Dubuque Daily Telegraph (Newspaper) - May 4, 1901, Dubuque, Iowa ami tonight Saturday Understand inK Taua derive the most graph IB a Tine Storo Open Never Grew otv Sheep's Back t That air of distinction so no- in fine custom work can only be obtained from pure l wool cloths and perfect in jr OUR FINE SUITS ARE DISTINCTIVE Both for style and fit We carry all the good styles in all the good kinds Serges Cassimeres Worsteds Tweeds and Cheviots to IS FLAME SWEPT Visits Jacksonville and Wipes Out a Big Section of the Town vent was than four tbe hotels burned States the AT Outside i Communication Off for Hours by the Fire THf Cleveland lii was of tile dropped dead from negro fon his head from a lii and 1 Skirt Muit to you forcibly these lust tew the weather still ui r of Shirt Comfort mill nil now col or Madras Linen Batiste und Shirts without collars to have one somo two aud to CONGER IS WELCOMED iv Honor n tiou at the State Capitol Molina la May to Des nuH belli Auditorium yesterday was tendered by two Army posts statu city of- and the Iu l.'lilna attended Minister anil family and Intimate and the with state and city ot welcome were made by Dr K H tohn A McCull nor Shaw Mayor nnd others and Minister Conger responded the ot the of the of- the n pioneer Is dead hix Toil Ht 1st to be this season Im- by the railroads centering at this point Fla via Fla May million dollars worth of property up in smoke people made homeless Is the result of a bit of Innocent-looking wire Into the shredding machine of the American Fiber com- at the corner of Davis streets lire started be- tlie hours of la ami 1 o'clock In and owing to this fact the will be comparatively small Tlie liber factory on shell full of material ami Iu a few moments was a mass of flames The which was already blowing strong from the southwest to be possessed with fury ami soon was carrying tive the city of In According to city map WO blocks many of them In the heart ot the business and residence section Tho estimate of to the block Is ten hence of them went up In Many of the finest public and private buildings wore de- Including hotels theater churches and resiliences The ties cannot be accurately estimated That several scorns to be Among them was that of the lire chief who sustained a bad fall The mayor lias ordered all the saloons closed and has Impressed help to clear the wreckage He mates money loss at from 000 lo of Tiro Tim burned district street on tho the St Johns river the south a dis- not two miles The width of the desolated area Is thirteen blocks Within this space practically everything Is blackened ruins On the of trade the Western Union com- building Is the building going west east of Buy is At p m the lire was under having out The of the iu tlie southeastern turned Into lodging houses snul hospitals Luckily tlie weather Is line so that there will be no suffering ou that score the iu on his head and died ran tlie streets denuded by places of safety trucks not be and many of THROUGH Lone Star State Welcomes the Makes S Visit an Ovation FIRST GREETED BY THE Meets the Distinguished Guest at Day's Event tHe board of control and a woman factory inspector also the taxing house law ex- con- The scenes about tHe great lire were such words can picture their homes families city They place to go A the most prominent lost his practically his all companied daughters and along in a little venders em- ploy had been flames They iio It mattered not where they they seemed to Piled about on the sidewalks re- the path the flames are household goods of all descriptions Men women about them looking oil ip They saw their caught in the llames dwindle to ashes Not and children but strong were weeping One man drew from and of driver to go with to Ills residence and remove trunks of valuables The driver would not go You could get no oneto do Service of any sort commanded a- lo from the depot to a a that is usually 25 cents cost The street running and the terrible confusion made nil business stagnant The site of tlie city looks n Jacksonville May nnd forty-seven blocks of tills city were swept by yesterday's fire and the age Is ten known lost their It is reported a party of docks river and into water Is Military companies of the city and lour other places together with the lar are No attempts at are reported Practically is ed nothing but a few Austin Tex May Out of Dixie the presidential party yesterday into the heart of the great west After New Orleans Thursday beautiful the home of the and waving rice of western Louisiana were passed and the new oil fields of just at peep of too early to bo seen by the president When the party arose yesterday morning tlie train Hying over of Texas which away horizon in every level as a board The president's In the Louc Star state was a continuation of the he throughout the soutli by Governor Governor Sayers other nent state the at Houston the place Inside the state and accompanied as far as Austin the capital There were some Interesting features in the reception at Houston and a very scone at Prairie View where president addressed the colored of the state normal school ou a stand erected ou the open prairie at side of the track He advised colored people to ilo one thing well Minute stops were also made at Hempstead where the president shook hands with a number of at the hoine of Colonel one of the president's old col- leagues iu house of tives and at at each of which places he spoke a few words At every station the route there were cheering AUSTIN Principal ot of People currence of Rail Chicago May League ball records At 10 at Brooklyn 5 at 2 Boston 1 At Chicago at Washington 9 o t De- 3 at 0 At Fort Fort Wayne 7 at 0 Indianapolis S bus 5 unanimously elected president or tno Iowa Federation of yesterday Mrs Flora S Barkley of was elected vice president and Nellie Cooko of Algona The Iowa a membership of 224 v Paris Ills May the meeting of the Kastern Athletic association held won for the consecutive A CRIME of Del Head an Axe PUT OUT BY SHARKEY Almost a Scrap Witli the California Des Iowa ankin brained her daughter with a hatchet It IR supposed that shoe the deed in an insane frenzy brought on by Minister mid of his family were ut a at the tol tinder ot tin City of It thf In the history that ust cf has boon for u Wls May In atire u by iovernor the public of this city und fur that every ami town In All exercises were let ami In their stend tlie trees ami In r the sov set apart as ami n Nel May he to arrest while the a stranger U K W nud Instantly killed yesterday by u At coroner w Inquest THE NEWS IN BRIEF Rank clearings in this this week aggregated In round numbers York City reporting gnu Carriages used In Queen Victoria's will be relics President of Chile will resign because ot 111 health Tho Japanese cabinet headed by ito has resigned It Is reported that Franco will seize Morocco sanctioning the To build in a ple to tho of ingorsoll an lias been Incorporated mother of Ira IX burbs and the most the city Tho street car service Is a complete and the electric light circuits are In- of homeless are estimated ten thousand of in parks docks und arp being held KIKE FOUGHT WITH DYNAMITE Dialing Dozen this to the alleviation of the land an appeal to the people of the country for aid will be sued Many families lost their personal effects after they moved them to supposed places safety dead at Newcastle Pa aged years A- crank White was arrested til New he threatened to kill President The coal mliiers ol concluded not to as a protest tlie lax The ol the combine largely subscribed May lit Chicago went to 5S who U wau ex- of May Wilson eldest son of Major Wilson of of the died yesterday ot typhoid fever at New he was sity AT MANILA Has Jmt but No Tho In Manila was established yesterday as a preliminary to the Inauguration of a civil government The United States commission Is willing t present to the ex- of elections here although May Mtllto board bus decided that the this shall be livid at A net yet been decided fur N May tun n yuting mini wlm recently arrived City Mich was for forgery and will In- taken back to Washington May C and thin died yesterday Ue wiis M years was a In mental Moll with New York Mnv Journal of Plans tire un- for a consolidation of of shovels und n they have been authorized In all other municipalities munc for Manila will hortly bo rented will probably be appointive The trial of Lieutenant charged with commissary The verdict not been The trial of Captain Burrows also commissary Irregularities begins 11 Chicago May which was attended by and lar features destroyed the south half of Armour beet causing n loss of A score or more had a caused by tho of an Kvil of May aged 1.1 died Iu hospital Rock Island Ills hay ing had both legs cut off after in a freight train while running from home For two hf been a by during thulr here and this is said to tile When the Ore Julia street It was a roaring furnace without any prospect of being put under control The local military companies were called out to keep buck the crowds nnd lire department began to use to blow up tlie houses a block from the lire and thus the from spreading So fierce was tho blaze however nnd so strong had the wind millions of sparks and flying burning shingles spread over live or six blocks setting the of the houses on lire In ad- vance of the department Soon tor residence then the ad- joining houses on that block were ablaze nnd In spite of all efforts to save tho Windsor and the St James hotel both were quickly en- about an hour the guests Windsor had been busily packing their and went away loaded with and grips some unfortunately tho United hotel but most of them to Riverside heaping across street from the Windsor the flumps the Mouse and the Methodist parsonage and In moments the Trinity Methodist church was a muss of lames The house block followed and Richards and Livingstone boarding houses A desperate effort was made save tlie Baldwin mansion which recently purchased by the for power save this building block and one west was quickly n mass of Once got started on street tlie closely ad- joining buildings went one after the other faint shops with barrels of oil were plentiful In this district Ami as they caught lire one after other the blane rising hundreds high quickly sot the buildings across tho street on Then tho hardware store caught and the people scattered when they saw had happened Hundreds of pounds of powder and a great deal were stored in this building In ten minutes there and the building collapsed like an The dynamite nnd ex- Hero again was much for the Cartridges be- gan to explode bullets lly around ami the effort light the at this point had for a time to be abandoned This was only the start of the most Intense part of the The new building was ablaze and then quickly the Gardiner ing was also a mass of flames Down the street spread with rapidity and the entire section of Bay street from Market to Main streets and ex- tending for five blocks back was Ing all at once building the building the the county house the clerk's office the the court the city jail and the and the Roman Catholic chinch orphanage St John's church and tlie GOB LOSS TP THE BOERS Killed ind Cap- tured Tiy Big Spain London war re- the following from Ten Boers were killed and three wound and thirteen the rounds ot small arm ammunition and were since last report A serious have curred Barcelona says a Madrid TWo hundred chlsw Invaded meeting and a ensued were used and many people were shot and otherwise wounded continued the Tho feature of the -day the re- ception accorded the party at Austin like New had never before had the honor of entertaining a chief magistrate of the nation The city was profusely decorated and In the evening there was -a brilliant il- of Congress avenue tin before held such crowds of people They came from every tion and literally swamped the hotel accommodations of the city It was estimated that over visitors were here As the population of tin is only the tax upon its facilities can imagined A procession headed by a line tary band and consisting of fifteen companies of militia and the Confederate Veterans and Grand Army of the Republic organizations side by side escorted the party to the cast portico ot the building where the president a sea of people There was a delightful reception in the senate where the of Austin all over Texas for their received the president and Mrs McKinley This function was one of most charming yet ex- on the trip Then followed n through the city to the State University where students zens and school children greeted the president Later Mr and Mrs McKinley with the ladies of the cabinet dined ally at the mansion nnd at o'clock last night left for San Antonio famous for its Alamo and Spanish missions where this morning was spent The train arrived at San Antonio a m where it re- mained on a side track until the rising hour AT HOUSTON May Tomi Sharkey ami Russell California heavyweight met In the of the Colorado Athletic association here last night before an audience that taxed the capacity of the clubhouse Sharkey the favorite iu and weighed about his 205 pounds The tight came near being rough-and-tumble The light was marked by clinches and wrestling comparatively few blows being landed either man and the honors being pretty even in that respect in the fourth round Sharkey got in -on the went down and out Following Is the decisive round in right over the heart Sharkey missed right and left swing Sharkey landed right left swing to the jaw putting Russell to the mat Russell reached out ana grabbed foot pulling him down Torn broke loose and jumped to his feet as Russell rose his feet landed a half swing on the with the right putting sell down and out Previous to the tight Referee Frank called all foots off as ho the managers of the club wished to protect themselves and their patrons He inferred that it had been rumored that a deal was on between the lighters Both he and Manager Floto announced they were assured that the rumor was false but for the protection of themselves and their patrons they would take no course but to declare all SPORT AT BUFFALO Completion of tie Will Be Celebrated 011 May 15 Buffalo conditions were yesterday and the attendance the Pan-American ex- position grounds was on Thursday Tlie the first sports MRS BAILEY WINS Den Moines Woman Elected dent of Iowa of Clubs Council Bluffs May yesterday afternoon the fourth jj tlon of the Iowa Federated Clubs adjourned after a in- 4 session of days tion Mrs Alice A Moines was unanimously declared the choice i of the convention to Mabel Dixon Ottumwa who lays down the gavel with the of duties t well performed successful ments In the various avenues ot work toward which lier energies the past two have been directed After it became known late Thursday evening that the informal ballot as a guide for the committee had resulted In a nearly complete victory for Mrs interest increased but the under rent of excitement manifest all day and night previous dJed away and V Friday morning the attendance showed a marked decrease for a large number of delegates thinking the result secure put in an hour or two visiting or The credential committee announced that the convention was entitled to cast 234 votes making a majority necessary to elect Tlie of the nominating com- had scarcely been presented when the secretary was cast the unanimous ballot for Mrs Bailey Des Moines That part the Des Moines delegation opposed to Mrs Bailey had left the hall before the report of the nominating tee was read but returned In time to see the vote taken The balance of the ticket PLAGUE ROITS Required to Suppress Them Havana at Calcutta May t to district to t been plague riots May fever has made here REWARD FDR FIDELITY Woman Who a Thief for Regret May Evidence that weddings do not always turn that love at sight often very soon is arrest 20 years of ago Ska Hand was married while a prisoned In county jail to woman niet shortly before his Imprisonment for larceny nnd it was generally that it a happy? of Jail served his sentence lie took a dislike and refused Lively That Into Less Titan Two Houston Tex arrival of the president's train here was alded by a from a battery on the bank of the Buffalo bayou All business had boon suspended in surrounding country seemed to have emptied Itself into the city An elaborate programme was less-than The Houston the crack company of Texas which acted of honor for Tell Davis on a company of cowboy the party in carriages through the decorated city Tor several blocks tho parade lines of school dren Hags the had him arrested charged He pleaded yi and to jail for four He would rather serve m with wife A people Make Lost night at negro Avas lynched by other negroes for e Johnson was Alden's Bridge Johnson was by house a menace to peace ot the hood president's with At ii arch on Polk avenue the president was presented with a piece by colored residents Be- fore and enthusiastic audience at the for- mally welcomed by the governor and made a happy response Members of At the conclusion of the speeches a touching incident occurred A feeble old came forward and presented McKinley a small silk the Star She was the widow Jones the last of the Re- public of- Texas wood of the staff was froni the old building at Columbia president shook hands old army com- rade J U Fellows who was a geant In the Third Ohio when the president was a private in tlie same was exceedingly proud of fact he Ijad at one I in chief Ui r bly in the by ii vote of -IS The as applies the primary system to county Only and makes its adoption optional with the county lily killed the giving a right to damages for mental anguish also a Uhat would have shut off the half holl day Saturday for the capital employes The cutting tho ot tbu oil ana OP THE in the Stadium has been fixed for May 15 They will take the form of a bration in honor of the completion of the great amphitheater and the en- tries will be confined to employes of the The programme will made up of athletic events and Midway concessionaires The committee ou sports has ed in Its schedule a two days race meet for canoeists The races are to tho and June BAD RIVER DISASTER Nearly Mothers With Their Babica Swallowed by tlic Flood May special from Odessa dated April purports to give an eyewitness story of eent ferryboat disaster on the Iliver Dnieper near when inost a hundred mothers returning the evening milking were drowned A sudden storm sprang there was a panic the pontoons were and only a few those ou the ferry were saved by a boat Three persons clung to a horse which swam ashore Practically every the village was motherless by the disaster was as Vice A J of Boone Recording Hallam ol Sioux City of Sioux City John of Council Foy of Jefferson The delegates number were elected to represent tha Iowa federation at the General ation of Women's Clubs to occur lit Los Angelea next Mrs Bailey Mrs Mabel Hutchison of Ottumwa Mrs Mrs Clara L Rapids Mrs Davenport Mrs H M Towner of Henry Wallace ot Des Mrs Allan Dawson of Dea Moines Mrs C S Brown of Iowa Mrs Horace Everett of Council Bluffs of Cedar Rapids Mrs A R Mills of Jefferson Mrs John A of Audubon HEBRON WEAKENS Tlie Once Prominent and Boston May George failure to appear in Hall had been to socialism was explained to pointed audience'-last night by the Rev William Crown of Rochester X who that Mr Herron the verge of physical collapse owing to the persecution to which he has beea subjected Wai the War arsenal is ordered ished by the war department was In as a point central to the armies operating south of the Ohio river The property contains 70 acres valued at In the buildings are stored property of the worth Including 20000 and rounds of Grinnell la May Tho yesterday took the second step to expulsion ot Professor D Herron membership The voted to call a council of church to Professor Herron for conduct unbecoming n ister as recommended in tin tions adopted by the Baxter iCho action taken in a meeting The attendance oC women and Deacon C read tion adopted by at Baxter and iii church form a an and that a committee call the council with to These are stand high In the l s Lyman IK a l and col- Uy la May of the alleged interview porting to been given out by Mrs Herron at Tryon N 0 in defense of her former husband Professor George D and criticising nle for their alleged pos of Professor Parker's absolutely denied by Mrs over her own signature cil will be ex evidence thar to in ot some of the lotra Women's Club Council Bluffs la May session ot some was not until the f at -i i City