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The age-herald., 1901-05-04
NEGRO MOB LYNCH
 FELLOW FOR CRIME
Two Men Are Strung Up in the State of Louisiana by
 Wild Crowds.

Shreveport, La, May 3.-Two lynchings were reported in the specials to the Times tonight. At Rodessa, twenty-four miles above here. Felton Brigmon, a negro, was lynched for assaulting and brutally abus- ing colored girl named Cora risen, aged 6. He is supposed to have been lynched by negroes. Brigmon confessed his crime
 At Aldfield Bridge, six miles from Ben ton, in Bossier Parish. Grant Johnson was strung up by a mob. Johnson kept & negro gambling house, and was menace to the police of the neighborhood. He had been warned to leave but refused. About a year ago Johnson killed a negro, but escaped punishment. He was defiant to the last s
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
FIRE STARTED FROM AN
 INNOCENT LOOKING WIRE

Yule, Fla, near Jacksonville, May B. Fifteen million dollars worth of property gone up in smoke, 10000 people made homeless, is the result of a bit of innocent looking wire getting into the shredding machinery of the American Fibre Com pany today.
 The fire started between the hours of noon and 1 o'clock p. m.. and owing to this fact the loss of life will be compar- atively small. The fibre factory was wooden shell full of infammable material and in few moments was a mass of flames. The wind, which was already blowing strong from the southwest, seemed to be possessed with a sudden fury, and soon was carrying destructive embers all through the doomed city, the fairest portion of which lay right in the wake of the wind
 Some delay was experienced in getting an alarm, and to add to the tragedy of fateful accidents, the engine at the water works suffered mishap, and nothing more than ordinary pressure could be ob- tained. By this time the flames had swept
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
TWENTY THOUSAND VISITORS IN
 AUSTIN, TEXAS, GREET PRESIDENT

ing the name of the soldier, statesman and hero. General Samuel Houston, the first President of the republic. Great ap- plause.) This state. my fellow citizens, Is larger in area than any of her sister states, greater by 50 per cent than Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee combined and although one of the young est members of our national family, stands in population the sixth, and be- longs no longer to the less populous, but to the most populous group of our great states. She would continue to be the largest state of the Union after carving out of 1t four states of the size or New York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey ana Delaware, whose combined population IS 15, 63S, ,531, while your state has yet put one fifth of that number.
 'If the oil wells you have discovered shall keep up, your state will have rapid immigration and you will have settled al most the problem of fuel, which Will make it one of the great manufacturing states of the Union. We can hardly realize what vast territory over which my friend the Governor, presides. By the census og 1890 your population was 2,2SS 900 about 1892 900 in 1880: only 212,000 in 1850 and the census of 1900 records popula- tion of more than 100000, gain of S00,- 900 in the decade.
 'I am glad your neighbor, the Republic of Mexico, on your southermost borders, and our federal government have so many ties and harmonious relations. Tex as, my countrymen, Is the highway to that Pan-American movement in industry and in commerce, and is nearest to all our states to the Spanish-speaking population of America, with whom there exists feeling of good will and amity which time and association and mutual exchange will promote and strengthen
 We live in a wonderful era, our trus- teeship Is a large and a sacred one. We must not be unfaithful to our high mis- sion or falter before it's high responsibili- ties nor must we permit pride or might or power to taint our motives and lead us from the plain paths of duty or divert us from the sacred princplesWW Wiiiiiiiiiiii us from the sacred principles of liberty. Prolonged applause)
 Leave tor San Antonio.
 Then there was delightful reception in the Senate chamber, where the belles of Austin, noted all over Texas for their beauty received the President and Mrs. Mckinley. This function was one of the most charming yet experienced on the trip. There followed a drive through the city to the State University where the students, citizens and school children greeted the President.
 Later MT. and Mrs. Mckinley, with the members and ladies of the cabinet, dined informally at the Governors mansion, and at 10:3O tonight left for San Antonio, famous for it's Alamo and Spanish mis- sions, where tomorrow will be spent. The train is due to arrive at San Antonio at 1:15 a. m where 1t will remain on the side track until tomorrow morning.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
WoMAN's BOARD MEETS.
.TnIrd Annual Conference Is Now In
 Session at St. Louis.

St. Louis May 3.-Delegates from all over the south were present today when the third annual convention of the wom- ans home mission board of the Methodist church, south, was called to order in St. Johns church for six-days' session.
 A response to the address of welcome was made by Mrs. G. A. Alexander of Nashville The report of the treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Kirkland of Nashville showed the board to be in fiourishing conoi- tion
 Opportunities and Obligations of Conference', by Mrs. Robert Somerville of Mississippi was the first of the papers read Mrs. John D. Hammond of Nash vile read a paper on the Home Mission arv Column in the Church Paper
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
Armor Plant Menaced.

Chicago, May 3.-Fire which threatened to destroy property valued at several mil lion dollars started in the killing beds of Armour & Co.'S packing-house at the stock yards shortly before o'clock this morning and ragged for two hours before the firemen got it under control
 The burned building was 300 by 100 feet and five stories high. The total loss will not exceed s175,00
 A three-foot brick fire wall prevented the flames from reaching the cooling and icerooms, where 5000 carcasses of dressed beef, valued at s50O000, are stored.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
INDEX TO TODAY's NEWS.

1-Disastrous Fire in Jacksonville, Fla. President In Texas. Cobbs Retained as Receiver. Alabama Colleges Remembered Negroes Lynched. 2-Corn King Phillips on Top. Commercial Club Meeting, Moore's Fine Reunited. Tom Sharkey Wins Fight. 3-German Cabinet About to Resign France Claims Large Sum. State News. %Editorfal
 Hotel Lobbies.
 Sketches from Everyday Life. 6-Baseball News.
 The Street Fair.
 Corona Company Out of Litigation. W. R. Styers Found Dead. Court News. 6-Social. 7-rhe Markets. S-Trade Reviews
 The Races.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
LONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY
 BLOCKS ARE DESTROYED AND
 10000 PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS
Strong Wind From the Southwest Famed the Blaze Into Roaring Sea of Flames Which Was Beyond the Power Man to SopProp ery Loss is Estimated at From $1O,0O0,O00 to
 $15, 5,00O O0O---FeW Lives Were Lost.

seemed that wherever there happened to be shingle roof, the flying embers found Judgement. Blocks away from the main fires other fires would break out
 In the Heart of Town.
 Right into the heart of the town the flames swept. The Windsor Hotel, the finest winter hotels in the South, were consumed in an incredibly short time. The opera house followed next, and then row upon row of elegant residences were offered up to the unsuitable fire fiend.
 As the viaduct, leading over the marshes of Hogans Creek to East Jack sonville was reached, 1t was plain that the limit of the progress of the flames west ward 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 roaring sea of flames southward toward the river. Then 1t was beginning to dawn on the minds of the river side that they were in danger of being cut off and suffocated. 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 day. The flames caught the freight warehouses of the Atlantic. Val from there on It's backward march In the eye of the wind. Slowly but surely it ate it's way against the wind. taking either side of Bay street until 1t reached Jones boat yard The wholesale grocery store of F. and H. Bowling & Co.,, Muller & Co.,, and dozens of smaller concerns were slowly 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 Exchange, was doomed. Meantime, the county court house caught fire and another splendid edifice was soon total wreck.
 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 build ing near Mccoy and Hogans creek had been destroyed. Among the houses that had succumbed to the flames at g o'clock on Bay street were the Mohawk block the Gardner building, Furchgott's mann moth dry goods house, Benedict and Pol lack, wholesale dry goods; Christie Drug Co.,, McAllister, wholesale liquors; Cohen Brothers, dry goods; R. D. Horsen, dry goods; Iseman and Skinner, wholesale grocers; I. E. Baird, paints; W. A. Bours, hay and grain; Clauson, wholesale gro- cer; Florida Hardware Company, E. F. Clark's furniture house, Henry Clark. carpets; D. E. Cooper. furniture; Fettings and Richard, furniture; Harmisteimer. grocer; estate of McNeery, wholesale grocers; Coleman, tailor; dozen drug, retail grocery, millinery and other stores and Summers wholesale butter and cheese store.
 The hotels destroyed include the Wind sor, St. James. Placide. United States, Girard, Glenada and Oxford.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04

to the Boston Store, huge furniture es- tablishment belonging to W. W. Cleve- of the fibre factory.
 Flremen Lost Control.
 It leaped across Davis street and took a course right through a section where block after block of frame buildings, mostly occupied by negroes. had been erected. Here is where the fire depart ment lost control as simultaneously in half dozen places, some of them six blocks from the main fire, roofs were seen to burst out in flames.
 The wind rising higher and higher moved down whole rows of buildings and attracted at first crowd of curious sight-seers who seemed to be fascinated by the sight until they learned that their residences, too, were in danger of total destruction.
 It took just four hours for that resist less sea of flames to consume every build. ing in it's wake for a space of six to eight blocks wide from Davis street near where 1t started, to the Hogan creek viaduct, distance of over one and half miles, and then not satisfied with eating the heart of the residential portion of the city out, 1t doubled on itself and came roaring up the thoroughfare of trade, destroying everything in what was the original incorporation of Jacksonville.
 From the humblest homes of the poor to the elegant resi- dences of the well-to-do was but a short journey for the flames. After passing Bridge street the first house to succumb to the flames was the elegant mansion of former Councilman Stanzell. Then it
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
Temple to R. c. lngersoll.

Chiago, May 3.-The building in Chi- cago of s10o.Ooo temple to the memory of Robert c. Ingersoll. in which the teachings of the orator and atheist shall be perpetuated,. is the purpose of the In gersoll Memorjal Association. incorpora- ted at Springfield today. The projectors are Edward C. Reichwald. secretary of the American Secular Union and Free Thought Federation: Frederick Dahlstrom and Samuel Roberts.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04

SaSNSoHNnlS, Tld', way fs-i d. Hls- The most disastrous fire in the history of this city began yesterday shortly after noon in small factory from de- fective wire, according to the best be- lief, and burned for nearly ten hours. In that time a property damage esti- mated from s1o,ooo,ooo to $15,ooo, ,ooo was effected.
 According to the city map, 13o blocks were burned, many of them in the heart of the business and residence section. The estimate of the houses to the block is ten, hence 1900 of them went up in smoke. Many of the finest public and private buildings were de- stroyed, including hotels, theatres, churches and residences.
 The casualties cannot be accurately estimated tonigh' That there were several ses ms to be well authenticated. Among them was that to the fire chief, who sustained bad fall.
 The Mayor ordered all of the saloons closed, and has impressed help to clear the wreckage.
 The Mayor at late hour said that he estimated the loss to be at $15, 5,o0o,- GOO, and that from 10000 to 15,ooo peo- pie were homeless.
 At a. m. the situation is one ap- preaching desolation in large section of the city. The burned district reached far from Burbridge street on the north to St. Johns river on the south, distance of quite two miles The width of the desoIated area is thir' teen blocks. Within this space practi- cally everything is bIackened ruins. On Bay street, the principal mart of trade, the Western Union Telegraph Com pany's building is the first going west. Everything east of Laura on Bay street is gone. At 11:15 last night the fire was under control, having practically burned itself out. The suburban settle ments, with the exception of La Villa, are intact. La villa was badly hurt. The extent of the damage cannot be told until tomorrow. Thousands of per sons are on the streets tonight home less, with practically all of their world ly possessions upon their backs. The depots of the railroads, situated in the southern section, have been turned into temporary lodging houses and hospit- aIs. Luckily, the weather is fine, so that there will be no suffering on that score.
 Meetings. of the City Council, the commercial bodies and the charitable institutions will be called this morning to devise ways and means for meeting the situation. 1t is not known yet if an appeal for help will be issued, though it Is likely the exigencies of the occasion will demand such action. It is hoped that an appeal can be avoided.
 The plans of the city as prepared by tr.e city surveyors show that 130 blocks were burned and part of another block. The estimates of residences to the block in the residential district Is ten and in the business section the blocks were solid.
 The chief of police ordered all sa- looms closed until further orders.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
WInston's Candidate.

F. A. Payne of Winston County win be a candidate for doorkeeper of the Consti- tutiona1 Convention. MT. Payne has been one of the best workers for the Demo- cratic party in the State and has . strong following in the Seventh District. He is in Birmingham for a day or two in,or- viewing party leaders and othersk
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
CITY OF JACKSONVILLE LAID LOW BY THE FURY OF RAGING FIRE
]. B. COBBS REMAINS RECEIVER
 OF THE OEBENTURE COMPANY

mite to blow up the houses a block from the fire and thus prevent the fire from spreading So fierce was the blaze, how ever, and so strong had become the wind that millions of sparks and flying burning brands spread over five or six blocks setting the roofs of the houses on fire in advance of the department Soon Senator Taliaferro's residence, then the adjoin- ing houses on that block, were ablaze, and in spite of all efforts to save the Windsor and the St. James Hotels, both hosteleries were quickly enveloped in flames. For about an hour the guests in the Windsor had been busily packing their trunks, and went away loaded with trunks and grips, some unfortunately to the United States Hotel but most of them to Riverside.
 Leaping madly across the street from the Windsor the flames attacked the Sells House and then the Methodist parson- age, and in a few moments the Trinity Methodist church was a mass of flames. The opera house block followed, and the Richards and Livingstone boarding houses.
 Elks' Home Burned.
 A desperate effort was made to save the Baldwin mansion, which was recently purchased by the Elks for s1SOOo. No and that entire block and the one west was quickly a mass of flames. Once the fire got started on Main street, the closely adjoining buildings went one after the other. Paint shops with barrels of oil were plentiful in this district, and as they caught fire one after the other, the blaze rising hundreds of feet high, quick ly set the buildings across the street on fire.
 Then the Hubbard hardware store caught and the people scattered when they saw what had happened. Hundreds of pounds of powder and great deal of dynamite were stored in this building In ten minutes there was roar and the building collapsed like an eggshell. The dynamite and the powder had exploded Here again there was much danger fol the firemen. Cartridges began to ex plode and bullets began to fly around and the effort to fight the flames at this point had for time to be abandonad. This was only the start of the most in- tense part of the fire.
 The new Furchgott building was soon ablaze. and then quickly the Gardiner building was also a mass of flames. Down the street the fire spread with rapidity and the entire section of Bay street, from Market to Main ,and extending for five blocks back, was burning all at once.
 City Buildings Destroyed.
 The city building went, the fire depart --~~--~---~-~---~---- --~-~-~---~-~~--~-~-~~~-
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
RosenfeId,s sody Found.

St. Paul, May 3.-rhe body of William Rosenfeld, who disappeared last week with four children, was found in the river today near where the body of his oldest boy was taken out of the river yesterday. The search for the bodies. of the other three children continues actively.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
PARTIAL LIST OF LOSSES

The losses as far as can be ascertained up to 10 o'clock Friday night are:
 Commercial Bank s5ooOo, First National Bank s15.0O0, Hubbards block $50, 900, h. dustrial Savings and Trust Company 5000, Windsor Hotel and annex $35, 900, St. James Hotel s4O,000, Hotel Placide SIS, 600, Mohawk block s5O,0oO, Gardner building s2O,oOO, Furchgott building s25,Ooo, Semi nole Club s15.oOO Elks' Club ss5, 900, opera house s1o,OOO, Herkimer block s25,oOO Pal metto block s20,000, H. and w B. Drew s15,OOO. Hotel ,Richelieu s5OO0, Ely block $1s,0OO, Gilkes building s125,OoO, Nedeman block s30,OO0 United States Hotel s25 900, Albemarle House 5000. Christie. Groover & Co.,, drugs, $10O.O00; McMurray, livery, s5O,OOO; new steam laundry s1s,ooO, R. D. Knight & Co. s9o,vOo, s. H. Kress & Co. s1OOO0. A. B. Campbell Co., $5O, GOO, Heff1ey Bros, drugs, 10000; Cable Plano Con- pany, $500O; Auditorium and skating rink. $So0oO; c. c. Betts. drugs. s1s.OOO; Law Exchange, $l5,00O; police station, (rented), ssoOO; Greenleaf & Crosby, $15oOOO; Mer- chants National Bank, s10.0oO; Florida Hardware Company. $5OOO East Florida Printing Company. s9o0oO; Ritzwoller Shoe Co. sSOOO; Belvedere Saloon. $25,OOO; St. Johns Hotel, $5Oo0 Smith Bros, s2O 900; Barton Block. sSoQOO: St. Mary's Or phanage, 0.OO0; Church of Immaculate Conception, s10.Oeo; parsonage and St. Joseph's convent. 10000: Goodman Insti- tute, colored school. s1o.OOo; First Baptist church. sio.ooO; St. Johns church. $5o,ooo
 McTyre Memorial Church fM. E). sa6,- 900; ". S. Wares residence, s1oo,ooo; Sen ator Taliaferro's home. s10.0o0; J. R. Par rott residence, ss5oo0; MT. Pollock's resi- dence s15, 900; Col. P. Bisbees residence, $1o,0OO; Judge w. B. Owens residence, ssooo
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
------7=-=---------- Strikers and Police Clash.

Barcelona. May 3.-The strike of the tramway employees is becoming more ser ious. and the government will probably suspend constitutional guarantees.
 Last evening the strikers tried to tear up the tramway track and were driven off by gendarmes. who opened fire on the mob.
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
Wins Newmarket stakes.

London, May s.--The 1o0O-guinea stakes at Newmarket. for s-year-old Allies to- day, were won by Aida. ridden by Danny Haher. Sir B. Cassell's Fleur Duet was second. ridden by Halsey and Lord Dar- by's Santa Brigada third, ridden by Johnny Rein
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
Taft Commission Returns.

Manila, May 3.-The Philippine commis- sion. headed by Judge Taft, returned here today.
 The commissioners have made tour of the island establishing civil govern ment wherever the conditions were suit oh
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
No Chance In Buffalo Strike,

Buffalo. N. r.. May 3.-There is little change in the machinists' strike up to the present. About 150 workmen returned to work this morning. their demands hay. ing been accepted
 Otherwise the situation Is unchanged
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
EARLY REPORT SHOWING
 ROUTE OF THE FLAMES

Jacksonville, Fla, May 3.--At 12:45 to- day Jacksonville experienced the most disastrous fire of her existence, the en- tire length of Beaver street from Davis street to the creek on Liberty street have been totally destroyed This is fourteen solid blocks of residences. For the same distance Ashley and Church streetr have both been completely plotted out When the fire reached Bridge street in it's east ward course 1t enveloped in flames three blocks-Duval, Monroe and the north side of Adams, burning up that entire section of the city and running fourteen blocks to the Duval street bridge. How much further in that direction the city is burned 1t is impossible to learn, the street being impossible, but 1t Is feared that St. Lukes Hospital was burned, report reaching the city that the Presbyterian Church in East Jacksonville is ablaze. If this is correct the fire must have extended five blocks further east. The connagra- ton has covered as far as is definitely known distance of two and half miles by half a mile wide. When the fire reached Julia streets it was roaring fur. mace without any prospect of being put under control.
 Dynamite Used.
 The local military companies were
The age-herald., 1901-05-04
Dynamite Used.

The local military companies were called out to keep back the crowds and the fire department began to use dyna-
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The age-herald., 1901-05-04
THE WEATHER.

ALABAMA-FAIR SATURDAY AND PROBABLY SUNDAY; VARIABLE WINDS. MOSTLY LIGHT WESTERLY.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-01-05

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decir delante de su futura suegra: puesto ouo
Paulina es menos rfca que So hermana. no hay
NADIA dc 10 dicho; va no me easo con Paulina,
Lo que yo he debido haoer ha 'sdo informar,
me dc antemano; pero va que no 10 he hecho
as, tendre paciencia, tanto mas que Pauina
tiene mas diuero del que 20 necesito, como
guapa, es guapa dc verdad.
Entretanto continuaba la misa. cuando :,
sacerdote lego la epistola, dijo
-"Hermanos mios, las mujeres deben estar
sometidnS sus maridos como al Senior. porquo
Ell marido es el jefe do la mujer como, Jesu.
cristo es el jefe de la Tglesia.p
Contesto para 81 Paulina, pesar de que sa>
bia 10 mucho que gustaba Mauricio el campo
--Tendra que fastidiarsc .pasar ell inyferno
en- la ciudad, 81 no que Sc chinehe.
Como la iglesia csta sometida Jesucris.
to, las mujeres deben estar somstidas en- tods
& sus maridos, etc"
1despues aiadi6 el sacerdsts.
--sSenor, bendecid 81 Sacramento que ha.
beis instituido para la propagation de la espe.
cfe humana."
icon tai que no tenga hijoss--dij6 para 81
Manricio.
\ el sacerdots continue diciendo.
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