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fl AUGUSTA BRAVBLY j SENATOR S HIVE I A* FACES FUTURE i OF 1X1 (Continued from Page 1) Was For Many Yea nine hours last night, causing a loss Figure in Congress? estimated at from $5,000,000 to $7,- | pert. 000,000, was brought to a halt early ; this morning after it had crossed j Washington, March Green street. min F. Shlvely, senior An area of about one and one- ! Indiana and for many fourth square miles was ravaged by In?nt figure in Congr the flames which were driven by a to-day at a hospital h heavy March gale. The Augusta fire- boon ill for many m< men were powerless and apparatus complication of di sea set had to be sent from Columbia, At- than a year had been i lanta, Macon, Savannah and Way- form actively his officii neshorn The winil stnnneH hlntvlnir was 58 vears old. Just after 1 o'clock and it was then During three terms that the firemen checked the flames. Sl?d the seven years 1?< Estimates to-day placed the num- the Senate. Snator Sh 4>er of residences destroyed at be- voted his activities p tween 600 and 700, including some { foreign affairs and tar of the finest old homes in Augusta, j H the time of his deatti No estimate can be placed on the' big Democratic membe value of the contents of the homes. I eign Relations Commit The owners saved practically noth-jhe had been acting ctu ing. To-day over 3,000 persons j the critical period pree were homeless. Many spent the lowing the American night walking the streets, while oth-1 Vera Cruz, ers slept in the halls of large ho- 1 I" the House ho had tela. ied as a tariff expert, s The ten story building occupied by 'cuously on the Ways an the Augusta Chronicle was practi-! mittee. and later as a cally destroyed by the fire. The loss important sub-committ< on this building is $180,000. The ate Finance Committee Empire Life building was damaged erful influence in the f to the extent of $200,000. Underwood-Simmons ta The losses on the 800 block of Senator Kern, in ai Broad street are approximately as colleague's death in tli follows: Dyer building, $750,000: he was performing the Richards Stationery company. $25,-1 of his official life, lb 000; Warren building and contents. ? the House resolutii $150,000. The losses on Broad St., were adopted, commit! frontage, are: Union Savings bank, ' pointed to attend the ft $60,000; Postal Telegraph. $17,000; Journment was taken John J. Evans, $20,000; Western mark of respect. Union, $15,000; Schneider building. I Senator Shively had $15,000; Commercial club. $35,000; diabetes for nearly 15 Herald. $15,000; Masonic temple, resulting cancerous gi 15n OOO- Iriol,. \ (Ot AAA Ihl'mt ?, , >, f I . 1 htm , The Tubman hi ah school building February of last year, on Reynolds street was completely able to attend the pres destroyed. The Houghton grammar Congress except on the school building was swept away. i the oath of office for hli W. T. Elrod, an automobile driv- His condition became er, rescued two young girls from the last night. Mrs. Shivc Dyer building. lie made two trips and daughter were in 1 to the fifth floor and was painfully during his last hours, burned. ] The body will be ta Prominent Augustans said to-day Bend, Ind., lor burial, that rebuilding operations are to be- During his illness Se gin at once. was visited several til ident Wilson, who rega AID FROM GREENVIliliR. warm personal friend. I President sent a letter Firemen and Apparatus Is Sent to,Mrs. Shively. Xiiuiistii ! ??? ~ RK HE I<1.1X0 XOT OKI Greenville, March 23.?A special REPORTER IX V train left here this morning at 2 o' clock carrying 20 firemen, a fire en- Administration H?s X? gine, hose wagon and 3,800 feet of ?r t,u' News Thai Hei hose to Augusta. The train is due volted Against Carre In Augusta at 5 o'clock. Joined Villa?Secret Iteticient on Situalie CHARI.ESTOX SENDS HELP TO AUGUSTA Washington, March 2 I tion of the report that Pumper, Twelve Hundred Feet of garrison of 2,000 und Hose and Firemen Go on Special rf>rH at Chihnuhua had Train. joined Villa was still 1 at the war departmen Special to The State: j dispatch to that effec Charleston, March 23.?A pump-! last night by the Unite er, 1,200 feet of hose and seven fire-; censor at Columbus, men under Foreman Wohlers, left partment insisted thai at 10:50 o'clock to-night on a spec-j ton's message last nigh lal train, about 40 minutes after l.v that "it is reported receiving a call to aid in fighting volt had occurred, add the fire raging in that city. J was no confirmation. ? , No new advices had i HELP SENT FROM COLUMBIA i partment, officials sai J declared there was no Two Trucks and Several Thousand ; 'inV message received THE LANCASTER NEWS. MAHC11 MANA DKAII. f" - ' 11 rs Prominent p - ? -A Tariff Kx occupation of j ^ l*been regard-j ervlng conapi(l Means Com-1 We are prop.)red to take care of you member of an your suit to vovi "AS YOU LIKE pe of the Son- TEED. OK YOUR MONEY REFUNDED. . exerted pow- ^ < / raining of the | PRE ,lff la7' , . MADE TO YOUR IDEAS AND DES mourning his Y0U ARE ENTITLED TO A PALM BI e Senate, sa l TIONAL AMOUNT OF saddest duty otli there and ons of regret tees were apinerai and ad- If yOU don't want the Palih Beach or C as a further er Qr jcrien(| measured for it. You can a suffered from U CAN'T GET AS GOOD A sun venrs and a THE COUNTRY, BECAUSE YOU ARE rowtii in the WE DO NOT CHARGE YOU ANY 1 0 bis bed in FROCK, PRINCE ALBERT, FULL DRK He was not ent session of 3~Tl W jfi 1 day ho took AM W * second term. A AAA^A ^^A^ A more critical ly and a son A A r|t|ip p the sick room ^ * I UL 1 e advance col- had not taken the flel(1> ment of stude n had been un- , two million be the supply sit- h.\\I>ITS Ml'ltDKIt ' "8? ,n h*"1 pd no shortage. KOKKMJN ll.WCHKK an<* theii it was without a large, intell i, where a dis- improve their I been indicat-1Knr,ro Visonnte Slain In Mexican ts. A message ' Home. THE ACHES < w on the west i The pain a vailed at En-' El Paso, March 19.?(Enrico Vis- bruises, overa. jconti. an Italian subject and one of (*urirp. *louf'< the best known foreign ranchers in na#d * ! Mexico, was murdered by Mexican apply Sloans APTD ACTION pandits on his ranch at RmcinlUas, spots, rub on i., March 23,? Chihuahua, last Tuesday. News of fj^^b/^and'e ort Sam Hous- the murder reached here to-day in 0np grateful action at points a telegram sent by Vincenzo Viscontl, Liniment is uld new rebel- brother of the murdered man. The gold." Keep it necessary. telegram was sent from Presideo to atnda*pj.y*ge(|a' not altogether Wenceslas Garcia, a brother of the our pnigglst h of the report foreman of the ranch. The fore- j ra, the deposed man escaped when Viscontl was mur-| Atlnw lauhua, had en- dered and made his way safely to ^ Atlanta On i Villa against Ojinaga. , train bearing t the repetition Viscontl's ranch is 75,000 acres in ' . . #A . . . , , A . -. t nh left here i absence of ac- extent and located 100 miles south of the contrary Ojinaga and about an equal distance to-night for J nd his staff to east of Chihuahua City. The bandits Ins the fire tl true. who murdered Viscontl seized his five hours to I- eei oi nose. ?-11 tan f xpi-uii inn sian co (hat the troops ha Columbia. March 22.?In response j or b,M'n firod ?P?"to a call from Augusta for help in' Soc,etar> Raker, \\ fighting the fire raging there two;,lay ,f Gon" F?n?ton trucks and several thousand feet of ' rfi'iforrements a hose were sent by Columbia to-night an<' -4th Inf. to the burning Georgia city on a to bim. sai special train over the Southern. The vvi" "nt answ?i* lh.it train left here before 0 o'clock. News mf'^Ra?e from Gei of the conflagration was received here nicrbt said ,b' nif,,or *' with the greatest interest. satisfactorily solved t getting supplies to th ' GOOD FOR CORDS jiimn. General Funsto Honey. Pine Tar and Glycerine are f*?sy. it was said, over recognized cold remedies. In Dr. nation, but had report Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey these are com. -phe navy departmei bined with other cough medicine in a pleasant syrup. Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar- advlors from TamPlf>0 Honey quickly stops your cough, nuletlng situation bar soothes Irritation of the throat. Ex- ed in (inofficial repor cellent for young, adult and aged. fr0m Admiral Winslo Formula on every bottle. You know pnftst SflW1 nnlAt np<1 jubi wiiiti you are taxing ana your " ~ " *" doctor knows its good for coughs I sen(l- lower Cftlifornii and colds. Insist on Dr. Bell's Pine Tar-Honey. Only 26c at Druggists. ORDERS ARE OlVEl | FOR R NOTICE. J San Antonio, Texas The Pleasant Plain Baptist Sun- Orders going from F day-school will observe the foreign ton provide for rapid i and home missionary program in the|n'onK border sho Interest of these objects on Sunday, j n?n* ,n Mex,co mAke Gen. Funston was March 26. beginning at 9:30 o'clock conT,nced of tho tfut] a. m. The boards will exhibit in the! that Gen. T,uls Herrei school facsimiles of the heathen wor- military leader at Chll ships (Idols) and American Idols, tered the field with We will make our school Instructive the United States, bu Sunday morning. The general public of the report, and the Is invited. Please come, and come ceptable evidence to at 9:30. caused the generah a W. F. Estridge., Supt. regard It as probably I nator Shively ; i! joi To-night the 1 ^ \ of condolence uUvVJIN Confirmation | _ 1^?^ rrern Had He- ' in/.a and llad . ary linker is staff officerR of Gen plinHton ! cousin. Juan I ,n" studied a more extended area of his ranch, 60 n northern Mexico to-day. The prob- , clnillas; a wee 3. ?C onfinna-, ajjje moveH Qf Herrera and his 2,000 hint for $1,50 the Cat ranzft j mftn werG carefully considered and paid from El ler Luis Her- evorv point alone the. border, not'* Viscontl refuse ievolted and wa8 nf Glo positions of Amerl- hut no detail: ucking to-day can tr0ops and the time it would here, t, although a fak?? to move 4hem to meet any situ- A son of th< t was passed atj0n. to have been v d States army Army officers believe that if Her- hut nothing is The war de- rera has revolted his activities wlll i pit.VISES j t Gen. Funs-ibe confined to operations that have; t stated mere- j for their object the strengthening of ^ ^ ^ th(. w " that the re- i villa's bands and the harassing o ^ ing that there Gen Pershing's force. It was feared | ,hat he would cut the Northwestern , Wajjh,ngton eached the de-I Railway over which Gen, bunsto Hardwlck> add d, and it was hop,,8 to receive permission to move ^ prai8ed t , Indication in 1 supplies to the American troops, now ^ t) since the Am- | almofit 200 miles into Mexico. To ^ ghlp ted into Mexl-1 prevent this move Gen. Funston ts support of h, ,1 fired a shot j powerless and it is doubted if Car- ^ instructic ranza's troops are in position to op- 1<?Rp8 the hen asked to- 1 pnSe Herrera. ho termed th had asked for Reports at headquarters lhat Gen. ^ mORt lmp :'noe the Fifth (lira's garrison at Juarez was about redneBS>, intry were or- to revolt and that the troops at Tor- ^ reserve, d: "I think I reon were manifesting disaffection ( Hardw question." j were regarded w ith apprehension at ^ appropriat i. Funston last the fort. The Mexican consul hero ^ payment uck trains had continued to denytheir truth and ro"Ntors for mm he problem of iterated his assertion that Herrera , v' >X * * 24, 1916 " ~L~"' 5SSS EASTl Will Be Here You Kno1 "PRFPADCT i hk, Illbao. a Spaniard, on wa W fV"! iill'es southwest of En- I I I M k previously and held I B I I H 0 ransom, which was ^ Paso. It is^supposed d demands for money, * have been received To Our Frie > ranchman is thought rith him on the ranch, We are still at your service. I known a sto his fate. able Fire Insurance companies c.n to serve you. IMEIUCAN NAVY. We are in position to handle ; orld, Declares SenAtor before the passage of the New I Inrdwick. ance until you give us a chance 1 , March 18.?Senator tressing the senate to- I O he United States navy L<HlC<lSt0r U<i 1 the world, man for sjwissviavavs w* for ship. He spoke in s bill extending mill- 1 >n in schools nnd col- 1 lfl ICY best solution of what e "most troublesome j ortant question of any IRA B. JONI ' the creation of a millick bill contemplates |<>W.\ CIKKH \\l) KltADK ATI ion of $20,000,000 for CRIPPLED CHILDREN FRF of officers as instruc Itary drill and equip- Iowa City. Iowa., March 23.?U nits. There are nearly der Iowa's new law to give free trei iys of over fifteen years j mt.nt to cripple children, 147 lit! lools anA^colleges. he ones are being treated at the sta r training would create university. The law is but fi igent reserve force and months old. At present there a standards. 70 /children in the ward. Over i per cent of the cases are the rest OF HOUSE CLEANINO 0f infant paralysis epidemic nd soreness caused bv fjve years ago. The little patler exertion and straining come to the hospital in various cc 9 cleaning ditions. Some have lost only t by Sloan's Liniment. * affer this agqpy. Just of thclr A complete schc Liniment to the sore system of eight gades has been ( ly a little. In a short tablished with nurses as teachers t leaves, you rest com- educate the little ones as they I njoy a refreshing sleep. . . ... user writes: "Sloan's Prove 'n health, worth its weight in a bottle on hand, use HOUSE ALMOST POLIO II Soreness, Neuralgia FOR ARMY INCRKAl Kills pain. 25c. at Washington, March 23.?The H ta Sends Help ( army Increase bill, providing for k? March 22.?A special 'e*ular army peace strength of 14 r fire fighting appara- 000 "???ttng men instead of the pr, . ^ ^ cnt 100,000, passed by the House li shortly after 7 o'clock A . . . . . A_ . ? ^ to-day by a vote of 402 to 2. It g< Vugustn to aid in f'ght- gcnate for immediate c< lArit Tt will f o lrev AKAH# ' - ?? ... - * - ~ ~ -- Hinerntion virtually aa dratted by i make the trip. j House committee. \ Is T1?h.e Password c ir EASTER ORDER for your tailor made suit, and IT" on the day wanted. SATISFACTION I '.PARE YOURSELF NOW! SIRES CANNOT BF. DUPLICATED ELSEWHERE 5ACH OR COOLER CLOTH COAT AND PANTS d*o CA q>^..ou Cooler Cloth coat and pants for your own use, you cai ell it >r give it as. a present?The actual value of it " OR PROPOSITION FROM ANY TAILORING Ol DKAI ING DIRECT* WITH T!!E MAKERS. THE! EXTRAS FOR SIZE OF COAT, VEST, OR PANTS ISS, AND TUXEDO SUITS. 'OUR ORDER AT C OLUMBIA TAILORING CO INF. BOWLING, Manager D DOOR FROM POST OFFICI . XT/"* X pttti n sTj s Before I w It. I ' )NESS" >f The Day. by that we mean:?To deliver N EVERY DETAIL GUARANFOR LESS THAN $20.00. AND TO ORDER FOR THE ADDIi have your Brother, Son, Fath.is $10.00. * CLOTHING CONCERN IN IE IS NO MIDDLEMAN. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF WLL I E.\\\\w\ ndi and Patrons n cur office we have several good relid and are continuing to do our best your line just the same as we were nsuranee law, so don't place your insur.0 talk to you. vings Bank and j I Company | US JR. Secratary is The negative voteB were cast by 111 Itepresentatlevs Bitten, Republican. ^ of Illlonis, and London, Socialist, of ^ n- New York. it- Mr. Britten opposed the bill be:1*> cause b? favored a still further inte; crease in the army and Mr. London ve because he favored no inc rease. G5 ' CALL TO NATIONAL BANKS lit of J Washington. March 13.?The conipits troller of currency to-day Issued a in- call to all national banks requiring he | theni to report to him their condl>ol Hon at the close of business on Tneabs day, March 7. to m" NOTICE. The Lancaster County Secret Farmers' Association will hold their quarterly meetlna at Antini>ti Oa*_ 1 -?r< " " '"wv" * urday, April 1st, at 10 o'clock a. 111. Every local la urged to send delea gates, as business of importance ia 0 to be present. Mr. Stuckey and Mr. ^ Davia, of Blahopville, have consented l( ( to be present; also State /President ? )0g Yates, of Camden, is expected to )n_ speak. ,he W. V. Estridge, Lancaster County Secretary.