture to in vestigate and report on the cost of mak ing tea and the best methods of culti vating and preparing the same for mar ket. so as to demonstrate whether it is practicable to introduce its culture in the Southern States as a profitable industry. •T 5.000.” The bill was then passed. Air. Teller. Colorado, then made a brief statement to the Senate in which he said he proposed tomorrow to vote, for the McEnery resolution. * Among the bills passed were the fol lowing: Amending the statutes concerning the drawing off gauging, marking and re moval of spirits, so that spirits may be drawn off in packages smaller than bar rels and put in five gallon cans for ex port purposes. The Senate then at 3:20 p. m. on mo-' tion of Allison went into executive ses sion and at 3:30 p. m. adjourned. HOUSE HELD SHORT SESSION. Speaker Reed Did not Venture Out and Air. Cannon got Turned Over in the Snow. Washington. Feb. 13. -This was an exceedingly dull day in the House. Owing to the blizzard outside the attendance was very slim. The great marble capitol looked like a snow palace. Ledges, facades and parapets were banked with snow. On the drives and the plaza in front of the building the snow had drifted into great billows in some places ten feet deep. Not a street car approached the build big. but a few mernl ers of the House managed to reach the capitol in sleighs and carriages, and the employes trudged and labored through the deep snow and LUnding storm to reach their posts of duty. The hall of the House was as dark as a cellar. The snow banked upon the ground glass eeiUngs shut out she light and half an hour before noon the hour for th*' House to convene the ’tv-lits were turned on to relieve the* gloom. The committee meetings with but one or two exceptions were not held. The few members of the House who arrived bud no thought for anyihin" save the eatlier. They stood about the woath t t.gttt b> the lob'y in ih> vea r of (lie <(' -nssing temperatures and snow fell and record breaking in all parts of the country and it was the unanimous verdict of the oldest member of (he group that nothing apyrondrng the pres ent cold spell and snowfall had been known in Washington in their experi ence. Sneaker Reed did net annear at rho i a pitch 1 nt sent word to his lieut. •rants that in h : « opinion it wn« <nidv’s nl le to bold a session of the House to day and after consulting several mem bers of the nin'orfv Con oral Henderson. o f Town, who had braved he storm, de ified it would be best to adjourn ini-’ mediately after assembling. General Henderson had an engagement to speak at East Orange. N. .T., today, but found rlmt bo could not got there by rail. Mr. Dolliver, of lowa, was to ei-onk to a S"nday School gathering in Newark, N. J, General Grosvenor. of Ohio, was slated for a speech nt the Marouette Club in fhieaVo tonight, but could not got away and Representatives Lacey, of Iowa: Mann, of Illinois and Packer, of Penn svivama. with assistant Secretary of State TT ill were to have spoken at the Lincoln Banquet tonight at Williams port. Penn. Some of the mem bers had ludicrous experiences in their efforts to get to tho capitol. Mr. Can-; non of Illinois, the veteran Chairman of' the Appropriation committee, was tnm -1 led out of a sleigh in the snowbank as be was coming up capitol hill. At 12:05 Clerk McDowell called the’ House to order. There wort* about (ill members on the floor. Mr Payne moved that the House adjourn, but there were cries of “No.” “no,” from the little cir cle of members, most of whom held in their hands bills which they hoped to pa** by unanimous consent. The motion was voted down 5* to 44. On motion of Mr. Grosvenor, (Rep., O.V Air. Payne, of New York, was elected Speaker pro tem, amid an outburst of ap plause. District day was postponed until Thursday and the House, on Mr. Can non’s motion then went into committe of the whole. Air. Hopkins, of Illinois, in the chair, and resumed the considera-j tion of the Sundry Civil bill.. A resumption of the discussion of the ! receipts and expenditures of the treas-1 ury which, attracted considerable atten tion last week, was again precipitated bv Mr. Sulzer. (l)em.. N. Y.l. who of fered some figures as to the cost of the steamship subsidy bill. Air. Cannon reiterated his statement of last week regarding the ship subsidy bill and the Nicaragua Canal Dill. Air. Payne, chairman of the Commit tee which reported the subsidy bill, said be welcomed anv information that would throw light upon the bill, but lie protested against alarming statenmnts as to the deficiencies in advance. Esti mates did not always coincide wiJi ap propriations. as nil illustration 'lie cited the fact .that the estimate for the army Pill had ranged as high a« -I ' 5.000.1 un whereas the Military Committee bad poor-rod a bill currying than 880.- 000.000. He asked way Air. Cann-n bad not thrown Ins influence against the public building bills a few .lays ago. ,p hoso bills, be c a*d, would take more mouev from tlm Treasury next yen’- than Loth the sn«?dy and enn-d bills together. Mr Cnunop declared that if the -rmv bdl carried but $80,000,000 there would be a deficit on that neeonn' of '" r ' nr ' 000. Mr. Hay. (Dem., Ya.). made a similar statement. “AVhy are not the P 15.000.000 vlnced in (be army bill?” asked a member “Because the supporters of a big stand (Continued on Sixth Page.) IIAI.KIHII, M. 0., TIJhS UtiKMNb, Fl 15ItUAHY i 4 worn™ FROZ 8 OVER * No Schooner Has Arrived or Cl ared Since ' v atur.iay. EARr-QU\ ESH'iCKS 100 STEAMSHIP WRECKED BE TWEEN BALTIMORE AND SAVANNAH. FRUrs FUCK ANO-VEGE ABL S K LL D ea h r a'l v*-r the Sou h 'he *-v rst Known to the 1 Ifiest 'nh -bi’ant. ' uffw mg of the Sold rs i imp. Norfolk, Ya., Feb. 13.—N0 schooner has arrived or cleared at Norfolk since Saturday. The harbor is frozen, as is also Hampton Roads and Chesapeake j Bay to it mile outside of Capes Henry and Charles. Only one steamer arrived to-day, the Alerchants and Miners Line "D. il. .Miller,” Captain Peters, from Boston, Saturday. She came in the Capes to day at 8 o’clock, under full speed, but stuck one and one-half hours off ( ianey Island, butted the ice and tin ally freed hers: If and came up to her pier. The same line’s steamer Essex, j is frozen in the ice somewhere betw.cn ■he ( apes and Old Point. She passed in Capes 2 p. m. Sunday. All trans portation lines are cut off; ferrits run- . only hourly and will be forced to stop to-night. The snow is fourteen :n< lies deep and still falling, and grow ing colder. Nothing since 1 So7 to equals if. Beats all pr vious weather bureau records. Ice m the harbor is lour inches hick. VEGETAPI fs INJURED. The Weather W.. he Coldest Ever Known in Chari ston. Charleston, S. C., Feb. 13. —\v hen the city awoke ibis morning it found itself wrapp.ed in a blanket of snow. It was bitterly cold all of last night, the ther mometer’s registering as low as 13 de gr es. Until after midnight rain and sleet fell. The snow did not come until . towards morning. The fall is variously estimated at from 2 to 3 inches on a level. Business has practically been sus > pended all day./ A1 reliant.*, clerks and business men and private citizens have paraded she streets engaging in snow ball battles. The street ears have not been able to run and no trains have entered or gone out of the city to-day. TJie weather is the coldest ever ex perienced here, the thermometer regis tering nine degr es at 2 p. m. to-day. Five years ago there was a small «uow storm in the city, but the conditions then were not onus! to those prevail ng here to-day. Charleston’s weather rec ords show no parallel to the storm which started yesterday and which still continues. The injury to vegetables cannot yet be estimated, but it is enor mous. DIED FROM COLD. Early Vegetables and Truck Farms Badly Damaged. Savannah, (la., Feb. 3. —To-day has bean the (oldest on record in this city.. At 10 a. m. the mercury stood at 8 de grees above zero, with the city under a two inch snow fall and a brisk wind blowing. H ury Lewis, colored, died from colld in bis home. Street ears j were for twelve hours sailed by snow all over the city. In several instances motormen and conductors who waited oil tb ir stalled cars for orders won l so l adly frost bitten they had to be lifted off the cars and sent home and to bed. The schools wore dismissed at noon on account of the cold. Busi ness was suspend d on the water front. All of the shipping is covered with ice ; and no loading was done. The tenv 'perature clhl not rise above 21 during 'fbe day and notwithstanding bright sun i shine tli re was no thaw. All trains 1 are delayed. The' early vegetable 4 -’ on truck farms are badlv damaged. Zero ■.temperature is predicted to-night. COLDEST ON RECORD. | Early Fruit and Vegetables Will be Badly Injured. | Columbia. 8. C., Feb. 13 —‘Colombia was just north of th center of the : • storm and is experiencing the coldest i ..weather since the bureau was establish-; e<l here eleven years ago. The mercury j rut dar n to 7 degrees with a mean of 12. Tim snow, though packed by sleet, is now 11.5 inches, the de post recorded i here heretofore being 11.8 inches in February. 1804. The lowest temperature ! ever recorded here was 8 degrees on February 1 I'b. 18ft". The record to j nigh* will probably be lower still. Norm j of Columbia conditions are worse. Ad vices from all parts of South Carolina | tell the Columbia story over again. F' l rlv emit and vegetables will be badly | injured. THE GERMANIC SINKS. New York. Feb. 13.—The White Star Uno steamer Germanic sank at her i>i<»i* i in North river and is iv’ng there now. partially submerged. Tho incident was i duo to the heavy coating of ice. DR. JO iN MANNING DEM)| The P-toHESsOROF LA VA r ThF UN V • - SI V P4>S f) away < N SUNDAY. be o at j j ve{ j i_ o „g nd Well law.c, States mat , ' eg's!a*o r , Jurist, Faithful Friend and M umb'e Christian Chiipel Hill. N. C., Feb. 13— (Spe cial.) —Hon. John Alanning died at liis home in this place on Sunday. The fun oral will take place tomorrow. He was surrounded by his devoted wife and children. His death has saddened the whole village. He leaves a widow and seven children Dr. John Alanning and Air. James Alan ning, of Durham: Air. Isaac Manning, of Wilmington; Mrs. F. P. Venable. Airs W. W. Iliiske. Aliss Mary Alanning an Airs. Win. R. Webb. He was the lies of husbands and fathers, and he live so that long before he died and he saw the fulfilment of the Scriptures, “Hi children rise up and call him blessed.” i Hon. John Manning. LL. D.. was born on the 30th of July, 1830 at Edenton His grandfather moved from the Alan ning Alanor plantation, near Norfolk \ a., first settling in Currituck county and then becoming a merchant at Eden ton. He obtained for his eldest son, John, an appointment in the Navy, se cured through James Iredell, the young l ' | j m 'I Wh f VA ml\ -• » «*, ~ % * ■'\ \ ' Y . \ \\. ■\ v TIIE LATE DR. JOHN AIANNING r. He rose to (ho rank of captain and :hen resigned owing to ill health He nyir .i< d Tamar Leary a member of one of tin leading families in that section, and as her husband was frequently absent on >ng cruises. •* h r her wise and loving care her children were chiefly reared The late Dr. Manning was named for his father. After attending school at Edenton. he was sent to the Norfolk AElitary Academy.'* In his senior year he vas made caption of cadets. In 1847 In* entered the Sophomore class of tho ( diversity of North Carolina, and grad . ated with honors in the class of 1848. Alter graduation he sailed with h s fatli er as captain’s clerk in the United States brig Paint-ridge along the shores of South America. The life was not to Iris taste and he began the study of the law under his cousin, that eminent lawyer, John 11. Haughton of Pittsboro. Tie received county court license in 18.12 and Superior court license in 1853. having Income a partner of Air. Haughton. Soon (hereafter Air. Haughton moved to Vpn-inpu. leavin'" his larw practise to Dr. Alanning. lie retained it all and more and for more than a quarter of a century was the acknowledged'leader of the bar in his circuit. On the Oth of June. 1850 he was married to Miss 1 ouisn J. Hall, daughter of Dr. Isaac Fall, a lady of that force of character and grace of manner that fitted her to be the wife of one of she State’s great jurists. In 1801, Dr. Alanning * was elected a member of the Secession con vention of 1801. He had been an “old b'lig Whig” and opposed ''Secession, but lie went with his State. He volunteered : n the army and was made adjutant of lfis roriment. He was later appointed Receiver under the Sequestration Acfs. At the close of the war he returned to the practice of the law, devoting him self assiduously to repairing his shatter ed fortunes. In 1870. upon the death of ITon. Robert Gilliam he was elected to fill out the unexpired term, defeating Joseph AV. Holden 37*0 votes. He at once ’Took a high stand in Congress and made a great speech against the old Force bill which set aside safe-guards of liberty under the plea of suppressing the Ku Klux Klan. When the Constitutional Convention was called. Dr. Alanning and Congress man Strovd were elected the members from Chatham. Dr. Manning was one of the ablest lawyers in that body of ■"innts. In 1880 he was elected to the House from Chatham and bad the honor of introducing the first Dill that ever passed giving the University an nmvid appropriation. Tiie bill carried 85.000 fit that session lie was with Hon W, T Dortch and Hon. John S. Henderson elected on the Code Commission. After wards lie was tendered appointments as Superior court judge and Secretary of State, but declined both. In 1881, with out h ; s knowledge or solicitation. Dr. Manning was elected Professor of Law at the University. No salary was at tached. TTo accepted tlm place, stipu lating that lie could continue to prac tice in the courts of Chatham. He be gan with a class of seven, but his in struction was so thorough and so popu lar that he built up the greatest and most largely attended law school the State has known. Dr Manning was a consistent and do vout Christian an official member of th Protestant Emscopal church. As long „« he was able he was at his place in church. T xarkana. Ark., 13 —Three men were killed and aii officer wounded in a street duel nt Dekalb, thirteen miles from here this afternoon. MGER IS 103 SIG TO READ KtWSP-PERS R ads None That Criticize His Immaculate S< If. p. EASED WiiH H*MS’ LF REFUSES TO TALK ABOUT GEN. AIILES’ CRITICISAI OF WAR DEPARTMENT. SE. LING CHEA*' 'S IN HAVA A It'•Vas ' aused by Soldiers ellwg the ‘■urplus of their Razors ( h«v 1 ust *y a T u'y 0" Quit. New York. Feb. 3.—’Secretary of War Russell A. Alger who came here yes terday to attend the Lincoln dinner of the Union league Club in Brooklyn to-night wil leave for Washington 'at midnight to-night. In regard to the report of the War Commission, Secretary Alger said that! hi* would rather say nothing about it until l'e had read the entire report. General Alger, however, said that he bad carried on the work all the way through the war to the best of his abili ty. “During the war,” said the Secre tary, "when we had so much to do. criticisms began to appear in some pa pers.. When this happened 1 gave or ders that those papers should not be suit to me, as there was no time tc waste. Aly first duty was to conduct the affairs' of the Department as well as I could.” General Alger compared the depart ment with a large private business, say ing that many unfors en things hap pened in the Department just as in a urge private business. Storms came up which could not be prevented. "S n crimes, the manager of a pri vate business,” said the Secretary, “ha; looked over the field and believes h has good and faithful helpers. Then he learns that he 'has been incorrect in bis thought and that some of his men have not proved true. These :t ■ generally unforseen things which will happen in any large private business concern as well as to a governmeu fi< mart ment. 'Though the work of tin* War Department was difficult, I carried it on -s was my duty, to the best of my ability.” When asked about the criticism by the AA'ar Department of General Abies. Secretary Alg. r asked to be excused from taikhig about that. Socn'avv Alrer said in connection with intended naming of a commandin'" officer for the army that he thought a regular army man would lit* named in preference to a volant or. althou'"i> f'on<rress could do as it wished about such a matter. De said that the volunteers have no stand 1 ”" after their two years term of service. S ■oreta’-v Aider’s attention was called to the selling of supplies in Havana a* Irs-- "b«* vosrular market rates, (n connp*r ? ou with which it was said that the supplies were all army rations The Secretary said: < “fVi/.Tw.i Fljss. Ti-'m was in olv>'"o of the collection of customs at Havana was asked to investigate this, when it was learn'd that such sales vprp being made. Some persons were selling cnvnPos at less than anyone else could sell them after importing them and pav ing tho duty. Colonel Bb'ss found that two men were buying up all the surplus rations from the troops. The rations ti-oons received wore more thru they could use and it is considered leg ; - tima*e to sell thorn eral practice in tho army for companies to soil their surplus rations and pbrno the sums received to the credit of tie company funds. These two men were. j > away, carrying on a legitimate busi ness. “Cotonol Rliev found that tbev had a store house full of flour and coffee and some other things and that they were aide to sell flour at $2 a barrel less than persons who were importing flour and paying duty on it. He told them afte’ - consulting Washington, that they mu* either pay duty on tiie goods or h<) would prevent them from selling thorn This practically stopped this practice. Orders were given to the Commissary Department to buy back tho extra ra tions sn that the soldiers would get a-- much from the Government as frow outsiders and save the scandalous talk.” Th sneakimr of the PTriUpnlnes o'n 1 Santiago campaigns Secretary Alger said: “General Shaffer and h’s ev-pediHo” had to land on a hostile island and d~ 'be attaekuig during the worst season t'.orp. fbe botf< sf part of the ra'nv sc-i son. General Otis bad been at Maul's for <z»me time and he was prenarpd for she n f tuek. In San f, 'a"o General Shatter bad to affack the SnajjT’rds while in the Philippines our forces oo enpi the position the Spaniards had n Santiago.” General Alger sa'd be wished +n make eo criticism of General O*ls, y-Uo h°d done brilliant work in Manila. He savl that the two earn ".signs conld hardl*- he cornea"ed. n® they had beep fon"bt .at 'd'fforept s f a sop * and from different positions. Tbp Genera! in each case, be declared, was entitled to great credit. I Secretary Alger spoke generally of the, work now being done in Cuba. lie said that there was very little friction at Santiago. In spite of the reports to that effect. General Wood and General Brooke, were working in entire h:u'- niony. General Brooke, lie said, in an swer to a question, .was in charge of the whole island. Some misunderstand ing bed been caused at first by the mistake made by the offieers at San tiago who thought that the moneys col lected at Santiago had to be sent to Havana. Tills was not required, it Icing necessary to send only reports lof the amounts received. Tin* work of bettering conditions gen !orally in Cuba was going on, hampered somewhat by the lack of transportation facilities in the interior and by oount .less little difficulties, which wore coming !up and being mastered. He said that he was satisfied with the work. Taking into consideration the short time that we , had been in Cuba, we were doing very j wc 11. The Secretary said that a mystery in JCrla was the whereabouts of the Cu ban men. The United States officer* I who had gone into the interior had 1 failed to find them. “Os cours\” su’d he. “she reeoncen trados were largely driven into the large • cities but we cannot find anywhere near the numbers of men we evneeted to find. For instance, an officer from Sancti Spiritus who came hack to AA rash ington Inst week told us that that town was filled with women and children but no men. They are not in the country districts as far as we can find. The .Cuban army is estimated at 30.000 men. I but this does not account, for the tbous j ends who are not to he found. Tlm*' are not with Gop->ez and it is vet to (learned where they have disappeared to.” FRUIT GROWERS HURT. At Camp McKenzie the Alen are Fairly Com sortable. Augusta. Ga.. Feb 13. —Augusta is in 'be midst of the coldest spell on record. A\ ith half a foot of dry snow on the ground and the thermometer 15 to 25 de ; Trees below the freezing point, a stiff J northerly wind intensifies the cold. The snow ceased falling at 3:30 a m. ami the sun shone all day but without cwising any diminishing effect in the biting cold. The lowest point reached by the mercury for 24 hours ending at 8 p ip. was 4 degrees. The maximum was 17 negroes and the deficiency of temper ature over the same date last year was ’0 degrees. At nine o’clock tonight the' thermometer was at the 10 degree point wiih every indication of being near zero before morning. Much damage is reported by the farm ers and fruitgrowers though the full ex tent is not yet obtainable. There is Teat suffering among the poor though no fatalities are reported. At Camp Me ’ enzie the men are fairly comfortable under the trying conditions which the nnrecfdontodh* cold weather imposes, 'll (be tent* have foe"* and are furnish ed with stoves and while the experience '*f camping out in a blizard is rather disagreeable there has been no severe suffering. CARNIVAL FROZE OUT. The Killing of Truck Crops Entailed Heavy Loss. , Mobile. Ala., Feb. 13. —The coldest weather on record struck Mobile on the 4 opening day of the carnival and forced a postponement of the first day’s eele i ration until to tomorrow. A heavy Jeet Saturday night was followed by a freeze and much suffering among those unprepared for such weather. The mer cury at f> a. m. today registered one de gree below zero, 12 degrees lower than ,Jie weather bureau record for 20 years. The truck crops were killed entailing a large loss. CRUSHED IN THE ROOF. A Fuel Ftniiue Prevails in Peters burg. Petersburg, Ya., Feb. 13.—Snow has I cen falling here almost incessantly for fifty hours and the ground is covered on the level to a depth of twenty-two inches with drifts reaching a depth of six feet. Railroad trains and street car lines ceased operations and business s practically suspended. The weight of snow crushed in the roof of Roper & Company’s wholesale groetry store to day, slightly injuring two clerks. It is the heaviest snow storm known here since 1857. A fuel famine prevails. SOLDIERS SUFFERED. They Had an Insufficient Supply of Wood. Charleston, S. C., Feb. 13. —A special o the News and Courier‘from Camp Marion says: ( The soldiers suffered considerably by ho JJizard and snow storm. Today ’here was an insufficient supply of wood and none conld be gotten in the town for «tve or money. CATTLE ARE DYING. M cldon, N. Fob 13.—(Special.)— The snow is 18 inches on a level. All trains tied up. Two engines were dam aged this morning trying to move a Toight train. This is the worst storm since fifty seven. An engine and caboose ploughed •heir way here from Raleigh. A cattle ■ain is tied up at Bolling and some of !lie cattle reported dying. No passenger trains have arrived here today from any direction. THREE BOATS MISSING. Savannah. Ga.. Feb. 13—Merchant and Miners Tape steamer WilU.uni Law rence wrecked off Port Rovnl. S C. Sat urday. One boat with assistant engineer arrived at Port Royal yesterday. Three boats missing. ltd F V I i - v G\ THE TRCU3LE BIDYiMG GEH.CALIXrOGARCIA While Arguing About Prece dence borne Were Left Behind. RED ? APISM RUN MAD GARCIA HAD TROUBLE ENOUGH WHILE LIVING WITHOUT THIS UNSEEMLY THING. MU ARY FINER L r h« Son «.f G-n, Garcia "as in thsDrst Car riage and Get era l Bro k- (.'am in tho S*c nd am g fiy Hnvwiy fto. Havana, Feb. 13.—The ill feeling on the part of the Cubans toward General Brooke over the question of precedence that arose in regard to the procession at the funeral of General Calixto Gar cia on Saturday has greatly moderated in the light of explanations that have been made. On the other hand, there is a disposition now to censure the Cuban Generals, who, taking oti.uce when none was offered, ordered their soldiers out , of line and retired themselves. The other Cuban G uerals are disposed to blame Geneial Andrade for ordering his j soldiers not to march in the procession, j The Cuban Generals and an assem bly composed of military men debated ith: subject of the supposed insult to ! the Cuban soldiers until 2 o’clock Sun ,! day morning. After several officers |i had spoken in strong terms against the 'j Americans, it was decided to appoint a commission to investigate the oceur |lrenes of Saturday and determine ' whether or not the conduct of Major General Brooke constituted an offense. ' The commission is instructed to report |on Tuesday. Generals I.aztira, Capote and Menocal, who were present at the meeting, talked of resigning the posi -1 tions which they had accept:d tinder the Uni'ed States Government, l ut it was decided not to do so at this time, be cause it would be impolitic and unpatrio tie to suddenly break off relations with the military anthoritiis of the United 5 fates. ‘ Major General Brooke was notified by the authorities at Washington as to ' what honors he should render the late General Garcia unril inquiry was sent on Thursday nfttr the body of the Cu ban leader had airived here. In response to this inquiry General I Brooke was directed by cable, on Fri | day. to give a full military funeral. ] As the mayor and city council of Ha vana had air ndy arranged and nd\er ‘ t'sed an elaborate prograiinne it seemed I to the military authorities here that it • would be unwise to destroy-the Cuban programme and mnk' another oonform i ing to the United State* army regula > tions. Therefore as the programme - originally prepared provided for ample - ropros n’ation of the American military i forces. General made no sugges . tions concerning his own place in the i pageant, except that at the palace, in st ad of taking the first carriage after the casket, as proposed by the Cuban committee, the son of General Garcia be given that position while lie would take the second carriage, which was j done. The Cuban Generals, who, ae ! cording to the Council programme were to bo followed by all the American in fantry inquired of Maior G nernl Lee through I.anazif if General Lee had any objection to their going ahead of him. General Loo re’Jlod that he had no objection. Tlm Cuban General* f»'ied to got between Maior General Brooke and Ids staff, but they were crowded out. This occurred half an hour after flu* proc ssinn started, though only four or five blocks from fbe palace owing to free ment stons. ■ Generals I annzu and Capote, who I stayed to argue with the Cuban G<*nor jnl*. wer !<>ft behind. The other Secre taries of the Cuban Provisional Ooi-oni- P'ont, Mu««rs. TV*vendue and Vanoz, i were in the ®-ooo"d oa - ,,! a"° a" f /.- Cic one occupied by Major General Brooke, ami pf’er them came four mounted orderlias, lending horses. THE REBELS FIRE AGAIN. Private Meissek. of Montana, Died in I the Hospital. ! Manila. Feb. 13.-10:30 A. M.—Pur suing their customary .tactics, the rebels on the extreme left of the line opened fire at long range on the American troops last irght. r’ain’nuvn" 'heir fire for a few minutes before * ttllng down. None of tbe : r shots took effect, however, amt 'he Americans did not reply. All was quiet along the rest of the line. The Concord is now lying off Tncan one. The weather at niebt now is cooler. > and sbowes are frequent. Pr : vnte Meissek, of th Montnsra regi mewf. who yens ohot in the b’ngu in 'he fi"ht between February 4 f b and (*>th, died in the hospital yesterday. Asheville. \ C.. Feb. 13—The mer euw reached 14 below Zero hem last nieht the coldest ever t*nown hut at neon had moderated to 10 below. There is much suffering. /
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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