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The San Francisco call., 1896-10-02

the Baptist church and one of the largest
stores were blown fat upon the ground,
the principal boarding house was un-
rooted, the County Jail suffering the same
fate and number OF small dwellings were
razed.
At Gainesville building erected by D.
f. Cooper for sawmill. but which was
full OF furniture, was totally destroyed and
a warehouse demolished.
In Braniord the Presbyterian and Meth
odist churches were blown to the ground.
The Drew Lumber Company's mill is a
wreck. The roof was blown from Gilbert's
mill and about one-third of the tin roof
was blown from the Plant system depot.
The store of W. Williams, general mer-
ch andise, was badly wrecked.
At Lake Butler, seventeen miles west OF
Stark. Adams Bros and Thomas & Sons
stores were wrecked. The Baptist church
and the old courthouse were blown down.
McKinney's glnhouse was blown down
and the cotton scattered. Fort White
caught the full force of the blow Nearly
every store and dwelling in town was more
or less damaged. The Methodist, Baptist
and Presbyterian churches were demol-
ished. The public-school building shared
their fate. The Plant system depot was
unroofed.
High Springs claims the air monster
scorched through the town at the rate of
100 miles an hour. Trees and houses went
down like cardboards and only half a
dozen houses are left to point out to the
Investigators the once prosperous town.
How much damage was done at the
CEDAR Keys has not been learned at Sa-
yannah yet. 1t is not probable, however,
that the storm proved more destructive
there than at other points in the State.
Other towns in Florida felt the force OF
the blow, but the damage done was trivial.
None of the famous large hotels suffered
TO any extent worth mentioning.
ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. Ia special to
the Constitution at midnight says the
storm that struck Cedar Keys did much
damage. Many persons are reported to
have been killed.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-02
tour OF UNION GENBRAls.
Republican Veterans Who Are Heartily
Received ErervsUtere

Republican Teterans Who Are Heartily
Received Ererysohers.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. The ex-
Union generals on their Western tour ar
rived in Kansas City, Kans., to-day. The
first stop was made at Atchison. where a
crowd of 5000 greeted them. Ex-senator
ingalls, introduced General Stewart. Cen
eral Alger was bombarded with bouquets
by the children present. Corporal Tan
ner closed the speeches for the party.
At Valley Falls General Sickles ad.
dressed crowd of 500. When the party
reached Topeka the civic parade, which it
was intended the visiting generals should
review. had already started and not over
100 persons were at the station to meet the
party. The welcoming committee con-
sisted of Governor Morrill,, Chairman
Sampson, Mayor Fowler, L. S. Crum. D.
w. Mulvane, Frank Brown, Major Gem
eral Hudson and score or more OF repre-
sentative Republicans. After a hearty
greeting the visitors entered carriages and
were driven to the reviewing stand at the
north side of Capitol square to review the
G. A. r. divisions.
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MAY YET ACT ALONE.
England Seems Anxious to Settle
the Vexed Turkish Ques-
tion.
France, Russia and Austria Evidently
Standing In to Protect the
Sultan.

LONDON, Exc, Oct. 1.-The Evening
News has. published q dispatch asserting
that Great Britain has notified the powers
that unfess immediate and energetic action
is taken by them to effect settlement of
the Turkish situation, England will act
alone. No confirmation OF this statement
is obtainable.
The Vienna correspondent of the Daily
Mail telegraphs that the powers have
agreed upon pacific settlement of the
Eastern question which is honorable to all
parties. He adds that the agreement
amply guarantees the future security of
the Armenians.
The Chronicle will tomorrow publish q
dispatch from Berlin saying that the Rus
sian Black Sea feet is cruising forty five
miles northeast OF the Bosphorus, and
that it is in constant communication with
the Lighthouse at kila, thirty miles east of
the Bosphorus.
BERLIN, GERMANY, Oct. IA Con-
stantinople dispatch says that the Ina
dam, a journal of the Turkish Govern
ment, publishes statement that France
integrity of Turkey and the status quo in
the EdSG. LII ueCIdreS tudG AuSITld COLI
ours in this line of policy.
The statement refers to an article pub
lished in the semi-offcial North German
Gazette to the effect that Germany sup
ported the Sultan and to the effect that
Baron Won Saurme-Jeltsche, the German
ambassador to Turkey, presented a photo
graph of Emp .ror William to the Sultan
few days ago as proof of German friend
ship for Turkey.
CONSTANTINOPLE. TURKEY. Oct L.
Considerable excitement was caused in
the Yeni Kapu quarter last evening by
the explosion of bomb. The police say
that the explosion, which did no damage,
was the result of an effort on the part OF
an Armenian woman to get rid of num-
ber of bombs which she had IN her possess
sion.
She was in the act of throwing the
bombs into the sea when one of them ex-
ploded. A Gordon of troops has been
thrown into Peruzagha, the Turkish quar-
ter This action is believed to be a pre-
cautionary measure against trouble grow
ing out of the arrest of certain Turks con-
nected with the recent riots
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Buildings Could Not Withstand
the Terrible Force of
the Wind.
ONE HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR
THE VELOCITY.
Churches and Structures OF Every
Description Reduced to Heaps
of Wreckage.

SAVANNAH, GA, Oct. Photographic
communication between Savannah and
Florida has not been restored since the
hurricane Of Tuesday snapped the wires
as it came up northward from the gulf.
The blow came ashore from the gulf on
the coast line extending from Tampa to
Cedar Keys, Tampa getting only the
south ern edge OF the blow. The registry
of the velocity of the wind at the Govern
ment Weather Bureau at Jacksonville
showed the remarkable and unprecedenI-
ed record of nearly 100 miles an hour.
The path of greatest severity of the
storm seems to have been about forty
miles wide. After passing over a strip of
territory lying within the northern part
of the State, the storm passed on to rhe
Atlantic coast, which it followed north.
The storm passed around Tampa. and very
little damage resulted from the wind; but
the high tides played havoc. and several
thousand dollars damage was done to
property along the bay.
Shipping along the river front suffered
con nsiderably. The tide overhowed Port
Tampa City, and the lower floors of many
houses were under water.
At Jacksonville the damage was con-
fined to the demolition of trees and signs.
At Newberry the wholesale and retail
store of Williams Brothers, containing a
stock OF goods valued at $4,000. was blown
down and most of the goods ruined. A
phosphate plant was demolished and all
the horses were killed. At Gracey the
sawmilI plant of Gracey & Mcdonald, the
largest in this part of the State, is COM
plete wreck. and thousands of acres of
tina ber lands were destroyed.
The heaviest losers are the turpentine
manufacturers. Those heard from report
a total loss, and since that time they were
compelled to go out of business. All the
trees are down and it is impossible in
many places to ride through the woods
even on horseback. The loss to timber in
this vicinity will reach $5000O0.
Callahan reports number OF dwellings
and two churches entirely torn to pieces.
Two Savannah. Florida and Western
Railway buildings were unroofed. The
loss will amount to 500. 900. At Maclenny
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DEso1A11os At CEDAR KEYS.
Many PerSshed During the Stceep of the
Storm ia Florida.

Many PerSshed During the Stceep of the
Storm ia Florida.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Oct. Cedar
Keys is a place of desolation and death.
Forty eight hours ago it was thriving
town of 1900 inhabitants. To-day many
of the people are corpses, scores of others
injured, and there are but few houses left
standing.
Twenty corpses have been recovered. 1t
is known that many other persons have
been killed. Of those recovered but few
have been identified. so mutilated were
they by falling timbers. Many OF the
corpses were dug out of the wreckage
under which they were buried.
Of the twenty bodies recovered twelve
are white and eight colored. Of the
whites six belonged to the Whitson
family-a mother, four children and a
young woman visitor. The other four
white victims are men, and have not yet
been identified.
OF the eight colored, only one, Peter
Woodson, has been identified. Deplor-
able as the loss of life is, it is as nothing
compared with the number of spongers
and fishermen who were drowned.
The Mary Eliza, sponging schooner,
reached Cedar Keys at 10 o'clock this
morning jury-rigged, having had to cut
both masts away TO prevent capsizing.
1t reports that Monday night nearly a
hundred vessels were anchored just be-
low Cedar Keys, and that nearly every
one of them was sunk by the hurricane.
At daylight on Tuesday morning the
captain of the Mary Eliza says he saw
only twenty Of the 100 sponging and fish
ing vessels afoat, the others having gone
to the bottom during the early hours OF
the storm.
Twelve of the twenty vessels that rode
out the hurricane during the hours of
darkness, the captain says, went down at
s o'clock on Tuesday morning.
Beyond the bay tops Of scores of masts
are visible just above the water, and each
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-02
RoeEs WoLcorr Foa eorERsoE.
Republicans of Mass achisse etts Nominate
State Officers.

Republicans of Mass achns etts Nominate
State Officers.
BOSTON, MASS, Oct. 1.-The Republi-
cans OF Massachusetts, in State convention
to-day nominated the following ticket and
indorsed the st. Louis platform:
Governor-Roger Wolcott.
Lieutenant -Governor-W. M. Crane.
Secretary of State-Colonel w. M. Olin.
Treasurer-Edward P. Shaw.
Auditor-John W. Kimball.
Attorney y-General-Hosea Moulton.
The convention was called to order in
Music Hall this morning at 10:30 by Chair
man Lyman OF the State Committee.
Me5srs. Lyman and Talbot were elected
temporary officers. Chairman Lyman de-
iivered an address and at its conclusion
the usual committees were appointed
The representative of tie committee on
credentials read the report, which was
adopted.
When Mr.. Draper arose to speak he was
greeted with storm of applause. Mr..
Draper said in part:
The logic of events has brought the cur
rency question into the greatest prominence.
The real question is whether we shall change
rency. l do not believe that majority of the
voters in this country can be secured for any
such policy.
Draper's remarks were enthusiastically
cheered.
The platform was then read and adopted.
1t indorses the platform adopted at st.
Louis and recommends the unalterable
opposition OF the convention to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver by this
country alone; the enactment of tariff
laws which will provide revenue adequate
for the payment or the National expendi-
lures and the gradual reduction of the
National debt, promote the policy of reci-
proclty and preserve our own markets to
our own people are advocated.
Presidential electors were then ch osen,
after which nominations for Governor were
in order. Ex- Governor Brackett presented
Mr.. Wolcott's name and he was nom
mated by acclamation. w. M. Cranes
name was then presented and he was
nominated on the first ballot.
The remainder OF the ticket was NOM
mated and the convention adjourned.
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top indicates the burial place of spong-
ing schooner and its crew.
ONE FATALITY At WxSHINGTON
And Others May Perish From Injuries
ReceiUed f7s the At0rns.

Received fn tbs At0rns.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Oct. 1.-The
Southern hurricane, which swept over this
city with such disastrous results on Tues
day night, left one fatality and probably
several more in it's wake. The body OF
James F. Fitzgerald was discovered in the
ruins of the Beatty saloon, 1918 Pennsyl-
vania avenue, at o'clock this morning.
Advices from points on the Potomac
River report an alarming rise in the river
at all points above Washington. At Har-
pers Ferry a rise of thirty-one feet above
low-water mark was noted early in the
afternoon and continued rise seems to
have followed. Flood river signals are
displayed along the river front and at
comparatively early hour tonight rise is
reported, though not to an alarming ex-
tent. The alan ming condition is creating
considerable uneasiness among those
along the water front in this city.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-02
Grand Jury-"We may not be 4b1e to put
you IN San Quentin, but we can keep you out of
California"

by resorting to penalties, but the inexorable
laws OF trade, as independent as the laws of
gravitation, kept them don. [Applause.l
After the speech-ma aking there were
songs by the glee clubs and Major Nc
Kiuley was presented with 8 gold horse
shoe, the receipt of which was acknowI-
edged in. few words by Mr.. Mckinley.
Mr.. Thomas presented General Harrison
with horseshoe OF his own fash.oning IN
1888 and he thinks this shoe sure to bring
good luck.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-02
Went Through a Trestze.

LYNCHBURG, VA, Oct. THE axle
of car of a freight train coming north on
the Southern Railway broke while the
train was on a trestle a few miles north of
Danville. The dragging OF the broken
axle caused the trestle to give way and
seven cars went through. Nobody was
hurt
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-02
Coat,nakers Go on Strike.

BOSTON, MASS, Oct. 1.-Coatmakers
in this city numbering more than 300
went on strike this morning because
their EN- ployers have refused to renew an
agreement OF wages and conditions. 1t is
said that the strike will affect the largest
manufacturers in the city.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-02
Hard Fighting In Afrsoa.

LONDON, ENG, Oct. 1.-The Govern
ment has received a dispatch from Sails
bury stating that serious fighting lasting
three days, has taken place in Mashona-
land, near Majo. The British. the tele-
gram says, were hemmed in Dy natives for
ten hours. No details are given.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-02
Fifteen Boatmen Poisoned.

NORTH TONAWANDA, NY Oct. L.
Fifteen men were poisoned by eating soup
containing rough on rats. They were all
boatmen and lived at saloon in North
Canal street, owned by L. L. Broadbeck
Two of the victims will almost certainly
die, and one is still in an unconscious con-
dition. The poison was accidentally put
in some soup which was served for dinner
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-02
PMbItc Debt Atafan.e.f

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct 1.-The
public debt statement issued to-day shows
a net increase in the public debt, less cash
in. the treasury during September. of
81 S06, ,034. Total cash in the treasury
$849, 9,642, ,772.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-09

find their beginnings In the slums
where the poorest have better shelter
than their means could provide, and
they progress In increasing comforts
until you reach their latest develop
ment In the quarter of the city most
recently decreed by fashion to be fit
for the abiding places Of the rich.
These homes they have to leave behind
them. They cannot take them with
them If they would. Then we, who are
poor, who could not build homes with
any part of the comforts of these va
Gated houses, find their occupation
move In and take into our lives the
good that comes to us because other
men have the ability to get rich that is
denied to us. Some day, when the i'm
pertinent city has crowded too closely,
and fashion has decreed flight to a
more distant and exclusive residential
quarter for our rich, we, who are only
poor, will, without gratitude but as we
take the sunshine and the moonlight,
gather our household goods and move
into some stately house on Summit av-
enue, provided for us by some obedfent
subject of the tickle dame and, while
the children play on the lawn, and we
smoke our pipe on the broad veranda,
thank whatever gods there be for the
rich
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-09
"MoNEY AND BANKING,

1t 70 safe to say that eighty out Of
Ievery hundred men who will cast
ballots in November have made up
decisively their Judgment on the main
and, in fact, the sole issue, N what,
with more or less accuracy, they term
their minds. The percentages, if cen
sus could be taken, would be above
rather than below that number. But
the decision does not rest with the
eighty one-hundFedths of the voters.
1t lies with the twenty. It always
does. No state in the Union. is under the
control of any partyswhose majority is
SO large that a change Of ten men out
Of each hundred would not deprive the
dominant party of control That
would be exceptional; change of FIVE
Is usually sufficient. 1t Is to the doubt
full fraction that argument must be
addressed. 1t f. waste of time and
energy to pour tt out on the other.
OF this uncertain twenty, half are
honestly DESTROYS Of knowing. They
G1C CoIhkd Uy I16 StALeHfcJItS E0cy
hear and have no elemental facts to
tie to. They want to learn, but may
not know where to go for knowledge
If treatiseS on finance are put into
their hands. they find them too alb
struse for comprehension; the fnstruc-
ton flies over their heads. What they
want is something that win give them
the fundamental facts, the elemental
laws, as evolved In the experience
OF men and nations. What is money,
and how did 1t come into existence,
and what have governments tried to
do with 1t, and how have they failed
or succeeded, and In what ways; what
has been demonstrated that men and
nations can do. and what they cannot
do In regard to money? These are the
things the ten men out Of each hundred
who win decide who Shall be president
are wanting and asking for.
Among the books that are being
poured out ON tie public bearing On
all these questions nc, one that we have
seen SO happily and completely presents
all phases of the Question as does
Money and BANKING from the pen of
Horace White. ME- White is not a
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-09
IN INTERNATIONAL MEMoRrAL.


States and nations erect memorial
monuments to the men who have
served them greatly. Hitherto they
have been deemed the most worthy of
this recognition who have served the
state in arms Monuments to them
are the most plentiful. Allied with
them are the statesmen who held the
helm while the warriors welded the
sword Latterly there is growing an
appreciation that men who have
served their fellow men by inventions
and discoveries that have made easier
the conditions Of their lives are as
well worthy Of memorials testifying
to a nations gratitude as are those
who. In it's defensive or it's offensive
wars. have made them harder.
An instance of this later manifesto
ton Is the movement to inaugurate
an International memorial that will. in
some fitting way, bear witness to the
appreciation of the nations of the i'm
mense service done their peoples bv
the invention and application of SUBJ
marine telegraphy by our own Field
and the Englishmen. Anderson and
Fender. There is merely the sugges-
ton of the fitness Of such recognition
OF eminent service at present without
definite plan, offered as nucleus
around which public sentiment NAV
gather, leaving matters Of detail to
the future. Of its fitness there can be
no question in the minds of any one
having even slight conception Of the
changed conditions of the civilized
world that have been wrought by the
brains that conceived the idea. and
the energy, skill and pluck that car
ried 1T into effect and brought the re-
hottest regions of the world into in
slant communication.
Commerce. the exchange of interna-
tional products. trade, finance, were
the first to feel the effects as they were
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-09

the largest recipients OF the benefits.
The New York merchant knew i'm
mediately the changes in foreign mar
kets instead of having to wait days
for mail advices. The exporter OF the
produce Of our farms dealt with
greater certainty when each morning
brought him advice Of the conditions
of the terminal markets and the prices
ruling there The risks of commerce
caused by liability of changes in prices
since the last advices, a risk the pro-
Queer has always to bear, no longer
were run. Certainty took the place Of
uncertainty. European markets and
their dealers were, as to time only In
the next block to the exporter in our
cities, and communication with them
was as easy and expeditions as if thew
actually were.
In his Recent Economic Changes"
Mr.. Wells illustrates this immense
change and It's effects on business. by
an instance. A Boston manufacturer.
before leaving for Washington, wired
a dealer in Calcutta to buy and ship
him cargo of burlaps Arrived in
Washington he found message say
ing that the bur1aps had been bought
and were being loaded on the ship.
Before the days of oceanic cables and
the Suez canal 1t would have taken
months to get the order to the East
Indian dealer and advice back. Carry
This Illustration into all our foreign
commerce, as 1t can be, contemplate
the saving in time, the expedition of
trade, the immense economies effected.
follow the effects out as they went in
reduced cost to the common consumers,
making better their conditions and
more comfortable and useful their
lives, and one gains some conception
OF the invaluable service to their fell
lows performed by Cyrus w. Field and
bis English associates and co-opera-
tors. 1t is proper that the nations
make suitable recognition Of this in
some enduring memorial
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would be if he threw himself in front
of locomotive engine. So 1t is all
over the nation. Everywhere indus
try is limited and hampered, produc-
ton is dictated by those who have mo-
nopolized Its resources, and combina-
ton eats up competition, that the peo-
pie may be left defenseless while the
and either smile or sleep.
There is no dearth of statutes We
have laws enough, heaven knows. We
have the old common law. under which
are illegal. We have a certain federal
law against trusts, which Is not wholly
satisfactory, but which congress re-
fused to make operative at it's last
eral Of the United States told it how
this might be done. We have anti
trust laws in nearly every state In the
Union. We have the federal law reg
ulating interstate commerce. and a
whole volume Of railway laws govern
: ing the operation Of the roads In each
commonwealth. Yet the combinations
grow and flourish and wax fat Not
upon them should fall the heavy weight
of the peoples censure,s for they have
only done according to their kind 1t
is the faithless guardians of the peo-
pies rights on whom should fall the
swiftest and most unrelenting ven
geance. This ought to be the real is
sue before the American people today
1t is on this side that their armor is
unfastened and from this quarter that
the foes of the republic are throng-
ing down.
Meantime, the people themselves,
conscious only of the growth of danger
Gus and demoraliZing powers, distract
ed by wrongs and weakness, and un-
tutored in the remedies that they need,
run this way and that, and find their
necessities made the opportunity of
the false prophet and the foolish
teacher and the ambitious politician.
They ask for the bread of equal rights,
anu lle UcSl THAT Is OIIoreQ them is
the stone of free coinage. Hardly
more lamentable in itself and in it's
probable effects upon this country is
the free silver agitation than in it's
postponement and it's obscuring of
the real issue of our age, which is the
restraint and abolition by law of the
great combinations that today deter
mine the production and distribution
of wealth, apportioning to each his
share, leaving, like the grand seignior
of old, to the laborer his pittance, and
appropriating for themselves the bal
ance. Freedom of trade within our
own boundaries is a more necessary
and vital thing to us just now than
freedom of trade with foreign nations.
Whatever tends to make this clear.
Whatever leads our people to perceive
the real evils that aff1ict them, and
thus turns their minds away from the
false remedy and toward the true. will
give new life to the republic.