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2 YACHT COLUMBIA SHOWS HER HEELS The Defender Left Far Be hind in the Race. COLUMBIA MAY KEEP CUP SIR TiIOMAS WILL# GO HOME SORROWING. COLUMBIA WON BY THREE MINUTES She Would Have Gone Much Bet):*Had Her Sails fitted as Well as Those of the Defender. An Exciting and Beautiful Race. ' New York, July o.—Over a triangular «?OUTse of thirty unit's in comparatively light winds the new Isclin-Morgan yacht Columbia to-day vanquished the Vander bilt yacht Defender and convinced the yachtsmen who saw the royal struggle that she is worthy of defending the pre cious trophy which Svr Thomas Dipt oil and his merry tars hope to take hack with them in the Shamrock next full. I ‘Rased upon the showing she made as ■ a better lwmt than the Defender under j adverse conditions the nautical sharps I sire strongly convinced that Sir Thomas will sail home without the silver mug, the possession of which has given 11s the yachting supremacy of the world since 1851. To-day’s race plainly demonstrated that, no matter how skillfully constructed a yacht may lie, her sailing and ability I to go to windward may he killed by im perfectly* setting sails. The Columbia won the race by a mar gin of three minutes fifty-three seconds (unofficial time.) There is no doubt she would have won by a larger margin ; f •her sat.s had fitted as well as the De fender’s^ Rut to-day's race was an unsatisfac tory one. Shifting, baffling winds and n had, lumpy sea with dirty rain squalls I .made the conditions anything but ideal for yacht racing. I In windward work the Columbia with sails drawing hudly, demonstrated her superiority, and in a long reach with sheets eased, she outfooted the Vander bilt boat. Sudden shifting of the wind prevented a trial at running with spinnakers. In light weather, close lull- 1 ed, therefore, it can l>e said that she is undoubtedly the Defender's superior, but 1 what she cam do in a piping breeze re mains to be seen. 1 Through a blunder or by design Cap tain Barr, of the Columbia, gave the Defender a start equal to her time al lowance, about two minutes. The beat to windward made a beautiful race. 'Hie interest was intense. The Columbia seemed more tender than the Defender —more tender lmt perhaps more stately j as she lay down to work. Miniature 1 cataracts poured from her glistening decks when the water spurted twenty feet high from her bows, but as she lifted beautifully she looked like a huge 1 gull rising from the water. Then the talent began to get nervous. Gradually bait surely, the Defender was drawing ahead. It did not take the yachtsmen long to discover the cause. The Defend er’s sails fit to perfectimi. while those of tihe Columbia were loose and cracked in the ten-knot breeze. Half am hour later the wind- sank to | about five knots and immediately the sails of the Columbia began to draw, I and she began to gain upon her adver- [ sary. The Columbia continued to gain on every tack, and a few minutes before the, first mark was reached, she crossed the j Defender’s bow on the starboard tack. Then the nautical sharps breathed easier, j She rounded the stake exactly one min-1 i ute ahead of tin* Defender. On the long reach for the second mark. | with the wind abeam, the Columbia : gained 58 seconds. It was now only a question of how much the Columbia would heat tin* Defender, and .many of the steamers ami tugs headed back for the finish. Gracefully* and noiselessly the Columbia swept over the invisible finish Hue, and when she crossed she was given a royal salute. As the Defender crossed the line she also was greeted l with a demonstration quite as enthusiastic and prolonged. Herbert l>’cds. on India If erf Mr. Iselin. said after the race that the friends of j the Col uni. wa were very well satisfied, and Imped to do better when their sails were made more trim. The race to-day was an informal trial for a cup offered by the New York Yacht Club. WHEELER ORDERED TO MANILA The General Highly Pleased— Preparing to Cross the Continent Saturday. Washington. July Brigadier Gene ral Joseph Wheeler was today ordered to report to General Otis at Manila, for service in the Philippine Islands. General Wheeler is much pleased with his assignment to the Philippine Islands. “I believe now that the rebellion is on and that it should Is* stamped out,” he said tonight. “The sooner it is done, the better it will lie for the Filipinos, as well as for the United States. Every loyal American should support the Ad ministration in its effort to terminate the strife and to set up good government in the Philippines. I am glad to he able to lend my aid to the Government at this time, when it is in need of support. I shall place myself at the disposal ->f General Otis, and endeavor to do my duty as a soldier.” General Wheeler is making prepara tions to leave, for San Francisco Sat urday. Three Eastern players and one West ern will contest at Lake Forest today in the semi-finals for the amateur golf chain pionsh ip. OASTORIA lt» Kind You Ban Always Bougbl RELIEF FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS Damage to Crops Greatly Overestimated —Government Rations. Galveston, Texas. July 9.—James Col lison, Superintendent of Machinery for the Santa Fe Railroad, amoved in Gal veston 011 the last through train the road lias been able to run. The Brazos river at Rosenberg is running wild, Mr. Collision says, but with regard to the ultimate damage he is very optimistic. He thinks the damages are greatly overestimated and that the loss of crops in the bottoms will be counter-balanced by the increased yields on the uplands. He left at noon on a special train for the flooded district, carrying provisions for the destitute. At Sunnysidc, twelve miles from Brookshire, the Brazos river is ordina rily two hundred yards wide. About parallel with this and two and a half miles away is Elm Creek, which is sel dom over thirty feet wide and in mid summer often dry. The two streams, separated by low bottom lands, are now united, making a river between five and six miles wide and from sixty to seventy feet deep. Along the currents nineteen people were reseued yesterday in a skiff sent from Houston. The lieoplo were demolishing their sheds and out houses and making boxes that they used for boats. Cattle were found resting their heads in the boughs of trees making a pitiable struggle for existence. At one point two houses were svn coming down the stream. In one of them was a mail and two women ami on tin* other a woman and five children were clinging for life and calling for help. One of those was a fine two-story affair, and the other was a smaller dwelling. They passed on with the foaming current and may have struck an obstruction' and been smashed to pieces or found their way into the Gulf. Twenty-five rowboats fully manned and provisioned, left here today for the section overflowed to assist in saving life and property. Governor Sayers has been asked by Representative '.V. H. Ellis to call a s|*vial session of the Legislature to re lieve the 1 distress. The Santa Fe main line trains have Iwhmi abandoned lve tween Galveston and the Brazos river. The Southern Pacific and Missouri. Kansas and Texas bridges across the Brazos river are reported l to have been swept away this morning. Reports from a s|ieeial correspondent of the News indicate that, while the property loss in the recent Hood* has Imhu enormous, the loss of life has been greatly exaggerated. Every year the Brazos and Colorado Valleys suffer from inundations. Up to the present flood the greatest destine-' tion from the annual inundations was in 1885. This year the high water-mark of 1885 has been surpassed in Washing ton, Austin, Fort Bend, Waller and Bra zos counties in Southern Texas. The Brazos is failing rapidly In the central part of the State, the scene of last week’s flood. The flood reached the Southern part of the State Sunday night ami Monday. The planters* had received ample warn ing, but many negroes remained in the Brazos Valley, believing the water would not reach higher than in 1885. From 1,500 to 2.000 colored people were caught in the valley, in Austin, Waller, and Fort Bead counties, and were forged to take to the trees a»4 house tops. The War Department has authorized Governor Sayers to distribute ten thou sand army rations among the flood suf ferers, the rations to iie furnished the Governor from Sail Antonio. These rations will ho distributed at Rich mond, Thonqvson, Wallis, Rosenlicrg, Ihi tike, Areola, Fulshear, Chenango, Co lumbia, Velasco, Navasoto, Calvert. H carat*, Bryan and Brenham. In addi tion to the War Department rations, Houston and Galveston have sent sev eral carloads of groceries into the flooded district. As to crops, cotton is not lost. If is entirely washed out in some places, but on the whole more good than, harm lias been done to crops by the floods. Cot ton will Ik* replanted in most eases. Corn has soured! in most localities*, but tin* crop is not an entire loss. There is plenty of time to raise cotton before January, 1900. The next trouble will Ik* at Velasco, the mouth of the Brazos, which point tin* flood#* reached today. The town may iw cut off from couinuinitioii with the world for a day or so, but no loss of life is anticipated. TWO FEVER CASES IN HAVANA. Gomez Accused of IMoting to Overthrow the Government of Bair Domingo. Hav aim, July 9. —Two eases of yellow fever have been reported today. One of the patients is an old Spanish woman who has been ini Cuba for two years, and with her the disease is in a mold form. The other ease is that of an American, whose symptoms are still doubtful, though it is believed by Sur geon Major Davis and other officers to be yellow fever. Both eases were dis covered in a bad part of the city which is but little frequented by America ns. ‘Surgeon Major Davis does not believe there is match danger that the disease will spread. El Recoaieentrado publishes a sensa tional story accusing General Gomez of plotting to overthrow the government of San Domingo. It says: ‘"Having abandoned the hope of be coming the head of the Cuban ‘Repub lic, and unwilling to emulate the example of other patriots who. in similar eondi tions, have thrust aside personal inter ests and retired into private life. Gomez is conferring with discontented Domi nicans, among whom are General Bau tistiea, who is now in Havana, with a view of organizing an exisnlition com posed of former American and Cuban soldiers, to attack San Domingo, kill President Deurenux ami jiroelaim Gomez dictator. We are informed that Gomez, though an old man, is <vf infinitely more value than all the Dominican generals put together.’” It is scarcely necessary to say that this story is generally discredited. FHF BEST PRF SCRIP TION FOR MAI ARIA . Chills and FP vpr i* ® bottle of Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. No cure, no pay. Price 50c. wed & sat 0 m & w 6m Bears the —• Biv tr a THE NEWS AND OBSERVER. SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 8, 1899. SMALLEST KNOWN lU ANY QUARTER Dun’s Report of Failures for the First Half of’99. SMALL IN 2ND QUARTER BREAKING ALL RECORDS FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS. OF CORN DOUBLE LAST YEAR’* Stiikes of Iron Workers are Reported from Va vious Sections and the Strike of the Tin Plate Men is Siill Unsettled. New York. July 7.—R. G. Dunn and Company's M eekly Review ol‘ Trade will says to-morrow: Failures for the first luilf of 1899 with banking and financial institutions includ ed as all other accounts published, were 4,884, with liabilities of $49,994,991 Commercial failures were 4,853, with liabilities of $42,902,933, of which $19,- 723,353 were manufacturing and $23.- 011,3(54 were trading. In the second quarter failures were the smallest ever reported in that quarter of twenty-five years for which quarterly reports have been made by this agency. The average per failure. $7,105. is the smallest ever known in any quarter; the average per firm in business $12.20, and tin* ratio of defaulted liabilities to sol vent exchanges 02 cents per $.1,000 are Lull tlie smallest ever known in any quarter. In ten out of fourteen branch es of manufacturing, failures were smaller than in the same quarter of four of the previous five years, and in thir teen out of fourteen trading branches. The large failures for SIOO,OOO or more were only two in trading for $224,088 less than a tenth of the smallest previous year, and only fifteen in all for $2,417.- 180, from a fifth to a tenth of previous years. The decrease in small failures is worth especial study. Wheat declined % of a cent, extorts being but $2,250,021 bushels for the week, flour included, against 2.(543.13- last year for both coasts, although West ern receipts were 3,8(51,523 bushels against <518.492 last year. If the farmers actually carried over (.55,000,(100 bushels, or more, a year ago, after $1.25 to $2 per bushel mil beni paid at Chicago for four.' months, as one farming journal estimates, they need the education which they are gerting. but the claim still entirely fails to ac count for their liberal spilling this year at lower prices. Contradict iry guesses and hopes corn till lie. blit this year is very hard on predictions. Corn exports are twice last year’s, 2.- 378.708 bushels, against 1,028,155 last year for the week and the price de clined it quarter. The cotton move ment still indicates a greater surplus than was expected, but disastrous floods in Texas caused a sixteenth advance, which dispatches from that quarter do not seem to warrant. The loss, much t»r little, would not materially a licit a year’s business. Scarcity and high prices of iron and its products can no longer be reckoned evidence of good times. In the Shennngo Valley six furnaces have been stopped by a strike for twenty per cent more wages, and minor strikes are reported at various iron works, the tin plate strike being yet unsettled. New orders reported continue large, being oidintly rejeorted week after week at diffen at cities because not taken, but new or ders accumulated do not equal the out put of the works. Predictions of great scarcity of pig iron have lifted th<* price still further to 91 per cent of the average January, 1887, but several more furn aces are going into operation and the Illinois Steel Company has contracted for others of the largest capacity. Textile maiitifaetuiies are doing well and in woolen goods prices tend upward with a considerably better demand, but sales of 9,828,790 pounds at the three chief markets were mainly to dealers and the advance in price 19.57 cents per |H)und average for 190 quotations by Coates Brothers, against 18.79 Jite* 15th. and 18.01 May 15th, does not in vite heavy transactions. Cotton goods show no pressure to sell, but are quieter, and the increased manu facture at the South is fell each year more dearly in Northern mills. The volume of business for the first week of July lias been 39 per cent greater than last year ami 49.9 iku - cent greater than in 1892. Failures for the week have been 119 in the United States, against 229 last year, and 20 in Canada, against 17 last year. POPULISTS WILL NOT FUSE. They Are Split on the Matter of Hold hug the Philippines. Terre Haute, Ind., July 9.—Mortimer G. Rankin, chairman or the Populist National committee, stated today that the Populists would not form a fusion with the Democrats for the coming cam paign. Mr. Rankin said that the Populists will hold their national con vention one month prior to that of either the Democratic or Republican conventions. On this account the Popu lists will prepare their own platform anil nominate their own candidates. Mr. Rankin stated that he was mot willing to say much concerning the party's views for the approaching campaign, as it had lieen the desire of the Central committee to leave the other two iKilitical parties in the dark as regards its movements and plans; he stated, however, that the party was split up on, the matter of holding the Philippine Islands. Some of the mem bers of the party counselled having nothing more to do with them, while others are in, favor of keeping them, fighting the war With the Filipinos until they arc brought to terms and then making a republic there. A passenger train on the Burlington road was wrecked last night near Wald ron, Mo. A special train bearing sur geons was sent from Kansas Oty to the scene of the wreck. YELLOW FEVER ON BOARD. The McClellan Arrives in Now York From Santiago. New York. July 9.—The transport Mc- Clellan arrived today from Santiago and was detained at quarantine. Iler surgeon reports that three of the pas sengers have yellow fever. Health Officer Doty says lie will trans fer the sic- to Swinburne Island. The transijMH't and the effects of the passen gers and l crew will be disinfected. All on board will be detained for five days after the dininfeetion is accomplished. NO REASON FOR ALARM. Washington. July 9. —-Tno Marine Hospital Service is of the opinion that there is no cause of alarm in the arri val of the McClellan with yellow fever aboard. The fever undoubtedly devel oped after the vessel left < üba as other wise- those infected would have been' detained. Fever ships have arrived frequently at Northern ports, but owing to. climatic conditions there is no issk of an out break of yellow fever as would be tile case at a Southern port. Moreover in being at the quarantine station, the ves sel is exactly where, she should be to minimize all risks. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. In the Yolksraad it is understood that an agreement was reached yesterday to grant the franchise immediately to all settlers prior to 1890, and to otlnv classes of residents within seven youis, tlie naturalization clause to be optional. The trial of General Walker for the shooting of Lawyer Hamilton drags slowly on. The ease will probably not go to the jury before Saturday. Armistead Taylor, colored, was con victed yesterday in the .Circuit court of Frederick county, Md„ of the murder on May 13fh of Mrs. Rosa Rosensteini at Slide'll, Montgomery county. The London Times announces that several officers have been ordered i > proceed to South Africa to organize tin* residents, as well as the police and local forces at various points on the frontier. The Bar Association of Georgia open ed its annual session at Waim Springs yesterday. In point of attendance the convention is a record breaker. At yes terday’s session Judge Hamilton Mc- Whorter. presided. Acting Commissioner Williams of the Internal Revenue Bureau, ha* decided that natural or artificial gas companies are subject to the gross receipt tax under the war revenue act, and that in the cast' of artificial gas the return* made by the company should ineliul • sale s of tar, ammonia, coke, etc, ROBBED THE GRAVE. A startling incident, of which Mr. John Oliver, of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him sis follows: “I was in a most dreadful condition. 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