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~v ,of VOL. XII. SWEPT BY CYCLONE" Florida Towns Catcli the Force ot West India Gales HIGH SPEED GALES STRIKE HARD The Annual Gulf Storm Strikes the South Coast of Florida and Heavy Damages Result. Jacksonville, Fla.. Special.? neginning Friday morning on the east coast, and Saturday morning on the west. and lasting L'4 hours at each. South ! Flioridu has been swept by 'be strong- \ est cyclone ever known in the history ; of that part of the State. The wires went down at the beginning, and railroad service was delayed. On that ac- . count no details reache 1 this place until Sunday. Even now they are not full, foi many places that were in the centei of the path of the storm have not yet been heard front, as the wires in the storm-swept district ate not yet working. At Miami the wind attained a velocity of G5 miles per hour. The car shed of the East Coast Railroad was lll'ted front its foundations elear of the ears that were under it and demolished, not even scratching the ears. | The tin roofing of the Beleher block was torn off and blown across the ! street, completely demolishing tile front of the building on that side. I Great dan.age was done to plate glass windows. Large trees were uprooted ant! srvera' small houses were blown down, but no one was hurt. Several small boats were sank in the bay. Passengers on the Kast Coast train which arrived in the city Sunday night, reported many wrecks along the shore, between Miami and Hobe's Sound. Among them is one three-masted uu.l one four-masted schooner ami several smaller vessels. None of their names is known. One of the Standard Oil Company's large steamers with two barges, is beached near Boynton. The crew of fifteen men wrte saved. Bodies of two unknown white men drifted on the beach near iJtrj'rtftm. The storm did not extend as far south as Key West, and did no damage as far north as St. Augustine. Trees and small houses wore Vnwn down at Cutler. At Smart 15 a''res of pineapple sheds were blown down, as well as the saw mill and sheds across the river and the building occupied by the postoffice at Wa Wa. The racing yacht N'o. 23. was bolwn up into the woods, where she now lies high and dry. The residence of Capt. McNeil was blown from its foundations at Stuart. At Jupiter tbe wind blew 75 miles per hour, with the rain falling in torrents. f- "Olyirpia Injured. Norfolk, Special.- The explosion of a barrel cf alcohol on the superstructure deck of the cruiser Olympia, in dry dock at the Norfolk navy yard, Saturday night killed two men. severely injured several others, and set lire to the ship. The master-at-arms of the vessel is missing. The dead: Corporal Yerkes, United Siates maiino corps; white seaman, unknown. The damage by fire was confined to the deck of the vessel and embraced oniy the canvas awnings and their fixtures. The decks, however, were slightly injured. Immediately after the explosion fire quarters were sounded and the crew, navy yard fire department and a de? taehment of maines under Capt. Bools soon quelled what looked like a very dangerous blaze. The cxplos len was. according to reports from eye witnesses, the direct result of flie theft of a barrel of grain alcohol, containing ."fi gallons, by a party of sailors. This barrel was, it is said, taken from one of th\ storehouses of the yard and removed to tbe deck near the uiympta. Oo.oou Slaiiffli'eipd. Sofia. My Cable.?With tho arrival of now and sensational reports of -tho i wholesale massacrer, of Christians in Macedonia the situation here is hourly becoming more alarming. If the lat? st messages, which state that C0.000 Bulgarians have been slaughtered In the districts of Okrlda and Leren. shall he ccnfirmrd. no doubt exists that tho government will be forced to order the mobilization of the army immediately. Big Lawver Fees. Houston. Tex., Special.?The, probate court of Harris County, has approved a fee of $100,000 for Baker, Bott. Baker & Lovette for legal services rendered the estate of vV. M. Riee, who was murdered in New York three years ago. This is the largest fee ever allowed In Texas iu a single case. Short N ws Items. Mayor Seth Ix>w, of New York city, was indorsed for renomination by the fuslonists last night. John H. Clarke. Democratic nominee I for United States Senator, made an ad- j dress at Akron. Ohio, advocating re- | ductlon of the tariff. II * FOI SENATOR SIMMONS' FATHER KILLED I A Red and Inspected Citizen Murder* ed on His Own Premises. Newborn. N. C., Special.?Jones county Sunday was the scene of ex- i citement from one end to the other, over the murder of Furnlforl G. Simn.ons, father of United States Sena- ' tor F. M. Simmons. who was brutally i shot and clubbed to death Saturday : afternoon by a negro whose name is ; said to be Daniels. Mr. Simmons, who lived about ei^ht miles from I'ollocksville, Jones coun- j ty. went there to sell los cotton, and as lie did not retivn Saturday night | his family became uneasy as to his whereabouts, as it was known that ho had a good sum of money on his person. His grandson. Jas. H. Simmons, who is a merchant of this place, was notified Saturday night that his grandfather was missing, and he left immediately to help in the search. Senator Simmons was also notilHd, and he arrived here Sunday and was immediately driven out to his old home- | stead, and when he reached there ho found that the body of his aged father had been found down on the banks of Trent river, about one mile from his home, with three gun shot wounds in the body, and a club wound on his head. A report reaches here that the man who committed the crime was caught near Pollocksville. about 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, and there were ev J ery indication that the citizens were j very much wrought up over the matter. Mr. Simmons, the murdered inan, was a quiet, peaceful old gentleman. ( | and the affair has cast a gloom over litis entire city. whore he was well I and favorably known. Mr. Simmons t was 76 years of ape. Telegraphic Briefs. ^Vnrrm Vfrr. a bank manager. fell ' :*rad in a restaurant in New York as ; lie raised his glass to drink a toast to i his friends. The men on the 1'nited Stales war- ( : ships ut Beirut. Syrn, are under arms 1 j ami ready to land at a signal front the | sht>re. St rvl.to officers nnder are*^t Issued a proclamation denouncing the regicides and refusing to serve in the army with them. A storem tore away the war liallons | and made wireless. telegraphy Impos- j Bible. thus interfering with the Ger- ! man army maneuvers at Halle. Prus- I sin. I olrnt said emo Bcdf Harr y< ar Bait The year Ln col el; he Id 000 cess. Rale Abe: la is com Cap the trail and imm pie : lake t I i in' I'rrssian Cabinet has decided to | propose tho construction of a great canal io connect the Rhine, Weser and Kibe rivers. Tho Russian Minister at Pekln propnsed the postponement of the evacua- | thin of tho Kirin and Amur districts of Manchuria, set for October 8. At a meeting of the Hritish Association for the Advancement of Science Sir Norman I-oekyer advocated spending as much for state aid to higher education as for the national navy. Judge Edmund P. Minor, of Richmond, died at Norwich. Conn. 1>". J. J. Taylor, of Norfolk, lias accepted the presidency of Georgetown (Ky.) College. The Langley airship was again disabled by the breaking of a p opeller. West Virginia editors are in convention in Charleston. Pedro Alvarado, of the State of Chihuahua. is dead. Not many years ago he was a peon, toiling for thirty cent ; a day. He discovered the Palmlllo silver mine. It made him a Mexican Croesus. He gave away vast sums to the poor, built churches, offered to pay off the national debt. Now his wealth passes to his widow. A "Sun" correspondont writes: "Of tho $70.ooo.ono worth of ore which Alvarado took out of the mine since its discovery .it is said that' there is more than $00,000.000 worth in silver bars locked in a steel cage at the residence of its late o.wner. This case is guarded day and night by a strong force of armed men." The telegraph system in Uganda now extends to Batiaba. on the shore of the Albert Nyanza. Tho trunk line from Mombasa, with its branches, is over 1,034 miles in length and the charge over tho whole distance is 2d a word, with a minimum of Is Id for a message of eight words. There is also a system or' telephones along the whole distance, which may be used at Is 4d per conversation. The poles on which the wires /lend 11 4 mh- nA?ti iire living irees. Martin J. Mahon, a seaman from the Franklin, was drowned at a Norfolk ferry. In the gun trials conducted by he Chilean naval commission. Vickers Sons & Maxim (Limited) have estab li.shed a record in power for their 7. 1-2-lnch naval or coast-defence guns. One of these guns made for the new Chilean battle works developed, with its 200-poupd projectile, a muzzle velocity of 3,003 feet per second under normal conditions of pressure, showing a muzzle energy of over 12,500foot tons. In other words these guns, using capped shot of the Vickors pattern. can perforate the latest type of 6-lnch armor at a range of between three and four miles. 1^"IT MILL, ejD EL)N Ti:c RIOT AT BU (jyj. j>AY Clash Between riohammsdana and Native Christiana. Washington, Special.?Cablegrams were received at the State and Navy Departments from Minister Leishmau, at Constantinople, and Admiral Cotton. commanding the American squad- I ron now in Turkish waters, respectively. giving an account of the riot : which occurred at Beirut Sunday, it j was stated at the Navy Department that no new instructions had gone to Admiral Cotton in consequence of the , day's report. Instructions sent to Minister Leisbman contemplate that ho kept the State Department constantly informed as to the situation, that the Department may know to what extent protection is being afforded American citizens. The President was advised of the facts reported to Washington. Rear Admiral Cotton's cablegram is dated Beirut. Sept. 7, and is as follows: "Violence and bloodshed between Mohammedans and native Christians occurred at Beirut Sunday. Six Greek Christians, two Mohammedans and j two Turkish soldiers killed; three Greek Christians, three Mohammedans and three Turkish soldiers wounded seriously. Other murders reported. Flag lieutenant and United States consul were present Sunday and Monday in the di dtrbed quarter and verify details of statement. Turkish government willingly afforded fn< ility for their investigation and guard; promise 1,000 more Turkish soldiers. Turkish soldiers present sufllcient if properly disposed of to handle situation at Beirut. Well patrolled ami all quiet Sunday night and today. Monday. Turkish Governor promises to do all in his power to restore authority. Many houses closed and business susp uded. I have prepared in land force for protection <lf property of American citizens if situation demands. Will act with caution. Present trouble due to animosity between iniinieable and native Christians. and failure to control crimes." The lust iinrlinn nf Vilmiril i\,tti,n'c cablegram is unintelligible anvl the cipher experts at the Navy Department worked all morulas to translate it. Minister Irishman reports that a riot occurred yesterday at Hoi rut in which seven Christians were killed, and several wounded. Two houses ocv Jay-Owiixursm-nrttr.4?>* V-lC' the soldiery. The panic was gem ral. An officer and a sign a! man from Admiral Cotton's fleet are now in the consulate and an investigation of conditions at Beirut is being made by a tlag lieutenant. Consul Have ndal and another consular offic r. Mr. irishman says that the origin of the trouble 13 not distinctly stated by our consul. He further says that it is claimed by the sublime Porte that conditions at Beirut, are again quiet, and that the force now there is stifle i. nt to guarantee the safety of the cit v. i.ieut. Charles 1.. Hussey is Admiral I Cotton's llig lieutenant. and it is pre siimed here he is the officer making the investigation. The Postal t-'rnuJ Cases. Washington. Spcrial.? After deliberating foi several weeks over a muss nf documents submitted by the p-isioffico inspectors, the Federal grand jury in this city returned seven indictments in postal cases, involving six different persons. All the Indictnionta were kept off the public record and both the oni'-itls of the district attorney's ofllces and of the Postefflce Department refused to divulge names or details of the indictments until the parties indicted a?e arrested. The identity of the indicted individuals | ( mis was left a matter of conjecture. Loss of Schooners I Mobile Special.?Cry.t. S-ott. of the itritish schooner Dartholdi, has received a letter from Capt. Foster, of the ! Hrltlsh schooner Emerald. dated Isle of Pines, telling of the loss of the three - ( hooners at Ornnd Cayman during the recent hurricanes, which have not been mentioned in previous dispatches. ! These nre the schooners Georgians. Active and Clyde. The letter also mentions the lors of many small coasting vessels. I Ea ning ll : ESDAY, SEPTEMBER LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. Many Motters of (lcncrnl Interest In Short Paragraphs. / r l)y>vn In I) xle. Hon. H. A. Gudgcr. the minister to Panama, asks a change to Antwerp. Gov. John \V. C. Reckham, of Kentucky. opened his campaign for reelection at Winchester, that State. The Ashoville. N. C.. Gazette, tlie leading Republican daily of the South. hriR hnnn c?rtl il nnl nuhlinaf Inn 1 Hi. "Silver Creek" Sam Pearson, n well known character of Burke county. N. C... was shot and killed in a bar roout tu Morganton on Tuesday. Ex-Gov. William C. Oates. of Alabama. says t ho people of that State fear Secretary Shaw's extension of privileges to banks gives those institutions too much power. At Th- National Capital. Correspondence between Secretary Hitchcock and Philip C. Garrett, president of the Indian Rights Association, concerning alleged frauds on Indians is made public. The agitation for n general staff for the navy is to he revived when Congress meets. At The North. President Roosevelt returned to Pagnmoro Hiii Tuesday after making his labor day speech. It is expected that Sotli T.ow. fitsionist. and George B. MeClellan, Democrat. will he the opposing nominees In the coming New York Mayoralty contest. "Big .Too" Grimes, who is said to have weighed 7r.-4 pounds, is dead at Cincinnati. It is rumored that the life of Gov. J. H. Peahody, of Colorado, has been anonymously threatened because he ordered troops to Cripple Creek. The Chicago Chronicle urged the nomination of Grov r Cleveland f >r ine Presidency l>y the Democrats. The International Congress of Actuaries in New York chose Berlin for the place of meeting in 19QG ami adjourned. A Baltimore and Ohio passenger trnin liroke the world's long-distance meed record, running from Chicago Jfjtn.tlon. Ohio, to (larn It, Iiul.. 128 in 5-25 minute*. From Acr??c?? The 5ea. The situation in the Balkins is fast approaching open war between Turkey and Bulgaria The British Clovcrnntent appointed | a commission to inquire into the ! ftatements tii.it the Bngliah people. as a whole, arc deteriorating physically. l.ionel Cardcn. British Minister to Cuba, warns Rnglish nianuf:i< turers that they are in danger of losing Cuban trade to the Americans. Theodore \V. Myers, ex-Comptroller of N?-*,v York city, was quoted in IT.lis as saying thai Richard Croker desires I the nomination of Senator A. R. (lor1 man for the Presidency by the Demo! t ''atB. Br. Radislaus de I.ukacs clcclinrd the invitation of Kmperor Francis Joseph lo form a Hungarian Cabinet. The Chinese authorities agreed to the trial of the reformers on the newspaper Supao hv the mixed court. Bishop Hcndrick. of C'ehu. P. I., who will leave Rome today, expressed his .ui'H .'i nm rrri'piii)ii uy tnc Pope and confirmed Mqr. Pablo Sincezon .a Philippine priest, as VicarGineral of tlie Diocese of rebu. Pone Pius X represented to Emperor Francis .lost pit the advisability of an agreement among the powers to end the massacres in Macedonia Lawlessness, according to the latest advices, prevails at Beirut, Syria, ami the lives of foreigners are considered unsa fe. The llank of England's reserve is being drained to supply foreign'demands for coin. It is expected that an official Investigation will he made of charges against the Italian navy. Yellow fever is raging at I.\nares Mex. ^-tncis M. Bengue. who rent a or of annoving 1 tters to Secroof Sia'o John Hay, was arrested ?w York. Allsc'll. n nus flatters. secretary's report of the New is Cotton Exchange gives figures raging to the South, both as to g and manufacturing of cotton, .as reported that plans for hulldicnulons aggregating Slso.OOO.ooO ho abandoned until the condition or was more stable. itor J. Frank Alien, of Delaware, interview, justified his request e removal of Postmistress Todd enwood. Del., by saying she had recommended by a factional opRe monument on Lake fleorge com>rating the hattle there September "?5, will he unveiled tomorrow, v. W. H. Hunt, of Porta Rico, is en of as the Republican eandidato 'ice-President. cow caused the wrecking of a past train In Ohio. roe men were injured in a height i on the Pennsylvania roiit\>ju, Altoona, Pa. a race riot at Bridgeville, Del., a man was stabbed and several nei beaten. Koanoke. Pow.rs flak- !' mane! Washington, Sp cial. ? Minister Irishman cabled the State Department from Constantinople that the French ambassador lias demanded the removal of the Governor of Beirut an 1 that other forign representatives prob ably will do the same. Mr Irishman is vigorously urging the sublime Porte to replace the Governor by some one more rapable of preserving order and of giving more efficient protection to American citizens and interests. In this course he has the approval of the State Department. Nothing is said in his cablegram of further disorders at Beirut. II Ml i?, iyos. EXPRESS AGENT SHOT. Trugidv ??f n Man Supposed to Be Cr?zv nt Jacksonville. Jacksonville. Special.?J. E. Stark shot and fatally wounded John F. Angel Thursday afternoon in the office of the Southern Express Company, in tins city, while the latter was protecting the life of his sister, the wife of the man who fired the shot. Stark had been in Jacksonville several days and Thursday morning wired for his wife to join him. She came at about n on and at J o'clock they met in the office of the express company, where her brother was employed. The wife suspected that her husband meant to do her bodily injury when lie endeavored to got her to go to his hotel. She desired to remain near lier brother and declined to go. "I have brought you here to kill you." Stark said. Quick as a flash his wife seized him. as he was endeavoring to draw a pistol. She pinioned his aims and her cries brought her brother. The pistol was then taken from Stark before it was drawn. Words between the two men followed and blows were exchanged. Stark went to a pawn shop, where he procured another pistol and returned, lie entered the office and walked to the cage where Angel was at work with his back turned. Resting the pistol in one cf tiie small steel holes of the cage he fired, the hall striking Angel in the back of the h ad and lodging near the brain. Angel fell. Stark looked about hitn and started to leave, when a brother of Angel appeared and seized him. The brother made an effort to kill Stark with a knife, but others interfered and the police placed Stark under arrest. Angel is at St. Luke's Ib spital. No hopes arc enter taitied for his recovery. The drfitise that Stark's lawyers will make is that lie was insane, a thenry which is generally accepted hy those who know hint and who have been with him during tHo past few days. Stark was formerly auditor of the Jacksonville, Tampa it K< y West road. Aup el was cashier of the Southern Express Company. Annu tl Pension Report. Washington. Special.?The annual report of Commissioner Ware places the number of pensioners now on the rolls nt 9yti,4r?4. of which TL".)..led nro soldiers, an 1 2G7.1S9 are widow and dependents. Mr. Ware announces that it is not probable that the p nsion roll will again cross the million line, tho liighwatcr mark having been reached a year ago. The roll rfhows a net loss of 2,901 pensioners during tho year. Out. of a total of 30-1.H)9 applications e.n hand during the y ar, 130.109 were admitted, and 113,79-1 rejected. The average annual value of each pension Is now $133. The annual value of the Spanish war pension roll has reached $1.7(13.310. The total paym nts in pensions for all wars is $".,038,(123,f?90; on account of tlie civil war. $2,162,240,400. The cost of the pension sy.-tcm per capita of papulation for 190."? is given as $1.7?">. The sy.-tom, according to Com mi.- icner Ware, was about the greatest as a burden to the j?t onle of the United States in IS'.*:'.. sin< e which time it has shrunk fro. ; $12.24 to $1,152 per $1 out) of tuxa: !.? woailh, and in ten years, lie says, .h burden will cense to be notice I. riiss Roos-velt in S-dmnr,ne (lent. Newport, It. I.. Syecial. .Miss Alice Rar.sevrlt. daughter < the ITrsidcni, went down in the submarine boat M < <nsin. The boat did not leave her dork at the Torpedo station. Miss Roosevelt enotered tiic boat with f' ipl. Fletcher, of the station. The crew then closed tiie hatches and water ballast v. as taken in unlii the v.ssel set lied to ilie bottom. After licin^ uuhmurged for ii few minutes, that the novelty of the situation might be appreciated, she rose jo the surface and disembarked. The water was quite shall .w where the boat went down. Mr.ck'ln (i?vs *o S A. I.. Roanoke, Va., Sp lal. F. U. Macklin lias vpsignod as general store-keeper for the Norfolk & Western Railway. with officers in this city, to accept the position of ? ncral'purehaslng agent for the Seaboard Air l.ine Railway Company, with headquarters at Portsmouth, Va. Mr. Maeklin is succeeded here by Herbert Sratehard, of r? I NO. 26. I POSTOFFICE FRAUDS: I O ^9 A Prominent Man Now Involved in J the Investigation. H ? %SPECULATION AS TO OTHERS. H Vhe Desire of the Paesident is To Probe the Whole Thins To the WH Bottom, and Sec NN ho is (iuilty. ?E Washington. Special. One of the 9 persons indicted by the Federal Ki'aiul fl jury In connection with the pcstal in- B vesti^ation is George \\". Heavers, for- fl uierly chief of the division of salary fl n 11 il nllnii'iimpa tt i-' it?! '-it Ji'.ld ! Fillt the charge of conspiracy. Another <f (he indictments is against August \V. Mac hen. o.i a new . t of facts, invol. ink him with Heavers. The char;--, is cc nspirncy. While the ofllcials refuse to die. i -a! tlio name s of the four remninini; p; . I Bons who were Indicted, it is sai.l tl>;.<* , none of them is or has been conn -t< t I with the l'ostotlice Department. ami \ | that one is a man of some prominen e ! It was stated at the city hall that tin! climax of the investigation Is to shortly, when a person not rimno > .1 | with the IVpartnient. hut a man ar i well known as the l'ostmastor C.encrul himself undoubtedly will he Indict* >1 for complicity in the poo to Hi ce frauds. : Tlio grand jury began hearitu; ti.< evidence in tills particular cast: W; ; nesday, and it is stated tl at when :t 'report is mailt* it will in nil pio.i i. .;.ty com ir.dc tilt' invest ration in Wn l.t iiigton. The l,us;of:lcf Charges. Washington. Spot ial. Ity direct ! n of President Roosevelt. a thorough investigation has hern mailt* Into ti ? 1 charges preferred by Seymour \V. 'I' loch against the management t f af fairs of the Washington. 1). C. l?? office. This investigation has i.< < n matle by Charles .1. I'.onapartw and Holmes Conrad, special loune 1 -if | the government in the prosecuM of tin? l^oatoflices fraud <?n s, ant' i; b Independent of and entirely supple i military to the r port made by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General liristow on tin* eluirges preferred by Mr. Tulloch. Mr. llristow'3 report, Mr. Conrad said, was simply u colli < tion of tin* facts in the case as r?t ported by po.;to:Tiee insp- ctors, amh containcil no opinions as to the merit ; of the charges. The Investigation made by Messrs. Ihmaparte ami Conii.tl will go into the merits of the charges, and will express an opini >ti as to whether or not the accused pi rsons are vintlicated or are gulUv of the offenses charged against th m The conclusions drawn from their inquiry will he embodied in a report which will he submitted to tf. Attorney General the latter part of UuV week. N'o prosecutions will follow from any conclusions the report may draw, as the offenses, if any ham . been conimittccd, are barred bj i\m statute of limitations. The President, says Mr. Conrad, was very anxious that the whole mat tor should ho gone over very ear** rimy :;<> tnat if persons named in the charges of Mr. Tullooh wore iu T guilty they should he vindicated, arid if they were that this fa'-t might go on record. Their duty had h? ? :i to act in the capacity of a mastt i in chancery and report on the fact, as ; thoy found them, it was not n party affair with the President, Mr. Conrad I declared, hut an honest desire i:> get. i at the facts in the case, both Democrats and Republicans being involve I in tho charges. Postal ticks AV'etinjr. Xashvi!le,Tcnn..Sprcinl. ? Th? ' has ne.-s of tin second day's; .* ' !? of the National ' nation of : ?> office Clerkr, war the '.ibriission of f e annual report of VMltor tkott, !"<?!*.. < i by Iho rrport of fV rotary i. ?f!? r. 'I' ? report coiled r.it a?*? n to t" ' fart thai Congress had appropriated 'fund?: f .r t :e increase of sal tries of r.ivcral t sand clcr'.s : d thrt the feud had t hcen distrdn: ! on nci nvnt of the investigation of the frauds in the Derailment. Mr. l.ocfler said the matter of promotions had not l.c-n gi\?n proper cons'deration and advo.-a'cd .* mandatory < latsificatlcn. llnnd S r t d. Salon lea, Ily Cable.?Twelvn ha't ns e>f Turkish tro pr. are x' ; o: t" i 'o ave surrounded a large revolution :ry nd near Co trove. T.O miles from Metaa.stlr. Fighting ia progressing. The revolutionists have taken up a position near I^iko Aniotove, in the villayet of Constantinople. Turkish troops are now said to be attacking them. ... 'i