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3 BRIGHT ANO BREEZY 8 3 -All The News.” J £ North Georgia’s Great * Daily. <S Only 50 Cents a Month. $ ESTABLISHED 1887. 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. * Increase Your Trade. ? w A Klondike Strike £ * By advertisin'* in The J Tribune. Best medium In Norin Georgia« PRICE FIVE CENTS 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.