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FIRE IN
ASYLUM
Negro Department Was
Destroyed.
SCENE OF TERROR
Fran ic T nmates Driven From Buildings
in Time.
MACON FIRE DEPT. SUMMONED
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All Efforts to Save Buildings
Unavailing.
tOSS $150,000, INSURANCE $71,000
iScene Beggared Description—Over 700
Negroes Housed In Buildings—Legis
lature Will Be Asked to Act.
Milledgeville, Nov. 9.—The negro
‘building of the state lunatic asylum in
this city was discovered to be on fire at
1:30 o’clock this afternoon. The city fire
company went to the assistance of the
Asylum company immediately after the
first alarm was given, but the flames had
made such headway that the companies
could not arrest the progress of the fire.
The Macon fire department was then
wired for, and arrived in an hour on a
special train.
The 700 patients in the building
were saved by the most heroic work.
At first there was a stampede, and it
was believed that several of the in
mates would be killed, but by the cool
and collected efforts of the attendants
they were successfully confined in
the walled asylum yard.
The origin of the fire is unknown,
but it is believed that the bnilding
caught from the fire employed by the
tinners who were in the forenoon
working on the roof.
The scene as the negro inmates were
driven forth from the burning building
beggars description. Men and women
rushed pell mell into the yard like so
many wild animals..
Some were raving and cursing, others
shouting and praying. The women were
crowded into one corner of the yard and
the men in the other, each guarded by a
platoon of men.
The Milledgeville and Macon firemen
fought the blaze desperately, but without
avail, for three hours before getting the
fire under control.
Then the eastern wing had been razed
to the ground and the great thiee story
building gutted.
Tonight the brick walls are threat
ening to topple to the ground. Aae
gro woman says she set the building
afire, but it is not believed.
The original cost of the building
was $90,000, and two wings were
added this past summer at a cost of
$30,000 each. The insurance is only
$71,000.
Dr. Powell fears trouble from some
of the white patients .as many are
dangerous and the fire may inflame
them to apply the torch. Frantic and
maniacal shouts can be heard from
the Inmates.
The legislature will probably be
asked to take immediate action in
having the building replaced.
< hoynaki -r.ia.
San Francisco, Nov. 9.—Joe Ohoyn
«ki, the California heavyweight, has ar
rived here. He auuounces that he is in
Serfect condition and ready to fight
effries at any time. The meeting will
.probably occur Nov. 15.
Spain’- Vi.Mtliic Drydock.
Havana, Nov. 9.—The long expected
iloatiug drydock, built in England and
spacious .enough to accommodate large
ironclads, has arrived. It crossed the
Atlantic without damage.
Wal«»’ Birthday Calibrated.
London. Nov. 9.—Ths birthday of
the Prince of Wales was celebrated here
with the usual flag holsing, bell ringing’
and artillery salutes. He waa boru
Nov. 9. 1841.
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TWEWNB TRIBUNE.
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SELMA HAS FRYER
A Sparodic Case Has Devel
oped There.
Yellow Scourge Dying Out Fast,
and Few Days More
Will Kill It.
Fever Bulletin.
New Orleans—Thirteen cases and four
deaths.
Mobile—Seven cases and two deaths.
Whistler, Ala.—Fourteen cases.
ONE CASE AT SELMA.
It is Not Believed That the Disease Can
Spread.
Selma, Nov. 9,—Drs. Furniss and
Gay reported that a section Lboss,
Neighbors, on the Southern, has been
under observation at the residence of
Mrs. Self, on Nance street, and* that
he had a well developed case of yellow
fever. He has been under observa
tion for a week. It is a sporadic case
and will not spread in this tempera
ture. When asked about it Dr. Gay
said: “Yellow fever cannot spread in
this temperature. ’’
FEW NEW CASe.B OF FEVER.
Deadly Y«l«»w J ack '8 Now Reported to
le i ap dly Drcreadiig.
New Orleans. Nov. 9. —At 10 a. m.
one new case and two deaths from yel
low fever were reported from rhe board
of health. All interest in the fever has
about died out. The newspapers are pay
ing but little attention to it. confining
themselves to simply the official bul
letins.
From all the infected points the same
diminution of the disease is reported,
and it is expected that the uext cold
spell will wipe our the pestilence en
tirely. The day is bleak and cold.
Prospects for a real coot spell are excel
lent, in anticipation of which the mer
chants throughout the city are prepar
ing for a rush of business.
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YORKVILLfS GOLD MINES.
Famous Paulding: County Mines Placed
In Receiver’s Hands.
Atlanta, Nov. 9—Judge Newnan has
rendered a final decree in the York
ville gold mine suit for a receiver.
The decree orders that all the pos
sessions of the company be converted
as quickly as possible into cash, in or
der to pay the many claimants against
the property.
Nine residents of Detroit, Mich., who
advanced the funds to boom the York
ville mine are set down in the decree to
receive the following amounts: H. C.
Wisner, $712.95; W. J. Spicer, $362.25;
Jerome Croul, $309.60; Robert McMillan,
$326.25; E.W. Meddaugh, $362 25; J.
E. Book, $361.95; J. D. Standish,
$309 30; A. L. Stephens, $362 25, and
Albert Park, $535.80.
The receivers, Messrs. Alex P. Hull
and George H. Opdyke, who were- ap
pointed last July, are now ordered by the
court to act as commissioners to conduct
the sale of the mining property.
The date fixed for the sale is December
7th,
ELECTRIC CARS today.
Work] On Engine Completed Monday,
But Time Given Foundation to Settle.
After a delay of nearly four day the
eleetric cars will begin running again
this morning at 8 o’clock, provided
some unforeseen accident does not
occur to prevent.
The work of rebuilding the foun
dation for the engine was completed
Monday night, but it was deemed ad
visable to permit the cement to harden
and settle firmly before firing up.
The motermen and conductors have
had a dull time since last Saturday
morning, and have stood around on
the street corners looking utterly
bored.
Knight* of Labor'll, Kentucky.
Louisville, Nov. 9.—The general
assembly of Knights of Labor was
called to order iu Hibernian hall, 331
West Market street, at 10 a. in. by
Grand Master J. R. Sovereign. Among
the delegates are a number of the most
prominent leaders in the movement in
this country and abroad. After the ap
pointment of committees on credentials,
press, eto., the meeting adjourned until
the afternoon. Many reforms will ba
urged upon the president ami eongre>e at
this session, which will consume a week
or more.
Dr. Monk’s Successor.
Macon, Nov. 9.—Dr. Pinson, a noted
divine of Texas, has been called to fill
Dr. Monk’s place here. Dr. Pinson has
accepted.
ROME. GA., WEDNESDAY. NOVitMBBR 10, 1897. "
TAKING OF
TESTIMONY
Important Witnesses Are
Put On the Stand,
JURYMEN SECURED
Ntv York’s Celebrated Murder Trial was
Begun Yesterday.
FINDING OF THE BODY TOLD OF
First Two Witnesses Who
Were Examined.
ASSIST DISTRICT ATTORNEY YOUNGS
His Opening Speech Only Took About
Thirty Minutes-All Witnesses Ex
cluded Except Medical Experts.
New York, Nov. 9.—District Attor
ney Youngs opened the government’s
case in the Gulddnsuppe murder trial,
outlining the case to be made by the
prosecution. Youngs occupied 30 min
utes in his opening address and during
the entire time Thorn kept hie eyes on
his prosecutor, but his face did not be
tray the slightest emotion.
Lawyer Howe asked the court to ox
-1 elude all witnesses from the room
except medical experts. The court so
ordered, and the witnesses were con
ducted to the jury room.
The first witness called was John Mc-
Guire, one of the two boys who, while
bathing in East river at the foot of One
Hundred and Eighteenth street, found
the upper portion of the body said to be
that of Guldensuppe. Young McGuire
identified the piece of oilcloth produced
in court, and also a phooograped portion
of the body. These were marked for
identification. He was not cross ex
amined.
James McKenna, who was McGuire’s
companion, corroborated McGuire in
every detail and also identified the oil
cloth and photograph. He was also
permitted to leave the witness chai/
without being cross questioned.
AN ADMIRAL PASSES AWAY.
Alexander Kblud Succumb, to an Hine,,
That Began Five Week. Ago.
New York. Nov. 9.—Rear Admiral
Alexander Golden Rhiud, U. S. N., is
dead at his home in this city. He' had
been confined to his bed for five weeks.
Admiral Rhind was born in this city
Oct. 31, 1821. He entered the navy as
a midshipman in 1838, receiving his ap
pointment from Alabama. He became
a lieutenant March 17, 1854, and at the
breaking out of the war was in com
mand of the steamer Crusader of the
South Atlantic blockade squadron. He
served through the war with great
distinction.
At the close of the war he served in
congress for a' time, was lighthouse
inspector, and in 1876- 78 he was com
missioner, commodore and president of
the board of inspection in 1880-82, and
on Oct. I, 1883. he was promoted to rear
admiral, and was retired the following
day. having reached the age limit. Ha
never married.
Five Xoiifix **• 'omeit Arrested.
Philadelphia, Nov. 9.—Five young
women from the ranks of the striking
shirt makers have been arrested, charged
by three shirt manufacturers with con
spiracy to injure their business and
with assaulting gir.s who desire to con
tinue worn. They were held in bail
tor trial.
A Crank A£c.r toe r-reeleient.
Washington, Nov. 9.—A crank ap
peared at the White House and de
manded to see President McKinley. He
said the president had not treated him
right. He tried to go up stairs by the
elevator, but was taken in charge by
the officers. He broke away from them
and tried to hide behind the conserva
tory and was then taken to the police
station. At police headquarters the
man said he was Henry Rejaett of 1241
Fourth street, Southwest. Tuere is no
such name and address iu the city di
rectory.
Reply <»f s paiii Jm Pm ci fl o.
Washington, No t. 9—The full text
of Spain’s reply to the Woodford note
was read at a cabinet meeting here. Its
tone was very pacific, and instead of
being at all war ike. was regarded by
the cabinet as very satisfactory, and ns
calculated to auay auy fear of a hostile
outbreak.
BARRIS IS SILENT
Cevtrnor .Has Not Heard From
Him Yet.
May be Walting For Formal Offer
ing—Believed That He
Will Aceept,
Atlanta, Nov. 9.—Governor Atkin-
Mm has not yet heard from Jndge Samp
ana W. Harris, the newly appointed,
supreme court justice, iu regard, to his
acceptance or nonacceptauoe- of the po
gitiou offered him.
Whether Judge Harris will accept the
appointment caunot yet be ascertained,,
and his decision will probably not be
knowu until the formal offer of the
place is made.
The formal tender .of Judge Atkin
son’s resignation as supreme court judge
has not yet been received by the gover
nor, and Judge Harris will have until
that time to make his decision in the
matter.
The governor says he has no reason
to believe that Judge Harris will refuse
the office, as he was once a candidate
for the same place.
MOB CHASES A POLICEMAN.
Xegreee Try to Kill Offloer Wko Hod
Shot Two of Their,Color.
Richmond, Nov. 9.— Charles Murray
was instantly killed and Tom Autony
probably fatally shot by Policeman
Alvis. The victims are negroes. They
had been raising a disturbance on the
street, when Alvis tried to arrest them.
Their friends obstructed him, and Mur
ray thrust a revolver iu the policemau’s
face. Upon this Alvis fired twice iu
quick succession, and Autouy and Mur
ray dropped.
Th.e other negroes made a vicious rush
at the officer, who fled into a house.
There six officers armed to the teeth
protected him from the mob.
Governor O’Ferrall was notified of
the situation and by his order two com
panies of the First regiment assembled
at the armory to await orders. Upon
learning this the mob dispersed.
Alvis’ father killed two men 20 years
ago under the same circumstances at
the same place.
SHOWS BIG DROP~7n SALES.
Report nt CnmmlMlonar Vance on Octo,
bar Diapeneary Receipts.
Columbia,. S. 0., Nov. 9.—The dis
pensary board of control met here. The
terrible inroads of the original packages
is made more manifest. Commissioner
uuc.e’s report shows a falling off iu the
>ales of this October, as compared with
the same month last year, of $43,166.15,
reduciug receipts from $135,000 to
$91,000. He says:
“I attribute this large difference to
the competition of the original package
shops aud the blind tigers, but princi
pally to the low price of cotton and the
general depressed financial coudition of
the country. It affords me pleasure to
inform you that, notwithstanding this
large difference in cash received, we
have met promptly every obligation of
the state dispensary when presented
and that I now have $20,000 ready to
pay to the free school fund.”
Colonel Jones offered a resolution that
the committee pay to the state treas
urer on Nov. 9 $25,000. on Dec. 1 $20,-
000 and on Jan. 1, 1898, $25,000.
Mr. Williams did not think the board
would be justified iu adopting that. If
the money was on hand he was willing
to turn it over to the state treasurer,
but promises of payments should not be
made unless they could be kept.
At the suggestion of Mr. Williams
Colonel Jones withdrew his resolution.
SAY THEY WEReTsWINDLED.
Seutiffh-American People File a Petition
Bordering on the •'‘ensatlonal.
Topeka, Nov. 9. —Proceedings have
been instituted in the federal court by
the Scottish- American Investment com
pany of London against the Kansas In
vestment company and T. B. Sweet for
$125,000. The suit is the outgrowth of
investments aggregating $350,000 made
by the London company through the
Kansas Loan aud Trust company in the
eighties.
The petition borders on the sensa
tional, for the Scwttisl: Investment com
pany. claims it was •<ier'ruu<i-<i and de
ceived” in the investments niade for it
by the Kansas Loan and Trust com
pany. The claim is that they were
doped out of the following auioums:
$25,000 of Colorado F irm and Irrigation
company bond-; $25,000 Br.-wer c- unty
land and irrigation bon is; $25,000 real
estate loans.
The balance is made up of claims for
rents collected and never furne-i over,
sales of land under foreclosure, and
other items of a similar chnractor.
Houry *Nr»i*Y*itt. to Be Ho(i<ode
Irwinville, Ga.. Nov. 9.—ln the
superior court of Irwin county, Henry
Nesbitt, a negro, has been convicted of
murder in the first degree, with uo
recommendation of mercy, aud sen
tenced by Judge O. O. Smith to be
hanged Dec. 10. The execution is to
take place within half a mile of the
courthouse, aud will be striotly private.
Loet Part Vr Her Cargo.
London, Nov. 9. The British
steamer Inchdune, which baa arrived
at Bremen from Brunswick. lost part ol
her deck load, amounting to IM balM
of cotton.
MAY STOP
FOOTBALL
Chicago City Council
to Act On IL
ORDINANCE ABOUT IT
“lubman Gamj ;> Is What AMermia
Platte Calls It
TEACHES CHILDREN BRUTALITY
He Thinks It Ten Times Worse
Than Prize Fighting.
GAME SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED
Believed That the Alderman Wilt Take
the Ordinance Seriously and Pass
ItWill Stop Big Games.
Chicago, Nov. 9.—Aiderman Plotke,
author of the theatre hat ordinance,
wiM introduce at a special meeting of
the city council a measure to prohibit
the playing of football anywhere within
the limits of the city of Chicago.
Speaking of his antifootball ordi
nance, Aiderman Piotke said:
“Why do I introduce it ?”
“Because it is an inhuman game—a
game that should have been stopped
long ago. Somebody gets hurt badly
every time a football game is played,
and many have been killed. It is 40
times worse than prizefighting. I would
rather see a prizefight any day than a
game of football. It teaches school
children to be brutal. Every -little boy
in the city gets out on a vacant lot and
fights aud snarles just like the older
boys do playing football. The game
should not be tolerated in Chicago. ”
It is thought likely that many of the
aidermen may take the ordinance seri
ously and possibly pass it. This would
cause consteruatiou among lovers of
football, for it would put a bar to the
big game next Saturday between the
Chicago and Wisconsin university teams
aud to the other big game scheduled
for- Thanksgiving day between the Chi
cago and Michigan university elevens.
AUSTRIANS ARE AROUSED.
Believed by Many That There Will Be
Bloodshed In Bohemlit.
London, Nov. 9.—A letter received
herefrom Vienna says the published
report of the political situation in the
Austrian empire conveys no anequate
idea of the chaos prevailing,
“Badeni must go” is the general war
cry now, aud his downfall is considered
inevitable, regardless of the outcome of
the recent fight between the Germans
and the Czechs. The letter adds:
“No one can foresee how it will end.
If the Germans win there may be blood
shed in Bohemia, aud if the Bohemians
are persistent the Germans will have to
fight with their sharpest weapons to as
sert their prerogative and save the
Austro-Hungarian duality. The dan
ger. however, lies in the active partici
pation iu the fight by the Germans over
the border. There is actually a small
party in the reichsrath which openly
deciares for Prussia and wants to see
the former German provinces, as Bo
hemia, handed over to the Hoheu
zollerus. ”
Important Dißc-»vnry 11,(1,.
Washington, Nov. 9. —Consul Deus
ter, at Cronstadt, Germany, reports to
the state department of a discovery
made there which, it is said, will revo
lutionize the methods of illumination.
It is an incandescent gas. A single jet
of ordinary s.ze can emit a light of
much more tlian 1,000 caudle power and
fine print can be read at a distance ot
100 feet. The inventor says the cost
for a in.-he of 100 candle power is only
4}» cents per hour, while that for au
ordinary electric light of 400 caudle
power is 14 cents per hour.
A ClArgr.rauAii Kiil« Hiuiself.
Los Angeles, Nov. 9. —The Los An
geles engagement of Mme. Moultenord,
the Oriental lecturer, has been marred
by the suicide of her advance agent.
Rev. W. T. Veale, a Presbyterian cler
gym an. Rev. Mr. Veale shot himseit
in his room at the Hollenbeck hotel. He
was an Englishman. 49 years old. Tem
porary insanity, due to au injury to bit
brain, is the supposed cause of ths
suicide.
Knoxville, Nov. 9.-—John Ander
son, aged angered over domestic
troubles and unbalanced by- religious
fervor, knelt on the railroad track, Bi
ble in hand, to play, and a passing
train decapitated him.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
CHILD LABOR BILL
Legislatare Refuses to Adopt
it and Turns it Down.
Resolution to Select Senators by
the People Referred to Judici
ary Committee by Senate.
Atlanta, Nov. 9.—The first thing
done by the house immediately after
, the reading of the journal was the re*
consideration of the library commission
bill. The action of Monday was recon*
sidered on motion of Mr. Kuowles of
Fulton by a vote of 59 to 44.
Mr. Thomas of Clarke moved to re
consider his bill to prevent the entry of
race hor.-es iu classes below their
records. This is in brief a bill to make
every horse trot in his own class so that
the.stakes at Georgia fairs canuot be
swept by uuknown fast horses brought
in from a distance. The motion to re
consider was lost on a vote of 40 to 62.
Mr. Berry of Whitfield called up a
senate bill providing that all questions
of fact in htigatiou shall be referred to
a jury iustead of to an auditor or a
juuge.
Mr. Slaton opposed the bill. He said
that General Toombs, the great tribune
of the people, who had impressed his
geuius on the state constitution more
thau any one else, did recognize the fact
that there were cases which it was not
practicable to try by juries, and he pro
vided for auditors in the constitution.
Mr. Copeland of Walker favored the
bill. He called attentiou to the fact that
when the auditor’s findings are ex
cepted to, the court passes on them, and
that the auditor’s report is read to the
jury with only such portions of tbe evi
dence as may legally come before it.
At 10 o’clock, the hour for the special
order on the child labor bill arrived, the
discussion on the jury bill was sus
pended and the child labor bill, by Mr.
Craig of Bibb, was taken up.
The bill got its death blow in a mo
tion to disagfee to the favorable report
of the committee.
There was barely a quorum present,
in the seuate, aud the session was de
voted principally to the transaction of
routine business. Only one important
bill was introduced, and that was offered
by Mr. McFarland of the Forty-fourth
district. His bill has for its purpose
the abatement of the cigarette evil, aud
not only would prevent the sale of ciga
rettes in Georgia, but dlso provides
against bringing them inM the state.
Senator Turner’s billr-Teiiewing the
charter of the orphan asylum under the
direction of the North Georgia confer
ence, was made a special order aud
passed.
The joint resolution passed by the
house, recoiniuenmng the election of
United States senators by the people,
was given a first reading aud referred
to the gtuerul judiciary committee.
ROGERS ON THE RACK. £
Man of High Standing Said to Have Made
Bad Money,
Atlanta, Nov. 9.—Dr. Thomas Ed
gar Rogers, a well kuowu physican of
Harralson county, is on trial before
Judge Newman in the United States
court here for counterfeiting. He is
represented by Hon. Felix Cobb and J.
C. Hoiderness of CarrolltoiL
Dr. Rogers was arrested ou July 27,
1895, by Captain Forsyth pf the secret
service aud Deputy Marshal Julius
Johnson of the internal revenue. In
his house the officers found all the para
phernalia for the manufacture of the
“queer” in connection with a lot of
counterfeit money.
Dr. Rogers stands high in the com
munity in which he resides and his ar
rest caused a profound sensation.
•’hot Hlm ifa Mud suicided.
Pineville, Ky., Nov. 9.—News has
been brought here of a double tragedy
which occurred on Clear creek, iu this
(Bell) county. When neighbors passed
tbe Home of Andrew Vaugn, a promi
nent farmdr, and called for Vaughn,
they were answered by moans from the
inside. On going in they found
Vaughn’s wife weltering in her life’s
blood and Vaughn in a dying condition.
Both will die. It is supposed Vaughn,
who had been sick, became mentally
unbalanced and while in this state shot
his wife and then himself.
Kggs For the Aloriuon Elders.
Thomasville. Ga., Nov. 9.—Elders
Brown and Faoux of Utah, missionaries
of the church of Latter Day Saints, who
have been in this city for several daye,
held an open air meeting here. The
service was interrupted just before the
close of the discourse by a shower of
eggs, and it is said that some of them
were a little over ripe. More thau one
spread its yellow over the persons of
the elders. Without alluding iu any
way to the unexpected shower of hen
fruit the elders completed their services
and departed.
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I>r. Kdwitrtl Newberry Dead.
New York. Nov. 9—Dr. Edward
Newberry, founder of Brentwood, Long
Island, is dead from pneumonia con
tracted at the funeral of Henry George.
He was an intimate friend <>f Henry
George, and au earnest advocate of the
single lax.
Blue For Butterworth. "
Clkvelajrd, Nov. 9.—Major Batter
worth’s ofeanoes tor ncovaqr m« bow
regarded m very poor.