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ESTABLISHED 1887.
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JN FIRE.
Four People Meet Death
io the Flames.
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‘IS A GREAT MYSTERY
One Soman and Three Men Perish
< Miserably.
OCCURRED IN* RIGHT RESTAURANT
Wedding in Progress at the
Time it Occurred.
< BRIDEGROOM WAS ONE OF VICTIMS
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The Living Occupants of the House Unable
to Give Clear Accoent of How
the Fire Originated.
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Cincinnati, Aug. s.—Shortly after 3
a tn. a fire of mysterious origin was
discovered by Officer Wiehe, at 1109
Charles street, iu a 2-story tenement
house in which was an all night restau
rant kept by Otto Adler. Four persons
were shortly after taken from the build
ing suffocated by the smoke. They
were Arthur Guth. Ezra Rouse, Roy
Carter and Nellie Bennett.
Arthur Guth and the daughter of
Octo Adler had been married Wednes
day evening and the nuptial festivities
were in progress the gfeater part of the
night. This fact accounts for the ina
bility of the living occupants of the
house to give a clear account of how the
fire originated. One story is that It was
caused by the explosion of a gas stove
in the kitchen of the restaurant. This
is found to be incorrect. Another story
is that a guest was trying to light a
cigarette by a coal'oil lamp, upset it and
so caused the conflagration, while a
third presumption is that some ma
licious person fired the building in a
spirit of revenge for a fancied slight.
Guth, the bridegroom, appeared to
have beeu preparing to retire to a room
with Ezra Rouse, his brother-in-law.
They were found together. In another
room Roy Carter, a bartender, out of
employment, and Nellie Bennett, a
cook in Adler's restaurant, were found
suffocated. AU the dead ware dressed,
showing that they had not yet retired.
All toe efforts to get at toe farts aee
met by tbe inability of the other occu
pants of the building to give any ra
tional account of what happened. The
bride, whose life was saved by the fact
that she was in another part of the
building when the fire occurred, became
hysterical when she found that her hus
band was dead, and was wholly unable
to tell anything about the circum
stances.
The fire department quickly extin
guished the fire, the loss on the build
ing being trifling. <
THE TURKS WANT PEACE.
Officials Manifest a Desire to Expedite
the Negotiations.
Constantinople, Aug. s.—The Turk
ish government officials are now mani
festing a desire to expedite the settle
ment of the peace negotiations owing to
the straitened state of the exchequer,
rendering it impossible, under the pres
ent circumstances, to contract a new
loan because of the unhealthy condition
of the troops in Thessaly, where many
of the soldiers are dying; and for politi
cal reasons, the attitude of Bulgaria,
Servia and Montenegro being regarded
as threatening.
The Turkish minister for foreign af
fairs. Tewfik Pasha, replying to inquir
ies made by the ambassadors of the
. powers, has expressed ignorance of the
destination of the Turkish fleet, which
left the Dardanelles on Tuesday last. It
appears, however, that the warships
are not going to Cretan waters, which
is probably a wise decision upon the
part of tbe Turkish authorities, as it
has been stated that the admirals in
command of the fleets of other powers
have decided to oppose by force, if nec
essary, the entry of the Turkish squad
ron into Cretan waters, for which pre
cautions have already been taken
against such an eventuality by thesis
patch of foreign warships to guard the
ports of Crete.
Four Mora Monclis of Ftifhtlng.
Madrid, Aug. 5. —TheHeraldoof this
city says it understands that the United
States government has decided to wait
four months longer for the pacification
of Cuba, and that unless it is accom
plished by that time the United States
will undertake the protection of the in
surgents. Inquiries made in official
circles elicited a denial of the accuracy
of this announcement.
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
STRIKE IS SETTLED
All of the Negro Women Will
Co Ont.
The Strikers Win a Complete Vic
tory and Will Go to Work
This Morning.
Atlanta, Aug. s.—The great strike
at the Fulton Bag and Cotton mills is
settled.
The strikers have won-the victory,
and the mill operators have agreed to
fire all of the negro women.
This is a complete victory for the
strikers, and they will go back to work
in the morning,
The are jubilant over the result*
RUCKER SWORN IN.
Collector Paul Tramnobll Pi -Rented With
Silver Service.
Atlanta, August 4.—Collector Paul.
Trammell went out and Collector Henry
Rucker went in tonight. Both made
speeches.
Mr. Trammell was presented with a
handsome silver service. Rucker stated
that he desired the support of the dep
uties as long as the services lasted. He
made a very good speech.
REBEL AGAINST RUCKER.
Six White Men K«iu«e to Work Under
the New Nvgro Collector.
Atlanta, Aug. 5. —Henry A. Rucker,
the negro recently appointed collector
of internal revenue for the district of
Georgia, took the oath and assumed
charge of the office Thursday afternoon,
Collector Paul Trammell retiring.
Six white men in the collector’s de
partment went out of office with Mr.
Trammell, declining to serve ' under a
negro collector.
These officials are T. W. Kelley, dep
uty collector at Atlanta; T. H. Wnit
zell, deputy collector at Blue Ridge; J
R. Kincoid, storekeeper and gauger at
Blue Ridge; N. G. Oatis, deputy qol
lector at Columbus; S. W. Glass, store
keeper and gauger at Canton, and W.
C. McClain, storekeeper and gauger at
Jasper.
THE WEATHER AND CROPS.
Weekly Review Issued by r.lie Bureau at
City of Washington.
Washington, Aug. 5 —The weekly
crop review of the weather bureau says:
The week has beeu generally favor
able in the South Atlantic and East Gulf
states and in Ohio and upper Missis
sippi valleys and upper lake region, but
in New JSnglaad aad over the greater
part of the Middle Atlantic- states, in
cluding western New York and portions
of the upper Ohio valley, it has been
too wet, while tbe states of the lower
Missouri valley have suffered seriously
from hot and drying winds, and drouth
prevails over the greater part of Texas
i and in portions of Arkansas, Tennessee
and Louisiana.
Cotton has continued to make favor
able progress over the central and east
ern portions of the cotton belt, but in
Missouri, Texas and portions of Lou
isiana and Arkansas it has suffered
from drouth. In Texas the crop is
withstanding the effects of the drouth
better than was anticipated, but is open
ing prematurely and shedding, especially
on uplands Picking is'progressing rap
idly in southern Texas, and has begun
over the central part of the state and in
portions of Mississippi and Georgia.
A ‘ NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
Stenographers Meet at Nashville and De
aided to Organize.
Nashville, Aug. s.—At the meeting
of stenographers fi-om various states,
held at the Tennessee Centennial expo
sition, it was decided to form a national
organization at an date. A com
mittee will be appointed to make the
necessary arrangements. The meeting
was held iu the Woman’s building, and
tbe program included papers by several
prominent stenographers and brief dis
cussions.
A reception was given in honor of the
visitors at the New York building at
night, and Fridav there will be excur
sions to Mammoth Cave and Chatta
nooga. The stenographers are being
handsomely entertained.
Oct. 6 and 7 have beeu designated as
Authors'day and the leading authors
of the United States have been invited
to b£ present.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Baltimore Defeat. Boston—Philadelphia
Beats New Yorks. ,
Washington, Aug. s.—The scores in
the National league today were as fol
lows-.
Baltimore 9, Boston'4.
New York 4, Philadelphia 5.
Cleveland 4, Cincinnati 5.
Pittsburg 7, Louisville 8.
SOME. GA... FBI DAY, AUGUST n, 1897.
STRIKERS
IN STORM.
Wind, and Lightning
Plays Havoc.
MANY WERE INJURED
Camped Ont Near Pittsburg When the
Storm Struck Them. •
THE WILDEST EXCITEMENT ENSUED
Two Miners Shocked Into In
sensibility by Lightning.
STORM DID VERY HEAVY DAMAGES
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Labor Leaders Expect to Have All the Mines
Closed Tight by the First of
Next Week.
Pittsburg, Aug. s.—Consternation
was caused in the miners’ camp by a
terrific wind and electrical storm, which
passed over the Turtle Creek valley, do
ing a great deal of damage. At Sandy
Creek a tree in the yard of the school
house was uprooted, falling on a camp
in which were some miners watching
the DeArmitt mines. Two of the miners
were shocked into insensibility and their
condition is still critical. Six others
were also shocked and badly frightened,
but soon recovered. The occurrence
caused the wildest excitoment among
the striking miners. The storm came
upon them without warning and there
was a wild scurry for shelter, of which’
there was noue at all except that af
forded by one small tent and some trees.
The strikers are preparing to march
on the mines operated iu Westmoreland
county in central Pennsylvania. An
advance guard will probably start for
Irwin, where a camp will, be established.
Other bodies will follow Friday and
Staurday, the advance guard simply be
ing a silent notification that the men
are coming. ,
By the first of next week, when the
strike leaden, say they expect to have
all the New York and Cleveland com
pany’s mines closed eight, the strikers
at Turtle Creek, Plum Creek and Sandy
Creek wilt move on to the Wetitmore
langi field and lebwte csmqps a* toe ■ -
erent mines there. All of the West
moreland county mines are running
and it is to stop the putting of coal into
the Pittsburg markets from these mines
that the move is contemplated. The
managers of the Westmoreland Coal
company state they will not enjoin the
strikers, but they are ready for them.
They will be treated as trespassers. The
men at work for the Pennsylvania Gas
Coal company are in the same position
aud the company will use the same
tactics.
There is an agreement beween DeAr
mitt and the Westmoreland Coal com
pauy and the former ships west only,
and the latter east If the strikers
are successful in causing a suspension
of work at the Westmoreland mines the
march to the central Pennsylvania fields
will be taken up. Tne miners iu this
district are in sympathy with the move
ment and at a convention of Clearfield
and Jefferson county miners the strike
leaders were requested to give some at
tention to central Pennsylvania with a
view to holding a general convention to
all miners shipping coal to the eastern
seaboard.
May Ou«t Governor Hnslinell.
Cincinnati, Aug. 5. A dispatch
from Urbana, 0., says the feeling there
is so strong against Governor Bushnell
for attafnnting to oust Mayor Ganson
and Sheriff McLain that there is serious
talk of instituting counter proceedings
to oust Governor Bushnell on the
ground that he failed in hie duty to
furnish the necessary militia force to
suppress the mob. Whatever has been
done in this direction has not been made
public, but there is no doubt of deep
feeling in the matter that may take
this form of expression.
Great re Iti ilnrinaoy.
Oqi.ogne, Aug. 5, —Forty-two houses,
many farm boilAii-.gR, a quantity us
grain and a number of cattle were de
stroyed by fire in the village of Pohl
bach, in the Wittlich district. Three
inhabitants of the village lost their lives
during the conflagration.
Kflforin* For < übt
Madrid, Aug. s.—As the result of a
conference between the minister of the '
colonies, Senor Castelluuo, and the pre- ;
mier, Senor Oauovas del Castillo, the '
Aiheine for the customs reforms for I
Cuba hits been modified. 1
jCOMMITTEE THROUGH
Brown Committee Eads Work
at Athens.
Landscript Fund to Remain—The
Model Farm Must Go Says
the Committee.
Athens, Aug. s.—Hon Pope Brown’s
committee has completed its investiga
tion of tbe State Agricultural school.
The committee finds that the techni
cal or practical features of the school,
as represented by the model farm is in
need of reform. The farm is'branded
“D.g.”,
The investigation was surprisingly
short, as it was thought that all of today
would, be taken up in the work. A
short session was held after supper, last
night, however, and tne investigation
closed.
All the evidence, except t&at referring
to thelmodel farm, was in the nature of
defensive argument.
About six hours were spent in the
w >rk and more than half of day
taken np with speeches by President
White and Hon. N. J. Ha nmoud, the
former of whom directed his attention
to showing that the fund is being prop
erly used in tbe administration of the
school.
HEIRS AKE NOT SATISFIED.
Affairii of Charles I.ux v the Rich Cali
fornian, Im Court Again.
San Francisco, Aug. —The Ger
man heirs of the late Charles Lux of
the great firm of Miller & Lux. dissatis
fied with the share allowed them of the
vast estate in which they are interested,
have begun suit iu the United States
court to have the settlement set aside
and ask for an accounting.
When Mr. Lux died several years ago,
his widbw, Mrs. Miranda W. Lux. de
sired that the firm of Miller & Lux be
wound up, but was opposed by Henry
Miller, the surviving partner. After
several unavailing attempts to settle the
matter amicably suit for an accounting
.was begun and long and complicated
litigation ensued. The case was brought
to a temporary halt by the formation of
one .of the largest corporations iu the
country. The business of tbe organiza
tion was the issuance of 512,000.000
worth of Stock, representing the im
' mense landed interests of the firm. This
will be divided in proportion into the
amounts that the various heirs were to
receive by the heirs of'Charles Lux and
tbe troubles of the firm were apparently
at an end.
It now transpires that several of the
heirs, residing in Germany, do not
think that they have been fairly treated
in the distribution of the shares of the
corporation aud they have determined
to fight for what they deem their rights
Memorial Services Over a Deacon.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. s.—Me
morial exercises will be held next Mon
day night at toe Dexter Avenue Baptist
chqrch over the killing in the pulpit
last Week of Deaean Patterson. There
is so much ill feeling existing over tbe
killing that peace officers will be on
hand to keep matters quiet. Stokes,
Brown and others in jail have applied
for habeas corpus trials. Judge Sayre
of the city court has, however, denied
the petition on the ground that the
heavy dockets demanded all of his time.
To Compete For Alaskan Trade.
Tacoma, Aug. 3.—Dodwell, Oarlill <fc
Co. of Hong Kong, together with a
number of Tacoma capitalists, have or
ganized a steamship company and will
compete for Alaskan trade, with com
pany headquarters at Tacoma. The
new corporation has chartered the
steamer City of Seattle, which will
leave here Aug. 15 with accommoda
tions for 500 passengers and with a
freight capacity of 600 tons. The com
pany will put on two other steamers.
lowaus to Settle In Alabama.
Belle Plain, la., Aug. o.—A num
ber of lowa families have secured a con
cession of (1,000 acres of land in Shelby
county, Ala., 30 miles south of Birming
ham. The tract is to be laid out on the
colony plan, but the colonist will own
his own property. The tract of land is
in the great fruit and dairy belt of the
state and is admirably located. Each
colonist will get 30 acres for $350.
Big Farad, to Occur at Buffalo.
Buffalo, Aug. s.—From information
received by Secretary Turner of the cit
•lzens’ G. A. R. committee, 53,529 vete
rans will participate in the grand army
parade during the national encamp
ment. New York heads the list with
15,000 veterans; Pennsylvania follows
with 8,000. while the estimates from
Illinois, Ohio and Massachusetts are
5,000 each.
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Tin phot* 1 ndu<tryGrowth,
Washington. Aug. 5 —Consul Parker,
at Birmingham, has furnished the de
partment of state with a copy of a re
port made to the British ambassador,
Sir Julian Pauncefote, by High J.
O’Beirne, second secretary, contain
ing a review of the growth "of the tin
plate industry in the United States. It
shows that the tinplate sales from Eng
land have fallen oft' one-half since toe
McKinley net was passed and that the
I product is now steadily
REAGEN
IN RACE.
Wants to Be United
States Senator.
HE HAS ANNOUNCED
Judge Reagan is-the-Sole Survivor of
tbe Davis Cabinet.
RESIGNED AS R. R- COMMISSIONER
He Wants to Succeed Senator
Roger Q, Mills,
HE THINKS HIS CHANCES ARE GOOD
Governor Culbareon, Senator Mills and Con*
gressman Bailey Will Be in the
Race Also.
Houston, Aug. 5. Hon. John H.
Reagan, who some years ago resigned
his seat in the United States senate to
become one of the railroad commission
ers of Texas, has announced his candi
dacy for the seat in the senate occupied
by Roger Q Mills, whose term expires
in 1898. Judge Reagan recently de
cided hot to enter the race for governor,
on the ground that the financial ex
pense would be too great.
He states that he resigned his posi
tion as senator to accept the chairman
ship of the commission because it was
thought such a course would tend to
the success of the commission, and that
it having now been in successful opera
tion five years and having got over the
hardest part of its work, he thinks it
might safely be managed without his
aid.
Governor Culberson and Senator
Mills ate also in the contest, and Con
gressman Bailey is a dark horse who is
likely to be announced at any time, so
the contest will be a very warm one,
and has. in fact, already begun.
This announcement of Judge Reagan
is apolitical surprise, as it has not even
been hinted Ehat he was ambitious to
return to the seat iu £he senate which
he voluntarily resigned.
MORE MILL HANOS QUIT.
About Ftfteeu H-oadrecf OperaUvM Now
Actually on strike In Atlanta.
Atlanta, Aug. 5. —The strike at the
Fulton Bag and Cotton mills, which
was begun by the refusal of the white
female operatives to work with newly
employed negro women, was made com
plete when between 75 and 100 girls
employed in the bleachery and press
room walked out. Between 1,200 and
1,500 operatives are now actually on
strike and the only people at work are
the 20 negro women, three white women
and two or three white men. The mills
are practically at a standstill.
The strikers have organized and will
endeavor to reach an understanding
with the mill management.
Elsas, president of the company, says
he is ready to take the men and women
back whenever they are ready to come.
Three of the strikers who took part in
a demonstration about the mills were
tried and fined in the police court.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED KILLED.
Artillery Fires on a Mob of Five ThouMnd
Mill Hands In India.
London, Aug. s.—The Evening News
publishes a letter from a Calcutta vol
unteer, reiterating the statement that
during recent rioting there the artillery
fired point blank at a mob of b.OOO mill
hands, who were marching to join the
rioters, with the result that 1,500 of the
natives were killed.
The secretary of state for India, Lord
George Hamilton, was questioned iu
the house of commons July 9 as to the
accuracy of the native report that 1.500
persons were killed during the rioting
which had just occurred in the city if
Calcutta as one of the results of strin
gent measures taken by the government
officials to prevent the spread of and
stamp out the bubonic plague. He re
plied that about seven persons wen
killed and that about 20 were wounded
during the riots referred to.
Wheeling, Aug. 5. —At Fairmount
the tie-up promised by Organizer Ran
has not materialized, and aside from a
few men at Clarksburg, there are no
additions to the strikers. In Kanawha
valley all but one mine are working.
On the Norfolk and Western the strike
has entirely disappeared. Miners’ day
is being celebrated by laboring people
generally in Wheeling aud vicinity.
Talk to Your Trade.
The Tribune has the
largest circulation of any
newspaper in North Geor'
gia. It'reaches your trade
daily.
PMICE FIVE CENTS
CULLOM IS CAUSTIC
The Illinois Senator Gets
Mad.
He Objects Very Much to McKinley’s
• Methods of Distributing
Patronage.
Washington, Aug. s.—The first indi
cations of a serious break in the Repub
lican party through dissatisfaction with
the methods employed by President
McKinley in the distribution of federal
patronage became public by the giving
out of a letter written by Senator Shelby
M. Cullom of Illinois to one of his con
stituents. In the course of this letter,
to which the signature of Senator Cul
lom is affixed, is the following:
•’The whole south eud of Illinois has
not got a single appointment, and I have
been unable, although I have talked
with the president two or three times,
to get him to make any. After the
batch was appointed at Chicago I tried
to get some appointments down in the
country, but up to this time have not
secured a single one.
"I am utterly disgusted at the way
things have gone here in the matter of
consulships. I have never kuowq apy.
thing like it mid ijm unable to account
{ST LG But th* truth is, as I believe,
the appolntmenis that have been made
I for Chicago were ail promised by Hanna
and McKinley before the election and
probably before the conventions.
”1 have not beeu able iu a single in
stance to get the president in the sele£-
Hon of consuls, to listen to what I had
tp say and carry out my wishes. I have
labored with him, talked with him aud
told him that The gang he was appoint
ing was not worth a snap, either for
politics or anything’ else, and yet it
, seemed to make no impression on his
mind in his selections. ” ,
COTTON CROP CORNERED?
St. Louis Company Holding on to Over
Niue riidusnnd Bales.
St. Louis. Aug. s.—Cotton is said to
be cornered in this city aud is likely to
remain so until September, when the
official year opens and the new crop be
gins to move. The statements of the
local warehouses show that the total
number of bales in stere aggregates
9,682 bales. Last year at thia time there
were 25,236 bales. Os the 9.682 bales
now on hand over 9,000 are held by the
Allen-West Commission company.
James H. Allen of the latter com
pany, when asked if there was a corner,
replied:
•‘This is the end of the cotton season
of 1898 aud 1897,” said he, “and spot
cotton is mighty scarce at all the lead
ing points between New Orleans and
St. Louis. We have over 9,000 bales in
the warehouses and we are holding on
to it, as nearly half of that cotton is two
years old. It is well seasoned, as the
crop of two years ago was finer than
last year’s growth.”
He would not admit the existence of
a corner.
LIGHTNING’S QUEER WORK.
Body of a Mau Who Had Bean Killed by
a Fl a<ii IHs interred.
Fort Ogden, Fla., Aug. s.—Light
ning has been very fatal in this section
the past month, over eight people hav
ing been killed by it. Many strange
incidents are related, the most extraor
dinary being a story from across the
Kissimee river.
Henry Myers was killed by lightning
there last week while in a field and was
buried the next day. The second day a
thunder storm arose and his grave was
struck, the lightning tearing open the
grave, throwing the coffin out and
breaking it open.
It was found two days afterwards by
relatives aud the b >dy reburied. The
body was not disfigured by the laet elec
tric bolt, but the coffin had been torn to
pieces, the body being left ‘on top of the
upturned earth with the splintered cof
fin fragments around it.
BLUE INVITES THE GRAY.
Pickett’s Meo Are to Attend a Ke-
Union Philadelphia.
Philadelphia. Aug. s.—At a meeting
of prominent Grand Army men hero, at
which Mayor-Warwick presided, it was
unanimously decided to extend an invi
tation to Pickett's division of ex-confed
erate soldiers, with headquarters at
Richmond, Va , to attend a reunion of
the blue and gray to be held in this city
Sept 17 and 18, next.
The mayor said that it was not a
question of victor meeting foe, but
brother clasping the hand »f brother
over the chasm, which was gradually
growing dimmer, and which would
eventually fade away beneath the in
creasing glory of one flag, which now
the whole country honored. He was
sure that Pickett’s men would receive a
glorious welcome here, and he would
do his utmost to see they got here.
Flying the llnwailan Flag.
San Francisco. Aug. 5. —The Pacific
Mail company’s steamship China has
sailed out of the port of San Francisco
flying the Hawaiian flag. It was de
cided Wednesday by the officers of the
company to place the big vessel, which
is the crack ship of the Pacific Mail fleet,
under the Hawaiian flag without-loss of
time, and it is said in maritime circ.’S
that this action on the part of the co is
patiy indicates a belief among the offi
cers of the company that annexation jf
the islands is likely to be accomplished
iu the very near future.