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ESTABLISHED 1887.
CHICAGOANS
FOR CUBA
A Large Filibustering
Party Will Leave,
|WO HUNDRED OF ’EM
Will Leave tbe Windy City Tonight Ac.
cording to Plan.
4GENTS OF SPAIN ON THE ALERT
'■Determined Efforts of DeLome
to Prevent Departure.
STEAMER SOLEDAD AT JACKSONVILLE
Voder Contract to Carry the Would be Sol
diers Railroads Warned Not to
Transport the Party.
Chicago, Aug. 30.—The Times-tier
■ aid says: Two hundred Americans and
Three carloads of ammunition are sup
posed to leave Chicago Tuesday night
for Jacksonville, Fla., there to be taken
aboard the steamer Soledad for some
point in Cuba. The date for the Sole
dad’s sail is, according to Spanish re
ports, fixed for Saturday. Americans
composing the Chicago Cuban contin
gent are made up mostly of the unem
ployed. They have enlisted for 12
months and to deceive S2O a month. In
the event of Cuba’s receiving her free
dom from Spain each man is promised
a large tract of land and a sum of
money.
Lieutenant Colonel Dominez of the
New York junta is now in Chicago.
He comes as the agent ot' President Cis
neros and Treasurer Benjamin Guer
rera. He brought several thousand dol
lars with him and he has been using’it
among those who were found willing to
join the insurgents. Unless Spanish
-Consul Fernando Stand y Giminere,
who will ask the federal court for an in
junction prohibiting the moving of
these men and -ammunition, is success
ful, the men will meet with knapsacks
And rifles ready to join the force of Go
mez in the Pinar del Rio district. Just
exactly by what line the Cuban soldiers
are to travel between this point and
Jacksonville is not known.
-The Spanish consul, acting under or
ders from Minister Delome, who is now
afr Lennox, Mass., has sent out a notice
to all lines running southward to the
following effect:
•‘You are hereby warned not to carry
material contraband of war or any ma
terial that will or may subsequently be
used by the Cuban insurgents. If such
material Is shipped the Spanish govern
ment will hold you responsible under
the rules of international law and by
reason of such protection as the laws of
the United States gives. ”
This warning was sent out after the
consul had consulted with his govern
ment’s attorney in this city. At a late
hour the consul telegraphed to Minis
ter Delome asking if he should apply to
United States District Attorney Black
for an injunction restraining all rail
roads from carrying men or munitions
supposed to be bound for Florida. On
this question the consul is in doubt, but
thinks that the government has the
same right to stop the men nere that
they would if the men were found em
barking off the coast of Florida. The
Chicago consul, under instructions from
Minister Delome, has notified all Span
ish agents along tbe coast to be on the
lookout for Cuban filibustering expedi
tious from Chicago.
Minister Delome has wired Secretary
Sherman at Washington calling his at
tention to the fact that a party of bel
ligerents had engaged passage from
Chicago to Jacksonville and calling on
the secretary to take measures to pre
vent the departure of these men and to
seize whatever ammunition may be
billed to Florida.
VIRGINIA CITY IS EXCITED.
Auonymoa. Latter., Poateii at Suffolk,
Tearing tlin town Up.
5 Richmond, Aug. 30.—J. W. Lynch, a
married man, horsewhipped Robert W.
Rabey on the streets of Suffolk for
making slanderous statements reflect
ing uppn Lynch and a prominent un
married lady of the place. He inflicted
100 blows and wore out a rawhide.
Lynch was summoned before the mayor
and fined.
Suffolk has been flooded with stories
of late reflecting upon men and women
of the highest standing there. This
week anonymous letters making grave
accusations against persons named have
been posted in conspicuous places One
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THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
HAS SEYERE STORM
Negro Killed By Lighting in
Atlanta Last Night.
Tax Rate Remains Same as Last
Year—Body of Negro Identi
fied—Atlanta Budget.
Atlanta, Aug. 30.—A heavy rain,
wind and hail storm struck the city to
night. Tbe electrical display in the
heavens was terrific and the town was
in a stat? of terror while it lasted. A
negro man, named Meriwether, was
killed in Kirkwood by a bolt.
Tax Rate Remains Same,
The county commissioners fixed the
rate this afternoon at. 594 per SIOO, the
same as last year. It had been predict
ed that the rate would be raised.
Brown is Dead.
William Brown, the old farmer who
was struck on the head with a pick by
Lon English near here several days
ago, died today.
The Governor Returns.
Governor Atkinson returned from
Virginia today very much benefitted
by his trip. He has rendered no de
cision in the Perry case yet.
Negro Identified.
The decomposed remains of the
negro found in the woods near here
Saturday have been identified as those
of Jeiry Washington. He was wanted
for larceny after trust.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Boston and Baltimore Both Win—New
York Lost.
Washington, Aug. 30.—Only three
games were played in the National
League today. Boston and Baltimore
both played postponed games, while
New York and Chicago played off the
tie. The scores:
Boston 6, Cleveland 2.
Baltimore 7,. Cincinnati 1.
New York 5, Chicago 7.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
Governor Atkinson refuses to be in
fluenced by newspaper comments on
the convict question. He is at work
on a plan to remedy the evils of the
system.
Otis Smith, the missing cashier of
the Georgia Banking and Security
Company is sending money to Atlan
ta to pay his debts. It is believed
that he is in a foreign country.
Miss Idora Bobo, of Roswell, the
beautiful young lady who committed
suicide Friday because her father ob
jected to- her marriage was buried
Sunday.
The Southern Railway has appealed
the suit of Roland Reed, the actor, to
United States Court of Appeals in New
Orleans.
TRIO DIE IN FIRE AT TAMPA.
A Foiirteen-Year-Old Girl Uses Kerosene
With Disastrous Results.
Tampa, Fla., Aug. 30.—Marie, the 14-
year-old daughter of Mrs. Francis Val
dez, of Port Tampa city, went to the
kitchen to start a fire. She poured on
kerosene and instantly there was a deaf
ening explosion, followed by the girl’s
, agonizing death cries as she ran from
the room a blazing mass.
Mrs. Valdez at once went to her
daughter’s assistance. While she was
attempting to extinguish tne flumes her
own clothes caught fire and the two run
screaming from the house.
Both were burned to a crisp, espec
ially about their faces. It was impos
sible to recognize them. The house
caught from the flames and was soon a
mass of fire. A small boy was burned
in the house. His body is not yet re
covered.
.The fire spread rapidly, and five
houses owned by the Plant Investment
company were bm ned, there being no
fire protection. The department from
Port Tampa turned out, but could do no
good, there being no water at haud.
Loss, about $2,000
The Valdez family were Cubans, em
ployed in a cigar factory near where the
fire occur rad
No Hmnllpox Danger Now.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 30.—The
city authorities of Anniston have lifted
the quarantine, which has been in force
for a month against all places infected
with smallpox. The disease has just
about played out in all quarters of the
state, and Alabamians are exceedingly
grateful, as the disease is not ouly more
contagious, but more fatal in cold
weather.
• A umiilc For .Montevallo.
Montgomery. Ala., Aug. 30.—A bank,
will be opened at Montevallo, in Shelby
county, in a few days. It will be known
as the Shelby county hunk, and will ba
officered by Mi. William Walicer us
president and Mr. Burgess Little as
cashier. The capital stock, all ot which
is owned in the county, is 850.n0n
SOME, GA., i UESDAY. AUGUST 31. 1897.
EARTHQUAKE
IN JAPAN
Nearly 300 People Lose
Their Lives.
ORIENTAL ADYICES
Thousands of Houses Desirojed From
the Earthquake Shocks.
TIDAL WAVE HITS COAST TOWNS
Rivers Rose Twenty Feet in a
Few Minutes.
FAMILIES AFLOAT IN THEIR HOUSES
Eighteen Villages in One Provinca Were In
vaded— x Hard Time on the
Japanese.
Tacoma, Aug. 30.—Oriental advices
state that a great earthquake occurred
in Japan Aug. 5. It lasted eight min
utes and was followed by a tidal wave,
which 'Washed up water, flowing into
the sea, causing great destruction. Up
to Aug. 10 it was known in Yokohama
that over 5,0<>0 houses had been inun- i
dated or washed away. Between 200
and 800 people were known to Jiavj been
drowned of seriously injured. It was
reported from Hosoku that coal mines '
there .were flooded by an overflowing
river, drowning over 100 miners.
The earthquake shocks on the morn- j
ing of Aug. 5 varied from four to
number in various places, the move- I
meut being from east to west. No less '
than an hour afterward the tidal wave
was felt in the towns along the coast
Rains had fallen almost incessantly and
rivers were all running very high. The
tidal wave raised them in a few minutes .
from 12 to 20 feet higher.
The governor of Nigata prefecture re
ported that the Arakwa river rose 20
feet In Nooyetzu 1,500 houses were
flooded and 30 people killed or injured.
The waters rose so rapidly that over 600
people were afloat in their houses before
they knew what had happened! They
were all rescued with boats. Farther
down the same river 80 boats were
swept away, most of them having peo
ple on board.
At Takata several scores of houses
were washed away or were wrecked
and over 2,000 filled with water. In
other towns on the same prefecture 700
houses were inundated. At Omegari
one-third of the city is 16 feet under
water and rice fields all along the Amonx
river are flooded. Bridges and embank
ments were swept away by the score.
Reports from the province of Bikugen
state that immense waves rolled in 45
minutes after the earthquake and i
flooded 18 villages. All of the official
villages and every station at Macaydizu ,
were flooded, where many persons I
drowned. Nine railway officials were j
carried down stream to sea in their ;
houses. A steamer rescued them, but
many boats were swept away.
A BIG BLAZE AT ANNISTON.’
Main Bulldiut- of the Ripe and Foundry
• oiuimny Destroyed.
Anniston, Ala., Aug. 30.—The big
main building of the Anniston Pipe and
Foundry company was destroyed by fire I
about 6 a. m. and six huge pits and !
cranes, two cupolas, core ovens, and
other costly apparatus and machinery '
contained therein were totally ruined. It ,
was with the utmost difficulty that the
engine house, pattern shop, machine ■
shop, small foundry and other buildings
were saved.
The fire is believed to have originated
In one of the core ovens. The damage
done is hard to estimate, but it is partly
covered by insurance. About $60,000 is
said to have been carried on that de
partment. The building was of brick,
80 by 500 feet, and was one of the larg
est pipe foundries in the world. Six
hundred men were on the pay rolls.
Nearly all of the officers and stock
holders are out of the city and it can
not be learned whether the company
will rebuild. A big stock of iron is on
hand and the company has orders for
several months ahead. , ,
A Fatal Wreok In Germany.
Berlin, Aug. 30.—A dispatch from ,
Elberfeld, 10 miles from Dusselldorf, I ,
says that a collision between passenger 1
trains took place near Vohwinkel at 1
midnight. Three locomotives and six
carriages were wrecked, two persons '
were killed and 14 were injured. Os , '
the latter it is thought probable that 12 1
will succumb to their injuries. I1
QUEER MURDER TRIAL
Experiments in Trying to Make
Solu.ion of Potash.
Eat UP a Body in Three Hours—
Trial of Chicago Millionaire
Now on in Earnest.
Chicago, Aug. 30. The trial of
Adolph Luetgert for the murder of his
wife is now on in earnest, the prelimi
nary work of securing a jury having
been completed. Long before the case
was called, the corridors of the court
building were thronged with people
anxious to gain admittance to the little
courtroom, and five minutes after tne
doors were opened the room was packed
to suffocation.
Contrary to the expectation of the
state, the jury will be asked by the de
fense to witness an experiment in the
vat in the basement of the sausage fac
tory. This is to be the result of an ex
periment conducted by Luetgert’s at
torneys Saturday and Sunday. The
body of a man, about Mrs. Luetgert’s
age and weight, who met his death by
violence Thursday, was taken to thie
factory at 601 Diversey avenue and im
mersed in a solution of caustic potash.
The result exceeded their expecta
tions. The experts reported that after
boiling the body in a 15 per cent solu
tion of potash for the same length of
time, three and one-half hours, aud un
der the same circumstances as the state
alleges Luetgert disintegrated the body
of his wife, the complete skeleton of
the cadaver remained intact and that
the solution used had little effect on the
clothing.
As a result of the test the-defense, it
is said, will ask Judge Tuthill to re
move his court and jury to the base
ment of the big sausage factory for a
few hours and witness another experi
ment which the defense claims will
completely disprove the state's theory
of disintegration. _
Said to Be About 83,000 Short.
Washington, Aug. 30.—Thomas M.
Arrington of North Carolina, for 12
years past an employe of the postoffioe
department, recently in charge of the
Washington division of postoffioe in
spectors. has arrested charged with
embezzling government moneys. An
investigation of Arrington’s accounts
, has been in progress for some time, and,
it is said, resulted in a shortage of about
I $3,000. He was released on $2,000 bond.
| A Prominent Capllalivf Dead.
Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 30. John JJ,
I Bitner, president of the Fulton Na
tional bank, and a prominent capitalist
of this city, died here from stomach
, trouble. He was 71 years old. In 1847
he and a brother started a freight serv
! ice between this city aud Philadelphia,
i which afterwards spread to all parts of
[ the state. From 1857 to 1875 this serv
| ice was the greatest of the kind in
Pennsylvania. From 1874 to 1882 Mr.
Bitner conducted the business himself
and sold out in the latter year to the
Pennsylvania Railroad company. He
was identified with many other indus
tries here. He was one of the founders
of Ocean Beach, N. J.
Famous Oanmati Passes Away.
London, Aug. 30.—E. R. Balfour,
the famous Oxford oarsman, died Fri
day in Scotland. He was captain of the
Rugby football team while at school at
Oxford, where he was immensely popu
lar. He was a member of the Dark
Blue crew in 1896 aud 1897. He pulled
No. 5 with the Leander crew at Henley
this year and with Guy Nickalls won
. the pairs. Mr. Balfour’s death was due
1 to his neglect to change his clothes af
ter having been drenched with rain
: while- out shooting, which resulted ill
an attack of pneumonia.
Zeixl-r at -an S’rsnoisco.
San Francisco, Aug. 30 —OwenZeig
ler, the Philadelphia lightweight, has
arrived here with his trainer, Zeke
Abrams. He is to box 20 rounds with
Ed Oonnellriek of New Brunswick be
fore the Knickerbocker club in Septem
ber. The Occidental club has secured
the Solly Smith-George Dixon contest.
Articles have been signed for n JO-round
match and a purse of $5.250.
DeMcemiHiit «>f * orniug* Dead.
Albany, Aug. 30.—Erastus Corning
died here of apoplexy, aged 70 years.
He was descended from Samuel, or
"Ensign" Corning of Beverly. Mass.,
and was one of the wealthiest men in
the state. H.s charities were numerous.
fru’l Killed Ulin.
Huntsvuxe, Ala., Aug. 30—Alex
Smith, aged 65, a prominent citizen of
Lawrence county, was killed by a horse.
Smith was riding the animal when it
stumbled and fell over on its side, mash
ing Smith fearfully.
FretMihtn«ii« Kmbmo.i h ICiiNniati. •
New York. Aug.. 30.—General A. E.
Olarovsky. ex Russian consul general at
New York, who returned to this city
from St. Petersourg on the steamer La
Champagne, had an unusual experience
at the quarantine. It was there that
ship’s company first heard of the con
clusion of the Russian-French alliance
aud a remarkable scepe followed. All
the Frenchmen on board crowded
around General Olarovsky, embracing
him and shouting in their delight and
drinking the health of the czar and
President Faure. General Olarovsky
said that the alliance would be very
popular in Russia,
LABORERS
INSTLOUIS
Big Gathering to Dis
cuss the Strike.
GOMPERS NOT THERE
Social Democracy Movement Has Many
Followers.
DEBS AND RATCHFORD PRESENT
No Probability of Getting a Gen
eral Sympathetic Walk Out,
I
A • PLAN TO GET CONTRIBUTORS
To Sustain Strikers is Suggested By Presi
dent Ratchford—What Debs Says
In An Interview.
St. Louis, Aug. ou.—v.
Terre Haute, Ind., M. D. Ratchford of
Columbus and W. D. Mahon of Detroit
were among the delegates to the labor
congress who arrived and registered at
the Laclede. Mr. Debs,'who is not a
representative of any organization,
comes on general invitation, and will,
of course, give his advice if called upon
••Of course, you know, I’m out of it,”
said Mr. Debs. “I am no longer affi
liated with any labor body, but have
come simply as a guest of the con
ference.”
Jlr, pgbj would not venture an opin
ion on the probable outcome of the con
ference.
"Is there any probability of a sympa
thetic strike?” was asked.
'•I hanlly think so; in fact these dele
gates are bbl empowered to order a
i strike. They can do no more than re
port back to their respective bodies the
sense of the convention.
"Government by injunction,” Mr.
Debs went on to say, "as exemplified in
the struggle of miners, has been carried
to the extreme and the people are re
volting. I expect the convention will
take some very decisive action in this
' matter.”
President Ratchford has a plan which
> he will probably present to the confer
ence, calling upon every workingman
and woman in each county to contribute
one day of their wages to further the
relief of the striking miners. This
money, he thinks, will amount to be
tween SI,OOO and $2,000 per day. Part
of this fund will be used to keep men in
camp during the strike in the Pittsburg
district, where the operators propose to
start their mines with nonunion men.
In other words, tbe camps there will be
maintained with the hope of eventually
inducing those now at work to quit.
Much disappointment was expressed
at headquarters over the nonarrival of
Samuel Gompers, but it is believed he
will yet put in an appearance.
As to what the convention will do
none of the delegates was willing to
forecast.. It is noticeable that the So
cial Democracy movement headed by
Mr. Debs has a large following, and it
would not be surprising to see that
movement gain control of the meeting.
It is said, however, that an effort will
be made to amalgamate all brotherhoods ,
represented and to this end a resolution I
looking to the appointment of a general
conference committee will be presented ,
sometime during the convention by Mr.
Steinbiss of St. Louis.
Chairman Steinbiss of the local com
mittee on arrangements called the con
ference to order at 10 o’clock. About a
hundred people were scattered about
the hall.
It is probable that Messrs. Ratchford,
Davis, Pierce, Carson, Dolan, Kennedy,
Stephenson and Dilcher will be chosen
as the committee on credentials.
After the Nou-Debt Payers.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 30.—The
Abbeville. Ala., Times is authority for
the statement that an unique variety of
morality has developed in Beatis', in
that county. A gang of whitecappers
has been organized there with the pur
pose of running all non-debt paying cit
izens out Os that beat. Five persons
have been heard from who have been
notified to leave or pay up without de
lay. The organization is said to con
tend that it is a greater crime to lay
down on an honest debt than to make
mean winsky, and as the law does not
look ut it in that way, they have made I
some laws of their own.
Improvements nt lihuiloihb,
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 30.—Soma
substantial improvements will soon be
made in Tuscaloosa by the Montgomery,
Tuscaloosa and Mobile division of the
Mobile and Onio railroad. A Tshaped
depot building, 45x50 feet in size, which
will include depot offices, waiting rooms
for whites and negroes; a 15x18 foot oil
house and a sand house 20x40 feet have
Veen planned and will be built.without
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A FATAL DEBAUCH.
A Floridan Takes First Drink
in Atlanta.
Went on Big Spree and Took
Morphine Which Ended
His Life.
Atlanta, Aug. 30.—Some days ago,
a prominent horse dealer from Bartow,
Fla., came here on business. Hl stop_
ped at the Southern hotel.
Clarke was a very quiet, gentlemen
ly fellow, and until he time here had
never tasted whiskey. He had been
here only a short while before he began
to drink, and did so excessively.
Today he purchased morphine aud
went to his room. His mother came
here from Tallulah Falls, and upon
going to her son’s room found him in
convulsions He had taken a big dose of
the morphine and did not live but a
short while after her arrival.
HE CLAIMS SELF~DEFENSE.
Gafford Makes a Statement In Regard tn
the Killing of Lloyd.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 30.—John
< Gafford, the* slayer of Bartow Lloyd
(“Rufus Sanders”), has made a state
ment in which he asserts that he killed
Lloyd in self defense. Gafford says
that after persistent injunction from
him, Lloyd continued to visit his sister,
who was a neighbor of Lloyd’s family.
He says that on Wednesday after
noott, SS’he was returning from a bird
hunt, he met Lloyd driving along the
road and slopped nim and commenced
again to remonstrate. He says he re
minded Lloyd of his promise to cease
attentions to his sister and that Lloyd
insisted that he had done so. Gafford
says he reminded the writer that at a
recent campmeeting in the neighbor
hood he had been the sister’s constant
companion and that they had caused
talk and scandal. Continuing, Gafford
says: - • ar -~
this he hesitated and hemmed
ananawed a little, but made no reply.
Then Jig. craned his uecK and seemed to
1 k? losing something over in a field
nearby. This caused me also to look
in the sajne When I threw
my eyes back upon him he had his pis
tol in his hand. I Believed that his
looking was a ruse to divert my atten
tion, which it dj± Wfi werg close to
getneFand I saw that’ I must shoot or
Be shot and that there was no time to
lose. Instantly I brought down my
' gun and fired both barrels. Lloyd fell
i from h’s buggy. sr*
I "I walked or} and in less than 100
' yards met Charles Dees and told him
, what had happened and for him to go
1 and help him all he could. A little fur
ther on I met Claud Plainer and I told
him the same. I want to say- that I
I was sober at the time, not having
I touched a drop of whisky that day.
I Lloyd was sober alsa”
! PARDON FOR A PATRICIDE.
IFoarteen-Year-Old Boy Who Killed HI.
1 atlier Set at Liberty.
Raleigh, Aug. 30.—Governor Rus
sell has qpded one of the most interest
ing criminal cases on record in North
Carolina. Early in 1890 Avery Butler,
aged 14, a kinsman of Senator Marion
Butler, shot his father dead as the lat
ter walked along the road in sight of
home. The boy had been watching for
him for hours and spent the time in
whittling
In April of that year young Butler
was sentenced to be hanged, but hia
sentence was commuted to life impris
onment in the penitentiary. Twice he
made daring escapes, once getting to
Tennessee and remaining over a year.
Again he escaped by boldly going up to
a new guard and telling him he was
wanted at tie prison office. While he
was absent Butler fled.
Three governors have been urged to
pardop Butler. It was urged that the
boy was most brutally tortured by a
cruel father and that the latter’s con
duct to the boy’s mother aroused him
to do the deed.
Governor Russell has granted a par
don, after months of entreaty and hun
dreds of letters. He says that in view
of the father’s brutality and his threats
on the very day of the homicide to kill
the boy and his mother, the killing was
moral self defense, and that the law
should, have imprisoned the father be
fore his cruelties made his family des
perate.
ASSAULTED IN HER HOME.
A Macon Woman'- Thrilling Experience
With an Unknown Alaa.
Macon, Aug. 30.-*-Mrs. Nell Couch,
a white woman living at Manchester
mills, a suburb of this city, was as
saulted in her home at 2 a. m. by an
unknown inan. She had gone to bed
and left the door open to admit her
husband, whose return she momentarily
expected. A stranger entered instead
and attempted to commit an assault
upon her pei son. Her cries aroused the
neighbors and the intruder fled.
Suspicion points to a white man now
in Twiggs county, and a number of
armed men have gone there to appre
hend the susnected man. * l .
Mrs. Couch’s nervous system has been
given a terrible shock by her experi
ence, aud her condition is precarious.
the a.tr lo Viet I'arle -
Paris, Aug. 80.—The Journal says
the czar will visit Paris at the end ot
this autumn.