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PgOV. LOWNDES DEAD iFormer Chief Mag'strate of Maryland ^ Passes Suddenly Away HE SUCCUMBS TO HEART FAILURE iFormer Maryland Executive, a Factcr in Many Financial and Industrial Enterprises, Falls Unconscious While Dressing For Church and Dies Before the Arrival of Physicians. .Cumberland, Md., Special. -Ex-Governor Lloyd Lowndes, of Maryland, uiru suuueaiy ai uis aui itr uric day. Mr. Lowndes appeared to be in his - usual good health and spirits when be arose this morning. He left his offlce in the Second National Bank late Saturday afternoon, went to his home, and after dinner spent several hours in the preparation of an address to be delivered here at Bishop Paret's twentieth anniversary as bishop of the Maryland dioces of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He then awaited the arrival from Clarksburg. W. Va., of his son, Richard T. Lowndes, who did not reach the house until past midnight The Governor retired at about 1 a. on. He arose at 8:30, took a bath and began to dress, preparatory to attending church services. A sudden fall attracted the attention of Mrs. LownPe* who w?!s in the room. She s''m "w moned assistance, and the unconscious yuiui was piaceu upon tne bed. Physicians were hastily summoned and were 1 -a-l? -A iu . W..+ /loatk karl qUll'KIjr ill I Lie UCUBIUC, UUI UCCM.U uc?u ensued before their arrival. Death was due to heart failure. > Mr. Lowndes was born in Clarksburg, W. Va.. Feb. 21, 1854. He is survived by his widow,* hi3 brother, Richard T. Lowndes, of Clarksburg, W. Va., five sons, Llyod Lowndes. Jr.. of Cumberland; Richard T., of Clarksburg, W. Va.; Charles T., of Colorado Springs, Col.; Col. W. Bladden, of Mount Savage. Md., and Tasker G. Many Animals Burned. Rockingham. N. C., Special.?A Are occurred here early Saturday morning appalling in its nature. The livery stable of M, L. Hinson, was destroyed together with over thirty mule3 and horses. All day the atmosphere of the town has been laden with the sickening odor of burning flesh as the charred and half burned carcasses of the poor animals lay among the smouldering ruins. The fire originated about 2 o'clock. When first discovered it had gained such headway that the stables in which it started could not De en- j tered. The building was an immense wooden structure containing the stables, wareroom and store of M. L. Hinson and A. W. Porter & Co., and situated in that part of town known as "The Rockets." Mr. Hinson does a j large live stock business and had on hand belonging to himself and others j 33 horses and mules, all of which were burned to death. One lone mule broke out in some way and escaped from the i flames, but was burned so badly that he had to be killed. Wrecks on British Coast. London, By Cable.?Stormy weather Kill continues on the British coasts, and several shipping casualties are * .Reported. The Glasgow steamer Stel1? Maris Maria collided Saturday night, seven miles off Holy Head, with the Spanish vessel Oris, and both sank. The crews were saved in the boats after drifting ail night. The balfast schooner Dispatch collided with the Sunderland steamer Dinnington off Ramsgate this morning. The Dispatch was towed in, but the other vessel is believed to have sunk with her crew of ten men. Several other vessels were driven ashore at different points, their crews being rescued with great difficulty. Great Asemblage at Hampton Roads. Norfolk. Va.. Special.?The United Slates cruiser Newark, the coast defense monitor Nevada and the converted gunboat Scorpion left here Saturday for Hampton Roads to join the great fleet assembling there. Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton. Admiral Dewey and other distinguished officers will arrive on Monday morning to review the fleet. There will be about thirty warships of all classes in the review which will be held Monday. Killed in a Mine. Concord, N. C., Special.?Fred Leonard, a young white man, was killed at the Miami Mine Thursday, shortly *fter noon. Two passing buckets in a shaft became entangled at a shift about 250 feet from the surface and Leonard went down to see and correct tbe trouble. The rest of the story is unknown From this shift he was mruwil, Cf 1CI1, lO luc uuuuui ui IUC mine and there picked up dead, his skull being < rushed. The body 'was turned over to an undertaker and sent Ja3t night to Gold Hill, where the young man had a wife and two children. He was about 25 years of age. White House Conference. Washington, Special.?An important conference regarding legislative quesy*" tions pending before Congress was held at the White Houwe Saturday afternoon. In addition to President Roosevelt, the parties to the conference were Speaker Cannon; Senators Allison, of Iowa: Aldrich, of Rhode Island; Spooner, of Wisconsin, and Piatt, of Connecticut, and Reupresentatives Payne, of New York; Dalzell, of Pennsylvania; Grosvenor, of Ohio, and Tawney, of Minnesota. SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON CROP Two Hundred Thousand Bales Not ! Yet Sold?It Is Being Held For j Higher Prices, and at Ten Cents a Pound Would Bring Ten Million : Dollars. "A. K." In the Charleston. (S. C.) J News and Courier, has this to say of j the cotton crop of Soutn Carolina: The New Year has dawned wun j prosperity and good feeling all over South Carolina. The cotton situation is a serious one, but fortunately the terrible slump came after the State had gotten fully on its feet in a financial sense, and the bulk of the cotton now being held is in the hands of those best able to hold it. A representative of a large cotton buying firm was sent here from New York about ten days ago, and he has persistently tried to buy cotton, but in the ten days he has not bought over two hundred bales. This shows that there is no disposition to sell and that the holders do not have to sell. The next question is: Is the cotton here? It certainly is, and it is being held for better prices, and those who hold it are not going to sell at present prices, simply because they do not have to. A close observer from Orangeburg County, the banner cotton county of this State, and the second largest cotton producing county in the country, according to the census, hm about 20,000 bales on hand in the possession of the original producers. It is estimated that Orangeburg County raised this year 88,000 bales of cotton, and of this amount it is stated that 5,000 bales are rr <n A molio Tnn'nchin UUTf UVIUft UV1U ?U ? v > r I alone, and the remaining fifteen or twenty townships of Orangeburg Coun ijr uv.rj enough to a total of 20,00o bales in the bands of the producers ip that county. It ig this way in Anderson, and in fact all over the State. A gentleman from Anderson County said the other day that the cotton mills arc holding cotton for farmers, and that in addition the .ware houses over the State are well filled with cotton. It is estimated that fully 200,00* bales of cotton are being held in South Carolina, which at ten cents a pound, are worth $10,000,000. It is further stated that most of the cotton mills have bought pretty freely and have their supplies on hand, with allowances for filling in orders from the home territory. Many of the cotton mills of the State bought cotton when it was very much higher than it is today. $60,000 Fire at Greenville. Greenville, Special.?Starting at 3 o'clock Tuesday morning, fire destroyed two tobacco warehouses, four nrixp houses and several smaller buildings, together with a half million pounds of leaf tobacco. The total loss is fully 160,000; insurance $40,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. The losers were: R. A. Tyson, E. H. Thomas & Co., Evans, Hooker & Co., C. W. Harvey, Greenville Warehouse Company, R. F. Betts, J. E. Hughe3 & Company, R. O. Jeffress, S. M. Schultz, Thomas &. Greene, T. B. Ficklen Bailey & Andrews, the Euvita Company. Stossel Cables the Emperor. Tokio, Special.?By permission of the Japanese General Stoessel sent a cable message to the Emperor of Russia. The mesage recites the fact that the Port Arthur commander was forced to surrender, announced the terms granting the officer's parole and con/1 Kic onm. QOAO UiC i^UiyviVI w/ OVU^ uto VWM? mands. Col. McColl Dead. Bennettsville, Special.?Col. C. S. McColl, Senator and one of the most prominent citizens of Marlboro county, died here Saturday after a short illness. His death was a great shock to the entire community. Telegraphic Briefs. Dr. Leroy S. Chadwick arrived in CleveJand, Ohio, and was released on bail to answer charges of aiding his wife in passing a forged check. Senator John H. Mitchell and Representative Binger Hermann, who have been indicted in connection with the Oregon land fraud, denounce this action as a conspiracy. Rev. Ingram N. W. Irvine, it was understood, failed in his mission to Huntingdon, Pa., in that his former parishioners there whose names appear on the presentment against Pish- ? op Talbot, still repudiate their signa- , tares. uripery or omciais is aaiegea iu have caused the defeat of Governor Garvin, of Rhode Island. Lynchings In 1904 were fewer than in any year since 1885, the number being 89. Frank Gardner, aged 17, was rescued from drowning by the heroism of a girl rear Delaware, N. J. An unusual political situation has developed from the proposition to regulate railroad rates. Senator Scott, of West Virginia, jays the government should own all buildings used for it for Federal purposes, both in the United States and abroad. The Geological Survey announces that the new gold fields of Nevada promise to become among the most important. William McKean, of Baltimore, who i cached Norfolk, declares he was captured and held prisoner on a Chesapeake Bay oyster boat. THE SOUTB'S WEALTH Notable Increase Shown During The Past Pear A STFAnV INFIHY ftF C A PIT AI ? k# liii uva vi vni i i n&? The Remarkable Gain in Diversified Agriculture Notable?The Increase in the Taxable Value of Property 40 Per Cent?As Great as the Increase in the Preceeding 20 Years. Baltimore, Md., Special.?The Manufacturers' Record presents this week the approximate figures of the assessed valuation of the property in all the Southern States at the beginning of 1905, publishing a table showing by States a total assessed valuation of $4,510,925,237 in 1890, of $5,266,594,044 in 1900 and of $6,196,697,813 in 1904. Commenting upon these figures The Manufacturers' Record says: ' These figures, subject in part to revision?and, it is believed in the case of two or three States, several million dollars below what will be shown by the final returns on-assessed values? indicate the remarkable advance in material wealth in the South between 1900 and 1904. During that period, as shown by these figures, there was a gain of more than $930,000,000, or at an average rate of $230,000,000 a year. The magnitude of this increase is strikingly illustrated when compared witn trie progress in tne decade between 1890 and 1900, when the total increase in assessed valuation was $755,000,000, or at the rate of $75,000,000 a year. It was during that decade that the price of cotton fell to its lowest point since the war, but during the last four years there was a steady advance to the exaggerated speculative value of the early part of last year. It may not be possible to connect with exactness the increase in the price oi cotton and the enhancement in the assessed values of property in the South but that higher prices do have a ma terial bearing upon the prosperity, goes without question. "In studying this question, however, it should be borne in mind that during that last few years the increase in diversified agriculture in the South has been almost as marked as the increase in the value of cotton, and added to this is the really wonderful industrial development. The remarkable change from the low price of cotton of six or seven years ago is hardly more striking than is the increase in the production of grain, fruits, vegetabjes and other farm nroducts. Tho total i increase in the assessed valoe of property in the South in the 20-year period from 18S0 to 1900 was $2,310,000,000; or, in other words, in the last four years the gain in the taxable value in the South has been 40 per cent as great as the total gain of the proceeding 20 years. Bearing on the increase in the assessed value of property, The Manu> facturers' Record gives in detail statistics showing the great development of diversified farming in the South, which in connection with industrial development has been a potent factor in the enrichment of that section, and says: * "By reason of the short crop and high prices of cotton in 1903 and-the large crop and lower prices in 1904, the world's attention has been so closely centered upon cotton that the remarkable development in diversified agriculture throughout the South, now one of the most marked features of Southern farming operations, has been to a considerable extent overlooked. In l?u3 the South produced such an exceptionally large grain crop that it was hardly to be expected that there would be a further increase in 1904, although there is practically no limit to the South's capabilities in the development of diversified farming. In 1903 the production of corn showed an increase of 138,000,000 bushels over 1903. The aggregate production of corn in the South for tne last two years was 1,300,000,000 bushels, against 900,000,000 bushels for the two preceeding years, an increase in two years of nearly 400,000,000 bushels. The total value of the corn crop of the last two years was $720,000,000 against $566,000,000 for the two preceeding years, or a difference in favor of the last two years of $154,000,000, n?Ki/?K vt ma 4 a a ?ia<tUk a# a ?iv-?t ??ao quucu iu uic ncauu ui iuc South by the increase in corn alone. There was no material difference in the wheat production bpt the higher prices of wheat in 1904 made a difference of nearly $15,000,000 to the South as compared with the wheat crop of 1903 and a difference of $31,000,000 as compared with the wbeat crop of 1902. W^^jtal value of corn, wheat, oates. Irisl^^^|f?s rye and hay produced in the Souti^l^^,^- was $542,000,000 a gain of $3G,00u,v. - ^nared with 1903 and of $140,000,000 cu._. J ~Ith 1902. Outside of these crops cotton, the value of other farm pi. ducts, including rice, sugar, tobacco, sweet potatoes, vegetables, fruits and live stock products, was about $550,000,000, or a total value of Southern agriculture outside of cotton in 1904 of about $1,092,000,000. The aggregate grain production in the South last year was 790,000,000 bushels, against 607,000,000 bushels in 1902. Rehearing in Rebate Case. "Washington, Special?The inter-State commerce commission telegraphed President Ripley, of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, that it would give a re-hearing in Chicago of the Colorado F'uel & Iron case, probably on Friday or Saturday of next week, though possibly not until later. This is the case in which charges were made of granting rebates by the railroad to the Colorado company. > V I S.C. COLLEGE CENTENNIAL ! Prominent Men of Several Statee to Make Addresses?Many Distinguish* ed Men to Take Part in the Celebration. Columbia. Special.?The South Caro! lina College centenial was inaugurated | Sunday under a perfect sky, in ideal I temperature and with a large crowd j 3f visitors present among them a num bcr of noted educators from other States. The exercises were of & re1 ligious nature, centering about two exI cellent sermons, the one in the mornI ing by the Rev."Dr. J. William Flynn, | of the college faculty, and the one in the evening by the Rev. Dr. John A. Rice, an alumnus of the college now living in Alabama. Both sermons were delivered in the theatre, which was crowded to the limit of its capacity from dome to pit. The noted First Regiment artillery band is up from Charleston to furnish the music for the exercises, which will continue through Monday and Tuesday. Among the alumni and other visitors who had been assigned to homes by the bureau of information up to noon, were the following: David Cutting, Sumter; David and Edward Coker, Darlington; Chancellor Kirkl nd, Vanderbilt University; F. M. Rob- rts, McBee; William Cooper, Dr. Ham 'ton Cooper, and A. T. Cooper, J. "W., E. A., R. C., A. O. and Dr. Frank F. Simpson and Dr. M. M. Kinard, Newberry; President Parker, Charleston Medical College; Prof. Henry Lewis Smith, Davidson College; Mr. Henderson, Waterboro; J. B. Cleveland, Spartanburg; Chancellor Wiggins, University of the South; Miss Fannie Evans, Spartanburg; Judge W. H. Brawley, Charleston; Chief Justice Y. J. Pope, Theo. Q. Barker, Charleston; Chancellor Fulton, University of Mississippi; President Walter B. Hill, University of Georgia; President Brown Ayers, University of Tennessee; Pnaaident Andrew Raymond, Union College, New York; Maj. Marlon Moise and L. C. Moise, Sumter; J. D. McCants, Sumter; Vice Presiident Kirpatrlck, University of Georgia; Prof. John W. Abercrombie, University of Alabama; Dr. J. B. Henneman, University of the South; John H. Corrlgan, Atlanta; Prof. Frank Carter, (Williams College, Mass.; Julian Mitchell, Charleston; James Simons, Charleston; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Augustine Smythe, Charleston; Prof. Frances P. Venable, University of North Carolina; President E. B. Craighead, Tulane University; Dr. E. L. Patton, J. W. H. Hardin. New York; E. H. Anderson, New York; Dr. W. C. Coker, University if North Carolina; Prof. Jesse, UniverJ ity of Missouri; Prof. D. F. Houston, i. and M. College. Texas; Col. T. J. and P. V. Moore; President Andrew Sledd, University bf Florida; C. E. 'Smith, William F. Smith, A. R. Craig; 'James A. McCullougb, Greenville; Dr. J. H. Mcintosh, Newberry; Col. Asbury Coward, the Citadel; Dr. Harrison Randolph, Virginia; Profs. Shivar and Beaty, Clemson College; Judge J. H. Hudson, Bennettsville; W. F. B., E. C., J. R. and G. E. Haynsworth, Sumter; W. M. Hamer, Dillon; Dr. W. E. Pelham. Newberry; Dr. Henry Snyder, Wofford College; J. A. Rice, Greenwood; Samuel McGowan, Spartanburg; Maj. J. L. Coker, Hartsville; President Mell, Clemson College; Prof. McLucas, Clemson College; W. A. Bhrber, New York; W. W. Ball, Charleston; Dr. B, A. Elzes; Solomon Kohn, Orangeburg; C. G, Sayre, President D. B. Johnson, Winthrop College; Prof Murray, Mercer University; Prof. Cyrus Northrop. University of Minnesota; Capt. Iredell Jones, Rock Hill; Dr. i>. Ferguson,, Laurens; Capt J H. Brooks, Ninety-Six; Mr. and Mrs. Bufort 4*1-1- ? TIT a rp ZTlws ALKiUtiUU. JUUU W. ctUU JKIUCH X. ftiU* ard and E. Marion Rucker, Anderson; Prof. W. J. Neville, Presbyterian College at Clinton; Prof. John L. Douglas. Dr. J. A. B. Scberer, Newberry College; Miss Mary Leonard, Wintbrop College; Dr. J. H. Thorn well, E. Preston Earle, Fort Mills; R. B. Patterson, Prof. Charles J. Colcock, Porter Military Academy, Charleston. The programme includes addresses by the Governor of South Carolina and other prominent men. Secretary Morton Sails. Washington. Special.?The Dispatch -cat Dolphin sailed from the navy yard . ith a distinguished party bound for iaraptcu P.oads for the purpose of re.dewing .>.2 vessels of the North Atlan;e fleet tomorrow, preparatory to their .aiticipation in the naval manoeuvres n the Carribean soa later in the winter. The party includes Secretary Morton. Admiral Devey and Captain Swift, of the general board, and Lieutenant Commanders F. L. Chapin and Spencer a. Wood. V. E. McBee Made Co-Receiver. Charleston, S. C., Special?Ir th? United States Court Judge Brawley appointed V. E. McBeev co-receiver with W. 1. Edwards, of the praerty ' fhe Carolina Northern Raili of fe of South Carolina. . revitte"-..^ in the Eastern dist. of North Car?l> named the sair, 'receivers. but the JHer today gives'them control in this state. Dwyer Wins Wrestling Match. Atlanta, Special.?M. J. Dwyer won two out of three falls from Charles Loenhardt, of Newark, N. J., in a wrestling match at the Atlantic Athletic Club. The first and third falls won by Dwyer were catch-as-catch-can the second fall, won by Leonhardt, was Grecto-Roman. Flagship Not Lost. St. Petersburg, By Cable?Reports hat Vice Admiral Rotjestvensky's flaghip, the battleship Kniaz Souvaroff, .'.as struck a rock and sunk, are unfunded. Many Newsy Items Gathered From all Sections. General Cotton Market. Middling Galveston, steady 7 New Orleans, firm 7 1-8 Mobile, quiet 0 5-8 Savannah, easy 6 3-4 Charleston, quiet 6 3-4 New York quiet 7 10 Houston, steady 6 7-8 Memphis, steady 6 3-4 Louisville, firm 7 1-3 Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent prices paid to wagons: Middling 6 5-8 Tinges 6 to 6 1-8 Stains 5 to 5 3-4 Charter Fees For 1904. The annual report of the Secretary I nf Qtnto has nhnnt hf*?n rnmnleted and the figures regarding the fees received have been made available. The totals show that the amount of fees received for 1904 was slightly under that of 1903, when the total was $18,000, but this is explained by the fact that the majority of the companies organized this year were small ones with capital averaging $10,000, while the year previous there were many new cotton mills and other large corporation? formed. The figures as prepared by Chle' Clerk McCown are as follows: 385 declarations $ 962 bO 318 charters 795 00 ' 401 eleemonsynary charters 303 00 313 notaries public 1,017 25 3 commissi oners of deeds .. 9 75 i Certificates 53 50 i Charter fees 7,368 20 Foreign corporations 400 00 Railroad charters and records 276 *0 Amendments 66 50 Increase of capital 2,976 90 Decrease and dissolutions . 20 00 Renewals 384 00 Miscellaneous 5 00 $4,577 70 These figures Indicate that there was a marked advance in the incorporation of smaller indu stries of diversified interests, for the amount projected in cotton mills was the smallest in a decade. Electric Railway For union. Union, Special.?Union is to have a street electric railway system in the near futur the city council having grjnted & ver liberal franchise to L. G. Young ant bis associates at a meeting Monday night. The franchise f provides that the work shall begin in good faith upon the construction of the track within the town limits on or before the first of July, 1906, and that the railway shall be completed and in operation within six months thereafter, unless restrained by insuperable obstacles and that, the franchise ia granted exclusively to L. G. Young and his associates for the period of fifty years. This electric railway will have the right to go through all the streets and avenues that are now or may hereafter be opened up and will run its lines to take in the Excelsior Knitting Mills on the soutnern suburbs and Monarch Cotton Mills on the eastern. Sudden Death in Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Special.?George W. Campbell, aged about 43 years, a white plumber, died suddenly Wednesday night about midnight From what could be gathered of the matter it seems that Campbell had been drinking heavily of late, but he did not appear to be drunk. He attended a meeting of the Plumbers Union at which he was elected president. Later on in the night he took a walk. The body was carried to the undertakers' establishment of Floyd & Co., where the inquest was held. The verdict was that the deceased, George Campbell's death, was due to natural causes. At a negro festival at Monticello, in Pairfield county, Sam Bell killed Ben Peay ar.d broke Dave Peay's jawbone. Wylie Suba was shot in the back by i party unknown. Dr. Scott does not :hink he will die. Another negro whose lame is unknown had his skull :racked. The Columbia Trust company Thurs- i Jay declared a semi-annual dividend 1 if 5 per cent, on ^the capitalization of >100,000. This company is the treasjrer of the street railway company, rod is closely allied with the National Loan and Exchange bank, which has ] just declared a semi-annual dividend i )[ 3 per cent. 1 Mr. Boyd Taylor, a young white mam J who lived near Mars Bluff in Florence . :ounty, was found dead in the woods ] near his home. From what can be ( learned, he went out in the woods to haul a load of wood, and not coming borne, search was made for him. and his ox and cart were found and not far from the place his body was found. . It is supposed he died from natural :auses. Coroner Cooper, accompanied by Dr. N. W. Hicks, went out to hoid an inquest, but the result of the coroner's jury has not been learned yet. South Carolina Items. It is stated on good authority that ' the city of Union will some time dur- J ing this year have another national i bank with a capital stock of $100,000. The promoters doN no^jKant their names mentioned unyfl|^P>lans for the organization hav^KeiyfuIly perfected. This will be Ve fourth bank at Union, which shorn that the city lr still rapidly increling in population and business. % River Boat - 4 VESSEL WAS A COMPLETE WIECE An Entire Side of the Towboat Defend er Was Blown Out While Nearly Alt the Crew Were Asleep and the vivors Were Compelled to Ptung* Into the Icy Waters. Huntington, W. Va., Special.?Hgkft nen are known to be dead and threa seriously injured, the result of a boiler explosion and fire which destroyed the tow boat Defender here early Wednesday. The dead are: Perry Spender, mate, Point Pleasant* Horace Wetzel, watchman, Pittsburg. James Seese, lamp trimmer, Wellarrille. Albert Hamilton, fireman, Pittsburg* Mike Stafford, fireman, Plttanrg. Thomas Duffy, fireman, Pittsburg. Will Wetzel, deck hand. George Kldd, deck hand. I'.jured: Ira Ellis, second engineer; R oert Holland, fireman; Robert Mann, fuird cook. The defender was owned by tha Monongahela River Consolidated Cbal and Coke Company, of Pittsburg. Capt. James Woodward was in the pilot house at the time of the accident. an? with the exception of firemen, engineer and the watchman, the remainder at the crew were asleep. Blizzard In New York. New York, Special.?New York City* and all the surrounding country Wednesday was in the grasp of the moat severe storm of the winter. Trafie of all kinds was hampered, trolley lines were tide up and the street^, swept by a gale driving before it im snow that cut like sand and piled fan great drifts, were practically imputable. Railroad trains from all point* were delayed from a few minutes to three hours, and the elevated lineo were operated with the greatest difllculty without regard to schedule. AC sea the conditions must have been beyond description, but no disaster baa been reported. In the harbor, the ooly point where observation could bo had, an immense sea was running uuk several great liners and smaller vessels tugged all night at their chain* in the semi-sheltered spots where they had sought refuge from the storm. What may have happened off shore to any luckless craft which had to hie the fury of the gale, only time can teU. All over the city, morning fotmtft trolley - cars blocked in the streets; great drifts piled against them an* preventing them from moving an inch. In many of the cars were snow-bonnd passengers, who had remained in tho cars all night rather than face tho blizzard in an attempt to walk to their homes. Four serious flres during the night; two of them calling for, two alarms each, gave the firemen and tbeic horses their most bitter experience of the winter, in one case, just Derora dawn, and when the storm was at its height, the occupants of steveral tenement houses in the upper East Sidif were routed from their beds asA forced to flee half-clothed to the ston* swept streets. In this case 64 horsey, which were quartered near the tenement house, were burned to death. Pedestrians were compelled to forsm tbelr way through the unbroken drift* to the transit lines, only to find that because of the complete surface car tie-up, they had another trudge to th? sub-way stations. Every station alon* the sub-way was packed, and ttatrains were jammed. Although thousands of homeless unfortunates were given shelter by thn various charitable organizations Tuesday night, more than a score of men, overcome by cold, were found lyin& about the streets -early WednesdayAll of these probably will recover under treatment. $5,000 Worth of Whiskey Lost. Columbufa, S. C., Special.?A hoop on the Richland Distilling Company's 5, auu-gaiion capacity tana Drone weunesday afternon and all of the content*, worth over $3,000, were lost, save the little the employes scooped up with buckets from the floor, which was covered a foot deep. One man narrowly escaped being drowned in the deluge oC whhfkey. Telegraphic Briefs. * Tokio, By Cable?Noon.?General Nogi reports to the Army Department :hat on Janifary 3 the commissioner* of both the Japanese and Russian armies roncludcd their conference, and that from the morning of January 4 the actual transfer of war material* at Port Arthur as property of the Japanese government commenced. Near Martinsburg 50 sticks of dynamite placed in a bonfire exploded, shaking the country for a mile around. Roanoke*, after years of contest, has jusc oanisnea me cows uuui no simw Two Lake submarine torpedo boats were put on the German ship Adria at Newport News. Will Not be Courtmartialed. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?The scene* at the admiralty and War Office were a repetition of those of yesterday, :rowds of weeping women and chll- tlren vainly asking for lists of the survivors of the Tort Arthur garrison, which could not be furnished. While the Russian military law is imperative in the requirement that the commander of a fortress who surrenders shall be> tried by court-martial, the Emperor undoubtedly will order that this formality be dispensed with in the case o?_ General Stoesscl. J -