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FOR ELEVEN CENTS] Minimum Demand of Association for Cotton. ^ I ESTIMATE OF THE CROP Some Important Resolutions Agreed Upon at Annual Conference of . - A.U..;ila Association neia in North Carolina. At Thursday night's session of the Southern Cotton Association in con- J vention at Ashville, a minimum price j of 11 cents was established for the incoming cotton crop. This action was reached after a four hours' struggle in the minimum price committee's room during the afternoon and a joint secret conference of the committee and the general committee at the night session. It was a contest in which growers, spinners, manufacturers and brokers were involved, and one in which the combined influence of all these elements was brought into play, in and out of the meetings which preceded the work. After the announcement of the estimate of the crop yield of 1905 and 1906, the fight narrowed down to two factions?one holding for 10 1-2 cents and the other for 11 cents, notwithstanding the fact that an outside element clamored for 12 cents. Some of the growers were inclined to the opinion that the unexpectedly short yield crop report would have a tendency to push the minimum to 12 cents, but it was known that these predictions would not be fulfilled when the orice committee emerged ?rom its caucus at 6:45. "We have labored like a mountain and brought forth a mouse," said one of the committeemen. "The conservatives win." The summary of the cotton crop of 1905-06, as reported by the statistical committee of the Southern Cotton Growers' Association, is as follows: Production, 9,588,133 bales; percentage of condition as compared with last year 73.3, and compared with the government's estimate of 72.1. The yield is regarded as exceedingly small as from ten to ten and a> half million bales were expected. w After the minimum price committee made its report, the association / proceeded to take up routine -business. It developed during the course of the evening that there will be no revision cf the constitution of the association, by reason of the fact that due notice had not been given. President Jordan appointed Hickey* of Texas, Maxwell of Louisiana, Brown of North Carolina, Love of Arkansas and Erwln of Tennessee to serve on the finance committee. The * - association before adjourning for the day decided to accept the invitation of the citizens of Waynesville to visit that city Saturday. ?r> MORE VICTIMS OF BUBONIC. Dread Scourge Continues to Get in Its Work in Germany. An official bulletin issued at Berlin announces that fifteen new cases of cholera and six deaths were reported during the twenty-four hours ending at noon Thursday, making a / total of 105 cases and 32 deaths. Berlin is placarded with scarlet posters exhorting householders to see that their garbage is promptly removed and that their premises are kept clean. cX * COUNCIL FIGHTS MAYOR. Philadelphia Republicans Make New Tack in Fight on Weaver. Select council of Philadelphia Thursday adopted a resolution demanding from the various city departments all data concerning removals and resignations from office and appointments thereto, with reasons, and directing the city comptroller not to honor warrants for salaries unless the presenter shall first be confirmed in his appointment by select council. TANNER HEADS THE G. A. R. Minneapolis Chosen as Next Place of Encampment. Corporal James Tanner of New York was elected commander in chief of the G. A. R. by the national encampment in session at Denver Friday. The leading candidates were Corporal Tanner, General Robert B. Brown of Ohio, Judge C. G. Burton of Missouri, and General C- M. Burrows of New Jersey. Minneapolis was chosen as the G. A. R. national encampment city in i 1?06. BARON KOMURA A SICK MAN. i V ? Japanese Senior Peace Envoy III in New York Hotel. Barcm Kom-ura is ill in his apartments at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, and all the social engagements of the Japanese envoys Sun? day were either cancelled or indefinitely postponed. The senior envoy of the Japanese ; emperor is suffering from intestinal trouble. t PENSACOLA IS MENACED, fl New Fever Cases increase and Cause Alarm?The Situation at Other . Infected Points. Friday's yellow fever record in Pensacola, Fla., showed a big in~?-~ r\f nam potn: r>vf>r anv nrevi v-i. caov; ui v w. ^ ^ ous day since the outbreak. | { Reports of physicians up to G ! o'clock p. ni. gave eleven new cases and one death. All of the new cases 1 are traceable to the original foci or infected district, but are soattered about tne city. The situation is now regarded ^is serious, as a number of doubtful cases hove also been discovered. The one death was that of C. P. Winters of l Harrison, Ohio, who was formerly a ^ soldier at Fort Barrancas, but who secured his discharge a week since, ( and came to the city. ? ' Vicksburg Fumigates. There were no new cases of yellow i fever nor deaths in Vicksburg, Miss., t Friday. From 10 a. m. until a late ^ hour in the afternoon almost every business house in the city was closed, | 1 the day having been set apart for I c "onorai fumigation. This work was | through, nearly 100,000 pounds of t sulphur having been burned. | c New Infection at Natchez. i f Two new fever eases in Natchez show that secondary infection has appeared. The patients are white boys living in the same neighborhood * as the origiaal infection, though three J blocks apart. One of the boys was ' taken sick and instead of going home * went to the emergency hospital. This makes three cases under treatment. Fever Situation in Mississippi. t The Mississippi yellow fever sum- ' ma-ry up to Friday night was as follows: Gulf port, five new C2ses, no ^ deaths; Mississippi City, no new casts, no death; Natchez, three new cases, and two new sub-foci, making ^ a +otal of seventeen cases and five 1 foci to date. Vicksburg, Pearlington and Handsboro report no new cases, j Alabama Bars Florida. State Health Officer W. HI. San- ^ ders of Alabama authorizes the an- . nouncement that he has put on an Alabama quarantine against the entire state of Florida, which goes into ^ effect at once. , The state health officer's action is ^ taken, lie says, because of the largely t increased number of new cases down m the report from Pensacola. 4, , Refused Permission to Land. < i A Tallahassee dispatch says: The : steamer Tarpon, plying between Pensacola, Apaiachicola and Carrabelle, , Fla., has been refused permission to j land at the two last named places. ( Moved by a telegram from State , Health Officer Porter, apprising him j f of the fact, Governor Brows rd wired , the authorities of the two towns that j the Tarpon had not been in Pensar , cola harbor since August 29, referred 1 them to the law forbidding the quar- j antlning of the town within the state against another without permission of J the state board of health, and asked | them to act with the state healin | authorities. Increase at New Orleans. ] There were forty-fcrur new cases and four deaths in New Orleans Friday. There is no accounting for the jump in the record, except possibly the fact that physicians have ! lately been reporting more positive j cases and less suspicious cases. The only new point of infection in the country reported during the day was by Dr. Brady, who discovered a nest of twelve cases on Woodlawn plan tation, 20 miles below New Orleans, I and another case two miles below. ! Other country reports were: Jefferson Parish ? Kenner, five I 1 s.ncAc. Unn.vm r??+Tr turn /vaspe- T^a.vnn I ^ V3, XittUJVU W? v i ^ Nicbohs, Barataria county, on.e case. I ' St. Mary Parish?Patterson, eleven j c new rases, c.no death; Bayou Boeuf, ! four cases; Riverside Plantation has ; < had ISO cases to date and seven ; deaths. Tallulah, seven cases; Lake : ^ Providence, seven cases. * St. Charles Parish?St. Rose, two \ deaths; Patterson plantation, one case. ; Mississippi ? Gulfport, five new \ cases; Natchez, three new cases; An-1 guilla, near Rolling Pork, one new j ^ case. I PUBLIC PRINTER FIRED. j ' j . !1 Palmer Refused to Resign and Pres- j ident Ousted Him Instanter. President Roosevelt Friday after-1 j noon took summary action in the case ( of Frank W. Palmer, public printer ' f and head of the government printing ^ office at Washington, by removing ' him from office. j * Last Monday the president direct- j ] C ed Mt. Palmer to send to him his c resignation to take effect on the 15th , j instant, but the order was ignored. 1 i BERLIN'S CHOLERA BULLETIN. | ?? I Nineteen Cases and Seven Deaths i from Bubonic a Day's Record. An official bulletin issued in Ber-[ lin announced that nineteen cases of : ' cholera and seven deaths were re- ' ! J ported during the twenty-four hours ; ? ending at noon Friday, making a to-1 < tal pf 123 cases and thirty-nine ; deaths to that date. 1 1 I ' BLOWN TO^ ATOMS Many Men are Mangled in Frightful Explosion, 30WDER MILLS WRECKED Thirty Employes Literally Torn to Fragments in Catastrophe?Ten Buildings Razed and Other Property Damaged. The Rand Powder Mills in the subirbs of Fairchance, six miles sonrh )f Uniontown, Pa., were entirely wip>d out by an explosion at 9:05 j'elock Saturday morning. Of the thirty-two men who went to vcrk in the mill in the morning, nineeen are known to be dead. Of these hirteen have been identified. Nine nen, including C. M. Rand, manager >f the plant, were seriously injured. The shock of the explosion was disinctly felt in Ccnnellsville, 20 miles iway, buildings being rocked on their oundstions. At IJniontown hundreds >f panes of glasses were broken. In he town of Fairchance there is scarcely a house that did not suffer lamage. The sides were battered is though axes had been used. Hayit x-ks were tcppled over in the fields, md live stock were stunned. A passenger train on the Baltimore md Ohio railroad, northbound, from VIorgantown to Conneilsvilie, wlijch vas passing the works when the first ixpicsion occurred,was almost thrown 'rom the track by the explosion. Alt ;he windows were shattered, and the passengers thrown into a panic. Had .he train been a few seconds later it .vou.ld have been blown up, as the nills were in a few rods of the :racks. A street car on the West Pennsylvania railroad had also 'passed just a :ew seconds before the explosion and vas far enough away to escape dam?e, though it was derailed. There were seven explosions in all. Every one of the ten buildings was :otally demolished. Not a vestige of hem rp.main The debris that was strewn over the 10 acres of ground where the plant was located, took fire soon after the explosion, and added ts terrors to the disaster. The dismembered parts of the dead were burned in many instances. Identification of many was made by parts jf clothing alone. The first three explosions were not as serious as the ast four. Then the packing house, pressing room and magazine blew up", followed by two cars of dynamite standing on a nearby railroad siding, which were set off by the concussion :rom the powder mill explosions. 'Identification Difficult. When the bodies werfc recovered the work of identification was very iifflcult. Small pieces of bodies were picked up all over the place. These were not collected together, and many sections of bodies were thrown back into the debris, where they were found. The hole where the magazine exploded in about 15 feet deep and 50 rards square. RAWLINGS TURNED DOWN. Motion for New Trial Refused by. Judge Mitchell at Thomasville. Motion has been denied for a new trial in the case of J. G. Rawlings md his sons, Milton, Jesse and Leonird, who are sentenced to be hanged September 17th. Argument was heai?i it Thomasville Saturday morning before Judge Robert G. Mitchell. Attorney Cooper represented Rawlings and solicitor Thomas the state. Court was in session from 10 a. m. o 1:30 -p. el, and in accordance with :he expectation, refused to grant a lew trial. Cooper announces that he will take he case to the supreme court. He vill ask the state board for a stay >f execution to allow, the case to be leard. =tUSS ENVOYS IN WASHINGTON. A^itte and Rosen View Sights of the National Capital. Mt. Witte and Baron Rosen, the Russian peace plenipotentiaries, ac:ompanied by five members of the ormer's suites, spent Sunday in iVashington. They arrived at an early hour of he morning and spent the entire day risking the historic points In and ibout the city, and left at 5:35 >'ciock for New York, from which dace Mr. Witte will sail for Hamburg rhursday. TWO DEAD; SCORE INJURED. "atalities Result from Collapse of Condemned Building in New York. Two persons were killed, one of :hem a girl 16 years old, when a n-f Cro nd and strPPtft ^U;iUiU5 <XAy V^cmu 4UWVV VW-W n New York city collapsed Thursday, rhe building is said to have been conlemned two years ago, but had been permitted to be occupied since. An nvestigation will be instituted. SOLDIERS ARE JUBILANT.[| i ? ! j Russ and Jap Armies in Manchuria ; Notified That War is Ended and j Give Vent to Great Joy. j | i1 A special from Godzaxani, Manchu- | ria, says: At 1 o'clock Saturday aft- j ernooa a Japanese commissioner bear- j fl j ing a white flag and escorted by fifty 1 f : soldiers arrived at a post near the j ! railway and handed to the Russian j i officers, who went to meet him, a let- j ' ter from Field Marshal Oyama, to ! General Linevitch, congratulating him on the conclusion of peace, and beg! ging him to appoint Russian plenipo| tcntiaries io arrange an armistice. 1 Field Marshal Oyama appointed Genj eral Tukushima as plenipotentiary for * ! his side, the letter announced, and c I he suggested Chakhedza as the meet- ( I ing place. j Since news was received that peace ! negotiations at Portsmouth were ap- s proaching a conclusion, the correspon- i j dent of the Associated Press has made r i a survey of all the Russian -positions | from Mongolia headquarters, the ob- . I ject in part being to ascertain the exI tent to which the efforts making for i peace were viewed by the army. The negotiations received no offl- ,( | cial recognition in the field prior to ' ! their successful conclusion, the army 1 keeping in a state of preparedness 1 | for a battle until the receipt by Gen j eral Linevitch of a telegram from j Emperor Nicholas, declaring tha? the \ I treaty had been signed, and that his J j majesty accepted the condition arrivj ed at. This telegram was officially pub: tnn ornut nowenoir^r O f flnn. ' I jioa^u in uv ?i v-? w" I shu Pass, Manchuria, on September 6, j : and the outlines of the peace condi1 tions were printed in the same paibli! cation Saturday7. | The officers thereafter observed military decorum in the strictest sense, but the soldiers, with the consent of j the officers, engaged in feasting and . other forms of celebration. It will be a week more before the entire army is fully informed of the conclusion of peace, but the news was discounted long ago by the prevailing conviction that since the appointment of the plenipotentiaries peace was a foregone conclusion. It may be said that to the great majority of the officers j and men so far informed the news j that the war is at an end is most j welcome. Thousands are daily drinking to the health of President Roosevelt. The correspondent, who is the only remaining foreign newspaper man with the Russian army, was everywhere | asked by the men if he was an American, and on being answered in the | affirmative, they caiptured him and i tossed him mauv times in the air af i ter the manner of the Cossacks, while their officers gently protested against this seeming questionable manner of their admiration. wives were stockholders. Assistants of Public Printer Interested in Monotype Machine Co. i At Oyster Bay Sunday, President i pLOcsevelt made public the report of ! the Keep commission on its recent ini vestigation of affairs in the governi ment priting office at Washington. ! The inquiry was made by special I direction of the -president, on account j of a protest which he had received I from officials of the Mergenthaler j Typesetting Machine company against I the award of a contract by Public j Printer Frank W. Palmer to the Lanj ston Monotype company for seventy! two machines of its make. ! The president decided, after an examination of the Keep report, that the contract for the Lanston machines | should stand. The Keep commission ! reported that if the contract cou-ld be | set aside, "such a course would be | desirable," although the commission 1 states expressly that "no corrupt consideration, payment or promise passj ed from the Lanston Monotype com! pany to the public printer or to any i person in the government service." i It was developed by the commis! sion, however, that two important asi sistants of the public printer were in5 directly interested in the Lanston company, "their wives being stockholders therein." fiery death for rapist. Mob of Over Three Thousand Texans Bums Negro at the Stake. Steve Davis, a negro, who confessed to outraging Mrs. S?. P. Norris, oo-o.i 90 was Hnr-nPfl at Wavahatchid. Texas, Thursday night. A mob, consisting of 3,500 persons, tied him to a piece of gas pipe, that ha<l. been set in the ground, piled ! fagots around him and set the mass on fire. The husband of the woman is said to have set the match to the tinder j and started the blaze. ! i SCANDINAVIANS DISAGREE. j Dissolution of Sweden and Norway i Difficult of Accomplishment. | The conference of the delegates of ; i Norway and Sweden, appointed to ! ! discuss the dissolution of the union ! of Norway and Sweden adjourned on I Thursday until September 33, to en- j enable the delegates to return to I their respective capitals and confer i with their government. The result of their deliberation is very uncertain. SAD IN PENSAGOLA -"ever Spreads in the City Desoite Heroic Work. I MINE CASES FOR MONDAY VJost Encouraging Report Comes from New Orleans?United States Government Takes Hands In the Quarantine Regulations. Nine new cases and one death is :he yellow fever record for Pensa ola, Fia., .Monday, concluding at six j'c'.cck, when the various physicians working in conjunction with the itaie board of health made their retorts. Suspicious or doubtful cases lumber about twelve. The one death was that of A. Wolfburg, vice consul of Norway, who died atter a 'brief illness. He was taken ill five days since and lid not call in a physician, the case jeing located by inspectors. A postmortem examination revealed thefaCt hat he had died of yellow fever of the most malignant type. Citizens have been called upon to .issist the physicians and appoint a relief committee. Uncle Sam Takes a Hand. The United States marine hospital service has taken a hand in the quarantine situation and according to p. letter received in Atlanta Monday by the Georgia state board of health, his issued sweeping instructions preventing passengers from points infected with yellow fever, from stopping anywheie in the territory east and south of a line drawn from Washington, D. C., through Charlottesville, Danville, Charlotte, Spartanburg, Atlanta, Anniston, the Tennessee river, Vincennes, Ind., St. Louis and thence to the Arkansas state line. The Georgia state board of health is requested to have its inspectors notify all passengers Vom yellow fevov no'ntc r\f this nnarantine reeula tion. Notice is also given that government inspectors have been appointed to enforce this rule, and that penalties may be incurred for its violation. The territory indicated as south of the line in question is all regarded as "infectible" territory, and for that reason the marine hospital service proposes to prohibit persons who have been exposed to yellow fever from entering this section until the point where such infection exists is free of the disease. Good Report for New Orleans, The report of no deaths in New Orleans Monday, the first time since the announcement of the presence of the fever on July 21, when contrasted with the record of 1878, presents quite a coincidence, because September 11, 1878, was the record day for deaths during that epidemic, 90 being recorded. Algiers reports seven of the new cases. Of the netf foci, only two are above Canal street Four are in Algiers. Dr. White has given out the component parts of the new culcicide, which will be used hereafter in fumiagtion, the discovery of which was announced Saturday. It is composed of equal parts of crystal carbolic acid, and gum camphor, and three ounces will be sufficient to thoroughly fumigate 1,000 cubic feet of snace. He advises asalnst its use by citizens generally on account of dinger in handling it, and is having his forces thoroughly educated in its use before they will be entrusted vvich it. The most interesting feature of the country news was the report from the health officer of St. John parish, of the existence of about twenty-fivo cases at Lions, a lumber town in that parish, and his statement that the patients were not being properly cared for, and that they had been concealing the illness. He has taken charge of things there, and reported three new cases. GROWS WORSE IN BAKU. Russian Soldiers Fire Into Crowd of Workmen, Killing Seventeen. The latest private telegram to be received in St. Petersburg from Baku reports that the situation there is growing worse. Other unconfirmed dispatches assert that the rioters are stubbornly continuing their attacks, and that the Tartars and Kurds are plundering in the "Blacktown" district. The dispatches say that on Sunday the soldiers fired into a crowd of Russian workmen, killing seventeen. RICHMOND PRINTERS STRIKE. Walk-Out Occurs to Enforce Adoption cf Eight-Hour Day. Ninety-eight of the hundred and one printers, employed in job offices in Richmond, Va., walked out Monday afternoon because of the refusal of their employers to accede to the union demand for an 8-hour work uay on and after January 1 next. The newspaper forces are not taking part in the strike. DEATH FOR A DOZEN.- I Crowded Car on Elevated Road in New York Jumps Track and i? Demolished on Pavement. Twelve jversons were killed and more than forty injured when the c-aaatiaI nor o 'Vinth avGniic 0I0 O^CVUU V/bM WA WW vated train jumped the track and fell from the structure to the street -J| at the junction of Sixth and Ninth avenue in New York city early Monday morning. The car, the seats, aisles and platforms of which were packed with people, was turned bottom side up, its rt>of torn off and it was stood Jl on end in the street. The heavy truck of another car ? vj fell upon it, crushing some of tho passengers. The cause of the accident and the immediate responsibility remain to be settled. . The motorman of the wrecked train is a fugitive, while a switchman, conductor and four guards are under arrest. The switchman is charge*d with manslaughter and the trainmen are held as witnesses. Corner Scholer, who has undertaken the work of fixing the blame for a" n that LUC W1CVJY, ttuuvuLiv-tj IUUI, switchman's bond has been placed at $5,000, and those of the witnesses at $100 each. Whatever may have caused the #|S mistake, the accident, the worst in the history of the overhead railroads in New York, came when a southbound train ion the Ninth avenue . J; c|| line was switched off to the Sixth avenue line at the Fifty-third street junction, the motorman expecting a * clear track on the direct line of Ninth avenue, or disregarding .-yM the warning signal that the switch 'II was open, rushed his train along at ;r$g| a high rate of speed. ' The first car swung around the '-'la right angle curve, holding to the rails because of the weight of the train behind. Then the strain became too great. The couplings broke, the second car was whirled about almost end fdr en<^, and to the horror of those who looked on from below pitched into the street. The first indication people on the ;;|S sidewalk had of the accident was .'-IS a loud rumbling along the overhead . /j&z structure. Looking up they saw a shower of sparks, then followed splin* ters and the sound of splitting tim- \ bers. Suddenly the outer guard rail of 4M the railroad structure gave way, a ^ score of bodies were hurled through - J|| space, and with a deafening crash pjM the car fell to the street. For an instant it stood on end, then theJ sides gave way as if they were made of pasteboard, belching out a mass of humanity. Those passengers who had not jumped from platforms and windows before the plunge came, were thrown . ;|1? into a mass at the forward end of the car. As the injured men and women were struggling to free themselve^, the heavy front trucks of the >J|j third car on the train fell almost in their midst as the car itself jumped partly off the elevated structure, and . .<3 was wedged against a building at * the southeast corner of Ninth avenue and Fifty-third street. Huge crowds were soon on the ^ scene, and the first work of the has- . tily summoned police reserves was directed to clearing a way for the effective rescue of the passengers pinned down by the wreckage. Al1 most every ambulance in Manhattan | was summoned, and the injured and dead were hurried away with all >% | speed. Three alarms of fire brought many engines to the scene. A slight fire, caused by burning insulation, was quickly extinguished, and the firemen set to work chopping out the dead |1 and injured. The task was not an easy one, for the heavy car, in falling, had almost completely buried pedestrians in it3 wreckage. At least one was killed outright in this way, while Policeman Henry Aitkens, who was standing directly under the elevated structure, is among those most seriously injured. L1THIA SPRINGS SOLD. Property of Marsh Estate Purchased by an Atlanta Company. J. H. Nunnally of Atlanta, receiver of 'the Marsh estate, has sold the Bowden Lithia Springs, and the hotel at Lithia Springs, G-a., together with all the property in connection with the hotel and the springs, to the Robinson-Humphrey company of Atlanta. The price paid is understood to be $200,0?H>, and the deal will be closed as soon as the purchasers have confirmed the title to the property. S'x9i ON VERGE OF CONFLICT. J Trouble Between Norway and Sweden Reaches Acute Stage. A dispatch from Christiana says: The tone of the Norwegian newspapers indicates that the negotiations between the commissioners of Norway and Sweden regarding the dissolution of the union have reached ail impasse, Norway being unable to ac. cepc the conditions laid down By Sweden. .&S2j