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[THE YELLOW
[ FEVERNEWS
L Another Dies From It
I at Ocean Springs.
IMITOPSY WAS HELD
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I famrus Expert Guiteras Says II Is Yel
k low Fever.
I DOCTORS DIAGNOSE THE DISEASE
r Dr. Sheedy Is Sick With it at
Perklnston, Miss.
'NEW ORLEANS IS QUIETING DOWN
•At Biloxi There Are no New Cases— People io
Quarantined Town. Snfl'ering
For Supple#.
i? New Orleans, Sept. 9. Sheray Zy
■ Tnour died at Ocean Springs of the pre
| "vailing fever. As soon as his death was
[ arrangements were made to
• iold an autopsy. Drs. Murray, Carter
.and Wasdiu of the marine hospital ser
vice. and Drs. Lehman, Dunn, Gant
I And Bailey were present.
After the autopsy was over Surgeon
Murray wired the following to Surgeon
General Wyman, at Washington:
“Third autopsy held by Wasdln, di
agnosis of yellow fever. Consented to
* by Guiteras. Carter and Gant.’’
The excitement in New Orleans is
.rapidly dying out, but deep interest is
being taken in the situation on the
coast. Morning trains from the east
towns brought few passengers. There
, is no longer any travel out of the city to
the coast towns, and everybody who in
| tended to come to New Orleans has al
■ready turned up.
Dr. Salmon’s report as to the exis
■fence of two cases of yellow fever at
Scranton is considered reliable and Dr.
Salmon has been ordered to co-operate
"with the local physicians there in their
efforts to isolate ana stamp out the fe
ver. The symptoms are the same as
those of yellow jack, but the type is
mild.
i * Government experts will probably be
•asked to go there and also to Perkiuston
to definitely determine the character of
the disease. Dr. Solomon has had much
; experience and wan for many years sec
' retary of the board and much confi
dence is felt in his knowledge of the
symptoms of yellow fever.
More reports have reached the city of
the hardships which the people in the
-quarantined towns are suffering. They
find difficulty in getting provisions and
other supplies and are registering a
large sized kick against the restrictions.
The authorities are endeavoring to find
some means of helping them out of their
difficulties.
No new cases ore reported at Biloxi.
The people are anxiously awaiting the
arrival of Drs. Guiteras, Murray and
Garter. They will be perfectly satisfied
■with their diagnosis. Dr. Tackett, who
-went to Perkineton to visit Dr. Sheedy,
who had been in attendance on patients
in Ocean Springs, has returned and re
ports that Dr. Sheedy has yellow fever.
Dr. Sheedy himself says the symptoms
are those of yellow fever.
HEALTH BOARD HOPEFUL.
-Some Say There Is Not a Genulee Case of
Fever at Ocean Springs.
'.Washington, Sept. 6. The yellow
r fever situation continues hopeful and
encouraging so far as the informa
tion received at the marine hospital
is concerned. Dr. Guiteras, the yellow
fever expert, telegraphed from Ocean
Springs to Surgeon General Wyman as
.-follows:
“Have seen today 25 cases of dengue
Will wire you our opinion about the
•Other three cases.”
Notwithstanding the fact that Dr.
■Guiteras is convinced that there is not
•a genuine cose of yellow fever st Ocean
'Springs, Surgeon General Wyman is
pushing measures to confine and stamp
out the disease should it eventually
prove to be yellow jack. Surgeon H.
E. Carter of Chicago, who is a fever ex
pert of large experience, and Surgeon
Murray, who is in command at Ocean
Springs, have announced their arrival.
The vigorous nature of the quarantine
at Ocean Springs is shown by Dr. Mur
ray’s telegram:
“Arrived at 5 o’clock this evening.
Tried to get through on engine, but
could not get permission from Missis
sippi board of health until 10:30 a. m."
Dr. Murray also telegraphed as to the
site of the detention camp. The Bur
s' geon general will probably give him
definite instructions as to the site. The
‘ -detention camp outfit is now on its way
to Ocean Springs from Waycross, Ga.
It will awrm.7lftte.feom 50 to 100 per-
THE ROriE TRIBUNE.
A TERRIBLE FIGHT
Bailiff lo South Carolina Cots
Mao Fiercely.
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Wounded Man Seized a Gun and
Fired at Officer, Killing
the Brother.
Columbia, S. C-, Sept. 9.—A terri
ble fight occurred near here today be
tween.a bailiff named Gillam and
Hugh Cockburn.
Cockburn resisted arrest and at
tacked Gillam. Gillam began cutting
him with a knife and Cockburn was
fearfully gashed about tbe head and
throat and disemboweled.
Cockburn ran into tbe house and
secured a gun. Tbe bailiff dodged be
hind bis brother, Julian Gillam, who
received the shot and was instantly
killed. Cockburu will die.
SITUATION VERY SERIOUS.
F.ored There Will lie Famine In Ireland
as a Kreult of Crop Failures
London, Sept 9. Lamentable re
ports continue to pour in from all parts
of Ireland of the havoc already wrought
among the crops, and as the weather is
still most unoropitious hopes of saving
the remnant of the harvest is fast dying
away. The Englisn press is beginning
now to recognize the situation, though
it is maintaining its gravity. The
Westminster Gazette says:
“The potatocrop has failed everywhere
and there is something to excuse the
alarming language of those who are be
ginning to talk about a great famine,
but distress on that scale is no more
likely than an invasion by barbarians.
There will be a measure of suffering in
Ireland,' real, if less terrible than that
which the professional agitator is be
ginning to predict.”
This “professional agitator” has made
no prediction in the present instance.
The cry has come from the people all
over the country. English tourists are
writing to the press describing the
ruined harvest they have seen.
LONGS FOR HIS RIGHT
Man Enter* Sult For the PoMseustou of
1 hat Useful Member.
Asheville, N. 0., Sept 9.—G. R.
Miller of this city has begun suit for
the possession of bis right leg. He al
leges that it was afflicted with bone
scrofula and cut off five years ago by
Dr. J. A. Burroughs.
Permission was given by the plaintiff
to the physician to retain the leg for a
time for professional study, the case be
ing a novel and interesting one, but it
was, so the plaintiff to be re
turned after a reasonable time so that
as a faithful and important member of
his body up to the time of amputation
it might be given honorable burial.
The plaintiff further alleges that a
demand for his leg had been refused
and that he has been denied the com
fort of having it decently interred. He
therefore wants the leg or SSOO.
sons, if,*eTyfiling w7ll be In readiness
to pitch the camp should Dr. Guiteras*
verdict be that genuine yellow jack
prevails.
At Tampa, in 1895. there was a yel
low fever scare. The first telegrams
were very alarming. Dr. Guiteras was
dispatched to make an investigation.
Pending his final vereict the camp out
fit was prepared, and after it was ascer
tained the yellow fever did not exist at
the camp, the preparations were com
pleted and the camp outfit perfected for
just such emergencies. This is the out
fit now on its way to Ocean Springs.
Rigid Quarantine Regulations.
Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 9.—Prac
tically every city and town in Alabama
has established the most rigid quaran
tine against Ocean Springs, New Or
leans and other yellow fever infected
points, and at some places a shotgun
quarantine has been established. Trains
from the south and southwest are
boarded by determined officers heavily
armed, and no one from the infected
districts is permitted to leave the cars.
Many Alabamians summering at gulf
coast resorts are shut out from the rest
of the world, as trains between Mobile
and New Orleans now run past all sec
tions without stopping.
Authorities on the Alert.
San Francisco, Sept. 9.—Quaran
tine officers at this port are on the look--
out for vessels from Panama and Cen
tral American ports. They will take
every precaution to prevent yellow fe
ver being brought to this port. They
are acting on the belief that the fever
in Louisiana came from ib» Isthmus.
Charleston May Quarantine.
Charleston. Sept. 9.—This city will
probably establish a quarantine against
the yellow fever refugees from Louisi
ana and Mississippi in a few days. The
quarantining of the refugees by num
bers of southern cities seems to require
that Charleston should emulate their
example.
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Coit)iu>«i*ioiier Morrill Qu I la.
Boston, Sept. 9.—The resignation of
George S. Morrill, insurance commis
sioner of Massachusetts, has been placed
in the hands of tbe governor.
ROME. GA., FRIDAY. SEPI’EMBKK 10 1897,
CONSUL LEE
FOR SENATOR
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Famous Virginian’s Po
litical Fences.
LI6HT ON HIS VISIT
Rumors Which Are Floating Around in
Richmond Now.
SAID TO WANT THE SENATORSHIP
Twenty State Senators to Elect
Martin’s Successor.
LEE'S FRIENDS TO CAPTURE SMOKE
Gen. Lee is Also Spoken of For the Frcp-ised
Presidency of the University
of Virginia.
Richmond, Sept 9 —lt is believed
here that the object of Consul General
Fitzbugh Leo in coming home is in a
large degree political. He said a year
ago that he would be a candidate to
succeed United States Senator Martin
in 1899. The 20 state senators to be
elected in Virginia this fall will vote
for Martin’s successor, and General
Lee’s friends believe that he will at
tempt to capture a portion of them.
General Lee is also spoken of for jhe
proposed presidency of the University
es Virginia. This office will be created
if he will agree to take it.
It is pretty generally understood in
the state department that General Lee
will not return to Cuba on the comple
tion of his leave of absence. His suc
cessor is not likely to report at Havana
until the yellow fever season has closed.
LUETGERT MURDER TRIAL.
Chicagoan I. Bosl.ii.lnQ to Show the Ef
fects of Confinement.
Chicago, Sept. 9.—For the first time
in the history of the Luetgert trial no
curious crowd blocked the entrance to
tnd' criminal court building and the
halls leading to Judge Tuthill’s court
room. Os the crowd present at the
trial women formed the greater por
tion.
The prisoner was brought into court
earlier than usual and was in his seat
in front of the bailiff before the judge
or jury entered the courtroom. Luet
gert plainly showed the effects of con
finement and warm weather and his
features were more wan than usual.
The jury also seemed to feel the effects
of the several days of hot weather and
the confinement which they have en
dured.
The first witness called was H. F.
Kruger, the druggist, who sold Watch
man Frank Bialk the medicine which
Luetgert ordered his employe to pur
chase. The testimony was intended as
merely corroborative of the watchman’s
statement, which was for the purpose
of showing the hour the alleged mur
der is supposed to have been committed.
The second witness was Dr. Charles
Gibßon, the chemical expert, who was
placed on the stand for re-direct exami
nation in regard to his analysis of fleshy
substance and slime removed from the
vat where the state is attempting to
prove the wife minder was committed.
WOMAN HATER’S ODD WILL.
Farmer Harwood 'lake* Queer Provisions
In His i eitauieut.
Lagrange. Ind., Sept. 9.—The will
of George Harwood, a .wealthy farmer
of Clear Springs township, has been ad
mitted to probate. Howard was a pio
neer of this county and earned all he
ever owned, having arrived in this
county with only 25 cents.
He always had an aversion to women.
His-sole companion was a hired man
named Frane, who assisted in all the
household duties. Even when Har
wood lay at the point of death a woman
was seldom seen around the house, and
a doctor was an unusual visitor, Har
wood believing that when his time
came to die no one could help him.
The will bequeaths to Frane the use
of 60 acres of fine land on which Har
wood resided, aiid in consideration of
which Frane is to provide for a steer
and a black horse which Harwood
owned.
When the two animals die they are
to be buried in a b-acro lot which is set
aside as Harwood’s burying ground
An elaborate monument is to be erected
at the head of the graves and Frane is
otherwise to beautify the spot. Har
wood’s lust desire was that the burial
services be omitted, he to be placed in
:an ordinary cheap coffin and hauled to
the grave in a lumber wagon.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Magnificent Snuggle For the
Pennant.
Baltimore and Boston Both Win.
New York Breaks Even
With Pittsburg.
Washinoton. Sept. 9.—There has
never been a time in the history of the
National league when the race was so
close and exciting, when a mere win or
lose is fraught with so much meaning in
the ultimate result.
"One year ago Baltimore at this period
had cinched the coveted flag, and were
taking things easy. But there’s a differ
ence this year. Boston strong, scientific
and fighting to the last ditch are fast up
on the heels of the Orioles—a difference
of only seven points entervening. Nor
is this all, New York looms up a terrible
menance to tbe ambitions of the two
clubs above her. A moments hesitancy, a
slip or a mistake may mean the death
knell to pennant aspirations of. either
Baltimore or Boston. It is grand fight,
and the situation keeps the nerves of
the faithful on edges.
Boston won an easy victory over St.
Louis today, while Baltimore pulled a
game away from Louisville after a fierce
struggle. Washington’s third straight
victory over Cleveland sends the former
club above Chicago. The scores:
Washington 9, Cleveland 8.
New York 4, Pttsburg 5, first game.
New York 6, Pittsburg 2, second
game.
Boston 13, St Louis 6.
Brooklyn 7, Cincinnati 1.
Baltimore 3, Louisville 2.
Philadelphia 5, Chicago 4.
PECULIAR CONDITIONS.
A Former Georgian Sentenced to Hang in
Louisaaa. May Hot Die Today.
New Orleans, Sept 9, —Patrick
Payne, formerly of Macon, Ga., is
sentenced to die at Monroe, La., tc
morrow, b’it peculiar circumstances
arise that may prolong his life.
The supreme court today refused man
damus for suspending Payne’s sentence
until medical experts could examine
him as to his sanity..
The governor had telegraphed the
sheriff to suspend the execution until
the question of sanity could be settled.
The sheriff is in a quandary. The governor
is in the country and cannot be reachtd,
and the sheriff is disinclined to hang
Payne without orders from the governor
to do so.
$250 REWARD OFFERED.
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Mayor Pries Will Give That Amount For
Capture of Miss Chapman’s Assailant.
Macon, Sept. 9.—Mayor Price today
offered a reward of $250 for the arrest
and conviction of the i unknown
assailant of Miss Sallie Chapman.
The community is much wrought up
over the crime and every effort is being
made to capture the gulltv party.
GLOVER IS NOT GUILTY.
The Jury Deehles He Did Not Murder His
Aged GrAHdm uher.
Atlanta, Sept 9. —The jury in the
case of St Olair Glover, a White youth,
18 years of age, on trial at Clarkesville
for the murder of his aged grand
mother in Habersham county in 1895,
brought in a verdict of not guilty.
This was youug Glover’s second triai,
he having been convicted at the first.
The case was reopened on evidence go
ing t-o show that the first verdict was
due to a confession wrought from him
under threats of lynching, and this ac
quittal resulted.
The evidence on the former trial was
altogether circumstantial, the defend
ant’s confession being the strongest,
but it was quite weak, owing to the
fact, as alleged by him, that threats
were made aguinst his life.
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Tracedr Near Thumawvllla.
Thomasville, Ga., Sept. 9. Bob
Futch, a young white farmer of this
county, is a fugitive from justice on ac
count of having shot and killed his
brother Bloxham. The two young men
fell out aud quarreled about the owner
ship of a small corn patch. They had
apparently settled their differences aud
Bob started to walk away. After going
about 20 feet he turned, howev’er, and
quickly raising his gun, discharged its
contents into his brother, killing him
instantly. The officers are after him.
IMff Fol In re In New York <*lty.
New York. Sept. 9.—James R. Wil
lard, Elmer Dwiggings and Jay Dwig
gings, who compose the firm of J. R.
Willard & Go., bunkers and brokers,
with offices in this city, Buffalo, Wash
ington, Philadelphia and Montreal,
have assigned to James Starbuck with
preferences for $20,000 to William H.
Osterhout. No statement of the condi
tion of the firm is yet obtainable, but it
is estimated that their liabilities wili
reach $1,000,000. Jav Dwiggings is al
present traveling in Europe.
BRYAN AS
THEJERO
Os a Terrible Railroad
Disaster in Kansas.
TEN PEOPLE KILLED
Fifteen Were More or Less Seriously
Injured in Collision,
FIRST MAN TO RESCUE WAS BRYAN
He Assisted to Remove First
Body From Wreck.
MANY ACTS OF BRAVERY REPORTED
Valuable Bonds and Baggage Burned in the
Wreck— Bryan Did Not Save
His Hat or Baggage.
Emporia, Kan., Sept. 9.—A head
end collision -occurred on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe road 3 miles east
of here. It was the worst disaster that
has taken place on that system in many
years. Ten people were killed outright,
or soon died of their injuries, and 15
others were more or less seriously in
jured. One or two of the injured may
succumb.
William J. Bryan, who was a passen
ger on one of the trains, escaped unin
jured and aided materially in rescuing
the unfortunates and alleviating their
•ufferuigiu... ,
The wrecked trains were the fastest
in the service—the fast mail, eastbound,
and the California and Mexico exnress,
westbound. Each was running at the
rate of 10 miles an hour or over. The
wreck occurred at 7:30 p. m., 3 miles
east of Emporia, on a small culvert that
crossed a dry stream. The culvert was
not more than 10 feet wide and the
foremost engine, the eastbound train,
had spanned it when the collision oc
curred. The embankments approaching
this culvert are about 10 feet high. This
added to the disaster.
The wreck was caused by the mis
carriage of orders from the train dis
patcher. The conductor of the east
bound train was ordered to meet and
pass the California flyer at Lang, 7
miles east. An order sent to Lang to
the conductor of the westbound train
for him to wait there was not delivered
and he supposed he was to pass at Em
poria. Each train was hurrying—one
to Emporia, the other to Lang—and
met at full speed on the main line.
The California train was almost an
hour late, and owing to Mr. Bryan’s
lectqre engagement at Burlingame, was
crowned to the guards with excursion
ists returning home.
Coaohet Were Crowded.
The westbound train carried eight
passenger coaches aud all were crowded.
The conductor and brakemen were get
ting their lanterns ready for Emporia,
only 3 miles away. There was no warn
ing signal. The westbound train was
going around a slight curve and met
the fast mail probably within 200 feet.
There was a shock as if the train had
bumped up against a stone wall. Then
there was an explosion, a crashing
sound, an uncertain movement of the
coaches and all the lights went out.
Those who were in the fast coach in the
westbound train were left in darkness
aud they very soon realized the peril of
their position, tor the coaches were
filled with steam and smoke.
The westbound train was drawn by
two locomotives and when they struck
the fast mail all three of the engines
exploded aud tore a hole in the track so
deep that the smoking oar of the west
bound train went on top of the wreck
of the three engines and two mail cars
and balanced there without turning
over.
Those in this car who escaped through
the windows came very near turning
the car over, in which event the fatal
ity would have been much greater, as
this car soon caught fire from the ex
ploded engines underneath it and burned
to ashes in no time.
Part Mr. Airy an Played.
W. J. Bryan was interviewed by a
reporter as to his experience in the col
lision:
"I have traveled thousands upon thou
sands of miles upon railroads and I was
never in a wreck before. I did not feel
the shock’ very severely wher.e I was.
but Yrom the way things look 1 cannot
for the life of, me see why we were not
all killed. The scene presented is the
most terrible I have ever seen. It has
made an impression on me that cannot
leave me during my life time.” x
“Is it true you were the first man to
reach the ground from your car and go
to the rescue of those who were in
jured?” he was asked.
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PHICE FIVE CENTS
GIVEN THREE YEARS
L. W. Halstead Who Killed
Insuiter of His Wife
At a Circus Performance in Macon.
Verdict That He Was Guilty of
a Involuntary Manslaughter.
Macon, Sept. 9.—Charles R. Reid, a
printer on the Macon Telegraph, who
shot and killed L. W. Halstead for' in
sulting his wife at a circus performance
in this city several months ago, has
been found guilty of voluntary mac
slaughter by the jury and sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.
SHE WANTS BIG DAMAGES.
Mrs. Van Schaack Sties Father-In-Law For
Alienating Haaband’e Affections.
New York. Sept 9. The World
says: Mrs. John C. Van Schaack has
begun suit for $65,000 damages against
her father-in-law, Peter Van Schaack,
head of the family in Chicago and se
nior partner in the drug, firm of Van
Schaack & Sons, for alienation of her
husband’s affections.
The. plaintiff is a daughter of Henry
Palmer aud a neioe of Potter Palmer.
A specific charge against her father-in
law is that in 18u7. while plaintiff’s
husband was living with her and sup
porting her in Brooklyn, the defendant
enticed the husband away from the
plaintiff aud their home and induced
him to go to Chicago, where he has
since by threats and “undue influence”
kept him.
Mrs. Van S-haack, then Miss Flor
ence Palmer, aud John O. Van Schaack
were winter visitors in Florida together
in 1888, and in March of that year were
married.
The wife is a 'strikingly handsome
woman, 26 years old. She was educated
in Paris and Berlin and before her mar
riage was a social favorite in Chicago.
STEAMSHIP ‘GOES DOWN.
The Belle ot Memphis sinks Near Crane's
Island, lu Che Mississippi.
St. Louis, Sept. 9.—News of the
sinking of the Anchor line steamer
Belle of Memphis, near Crane’s island,
iu the Mississippi river, just below
Chester, Ills., has been received here by
General Manager Gus O. Meissouier.
In speaking of the wreck, Captain
Mrissouiar sold:
“There were about 105 passengers on
board, muny of them Sc. Louis people,
all of whom got off wichouc accident.”
The Belie of Memphis was built
about two years ago, was worth from
$50,000 to $60,000 and was insured for
about, half her value. From the dam
age to her keelson it is thought she will
be a total wreck.
DEATH IN CALHOUN.
Miss Bessie Fain, The Gifted Postmaster,
Succnmbs to Typhoid Fever.
Calhoun Ga., Sept., 9—Miss Bessie
Fain, postmaster of Calhoun, died this
morning of typhoid fever. She was a
daughter of tbe late Judge J. C, Fain,
and a young lady of great intellectual
gifts and floe personality. She was,
perhaps one of the most gifted young
ladies in the state and most highly es
teemed. Her death has cast a gloom
over the town and her funeral this after
noon was attended by many mourning
friends from other cities.
that,” Mr. Bryan repnea, with a depre
cating gesture.
From passengers present it was learned
that Mr. Bryan was the first person to
rush forward to the assistance of vic
tims and he assisted to carry the first
body recovered, and that so long as
there was any necessity he was fore
most in the wreck
Mr. Bryan, accompanied by David
Leahey, a Topeka newspaper man, were
in the smoking coach of the westbound
train. They were discussing the day’s
events at Burlingame, where the Ne
braskan had been the attraction of
thousands of people, when they heard
a crash and then an explosion.
The two men jumped out of the same
window without their hate or baggage,
which were afterwards burned, and es
caped practically without a scratch.
Both of H|a Legs Broken.
Many acts of bravery aud nerve were
displayed. Claude Hollister of Topeka
had both of his legs broken and shat
tered in half a dozen placea When his
rescuers laid him on the grass beside
the track he turned to one of the group
and asked if he would pull through.
When assured that he would live if he
was brave, he said:
“Am I not brave? Look at my lege
dangling and then ask me to be brave.
I suppose they will have to be ampu
tated, but I will bear the operation and
live through it. Ido not propose to die
for lack of nerve and courage. My
God. what has become of my com
rades?”
William Frisbie. engineer of the fast
mail, whose residence is in Toneka, was
conscious when he died. He said:
"I did not see the other train until I
came upon it. I turned on the air and
jumped. I presume that I cannot re
cover, but I will die ns bravely as I can.
I want you men to leave me and he>p
victims that are more unfortunate than
I am.”
A. 8. Adam«. who is among the in
jured, was on his way to Mexico from
New Jersey with registered bonds
amounting to SBOO,OOO aud a great, deal
of other valuables. They were all burned
in the fire that followed.