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p i.? ' : ^"'- -- . ' / f '~- ; ; BOQUET FOR TEDDY In Shape of Indorsement by Cotton Association IN BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR Second Day's Session of Annual Meeting at Birmingham Taken Up by Prominent Speakers, Two Governors Among Them. ? Speeches of two distinguished southern governors were th? teatures of the sessions of the Southern Cotton f Association at Birmingham, Ala., Friday. Governor-elect Hoke Smith of Georgia spoke during the morning, and nis words, urging united effort in seeking to control the cottcn situ- j ation, were enthusiastically received. Former Governor D. ?. Heyward spoke in the afternoon, and his remarks were along the same line, although, as president of the Southern Immigration and Industrial Association, his remarks were more general lham those of other speakers. ^Joseph H. Hoadlev was introduced in the afternoon and spoke of the workings of the New York cotton exchange. He said there were honest men on the exchange, strange as it might seem to some of his hearers, fcat he added that there were also human vultures up there, whose interests were entirely selfish. A feature of the afternoon session was the adoption by a unanimous rising vote of a resolution which commends President RooseVelt for the stand he has taken in the Brownsville anatter. A special dispatch will be sent the president to this effect. The a-esolution was presented by c. R. McCrearv of Opelika, Ala. A largely increased attendance was t v present at the opening of the second day's session. When President Harvle Jordan called the convention to order lie immediately proceeded to introduce the first speaker of the morning > * program, Governor-elect Hoke Smith of Georgia. Mr. Smith's subject was "Practical Means of Making Lint Bring the Farmers a Just Price." Mr. Smith said, among other things: "Realizing how important it is that \,rt- the farmer should receive for his lint cotton a just price, we should find its true value, and we should "seek to remove as far as possible those influences which cause fluctuations in the market and which depreciate the price while it is in the hands of the farmer. "Lint cotton is the great raw material from which the people of the world are clothed. "Lint cotton must be sold at a price ; r at which it can successfully compete with wool, flax and silk as the raw ' material out of which clothing and similar goods are to be made. "The true farmer should be inform d as to the true value of his cotton. He should reach a decision as to the price it is worth, and he should not sell until he receives that price. We must get away .from the practice of letting the man who has the cotton "V to sell leave to the man who proposes to buy the exclusive right of determining what he will give for the produce. The man who raises the / cotton should fix the price at which * he will sell." F. H. Hyatt'of Columbia, S. C., treasurer of the Southern Cotton Association, was the second speaker of the morning. His subject was "How Shall We Finance the Cotton Crop." An address by S. A. Witherspoon 1 of Meridian, Miss., on "Probable Prof Its to Stockholders in a Corporation to Buy and Sell Cotton and the Best Plan to Operate On," was the last set address of the morning program. r Former Governor D. C. Heyward of South Carolina addressed the convention on "Best Method of Obtaining Necessary and Desirable Immigration for the South." Friday night's session was devoted chiefly to business matters. RELIEF WORK UNDER WAY. . Unfortunate People of Jamaica Will Not Be Allowed to Suffer. The work of sending relief to Kingston, Jamaica; is proceeding with enorgy. The city is receiving supplies ?is far as possible from the Island of Jamaica itself. , The American warships in the harbor have put ton shore all the foodstuffs and medical supplies they could spare, and the Jamaican authorities have taken charge of the distribution of all provisions in the city. In addition re lief is being burnea in 110m ouisiue quarters. COMBINE PEOPLE HARD HIT. Two Firms Are Fined in New York Court for Foisting a Monopoly. The MacAndrews and Forbes company of New York city were fined ten thousand dollars and the J. S. Young company of Baltimore, eight thousand dollars by Judge Hough in the United States circuit court Thursday for combining to monopolize the trade in licorice paste. ? v ' - V. :'YY<-v- ;> vV-\ N * .; *.' ; - ?> * . TROOPS WERE CALLED To Preserve Order After Disastrous Fir* in B-aufort, S. C.?Negroes Threatened an Uprising. The most disastrous fire in the history of Beaufort, S. C., occurred Saturday afternoon. The loss is estimated at between $500,000 and $700,000, about one-third covered by insurance. The fire originated in the oarn and stables of F. W. Scheper, en Bay street, and its spread was rapid, as a high wind was blowing. The water supply failed and efforts to fight the flames were fruitless. They only stopped when they had nothing more to feed upon in the direction in which they were being oiowa. Among the losers was the city, the town hall and the market being consumed. The large grocery store of F. W. Scheper was destroyed,"' as was the People's bank, of which Mr. Scheper was president. The bank's funds and papers were saved. A score of other buildings, both stores and .residences, were reduced to ashes. For a time it looked as though the whole town would be destroyed. As an aftermath of the conflagration murmurings of negroes Sunday caused j apprehension of an uprising, and the I authorities at once sought to secure j military protection for the city. The | mayor telegraphed Col. R. W. Patterson, in command of Fort Screven, Ga., j asking for a company of regular [ troops, to be dispatched to Bcaul'ort j for the preservation of order. In respouse, at 8:.'>5 o'clock Sunday night forty-five men, fully armed and equipped for service, arrived under corn maud of Captain Joseph Wheeler. The detachment came on the tug (ribbon?, and immediately guards were established and patrols formed. The discontent among the negroes was caused l>y the killing of William Pennett. a negro, by a guard early Sunday morning. The negro was discovered hanging about the ruins of the People's bank, one of the buildings destroyed by the fire. To the challenge of the guard cn duty there, no satisfactory response was made, it seems, and the guard fired. The arrival of the United States troops relieved the apprehension of the citizens. The negroes, impressed by the presence of the regulars, ceased their hostile demonstrations. LOUISVILLE IN FLOOD'S GRASP. Ten Thousand People Homeless and Enormous Damage Being Done. With t>o Ohio relentlessly pouring its floods southward and maintaining a steady rise of an inch an hour, Kentucky streams contributing their volumes from the mountain regions, a high wind blowing up stream all day Uompo-ino- chiiminr* nnd nrevpntinsr tkp MU*??v,04*.0 i'i *0 X - ? _? ? rapid passage of the current, Louisville, Ky., Sunday faced a flood situation which promised to equal before the crest is passed the stage of 1S84, the greatest flood ever known to the city. Ten thousand people are homeless and are housed in school buildings. warehouses and other structures. Factories in Louisville, Jeffersonville and New Albany are closed, throwing hundreds of people out of work; stocks of merchandise in the business houses along the river front are ruined. much lumber has been washed away and many small houses with their contents toppled over into the water. A conservative estimate of the damage with the crest of the flood yet clue is a quarter of a million dollars. . - . HEAVY GALE HITS BUFFALO. Ships, Wharves and Property Along Water Front is Swept Away. an hour at times for N18 hours Saturday night and Sunday morning, did $1,500,000 damage to shipping in Buffalo, N. Y. Five large lake Iiner3, wintered iust inside the breakwater wall, were torn, loose from their mooring ami driven aground. Fcr hours the gale swept the water front, tearing away every thing that stood in its path. ON TRAIL OF BAILEY. Texas Senate Demands Papers in the Charges Against Senator. In the Texas senate Wednesday a resolution was adopted calling on the attorney general for any papers he had in connection with charges against Senator Bailey's alleged connection with the Waters-Pierce Oil company. An amendment was added providing that all such papers should be exhibited only in executive session. This action will preclude newspaper men and others form examining them. PROBE OF CAR SHORTAGE i ?? ?Ba DaoftwmanHH htf OJ WWliyicaa vw WW President Roosevelt. Congress will be asked by the president to give the interstate commerce commission increased power to enable them to deal with such emergencies as that now existing with regard to the car shortage question in the northwest. .? - ' , . . "/ < ' 4 y ' r* ' ? J ' . ***' t'X' v. o rV ' ' ' >. - . ' r* ; \ : ? ; ' * TWO RAIL HORRORS Snuff Out Lives of Many People in Indiana. VICTIMS ARE CREMATED One Train Was Demolished by Powder Explosion; the Other Wrecked and Destroyed by Fire in a Collision. Big Four accommodation train, No. 3. which left Terre Haute, Ind., at 8:3G o'clock Saturday niglit, was destroyed by lire by the explosion of a car of powder at the siding of Sanford, twenty minutes later. Fifteen persons were killed outright and the death list probably will reach twenty, with thirty or thirty five injured. The engine, two coaches and baggage car of the passenger train were demolished. Two other bodies were taken from the wreckagt have .lot been identified. The first intimation people had of the disaster was a shock, which was felt at Terre Haute, and as far as Brazil and as far south as Sullivan. The wires were blown down and it was some time before the Big Four officials in Terre Haute learned of the explosion. Relief trains were oidered from Terre Haute and Paris, 111., and the "dead and injured were taken from the wreck to ooth cities. The work of the rescuing parties was impeded by tho almost total destruction of the train. A later dispatch oay3: Twenty-two cnarred ana muiuaiea uoaies navo been taken from the smoldering ruins of the passenger train No. 3 on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis (T'ig Four), wnich was destieyed by the explosion of a carload of powder as it passed a freight train at Sanfcrd, nine miles west of here, last night. The number of injured will reach at least thirty-five. The entire train was blown from the track, the coaches demolished and the engine hurled 50 feet. The passengers either were blown to pieces, cremated or rescued in a more or less injured condition. * The full extent of the disaster %was revealed at daylight Sunday morning, but the death list will not be complete until workme.i have finished removing the debris. ^ According to the trainmen of ti e freight, the powder was exploded by the concussion made by the passenger train, which was slowing down for the station at Sandfor<|| Another theory is that gas escaping from an oil pipe line nearby entered the powder car and a spark from the passing engine ignited the gas. J In Frightful Collision. A special from Fowler, ind., says: At least sixteen pers ons were crusnea or burned to death early Saturday In a collision on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroad between the "Queen City special," which left Chicago at 11*30 Friday night, and a freight train. Ten persons were seriously injured and several badly hurt. The passenger train was running at a speed of 50 miles an hour. The entire train was destroyed by fire except a private car, and the Indianapolis sleeper. Seven of th8 dead have been identified Eleven of the victims met death in the combination coach, and just two of tliem have been identified, as the bodies were*almcst entirely consumed by the flames. With one exception every J mtmber of the passenger train crew perished. The collision occurred *,00 feet from a switch near Fowler. The passenger train, in the heavy fog, ran by a telegraphic block signal to stop. The rcr.fi iignt was not ooeyeu. The engine and tender crushed the combination coach, makiag a maae of wreckage under which the passengers in the car were wedged. Seats were whirled through the roof and it was here that the dead were burned, many of them'beyond recognition. The noise of the collision awdkened nearly every person in Fowler. Among the first persons to reach the wreck were County Recorder Hay Gillespie and County Auditor- Lemuel Shipman. These men secured hand saws and before the flames had reached the coaches began the work of lescuc. Coroner Coniley superintended the removal of the bodies of the identified dead and took charge of the bodies. Saturday afternoon enough fragments to make eight bodies hr.i been taken out. MAYOR HAD NO AUTHORITY. ?" I Nashville Negroes Protested Against Presentation of "Clansman." Alleging that it will embitter the immediate vicinity and possibly lead to bloodshed, a large delegaton of negio preachers at Nashville, Tenn., urged Mayor Morris to prohibit the proposed presentation of "The ClaUsm at a local theater. Haey were inform ed by the mayor that he had no authority to prevent the play being given. i AMERICANS OUSTED' From Island of Jamaica by British Governor. ADMIRAL DAVIS INSULTED i While Giving Aid to Quake and Fire Sufferers Marines are Perempt. orily Driven From Kingston. Warships Sailed to Cuba. Rear Admiral Davis' mission of mercy to stricken Kingston came to an abrupt and painful conclusion Satur day in consequence of Governor Swettenhain's objection to'the presence of American sailors engaged in the work of clearing the streets, guarding property and succoring the wounded and sick, culminating in a letter to the admiral peremptorily requesting him to re-embark all parties which had landed. ? Admiral Davis was greatly shocked and pained, and paid a formal visit to uoverntfr Swetteuham, informing him that the United States battleships Missouri and Indiana and the gunboat Yankton would leave at once. Admiral Davis said that immediate compliance with Governor Swettenhara's command was the only course consistent with the dignity of the United States. The friction between the governor and the admiral began with the arrival of the American war vessels when the governor objected to the firing of a salute in his honor, on the ground that the citizens might mistake the firing for a new earthquake. He also declared there was no necessity for American aid?that his government wa3 fully 'able to ' preserve oruer, tenn me wuuuutru, anu succor the homeless. Rear Admiral Davis, however, landed parties of bluejackets, who patrolled the streets, cleared the debris, razed ruins, attended many of the wounded and won the highest praise from citizens and military officers for excellent work. On the afternoon of the salute incident Rear Admiral Davis wrote Governor Swettenham as follows: '.My Dear Governor: I beg you to accept my apology for the mistake of the salute this afternoon. My order was misunderstood* and the disregard of your wishes was due to a mistake fn the transmission of my order. I hope the apparent disregard of your wishes will be overlooked. "1 landed wci-lting parties from bcth ships today to aid In clearing the various streets and buildings, and propose landing parties tomorrow lor the same purpose, unless vou expressly do not desire it. I think a great deal may be done'in the way of assistance to private individuals without intert n*. t V>.,,wu1f onH i firms witu inc 'jl ,1 u uuu the government officials. As the only object of my being here is to render such assistance as I can, I trust you "w ill. justify me in this matter for tbe cause of common humanity. 4T had a patrol of six men ashore today to gliard and secure the archives of the Unite 1 States consulate, together with a party of ten clearing away wreckage. This party after finishing its work at the consulate assisted ' working parties to catch < thieves, recovering from them a safe taken from a jewelry store, valued ' at 313,000. From this, I judge that the police surveillance jl the city is inadequate for the protection of private property. "Actuated by the same motives, namely, common humanity, I shall ditect the medical officers of my squadron to aid the distress which perhaps [ does nct come under the supervision I of your medical office. "I shall have pleasure in meeting | you at. the hour upponted, 10 a. in., at headquarters house. "I trust you approve of my action in this matter. Your obedient servant, C. H. DAVIS, "Rear Admiral.'' CHINKS "DOPE" YOUNG GIRLS. Police Make Raid on a Chinese "Hop Joint" in Atlanta. Through the aid of two young white women, police officers at Atlanta Sunday afternoon, raided a Chinese "hop joint" at 26 North Forsyth street, and arrested Joe Jung No. 1, Joe Jung No. 2, Charlie Jung-Fole, Jim Jung and George Poe. Cases were made later , against three young white men, Rob- . ert George, Tom. DaFcre and Ander- i son ilightower, wh>m /the officers < state are connected with the case. < ncuamrv rve&TU dckiai tv WUITinil k/ Wbn I II I k.1 lr-lha I I I j Chicago City Council Urges Execution < of Rapists. The death penalty for cirminal assaults on women and girls is demand- i od of the legislature by the Chicago ] city council in a resolution which ] had been recommended by the com- < mittee on state legislation. The re3- 1 olution also pnovides a penalty of lite 3 imprisonment for cases of attempted ] assault iH.... & ' V . * --. . 7 - V * - - . . . ? ... { . . -V r^A" - *?{ &&?* > V- ' SUPFL7 SHIPS ARE^ENTT ???? I Uncle Sam Takes Instant Measures for Relief of Quake and Fire Sufferers in Island of Jamaica. Official news of the disaster at Kingston/ Jamaica,, reached Washington slowly Wednesday. The first re-* port did not come to hand until well along in the afternoon, when a dispatch was received at the state department, dated: "Jamaica, 3:31 p. m., January 16," and signed "American Consul," stating that Kingston had been destroyed and hundreds of lives lost and that food was badly wanted. The signature to this dispatch was misleading, for the consul.is absent on leave from his post. It was assumed at the department that the vice and deputy consul, William H. Orrett, at Kingston, had sent the dispatch. A reference in the cablegram to the fireproof safe Is understood to convey assurance of the safety of the consular records and papers. However, the dispatch was regarded as warranting the taking of instant measures of relief, indeed, the navy departmeht had been in advance in this matter, for through Captain Beehler, the officer in charge of the naval sta-tion at Key West, wireless communication was early established between the navy department and Ad-" miral Evans, commanding the Atlantic fleet at Guantanamo, Cuba, and when Secretary Root later indicated the desirability of sending warships at once, to the distressed island, it turned out that Admiral Evans had anticipated instructions and had started on a torpedo boat destroyer, the swiftest vessel* in the American fleet, for Kingston, ordering two battleships to follow as scon as they could. The appeal for food supplies directed attention to the fact that under nrmnarv r?r?nHitir?nn nnno r?f thfi firov ernment supplies could be used for outside relief save by special authority of congress. That fact, however, did not prevent Secretary Metcalf from ordering two supply ships with .full cargoes of food at once to Jamaica, leaving i6r later decision the question as to how the supplies are to be given to the needy inhabitants. RECEIVER NAMED FOR COLONY. \ Court Takes Charge of Philander Fitzgerald's Affairs in Georgia. A special from Indianapolis says: Geo. F. Mull, a local attorney, has been appointed receiver for Philander H. Fitzgerald's "1904 Georgia Colony Company," upon the petition of several stockholders in the enterpirse, who charged that Fitzgerald had not kept good faith with them. Fitzgerald was recently indicted by the federal grand jury on a charge of using the United States mail to defraud in connection with the promotion of this colony scheme. The colony is located in Georgia, and is fcnbwn as St. G-eor^e, and comprises 3,000 acres of land. The petition for a receiver told in detail of Fitzgerald's plan to" form a colony in Georgia, and to give valuable pieces of property to all his stockholders, the size and quality of the land depending upon amount of stock subscribed. In this way, the plaintiffs say, the $700,000 came to Fitzgerald, and that only $20,000 was spent in improving the property. The petitioners declare that the remainder of the money Fitzgerald has in his possession, and that he is guilty of fraud and misrepresentation. Besides asking for a receiver ami judgment against Fitzgerald, the plaintiffs ask that Fitzgerald be restrained from leaving the state until the case is settled. EXPLOSION KILLS TRAINMEN. Boiler of Engine Lets Loose and Five ? ~ t :/A L.OSO LllOa The boiler of a Philadelphia and Reading freight engine exploded at Bridgeport, Pa., Wednesday, killing five trainmen. All of the killed resided* at Allentown. The engineer of ths train. J. D. Blank, escaped. STRIKE OF TELEPHONE GIRLS Gets Into Court at Memphis ih Shape of .Injunction Proceedings. Judge McCall of the federal court at Memphis, Tenn., Wednesday afternoon said he would take under advisement the petition ot the Cumberland Telenhone and Tele^raoh coniDanv. askine for a permanent injunction, restraining all individuals from congregating about the telephone headquarters. It is charged by the company that irresponsible boys and men have attempted to Intimidate employees of the company who took the positions vacated by the strikers. PRESIDENT RECEIVES VETERANS ^ Old Heroes, on Their Way Home, Call at the White House. A number of veterans of the civil war who attended the reunion of the Blue and Gray on the forty-second anniversary cf the battle of Fort Fisher and Wilmington, N. C., and who were en route to their homes, were received at the white hov.se Friday by President Roosevelt. JORDAN IS ELECTED I e ' -M For Third Time as Head of Ceuen Association. MEETING IN BIRMINGHAM | Third Annual Session a Record Br#aH*,^| *<- in Attendance and ?ntnu.?:*?iU, Y penance nunea as waif Sir?et Manipulators, ;i;?S The third annual convention n? tte | fiouinern Co:u>u u/rowefa' Afcu'oeiiu VS tibii, nssenroted in Sirmmgnttai, fuursGdy. Hinging words layering closer organisation among uouou j|J grew era and standing up for wnat '& iney think are their rights Vere cheer* ^ ed to the echo by the thousand* delegates who were assembled, delegates seem thoroughly imbued, with the idea that there has been mordi ^ prosperity among cotton growers sinco the formation of the association two ybars ago than ever before, and they '^S applauded the speakers who urged-Jro a still closer union and further step*^a to protect their own interests and *0^9 refuse to allow the prices of south's great staple to be fixed toj|' Wall street. Even radical utterances in the efc^jjS treme were charged, as when F. lu.; \ji Foster of Shreveport, La., exclaime^|? that he hoped to see the time, como^" when a man could not sell liis cotiunsaa unless he was a member of the Souti^^fl era Cotton Association. This was thfeq" closing remark of a speech by Ira H Foster, which seemed to be received 3? with the deepest sentiments of proval by the delegates assembled. Jgai Three sessions of the conventidS^B were held during the day. , When the convention met Thurs<Stt?:| morning, every one of the eleven coj^H ci-ntob wpll ronrespjited. TmbmT meeting was opened with prayer,;*^ 3 ter which President Harvie Jortea^l presented Mayor George B. Ward, wtiijjgSJ welcomed the convention cn behalf the city of Birmingham. W. H. mour of Montgomery, president of tli^H Alabama division, followed in an araK dress of welcome on behalf of toj^H Alabama, cotton growers, saying thragl the situation with which the assoell^gl tion had to deal was not the prod?IH31 tion of cotton so much as its mark^?j|J| ing. lie regarded the present vention as the most important held in Alabama because it had $d|1^ do with the south's greatest prodnqj^^ "Our cause is a just cause," coa^fo tinued Mr. Seymour. "It is. as 'teoSjftg as any cause, for the reason that WW looks to the welfare of our people.<JMai is right and we must win." - 1 S M. L. Johnson of Georgia, presidmH^^ of the Georgia division, resixmdingijlM the welcome addresses, said in paraS|| "My friends, it is war. Not a wela^ of powder and lead, but a war reqt^Hj^ ing as much bravery, demanding*, much brains and calling for as iatie$ilp| sacrifice and patriotism as nerved arms an dinspired the spirits of jtMHo l^ees, the Jacksons and _ JohnsfcjWi^^ heroes of our lost cause, but a .catntfH^ never to be forgotten/' He said thajiSB:*' for forty years the south had submig|ffil ted to being robbed on the price ?S'"* its chief product because of its "For forty years,' he continued, have paid tribute to Wall street biers, the spinners of Europe and iJjfelB spinners of our own country. Are (ready for the battle against The speech of President Jordan views the history* of the crganiza* .'{<1 tion, outlines the seope and purpde^y of its future work, stresses the st^lar cessity of co-operation between .all southern commercial elements interr^';/ ested in the cotton trade, touches oa$|8 immigration, denounces speculation^ and discusses the recent fraud order, movement against the New York Cctirap ton Exchange. At a meeting of the executive con^-;|| mittee the following officers wertl? Harvie Jordan, Georgia, preside^ J. C. Hickey, Henderson, Texas. Dr. Will H. Ward, Mississippi, F. Hyatt, North Carolina, treasnraepB E. D. Smith, South Carolina, general: ^ B. H. Burnett, Chickalah, Arlmnsaa?|lg financial agent. ^ Secretary Root Goes to Canada. (Secretary Root left Washington o? "S Thursday for Ottawa, Canada, he will be the guest of Earl Grey, the' governor general. AFTER NAVAL &TORES MEN. ,^11 Wholesale Prosecutions on As Result of Combination. A Savannah special dispatch sayar-v.}3 Whnia?r?if? nmsecutions of the allee? ->3l ed naval storas trust are soon to be launched if indictments that are to sought in the federal court in southern district of Georgia and New3York are ietuined by the respeor^ tiva grand juries.