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FEVER IS
SPREADING
Over a Dozen New Cases
in New Orleans.
I
TEMPERATUREFALLS
But Does Not Det p r Yellow Jack From
CtutliiulnL
MOBILE ALA., IS ALMOST DESERTED
Over 20 Cases There S'nce Sat
urday. Business Paralyzed.
(EIGHT NEW CASES AT EDWARD?, MISS
Making a Total of 641a that City—Merldan
and Vicksburg Escape Plague
So Far, *
New Orleans, Sent. 20.—Dr. Joseph
. Holt, ex- president of the board of health,
has reported 13 cases of yellow fever
;,r in his practice. He says they were all
stricken violently, bat were much re
lieved by prompt medical attention.
A considerable fall was noted in the
temperature, and although the cooler
weather is not entirely helpful to the
sick it, encanrages the physicians to be
lieve the fever will spread less rapidly.
All patients heard from, except one or
two. are doing welt
The Illinois Central has discontinued
two trains on its valley and two on its
main line. Quarantine regulations have
caused their withdrawal. Very few
trains are running on any road and
there is a consequent slowness in the
delivery of the mails. Many towns
continue to refuse to receive New Or
leans papers, fearing infection.
The city hospital has offered to send
free physicians and medicines to the in
digent who are attacked with fever.
The authorities do not care to receive
yellow fever patients in their charity
hospital.
MANY DESERTING MOBILE.
Families Are Fleeing From Yellow Fewer.
Business is Suspended.
Mobiie, Sept. 20.—This city is being
rapidly depopulated as a result of the
« announcement of over 20 cases of yel
low fever since Saturday. Every one
Who can afford it, with the exception of
-those whose callings compel them to re
main, is seeking refuge in cities beyond
the state.
The roads from Mobile to Whistler,
Spring Hill, Oottage Hill. Dog river
and Grand Bay are literally lined on
either side with refugees, and it is re
ported that as many as five persons are
sleeping in one room at Spring Hill,
•where the crush of refugees is greatest
in the suburbs.
Wholesale business is entirely sus
pended, while retailers are apprehensive
of utter ruin,
NO FEVER AT MERIDIAN.
Ballroad Truffle Alabama and Vlolu
burg May Ho Baatorad.
Meridian, Miss., Sept. 30.—At a
meeting of the Cotton Exchange a reso
lution was adopted accepting the olive
branch extended by Vicksburg in offer
ing the restoration of railroad traffic on
a the Alabama and yicksburg.
The Alabama board of health was
asked to open negotiations with Gen
eral Manager Harvey to run mail trains
and freight from Meridian to Forest and
Brandon and return every day, no pas
, Sangers to be carried.
Meridian continues free from sus
picious sickness.
Some of the refugees have gotten
over their fright and have returned.
Business is improved on account of con*
fidence in the quarantine.
Eight New Cuu at Edward*.
Edwards, Miss., Sept 20.—New cases
since last report: Dr. Wallace Cham
pion, John Ivy, Frank Angelo, Mrs.
Jatliflf, Ernest Birksong, Mrs. R. M.
erry, Mrs. Frank White, Jesse Sharp
(a negro), Mary Leonard (a negro),
Snda Garrett (a negro) and Louis
ompsou (a negro). Total number
yellow fever cases registered, 54. Colo
nel Bobb is reported very sick. Nathan
and Hudakin also quite sick. They re
cently came here from Louisville. AU
-Other cases reported doing well. Every
thing is moving along smoothly and
•every one working harmoniously to
gether. Our quarantine is as strict and
effective as is possible to make it.
The Situation at Vlek* burg.
Vicksburg, Miss., Sept. 30. Weather
• cool anc| braciu?; town healthy, rigidly
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
M’KINLEY HESITATES
President and Cabint t Worried
About Lyons.
L. W. Garrett Appointed As Colum
bus—On a Large List Lyon’s
Name Don’t Appear.
Washington, Sept. 20.—President
McKinley and his entire cabinet are
very much worked up over the at
tempted killing of Postmaster Loften,
of Hogansville.
He is hesitating about the appoint
ment of J udson Lyons at Augusta, and
though a great deal of pressure is being
brought to bear on him, doubt exists in
the minds of many people here as to
Lyons getting the coveted place.
Lyons, Bill Pledger, Johnson and
Jas. Hill, the colored national com
mitteeman from Mississippi, called on
the president today and urged Lyons
immediate appointment. Hill said that
he did not know anything about the
Hogansvillq affair, but he felt certain
that it did not express the true senti
ment of the, best white people. He
said that it wquld be observing the in
terest of the party to give Lyons the
place.
A large number of postofflee appoint
ments were announced today, but
Lyons* name did not appear among
them. L. W. Garrett was appointed at
Columbus.
q'u'arantineu. Stare board of health has.
ordered tropical fruit excluded from the
state, also newspapers unless fumigated.
Dr. Hunter left for Jackson on a special
train to bring out tents for Edwards’
refugee camp. State board is advised
that ciriz-ns near Osyka, Miss., were
demanding release of persons in quar
antine at state line. The board wired
Adjutant General Henry requesting
that the Capital Light guards of Jack
sou be sent there. Two suspicious cases
are reported near Smith Station, Hinds
county. These will be investigated at
once.
MOVED HEADQUARTERS.
Mobile & Ohio Railroad Offices Carried to
- M t. Louis Temporarily.
St. Louis, Sept. 20.- The headquar
ters of the Mobile & Ohio railroad have
been moved from Mobile -to this city
until the fever dies out.
A special train bringing all the officers,
clerks, wives and families arrived here
today.
Permit One Freight Per Day
Meridian, Miss., Sept. 20.—Upon
urgent demand of the people the may
or of this city permits one freight
train per day to run between this
place and Forest.
Two New Cases at Mobile.
Mobile, Sept. go.—Only two new
developed here today. They were J.
E. Bolton and Mrs. W- T. Carroll.
NoNew Cases at Cairo.
Cairo, HL, Sept. 20.—N0 new cases
have developed here, and the sick are
all doing welL Bigid quarantine is
enforced,
. NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Baltimore Defeated by New York-Boston
Didn’t Flay.
Washington, Sept. 20.—The Bos
ton—Brooklyn game was prevented
by rain today. Baltimore was defeat
ed by New York. Baltimore leads
Boston by the narrow margin of three
points. The scores:
New York 9, Baltimore 7.
Philadelphia 2, Washington 1.
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
J. M. Sweiney, aged 54, killed himself
in Atlanta with a pistol. Caused by
despondency from poor health.
The grand lodge of the Independent
Order of Good Templars meets in At
lanta this morning. Hundreds of dele
gates are expected.
J. H. Logerquist, a brakeman, was
crushed under the cars at Montezuma, Ga.
Judge Howard Van Epps has resigned
from the Atlanta board of education.
Postmaster at Calhoun.
Washington. Sept. 20.—S. M. Savis,
Jr., was appointed postmaster at Cal
houn, Ga., today.
Deteotlve shoots >, Negro.
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 20. —Charley
Bay, a young detective, shot and fatally
wounded John Malone, a negro, on Yay
street. Bay, while searching for an
other negro, had some trouble with Ma
lone, and the negro drew his pistol and
opened fire, whereupon the detective
fired a ball into his assailant’s stomach,
which will likely produce his death.
Bay has surrendered to the sheriff.
ROME, GA., TUESDAY, SEPT
KICKS OF
NO AVAIL
President Will Appoint
More Negroes
ASOUR POSTMASTERS
Attemp'ed Killing o( Lofton at Hogans
ville Wont Stop His,
SO. INFORMS A PARTI FROM SOUTH
Suggestion As To No More Ap
pointments Is Scorned-
IF COMPETENT WILL SELECT NEGROES
Will Make NoColor Discriminations. Lyons
Visits President And Discusses
Hogansville Affair.
Washington. Sept. 20. President
McKinley announces that the attempted
assassination of Isaac H Lofton, the
negro*postmaster at Hogansville, Ga..
will not deter him from appointing ne
groes A office in the south if they are
qualified for the positions and their
recommendations are satisfactory.
This determination was indicated to a
party of southern politicians who called
at the executive mansion and made the
suggestion that, in view of the hostility
manifested towards negro officeholders,
it might be well to refrain from making
any more such selections. It was inti
mated that there has been no abate
ment in the south of hostility to negroes
who are given federal positions, and
that all who assume official functions
will be persecuted, perhap*, to the ex
tent of assassination, if necessary to se
cure their removal.
The president plainly stated that there
is no discrimination made by the con
stitution or laws against- negroes in any
section of the United States. All are
alike citizens, and the color of a man
cannot constitute a bar to his holding
office if his character and accomplish
ments entitle him to the respect of the
community in which he resides.
GROOMING FOR GOVERNOR.
Atlanta Papers Anxious to See Mayor Col-
Iler >uooeed Atkinson.
Atlanta, Sept. 20.—Some of the lo
cal papers are making an effort to raise
a gubernatorial boom for Mayor 00l-
Her. The mayor has said nothing about
running for the office,* but there are
some of his friends and fellow citizens
who insist that he is nursing such an
aspiration.
He has made a Capital chief of mu
nicipality and is ambitious to make a
record as a public man. This, together
with the fact that he has an ample for*
tune, and is generally supposed to be
willing to turn it loose whenever he
gets into a political melee, is partially
responsible for the talk that is being
indulged iu among the local papers and
politicians.
If Mayor Collier should, however, de
termine upon a try for the governorship
he would, of course, receive solid local
support, but rhe best posted politicians
who are writing up the gubernatorial
slate for next year are not doing any
figuring at all upon a candidate from
Atlanta. They are looking to middle
and South Georgia, for their timber,
and say it would be futile for a North
Georgian, especially an Atlanta man,
to go up against these sections this
time.
LYONS VISITS PRESIDENT.
Georgia Negro See, .Ho Mul.y—
of Lofton DirtCUtfged.
Washington, Sept. 20.—Among the
callers at the White House during the
day was Judson Lyous, the negro can
didate for the Augusta, Ga., postmaster
ship. The shooting of the negro post
master at Hogansville, Ga.. was the
subject of much comment among other
representative negroes who called on
the president.
One of them, -National Committee
man Hill of Mississippi, who was post
master at Vicksburg under the Harri
son administration, said that the Ho
gansville incident was in no way char
acteristic of the attitude of the people
of the south. The radical feeling had
been largely overcome, he said, and
such as existed was confined to ths
smaller communities
The choice of negro officials would
not, he said, lead to any great opposi
tion, so long as the men named were
capable of transacting the public busi
ness.
MBEli 21. 1897.
FIRE IN A COAL MINE.
Five Men Known to Have
Perished.
A Large Number Rescued Alive.
Mine Badly Damaged, and
. Loss Heavy.
Birmingham, Sept. 20.—A dreadful
fire broke out in No. 2 mine Belle Eden
in Bibb county. *
It is known that five men perished,
but just how many more could not be
learned. A large number were res
cued.
A special train was ran from Bir
mingham, but arrived too late to ac
complish much good. The mine was
badly damaged.
PENITENTIARY COMMITTEE
First Session Today at 11—Penal Island Flan
is Favored.
Atlanta, Sept. 20.—The penitentiary
committee wiil meet tomorrow at 11
o’clock.
Chairman H. Hall, of the house com
mittee, h»s drafted resolutions which
embrace both the penal island and the
interior farm plan.
Chairman Cook, of the state commit
tee, has been to Sapelo, and likes the
idea. The island is not as fertile as he
expected. Hts is impressed with the
plan.
The committee may be in session
many days. It may be left to a sub
committee who will report back to the
big committee.
Hon. Mose Wright is expected from
Rome to morrow to present the ad
vantages of Ossabaw Island.
MONUMENT TO ’GE’ORGIANS.
Shaft Being Erected at Chattanooga I«
Almost Completed.
Chattanooga, Sept. 20.—General H.‘
V. Boyntou, president of the Chicka
mauga-Chattanooga National Park com
mission, has arrived here aud announces
that fine estate of Illinois will begin at
once the erection of two more hand
some monuments to cost $15,000 each.
One of these will be on Orchard Knob,
where the large body of Illinois soldiers
fought on the first day’s battle on Mis
sionary Kidge. The other will be just
north of Bragg’s headquarters, ou Mis
sionary Ridge. The Illinois park com
mission will meet on Sept. 2, at Spring
field, and let the contract for the monu
ments. General Boynton also says the
ten monuments erected by Illinois on
the Trueblood place are not in position.
The Twenty-eighth and One Hundred
and Forty-seventh Pennsylvania monu
ments on Lookout mountain are nearly
finished and work has been begun on
the Sixth Illinois monument in Hooker
battlefield.
The Georgia monument, which is be
ing built at a cost of $20,003, is nearing
completion.
THE ODD FELLOWS MEET.
Sovereign Grand Lodge Begins Its Annual
Session at Sprlngflsld.
Springfield, Illa, Sept. 20. The
city is gaily decorated in honor of the
members of the sovereign lodge. Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, which
holds its annual session here this week.
Delegates from all over the country and
many from Europe, Canada, Australia
and other places are present.
The opening session was held in rej>
reseutative hall, state house, ex-
Adjutant General Alfred Oreudorf pre
siding. Governor Tanner delivered an
address of welcome to state; Mayor
Larren E. Wheeler welcomed to the
city.
Addresses were made by Hon. George
O. Rankin of Monmouth, graud master;
J. D. Murphy of Bushnell, grand pa
triarch, aud Mrs. May D. Stone of Van
dalia, president of the Rebekah as
sembly.
Grand Sire Fred Carleton of Austin,
Tex., responded to all the welcoming
addresses.
Double Hauling on Friday.
Lawrenceville, Ga., Sept. 20.—The
motion for a new trial in the case of the
state versus A T. Brooks, convicted of
murder in Jaekson superior court, was
heard here aud the motion overruled.
Colonel E. T. Brown, Brooks’ attorney,
will make no further effort, it is re
ported, which meaus death. Brooks
and Reynolds will both be hanged next
Friday, Sept. 24, at Jefferson, Ga.
Printing IHlls *1 lirice FaiilT
Raleigh, Sept 20.—The state treas
urer will, within a few days, file the
c-mplaint against Stewart Broa, the
ex-state printers, for alleged noncom
pliance with the law and other irregu
larities in regard to the state printing.’
It is said the attorneys for the state
have already found where fully SB,OOO
has been paid the Stewarts for work not
done. It is said that, in some instances,
bills for work were paid two or three
times.
President Nniue* a I'nlr.
Washington, Sept. 20 —The presi
dent has appointed Archibald J. Samp
sop of Arizona minister to Ecuador,
mid E. G. Kennedy of South Dakota,
United States marshal for South Da
kota. I
ARE TAKEN
JTO TASK
London Globe Reads
U. S. Lesson
ABOUT ARBITRATION
Says Salisbury Traats America With
Undeserved Leniency.
‘ DISREGARD LEGAL PRESCRIPTIONS
And the Ordinary Courtsies of
Civilized Nations,”.
SAYS THIS COUNTRY IS FOURTH RATE
“America Has Lost All Sense of Proportion
and Forgotten That She Only Plays Minor
Bole in tbe World’s Affairs.”
London, Sept. 20.—The Globe, in an
editorial on the futility of arbitratiou
with a power “which disregards alike
the legal prescriptions and ordinary
courtesies of civilized nations,’’ says:
“Lord Salisbury has treated the United
States with a kindness .they do not de
serve, always wearing the silk glove,
'until America has forgotten the exis
tence of the iron.hand beneath it.”
In conclusion, The Globe remarks:
“The idea of our being afraid of a
fourthrate power like the United States
could only occur to sufferers from a se
vere attack of swelled head. America
has lost all sense of proportion aud has
forgotten she plays only a minor role in
the affairs of the world. We hope our
relations with America will hereafter
be distinguished by a firmer tone, as
the only way to avert trouble is to make
her plainly understand that we are de
termined not to be shouted out of our
rights.”
SITUATION OF THE STRIKE.
Men Gather About the Eckley Mines In a
Menacing Glauner.
Hazleton, Pa., Sept. 20.—The strike
situation has again assumed an un
certain phase. An attempt to resume
work was made at Pardee aud Lattimer
mines, but only 800 out of the 1,800
miners returned to work. These were
mainly Italians, with a few English
speaking men.
During the night the Hungarians pa
raded through the settlement, beating
tin cans and kettles and raising a big
racket. This was done to notify those
of their race that they must not go back
to work. The warning was observed.
The Thirteenth regiment is keeping a
close watch for trouble.
News of a disturbance at Eckley has
reached brigade headquarters. About
half the strikers there attempted to re
turn and the others gathered about the
mines in a menacing manner. Com
panies O and E of the Fourth regi
ments were sent over and gave the
would-be workers protection.
The men at Driftou and Jeddo in the
same district, did not walk out. The
200 miners at the Lehigh aud Wilkes
barre’s aud McAdoo mines kept their
word and returned to work under heavy
military protection.
Mr*. NuruHn Coleman Dead.
St. Louis, Sept. 20.—Mrs. Norman
J. Coleman, wife of Norman J. Cole
man, ex-secretary of agriculture, is dead
at the family residence. 5471 Delmar
avenue. The deceased had been an in
valid for the last 15 years and for sev
eral months past she had suffered from
a complication of diseases. Mrs. Cole
man’s name was Kate Wright. Her
father wus a Captain George Wright, a
wealthy planter, and both he aud her
mother came to Missouri from Vir
ginia, settling at Loutre Island, Mont
gomery county, where Mrs. Coleman
was born, Oct. 10. 1843.
Fire Hh Own Factory T
Philadelphia. Sept. 20. The file
works of Mayer, Landis & Co., at
Twentieth aud Allegheny avenues, was
destroyed by fire. The loss is $20,000.
The building had scarce.y been des
troyed when Harry A. Landis, a mem
ber of the firm, was placed under arrest
aud held in $3,00'3 bail for a further
hearing, charged with setting the place
on fire. There was an insurance cl
$20,000 on the place.
An Italian Hark l-ibeletl.
Wilmington, N. O, Sept. 30. —The
Italian bark Nord America, Oaflero
master, was seized liere by the United
States marshal under a libel from the
United States court, charged with
smuggling.
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PBICE FIVE CENTS
THEPEOPLEAROUSED j
Abduction and Murder of Young'
Women.
Three Missouri Farmer Boys Sus- f
’ peeted. A Lynching May
Take Place.
Warrensburg, M,0., Sept. SO—Six (
days have elapsedj since the young
wife of Andrew Still was abducted by
three drunken farmer boys. Hull, Mc-
Gee and Jaekson, yet no trace of her
can be found. Feeling is still running
high in Jefferson township where the
outrage was committed, and the con
viction has become settled that mur
der has been added to abduction and
assault.
Advices today say that the missing
woman has not returned to Warsaw,
which disproves the story of young
Hull that she was placed on the train
at Leeton and sent to that place. All
concerned are now under arrest, but'
they etofatly deny any knowledge of
the whereabouts of their victim.
From present indications tbe anger
of the people of Jefferson township
will burst restraint if the woman is
not soon found.
It is probable that unless the young
woman is found Judge Lynch will
take hold of the case.
AN AMERICAN MURDERED.
81. Naked H«,ly la Discovered Floatleg 1
In ’lie River Thames.
New York, Sept 30. —A dispatch to
The World from Loudon says: Scot
land Yardsris now eudeavoriug to trace
the murderer or murderers of Moritz
Wilhelm Von Valtheim, a naturalized
American citizen, and from 1893 to 1898
American consul at Santa Marta, Co
lombia.
Ou Aug. 5 the naked body of a man
6 feet 4 inches iu hight was found float
ing iu the Thames iu the vicinity of the
docks. A strong lanyard rope was tied
tightly around the neck aud down the
back, tieing the hands and securely
fastened to the ankles. The body, it
was declared, had been iu the water for
months and the doctors affirmed that
death was caased by strangulation be
fore immersion. The police, content
with the verdict of the coroner’s jury,
consigned the bony to a pauper’s grave
in I|ford cemetery.
About two weeks ago Madam Vou
Valtheim applied to the home secretary
for an order to have the body exhumed,
for she beiieved it to be that of her hus
band. She said she had lost sight of.
him early in the year aud that he had
bigamously married a Greek lady, Ma
mie Magrovordate. whom he met in a
Bloorrisbury boarding house. The re
mains were exhumed last Friday uight
and Mme. Valtheim identified them as
those of her husband.
Von Valtheim had a remarkable ca
reer. Boru in the north of Germany
he began life iu the German navy and
then fought as a volunteer for Bulgaria
against Servia. He mtrried his first
wife, a Miss Years .ey, at Perth, west
ern Australia, iu 1886. Afterwards he
settled in the United States. Then he
went into the banaua trade at Santa
Marta, where he was appointed United
States consul.
Von Valtheim’s second wife discov
ered that he had another wife living
and begun proceedings to nullify her
marriage, but they were postponed on
information that Von Valtheim had
gone to Madagascar. However, a de
cree nullifying the marriage was
granted in July.
It is surmised that Vou Valtheim waa
thrown overboard from some foreign
ship.
STATE OF TRADE IN SOUTH.
ladustrlal and Ka,l<ie« Conditions Cob
linue to Improve,
Chattanooga, Sept 20 —Trade con
ditions continue encouraging. Corres
pondents located at important indus
trial centers of the south report a steady
increase in business, all lines of trade
showing more activity than for several
years past. A practical evidence of im
proved conditions is the increase iu the
numbet of inquiries for machinery re
ceived by The Tradesman during the
week.
Among the most important new in
dustries are the following: A 200-ton
copper furnace at Ducktown, Tenn.;
the National Development company,
capital $50,000, Norfolk, Va.; the Pearl
roller mill' capital SIOO,OOO, Randle
man, -N. C.; the Kentucky Co-Operative
Glass cornpany, capital $15,000, Louis*
Ville, Ky.; t le Ennis Light and Water
company, capital $50,000, Ennis, Tex ;
an iron foundry at Jesup, Ga., and the
.Newlin Steam Generating and Smoke '
Consuming Manufacturing company,
capital $1,000.01)0, Augusta, Ga.
The Oak Hill Miniug compauy, capi
tal $50,000. lias been chartered at Park*'
ersburg, W. Va.; the Texas Tellurion
aud Manufacturing company, capital
SIO,OOO, Austin, Tex ; the Harrimau
Metal Bedstead company, capital $lO,-
000, Harriman, Tenn.; a celluloid plant
to cost $25,000 at Lambert’s Point, Va.;
the Eunis 0.1 and Manufacturing com
pany, capital $50,000, at Eunis, Tex;
the New South Oil company, capital
$50,000, Helena, Ark., and the hide- '
pepdent Oil aud Gas company, capital
$150,000. at Cairo, W. Va. '
Woodworking plants will be estab
lished at Decatur, Ala.; Pensacola, Fla. J
Paducah. Kj„ and Atb"ns- Teuu.