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MORE FEVER
INMOBILE
Seven-New Cases; One
.Death in Gulf City.
ORLEANS IS BETTER
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Only Twenty-Two Cases and No Deaths
Yesterday.
'FOUR CASES AT NITTAYOUMA, MISS
Edwards Has Twenty-Two
Cases and Two Deaths.
300 SICILIAN EMIGRANTS ARRIVES
The Creecent City—They Will Be Put on a
Farm Until Scare is Over—Situa
tion at Vicksburg.
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Mobile, Oct. 4.— New cases: Sister
Agues, city hospital; Thomas Fowler,
Julia aud Springfield avenues; Marie
Peterson, same address; Mrs. Evaline
Chisholm, 554 Bayou street; Will.am
Chisholm, same place; Alice Eakin, Old
. Shell road, near Pine street; John Ells
worth, Canal between Scott and Bayou
streets.
One death: C. F. Moore, 234 Spring
hill avenue. Tjiree discharged. Total
cases to date, S 3; deaths, 14; discharged,
51.
DOZEN NEW Ft VER CASES.
No Death* Reported at the Crescent City.
Mail Being l>ii«iufecte<i.
New Orleans, Oct. 4.—There have;
been 55 new cases of yellow fever
and two deaths reported since Sat
urday. There were 31 cases Sunday
and 22 Jtoday. Both deaths occurred
• Sunday.
i’he board of lie al th is ndlonger send
ing its experts to see all cases that are
reported. When the fever first ap
peared, the experts were ordered to care
fully diagnose each case, but the board
no longer considers this necessary. To
■ visit each case, the experts would have
to abandon their own practice entirely.
As matters stand now, the diagnosis of
the physician called in is taken as de
termining the nature of the case It is,
therefore, probable that many cases of
a trifling nature will be reported.
The marine hospital is disinfecting
128 carloads of freight for Texas via
New York. The steam chamber disin
fecting plant for mails was tried at the
postofflce. Newspapers and fabrics
were thoroughly and effectually disin
fected.
The board of health is discussing the
scheduled arrival here of 300 Sicilian*
immigrants. An offer has been re
ceived by the board to provide a plan
tation removed from the city at which
the immigrants may be lauded and
taken care of until it is safe to let them
jingle here or go to the various points
. for which they are destined.
OUTLOOK AT ED WARDS
.There Were Eighteen New Cases Yesterday
and Two Death.
Edwards, Miss. Oct. 4.-Eighteen
new cases of yellow fever have been
"* reported here. There were only two
death.
xv/rs. W. Ur. Redfield, Sr., is reported
dying. All hopes for her recovery have
been abandoned.
Mr. T. P. Martin is still very sick and
very restless at times. He is delirious
and it requires the combined efforts of
two or three good men to keep him in
bed.
Mayor Redfield is doing so well that
every one thinks he has passed the
crisis.
L. A. Moss, whose name appears in
the above list of sew cases, has been
acting mayor on account of Mayor Red
field’s illness. There is only one mem
ber of the city council on his feet today.
Father Pendergrast has a tempera
ture of 101 and as this is his third at
tack he can be called doing well, in
deed.
The fever seems to grow more violent
every day and a relapse is one of the
worst features to be feared. Already
we have had several deaths caused from
them.
SITUATION AT VICKSBURG.
The MlMlaalppl City I. Now More Tightly
Quarantined 1 han Ever.
Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 4.—Rev. Dr.
: Samson aud Undertaker T. J. Fisher
k have left for Cincinnati in accordance
W with the instructions of the state and ;
F *pity boards of health. Assponss thqf j
]THE ROITE TRIBUNE.
LOFTEN TO RESIGN
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Negro Postmaster at Hogans
ville Will Quit.
Inspector Recommends That He
ba Given a Place in
Washington.
Washington, Oct.4.—All the papers
relative to the shooting of the negro
postmaster, Loftin, at Hogansville,
have been filed with Postmaster Gen
eral Gary.
The inspector sent to investigate
the -case has recommended that Loftin be
given some other place, and it is under
stood that such is Loftin’s wishes. He
prefers a situation in Washington.
Lyons is here and called at the white
h?use today, but it is not known what
disposition will be made of his case.
Postmaster Fox’s term in Atlanta ex
pires on Oct. 28, and there is a hot fight
on for the place between Maj. Smythe
and Prof. Wilson.
DEATH AT TECUMSEH.
Mrs. Frank M. Woods, Most Estimable Lady
Passes Away,
Tecumseh, Ala., Oct. 4.—Mrs. Frank
M. Woods, a most highly respected and
estimable Christian lady died yesterday
evening.
She leaves a husband and two child
ren. Her remains will be interred at
the Salem cemetery.
heard of the nut break at'Siitta Ynuma,
which they visited last week, both gen
tlemen agreed that it was best to leave
town, but they would have none to Ed
wards but for the state board’s instruc
tions t-, which they yielded cheerful
obedience.
The city is now more tightly quaran
tined than ever. Public health con
tinues excellent, with warm,, dry
vea'her and no prospect of frost
Corrected reports from Nitta Youma
say that Mrs. Blum, not Mr. Bium,
is ill.
It is known that neither Dr. Sansom
nor .Mr, Fisher were in contact with
any of tiie persons now ill. Excitement
caused by the incident has now abated.
AT NITTAYUMA
Four Cases Have Developed There. Town
Closely Guarded,
Nittayuma, Miss., Oct. 4—Four cases
of yellow fever developed here today.
The town is surrounded by a cordon of
guards and no one is allowed to leave or
enter the city. No trains come into Nit
tayuma now.
WOMEN BURNED TO DEATH.
Mother end Daughter Lose Their Lives as
a Resalt of a Lamp Explosion.
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 4.—Mrs. F. A.
Pomeroy aud her daughter. Miss Mag
gie Pomeroy, were burned to death
here through the explosion of an oil
lamp.
Mrs. Pomeroy started down stairs and
carried in her hand a small oil lamp.
When she was two steps from the boi
tom she missed her footing and stum
bled, falling to the floor. The lamp
■truck the stairs and exploded, and the
oil thrown over her clothes became ig
nited. Her daughter, Miss Maggie, ran
to her rescue and she also became en
veloped in the flames.
Hearing the screams of the two
women, the neighbors came to their as
sistance, but did not succeed in extin
guishing the flames until both were
fatally burned-
Ladies Perish | Escorts Escape.
Hamilton, Ala., Oct. A—While re
turning with a party here a boatload of
people were thrown into the Butta
hatchie river and four of the occupants
were drowned. ’ Those drowned were
Miss Lizzie Smith. Belle Key, Mary
Swearingen, and Elia Phillips. Their
escorts, Robert and John Wright, broth
ers, who caused the boat to capsize by
rooking it, saved their own lives. Feel
ing is so bitter against the two men that
they have left town.
Cotton Warohodse Destroyed.
Montezuma, Ga, Oct. 4—A disas
trous fire occurred here. W. L. McKen
lie’s cotton warehouse and entire con
tents were destroyed. About 1,000 bales
were burned. Lose is supposed to be
about (30,000; insurance distributed
among the different agencies here
amounts to over (39.000 ou the cotton
and (2,000 ou the building.
sentomr to HMr nr,an.
Lexington, Ky.. Oct. 4 —W. J. Bryan
wires State Chairman Johnston that he
will speak ou four days of this month
in Kentucky. Chairman Johnston has
decided to have him speak in the First.
Second, Third and Fourth districts.
Reported Vary Low.
Paris, Oct. 4.—The Depeche Colo
niale says the pope has been seriously
ill for three days past, and that his at
, tending physicians fear a fatal issue.
ROME. GA., TUESDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1897.
CANDLER
OVERRDLES
McCullough is Arraign
ed at Jonesboro.
MOTION TO CONTINUE
On Account of Col. Glenn’s Illness Falls
Consideration.
CRIME OF WIFE MURDER IS CHARGED
Story of the Tragedy. Which
Occurred In June, 1896.
KILLEDWHILE PICKING BLACKBERRIES
The Husband Claimed in Hit First Trial
That She Was Killed boa Tramp—lt
Was a Mistrial.
Jonesboro, Ga., oct. a.—John Mc-
Cullough was placed on trial here for
the murder of his wife. Colonel Roun
tree, for the defense, moved to continue
the case on account of his partner’s ill
ness, but Judge Candler overruled the
motion, and the work of securing a jury
was begun.
Mrs. John McCullough was killed on
June 27, 1896, while picking blackber
ries in a field near her home. She was
brained with a wagon spoke, which was
found not far from where the body lay.
John McCullough was at once ar*
rested for the crime, and the feeling
against him was so strdng that he had
to be carried to Atlanta for safe keep
ing. It was alleged that he was enam
ored of his sister-in-law and killed his
wife in order to marry the former.
When McCullough was placed on
trial in September, 1896, his defense
was that his wife was killed by a tramp
who had been seen in the neighborhood
several days prior to the killing. The
result was a mistrial, the jury failing
to agree after considering the case for
several days.
McCullough has claimed from the
first that he would be able to establish
his innocence, and expressed much sur
prise that he was not liberated at the
former trial..
The trial continued until 11 o’clock
tonight. Tom Watson appears for
the defense and Solicitor Charlie Hill,
of Atlanta, for the prosecution.
The -evidence introduced tonight
has been to prove that McCullough
was intimate with his sister-in-law
One woman swore that she had fre
quently seen the couple in a compro
mising position. . .
COMER AND THE CENTRAL.
Ball way President to Kemaln In His Pres
ent Position a Year at Least.
Savannah, Oct. 4.—There can be no
doubt now that President H. M. Comet
of the Central of Georgia Railway
company will remain in that position
for some time to come.
The proxy of the Southern Railway
company, or at least whoever owns the
stock of the Central, has been sent to
Mr. Comer and is now in his hands for
the purpose of being voted at the com
ing meeting of the directors of the sys
tem. to be held here Oct. 12.
When Mr. Comer was last in New
York he asked that the proxy empower
ering him to vote 50,000 shares of stock
be sent him. To this the holders of the
. stock readily assented and on his return
from his western trip he found that
proxy here.
Every vote on every proposition and
for every director will, therefore, be
cast by President Comer. The same
board of directors as exists at present
will be re-elected, and there will be n
changes, so far as is known now, in any
of the officials.
President Comer has stated, however,
that he would retire from the presi
dency before many months, but it will
not be at this meeting. It is believed
now that he will remain at the head ot
the system for another year.
" itole.ale Cl,*tfii«r. *A.3lgn,
Cincinnati, Oct. 4.—Sachs & Morri
son, wholesale clothiers, have assigned
to Max B. May. Assets stated to be
(25,000; liabilities, $50,000. Chattel
preferences were given to the amount
of (8 500. Unexpected losses ou con
tracts are said to be the cause of the
assignment.
Well Known Woiikii Dead.
New York, Oct. 4. —Mrs. Mary Poin
dexter Speed, widow of John Gilmer
Speed, editor of Leslie’s Weekly, aud a
well known writer, is dead at her sum
mer home iu Mendham, N. J.
BOSTON GETS FIRST
Selle’s Meo Draw First Blood
In Temple Cup.
Nichols Batted Out of the Box.
Score 13 to 22 in Favor of
the Beaneaters.
Boston, Oct. 4.—Boston drew first
blood in the Temple cup series today
but won in a peculiar game.
Ten thousand people saw the con
test. Nichols was batted out of the
box in the sixth inning and Lewis was
substituted. At thebeginning of Bal
timore’s half of the ninth inning the
game was called on account of dark
ness.
Boston made 12 hits off of Nops, and
bad four errors charged to them. Bal
timore made 20 hits and four errors,
The score:
Boston 13, Baltimore 19.
HOME RULE FOR CUBANS.
Sagaata Wil! Carry Out the Reforms Pro
posed by Campus Years Ago.
London, Oct. A—A special dispatch
from Madrid, published here, gives the
substance of an interview between ■
newspaper correspondent and an un
named member of the new Spanish cab
inet. The latter is quoted as saying
that Seuor Sagasta will carry out the
Cuban reforms proposed by Marshal
Martinez de Campos ten years ago.
These include the granting of autonomy
to Cuba on condition that she shall take
over the Cuban debt, including the war
debt, and accept Spain’s customs tariff.
Continuing, the new cabinet minister
is said to have declared that Premier
Sagasta wopld not consent to a customs
union between the United States and
Cuba, and that if the former were not
satisfied Spain was prepared to fight, as
the Spanish navy was regarded equal iu
strength to the navy of the United
States. Further, if necessary, Spain,
according to the cabinet minister, would
have recourse to privateering.
In conclusion, the new minister is al
leged to have said it was improbable
that Spain would consent to recognizi
the insurgent debt, but Premier Sa
gasta would not prevent the new Cuban
government from dealing with it.
THE WOMAN NOT LYNCHED.
Virginia Story of a Murder by Net-roe. Io
, the Mountain*. Untrue.
Richmond, Oct. 4. —From the best in
formation obtainable here, there has
been no lynching of a white woman iu
the Massanutten mountains, in Rock
ingham county. A message from Cow
an’s Depot, sent by a man who went
there to investigate the story, says it 18
without foundation.
The report of the killing of the woman
was received here by mail from the cor
respondent of a Richmond paper at
Cowan’s Depot. It seems that he wad
imposed upon by hunters, who told him
they had found the woman’s dead body
hanging to the end of a rope fastened
to the limb of a tree, aud that their in
vestigations led them to believe that a
gang of negroes had lynched her.
TRAIN JUMPS THE TRACK.
Engineer Seriously lijured and His Negro
Fireman U Killed.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 4.—Passen
ger train No. 2, on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad leaving here at B:3d
o’clock, jumped the track at Riverside
park, just outside the city, killed Gnl
Boyde, a negro fireman; seriously in
jured John Brown, engineer, of Deca
tur, and bruised Bill Glascock, postal
clerk, of Nashviille.
A split switch, it is said, caused the
accident. The engine turned over and
caught the fireman. The engiueei
jumped in time. The mail car wa|
badly torn up by a rail, which doubled
back and bruised Glasoock. *
The dead fireman, it is said, lived
here. He has not yet been reached.
A Receiving Teller Missing.
Denver, Oct 4.—Ralph P. Newton,
assistant receiving teller in the Firsl
National bank of this city, is missing,
He disappeared last Wednesday. Th<
circumstances surrounding his leave arß
unexplained by his relatives aud friends.
Persons .connected with the bank id
which he was employed say that all of
his accounts are straight. Thursday
morning he failed to shew up for worD
and up to the present time nothing hal
been heard from him.
Mistook Him For a Thief.
Denver, Oct. 4 —Thomas P. Burch
shot aud instantly killed Thomas Mar
tin. The shooting occurred about 4
miles north of here on a ranch owned
by Burch. Burcli was watching fol
thieves who had been stealing apple!
from the orchard, and, thinking Marrin
to be one of the thieves, he fired at him
with a don biebarreled shotgun. ' Burcli
is prominent in the city aud well-to-do.
He gave himself up.
>t«)Ck Yard* C ase Decided.
Topeka, Oct. 4.—Judge Foster hal
handed down his opinion in the Kansal
City stock yards, iu which he decide,
against the company on every legal
question raised. The opinion is ver>
sweeping and the decision is a oompleu
victory for Attorney General Boyle-
The stock yards company will appeal t<
the United States anprennucourt
AND NOW
Will He Rud For Unit
ed States’ Senator.
IN NEW JERSEY RACE
Movement to Get Him a Judgeship by
the Gold Men
CLEVELAND IS SAID TO OH WILLING
Some Political Gossip Publish
ed by New York Herald.
EX-SENATOR M’PHERSON TO HELP
Get Cleveland in Politics Agsir—lt Jl*
Said,That He is Not Averse to a| Seat
la Upper Branch of Congress.
New York, Oct. 4.—A special to The
Herald from Trenton, N. J., says: The
rumor that Grover Cleveland is prepar
ing to enter New Jersey politics has
foundation in a movement undertaken
by some gold Democratic alumni of
Princeton to obtain for him a position
on the bench of the court of errors ano
appeals.
One report is that Mr. Cleveland
thinks favorably of the plan and that
his friends are preparing to get up a
monster petition in his behalf. Another
report makes it appear that Mr. Cleve
land is doubtful of the wisdom of such
a course.
It is a matter of general gossip that
Mr. -Cleveland is willing to represent
New Jersey in the United States senate
as soon as opportunity affords.
It is said that John R. McPherson,
.ormerly United States senator, who is
a personal friend of Mr. Cleveland, is
preparing to help him with political
honors as a Jerseyman, and for that
reason has taken up his residence in
a Jersey City hotel.
FIGHT OVER YOUNG LADY.
Louisville Society Men Go Into a Ring *■»
Settle Their Differences.
Louisville, Oct. 4.—A 4-round fight
with bare knuckles was fought here by
two young society men to settle a few
differences which had arisen on account
of a well known young lady. The prin
cipals were Charles D. Jacobs, Jr., son
of Charles D. Jacobs, and Feverdy Es
till, Jr., son of the Rev. Reverdy Estill
of St. Paul’s Episcopal church.
The fight took place in a vacant lot
on Fourth street, between Belgravia
and Hill. The four rounds were gamely
fought by both men, and the referee
declared the fight a draw. There were
about ten witnesses to the “scrap.”
It was said that the young lady in
question was present, but this is denied.
She is one of the handsomest girls in
Louisville.
Ho Prizefights In St. Louis.
St, Louis. Oct. 4.—An attempt was
made to bring off a pugilistic encounter
on the river between Billy Mahan ol
San Francisco and Brownlow Sexton of
this city. When the boat that was to
take the sports to the ground attempted
to leave the dock 20 policemen went
aboard and ordered the sports back on
shore, threatening them with arrest.
This failure will put an end to Agues in
and about this city. The sports hoped,
on recent decisions in the courts here,
to be able to pull off a.fight once in a
while.
Charged With Euromremeiiii
Cleveland, Oct. 4.—Mr. John Shep
herd, the local capitalist and a member
of the firm of Charles N. Potter & Co.,
was placed under arrest by Constable
Hudson of Justice Bauder’s court. The
warrant charges him wilt. embezzle
ment. Mr. Frank DeHaas Robison
swore to the allegations contained in
the warrant.
Prominent Politician Dead.
St. Paul, Oct. 4.—Licurges Daven
port Palmer, for many years a promi
nent business man iu Sioux City, la,,
and Yankton, S. D.. a leading Demo
cratic politician in those two states and
postmaster at Yankton under President
Cleveland, died at his home iu this city,
aged 77.
Mr*. Clementine Hall Dead.
Anderson, S. 0., Oct. 4.—Mrs. Clem
entine Hall, aged 89 years, widow of
Aaron Hall, deceased, aud eldest daugh
ter of A. O. Norris, deceased, who fol
84 years was ordinary aud master for
Andsrsou county, died here.
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PBICE FIVE CENTS
THE SEVENTH WEEK
Laetgert May ga es He Wit
ness Stand Today.
New Line of Defense Will Be To
Impeach State Witnesses- Trlal
Will Last Tnree Weeks.
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Chicago, Oct. A—The seventh week
of the trial of Luetgert, the alleged wife
murderer, opened witbau undiminished
crush of people at the criminal court
building, luetgert aud bis inseparable
cigar reached the courtroom half an
hour before the opening hour. The big
sausage maker was dean shaven, neatly
attired and apparently iu the best of
spirits. He greeted his attorneys and
friend* pleasantly and grinned at Po
lice luspeutor Schaack, who- regarded
him coolly.
“I can stand this sort of thing a life
time, so far as physical endurance is
concerned,” said Luetgert when com
plimented by Attorney Phalen upon
his personal appearance.
“But I wish it waa over with,” con
tinued Luetgert, as he sent a cloud of
tobacco smoke in the air. “It wears ou
a man's nervous system, especially if
the weather is warm, us it has been
at times during my trial. I feel much
better since I recovered sufficiently
from the injury to my leg to abandon
that crutch. A crutch is an insuffer
able nuisance to a person who is not
used to it?’
“The trial will last at least three weeks
longer,” said State’s Attorney Dineen.
“When the defense closes we shall have
at least u week of rebuttal evidence.
Then the state will come along with
anotner ot the ssme kind of evidence.
If we get through with the speeches in
a week’s tin, * we shall be ooing well.”
Professor Eckley of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago
was recal.ed for cross examination upon
several matters in connection with his
identification of bones. His testimony
was simply a repetition of that of other
witnesses along the same line and he
was not kept upon the witness stand
long.
The defense has changed tactics in
an effort to impeach the state’s wit
nesses. Luetgert will probably go on
the stand tomorrow.
Named by the Vrealdent.
Washington, Oct. 4.—The president
has made the following appointments:
William R. Finch ot Wisconsin, envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten
tiary of the United States to Paraguay
and Uruguay. To be consuls of ths
United States—James L Dodge of In
diana, at Nagasaki, Japan; Gborge W.
Dickinson of New York, at Belleville.
Ont.; Alvin Smith of Ohio, at Trini
dad. West -Indies, and Percy McElrath
of New York, at Turin, Italy. Joseph
Perrault of Boise, Ida., to be surveyor
general of Idaho
An Old Brewing - ouij>auy Falls.
Louisville. Oct. 4. The Phoenix
Brewing company, one of the oiliest
brewing companies in the city, has as
signed to O. C. Vogt, with liabilities of
(250,000 and assets slightly iu excess of
this sum. President O. A. Weber states
that the failure was paused by the filing
of a number of attach ment suits, aggre
gating (13,000, by Goepper & Co., a
Cincinnati firm..
Lufton to Get a New Place ?
Atlanta, Oct. 4.—L H. Lofton, the
negro postmaster at Hogansville, who
was shot by unknown parties in that
town, it is reported, will soon resign
and accept a position in Washington.
The friends of the negro have requested
the postoffice department in Washing
ton to give him a place in the depart
ment there so as to get him away from
all possible danger at Hogansville. Lof
ton will go to Washington in a few
days and confer with the officials there.
It is thought the government intends
to take prompt and vigorous steps to
prosecute the suspected assailants of the
negro. Before the men are prosecuted
it is thought best for.Lofton’s own
safety to get him oqt of Hogansville.
Commit* SuioMe In uhuroh.
Brattleboro, Vt, Oot. 4.—Frank G.
Clark, aged 60 years, committed suicidl
by hanging in the belfry of the Congve*
gatioual church, of which he was sex*
ton. He leaves a wife, son and twß
daughters.
to Judge <-rlsp.
Americus, Ga., Oct. 4.—A beautiful
and Costly marble will soon mark the
last resting place of Hon. Charles F.
Crisp in Oak Grove cemetery, this city.
The massive shaft, I” feet in height,
has jnst arrived and will be placed iu
position this week. It will be plain,
but very handsome and of massive pro
portions.
Slain by Hi* Own Son.
Montgomery, Ala., Oot. 4.—Ed Sul
lins, a worthless negro boy, in a fit of
anger over a trifling circumstance,
butchered his aged father, Wilsou Sul
lins, with a hoe on the Ware place,
near town. The elder Sullins was one
of the best negroes in the county. The
police are after Ed.
ana*'bring* Dry.
Osceola, Ark., Oot. 4.—Owing to the
long continued drouth in this vicinity
wells and springs have gone entirely
dry and the people are now compelled
to buy water lor drinking purposes.
Water sells rapidly at 5 cents a quart
aud the demand greatly exceeds the
supply.