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?UBA FflYOBS EUROPE. Tariff Rates Promulgated by Palma not Beneficial to American Commerce. Havana, Feb. 5.-President Palma' decree increasing the rates of custom ?ut?es in accordance with the author? ity given him by Congress, was prc snlgated today to take effect upon Monday. The rates are considered more favor? able to Europe than to America. The Satter hoped that thirty per cent in? crease, w nilen WAS the maximum rate allowed by Congress, would have been placed on goods such as the United States cannot manufacture in com? petition with Europe, but which they eosld hope to substitute to some extent with cotton. .'? The President's decree fixed the in osease on linens, silks and woolens at IS per cent, and on cotton at 20 per cast. M WU DOMINGO PROBLEM. Lic-w is Anarchy to be Put Down in the Negro Republic. Washington, Feb. 6.-Simultaneous? ly at the State and navy departments today the announcement was made that a serious state of affairs is preva? lent in San Dominga Complaint has been made to the State department by owners of the San Isidro plantation that their prop? erty has been besieged and an appeal . .ia made for immediate relief. Other Americans having interests in San Domingo haye made similar com? plaints. A cablegram was sent today tn Sear Admiral Wise, commanding the training squadron now at Guan? tanamo, instructing that officer to lake immediate and effective steps for ther adequate protection Of American ?fe and property in the Dominican Republic, limiting his course of ac? tion at all times to the recognized tenets of international law. Upon the receipt of this dispatch Bear Admiral Wise is expected to pro? ceed at once in his flag ship, the Min? neapolis, to Dominican waters and mase a personal ' investigation. The Columbia already has been ordered to return to Sari Domingo from Guan? tanamo, where she went for coal, and the Hartford will be ordered back irom the same place. It ia apparent that the long pending Dominican problem is reaching a -ensiajnat will demand immediate at - tention. The German Government has well nigh reached the limit of its patience m dealing with San Domingo, and tao English and French Governments nfe?w an equal impatience with affairs there. Au these Governments have ?Med their tim? in the hope that the Washington Government would put an and to the unsatisfactory state of affairs there, if the United States Jad not acted, it can be stated, Euro peau nations would' have called the titration to its attention. Mr. Powell, the American minister "st. San Domingo, has cabled the State department, under date of February lt. confirming the press dispatches re? garding the assassination of J. G. Johnson, an engineer of the gunboat Yankee. While ho definite instruc? tions have been cabled Minister Pow? ell,, it is stated .that the American commanders will make every effort to apprehend the parties responsible for the assassination, and if captured they will be forthwith disposed of as bandits. The navy dep?reme, J has aiso received a cablegram confirming the news. ^Collier's Preparations to Report a Great War. War between Kessia and Japan is at the moment the uppermost topic of the world's news. In 1898 Collier's had no superior in presenting to its leaders the record of the .conflict with Spain ; we are determined 'that in 1904 Collier's shall have no equal in re? porting and picturing the stirring even GS of the Far East. Richard Harding Davis and Frederick Palmer are conceded to be the foremost A mari? cas war correspondents. Both have had wide experience, the former in South Africa, in Venezuela, in Cuba, and in Porto Rico, the latter in Greece, In the Philippines, in Macedonia, and tn. China. Both go to the Far East exclusively for Collier's. They will write about this war for no other paper or magaizne while the struggle is in progress, nor will they contribute articles on this subject to any other publication than Collier's on their re? turn. Our readers shall have their best work, and all their work. Palmer sailed for Yokohama January 8, and will accompany the first military ex? pedition to leave Japan. Davis starts upon the actual outbreak of war. Formerly it was the daily newspaper which secured the services of the great war correspondents and sent them into the held. Today, however, all this is changed. The National Weekly secures for its readers the ablest men of ex? perience in America and sends them to the front, thus claiming for the week? ly paper its natural responsibilities and duties in the field of history in the making-a work it is qualified to perform far better chan a daily paper. Letter to W. P. Smith, Suinter. S. C. Dear Sir A gallon saved is $4 or $5 earned. Two gallons saved is $8 or $10 earn? ed. Three gallons saved is SI2 or $15 earned. Four gallons saved is $16 or $20 earned. Five gallons saved is $20 or $2f> earned. . It costs $3 or $4 a gallon to paint, besides the paint :.as much to brush-on a gallon of worthless paint as De voe. Mr. Ezra Rathmell. Williamsport, Pa, always used ll gallons of mixed paint for his house ; Devoe. took 6. Yours truly F. W. Devoe & Co 48 New York P. S.-LL B. Durant sells our paint. ^mmm-~ Provisions of all kinds are advanc? ing in pnce and th* man who plants aa ail cotton crop will need to make a tajr crop and sell it for a big price to jsake ends meet. TI milli ASSEMBLY. More Than Forty Bills Ordered to Their Third Reading. Bili Ito Create Board of Equaliza? tion to Equalize Tax Assessment of ali Classes of Property Killed. i Columbia, Feb. 6.-The House to? day accomplished, so far as the pass? ageot biilS'-waB^coHcemed, more than it has on any previous day pf the ses? sion. It began work at IO o'clock and hammered away on the Calendar until long after 2 c 'clock. More than forty bills eieA. ordered to their third reading and on Monday wiU receive the final sanction of the House, and will then be sent to the Senate. Most of these measures are of what is technically known as of local character. That is, they refer to the bonding of towns or cities for the purpose of erecting school buildings, jails or poor houses, to the increase of county officers' salaries, to the perchase of index cases, and the like, by county authorities, and all such things of a more or less local character. Out of all of the forty bills passed today not morie than three or four are of a general nature. The most significant action was the defeat by an overwhelming vote of the second bill/ proposed .by the tax com? mission. This bill, known as No. 1,002, provided for the creation of a new board of assessors, to be con? stituted by the appointment of one member from each judicial circuit, and this board, instead of the present board's now having jurisdiction over the various classes of property, was to assess and equalize the assessment of all real estate, personal property, banks, railroads, textile enterprises, fertilizer factories, etc. At present the banks and railroads are not assess? ed by a general State board. The banks are now assessed by county boards and the railroads by a board of State officers, and the proposition was to bring all classes of property under the control of one small board and do away with the idea of representation of individual counties. This bill had the hearty aprpoval of the tax commis? sion and was regarded as one of their pet remedies for conditions in this State, but it failed by a more than two to one vote. For quite a number of years there bas been considerable agitation and feeling about the matter of examina? tions of medical students. #The Rich? ards bill, it will be remembered, was passed three or four years ago and met with considerable opposition from cer? tain sources. Yesterday tbe House concurred, by passing to a third read? ing, in what is known as the compro? mise bill relative to this matter. j This measure, it seems, has met with the concurrence of the Medical Asso [ ciatiOc, the Charleston Medical Col? lege, the members of the General As ; sembly, and in fact has conciliated all others as being the best thing that can be done in the premises. It is judged that the same measure will go tbrca&li Senate, especially with the assurance that it is the last that is to be heard on this subject of exemption I from examinations. As is usual on Saturdays there was not a large attendance upon the Sen? ate's session today. The bill creating the department of commerce and im? migration was passed, and sent to the House without discussion. After passing some local third read? ing bills the Senate took up uncontest? ed second reading billa Cabbage Culture. A prominent truck farmer of the South Carolina coast gives the follow? ing directions for the cultivation of cabbage for market : Lands should be plowed deep, har? rowed and marked ont in rows two and a half feet apart. A necessary precaution is to thoroughly ditch the land so that at no time water will stand on it. A liberal application of fetilizer is necessary, say fifteen hu jd red pounds to x the acre. This fertilizer should consist of a high grade fertilizer, an? alyzing 8 per cent, ammonia, 7 per cent, phosphoric acid and 5 percent, potash. It is applied in the marks laid off for the rows and a scooter or bulltongne plow ran tb rough it, so as to thoroughly mix it with the soil. Two furrows are then thrown together to make a medium sized bed, which is then rolled, to firm the ground, and j plants set out on the rows eighteen to twenty inches apart. As soon as the plants are started growing, the field is I harrowed with an iron age harrow and ! dressing of five hundred pounds of fer I tilizer to the acre is applied in every other row, followed with a subsoil or some other plow which will thorough? ly break the beds until yon can see the cracks extending across the same. In about ten days the other furrow is ! treated in exactly the same way. After j that the land is kept open by constant work using a plow, harrow, cultivator or some like tool that will not break the soil deeper than two inches. Cul? tivation should occur every week or ten days until the cabbages are headed or the foliage completely covers the ground. Under ordinary conditions crops worked in this way yield an average of one hundred crates of cab? bages per acre. Hunted Like Wild Beasts. Vicksburg, Miss., Feb. G.-Driven to bay in a dense swamp near Green? wood, Luther Holbert and hts wife, wanttd at Doddsville for the murder of James Eastland, are prepared to sell their lives dearly. The negroes to? day killed four of the State's blood? hounds that had tracked them into the swamp. Several hundred men from near counties are guarding the swamps. Unless the couple attempt to break through the poss^ plans to beat the woods thoroughly in the morning. Holbert's wife is dressed in man's attire and both she and her husband are heavily armed. Two negroes were killed by a posse near Belzonia, Vazoo county today. One of them, thought to be Holbert, showed fight when called upon to halt and both were shot to death. The present scene of action is in Lefiore county, the chase having led across three counties. THE HEART OF BALTIMORE DESTROYED. Fire Fiend Fought to a Finish After Struggle Lasting 28 Hours. Loss Cannot Now be Estimated But Insurance Men Say it Far Exceeds $100,000,000. Baltimore, Md., Feb. 7.- The fire which broke oat at a few minutes be? fore ll o'clock this morning fin the wholesale dry goods house of John E. Hurst & Co.., has raged with unre? strained fury, continuously ever since and at midnight it is still unchecked, but is steadily eating its consuming way eastward on Baltimore street, after having destroyed almost all of the large stores and warehouses in the wholesale district around Hopkins Place and all tbe buildings on both sides of Baltimore street, from Howard to Holliday streets, from. Charles and Baltimore street to Charles and Lexington, and on Fayette street from Charles to Holliday, including a total of about twenty blocks of the most modern and substantial business buildings in Baltimore, involving a loss which cannot now be estimated, but which has certainly already reach? ed thirty or forty millions of dollars. Ever-since about 6 o'clock, when darkness came, the fire department, although aided by engines from Washington, Philadelphia, Wilming? ton and the surrounding counties and suburbs, has been utterly powerless to make any effective resistance to the consuming element, though for hours as many as 400 streams of water were thrown into the flames. Indeed, so terrific has been the heat ever since the fire started and so dense and suffo? cating the volume of flying sparks and burning cinders that it was diffi? cult for the fi remen to stand long with? in fighting distance of the flames, while early in the afternoon several trucks and engines were hopelessly disabled by flying timbers. At 7 o'clock the situation was so desperate that Chief Horton decided that the only thing left to do was to dynamite at threaten? ed points, and thus prevent, as far as fossible, a further spread of the flames, n pursuance of this plan a number of buildings on South Charles street, be? tween German and Lombard, were blown up. Subsequently the splendid structure of j. W. Putts & Co., notion dealers, at Charles and Fayette streets, was dynamited and then the Daily Record building, Boss' drugstore, and others. Bx? this heroic remedy mere? ly delayed,?but did not seriously im? pede the onward march of the confla? gration, and for two hours or more the fire department bas stood practi? cally helpless and resourceless. Among the buildings consumed are the following : Roxbury Rye Distilling Co. Allen & Sons, leathers. Sugar & Shear, clothing. L. Etem & Co., umbrella manufac? turers. \ M. Friedman & Sons. Crockin & Co., dry goods. Schwartz Toy Co. Mullins hotel Burgunder Bros., clothing. Maas & Kempre, manufacturers of confectioners tools. . Lewis Lowry & Co.. dry goods. Dry Goods exchange. S. Neub?rger & Bro., dry goods. A Sauber, clothing and sponging establishment. .A. C. Meyer & Co., druggists. Carrollton Chemical Co. William T. Dixon & Bro., wholesale paper. Burger & Co., wholesale clothing. Blank's saloon. Thomas Burne & Co., liquors. James Gary & Sons, (cotton mill, offices. ) Charles Burger & Co., wholesale clothing. American Cigar Co. Cooker Sanderson, local agent of Cluetr, Peabody & Co. . John E. Hurst & Co., dry goods. Hecht, Jr , & Co. S. Hecht, Jr., & Co., carpets. Daniel Miller & Sons, dry goods. Stanley & Brown Drug company. R. M. Sutton & Co., dry goods. Diggs, Curran & Co., boots and shoes. / Nolan's restaurant. C. Y. Davidson, gas fitting estab? lishment. F. S. Schleans & Co., cloth dealers. Oppenheimer, Koshland & Co., wholesale jewelers. : W Catzlen & Co., clothing. A. Fedlericht & Co., woolen goods. C. J. Stewart & Sons, hardware. O'Connell & Bannon, restaurant Building occupied by the National Exchange bank and the Merchants and Manufacturers association. Hopkins Savings bank. Building occupied by Thornton, Rodgers & Co., printers; Carr Owens & Hineman & Blanke's saloon. Ambach Brothers, clothing manufac? turers. Conrad Zeulson, trunk manufac? turer. . Building occupied by Silberman & Todes, dry goods: Thalheimer Bros., dry goods, and the Florence W. Mc? Carthy company. Fusselbaugh-Blake company wall paper. Rasch ?fc Garner, window shades. R. Jandorf & Co. boots and shoes. James Robertson, manufacturing company, metals. Peter Rose & Sons, harness and saddlery. B. Cohn, notions. N. Pretzfolder, boots nacl shoes. John Murphy company, publishers,. Baltimore News company, book? sellers. The Gushing company, booksellers. J. S. McDonald & Co.. jewelers. The Goodyear Rubber company. Likes Berwanger & Co., ?-lothiers. ! The Welsh Bros. Co., jewelers. N. i The Consolidated Gas com [?any office? j building. Oehems Acme Hall, clothiers. The W. J. Dulany company. flnyler's confect ionery. j William Knabe Piano company. Samuel Hunts Sons, leather Moods. The James K. Arminger company, jewelry. The Debrau Hat company. Kranz Smith Piano company F. W. McAllister & Co. opt^n^i Bryant & Stratton, business c* R. hertz & Co., pianos. J Im wold & Co., furniture. Granger & Co. tobacconists. Washington, Feb. 7.- The entire staff of the Baltimore Sun was trans? ferred to Washington at ll o'clock to? night and that paper will be issued by the use of the plant of the Evening Star. Estimates of the area burned, made by the Sun staff place it at between 23 and 24 blocks, all of which is in the business section of the city. In addition to the list of the build? ings burned and carried in the early Associated Press dispatches, the fol? lowing buildings are reported destroy? ed: Continental Trust Co. Equitable. Calvert. Bank of Baltimore. International Trust Co. Junker's hotel St. Paul's hotel, dynamited. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Ca. Maryland Trust Co. Alexander Brown Banking Co. A report was received at 2 o'clock this (Monday morning that both the Sun building and the American, direct? ly across the street, had been dynamit? ed. FIRE CHANGES ITS COURSE. Washington. Feb. 8.-A telephone message, received from Baltimore at 2.40 a. m. says that when the fire reached Jones Falls the wind changed, driving the fire south, and that it had reached the wharf, where much in? flammable material is stored. There have been changes in the course of the fire since it started at ll o'clock. It first took a northerly direction, swerved northeasterly until about 4 o'clock, and then struck due east. The last change turns it South. STORY OF AN EYE-WITNESS. Washington, Feb.- 8.-A member of the staff of the Baltimore Sun, who came over with the force from that paper, who reached Washington last night, said that the fury of the fire was beyond description. "You cannot imagine, you cannot imagine," he kept on repeating. The scenes of the gigantic destruc? tion he had witnessed seemed to have impressed themselves upon his mem? ory to the obliteration of every other idea. "I have seen big fires in New York and Chicago," he said, "when block after block would fall before the sweep of the flames, but nothing that approached in terrible fury the catastrophe that fell upon Baltimore today. The flames swept down the streets with the onward rush and fury of a tidal wave. Great billows of fire, two hundred feet in height, would fill the space between the buildings, and, sweeping from side to side, would blot out of existence a sky-scraper, as though it were a box of matches. "The Union Trust building and the Atlantic Trust Jbuilding shared this fate. One moment tliey stood in the stately beauty of stone and marble, a moment later and they were not. The ?ames would dash against their sides, beat in the massive walls, leap from windows and roofs ana-then would come the collapse. The Union Trust building, one of the handsomest in the country, seemed to my mind to vanish almost as I looked. "The city was a mass of whirling, burning, blinding embers. In the Sun office, where we sat at work over our desks, the copy paper would burn as we wrote. In the streets the em? bers fell in sheets and rose and fell again, as the swift wind carried them along. Everywhere were drawn and anguished faces. " The bnrned<f?'stxict ' of Baltimore is the heart of the business section, in? cluding the .entire wholesale trade and a great part of the retail trade. In the first district were all the im? portant Business and office buildings, all the newspaper offices, two hotels, the central building of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the City Hall the Court House the postoffice building, the Western Union and Postal Tele? graph building, -the Bell Telephone building, police headquarters. Holiday Street Theatre and several of the im? portant banks. Vs Baltimore street was the main busi? ness street of Baltimore and the divid? ing line between the wholesale and retail sections, being lined with es? tablishments of both descriptions. For three or four blocks south of Bal? timore street, and from Howard street on the west, to South street on the east, the flames, swept everything before them. North of Baltimore, and running east and west, parallel witb'itfecome first Fayette street and LexingfSsn ' street. West of Charles street these two streets are devoted to retail opuses, and east of it, diaries, mainly;lo office buildings. Baltimore, Feb. 8., 11.30 a. m.-The great fire is still-burning with unpre? cedented fury and has now reached the residence district. Loss up to this hour is estimated to be 8112,000,000. Philadelphia, Feb. 8, 12.27-Assist? ant Director of Public Safety Caville has just telephoned from Baltimore that the fire is absolutely under con trol and that the Baltimore firemen are able to cope with the situation. The fire is riow burning in but two places. The Philadelphia firemen and police will return to Philadelphia on the 1.30 train. All the newspaper offices are burned out. The Herald will print in office of Washington Post tonight. The Sun will issue from the Washington Star office. LOSS EXCEEDS Sl?O,000,000. . Baltimore, Feb. 8, 1.10 p. m.-The water supply has given out and the fire has caught renewed headway in the lumber district on the water font. The loss is estimated now to exceed $100, - 000,000. : DETAIL OF THE DISASTER. Baltimore, Keb. 8, 2.30 p. ni. Bulletins show tho fire yet spreading, Harne?, apparently under control hav? ing changed the direction and have spread out to the lumber district. Tl ie wholesale district is destroyed and ^retail district also suffers heavily. The burning area streches for blocks akm^ thc harbor in south east sections, tue old part of the city. The fi renie?; are working bravely, but against fear/, ful odds. The area is enveloped iij ; sm?>ke that rises in great volumes and' jplls away over the rest of the citj&j jfeBG-hingjliack along Jones Falls is Sp jKstj of-fieldings gutted by the flumed; H^o?t the Lombard street bridge look?.' ltng;westward is a scene of utter des.- j Kruction; &What once were large, subt "stantiaKflj^uctures are now masses of smouldering debris, a few walls here and there standing like sentinels over the ruins. Huge piles of smouldering bricks, net works of wires and here and there telegraph poles burned and smouldering are all that remain. The firemen are dynamiting buildings and walls in the burning area and the in? tonation of the explosions and shrill whistles of engines add to the indes? cribable horror. Every few minutes the fall of walls or parts of walls can be heard. Travel through this district is fraught with the greatest danger and even in the outlying parts of the district fi?mes can be seen eating their way through ruins and tottering walls make in? gress and egress very dangerous. It rs said/the fire is too-miles from where it started and eating its way toward the water front. Jacob llgin fritz, of the Laurel Fire Co., of York, Pa., was killed about 5 o'clock this morning. He came to Baltimoe last night with his company and was at work on the fire. Ilginfritz was caught under a wall on corner of Fred? erick and Baltimore streets and was dead when found. Baltimore, Feb. 8.-When darkness fell tonight the people of this stricken city knew the worst was over. The flames, which for more than twenty eight hours had swept resistlessly through the heart of one of the world's greatest marts of trade, were checked. An army of firemen from many cities, working until wearied, and aided by a muddy little stream finally con? quered a fire that will rank among the world's conflagrations. Worn by a night and day of terror, the great crowds that watched the ruin of their city, turned homeward and at midnight the streets were deserted save for the police and militia who guarded the horned area. To the south a red glow rises and falls, marking 140 acres of devastation-75 squares of property that yesterday represented values to the extent of from $75,000,000 to $?25,000,000. Not even a close ap I proximate can be made of the insur ! ance. I Men tonight talk in figures that are appalling and almost incomprehensible because of their vastness. An expert, the city building inspector, estimates the loss in buildings alone at $150,000, 000. On the other hand it is said that insurance estimates do not place the total loss at a greater figure. One factor that will figure largely in the final estimates consists of the securities in the banks and trust com? panies whose homes were destroyed. Their vaults and safes tonight are in ruins, covered with tons of debris. Experts who have given them as close examination as possiqle, express the be? lief that tho contents are safe. /Not a single life has been lost, and. not a human being has been even dangerously injured. The hospital lists consist of minor burns with the excep? tion of Jacob Inglefritz, a fireman from York, Pa. He has a fractured leg and is badly burned. THE STORY TOLD. Baltimore, Feb. 8.-Baltimore is staggering tonight Tinder the fire loss which no one has the temerity to put in figures. The important commercial district is blackened ruins, laid bare by a con? flagration which raged without a momentary check from 10:45 a. m. yesterday until late in the afternoon today. At 3 o'clock the flames were under control. They had raged twenty? -eight hours, in spite of almost super? human efforts put forth by the fire fighting forces which more than half a dozen cities were able to muster. The residence section of the city escaped. This phase of the situation relieved the officials from any thought other than saving property. The flames were held in check at the Union docks and prevented from leap? ing Jones' Falls, and placiing the entire city east of there in jeopardy. A score of times flames were found lapping the sides of lumber piles on the east bank of the falls. Heroic measures stayed the onsweep of fire. Throughout the terrible contest iri which firemen and fire waged for su? premacy, humanity was handicapped by a gale which carried burniwg brands far over the heads of the work? ers and beyond the reach of the hun? dreds of streams of water poured into the raging furnaces. But for the work of volunteers in seeking out and extin? guishing these embers, it is almost certain the burned area would have been twice larger than it is. About seventy-five squares or 140 acres are in ashes, extending from -Lexington street on the north, to Pratt street on the south : from Liberty street on the west to Jones' Falls on the east. INSURANCE MEN PUZZLED. Insurance companies have opened temporary offices in the Lexington hotel, ' but their representatives de? cline to estimate the loss. Tlie an? swer of one is typical of all : "It's too big. We have not figures to describe it. Make it above one hundred mil? lion. That's the best we can do." The same indecision was shown in regard to estimates concerning in? surance. MARTIAL LAW. The city was early placed under martial law and thus all danger of looting in the doomed district was eliminated. , .Word was received to? night that Gen. Corbin of New York w?uid be here tomorrow to take com? mand of the federal troops. The pres? ence of two reigments of militia as an adjunct to the police, which were aus nt?ented by details from Philadelphia .atjd Washington, resulted in the main? tenance of the best of oider. &?KROIC FIGHT TO STOP THE gH FLAMES. ?$'No one dares to guess what would Sj?aye happened if the flames had jump Jones' Falls. Tho straggle today -fttis been with tin: one end of conhn \iKg. the lire to the west side of thc muddy little stream. That this effort whs successful is me rei y the result of the fire burning itself out and coming in contact in front with the concen? trated labor of nearly a hundred tire companies, aided by the powerful fire tug, the Cataract. Again and again the terrible heat, driven from the burning district across Jones Falls, ignited buildings and lumber piles. Furious hand to hand fights occurred, which fortunately for the residents of East Baltimore, were won by the firemen. For several honrs^in the ['..Kimber district of the East Sree, vol Lurrteers watched every ember. Bucket ? brigades were formed to prevent the ! destructive leap of the flames across the narrow stream. Had the fire gained a foothold in the East Side lumber yards, it; is conceded nothing" could have stopped the onslaught and the departments would have been powerless to prevent damage as great, if not greater than that of the Chica? go fire. DYNAMITE CONSTANTLY USED. Dynamite explosions have been con? stant today. The programme adopted last night of blowing up buildings in V an attempt to stay the progress of the flames was continued until the fire was under control. Then the dyna? miters turned their attention to raz? ing tottering walls which threatened to collapse. The result was almost constant cannonading and the detonat- - ing was heard in all parts of the city. With the fire under control, the' blackened waste which lies in the wake of the sea of flames presents a view, terrible in its pyrotechnic gran? deur. It can be likened best to oceans? of great coke ovens, each shooting out its thousand tongues of flame* k from pyramids of brick, stone and cement Where the fire has died out nothing remains but waste, from which rise hundreds of towering, in? secure shaf ts of the same color. These * are all that is left of what were once handsome office buildings, storage, wholesale and business houses of all kinds. The loss will not be accurately esti? mated for weeks, for business men.Ky prosperous yesterday morning, are poor today. Expressions heard among these men as they peer into their collapsed property reveal an astound? ing number who were only poorly protected with insurance. _ - - ? ii ?J A MINING TRAGEDY. Fatal Fight rn Coal Creek, Tenn.. Between Union Miners and Mine Guard. Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 7.-A bloody - tragedy was enacted today in the little mining town of Coal Creek, Ten n., forty mi les northwest of Knox? ville, as the result of which four per-^ sons were killed and three persons were wounded one perhaps fatally. The clash was the culmination of trouble between union and non? union labor, and the excitement which followed rivalled that when nearly 200 lives were crushed out je? an explosion in the Fraterville mine't on May 19,-1902. Three of the dead men were killed by guards employed by the Coal Creek: Coal Company, while the fourth vic? tim, a deputy sheriff, was killed by a guard, whom he attempted to arrest, *t The dead are : Monrce Black, a miner, aged 24 ; W. W. Taylor, miner, aged 31 ; Jacob Sharp, section hand, a by-stander, aged 35 ; Deputy Sherifl Robert Harmon, killed by Cal Burton a guard at the Briceville mine. The wounded are: A. R. Watts, ^ merchant at Coal Creek, an innocent by-stander, shot through both cheeks : Mote Cox. miner, shot through left arm ; Jeff Hoskins, engineer on the Southern Railway, slightly wound When the wage scale was signed in District No. 19, U. M. W., of A., the * Coal Creek Coal Company relused to comply with the demands of the men. They refused to resume work in the Fraterville and Thistle mines, and for several months the two mines were shut down. Guards have recently been placed around the mines to protect non-union miners, and today a detail of 12 men, under command of Judson Reeder, a former police lieutenant ic this city, went to meet a few non? union men who were to arrive on the morning train. When the non-union men left the train a crowd began yelling: 44Scab,M and the killing'grew out of this taunt. It is hard to tell what the provocation was, but the miners must have crowd? ed up and attempted to take away the non-union men bodily or offered some direct insult to the guards. Reeder1* and Bolton at once drew their pistole and began shooting. Miners and by? standers were taken by surprise, and before they could realize what had happened the guards Jiad dimed into their wagon and driven back to the mines. Later a dispnte arose between Deputy Sheriff Bob Harmon and Guard Cal Burton. Burton shot Harmon twice, killing him instantly. The three geards, Reeder, Bolton and Purton, were placed under arrest by Sheriff Moore, of Anderson county, and taken overland to Clinton, the county seat. Later, for ^ife-taking, they were brought to this city, where they are being guarded tonight, none of them having been put in jail. The guards claim the.t they were forced to shoot and bad sufficient pro? vocation. Sheriff Moore has asked for troops, in view of resultant excitement, and Governor Frazier has wired Lieut. Col. Spence, of the 2? battalion of the 3d regiment, Knoxville, to have his men in readiness to go to the scene. All the guards are away from the mines at Coal Creek tonight, leaving the non-union men and thei r familia unprotected in case an attack should he made on them. The Case of Mrs. Maybrick. London, Feb. 4.-Replying to a question in the house of commons to? day. Home Secretary Akers Dougte* confirmed the reports that Mrs. Flor? ence Maybrick had been removed frcm Aylesbury prison to a convalescent home, where she will remain until summer, when she will be allowed her freedom, and said that she had been granted a license, under the penal servitude acts. In accordance with the wishes cf the authorities ot' the home, and with Mrs. M ay brick's own earnest desire," which is, I think, entitled to cor sideration," added Mr. Akers Douglas, "I do not propose to make "|ubl:c any further details as Zo the time Gr place of her release. " A Weather bureau observatory is to be established in Columbia through the influence of Congressman Lever. The buildings will be between $10,OCO and $15,003. Shad! 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