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NINE NEW
CASESTHERE
Situation in New Or
leans is Improved.
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I BY COOL WEATHER
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Fever However is Spreading to Locali
ties Hitherto Imniuned.
BAGGAGE IS TO BE INSPECTED
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Mobile is Faring Well and Ex
citement Decreased.
ONLY ONE DEATH AT EDWARDS, MISS.
Paesenger Trains Taken Off b r the Mobile &
I I Ohio Railroad—Kataala Bnforees
Vlgoroua Quarantine.
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New Orleans. Sept. 21—Up to six
o’clock this evening nine new cases
have been reported by the board of
health, but no deaths have occurred.
J "The new cases are as follows:
Joseph Roth.
S. F. Majors
R. F. Reynolds.
B. W. Wood.
Nellie Stannell.
Fred Gund.
Mrs. Andrews.
Child of Judge Leath.
Child named Borth.
The new cases are very mild and not
of a malignant type at all. All cases
in the city are progressing favorably.
Th? only serious aspect to the situ
ation is that new cases have developed
in a portion of the city remote from
those hitherto reported, and in locali-"
ties which have been immuned.
The feeling is much better and less
■fear is entertained of an epidemic.
Two Cates at Fontainb'eau.
Camp Fontainbleau, Sept, 21. —Two
, cases of yellow fever have developed
here. One the camp bugler and the
other a soldier.
One Case at Mobile.
Mobile, Sept. 21.—Only one new
case of fever has developed here today.
The situation is very much improveed.
Waithoar Won.
Atlanta, Sept. 21.—The great race
between Bob Walthour and Jay Eaton,
the indoor champion of the world, took
place tonight in the presence of a large
crowd. Walthour won in 6:37.
HOPEFUL NEW ORLEANS
The Cool Weather Sends the Thermometer
Dowa to 62.
New Orleans, Sept. 21.—The loca
fever .situation was greatly improved by
• materially lower temperature, th
thermometer at 6a. m. being 62. Incu
bation of yellow fever germs requires u
sustained Fahrenheit temperature of SO
and if the present cool spell continues,
conditions promise steadily to grow bet-
• ter. While 18 oases were reported Mon
day, at least nine were properly to b<
accredited to Friday, Saturday and Sun
day, and only one of the 18 cases was
anything but a* mild type, the ex*<*otio«
• being unacclimated strangers.
Dr. J. Touatre, an experienced yellow
fever physician and a member of the
• -board of experts, says in an interview
■that the records since 1853 show that
yellow fever has never been declared
epidemic in any year after its appear
ance here inside of twoor three months.
That was the case iu 1858, 1857 and
1878.
The history of epidemics of the last
half century prove that all epidemics
, waned with the first cold of October,
disappearing almost entirely in Novem
ber. If we add a month and a half
<more to the period of incubation for in
fectious foci to establish themselves, we
■ 7 are brought almost to the end of Octo
ber to have an epidemic. An epidemic
at that late date is out of the question.
.Dr. Touatre produces a number of in
stances where fever broke out in August,
■September and October, only to be
quickly stamped out by the frost before
it had assumed the proportions of an
epidemic.
The principal topic of interest here is
the'letter ot Dr. Holt, replying to the
criticism that he had never promptly
reported his nine cases to the board of
» health and hi# rftfhv .fierce criticism of
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
HE DIED SUDDENLY
Liac Smith. Expires While
Waiting For Train.
James Scruggs Loses New Dwell
ing and Barn By Fire.
Partially Insured.
Summerville, Ga., Sept. 21.—Mr.
Isaac Smith died very suddenly at
Lyerly last night. His home was at
Alpine. He came to Lyerly yesterday
and was en route to Cav.< Spring to
visit his sister Mrs. Conall. While
waiting for the train to Rome he was
seized with a stroke of paralysis from
which death resulted last night.
He had lived in Chattooga county
many years, and was very highly es
teemed. He was 76 years of age.
Barn and House Burned.
James T. Scruggs, a prosperous far
mer near here, lost hishouseAnd barn
yesterday by fire. It originated from
the stove flue.
He had just finished them end the
dwelling was a handsome seven room
one, nicely furnished throughout.
His barn was one of the largest in
this county. In it were thirty-five
loads of hay, 4,000 bundles of fodder,
mower, harness and all the farming
implements. The stock were saved
He had SSOO insurance on his barn
with the Farmers Mutual Company
ot this county, but this sum will not
near cover his loss.
me action or me noara ot Health in rati
ing to quarantine Ocean Springs early
enough to have prevented the arrival
here of a large number of people with
their baggage from the infected poiuts
on the coast, causing the introduction
of the fever iu this city.
The government has put into effect
its baggage inspection at trains and
steamboats. It will require at least five
hours each day in which to do this
work of ipanection and the railroads
nave issued notices to outgoing passSn
gers to have all their baggage at depots
and landings at least five hours before
the departure of their trains and steam
boats.
SITUATION IN MISSISSIPPI.
C’Btnp of Detention to Be Established Near
City of Eiiwards.
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 21.—Dr. John
F. Hunter, secretary of the state board
of health, has arrived here from Vicks
burg to confer with Past Assistant Sur
geon Geouings of the United States ma
rine hospital service to arrange the de
tails of the detention camp to be estab
lished by Dr. Geddings 2 miles south of
Edwards. A special train has gone to
that point, carrying the catnp outfit.
Surgeon Geddings will await instruc
tions from Surgeon Geperal Wyman at
Washington before going to Edwards.
Dr. Purnell has been boring wells at
the camp site. One has been finished
which contains 8 feet of good water.
The weather here is decidedly cool
and bracing.
Situation at Mobile Improves.
Mobile, Sept. 21.—The yellow fever
outlook here is encouraging and promi
nent physicians express the belief that
the disease will be subdued and traffic
resumed at an early date. Only three
deaths have occurred in this city up to
date, one man who had beeu on a spree,
another of a bricklayer, in such bad
health that he had not been regular in
his work for a mouth, and the third of
a newsboy, up at all hours, exposed t
every change of the weather. Ti j
other patients are all reported as m good
condition and the president of the boa> I
of health congratulates the people upon
the improvement of the situation.
Ruasoll Won’t Invite Kafagaas,
Raleigh, Sept. 21.—Surgeon General
John Hey Williams of the state board
of health asked Governor Russell for
permission to telegraph Marine Surgeon
General Wyman offering the mountain
plateau of western North Carolina as a
refuge for refugees from the yellow fe
ver stricken districts. The governor
referred the matter to the state board
of health. He said he did not like to
act regarding it, as, pet-naps, a number
of the refugees might become destitute
and have to be supported and finally
sent home by the state.
One Death Near Edwards.
Edwards, Miss., Sept. 21.—New cases
of yellow fever since last report are as
follows: Mrs. Greaves, Sr., and Mra
George Elliott, both white, and three or
four negroes, names unknown. Oolonel
R. B. Robb died at 5 a m. of yellow fe
ver. He lived 5 miles in the country.
He will be buried and the hearse fumi
gated at once. Mrs. Henry is reported
not doing well, Mrs. Greaves, Sr.,
mother of Mrs. Henry, was taken wi
the fever Monday and is quite sick. All
other cases reported as doing well.
Taking Off Pas.angar Trains.
Meridian, Miss., Sept. 21.—The Mo
. bile and Ohio railroad has abandoned
two of its passenger trains on account
of the y Allow fever scare until further
notice. The company will only run one
train each way every day. There is no
change iu the situation in Meridian.
Citv of Eufaala Cautloaa.
Eufaula, Ala., Sept. 21.—The city Is
enforcing a vigorous quarantine against
al) districts infected with yellow fever
and no fears are entertained of the epi
demic reaching here.
ROME, GA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1897.
BIG BLOCK
IS BURNED
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Bad Conflagration Oc
curs at Columbus.
FOR TWENTY YEARS
The Place Has Not Had so Disastrous
a Fire,
DEPOT AND FACTORY DESTROYED
Loss Estimated at About SIOO,-
000 In All.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY, A SUFFERER
High Winds Balked Firemen in Their At
tempts to Fight the'Fire—All in
Block Goes Up.
Columbus, Ga., Sent. 21.—One of the
most disastrous fires from which Co
lumbus has suffered since the burniuv
ing of the Rankin House block 20 years
ago occurred when the lumber yard,
sash, blind and door factory, together
with the Southern railway’s freight de
pot, went .up in smoke. In addition to
the factory and depot, two Louisville
and Nashville freight cars loaded with
cotton were consumed.
The Loss of Butts & Cooper and the
Southern railway will aggregate $60,-
000, it is estimated. Butts & Cooper’s
plant and stock were valued at over
$20,000, on which there was only $6,500
insurance.
The property destroyed was all that
there was on the block, but at tunes the
building across the street caught and
there was imminent danger of the fire
spreading over a large portion of the
city.
There was a hard wind blowing at
the time and it was impossible for the
firemen to check the flames, which
gained a quick headway.
TRAIN WRECK KILLS TWO.
Head-End Col 11,Ion on the G. & A. Rail
road, a Mlle Wml of Helena.
Atlanta, Sept. 21.—A special to The
Journal from Mcßae, Ga, says: A ter
rible head-end collision occurred 1 mile
west of Helena, on the G. & A. rail
road, about 10 a. m. The engineer, J.
D. Young, and his fireman, on the east
bound extra train, were killed. Con
ductor G. R. Boyd was riding on the
engine and was badly hurt.
The eastbound was an extra train and
is said to have been' traveling without
orders. The westbound had no head
light and so the unfortunate engineer
and fireman did not have time to jump
after discovering their danger. Twelve
ears were smashed. The damage is
large.
SIX CHILDREN CREMATED.
Half a Doien Little Negro**, Looked In
by Their Farontn. Perish.
Columbia, S. 0.. Sept. 2!.—Andrew
Smith, a negro, and his wife, living in
the country near Donalds, Abbeville
county, locked in their house six chil
dren, four of their own and two visitors
from a neighbor’s The youngest was
18 months of age and the oldest 7 years.
The parents went to church.
An hour later neighbors heard fright
ful screams coming from Smith’s house,
the interior of which was in flames.
Negroes made heroic efforts to save the
children, but it was impossible to reach
them and they were cremated. It is
•opposed an oil lamp left burning was
overturned.
A BIG FIRE AT ARLINGTON-
Twenty Botnet Daatroyeil, Entailing a Lnn.
ot About Fifty Thonnaiid.
Arlington, Ga., Sept 21.—Fire broke
out at 2 a. m. ou the north side of Ar
lington in a restaurant occupied by O.
O McMurria and burned 20 houses on
the square before it stopped. The wind
was very high and it was impossible to
do anything with the fire. The loss is
estimated at not le<s than $60,000.
The merchants managed to save some
of the goods, but what were saved are
badly damaged and goods are scattered
all over the streets. The fire leaves
only five stores standing and the town
presents a gloomy appearance.
Fatal Full of a Fireman.
Macon, Sept. 21.—Bossy Silas, a fire
man on the Georgia road, fell from his
engine at Haddock’s station and sus
tained injuries from which be may die.
NATIONAL LEAUGE
Baltimore Now Leads by Eleven
Points.
Brooklyn and Boston Break Even.
The Scores in Other
Contests Yesterday.
Washington, Sept. 21. —Boston met
a Waterloo in the first game with
Brooklyn today, but found the trolly
dodgers easy in the second.
Baltimore bad no trouble in defeat
ing New York. This places them
eleven points ahead of Boston. The
scores:
Boston 5, Brooklyn 22, first game.
Boston 9, Brooklyn 1, second game.
Pittsburg 3, Cincinnati 11.
Philadelphia 4, Washington 5,
Cleveland 8, Chicago 7.
New York 3, Baltimore 10.
MOTIVE FOR THE MURDER.
Prosecution In the Luei K «rt Cass ‘floras
an Important Point.
Chicago, Sept. 21.—The prosecution
scored an important point in the Luet
gert case. Judge Tuthill ruled that the
motive evidence of Frank Bialk and
Frank Odorofsky, former employes of
the big sausage maker, was admissible
as long as it was direct. This was the
matter taken under advisement last
Saturday. The evidence of these two
men was in relation to the frequent
visits to Luetgert’s sausage factory of
Mary Siemmeriug, Luetgert’s servant
It was the theory of the state that
Luetgert’s alleged attentions to other
women was the original cause of the
trouble with his wife and his persist
ence in open flirtations with other
women culmiuated in a continued war
fare between husband and wife. Luet
gert, it is believed by the prosecution,
in order to pursue his course undis
turbed. conceived the idea of getting rid
of his wife and did so.
Frank Bialk, the aged watchman at
the Luetgert sausage factory, besides
watching the premises at night, kept
fires burning in the furnaces, was the
first witness called to show the motive.
He said that Mary Siemmeriug paid
frequent visits to Luetgert in the lat
ter’s office 7 in the sausage factory at
nigh’s.LtreSgerr, because of his un
pleasant domestic affaire, had a bed
placed iu a small room just off his office
and slept there.
The last time the witness remembered
seeing Mary Siemmeriug.there was one
week before May 1, the day of the dis
appearance of Mrs. Luetgert. It was
9:30 o’clock in the evening. Luetgert
and the young woman retired to the
bedroom and closed the door. The wit
ness said Mary Siemmering visited
Luetgert on an average of three nights
each week for mouths before Mrs. Luet
gert disappeared.
Attorney Vincent wanted to know if
the witness was not telling a story
which had been prepared for him by
the prosecution.
The old man shook his head slowly
and replied:
“No, I am telling the God’s truth.”
Frank Odorofsky testified to substan
tially the same story.
A BLIZZARD HITS ALASKA.
Prospector. Caught In a Storm on thfl
summit at < hlikoot Paas.
San Francisco, Sept. 21.—A letter
from Crater Lake, Alaska, dated Sept.
2, says:
"A thousand men toiled all of yester
day in a blinding storm of snow and
sleet on the summit of Ohilkoot pass.
The blizzard lasted from daylight until
dark. H. O. Willard of Butte, Mon.,
fell from the rocks at a point half way
between the summit and Crater Lake
and fractured a bone iu his left forearm.
“Au Indian chief at Dyea told me a
few days ago that Chilkoot pass would
probably be blockaded with snow about
Sept. 25. He said that miners fortu
nate enough to have their supplies across
the summit before that timfe can reach
Dawson. The rivers, he claimed, will
keep open until late iu November, al
though the lakes will probably be frozen
iu six weeks.
“Ten days ago the Indians charged
82 cents a pound for packing from Dyea
to Lake Lindemann. The rate is now
40 cents, When the next steamer ar
rives it will probably be up to 50 or 60
cents.”
Fired Che Negro Foremen.
Charleston, Sept 21.—The mana
gers ot the Charleston cotton mills,
where negro and white labor is em
ployed, undertook to put in half a dozen
negro bosses over the white operatives,
and the latter hands went out They
left the mill, making threats A squad
of policemen was detailed to prevent
trouble, but things became so squally
that the negro bosses were promptly
taken out
New Mlolrfter Named.
New York, Sept .21.—A dispatch to
The Herald from Constantinople says
>li Ferrouh Bey has been nominated as
the Turkish minister to Washington.
Rifaat Bey’s name has been withdrawn.
A WarAltlp For Guatem-tla
Victoria, B. 0., Sept. 21—It is re
ported that the British flagship Imperiuz'
has been ordered to suil for San Jose,
Guatemala, serious trouble being ap
prehended.
TALK, TALK,
TALKJALK
Penitentiary Committees
Convene iu Atlanta.
LARGE ATTENDANCE
Resolution to Lease the Convicts Again
is Introduced.
MANI VIEWS OF IS MANY MINDS
Goss'p Gathered in the Throng
of Politicians.
SEVERAL BILLS TO BE CONSIDERED
Members of Committees Seem to be Very
Much at Sea as To What Plan May
be Agreed Upon.
Atlanta, Sept. 21.—The lobby of the
Kimball house resounds these days
with the cheerful laughter and jolly
jokes of the politician. The house
and senate penitentiary committees
met this morning for the purpose of
devising the best plan for settling the
convict problem. A call of the roll
showed only eight absentees from the
committee of the house and only four
members of the senate committee
failed to respond.
Chairman Hewlette Hall in calling
the house committee to order stated
the coming session of the legislature
should settle the convict problem as
the next session would not meet until
three months after the lease system
expired.
The senate committee was then in
vited to hold a joint session with the
house committee, and came in shortly
afterwards. Senator Wesley Shrops
hire was named as a member of the
committee to notify the governor that
the body was ready to receive a com
munication from him. Prof. Roy
Stone, the government’s commissioner
of roads, addressed the members on
the subject of good roads. The hours
of meeting were fixed from 10 a. m.
to 1 p. m. and from 3 to 5 p. m.
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“I will not vote for any plan that does
not make the convicts self-supporting,”
said one of the rural members, and this
sentiment I found to be general. A good
contingent of the committee favor an in
terior farm colony centrally located, and
many think favorably of the penal island
plan. The administration plan as out
lined in Principal Keeper of the Peni
tentiary Turner’s report which recom
mends leasing about 1,700 convicts, and
working the remaining 600 on a farm, is
favored by supporters of Gov. Atkinson.
Then the opponents cry out: “The lease
system must go; no more bartering of
human slaves,’* Nearly every one of the
84 members of the committee has a dif
ferent idea.
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It is likely that several bills will be
considered. Chairman Hall has drawn
one which directs investigation of farm
and penal island plans. Judge Hopkins
has drawn another bill. There are oth
ers which will probably come to light.
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Among the farms proposed’is one of
25,000 acres in Camden county, one of
12,000 acres on Flint river and Sapelo
and Ossabaw islands.
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Congressman Maddox, Mayor S. 8.
King, Judge Joel Branham, James B.
Nevin and W. A. Patton came down
from Rome today.
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In the throng of politicians to be
noted here tonight are Senator Steve
Clay, Billy Clifton, Fleming dußignon,
Col. J. W. Robertson, Senator Battle,
Chairman Blalock, of the investigating
committee; Attorney General Terrell,
Judge Gober, Congressman Adamson,
Congressman Tate, Patrick Walsh and
many others.
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CHILIANS GO TO CUBA
Three Noted Men Join Central
Gomez’s Troops.
Supply Steamer Lands Safely—lm-*-
mense Quantities of War Muni
tions and Madielnes.
New York. Sept. 21.—The Journal
and Advertiser prints the following:
The Cuban junta has received authentic
advices of the safe landing on different
parts of Cuba of three big expeditions
between the first and twelfth of the
present mouth. They were the most
important that had been dispatched
since last winter and great joy prevailed
at the headquarters of the junta when
the news arrived that they had eluded
the Spanish, who were believed at one
time to have beeu ou their track. „
The three ships carried a large quan
tity of dynamite and other munitions of
war, together with an immense supply
of mediciues for the army of the patri
ots. In all there were over 40 meu on
board, goipg either to join the Cuban
army for the first time or returning id
the ranks. There were two doctors and
two dentists. Three of the most im
portant members of the expedition were
Carlos Duble, Carlos Buonocose and J.
L. Ahumada, former officers of the
Chilian army, who had beeu in New
York for several weeks awaiting an op
portunity to go to Cuba to help in the
fight for independence.
"This is the opeuiug of the fall cam
paign.’’ said Tomas Estrada Palma,
speaking of the expeditious. “It is an
earnest, moreover, of our inteution to
pursue a vigorous policy during the
coming winter.”
.STRIKE OF MINERS OVEfy
Hatch ford Says the Agreement Reached
Is a Victory For Labor.
Washington, Sept. 21.—M. D. Ratch
ford, president of the United Mine
Workers of America, who is here to at
tend a special meeting of the officers of
the federation of Labor, gave the fol
lowing authorized statement to the As
sociated Press.
“Today will see about. 75.000 miners
resume worK in the bituminous coal
fields of the central states. The strike
generally ends today. This is rhe mid
dle of the twelfth week of its duration.
It was brought to a close at our conven
tion held at Columbus, 0., Sept. Bto 11,
the ten days time being given to allow
miners and operators co come together
in Illinois and West Virginia to meet
the price fixed —65 cents a ton iu Pitts
burg, 56 cents in Ohio and Indiana and
the same to continue till the end of
December.
“The mining situation is not likely t'
become disturbed again until the begin
ning of next year, when they hope to
be able to settle the question amicably
and without the necessity of a strike.
It is understood that the strike Will con
tinue from the present time in all fields
and against all operators who refuse to
meet the rates. The great trouble will
be found in West Virginia and a por
tion of Illinois I am still hopeful,
however, that the producers in those
districts will conform to the change and
put their mines in operation. If they
fail to do this we will fight them as we
have done until the beginning of nett
year, at which time, it is said, their
present contracts will expire.
“I am well satisfiri, with the agree
rment reached and fbdl that it is the
greatest victory gained by tradesnnions
for years. Os course the victory is not
altogether with the miners. While
they have done the striking, trades
unions and organized bodies have sup
plied the necessaries, without which the
miners could uot possibly succeed. It
was a victory for organized labor and
not for any particular trade, and we
want our friends who have helped us to
feel that it is their victory as well as
ours. ”
Lynching In-Maw Tork Llkaly,
Whitehall, N. Y„ Sept. 21.—Frank
La Joie, the murderer of Deputy Sheriff
William Jackson, was captured by a
volunteer force of young men from
Schroon lake, near Whitney’s Clearing,
Paradox lake, within 1% miles of where
the murder was committed. La Joie,
who went to his mother’s house about
noon for something to eat, was in an
exhausted condition. He said he would
give himself up and offered uo resist
ance. Threats of lynching were freely
made by friends of Jackson.
Stopped a Fight and Died.
New York, Sept. 21.—A fight took
place at a Republican primary election,
held at the house of Herminius Breis
acher, one of the best known repre
sentatives of the Twenty-fourth as
sembly district, this city. Mr. Breis
acher, who was iu bed, rushed down
stairs iu his uight robe, flourishing a
cane, and drove the disturbers out. Mr.
Breisacher soon afterwards died of
heart disease, due to excitemeut and
sudden exertion.
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Presidtfiit Makeit Appointments,
Washington, Sept. 2i.—The presi
dent has made the following appoint
ments: William K. Herzog of Illinois,
consul at- Zeitlau. Germany; Francis H.
Wilson, postmaster at Brooklyn, N. Y.;
Benjamin F. Parlett., collector of in
ternal revenue for the district of Mary
land; Albert M. Lea, United Staies at
torney for the southern district of Miss
issippi; Frederick W. Collins, United
Stares marshal for the southern district,
of. Miss’ieiDDL .. .