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WWW WWW -9 WWW WWWJNk f BRIWT »«a MEfZY i S "AU The New." I $ North tseor~ia'« Great jj ® Daily. * <5 Only 50 Cents a Month. S j* ESTABLISHED 1887. FIRE IN ASYLUM Negro Department Was Destroyed. SCENE OF TERROR Fran ic T nmates Driven From Buildings in Time. MACON FIRE DEPT. SUMMONED j » 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. ■ -- --. . 7 vs . 4 -"ONO- , TWEWNB TRIBUNE. . a» .. . .J ’ ’ 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. —------ • ■ 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. £ kicreasß Ytur Tfad*' C t' A Klondike Strike t J By advertisin'* in The $ heriiHlMWriMGMiiiJ 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. .J ... 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.