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ESTABLISHED 1887.
BURSTING
RESERVOIRS.
Seven Persons Drowned
afid Twenty Missing.
BODIES RECOVERED
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J Eigtt Bn Mings, Two of Which Were
Boarding Houses
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SWEPT AWAY IN RUSHING WATERS
Section of Hudson River Rail
road Washed Out,
(NAMES OF MISSING ONES NOT KNOWN
Reservoirs Were of Tremendous Capacity.
Catastrophe Was Caused By Heavy
Rains—Details Given.
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• Newburgh, N. Y.. July 14.—Mel
xingah reservoir, in the Fishkill mouu
taiu si near Matte wan, burst at 3 a tn.
■oWing to the heavy rains. The water
ran into the creek, and 2 miles below,
near Duchess Junction, washed away
buildings, including a board
inghouse occupied by laborers. It is
. reported here that nine of them were
I -drowned and others are missing.
The flood at Duchess Junction washed
away 20b yards of the Hudson River
railway track. The trains are stalled
•on each side of the breach.
There were two reservoirs in the
mountain, the lower one half a mile dis
tant from the other. The upper one
jjave way, letting the volume of water
Into the lower reservoir. This also
burst, and the water rushed down
through a ravine. Van Buren and Tim
othy’s brick yards on the Hudson just
below Duchess Junction are a mile dis
tant from the site of the lower reser
voir. Without warning the flood reached
them through the ravines and made a
terrible havoc. Buildings were torn in
pieces and their occupants carried away
in the raging flood. The waterworks
'sgptem was operated by a private com
pany and supplied the villages of Matte
wan and Fishkill-on-the-Hudson.
Eight buildings, two of which were
I boardinghouses, were swept away by
, the rushing water and 20 people are
mjesing.
Seven bodies have been recovered.
They a--e those of Peter Mulligan and
•Wife, a mother with a child, and the
wife of an engineer at Timouy’s brick
yard.
The names of the others are not
known. It is reported that 20 are still
missing. Tons of earth and sand were
washed down in the flood and men are
digging into this mass to recover other
bodies.
The reservoir, the bursting of which
i> caused havoc at Duchess Junction, is
I situated in the Fishkill mountains,
" about 1 mile east pf the junction. It
collects the surface water from the
north side of South Beacon and the
south side of a neighboring mountain
and is 500 feet above tidewater. Its
overflow reaches tne Hudson byway of
, a small stream known as Towanda
creek. At the end of the ravine are de
vastated brick yards.
The reservoir is of oval shape. 500
feet long ana 300 feet wide and 30 or 35
feet deep. It is used as an auxiliary
supply to the regular waterworks sys
tem of Mattewan and Fishkili ’ Hiding,
I frgm the main source of which it is dis
tant about 4 miles. The largest reser
voir of this svstem is a considerable lake
near North Beacon, which has massive
masonry, is intact.
, The second reservoir, situated much
l<swer down the mountain, which was
built to relieve the pressure, is also un
broken. The two others have no direct
p connection with the Duchess Junction
reservoir, though all three feed into the
same pipes.
Labor Day at the Celt ten’ll ial.
Nashville, July 14. The Centen
nial exposition management has desig
nated Sept, fl as Labor day and Oct. fl
as German- American day. The attend
i fhiice on tnese two days will be very
large, as many states Will be repre
sented.
L Nvbra.kn Nat oiml Bank rails.
S Washington, July 14.—The coinp-
■ troll er of the currency has received a
F telegram announcing the failure of the
R Nebraska National bank of York, Neb.
■ The capital is $59,1)00.
j lluMlau Governor In Abyasln**.
g Paris, July 14. —King Menelek has
g appointed the Russian Major Leontieff
I governor general of the equatorial prov-
I juqes of Abvssinia.
THE ROFIE TRIBUNE.
8 PAGES, 48 COLUMNS.
THEY WILL BORN HIM
Xcgro Assaulted Wlnts Woman
at Carrollton.
The Crime Was Committed Monday
Night. Negro Located
at Bremen.
Carrollton, Ga.j July 14. Monday
night last Mrs. Tom Drury, the wife of
a prominent citizen of this county, was
criminally assaulted by a negro fiend,
and her condition is critical.
The crime has been kept secretin order
that the negro might be captured. To
night a posse, it is said, have the negro
located at Bremen and'he will be caught.
The mob is infuriated over the affair
and say that tfiey will burn the neg is
when he is captured.
GEORGIA EDITORS.
W. S. Coleman Re-elected Pr< sldent—Meets
In Newtan Next Year.
Cuthbert, Ga., July 14,—The Georgia
Weekly editors were tendered a big ban
quet here tonight, and many prominent
railroad then were present.
The weekly pre s association meets at
Newnan next year. W. 8. Coleman was
elected president; R. L. Moye, first vice
president; Trox Bankston, second vice
president; P. T. McKuchen, correspond
ing secretary; W. A. Shackelford, re
cording secretary; J. W. Anderson,
treasurer. The association leaves for
Nashville tomorrow afternoon.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Cincinnati is Inching Up On Boston Rapidly.
The b cored.
Washington, July 14—The scores
in the National League were as fol
lows today.
Pittsburg 1, Washington 15.
Cleveland 18, Boston 12.
Cincinnati 11, New York fl.
Louisville 5, Philadelphia 10.
Chicago. 7, Brooklyn 11,
How They Stand.
, Won. Lost. Per Ct
Boston 46 19 .708
Ciucinnati 43/M 682
Baltimore 42 22 . 656
New York 38 25 . 606
Cleveland 36 29 .560
Pittsburg 32 33 . 490
Brooklyn 30 37 . 456
PUilidelphia 32 37 .471
Louisville 26 38 . 460
Chicago 29 39 . 496
Washington 23 40 . 366
St. Louis 13 53 .191
PEACE PROMOTERS.
Chief of Police and Sheriffs Convene in Savan
nah, Elect Officers.
Savannah, July 14.—The conven
tion of Georgia Police <chiefs and
sheriffs are in annual session here,
The address of welcome was delivered
by Mayor Mefdrim.
The following officers were elected:
President, Chief Frank McDermott,
of Savannah; vice president, J. C
Daniel, of Valdosta; secretary and
treasurer, Sheriff A. C. Bowles, of
Columbus.
LOTS OF WORK.
House and Senate Conferees Have 800
Amendments to Consider.
-Washington, July 14.—The conferees
of the house aud senate have some 800
amendments to consider in all, of which
300 present, practically, no difficulty at
all. The committee has gotten along
faster with this bill than any other con
ference committee has ever done, so fast,
in fact, that it will, in all probability,
make its report to the house and the
senate by the end of this week. This is
wonderfully quick work.
FIRST BALE OF COTTON
Farmer Djnlel of Calhoun County Ships New
Staple,
Williamsburg, Ga. July 14.—J. N.
Daniel, one of the leading farmers cf
this sectinn shipped the first bale of
this season’s cotton today. This is
the first bale reported in Georgia for
this year. It weighed 565 pounds and
was clean staple.
Lynching luimii eut at Cuthbert.
Atlanta, July 14.—A lynching is im
minent at Cuthbert. A negro captured
at Cordele Tuesday by a farmer named
Sam Jones has been positively identified
as Lum Warren, who brutally assaulted
Mrs. Bass in Randolph county several
months ago. Jones started to Cuthbert
to deliver his prisoner to the Randolph
authorities and receive the S9OO reward
offered by them, and it is rumored that
a mob is already forming near Cuthbert
to lynch the negro. Warren has con
fessed.
llrgotl Hunk I'h'iuf Ar mated.
Hot Springs, Ark., July 14 —The po
lice have arrested a man believed to be
John B. Maixell, wanted at South Beth
lehem, Pa., on a charge of robbing the
First National bank of that .city of
110,000- •
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE
City of Rome and Floyd County.
ROME. GA., THURSDAY. JULY 15. 1897.
FAMINE IS
NOT FEARED
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Abundance of Coal od
Pittsburg Market.
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LARGE QUANTITIES
Being Off red By Op rotors in the Forth
and East.
VISIBLE SUPPLY IS VERY LARGE
Unless Strike Continues Many
Months No Trouble,
RATES FOR FUEL ARE REASONABLE
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Operators Say Calls Can be Made on Clear
field District—teven Million Bushels
on the MJnongabela River.
Pittsbubg, July 14.—The fear of a
coal shortage, which caused a scramble
for the black diamonds and a heavy ad
vance in prices on Monday, is over,
and unless the miners’ strike continues
for many months a famine is not now
expected.
There is at present an abundance of
coal in the market, and thousands of
bushels seem to be available. Operators
are in dailyX'eceipt of letters from the
mines east aud north of Pittsburg offer
ing them large quantities of coal from
75 cents to $1.25 at the mines, on freight
rates varying from 83 to 59 centa
While the visible supply on the Mo
nongahela, between here and Browns
ville, does not exceed 7,000,000 bushels,
the operators say calls can be made on
the Clearfield district, where coal can
be obtained without difficulty and at
rates as reasonable as could be expected.
The present quotations for coal ruu
from the mine are $1.25 and $1.50. Ou
Monday sales were made at SI.BO.
REPORTON JAMESON RAID.
Conclusions of <<> intuit tee Appointed to
Invefttiffate Transvaal Trouble.
London, July 14.—The parliamentary
South Africa commission that has been
inquiring into the Transvaal raid has
agreed upon its report. The Pall Mall
Gazette publishes a summary of the
conclusions of the committea The re
port will express an emphatic opinion
that, whatever justification there might
have been for action on the part of the
people of Jahannesburg, there was none
whatever for Cecil Rhodes’ conduct in
subsidizing, organizing and stimulating
an armed insurrection against the gov
ernment of the Transvaal.
A heavy responsibility, according to
the report, remains with Rhodes, de
spite the fact that at the last moment
Dr. Jameson invaded the Transvaal
without Rhodes’ direct sanction.
The gravity of Rhodes’ transaction is
weightily expressed by the committee,
who find that “he seriously embarrassed
both the imperial and colonial govern
ments; that his proceedings resulted in
an astounding breach of international
comity; that he utilized his position and
the great interests he controlled to as
sist and support r -volution and deceived
the high commissioner, as well os con
cealed his view- from the members of
the colonial ministry and the directors
of the Chartered company.”
The committee is of the opinioirthat
of the Chartered company directors
who were examined, only Mr. Beit and
Mr. Maguire were cognizant of the
plans of Rhodes, aad as Beit was en
trusted with the money to promote the
revolutionary movement, he must share
the full responsibility for the conse
quences.
GEORGIANS' TAKE GOTHAM.
On. Hundred Reach New York on a Sa
vannah Line Steamer.
New York. July 14.—One hundred
Georgians, men and women, arrived on
the steamer Kansas City, of the Savan
nah line, and put up at the Gerlach.
Most of them are well-to-do business
men, and have business as well as pleas
ure in view. They will remain in New
York five days. Some of them will then
go ou to Toronto and to various seaside
and mountain resorts.
Former United States Senator Pat-,
rick Walsh is one of the party. Others
are Major J. Jones Gardiner and Daniel
J. O’Oimnot-, president aud treasurer re
spectively of the
association; Mayor Simeon Bell of,
Waynesboro, and W. E Arnold, gen
eral passenger agent of the Savannah
line.
At night the Georgians attended the
performance at the Casino, occupying
•salts in a hpdy in th« paraupt.
WILLIAMS CAUGHT
Arrested in Barnesville Last
Night.
Large Crowds Go Over From Griffin
and a Lynching is Likely
to Ensue.
Atlanta, J uly 14—The reports sent
out that that negro Oscarr Williams
had been caught at Luella were false.
He was captured tonight in Barnes
ville and has been positively identi
fied. A large crowd went over from
Griffin, Hampton ,and other points on
the late train and a lynching is almost
inevitable.
Williams is the negro who assaulted
the little 8 year old daughter of T. E.
Campbel) at Hampton last Saturday.
The father has offered a SIOO reward
the negro’s capture.
•’PURE ROT" SAYS HANNA.
The Senator Declarer That He Is Not to
He a Dweller at the White Home.
Washington, July 14.—“1t is all purs
rot and nonsense.” said Senator Hanna
when asked concerning the statement
that he was hereafter, until the disso
lution of congress, to be a resident of
the executive mansion. “The only
foundation .or the story lies in the fact
that I did spend Sunday at the White
House. I still have my rooms at the
Arlington. Ido not intend to become
a boarder or a lodger at the White
House.”
The story, at first accepted as true be
cause-of she close personal friendship
between the president and Senator
Hanna, and because of the latter’s
health, which has been somewhat im
paired by the incessant onslought of
office seekers, is now proving a sourest
of irritation and annoyance to the sena
tor. He feels that it impeaches the
good, hard common sense both of the
president and himself, i
On the simple published announce
ment that Mr. Hanna would take din
ner and spend Sunday with President
and Mrs. McKinley was based au airy
fabric to the effect that during the con
tinued absence of his family at a sum
mer reso.s,hi Massachusetts Mr. Hanna
would occupy a bed chamber at the
executive mansion.
As a matter of fact Mj-. Hanna’s fam
ily have not been with him except for
a few days, preceding and subsequent
to the inauguration; so his loneliness,
as he expresses it, has not been in
creased by any recent events.
■THE KILLING ACCIDENTAL.
Coronar’a Jury Decides That Crede Took
Too '*ucii Morphine by Mistake.
Los Angeles, July 14.—Accidental
self poisoning by an overdose of mor
phine taken to relieve pain was the ver
dict of the coroner’s jury in the case of
the death of Nicholas Crede, the min
ing king, who was found dead in his
residence. During the inquest very lit
tle reference was made to his wife,
from whom he separated six months
ago, and whose return was conjectured
to be one of the causes of the depression
which is said to have Deen observed in
Crede of late.
The testimony went to show that
Crede had occasionally used morphine
to allay neuralgia pains and that it was
entirely possible that he had accident
ally taken too much. After a short de
liberation the'jury returned a verdict to
that effect.
Crede’s lawyers are unable to say
whether he left a will or not. Out of
respect to him his papers have not yet
been examined. The has been
placed in a vault and will probably be
sent east later.
CABINET IS BARELY SAVED
Clever Reply of Finance Minister to So
cialists Averts Government Defeat.
Paris, July 14. The government
narrowly escaped defeat in the cham
ber of deputies.
The ministers wished to postpone un
til autumn discussion of a bill to read
just direct taxes, the passage of which
would chiefly benefit the peasantry.
The opposition, led by M. Millerand
(Socialist) urged immediate discussion.
In the first division the government was
defeated by a vote of 270 to 245.
Mr. Oochery, the finance minister,
made a Ciever repiy to M. Millerand,
saying that the vote implied that the
Socialists preferred the existing system.
A scene of wild confusion ensued, the
Socialists rising to their feet, shouting
and shaking their fists.
* Another division was finally taken,
and the motion for immediate discus
lion was lost by a vote of 270 to 257.
liuffalo Fur'Whitney*. Farm.
Albany, July 14.—A shipment of 18 |
head of buffalo, 20 black tail deer and i
20 antelope passed through this city. |
They are from the Moo.senead ranch, in
the Jackson Hole country of Wyoming, >
and are on their way to the stock farm '
of former Secretary William O. Whit- I
ney at Lexondale, Muss. Mr. Whitney
now has the largest number of buffuit
owned in the east. ‘
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Goat Kill. a Newspaper 3tai>.
Philadelphia, July 14.—Frank Mc-
Laughlin, proprietor of the Philadelphia
Times, died of rheumatic gout at his
residence in this city. I
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
MARKET FOR
OURWHEAT
United States Wheat tor
Eastern Asia.
IMPORTANT REPORT
Great Increase During Last Decade of
Our Exportations.
1000,000 BARRELS OF FLOUR
Shipped to Japan and China
Last Year,
WAS DISTRIBUTED FROM HONG KONG
The PoMibilitles of Extending the Foreign
Markets of Our Cereals—Bread and
Biscuit Shipped.
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Washington, July 14.—Some import
ant data as to the possibilities of the
material extension of the foreign mar
kets for our cereals is given in a report
of the agricultural department on
“United States Wheat For Eastern
Asia.”
Owing to the rapid recent develop
ment of.the new wheat producing areas
in other parts of the world and the in
creasing competition the United States
is compelled to meet in European mark
ets, the future disposal of our surplus
wheat has become an important ques
tion. It ha« been suggested that the
changes now taking place in the civili
zation of Japan and China may result
in the opening there of markets for our
wheat that will to some extent compen
sate us for losses that may be incurred
through the increasing competition of
ocher countries in the European mark
ets that this country formerly was able
to control ,
The report says that chief among the
indications of plausibility of the sug
gestion is the remarkable increase in
our exportations of wheat to eastern
Asia dnring the decade just closing.
Most of this wheat is shipped in the
form of flour, exports of grain being
comparatively small. The total amount
of wheat flour shipped to Japan and
China during the entire fiscal year 1897,
just closed, should reach, it is stated,
above 1,000 000 barrels, equivalent to
more than 4,500.000 bushels of wheat.
The major portion of American flour
sent across the Pacific goes to Hong
| Kong and is thence distributed to other
; Chinese ports.
| Exports of flour to Japan, while con
siderably smaller than to China, show
an increase during the last four years
proportionately greater than to China.
: It is estimated that the total exports of
I wheat flour from this country to Japan
during the fiscal year just ended amount
to 200,000 b irrels. The exports of wheat
in the grain have been chiefly to Japan.
American wheat also is sent to eastern
Asia in th<form of (bread and biscuits,
but not in very large quantities.
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GOOD JOB FOR A GEORGIAN.
Henry M. DeLeon In Appointed Copaal
Ge teral at Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Washington, July 14. —The president
has sent the following nominations to
the senate:
State—William L. Merry of Califor
nia, to be minister to Nicaragua, Costa
Rica and Managua; Horace N. Allen of
Ohio, to be minister resident aud consul
general to Corea; Henry M. DeLeon oi
Georgia, to be consul general at Guay
aquil, Ecuador. ,
To be consuls of ths United States—
William L- Sewell of Ohio, at Toronto,
Ont.; Edward H. Oztnun of Minnesota,
at Stettin, Germany; Henry W. Dide
rich of the District of Columbia, at
Madgeburg, Germany; Charles Weid
man of Kentucky, at Furth, Germany;
Samuel E. Magall of Illinois, at Tam
pico, Mexico; George J. Corey of Illi
no.s, at Amsterdam, Netherlands;
Greenville James of New York,
at Prescott, Out.; O. H. Ford of
Maine, at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia;
Frederick W. Hossfelder of lowa, at
Trieste. Austria; J..u-i O. Covert, Ohio,
at Lyons, France; William K. Ander
son of Michigan. at H mover, Germany;
William W. Heuryo. Vermont, at Que
bec, Canada; John F. Oapies of Oregon,
at Valparaiso, Chili.
Shined * <hj i«>«._>*» Au Street*.
Barrington, His., July 14. —Miss
Dyisy Hurdle has taken the general
agency of an easidin shoe polishing
house. lir order to introduce the goods
she travels from town to town with a
polishing outfit und shines the footwear
of society people iu the streets.
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The Meeting At Louisville Be
ing Well Attended.
Ostensible Purpose to Name Candi
date For Court of Appeals—Real
Purpose to Fight Sliver.
Louisville, July 14. —For Kentucky,
a state which has taken so much pride
in the steadfastness of her Democracy,
an almost novel convention is being
held iu Louisville uinier the name of
the “National” Democratic convention.
While the selection of a candidate for
the state court of appeals is the ostensi
ble put pose, it does not give a true in
sight into the motive of such a repre
sentative gathering. Behind it all is
what the leaders of the movement pro
nounce a principle of Democracy, and
this goes back to the Chicago conven
tion and platform which evolved the
“Boy Orator” as a nominee for presi
nent of the United States and brought
about a conflict which divided Ken
tucky Democracy. In fact, gold or sil
ver was the fight in this state and that
question is the one which underlies the
contest here.
Over 700 delegates are in attendance.
Opponents of this convention, of
cotirse, have much to say in deriding it.
but the names of such men as Carlisle.
Lindsay, Breckinridge, Watterson, and
other well known leaders of Democracy
iu this state bear great weight in the'
face of the charge that their numerical
strength does not faithfully represent
the feeling and voting strength of the
state Democracy.
It now appears that the Republicans
have given up any idea of making a
formal overture for fusion, having, in
vain, demanded that the nominee of
the Democrats should have his name
placed under the emblem of the Repub
lican party Co secure that party’s
support.
REPUBLICANS AT DETROIT.-
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SU Louis Platform Indorsed—The Annexa
tion ot Hawaii la Favored. " *
Detroit, July 14.—Combination on
league officers and the location of the
next convention was the topic of active
discussion among the delegates to ‘the
convention of the National League of
Republican clubs prior to the calling of
- convention to order. The cam
paigning and logrolling had been going
on in hotel lobbies and candidates’
headquarters far into the night.
At 10:45 o'clock Chairman Woodman
see called the convention to order. The
committee on credentials was no< ready,
so the committee on rules made its re-
Sort on order of business aud rules.
'he rules of the Fifty-third congress
were recommended to govern the con
vention and the delegates were each to
cast the full vota The report was
adopted.
The committee on credentials re
ported that the questions of seats had
been settled amicably, with the ex
ception of that the Louisiana delega
tion of 26, headed by H. M. Blunt, a
negro, was recommended to be seated,
and that the delegation of four, headed
by C. O. Wilson, be excluded.
The report of the credentials commit
tee was adopted after a brief but stormy
scene, in which several whites and
blacks tried to talk at once.,
The resolutions, which were then re
ported through the chairman 'of the
resolutions committee,* Colonel Bundy
of Ohio, declare unfaltering allegiance
to the “principles and policies of the
party of protection, sound money, re
ciprocity and patriotism, as expressed
in the St. Louis platform. The faith
which prompted the nomination and
election of William McKinley and a
Republican congress has been justified
and we congratulate the country upon
the evidences of returning prosperity.
We pledge anew the organized efforts
of league menfthroughout the Union for
the party of Abraham Lincoln.”
The platform commends the president
and congress in sending a monetary
commission to European nations; for
inaugurating measures for the annexa
tion of Hawaii, and for an attitude on
the Cuban matter that has tended to
lessen Spanish atrocities iu that island.
Rev. Whitsett Win Not Resign.
Louisville, July 14.—Rev. Dr. Whit
sett, president of the Southern Baptist
Theological seminary, denies that he
will resign. Many rumors relative to
the resignation have been published in
different parts of the country. The fol
lowing statement was obtained from the
distinguished gentleman on his return
from the south: “I have not the re
motest idea of resigning. Nothing
could be farther from my thoughts.”
Young Woman Brutally Kill.d-
West Point, Tenn., July 14.—Miss
Reine Williams, sister of the telegraph
operator here, went to pick blackberries.
Not returning in proper time a search
was made and her dead body was found
tied to a bush in the woods. There
were evidences of a fierce struggle, of
criminal assault, aud then murder by
choking. Bloodhounds were used iu tyi
attempt to catch the criminal.
Fletcher Terrell In Ke epi ted.
Montgomery, Ala., July 14-Fletcher
Terrell, who was sentenced to be huug
here Wednesday, was respited by the
governor until Friday. The crime was
committed last Christmas morning
when Terrell shot Wurren Mitchell to
death.