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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-04
JACKSONVILLE FIRE SWEPT
Millions of Dollars Reduced to Ashes
in a Few Hours.
A SAD STORY OF DESTRUCTION.
A Swath Two Miles in Length by One-qu
ter in Depth Cut by the Flames.
SEVERAL LIVES REPORTED LOST
SEVERAL LIVES REPORTED LOST


Finest nd Resid Section Consumed
n o. he mess Disct De-
parment and Bull rdings Blown Up Dyna
init in he in to the Flame
and o Hon less sandW women and
to Jackso IIe's
Call For Helm.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-04
i, HUNDRED MOTHERS DROWNED.
Terrible Ferry Accident Occurs ON
the River Dnieper.

London, May IA special dispatch from
odessa, dated April 26. purports to give
an eyewitness story of the recent ferry
boat disaster on the River Dnieper. near
Katchkarovka, when almost a hundred
mothers. with their babies, returning
from the evening milking, were drowned.
A sudden storm sprang up. there was
a panic, the pontoons were swamped and
only a few OF those on the ferry were
saved by boat. Three persons clung to
a horse. which swan ashore. Practically
every famiiy in the village was rendered
motherless by the disaster.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-04
YELLOW FEVER IN HAVANA.
Quarantine Regulations Put Into
Eject at Once

Washington. May 3.-Yellow fever las
made its appearance In Havana and the
order of the Secretary Of the Treasury.
suspending the quarantine regulations un-
I'll The 18th instant. has been revoked. The
news of the presence of the disease was
forwarded to the surgeon general of the
Marine Hospital Service by DR.. GIennan.
chief quarantine officer for Cuba. He
says there are two cases of the fever in
Havana, but makes no report for the
other parts Of ehe island. The quaran-
tine regulations, which go into effect i'm
mediately, require certificates of immuni-
~ from persons coming from Cuba to
the United States through Southern ports
and five days absence from Cuba on the
part of persons coming from that island
through Northern ports.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-04
THE ExILED CATTLE KING.
Grant Gillette Falls Into Mining
shaft in ChIhunhun, Mexico.

FL Paso. Tex, May IA dispatch from
Chihuahua this afternoon says:
A messenger has just arrived here from
the doctor OF the lower mines In Western
chihuahua, bringing the news that Grant
Gillette. the exiled cattle king OF Kan
sas, had fallen In one shaft at the mines
and was seriously hurt.
Just how the accident occurred Is not
definitely known. Gillette secured the 20.
ttion OF superintendent OF the mines sew
ersl weeks ago. and II Is supposed that
he fell In the shaft while at work
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-04
WOULD INJURE british TRADE.
EIIeman of LeyInnd Line Talks OF
ship Subsidy.

London. May 3.-At the annual meet
ing Of the Leyland Steamship Line to-day
Chairman Eilerman declined 10 discuss
the sale of the line to j. Pierpont Morgan
g. Co. until a special meeting was called
10 take the matter up. Reviewing last
years business. MIR. Ellerman referred to
the congressional discussion of the sub
sidy bill as "a period OF some anxiety"
An American subsidy. he added. would
be detrimental to British trade, and
might make It next to impossible to com
pete with Amerncan-owned steamers.
while British ships could not expect gov
ernment cid. u
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-04

elegant residences were offered up to the
Unsuitable fire fiend.
AS the viaduct leading over the marshes
of Hogans Creek to East Jacksonville
was reached, it was plain that the limit
of the progress of the flames westward
had been reached. The hope of the people
grew strong that the worst was over, but
as far as the money value of the damage
was concerned the worst was yet to come.
Just as the material for the flames was
apparently consumed, shift in the wind
sent a roaring sea of flames southwark
toward the river. Then it begun to dawn
on the minds of the unfortunates, who
had refuged to the riverside, that they
were in danger of being cut off and suf-
focated. A rush was made for the South
Jacksonville ferry, and hundreds sought
refuge on the other shore.
Then came the most thrilling scene of
the entire day. The flames caught the
freight warehouses of the Atlantic, Val
dosta and Western Railway and
the Clyde freight docks and began
began from there it's backward march in
the teeth of the wind. Slowly. but surely,
1t eat its way against the wind taking
either side of Bay street, until it reached
haa TIL.
store of the F. and NJ. Dowling Company,
the Mutual Naval Stores Company, the
Jacksonville Produce Company, Muller &
Co., and dozens of smaller concerns were
slowly, surely whipped up.
While the flames failed to cross the
open space known as Jones' Boat Yard
a new danger threatened. The flames
swept down in the rear of the United
States Hotel, and that, with the Law Ex-
change, was doomed. Meantime the
county Court House caught fire and an
other splendid edifice was soon a total
wreck.
fIames Cut n New SWath.
From the United States Hotel the flames
again jumped across the street and the
line of march was taken up again, only
to be checked when the last building be-
tween Mccoy and Hogsn's Creek had
been destroyed.
Among the houses that succumbed to
the flames at s o'clock on Bay street,
were the Mohawk block, the Gardner
building. Fgrchgot's mammoth dry goods
house, Benedict & Pollaks, wholesale dry
goods; Christie Drug Company. McAllis-
ter, wholesale liquors.; Cohen Bros, dry
goods; r. L. Harrison, dry goods; ISeman
and Skinner, Wholesale grocers; l. e.
Baird, paints; w. A. Bours, hay and
grain; F. M. Downing wholesale grocer;
Clausson, wholesale grocer; Florida
Hardware Company; United States Hotel,
E. F. Clark's furniture house; Henry
Clark, carpets; d. z. Cooper furniture;
lettings & Reichard, furniture; Harkis-
heimer, grocer; estate of McNerny, whole
sale grocers: Coleman, tailor; a dozen
drug. retail grocery, millinery and other
stores; Sumner. wholesale butter and
cheese. 1t is probable that tomorrow S
casualties will record the loss of the
Astor building, in which are located the
Offices of the Times-Union and Citizen,
the Plant System, Weather Bureau and
Southern Express Company. The great
wholesale district between Hogan street
and the Viaduct, leading to Riverside, is
also threatened. The hotels destroyed,
include the Windsor St. James, Piacide,
United States. Girard, Glenada and OK
ford.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-04
oivm government IN Manila.

Manila. May 5.-Civil government In
Manila was established to-day as pre-
iminary 40 the Inauguration Of a general
civil government.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-04
ESTIMATE OF THE LOSES.

figures Obtained From Heaviest
Losers Last Night.
The following is a partial list of esti-
mated valuations of property destroyed,
secured up to $50 p. m:
CLEVELAND Mfg. Co. ................ 5000
Commercial Bank .................... 50,OOO
First National Bank ................. 1900
| Hubbard's block .......... ........... 5O,OO
| Industrial Saw. and Trust Co. ...... 5000
Windsor Hotel and annex ......... 5000
Hotel Placide ......................... 1o,UOO
AonaWk block ........ .............. 5oo0o
Gardner building ...................... 100000
Kohn-Furchgott Cbrand new ...... 5000
seminole Club ........ ............... 1000
hiKs Club ....... ...................... 5000
nerkmer block ........................ 25,C0
iu'hetto olock .......... ............. zo,OVJ
H. & W. B. Drew .................... 15,COO
Hotel Richelieu 5000
Ely block ....... ....................... $4,000
'Hkes' building ....................... 125,0OO
'7'elnan block ........s ......".-.. SO,O0O
T. s Hotel .......................... 5000
A'oetarle House ..................... 5000
'n'islie, Grower & Co. drugs. 100000
NcNurrsy Livery Stable .......... $1,000
"s" York Steam Laundry ........ 1900
4 o. Knight & Co. ...........".... 10000
y H. kress & Co. ................. 10000
b. Campbell Co. ................. $4,000
neney Bros, drugs .............. 10000
N'O'e Plano Company .............. 5000
Nuol'orium & Skating Rink ..... 10000
" C. Bettes drugs ................ 1900
Ia" Exchange ....................... 1900
'0hce Station CrenteD .............. 5000
''eneat & Crosby .................. 10000
'''cnants' National Bank ....... 10000
"a Hardware Company ....... 5,VJ
''' Florida Printing Co. ......... 20JoO
"N"oller Shoe Company .......... 5000
re Saloon ................... 25,VoV
'0nns Hotel ...................... 5000
"uilulhg ....................'.., zo,VVV
olock ......................'.ss e'VVV
"arys orphanage minimum. $4,000
'n lmmalculate Conception
u Parsonage. Convent (st.
r. '''s ......s.....-......s.'.s llV'VvV
'"'usn' east Ccolored SCHOOL, -. 10000
Ivy Baptist Church .............. 1000
Sonns Episcopal Church ...... 5000
y'e Memorial CMethodisO ...... 5000
Ware residence ............ 100000
or Taiiaferro's home .......... 1000
n, " Farrott residence ............ 5000
"a nouoek residence ............... 1900
h1- - bisbee residence .......".... 10000
r.. w. 3. Owens residence ..... 5000
n Union ofice ............... 10000
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-04

CONTINUED on Sixth Pagsl
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
Chloroformed Burglars.

Have YOU ever heard of an anesthetic
safe?" asked safe and lock expert. ut
was invented many years ago, and I
came across one in an old house the other
day. The idea of the thing was that any
cutting Or drilling through the outer cas-
ing would release certain chemicals
which would promptly stupefy everybody
in range of their fumes. In the morn
ing the owner would find his valuables
intact, and could simply call a police
man, and pack off the unconscious bur-
glars to Jail.
with such a device it was necessary
to have massive steel walls. and the
model which I CHANGED to resurrect was
made Of one-eighth inch sheet iron. The
inner box was entirely surrounded with
blass tubes about the diameter of a lead
pencil, and filled alternately with two
chemicals, which We're supposed to pro-
duce Supplying gas when they came into
contact. There was a thin outside cas-
ing, and any effort to break through it
would necessarily fracture two or moro
of the fragile glasses"
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
THE MAID OF CHICAGO. .

The maid of Chicago looked into my
And smiled in a curious way.
And seemed to experience thrills of sur
prise
At what was trying to say.
told her twas really wicked to scott
AT story of love, and she ran
Her eyes DER my face and exclaimed:
20, ring off!
{ You've got the wrong number, old
MANI
timidly told her that love at first sight
Had grown to habit among
Us mountaineers fellows whose eyes sell
> dom light
On angels so pretty and young.
Down life's crooked path l would stray
a. by her side,
Would wed her for veal or for woe,
And. giving her gum a few chops, she
$ replied
Say, Reuben, what's eating you so?"
In eloquent language picture I drew
OF life in a mountain retreat.
Where flowers at morn Were bejeweled
with dew
And laden with odors most sweet
She'd reign as queen Ger the cabin
while
Delved after the gold with the pick
Like ripping of mountain brook came
her reply:
THAT trump never touches the trick
l worked in sentiment touchingly
grand
OF natures great scenic displays.
OF loneliness pictured on every hand,
Of rapturous, bliss-laden days,
The way that piled the bright adjec-
tives on
The breast of corpse would have
fired,
And when 1 had finished she said with
a yawn:
You make me exceedingly tired.''
Suppose" 1 began in more serious
tone,
That l am of loftier rank
Than that of a miner, have mines of
my own,
And money stacked UP in the bank?'
She jumped almost out Of the beautiful
~ hide
She wore, and with half-fainting lurcl1
She Graded herself in my arms and re-
piled:
That knocks me clear offn the
Denver Post.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24

shrinkage on the wool Of this section by
securing is something like 60 per cent,
which means saving of about half the
freight paid. Surely that is worth con-
sidering. 1t means over $4,000 kept in
the neighborhood of Great Falls that at
present is paid to the railroads, and the
largest gamers from that $50 900 would
be the wool producers.
This is a matter that the wool grow
ers ought to take up at their first OPP
portunity, and if they push it they
can be assured. we believe, of the hearty
support of the business men of Great
Falls. and of all those interested in the
city's welfare-Great Falls Tribune.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
BRIGHT IDEAS OF
MONTANA EDITORS
A Pepperv Editor.

occasionally this paper publishes some
thing that makes someone hot and for
SEVERAL days thereafter the editor is in
Imminent danger of being used as
punching bag or becoming the object of
@ little off hand target practice. But this
is all in the business and we take it as
a matter of course. We're not dead yet
and don't expect to be for number of
years to come. The only way to run
paper and please everybody would be to
go to preaching and not run one at all,
and that's not our style. We're going to
continue in the newspaper business and
tell the people what we think about GER
tain things on this mundane sphere until
we are called hence, and that's no JOSH
Townsend Forum.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
Woolgrowers to Organize.

There is wisdom in the suggestion
made by some of the sheep owners of
this part of the state that the wool
growers ought to get together, and work
together, for the interests of their bust
ness. There are many matters in which
they can do a great deal of good for
themselves by working unitedly where
they can do but little standing singly.
It Is understood that the plan is to
divide the state into two districts, with
the headquarters of one at Great Falls
and the headquarters OF the other at
Billings, the two wool centers of the
state, and to have a state organization
combining the two.
While there are many ways in which
this organization may be of benefit -
the industry, there is one in particular
which The Tribune would like to call at
tention to. That is the erection of a
wool securing plant at this point. This
matter has been talked of. by those di-
rectly interested, several times in the
past, but nothing has come of it. 1t is
agreed on every side that the move
would be an excellent one for all con-
cerned.- Not only would it benefit the
wool producers, but it would also bene-
fie the city of Great Falls, and for that
reason we should all take an interest in
the matter.
At present the wool producers in SELL
ing their wool are largely in the dark.
They do not know what percentage OF
dirt their wool carries, and they simply
have to guess at it. Assuredly the buy
ers. who do most of the guessing. are
not going to give themselves any the
worst of it.
Aside from this. the producers have
10 pay freight on all the dirt the wool
carries, and it is estimated tina, the
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
wOMEN AS BANKRUPTS.

The return of the bankruptcy depart
ment of the London Board of Trade, as
far as women are concerned, are some
what Interesting. Last year the women
bankrupts numbered 1913, or sixty fewer
than in the preceding year. and the pro-
portionate decrease in their case was
considerably greater than that OF the
men who failed. Women are certainly
entitled to rank as highly respectable
tankrupts, as their assets average close
DON 10 shillings in the pound. and their
total liabilities We're only f200,0SS. or all
trades grocery claims more victims than
any other. Last year fifty-three women
grocers failed with debts amounting to
Ell, 300 with assets of $500. After these
came thirty-seven milliners. who failed
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
The Social City's Celebration.

In this issue Of the Madisonian appears
the complete program for the Fourth of
July celebration to be held in this city.
a careful reading of it will convince the
most skeptical that it is an excellent pro-
gram. 1t will be carried out if the
weather is favorable for the sports. The
various committees are doing all in their
power to make it a gala day. The people
OF Madison county, from far and near.
are cordially invited to come and par
ticpate in the festivities. The Social City
on this occasion will maintain her reputa-
tion.-Virginia City Madisonian.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
BVTTE.S bright FVTVRE.

/vHERE GOOD REASON to believe that within the
L two Butte will have population OF
100000 people. money came to the district
market has been made steady at good prices
by demogogues call trust manipulation this splen-
city gene by leaps and bounds Old timers
whom the early development of the mines was que are
surprised discoveries and are largely
values in this vicinity
development is in that section OF the
valley lying between Anaconda hill and the
the main Park Canyon For many years
copper Indications in that vicinity promising and con-
siderable work was done surface but it the
east drifts old Cousa and of the Silver Bow No.
which finally established the certainty of valuable mineral
what supposed to be the limit OF the
copper territory Within the past year every foot OF ground
the region the Butte Boston smelter has be-
valuable and when months ago. as conservative
experienced Franklin Farrell bought tract
ground s5oOoo conception of the import
of that region for mining purposes dawned on the
public the confident belief that between
the works and the mouth of Park Canyon
copper build another Butte or double the
size present metropolis. Prominent among those
who opinion and back their judgment with
their money the following:
FRANKLIN Farrell Lee Mantle.
Senator Clark & Sons Charles S. Warren,
John Lloyd. H. L. Frank,
James A. Murray, Administrator j. '. Long
w. Thornton Butte & Boston,
w. L. Clark Boston & Montana,
F A Heinze. S. V. Kemper.
These and the corporations mentioned now have
property district named worth millions OF
dollars buying They contemplate deep mining
greater before attempted The Butte
developments eastward of such character
doubt the continuity of bodies
towards of the mountains The is true
of the east operating in that
vicinity.
For these people of Butte animated by
high hopes of constant Improvement in business and labor
conditions and steadily increasing population Great and
this city is the future will
witness a far mgher advance. The Butte product is
copper of the world and the
people creeds will share equitably in the
benefits. All they require is good will, and good
We have short days for labor, and good
honest work We have rich mines and the best system
of mining EARTH We have great corporations willing
to spend their and asking only for justice at the
peoples hands. We have private mine whose
operations proportonately beneficial and
dreds of prospectors of unworked mineral
ground who await only the purchaser sell and
army abiding intelligent
@ build up commercial wants
of the community in spirit of amity, asking only
efficiency and public Office low pro-
lection rights citizenship classes the
people,
Under these circumstances the Inter Mountain feels
calling attention to the happy Of Buttes
bright future the rich discoveries recently made of
city reasonable certainty that they will
vastly increase the population, business. wealth, industry
and happiness of the people.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
A Large Wool Clip,

That large wool clip is anticipated in
this part of the state this year is shown
BY the liberal supply of wool sacks which
the woolgrowers have purchased this
season. From the number of sacks sold
by local merchants it is estimated that
a clip of one million and quarter pounds
of wool is expected. AS the average
price will be somewhere near the ten
cent mark, this years clip will put a
handsome sum of money into the pockets
OF our NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tribune.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24

for $4,000, and mo one will be surpris-
ed that the lodging house keeper follow
ed closely after the milliner One case
Well illustrates womans w.t. though
perhaps not to the best advantage. The
petition was presented and Judgment
recovered when the debtor was a spin-
ster. She. however, induced the court to
let the petition stand over, and in the
interval got married. She then claimed
that as a married women she was not
liable to be made bankrupt-an opin-
ion in which the court concurred.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
THE OHIO CONVENTION,

~FT-YEAR POLITICS political measures and
u issues have decidedly less of the
the product of presidential years. For that reason
act less attention today than usual The
pubcans of the Buckeye meeting this afternoon
purpose nominating the state ticket carrying
a campaign upon issues usually arise that
will be nothing spectacular about
ton that is sensational will find a
campaign The old candidates all have their places
in another term if they choose and
doubt sweeping republican majority
polls good people of the of Ohio have up
their long ago that republican policies
and their votes will endorse the present
administration, both state and national.
he campaign Ohio presents conditions which
duplicated nearly in the Union the
political campaigns The prosperity brought
republican rule has the confidence
voters Particularly this men
obliged depend their labor for livelihood
Wage dread calamity than the
policies with their attendant evils
the Ohio what is known the
which state elections
last presidential campaign the workingmen of Ohio
pressed their approval pursued by
fall will without a repetition
year >.
brick houses upon residents of this
misfortune occurs.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
English Sparrows.

The copper cent is not the only nuis-
ance that is coming into Montana from
the east this year. The English sparrow
is said to have invaded Miles City and
be prepared for campaign against all
tn other towns in the state. 1t would
be interesting to see how the little pes:
will make out when he tackles Butte
smelter smol1e.-Kalispel Intcr-I4ake.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
Starting Ahead Of Time.

1t looks very much as though William
]. Bryan is beginning another campaign.
He has started on an alleged pleasure
trip with his family to the Buffalo ex-
position, and three weeks will he be alb
sent from Lincoln. At Estherville Iowa,
WATERFOWL, N. Y, Philadelphia, and
Norfolk, Va. he is already billed to
speak. Mr.. Bryan is starting his cam
pt,ign too early.-Kalispell Bee.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
The Retart Descourteous.

1T takes more than a hat FULL of
type and clothes wringer to make a
public printing Office ACCORDING to our
democratic friend at the end of the
avenue" Yes, and it takes more than
pair of cheap eyeglasses and a bag Of
concentrated gall-and wind to make an
editor.-Forsyth Times.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24
The Proper Landslide.

Colonel o. P. Chisholm has received
the result of an assay of some Of the ore
from the ore body discovered by the
landslide on the Yellow Jacket mine in
Madison county about a week ago. The
assay gives about $4,000 in god and as
there is any quantity of ore it is likely
Colonel Chisholm will put up a stamp
mill and cyanide plant on the grounds
in the near future.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24

Though dean of the Paris faculty OF
Protestant theology, the late Augustus
Sabatier constantly welded his pen in
lie Temps in defense Of freedom OF
thought. He lived sixty-two years.
His best works are on the sources of the
life of Christ and a philosophy of re-
1ioiOn
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-24

three criminals who broke the Sabbath yesterday
by breaking Jail appear determined to make life miserable
the authorities their bad breaks.