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THE CLOUDS BREAKING AGAIN.
A BOW OF PROMISE IN THE CRES
CENT CITY.
Holte Revived by the Reports of the
New Orleans Board of Health—One
Meath and Five New Cases Report
ed-All Fever Patients Are Isolat
ed—The Meath Rate Has Not Yet
Reached IO Per Cent.—Reports
From Other Sections.
New Orleans, Sept. 18. —A trifling im
provement in the fever situation marked
the close of the day's work of the board
Os health. There was one death, as on
yesterday, and there were fewer new
cases. At 6 o’clock this evening there were
•till two cases under investigation.
Os the cases investigated to-day, five
were declared by the experts to be yellow
fever, and as usual they were widely scat
tered. This is the record:
Deaths —E. Harmon.
New Cases—Santa Graffo, Marie Dubois,
Itafael Fourtoin, C. H. Gormon, Mel-
choir.
The fatal case, that of E. Harmon, a
mulatto, was reported in last night’s dis
patches as one of the new cases, and was
Bald to be a genuine type of the disease.
Jt has not been found possible to trace
the origin of his case, but It is not im
probable that he came in contact with
some sojourners at Ocean Springs or Bi
loxi.
Harmon died this afternoon. He lived in
a nest of the negro population, and ever
since his case was reported the neighbor
hood has been under the most rigid sur
veillance.
The woman, Graffo, is an Italian, and,
as soon as her case was pronounced,
steps taken to have her removed to
the hospital, where arrangements had
been made to Isolate her.
Rafael Fourtlon is also an Italian, living
in an apartment house in a neighborhood
in which the Italian population is Very
large.
The Melchoir case is that o{ a boy in
the St. Claude Street square, where the
first six cases in New Orleans were re
ported. Other members of his family
have been ill with yellow fever.
As a general rule, the patients who are
Buffering with yellow fever are reported
to-night to be improving, with the excep
tion of Dr. Lovell. There have thus far
been a total of thirty-five cases here, and
the death rate has not yet reached 10 per
cent., thus showing the mildness of the
type of fever now prevailing.
Marion Dawden, a member of the
Ouachita Guards, who are guarding the
city, was accidentally shot this morning
nt Monroe, about 6:30 o’clock by Henry
McCormack, a fellow member, and it is
not thought that he can possibly recover.
New Orleans’ Fourth Case.
New Orleans, (Sept. 18.—Rafael Fouatjon
of 1426 Chartres street Is this afternoon
reported suffering with yellow fever. This
is the fourth case to-day.
Mobile’s Latest Bulletin.
Frank Donaldson, one of the day’s new
, to-night. .
the Associated Press
the Register office, was taken
O’clock to-night. His <<>r.di
normal, it is tWxht
*" Wim Wsen overworked, and excited him-
Belf abcut the yellow fever.
■» _____
The Situation at Edward*.
Vicksburg, Miss., Sept. IS.—The total
number of cases at Edwards and vicinity
of true yellow fever is forty-seven. The
latest reports to-night make the total
new cases of the day ten.
REPORTS TO DR. WYMAN.
The Fontnlnebienu Camp—Cane* nt
Barclay and Mobile.
Washington, Sept. 18.—In a telegram to
Surgeon General Wyman, Dr. White re
ports that the detention camp at Fon
tainebleau will be bo far completed as to
begin receiving refugees to-morrow.
Dr. White stales that all the yellow
fever cases at Barclay are nearly well.
Dr. Porter reports that there is one case
of fever in the Marine hospital at Mobile,
but the patient has bdbn thoroughly iso
lated.
A message from Dr. Glennan to Surgeon
General VVyfnan received tp-night reports
eleven new ease* of yellow fever at Mo
bile. making a total to date of 18, with two
death*. Gov. Johnson has authorized the
use of Mount Vernon barracks.
Surgeon Genera) Wyman also received
a message from Dr. Young at Memphis
Baying that arrangements are being made
to detain suspects a few miles below the
city, and that boats are prohibited landing
everywhere at present.
Surgeon Saw telle, In a message from
Atlanta received to-night informs the sur
geon general that Atlanta has practically
beoonia a distributing point for refugees
from the infected districts. He thinks the
climatic conditions are such there that
the fever cannot gain a foothold, but say*
mH necessary precautions will be taken.
About 360 refugees traveling north have
been furnished with health certificates,
Raving about 600 Mill tn the city.
A St Ml'Kt T IN ATLANTA’S CAMP.
IA Mun From Mobile Who Had Nursed
n Fever Patient In Quarantine.
Atlanta. G*., Sept. 18.—The local health
Muthorlties took charge of the first yellow
fever suspect to-day, and the detention
camp, below West End, now has one in
mate.
The suspected case I* that of a man
from ’Mobile, who had been nursing a
fever patient in that city, the patient dy
ing several days ago. When this occurred,
the nurse began to have sickness at the
Btomuch, and he made ararogements to
come to Atlanta.
W h*n he reached West Point this morn
ing. report was made to Mayor Collier by
the physician who has been stationed
there by the Atlanta health board. Im
tmaliately upon receipt of this report
Mayor Collier and several physicians has
tened to East Point to meet the train upon
which the auapect was a passenger. There
he was subjected to a thorough examine,
tion. and. although the physicians declare
that he had none of the symptoms of yel
low jack, yet he was detained and sent to
the quarantine station for ten days.
Refuges continue to flock into the city in
S'ji.'t number*. Every train from the In
fevted regions is crowded to the platform
•n«i railroad men report irrealer crowd*
w*alttna their chance to come
A.I are inspected before they are allowed
to euier the city and by this means, the
health board Inspector* hope to be able to
isrevent the Introduction of any who are
actually infected with the scourge, or who
have been dangerously exposed to it.
DR. HINDER*' »VGGE*TION.
|t«'CrlitrrnttoM I’rnpotrd fer Freiixht*
Front Infected Cities.
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state health officer of Alabama, will soon
lay before the government a plan by
which the freight embargo caused by yel
low fever may be almost wholly removed.
The plan consists in using refrigerator
cars for distributing freights from infect
ed localities. The freights are to be placed
in such cars and the latter hermetically
sealed, and then the temperature within
reduced to freezing or below. A freezing
temperature will destroy yellow fever
germs. By the time such freights reach
their destination, it Is thought they will be
harmless. Sulphur fumes may also be
used In such cars to disinfect freights, the
cars not to be opened until they reach their
destinations.
Substantially all goods that people stand
much in need of, could be shipped with
impunity.
Montgomery Quarantines Atlanta.
) Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 18.—Montgomery
to-night quarantines against Atlanta on
the grounds that she opens her doors to
yellow fever refugees.
Jackion Land Office Closed.
Washington, Sept. 18. —On account of
the yellow fever epidemic the President
has issued an order temporarily closing
the land office at Jackson, Miss.
LUETGERT WILL TESTIFY.
He Speak* of the Case—Say* He Has
Some Trump Card* to Play.
Chicago, Sept. 18.—A wrangle be
tween the prosecution and the
defense over the admissabillty of evi
dence tending to show a motive for the
murder of Mrs. Luetgert prevented the
state from closing its case, as it had ex
pected to do, to-day. Judge Tuthill took
the matter under advisement and the case
went over until Tuesday next.
When asked for his opinion of the ease
made out against him, Luetgert grew an
gry for a moment, and exclaimed: "You
ought to know my opinion of the case
without asking me. There is nothing in
it. Take away the quarrel of the ex
pert* over the bones, and what have you
got left? Nothing. They have not prov
ed that the woman is dead and they can
not prove it. I am sot going to talk
abbbt my calie at this time, F
have Rome trump cards, and I will play
them In court when the time come*. I
will testify. I have made up my mind to
that. I will tell that jury something that
will open the eyes of every member of the
panel. The people will know my side of
this story next week, and then maybe I
will not be regarded the villain 1 have
been pictured.’’
Witnesses followed each other on the
witness stand in the trial of Luetgert this
morning with unusual rapidity. Abra
ham Seely, a butcher of 759 West Monroe
street, caused a mild sensation when he
announced that at a public sale at Luet
gert'* factory' some weeks ago, he pur
chased thirty-nine bottles of mineral wa
ter. It has been the contention of the
defense that on the night of May 1, when
Mrs. Luetgert is said to have been mur
dered, Luetgert, not feeling well, sent
Frank Bialk to a drug store for medicine.
Blalk himself declares that Luetgert told
him to get a bottle of mineral water. Sub
sequent developments have shown that
the sausagemaker had at least thirty
eight bottles of this water on hand when
he sent Bialk away after more that
night.
When an attempt was made to show
Luelgert’s alleged relations with Mary
Siemmering and other women the defense
entered objection. Attorney Vincent pro
tested that this line of evidence was high
ly improper and he objected to it as in
competent. Attorney Phalen for the de
fense said he would not object to this evi
dence.
The decision of counsel for the defense
occasioned a surprise. Ex-Judge Vincent
declared that the evidence was only col
lateral and its only effect would be to
establish the reputation of Mary Siem
mering, who was to be a witness for the
defense. Judge Tuthill took the disputed
point under advisement and adjourned
court until Tuesday.
CRIME IN CAROLINA.
One Farmer Kills Another for
Nlirnklnn Harshly to Hl* Wife.
Columbia. C., Sept. 18.—To-day, near
Newberry, Wesley Stevens walked up to
William Chick, whose little daughter was
holding his hand, and accused him of
speaking harshly to his wife.
Before Chick could reply, Stevens fired
a load of shot in his breast, killing him
instantly, and wounding the girl in the
arm.
They were farmer*. Stevens fled.
FIRED BY LIGHTNING.
A Carolina Town Suffer* a General
I,oss in a Storm.
Columbia, S. C, Sept. 18,-News has
been received here that the town of Ridge
ville, Aiken county, including the stores,
dwellings and railroad depot, was fired in
several places last night during a severe
electric storm and many buildings were
destroyed.
Whether there was loss of lite cannot be
ascertained at this time.
THEY CERTAINLY SAW IT.
It Mas a Balloon ar«l Mas Believed
to Have Been Prot. Andree's.
St. Petersburg. Sept. 18.—The official
Messenger confirms to-day the announce
ment yesterday that on Sept, u, at 11 p.
m„ the inhabitants of the village of Ants
ifirowskojo. in the district of Yeniseisk.
Arctic Russia, saw for about five minutes
a balloon believed to be that of Prof. An-
Charaed With Smuagllttg.
Wilmington, N. C.. Sept. 18.-The Italian
barque Non! America. Cafiero. master.
“is .-rlxed here to-day by United States
marshal under UNel from the United States
vuuxt charged with amuggiuu*
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20.1897.
WILL WAR DOGS BE LOOSED?
ENGLAND’S PREPARATIONS INDI
CATE A RUPTURE OF PEACE.
liiUNiinl Force* Massed on the In
dian Frontier—Russia Thought to
Be Belli nd a Project for War—The
Distress of Ireland Exaggerated.
Will Accept no Aid From England.
Cnban Affairs Through English
Glasses.
Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press.
London, Sept. 18.—The fact that no less
than ten batteries of horse and field ar
tillery have been ordered to embark for
India during the months of September
and October, is much commented upon in
military circles.
Under ordinary circumstances, the four
batteries now in India would have been
relieved this month. But these batteries
have been ordered to remain in India,
and, therefore, there will shortly be on
the frontier fourteen batteries of artil
lery, a full complement for an army corps.
As the British force now assembled on the
frontier is of ample strength to wipe out
all visible resistance, the only conclusion
that can be reached in relation to the
dispatett of reinforcements of artillery is
that the authorities are possessed of In
formation of a serious character.
The intimation conveyed by the war of
fice on Monday last, to the London com
mercial agent of the Ameer of Afghanis
tan, that no war material or machinery
for the manufacture thereof, will be al
lowed to cross the frontier during the
present crisis, indicates that the British
government has by no means entire con
fidence in the ameer’s fidelity, and it is
hinted the government has learned that
while professing friendliness to Great Bri
tai, the ameer has been secretly preparing
for war. Well informed circles are also
discussing the story of secret correspon
dence between Russia and Afghanistan,
which is said to have fallen into the hands
of the British officials, and it is further
intimated that a widespread plot, embrac
ing the Beluchis, and others, has been dis
covered.
The truth, or otherwise, of these stories
will develop hereafter, but, the fact re
mains that the large Increase in the
strength of the British artillery in India
cannot be intended for use against the
Afridis.
The extent of the distress threatening
Ireland seems to depend largely as to
through which party’s eyes it is viewed.
The council of the national federation has
decided that the country is on the brink
of a widespread calamity, and calls upon
Messrs. Dillon and Harrington to convoke
a meeting of the Irish members of parlia
ment for the purpose of requisitioning Mr.
Balfour, the government leader in the
commons, to call an autumn session of
parliament, to devise relief measures and
to pass a bill reducing rent* in Ireland
in proportion to the loss incurred by the
tenants owing to the wholesale destruc
tion of their crops.
On the other hand, the Dublin Express
says the cry of famine', is only a continu
ation of the party war-cry, which is raised
every year the unionists are in office, and
adds: "Judging from the past, we may
hope thaj much of the crops doomed to
destruction by the prophets of evil will be
Fjmpued and that the geners’ yield will
than?
The Daily Independent sug
gestion that the Duchess pPt York will
shortly appeal for funds in behalf of the
Irish, who are threatened with famine,
as being nn insult, and says: *tff the coun
try was ten times as badly off as it is
likely to be, It would resent any charit
able appeal to the English.”
Figure* furnished in the report of the
inspector in inebriates retreats, show- that
the effect of legislative intervention to re
form drunkards is still experimental and
wholly inadequate.
The renort says: "Immoderate drinking,
though frightfully common among the in
dustrial classes, is still more prevalent
among the upper ten. It is also certain
that among women of all classes drunken
ness is increasing rapidly.”
Lord Roseberry, the former liberal pre
mier. is preparing to re-enter public life.
The Llgue Ornlthophile Francaise is or
ganizing an international congress for the
preservation of insectivorous birds. The
congress will open its session in Aix on
Nov. 9. It is. proposed to demonstrate
that internatloiial agriculture would be
wise to secure tne absolute prohibition by
law of the destruction of these birds, and
that severe penalties should be imposed
upon those who kill or capture birds
alighting in the course of their migra
tions.
The Speaker says it regards the capture
of Victoria de las Tunas by the Cuban
insurgents as being a salutary lesson,
taking the ground that It gives Spain a
shock, "which, it is hoped, will check her
in her drift towards bankruptcy and civil
war.”
While not expressing sympathy with
the motives, the speaker adds: “The
United State* can find excellent reasons
to intervene whenever she likes.”
The Speaker advises Spain to recall
Capt. Gen. Weyler, and to arrange terms
with the Cubans, through the intermediary
of the United States, expressing the opin
ion that otherwise Spain may have great
er dangers to face after the United States
congress meets.
THE LYNCHING OF ARROYO.
The Government Will Pronecnte the
Mob to the Full Extent of the Law.
City of Mexico, Sept. 18.—Orders have
been given to investigate the lynching of
Arroyo. President Diax has decided that
the inquiry be most rigorous, and that
the guilty parties be severely punished, as
he feels that the act was a reproach to
the nation, which has taken pride in the
fact that lynch law has been unknown
here.
Twenty odd men arrested are still in
custody and formal papers are being
drawn up in their cases.
CUT AN OFFICER'S THROAT.
Policeman Goa* of Brookland Killed
While Making an Arrest.
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 18.—Robert Hook,
a white man, cut the throat, from ear to
ear. of Policeman John Goss of Brook
land, a suburb of Columbia to-night, while
the officer was attempting to arrest his
brother.
Hook mounted a horse and escaped. The
policeman died instantly.
STRANDED AT BRANDON.
The Preaident Asked for Tents for
Needy Rcfnweea From Fever.
Washington, Sept. 18.—The President re
ceived a telegram to-day from the mayor
of Brandon. Mis*., stating that a number
of yellow fever refugees were there in a
sorry plight, owing to lack of protection
and inability to move away, on account
of the numerous quarantines closing all
avenues to them. He asked for tents to
shelter them, but gave no particulars as
to the number needed. •
The President and Secretary Alger will
comply with the requvat if it be found
that the law permiu.
THREE HEADS IN THE BASKET.
FIRE COMMISSION USED A HEAVY
AX YESTERDAY.
Foreman Jeremiah Murphy and As
sistant Foreman Cornelius Flynn
of Chemical Company No. 1 and
Fireman John C. Henderson Dis
charged The Accused Firemen
•I
Not Allowed to He Represented by
Counsel— Fireman Kiernan Rein
stated —No Charges Preferred
Against Foreman Connolly Yester
day.
Foreman Jeremiah Murphy of chemical
company No. 1 of the Savannah fire de
partment has been discharged. So has
Assistant Foreman Flynn of the same
company. Fireman John C. Henderson has
been discharged also.
Assistant Foreman Kiernan of truck
company No. 1 has been losing
his pay for the two months that he has
been under suspension. Fireman Frank
Ward, who has been under suspension for
thirty days, was continued under suspen
sion until Oct. 1, when he will be again
placed on duty, pending his good behavior.
No charges have as yet been preferred
against Foreman J. B. Connolly of en
gine company No. 1, though there is good
reason to believe that they will be at an
early date.
This is the result of the meeting of the
fire commission yesterday afternoon. The
commission was in sesion until
8:30 o’clock. When the com
mission began its session at 5 o’clock, Col.
A. R. Lawton was on hand, representing
Kiernan and Henderson, and George W.
Beckett, Esq., representing Murphy, Flynn
and Connolly, it being understood that
charges had been preferred against Con
nolly also.
Col. Law ton and Mr. Beckett were
given a hearing by the commission, and
urged their right to be present and repre
sent their clients. The commission, after
considering the matter in caucus, report
ed that they could not allow the firemen
against whom charges had been preferred
to be represented by counsel. The com
mission then began the investigation of
the charges against the accused firemen
in secret session. The result has already
been announced.
GRAND DUCHESS TO GO BACK.
WILL RUN AGAIN BETWEEN NEW
YORK AND SAVANNAH.
The direct line of the Ocean Steamship
Company’s vessels between Savannah
and Boston will shortly be re-established,
and the Plant system steamship, “La
Grande Duchesse,” will soon resume her
place on the Savannah-NewYork line.
Thia news came to Savannah yesterday
from New York, and is direct from Vice
President John M. Egan, who went there
several days ago. He has been in confer
ence there with Vice President R. G. Er
win of the 1 Plant system, who is exercising
the functions of the system’s chief execu
tive during the absence in Japan of Pres
ident H. *i. PlanL a
This con’FerencS Sfettiea or
the Duchess, and this being arranged, it
became necessary to dispose of the vessel
she is to relieve. It has been known for
some time that the Ocean Steamship Com
pany officials were considering the re
establishment of the Savannah-Boston di
rect line, so the settlement of the run for
the Duchess left a vessel for Mr. Egan
to put back on the line between these two
ports.
The City of Macon and the Gate City
will probably be the vessels that
will run on the Boston line. The former
now rune to Boston from New York,
Instead of Savannah. The changes will
become effective early in October, the
Duchess sailing from New York on, or
soon after that date.
The Plant system vessel, it is under
stood, is still at Newport News, where
her builders have been making extensive
alterations in her machinery. She was
given a builder’s trial trip a short time
since, and was found, it is said, to have
proven thoroughly satisfactory. An offi
cial trial is to be given her at New York
before she Is accepted by the system.
HER DRESS CAUGHT FIRE.
Mr», Morrell Severely Burned From
Cool Oil.
While igniting a Are with coal oil yes
terday, Mrs. Joseph Morrell of 550 Orange
street, caught Are to her clothing and be
fore assistance could reach her, had suf
fered much agony. She is the wife of
Fireman Morrell, who is stationed at en
gine house No. 5.
Mrs. Morrell was just beginning prep
arations for dinner and had in the
kitchen to make the Are. In doing so,
however, she adopted the dangerous
method of pouring coal oil upon the fuel.
In lighting the fuel the Aush of the
flames almost enveloped one side of her
clothing, igniting it. Realizing
the great danger in which she
was placed, she ran into the
yard, crying at the top of her voice for
assistance. Mr. Morrell himself happen
ed to be near, and upon hearing the cries
for help, went to her rescue. But be
fore h e had extinguished the blaze, which
was then sweeping about his wife, he suf
fered severe and painful burns about the
hands himself.
The ambulance was summoned from the
barracks and Mrs. Morrell was removed
to the Savannah hospital for medical at
tention. She was severely burned and
may not recover. The attendants at the
hospital state that it has not yet been
ascertained whether she swallowed any
of the dames, but they say that in case
she has, the prospects for recovery will
be meager.
SHOT BY AN OFFICER.
A Charleston Policeman Kills One
Man and Wounds Another.
Charleston, S. C., Sept. 18.—Henry Perry,
a negro, was shot and mortally wounded
here by Policeman Burton to-day at 1
o'clock.
Three white men had been attacked at
the corner of Line and King street, by Ave
or six negroes. The negroes were using
iron rods with effect, when the policeman
came up. When the officer appeared they
ran, three of them going into a house on
Cooper street.
As Burton tried to enter the place he
turned the Are, shooting Perry through the
was Bred uj«on from the window. He re
head and slightly wouodieg a man named
Washington.
WINTER IN ITS WILDEST MOOD
THE VERY HEART OF HUMANITY
FREEZES IN ALASKA’S HILLS.
The Fury of the Blast, the Snow and
the Ice Make More Than Terrible
the Passes to the Hills of Gold.
Provisions Thrown Away to
Lighten the Loads of Toiling Wor
shippers nt the Shrine of Mammon.
Selfishness the Only Visible Im
pulse of the Heart.
Washington, Sept. 18.—Mr. Oren W.
Weaver, acting commissioner of labor, to
day gave to the Associated Press a copy
of a most graphic letter on the terrors of
the trip across Alaska to the Klondike
gold fields.
The letter had just been received from
Samuel C. Dunham, statistical expert of
the government’s department of labor,
who had been assigned by Commissioner
Wright to make an investigation of the
opportunities which the gold regions in
the Yukon valley and adjoining territory
afford for the remunerative employment
of American labor and capital. The let
ter is dated Lake Lindeman, Alaska, Aug.
26, 12 m., 1897.
Mr. Dunham says that it has been
storming, rain, snow and sleet, almost
continuously since he left the coast. The
glacial streams cut the steep trail in in
numerable places, washing down lakes of
mud to form almost impassable bogs in
every basin and hollow. The trail itself
over the mountains is, in many places, at
a 45-degree incline, and rendered doubly
hazardous by glaciers, crevasses and boul
der-strewn ledges overhanging yawning
chasms and precipices.
Frequent stops have to be made for rest,
and even a few minutes of inaction in the
piercing cold goads the traveler on again
to keep from freezing to death. After
struggling with a 40-pound pack Mr. Dun
ham was forced to pay an Indian $lO to
pack it twelve miles from Dyea to Sheep
camp. Sixteen dollars more was paid to
carry the same pack from Sheep camp to
Lake Lindeman.
He continues: “At present the condition
of affairs on both trails is terrible, and
hundreds of men are bound to starve and
freeze to death if they continue to come
this way. I passed at least a thousand
men between Dyea and here, and not more
than 100 have got to the other side of the
summit. Every fifty yards along the
trail are piles of goods, and I suppose
there are provisions to the value of $200,-
000 scattered along the trail.
“Prices for packing and for all kinds
of service are practically prohibitory for
most of those who are attempting to
cross.
“I never saw so much selfishness any
where as is displayed on this trail. You
pass a hundred people without receiving
a response to your respectful “good morn
ing,” and soon learn to keep your mouth
shut.
“If j’ou ask for food, in nine cases out
of ten it will be refused.
“I have made arrangements to go down
the river with ,a friend, who made the
trip before. He expects to be ready to
start in four or five days and to make the
trip in seven days. 1 am patiently await
ing the arrival of my outfit, but do not
expect it until the weather Improves.
“ ‘Every, sacamshi*; that Ups brought peo-.
pie up will have all it can do for at least
two trips in carrying the unsuccessful peo
ple back to civilization, and there ought
to be some way to force them to perform
the service without compensation.
(Signed) “Samuel C. Dunham.”
TRE NEWS AT WASHINGTON.
i -
A Fever Alarm—Hymen Holds Conrt.
Dynpensary Agitation.
Washington, Ga., Sept. 18.—Quite an ex
citement was stirred up last night by the
report that several yellow fever refugees
had come in on the last train, and some
few people wanted them quarantined at
once. It turned out to be a false alarm,
but showed that very few of the citizens
fear the dread disease in this climate. In
the epidemic of about fifty years ago, it
is said by one of our oldest citizens that
several cases were brought here. Some
died, and some did not, but the disease w’as
not contagious among the citizens.
Mr. M. C. Booker of this place and Miss
Sophronia McCall of Atlanta were married
on the 13th in Atlanta. Mr. I. T. Jack
son and Miss Anna Lee Gilbert were mar
ried at the home of the bride’s parents,
Sept. 15, Rev. B. M. Calloway officiating.
A larger number of young people than
every known (before have left here for
different colleges lately.
The dispensary agitation Is till red-hot.
A prominent barkeeper is out in a card
charging the Athens dispensary with sell
ing for $1 a gallon the same whisky which
he sold for 50 cents. The dispensary is
advocated here chiefly for the purpose of
taking the barrooms out of politics.
AID FOR KLO.NDIKERS.
Secretary Alger Haw a Scheme of
Great Magnitude.
Washington, Sept. IB.r-Secretary Alger,
who has been anxiously planning to get
supplies into the Yukon region this winter
to relieve the almost certain starvation
now staring the hordes of treasure-seekers
in the face, has hit upon the novel plan
of trying a locomotive sledge to run on
the river after the hard freeze sets in.
This engine was designed for the north
ern logging camps and Secretary Alger
has tried it With some success in his own
big lumber camps in Michigan. It is said
to travel about twelve miles an hour and
is capable of drawing an enormous load.
The chief problem is that of fuel and
the secretary has invited Joseph Ladue,
the founder of Dawson, to a conference
on the practical value of the plan.
WAS BADLY HIRT.
Brakeman Johnson's Injuries More
Severe Than Reported.
Brakeman Samuel K. Johnson was
more badly hurt in the wreck Wednesday
night at Davisboro on the Central railroad
than was reported here.
Better information from those, who
went to the scene of the wreck adds an
arm broken in two places, a contused head
and many bruises to the injured jaw,
spoken of in the first report. The brake
man was taken to his home at Macon.
The track did not remain blocked long
after the accident, and it was ready for
the passage of trains after 9 o'clock yes
terday morning.
The wreck was caused by the ninth car
from the engine breaking down and the
next eight proceeding to pile upon it. No
blame is attached to anyone for the acci
dent.
Fava Not Recalled.
Rome, Sept. 18.—An official statement
has been issued denying that Baron Fava,
the Italian ambassador to the United
States, has been recalled. .
SAILINGS OF OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
SAVANNAH TO NEW YORK.
(Central 90th meridian time.)
Steamship TALLAHASSEE, TUESDAY,
Sept. 21, 2:00 p. m.
Steamship KANSAS CITY, WEDNES
DAY, Sept. 22, 3:00 p. m.
•Steamship CHATTAHOOCHEE,FRIDAY,
Sept. 24, 5:00 p. m.
Steamship CITY OF AUGUSTA, SATUR
DAY, Sept. 25, 5:00 p. m.
Steamship CITY OF BIRMINGHAM,
MONDAY, Sept. 27, 4:00 p. m.
Steamship NACOOCHEE, TUESDAY,
Sept. 28, 6:00 p.-m.
Steamship TALLAHASSEE, WEDNES
DAY, Sept. 29, 7:00 p. m.
SAVANNAH TO BALTIMORE.
Steamship D. H. MILLER, WEDNES
DAY, Sept. 22, at 3:0O p. m.
Steamship ITASCA, SATURDAY, Sept.
25, at 5:00 p. m. ’
Steamship BERKSHIRE, WEDNESDAY,
Sept. 29, at 8:00 p. m.
DANIEL REPLIES TO O’FERRALL.
The Controversy in Virginia Is to
Have Another Chapter Added.
Lynchburg, Va., Sept. 18.—A letter from
Senator John W. Daniel, in answer to the
recent letter of Gov. O’Ferrall, will be
published in the Lynchburg News to
morrow.
A considerable part of Senator Daniels
letter is devoted to quoting newspaper
comments on his speeches last fall, and
extract from a letter written by him in
October, 1596, all showing that his con
struction of the “government by injunc
tion” plank of the Chicago platform was
the same then as it ds now. This is in
refutation of the charge of the governor
that Senator Daniel held his peace on
the subject during the last campaign.
Senator Daniel then deals with a number
of other political topics.
In discussing Gov. O’Ferrall’s charge
that the last national democratic plat
form proposed to revolutionize the su
preme court, in order to get from it a de
cision favorable to an income tax, Senator
Daniel declares that “the democracy has
never packed the supreme court. It never
will. To impute the suggestion is to slan
der as-reputable men as the nation has
in it.”
Senator Daniel contends that the mean
ing of the national platform was that the
court, in the natural order of events, would
be differently constituted, and might be
brought to reconsider its last decision as
to an income tax, and thus again reverse
itself on this question, as it had previous
ly done.
“Judges are not beyond the pale of crit
icism,” he says. “No good: man desires
to hfe beyond it. Criticism is the weapon
of truth, and all public servants must be
open to it, if they are honest and capable.
“Gov. O’Ferrall, in his recent letter to
the press, undertook to excuse himself for
voting in congress five times in one day
for free silver, and afterwards bolting the
democratic national ticket for declaring
for this very same doctrine by saying that
he had not studied the question while a
member of congress, but had accepted the
assurance of other congressmen that free
silver coinage was practical. To this Sen
ator Daniel responds that a man who so
reverses the natural order of things that
he does not study a question when it is his
duty to do it, but hastens to study it when
it is not his duty to do it, is in too in
defensible a position to undertake to crit
icise those who have studied it and who
have not changed their views on the ques
tion.
Referring again to Gov. O’Ferrall’s
. charge DarjeJ had offered a resolu
tion in the Senate commending PresiSSit
Cleveland for sending troops to quell the
Chicago riot, and afterwards as a mem
ber of the committee on resolutions at the
Chicago convention, condemned the Pres
ident for sending troops to Chicago, Sen
ator Daniel positively denies that he w r as
ever a member of the committee on reso
lutions at Chicago, or that he knew what
was in the committee’s report until the
platform was presented to the convention
for adoption.
THE INDIANA INSPECTED.
An Expert Declares That the Battle
ship Is All Right.
Washington, Sept. 18.—The expert sent
by the naval ordnance department to
Hampton Roads to examine one of the
turret guns of the battleship Indiana, has
returned to the department and reports
that there is no sign of any crack in the
gun and that the slight depression in the
metal that was mistaken for one is noth
ing more than a powder mark.
NEW MEDICAL DISCOV 1
ERY.
A Positive Cure For Dyspepsia
This may read as though we were put
ting it a little strong because it is gen
erally thought by the majority of peo
ple that Dyspepsia in its chronic form
is incurable, or practically so. But we
have long since shown that Dyspepsia
is curable, nor is it such a difficult mat
tar as at first appears.
The trouble with Dyspeptics is that
they are continually dieting, starving
themselves, or going to opposite extremes
or else deluging the already over-burden
ecT'stomach with “bitters,” “after dinner
pills,” etc., which invariably increase the
difficulty even if in some cases they do
give a slight temporary relief. Such treat
ment of the stomach eimbly make mat
ters worse. What the stomach wants is
a rest. Now how can the stomach become
rested, recuperated and at the same time
the body nourished and sustained.
This is the great secret and this is also
the secret of the uniform success of
Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets. This is a
comparatively new remedy, but its suc
cess and popularity leaves no doubt as to
its merits.
The Tablets will digest the food any
way, regardless of condition of stomach.
The sufferer irom Dyspepsia according
to directions is to eat on abundance of
good, wholesome food and use the tablets
before and after each meal and the re
sult will be that the food will be digested
no matter how bad your.dyspepsia may be,
because as before stated, will
digest the food even if the stomach is
wholly inactive. To illustrate our mean
ing plainly, if you take 1,800 grains of
meat, eggs or ordinary food and place it
in a temperature of 98 degrees, and put
with it one of Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets
it will digest the meat or eggs almost as
perfectly as if the meat was enclosed with
in the stomach.
The stomach may be ever so weak yet
these tablets will perform the work of
digestion and the body and brain will
be properly nourished and at the same
time a radical, lasting cure of dyspepsia
will be made because the much abused
stomach will be given, to some extent, a
much needed rest. Your druggist will
tell you that of tjie many remedies ad
vertised to cure dyspepsia none of them
has given so complete and general sat
isfaction as Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
and not least in importance in these hard
times is the fact that they are also the
cheapest and give the most good for the
least money.
A little book on cause and cure of
stomach trouble sent free by addressing
Stuart m. Marshall. Mich.
MADE A PARTY TO THE CRIME.
POSTMASTER LOFTON’S BLOOD|
STAINS M’KINLEY’S SKIRTS.
Governor Atkinson Declares That
the Man Who Appointed an Obnox
ious Negro to a Public Office Over
the Protest of the People in a
Country Committed to Local Self-,
Government Is Responsible for th©
Crime That Follows.
Atlanta, Sept. 18.—Gov. Atkinson thinks
that President McKinley is particeps crim
inis to the shooting of the negro postmast
er of Hogansville, and says so in very:
plain words.
His declaration on the subject was
brought out by a request from the New
York Herald for a statement in reference
to the attempted assassination. The Her
ald probably expected something lively
when it wired Gov. Atkinson for his views,
and in the language of the street it got a
“warm number.” Here is the gist of what
the governor says of the shooting:
“The court will convene in Troup county
in November, and the grand jury will in
vestigate the matter, and if there is evi
dence to convict any one there will be no
trouble in punishing the guilty party. The
officers are capable men, and will do their
duty. The shooting of the negro is uni
versally condemned by the people.
“The same spirit of candor in which I
have written, compels me to say that our
people are uniformly of the opinion that
the man who appointed the postmaster at
Hogansville over the violent protest of
those citizens who furnish ninety-nine-one
hundredths of the business of the office,
who own almost the entire property of the
community, and who represent the forces
which have made and constitute the civ
ilization of that community, knowing at
the time that the appointment would be
taken as a deliberate effort on his part to
degrade and humiliate them, was himself,
from a moral standpoint an accessory to
this lamentable crime.
“Even these men, who took this view,
do not blame the republican party foil
giving positions to the negroes who have
been faithful to them, but it would have
.been better for the negroes, and pleasanter
for the white people of the south, if they
had given them positions where they were
not brought so directly in contact with
the people to whom they are offensive aa
officers.
“You ask me what is going to be the
effect of this. I reply that the effect will
be the same it would be in Ohio if th©
same conditions prevailed. Leaving out
the questions arising from prejudice, what
would be the result in Ohio if the Presi
dent, in making appointments, ignored thei
views of property holders and all the best
elements of the community, and over their ,
violent, protest, appointment to office a 1
man whom he knew to be offensive ta
them?”
FARMERS’ SONS LEAD.
More of Them Than Any Other
the University.
Athens, Ga., Sept. 18.—The registration:
at the university is far beyond that of
last year. An examination into the sta
tistics on the record book shows than
farmers have more sons here than law
yerk,’thr<J*= times as many as doctors tukt
twice as many as merchants. Over 65
per cent, of the university boys are mem
bers of the different churches. The Meth
odists and Baptists have about equal rep
resentation. The Presbyterians and Epis
copalians have each about half the repre
sentation of the Methodists and Baptista.
Os the fathers of the students about 65
per cent, are graduates of no college. The
graduates for the most part are Univer
sity of Georgia men.
The “Georgian,” the university maga
zine, will be Issued Oct. 1. John Temple
Graves will contribute an interesting ar
ticle to the first issue. Thb staff of edi
tors is as follows: Hugh White, editor
in-chief; Garrard Glenn, associate editor;
Lucian Whipple, exchange editor; Y. L.
Watson, business manager, and Roy Jen
kins, assistant business manager.
The State Normal School enrollment
has reached 420, and still the teachers
are arriving from every section of the
state.
President A. K. Childs of the National
Bank of Athens has refused to pay the
tax demanded of him as president of the
bank, stating that the state has no right
to require it, as the bank is amenably
only to the federal authorities.
A farmer named Bruce, living in Banks
county, was here yesterday. He is an old
man and has raised a large family. H<»
says he has never had a piece of pork in
his house nor a case of sickness in hla
family.
AFFAIRS IN ABBEVILLE.
A Young Lady's Death—Lawyers Oiw
ganlze—lndustrial Note*.
Abbeville, Ga., Sept. 18.—Miss Della
Clark, a popular young lady of Abbeville,
died at the home of her mother yester
day, from typho-malarlal fever, contracted
while visiting a sick relative in Bibb coun
ty several weeks ago. The funeral services
were conducted by Rev. G. Fisher, pastor
of the Methodist church of which she was
a devout member.
The lawyers of W.'lcox county organized
a bar association here to-day. The main
object of the organization is to expedite
business in the superior court, by setting
dates for cases. There are now more than
200 cases on the civil docket, and a largo
criminal docket, which will necessitate
the extending of the term from one week
(as usual) to two weeks.
The town council are considering a prop
osition to form a party to establish water
works and electric lights for Abbeville,
provided the town will grant them any en
couragement.
An ice factory is also proposed for the
town, now that it has an inexhaustible
supply of pure water.
The cotton Helds in this vicinity hava
been stripped clean by the pickers, and it
is now estimated that the entire crop of
the county will haze been gathered and
housed by the middle of October,
THE SMITH’S SUSPICIOUS FREIGHT.
A Party of Men and Baggage Put Off
a Tug Near Key We»t,
Key West, Fla., Sept. 18.—The steam tug
Somers N. Smith was seen off the south
west channel this morning and put out a
boat, which was seen to land seven men.
The cutter Winona went in pursuit, and
captured the boat, but the men had dis
appeared. The tug went up the west
coast.
Later, one man and a quantity of bag
gage were found by the customs inspec
tor.
The Smith is reported to have landed an
expedition in Cuba, and is thought to have
been connected with the schooner Anna
T. Briggs, which left Philadelphia three
weeks ago, and which, has not since been
heard from.