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BRIGHT ANB BREEZY “AU The News." North Georgia's Great Daily. Only 50 Cents a Month. ESTABLISHED 1887. [THE YELLOW [ FEVERNEWS L Another Dies From It I at Ocean Springs. IMITOPSY WAS HELD ■ 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. • 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. —* -• , 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 « 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. « 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. - 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. “Please don’t gay anything about $ Increase Your Trades £ * A Klondike Strike £ * By advertisin'’ in The $ * Tribune. * * Best medium In North Georgia £ 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.