Wdather To-Dayi RAIN.
VOL. XLVI. NO. I>.
Natives Attack TagUig
THEY ARE DRIVEN BACK WITH
HEAVY LOSS.
American Forces Reorganized—Lawton Com
mands First Division —Oregon Ar
rives—Gunboat Shells Towns.
Maniln, March 19.-8:30 a. m—The
Filipinos in force attacked a company of
t the Washington volunteers at Tnguig
last night. Two companies of the Wash
ington and Oregon regiments were sent
to the assistance of their comrades and
drove the rebels back in front of the
Twenty-second regulars, who also en
gaged the enemy. Two American sol
dim's were killed and an officer and 13
privates were wounded.
The enemy’s loss was severe.
THE OREGON’S ARRIVAL.
Washington. March 18. —Tne Navy De
partment has been advised of the arri
val at Manila of the battleship Oregon.
The following is the cablegram re
ceived from Admiral Dewey:
“Manila, March 18th.
“Secretary of the Navy, Washington:
“The Oregon arid the Iris arrived to
day. The Oregon is in tit condition for
any duty.”
LAWTON GIVEN A COMMAND.
Manila. March 18.—10:20,a. m.—The
entire American force has been reorgan
ized, two divisions, of three brigades
each, being formed. General Lawton
today asnined command of the First di
vision, which consists of the Washington.
North Dakota and California volunteers,
under General King; six troops of the
Fourth cavalry, tin* Fourteenth regulars,
the Idaho volunteers and a battalion of
the lowa troops, under General Oven
shine; the Third and Twenty-second
regular infantry and the Oregon regi
ment. under- General Wheaton, and
Dyer’s and Hawthorne’s light batteries.
General MacArthur’s division consists
of two batteries of the Third artillery, 1
the Kansas and Montana volunteers, nil
der General 11. G. Otis: tin 1 Colorado, |
Nebraska and South Dakota regiments,
and six companies of the Pennsylvania, ;
under General Jlale; the Fourth and
Seventeenth regulars, the Minnesota and
Wyoming volunteers and the Utah ar
tillery.
A separate brigade will lie assigned to
provost guard duty, consisting of the
FIREMEN SEARCH
FOR THE DEAD
Groping Through Dense
Smoke at the Windsor.
THE RUINS STILL BURN
NO BODIES HAVE BEEN FOUND
AMONG THEM.
LATEST ESTIMATE OF DEAD, SIXTEEN.
Sixty-Six Missing and Fifty-Seven Injured-
A Vast Amount of Wealth in Plate and
Jewels Lies Hidden in the Ruins,
How Much Unknown.
New York, March 18—Through the
incessant rain to-day, their eff a Hin
dered by a choking smoke tb it arose
from the half quenched ruins, more
than two hundred men from the build
ing, police and tire departments sought,
■but with only half-satisfying results, for
1 todies of persons believed lo have per
ished in yesterday’s fire at the Y\ iudsor
Hotel.
Most of the time th? smoke was so
dense that the workmen could scarcely
see their hands before their faces, and
the heat from the mass of d bris, glow
ing red in places, held the rescuers al
most beyond its limits.
Besides the remnants of the Avails
bit standing were so shaky and threat
ening that it would have been dangerous
to allow the men to work about the
mass of riveted iron and brick. Ef
forts were concentrated on clearing
away tin- d bris, removing weak Aval's,
drilling the chimneys and other parts
of the walls for blasting, and makb'ig
•the way safe for the men to dig 'n the
ruins for tin* bodies.
No bodies were taken from the st..fil
ing mass of ruins to-day. The latest
estimate to-night is s'xteen dead six
ty-six missing .and fifty-seven ’lijttrel. It
fc is believed the men Avil be able to p?o
--ft-ood Avitlt the grewsomsearch to-mor
w with more satisfactory r 'salts.
PSeyeral fire ' Wines had kept their sta-
all nigh, %long. throwing heavy
stream* of wa.V on the ruins. Occa
sionally a mass of tlam would struggle
HR from some unnoticed spots lik • .a httb-
burst away as >h>' sir aims wen*
on it. Through the day c\j •>-
The News and Observer
LEADS ILL NORTH CAROLINA DAILIES IN NEWB 111 CIRCULATION.
■ Twentieth and Eighth companies of the
Twenty-third regular infantry.
General Anderson, hoav in command
of the First division of the Eighth army
corps, Avill return to the United States in
acordanee with the order of January
24th.
An attack was made by the rebels yes
terday upon the battery at Ixnna church,
but the enemy Avere repulsed by the
Pennsylvanian's heavy loss. Lieuten
ant Thompson and Privates McVay and
MeCanse, of Company C, Avere wounded.
A gunboat with a company of the
Twenty-third regulars on board, is now
on the lake attacking the small towns.
She Avas last heard of off Morong and
Santa Cruz.
OVERTHROWING A ItEPUBI.IC.
Our War in the East Under Protection
of British Gauds.
Savannah. Gil.. Mai-h 18. -In a speech
before the Hibernian Society last eight
I Senator A. <). Bacon of Georgia said in
1 part:
i “We art* today formulating war in
| Asia under the pro. *c:i m of il.e guns
of the British Navy. With that nivteo
i tion withdrawn the Government of tin*
(United States would '»'* at rl*e inert v of
any two of the smallest of European
nations. England for her own selfish
purposes is encouraging us t > this policy
which will place us absolutely in In**-
power. When avc are committed to that
policy beyond the power of retreat then
; England Avill be in a position to dictate
{such terms as Avill be necessary for us to
| accept to maintain the policy which avc
j have undertaken.
“Today the great power of the United
, States is living exercise I to oveith'-ow
the only Republican government tnat has
, ever been organized on tin* continent of
Asia. The results of the Avar thus far
; have been, to revolutionize the furidainen
j tal principles of Republican govern
j ment.”
sions of gas punctuated the continual
pumping sound of the engines.
Warren F. L land, the proprietor of
the Windsor, .hail somewhat recovered
to-day, but was still in feeble eoinliticn.
He is as yet unable to account for «lie
origin of the tiro*.
It was learned to-day that Elhridg*
T. Gerry had the bail ling and .he
furniture that belonged to the hotel fully
■insured, and even the annual rental
for which he indeinuiti d lumse f with
policies aggregating $75,(M)0. Mr. Ger
ry carried policies aggregating .ss9'».M'o
on the building and had insurance l'< r
$120,000 on the furnishings. In addi
tion to thi«. Mr. I.eland had policies ag
gregating SIOO,OOO on his own fuimtun
in the hotel. Most of the policies that
covered the hotel were written with cor
porations that luiA'e rhei* main offices in
other States than New York.
No estimate cm if- made of ihe pre
cious metal and gens which have with
stood the flames an 1 lie hidden in the
embers and wreckage of the great hot 1.
One family lost jewelry valued at $200.-
000, and the total aaull run up some
where near a 'million. lloav much lias
be. n picked up and carried away can
never he known, nor can all ever lie in -
covered. Mrs. Nancy Kirk, who lost
her life,/and her (laughter, Mrs. Mary
Kirk Haskins, had the family jewels,
valued at more than $200,000 wit a them.
Then* were scores of other wealthy
families who lived in the hotel and vho
lost j wels worth thousands of dollars.
GUNTER, THE NOVELIST. DEAD.
It is Feared He Perished in the Wind
sor Fire.
New York, March 18.—Archibald
Flavoring Gunter, the well known nov
elist. was a patron of the Windsor
Hotel, and it is feared that he lost his
life with Jiis child.
Colonel Thomas Ochiltree said to
night ;
“Mr. Gunter was in my apartments
an hour before the fire, and 1 have no
doubt that his body will be discovered
in tin* ruins of the hotel. He was a
very large, stout man, and Avas a con
stant sufferer from asthma, and would
find it difficult to make his eseajH*
through the smoke.”
REV. J. M. FROST ILL.
Very Distinguished Man in the Southern
Church.
Staunton. Vn., March 18.—Rev. J. M.
Frost, D. D„ of Nashvile, Tenn., secre
tary of the Sunday School Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention, is very ill
here at tin* home of his brother-in-hiAv,
Mr. M. N. Bradley. Dr. Frost is a dis
tinguished man in the Southern Baptist
church. His trouble began last Sunday
with grip. There are new complications.
Rome, March 18.—There is no truth
in the report tliat the Pope was operated
on again today. During the day he re
-1 ccivcd several persons in audience.
RALEIGH, N. C., SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH lft, 1899.
ALL TONGUES
ARE NOW A-WAG
Is Jekyl Island the Political
Trysting Place?
McKinley says nay
AND IIANNA DIDN’T KNOW
REED WAS COMING.
BUT THEY MAY MCET HIM BY CHANCE
And the President and the Cz ir of the House
May Become Reconciled. Hanna De
clares Talk of Political Pow wow
at Jekyl Lolliplop,
Thomasville, Ga.,/March- 18, —Tliom-
asville for the first time since the Pres
ident’s visit, avus rife Av : th political gos
sip today. Jekyl Island, speculation
ran, Avas to he the scene of an important
political gathering, where the future
course of the Republican party Avoitld
be gone over and settled, far from the
public and ihe press, and shielded from
intrusion by strict enforcement of the
no-trespassing regulations of the rich
club which controls its destinies. The
sudden appearance of Speaker Reed at
Jekyl Island, the authoritative an
nouncement that President McKinley,
N ice President Hobart and Senator
Hanna would make tlieir trip there on
Monday and the visit of Judge Day,
| formerly Secretary of Slat , to Thom
| asville, though absolutely mere eoin
j cidonces, according to those gentlemen
; named, Avho are here, revived at once
! recollections of the impoitant part ’u
j national history horn of the Thomas
■ villi* conferences lour years ago. Tbt
j conferences now, sail the gossips, Avere
; to lie* transferred to Jcky- Island, the
; scene chosen was suggestive of the
I times when kings met on the craft in
! midstream to settle the destinies of
empires. It is fair to say at the out
| set that Senator Hanna, Vice-Presi
dent Hobart and President McKinley
himself say positively that there is no
polities Avliatever in their present visit
South and that it is undertaken solo'y
| for rest and recuperation. As to
Speaker Reed’s presence at Jekyl both
Senator Hanna and Vice-President Ho
bart said that they did not know the
Speaker was tli -re until they saw tic
papers. The latter, before the arrival
of the papers was so positive the
Speaker was not to be at Jekyl Island,
that when a newspaper man told him
Mr. Reed was to lx* there Ik* promptly
bet him a suit of clothes that Speaker
Reed Avas not at Jekyl Isiand, and
would not be at Jekyl Island. The
news, it Avas evident, was also surpris
ing to others in the President’s party,
who ordinarily would have heard of it
had there been any anticipatory com
ment about the house on the subject. As
regards Judge Day, he is not going
to Jekyl, and probably will lie out ob
Thomasville on the way home by the
time the President iv'm-is. Tltwe it*
nevertheless a posic’b hA- tint the Jekyl
Island trip, though not sj .mended per
haps by its principals, may have an im
portant political bearing. It may prove
to be the reconciliation ground of Pres
ident McKinley and Speaker lteed.
That their relations are strained and
development of party policy in legis
lation hindered thereby, is a matter of
common report. Judge Moon*, whose
guest Speaker Reed is, and Cornelius
N. Bliss, who asked President McKin
ley and party to visit him, are common
friends of all parties personally and po
litically and through them harmonious
fellowship may again prevail between
the two foremost Republicans. If the
Jekyl Island trip has any political out
come it Avill be this. Should this con
summation conic it is quite likely that
neither the Speaker nor the President
would have been .privy to its inception,
for knowledge by them of such an ul
terior hope by their hosts would have
prevented its accomplishment. This
vieAv is entirely consistent with the
statements of the principal persons Avho
will lie there, for they declare absolutely
politics cut no figure in the trip, and
their denials were in no sense technical,
but broad and comprehensive. Judge
Day arrived in Thomasville at 2:40 this
afternoon. He went at once to the
Piney Woods Hotel and hi* and Mrs.
Day being tired, retired for an hour or
so. His cheeks Avere tanned and he
seemed to have gained a little iiesh.
Late in the afternoon to an Associated
Press correspondent hi* said:
“We are Avorking our way North from
Palm Beach and hearing Thomasville
Avas a line place avc decided to stop here
anil pay our respects to the President. I
wanted to see him and Mrs. Day wanted
to see Mrs. McKinley. Yes you will lie
safe in saying positively that neither poli
ties nor international affairs are in any
way connected with our visit. We are
.only here to pay our respects to the
President anil enjoy ourselves.”
Judge Day said that he Avas not going
to Jekyl Island and avoulil leave here for
the North the early part of next Aveek.
Senator Hanna had learned of his ar
rival and called as tin* Associated Press
eorresjiondent Avas talking to Judge Day.
The Senator when told of the reports
that there avus to he a big political poav
avow at Jekyl Island Avitli Speaker Rood
and others, said:
"It is silly business talking about po
litical conferences on this trip. It is for
rest and nothing else. I Avish they would
let tip talking about politics being in it.
The Vice-President had the grip and is
run down, and I mean to keep him here
as long as 1 stay. nerves
Avert* Avorn out Avitli the strain. He
needed to brace up. These drives about
here and the quiet life are just building
him right up. You see how much better
lie is. No, no, no, the trip to Jekyl Island
has nothing to do with politics. We
would not come Avay down here to talk
politics. Yes. 1 see Speaker Reed is at
Jekyl, but it has nothing to do with our
trip.”
Today an aged and bent negro Avith
shaggy white locks, stumped on a cane
past the Hamm home. He did not look
rip, but cast furtive glances at the house.
Behind came another aged negro Avearing
huge goggles and apparently over eighty
years old. At some distance followed
another and another, until over a dozen
old negro men and two old mammies,
one Avitli her woolly hair bound in a red
bandanna, had gone past the gate. Then
they hobbled around the house. Some
were too backward even to look up and
over the fence. A dozen times they made
the circuit, stealing glances across the
lawn. At last two or three plucked up a
little spirit after much urging from
their companions. But the direct route
through the gate anil up the front Avalk
Avas too much for them. hey went to
tin* side gate and sidled along the path,
keeping in the seclusion of the porch’s
side. Mrs. Hanna and Charles Chain,
her nephew, saw them and kindly asked
what they Avished. They humbly mut
tered that they would like to see tin*
President. Mrs. llanna saiu perhaps she
could gratify them. She went into {ln
house, and presently the President was
leaning over the rail shaking hands with
them and the others, Avho meanwhile
had gathered courage, to join their dar
ing scouts. Soon the President aaoas
down on the walk, and Vice-President
Hobart and Senator llanna also talked
to the boAved white-haired old reminders
of ante-bellum days, Avhose pride was
unmistakable, though lack of confidence
made their remarks feAv and indefinite.
HAY AND CA M BON.
They Will Make tin* Final Exchange of
the Treaty.
March 18.—M. Gambon,
the French Ambassador, called at the De
partment of State today and served for
mal notice of the signature of the pence
treaty at Madrid.
It was agreed that the Ambassador
should act as the representative of iln*
Spanish Governiuejjht in making final ex
changes. Avhilc Secretary Hay will repre
sent the Government of the United
States. Although >in customary on such
occasions it js probable that President
McKinley Avill be present .it the final cer
emony of exchanging ratifications, Avhieh
in that case Avill take place ec the
White House, where the peace protocol
was signed.
If was said at the St at ? Department
that the Spanish Government requested
that M. Gambon’s services as its agent
In* acepted, the French Government gave
its authorization and his designation AA'as
gratifying to our Government.
RALEIGH LEAVES GIBRALTAR.
On Her Way to New York to Go Out
of Commission.
Gibraltar, March 18.—As the United
States cruiser Raleigh sailed from here
for Xcav York this afternoon homoAvard
bound from Manila, in order to put out
< commission, she hoisted the Span
ish ensign and tired a salute Avhile pass
ing the Spanish squadron commanded
by Admiral Camara, off Algecirns. The
Spanish fiagsnip Carlos Quinta there
upon hoisted the American ensign and
returned the salute.
SHERMAN MUCH BETTER.
Washington, March 18.—General Miles
has received a dispatch dated Ponce,
Porto Rico, stating that ex-Seoretary
Sherman is A T ery much better
THE CITY ELECTION.
Steps Taken to Have First Regiment
Mustered Out Here.
A called meeting of the hoard of al
dermen was held last night, Mayor
Powell presiding.
The meeting Avas held for the pur
pose of taking action to try and secure
the mutsering out of the First North
Carolina Regiment, volunteers, now in
Cuba, at Raleigh. It appears that the
present intention of the War Depart
ment, is to muster this regiment out in
Georgia.
Alderman Fegram moved that a com
mittee of three be appointed to corre
spond Avith the proper authorities and
endeavor to have the First North Caro
lina regiment, volunteers, mustered out
at Raleigh.
The tnotion Avas adopted and the fol
loAving committee avus adopted: Miller,
Pegrum and Riddle.
Alderman Drewry stated that he had
appeared before the township school
committee and at his request they had
postponed the date for the election on
the issue of school bonds from May
1 to June 12, the same date for the
city bond election for street, improve
ments.
The matter of holding the approaching
city election avus discussed, and on mo
tion of Alderman Drewry the following
Avas adopted:
“Be it ordained by the Board of Al
dermen of the city of Raleigh that the
election for municipal officers of said
city shall be held on the first Monday
in May, 1899, under the provisions of j
the act of the General Assembly of
1899 entitled "An act to provide the j
manner of election and the registration
of voters ill cities and towns and for j
election upon local questions in conn- ■
ties and townships,” ratified March 6th,
1899, and that for tin* purposes of said I
election a new registration shall be had |
as provided in said act.” I
BODY CHARRED
1011 CRISP
Mr. Walter Aycock, of War
renton, Meets a Fearful
Death.
HIS LAMP EXPLODED
HIS WIFE BURNED HER HANDS
TRYING TO EXTINGUISH
FLAMES.
VACCINATION IS MADE COMPULSORY
Only One Case of Small Pox Now in Warrenton.
Judge Hoke Will Hold Superior
Court Next Week.
Warrenton. X. ('., March 18. —(Spe-
cial.) —A shocking death occurred here
early this morning. Last night about 10
o’clock, after he had undressed a id had
slipped on a dressing gown, Mr. Walter
Aycock lower'd the swinging lamp and
blew it out, Avheu it burst envelop
ing his body from neck to feet in burning
oil. No one else was in the room at the
time, blit his wife ran in and enveloped
him in a blanket and put out the flames,
badly burning her own hands. She
burned several blankets before she con
quered the fire. Mr. Aycock was charred
to a crisp, but survived until 7 o’clock
this morning. He Avas about 38 years
old, was a good merchant and universal
ly esteemed. He Avas an active member
of the Baptist church. His life avus in
sured for about SB,OOO.
Mr. J. H. Kerr and his beautiful Avife
returned yesterday from Washington
City.
Judge Hoke will open court here next
Monday—the lnisini*ss before it will be
light.
There has been only one ease of
small-pox here, and that one is improv
ing. The scare is over and business is
fully resumed.
COM PULS()RY VACCINATION.
Entertainment for Baptist Church—
Sash, Door and Blind Factory.
Rocky Mount, X. C.. March IS.—(Spe
cial.) —The entertainment given by the
Baptist Sunday school on Friday night
in the interest of their library Avas in
every Avay a success. Music of the best
order was furnished by a local orches
tra. The recitations and vocal music
were good and reflected great credit on
all participating. A handsome sum was
obtained with which to buy a new libra
ry for the school.
Vigorous measures are being adopted
hi*re for suppression of smallpox. Com
pulsory vacillation was ordered some
weeks ago by the town authorities and
all cases have been isolated and prem
ises quarantined.
A large sash, door and blind factory
is being erected in the southern part of
the town by Mr. C. IV. Simmons.
A GOOD CITIZEN DIES.
Scotland Neck, N. C., March 18.—
(Special.)—Mr. Drew Braswell died at
his home, about four miles from toAvn
yesterday. He was stricken a few
weeks ago with paralysis. He Avas a
well-to-do farmer, a Democrat of Dem-,
oerats through all the political uncer
tainty of the past few years and leaves !
the legacy of a good name and an up
right citizen. 11 is remains will be in
terred at his home today.
It is rumored here that Major Spier
Whitaker, who spent some days here
last Aveek, will perhaps be made post
master for this place. It is stated that
Tom Shields, the colored postmaster,
now in possession, has not been con
firmed, and that his appointment Avill
be recalled, and Major Whitaker put
in. There is still another rumor that
perhaps he is expecting Bernard’s place
as district attorney.
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.
Noav York. March 18. —The weekly
bank statement shows the folloAving
changes:
Surplus reserve, decreased $4,128,825;
loans, decreased $8,593,600; specie, de
creased $6,140,800; legal tenders, in
creased $61,100; deposits, decreased
$7,803, 500; circulation, decreased $581,*
600.
The banks now hold $19,094,175 in ex
cess of the requirements of the 25 per !
cent. rule.
An eccentric man is merely a fool
with a bank balance. 1
Swath ofßUinandDeath
CYCLONES' WILD WORK IN ALA
BAMA AND MISSISSIPPI.
Fearful Loss of Life. Wires Prostrated. De
tails Meagre. Small Towns Almost
Wiped Out of Existence.
Memphis, Tenn., March 18,—A series
of terrific wind storms swept throughout
portions of Alalnma. Mississippi and
Arkansas today, doing an immense
amount of property damage and killing
a number of people. The storms covered
a radius of several hundred miles, de
stroying telegraph Avires and cutting off
communication with a large part *•! the
affected country. Cleburne county,
Alabama, seems to have suffered the
most severely, tin* storm tli<*r:* assuming
tin* proportions of a tornado. The re
ports of fatalities in the county vary
from six to twenty and many more are
said tq have been injured.
At Sellers and Lu verne, Ala Danin,
much damage is reported and at Rob
Roy, Arkansas, one man avus killed and
several were badly injured. Dumas.
Arkansas, was practically wiped out of
existence anil several other towns in the
vicinity suffered severely. One person
is reported killed at Hickory Flat. Miss.,
and as the farm houses in tin* vicinity
suffered heavily, it is not unlikelv that
many fatalities occurred which have not
yet been reported.
TORNADO AT CLEBURNE.
Memphis, Tenn., March 18.—A special
to the Commercial Appeal from Bir
mingham, Ala., says a tornado passed
over Cleburne county tonight, killing
seven and possibly more people.
A TOWN WIPED OUT.
Montgomery, Ala., March 18.—Cy
clones passed over different portions of
the State today, but on account of the
telegraph wires being down no particu
lars can be learned.
At Selma the spire of the First Meth
odist church was blown down, crush
ing through the roof and doing much
damage.
At Sellers, a small station on the
Plant System, south of Montgomery,
the entire town, except three houses,
Avas destroyed.
Lu verne suffered greatly, but no de
tails can Ik* gotten.
FIVE KILLED IN ONE FAMILY.
Atlanta, Ga., March 18.—A sjiecial
THE POPULISTS’ TICKET.
Wharton Baker for President. Ignatius
Donnelly for Vice-President.
Houston, Texas. March 18.—Milton
Park, of Dallas, Chairman of the Popu
list National Reorganization Committee,
lias issued a manifesto setting forth the
nomination of Wharton Baker for Presi
dent and Ignatius Donnelly for Vice-
President and the adoption of a platform
at Cincinnati April sth, 1898, claiming
that “there is a need for a party standing
for equality of opportunity and against
special privileges. The great mass of
the people in the United States are Popu
| lists at heart though they do not ae
knoAvledge it.”
He concludes by saying:
“To insure the success of the People’s
party there is nothing needed but effec
tive organization, and in order to press
this work vigorously, persistently and
successfully as chairman of tin* national
committee, 1 have selected to assist me,
the folloAving avcll knoAvn Populists to
each of whom 1 have assigned a group of
States to organize by counties and pre
cincts:
“Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee,
Frank Burkett, of Okolna, Miss.
"Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia,
North Carolina and Maryland, Joseph A.
Parker, of Louisville.
"Michigan, Ohio. Indiana, Illinois,
Wisconsin, California. Oregon and
Washington. John O. Zeoabull, of Pe
tersburg. Mich.
“Maine, Masaehusetts. Vermont, Con
necticut, Rhode Island. New Hampshire.
New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Penn
sylvania, L. C. Bateman, of Auburn.
Me.
"Minnesota. lowa, North and South |
Dakota. Montana, Wyoming and
Idaho. Henry B. Fay, of Minneapolis.
“Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska. Colora
do. Utah and Nevada. Paul 11. Dixon,
of Chillicofhe, Mo.
“Texas. Arkansas and Louisiana. Clar
ence Nugent, of Stephensville, Texas.”
PORTO RICO ALL SERENE.
Reports of Danger of an Uprising Are
Unfounded.
San Juan di> Porto Rico. March IS.— ;
The reports contained in newspapers
just received here alleging that danger
exists of an uprising of the natives, are !
regarded Avith astonishment and are I
absolutely without foundation. The I
only disturbances that have occurred !
here Inn-e lieen mere local fights between
the American volunteers and lower i
class of natives.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press, who has just returned from an '
extended trip through the island, says ;
he found only occasional evidences of j
dissatisfaction resulting from brawls
and local politics, and American offi
cers now here ridicule the idea of an
uprising of the natives, who, they say,
are without weapons anil are entirely
lading in organization.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
|to the Constitution from Tallapoosa,
Ga., says:
“A cyclone passed over tin* country be
■ tween Heflin and Kdwardsville late this
afternoon. It is reported here that five
Avere killed in one family.
“Telegraph wires arc prostrated.”
TEN MORE VICTIMS.
Birmingham. Ala.. March 18—Advices
reaching here late tonight indicate that
a great storm has passed over Cleburne
county, devastating a large section, it.
is reported that ten people have so far
been Trilled, nine of them in the family
of a man named Coffee.
Telegraph communication is meagre
and nothing definite can he obtained.
TREES TORN UP BY THE ROOTS.
Hickory Flat, Miss., March IS.—A tor
, nailo struck this place today, doing con
siderable damage to buildings and other
property. The school building and two
.churches were demolished and twenty
i five dwellings blown down nr unroofed.
Several persons received painful mjuries.
A family living west of acre lost their
dwelling, and a young lady, nam * is yet
unknown, was killed. Tie s were torn
up by the roots, twisted off 'ike reed*,
and all fencing in the path of t hi* cyclone
was leveled to the ground. On some
farms near here hardly a building was
left standing. Doubtless other fatalities
i will be reported, but news is meagre.
I The course of the storm was from south
west to northeast and its track was
nearly half a mile.
SMALL TOWN WRECKED.
Little Rock, Ark., March 18. —A torna
do pased through portions of Jefferson
Land Desha cdphtles this afternoon. Tel
! egraph wires are prostrated and the de
tails are coming in slowly.
At Rub Roy. five houses were blown
■ down and one man was killed.
j At Dumas tiearly all tin* houses in the
j town were either blown down or ditta
i aged and several persons were wounded,
! but so far as can be learned no lives
| were lost. There are several small towns
! in this section through Avhieh the storm
! passed, and as yet no news has been re
ceived from any of them.
BRYAN'S REPLY
io iron
Who Said Bryan Has no Po
litical Future.
NOT COMPETENTTOJUDGE
AS INGEiRSOLI. HOES NOT BE
LIEVE IN A FUTURE.
KNOXVILLE DEMOCRATS WELCOME BRYAN
Dines With Sixteen Demccrats and One Repub
lican. Fiftoen Hundred People Listen
to his Lec'ure on Fending
Problems.
Knoxville, Tenn., March 18.—Colonel .f
William Jennings Bryan arrived here
this morning at 8 o'clock, lit* avus met
at the passenger station by several hun
dred Democrats, Avho had assembled
despite the terrible rainfall. This rain
continued throughout tin* day and
night. This morning at 11 o’clock Col
onel Bryan was joined by Governor
Benton McMillin, of Tennessee. The
Iwo held a public reception in the
Woman’s Building. This afternoon
they were entertained at dinner by L.
H. Spilman. Sixteen Democrats and
one Republican assembled around the
festal board. Mr. Spilman and Colonel
Bryan were boys together in Salem,
Ills., and later were friends in Chicago.
Tonight Colonel Bryan delivered his
lecture on “Pending Problems,” in the
large public hall of this city, lie Avas
heard by fifteen hundred people. After
the lecture In* was entertained at a
banquet as tin* guest of Knoxville Dem
ocrats. He responded to a toast, “The
Democracy of Jefferson, Jackson and
Bryan.”
This morning Col. Bryan received a
telegram from a Cincinnati newspaper
risking for an expression in reply to Bob
Ingersoll’s criticism that Bryan is a
hack number and has no political fu
ther. Colonel Bryan's telegraphed reply
Avas that he did not regard Colonel In
gersoll as a capable authority to speak
of his eligibility lor the hack number
list, nor upon bis prospects lor the Ju
ture, as Colonel Ingersoll does not be
lieve in a future. .
Colonel Bryan will celebrate his ..Nth
birthday here tomorrow as . ” l( * K ' u sI
of his cousin.*Mrs. Easter, wife of Ke\.
I>r. Henry, .j) Easter, an Episcopal
rector of this ri’v.