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BRIGHT AN9 BREEZY "All The News.” North Georgia's Great Daily. Only 50 Cents a Month. bcceMMtMMeMtMH ESTABLISHED 18871 - 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. S Increase Your Trades J * A Klondike Strike * $ By advertisin'” in The J Tribune. * Best medium In Norib Georgia* 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.