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THROUGH A BURNING TRESTLE.
FOURTEEN CARS OF FREIGHT
BURNED AT WHEAT HILL.
DlMnstrous Wreck on the Florida
Central mid Peninsnlur Railroad.
A Freight Train of 25 Corn
Started Actohk a Trestle—-The
coinotive Fussed Over Safely, Rut
the Tender and Middle Section of
the Train Went Down and W’ere
Burned—A Colored Brakeman and
a Tramp the Only Injured—The Es
timated Loss on Freight, $20,000.
Four Hundred Bules of Cotton
Burned.
The wreck on the Florida Central and
Peninsular railroad at Wheat Hili, west
of Savannah, night before last was the
most serious since the extension/of the
road to Savannah. Nine carloads of cot
ton and one of grain were totally de
stroyed, and three cars containing lum
ber and one containing brick were par
tially burned. Some of the lumber was
saved.
The wreck occurred a few minutes be
fore 11 o’clock. Train 71 from Columbia,
Engineer Mansfield and Conductor Angell,
was two hours behind timp and was run
ning at the rate of eighteen or twenty
miles an hour. When it started across the
trestle over Pipemaker creek, the engi
neer noticed light on the ground about
the middle of the trestle, but thought it
was the campfire of some tramp, which
is a common sight along the road at night.
When the engine reached the middle sec
tion of the trestle it jumped the rails and
the engineer heard a sound which told
him plainer than words that the trestle
was giving away. He pulled open the
throttle, and let the engine go with all
speed, with the result that it broke loose
from the tender and ran along the cross
ties entirely across the trestle for some
distance beyond.
The tender fell with the trestle, which
gave way for a considerable distance.
Fourteen cars followed in rapid succes
sion, piling on top of each other and crash
ing into the bed of the creek with a noise
like thunder. There were eight cars and
the caboose which did not go into the
crevasse for the simple reason that the
other fourteen cars had filled it to the top
and prevented any more following. The
trestle is only about ten feet high.
Both Conductor Angell and Engineer
Mansfield played in big luck, the latter
escaping with his engine across the burned
trestle, and the conductor being safe in
his caboose in the rear. The fireman
jumped from the engine as it crossed the
trestle, but was not hurt. John Nelson,
the colored brakeman, was the chief suf
ferer. He was on the fourth car from the
engne and went down in the wreck with
the car. He was in luck, too, in being
thrown some distance. Had he been
caught in the ruins he would have been
burned to death and nothing could possi
bly have been done to save him.
The wreck caught fire at once from the
burning trestle and in a few minutes
tiie whole pile of fourteen cars and their
contents was ablaze. The colored set
tlement of Wheat Hill is near the Pipe
maker creek crossing, and in a short
while a large crowd of negroes gathered
at the wreck. They were put to work by
tiie trainmen fighting the fire with buck
ets, but water was scarce, the bed of
tiie creek being almost dry and nothing
could be accomplished against such a
eundagrutlon.
Supervisor J. A. Roberson, was aboard
the train, having been up the road with
the supply car, distributing groceries to
the section gangs. He took charge of
the work, assisted by Conductor Angell,
of fighting the fire. All the buckets
aboard the train and all that could be
gathered in the neighborhood were made
Use of, and the negroes who gathered
to the scene were impressed into service.
Mr. Roberson directed his efforts to pre
venting the total destruction of the tres
tle, succeeding in saving about half of
it. He hlho managed to save over hair
the lumber. The lumber was green ana
burned slowly.
As soon as the extent of the damage
was ascertained Engineer Mansfield
started to the city to notify Trainmaster
Williams. He walked to the Charleston
and Savannah crossing, where he met
the night passenger train, No. 36, which
left the ilepot at 11:50 o’clock on its way
to Columbia. He informed the conductor
of the train of the accident, and the
train was at once run back to the yard
outside the city. From there Engineer
Mansfield telephoned the trainmaster’s
olflee Information of tho accident. Train
master Williams immediately went out
to the scene with such force as he could
gather, and remained on the scene the
rest of the night, all day yesterday and
nil last night, clearing away the wreck
age and restoring the tre*tle. The fire
was a bad one to contend with, the cot
ton continuing to burn for a long time
und making a very hot tire. It was some
time before the wreckage was entirely
cleared away, and thq work of rebuild
ing the trestle could begin. Mr. Will
iams had a wrecking itraJn with a large
force of hands at work. Work was go
ing steadily ahead last night, ami the
expectation was that the trestle woitld
be sufficiently completed this morning
to allow of the passage of trains.
Freight traffic on the road beyond Sa
vannah was entirely stopped by the acci
dent. The passenger service was con
tinued by tramiferrinng passengers across
the break. The regular schedules are be
ing run ami the delay is very slight. The
road will he open to freight traffic by to
night, if not earlier.
The wreck is a pretty costly one to the
road, the nine cars of cotton contained
480 bales, which Is practically a total loss,
there being very little saved and that in
a damaged condition. The car of grain
is also a total loss, and there will be eon
r.ideruble loss on the lumber and bricks.
The damage to the freight will not fall
short of IJo.tMM). The loss of the fourteen
burned cars and the cost of restoring the
trestle will be at least half as much more.
At the same time it was a lucky accident.
hh railroad men regard these things. None
of tiie train crew were killed.
Had the freight been half an hour later
it would have waited at the next crossing
beyond ami the passenger train would
have clashed into the burning
trestle Instead. Or had the
freight been on time it would
have probably passed the trestle before the
fire had progressed to a noticeable extent
and the passenger train would have gone
on to Its fate. The holocaust that would
have resulted had it been a passenger
train that crashed into the burning tiVstle
instead of a freight is terrible to contem
plate.
The opinion of the railroad men is that
the fire was Incendiary. They think that
it was set fire to by parties who calculated
that it would burn into in time to ditch
the night passenger train and rob the pas
sengers.
No trnin had passed over the trestle
for several hours previous to the arrival
of the freight train, and the rallroaii
/nen found their belief that the fire was
incemllary on the ground that had it
been caused by a spark from an engine
the treatle would have been entirely de
stroyed, as the seasoned pine timbers
would have burned rapidly, before the
arrival of the freight train.
Besides the colored brakeman. Nelson,
the only other poison known to have been
injured is Samuel Broad, a colored boy
tramp who was stealing a ride
In the rear of the tender, who
toes maahed.
Broad was discovered after the
wreck. Dr. J. G. Jarrell, one of the sur
geons of the road, went out on a special
amt dressed the wounds of Nelson''*and
Broad. He afterwards sent them in to
the Georgia Infirmary. Dr. M. L. Iktvd
the chief surgeon of the road, eald yes
terday that Nelson's leg would probably
There waa u report among the negroes
at Wheat Hill that there ware several
persons burled under the wreck, and a
day th.'t there were two tramps burned
nf the wreckage failed to show any evi-
dence of such destruction, and the prob
ability is that the reports were un
founded. Conductor Angell said last
night that he did not believe there were
any tramps on the train outside of the
boy who was stealing a ride on the
tender, as all the cars were sealed and
there was very little chance for tramps
to steal a ride on the train.
MUST WORK OR GO TO JAIL.
Delinquents in Road Dnty Given
Another Chance.
The delinquents who failed to respond
promptly to the summons sent them to
come out and work the Montgomery cross
road and the Buckhalter road were be
fore the roads and bridges committee of
the county commissioners yesterday after
noon to explain why they did not put
in appearance, or in other cases why they
did not put in the full number of days'
work required by law.
Sickness and all sorts of excuses were
made, but seven of them could not satis
fy the committee that they had a right
to neglect the duty for which they were
called out. They were John Chig, Jack
Ferrabee, George Wellbrook, Bram Wil
son, Abram Brown and Scipio Waldburg,
colored, and Frank Doval, white. Under
the law the commissioners are empowered
to fine delinquents from $1 to $5 for each
day on which they do not put in an ap
pearance, or to sentence them to spend
not more than ninety days in jail.
The judges decided to sentence the
seven delinquents mentioned to thirty
days each in jail, but agreed to suspend
the sentence on the understanding that
the delinquents are to go out at once
and put 'in the time required of them on
the roads. Unless they go out and put
in their time on the Montgomery cross
road next Tuesday they will be arrested
and made td serve their sentences. The
judges gave all delinquents to under
stand that hereafter they will not be
so lenient.
The law requires that the men work
the roads, and they will be expected to
respond promptly hereafter when the
summons are issued. Otherwise the pen
alties will be imposed unless, of course,
■there is a good and reasonable excuse,
and hereafter they will be enforced.
Superintendent of Roads R. J. Wade
has so far summoned out men to work
both the Montgomery cross roads and the
Buckhalter road. In the first Instance, the
responses to the summons were not sat
isfactory and very little work was done.
In the case of the Buckhalter road, how
ever, the responses were more prompt
and considerable was accomplished. The
net road to be worked will be the Augusta
road, from the six mile post out to Mon
teith, and summons for citizens liable for
road duty in that section will probably be
issued within a few days. No distinction
is made between white and colored citi
zens liable for road duty, though the white
men sometimes hire a substitute, which
the negroes do not seem to like, because
they are not able to do it.
Supt. Wade says about 700 feet of chert
has been laid so far on the Ogeechee road,
between the city limits and the Charleston
and Savannah railroad crossing. This,
however, is only the first coating. The
chert Is coming in right along now, and
the cars are kept on the siding until it
is unloaded. There will be put down
about 1,000 feet of chert and about 1,000
feet of crushed rock in order that the dur
ability of both may be tested. As the por
tion of the road to be paved is 3,400 feet
in length this will leave 1,400 feet upon
which other materials may be put, in or
der that it may be determined what class
of paving will give the best results.
MR. C. B. WARRAND DEAD.
A Paralytic Stroke Follows an At
tack of Malarial Fever.
Mr. Constantine B. Warrand died at
St. JoOeph’s Infirmary yesterday after
noon,sifter an illness of three weeka.
The immediate of death was par
alysis.
Mr. Warrand was 54 years old. He was
born in St. Petersburg, Russia. His
father was the English tutor of Alexan
der 11, ai d his mother was a French
woman of gentle birth. While their chil
dren were young Mr. Warrand’s father
received a pension from the czar and re
tired to an estate on the Rhine.
Young WaTrand was first educa
ted in the German gymnasiums, and was
afterward graduated from one of the uni
versities. Fie came to this country short
ly after the civil war and for a number of
years was connected with the firm of
Tunno & Co. About fifteen years ago he
married Mrs. Epping of Laurel Point,
Beaufort aounty, South Carolina, who
survives him. They had no children.
Mr. Warrand was a man of much origi
nality. He was the inventor of the Pal
metto process of tanning, and he intro
duced the manufacture of lamp black In
Georgia. Although of small means, he
| did much by his writings and by
. personal efforts to encourage the intro
duction and establishing of manufac
turing industries In Savannah. Some
months ago he was appointed immigration
agent of the Plant system and had since
his appointment been engaged in writing
up the opportunities afforded for immi
gration by the sections of country which
the Plant system of railways traverses.
About three weeks ago he was taken
ill with fever at Walthourville, where
he lived. He had partially recovered and
came to Savannah. Friday he was
stricken by paralysis and never spoke
from the time he was stricken. He was
I taken at once to the St. Joseph s Infirm
ary, where he died.
I mee* ■■ ■T
Surher
Savannah, Georgia.
Blood Poison
! Hood's Sarsaparilla Achieves a Per>
manent Cure.
Mr. James M. Sutherland is a native
I VI Edinburgh. Scotland, and has been
■ a resident of Savannah, Ga., for some
i thirty years. He writes as follows:
“ Five years ago my blood was poisoned
I by poison oak. My trouble grew worse
■ and I took much treatment without avail.
I I returned to Scotland and entered the
■ Royal Infirmary for treatment. I was
! discharged as cured, but upon returning
; to this country the poison broke out
• worse than before. Finally I resorted to
Hood's Sarsaparilla
i After taking three bottles I was entirely
I cured. lean now eat heartily, sleep well
! and do not have any languid feeling as
I formerly. My wife has also taken Hood’s
barsaparilla for dyspepsia with marked
benefit.’ Jam vs M. Suthkrlaxd,4 Mer
cer Street, Savannah, Georgia.
Hood’s Pills
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31, 1895.
WOMEN DENIED THE BALLOT.
CAROLINA’S CONVENTION VOTES
AGAINST THE FAIR SEX.
The Delegates Overwhelmingly
Against the Scheme—Mr. Patton Of
fers a Substitute for the General
Suffrage Plan—He Takes Excep
tion to Some of the Statements
Mode by the Negro Delegates in
Their Speeches Last Week and
Scores the Race Roundly.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 29.—After a fight
lasting all of last evening and through to
day’s session, the constitutional conven
tion at 2:15 o’clock, took an aye and nay
vote on the proposition to allow woman’s
suffrage, with property and educational
qualifications. The cause of woman died
by a vote of 121 to 26.
"Uncle George” Tillman made a mag
nificent argument of about an hour or
more, favoring woman’s suffrage.
The debate was intensely interesting all
through. Mr. Sleigh introduced an amend
ment to leave the woman’s suffrage mat
ter to the general assembly. This will no
doubt be voted down promptly.
When the Convention reassembled at
7:30 p. m., Mr. Sligh offered an amend
ment to section 3 of the suffrage article,
designed to accomplish what had been
voted down in a milder form. It was co
allow the general assembly at any time
It saw fit to pass a woman’s suffrage act.
He made a strong speech, but it was of
no avail. The convention voted it down
by a heavy vote, only twelve votes being
c n s , t favor of it. Thus died all pos
sible chance of the cause of woman's suf
frage ever prevailing in this state until
another constitution has been framed.
then the all-important section contain
ing the suffrage plan itself was called up
v V ar Mr. Patton offered
a substitute plan, the leading provisions
of which were:
a}:.*? v £ ry J? ale citizen of the state of
Soutn Carolina of the age of 21 years,
Put under disabilities named in
this constitution, who shall have resided
in the state two years, and in the conven
tion in which he offers to vote one year
next preceding any election, and who shall
uave paid all poll or other tax due by
him to th© state for the fiscal year pre
ceding that in which he shall offer to
V< ?A e i ln addition thereto:
(A.) Shall be able to read the constitu
tion in English print and sign his name;
./hJ* have been en .&aged in the
vX-LU® hiilitary or naval service of th©
r^ t< fv, C °r’-^ e /! er , a 's, e states of America, or
of the Lnited States of America, during
z’M, 31 ® war between the states, or
(C.) Shall be the lawful lineal de
scendant of a person who was engaged
in such service, and shall be alive at the
J he adoption of this constitution.
Shall be a qualified elector of this state.
aad > when duly registered, shall be en
titled to vote for all officers that are
now or may hereafter be elected by the
people and upon all questions submit
ted to the electors at any election.
Mr, Patton said he could see very little
in the speeches made by the negroes be
fore the convention. He granted a great
deal of what the negroes had said, par
ticularly in the conduct of the negroes
to their ex-masters’ families. It was a
complete vindication of the treatment
given to the negroes by their masters.
He reserved the right to doubt some of
the things said about the negroes as
soldiers and sailors. There never was a
race which, coming from real cannibal
ism, has ever reached the state of civili
ation that the negro has gained in this
state. But when the negro member pro
claims that South Carolinians were not
brave and courageous in the revolution
ary war, justice demands that this state
ments shall not go unchallenged. He must
not attack history with untrue state
ments. The statement that South Caio
lina furnished not more than 6,u'io men
in the whole revolutionary war was ab
solutely false.
Delegate Miller asked Mr. Patton if he
had anything to give in the way of evi
dence, in God’s name to please present it.
Mr. Patton then recounted “The glo
rious history of the South Carolina flag”
and the battle In whifch It figured. He
went on to detail the particularly brilliant
and daring acts of South Carolinians in
the beginning of the war. He quoted from
Mr. Greeley’s “American Conflict.” If
South Carolina had not troops in the
war, tear down those pictures of Sumpter
and Marion. They were humbugs. Gen.
Henry Knox of Massachusetts was quoted
and other high authorities to prove that
South Carolina furnished 31,000 men and
more.
Mr. Patton was particularly severe on
the negroes. He then made a powerful
speech against the subterfuge spetion in
the committee’s article.
After speeches from the negro members
in reply, and several other members, Sen
ator Tillman gave notice that to-morrow
during the day he would call the previous
question on section 4, and asked all who
had amendments or substitutes to offer
to send them up to-night so as to have
them printed. Four went up, one provid
ing for the Australian ballot system.
Senator Tillman speaks to-morrow morn
ing.
Mr. Patton, In the course of his remarks
to-night, said:
“Now these delegates admit that their
race was unfit for the ballot. If these
walls could tell tales they could tell of
wild scenes of debauchery and negro mis
rule.
“I say they were mainly responsible for
this. They had it in their power to put a
stop to these scenes and acts. They re
fused to go to the white people of this
state. The white people of this state were
Mounded from their homes, and driven
into the courts, tried without jury. They
had to fight for their lives with bayonets
over them. They were seduced, indeed,
by the worst of white men, but was not
that the fatal defect in their argument,
admitting that they were such a race that
they could be misled.”
Mr. Patton said: “What better proof
do we need yet to show that the negro is
unfit to cast the ballot than his action in
the last election.”
“I regret to have to refer to it, Mr.
President, but who have they chosen as
their representatives, the type of their
manhood, the flower of their civilization.
I regret to mention it, I repeat, but since
this matter has been forced upon us, as
we have been subjected to stringent crit
icism and reflection, I say deliberately
that when the negro race this summer
elected as their representatives, as the
type of their civilization a man whom the
public records of Richland county.show
to have been convicted of receiving a
bribe in his official capacity as state
senator, and another man whom the leg
islature of the spring of 1876 elected to
the circuit bench of tills state, whom
the governor of his own partv refused
to commission upon the ground that he
was steeped in every shame—l say when
the colored race come before the people
of this state and present them as the
principles of their civilization thev have
demonstrated that they are unworthy to
cast the ballot."
A SINNER CONVERTED.
■I« Escape From a Horrible Death
Caused Him to Repent.
Waycross, Ga., Oct. 29.—Tom Darr’s re
cital of his Christian experience to-night
at the laymen workers’ meeting attract
ed a large crowd. Mr. Darr is supervisor
of the wrecking-machine which capsized
a month ago. He was under 5,000 pounds
of machinery for thirty minutes with
scalding water pouring on his body Ha
prayed for help. God saved him from the
jaws of death. .He repented of his sin*
and was converted. His life is now wholly
for the Lord.* Darr was wicked before
his conversion, and says his escape was
a direct answer to a prayer. His conver
sion caused a sensation here.
SAVANNAH MEN GOING~NORTH.
The Hontinx<lon Car nnd Wheel
Works Purchased for Them.
Huntingdon. Pa.. Oct. 29.—The Hunting
don car and wheel works, which have
been idle for three years past, were pur
chased to-day by M. A. O’Byrne of Sa
vannah, Ga.. for a syndicate of southern
capitalists. The new firm will entploj
about 500 men and will manufacture trol
ley cars principally. A boiler works and
malleable iron works will be connected
with the new plant
FITZ STARTS FOR THE FIGHT.
He Says Indian Territory Is to Be the
Battle Ground.
San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 29.—80 b Fitz
simmons and party arrived here to-day at
noon from Corpus Christi and left here
to-night for Hot Springs. They will reach
Hot Springs late to-morrow night. Fitz
simmons says that if the present plans
are carried out, he will light Corbett in
private. He refused to give the location
of the place at which the light Will take
place, but it was stated by a member of
his party z that it would be pulled off in
Indian Territory and that the principals
and their friends would be taken to the
battle ground by special train from Hot
Springs. Fitzsimmons stated that he
would visit Corbett upon his arrival at
Hot Springs and give the champion an
opportunity of having an every-day scrap,
if the latter feels so inclined. Fitzsimmons
is in the best of conditions.
Little Rock. Ark., Oct. 29.—Nothing
startling has developed here in prize
fight circles to-day. Gov. Clark received
a telegram from Corpus Christi, Tex.,
this morning telling him that Bob Fitz
simmons and his party had left that
place at 8:45 o’clock for Hot Springs.
The sheriffs of all the counties have been
instructed to watch all northbound trains
and to arrest Fitzsimmons on sight. The
governor will go to the springs to-mor
row to see that his orders are obeyed.
He says the fight shall not take place
and what he says is law and will be law
in the present emergency and he is
worked up to a pitch that the choice of
weapons will cut no figure in this case.
He promises this much and the people
here are in doubt as to whether'he can
carry out his wishes or not.
This city is full of strange faces to
night, bound for Hot Springs, but many
have concluded to lie over here and watch
developments. Every city avenue is
thoroughly guarded. Gov. Clarke said
to-night that he would plant the militia
in Hot Springs to-morrow T if Fitzsimmons
should show up, and that it was his pur
pose to keep strictly to business. Almost
everybody in this country believes the
fight will take place in spite of the gov
ernor. Over 700 fight tickets were sold
here to-day at $25 each.
Hot Springs, Ark., Oct. 29.—Steve
O’Donnell. Joe Vendig and several others
gave themselves up to the local authori
ties this afternoon to be put under peace
bonds to prevent the arrest and juris
diction of the governor or county offi
cials.
TOOK MORPHINE AND DIED.
His Dissolute Wife’s Refusal to Live
With Him Followed by Suicide.
Macon, Ga„ Oct. 29.—Charles Van Hoff,
a German and stranger in Macon, took
sixty grains of morphine this morning at
at 3 o’clock and died this morning at
9:15 o’clock. Van Hoff followed his wife,
who is a dissolute character, to Macon
five days ago, coming here from Alabama.
His home is in Atlanta, where he married
Mrs. Stella Weeks, formerly Stella Jones
of Macon, last February, but left her
after six weeks. He knew' her character
before he married her. Mrs. Van Hoff
came to Macon about Oct. 1, and began
keeping a disreputable house. When Van
Hoff came he found her here and tried
to persuade her to return to Atlanta with
him, but she refused. He has constantly
begged her to return, and last night, af
ter a positive refusal on her part, he took
the drug. His wife sent for a policeman
and had him ca.rried to the police station,
where he died. Before becoming stupl
fied by the drug Van Hoff said: “I am an
honest man, but am down. I have no
friends and no money.” Van Hoff was a
baker by trade, and had been given a
position by W. C. Knoblock, for whom he
was to go to work to-day.
LED ASTRAY BY DIME" NOVELS.
The Missing Sowden Boys Were
Starting Out for Adventures.
Ocala, Fla., Oct. 29.—Ther is joy irj the
Sowden household. Frank and Harold
Sowden were found last night and return
ed home. It now turns out that these
tender youths must have been reading
dime novels, for the boys had plotted
with a youth named Williams, only a
year or two older than themselves, to
meet the Sowden boys at Chatterton on
the Willacoochee river, twenty miles from
Ocala, and there map out a tour of the
United States. Williams w’as to assume
the role of a Fagin, and the Sowdens were
to bloom into genuine Coxey noboes. Will
iams made a grand beginning by rifling
a till of a merchant at Magnolia, with
which, money he bought a ticket to Dun
nellon. The theft and Williams' absence
were discovered, and he was overtaken at
Mortel by telegraph and returned to
town. The Sowden boys made no greater
progress than Nettles because the older
one had a sore foot, which became so pain
ful from walking that he could not con
tinue the journey.
AN AWFUL HONEYMOON MISHAP.
The Groom Bound for the Pacific and
the Bride Speeding Toward the At«
lantic.
From the Morning Oregonian.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hahlo of Butte,
Mont., who are making a bridal tour of
the Pacific coast, are stopping at the Port
land. They were married at Spokane last
Tuesday, where the bride, well known in
society circles of that city as Miss Fisher,
has lived for several years. Her father
is a prominent furrier of that place. Mr.
Hahlo is a prosperous merchant of Butte,
and has a large circle of friends in the
northwest.
On Wednesday morning Mr. and Mrs.
, Hahlo met with a curious mishap at the
union depot in Spokane, where they were
to take the Great Northern sleeping car
for this city, over the O. R. and N. Co.’s
line. The O. R. and N. Co.’s train and
the Great Northern train leave the depot
within three minutes of each other, one
bound for the east, the other for this city.
Mrs. Hahlo, accompanied by some friends,
went to the depot without Mr. Hahlo, who
was to join her before the train left. He
had been delayed up town by some impor
tant business arrangement. Mrs. Hahlo,
by mistake, got aboard the Great North
ern train, eastbound. Mr. Hahlo arrived
at the depot, and, supposing that his
bride was safely aboard the Great North
ern sleeper on the O. R. and N. Co.’s train,
stepped aboard just as the train was pull
ing out of the station.
Going into the sleeper Mr. Hahlo soon
discovered that his wife was not on the
train. Immediately, to draw it mild, he
got considerably excited. The train had
gone several miles before he made up his
mind the best thing he could do would be
to get off and walk back to Spokane.
Meantime Mrs. Hahlo was having an in
teresting time. When the Great Northern
train pulled out of the depot for the east,
and her husband had not joined her in the
sleeper, she sent for the conductor, who
soon discovered she was on the wrong
train.
A few miles east of Spokane the Great
Northern track crosses the Northern Pa
cific track. There Mrs. Hahlo was handed
off the train, and fortunately, caught a
Northern Pacific train back to Spokane
within a few minutes. Arriving at Spo
kane she met her husband. Explanations
were exchanged and everybody was happy
again in a very short time.
The next day Mr. and Mrs. Hahlo got
on the right train together, and arrived
in this city.
WAIFS FROM THE WIRES.
Some of the Dhj'» Events Set Forth
in Short Stories.
Hartford, Conn., Oct. 29.—The Putnam
Phalanx, with ladies and friends, will
leave this city for Atlanta in a special
train Saturday afternoon. The Phalanx
will be accompanied by its famous drum
corps.
Washington, Oct. 29.—The West Virginia
editorial Association gathered in Wash
ington to-day preparatory to leaving to
morrow morning for a week at the At
lanta exposition. The party, which num
bers about 100, visited Mount Vernon to
day.
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PRESIDENT SPENCER HERE.
THE CENTRAL TO BE TRANSFER
RED AT 12 O’CLOCK TO-MOR
ROW NIGHT.
President Speneer Represents the
Southern, the Principal Stockhold
er in the Old and the Only Stock
holder in the New Company—He
May Take a Look at the Property
and a Trip Over Its Lines — A Re
ception To-morrow Night—Presi
dent Spencer Has Nothing to Say.
President Samuel Spencer of the South
ern Railway Company arrived in the city
yesterday afternoon via the Southern and
Florida Central and Peninsular railroads,
and is stopping at the De Soto.
The object of President Spencer’s visit
just at this time is to be present w r hen
the Central railroad system is turned
oyer to the new company. The Southern
is the owner of the majority stock in the
old and will own all the stock in the new
company. President Spencer comes, there
fore, as the official head of the corpora
tion which owns the stock of the Central
system, in order to represent it when the
transfer is made.
The court has ordered the receivers,
Messrs. H. M. Comer and R. Somers
Hayes, to turn the property over to the
new company at midnight on the night of
Oct. 31, so that on the morning of Nov. 1
it will be in full control. . The transfer will
probably be made to the temporary or
ganization, and permanent organization
will be effected just as soon as the duties
of the temporary organization have been
completed.
There are no ceremonies connected with
the transfer of such a property, even
though it is a large one. All of the for
malities in connection with it have been
completed sometime. Certain circulars
will be issued by theyreceivers, announcing
that the property was transferred to the
new company at the time designated by
the court, and other circulars, formally
announcing the necessary arrangements
will be issued by the new company. The
receivers w|)l continue as such, though
not in possession of the property, until
they make their final returns to the court.
President Spencer will probably remain
here, or will be in conference with Re
ceiver Comer until Sunday.' He has come
down as the chief representative of the
largest stockholder, to be present at the
transfer of the property, and also to look
into its status and perhaps go over its
lines on a tour of inspection, as he has
been invited to do by Receiver Comer.
It is probable that President Spencer
will take a trip over certain portions or
the system with a vi.ew to inspecting it
.before he returns north.
As the Central is to pass practically into
the control of the Southern, the only
stockholder, it was thought some expres
sion from him would be of interest to
the people of Savannah so many of whom
are interested in the property. A repre
sentative of the Morning News called on
him at the De Soto last night. Mr. Spen
cer firmly declined to be interviewed,
however, saying that he was too tired to
talk, and that even if he were not, he
had nothing to say.
DIDN’T WANT HIS BOY THRASHED.
So Policeman Fleming Arrested His
Son’s Schoolmate.
Recorder Wilson will investigate the
cause of the Henry street school trouble
this morning. Robert Downing, a 12 year
old boy, is charged with creating an ex
citement at the school. Monday after
noon the lad was arrested by Policeman
Fleming.
It seems that Downing and Walter
Fleming, a son of Policeman. Fleming,
and about the same age as Downing, had
been quarreling. Downing announced his
intention of laying for Fleming outside
the school. Mrs. Gray, the teacher, kept
young Fleming in after school was dis
missed to prevent trouble. Young Flem
ing’s sister went home and told her
father that Downing had a crowd 1 of boys
waiting outside to beat her brother. It
seems that Policeman Fleming has had
complaints of trouble of this kind before
tnd went immediately to the school and
ound Downing and some other boys
there.
When Downing saw the policeman he
ran and was chased several blocks be
fore caught. He was sent in to the bar
racks and a charge entered against him.
A number of the members and friends of
the two families were present in the po
lice court yesterday morning. Young
Downing denied that he was waiting to
do up Fleming, and claimed that the shoe
was or. the other foot. At the request of
both parties the recorder continued the
case until this morning. A number of wit
nesses have been summoned, including
two of the teachers.
A CAROLINA ROAD SOLD.
The Camberland Gap and Chicago
Road Goes on the Block.
Aiken, S. C.» Oct. 29.—The Carolina,
Cumberland Gap and Chicago railroad,
about twenty-six miles in length, was
sold by Special Master J. E. Hagood to
day for $87,000. There were two bidders,
N. G. Evans and J. D. Reynolds, the lat
ter representing the bondholders. Mr.
Reynolds was the purchaser.
The road runs from Aiken to Edgefield.
A Cook Book Free.
“Table and Kitchen” is the title of a
new cook book published by the Price
Baking Powder Company, Chicago. Just
at this time it will be sent free if you
write a postal mentioning the Weekly
News. This book has been tried by our
selves, and is one of the very best of its
kind. Besides containing over 400 receipts
for all kinds of pastry and home cookery,
there are many hints for the table and
kitchen, showing how to set a table, how
to enter the dining room, etc.; a hundred
and one hints in every branch of the culi
nary art. Cookery of the very finest
and richest as well as of the most eco
nomical and home-like, is provided for.
Remember “Table and Kitchen” will be
sent, postage prepaid, to any lady sending
her address (name, town and state) plain
ly given. A copy in German or Scandi
navian will be sent if desired. Postal
carl is as good as letter. Address Price
Baking Powder Co., Chicago, 111.
A Sunday With Sullivan.
“I don’t believe I should care to have
John L. Sullivan for referee,” says Will
iam H. Crane, according to the Chicago
Record. “Sullivan doesn’t like to stand
by and see any man whipped; his sym
pathies are always with the under dog.
“Some years ago Nat Goodwin and I
had an experience with Sullivan; it was in
what I call my halcyon days. Nat and I
had been celebrating the close of the sea
son, and we came ashore one Sunday
morning from my yacht, determined to
be very circumspect all the rest of our
lives. We went to a seaside hotel for the
purpose of getting breakfast, when whom
should we fall in with but John L. Sul
livan and one of his boon companions, a
Boston aiderman. Both Sullivan and his
friend were pretty well corked up, and
they insisted that we should go with them
to call on another friend, a Patsy some
body, who was training for a fight with
Mike somebody else, at a small country
road house about four miles away.
“Goodwin and I did our best to shake
the two, for we feared that, full of li
quor, as they were, Sullivan and his sat
ellite would get us into trouble. But Sul
livan wouldn’t take no for an answer, and
finally, just to keep the peace, we went
along in their wagon to visit the training
grounds. Well, when we got there Patsy
and his trainer were having their usual
morning bout. The trainer was a big,
broad-shouldered, good-natured fellow,
genial and smiling of face as a well-fed
child. He was a little too much for Patsy
and was giving him sume pretty hard
exercise. I suppose Sullivan fancied that
the trainer was unnecessarily severe; at
any rate I saw Sullivan’s face grow dark
er, and I knew that trouble was brewing.
Finally Sullivan slipped off his coat and
threw it over the back of a chair; then,
wating until he saw the trainer advancing
to attack Patsy with redoubled energy.
Sullivan reached out that right arm of his,
and his big fist caught the good-natured
Irishman full in the mouth. It didn’t look
as though Sullivan put any force at all
into the blow; it seemd to us as if he
merely put out his fist—so—and let the
other fellow' run against it. But, gracious!
you should have seen that Irishman keel
over. I’ll bet he went back twenty feet
before he stopped. Then, he turned a
back sumersault over the wheel of our
wagon and fell to the ground apparently
dead. He didn’t regain consciousness for
two hours, and you can imagine that those
two hours were the most miserable Good
wdn and I ever spent. We fancied our
selves forever disgraced by being pulled
into court as witnesses, perhaps, as ac
cessories, to the killing of this innocent
man. Our suspense was /simply dread
ful. Finally, however, after hunting up
a doctor and working over the fellow for
two hours the victim came to. The first
thing he did was to put one hand feebly
to his mouth, as if to learn what damage
the swollen orifice had sustained. And
then, smiling amiably, he said: “Be Ja
bers, that was a wicked thrusht!” You
see, he never lost his temper at all; as I
have told you he w'as the best natured fel
low I ever saw.
“But the honor of having been hit by
Sullivan was too much for him. Having
regained consciousness he proceeded to
fill himself with liquor, and it wasn’t long
before the rural constabulary had to be
called to take him into custody. As he
was a powerful creature and fought vic
iously, it became necessary to pound him
into subjection, and by the time he was
lodged in jail he was a bloody spectacle
indeed. Next morning he was released,
there being nobody willing to prosecute
him; but even then he had not lost ail
sense of the great honor of having been
hit by Sullivan, and so hung about the jail
all day boasting of that honor, and ex
pressing an ambition to lick the combined
constabulary forc’e of the township.
“I have never forgotten the incident,”
says Mr. Crane, “and it suffices to con
vince me that as a referee Mr. Sullivan
is hardly the person I should choose.”
TO DISCUSS HOUSE NUMBERING.
The City Connell to Take Up the
Matter To-day.
The council will hold a meeting at 4
o’clock this afternoon to dispose of un
finished business. There is a good deal of
.business which was left over from the
last meeting and there will probably be
several committee reports.
The question of renumbering houses will
be taken up and the bids which have been
made for doing the work opened. They
will probably be referred to the committee
of the whqlefor action.
SAILING DAYS OF STEAMSHIPS.
Below will be found a list of the steam
ships sailing from Savannah, and the date
of their sailing:
' FOR NEW YORK.
Central (90th meridian) time.
Steamship CITY OF AUGUSTA, FRI
DAY, Nov. 1, 4:00 a. m.
Steamship CITY OF BIRMINGHAM,
SUNDAY, Nov. 3, 6:00 a. m.
Steamship NACOOCHEE, TUESDAY,
Nov. 5, 6:30 p. m.
Steamship KANSAS CITY, FRIDAY,
Nov. 8, 9:30 a. m.
Steamship CITY OF AUGUSTA, SUN
DAY, Nov. 10, 11:30 a. m.
Steamship CITY OF BIRMINGHAM,
TUESDAY, Nov. 12. 1:00 a. m.
Steamship NACOOCHEE, FRIDAY, Nov.
15, 4:00 a. m.
Steamship KANSAS CITY, SUNDAY,
Nov’ 17. 6:00 a. m.
Steamship CITY OF AUGUSTA( TUES
DAY, Ijov. 19, 7:00 p. m.
Steamship CITY OF BIRMINGHAM,
FRIDAY, Nov. 22, 9:30 a. m.
Steamship NACOOCHEE, SUNDAY,
Nov. 24, 11:00 a. m.
Steamship KANSAS CITY, TUESDAY,
Nov. 26, l,:00 p. m.
Steamship CITY OF AUGUSTA, FRI
DAY, Nov. 29, 3:00 p. m.
FOR BOSTON.
Central (901th meridian) time.
Steamship CHATTAHOOCHEE, TUES
DAY, Nov. 5. 7:00 a. m.
Steamship GATE CITY, SUNDAY, Nov.
10, 11:30 a. m.
Steamship TALLAHASSEE, THURS
DAY', Nov. 14, 3:30 p. m.
Steamship CHATTAHOOCHEE, TUES
DAY, Nov. 19. 7:00 a. m.
Steamship GATE CITY, SUNDAY, Nov.
24. 11:00 a. m.
Steamship TALLAHASSEE, THURS
DAY', Nov. 28, 2:00 a. m.
FOR PHILADELPHIA.
Central (90th meridian) time.
This ship does hot carry passengers.
Steamship CITY OF MACON, SATUR
DAY', Nov. 9. 10:30 a. m.
Steamship CITY OF MACON, TUESDAY,
Nov. 19, 7:00 a. m.
■ Steamship CITY OF MACON, FRIDAY,
Nov. 29, 3:00 p. m.
FOR BALTIMORE.
Central (90th meridian) time.
Steamship BERKSHIRE, SATURDAY,
Nov. 2, u p. m.
i Steamship D. H. MILLER, WEDNES
DAY, Nov. 6. 7<30 p. m.
Steamship WM. CRANE. SATURDAY,
I Nov. 9, 10 p. m.
A BIG COLD STORAGE PUNT.
WESTERN MEAT PACKERS TO
BUILD ONE IN SAVANNAH.
Plans Being Perfected to Locate n
Central Southern Depot Here for
Cold Storage and to Pack Southern
Meats—St. Louis and Chicago Pack
ers to Visit Savannah Next Month
and Complete the Plans Already
Begun-Several Sites for the Plant
in View—The Enterprise to Bring;
5200,000 Here.
Negotiations are in progress for the
erection of an immense cold storage plant
in Savannah similar to those in St. Louis
and Chicago.
A party of western packers who are
building a packing house and refrigera
ting establishment in Baltimore will be
here about the middle of next month to
look over the ground and fix upon a lo
cation. Several sites have already been
considered, but no steps will be taken un
til the men who are back of the enterprise
come here. They are Amos Jackson, C.
M. Washbond, E. S. Smyth, C. A. Em
mett, M. E. Martin, H. M. Squire, W. C.
Earnest, B. F. Anthony and R. K. Bruce,
leading packers of Chicago and St. Louis,
It has been known for some time that
Chicago packers have been talking of a
plant in the south as a central supply de
pot and they are convined that Savannah
is the plcae for it.
Mr. Ivan T. Goodrich of Goodrich <S>
Co., commission men of this city, is in cor
respondence with Goodrich & Goodrich of
Baltimore, architects for the plant in,
course of erection there, and who prepar
ed the plans for the Arfnour packing house
in Denver, Coi., erected several years ago,
in reference to the establishment of the
southern plant. Goodrich & Goodrich have
in hand plans for the central plant which
it is proposed to erect in the south, and
for duplicate or very similar plants to be
established at convenient points. The
plan is to erect the main plant here, with
branches in Charleston, Jacksonville, Ma
con, Montgomery and Mobile and perhaps
other cities.
The plan of the company is to refrig
erate butter, eggs, fruits, vegetables,
cheese, furs and wines and liquors so
that dealers and consumers can have a
ready place to obtain supplies at all
times. The freezing of fish for northern
consumption, in which there Is a large
profit, will be one of the features of the
business. The present plan is to supply
the meat department from the Baltimore
plant with western stock. In warm
weather the southern stock is not consid
ered sufficient nor of the proper quality*
but in cold weather southern cattle, hogs
and sheep will be utilized, which mean®
the building of slaughter houses and the
bringing of thousands of head of beef
cattle and other stock to tills market.
Mr. Goodrich, who Is a son of the
senior member of the firm of Goodrich
& Goodrich, and who established the
Dixie Produce Company, now Goodrich.
& Co., here, will "be the manager of the
new enterprise. The proposed plant is
of the most improved kind being a du
plicate or very nearly so of the Balti
more plant, except being, of course, on
a somewhat smaller scale.. The Balti
more plant Includes a central building,
three stories high and 350 by 125 feet
ground space. At the front and back
are wings 100 feet square. From the two
ends and one wing of the central build
ing, are two-story buildings, each 300 feet
by 40 feet, extending to and
crossing a railroad track, which forms
a semi-circle. Between these extensions
from the main building are a series of
six 2-story buildings sixty feet apart and
each 100 by 40 feet. The railroad track
runs through the center of these buildings,
and is covered by a 2-story building ar
shed 20 feet Wide. Into the six buildings
are to be unloaded the cattle, which, af’wa*
having been slaughtered, ar* raised on
elevators to the second floor of the build
ing and there transferred on a system of
tracks to the central building and the
refrigerating compartments. On the
ground floor is the refrigerating machin
ery, the packing machinery, Ice plants*
etc. *
About ten acres will be required for the
site of the Savannah plant, Mrv
Goodrich says. He has several
sites in view which will be gone over by
the westerners when they visit Savan
nah. They are now with plenty of capital
and know what the needs are for the
plant which they propose to erect. They
realize the value of a central depot at
some point in the south, which shall have
the location to command all branches of
the business which the company would
engage in, and they regard Savannah as
the place, being on the coast, with unex
celled transportation facilities, and being
so located as to handle the fish and other
branches of the business for which ar»
interior point would not be suited.
The establishment of the plant here
means an Investment of $200,000 to $250,000,
the greater part of which, if not practi
cally all, will be western and northern
money. The company which is building
the Baltimore plant was organized In St.
Louis as the Eastern Shore Abbatoir Com
pany. A similar company, it is under
stood, will be organized by the same men
for the south.
DON’T”WANT ANY OFFICE.
Hon. Pope Barrow Will Not Run for,
Congreai.
Contrary to reports which have ema
nated from Atlanta, Hon. Pope Barrow
will not be a candidate for congress front
the First district to succeed Hon. Rufus
E. Lester. The announcement having
been made In Atlanta that such a report
was going the rounds, a representative
of the Morning News called on Mr. Bar
row yesterday and asked him if there was
any truth in it.
“No,” was his reply. I not only am
not a candidate for congress, but if I
should be nominated, I would decline it.
It is impossible for me to enter politics.
I have other duties which are inconsis
tent with political office-holding, and
which I cannot fdisrfcgard. Besides, I
have no taste for politics in any form.
“Like every other citizen, I entertain
opinions upon political questions which I
take the liberty of expressing with the
utmost freedom, publicly and privately.
This is done, however, as a citizen and
as a voter, and not as an aspirant for of
fice. Ttyere is no office that I desire or
would accept.
“Whenever a man accepts an office his
tongue is tied. I have been in a position
to see and to know the uneasiness of those
who hold public offices, and I would not
surrender that glorious privilege of just
shooting off my mouth on anything and
everything whenever I want to, for all
the offices in the world.”
Mr. Barrow said he made this statement
for the purpose of stopping such reports
at once, and that he was glad to do it
through the Morning News.
HIRED OUT TO HIS BROTHER FOR
LIFE.
A Queer Contract Cau«e« a Law Sult
in a Family.
A suit on a rather queer sort of a con
tract was filed in the city court yesterday.
It is styled M. Brown against Janie
Brown, executrix of the estate of H. A.
Brown. The petition states that the suit
is on an indebtedness of $216 on the fol
lowing contract which is quoted:
“Jan. 21, 1391. I, H. A. Brown, has
agreed to hire my brother,, M. Brown for
the sum of $4 per week. I pay him $2 a
week/ balance due, this agreement is to
be kept between 1, H. A. Brown and M
: Brown as long as I live, and if he should
i die first balance due is to be paid to said
i M. Brown’s family. H. A. Brown and M
> Ercwn. fl. Robertson, witness.”
For uniqueness this contract would
perhaps be hard to beat. H. A. Brown
: died March 4, 1894, leaving a will and mak
ing Janie Brown his executrix. The pe
tition states that M. Brown fulfilled his
I contract from Jan. 21, 18V.L fo>- two years
thereafter, and that $216 is due him by
] the estate. Mesara. M ;Alpin & La Roche
represent the plaintiff and Mr. U. II Mc
-1 Laws the defendant i
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