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ESTABLISHED 1887.
WAS SHOT TO DEATH
Theodore Schrader Killed By a
Crazy Man
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ATLANTA FURNISHED I SENSATION
Or the Usual Bloody Kind
Last Night
BEN H. OSBORN WAS THE SLA/ER
▲ Crazy Criminal Took the Life o f a Useful
Citizen and the Result Will Simply Be
That He Will be Locked Up in ihe Luna
tic Asylum After it is Too Late to Recall
the Life That Was Sacriflced.
Atlanta, Oct. 8. —Another bloody
tragedy occurred this afternoon shortly
after 4 o’clock. ,
Ben A. Osborn shot and killed
Tfltodore Jfchradx r.
The killing was without provocation.
Schrader was an honest and industrious
citizendind was foreman of the Atlanta
Lithographing- Company.
Osborn is a lunatic and was apprehended
sbortely after the killing. He will be
* sent to the asylum as he is not responsible
for his actions.
WAS THIS GRATITUDE?
BeabOrn Wright's Dispatch to the New York
World.
In spite of all that was done to make
the election as fair as possible Seaborn
Wright sent the following special to
the New York World, on the night of
the election:
In the face of the returns standing
40,000 majority it makes interesting
reading now.
Rome, Ga., Oct. 7.
In order to give you an intelligent
■opinion of the result of the election in
Georgia it is necessary to explain our
election law.
There are 130 counties in Georgia.
These counties are sub-divided into
districts, say ten in each county.
There is a voting precinct in eac h
district. The justice of the peace in
each district, with three managers,
appointed by him, hold the election.
The chairman of the populist execu
tive committee proposed to the chair
man of the democratic state commit
tee a division of managers at the polls.
This was refused by the democratic
chairman. The meaning of that i s
that no prohibitionist or populist
friend of mine in many counties of
Georgia will be permitted to see the
vote counted.
In a number of counties, especially
in the blaok belt of Georgia, it now
looks as though there will be a carni
val of crime, ballot box stuffing and
false counting. Many democratic
papers in Georgia, headed by the At
lanta Commercial and Journal, joined
us in demanding a fair count without
avail.
If I were to receive a fair count, I
would be elected. As it is I cannot
tell. No well informed man in Geor
:gia doubts my receiving a majority of
the whole vote of the State. It is
impossible at present to tell the result
•of today’s election upon the national
• election. It may result disastrously
to Mr Bryan.
The question of a free ballot and
fair count is fast overshadowing all
■ other questions in Georgia.
SEABORN WRIGHT,
Populist-Prohibition nominee for
Governor.
Lively Fight. In North Carolina.
Raleigh. Oct. 9.—There was a lively
battle in Cumberland county. Deputy
-Sheriff J. K. Kinlaw and James Pate
went to arrest J. D. Johnson, a despe
rate white man. They seized his shot
gun, but he began a revolver fusilade.
He hit both deputies in the head, Pate
• twice. He also shot two farm laborers
■who were called on to aid in capturing
him. Both deputies are badly and per
haps seriously hurt, and are at,Fayette
ville, Johnson is in jail there, as the
deputies pluckily captured him.
A PHYSICIAN GOES WRONG.
-Large Shortage Discovered In the Ao
counts of Dr. A. C. Patterson.
Washington, Oct. 9.—A discrepancy
has been discovered in the accounts of
.Dr. A. C. Patterson, one of the staff
physicians at St. Elizabeth Hospital for
the lusane. It has been ascertained,
after a careful examination of the books,
that the shortage amounts to between
♦15,000 and ♦l«,000.
lu addition to his professional duties
as a physician at the hospital, Dr. Pat
terson acted ns confidential financial
clerk to the superintendent, Dr. W. W.
Gedding. It is in the accounts of which
he had charge in the latter capacity
that the discrepancy has been discov
ered. Dr. Gedding frankly confessed
that there was such a defalcation, but,
he added, the amount had been made
good and the government will not lose
a cent in the matter.
"There is not and has not been,” he
added, "any discrepancy in my official
accounts with the government. The
money which was missing was part of
a trust fund belonging to patients at the
hospital, deposited with me, and for
which I am agent, but of course I am
just as responsible for this fund as
I am for the government .appropria
tions, or for the accounts of the dis
bursements did not go through the
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
same official cnann'els as the gov
ernment reports. Consequently, the
matter is one alone between me and my
confidential clerk. He has adjusted it to
my satisfaction and the government is
not connected with it, so far as any fi
nancial loss is concerned. My accounts
are all correct and are, of course, open
to official examination or investiga
tion.”
Dr. Gedding added that Dr. Patterson
has been in ill health for some months.
REPRIMANDS CRITTENDEN.
Olney Obrjeotv to the Consul General to
Mexieo Appearing In I’rlut.
Washington, Oct. 9.—The depart
ment of state has administered a repri
mand to United States Consul General
T. T. Crittenden for holding corre
spondence with newspapers on official
matters, this course being taken under
the requirements not only of the de
partmental regulations but of the United
States revised statutes. Seotoin 1,751
of the statutes expressly forbids any
diplomatic or consular office to commu
nicate with an individual or newspaper
touching the public affairs of any for
eign government or with any person
other than the proper officers of the
United States.
This is the general interdiction, but
in addition the departmental regulations
prohibit its officers from communicat
ing to the newspapers i he matter of any
official report. It is said at the depart
ment that Mr. Crittenden was called
upon for a report upon the labor ques
tion in Mexico, and that he communi
cated the substance of this to a New
York newspaper.
Attention being drawn to the matter,
ad admonition was sent to the offend
ing official such as is usual in these
cases, which are not at all infrequent,
generally happening through the ignor
afice Os the cohsul of the prohibition.
All this happened while Secretary
Olney was absent from Washington and
without his knowledge.
More Chinese Potts Opened to Trade.
Washington, Oct. if.—The United
States Minister at Peking reports that
.in accordance with the treaty between
China and Japan, Soochow and Hang
chow were opened as treaty ports Sept.
26 and Shashih and Chungking will be
opened soon.
Several Marine Disasters Reported.
Queenstown, Oct. 9. —The torpedo
gunboat Bason has arrived here from
Bantry bay. She reports that the force
of the gale is beyond description. Nu
merous seas swept continuously over her
deck and tons of water got below. The
crew were washed around the decks,
several of them were injured and all the
small boats worn lost. A steam trawler,
which has just put in here, reports hav
ing passed a large vessel, floating bot
tom tip. The Sea King, a bark tatong
ing to Stackpolo, has been totally
wrecked. Four members of her crew
were drowned and eight were saved.
Don’t Believo the Sanilac Sunk.
Bay City, Mich.. Oct. 9.—The re
ported sinking of the steamer Sanilac is
discredited here. Captain Hannan’s
wife received a dispatch from him
Thursday morning dated Ashtabula
Harbor, saying the boat would have to
go to drydock. It is also stated that the
Sanilac left that port Thursday night
for Toledo. Tho steamer Sanilac, which
was reported lost on Lake Erie, has
reached Ashtabula and was windbound
there all day. She reports the storm
terrific. She was badly shaken up, but
the loss will not be heavy.
Deprived of Hhs Speech.
Columbus. 0., Oct. 9. Joseph L.
Straits of Berliner, Strauss & Denser,
Broadway, New York, ts at the Neil
House, ill with some malady, which, at
9p. m., suddenly deprived him of his
speech. He is supposed to have suffered
mentally because he could not talk. His
mind is all right. He wants to go home
and will be sent at once, probably with
a nurse.
Th© Tihaiicla'l'CrisKTn Chili.
New York, Oct. 9. A special to The
Herald from Valparaiso, Chili, says:
The alarming rumors current, here that
the government would consider favor
ably any report which might be sub
mitted by the financial committee to re
issue ♦32,000,000 in bonds in addition to
the present unredeemed bills held by
the banks have been dissipated by the
minister of finance. In an interview
with him he asserted that the rumors
were absurdly false and that he was
firmly determined to reject any such
proposition, if submitted. The govern
ment will maintain its coats in actual
money and carry the conversion law
through.
Railroad Trackmen to Meet at Macon.
St. Louis, Oct. B.—The biennial con
vention of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trackmen concluded its labors and ad
journed to meet two years hence in Ma
con, Ga. The following officers and
committeemen were elected: Chief, John
T. Wilson of St. Louis; vice chief, John
Rice, St. Louis; executive committee,
W. F. McAbee of Alabama; J. E. Lam
bert, Fort Worth. Tex.; J. E. Hawee.
Augusta; James Beggau, Wheeling, W.
Va.
End of HaiiHHs City’** Fall Carnival.
Kansas City, Oct. 9.—Kansas City’s
fall carnival came to an end amid scenes
•of boisterous and scandalous disorder
seldom witnessed anywhere. Many
■fights and brawls resulted and over 70
arrests were made. As a result of this
state of affairs, Chief of Police Irwin
has declared that in future carnivals no
masqueraders will be permitted on the
«tmts at night.
THE ROME TRIBUNE, ROME, GA., SATURDAY jOCTOBEu 10, 1896.
INSANE MAN’S DEED
Albert Bray Killed Wife, Children
. and Himst If.
OUT THEIR THROATS IM A RAZOR
Another Horror Added to the
. List of Crimes
JHAT HAVE BEEN ALL TOO FREQUENT
Aud, to Make Sure His Bloody Plans
Would Nut Miscarry, Procured a Large
Hand Az and Crushed In the Skulls oi
Hi. Victim.—Poor Health Supposed to
Have Affected His Reason.
Noblesville, Ind., Oct. 9.—Albert
Bray, aged 39, a prosperous farmer and
a very religious man, cut the throats of
his wife, his 9-year-old son Carl, his 2-
year-old daughter Edna and himself.
The crimes were committed between
midnight and daylight, five miles north
of here. The wife and children died
without a struggle, but Bray, with a
gasping wound in his throat, 2 inches
deep and 6 inches in length, lived until
noon without regaining consciousness.
The work was done with a razor
which he used to do his own shaving.
Both Bray and his wife have been in
poor health. Bray procured a large
hand ax and crushed the skulls of his
victims after he had used the razor on
them. The murderer walked upon the
porch ftnd bis own tjiroot, in a
horrible manner, and was found lying
in a pool of blood at 6 a. in. Bray’s
reason was affected owing to sickness
in his family for the past few months
and some financial embarrassment.
Bray retired early, 'and Miss Dora
Way, a domestic employed in the Bray
household, went to bed with Edna.
Shortly after 9 o’clock she was awak
ened by Bray walking into her room in
his stocking feet. He went to her bed
and removed his little daughter into an
adjoining room, where she was found
with her throat cut from ear to ear. It
is thought that he killed Carl next,
while the boy was asleep.
Bray went into the room where his
invalid wife lay, slipped to the bedside
1 and slashed Her neck and seeing that
the cut was too low, he made a second
and successful effort to kill her. The
crimes are the bloodiest ever committed
in Hamilton county.
FRENCH BARK ATTACKED.
Pirate* Fire on the Corinthe—Two Men
Killed and Four Wounded.
Malaga, Oct. 9.—The Spanish. mer
chant steamer Seville, which has ar
rived here from French Mediterranean
ports, reports that the French bark
Corinthe, while becalmed, recently near
the Island of Aflhucomas, the Spanish
prison settlement off the coast of Mo
rocco, was attacked by armed Moors in
boats. The pirates bound the crew of
the boat and afterwards pillaged her.
The crew of the Seville succeeded in
rescuing the crew of the Corinthe and
captured one boatload of the Moors.
When the Seville approached the Cor
inthe the pirates opened fire upon her,
killing two men aud wounding four of
the Spanish ship’s crew aud eventually
Compelled her to retire. A Spanish gun
boat has been sent to Morocco with in«
structions to demand the release of the
prisoners and the payment of an indem
nity. The outrage took place in Span
ish waters.
Five Killed In a Beller Explosion.
Danville, Pa., Oct. 9.—Five deaths
have resulted from a boiler explnsiouin
the Montour rolling mill. Thomas
Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell and John
Mullin, Sr., are among the killed. It is
likely that Robert Reid, Rush Yerry
and Clinton Major, who were terribly
scalded by escaping steam, will not re
cover. In all about 50 persons were
more or less seriously hurt. The cause
of the explosion is not known, but it is
supposed to have been due to low water
in the boiler.
Christian Endavor Work In Canada*
Ottawa, Oct. 9. The dominion
council of Christian En ’eavor has or
ganized here by representatives of On
tario, Quebec, Manitoba and the Mari
time provinces fgr the consolidation of
Christian Endeavor work in Canada.
Both the Quebec and Ontario unions
elected officers. The latter decided to
hold its next annual convention in St.
Thomas. Hamilton was recommended
for 1898.
Appointed by the President.
Washingnton, Oct. 9.—The presi
dent has appointed William H. White
of Virginia to be United States attor
ney for the eastern district of Virgin: i,
to succeed Francis R. Lassiter, whose
participation in Old Dominion polit'ea
drew forth a letter from Attorney Gen
eral Harmon, taking strong ground
against judicial officers actively partici
pating in politics.
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An American Ordered Released.
Havana, Oct. 9. —Captain General
Weyler has ordered that an American
citizen named Zimeno, manager of the
railroads at Unidos, shall be set at
liberty.
Assignment of a Yarn Dealer.
Philadelphia. Oct 9.—John Lunn,
wholesale yarn dealer, has made an as
signment for the benefit of his creditors.
The liabilities amount to $78,000; assets
about $30,000.
VISITED BY THE VETS
Ex-Confederate Soldiers Calltd on
Major McKinley.
AN EVENTFUL DAY AT CANTON
Members of the Army
Os the West
CALL ON THEIR NEW NAPOLEON
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The Republican Nominee For the Presi
dency Dedicate* the Hickory stump Sent
Him by Tetineasee Admirer* H*»ars Dein>
• onstrations In His lavor Over a Long
Distance ’Phone.
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Canton, 0., Oct. 9. Bright sun
shine lent its cheering presence again to
the enthusiastic delegations. After
weeks of ram this added gjeatly to the
beauty of the day’s doings. Two’nota
ble aud unprecedented features in pres
idential campaigns distinguished this
eventful day. One is the call of the
confederate veterans of th(L*<Shenan
doah valley from Virginia, on the Re
publican! presidential nominee, whocar
ried a musket as a federal private, and
another was the listening to the busi
ness men's and traders demonstration in
Chicago by Major McKinley at his home
in Canton.
While the McKinley household was
at breakfast, Local Manager Hoffman
of the Central Union telephone placed
telephone ear trumpets, six in the Mc-
Kinley library and a like number in the
major’s sittihgroom. These were con
nected with the long distance telephone
wires to Chicago, where receivers were
located along the line of the parade.
Major and Mrs. McKinley’s friends
were invited to hear the sounds pf en
thusiasm from Chicago, which was made
somewhat difficult by the constant cheer
ing about the house. The household,
was notified from Chicago at 10:30 to be
in readiness to come aud hear joyful
sounds at Chicago.
At 10:52 Major McKinley was called
to the ’phone. An Associated Press re
porter listened at one of the trumpets.
Major McKinley showed great' pleas
ure at the volume of enthusiastic sounds
that reached him over the 400 miles of
wire. The music of the bands and the
cheering of the crowds was very plainly
heard, and one could scarcely compre
hend the intervening distance. * The
East Tennessee delegation was cheering
about the house at the same time.
The highly polished hickory stump
sent Major McKinley by Sheirff Greener
of Knoxville and other East Tennessee
admirers, was dedicated on the McKin
ley porch during the morning. Three
coach loads of East Tennesseeans, or
ganized by Sheriff Greener and in
charge of Captain William Rule and
Major E. C. Camp, vice president of the
National Republican league, came with
greetings aud congratulations to the
nominee.
An address was made by William
Rule and responded to by Major Mc-
Kinley, standing upon the stump.
GEORGE j. MARSH SUICIDES.
The Treaearer of a Ma*.*achnsetts Savings
Bank Takes Ilia Own Life,
Gloucester. Mass.. Oct 9. The
sensational suicide i»t Treasurer George
J. Marsh of the Cape Ann Savings bank
and the discovery that probably SIOO,OOO
in trust funds of the Gilbert estate and
fiiibert home were missing is first in
the minds of Gloucester people. The
bank treasurer was known to almost
every business man in the city, and has,
at different times, had dealings with
many of them.
The Cape Ann Savings bank opened
its doors Friday morning for business,
contrary to expectations. There was no
“run,” although a number of people
who had bank books appeared soon after
the doors were opened and asjeed to
withdraw their deposits. The requests
were granted in al) cases where the ac
counts were less than SSO. Upon all
depotits above this amount the bank
officials will exact 60 days’ notice of
withdrawal, as provided by law.
. The general opinion of business men
here is that the bank is able to continue.
An examination of trust funds aud se
curities held by the bank is being made
at Boston. The securities are deposited
with the Union Safe Deposit company
in that city, aud the bank commission
ers determined to go to the vaults and
look them pver carefully. The exact
condition of the bank cannot be an
nounced until after this work is com
pleted.
CHICAGO DAY CELEBRATED.
Anniversary of the Windy City's Big Fire.
Two Monster Political Meetings.
Chicago, Oct. 9. "Chicago day.”
the anniversary of the great fire 25 years
ago, and the recordbreaking attend
ance at the Chicago World’s Fair three
years ago, was celebrated Friday. Each
of the political parties held monster
meetings. Almost every store and fac
tory iu the city were,closed. as were
also the board of trade and the banks of
the city after the morning’s trade.
After 9 o’clock street cars or vehicles
were not allowed in the down town dis
tricts, the streets being entirely given
up to sightseers and marchers. The
weather was ideal. Not a cloud flecked
the sky and the southeast wind, per
haps a trifle too cool, but very bracing,
blew with sufficient force to keep flut
tering the thousands of flags hanging
iu windows and door* aud across the
streets.
Banda <at all aorta and, condition*
played ail sorts of music.* Scores of un
iformed clubs gave color to the scene.
Innumerable floats, representing all
kinds of trades and business organiza
tions, were one of the features of the
parade. Thousands of strangers were
Iu town, every railroad running excur
sion trains from points within a radius
of 100 miles, and these trains, packed
with sightseers, kept coming through
the night and early morning hours.
For such an immense crowd the pro
cession was admirably conducted. Start
ing from the corner of Michigan avenue
and Van Buren street, the procession
wound its way through all the streets
between Van Buren and Lake, Michi
gan avenue and Market street, finally
disbanding at Jackson and Market
streets. One of the unique features of
the celebration was the immense trans
mitters stationed at different points of
the- march. A sewer connected with
long distance telephone wires, and as
the shouting, cheering mobs passed by
their “rahs” for McKinley and Hobart
were heard by those gentlemen in (Jan
ton and Patterson, N. J.
At night the friends of free silver had
their inning. Another-procession was
formed, this time of free silver clubs,
which marched over practically the
same route. The two principal celebra
tioas aside from the parade were sched
uled for the Auditorium and Tatter
sail’s. For the Republicans, Chauncey
M. Depew spoke at the Auditorium at
night. In the afternoon at Tattersail’s
the attraction was the famous silver
senator, Henry M. Teller of Colorado.
CZAR GREATLY 'TOUCHED.
Thanks President Faure For the Ke dela
tion Accorded Him.
Camp De Chalons, Chalous-Sur-Ma
rine, Oct. 9.—Long before the imperial
aud presidential trains arrived here
from Versailles the vicinity of this
camp, covering 30,000 acres, was crowded
with people anxious to see the czar and
czarina and witness the grand military
review organized iu his majesty’s honor.
By 9 o’clock nearly 200,000 people
were already assembled, and they were
pouring in from the direction of Rheims,
Chalons-Sur-Marine, as fast as trains
could bring them. On the czar’s ar
rival at military headquarters here, a
salute of 101 guns was fired, after which
he reviewed the 70,000 troops iu camp,
representing all branches of the service.
Previous to leaving Versailles the czar
expressed his thanks to President Faure
for the reception accorded him at Paris
and at .Versailles, saying that he was
much pleased to notice that in spite of
the enormous crowds along the routes,
there have not been any disturbances.
This, the czar added, did the greatest
honor to the people of Paris, whose ac
clamations, he explained, had touched
him greatly.
His majesty will, according to pro
gram, leave for the frontier on his way
to Darmstadt, after the military ban
quet, and will be escorted as far as Ger
man territory by General De Boisdeffre
and Admiral Gervais and their staffs,
attached respectively to the persons of
the czar and czarina during their stay
in Fiance.
Missouri Populist Commute*.Meets,
St. Lours, Oct. 9. —The result of the
meeting of the state Populist committee
was a surprise. The vote on the ques
tion of taking Sheridan Webster, the
candidate for auditor, off the ticket, on
charges of refusal to support the na
tional ticket, stood 10 to 12 against his
removal. Webster swore allegiance to
the ticket. The resolution authorizing
the executive committee to effect fusion
with the Democrats on state tickets yjras
a tie. Chairman Roselle cast the vote
favoring fusion, 'fhe.friemU of ffisTon
believe that Substantial offers will be
made by the, Democrats within the next
few day#' The committee is also In
structed to assist if possible in securing
the several congressional districts.
Nonunion Miners Arrive at Leadville.
Leadville, Colo., Oct. 9.—Cornelius
McHugh, a gunsmith and sporting
goods dealer, is in the county jail here,
charged with perjury. Strong evidence
is said to have been obtained that the
arms issued to the strikers were shipped
to McHugh from New Haven. Conn.
McHugh denied this when examined
before the grand jury. Another body
of nonunion miners from Missouri have
arrived in the district, and next week
300 U tah miners will be added to the
force now at work in the mines.
West Virginia Pop* Refuse to Withdraw.
Parkersburg, W. Va., Oct. 9.—Af
ter a two day's session the Democratic
and Populist conventions have ad
journed. The main desire of the Dem
ocrats was to get the Populists to' take
down their state ticket and indorse the
Democratic state ticket. This they have
failed to do. The Democratic state com
mittee now proposes to influence each
nominee on the Populist ticket to resign
after itdfetoo late for the Populist ex
ecutive committee to place other names
on the ticket.
An American on Trial In London.
London, Oct. 9.—Edward J. Ivory,
alias Edward Bell, the saloonkeeper of
New York, who is charged with aiding
and abetting in the alleged dynamite
conspiracy, was brought up again on re
mand at Bow street police court. Coun
sel for the treasury department prose
cuted and called several witnesses in
his attempts tc prove the case against
the prisoner.
Motlnv ut> the I’hilllplne Islands.
Madrid. Oct. 9 —A dispatch received
here from Manilla says that a company
of native soldiers at Mindanao, an island
of the Malay archipelago and second
largest of the Phillipiue islands, has
mutinied and killed its officers.
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GUAYAQUIL’S BLAZE
Three Fonrlhs of the City Reduced
To Ashes.
FIBE EAGED TWENTY FOOR BOORS
A South American Capital is
the Victim
OF A MOST TERRIBLE DISASTER
Many Persons Perished In the Flames.
Over Fifty Million Dollars* Worth of
Property Destroyed—The Conflagration
Believed to Have Been the Work of In
cendiaries—Business Suspended.
‘Nrw York, Oct. 9.—The Herald’s
correspondent in Guayaquil, Ecuador,
telegraphs that threg-fourths of that
city was reduced to ashes by the fire
which began, there Monday at midnight
and raged for 34hours, sweeping every
thing in its path. It is estimated that
the financial loss to the city will run far
up in the millions. Some reports esti
mate it as over $50,000,000. Many lives
were lost —just how many it is iinpos
aihie to say as yet—and 35,000 persons
are homeless.
Two thousand houses, including every
bank in the city, of which there were
five, the Bank of Ecuador, the Commer
cial, the Agricola, the Territorial and.
Hypotecario, were burned. The cus
tomhouse, theater and many other pub
lic buildings weje also swept away by
the flames. This included everything
from Aguirre street to Las Penas, the
entire business portion of the city.
Practically all the grocery and supply
stores are gone and thousands of resi
dents, homeless and hungry, swarm in
the streets and in the neighboring
woods. It is impossible at present tc
secure enough food supplies at La Gua
yara and Guayaquil, and until assist
ance reaches here from other cities in
Ecuador the suffering will be intense.
Among the 35,000 homeless ones who
fill the charred streets, the suffering is
great. Not only is the food supply ex
tremely low. buttlie fresh water sup
ply has been exhausted, largely by the
efforts of the firemen to extinguish the
flames. Now that the fire is out, the
air is filled with a stifling dust of cin
ders and ashes, which adds greatly to
the suffering from thirst.
The fire started in a small dry goods
store. It is believed that this store was
fired by incendiaries. The police have
made several arrests so far, but the peo
ple are so wrought up that numerous
threats to lynch or burn the prisoners
at the stake have been made.
Business in the meantime has been
mainly suspended, every effort being
directed toward relieving the distress of
the sufferers.
KILLED BY TWO NEGROES,
A I’romleent Alabama- Farmer Brained
With an Ax While Asleep
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 9. Ran,
do’ph Falls, a prominent farmer living
below Toadvine, in the lower edge of
the county, was killed by two unknown
negroes while camping out in the woods
on hig return home from the city.
Falls came to Birmingham aud sold a
load of cotton, after which he set out
forborne, taking two negroes wjth him.
About 25 miles below the city the three
camped for th§ night. Ip the morning
Robert Vines, living at Toadyine, hap
pened to pass the place and saw Falls
lying on a pallet with his head crushed
in. A bloody ax a little distance off
told how the murder was committed.
Falls was still breathing, but he died a
few minutes later.
Sixty-six dollars was found in an in
side pocket, but his pants pockets were
turned inside out and an empty pistol
scabbard was left by the negroes. Sheriff
O’Brien sent dogs to the scene with
hopes of trailing the negroes.
For the Denfense of Charleston.
Columbia, S. 0., Oct. 9.—Under the
recent act of congress and following out
the recommendations of General Miles,
the defense of Charleston has begun.
A force of government engineers is su
pervising the construction of founda
tions for the fortifications on Sullivan’s
island, a couple of miles further toward
, the sea than Fort Sumter and opposite
the bar. Perhaps the first piece of
heavy ordnance ever shipped to Charles
ton by rail by the United States gov
ernment is now resting on three big
flat cars in this city, enroute from Prov
idence, R. L, to Charleston. This is
the first of 16 mortars which are to be
planted at the entrant of the harbor.
They are to be an 12-inch, whilp of the
ten big guns six will be 12-inch and four
10-inch. The mortar proper weighs 32,-
150 pounds.
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The Steamer Hope at St. John.,
St. Johns, N. F., Oct. 9. The
steamer Hope, which conveyed the
Peary expedition to Greenland, has re
turned here after meeting with despe
rate weather in the gulf. The vessel
was nearly driven ashore on Miquelon
island, owing to the compass being in
jured, throwing her 18 mi.es,cui of her
course.
Steamer Goes Dnwu, An Hand* Lost,
Hollyhead. Oct. 9 - A French
steamer, which has put in here on ac
count ol the storm, reports that she saw
a large ste-mer foundered off Bishop
island, Pembrokeshire. It is presumed
that all on board of her were lost.