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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04

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. Then followed drive through
the city to the State University, where
the students, citizens and school chill
dren greeted the President.
Later. Mr.. and Mrs. Mckinley with
the ladies of the cabinet, dined inform
ally at the Governors mansion, and at
10: 80 tonight left for San Antonio, IA
nous for its Spanish missions, where
tomorrow morning will be spent. The
train is due to arrive at San Antonio
at lis, where it will remain on a side
track until the rising hour.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
RATE WAR THREATENED.

CHICAGO, May 3.-TheEvening Post
says:
An east-bound passenger rate wal
seems imminent The Wabash to-day
gave notice that it would put into ef-
feet such reductions as would preserve
its differential rate from Kansas City
The Burlington and the Missouri Pacific
have declared their intention Of meet
ing any reductions affecting Kansas
City, Atchison. Leayenworth and st
Joseph. Others undoubtedly will fol-
low this lead"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
MARSHALL M. DENT DEAD.

Special 10 the Register.
MORGANTOWN, w Va. May o..
Marshall VI. Dent died at the home OF
his brother. Squire James e. Dent. IN
Granville, this morning OF paralysis.
Mr. Dent was " years old yesterday.
He Is survived by wife. three sons and
three daughters. They are Judge VI. A.
Dent. of the Supreme Court OF Appeals:
81. r. D. Dent, prominent attorney Of
Grafton: A. =. Dent. OF Washington:
Mrs. Voodmansee, OF New Mexico.
Mrs. Montgomery, OF Charleston. and
Mrs. Smith. OF New York. Deceased
was quite prominent In his day and had
a rather remarkable career.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
Miles OF Streets Burned Over,
and Hundreds OF Buildings
Destroyed.
Eight Persons Believed to Have
Lost Their Lives In the
Flames.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May Al a.
m.-lhe most disastrous fire in the MIS-
tory of the city began yesterday shortly
after noon in small factory from de-
fective wire, according TO the Lest be-
lief, and burned nearly fer ten hours.
In that time property damage estmat-
ed from S1O,0O0,0O0 to $15,Oo0,000 was
caused.
According to the city map one hun
dred and thirty blocks were burned,
many of them in the heart of the bust
ness and residence section. The esti-
mate of houses to the block is ten,
hence thirteen hundred of them went
up in smoke Many of the finest public
and private buildings were destroyed,
including hotels, theatres, churches and
residences. The casualties canot be ac-
curately estimated tonight That there
were several seems to be we'll authenti
Gated Among them was that of the
fire chief, who sustained bad fall
L
preaching desolation in large section
of the city. The burned district reaches
from Burbridge street on the north to
the st. Johns river on the south, dis
lance of not quite two miles. The
width of the desolated area is thirteen
blocks. Within this space practically
everything is blackened ruins. On Bay
street, the principal part of. trade, the
Western Union Telegraph Company's
building is the first building standing
going west. Everything east of Laura
Bay is gone.
At 10: 15 O'Clock the fire was under
control, having practically burned it
self out The suburban settlements,
with the exception of La Villa, are in
tact. La Villa was badly hurt. The
extent of the damage canot be told I'M
til tomorrow. Thousands of persons
are on the streets tonight homeless,
with practically all of their worldly
possession upon their backs. The de-
pots of the railroads, situated in the
southeastern section, have been turned
into temporary lodging houses and hos
pitfalls. Luckily the weather is fine so
that there will be no suffering on that
score.
Meetings of the city council, the COM
mercial bodies and the charitable insti-
buttons will be called Saturday 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 thought likely that tAe ext
gencies of the occasion will demand
such action. 1t is hoped that an ap-
peal can be avoided.
Mayor Bowden at o'clock this morn
ing says the property loss will exceed
$15,000000. Ten to fifteen thousand
people are homeless.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
HIS POCKET PICKED.

r. \. Amos Relieved of Pocket
book Containing Over $4,000.
Came TO Town 10 See the show.
Special To the Register.
FAIRMONT W. Va. May 3.-P. ~
Amos, a wealthy farmer Of Fairview,
this county. had his pocket picked to-
day Of a purse containing IS $50, most
OF which was checks on varieus' banks.
He came to attend Ringing Bros. show.
which exhibited here to-day, and TO de-
post the amount in r'airmont bank.
lie first discovered his loss while on
Main street and while in the mldsts OF
an immense crowd.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
Big Beef House on Fire.

CHICAGO, May 3.-Armour & Co. s
beef house, one Of the largest build
ings at the stock yards, caught fire at
$50 O'Clock to-day and was damaged
by flames and water 800 600
On the fourth floor, awaiting slaugh-
ter, were 1.600 head of live cattle,
which were rescued with great Difficult
ty. The building is fve-story brick
and extends nearly a block.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
ADVANCE IN WINDOW GLASS.

Notice Sent Out to the .Johbi N z
Trade of Seven Per Cent. In
crease in Price.
PITTSBURG, Pa, May president
w. 7. Gray, of the National Glass job
bers' Association, has sent out notices
to the members of the organization that
an advance in the price of window glass
will be made May II. The new dis
counts are 50 and 20 on less than car
load lots of fraction over per cent.
of an advance on present prices. 1t is
intimated in glass circles that future
advances in prices are probable before
the factories are ready to produce glass
after the summer shut down.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
BURNED ENTIRE TOWN.

MARSEIALLTCNTN. Iowa, May a
Fire at Ewart mas practically destroyed
the entire town, including large grain
elevator, Iowa Central Railway proper
ty, the postof1ice, all business houses,
the Presbyterian church and a number
of residences The fire originated in
the elevator. Estimated loss 100000;
insurance not stated.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
TO BUY COAL MINES.

WILKESBARRE, Pa. May 3.-The
Temple Iron Company. which is con
trolied by the j. Pferpont Morgan syn
dicate, is said to be negotiating for the
purchase OF the West End Coal Com
pany at Mocanaqua. The property is a
valuable one.
1t is rumored in coal circles to-day
that the deal has been closed, but Pres
fdent Conyngham. of the West End
company. said that the sale had not yet
been consummated.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
ONE JUROR SICK.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 3.-Argu-
ment of counsel in the case of Chas.
R. Eastman, charged with the murder
of R. H. Grogan, Jr., occupied the time
OF the court to-day. Owing TO the i'll
ness Of juror an early adjournment
was taken until tomorrow.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
MUST CLOSE ON SUNDAY.
Law and Order Society Stirring Up
Kansas City officials.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 3-Mayor
Reed has issued a positive order that
all saloons must be. closed on Sundays
Yesterday the police commissioners
refused the demand of special COM
mittee of the Law and Order League
to enforce the Sunday closing law and
the league began preparations to Sc
cure the impeachment of these Off
GERS.
After a long conference, Mayor Reed
and Police commissioner Gregory
have signed an order notifying Chief
of Police Hayes that hereafter all sa-
looms must be closed from midnight
Saturday to midnight Sunday and in
structing him to arrest all violators
of the closing ordinance.
Commissioner Ward refused to sign
the order
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA,
IN FIRE FIEND'S GRASP.
Millions of Dollars Worth of Property Licked
Up In Few Short Hours.

their trunks and went away loaded with
trunks and grips, some unfortunately
to the United States hotel, most of them
to the Riverside.
Leaping madly across the street from
the Windsor, the flames attacked the
Zellis House and then the Methodist
parsonage, and in a few moments the
Trinity M. E. church was mass OF
flames. The Opera House block follow
ed and the Richards and Livingstone
boarding houses. A desperate effort
was made to save the Baldwin mansion
which was recently purchased by the
Elks. No earthly power could save this
building and that entire block and the
one east was quickly mass of flames
Once the fire got started on Main street
the closely adjoining buildings went
one after another. Paint shops, with
barrels of oil, were plentiful in this dis
the other, the blaze rising hundreds OF
feet high, quickly set the buildings
across the street on fire.
Then the Hubbard hardware store
caught, and the people scattered when
they saw what had happened. Hun
dreds of pounos of powder and great
deal of dynamite were stored in this
building. In ten minutes there was a
roar and the building collapsed like an
eggshel. The dynamite and the pow
der had exploded. Here again there
was much danger for the fremen. Cart
ridges began to explode and bullets
began to fly around and the effort to
fight the flames at this point had for a
time to be abandoned. This was only
the start of the most intense part of the
fire.
The new FMrschgott building was
soon abaze and then quickly the Gard
ner building was also mass of flames.
Down the street the fire spread with
rapidity and the entire section of Bay
street from Market to Main street, and
extending for five blocks back, was
burning all at once.
The city building went, the central
fire department station, the armory, the
county court house, the clerks office,
with the county records, the criminal
pn1Irt hnnca ha OH ioi1
Ollie church and orphanage, st. Johns
Episcopal church and the Catholic con-
vent All this destruction was wrought
in less than four hours.
At $50 the fire was checked at the
intersection of Laura and Bay streets,
where the Commercial Bank is located,
which went up in flames The Western
Union telegraph Office, just across the
street, was not damaged.
Among the prominent hotels burned
were the st. James, the United States.
the Placide and the Windsor.
1t is impossible at this hour to ascer-
tain the losses, but it is estimated bv
insurance agents that it will be between
eight and nine million dollars.
Six lives are reported lost in the con-
fiagration.
The Mayor has called meeting of
the city council for tomorrow to con-
slider ways and means of relieving the
sufferers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
SUES THE RAILROAD.

Special to the Register
PARKEkSEURG. ". Va. May g.
James A. BENEFIT, administrator OF the
estate Of Patrick RI. Bennett, instituted
suit to-day against the West Virgins
Short Line Railroad for $4,000 dam,
ages. The grounds Of the suit are tn,
alleged delay in contract work IN
clarksburg in 1897. and for work DOR
In that city about the same time
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
THE STORY DENIED.

PHILADELPHIA. May st. Dewitt
Cuyler, a director of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. to-day emphatically
denied the pub .ished reports Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
secured or is trying to secure a repre-
sentation IN the affairs of the Atchison,
topeka & Santa F'e Railroad
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
TO GET $4,000 A YEAR.

WASHINGTON, May Secretary
Gage to-day recommended to the War
Department the appointment OF Jared
D. Terrell, of Michigan, as auditor for
Cuba at $4,000 a year. The salary is
paid out of the Cuban revenues. Mr..
Terrell is chief law clerk in the Office OF
the comptroller of the treasury.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
TO ACT AS STARTER.

Special 10 the Register.
PARKTRS3URG, -. Va. May IA
a meeting OF the Parkersburg Driving
Association II was decided that Frank
X. Moore. OF Clarksburg, would be Sc.
cured il possible to act as starter at ths
races to Re given In June.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
Established in Manila, Prelimi.
nary to the Inauguration of q
General Civil Governments.

nary to the Inauguration of "a
General Civil Government.
MANILA, May 11.-Civil government
in Manila was established to-day as a
preliminary to the Inauguration of a
general civil government. The United
States Philippine commission is unwill-
ing at present to permit the experiment
of elections here, although they have
been authorized in all the other munic-
Qualities. Judge Taft says a municipal
government for Manila will shortly be
created, The officers will probably be
appointive. Lepanto and possibly all
the other uncivilized provinces will be
organized specially on plan similar to
that adopted in the case of Bunguet.
The board of health has completed
the census of Manila
The population there numbers 244, 739.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
THE AMERICAN LIGHT co.

DOVER, Del, May 1.-The American
Light Company, Of Philadelphia. capt.
tai s. .000. 900, to-day. filed articles Of in
corporation with the Secretary of State
The company is empowered to manufac-
fure. buy and sell all kinds OF ma
chimes for distributing gas or electric
ity.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
ARRIVED AT MELBOURNE.

WASHINGTON, May Admiral
Remey, on board his flagship Brook
lyn arrived at Melbourne He will
represent the United States govern
ment at the opening of the first ses-
sion OF the Australian parliament.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, via Yulee.
Fla, May 3AFifteen million dollars
worth of property gone up in smoke
and ten thousand people made homeless
is the result of bit of innocent looking
wire accidentally getting into the
shredding machine of the American
Fibre Company to-day, at the corner
OF Davis and Union streets. The fire
started between the hours of II and 1
O'Clock in the afternoon. and. owing to
this fact, the loss OF life will be COM
paratively small. The fibre factory was
wooden shell full of inflammable ma
terial and in few moments was A mass
or names. The wind, which was al
ready blowing strong from the south
west seemed to be possessed with a
sudden fury and soon was carrying de-
structive emebrs all through the city, the
fairest portion of which lay right in the
course of the wind. Some delay was ex-
PNiASANOU III settling an alarm and TO
add to the tragedy of fateful accidents
the engine at the water works suffered
a mishap and nothing more than ordi-
nary pressure could be obtained. By
this time the flames had swept to the
Boston store, a huge furniture estab-
lishment belonging to W. W. Cleveland
& Son, who were also proprietors of the
fibre factory. 1t leaped across Davis
street and took a course right through
a section where, block after block of
frame buildings. mostly occupied by ne
groes, had been erected Here was
where the fire department lost control.
as simultaneously in half a dozen
places, some of them six blocks from the
main fire, roofs We're seen to burst out
in flames. The wind rising higher and
higher, set on fire whole rows of build
ings and attracted at first a crowd of
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 3.-At
12;45 to-day Jacksonville experienced
the most disastrous fire in her exist
ence. The flames worked along the en-
tire length of Beaver street, from Davis
street to the creek on Liberty street
This is fourteen solid blocks of resi-
dences. For the same distance Ashley
and Chruch streets have both been
completely blotted out. When the fire
reached Bridge street in its eastward
course it enveloped in flames three
blocks, Duval, Monroe and the north
side of Adams, burning up that entire
section of the city and running four
teen blocks to the Duval street bridge.
How much further in that direction
the city is burned it is impossible to
learn, the street being impossible, but
1t is feared that st. LukeS hospital was
burned and report says that the Pres
byterian church in East Jacksonville is
aoiaze. If this is correct, the fire must
have extended FIVE blocks further east
The conflagration has covered, as far
as is definitely known, distance of two
and half miles, by half mile wide.
When the fire reached Julia street it
was roaring furnace. without any
prospect of being put under control
The local military companies were
called out to keep back the crowds and
the fire department began to use dyna-
mite to blow UP the houses block from
the fire and thus prevent the fire from
spreading. So fierce was the blaze
however, and so strong had become the
Wind that millions of sparks and flying
burning shingles spread over five or six
blocks, setting the roofs of the houses
On fire in advance of the department.
Senator faliaferro's residence and the
adjoining houses on that black were
aDlaze, and in spite of all efforts to
save the Windsor and the st. James no.
tells, both were quickly enveloped in
flames. For about an hour the guests
Of the Windsor had been busily packing
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
OIL auataiinn..

NEW YORK, May 3-standard oil. $50
SD.
OIL CITY. Pa, May s-CredIt balances.
sf.f2; certificates no bid. Shipments 1852
bbls: average. 74.5Z3 bbIs Runs IS 1s7 bbIs;
average 81 80 bbis
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
PLAN ACCEPTED.
Harrison Albright's Design for shcp-
herdstown's New College Decided


Upon.
Special to the Register.
-SHGPHERDSTOWN, w. Va. May 3.
The board of regents OF the West viz
ginia State Normal schools met here to-
day to decide upon the plans for the
new BUILDING for Shepherds College.
Ten designs were submitted by as many
different arcitects from this State. Mary
land, Pennsylvania and Washington, @.
c. After consideration OF the several
plans the board adopted the one OF Har-
rlson Albright, OF Charles Town Mr..
Albrlghts design called for a classic
building of the Corinthan style of arch
itecture. The dimensions of II are Isl
by 107 feet, to be built Of Cleveland sand
stone and buff brick. The estimated
cost of the building is s25,GG0 II prom-
ises to be one of the handsomest and
most satisfactory school buildings in
the State.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04
THE SUBSIDY BILL.
Matter of Concern to British
Steamship Owners-The Leyiand

Steamship 0wners-The Leyiand
Line.
LONDON, May 13.-At the annual
meeting of the Leyland steamship line
to-day Chairman Ellerman declined to
discuss the sale of the line to ]. Pier
pont Morgan & Company until a spe-
cial meeting was called to take the mat
ter up. Reviewing last years business,
Mr.. Ellerman referred to the congress
sional discussion of the subsidy bill as
"a period of some anxiety" An Amer
lean subsidy, he added, would be det-
rimental to British trade and might
make it next to impossible to compete
with American-owned steamers while
British ships could not expect govern
ment aid
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-04

The following story is from a sneciaI
correspondent who left Jacksonville
early in the evening and at time
When the excitement was at its height:
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-07

has been revived. in order to infuriate the
%populace; despite the fact that Popes. &C.
clesiastics and hosts Of Christian professors
have declared tho accusation to be purely
imaginary and malignant. The false charge
that a Jewish officer in France had be-
trayed secrets Of his Government was suf-
f1cient to unloosen the most savage attacks
upon the Jews which The modern world
has seen.
The fact which stands out in the whole
agitation Is not that the charges have been
made. in most cases by men who sought in
some way or other to nsh In troubled wa
ters. but that these charges find a ready
echo and a ready response among the peo-
pie at large. It emphasizes 80 clearly that
the Jews are q defenseless people. with no
means of e%fectually warding of attacks;
and though in Germany and Austria sa-
cieties of Christians have been formed for
the purpose Of combating a~nti-Semitism,
there Is nc power which can efectually en-
ter the lists in their behalf. This was no.
tably seen In the great London demonstra-
ton of 1882. when the petition signed by
the foremost members Of church n state
never ever reached the Gear. to whom 1t
was addressed.
Among the few bright spots on the
worlds chart are those countries inhabited
by the Anglo-Saxon race. Anti-Semitism is
unknown in England (though the attempt
has been made to fix the blame for the
Boer war upon the jews; and the institu-
lions of the United States have up till now
prevented the entrance here OF the disease,
though in the mild form Of social anti-Sem-
itism which debars Jewish children from
private schools and Jewish people from
clubs and summer hotels 1t has i~nslnuated
itself into some Of the Eastern cities. not2-
bly, INTO New York.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-07
The Worldwide
Zionistic Movement.

There can be no doubt that next to the
reform movement the ~profoundest modif-
cation of the forces within Judaism has
come about during the last years of the
century through the rise and progress OF
the Zionist movement. 1t has been said by
some that Zionism is the expression Of Jew
ish pessimism. by others that 1t is the high
est form Of Jewish optimism. I venture to
say that It is both. The emancipation Of
the Jews has not been able to do away with
anti-semitism; history has repeated itself
time and time again. When the Jews Of a
country were few in number and of little
influence they led a tolerably secure exist
ence; but as soon as their number increased
M their influence commenced to be felt,
anti-semitism was the effective weapon In
the hands Of their opponents. In 30 far.
then, as Zionism takes account of this fact.
It IL pessimistic; for conditions in the future
will hardly differ from those in the past. 1t
sees the Wandering Jew Of history con-
tinuing still his dreary march through the
ages, never at rest and never able to effect
a quiet and even development Of shis W
forces It explains this phenomenon from