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7 - VOL. XII. SALISBURY.. N: C. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1899. NU. tG. r. v. v If- 2 L.. v -1- I- 1 '1. SEYENTEEX .FE3ULE ,PATIE!TTS ARE BURNED TO DEATH. TWENTY-THREE LIVES ARE SAVED Thermometer Regl.tered Twenty.Two De grees Below Zero at Time of Hor ror fccenes Were Heartrending. The South Dakota insane asylum at Yankton was the scene of a holocaust Sunday which sent a shudder of hor ror through the community, and the' like of which has no parrilel in the state. . ,." '" . One of the cottages in the asylum grounds took fire in' the basement at 2 o clock a. m. and seventeen inmates I confined therein were incinerated be- fore help could reach m i th The names oi tnose missing are Boerse4 Julia Erickson, Ell Margaret Lynch, Josina O tenia Tennyson, Elizabeth Stolpe, Mrs. Kampani, Maggie Fly nn, Ln&na Gossage, Adelina Hurley, Chrfifrtta Johnston, Jennie Kronig, Lasia Keene, Caroline Lindberg, Katie Pla vitz, Gainis Swanson. The cottage was intended for laun dry purposes, but owing to the trowd- J ea conamon oi vue main uuuuiug forty of the female patient? were housed within its walls. The exact cause of the fire is not known, except that it originated in the dry room of the laundry. " The fighting of the fire was greatly hindered by loss of power." The burned cottage stands some 300 feet in the rear of the main building; the water tank, which is for fire protec tion, stauding'lOO feet in the rear o! the cottage. The steam pipes use for pnmpiug runs from the boiler room of the main cottage through the cot tage for heating and then to the arte sian well or tank. The intense heat in the burning building caused the pipes to burst shortly after the fight ing of the fire began, thus leaving them without power and depending entirely npon direct presnure from the tank,-, which was in no way sufficient to qnench the fierce flames. Two jtrfansof water were thrown on the building but did little good. . thermometer standing at 22 ah below zero, it was a heart- reudiug sight to. witness those escap ing coming down the flight of stairs in their night clothing and bare feet into the bitter cold, and had it not been for the nearness of shelter the Buffering and probable loss of life from freezing "would have been terri ble1. - . Fifty-two persons were in the burn ing building, forty patients and twelve females attendants. The attendants escaped, as did the others who were saved, with none of their personal ef fects,:many losing all that they pos sessed. -' COLD IX NEW ORLEANS. leanest Temperature . Recorded In Two Hundred Years. A New Orleans special says: The worst blizzard ever recorded in New Orleans since the occupation of Louis iana by the French, exactly two cen taries ago. struck southern Louisiana about midnight Saturday night. It began with sieet, followed by snow to the depth of two inches, being the first snow for four years. At 7 o'clock Sunday morning the thermometer had fallen to 17 degrees, within 2 degrees of the coldest weather ever known there. The - street cars were tied up by the cold and snow and the railroad trains got in from four to six hours late. They came laden with carnival visitors, who found it no easy matter to get around town. By night the temperature had fallen to 1-3 degrees and a further fall to 8 degrees, or 7 degrees below the lowest on record was predicted. The cold coming in a community where so little provision was made for it, caused a great deal of suffering among the poorer classes,particularly the negroes. It will kill all the orange trees, and it is feared the old trees also will suf fer. ' The crop this year will probably be a total failure. It is impossible to determine the amount of damage done to the cane, but it is not believed to be serious. BIG NEW I0UK BLAZE. Thirteen Big Buildings Barn and S700, 'I 000 Was the Loss Entailed. Thursday fire swept through the block of buildings opposite Battery park; bounded by Front, Whitehall and Moore streets, New York City, and destroyed thirteen buildings, entailing a loss of about $700,000. One fireman, Bernard Clair, of the fireboat Van Wyck, was overcome' in one of the buildings, and when brought down a ladder slipped from the arms of hia comrade and fell to the ground, fracturing his skull. Several other firemen were overcome by smoke and cold, and a corps of ambulance sur geons were kept bus.y. AGAINST BACON'S PROPOSITION. Senator Xavle Trill Oppoee tbo Georgian's ' ' Resolution. A Washington dispatch says: The supporters of the peace treaty were in conference among themselves more or less of the time Thursday as to whether they should agree to accept the Uacon resolution as a condition precedent to the ratification of the treaty. Senator Davis, in charge of the bill. has intimated to hia friends that he would) not agree to the passage of the resoiutjona. MAS em. : AAgusra afiokkjp) Ison. Mar COLD KILLS 5I3TE. Western Bnrean Book Show Loweit Tetbperature In Bf any Years. A , Chicago dispatch states that Thursday was the coldest day in that city in twenty-six years. The low mark in the .weather bureau's books, that of 24th, 1872, was but 2 degrees lower than the minimum of 21 degrees below zero, reached at 8 o'clock in the morning. : . . -. Nine deaths from freezing are re ported from Illinois and neighboring states. - i Some places on the lines of the Mil waukee road give out figures as low as 40 degrees below. . There are not ten miles of clear water between Milwau kee and Ludington. The weather bureau at Washington issued the following special bulletin Thursday: '. - . r Morning advices show that freezing temperature occurred in Florida Wed nesday night as far south as a line traced from a little south of Tampa to the, Atlantic coast just north of Jnpi- tof, Tampa sho ving a minimum tern- uJerature of 30 degrees and Jnpiter a minimum of 36 degrees. At Jackson ville a minimum of 28 degrees was reached. " ., These temperatures were very accu rately .forecasted Monday morning, wiiene wcaiher bureau at Wahing t?aTcxegraphed the following forecast and warn iug, which was distributed by . its .Florida stations to all fruit growing, agricultural and transporta tion interests that could be reached by telegraph, telephone and mail during Wednesday: ' ' "Temperature will fall to about 25 degrees tonight at Jacksonville and the line of freezing weather will ex tend as far south as Tampa. Temper ature will continue low Thursday and Thursday night and will moderate Friday." The temperature continues abnor mally low in all districts east of the Rocky, Mountains, the Dakotas, Min nesota and western Wisconsin, and the region to the northward being em braced within the area of low and the .temperature, where the readings range between 32 and 36 degrees below zer in the states named, and reached 50 degrees below at Minnedoea, Manitoba Zero temperature extends to a line raced from central Virginia ove Tennepsec, northern , Arkansas an1 southern Oklahoma, and at Cincinnati the low temperature record .has beei broken with a reading of 16 degree below zero, the lowest previous tem perature ever recorded by the weather bureau at that place being 12 below February 8th, 1895, and on January 1, 1886. - . . - ) . .. New York, 4 below; Washington, 7 below; Cincinnati, 16 below; Pitts burg, 10 below; Buffalo, 4 below; Chi cago, 20 below; Milwaukee, 20 below; Duluth, 32 below; St., Louis, ltf below; Kansas City, 20 below; Omaha, 24 bel owj uismarck, 36 below; Charles ton, 26 above; Atlanta, 28 above; Jacksonville, 28 above; Jnpiter, 34 above; Tampa, 30above; New Orleans, 28 above; Galveston, 28 above. , , WlLIilS L. Mooke, . s Chief of Weather Bureau. IN HORSOK'S INTEREST. AlabamA Cnnerti'mnn Introduces a Joint Resolution In House. A Washington dispatch says: Rep resentative Underwood, of Alabama, has introduced the following joint res olution "That in recognition of the extraor dinary heroism displaved by Rich- mond Pearson Hobson by running the Mcrrimad into the mouth of the har bor of Santiago, Cuba, on June 3d, 1898. aud dexterously sinking said vessel in the channel, the president is hereby authorized to transfer the said assistant nayal constructor, Richmond Pearson Hobson, from the construe tion corps to the line of the United States navy and to promote him to such position therein as, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, he may determine." NEW P0BT0 RICAN CABINET Named Br Henry 'Liberal Dissatisfied With Gorernor General's Work. A dispatch from San Juan, Porto Rico, savs: General Henry has ap pointed Francisco Acuna, independent liberal, now attorney of the supremo court, to be secretary of state; - Dr. LOii, libera!, nas oeen appointed sec retary of finance, and Federico Dege tan has been appointed secretary of the interior. , ; The liberals are dissatisfied with General Henry's change of policy. WILL REFUND WAR MOXET Furnished By Gdremors of States In Be . crultlns Soldiers. -- The senate committee agreed to re port the bill lntrodnced by Senator Fairbanks for the 'reimbursement of overnors of states for moneys ex pended in connection with the recent war with Spain. Thejbill is amendatory of the act of July 18th last and extends the provis ions of the act so as to include expen ditures made subsequent to July 8th and prior to August 12, 1898. ARMY OFFICERS FIGHT. Col. Colson Is Shot By lieutenant Scott at An Anniston, Ala., special says: The trouble that has been brewing for some time between Colonel David G. Colson and First Lieutenant E. D. Scott, of the Fourth Kentucky, culmi nated at a late hour Saturday night in a pitched battle, in which Colonel Colson was shot in the hip and Lieu tenant Scott and many others had nar row escapes. The encounter occurred in a restaurant conducted by Percy Ulnmead, about midnight. IL0I10 IM EMILY IIEI CAPTURED BY AMERICANS WITH OUT THE LOSS OF A MAN." GUNBOATS ASSISTED LAND FORCES Town Was Set Afire Bat Flames Were Ex tlng-nlshed Sharpshooters n arras Our Hen In the Trenches. A special from Manila says: The I Americans captured Hoilo Saturday. The United States gunboat Petrel arrived late Monday evening with dis patches from Brigadier General Mar cus P, Miller to Major General Otis, announcing that Iloilo had been taken by the combined "military and naval forces on Sa'tnrday morning. -'-4' .- .r.: 1 General Miller, in his instructions from Manila, sent the native commis sioners from the United 'States trans port St. -Paul with a communication for the rebel government at Iloilo calling upon him to. surrender within a time Stated and warning him not to make a demonstration in the interval. . The rebels immediately moved their guns and prepared to defend their po sition. Thereupon the Petrel ' fired two warning guns, the rebels imme diately opening fire upon her. The Petrel arid the Baltimore then Tjombarded the town, which the rebels having set on fire, immediately- evao uated. ; ' -"-- -". " American troops were promptly lauded and extinguished the fires in all cases of foreign" property. It is believed that the enemy's loss during the bombardment was heavy, but no ' A merican casualties are re ported. Sharpshooters at Work. . The American lines form a complete cordon twenty-two miles in length from the coast north almost to Pasa qua, south of Manila. The enemy is busily throwing up intrenchments on the left; sharpshooters in the jungles covering, their operations. . Several Americans were wounded in the trenches. Second - Lieutenant George A. Seaman, of battery B, Utah artillery, was shot in the leg. Four men of the Twentieth Kansas volunteers were slightly wounded. Sunday night Privates Brinton and Stevens, of the Twentieth Kansas, were wounded. " - ' . The United States cruiser Charles ton has moved up the Coast and is off Malolos, the seat of the so-called Fili pino government, at a distance esti$ mated about eight miles. : Pursuing their customary tactics, the rebels on the jextreme left of the line opened fire at long range on the American troops Sunday night, main taining their fire for a few minutes be fore settling down. None of their shots took effect, however, and the Ameri cans did not reply. All was quiet along the rest of the line. ; The Con cord is now lying off Paranaque. The weather at night now is cooler, and showers are frequent. After the capture of Caloocan a Spaniard who had been a prisoner there came to the Americans, holding up his hands, and said that the Fili pinos had offered to release the Span iards, especialty the artillerymen, if they would undertake to fight against the Americans at $4 a day. , Most of the Spaniards refused, and even those who accepted the offer did so in the hope of effecting an escape. The rebels, according to this infor mation, are discontented, unpaid, un fed and thoroughly disillusionized, the talismamc waters being of no avail against wounds, hunger and fatigue. On Friday Aguinaldo visited Polo, a few miles northwest of Caloocan, and addressed the Filipino troops there, claiming that he had won a victory and asserting that 2,300 Americans had been killed. The Twentieth Kansas and the First Idaho volunteers have been recalled from the marsh lands north of Mala? bon, and the former regiment is now intrenched in front of. Caloocan. There has been no change in the disposition of the troops except that Hhe Fourth United States cavalry has relieved the First Idaho volunteers and. a battalion of the Twentv-third infantry has been stationed on the left flank to prevent the rebels sneak ing along the beach. STEAMER PROBABLY LOST. Bulgaria With 139 Souls Aboard Was Sinking When Last Seen. A London dispatch says: Loyds agent St Michael's, Azores, cables that the tank steamer Weehawken re ports that the Bulgaria when spoken on February 5th, lattitude 40, longi tude 43, was in a sinking . condition. with three holds full, of water, her rudder and machinery disabled. The London Daily Mail publishes a dispatch from Ponta Delgada, Azores Islands, faying that the Bulgaria had a crew of mnety-exgnt ana eamea forty-one passengers and that the Weehawken rescued twelve members of the crew and eleven passengers. LITELT DEBATES IS SE5ATE Over the X-!fil"tlTe, Executive and Judl clal Appropriation Bill.,- Throughout its open session Thurs day tho senate had under considera tion the legislative, executive and i dicial appropriations bill. A livetj debate was precipitated over the ap propriation for the supports of , V supervising architect of the treast. and that officer- was criticised for tL delay in construction of publ ic build ings throughout the United States, REBELS 17ERE HOVEDDOVII. AMERICANS TAKE ; CAL00CHAN AXD APPLY TORCH. KANSRSTROOPS DO ;GO0D WORK. Shells From Monitor Monadnoek Fear- , fully Effective-Affutnaldo's Flay; . Pulled Down, " A dispatch from Manila says: The American force's at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon made a combined attack on Caloocan and reduced t in short order. At a signal from the tower of -the De La Lome church, the United States double turreted monitor - Monadnoek opened fire from the haf with the big guns of her fore" turret on the earth works, with great effect. Soon after wards the .. Utah .battery bombarded the place from the land.' ' The rebels reserved their fire until the bombardment ceased, when, they fired volleys of musketry as the Mon tana regiment advanced on the jungle. The Kansas regiment, on the ex reme left, with the Third artillery de ploying to the righti charged across he open and carried the : earthworks, cheering under a heavy fire." Sup- ported by the artillery at the church. the troops, further advanced, driving the enemy, fighting every - foot, right into the town line, and penetrated to the presidencia and lowered :the Fili pino flag at 5:30 o'clock p. m. Sharpshooters Were Silenced. The enemy's sharpshooters, in the ungles. on the right, fired at long range on the Pennsylvania ; regiment, but the rebels were soon silenced by shrapnel shells and the Pennsylva nians remained in the trenc es. As the Americans " advanced they burned the native houses. The tebels were mowed down like grass, but the he American loss was light, : The "rebels early Friday morning concentrated in considerable force at Caloocan and Malabon, many small bodies of scattered rebel troops strug gling in from the right and others un doubtedly arriving from the north and he interior provinces. - Aguinaldo is reported to have estab- ished his headquai ters at Malabonfor the purpose of rallying his forces for i decisive blow. " - J In order to cover their movements, he rebels again opened fire on the outposts of. the'? Kansas - regiment. They kept up the fire from the jungle for about twenty minutes, but with out effect. -The Americans reserved their fire until a detachment of the enemy emerged from the bamboos, when a well directed volley made the rebels scuttle back to cover like rab bits. .; ' : ; ' :J " - ;T - ;- MILITARY CONGRESS ENDS. Resolntlnns Adopted and Tote of Thanks Extndd Governor BloxhBm. The adoption of the, resolutions em bracing the views of the delegates on the necessary congressional action for. the betterment of the militia, practi cally closed the work of the national military congress at Tampa, ila. After extending a vote of thanks to Governor Bloxham and others whose efforts have done so much toward bringing about the successful termina tion of the congress, the body adjourned subject to the call of General Butter- held, who will call another meeting to be held m JSew lork should the ne cessity arise. Crovernor liloxnam, wbile. agreeing in the principal points with the final action of the convention, "believes that the general government should allow a suitable quarterly compensation to state troops sufficient to secure good material that would make an efficient Teserye iorce ior tne general govern ment a? well as a guarantee for law and order in the 6tates. - TO PBOSECCTE CERTERA." Soanlsh MilUarr Coort Holds Him Ee- V sponsible For toss of Fleet. A Madrid special says: The supreme militarv court, which has under con- Rideration the loss of the Spanish pquadron at Santiago de Cuba on July 3d. last, has decided to prosecute in connection with the disaster Admiral Cervera and Commandant Emilo Diaz de .Moreu. former captain of the de stroyed cruiser Cristobal Colon. GEORGIA GEOLOGIST ENDORSED. Legislative Committee Will Make a Fav- orable Bepor. The Georgia legislative committee has been investigating the state geo logical department, has Completed ita woric . j The department will bf recommend- saw AnmmilTA c4ris3 4 Vt a tiradfil administration will be endorsed.' These will ue ido MBeuvuu eaiures oi me report, and are the oly features that are a matter of pnblicnterest. The report, however. 'will .be a very . 1 . A - 1 . 1 lengthy afir. .Jolume. goinjr to snow wa; tee reached a la Torable report. . 4 ' EULOGIES T' t,I!CGLET T,c Hears Flttlnr VtepreeentatlTe. Special says: The j y Trlho- r hxt iate Bepresentauve 1 UfS 'dngly eulogized in the Jr'esS&Uve. Saturday by & .uf closely associated b?fae early part of the day VltbJsSs to some minor routine work. CIIARGES OF GENERAL WILL BE THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED. PERSONNEL OF THE COMMISSION. Contracts For Meat For the Arm J ' Well Aa the Qaalltr Thereof Will Be . Looked Into. - A Washington special says: "The president has appointed a court of in quiry to examine into .the charge touching the meat furnished the Amer ican army during the war with Spain and . other matters ", in vol ved in r the charges made by General Miles against the swtministration of war affairs.1 The court will consist of. Major Gen. eral Wade, Colonel George W. Davis, Ninth infantry, and Colonel Gillespie, corps of engineers, now stationed in Nevr York. - The inquiry will begin at- once, and the contracts as well as the quality of the beef will be thoroughly investi gated. ; The order for .the court of inquiry is as follows: - '. In accordance with the instructions Of the president, of February 3, 1899, a court of inquiry, to consist of the following named officers, is hereby ap pointed to meet in this city on Febru ary 15, 1899. Detail for the court: Major General James. t Wade, U. Colonel George L. Gillespie, Corps oj Engineers, u. . A. Lieutenant Colonel George B. Da vis, deputy judge advocate general, u. S. A., recorder. : - The court i hereby directed to in vestigate certain allegations of the major general, commanding the army in respect, to unfitness, of certain ar ticles of food furnished by the sub sistence department to the troops in the field during the recent operations in Cuba and Porto Bieo. : 1 . In addition to its finding of fact the court will submit an opinion "upon the merits of the case, together with such recommendations to further proceed ings as may seem to be warranted by the' facts developed in the. course of the inquiry, v . .. " A . The officers : named "will repair to this city for the purpose herein indi cated, and, upon the adjournment ' of the court, will returntotheirjj)roper stations. The travel enjoined is neces sary for the publio service. - . (Signed) - B. A. Aloee, Secretary of War. General Miles, when seen, had noth ing to say respecting the appointment of the court. He has been accumu lating a large amount of : evidence along the lines of the inquiry, but he has not chosen' any counsel, and a large part of 'his evidence has been al ready transmitted to the war investi gating commission. ' . The court of inquiry, it is said by persons verse.d in military jurispru dence, will be unique in that it.wjll be directed in its investigations against a state of affairs and not against a per son." GARCIA'S REMAINS IN CUBA. City, Householders and Ships In Havana Harbor Lowr Flag; to Half Blast. The United States gunboat Nash ville, bearing -the body of General Calixto Garcia, steamed slowly into. Havana harbor at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon, the guns of Morro castle and the American squadron saluting her. The solemn booming announced the arrival to the expectant city. Everywhere householders and ships lowered a thousand .flags 'to half-mast and black streamers soon surmounted the Cuban banners. ; - The companies of the Eighth regular infantry, with the regimental band, were lined up to receive the coffin which, draped with the Cuban flag and bearing a wreath of flowers, was carried on the shoulders of the mem bers of the junta between the saluting ranks of the regulars to the hearse. . The silent crowds, with bared heads, marched to the strains of a funeral dirge to the palace,' where s the body now lies in the municipal council chamber, guarded by details of Cuban and American troops. , - y On the order of General Ludlow, all official flags will be kept at half-mast until after the public funeral. DISPENSARY FOR ALABAMA. Hone Passes the Bill After Hany Changes Were Blade la It. Alabama's dispensary bill passed the house Saturday; night, although in badly disfigured shape. The voto on the measnre - in its crippled fdrm was 57 to 11 The bill as originally introduced included all of the sixty- six - counties in the state, excepting the twentv-two counties in which pro hibition laws were in force. 'The sen ate amended the bill by exempting from its provision twenty of the largest counties m iuo sutve, uu tuik u Jefferson Calhoun. Marengo, Tusca loosa and others of the large counties. THANKS FOR OTIS. Gen. , Wnelr Introdoee ReeoloUoa Coos- ' mending; GaJlaat Condnet- Representative Wheeler, of Alaba- . . . ir.:. n.n.ni ma, better- novo Wheeler, introduced a join reswuHon ; . m 43-a..jJ a nrnnnil r tt the thanks of congress and the Ameri can people to Major General luswell a. Otis and the officers and men of his command for the gallant and success ful action at Manila on the 4th and' 1 5th of February. OTIS PLANNED WELL. English .Advices Aro That Americans . - SToTed Wlthont a Break. A - dispatch to Reuters Telegram Company at London from Manila, de" scribing the capturing of Caloocan, dwells upon the excellence of the American plans and the precision with which they were carried out The dispatch adds: : '", - ' 'At 4 o'clock p. m. the. American ships ceased; firing. Then the army fired three guns, at an interval of ten seconds, signalling; the advance-of the whole line, the Kansas regiment lead ing through the jungle. The rebels, left wing was diverted by Major Bell and a hundred men. .. It was , like clock-work. TUere was no hitch any where.'. , , The rebels estimated to have num bered 10.D00 men were demoralized by the shells. The Americans advanced in open order. At 500 yards , there was a halt, "and then a charge,. and the rebels stampeded from their trenches, which were admirably ' constructed. The Americans refrained fn-in wasting ammunition, but rushed on without firing and used their bayonets and the butts of their rifles. There was heavy slaughter. Dispatcues to' the London Globe from Hong; Kongr say the Filipino junta there ias received, by steamer from Manila, further news of the re cent fighting. The Filipino agents say the Ameri cans placed vessels along the shores of the bay and commenced hostilities ''unexpectedly at midnight on Satur daysimultaneously bombarding the defenseless towns . of Fondo, Malak and Malabon..' . c o J TTie agents of the rebels also say 'the slaugliter of women and children was frightful, the Americans burning and devastating all before them, insti tuting a '. war of extermination and shooting every Filipino. The agents of the Filipinos declare their. intention of "appealing to Christ endom, " and say their . indignation against the Americans is intense. - REBELS WHIPPED AGAIN. Americans nave a Brush With-Filipinos ; Saturday Afternoon. , - Jl Manila special says: Saturday af ternoon a reconnoiterihg party of the Fourteenth infantry came upon a large body of the enemy in -the jungle near Camp' Dewey, y py --' '''y :y:-'" .-' '? " - The rebels were" attacked and fell back" upon the main line of the insur gents. , The Fourteenth infantry, the North Dakota volunteers and the Fourth cavalry then engaged the ene my and'drove them toward the beach, where one of the' gunboats received them with a fusilade -, from automatic Colt guns. '"..'..". -'' The enemy's loss is severe and they scattered along the beach seeking cov er from the fire of the Americans. Privates Ransom, Henset and Saun ders, of Company F, Fourteenth in fantry, and two troopers of the Fourth' cavalry were wounded. The bodies of two members of tne California regiment were subsequently found in the bush to the right of the line. They had been shot to pieces by the enemy. NATAL APPROPRIATION BILL. It Sets Aside 944,168,605 for Warships and Other Features. The naval appropriation bill is practically completed save in minor details and all its , essential xeatures were made known Saturday. -It ap propriates a total -of $44,158,605, di vided under the following main heads i General establishment, $13,236,440. Bureau of navigation $505,125. ' : Bureau of ordnance, $3,143,124. Bureau of equipment, $2,615,455. Public works, yards and docks, $454,442. Bureau of medicines and surgery, $192,500. Bureau of supplies and accounts. $3,229,422. Bureau of construction and repairs, $3,273,407. Bureau of steam engineering, 81, 207,900. '- '- Naval academy, $217,120. Marine c6rps, $lt366,971. Increase of navy, $11,192,402. EXTRA SESSION IMPERATIVE Should the Army Reorganisation Bill Fail to Oo Throng-fi. A Washington dispatch says: At the cabinet meeting Friday, the president me WW lOTcrugsuug cvuiuiiBsiuu ouu , the matter was discussed informally. The question of the transportation to Cuba of the $3,000,000 with which the insurgent army is to be paid off and the kinds of muneyto be sent,was briefly considered. It was agreed that the Cubans could have any kind of money they wished, whether gold, silver or silver certificates, of part in each. Shipments of $500,000 each will probably be made at intervals of of a few days as rapidly as needed. The question of an extra session of congress was also discussed, and it is the opinion of members of the cabinet that in case of the' failure of the army reorganization bill an . extra session, will be necessary. KE5TTJCKY HA5SI0X BUR5ED. Coventor Bradley Host of His Tain able Personal Frrprty. - A dispatch from Frankfort, Ky., says: The governor mansion was totally destroyed by fire at noon Fri day. An early fire was extinguished, but it broke out again at 1150. The firmen were soon" disabled by he intense cold, to which trouble was dtied by frozen pipes and cutting off - he water supply." Most of Governor iJradle y's valuablo personal property was saved. COLD WATE DOES GREAT PA2 ICE OYER TUDE SECTION". ' MANY LOW RECORDS ARE SMASHED Th Frail Seetlo of Georxla S offers Bo- Terely Some Interestln Iteporta From Various XoInU The blizzard did great damage in many sections of Georgia. Experienced fruit growers are unan imously of the opinion that practically all fruit in the middle tier of counties, except plums, , have been ', killed by the severe cold." Some grow ers say at least two-thirds of the peach crop was ruined before the present spell came. v--'.- Major M. J. Hatcher, whV is large ly interested in peach culture in Ma- ' con county, voices the belie' of other growers. He fays he does aot aee how it is possible for any of the peach ' crop to escape destruction. . He quotea Messrs. Bumph, Moore aud other large growers, -having said on last Fri day, before the present cold, that two- thirds of the crop had been kulec and Major Hatcher says this being true of the crop last Friday, why there, ia ' nothing but total ; destruction now. Truck farms are regarded as almost, if not entirely a total loss. . A. Nashville, Tenn., dispatch says: The situation as to coal in Nashville Monday was as bad as any day since the famous famine developed. While considerable coal was delivered Sun day, the receipts- were comparatively small Monday, and' one tenth of the demand could not bt filled. -Long lines of people took their turn at every coal yard, and more coal was sold to people who brought wagons than was delivered by dealers.. People who could not get. wagons brought sacks, and many men carried coal' home on 6treet cars and in buggies. Several more manufactories closed down Monday; including the publish ing house of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, which finished out the day by burning old records and other books. : ' y:C --'- f A Columbia, S. - C, epecial says: South Carolina, particularly its capi tal city, is feel ing th e effect of the blizzard very keenly. The snow ia eleven and a half inches deep, the heaviest ever had here, f ave in Febru ary, 1894, when it was 11.8 inches. All previous temperature records have been broken. , yi-yyyi y y- . All records for low temperature in Arkansas have beeii broken and Feb ruary 12, 1899, ' will be treasured up in the memory of the "oldest inhabi tant" for years to come. V t . New Record' at New Orleans. At New Orleans the mercury went to 7 Sanday - night, being eight de grees lower than previous records. The ground was covered with sleet and snow; On account of severe weather the Proteus display and ball L was postponed. The Bex reception. however, took place Monday and all the carnival features except Proteus wilHe carried out as usual.--? A Vicksburg, Miss., dispatch says: This section is experiencing the cold est weather ever known. The ther mometer reached one degree below zero Sunday morning. The river is frozen for 200 feet from the shore and all river craft is tied up by the ice. Floating ice is passing in the channel continuously. ' ; - For the first time in its history Waco, Texas, and vicinity experienced zero weather. Sunday morning the mercury showed 7 below and Monday morning 3 below. - Oals are mined and wheat so . seriously injured as to amount to destruction. Fruit crop is not injured. The Brazos river is frozen from bank to bank. . ; V ; ' DENIAL FR02I-AGUI5ALD0. AgOQclllo Hake Pnblle m Cablegram Be, eel ved From ma Chief. I A dispatch from Montreal,. Ont., says: Agoncillo, the Filipino commfs sioner, in an interview Monday night,' gave an unqualified contradiction to the cablegram from General Otis, in which it is stated that he (Agoncillo) telegraphed advising Aguinaldo to drive the Americans out before re-en- MAUD I GRAS POSTPONED. Carnival la Birmingham Ooes Over t , Xndeflaate Date. - A Birmingham; Ala. dispatch tsys: Since Sunday morning the weather in Birmingham has been unprecedented, and the thermometer went. lower than ever before in the history of the city. , The mardi gras festivals were post poned indefinitely on account of the extremely cold weather. Many hund , red people were in the city acd had to , make the best of the situation. A coal famine is on, and ii is an nounced that several large iron fur I naces'wifl have to bank sfires on ac i count of inability to get the f ueL - FILIPIXOS BUUS T01T5. They Feared . Americans Were Preparlaf; ' - For Bombardment. " ' A Manila dispatch' says: The na tives, fearing the Americans were about to make an attack on or bom bard the- town of n Roque, set fire to it Thursday. The town wa com posed of bamboo huts and was de stroyed. Telegraph operators are now ; worth their weight in gold, and the members of the signal corps are work-, ing night and day. .r
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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