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ESTABLISHED 1887.
THREE MEN
ARE NAMED
Penitentiary Commis
sioners Appointed.
QUITE A SURPRISE
I ——
Gen. Clement Evins, Mr. Jake Beach
and Judge J. S. Turner Hamid,
DRAW LOTS FOR LENGTHS OF TERM
l
Jake Moore, of Floyd County,
Gets a Good Place.
fiRST MEETING OF COMMISSION
Members Were All Sworn In—Appoint
ments Are Regarded As Excellent
in Every Respect.
Judge Turner, of Putnam, one year,
Gen. Evans, of Fulton, three years,
Mr. Beach, of Glynn, five years.
Atlanta, Deo. 21.—The three pen
itentiary commissioners were;appointed
today and the appointments are the
most significant and important of the
year. The naming of Gen. Clement A.
Evans who was an opponent of Gov.
Atkinton is almost apolitical sensation.
The appointment of Judge J. 8. Turner,
at present the principal keeper of the
penitentiary bad been anticipated.
The appointments, develop another
surprise in some quarters as no later
than this morning Mr. Beach is report
ed as positively not being in the race
and it is gravely announced that “slates
are thereby upset. ’ ’
Governor Atkinson, in seeking the
, best men for the places, has been most
fortunate in his selections.
, AU are Well Fitted.
Mr. Turner ismost’responsible'for the
reform system inaugurated, and he
heads the list. Mr. Beach is a man of
tried ability, and of the highest stand
ing in his section of the state. General
Evans, a distinguished Confederate
soldier, a leader among Georgia
Methodists, and a man of fine business
traits. . .
There were several hundred candi
dates for these positions, and it was no
small which the'governor was
con fronted in making the appointments.
All Accepted Promptly,
The appointments were made early
this morning and formally tendered
before the governor had left the man
sion. General Evans was communicat
ed with, and his acceptance received.
Mr. Beach, now in the city, signified
his acceptance. Mr. Turner, from the
first settled upon as certain of appoint
ment, had already signified his willing
ness to accept the place. At 10 o’clock
« they met the governor at the capitol
and the oath of office was administered,
Jake Moore Is Chosen.
A meeting of the commissioners was
afterwards held and Mr. Turner was
elected chairman, Douglass Glessner,
of Spalding, was elected secretary,
and Jake C. Moore, of Floyd, inspec
tor.
The commissioners were sworn in
by Governor Atkinson at 11 o’clock,
just after be signed the bill abolish
ing the offices of principal and assis
tant keeper and creating the prison
commission.
They were called into the executive
office and Judge Spencer Atkinson
and Attorney General Terrell were
among the spectators.
Oaths Administered.
The governor administered the oath
first to Judge Turner, who read it in
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
NEGROES INDIGNANT
Held Mossier Mass Meeting in
Savannah Last Night.
Resent the Kick Made By White
People Against J. H. Deveaux
For Collector.
Savannah, Dec. 21.—There was a
monster mass meeting of negroes here
tonight. «
They met to resent the kick
made against J. H. Deveaux, color
ed, who seems likely to get the ap
pointment of collector of ports.
The Savannah Cotton Exchange
and the Board of Trade in a joint
meeting yesterday adopted resolutions
opposing the appointment of negroes
to federal positions.
The negroes in a mass meeting to
night resented what they termed an
insult to their race by the white peo
pie. Trouble was expected but none
occurred.
PARDON BOARD.
Will Settle the Fate of Tom Cyrus, the
Atlanta Murderer.
Atlanta, Dec. 21.—The governor
today respited Tom Cyrus until Fri
day.
The new board of commissioners
just appointed, will act upon the ne
gro’s case at once, and decide as to
his fate.
, BIG COMBINE.
Fertilizer Men Meet in Atlanta—Price of
40,000,000 Tong Controlled.
Atlanta, Dec. 21.—A monster fer
tilizer combine was formed here today,
and every guauo firm in the south was
represented. The combine will control
the price on 40,000.000 tons of guanos.
Strike Grows Worse.
Atlanta, Dec. 21,—The attempt at
a settlement of the differences be
tween strikers and employers of the
Fulton Bag and Cotton mill today,
only served to widen the breach. Af
fairs are in a very bad state now.
Big caliulKi l"ii Australia.
London. Dec. 21.—A special from
Melbourne, Australia, says O. H. James
has failed for £850,000 (14,250,000). The
cause of his troubles is said to ba the
bursting of the land boom.
Railway Auditor Named.
Memphis, Dec. 21.—The receivers of
the Memphis and Charleston railroad
have appointed O. P. Cooper auditor to
succeed A. li. Plant, resigned, to take
effect Jan. 1.
Home for Holidays.
■Atlanta, Dec. 21—The entire dele
gation of Georgia congressmen pissed
through Atlanta tcd iy going to their
homes for Christmas.
a clear voice, touching the Bible with
his lips. Hon. Jake Beach was called
next and repeated the oath with
unction. General Evans followed,
reverently bending his head as he
touched the Bible.
“Now, gentlemen,’’ said the gov
ernor, “you will retire and cast lots
for terms, and then we will finish the
business. ”
The commissioners went into the
reception room, requesting Judge At
kinson to assist in the drawing,
A Game of Chance.
“Give me three cards, said Judge
Atkinson, with a smUo.
“This is three card monte for high
stakes,” said a bystander, and Gen
eral Evans looked solemn.
Some one remarked that this was
high play to be sanctioned by the
state, but Judge Atkinson proceeded
without hesitation to arrange the
cards. He took from the table three
blank cards and on them the
figures 1. 8 and 5 Arranging them
fan shaped in his hand, he arose.
“Here,gentlemen,draw your cards.”
Mr. Beach walked up with an
easy, careless air and drew the five.
Judge Turner drew the one and Gen
eral Evans the three.
“Well, gentlemen, I have the short
term,” said Judge Turner, with a
complacent smile, and the others
looked satisfied.
Then they went into another room
with Attorney General Terrell and
filled out the blanks in the bond,
returning to the executive office they
signed the bonds and delivered them
to the governor.
This ended the matter and Com
missioners Turner, Beach and Evans
are in full control of the Georgia
penitentiary. |
DOME. GA„ WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 22, 1897,:
PRETTY MISS HERBERT
COMMITS SUICIDE
Daughter of Former Secretary of the Navy
Escapes From Third Story Window.
ACUTE MELANCHOLIA WAS CAUSE OF ACT
Her Social Triumphs in Washington
Society and In Europe—lnjured
While Horseback Riding.
Washington,'Dec. 21.—Miss Leila I
Herbert, daughter of ex-Secretary of
the Navy Herbert of Alabama, died at
her home in this city as the result of a
fall from the third-story of her home on
MISS LEILA HERBERT.
New Hampshire avenue, in the most
fashionable part of the city, just off
Dupont Circle.
The sudden death and the tragic fea
tures surrounding it .were a great shock
to the large circle of friends she had
made iu the course of her life in Wash
ington as the daughter of a popular rep
resentative in congress from the south,
and later as one of the cabinet circle of
ladies, when she provided over her fa
ther's household during the four years
he was secretary of the navy under the
last Cleveland administration.
Hurt While Riding Horseback.
Her death was traceable indirectly to
an accident while horseback riding in
her native state of Alabama about two
months ago. She always had been en
thusiastically fond of riding, and wbiie
paying a visit to her old home started
out one day on a horse that had not
been well broken. It stumbled and she
was thrown violently to the ground,
sustaining severe injuries to her back.
She was brought back to Washington,
but recovery was exceedingly slow, and
it was not until last Sunday that she
was able to go out of the house. Ou
that day she went driving for the first
time since the accident and Dr. W. W.
Johnston, the attending physician, no
ticed considerable improvement.
Tuesday morning she was unusually
bright and cheerful and chatted ani
imatedly with her married sister, Mrs.
Micou.-who made her home with the
ex-secietary and his daughter. It had
been Miss Herbert’s custom for several
years to take her breakfast in her room
and later prepare for the social obliga
tions of the day. Shortly before 10
o’clock she dressed to go down stairs,
but instead of descending to the parlor
went to the rear loom of the third story
of her home whence she fell to the
ground, sustaining injuries which
caused her death before Dr. Johnston
could arrive on the scene.
Her father was not at home at the
time, being on his way here from Ala
bama.
The death was repotted to policel
headquarters as a case of suicide, due
to melancholia and temporary aberra
tion of mind as the result of a long ill
ness, but friends of the family believe
that the fall was the result of an
accident.
Miss Leila Herbert was the eldest of
ex-Secretary Herbert’s three children
and was a charming figure in Wash
ington society. She came with her
father to Washington when he was
elected to congress and at once took
charge of his household affairs, making
the Herbert home one of the most at
tractive and comfortable in Washing- ,
iugton from the spirit of true southern
hospitality, which gave it an atmos
phere of its own among fashionable
homes.
||When her father became secretary of
the navy in President Cleveland’s sec
ond administration. Miss Herbert was
called upon to take her place in the cir
cle of cabinet ladies, where she met
with success the heavy social responsi- '
bilities placed upon her youthful shoul
ders. Socially she was exceedingly pop
ular and her presence was sought at ail
g<tbprinn
Her social triumphs here were re
peated in Europe, where she went to
attend the great naval demonstration
at Kiel. Within the past year she has
not enjoyed robust health, but this only
induced her to redouble her devotion to
out-of-door sports and exercise audit
Was while regaining her health by out
door riding that sue met the accident
that indirectly resulted iu her death.
Story of the Suicide.
The following authorized statement
has been made by a gentleman familiar
with ell of the facts of the suicide:
Miss Herbert, at the time of the oc
currence, was suffering from acute mel
ancholia. It developed several weeks
ago as the final result of injuries re
ceived by being thrown from her horse
last spring.
The melancholia was not insanity in
the sense of being accompanied by de
lusions. At the same time there w. s
profound depression, and as always the
case in this type of disease, there was
great danger that suicidal tendencies
would develop. For this reason nurses
were provided to maintain the closest
watchfulness. No suicidal tendency
developed, however, until Monday,
when for the first time Miss Herbert
made an attempt to get out of the win
dow, but was restrained by the nurse.
This led to additional caution and two
nurses alternated in constant watchful
ness of the patient.
She was at all times rational, quiet
ami gentle and it was supposed, the dis
pute Would yield to .treatment. Early
Tuesday morning the nurse on duty no
ticed a small spot of blood on the bed
coverings, she inquired what it meant,
but the invalid endeavored to pass it by
lightly. On making an investigation,
however, the nurse found that the un
der bed clothes were saturated with
blood and that Miss Herbert had sev
ered the artery of her wrists with a
pair of scissors. Feeling that the emer
gency was great, the nurse hastened to
the door and called an alarm.
Jumped From » Window.
th thia momentary withdrawal from
the bedside* Miss Herbert leaped out
and sprang from -the window. The
plunge was made head foremost so that
she lighted on the'top of her head on
the asphalt pavement. This injury
alone was sufficient to have caused
death from concussion and it was doubt
less the immediate cause. Aside from
this a cursory examination indicated
that the skull was fractured. The sev
erance of the artery also would have re
suited fatally.
W hen the physician reached her Miss
Herbert was still breathing, but died
about an hour after the leap.
The coroner returned a verdict of
suicide during temporary insanity. As
the facts in the case were clear he de
cided that an inquest was unnecessary.
THE CASE OF MriS. NACK.
Woman Will Plead Guilty of Mau
ftlauchtnr Iu the First Degree.
New York, Dec. 21.—While District
Attorney Youngs of Queens county is
noncommittal npon the matter it is un
derstood he has finally decided to allow
Mrs. Nack to plead guilty to man
slaughter in the first degree. It is as
serted that the prosecuting officers have
gone over carefully the evidence against
the woman and have reached the con
clusion that it would be impossible tc
souviot her either of murder in the first
or second degree.
Her confession made on the Thorn trial
could uot be used against her, it is al
leged. She probably will be arraigned
before'Judge Garretson at the January
term of the supreme court, which opens
in Long Island 01 ty on Monday, Jan.
6, and be allowed to plead.
*
Labor Federation Adj ourn*.
Nashville, Dec. 21.—The American
Federation of Labor closed its seven
teenth annual session here. Thomas L
Kidd of Chicago was elected fraternal
delegate to the Canadian labor congress.
The convention spent most of the morn
ing in exective session, considering the
report of the grievance committee.
Serlotu Strllc. In Spain.
Madrid, Dec. 21.—Serious strike dis
orders have occurred at Moreso, where
a band of strikers have attacked the
nonstrikera. Several persons were in
jured. Gendarmes are patrolling the
streets.
DRIVEN _TOJ)E AT H
Suicide in Chicago of An Aged
and Rich Spiritualist.
Worried Over the Loss of Wife.
Alexander Campbell’s Son Was
Killed Several Year’s Ago,
Chicago; Dea 21. Alexander B.
Campbell, an aged spiritualist of Rush
ville, and., committed suicide at a Clark
street hotel He took morphine and was
dead when found. He had written a
long letter to the coroner, and made a
will bequeathing his few valuables to
relatives.
The suicide was abont 58 years old.
He came to the hotel Dea 14 and regis
tered from Santa Monica, Cal. He at
tempted recently to kill himself in Los
Angeles. Failing, he returned home.
His relatives and friends thought him
of unsound mind. He was examined
by the authorities and released as sane.
His letter to the coroner is iu part as
follows:
‘ ‘I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this
statement: My death will be caused by
morphine, which I deliberately take
with suicidal intent. This purpose was
fully formed when I left Rushville and
came to this city. The reason why I
take my life is because I want to go to
my wife and boy. I cannot live without
their companionship. First my boy
was killed. Then Lizzie died and since
then I have wanted to die also. I at
tempted snicide in Los Angeles. I did
not take enough of the drug. I went
back to Rushville. They thought me
insane because I claimed my wife was
with me always. She is with me now
and helping me. Ido not. care to live
such a life. What few things I leave
in my room may be sent to my brother.
Goorge W. Campbell, at Rushville. I
bid all «ny friends goodby.”
Campbell had a remarkable career.
He was the sou of a Christian minister
and was born in Indiana 56 years ago.
Ten years ago he was the leading Re
publican of Kansas and adjutant gen
eral of that state. He was a fine speaker
and lecturer and was the possessor of a
fortune of <IOO.OOO when an accident
occurred that ruined his life. It was
the sad death of his 9-year-old son, who
was killed by the street cars in Topeka.
He lost his property and with his wife
went to Los Angeles, Cat, where she
died three years ago. This last bereave
ment preyed so heavily on Campbell’s
njind that for a time he was thought to
be insane and was confined in an asy
bjaa, but subsequently, released-
The Campbell family are descendants
of Alexander Campbell, the founder of
the Disciples’ church. Wood Campbell,
manager of the Star theater at Cleve
land, Rev. Walter S. Campbell and
Editor George W. I. Campbell are
brothers of General Campbell
SHOT WOMAN AND SELF.
Chicago Man Driven to Murder and Sui
cide by Jealousy.
Chicago, Dec. 21.—George Thurston
■hot and probably fatally wounded Mrs.
Lizzie Parker and then fired a bullet
into his own head in the woman’s home.
After wounding his victim and befqre
turning the weapon upon himself,
Thurston fired one shot at Mrs. Emma
Scott, Mrs. Parker’s sister, but it missed
the mark.
Mrs. Parker is shot in the right breast,
left wrist and hand. She is at the
Mercy hospital. The bullet which
Thurston fired at himself took effect in
his forehead. He was taken to the hos
pital in the county jail. His death is
exnected hourly. Jealousy was the
or the snoonng.
ALABAMA E’i?Etfid r N CASES.
Several Contexts Are to He Decided Daring
the Mouth of January.
Washington, Dee. 21.—The next of
the contested cases before the house
elections committee No. 2 is that of
Gratton B. Crown versus Oscar W. Un
derwood, in the Ninth Alabama dis
trict. This has been fixed for a hearing
Jaifc 7.
The committee expects to dispose of
all the contests before it by February.
The other cases are Thomas Clarke',
contestant, versus Jesse F. Stallings,
eontestee. Second Alabama district; Co
mer versus Clayton, Third Alabama;
Goodwin versus Brewer, Fifth Ala
bama; Willis versus Handy, Delaware;
Hunter versus Rhea, Third Kentucky.
Os these contests three are uot ex
pected to reach the state of a hearing.
These are in the Second and Third
Alabama and the Third Kentucky d.«-
tricts. Mr. W. Godfrey Hunter, who
contests the last named, has received a
presidential appointment which he is
thought to prefer.
United Slate. Ship Flr.d Upon.
Constantinople, Dea 21.—1 t appears
that when the United States steamship
Bancroft arrived at Smyrna on the night
of Dea 4, she was greeted with a blank
cannon shot and rifled bullets from fori
Yeuikale. A boat from the warship,
sent shoreward to ask for explanations,
was fired upon and compelled to return.
Thereupon, the American admiral
lodged a protest with the United States
miuister here, Mr. James B. Angell,
and demanded the punishment of the
guitty parties aud an apology from the
Turkish government, which was i iven
on Sunday last. In addition, two Turk
ish officers were dismissed aud sen
tenced to a week’s arrest.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
AUDITORIUM
IN ASHES
Kansas City’s Finest
Building Burns,
HOTEL AND THEATER
The 106 Guests Escape Safely But In
N gbt Clothes.
DAMAGE HALF MILLION DOLLARS
Fire Broke Out About 1 O’clock
yesterday Morning.
LACK OF WATER WAS THE TROUBLE
Firemen's Heroic Work to Cbeck Flames
Proves Futile—Excitement Among
the Guests.
Kansas City, Dec. 21.—The Audi
torium, the largest and finest playhouse
west of Chicago, and the Auditorium
hotel, one of the most fashionable fam
ily hotelries in the city, situated at
Holmes and Ninth streets, was gutted
by fire that started in the theater shortly
after la. m. The 106 guests escaped in
safety, although many were compelled
to leave the building in their night
clothes. The loss on the entire property,
which is owned by Alexander Frazer, a
local businessman, will aggregate <450,-
000. The aggregate insurance amounts
to but <85,000.
The fire originated in an unoccupied
room on the sixth floor of the theater
and resulted the crosing of elec
tric light wires. It was first noticed by
Night Clerk Haak, who turned in an
alarm at 1:12. Haak immediately awoke
the guests. They included many fami
lies and children of ail ages and the
greatest confusion ensued. For a time
it seemed that the flames would be con
fined to a single floor, but after it had
apparently been gotten under control it
burst forth again and defied all efforts
of the firemen. Many of the gn Sts
were assured after tue first alarm that
the fire would not spread and returned
to their rooms.
Delay in getting a continuous stream
on the fire, however, enabled it to gee
beyond the firemen’s control Th»
flames spread rapidly along tlio rooms
I on the sixth and fifth floors aud soon
communicated with the hotel through
the small apertures in the firewall,
which sepaiated it from the theater,
Once in the hotel the flames were be
yond control.
The excitement broke out among the
hotel guests afresh and hurried scram
bles to save their personal effects en
sued. Every thing available was pressed
into service as receptacles for the val
uables, and before the guests had been
ordered from the building a second
time, the bulk of their belongings had
been carried out.
The firemen worked heroically, but
within a few hours both theater and
hotel had been gutted, the bigger part
of the roof had fallen in and about one
third of the wall of the hotel collapsed.
The Auditorium was built iu 1886 by
Colonel George W. Warder at a cost of
<350,0K). It was named the Warder
Grand Opera Hpnse and was opened by
Booth aud Barrett. After a brief but
unsuccessful season. Warder traded the
property to George W. Henry of Chi
cago. Henry reopened the theater, but
it again failed to pay expenses. In 1896
the National Bank of Commerce pur
chased the property and installing John
P. Slocum, a well known eastern the
atrical manager, the house was run for
a season in the most approved metro
politan style.
After another failure, the bank traded
the property last October to Alex Fra
zer and the latter leased the property to
Paxton & Burgiss. Frazer expended
<75,000 in improvement* aud repair* on
both hotel and theater. Paxton & Bur
giss presented the Woodward Stock
company and a list of flrstclass special
ties at seat prices of not over 10 and 25
cents. The play prove/i a decided suc
cess and for the the first time since its
inception the Auditorium became a pay
ing property.
Mining KXte No. Yet** Fixed.
Pittsburg. Dea 21.—The joint con
vention of coal operators aud miner* of
the Pittsburg district, which met here
to fix a rate for mining for the ensuing
year, decided to postpone the matter of
a rate for this district, pending the out
come of a movement for an interstate
convention at which a uniform rate for-
Pennsylvauia. Onio, Indiana and Illi
nois would be fixed. The convention
was on* of the largest ever held in this
citv.