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Charred Bodies of Four
Italians Taken From
Ruins of Burn
As Result of Several Fires
in New York Four Men
Are Dead and Damage
Amounting to $200,-
000 Done.
s
Two Hundred and Fifty
Horses Were Cremated
And 12 Firemen Were
Seriously Injured as Re
sult of Collisions.
Xew York, April 23.—Four men
burned to death, 250 horses killed, 12
firemen injured, two engines over
turned and wrecked by collisions with
street ears, several thrilling rescues
fiom burning buildings, and a proper
ty loss of $200,000 —that is the story
of the fire department for five hours
following midnight.
Six different fires on upper East
Side, Broadway, on Middle East Side
and the big stable fire at Christopher
and Barrow streets kept the firemen
constantly at work.
The dead are four Italians, whose
bodies, burned beyond recognition,
were found in the ruins of the burned
stable, where also 250 houses per
ished.
The loss in the stable fire is esti
mated at SIOO,OOO.
WAR PRICES IN THE SOUTH. .
Quinine $1,700 an Ounce —Flour S3OO a
Barrel —Fish $5 a Pound.
In ISCS an ounce of quinine could
not be purchased for less than $1,700
in the South. Provisions were simply
enormous in price. Here are just a
lew instances: In February a ham
veighing fifty pounds sold for exactly
§750, or at the rate of $5 a pound.
Flour was S"J00 a barrel.
Fresh fish retailed all over at $5 a
pound and ordinary meal was at SSO (
n bushel Those who lived iu board
ing houses paid from S2OO to S3OO a
KJcnth. White beans retailed at 575 a
bushel. Tea went for anything from
S2O a pound to SGO, and coffee in a like
ratio.
The most ordinary sugar was soi l
for ?10 a pound. Ordinary adamantine
candles were sold for $lO a pound. lr
a cafe breakfast was ordinarily $lO.
In April sugar went to S9OO a barrel
and articles of wearing apparel sold,
at 5350, trousers at SIOO and boots at
?2uo. I
Butter was sls a pound. Potatoes
vent for $2 a quart. Tomatneb of fl>«;
size of a walnut sold for S2O a cozen.
Chickens varied from $35 to SSO a pair.
The prices on the bill of fare of the
Richmond restaurant in January, 1864,
were: Soup, $1.50; bread and butter,
51.">0; roast beef, a plate, $3; boiled
$2; ham and eggs, $3.50; rock
fish, a plate $5; fried oysters, a plate,
?">: raw oysters, S3; fresh milk, a glass
S2; coffee, a cup, $3; tea, a cup, $2.
These figures are taken from vari
ous sources and have the virtue of ac
curacy. if nothing else. Always was
present the fear of famine, and time
and time again did the soldiers donate
a portion of their rations, taken from
their apportionment in the field, to re
lieve the pressing necessities.
The shrinkage of the currency was
of course responsible, and some idea
may be gathered from a story thai
went the rounds at the time. A .sol
dier galloped along a country road and
a farmer leaning over a fence admired
th! animal. He called to the trooper
offering to buy the horse: \
"Give you $20,000 for him, Johnny,"
lie said.
"Not much, old man, I just paid $15,-
000 to have him shod," was the reply.
Goldsboro's New School Building.
Raleigh, April 23. —It is learned from
Superintendent E. C. Brooks, of the
Goldsboro graded schools that Golds
boro is socn to build a $15,000 public
bigh school building, a portion of the
money to be borrowed from the State
loan fund.
Wake Superior Court is in session
this wtck, E. B. Jones, of Winston-Sa
lem presiding and a remarkable start
w as made for the term on the verj
first dr.y in that seven decrees for di
vorce were granted.
Controversy Over
Bottling of Beer
Columbia, S. C., April 23. —The con
'j'Ow'ersy over the bottling of beer in
mis county was practically ended last
n i?ht when Charles Narey surrendered
to the county dispensary board the li
cense be held as beer bottler. This
*'as done after it was known that the
ward had accepted the bid of Narey
»or 10,000 crates of Augusta beer at
60 cents per dozen pint bottles,
th ' las ' jeen known for some time
toat Xarey's bid was very much lower
' au those of Watts and Letton, the
other licensed bottlers, and that the
board would accept the Narey bid. It
claimed, of course, that the beer
handled by Watts and Letton was a
superior quality to that of Narey and
here was some question as to the dis
position the bottles after use.
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
m AND
Noted Case Comes to
An Abrupt Close
Raleigh, N. C., April 23—The trial
of the case of C. A. Morris vs. the
North Carolina Home Insurance Co.,
expected to develop along sensation
al lines, came to an abrupt end this
morning in the issuance of judgment
for the plaintiff. This is the case
in which the defence intended in
to set up the plea that the house
was burned by M. T. Norris, husband
of the plaintiff, in order that his
wife might collect insurance. Before
the taking of testimony was begun
Judge Jones made a ruling that
would admit no evidence as to the
burning of the house by the husband
for the benefit of his wife without her
knowledge.
This ieft only the question of the
value of the house and the insurance
company admitted the value and ap
pealed on the ruling as to the evi
dence of the burning.
Some mouths ago M. T. Norris was
acquitted by a jury of the charge of
burning the house. He is a promt,
nent merchant of this city.
A charter was issued today for the
Unit Brick j)fnd Tile Co. of Char
lotte, at a capital of $50,000, by Paul
Chatham, L. B. Kohnson and others.
MURDERED NEGRO WOMAN.
Of Six Young Men Charged With
Crime Only Four of Them are Held.
Richmond, Va., April 22. —Of the six
young white men, Joe Baugli, Tom
Walker, Oscar Neatherly, John B. Tal
bot, Temple Young and Derby Weath
erford, who were arrested at an early
hour in a Danville suburb yesterday
I morning on the charge of having mur
dered Saturday Ellen Elliott, a negro
woman, about 35 years of age, whose
mutilated body was found in a public
road, and who was dressed in men's
elothes from head to foot. The two
last named, Young and Weatherford,
were released .yesterday, it being
shown that they were not directly im
plicated in the killing. Several neg
roes are being held as witnesses. The
coroner's jury will make an investi
gation today.
The police have been unable so far
to account for the woman taking men's
clotbes, unless it was that trousers en
abled her to drink at the sa
loons.
Wants an Explanation.
Montgomery, Ala., April 23. —The
State Federation of Labor wired the
President for an explanation of his
alleged assertion that Haywood and
Moyer, the Idaho miners, are not
desirable citizens.
A
Grand Ar
World's Navy
American Vessels Lie at
Anchor in Hampton
Roads. Magnificent
Vaval Pageant Almost
Ready for Expo.
Norfolk, Va., April 23. —The great
est fleet of American war vessels ever
assembled in the historic waters of
Hampton Roads —300,000 tons of
floating steel —was made ready to re
ceive the first of the visiting foreign
warships, which are to take part in
the Jamestown celebrations.
For the opening of the exposition
the war vessels of Great Brittain,
Germany and Austria are expected.
All the American vessels now at
anchor belong to the Atlantic fleet.
There are probably 25 battleships and
cruisers in line, headed by the Con
necticut.
i The fleet has been arranged so as
I to give the visitors the best possible
opportunity for viewing the fighting
! strength of the American navy. The
cruisers of the fleet are all modern,
though at variance in size, between
the largest and smallest is as great
as that which marks the heavier ves
sels of the battleship class. In the
cruiser class, the most interesting
vessel is perhaps the Brooklyn, the
flagship of Admiral Schley in the
battle with the Cervera's squadron
off Santiago. The Brooklyn, will also
remain as a permanent naval exhibit
during the exposition.
The English squadron, under com
mand of Rear Admiral Neville, is
expected in Hampton Roads either
tomorrow or Thursday. v
President Roosevelt will review the
gathered American fleet and the visit
ing foreigners from the Mayflower
Friday.
Fifteen hundred bluejackets will
be landed from the American vessels
to t&ke part in the military and naval
parade Friday* which will be re
viewed by the President.
EVIDENCTS OF INCENDIARISM.
Investigation Brings to Linht Evi
dences of Incendiarism Involving
Lives of 48 Families.
Rochester, N. Y„, April 23. —Evi-
dences of incendiarism involving the
lives of 48 families in a tenement
block were discovered in an investi
gation which broke out this morning. (
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Charlotte News. April 23d. ' NEW 4C's BUILDING JUST AFTER COLLAPSE.
Dread Poison Carries Death And
Suffering to Wadesboro Family.
1 wo Members
President Finlev Asks
Co-operation of South
Memphis, Tenn., April 23. —In the
course of his speech, at a reception
given in his honor by the Merchants'
Exchange, President Finley of the
Southern Railway, declared that the
results accomplished for the good ot
the country by the railroads, in ex
tending their lines into unoccupied
territory and seeking new resources
to be developed in the territory al
ready'occupied, would have boon im
possible had they been hampered and
restricted by the spirit of popular
and legislative antagonism and by rc- •
pressive and restrictive laws.
He referred to the systematic ef
forts of the Southern, acting in co
operation with the communities along
its line in the Southern States, to
advance the development of every
locality in the section traversed
bv i».
He paid it has been the sole duty
of the Southern to give its co-opera
tion without any charge to every in
dividual and organized effort for the
matgrial and social advancement of
the souih.
On ibis point, he said: "It is con
stantly working to develop the new
resources in the Southern field," he
said, adding "this work is to be con
tinued and the road is to be made, ii
possible, a more important factor in
Southern development than it has
been in the past. It asks from the
Southern people only the support of
public opinion and from the Southern
legislatures only silch wise and eco
nomically and sound conservatism as
has been displayed by the legislature
of Tennessee.'
LONG LOST MAN FOUND.
Body of Noted Theatrical Member
Found in Stream —Lost Since De
cember.
New York, April 22. —The body of
Peter J. Kennedy, a well-known the
atrical manager who disappeared in
December last, was found in the wa
ter last night off South Brooklyn.
The body was badly decomposed,
but was identified by Mrs. Kennedy
The clothes were torn into shreds.
Kennedy disappeared December 28
last. His hat and overcoat were
found, on a ferry boat which landed
at Thirty-ninth* street, South Brook
lyn, from the Battery, Manhattan.
Ihe same night Mrs. Kennedy re
ceived a special delivery letter from
l.er husband in which Ve stated that
he was about to drown himself.
Mr. Kennedy was one o fthe best
known of theatrical men. At one
time te managed John L. Sullivan,
and later made a fortune with the
comedy "Yon Yohnson." His wife,
who was Miss Beatrice Norman, a
daughter of Mrs. Annie Mack Berlin,
a well-known actress, had starred for
several seasons under her husband's
management. She appeared on the
road in a numbdr of plays, including
"Captain Jinks," under the name, of
Elizabeth Kennedy. Mr ; Kennedy's
last venture was with Ella Wheeler
Wilcox's Mizpah, with Mrs. Kennedy
as the star, which played for a short
time on the road and closed at the
Academy of Music October 20, after
a brief .run. This play, in which Mr.
Itennedy invested all his money, was
1 a faiilure and it is supposed that
brooding over this caused him to
take his life.
One of the things a man can't un
derstand is why his enemies have
l any friends.
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY APRIL 25, 1907,
Dread Ptomaine Poison
Carries Sorrow toHome
Of Hugh Jordan, of
Wadesboro. Only Moth
er so Far Escapes'
Two Children Died Last
Night and Two Others
Are in Dying Condition,
While Others are Suf
fering From Poison.
Wadesboro, N. C., April 23.—Mr.
Hugh Jordan, who works at the silk
mill hero became ill Friday and suf
fered apparently some stomach trouble.
On the same day his three children,
Albion, Fannv and Clara, were taken
ill and suffered from the same symp
toms. .
Sunday afternoon two others became
ill, growing steadily worse until last
night when both died.
These were Lela and Sallie aged 8
and 4 years.
Yesterday, Cleveland, Lester and Ed,
aged 17, 7 and 9 years, began suffer
ing apparently from the same cause".
At 5 p. m. yesterday Doctors Ben
nett and Ashe were called in, and have
been unable to secure any substance
to indicate in any way the nature or
cause of the poison.
The family had been dieting on
lruits?, canned goods, and meats and it
was thought that ptomaine poison re
sulted from this combination of diet.
The mother alone of the entire fam
ily is not suffering from the terri
ble poison.
Two of the family are now in a dy
ing condition, death being expected
at any moment.
—Mr. Frank F. Jones, the notary
public, has received commission from
the governor, reappointing him for
another term of two years.
Falling W
Injured Many
Fire in Arsenal Assum
ing Alarming Propor
tions. Thirty Victims
of Falling Walls Car
ried to Hospitals.
Toulon, France, April 23. —The fire
at the arsenal has assumed alarming
proportions. Private residences out
side the arsenal are threatened, im
mense quantities of stores have been
burned and the damage amounting to
many millions of francs has been
done. :
The wall of the storehouse fell in,
burying 20 men, ten of whom were
severely injured.
A Later Account.
Some houses occupied by workmen
and situated near the arsenal caught
fire, and collapsed, burying 12 men,
who, however, were rescued, though
most of them were badly injured.
The number of men were injured
by the fall of a wall of a storehouse
was greater than at first reported. It
is now said 30 have already been
taken to th e hospitals.
Is Said to Be Husband
Oj Seventeen Wives
Marshall, Mich., April 23. —Dr. John
Carver, an alleged bigamist, said to
have at least 17 wives, was captured
at Fort Smith. Ark.
Carver is also charged with defraud
ing them out of $1550,000.
Carver is wanted in seven cities, in
cluding Norfolk.
TWO KILLED IN WRECK.
Double Wreck on Southern—Number
Were Injured.
Birmingham, Ala., April 22. —As a
result of a double wreck on the
Southern Railway a short distance
east of Woodlawn, a suburb of Bir
mingham, early yesterday, two men
are dead and a number injured.
The dead:
CAL. B. HARRIS, fireman on the
wrecker.
TOM BEVERLY, brakeman on
wrecker.
The injured are James Wages, At
lanta, engineer, skull fractured, head
hurt and face scratched: S. H. Hill,
engineer, internal injuries; Thomas
Powell, engineer, bruises on body;
white fireman, shoulder dislocated;
two postal clerks, slightly injured;
white passenger, knee cut.
The unusual character of the
wreck makes it surprising that the
casualties were not more. A freight
train with a dead engine on the i ear,
was coming toward .Birmingham. The
operator, it is said, allowed No. 37,
the fast passenger, to enter the block
and it crashed into the dead engine,
smashing them both and demolishing
several cars. Three cars of the
freight train were thrown across the
eastbound track, almost at the ia
stnnt that the Southern wrecker en
route to Heflin, Ala., passed. The
wrecker struck them and practically
the whole train piled into the ditch.
Two men were caught under the en
gine.
Asks
For Damages
Greensboro, N. C., April 23. —
Owing to the fact that Judge
Justice was unable to reach
Greensboro until 2 p. m. there was
no session of Guilford Superior Court
Monday morning. In the afternoon
the case of Estella M. Haines vs. the
Southern Railway Company was taken
up. The plaintiff claims that she j
sustained damages to the extent of
$50,000 for personal injuries while a
passenger on one of the trains of the
Southern Railway Company.
Mrs. Lucy H. Robertson, president
of Greenaboro Female College, an
nounces that the baccalaureate ser
mon at the approaching commence
ment will be preached on the morn
ing of Tuesday, May 21st, by Rev.
Dr. W. J. Young, pastor of Centen
ary Methodist Church, Richmond Va.
The annual literary address before
the graduating class will be delivered
Wednesday morning, May 22, by Dr.
C. Alphonso Smith, of the chair of
English of the University of North
Carolina.
Bryan Has Conference.
Boston, April 23. —In his second visit
to Boston this year William J. Bryan
held conferences yesterday with sev
eral Democratic leaders, including for
mer Governor William L. Douglass, and
later delivered an address on "Prob-.
lems of City Government" at the May
or's Club, an organization of chief
magistrates of Massachusetts.
Douglass stated that his conversation
with Mr. Bryan related to the tariff.
New Power House Walls,
Under 168-7 on Weight,
Crash Dow
Gloomy Opinion ol
Reform Movement
London,, April 23.—The progress of
the reform movement In China is de
scribed from a point of view much less
eulogistic than the recent reports
from the English correspondence in - a
letter received from Pekin.
The writer tells the inner story of
the downfall of Tang-Shao-Yi, who un
til recently was one of the most pow
erful men near the courts. He speaks
of disaffection in Yuan-Shi-Kai, much
advertised army, and takes a discour
aging view of the Government's finan
cial status, of th% attempts at educa
tional reform and the. suppression of
opium.
JOYNER TO CONFER.
Hopes to Remedy Complaints Relative
to Depositories For Sale of Text
Books.
Raleigh, April 23. —There will be a
conference here on Wednesday be
tween State Superintendent of Public
Instruction J. Y. Joyner and represen
tatives of the book publishing Houses
which have the contracts for furnish
ing the text books for the North Caro
lina public schools with a view to
remedying complaints from many
counties of inadequate depositories for
the sale of books. The State super
intendent has procured from each of
the county superintendents statements
showing the location of all depositor
ies at present and points where addi
tional ones should be established.
These lists will be compared with
those of the publishers and a complete
revision made so that there will be no
further room for complaint on this
score.
Richmond
Good Roads
Rockingham, April 23. —At the elec
tions held Saturday in Steeles Town
ship, Mineral Springs Township and
Black Jack Township, to decide upon
the issuance or non-issuance of bonds
for the construction of good roads, the
result was in favor of good roads in
all three, 'ovinshina and honria
shortly be issued.
This will mo.ke five of the seven
townships in the county which will
have sood roads.
"Yes," said the reformed cannibal
chief, "I used to eat every missionary
that came out here."
"That was before you got religion,
eh?" queried the new missionary. '
"No, but before I got indigestion."
—Catholic Standard and Times.
Man KiUed
At Spencer
In Head-on Collision at
North End of Spencer
Yards T. L. Royal was
so Badly Injured, Died
Short Time After.
Charlotte News. April 23d.
Mr. T. L. Royal, of Greensboro, was
killed at Spencer Tuesday morning in a
head-on collision between a wreck
ing train, southbound, running as sec
ond section of No. 29 and a north
bound freight No. 22.
The accident occurred about 5
o'clock at the north end of the
I Spencer yai^ls.
j Mr. Royal was fireman on the freight.
Besides internal injuries his legs
were mashed from the knee to the
ankle. He was removed from the cab
as quickly as possible and hurried
to the Whitehead-Stokes Sanitarium
where he died two hours later.
The freight train was in charge of
Conductor Shubert Moore and Engi
neer Thurman Holt and the wrecking
train was in charge of Charles Frank
lin, conductor, and William Roach,
' engineer.
No cause for the accident has been
given out here by the Southern offi
cials.
As the collision occurred in the
yards the trains were running slow.
The engines of both the freight
and wrecking train were bauly dam
aged, though neither left the track,
and for this reason the line was not
blocked.
Mr. Royal was 23 years old and
was single. He had been employed
by the road about a year.
Steamer Arcadia With
Crew of 16 is Lost
Pentwater, Mich., April 23. —The
steamer Arcadia has been lost off this
port with a crew of 16 men.
BIG LUMBER MILL BURNED.
Largest Lumber Mill on Coast Burned.
Loss Nearly $500,000.
Seattle, April 23. —Fire destroyed
the Port Blakeley Lumber Mill, the
largest on ths coast.
The loss is estimated at between
$300,000 and SGOO,OOO.
1 '
THE BEST JOB PRINTING OP
ALL KINDS AT THIS OFFICE.
i The Four C's Company
Sustains Estimated Loss
of $25,000 in the Col
lapse oj Huge Brick
Structure.
Officials Think Rain Dam
pened and Thus Weak
ened the Walls. No
Workmen in the House
at The Time.
Charlotte News. April 23d.
Accompanied by a crash that sound
ed for many blocks, the new power
bouse of the Charlotte Consolidated
Construction Company, in process of
erection at Dilworth, collapsed last
night at 7 o'clock, carrying total de
struction to the splentyd edifice and
entailing an approximate loss of ?25,-
000 to the company. The wreck is
complete in every particular. Only
the two end walls of the building re
main even partially intact, and these
will probably have to be torn away
in the process of re-construction.
Luckily because of rain no workmen
v/ere in the building, else there would
have been sad loss of life.
The cause assigned by the com
pany for the wreck is the fact that
the new concrete roofing had just
teen placed- Saturday afternoon,
forty pounds to the square, or a total
of ICB tons. The heavy rain of yes
terday is said to have added to the
cause of destruction. The theory of
the company is that the rain increas
ed the weight of the roofing, and be
cause of the fact that the cornice
work remain unfinished, trickled
through the walls, softened the mor
tar and brick compound and thus be
came the direct cause of the col
lapse.
Contractors who were heard talking
of the affair 1 on the scene this morn
ing estimate that the cause is as
signable more especially to the fact
>hat tbr, waV.s wera totally un&ble to
. support the massive weight that was
placed upon them. The large number
of windows and doors, detracted from
the solidity of the brick wall and
when the heavy roofing was placed,
the 25-ton crane adjusted, the build
ing over-topped, making the destruc
tion complete.
The building was 40x160 feet, sin
gle-story, with the interior lined with
enameled brick, costing about $35
per thousand. Steel girders support
ed the roof, meeting in the center
with their bases resting on the east
ern and western ends of the building.
This architecture placed the entire
weight of the roof on the girders.
The loss falls "heavily on the Four
C's Company. Its oflicials were hav
ing the work done by their own ar
chitects and contractors, and the
entire destruction must be borne by
them. They had worked faithfully
to complete the building and had just
reached the stage of operations
where the machinery could be placed.
For this purpose the large crane
across one end of the building had
been lifted and the work of installa
tion was to begin in a few days.
When the forces reached the scene
this morning they found a large
tumbled mass of brick, iron, steel
and wood , all a total wreck. Only
a small per cent of the brick can be
used again, and even the steel gird
ers are so twisted and bent that
considerable work will be required
before they can be fitted for service
again. The large crane can possibly
be utilized without any great amount
of repair.
The working force of the company
were at the building at an early
hour this morning, going about the
job of tearing away the rubbish with
a look of dire discouragement. All the
efforts of months have been wasted
and lay in ruins. There was nothing
to tell of their labor but two partially
remaining end walls, and one great
mass of wreckage.
The building will be replaced just
as rapidly as possible. The work of
clearing up the debris will require
weeks. After that time the construc
tion of the building will begin from
the ground up.
Machinery, which was to have been
placed this week, had been hauled to
the building and was placed on all
sides just outside. This is therefore
saved. The big crane which contribut
ed in the cause of the accident had
been lifted to raise the machinery to
place.
Reichstag Will Assent.
Berlin, April 23. —Now that the eco
nomic committee which acts in an ad
visory capacity to the government in
tariff matters, has accepted the provi
sional arrangement with the United
States Government the circles antici
pate the Reichstag will readily as
sent to the step taken.
President To Jamestown.
Washington, D. C., April 23. —The
President will leave here at two
o'clock Thursday on the Mayflower
for the Jamestown Exposition. Ac
companying him will be Secretary Loeb
I and several of the President's chil
dren and perhaps some other gnesta.