Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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:>L ' ' A WOMAN'S MISERY. j ' 5frs. John LaRue, of 115 Patcrson 11 Avenue, Paterson, N. J., says: "1 was , fawn bled for about nine years, a^djj . . th^ hotfee the back ache has been so bad that it brought tears to my eyes. The pain at times was so intense that I j *r?!S compelled to give up my household duties and lie down. There were headaches, dizziness and blood rushing to my head to cause bleeding at the nose. The first box of Doan's Kidney tills benefited me so much that I continued the treatment. The stinging pain in the small of my back, the rushes of blood to the head and other symptoms disappeared." Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers. 50 cents per box. FosterMiiburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. His Gonial For Invective. * Barend Vet, of The Hague, had recently the misfortune to call a constable a monkey, an accusation which a local paper pointed out as "being, of course, untrue," ana wmcii, mwrwYa, Is a form of untruth not permitted in Holland. Vet was arrested and brought before the judge on a charge of "insulting the police," being sentenced to forty-five days' imprisonment Before being removed he turned to address the court. "Then I mustn't call a constable a monkey," he said. "Certainly not You must not insult the-police." The culprit reflected. "May I call a monkey a constable?" he asked, with a flash of genius. The judge shrugged his shoulders, and holding no brief for the animal, replied: "If it gives you any satisfaction." With a smile of satisfaction Vet turned on his heel in the dock and bowed to his prosecutor. "Good dny, constable," he said.?St. James* Gazette. K, Chance For Inventors. The Department of Agriculture in Queensland has resolved to offer the substantial reward of ?5000 for the discovery of a means of eradicating the "prickly pear," which of late years has spread very much in Australia. A proviso wfll be made that the cost must , not exceed a certain sum per acre, and the department will have to be satisfied that the means adopted are efficacious. As It is, the department has a process ] rolved from the experiments at the i Weetbrook State Farm, but the cost i per acre is too great < J Wm letter follows, is anot i i position wno owes ner Lydia E. Pinkham's 1 , ? * ! "Deab Mrs. Pinkham:?I suffe weakness and bearing-down pains, a tite was fitful, and I would lie aw: until I seemed more weary in the mc reading one of your advertisements I E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compoui can describe the good it did me. . I besides building up my general hea out of my body, and made me feel Mrs. Pinkham's medicines are certa Mbs. M. E. Hughson, 347 East Ohio I Jttrs. Pinkliam Tells How Ordinar; Apparently trifling incidents in w JimlaAamanfa n#fhn TOrtynVl A nlin nn t Standing' at a counter, running a sewir ordinary tasks may result in displacemer The first indication of such trouble Don't let the condition become chronic that you can overcome it by exercise or More than a million women have rc Flnkham's Vegetable Compound. If the slightest trouble appea write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, s timely words from her will show advice costs you nothing, but it ma p" Mrs. Lelah godsend to wo - 1 you could do i TO'S ?* draggin rJ? KI suffered TTV\mK fmnWft. 1 r ach0, but^a fe\ ^ health to women who tl the worst forms of female oomplainfc back, falling and displacement of the w all troubles of the uterus or womb. It uterus in the early stage of developmei ous humors. It subdues excitability,: entire female system. Its record of c hould be relied upon with eotffidencu , / $5000 w&~.. p,:. .. German Hearts. Diseases of the heart have been on :he increase in Germany In recent fears, one person in every seven being iffiicted. Infiueuza, alcoholism and excessive addiction to bicycling and other sports are named by Dr. Steckel as the chief causes. 9tati o? Ohio, City of Toledo, f Lucas County. f ' Fbank J. Cheney make oath that he is ? A- ? A L - r% -O TJ T r*n?u?iT t. jeniorpartner ot me nrm ui c. u,vaai<i.i ?, Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of oxe husdbed dollars for eaoh and every case of CATABBHthat ;annot be cured by the use of H&lI's Databbh Cube. Feank J. Chznet. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my . aaa , presence,this 6thday of Dooember, I SEAL. [ A. D., 1886. A. W. GLEASOJT, ' ?-v ? ' Notary Public. Hall'sCatarrh Cure is taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, tree. F. J. Chemky 4 Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall'9 Family Pills for constipation. To Smoko "Without Harm. Tobacco poisoning has long been made a subject of investigation by ?' ? *- - - i*- - xr-: a# troressor rurst, ui tue uuiveisuij ui Leipzig, Germany, who finds that tobacco may be smoked without injury to the smoker by observing the following precautions: (1) Use only mild tobacco; (2) smoke only good tobacco; (3) do not smoke the last half of a cigar or the end of a cigarette; (4) if a cigar or a cigarette goes out do not relight it; (5) do not sit in a room filled with the fumes of tobacco; (6) do not chew the end of a cigar; (7) use a cigar holder or a cigarette holder with a bit of cotton to catch the nicotine; (8) at home smoke only pipes with long stems, and preferably a nargilehChicago Tribune. LeagaUy Dead; Stl'.l AHre. A. man may bo legally dead and yet be very much alive, in fact Ten years ago Fitch .Marquis left his family in Kansas and had never been heard of until the other day, when he turned up at La Oygne. He refused to say where he had been. His wife thought him dead and sued for a $2000 life insurance policy he carried. The court decided sho should pay the premiums for seven years, and if he did not show up he would be counted as dead in this world. The widow paid the premiums and at the end of seven years drew her money, but Marquis is not dead.?To peka Capital. Chemist* In Confusion. In the past few months something little short of confusion has been wrought in the ranks of science by the revelations of the metal radium. The atomic theory, long established, was upset; the principle of the conservation of energy, which seemed Impregnable, was threatened; and a general insecurity in scientific beliefs began to be felt. But a great hope also arose, the hope that humanity was on the verge of some marvelous discovery of the true constitution of things and perhaps of the meaning of life and nature. l *r Vf ^ ' * j M snijV. * * ? J ^ ' !|'i;j #| ? f.^' .'%s* 5^j f ^ ^ ' f 1 ;her woman in ftigft health to the use of Vegetable Compound* red for several years with general rnsed by womb trouble. My appeike for hours, and could not sleep, ?ming than wen I retired- Afterdecided to try the merits of Lydia ad, and I am so glad I did. No one took three bottles faithfully, and 1th, it drove all disease and poison as 6pry and active as a young gir,L inly all they are claimed to 6e." ? St, Chicago, I1L y Tasks Produce Displacements. Oman's daily life frequently produce be stairs, lifting during menstruation, ig machine, or attending to the most nf arils is startecL i should be the signal for quick action, i through neglect or a mistaken idea leaving it alone. igainea health by the use of Lydia ?. rs which yon do not understand Mass., for her advice, and a few you the right thing to do. This y mean life or happiness or both. Stowell, 177 Wellington ngston, Ont., writes: a Pinkuam: ? You are indeed a men. and if they all knew what :or them, there would be no need ig out miserable lives in agony, tor years with bearing-down naina, lervouaness, and excruciating neadv bottles of Lydia ?. Pinkham's ible Compound made life look id promising to me. I am light and and I do not know what sickness ? 1--1 .j i??uv r> 1 now enjoy ine Deai. oa uccuuu. ydia E. Pinkbam's Vegetable an always be relied upon to restore ins suffer. It is a sovereign cure lor i, ? that bearing-down feeling, weak 'omb, inflammation of the ovaries, and dissolves and expels tumors from the at, and checks any tendency to cancer* nervous prostration, and tones up the ores is the greatest in the world, and tfc prodnoe the original and tlgvatuna at ? t&eir abtolat? geaalnntw. k X. Plnkham Xedletae C*n T.mag ? >. iMffllMI JUilJLM X 1U1UUJU Kf UU total Raged For Thirty=six Ruins Over T Hon > riAii-rif niTir ni ni tinIT CUT uLUI Mai Law is Declared to Pn Untouched by the Flames?J in Order to Straighten ation?Fifty Thou: LOSS ROUGHLY ESTIMATED Baltimore, Md.?Smoke enshrouded, thi3 stricken city lies stunned and eilent under the weight of the worst disaster in its history. The great fire which began shortly before noonday on j Sunday burned itself out at the water's edge just as evening fell the next day, having swept, a giant all-conquering wave of flame, up from the heart of tne Business centre ot tne city, tnrougn its financial district, and then, receding, back among the wharves and .warehouses. A territory twelve full city Mocks by nine, and extending beyond over a mile of waterfront, is left in smoking, hideous ruins. Where at Saturday's close of business stood stately office structures, substantial buildings of business, and docks teeming with the shipping trade of the world, there are now piles of broken brick and stone and tottering walls which the sappers are fast leveling with dynamite. The business streets are deserted, not because it is the day's end and the workers are gone till morning, but because there can be no work until the a. m. xi. - u ?~ resuureu viiy rises iluui me uaues. As for the loss?that Is all a matter of reckoning now. The authorities here put it at $150,000,000, but such an estimate takes into account only what can be figured as the direct and immediate damage. Indirectly the losses are quite beyond computation, and it will take the days necessary to overhaul vaults and deposit chambers in order to make any accurate appreciation of the" ijury done to all interests affected. A conservative estimate is from $80,000,000 to 5100,000,000. While the fire was at its height there were many rumors of loss of life, but these fortunately proved erroneous. More than 2000 buildings have been destroyed in the district bounded by Howard, Gay, Fayette and Pratt streets. Controller Ridgeley declared a legal holiday for ! A.U - W J 4.* 4?? ; uiu uauiu? iu 1/1 utri tt/ yluictw uicui iu > paper coming due. I After traveling to the water front ' the flames about 2 o'clock Monday afternoon were got under control. The progress of the fire waa stopped at the foot of Union dock and kept from leaping to the Canton side of Jones Falls. From Pratt street down, on the west side, the flames destroyed the T. J. Meyer Packing Company and the Boyer Fruit and Packing Company plants, the latter facing West Falls avenue and running back to Union dock. The 1 fire then continued until it reached the j Maryland Ice Company's plant, which was quickly swept away. This plant , included a huge frame building, adjoining the Union dock, the depot of the American Ice Company. This lati ter, with a large lumber yard to the south, was the last to burn. The fireboat Cataract did splendid service in checking the fire, and was well aided by numerous tugboats and launches. On West Falls avenue two of the New York engines, backed up against the wharf, played on the American Ice Company's plant to prevent the fire spreading to Denmeade's Malt House. This is one of the largest of the kind in the country, and was stacked with matt. Had it caught fire the last barrier would have gone and nothing could have saved East Baltimore. At 4.30 o'clock a. m. there was a terrible crash in the neighborhood of Pratt street, near Jones Falls, and huge bolts of iron and sheets of metal iwere sent flying. It was the tremendous power house of the United Railway Company and United Electric Light and Power Company. In fifteen minutes the gigantic structure was a mass of ruins, and the expensive machinery, recently installed, was a total iwreck. This was the largest and one of the most expensive plants for generating electricity in the country. All night a guard of men were working guarding the gas main across Charged With Robbing Letters. n 3 A TtT J - , , AMA TTAUKfl r I'BU A, nuinu uu, l vy cu ij -uuc jcaio old, a carrier of special delivery letters attached to the Ithaca (N. Y.) postoffice, has been arrested, on the charge of opening and embezzling the contents of special delivery letters. i. " $50,000 Fire in Binghamton. 'A fire gutted the factory of the Commercial Envelope and Paper Company, one of the chief industries of Binghamton, N. Y., causing $50,000 damage and throwing 200 persons out of work. Personal Mention. The Archbl:.!:op U Canterbury takes rank as first peer of the realm. Dr. E. B. Wilson, professor of zoology at uoinmoia university, ua? uecu envied a member of .he Academ! i del Lincei, Rome. Clyde Fitch, the playwright, collects la scrap books specimens of the errors foreigners make in dealing with strange tongues. Both the Queen of Holland and the' Queen-Mother have contributed to the funds of the Salvation Army in the Netherlands. t oiiwnce mmm OYEDWF RE Hours and Left in wo Thousand ses. IKS DEVASTATED ? . event Pillage of the Structures 1 Ten Bays' Holiday Decreed Out the Financial Situ:and People Idle, i i IT ftinni W Aim nnn nnn ai mm $idu,uuu,uuu [ Jones Falls, which supplies the business part ef the city with gas from the Canton reservoirs. The main was keftt'intact and the city's gas.supply preserved. The tremendous busiuess, storage and warehouse plants in this vicinity between South street and Jones Falls, from Fayette to Pratt, are a mass of ruins. Where once were the Sun and American offices and the entire brokerage community and bankiag district is now a mass of debris, almost impossible to get at. The Wilson and Lowery distilling companies were destroyed about 5 o'clock a. m? the whisky and alcohol exploding with terrific force. Both were situated at Lombard and Frederick streets, and with this explosion many of the old ramshackle buildings along Baltimore street, near Gay, went down in a crashing collapse, burying Pipeman Jacob Ilgenfritz, of the York (Pa.) department, under the walls. He is dead. Within two doors of the Sun office is a safe deposit and trust company containing securities and Jewels valued at many millions. Two watchmen were locked in the building, one being in the vaults and could not be freed until the time jock was released. ah tne duhciings In the neighborhood were destroyed, but this one, singularly and providentially, escaped. During the morning the men were released, half crazed with fear. The condition of this building excited many of the people who had valuables running up into the millions. While the fire was at its height tremendous efforts were made to save the municipal and National<buildings. The temporary custom house was several times on fire, but the flames were extinguished. The court house had fire *on two sides from tall office buildings, but was saved by splendid work. The City Hall is apparently uninjured, and during all the time that the flames were swirl log arouna tne aome toat every x>aiumorean and every visitor to Baltimore know so well, old Lord Baltimore, far up above the fiery furnace and the doomed buildings, was tolling off the hours to the best of his ability. Occasionally, the mechanism of the clock became disarranged and some remarkable tolls were heard. About this time the wind shifted again and began to blow straight from the west. It was then seen that in about thirty-six hours the fire had burned thirty blocks out of the very heart of the business part of the town, destroyed nearly 1500 buildings an4? caused an estimated money loss of more than $100,000,000. The area of the fire district has been esti&ated by the topographical department of ths city at 140 acres, bounded on the north by Lexington, St. Paul and Fayette streets, on the east by the creek called Jones Falls, on the west by Liberty street and on the south by Chesapeake Bay. When the fire started, a few minutes before 11 o'clock on Sunday morning, the wind was blowing from the soutliwmK Prnm TTnrst & Oo.'s Store. whore the fire started, it swept rapidly toward the northeast, consuming one great mercantile house after another, and when it had reached Lexington street there was a sudden shift of the wind. It careened to the northeast, and the fire chased itself back to St. Paul street and down and across intersecting and parallel thoroughfares until every building within an area of nearly ten blocks except the City Hall, court house and postoffice had either been licked up by the flames or been dynamited in the hope of preventing their spread. Then came another shift of the wind, from northeast to northwest, following soon on a storm warning from the Weather Bureau in Washington. It was undoubtedly owing to this -last shift of the wind that to the fearful destruction of property was not added a fearful loss of life. With the shift of the wind the course of the fire was toward the warehouses, Aid Sent From Aljoona. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company's Fire Department, at Altoona, Pa., one engine, two hose wacons and inn ? <>?.? Dnlflmnrn | IUU StUlteil L\JL x^aiuuii/ici 100 Firemen Sent From Wilmington, Two fire engines and 100 firemen left Wilmington, Del., on a call for assistance from Baltimore. Montreal in the Eastern League. Montreal has taken the place of the Worcester team in the Eastern circuit. Sporting Brevities. The first two-year-old stake of the year at New Orleans, La., was won by an outsider, Modredlaw, at 100 to 1. Mr. Vanderbilt's officially timed feat on Ormond Beach, Fla., in driving his automobile was a mile in thirty-nine copnnrta A movement is on fcot among boxing promoters to form a national association for the purpose of regulating weights. "Jim" Parr, En^livh' bea^ .weight champion wrestler, defeated "Jack" Monroe at th> Olympic Athletic Chib of Buffalo, N. Y. and stores of the commission merchants who supply the city with food. There are green-grocers and butchers scattered about the city, Baltimoreans getting their supplies from a central market. The wares for this market are bought from the warehouse men and commission merchants. When the warehouses were threatened the cry went up that famine might follow the fire, but the people of Baltimore soon got over that fright. The warehouses and the storehouses of the commission merchants went up in smoke, but it is easier to replenish blocks of foodstuffs than it is to re store human life. Had the firf? lumped Jones' Falls to the lumber y-rd9. and piers beyond, there would have "been a second fire, among Baltimore's tenements, which, like tenements of the lower East Side in New York, are packed close together beyond the east shore of Jones' Falls. But the New York fire fighters were on the other shore of the creek and the tenements were saved. As soon as the New York fire fighters arrived here Battalion Chief Howe, who was in command, put one question to the Acting Fire Chief of Baltimore: "What is the exact situation, and where can we fight for you hardest?* The flames were rapidly eating their way to the harbor. To the. question from New York, the Baltimore Chief made answer* ? -? * 1. in Inrrr "UUT supply 01 ire&u waici io mn, and few of our engines can take salt water from the bay. Our men are about played out and the fire Is sweeping toward the warehouses and the docks. If those go. God help us." "Send us there." said Chief Howe, "and we'll do what we can fw you." To the warehouse district in tie, southeastern part of the city and to the water front the New York apparatus went racing. Even the horses apparency realized that it was New York to the rescue, and as they raced the flames raced after them. Chief Howe took a good look at the warehouses, gauged the force of the wind and looked back at the .?utreaching flame fiend. , ? "Those warehouses are doomed," he exclaimed, "but we'll save .the docks\ and the shipping and the lumber yards or bust," and so he stationed his men and his apparatus around the big houses of the American Ice Company and the Maine Lake Ice Company, got bis engines quickly into action, and when the flames leaped from the last warehouse to the nearest icehouse, the New York fire laddifts were at tliem. There they stood fighting hour after hour and never retreating a foot The icehouses were pretty well done for. bat the great lumber yards and the piers, where the merchandise of the world is laid at Baltimore's feet, were saved. Just at sunset Chief Howe Jointed up the acting chief of Baltimore and simply said: . "I have the honor to report that your fire is under control." . - i The story of the fire is one of ruin } and destruction from the business cen, tre to the harbor. Sweeping down I German, Fayette and Baltimore streets the flames encountered old, timeworn structures, and for the next few blocks I their progress was so rapid that the firemen gave up all attempt to fight the flames back. The Sun and American offices went up in smoke before midnight. All the banking buildings and brokerage offices on South and German streets were in ruins. At midnight, after the fire watf under control, the city,'almost in total darkness, was as quiet is a country village. The burned district was patroled by the citizen soldiers or the First Fourth and Fi?th regiments and Xtpop,, A, of the National Guard, and about* fifty men of the naval militia. The occasional challenge of a belated traveler by one of the sentries was about the 'linf mtrrh h hft Tjwi'rit in thp : uuijr ovuuu iuub 4ui0mv mv -wv..v. .? ? place where the commerce of the city less than three days ago .was in full swing. ... Except for the dreadful calamity which had plunged the city in such ruin, the town presented a holiday appearance. Every incoming train and steamboat brought hosts of sightseers. The Baltimore and Ohio refused to sell any more tickets from Washington. The power house is destroyed and street car traffic was suspended. Every sort of vehicle imaginable was pressed into service, andsmillionaires could be seen riding up and down town in moving wagons. The city was placed under the strictest kind of military rule, and every saloon was closed as tight as wax. Troops were on guard at almost every corner, and oBly a pass signed either by Adjutant-General, Riggs or by President Upshur, of the Police Board, would allow any one within the fire lines. The burned district, comprising 140 acres of a roughly drawn right *ngled triangle, is piled with heaps and masses of brick, stone and twisted iron, from which walls of the more substantial structures tower, some seemingly ready to fall at any instant. Flames still rising from the ruins on the second fivn onrl fhn hupnino' mui'mug ilUCL Hit mv, .uv ^ u.. ...~0 gas from the broken mains gave light for the firemen, who were pressing steadily inward from the borders of the burned region. Fifty thousand men and women are out of employment. The insurance companies have to meet the greatest losses they have encountered since the Chicago tire. There are hundreds of ruined merchants. It will take y?ars to restore the city. And with it all Baltimore is not cast down. "We will rebuild. We will become a greater city. A? new business Baltimore will rise on the ashes of the old." That is the sentiment of the leading men of the city. They are appalled at the calamity that has befallen them, but they have courage. The great wholesale and financial centre of the city, together with oysterpacking houses, warehouses, small stores, lumber yards, docks, malt houses, factories, the granite office buildings, were wiped out in the twen-4 Labor Leader Driven From City. Vice-President Dwyer, of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who came here from the East to direct the strike of carriage drivers of Kansas City. Mo., was ordered-from the city by the police. Explosion on the Iowa. The battleship Iowa, while testing her batteries on her way down the Atlantic coast on February 4, blew off the muzzles of both eight-inch guns in her forward starboard turret. College and Educational Notes. The third annual Bowdoin-Amherst debate wiM take place at Bowdoin March 18. Andrew Carnegie has given $15,000 toward a library at Talladega College, in Aiaoama. The catalogue number of the Trinity College Bulletin shows that there are 125 students in the college. The debate between Bates and Trinity colleges win ocenr at Hartford, Conn., some time in March. An urgent call* for 51.000.000 for Tufts College is made by President EN mer H. Capen in his annual report . : - ?'' "; ?*? * ?' -if ' ty-four hours between li; o'clock: Simday morning add II o'clock Monday morning as if they had been figures on a wlate and a wet sponge had been passed over them. Busy Baltimore street is a wilderness of twisted iron beams, tangled trolley and telegraph wires, calcined brick, nwncKftfl ?!oao Konf on/1 ahc^ot iron and other wreckage. The side streets from the comer of Sharpe and Liberty to Baltimore to the harbor-are in similar case. ' The flames were so fierce, the heat so intense, that supposedly fireproof structures like the Continental Trust Building. the EquitaWe and the Calvert buildings were, ruined in fifteen minutes. In some instances buildings seemed to melt as if they were made of ice. The flames burst in the windows. In an instant the buildings were - destroyed. The ordinary brick buildings did not last three minutes each on an average. T?.trai?Tr oroilohla anmna fwm Vow York. Washington, Philadelphia, Wilmington and from places as far away as Altoona and Harrisburg reinforced the Baltimore department and played water on the flames. The streams had no effect. The water was turned to steam before it reached the Are. The flames leaped across the narrow streets. A. strong wind was blowing. At times it reached forty miles an hour. The sparks flew in all directions and for many squares. The sight after nightfall was tremendous. The flames were 200 feet high. Accftrding to the list of losses it is expected that few insuarnce companies wilt be forced into bankruptcy. That danger will be confined to some Baltimore companies and to a few unimportant outside companies. The city was placed under martial law, Major-General Cffrbin having been called from New York to take charge of the militia and the Federal trooDS ordered here by the Governor and the President to aid in checking the flames and to prevent tha pillaging, of buildinga undamaged by fire. Pynamite was used unsparingly on great and valuable buildings, and the ^blowing up of these, aided by the natural limit of tfle fire, because of contact witn non-innammaoie siruciure?, materially checked the spread of the conflagration. Strenuous efforts were made by persons having offices in the burned buildings to remove valuables before the fire reached them. Much property was removed to places of safety, bat safes containing thousands of dollars are in the ruins. Every newspaper in the city save the World and the Sun was burned out. The Sun was dynamited, and the Baltimore World was the only newspaper issued in the city on the day following the fire. The Sun was printed in Washington and reached the.cjty with full accounts: of the fire. Other papers were also issued there through the courtesy of the Post, the Star and the Times. The fire started in> the wholesale dry goods and notion house of John E. Hurst & Co., at the corner of Liberty and German streets. It is not definitely known what caused the blaze. Some say it was spontaneous combustion, but whatever it was it is certain that the rapid spread of the flames was due to the explosion of a gasoline tank in the cellar of the building and a high wind, A number of buildings on South Charles street, between German and Lombard, were blown up. Subsequently the splendid structure of J. W. Putts *- of P.horloa 41 nil U> UUliV/U ucai^io, U b vruw4?vw Fayette streets, was dynamited, and: ttauM&e -Daily Record building, Boss's drug store and others. But this heroic remedy merely delayed, but did not seriously impede the onward march of the conflagration, and for twoTiours or more the Fire Department has stood practically helpless and resourceless in the face of the roaring furnaces, which sent their fierce tongues 200 feet into the air, and. which filled the heavens first with a pall of black funereal smoke, and then with livid sheets of sparks and lurid dndc-rs. A man connected with the fire insurance companies said that the area in which the fire started was marked on the insurance map as the Black Belt The burned district is within the territory bounded on the west by Liberty street, on the north by Lexington street, on the east by Jones Falls and on. the south by the basin. Within this district were the big structures on Fayette,'''Gay, Lombard. Charles, Balderson, Ellicott, Hollingsworth andOheaptrl<?a afpooto Pnesfner southeast. alOHC the basin, the following, large docks were destroyed: Mcdure's, Patterson's, Smith's, Frederick, Long and Union. Small thoroughfares, which do not extend as far north as Lexington street, and which were in the path of the flames, are Commerce, Fredericks and Mill streets. Among the heavy losers are: Oehms, Acme Hall, $150,000; Consolidated Gas Company, $100,000; Armstrong, Cator & Co., notions and millinery, $500,000; Wfcgart & Co., shoes; Stelger Brothers, trunks; Dowell, Helm & Co., storage, and M. & J. Oppenheimer & Sons, jewelry, $100,000: H. S. Hecht & Co.. millinery, $100,000; Blankenberg, Gehrmann & Co., notions, $125,000; Leo Iveene & Co., ladies' cloaks, and Henry Pretzfelder & Co., boots and shoes, $125,000; Peter Rose & Son, harness manufacturers, $125,000; James Robertson Manufacturing Company, plumbing supplies, $100,000; R. .Tandorff & Co., boots and shoes, and James Robertson Manufacturing Company, stor age, $100,000; Fondin, Hahn & Sons, ciothft, $100,000; L. Brief & Brothers, clothing, $150,000; Maas & Kemper, embroidery and laces, $125,000; Florence W. SlacCarthy Company, notions and laces, $150,000; Thalheimer Brothers, clothing,. $150,000; Fisher Brothers, liquors, wholesale, and Silberman & Todes, notions and dry goods, $150,000; J. Goldsmith & Son, clothing, and Sugar & Shear, clothing, $100,000. Colonel Floerckey a Murderer. After buying a huge bunch of roses for his daughter and taking her to the German-American ball at Philadelphia, Pu., Coiodel Edward T. H. Floerckey called on his wiie, from whom he had been separated for more than two years, and shot her. Suspect Commits Suicide. A. Hill Terry, of Wilmington, N. C.. charged with the murder of bis son-inlaw. committed suicide in his cell by cutting his throat. World's Fair Pointers. Indiana day at the exposition will be September 15. A - -orld's congress of fraternities will be held at the World's Fair the last week of September, 1904. ITJ-oK*.; Statu Ritif/iirxr of flir* World's Fair is finished and lias beeu tnrned over to the Commissioners. The marking of tvrenty miles o; aiales in eleven of the main exhibition buildings at St. Loiiis, Mo., has been oorapleted. Specimens of ore from the various mines of onyx, marbre. decorating and building stone will be showu in Utah's miuing exhibit at me Worhi's Fair. ' iiBiiiBFEE[l( I WASHINGTON" ITEMS. I The President ordered a fTfrce of United States Englueers from Wash* lngton to Baltimore to assist in fight- I ing the tire.' * " Senator Alger obtained the assent, of the Presfdent to the pardon of William, J. Meaders, who has served nineteen years in the Betroit House of Correction. Representative GiUett. of Massaohusetts, introduced a bill providing that !. $2500 annually shall be paid to mexn- S bers of Congress in lieu of mileage, i clerk hire, stationery and office qbartersj. Attorney-General and Mrs. Knox will leave Washincton for Florida, whew . they will remain for several weeks. The Austrian Ambassador and Baroness Hengelmuller will entertain at dinner the Frencli Ambassador and, > Mme. Jus sera nd. In tbe evening Baroness Hengelmuller will bold her last V~ Saturday at borne for tbe season. y. Tbe Senate adopted tbe resolution I directing tbe Postmaster-General to send to tbe Senate tbe repocts made on irregularities in tbe Postbifice Department. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Sixto Lopez, tbe well-known Filipino agitator, wbose unfriendly disposition \ toward American rule in tbe Philippines has been exhibited upon occasions in tbe past, has arrived at Manila - ! ?*AfnctA/l fA folra fKn AO til t\f auu 1 CiUOCU IV MAV Uiv VU1U V* f7 ance. The Supreme Court of Porto Rico has V denied the application of the Federal \ members of the House of Delegates . for a mandamus to declare vacant the seats of five Republican members who absented themselves from the sessions without leave. DOMESTIC. A terrific tornado struck Unison Arte, filling three persons. The committee appointed by last/, session of the South Carolina Legislatare to inspect the alleged Inferior wdark on the capitol building at Colombia nhm>a>Ae tvhnlaula franri an fhf? nart of the contractors. For the murder of Andrew Crouch, a street car conductor, Tony Chieap was sentenced) to life imprisonment a*. Cleveland, 0. i ' Five thousand dollars bait war fnrl nished at New York Oity forjf'naak Abeel, accused of hying to marry Miss \ Eleanor Anderson while be posed as J, Ogden Goelet ' ( Accused of killing his brother and sister-in-law, Frank Darker was takep from RediClond to-Hustings, Neb., for safe-keeping, a mob. having threatened his life. The death penalty 1 was fixed _ at Louisville, Ky., as the pnnishment for George B. Warner, murderer of Pulaski Leeds, of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. ? V ' A destructive windstorm or tornade* n?.klu T.4 nnmui and IYI9ILCU JL/UI/IUI, AUU. uvuoi.? . barns were unroofed and fences and I other buildings torn down. Louis Witze, con voted of having I robbed the body of Mrs. Trask, a vie* tim of the Iroquois Theatre fire, was sentenced to the penitentiary,at Chi* I cago, 111., for an indefinite period. James N. Abeei, alleged lmpersonato? fl of J. Ogden GoeJet, Jr., was indicted ,'H for forgery in New York'Gity. . * Mayor fMcCIellan, of New York City/ I orders closed six theatres on the ground that thej are unsafe. Sj Memorial services in honor of thel I late Governor William Goebet werd H held in the Kentucky Legislature. w Three firemen were injured sod af whole company were nearly suffocated fl by gas and smoke at a fire in Oleve land, Ohio, which destroyed the Sever- I ance building. < H Terrorized because sis of their nmn- 9 ber were beaten by union men, thirteen fl strike breakers at Chicago, 111., who fl were driving express wagons, quit fl work, and detectives took their places. fl FOREIGN.' B Fifty workmen were killed by the fl caving in of an embankment on the fl Warsaw-Vienna Railroad at St' Peters- fl burg, Russia. Q A passenger train on the-Chinandiga fl Vieja Railroad, Nicaragua, was de* . fl railed while passing over a high bridge 91 and wrecked. More than twenty first* B class passengers were killed. V Japanese Minister to England says fl that Japan has commenced to pouz H troops into Korea and Manchuria. fl The Japanese Consul at Chee-Foo I has sent a telegram urging the de* .fl parture of all Japanese from Port Ar- fl thur and Port Dalny. fl The British Under Secretary for For* -B[ eign Affairs announced that/, Great B Britain intended to send Consuls to ?B Mukden and An*tung, under, the treaty H between the United States and China. B The new Army Council ander the B reform scheme has ben appointed and S includes Arnold-Forster, Secretary of' B I State for War; Lieu tenant-General Sir fjB Neville Lyttelton, First Military mem-. ber; Major-General C. W. H. Douglas, Major-General Herbert Blumer and^ Major-General Sir Jamee W. Murray> ; The fleet of American torpedo boat destroyers, convoyed by the auxiliary cruiser Buffalo, left Algiers for Malta. A skirmish is reported to have taken place betwen Turkish troops and revolutionists in the Komftagis-Terin District, in which five Turks and four revolutionists were killed. M. Zaenger has been relieved of tha portfolio of the Minister of Public Instruction of Russia at his own request, owing to ill health, and has been appointed a Senator. 1 " liT-rtL-a nnt <riT(-V miles XXU 1UOU11CV.UVU v?v>w vw. north of Seoul, Korea, and the Prefect's house has been destroyed by the Mrs. Maybrick is in a home of the Sisters of toe Epiphany, at Truro, Cornwall, in order to recover from the effects of her confinement" The populations of Brasso and Kezdi Vasarhely, in Hungary, were panic stricken by three violent earthquake shocks, followed by four slighter ones, causing the people to spring from their beds and rush into the streets. Japan has called its subjects from the Yalu districts in Korea into Seoul. The Premier, Seuor Maura, announced that the strike of persore employed by the shipping interests at ' oi-inn? Krvnniah nnrft? ifl nt f?ud. In the ultimate division in the House .'13 of Commons on Mr. Robson's amend- H ment to the address, the Government M had a majority of eighty-siX; the vote being 192 tor and 278 against the amendment. Emperor William's Mediterranean cruise will begin early in March and continue about a month. The Servian Cabinet has resigned. King Peter will instruct M. Paglc9, M Minister of Finance, or M. Protitch, KB ?p 'IVA rV*frt*JAV n MAW Hi I inLLUla LCI Ul VV LVXU1 * UCH| H ~ J