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FEVER IS
EPIDEMIC
Keeps Spreading and
Exciting New Orleans
95 CASES; 12 DEATHS
In All the Various Infected Towns and
Cities So Far.
SURGEON SAWPELL SENDS REPORT
Eight Cases and One Death Re
ported In New Orleans-
TWO NEW CASES AT OCEIN SPRINGS
Warm Weather Instrumental in
Spreading Contagions.
QUIETER YESTERDAY IN JACKSON
Mild Case at Nlttayuami, Mias—Train Ready
for People at Jackson to Leave
if Alarm is Given.
In Ocean Springs there have been
seventeen cases of yellow feyer and
two deaths, in New Orleans twenty
two cases and two deaths, in Biloxi
fifteen cases and one death, in Bar''
clay eleven cases and five deaths, in
Mobile six cases, one death, in
Scranton three cases, no death, Pas'
cagoula one case, no death, Augusta,
Miss, one case, no death, Edwards
nineteen cases, one death. Cadet
Point three cases, no death. In all
ninety'five cases and twelve deaths.
The situation in the fever district
appears to be very alarming, and
aided by the hot weather it is spread'
ing. Great excitement exists in all
the towns and cities as it appears
the dread disease is becoming epi''
demic.
AT KANSAS CITY.
It la Susnected That a Case of Yellow Fever
Exists.
Kansas City, Sept. 17.—What is pos
siblya case of yellow fever has developed
in the city hospital. Claude Anderson,
a negro, was taken to the hospital in
the central part of the city. The boy
came here from Mississippi six days ago.
The lad was suffering from fever and his
condition seemed so suspicious that a
consultation of physicians was called,
but at a late hour no conclusion was
reached.
GLOOMY IN NEW ORLEANS.
Latest Reports Say There Are Kight New
Cases in I rescent City.
Naw Orleans, Sept. 17.—Deepest
gloom has settled over this city, and
there is no doubt now that the yellow
jack has become epedemic,
Up to late tonight eight new cases
have developed today. The inhabitants
are in a state of panic.
TWO NEW CASES.
Latest News From Towns Where Disease
Originated.
Ocean Springs, Miss., Sept. 17.
Two new cases of yellow fever are re
ported just outside of the town today.
It has been ten days since there has
been a death.
Surgeon General Murry thinks there
will be more cases here.
QUIETER IN JACKSON.
Train Has Been Chartered for an Emergency,
However.
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 17.—Matters
have assumed v quieter tone today and
the people are in hopes the fever will
not reach here.
Arrangements were made for a special
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston Administers Crushing
Defeat To New York.
Baltimore and Philadelphia Play
Two Games and Break Even.
The Other Scores.
Washington, Sept. 17.—Boston sim
ply overwhelmed New York today, de
feating them by a score of 17 to 0. Bal
timore played two grames with Phila
delphia, and lost and won,
Boston closed up the big gap caused
by her defeat yesterday, and in only
nine points behind the leaders now.
The closeness of the race is likely to
obtain until the series between Boston
and Baltimore in the latter city. The
Beaneaters are saving their star twirler,
Nichols, to pitch .two of these games,
and they will probably be the hottest
contests ever seen on a national league
diamond.
Baltimore will pnt her best efforts for
ward to win the games and the fact that
they are on home grounds will probably
have considerable bearing towards vic
tories for them. Brooklyn displaced
Washington at sixth place. The scores:
Boston 17, New York 0.
Brookly 5, Washington 4.
Baltimore 11. Philadelphia 6; first
game
Baltimore 1, Philadelphia 2; Second
game.
Pittsburg 6, St Louis 2; first game.
Pittsburg 10, St Louis 4; second game.
train of twelve coaches to be used in
case of emergency and signals agreed
upon to give alarm.
A DEATH AT NEW ORLEANS.
M»i* >uoouiu!b Presumably to Yellow Kg.
ver—< w«» New Caws Reported
New Orleans, Sept. 17.--Zena Braun
ner, of Webster and Second streets.
Oarrollton. has just died. The case was
reported as' suspicious on Sept. 15 by
Dr. BelL An autopsy will be Heid.- It
has not been dec.ared yellow fever.
Two new cases of yellow fever have
been reported—a boy, Williams, son of
the sporting editor or The Times-Demo
crat, at 1558 Oamp street, and a man.
Rubenstein. at Poydras and Rampart,
brother of the Touro infirmary patient.
Work of c tailing progresses ami the
number of volunteers increase. Entire
districts have be n parceled out among
citizens. Machinery o! the B.irber
Asphalt company of great blasttug
power is to be pnt into operation at once
and a cons, rnthent of frotnaldehyu
generators is on the wav and will be
distributed in various parts of the citv.
NO FEVER IN LOUISVILLE.
Report Is Relievo I In Have lleeu >ent Oct
, by Rival Lit es.
Louisville, Sept. 17.—The leading
hotels here are receiving many inquiries
Ms to the existence here of yellow fever.
The merchants of Louisville are just
now conducting a series of "merchants’
excursions" from the southern states.
Mr. Abrahams, chairman of their com
mittee, was seen, and he said:
"I think that the rumors were sent
ont by traveling men from competing
cities as to yellow fever in order to in
fluence our friends against coming here
on the excursions Intending visitors
can come' witn periecl safety. The
weather is delightfully cooi and clear,
with indications for a drop beiuw 70 de
grees, so tuar there is ao-oiurely no fear
whatever ni rm, scourge fiuamg a foulr
hoiu in the lui.a C.iy. ’’
Must Leave The State.
Montgomery, Ala., September 17.
State Examiner Pnrifoy has gone
from Mobile to Atlanta, and now
wants to go to his family at Au
burn. He has written the governor that
he has advices from Auburn that that
city has no quarantine, and Mr. Purifoy
can join his family if he so desires.
But Governor Johnstone has telegraph
ed him to leave the state. That all ref
ugees to outside cities cannot come back
until proper precations are taken. His
proclamation covers the entire state of
Alabama
Sends In Report,
Atlanta, Sept, 17.—Surgeon Sawtell
who has been stationed here by the gov
ernment has sent an elaborate report to
Surgeon General Wyman in Washington
on the state of affairs in the Gate City.
All trains are met some distance out of
the city, and all suspects are pnt off at
detention stations. All trains coming in
are thoroughly fumigated before arriv
ing here. The report says there are 500
or more refugees here.
Mild Case at Nlttayouma.
Nittaoouma, Miss., Sept. 17.—Dr.
Harris, of Vicksburg, arrived this morn
ing and took charge of the Cameion
case. Careful diagnosis shows syrup
toms of yellow fever and dengue, but the
patient is getting well so soon that it is
hat’d to determine which.
ROME, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 1897.
SHOOTING
OFLOFTON
The Hogansville Mayor
Makes a Report.
BOW IT OCCURRED
One Person Entered Back Yard and
Fired Three Shots.
SAYS BUT ONE MAN WAS ON SCENE
Whether He Was White or
Black is Not Known.
ONLY MADE A FLESH WOUND
In His Arm—Other Iwj Balls Went Astray.
Authorities After the Would-be
Assailant,
Atlanta, Sept. 17. —Concerning the
shooting of J. H. Lofton, the negro
postmaster at Hogansville, Wednesday
night, R. H Jenkins, the mayor of the
town, sends the following signed state
ment to the Atlanta Journal:
'•There is not one word of truth in
the published statements about the
shooting of the negro postmaster at
Hogansville, except that he was shot.
“One person entered his back yard at
7:30 o’clock and fired three shots at him,
one taking effect in his arm, while he
sat on his back piazza.
"No one knows whether he was black
or white or some tramp, or why he was
shot. It was a flesh wound.”
Lofton lias held the office for three
montba When he was appointed every
white man in the town of 500 people
raised a voice of protest. When the
Republican administration forced the
negro on tin town it became very evi
dent that the office would not ruu very
serenely.
A boycott was at once declared against
the postoffice at Hogansville. The citi
zens had their mail sent to another post
office miles -way, and would not pat
ronize Lofton’s office. A postoffice in
spector was sent to the town last week
to adjust the trouble and get the boycott
declared off.
It is said that the people of Hogans
ville made complaint to the authorities
at Washington to the effect that the
negro was sullen and disrespectful to
the citizens. They claimed that they
were forced into daily contact with him
and that his boorish and ugly ways
made such contact very objectionable
and obnoxious. The citizens say that
this complaint had no effect and was
unnoticed by the authorities.
The postoffice authorities will do
everything in their power to punish the
men who shot the federal official. An
inspector has been sent from Chatta
nooga, and will stay at Hogansville
until he finds the guilty parties dr finds
that it is impossible to locate them.
PRESIDENT GIVES OUT PIE.
List of Lucky Ones Includes Three Ala
bamians—Other Appointments.
Washington, Sept 17.—The presi
dent has made the following appoint
ments:
George D. Pettit of Pittsburg, consul
at Dusseldorf, Germany.
Frank Simmons, United States mar
shal for the northern district of Ala
bama.
John A. Steele, register of the land
office at Huntsville, Ala., vice Ellis
removed.
Herschel V. Oatchin, receiver of pub
lic moneys at Huntsville, Ala., vice
Avery, removed.
William O. Whipple, register of land
office at Little Rook, Ark.
A. Clark Tonner of Canton, 0., to be
assistant commissioner of Indian af
fairs.
Jacob B. Blair, surveyor general of
Utah.
Edwin D. Coe, pension agent at Mil
waukee.
Dewey H. George, agent for the In
dians of the Green Bay agency in Wis
consin.
Charles D. Keyes, Indian agent of the
Fort Apache agency, of Arizona.
Three Men Hurt In n Wreck.
Erie, Pa, Sept. I’.—An engine, two
mail cars and a coach were ditched on
the Lake Shore road at Ashtabula and
Engineer “Mike” Reagan, Fireman H.
Brooks and Brakeman J. B. Eoff of.
Toledo were slightly hurt.
Warships For West Ind lets
Halifax, Sept. 17. The British
warships at this port, with the ex
ception of the flagship Renown, have
received Instructions to be ready to pro
ceed to the West Ind.ies next ween.
DAMPIER DEFIANT
Slayer olParktrCansing Terror
At Hahira.
Sends Several Prominent M an Word
That He Will Kill Them
On Sight.
Atlanta, Sept. 17.—A special to The
Journal from Hahira, Ga.. says: Shel
ton Dampier, the slayer of Sum Parker,
is still at large and is causing a reign of
terror in this community.
Dampier was pardoned out of Mcßae’s
convict camp. He had sworn revenge
on Sam Parker, who was instrumeutal
in securing bis conviction, and he was
not long in carrying out hie threat by
•hooting rtirker down in the streets of
Hahira last Sunday while Parker was
on his way. to church.
Since that time he has been hiding,
but has sent, messages to other citizens
that he intends to kill them on sight
The country around here is largely
covered With dense swamps, where a
criminal can find easy concealment and
from which it is hard to dislodge a des
perate man.
One of the men threatened by Dam
pier is Adam Martiu, a prominent citi
zen and a leader in the Masonic fra
ternity. Martin and his family are
greatly distressed and have appealed to
the Masons for protection.
The citizens of Hahira have held a
meeting and a reward of SSO has been
offered for the arrest of Dumpier, but
so far the state officials have done noth
ing towards securing his apprehension
and preventing further bloodshed.
MINERS LEAVING.
Those In tie Jellico District Are Going to
Alabama Mines.
Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 17.—An
exodus of the miners m the Jelico coal
district has been inaugurated. It now
seems that they are equally as anxious to
get away from their old environment as
the yellow fever refugees are to forsake
the south.
Twenty miners and their families
reached'this city and left at once for
Walker county, Ala., where they will
enter a new coal mine recently opened.
This is near Birmingham and the coal
mined there will be marketed at Birming
ham.
When asked as to the reason of this
change one of the leaders of the moving
miners stated that an agent of the Walker
county mines had been in the Jelico dis
trict for several days, and had made con
tracts with the miners now en route to
work for 45 cents per ton on the general
run of the mine. This was better than the
Jelico operators would pay, even if the
scale proposed was put through, as other
conditions in the contract with the miners
make it possible for them to make more
money by working in the Alabama
mines.
In addition to this large, party of
miners, it is expeeted that otheis will go
to Alabama and engage in the mining of
coal. Agents of various Alabama opera*
tors are now in the Jelico region and are
making efforts to secure the best men to
go to the adjoining state.
, The operators here claim they can get
the men to come back after the strike
question is satisfactorily adjusted. In
the event they do this they will be put at
considerable expense in paying the rail
road fare of the men, and in the end it
may cost them more than it would have
had they conceded to the miners’ de
mands in the beginning.
Road Nearing* Completion.
San Francisco. Sept. 17. Prince
Pontatowsky and T. S. Bullock, the
New York broker and railway con
tractor, who are spending about SBOO,-
000 in the construction of the Sierra
Pacific railway from Oakdale ou the
Southern Pacific to Jamestown, Tuo
lumne county, expect to have the road
completed by Oct. 7 next. The road
Will be 42 miles long.
Convention of Electrician*.
Niagara Falls, Sept. 17.—At the
convention of the Edison General Elec
tric companies several interesting papers
were read and discussed. The follow
ing officers were elected: President,
Samuel Insul, Chicago; vice president,
li. R Bowk«r, New York; secretary,
Nelson S. Howells, New Jersey; treas
urer, W. S. Barstow, Brooklyn.
Jail Delivery in Johnson.
Wrightsville, Ga., Sept. 17.—A1l
the prisoners confined in Johnson county
jail have escaped. Some desperate
characters would have been placed on
trial next week, as the superior court
convenes next Monday.
AI de i, in* n I'Maeii 'way,
Oolumbus. Ga., Sept. 17.—A. Barnet,
• well knowu citizen and ex-alderman I
of Phoenix City, Ala., is dead.
MOB LAW
INMEXICO
Would Be Assassin of
Diaz Lynched
ANOYO IS LYNCBED
MobtoWe Directed by Signs in a
Mysterious Way.
OFFICERS AT JAIL OVERPOWERED
Doors Broken Down by Big
Timbers by 100 Men,
TWENTY OF LYNCHERS ARRESTED
Trembling Assassin Taken Ont and Killed.
Cheer, for Diaz and the
Republic by Crowd?.
New York, Sept 17.—A special from
the City of Mexico to The Evening Tel
egram says:
Arroyo, who Thursday assaulted Pres
ident Diaz, was lynched during the
night by a mob of common people.
About 20 of the lynchers were arrested
The mob had apparently no organiza
tion, but it was directed in some mys
terious way.
They broke into the jail by forcing
the doors with huge timbers handled by
100 men. They overpowered the guards
and surrounded them, while a detail of
men ran down'the corridor and dragged
out the trembling Arroyo.
Crowds thronged the streets cheering
for Diaz and the republic.
CASE GOES TO THE JURY.
Motion For Instructions to Acquit l>r.
Hunter Is Overruled.
Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 17.—The issu
ance of Dr. Hunter’s card absolving ex-
Senator Blackburn and other Democrats
from any conspiracy in obtaining the
indictment against him slightly les
sened the general interest in the trial of
himself and others on indictment for
conspiracy to bribe, and the courthouse
Was not so suffocatingly crowded.
It was plain that the defense was no
longer going to attempt to prove that
Dr. Huuter had never been in South
Frankfort, but rather he had gone to
see a sick stat® senator at Baumes col
lege, and not to Noel Gaines’ house.
But the prosecution introduced several
witnesses who corroborated Tanner’s
story as to Hunter's being in Sonth
Frankfort that night, that he was
enroute to Gaines’ house and he was
jbeyond the proper route to Baumes.
The prosecution announced that it
had but one more witness and the de
fense asked the jury’s withdrawal and
made a motion for peremptory instruc
tions to acquit on the ground that no
conspiracy bad been proven. The ar
gument of the motion consumed some
time. The < >urt overruled the motion
for peremp ry instructions and an
nounced that the case must go to the
Jury.
Regarding a iiato Redaction.
Raleigh, Sept. 17.—Colonel’ L. U.
Edwards of Oxford, Captain O. A.
Cook of Warren and Attorney General
Waler are here in consultation as to the
answer to be filed before Judge Simon
ton at Wilmington in the injunction of
the Western Union Telegraph company
against the railroad commission in re
gard to the cutting of rates.
Fighting the Forest Fires.
Sheridan, Wy., Sept. 17.—The forest
fires along Ball mountain and in the
Piney and Little Goose Creek county
continue to burn almost unchecked.
The only persons fighting the fire are
the settlers and a party of Crow In
dians. who are trying to prevent the
spread of flames to the reservation
ranges.
Dock Laborers Still Oat.
Brunswick, Ga., Sept. 17.—The dock
laborers’ strike passed without demon
stration. Efforts were made to bring
laborers from Darien, but it is under
stood Brunswick parties sent au intimi
dating message to Darien which de
terred the meu from coming.
A Merchant isl
Sanderson, Fla, Sept. 17.—A J. W.
Cobb, a merchant, was assassinated in
his store here while waiting ou a cus
tomer. The murderer shot through a
glass window from the outside of the
house and was not seen. Cobb was
about 40 years old. He leaves a wife
and one qhild.
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TBE SPANISB WIN
Official Reports Say Cubans
Were Surprised.
Killed Several and Captured a
Large Amount of Am
munition.
Havana, Sept. 17.—1 t is officially an
nounced that a detachment of troops be
longing to the battalion of Cuba re
cently surprised an insurgent camp in
the bushes near Baracoa, province of
Pinar del Rio, and after killing several
of the enemy captured 56 boxes of am
munition and 56 boxes of Remington
rifles of the Mauser pattern.
The military commander at th®
Oampo Florida, province of Havana, re
ports that while reconnoitering he found
15,000 Remington cartridges and a med
ical chest.
Unofficial advices from Turquino,
near Cienfuegos, province of Santa
Clara, are to the effect that the insur.
gent leader, Anastasier Jiminez, with
12 of his followers, all armed with
have surrendered to the Spanish author*
ities
Think* C«»t&l<l M hip Jap*n.
Toronto. Sept. 17. John Harp of th®
Chinese imperial customs of Tien-Tsin
has arrived here on a four months’ fur
lough. Mr. Harp said that when he left
Chiua , four weeks ago it was not seri
ously thought there would be a war
between tne United States and Japan.
Should suc.ii a war break out, said Mr.
Harp, the Japanese could not hope to
succeed against a great country like the
United States, as the finances of tha
former would soon give out.
TennenAeean Gets In Trouble.
St. Louis, Sept. 17.—John Brigman,
alias Kelly, aged 82 years, who is under
arrest here, is said to be wanted by the
authorities of Memphis, Tenn., on the
charge of assault to kill and jail break
ing. He and his family are quite well
known in political circles throughout
the state of Tennessee. At one time he
occupied the position of deputy sheriff
at Memphis. He refuses to return to
Tennessee without requisition papers.
Work For Threw Thousand.
Allentown, Pa.. Sept. 17.—The Cor
nel Steel company of New Jersey,
which is said to control a process for the
manufacture of steel without flaws or
blowholes, is about to close negotiations
for the purchase of the two large mills
at Fullerton, Lehigh county, from cred
itors of the defunct Catasaqua Manu
facturing company. The mills will be
rebuilt and enlarged and will be started
in six months. They will give employ
ment to 2,500 hands.
The Luatgert Murder Trial.
Chicago, Sept. 17. When the trial
of Adolph L Luetgert opened ths cross
examination of Professor Dorsey was
resumed. He was questioned as to the
comparative nature of the sesamoid and
femur bones of a calf, sheep and a hu
man being. His answers were tech
nical and adroit, but of a character that
supported his original identification and
testimony with reference to the bones
in evidence.
Ineraai. in Freight Baslnow.
Scranton, Pa. Sept 17.—The Dela
ware, Lackawanna and Western rail- '
road has placed its several hundred
•hop men in this city on 10 hours’ time,
aa increase of two hours a day over th®
time worked the last eight months.
This is due to the necessity of maintain
ing and enlarging the rolling stock,
owing to greatly increased freight busi
ness upon the company’s linea
Number of Anarchist. Jailed. ***
Brussels. Sept. 17. —Subsequent to
the expulsion from this city of Louise
Michael, the French anarchist, and her
two companions, Charlotte Fauvilleand
Brousson Loux, who had come here for
a fortnight’s speech making tour in aid
of the families of the anarchists ex
ecuted at Montjuich fortress, Barcelona
for the bomb throwing outrage during
the celebration of the feast of Corpr i
Christi in Barcelona In June of la> •
year, and in aid also of the ansrchis >
exiled for complicity iu the crime, tti
police arrested 15 persons who were sus
pected of being anarchists.
A Minister Kscomniuulo tied.
Madrid. Sept. 17.—Ths bishop of
Marjorca, Balearic Islands, lias excom
municated the Spanish minister of •
finance. Senor J. Reverter, for taking
possession of the treasury of a church in
nis diocese. The ministerwiroposes to
appeal against the bishop to the holy ses.
Big Banquet t«» He* rd 41 « h».
San Francisco, Sept 17 —A recep
tion was tendered to Rear Admiral N.
A. Beardslee at the rooms of the cham
ber of commerce in recognition of his
services aa commander of the Pacific
squadrou, from which he is about to
vet ire. _ _ _
Kutntnbwd In * Grain < argo.
Glasgow, Sept. 17.—During the un
loading of the Allan Line steamship
Tower Hill, Captain Brown, from New
York Aug. 28, which arrived here on
Sept. 10, the body of u young American
wus found buried deep in the grain. It
is supposed that the man wus shot in
with the grain when the vessel was
being loaded lu New. Yorx.