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£ BRIGHT ANB BREEZY 1 £ -All The Newt.” * '£ North Geor-ia's Great £ Daily. & Only 50 Cents a Month. $ WM*CMiC«*M«*CCe# ESTABLISHED 1887. YELLOW JACK’S REIGN ’ CONTINUES™ SOUTH Mobile Bas Four Deaths and Two of These Were Only Taken With Fever Yesterday Morning. 7,000 PEOPLE FLEE FROM JACKSON, MISS Only 3,000 Negroes Left—Edwards Has 29 New Cases Making 119 in f all—Rigid Quarantine Against Atlanta’ in Various Cities. Jackson, Miss., Sept. 24.—Tonight -Jackson, once peopled with 10,000 hap py and contented souls, stands almost a •deserted city. The exodus today has been enormous, -and within the past, few days seven thousand people have refugee d from « here, leaving about three thousand, mostly negroes. Midnight Bulletins. Mobile, Sept. 24.—Three new cases and four deaths have been reported here today. Two deaths were patients who were stricken this morning, showing that the disease has assumed a more viru lent form, Edwards, Miss., Sept. 24.—Twenty nine new cases have developed here to day, making 119 in all. , Camp Fontainbleau, Miss., Sept. 24. —One hundred refugees are here now. ' Surgeon Gettings is in charge. No new cases have developed here. Atlanta, Sept. 34.—Carrie Fleming, the mobile girl, who has yellow fever, is improving. No other cases have de veloped, and no alarm whatever is felt. AH the Georgia towns have refused to quarantine against Atlanta, but all Ala« bama is against her. Seventeen people from here were put off at the state line today. Two of them were Englishmen, from London. Mails are being fumi gated here and at Tallapoosa. MOB FIRES FEVER HOUSE ’New Orleans People Object to Its Being Ueed as a Hospital. New Orleans, Sept 24. Three deaths have occurred from yellow fever during the day, as follows: Salvador Casanir, Frjd Gund and Miss Dreyfus. Nine new eases are reported up to 9 -o’clock. Efficient work* by the firts department in face of the attacks of a mob enabled the department to save the main por tion of the Beanregard school building. Only the annex of this structure was reduced to ashes. The alarm was sounded at 12:80 a. m. After a massmeeting of citizens a ri ptous crowd gathered aronnd the build tag and openly threatened that at the first opportunity they would fire it. Throughout the evening Sister Agnes and a number of sisters of. charity, to gether with help from the hospital, bad been putting the building in order for the reception of yellow fever patients. The school board in the meantime bad removed from the building every desk and article of furniture and the hos pital people had moved into the build; Ing cots and other necessary adjuncts , for the treatment of yellow fever pa tients. At nightfall, Snrgeon Bloom of the hospital, the sisters and others had been warned that they had best leave the building. They did so, headed by Sis ter Agnes, and made their way through a dense crowd of panic strickeu citizens. Then a small force of police were or dered to the scene. But the mob, bent -on incendiarism, were sharper than the guards and while the police were busily -engaged in attempting to quell the riot ous crowd in front of the building, two .incendiaries, with a 6-gallon can of oil, proceeded to the rear and quickly .had the building in flames. An alarm was turned in, but the first neighboring engine had scarcely ar rived when its hose was cut. When other engines arrived their hose was . 'also destroyed by the mob. Chief Gas ter and Captain Jonrnee finally arrived in a patrol wagon with a big squad of officers, which beat the mob back. Then the firemen went actively to work and succeeded in preventing the absolute destruction of the building. It is fuir to say that the action of the snob Is roundly denounced on all sides. The school is a handsome building, en tirely isolated and situated in the cen tal- of a lame rauare. There was UO THE ROHE TRIBUNE. danger of Infection from ft and people in the neighborhood are unduly fright ened. Unless, however, a company of soldiers is ordered out. to protect the builuing, it is not improbable that a sec ond attempt will be made to destroy it. RIGID QUARANTINE RULES. Aenounaetnsnt ot a Yellow Fever Case lu Atlanta Cante* Alarm. Atlanta, Sept 24.—The yellow fever case announced in Atlanta has caused new alarm to the state health board of Alabama and the cities of Oharleston, Brunswick and Savannah. The quaran tine regulations of Montgomery and Oharleston, which had been relaxed to the extent of permitting freight of cer tain classes from Atlanta, have been made more rigid than before. The entire state of Alabama has es tablished a quarantine against Atlanta that-shuts out everything, passengers, baggage and freight of every descrip tion. The express company now re fuses to receive anything for any point in Alabama, or for Oharleston, Bruns wick or Savannah. Express messengers in Alabama will be kept there by the company, and none from Atlanta will be allowed to oroee the Alabama line. The case of fever here is that of Car rie Fleming, a 14-year-old girl from Mobile. The honse in which the patient is confined, 119 Anburn avenue, has been placed under strict quarantine, and the board of health does not fear a spread of the disease. Dr. James F. Alexander, president of the board of health, furnishes the fol lowing statement concerning the yellow fever situation here : “I have paid a visit to the yellow fever patient, Miss Carrie Fleming, at 119 Auburn avenue. She is doing well, there are no unfavorable symptoms, and I regard it as a very mild case of yellow fever, and from p- esent indica-' tions I do not fear serious results. “So far as any danger of the spread of the disease is concerned, there need be no apprehension among our people, as the conditions existing here, in my opinion, preclude the possibility of any dsuper from an outbreak of yellow fe ver in Atlanta." NEW CASES AT EDWARDS. Twelve Here People Suffering: From Yel low Fever—An Appeal For A|<l. Edwards, Miss., Sept 24.—New oases of yellow fever are: Whites—Miss Ula Goode, Leroy Ratlitt, Miss Marie Lewis, A. J. Lewis, Sr., Miss Willie Poss, Mrs. 8. E. Birdsong, R W. Elliot, Mrs. R. W. Elliott, E. K. Noblin. Negroes—A. J. Jones, Mary Jones, Mary Smith. Total for the day. 12. Total to date, 112. Frank Rossman had blac k vomit dur ing the night and is in a dangerous con dition. All others are reported dis charged. Oases under treatment has increased to 70, with but four phy sicians. We need more doctors. Our people, as a rule, are averse to appealing to the outside world for assistance, except for nurses and doctors, but the disease is spreading se rapidly and many of the poorer classes are included in the list who are unable to bear any part of their burden and there is no denying the fact that we will in the near future have to accept the help that has so generously been offered from various points. While we are so rarely affected with the scourge which causes so much anx iety and suffering, yet it is mild and the fatality so small that we have much to be thankful for. BOARD IN EXTRA SESSION. Carolina OfficlMla Declaim No Part •( the Btat« Immune From Fever. Columbia, S. 0., Sept. 24.—An extya session of the state board of health passed resolutions resolutions declaring no town in the state immune from the yellow fever. The board announced that as soon as relieved of duties in the yellow fever district Dr. Geddings of the marine hospital service would be detailed to visit Clemson and inspect the sanitary conditions. The services of the government ex pert have been obtained because the ac curacy of the report of experts from the state board as to the epidemic of ty phoid fever at Clemson last July was questioned by the college authorities I It was ra.nl ved their m state board, of ROME. GA. SATURDAY, SEPL’emBEK 25. 1897. NATIONALJL BADGE Boston Won the first Came From Baltimore. They Now Lead the Baes by S lx Points—l3,ooo People Saw The Game. Baltimore, Sept. 241 The Bostons took the first game from the Champions today f and now lead the race for the pennant by six points. 18,000 people saw the contest, 135 of them from the* Hub. They wore red badges and rooted like good fellows. The mighty Nichols was pitted against the Orioles crack pitcher,»nd for the first time this season beat him out. Tbe Bos tons won squarely on their merits by supe rior all round playing, timely batting and magnificent fielding. Tenney and Long carried off the field ing honors for Boston. Up to the fourth inning of the contest it looked as though Baltimore would have a walk away, they having two runs and Boston none. . A combination of errors and timely hitting put the Bostons to the front, and they were never headed. The scores: Baltimore 4, Boston 6. Brooklyn 10, Philadelphia 9. New York 2, Washington 7,lst game. New York 8, Washington 4, 2nd game, health officer should accompany Dr. Geddings. The board considered at some length and approved tbe copy of a bill, which it has decided to have pushed at the next session of the legislature, provid ing for the registration of births, mar riages and deaths in this state. FIFTH VICTIM IN MOBILE. Rev. Father Daniel Murray Die* of Yel low Fever—No New Cases. Mobile, Sept. 24.—Rev. Father Dan iel Murray, the fifth victim of the yel low fever here, died at 7a. m He was a native of County Cork, Ireland; aged 80. He had been in this conntry four years, located near Birmingham, Ala.; and had been located at Montgomery. He had intended to take a vacation this fall, but hearing that Father Mc- Quillan was absent here, offered his services and arrived on Sept. 8. He was taken sick oh Sept. 20 and had 'in tense fever from the start. became delirious Thursday morning and died as stated above. Barge* For Quarantine Work. Washington, Sept. 24.—General Wil son, chief of engineers, has telegraphed instructions to Lieutenant M. Al. Pat rick,- the engineer at Memphis, Tenn., to transfer two barges used in the im provement of the Mississippi river to assist Surgeon Young of the marine hospital service for use in the quaran tine setvice in that vicinity. The re- ; quest for those barges was made by Surgeon-General Wyman and General Wilson issued his instructions immedi ately. Three hours later he received word from Lieutenant Patrick t.hat the instructions had been executed and the transfer made. California Officials Cautious. San Francisco. Sept. 24.—The Cali fornia state board of health is in daily telegraphic communication with Dr. Olliphaut, chairman of the Louisiana state board of health, and is kept con stantly advised of the condition of affairs in New Orleans and of the dan- Ser of the fever, extending. The board as decided that if the disease continues to spread they will inspect every train coming in from New Orleans and it they find passengers afflicted will quar antine the train and put the passengers in the hospital for detention. Kailroad Traffic Keanmed. Jackson, Miss., Sept. 24.—The Ala bama and Vicksburg railroad will rnn, commencing at once, a daily mixed train between Meridian and Jackson, consisting of mail, baggage and freight cars, which will arrive at Jacl son aboni 10:80 a. m. aud will leave Jackson about 12 noon, returning to Meridian, and ar riving there about 5:80 p. m. A mail and express messenger will accompany this train to handle mail and express. No Excitement at Natchea. Natchez, Mis.,Sept 24—The weathei continues clear and cool and the anxiety about yellow fever is abating. Quaran tine is still maintained as vigoronsly at heretofore, though there is some scarcity of volunteer guards. The health author ities have begun giving out small balls of camphor and asafetida wnich will be carried about the person to act as a constant disinfectant Alabama Day Postponed. Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 24—Ala bama day at the Nashville exposition has been postponed from Sept. 29 to Oct. 22, on account of the yellow fevei scare and the troublesome quarantine regulations. Gaffe Names Alubamian. Washington, Sept 24.—The secre tary of the treasury has appointed Ira W. Porter assistant surgeon of the ma rine hospita service at Mobile, Ala., t<l assist in the cases of yellow fever. , No Yellow Jack In AnffUdta. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 24. There is absolutely no foundation for the rumo: that yellow fever exists in this city. DOOM IS DELAYED Reynolds and Brooks to Live Four Weeks. GOVERNOR’S RESPITE t Reynold’s Confession Caused Brooks to Get Longer Time. ATTORNEYS CALL ON GOY. ATKINSON Murdered Man’s Brothers get Brooks Respited. THEY DESERVE A DOUBLE HANGING .Chief Executive of the State Decides to Post pone the Case Until He Can Further Investigate It. Jefferson, Ga., Sept. 24 The exe cution of Grady Reynolds and Bud Brooks, murderers of M. O. Hunt in Jackson county, did not take place here, as planned. -At 3 a. m. the governor respited Brooks for four weeks on a confession made by Reynolds that he, siuglehauded, had committed the mur der, but that Brooks planned the mur der and shared in the division of the money. Reynolds was dressed for the gallows, but upon a request made by the brothers of the murdered man that koth should hang together, the execu tion of Reynolds was deferred. The attorneys of the condemned men were given a hearing at the executive mansion in Atlanta and after listening to their arguments the governor decided to postpone the double execution until he has further investigated the case. The following is a brief history of the remarkable case as brought out at the recent trial: During the latter part of | last February, M. O. Hunt, a merchant at Belton, was inveigled by Reynolds to . Jacksen county, under* the pretense of , bird hunting and procuring money to Say Hunt for his stock of goods. While noting. Hunt’s attention was called to a bird. As he turned to look, he was dealt a mortal blow on the head. To rob him, was short work, and the blood- ■ thirsty murderers cut the body open with au ax and buried it in the river. Reynolds and Brooks then divided Hunt’s money, $2,000, between them, Brooks going towards Madison county and Reynolds to Belton. There, with unparalleled coolness, he commenced selling Hunt’s stock of goods so low as I to attract attention. Suspicion aroused, i Reynolds was arrested. When charged I with the murder of Hunt, he confessed j and implicated Brooks. He, too, was soon caught and both lodged In Jackson eounty jail. At the August term of court they were both convicted after a two days’ trial. Brooks confesses that he planned the murder, but that Reynolds did the bloody work alone. LUETGERT’S WIFE LIVING ? Two Witne**a* They Have Seen Her Siafte the Fire* of May. Chicago, Sept. 24. —The defense in the Luetgert trial devoted itself to strengthening the story that Mrs. Louise . Luetgert, who, according to the theory of the prosecution, was murdered May 1, had been seen in and around Keuo gha, Wis., on May 3,1 and 5. Two wit nesses, One of whom had known Mrs. Luetgert for seven years, positively identified a photograph of Mrs. Luet gert as the picture of the woman they saw at Kenosha on the dates meutitned. Mrs. Mattie Scherrer, Miss Maud Scherrer and Miss Gertruda Miller tes tified that Emma Sohrlmpke, since she had testified for the prosecution, had i said in their hearing that her evidence was entirely false. She said the only reason she testified falsely was to sup port the evidence of her sister, Gott i liebe, who had first lied. Frank Schlebe. “ farmer who lives | near Kenosha, Wis., and who had known Mrs. Luetgert for seveh years, i testified that he met her on a country ; road near that town on May 4 He said he did not recognize the woman, i but he was attracted by her worn and ! generally exhausted appearance. After wards, when he learned that Mrs. Luet gert was missing and read a description of the clothing she wore when she dis appeared, he was confident he had seen her and the strange woman he had met on the road wan she. Policemaq Smith of Kenosha told of seeing a strange woman at the North western depot in Kenosha nt 2 o’clock on the tqorniug of May 8. He posi tively identified a photograph of Mrs. Luetgert aa the wornau he saw at the depot. The policemen described the I woman and her attire. MEET WITH BOARD Representatives of Many Cities In Cate City. All Unite In Opinion That WMI be No Quarantine Unless Disease Becomes Epedemic. Atlanta, Sept- 24—The Board of Health held a long, seesion tonight. Mayor Price of Macon, aud represen tatives from Augusta, Columbus, Brunswick, Savannah and other places were present. The situation was fully discussed by them, and all the gentlemen freely ex press the opinion that none of the cities will quarantine against Atlanta, unless the yellow fever should become epidemic here. No fear of such a thing prevails. HAILROAI) MEN REMOVED. Kb*mll Ou.ti Two Commleatoner* and Appoint* llielr sucooaaor*. Raleigh, Sept. 24.—Governor Rus sell has removed Railroad Commis sioner S. J. Wilson, Democrat, and Otho Wilson, Populist. The action was not wholly unexpected. In their places were appointed John H. Pearson, Dem ocrat, of Morganton and L. O. Cald well, Populist, of-Statesville. The present incumbents, it is said, will refuse to yield up their offices to the new appointees, who arc here wait ing to be sworn in. The alleged ground upon which the governor bases his ac tion concerns the Round Knob hotel. The hotel, he alleges, is owned by J. W. Wilson and Colonel A. B. Andrews, first vice president of the Southern. It has been kept this summer, so the charges further state, by the mother of Otho Wilson. The governor further alleges that Vice President Andrews has had the trains stopped at Round Knob and the eating houses closed on either side for the purpose of making the place profitable. Iron Crash** Into Cheekbone. Anderson, S. 0., Sept. 24—A part of the cotton press at the Excelsior oilmill ginnery gave way and a small piece of the broken iron crashed into the cheek bone of Thomas Cannon, one of the operators. It penetrated at the side and below the eye to a depth of 2 inches, rendering him insensible and inflicting a dangerous woand. The jawbone was broken and the sight probably destroyed. Error* la J*M<w.wr-e noon. Montgomery, Ala., Sept, 24—State Examiner Foster has reported on the examination of the books of County Tax Assessor J. O. Clark, of Colbert county. He reports that in 1893 Clark omitted from the sum-up several pages of the assessment book aud by this means the tax collector was not charged with taxes on over $150,000 worth of property, which should have been charged, and that he also failed to report au assess ment against the Memphis and Charles ton railroad of $740,000 for the present year. Other errors of minor significance are reported. Big Hlhbb Near Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 24.—The business portion of East Lake, one of Birmingham’s suburbs, was almost to tally destroyed by fire. Seventeen frame buildings were burned down. Birmingham was called on for aid and an engine and hose reel were placed on cars and. got half way, when a message announced that the fire had ceased to rage, no more material being in its path of destruction. The fire started from a defective flue. A low estimate places the damage at $20,850, with about SB,OOO > insurance. Collector Cue lu Charge, Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 24.—The secretary of state has received official notification that Hon. John Case, newly appointed collector of Mobile county, 'had made his official bond of SIOO,OOO and that it has been approved and ac cepted by Probate Judge Williams. Mr. Case succeeds Lott, who was recently found to be a defaulter for some $30,000. Strike Situation Serious. Brunswick. Ga., Sept. 24. —The strike situation assumed the most determined aspect wheu 60 men were carried out in a boxcar tothe Southern docks surrounded by an armed guard. They were put to work on the Johnston line steamship apd are loading her rapidly. **•!•s nut** a«ito*o niT«r, Madras, Sept. 24.—Owing to the floods having, washed away the bridge of the Bangalore-Misore railroad near Maddur. an engine and five cars-filled with passengers were precipitated into the river, causing great loss of life. Typhoid Fetur lu Thessaly. Constantinople, Sept. 24.—Typhoid fever is ravaging the Turkish troops in Thessaly. Six thousand persons have already invalided home and 4,000 others are awaiting transportation back to Turkey. Only Wharf Burned. .V Brunswick, Sept. 24.—1 t develops that only the wharf on Cumberland Mand was burned last night. People in this olty saw the blaze, and sup posed to be the hotel. £ Increase Your Trade. £ * A Klondike Strike £ £ By advertisin'* in The jg Tribune. jj S Best medium In Norf h Georgia £ PRICE FIVE CENTS SILVER NOT TOBEISSUE Ib the Coming New York Mayoralty Election. CHAIRMAN J. K. JONES Talks to a Chicago Tribune Reporter on the Situation, OUTSIDERS WILL KEEP HANDS OFF National Party Leaders Will Hold a Conference. s. MONDAY THEY MEET IN CHICAGO Hon. W. J. Bryan, Richard Croker, Ex- Lleutenant Governor Sheehan and Ex- Governor Stone M ill be There. • Chicago, Sept. 24 The Tribune sayi: Senator J. K. Jones of Arkansas, chair man of the Democratic national com mittee; who is in town, says that the national committee will not interfere in the coming mayoralty contest in New York. To a reporter for The Tribune Senator Jones says: •‘The Democratic party believes in lo cal self government aud that means also local party government. The national committee thinks the Democratic or ganization in New York knows boat how to run a campaign in New York and it will not presume to give it any advice.” “Then the committee will not’ ask the New York organization to put a refer ence to free silver aud othet national issues in its platform?” “It Will not interfere in the matter at *ll, as it considers it none of its busi ness. ” Senator Jones was the first to arrive es a number of prominent Democrats who are to meet here on Monday to take up and settle the question as to whether the free silver issue shall be injected into the New York campaign. Richard Croker is here also, coming from Nashville. On Monday they will be joined by ex- Lieutenant Governor Sheehan of New York, brother of the chief of Tammany. W. J. Bryan is also to be here, and ex- Governor Stone of Missouri comes Sat urday. These Democrats, with ex-Gov ernor Altgeld, will make up the con ference. JOHNSTON PARDONS FOUR. Governor Sets Free Men Convicted of Burglary and Felonious Assault. Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 24.—Par dons have been granted by Governor Johnston as follows: Robert Collier of Coffee, sentenced for four yean for burgUry; served three. He is now dying of consumption. Stewart Kyle of Cherokee county, sentenced for four years for grand lar ceny, served two; now dying of eon sumption. Henry McGruder, Macon county, sen tenced for bnrgla’ry; time would expire next spring-; will die of pericarditis. Janies Ramsey of Autaga, sentenced for two years for felonious assault. In this*case all of the county officers and many citizens testified that the provo cation was great, the damage slight and the convict’s character excellent, and recommended his pardon. Drnnken M»n Shot Down. Decatur, Ala., Sept. .24 While run ning from Officer Frostman, who had arrested him for drunkenness, Will Stewart was shot in front of Oscar Bauer’s sal<x>n, on Second avenue, New Decatur. The ball struck Stewart in the left leg, completely shattering both bones. Three physicians pronounce Stewart in an extremely critical condi tion. Stewart is a popular young fel low and of good family, an employe of the Louisville aud Nashville road. There was no excuse for the shooting atr’ Treat indignation is expressed by citi is of both towns. Frostman is a German and an old man. Preferred Death to Prison. New York. Sept. 24—The Herald’s correspondent in Tegucigalpa, Hondu ras, says that the Nicaraguan troop; captured General Paez, the militarj leader of the rebellion in Nicaragua, and that he committed suicide a few hours later. Big Hotel I* Horned. Brunswick, Ga., Sept. 24—Tbe Cum berland island hotel has been destroyed by fire, the result of a stroke of light ning.