North Carolina Newspapers

3 r-i -v,:''-3 NO. 8. VOL. IV fir V l.- $ TASK HEEL TOTIC& ' 6 Items Gathered from Aff Sections of the State E3 . Bflrou Laid br m. . .High f Point,. Special Word from Troy tells of much excitement in that 'hitherto quiet town. The Dur ham and Charleston railroad, which has been in construction since the early sixties) took on new life Tues day night and put on an extra force f sever) hundred men. building its line of road alongside that., of the Aberdeen ft Asheboro, on the latter right-of-way, . and- when the-.- people awoke Tuesday morning a "new rail- i ad had been born and was right up in town near the Aberdeen & Ashe- dorb's Railroad station. This -thoroughly aroused this road and by . 10 o'clock this morning the. road had . train load of laborers on their way to Troy to tear up the tracks of the Durham & Charleston road, which "had infringed on its right-of-way. ' Another special train soon left Biscoe -with Vice President Page, of the Ab erdeen & Asheboro road, and John X, Tull, of the Durham & Charleston road, was a!o rushed to the scene. "President Henry A. Page, of the Aberdeen & Asheboro road, is in di Tect communication with Troy and .' interesting developments are awaited. , Negro Boy Meets Horrible Death. ' Charlotte, Special. Death in its most fearsome form befell Rex Me- v "Cree, a colored boy about 14 years of aee. who workson Mr. Mot Bussell's 'farm, 6 miles north of the city Wed nesday- afternoon. The boy had been working in the field and bad stalled "borne, riding his mule. At some point -along the way, the animal became frightened, threw the boy, whose ' .leg caught in a dangling trace chain. mI then lushed "down the road in the "' -direction of Mr. Busseli's. When the . mule pulled up in the yard, the boy --was still hanging on, although life Sras fast ebbing away. He lived but '7 ' few minutes after the house was Teached. Was Drowned ia Georgia. ' Winston-Salem, SpeeiaL Mr. La ther B. Meyers, division salesman for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com-" pany, with headquarters at Macon, Ga.; was drowned in a lake near Ma- eon while he and three others were in swimming. It seems Xrom the ad vices received here that Mr. Meyers went with a party .of. .friends .on a picnic expendition near Macon. About noon he and Mr.' Robert Wil lingham and . two others, whose names were not' secured, decided to go in swimming in a small lake near the pienie grounds.- Soon after going into the water, Mr. Meyers complain ed of the water being too cold , and said he must get out, at the same time moving toward the bank. Mr. Wil lingham looked up and noticed that Mr.' Meyers had gone under the wa ter. He hastened to the rescue of his KOuIINATE JUDGE HARMON Democrats Bold a' Tumultuous Meet ing, in Which Intense Factional --Fueling Soldi 8way. ;'.-.' ''."'. ;'' Columbus, Cs I SpeeiaL In a t'u mnltneus convention, characterized by the intense . factional feeling Democrats of OhioWednesday nomi nated Judson Harmon, of Cincinnati, formerly Attorney General of 'the United States tinder President Cleve land, for Governor, and endorsed Wil liam J. Bryan and " instructed . the Ohio delegates to the national con vention to vote for him f of President. A complete State ticket wasjiqminat ed,' former Gov. James E. Campbell, of Butler county, was endorsed for the United States-' Senate and dele- CHILD LABORr EVIL Discussed in Connection With .CofiMitsory.Educetioa . MANY FORCEFUL OPINIONS GtYtN Three" Speakers From hjsoutli Champion th Cause of Compulsory Education and Attack . the Eanloy ment of Children ia ' hrf-Ootten "'. Mills. ' : 7-:' ' .: '. i'.- Richmond, Va., SpeleiaT. Dealing with" the world wide topitf of children, their education, their ..training and the evil of drivrne them under steam gates' and alternates at' large to tEe' I pressure at. the .wheel when their n&uonai convention were seieeieo. i -:, 3 vj;a v were David' L. Eos-well, of Kent, was nomi nated for Lieutenant Govenor. The following were elected dele gates and alternates at large to the national convention: Delegates at large, Tom L. John son, of Cleveland; W. S. Thomas, Springfield; E. W. Hanley, Dayton, and Matthew R. Denver, Wilmington Alternates at large, H. T. Sutton, friend, but was too late to be of any J Zanesville ; Isaac R. Sherwood, To- serviee. In attempting to rescue ms friend, Mr. Willingham came near losing his own life and for some time it was feared that he would not re cover. A search for the body of Mr. Meyers was begun immediately and in about two b.ours it was brought to the surface. It was turned over to an undertaker and prepared far burial. Fatal Accident in Durham. Durham, Special. Clinton M Orphanage Site Selected. Winston-Salem,. Special, The or phanage committee of the Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church met here last week to select a site . for the institution and to outline plans for the erection of the bnildings at the earliest pos Bible moment. . The George P. Dwire farm, lust west of the city, contain inar 165 acres, was accepted over the Mickey and R. J. Reynolds farms, which were considered. The price agred upon is $100 an acre. The tract of. land is a beautiful one and the selection is considered a good one. . The majn building will cost be tween $18,000 and $25,000. This and the superintendent's home will be ledo; G. N. Saltzfiarber, Van Wert, and John E. Monnot, Canton. National issues were left to the Denver convention and the platform adopted dealt solely with State ques tions, attacking the administration of various Republican State officers and endorsing especially the initiative and referendum in State and local legislation and the taxation of. fran chises. , Alabama Endorses Taft. Birmingham, Ala,, Special. The State convention here Wednesday of the Thompson or administration wing of the Republican party was all for Taft. Strong resolutions endorsing his candidacy for the presidency and commending the national administra tion were adopted and the delegates to the national convention were . in structed to cast their -votes at Chica go for the Secretary of War. The de legates elected were: J. O. Thompson, Birmingham; W..R. Fairley, .Pratt City; F. H. Lathrop, Birmingham; N. H. Alexander, (colored) Montgomery, THE BLUE AMD GRAY Meet at Salisbury, N. C, and Unve3 Monument TO MEMORY OF MAIKFS DEAD Beautiful Monument bf-Oray Granite Dedicated to ths Heroes Who Gays Up Their LiTs For the Union in Salisbury Prison. MILLION D OLLAR FIRE I Oty of Atlanta Suffers Sew - Property Loss ENTIRE BLOCK IS SWEPT AWAY tofoooy MINCS MATTERS OF INTEREST i ' Fin Which Started Early Friday Horning Destroys Two Blocks in tha Heart of Atlanta. N The House added to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bilL.. Publishers will testify before the) Paper Trust inquirers. The national conference of Jewisb, Atlanta, Ga., Special. One million I Charities began in Richmond. to stand the terrible punishment and strain, the general session of the na tional conference of charities and cor rection- at St. faut's enureb arous ed the public to the importance of more adequate laws to protect them from the evils of factory work. Three speakers, natives and residents of the South, first championed the eauso of eompulsory education, and then at tacked the employment bf children in cotton mils, where they helped to give leisure and comfort to lazy and worthless fathers. The : broad "state ment was made that illiteracy would disappear from the South if these young people could be dragged from spindle and loom and turned over to the tender care of teachers. Dr. A. J. MeKelway, of Atlanta, assistant secretary of the national child labor committee, who discussed "Child Labor and Citizenship," de clared that there was a time when a declaration of independence was nec essary, but that the day had come when a declaration of dependence by the children of America was needed. Prof. W. H. Hand,. of the Univer sity of South Carolina, and Miss Jean Gordon, factory inspector of New Orleans, pointed out "the imperative demand for compulsory,- education, while Miss Jane Addams, of Hull bouse, Chicago, urged a modification of the school by whick, the child should be taught to dominate his ma chine of labor and impressed with the relation of his studies to the work Salisbury, N. CL, Special With elaborate ceremony, marked by a dig. nity and solemnity befitting the oc casion, the State of Maine, through her official . representatives, unveiled a stately shaft to the memory of the 203 soldiers who died in Salisbury prison during the Civil war Throughout the exercises there was a tender note of sympathy -for the heroic dead who lie in the trenches of this beautiful city of the dead, and every speaker voiced in words in spired by deep-founded patriotism tribute as eloquent as if it had been delivered upon those who fell in the thickest of the fray. That they had sacrificed their lives in prison was but the fortune of war, and their sac rfice was as glorious, for "Ther fittest place where man can ' die Is where he dies for man." fciggsbeVone of the linemen for ln-j" flrat nd then other buildings terVtate Telephone and TelegraphJ P latr; Th a members of Company, is in the Watts hospital as1 ft" """J1 c5mm.i"ws V? ev' i akI Dr.-tJ. H. Detwildcr. of Greensboro. most unusual and will probably be':"0 eJ" S' K?? , fatal in its results. Mr. Rig4bee Sfft"khlLvJ' A- Glenn, of Charlotte; i was riding on a wagon loaded withinauer P uoneoro. poles and with tools. Among the! - tools was a "digger's bur" and one! Hebrew Convention Adjourns. nd of this dropped from the wagon, j Wilmington, Special. District cansing the' end to catch in the Grand Lodge No. 5, Independent Or arth and hold it more or less flrm,'der B'Nal B'Rith adjourned its thir ' while the other end came up and ty-fourth anmlal convention here last caught Mr. Riggsbee. This bar oftWeek to meet in Savvannah, Ga., the ; steel, about one inch in diameter , third Monday in March, 1909. at . entered the body of Mr. Rijrgsbee which time the grand lodge will go -ebout seven inches. The bar of steel to Atlanta to attend the twentieth ntered the lower stomach and eame anniversary exercises of the Hebrew near, coming through tho walls of Orphans' Home there. OflicerB eleet- tne Stomach the print Of the digger , e.l . President. Henrv R. Tlnt- Alternateff: Byron Trammel, Dothan ; I which he would later perform. H. F. Oven, Montgomery; Jere Mur-1 The interdependence of J,he varying phy, H.untsvilje; Dr. G.. Mason, hemerwas--Bd clearly impressed upon icoiorea, uirmingnam. Ane electors the audience that there was a touch chosen were I. Pollak, Cullman, and James W. Lee Birmingham. bar being lost under the skin in his side. Given Fifteen Tears. " Winston-Salem, Special. Hardin Hoore, colored, who s and instant ly killed William Christopher, a . young white farmer, at Pine Hall on Christmas Day last, will have to ' verve a term of fifteen years in the State penitentiary for his crime.- The - ease was disposed of in Stokes Su jerior Court at Danbury Thursday afternoon, counsel for the defendant agreeing to a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, which was sccepted by tho counsel for the State. The presiding judge then sentenced the negro Jo. a term of fif teen years. The case did not reach. . the jury. scler. Richmond, Va.; first vice presi dent,Montague Triest, Charleston ; second vice president, Leonard Haas, Atlanta. - Ga. ; secretary, Joseph L. Levy, Richmond, Va.; treasurer, A. Goodman,' Baltimore; Sergeant at arms, M. W. Jacobi, Wilmington. The Paper Trust Investigation. Good progress Was made before the special committee investigating the control of prices of white print paper by the paper trust. Many telegrams and letters from publishers in all sections of the eountry were placed in evidence, all going to show that prices have bsen arbitrarily advan ced, and that if the duty should be removed a fall in price of $6.00 or more per ton would result. Many newspapers men have expressed .a willingness to go to Washington and testify. The committee will ad journ to Palmers Falls, New York, to investigate the cost of manufactur ing paper. Pretty South Carolina Girl Sues a Railroad. Spartanburg, S. C, Special. Miss r Salie Bragg, a pretty young lady . of Campobello, this county, has com menced an action against the Charles ton & Western Carolina : road for damages in the sum of $50,000, alleg ing that while -she was a passenger on one of the trains of the defendant she was rrrossly insulted by the con ductor of the train. The complaint is now being prepared by I. A. Phif er, of human interest throughout the appeal and with more definite un derstanding of conditions as they exist today. Though deploring the child labor evil, there was a tone of optimism in the addresses, for it was shown that good and substantial re sults had been accomplished by the enactment of laws to limit the age at which the young might be employed in factory and mine. - Confederate Memorial Day. Charlotte, N. C, Special. Sunday being Confederate Memorial day throughout the South, the occasion was observed by decorating the graves in the tcemetery and by appropriate I exercises fitting tothe day. From all Southern centers of population came reports of befitting ceremonies in honor of both Confederate and Fed eral dead. Full five thousand people, most of them men and women who had been true to the Confederacy, looked upon the exercises and entered into the spirit of a momentous occasion ap plauding earnestly and sincerely this tribute of a great State to the men who died that the Union might live. Crowded into the speakers' stand were the men and women who had traveled so far to do honor to their countrymen; flecking the hillsides in every direction, as far as the eye could reach, were sympathetic thous ands who joined heart and soul in this tribute to the brave; -who realiz ed that "No more shall the war cry sever Or the "winding rivers be red.'A And over yonder, hard by the trenches stood the "thin gray line," with tear-dimmed eyes. It was a scene never to be forgot ten by those privileged to witness it. JNever was this hallowed spot more beautiful with its carpet of green, shaded by the sorrowful willows, dot ted with its thousands of head-stones, mute tribute to those wrapped in eternal slumber, for here On fame's eternal camping ground I heir silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round Ibe bivouac of the dead. and a quarter is the loss conserva tively estimated on a fire which started at 3:30 o'clock JPriday morn ing ; and which - swept " two .blocks of Atlanta business proprety. How the fire started is a mystery. It was discovered, in the building oc cupied by the ' Schlessineer-Mever I Company, bakery. From there it ran 1 ii a? . i iw wy in mil directions until it (track the Terminal Hotel, one of the largest in the city, and gutted that. During the early morning hours ev ery one in the Terminal Hotel and in aumerousother smaller hotels in the district had warning. There was no loss of life and no injuries. The insurance on the property de- itroyed is placed by insurance men at $750,000. One of the heaviest losers is S. M. Inman, of Atlanta, who owned the entire block, bounded by Forsyth, Mitchell and Nelson streets and Mad ison avenue, and in which were lo cated the Schlessinger-Meyer Com pany, Branch B bf the city postoffice, the Liquid Carbonic - Company, a branch of Central Trust and Banking Company, ' and many - smaller con cerns. The fire was discovered in the ele vator shaft of the Schlessinger Build ing and is supposed to have originat ed from crossed wires running to the motor which operated the elevator. By the time the firemen, had arrived the flames had broken throucrh the A. & M. Commencement. . Raleigh, Special. Invitations have been issued to the' 16th annual com mencement of the North Carolina College of Agriculture & Mechanical Arts May 24th to 27th. The bacca laureate sermon will be preached, by Rev. Dr. George W. McDaniel of Richmond, Va.; the alumni address will be delivered by Mr A. E. Escott, " ,s ff- .lod x -iJc lit 7 'i attorney for the plaintiff, and it is of the class of 1906, and the annual address will be made bv Dr. Paul B. Barringer, of Blacksbnrg, Va. Monument to Pocahontas. Washington, Special A monument to Pocahontas is to be erected at Jamestown, Va., according to a bill reported from the committee on com merce by Senator Daniel and passed by the Senate. The measure appro priates $50,000 for the memorial pro vided an equal amount is supplied by the Pocahontas -' Memorial Associa tion. me monument is to comme morate the first permanent settle- - f unaersiooa tnat tne allegations wui th(. Wcstern hem;snhf.r thmcH , intervention of the Indian maid. be of a" highly, sensational nature. A new grand jury to investigate the Ice Trust has been granted. The town, of Fredricksburg. Vir- -rinia voted out saloons in an election aeld Tuesday. Governor Johnson announced he would run as head of. the ticket only, refusing to accept the Vice-Presi-iency. The present Congress has broken all records by passing bills for over., a billion dollars. The convention of the St. Vipcent de Paul Society began in Richmond . , with a mass at St. Peter's Cathedral. Rev. Dr. J. S. Foster; of Petersburg was called to the pastorate of tho First Presbyterian Church' of New Orleans. Ed. Callahan, Hargis' feud partner, was probably fatally wounded by his brother-in-law, who was in turn kill ed by Callahan's son. Harry K. Thaw is temporarily out of Matteawan Asylum, pending tho hearing of his case. Union Pacific stockholders will be asked to ratify an issue of $100,000, 000 bond?; to cover improvements and other financial needs. The Ameican fleet reached San Francisco Wednesday and was greet ed with a magnificent welcome by the citizens and thousands of visitors who aurned out to honor the arrival. Six railroads entering Chicago were roof of this building, and owing to a fined $13,150 for violatting the 23- igui. water pressure, was impos- i nour cauie law. i Verdict Set Aside. Raleigh, Special. On the " ground .that it was against the weight of the evidence and excessive. Judge Biggs has set. aside the -verdict of $3,000 awarded Mrs. Virginia . G. . Eatman, for the death "of her husband. The Heath was alleged to be due to negli gence on the part of: the Southern and North Carolina Railroads. - ' ' Cutting Affray in Winston-Salem. - ' WnstonSiem, Special. As a re suit bf a fight in ia Greek restaurant here, Carlos Papas, a young Greek, is in a hospital jvith seven severe knife wounds' and at the point of death. The assaalt was ' mado .-.by Mack Erwin, colored, who is '-"tinder rrcrt.. A crowd of negroes became disorderly Jn the -restaurant and the Greeks threw them out. . This led to a fht and Papas, while acting as a peacemaker, -' was .. . stabbed. ... The Greeks closed the restaurant out of sorrow for Papas. y,- - V Goldsborb School Bond. Purchased Georglai1 Charged With Wjfe Mnrde, at' 118. . Fort Gaines, Ga., Special. Herbert Goldsboro,' Special. At 12 o'clock Thursday sealed . bids for the pur chase -of the Goldsborb High School bonds were opened.. ' The bonds were for $20,000 and were for 20 years, bearing 6 per eent. They were award ed to Seasong & Mayor of Cincinnati, for fraetion over 110.- . , "Dead Body Ferai -Buried. "Vs, PpemaL Early :,, Tuesday tne JUiIy f JInsa Cameron " mnX buried near Ormoodsville, i county, the throat -Tut 'and ! mil and bruises on the per irj brutar treatment. Ctroeg ar.tiHl evidene'e warranted , r I Ki'.l Taylorfwho i now . ' ' Incorporation. . Raleigh, Special The Goose Grease Company, of Greensboro, with $100, 000 total authorized and $5,000 Bub- scribed capital stock, Was chartered last week. , The incorporators ' are: R. T. Rice.W. R. Land and B. H. Merrimon.r'''' v- '.-' - r:- ' Tv",. ? Btate Board of Xaminers. -Raleiehi Special. The State Board of Examiners met- in the office of the State Superintendent and graded the papers of tho teachers who stood the examination jn'Avrii for high, school eertiflcates. r.-v- - - Jim Frady-is Convicted. ? " AsheviHa, ": Speciat-rJim t Jrady, charged with -the raurderjof Partis Sumner : in Limestone: tosrnslup .sev eral weeks ajo, was found guilty? of murder :in the second; degree : and given four years and six months on the eonnty chs:- -ang. J ne - dereU' !.irt'-r'?adrl .' ? Robinson was arrested charged .with murdering his wife and throwing her body into the river." It i9 alleged that on the night of A'sril 29th, Rob- Big Fire Hr Detroit v Detroit, Mich., Special. Fire Sun day .-damaged the three; upper floors of the six-stpry department store of Goldberg Bros., on Woodward avenue causing a loss of $150,00, on which 1UOUU WIJU Iiau uccu uiuiaiuXi Uiicuiii - a, rr nnn mi . his wife, then carried her body to the w, -w" ZhXL w KntX a r-l,.ff-i,i, lower floors, which were not burned, bridtre crc ing the ' Chattahoochee ijver and threw it into the water. were - flooded with water," heavy damage there." ; . causing Three Hundred. Afghans Killed. London By Cable. Three hundred Afghans were killed and many . more wounded Jn Sunday 's and Mondav a fighting wih General .Sir James Wil eock's British force at .the vwest-en trance to the Kyber Pass; aceordmg to the official -report. ; . f ; - . .. I jtife Had Lost its Charms.- -1" Richmond, Special.--Justus Flav- ef Wright Gatch, a salesman for the r American Seating "Company, of Chicago-, . committed .suicide in his apart ments: on West Franklin street,; as ;a result of despondeney due to business Kew Jsrsey Snsiaer' Hotel Burned. reverses. ; The -man,; who was 53 years BerBardsville, N. J.. SpeciaL Sotn ereet Inn, one of the most beautiful summer hotels in Northern New Jer of age, fired ; a bullet ; into ;his own temple - while sittin? npriebt :'in ; a sey. - was burned Wednesday; i Thel - w.. fire is believed . to have' been started j by an incendiary. . The loss u a quar tet of a, million.'-;' v'l f&6ilvT ladlctedl'i-S: Chattanooga, '.Tenn :SpeeiaL Th I Federal -grand jury ha returned ln- dictments on five eounts against ;-W, J. Oliver, candidate for national com: miiteeman from Tennessee, jchargins him with violating the' federal S-hom law. ' The charges recite that 'OuveT hs.IJr.rt'y retired laborers o'nth him. - The lifeless body of the man was- discovered by Jiis young . daught er; Ida, - who heard the report , of the revolver.i-.: The formal ceremonies of the day began with the parade to the Nation al Cemetery, which formed in front of the Empire Hotel and under com mand of Adjutant General T. R. Rob ertson proceeded through the princi pal streets of the city and thence to the cemetery. The parade was head ed by the Forst Hill Band and the Rowan Rifles, and then came a de tachment of Confederate veterans on foot and the ladies, and gentlemen of the Maine party and the speakers of the day in carriages. The visitors and the State officials occupied seats in the band stand and when the exercises began at 2 o'clock there was not 'standing room as far as the ey could see from this post of vantage. Hon. Thomas G. Libby, State eourcilloT, acted as master of ceremonies and, following a prayer by Hon. W. Scott Libby, introduced Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes, who was present as the personal rep resentative of Governor Glenn. V ; Secretary Grimes -apologized for the absence of the. Governor' stating that imporiaht engagements kept him away.-cThen, in an address of consid erable length he extended the greet ings of the State of North Carolina to the visitors from " the Pine Tree State. . . " -.;:-',: ; In happy contrast was the response on behalf of the State of Maine, by HoC Thurston 8. Burns, of West- brook, McL,- and this felicitous strain, spoken with' an earnestness and en thusiasm that netrayed the sincerity "underlying it,- was re-echoed and em phasized by Mayor Boyden. - in i ex tending a' welcome tb the City of Sal- uoury ana lit tne response -Dy non. Leroy F. Pike, of Cornish, Me. Mayoi uoyden. never, made a happier speech in his life and it was applauded:, to the. ocho..";He voiced the welcome of alt Salisbury and. all North Carolina. The occasion was one : lonar to . be re- jnemberfxL and -win be largely helpful in- ementrog the friendship between the North and . .the south. sioie to cnecjt tneir progress, in a short time this structure was mple tely gutted and the fire was eating its way through to Station B of the At lanta postoffice, where mails received from the terminal station, just across the square, are distributed. The employes of the postoffice. however, by quick work managed to save all the mail and most of the equipment. Jumping across Mitchell street the flames made short work of the Terminal HofeL" "the Terminal Annex, Child's Cafe and Hotel, and Child's Annex, at which point the nremen succeeded in checking the on slaught on the north side of Mitchell street. On the south side, however. the flames, continued to sweep every thing in their path until Forsyth street was reached, gutting the build ings occupied by McClure's Ten-Cent Store, the branch bank of the Central Banking and Trust Company, the Paragon Store, and the Liquid Car bonic Company. The Schlessinger Building extended half a block on Nelson street an from it the flames soon jumped to : numerous small storehouses on Forsyth street, de stroying the places occupied by Al verson Bros', Grocery Company, the Binders Frame' Manufacturing Com pany, and the Walker Cooley Fur niture Company. A strong west wind Growers in the Ohio hurley tobacco district are said to be in terror of Night Riders. H. H. Rogers and James Stillman answers in the Government rail road merger suit denying the alle gations. - Irwin A. Lewis was sentenced in West Chester, Pa,, to hang for the murder of his stepdaughter. Senator Raynor asked for an in quiry for Col. William F. Stewart, the exiled artilleryman, like the Schley case. Taft has 365 delegates and seems to be in sight of the nomination. Bryan is far in the lead in the Demo cratic race. Corporaitons Commissioner Smith arraingns the New York Cotton Ex change for its method of "fixed dif ferences" in cotton speculation. Col. William F. Stewart is said to have repeatedly asked for a fair court of inquiry, but has been re fused. Senator Raynor has taken up his case. The new Southern Methodist Church at Covington was dedicated. Wright Bros., will try their new flying machine at Nag's Head this week. Charged with burning the trestle fanned the flames and scattered over the Big Bayou, the property of burning embers over the whole bus- the Pensacola Electric Company iness section of the city and threat- President G. C. McCain Henry Fil- ening for a time to cause even great- lingim and John Malone, of the er loss. Amalgamated Association of Street The firemen had many narrow es- Railway Employes, were arrested on capes from falling walk, but.no in- warrants issued by the county cir- Juries of a serious nature are re- enit court." ported. At a meeting of the stockholders . The guests .from the hotels and of the Union Pacific Railway at rooming houses in the burned section Succeeded in saving-most of their ef fects, having-been warned in time to which 76 per cent, of the stock wa represented, the directors were au thorized to issue $100,000,000 in remove their trunks which were piled bonds for improvement of the system on the plaza in the front of the ter- and for the purchase of the Kansas minaj station, from which point their and" Western and Topeka" and Noth- owners and many early risers watch- western roads.. ed the progress of the fire. Tank steamer Still on Sandbar. -New;T$ravH steamer Washtenaw ;was sulr "tipon the sandbar-off Monmouth, N.. J. where she ' struck during a fog Fri day, though efforts to free' her .were continued. There! was a fresh -breeze . Boy of Sixteen Murders Four. ' New: . York,- Special An Italian boy, named Nicolli, whose last name is unknown to . the. poliee,' 16 years old, cut the throat . of a woman and three men and then hacked the bodies to pieces in-a barbershop ' near the Brooklyn Bridge Terminal. : The boy ran away with the bloody razor and is still at large. - . feQSoldierBxglar;Arrested.fe' Ttnvta, Tla4peeinl-?r'iates George Roberts -and Jospeh Henrjr, f tho Ulh s. company ... coast artillery, stationed at Fort Dade, were brought to this city and lodged in jail. ; Tb r men broke Into the: ptwtof3c Vaui post exchar at the fprt and! took "r: and.-contents anil The steamer Trenton sank at tht -warf at Alexandria and the 40 pas -sengers had to swim for their, lives. The baby son of Murray Posey, oi Brooklyn, N. Y- was drowned. With their , bodies badly mangled by a train - Walter Montgomery and Charles Brown, colored, were iounc dead beside a main line of the Sou thern Railway tracks at the Yadkii river, two miles north of - Spencer, early Tuesday morning. " - Miss vf Genevieve L Eaton inffipee f rom the late Senator - Camden 's an tomobile - - at . Parkersburg and , ma) die. siS i:;;r,4BS J-'fe-.f Wife-?" Atlanta is wrestling with the prob Icm of - allowing, regulating or. pro -hibitinsr the sale of a new drink .call' - ed "near beer,'? :wbich has attained to ; wonderfur popnlanty since tns State: went .drylast January. MiSenator Joseph W Bailey; was sn I cessful - in the ; Texas primary; by i majority of. about. 25,000. . . Tho". Now . Avbline . Hotel, . For . After Matrimonial Agents. ;;Chicago, J Specialv-le velationS: Tin eonnectfon with jthe- "House of Hor rbrsj'f operated at LaPorte by Mrs. Guiness 'caused United State Dutrict Attorney' Sims to issue orders for the arrest of. "every manager of. any mat rimonial burean operatini ia the Chir eagotrcfcIsaae iA. tWarn, said to be a" wealthy proprietor bf an af - nnity onreau,M was the flrst to be ar rested. 'He was taken on the cbarsre of - using - the ;mait to defraod ia the iWayne, Ind'was destrjoyed" by Art operation .or the . bureau under the I and a dozen ,or more persons ;ioar , n4mo of Kate tWahi wtfe. j Excitement at EaniStonSSi S: Hamilton, Special. Tobacco frow era -are ia he?t of excitement. A land of men, cdared ty the 'growers tb be tut-ridsrs, visitel tl!a eounty daring the: t'jht. Followr:'; - their rlsit a Uj tolacco shed ti six thons- t " I rocvi'ti t:I if . i . ... t. ft'M' also, wtra c c;:r3y their live. - Thii threatened ; trolley ' strike ii- Cleveland, was postponed by an off a," btarhitration.3i,3KS-;Sl3 , .r : Six: persona lost tiheir ' lives ast four others were .erioualy injured . in a tenement house fire of cy1- ions, origin at . Williamsbu?sr, N.. -'lSAWKUaia.7i-Tliaw,:; mother tt Harry Xl?'. tsr til 'wsiti t" t 2- :' yk:. " rn" 1 h i i:,:i cbniT'i w. t wc-rx rt tar to TrA 15 Yonri the : i i 1 ---3 c ' ii tl; r'rtT 'Cct f 1 a r?oderf.9 t r-1 t'.j