The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, December 12, 1902, Page 8, Image 8
ATLANTA IS VISITED :
BV A ?500,000 FliiE
Half of Valuable City Blocl:
< Is Destroyed.
NORCROG3 B'JILCiNG BURN CD.
Early Morning Conflagration Ercak6
Out and Though Firemen Fight
Flames Kcroicaily, Much Valuable
Propeity Qoes Up In Smoke.
Atlanta, Doc. 9.?This mornins
hortly before I o'clock a most tlcstruc
tive fire occurred in the heart of the
business section of the city, entailing
a loss of fuliy $o00,000, more than, half
of the block bounded by Marietta,
llroad, reachtroo streets and the railroad
tracks, being I urncd.
Among the buildings burned tvas
the handsome Norcross office building,
valued at about $100,000; Williams'
house. Snook & Austin furniture store,
Guarantee clothing store and Jacobs',
pharmacy.
The fire started In tho basement of
the Snook & Austin Furniture company's
store on Peachtroe street. It
was discovered by James It. Johnson,
a watchman, and when he saw tho
flames they had already spread to the
Viaduct restaurant, which was in the
same block.
For hours the firemen doggedly
fought the llamcs with all the bravery
and persistence of heroes, but tho firo
gained1 or. them. The block bounded
by Marietta, reachtroo and Broad
streets and the railroad tracks was
almost entirely destroyed.
As soon as Chief Joyncr reached the
eeenc the general alarm was turned
In.
Every available engine and ladder
was brought to the scene. i
Five engines and eight ladders were
soon in action, and 20 streams were
poor, piaying on tne conflagration.
Five minutes after the first engine
arrived the fames reached the store3
of inflammable furniture in the upper
part of the Snook & Austin building.
They burned like tinder and In ?pito
of the efforts of the firemen the roof
fell in with a loud crash shortly beforo
6 o'clock.
At a quarter past 5 o'clock the south
wall of the Guranteo clothing store
building fell with a terrible crash
across the railroad track. The cry
was raised that three firemen had perished
in the ruins, but upon investigation
this was found to be untrue.
A scene of the greatest excitement
was enacted at. the Williams house
No. 1. when the fire was raging in that
block. Firemen lushed through the
houso, reclng under their weight ol
hose and shouting orders and giving
a general alarm.
The inmates rushed from a deep
r Icep into a sudden panic, poured into
the streets, wild with fear.
The Kimball house was next
thought to 1k> in danger and Chief
Joynor dispatched a dozen firemen to
the roof to fight, the shower of sparks
which were falling on that building in
perfect torrents.
The flakes of fire wore falling as
large ns hen eggs and it was only with
the greatest effort on the rum of the
firemen that it was proven tod from igniting.
The estimated actual losses caused
by the fire arc as follows:
The Viaduct restaurant, $2,000; the
ftoik and fixtures cf Ilammnek's pharmac
v. $20,000; the stock and fixtures
of Jacobs' pharmacy, $45,000; the
ftrck am'j fixtures of the Huh liaborciasVery,
$25,000; the furyiture stock
cf Snook ft Aust.'n. $ '/' >0; the stock
and fixtures of the Ouararteo clothlug
store, $10 ?0; the stock and fixtures
of ITollis' saloon, $20,000; the
f Lock and fixtures of Daniel Bros." hal>
p.daahery, $5,000; plate glass windows,
doors, cornices and facings of entire
r uth side of Peters office building,
JX.O'iO; Westview Flora^ enrtipany,
$500; Hughes ft McOlclland's hahor*
p- ?!ry $5,000; TTuion Pacific railroad
ofihe, $200; EiEeman. ft Well, clothiers,
$1,000.
The loss On the buildings burned is
cf.ir. n'eri as follows:
The Norcross building was built at
' ' n cost of $30,000; the Williams house,
with .Jacobs' three stores, $21,000; the
new stores on the viaduct occupied by
Mollis'* bar. Viaduct restaurant, Snook
ft AuFtln, the Hub and the Guarantee
clothing 6toro, $15,000.
Dr. I. N. Rice Dead.
for.anion, Doc. 9.?I)r. J. N. Rico,
preside at of the Riverside Coal company.
died at his home here today of
heart trouble. Dr. Rice was a promi*
r.r-r.t independent operator ami took a
conspicuous part in the present arbitration
proceedings.
Given Death Penalty.
T/cxiogton, Ky., Dec. i).?Claude
O'i'rif a was given the death penalty
today for tho murt'te- of A. II. Chin.11,
a pioarlncnt merchant here last October.
Ills accomplice. Earl Whitney,
cuf.Vred a slnillnr fate Inst week. The^ I
killed Chinn, while burglarizing his I
tone.
8enboard Increases Wages.
Savannah, Oa., r>ec. 'j.?Orders havo
been received hero giving the informa- i
tion that the Seaboard Air Dlno Railway
company will begin paying operators
and agents an lneroase of from
10 to 15 per cent over their present
cale of tn?ca.
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COLDEST WEATHER OF
BITTER IN NEW YORK
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i Thermometer Barges Below
i
Zero Point.
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SUFFERING AMONG THE FOOR.
One Fatality la Reported, That of John
Sialtenwerf, a Blacksmith, Who W??
Found Frozen to Death on Staten
Island.
Now York Dee. D.?The coldest
weather cf the winter thus far prevailed
today. The weather bureau
reported that the thermometer had
fallen to S degrees above zero this
morning. The first fatality reported
as a result of cold weather occurred
on Sfatcn Island, the body of John
V. Stallenwcrf, a blacksmith, being
found' in the roadway. He had been
apparently frozen to death.
At Pcekf.klll. Tarry town, Ossining
and other towns along the Hudson riv.
cr tho mercury fell nearly to the zero
point.
There was much suffering, especially
among the poor, because of the
scarcity and high price of coal.
Eight Below In New York.
New York, Doc. 9.?"Tho coldest
night in December since 1SS4," was
the statement of the weather bureau
ofliclajs in this city today with reference
to the temperature last night.
Tho thermometer at the weather station
went 1 o 8 below zero during the
night, and at 8 a. m. was 6 degrees below.
Reports from place? in the vicinity
of Hoston indicated temperatures
ranging between 20 below and 8
above during the early morning.
Eelow Zero In Maine.
Portland, Mo., Dee. 9.?The thermometer
at sunrise today ranged from
10 to 15 below zero in the city. In 12
hours tho temperature fell about 40
degrees. At J^ewiston and Auburn
the weather record was 20 degree? below
zero. Most of the schools in
those places were closed for lack of
furl.
30 Degrees at Saratoga.
Saratoga, N. Y., Dec. 9.?The mercury
recorded 80 degrees below here
during tho r.ight. Other towns in this
section reported from 28 to 32 degrees
below zero. There is a scarcity
of coal in many places.
Moderated In West.
Chicago, Dec. 9.?The cold wave
lias moderated throughout the western
and central sections with an averago
rise in temperature of 8 degrees.
All indications nro for a continued
moderation, except in the extreme
northwest where another cold wave is
developing.
THREE-YEAR-OLD SUICIDE.
Rebuked by Mother, Doy Jumped Into
Tub of Scalding Water.
New York, Dee. 9.?In a fit of rago
because his mother rebuked him and
petted his younger brother, says-a
World special from Derby, Conn., little
James McSheehey, 3 years old.
throw himself into a tub of boiling
water and was so terribly scalded that
he died.
The two children were playing while
their mother worked in the kitchen in
her home at Sloton, Conn, They quarreled
and the mother placed a footbath
full of scalding water she was
carrying on tho floor and took the
youger hoy in her arms. She wiped
tho tears from his eyes while she
scolded James.
James, a nervous, weak child, burst
into a passion of sobs. Then he threw
himself, shrieking. into the boiling
water. The mother dragged him out.
writhing with nnir. Tho iinrior nor*
of Ids body was parboiled. He died
a few hours later In agony.
Will Erect Costly Library.
San Francisco, Dec. 0.?Mrs. Jane
I^athrop Stanford has decided to erect
a magnificent n?w llbraiy building at
the Iceland Stanford, Jr., university.
It is to bo the handsomest and most
costly structure of its kind on this con.
tlcnt. The planp for the building have
already been ordered and within a
month will be presented to Mr3. Stanford
for her approval.
Russia Regrets Award.
New York, Dee. 9.?The St, Petersburg
correspondent of the morning
Post. says, a London dispatch to The
Tribune, hears that Russia regrets the
result of the Retiring sea award because
it will serve as n sort of precedent
for the settling of a similar dispute
between Russia and Orent Rrita!*,
wbieh is to be tried by The Hague
tribunal.
Authorized to Issue Certificates.
Raleigh, Dee. 9.?Judge Purnell,
in the federal court here, lias made an
! order authorizing that receivers bo
apiiointed for the Carolina Northern
railway to issue receivers' certificates
for operating expenses and preserving
the property.
Goes Into Bankruptcy.
Montgomery, Ala., Dee. 9.?Jeromo
! Vlneeltellt, one of the oldest saloon
proprietors in Montgomery, has gono
into bankruptcy with liahilltes ol
I $8,300. Hs creditors ano principally
somo JR liquor dealers. , |
SOUTHERN FILES MORTGAGE* ^ |
Rolling Stock of Road To Be Increased
Several Millions.
Itlchmon, Va., Dec. 9.?Through
their local legal representative, Eppa
flunton, Jr., the Southern Railway company
haB filed In the city chancery
for
court an agrcoment mortgage
$4,144,990 to Bl&ir ft Co., brokers, of
Wall rtrect. New York. Tho document
is to protetrt this concern for
the amount named and a document,
similar to the one placed on record In
H\!a nltv ..-ill <11-.1 I
triti uc uicu lii every ovaio
through which tho road passes, tho
court fees and. taxes running up Into
the thousands. Fifty-four engines are
to be constuucted by the Baldwin locomotive
works, while 35 are to bo built
by the American locomotive works.
To the Georgia Car and Manufacturing
company of Atlanta, the Southern
Car and Foundry company of the same
place; the American Car Foundry company
and the Mount Vernon Car company
the con-tnact for the construction
of 2,560 gondola drop botton cars, with
and 80,000 capacity, has been awarded.
The contract for the erctlon of 500
ventllatel box cars has been 'et to the
Mount Vernon Car compnnjf while to
the Rogers Convertible Ballast Car
company has been given the job of
turning out 196 convertible ballast
cars and four distributing cars.
ACTINOLITE A FAILURE.
Apparatus Not Successful In Treatment
of Cancer, Etc.
New York, Dec. 9.?Tho actinolitc,
an apparatus for the treatment of cancer,
tuberculosis and similar diseases
by means of powerfully concentrated
flolet rays, which was Installed in one
of the apartments of Flower hospit
ai last may, docs not give encouraging
results according to Dr. Forbes.
The actinolit? apparatus resembles a
powerful searchlight in appearance,
and is used) to produce a light which
it was hoped would possess all the
curative properties of the X-rays without
their objectionable features. Put
while it does not, the X-rays do, burn
the cuticle and cause loss of hair from
the face and scalp; it appears also to
lack tliolr power of combating the
germs or parasites which are supposed
to be tho cause of cancer and tuberculosis.
Dr. Forbes said that although tho
actlnolito had been somewhat beneficial
In a few cases of skin tuberculosis
It had proved totally ineffective
against cancer and he gave it as his
opinion that it was practically a failure.
He said that the hospital had
returned to tho use of the X-rays In
the treatment of practically all such
diseases.
TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION.
Second National Convention Meets In
Chicago.
Chicago, Dec. 9.?Nearly 800 delegates
to tho second national convention.
o! the Interstate Independent Telephone
association assembled this
morning at the Auditorium for the forrr>
fi 1 rv'vonlnnr /vf f-V* '' ** -? '
...?i vtf<n?uQ ui wq uiicv uoys session
which will'conclude with a banquet on
Thursday evening.
Over 3,000 independent telephone ex.
changes of nine central states are represented
and a total investment of capital
amounting to $18,000,000. The
first business session began at 2 p. m?
the early part of tho day being devoted
to a i>ecei*tlon in the parlors of the
hotel an 1 to preliminary work of the
convention.
The ir.terstate's association was organized
in a preliminary form in January
of this year, ar.d held its first, convention
in April. It represents all independent
telephone associations in Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana,
Missouri and' Kentucky. An
elaborate collection of telephone appai
rtus and elrrtviral devices Is on
exhibition in the hotel.
Lodger3 Almost Suffocated.
Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 9.?By the
ignition of a i>ackage of sulphur in a
men's lodging houso hero early today
the occupants of the place narrowly
escaped death from suiToeation. The
fume3 of the burning stuff filled the
house, overcoming many of the lodgers.
The police managed to grope
their way through the smoke and open
the windows, aftefn which the unconscious
men were carried into the
open air, where all survived.. The
fire started in the office.
Hodges Makes Appointment
Macon, ua., Deo. 9.?Hon, Robert '
Hodges, who will go upon the city !
court bench January 1 next, has Issued
his initial paper. It comes In
the shape of an appointment. For n 1
long time Mr. Robert Smith has been
clerk to the city court, his present
term expiring in August, 1903. Ills
appointment to succeed himself has
been signed' by Colonel Hodges and
Mn. Smith's friends are now congratulating
him. Mr. Smith has made an
efficient officer.
Lost Life to Save Pet Dog.
New York, Dec. 9.?While trying
to save th-o life of hen dog, Mrs. Margaret
Rolsh was instantly killed by
the Chicago exprese on the Erie railroad
at the River street crossing, PatI
erson, N. J. The jtog had run ahead
and was standing on the track. Mrs.
llola/h ran forward, and, adzing tho
dog by the collan, tried to pull It off
the track. Tho locomotive struck
both her and the dog, kLUing them ln'
*tonUj> ! |
All the National!
Bank Circulation
in the United States could not
purchase the assets of The
U..i. 1 T !f_ T
mutual insurance company
of New York.
Total circulation of all National Hanks in the United
State*, September 30, ry>t
$323,900,000
Assets of The Murttal Life Ins. Co. of New York, art
larger than those of any other company in existence.
$352,800,000
Since organization this Company has paid policyholders
over
$569>i59>000
0
which is more than any other company in the World
has disburscJ.
Write 10-day for " Where shall I Insure? " ^
The Mutual Life Insurance j
Company of New York
Richa?D A. MoCur?V, President.
F, II. Hyatt, MnnttRcr, Columbia, S. C. ?
Humes &Lips omb, Agents. Union, ^.C. ^
ZOLA'S EARLY TRIALS. (
Times When the Mnddlntr Aotho* ?
Wats 1'lnuKctI la Misery, k
Yonng Zola had kicked hie heels for \
several years In ministerial anterooms,
but all to 110 effect. Gambetta, to pro- ,
vent Zola perishing of want, gave him {
the subprefecture of Castle Sarrasln.
But for want of money he had to stop
on the way, and for so long a time
that M. de Freyclnet slipped into, the
l>i;i/iUi;i ourmg xne pcrioa cienit
with In "La Debacle" was In the south
of France. IIow he then lived I cannot
Imagine. After thin.es settled down
In I'aris in 1871 he had fallen Into the
blackest misery, and with a beautiful (
young wife. ller. mother was no longer
able to share her domicile and
board, such as they were, with them.
Zola sometimes had to take the wool
out of the mattress of his bed and sell !
it. lie escaped from death by famine 1
owing to a letter of introduction from
a doctor who ntteuded his mother to
Ilncliette, the great publisher. The (
latter employed him at a salary of 00
frnucs a month to tie up books in parcels
and address them. Hut he rather
liked Zola and, divining ln him (Irst
rate stuff, engaged him to write for the
papers those puffs known as reclames I
for books tho firm had brought out. |
Noticing his piinctuality and his reserve
with other young men, Hachette
promoted Zola still higher by making
him his private secretary. Ho was '
then an uncouth, shy, 111 dressed, man- j
nerless, squat little fellow, but he evi- j
dently had a tidy wife, who paid great
attention to the furbishing xup of his
clothes and to his shirts. ? London ,
Truth. * 1
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Ilnln In Crowned Leg*.
"Uncross your legs," said a doctor.
"Oh, no!" said his son. "What's tho ?
use of being so polite all the time?"
"My boy," the father nnswered, "it is
not on account of a mere rule of etiquette
that I tell you to unrt*osa your
legs, but it Is because leg crossing is
an injurious Tiling, a tiling as oaierui to
tlie health as kissing or as microbes.
"When yon cross your legs, you fit
the knee cap of the upper lluib Into the
cavity under the knee of the lower one.
In the cavity that you thus compress 1
there are the two Important exterior
and Interior popliteal nerves and a
number of glands and blood vessels.
Compression docs not act well on these
organs. It benumbs them and weakens
and emaciates them. You feel tho
Injury In a numbness of the whole leg.
The leg goes to sleep.
"Keep on with the habit, and your
legs weaken. They become tliln; they
lose their shapeliness. It Is only such
men and women and children as never 1
cross their legs who have strong and
supple and beautiful limbs."?Philadelphia
Record.
I1I? Portrnlt,
, One of the members of a certain suburban
photographic society recently delivered
a lecture, Ulustruted by lantern
views.
Another member, thinking to have a
Joke nt the expense of tho lecturer,
slipped In among the slides a lantern
portrait of himself.
The Joke would come in, of course, by
tho portrait appearing on the screen
Immediately after tho lecturer had announced
the nppenring of something
nnHn /I { ffnvnnf
Fate and chance wore unluckily
against the humorist, for when his portrait
was presented the lecturer, without
knowing what was on the screen,
gravely read from his list:
"The next slide, Indies and gentlemen,
is the picture of a refractory don'
key!"
MliinesOtn'* Nickname*.
Minnesota has been designated as the
"North Star State," of which expression
two or three explanations have ^
been given?one on account of Its geographical
position, another that the
north star appears in its coat of arms.
It has also been called the^'T.ake
State," from the number of small lakes
within, its limits, and the "(Jopher .
State." because the early settlers j
found these animals in such abundance t
that they proved a serious nuisance, t
Even a careful rider passing over a I
plain where gophers abounded was In J
danger of being thrown by his horse :
accidentally stepping Into a gopher
hole. I I
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The lllwltrr Allegt.-mce to Ilrmrn,
A St. Louis man disregarded a sum- J
mons to serve on u Jury because his ^
marriage to a St. Jsuits woman had j
been set for the same hour. He ,
thought hi- knew which court order to
obey.?Richmond Times. i
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As we write it rains, as it i
;row, as your grass and pea vi
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md if it is not satisfactory brinj
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Jmoothest best buggy on the
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^ DR. I. M
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Sam Jones to Itcporttrs.
A prominent Baltimore physician
tells in the Bultlinoro Sun the following
anecdote about Sam Jones, the
Georgia evangelist:
When several years ago Mr. Jones
wns at Emory Grove camp, the newspaper
reports of his sermons caused
him to complain.
At the last service he looked down
at the reporters, who sat at a table
just in front of the pulpit, and said:
"Aud I want to tell you fellows that
I like you a lot in spite of your manifold
faults. You boys don't treat me
right, though. You take my sermons
and pick out u piece here, a piece there
and a piece somewhere else. Then
you string the pieces together, and,
naturally, they read funny.
"Now, suppose 1 reported the Bible
that way! A man asks me what the
Bible tells him to do. I rend in ono
place, 'And Judas went out nnd hanged
himself.' I turn over nnd read, *Go
thou and do likewise.' And In another
place I find, 'And do It quickly.'
"Now, you see, boys, that sort of
thing won't do. It ain't fair."
The Only Exception.
"She's unusually conscientious, you
Bay?"
"Yes, indeed; even In the smallest details
of life."
"Able to resist any sort of a temptation
?"
"Unquestionably."
"lias she ever been to Europe?"
The champion of woman looked starMfwl
"Oil, well." ho wild, "of course, If she
bad a chance to smuggle n few gowns
Into the country, why?why?that's a
different matter."?Chicago Tost
A Weak
Stomach
Indigestion Is often caused by oversating.
An ominent authority says
he harm done thus exceeds that from
he excessive use of alcohol. Eat all
-he good food you want but don't overload
the stomach. A weak stomaah
nay refuse to digest what you eat.
Then you need a good digestant like
?odol, which digests your food with>ut
the stomach's aid. This rest and
-he wholesome tonics Kodol contains
toon restore health. Dieting unneoeeary.
Kodol quickly relieves the feeing
of fulness and bloating from
vhich some people suffer after meals.
Absolutely cures Indigestion.
Kodol Nature'* Tool?.
Prepared only by B.O. DiWirt A Oo .ObUMS
aaCoii^fscwitainiiaieguiisMs ,
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ains your gross and pea vine*
ines grow we are settiog up
ERS AND IRAKES.
ade by the McCormick people
5 it back. No money passed
nber what we sell, the Morn
hand. Come and get one,
market today. Don't buy a
car load of ''Old Hickory b.'
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STOCK DEALERS.
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enn Springs Mineral Water.
that, in its natural state, hag
sr a hundred years is now being
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II be delighted to get this dc-^/v^
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the finest on the market. Try
Vsk your dealer for it
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Treasurer and Manager. *
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Our. wtp ell*.*, a hair nlbm
The Inveator** Trlanipb.
"You say thnt Arbelter'a inventions' ^ ^
have made several men millionaires,
but did he ever make anything out of
themt"
"Ob, sds. lie was singularly successful
with his devices in that respect.
He made enough to perfect all of jfl|
theao."?Indianapolis News. ^
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