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PAGES 3 TO 6. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDA - 12,1902. KILLED IN A WRECK. Fatal Accident on Southern Pacific Railway, k FIFTEEN KILLED AND MANY HURT Many People Slaughtered Outright Train Was Running at a riigh Rate of Speed. San Antonio, Tex., Special.-A brok en rail caused a frightful wreck on the Southern Pacific Railroad, near Max ton station, 25 miles west of Sanderson at; 3 .o'clock Friday morning. From the latest accounts received here 15 people were killed outright and 28 more or less Injured. The dead are: Three children, of Hart Riddle, of Chetopa, Kan.; Estavon Contraras, Del Rio, Tex.; Andrew C. Shelly, wife and child, Lorier, Tex.; child of D. E. Hous en, Racine, Wis.; Al Most, engineer, El Paso, Tex.; W. W. Prince, engineer, San Antonio; H. Bertschoist, fireman, El Paso, Tex.; Chris Keel, contractor, San Antonio; L. A. Boone, Doyline, La. The injured are: Mrs. Mary Koehler, San Francisco, internal injury; A. S. Turner, Blackhawk, Miss., hand crush-, ed;. Mrs. E. M. Sheppard, Glenn Mills, Pa,.bead hurt; J. Fuller, Washington, D. C. leg and foot crushed; Mtonio Elrio, Del Rio, Tex., internal; George Ollenburg, Lexington, Ky., hand crush ed: E. C. Baker, Angleton, Tex., bruis edi Charles H. Hoy, Saii Antonio, Tex., both feet scalded; A. E. Massey, Wilby, Tex., -"scalp wound; J. I. 'Taylor. Mul berry, Kan., head injured; Mrs. Mitch ell, Philadelphia, internally hurt; W. P. Adam, express messenger, internal injuries and badly scalded; Craig Bat tleman, North Dakota, head and back hurt;.,Biscoe, Rodriguez, Del Rio, Tex.. bruised; Lulons. Merales, Del Rio, Slightly bruised; Antonio Dulon, Del Rio; -bruised; M. L. Robert, residence unknown, head' hurt; D. P. Havens, El Paso, bruised; ~A. E. McKenzie, Saf ford, z., slightly injured; R. J. Todd, Frankfort,. Ky., bruised; Thos. 0 ro e .ruise bruised; Wm. Jos , I.,~back injured; J. K.E Taylor Birmingth; Ala., slightly njured; Dr. G. C. Martin, Pecos City, slightly Injured; C. W. B. Bennett, St. Pal, Kan., bruised; W. S. Glenn, Blackhawk, :Miss., leg broken; Mrs. Annie Wortherst, San Francisco, leg and hand crushed. The Ill-fated train left San Antonio at. noon.Thursday, 21-2 hours late, and at:the time of the accident was run ning at a high rate of speed in order to. make up time. The road at the - point where the wreck occurred is in a rough country, the curves being sharp and the grades 'heavy. It was when rounding a curve that the train left the..track, it is said, on. account of a broken.rail. The hour was 3 a. m., fif teen. hours after the train had left An tonio, showing that it was still behind time. All the passengers were asleep and the shock that followed was the first intimation they had of the danger. The train was going at such a rate of speed that the tender and engine land e4 75 feet from where they left the rails. The cars behind piled up against -thengine causing a fire and all were *cor.sumed : pt the sleepers.. S "7igns Bill. Washingor, Special-TW Presi / dat has signed the bill creating a p pranent Censuus Bureau, and the Presid?ent, in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, says: "You will please Inform the rector of the Cen sus that his .office will continue as heretofore, to be administered as it has been administered, until the 1st of July. On that day he will, with your permission, appoint such mem bers of the present force under him as will constitute the permanent Cen sus Bureau force, appointing only so many as are to be permanently em ployed. After that date all appoint ments will be made under the regula tions of the civil service. Aid for Southern Education. New York, Special.-Announcement was made that there had been organ ized in this city an association to pro mote Southern education, to be known as the General Education Board, and that more than $1,000,000 had been placed at the disposal of the board of trustees. The underlying principle of the association is to be the recogni tion of the fact that the people of the Southern States are earnestly en gaged in the -promotion of public edu cation and that in this effort they should receive generous aid; and to this end, and in pursuance of this and kindred objects, the association will seek gifts large and small, from sthose in sympathy with its pla.ns. News to Be Given Out by President. Washington, Special.-At the :-abi net meeting, President Roosevelt re quested the members not to talk to newspaper correspondents about mat ters under discussion at the semi-week ly meetings. It was thought best for the President himself to make public such matters as he deemed proper to be given out. Hereafter the President .EW FINANCIAL MEASURE. Provisions of Financial Plan Intro duced Monday. Washington, Special. - Chairman Fowler, of the House committee on banking and currency Monday intro duced an important financial measure framed by the Republican members of the committee after conferences extending through the last two months. It brings together into one financial measure a number of propo sitions which have been urged separ ately heretofore. Mr. Fowler explains the purposes of the bill as follows: "To transfer from the government to the banks the responsibility of protecting the necessary gold reserve and the burden of furnishnig gold for export, thereby saving our commerce from the destructive apprehensions growing out of raids upon the gold in the Treasury, which can now only be replenished by a tax imposed the people through the sale of bonds; to provide a currency always respon sive and adequate to the demands.-of trade everywhere, and to equalize and lower the average rate of in terest in all parts of the United States; to secure for American enter prise and American capital the privi leges and opportunities of engaging in International banking under the national law and so lay a foundation, upon which to build an American merchant marine; to remove the last vestige of doubt with regard to our standard of value. "The measure provides for interna tional banking, and a division of banking and currency is established. under a board of control,. instead of a single individual in the person of the Comptroller of the Currency, as heretofore. The board will consist of three members, whose terms of offi ce are for 12 years, so arranged that only one member will retire every four years. "If the measure now introduced should become a law, it is confidently believed that the national banks will assume the current redemption in gold coin of $130,000,000 of United States notes. In :sideration of the obliga tion assumed by'the, national banks, they will have the right during the succeeding five years, to issue gradu ally, as business may require, an amount of bank notes equal to 60 per centum of their paid-up and unim paired capital; provision being made also for an emergency circulation. As the notes are taken out for circula tion the banks will deposit with the govrenent (Ulan t centum of the amount of the notes so issued. The national banks hereafter will be required to pay interest upon government deposits at the rate of 1 per centum per annum. "This 5 per centum guarantee fund, and the tax upon the bank notes will be issued to protect the bank notes.. All the excess of such taxes with the interest on the government deposits, will be used to pay off the United States notes which the banks assume to currently redeem. "The United States will be the clearing house district and the cur rent redemption of bank notes, so that the amount of notes outstanding at any time alw,ys will be co-ordi nated to the amount of trading, and precisely as checks or drafts reflect the amount of commercial work being carried on. .By and with the consent of the board of control,.:the banks m-..y have more than one place for doing busi ness, being authorized to establish themselves in the various cities of the country. "No bank note of a denomination less than $10 will be issued, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall not issue a silver certificate of a denomli nation greater than $5, and, there after, upon the presentation to him of 100 silver dollars, or any multiple thereof, and a demand for their re demption, shall 'eschange gold coin for the same." Fifzhuigh Lee in Boston. Boston. -~Special.-Mayor Collins cn tertaned General Fitzhugh Lee at an informal luncheon Friday. Among those present were Rear Admiral John son, commandant of the Charle'ston navy yard; Lieutenant Governor John L. Bat~es, General Thomas R. Matthews, nd General Josephus H. Whitney. Governor Crane was unable to attend. During the afternoon General Lee was received by the Legislature at the State Richmond Murder flystery. Tcmond, Spe(lal--Wm. Clayton, a well-known contraicting painter, was murdered here Sunday In a manner that thus far baffles the police. He was found on the street in a residential sction of the city early in the morn ing, frightfully beaten, and died at night without having regained con siousness. His head was crushed and one of his eyes almost punched out. Clayton leaves three grown daughters and two sons. The murder recalls the Sott case of a few months a.go when John W. Scott, a rich bachelor, going home from the club early in the morn ing, was beaten in such a manner that he died soon afterwards. That mys tery is s511 unsolved. Wilson Will Not Resign. Washington. Special.-The attention of Secretary Wilson. of the Agricultu ral Department, was called Sunday to reports that- he contemplated soon re signing from President Roosevelt s cabinet. The Secretary treated the sub jcet very lightly, declaring that the re pr ot was news to him. and adding inm rely to a specific inquiry that he had no ItenO of taking the step sug TilE CUBAN TROUBLE President Anxious For Settlement o1 Reciprocity Matter TIlE CABINET SAID TO BE DIVIDED Many Leaders in the Councils of thi Natioa, Call on Mr. Roosevelt Con ceatng t"e latter. ,shi On, Specil.-Speaker Hen d,rsQn,ap&.Representative Cannon, o IHnb , 'called at the Whate House Wednesday. It was relative to the sub ject of Cutan reciprocity and the cal led to mucn expeculative comment, al though no definite details were avail ab re of the conferende A v ig-continued, prelimi: rcaticus ,on ,d Thursda hemosrpoe1tive claims were . thgse opposed to RepresentatlV1 Payne's 20 per cent reciprocity' plan that there was a clear majority againsi It. Mr. Payne and his associates, did not concede this much and expressed the belief that, a concession to Cubs would be ultimately granted. It wa; said in this coniection that Speaker Henderson is now favorable to the po sition taken- by the majority on the ways and means committee. During the day several members o: the cabinet were called on by Messrs Tawney ,of the ways and means com. mittee, who has proposed to rebate plan as a substitute for Charirman Payne's plan, and Morris, of - Minne sota. As an outcome of these calls, i1 was stated that three members of the cabinet, namely, Postmaster Genera Payne, Secretary of the Treasury Sham and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson were hopeful of seeing a solution of the problem which would not endangel any American industry. This was con strued in some quarters to show a di vision in the cabinet, but it was-stated by those conversant with the situation that the attitude of the cabinet mem bers did not warrant any su'ch con struction. Ler in -M"Iff~~d preiiB tN Tawney called at the White H'ouse and had a conference lasting nearly 'an hour and a half with the Pr.sident It developed that Mr. Tawney had 'told the President that there was little'ei no possibility for the adoption of the Payne plan by the Republican confer ence and that if it was adopted some 4( Republican members would not consid er themselves bound and would carry the question to the floor of the House where there would be additional com plications owing to the attitude of the Democratic members. The President is understood to have made it clear that he had no intention at pr'sent of sending a special message to Congress on the subject. The Presi: dent expressed the most earnest solict tude that a satisfactory adjustment b< reached by 'Congress. After hearinl from Mr. Tawney, his associates ..x pressed the belief that the Presiden1 wold accept the rebate proposition ij Gdfigress would present it to him. Thel were considerably encouraged to heal from Mr. Tawney that the Presiden1 was not laying down any eniphatic 11 timatum in favor of the plan as pre sented by Mr. Payne. While these conferences were gnins on at the White House, Chairmar Payne and members of the ways anc means committee supporting him were in conference. This brought about at change in their attitude. One of thi members stated that he was confideni that the Payne reciprocity propositioz ommanded a majority of the Republi can members, but that the minorit3 was so large and was so disposed tc carry the contest into t.he House thai Mr. Payne and his friends recognized the seriousness of the situatin. How ever, there was no disposition to ac cept the rebate plan, as it was statec that this was nmerely a repetition o1 the plan proposed by the head of th4 beet sugar organization two monthi ago. Fire at Aiken, S. C. Aiken, S. C., Special-Flre here earl Wednesday destroyed nine buildings comprising a block in the centre of the city. A gale was blowing and the flames were fought under great diffi cultes. There were no fatalities. Sev. eral people who were in Sunnysidi Sanitarium, which was among the buildings destroyed, were injured Their names have not been learned but it is certain none is seriously hurt In addition to the sanitarium the fol lowing structures were burned: Lyce un Hall. The Aiken Recorder 6ffiee an the residence of Mrs. Quash, Miss Farc and J. H. Loomis. A number of stables were estroyed. The financial loss is not ge. Five Men Drowned. S hunento, Cal.. Special-Five met were drowned-in the Sacramesnto rive: on Sunday. The party, consisting o Dr. J. H. Morton, George Nunez, Clar ence Casterson, Elmer Ivery ant Knight Llllington, left Cortland, dowi the river, in a small boat .early Sunda3 morning. Their boat was found in rul. les, four miles -below Cortland. Neal the boat the bodies of the three firs named were found. A searching party i SOUT HIAL New Enrichig An . Power. The u> publishes an interview B C. Hamb ley of Gold.. dent of the Whitney particulars of which have eeai given in the Maiiuac in which Mr. Hambf e details re garding the oposed by his cormpai.y~ the building of,6 3-4 m ow - under con strucon;. et o a water power .firest 20,000 por 11ylI to be in hiorse-pd' creased- .power. The plans. iI ilding 'of 'a' dam across ch Mr. Hambley states wl .fe secured from the co -f will be 1500 feet lob h' and "50 feet As..proposed that p04 be p00 feet long d: )timated to Sery figured at $00,0 og.a.o yhas.; pur chased the SSf,Ind in:or der to: en tith adjacent pr'opety for eg oute its comprehe g t.- Included in thig . usaner mine, on wileh'. i reliS)Ut $250,000 have -i ing up the 'pro Rlarger de velopm ower has been - _ . -int aAto uti lizeth foe rans mission W0'.and a b of other to lrimty. The for this undertz ng has beel 1 4 secured in Pitts,prg, Mr. George Whitney of--Pittgbutt being vice-presi dent; .F.' L. ttephenson of Pittsburg, treasurer,-and,H. I. W. Hyde of Pitts burg, secretaF - "- o Knitting flH!. R.,J. Fi erof Athens, Tenn, writes k the Manufacturers.''Record giving de tails of hiskni-fft1g mill reported last week as to "e established. Mr. Fisher has erected a-briek building 50a90- feet in -size, andihab:oiered. for installation therein.:t"-@-knit|tig machines, thir ty ribbers, alve'lleopers: and auxiliary machinesa' ideseyeing plant: - The product'iUby aht'275 dozen-pairs of .missaita chiLdren, ribbetose daily.'- .2ir+ od%the. omP t plant will tror tr00 te, .,0t orgazSed to bul 9-pndect mll at D M. E. Whitehurst, New Berne, N. C.. wants. dresses of mnafnturers' of ' 4ttou d4a.ila rope, - - N. B. ,. of Bt"esyiUe, N. C., con tehplatgs e erectto p f a mill to knit fSeece-lihed end5'eav Th e'or-t of last week as to the Oaf feny 'S..*) Carpetj Manufacturing Co. adding M-01Pg -wasaz. error. Releigh (N r) .Hpsier' :Co.,has ob tained autlio ty to issue $15.000 worth of 1i ei et'duimuli,tive first preferred stoc1:L.P-:5 Monarch Cotton Mills of Uiiion; S. C;, wlpl bld: thirty. -oiehtives' . :cottages and a.warehouse. This cn}pany..has a 10-Ad0-?niridie:'and 00- oom mill. 3'.%wisSae,996 Main street, Dallas, Texas-, Is askng for-infrmat0ionl and prices ,on e.suipmentr. fo bleachery to be used in connection with sheceting mill. Mr's . Q. MiIler of Sh elby, N. C., has purchased' 'tie Laura Glenn ,Mills at Shele,1which was sold .recently at courhale 44-,Tohn. F.. Hurt of Balti more, p~resaiet .0Z the former com pany. An oider has been passed] by court action for tihe sale of the Fayetteville (N. C.) Cotton Mills, H. W. Lilly being temporary receiver, with Messrs. C. W. Broadfoot and H. L. Cok as commis soners. The plant has 3120 spindles. Charter of the Ra.dford (Va.) Woolen Manufacturing Co., has been recorded, naming Geo.:.W. Mills, president: L. L. Fauler, vice-president-general man ager, a2id Fred Painter, secretary treasurer. John Calhoun of Dunbar. S. C., con templates establishing- plant for the manufacture of bobbins and shuttles for textile mills ,and asks makers of the require~d machinery toi send prices and inf ormation. Opelika (Ala.)-Cotton Millswft that it does contemplate installinga ditional spindles, as reported last week, but has not made a definite decision as yet. There are now 6500 spindles in po siton, and 1248 more are prposed. J Haughton Ihril, Pittsboro, N. C.. contemplates establishing plaat for the manufacture of bobbins for textile mills, and is asking makers of the re quired machinery to send information and prices on the equipment needed. At the public sale of the Waynman Cotton Mills of Waynmanville. Ga., last week the property was bid in by the Maddox-Rucer Banking Co.. of Atlan ta. The purchase price was $13,500. and it is said the company intends operat ing the plant If the courts confirm the sale. This plant has 3408 spindles and seventy-six loo:rs. Shamrock Milla o* Winston. N. C., states that it is adding new machlenry, as was reported last week. The comn pany has 100 knitting machines, and is adding enough knitters to increase to 350 dozen p!airs of hosiery every month, and this capacity is to be increased as fast as the demand requires and opera ties can be trained for the mill. A/ THE NEW SALARY ACTS. Assistad Attorney General (Mves a Construction on Them. Assista.nt Attorney General Gunter has furnished the comptroller general with two opinions of general interest. The first concerns the salary of prac tically every county official in the State, and .is consequently of much concern to these officers. It reads as follows: Dear Sir: You request to be ad vised when der1the:-ats of 1892 the salaries of iu rs and county treasurer# An act approved Feb. .27, 1902, ing the salaries of unty offi , provides that the unt there ;ixed, shall become eff v e May 1, 1902. The auditors will arefore re ceve the compensation now provided for until Ma the fitst next, when they . .lary provided for in e a referred to. But the apprIAQo. for county treas urers has 1 e making the opera tion different from that of the audi tors. By an act approved Feb. 22, 1902, it is provided that the following sums if so much be necessary, be. and the same are hereby appropriated to meet the expense of the tax depart ment, as follows:. For the salaries of conty auditors, $29,000. * * * * For th salaies of county treasurers, $29, TTe county treasurers of the 11 reAive as compensation th ear 1902, the annual salary An act passed at this ses geneeal assembly, en act to fix the amount of p f t.to be paid to the coun offi rs of the various counties of the Ynotwithstanding anything ontaiied n said act" It will thus be observed that the appropriation act making the compensation of county treasurers begins on the first day of January, 1902, upon the basis of the salary graduation act and shall be come effective on May 1, 1902, for in no other way could they receive "com pensation for the year 1902 and an nual salary." Then the appropri.tion act refers to the act fixing the sal aries making the provisions "notwith standing anything contained in said act"; this phrase is clearly intended to exempt the salaries of the county treasurers from the May the first lim itation and to allow the salary pro vided; to become operative from the first of January, 1902. The other opinion referred to reads as follows: Dear Sir: You request to be advised upon the following statement: "The act- fixing the salaries of circuit solic itors,. approved Feb. 25, 1902, reads as llows: Section 1. Be it enacted by. the ge sembly pf the State of South Carolina: The circuit solic itors of each circuit shall receive a salary at the rate of $1,500 per an num, except the solicitor of the First circuit, whose salary shall be at the rate of $1,800 per annum. Such sal ary shall be in lieu of all charges against the State and county. All costs from the defendants shall be paid over by the solicitor to the coun ty -treasurer for the use of the coun ty. They shall also receive the same per diem and mileage as members of the general assembly while in at atendance upon the sssion thereof. Section 2. That all ac a and parts of acts in conflict with this act, are here 'by repealed. Approved Feb. 25, 1902. In the appropriation act, section 2. among the amounts appropriateci, ap jpears the following: 'For salaries of tht this appropriation was intended to conform to the act above men tioned, fixig the salaries or compen sation of circuit solicitors, although the sum appropriated is $50.00 less than sufficient to pay the amount pro vided - for by that act. I wish to know: First. If under the act in creasing the circuit solicitors' sal- I aries, this increase dates from Jan- I uary 'the first? Second. Does the comn pensation provided for in this act, or the Increase in salary, begin 20 days I after the approval of the act first I above mentioned?'' The appropriation act for 1902,i makes the following provision in sec-1 tion 1:.'That the following sums, if so much be necessary, be, and the same < are hereby appropriated to meet tne expenses of the executive depart-] ment, as follows: * * * Section 2. For I the salaries of solicitors, $1,250." To I determine what amount Is necessary 1 we must look to the act fixing the sal-1 aries. The act above referred to fixes I the salaries at $1,500 per annuumi, ex ~tt for the solicitor of the First cir whose salary is fixed at 51,S00 "num. Tb's act was approved e25, 1902, and under the law be comes 'effective 20 days thereafter. This act Is of course not an appro priation act, but simply directs the comptrl1er to pay certain amountts out of a fund set aside for that pur pose. Hence It follows that the sal reson and after 20 days after the3 25th of February, 1902, should be at the above rates and prior to that date in th er 1902. the salaries should be at the rate of $1,350 each, except the ocior of the First circuit, wno rcve$1,600, as provided by te law then of fore XXI Ypl-, p. 417) atly the sam e -'~ if it created a new o r 'om that date, and a WildBilKock Louisville, Special.-J 1o Ch.cago, -defeated "' ~ Bil .. anra an of New York, in i fifthp~ound of what was to have .~ a 25-round match before the EmpIr Athletic Club. at Music Hall. The knockout blow ame after a hot mix-up, which ended by Chynski putting a stiff left to Wild Bill'- jaw and following It up with a right to the jaw which put Harrahan TROUBjEATNORFOLK Street Car Strike Assumes Threaten ing Proportions. MARTIAL LAW EXISTS IN THE CITY Thousands of Strike Sympathizers Thronged the Streets and Police and Military Were Helpless. Norfolk, Special.-A m , of 5,000 strike sympathizers thronged the treets of Norfolk Tuesday on which' he main line of'the Norfolk Railway mnd Idght Cgmpany runs,: and the police were uttable to cope with it. From noom until after dark, when the :ars, which were crowded ":y detach nents of militia, had run w'ith difficul ty all day, were housed In the bareS, the mob had things its own way in the :ity. In the cpunty where the barns re, the military was in control of the situation. Cars were repeatedly derail 3d, wagon loads of rocks were piled on he tracks' nd free fights between the nilitary and the-crowd occurred.during the day at frequent intervals. In one of hese, a sergeant ran a bayonet"through the arm of a man named Hadnetsot. a laborer. The man's wife was standing >y her husband at the time. She mocked the sergeant to the ground with both fists and discolored the face )f Lieutenant E. R. Qale, who was iear her, with a well directed blow. 3everal soldiers were hit by bricks and yther missiles thrown through the win lows of the cars. A number of arrests iave been made, both by the police and nilitary. A conference was held by Mayor Bea. nan, Police Chief Veltines, Colonel Eiiggs, commanding the Seventy-first ERegiment, eight companies of wich ire in service relative to placing the ity under martial law. The' police orce of 100 men has been on duty for 18 hours, and is unable to meet the umergency. It is possible the four ad litional companies of The regiment aYid battery of artillery will be called for n the morning to take charge of the ~ity. There is no settlement of;the strike in sight, both sides adhering to heir first positions. Martial law will be declared In Nor olk in the morning. ,Four more' in aantry.o wanies frour1 , LS So l k Srm'tbffie td and F kY * it he -.. ire . Seventylift iave been ordered- out. .. . The strikers cut a mile . of .troler wire in the city. The troops: are now uarding the power plant' : detac nent of a Newport News:: -company, under Capt. Gilkerson, is on duty. At a meeting at night, theC-enrsT Abor Union boycotted the itreet cars. )ommon Councilman S. H. Kelly, .gigo leader of the strikers,. offered:S -rea lution at the night's council meetg, o revoke the street railway franchqe or lapsing of two days in running cars. The resolution was referred. to a spe. ial committee. Tuesday night six non-union - men. rom Knoxville were held up. The trikers overpowered them. Many boi-e .rms and were arrested for -carrying oncealed weapons. Over $200,000 Damage. Chattanooga, Special.-Official re orts received at railroad headquarters how that the situation in the flooded istrict is improved. The Southerin taiway's loss between Morristown and tsheville will aggregate from $200,000 o $250,000 to road bed and bridges lone. The loss by delayed and annulled rains and cutting off of all passenger .nd freight traffic since last Thursday ri be very large. A bout 900 men are epiring the road and bridge on the (shevi1e branch. There is still a gap if 32 miles between' Marshall, N. C., .nd Del Rio, Tenn., without service. 'he Atlanta division has been opened >etween Atlanta and Macon and he ween Col'umbus and McDonough. On he Alabama division trains are run iing regularly. The worst of the flood n;tbe Ten'nessee. is passed and -the sas riv&; will be within its hanks by he latter part of the week. Cadets Appointed, Washington, Specials--The President 5a made the following appointments, or cadetship at the Naval'Academy; Ialph L. Sampson. son of Rear Admi al Sampson, principal: Woodward Phillip, son of the late Rear Admiral milip, first alternate; 0. W. Howard, son of Major General Howard, U. S. L. second alternate, and P. M. Taylor, ~on of Rear Admiral Henry C. Taylor, ird aiternate. Telegraphic Briefs. May drummond, a New York tole hone operator, will make a fight.for :e estates of th; late Earl of Perth. Floods in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia did im ense damage, inundating scores,. of towns and many miles of farmiing, lands. Two stonemasons were killed "an& Lwo injured in'the collapse of a portion >f the addition to the Fidelity Trust Company's building in Philadelphia. The condition of 0. H.'P. Belmont, of ew York, who is sick with pneumonia in Washington. was a trifle better-. He la very seriously ill. . - United States coinage for February -$9,261,340. -