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ESTABLISHED 1884 PRESIDENT ii num Cordially Greeted on His Ar rival in Georgia’s Capitol. ' GEN. WHEELER HONORED ? Received at the State Capitol by the Governor and Legisla ture, By Associated Pres®. Atlanta, Deo. 14 —Without a single hitch in the arrangements and after a trip pleas ant in every way, the presidential party arrived in Atlanta at 8 o’clock this morn ing over the Southern. The morning was cri*»p and cooler than most of the party anticipated. The president took breakfast i with Mrs. McKinley in his car while the J cabinet officers and others walked through * the train early and breakfasted in the •lining car. Small groups of early rising Georgians watched the train as it flew past way side stations. At Gainesville, wher a. short stop was made, about two hundred persons were at the station and Inspected the train with curiosity. There to Atlanta, came waving welcomes with an occasional cheer but there was nothing in the nature of a demonstration. Exactly at 8 o’clock when the train bear ing the distinguished guests, who are to r attend the Peace Jubilee entered the Union I depot in Atlanta a large crowd was .pres ent despite the colt? weather and a rous ing cheer went up as the train came to a standstill. General Wheeler was the first to alight. A strong chorus of cheers greeted the dis tinguished Alabamian accompanied by this daughter. Members of the reception com mittee .made way to the carriages. When the president appeared on the rear plat form of ihls car, a hearty cheer was given, breaking forth with renewed vigor an in stant later when Mrs. McKinley came out <>f the car. The wel ome to the members of the cabinet was very cordial. The ladies jubilee committee extended a greeting to the ladies of the presidential party after which the president accompanying, they were escorted to the Kimball House. The presidential party was at once assigned to apartment* set aside for them. The presi dent devoted the morning to resting. Mrs. McKinley retired to recuperate for the coming duties of the day. At 12 o’clock the gentlemen of the. president’s party par took of luncheon in the chief executive’s apartments, while the ladies at the same hour were the guests of the Ladies ordi nary of the hotel. A few minutes before 1 o’clock the president’s party were as signed to carriages, escorted by fifty mounted police and members of the gov ernor s staif tv the state capital. Guns boomed a presidential salute as the chief executive ascended the steps of the canl-' tol. At the Hunter street entrance the presi dent was met b,v a committee compost'd of < olonel \\ illiam G. Obear, the acting ad jutant general, representing the governor; Senator Hand representing the senate, and Mr. Hardwick representing the House, and was conducted to the governor’s par lor, where he was received by Governor Candler and the state house officials, after which the general assembly, in joint ses sion, received the presidential party and the governor. The prettiest and most novel of the days festivities which occurred during the af ternoon was the floral parade in which all the prominent people of the city took part ami the first of the kind ever given in th<- 1 city. Carriages of every kind were in line, beautifully decorated in an elaborate manner. The ladies of the city vied with one another in their efforts to present the most beautiful carriage, and at the same time hid tor a prize offered by the eom , mittee having the feature in charge. «' At the capital the president, addressing the general assembly, said: "s»ec(ional lines no longer mar the map of the United States. Sectional feeling no longer hold* back the love we bear each other. Fraternity is the national anthem, suitg by rhe chorus of our states and our territories at home and beyond seas. The union is once more the common altar of ' our love and loyalty, our devotion and sacrifice. The old flag again waves over; its in peace with new glories which vour ! sons and ours have this year added to its sacred folds. W hat cause we have for re- i juicing is saddened only by the fact that so many of our brave men have fell on the ; field or have sickened and died from hard- ! ship and exposure and others returning bringing wounds and disease which they ■ will long suffer. The memory of the dead will be a precious legacy and the disabled will be the nation's care. The nation which cares for its disabled defenders as we have always done never jacks defend ers.’’ WHOLE CREW RESCUED. By .Associated Press. Baltimore, Dec. 14. —The overdue North German Lloyd line steamship Maria Riek more, Bremen, passed Cape Henry this ! morning and signalled she had aboard , eight survivors of the British steamship I London ia, which foundered recently. The British steamship Vedamore rescued for ty-five of the crew, whom she landed last I w-eek. She lost the wreck the night of I November 27 with eight aboard. Thev were rescued by the Rickmore next day THE MACON NEWS. BAD MASONRY Cause of the Collapse of the New York Gas Tank. I 18.000,000 GALLOHSOFWiTER Let Loose inJTwo Streets—Men Kill ed and Great Property Loss. By Associated Prctc. New York, Dec. 14.—When dawn lighted up uhe district devastated by the collaps ing of the hig gas tank of Uhe Consolidated I Gas Company, a spectacle of ruia was pre i seated. Twenty-first street was barrica • ded with twisted and ’bent iron stanchions, girders and uprights piled to the height of twenty-five feet. Twentieth street was ' li'ied with bricks, household good s and timbers piled high in one promiscou*; mass All night long hundreds of men worked as siduously to discover bodies that might be in the ruins. The basement of the furni ture factory of Henry Fuldner had fix feel of water. Three men on a raft floated in seardh of the body of the engineer, John Baum. The body was 'found under a mass of debris. Seven others are missing. The tank which collapsed was 175 feet iu diameter, 160 feet in height and the iron supports, over which immense cablese I ran, 200 feet in height. The lower tank i into which the upper fitted was about i twenty-five feet in height and rested on i mason .work in the pit. The pit is 150 feet deep. The builders were testing rhe power of the tank with water pressure. The workmen were preparing to leave the place when the mason work in the pit crumbled away like clay. It is said that, eight mil lion of gallons of water were in the tank !at the time of the break. The steel plates I of the tank were rent asunder by the pres i sure Like paper. The great force of water vented itself on the rear walls of the 'buildings on avenue A, all the way with the exception of a part of the rear of the gas companies’ engine house. Masonry and brick were (thrown into the streets and piled into tfhe hallways’ of houses and buildings. T.-e nendous iron beams and uprights were swept by the water away ' down Twentieth and Twenty-first streets ' to the river front. The arms and legs of a man were found entangled In the barri- ; cade on Twenty-first street. IN CONGRESS TODAY. No More Reckless Pension Legislation- Lodge Immigration Bill". By Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 14.—The senate open ed with a protest upon the part of Mr. , Gallinger. chairman of the committee on [ pensions, against the practice of senators ■ in introducing pensions bills in cases j pending in the pension office. He said j the committee would not consider such bills and it was useless to present them. In the house the pension appropriation was reported today. Mr. Barney gave no tice that he would call up tomorrow the senate bill to regulate the sitting of ■ United States courts within the district of ; South Carolina. Mr. Danford called up the Lodge immi gration bill, passed by the senate at the last session, which has since been upon the speaker’s table. Mr. Bartholdi raised the question of consideration against it and Mr. Danford demanded the ayes and | nots, which were ordered. NEARLY ZERO WEATHER _ A Very Cold Night in Macon —There Will Be More of ■ «• The thermometer took a decided fall last night and by 12 o’clock it lacked only a few degrees of zero. It began to grow colder late yesterday afternoon and when i day came it was freezing. The thermo meter was at its lowest, however, at 12 I o’clock. Many pipes were froxen and the i ; plumbers have beta kept busy today. It seems that the cold wave was all over ( the country. The weather report for Macon today says that the cold weather will con tinue for several days, and if that be the case the citizens had best look to their 1 pipes during the night. MISS ALICE PRICE ILL. Bad Sanitation of the Executive Man sion. Miss Alice Price of Macon, the guest of Governor Candler, is criticallyill of ty phoid fever at Dr. Holmes’ sanitarium iu i Atlanta. It is reported that her illness i is due to bad sanitation in the executive mansion. Dr. Holmes declares the official residence to be a death trap. Miss Price, i who is one of th most beautiful young women of the state, went to Atlanta to assist Governor and Mre. Candler in their social duties. __ MACON NEW? WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 14 1898. WOOD'S_WORK A Day at Santiago With the Commander. FROM JUL TO PALACE The Infinite Number of Things a Provisional Governor Must Consider. By Associated Press. Santiago, Dec. 14.—‘Following is an ac count of a day with General Leonard Wood, the American commander here: By 6 o’clock in the morning the horses are at the front door and he starts out on a tour of inspection, possibly unexpected ly turning up either at the civil military hospital or possibly visiting the docks to witness the storage of government prop erty, or going the rounds of the street cleaning gangs; or, again, one of the mil itary encampments or sometimes the city , jail are favored with an early morning visit, on which occasion every delinquent who has been incarcerated since his last visit two or three days before is brought before him. It is very nearly 8 o’clock before this ’ inspection tour is completed, at- which hour General Woods joins his family at , breakfast. By 8:30 o’clock he is stepping : in his carriage and is whirled on his way ■to the city, two miles away. By 8:50 he is entering the city palace, proceeding at 1 once to his private office, private only in I name, for all the time he remains there he is besieged by all’ sorts and conditions of men and women on business of every passible description. General Wood is not I a hard man to get at and a few’ words 1 from the general suffice for the manage ment of his visitors, unless for some im portunate office seeker who is desirous of giving a history of his career from his birth up. If the man be a Cuban and there happense to be a vacancy for such a man he is turned over with his creden i tials co be investigated by either General - Castillo or Captain Mendoza. If, bow ; ever, the caller is an American his chances of obtaining a public office are very slim, indeed, for General Wood believes in the i policy of giving th Cubans every office , they can possibly fill. The general remains only about an hour j at the civil palace and it is pretty safe to 1 say that within five minutes of ten o’clock he will be seen walking across the square leading from the palace to the department deadquarters. For the first half hour he is closeted with Colonel Beacon), the ad jutant general, signing numerous papers, i and giving his consent or the reverse to plans, estimates, etc. After that several army officers are generally waiting for an i audience, some gu detail work reporting or asking for information, others desirous of merely paying their respects and some with grievances they desire to lay before the general. KILLED HIS BROTHER. A Santiago Hero Accused of Stealing In flicts Vengeance. By Associated Press. New York, Dec. 14.—John. D. Hayes, who served as a Red Cross nurse with the Second United States infantry under Gen. Shafter at Santiago, last night shot and killed his brother. Edward S. Hayes, pro prietor of a hotel at Blecker and McDou gal streets. Apparently no one witnessed tilt shooting. According to the story told by John Hayes, his brother accused him of appropriating a portion of the proceeds of the evening’s business for his own use. They had several quarrels over this. and. according to his murderer, who is under arrest, E-ifward struck him with a club and ice pick. After having bis cheek laid open John Hayes drew a revolver and shot his brother through the head. The wounded man fell without a sound and was dead in a moment. The blood poured from a hole in his right temple and drenched the murderer. A REMARKABLE SINGER Mts. aSchumonn's Motherhood Does Kot Estop Her Ingagements. By Associated Press. New York, Dec. 14. —'Mme. Schumann- Heink, the famous contralto singer, gave birth to her eighth child, a son, last Mon day night. She expected to be able to sing last Monday night. She expected to be able to sing in the Grau Company’s first prolucrion of "Lohengrin” next week. SPLENDID ENDOWMENT. Millionaires Doing Great Things by McGill University. By Associated Press. Montreal, Dec. 14.—At the last meeting of the board of governors of McGill Uni versity, Lord Stratheorn announced his in tention of endowing the new Victoria col lege for women, which was built at a cost of $250,000 to the amount o$ $1,000,000. W. C. McDonald, the inilionaire tobacco m-n who has given several millions to the uni versity. also announced that intended en dowing a chair of history in the arts of faculty. j GEN._MRCIA Cubans Deplore the Death of Their Leader. LOSS TO BOTH COUNTRIES Not a StronglCommander Like Go mex, But a Wise States man. By Associated Press. New York, Fee. 14 —A diepatc.i tc the Tri'rvne from Havana says: Calix.o Gar cir’s death ai ’his critical period is a loss for both Cuba and the United states. The Cubans today are too muen excited over th-2 killing of two of their number of Sun day night oy Spanish officers and soldiers to appreciate its significance though their grief is deen. The larger part of ,ne in surgent army had a strong affection for Garcia. Commanders who are in control of the forces atevnd Hava 1a anprce ; ate that their task is increased by Garcia’s d-t vh. Whether the commission in Wash ington is succerriul or not >n arranging a laoii with which to pay the insurgent tr<ops, Garcia was the leader to whom u’l were looking for guidance. He had ex hibited great strength in controlling the radical elements at the Santa Cruz assem bly and in having himself placed at the head of the commission to visit Washing ton. He had also impressed on the insur gents that they must not antagonize American military control. His influence ■ was decided and bis wishes were respect | ed. Garcia was ambitious and he was known to be looking forward to become the presi ient of the Cuban republic, but he showed himself 10 be a politician in the best sense of the word. Maximo Gomez had censured him for his hasty action at Santiago after his quarrel with Shafter and he was in open antagonism to the members of the former provisional government. Never theless mutual tolerance was shown. The sorrow over Garcia’s death will be widespread. 'He was not a strong com mander such as Gomez, but since the death o! Maceo, he has, after Gomez, the most important leader among the insurgents. The immediate effect of his death will be to bring forward the leaders of the pro visional government, such as iMasso and Capote, who were not in harmony with Garcia. However they all counsel ac quiescence regarding temporary American control and some of them lean toward an nexation. Their weak ncint is that they cannot be expected to have the influence with th Cuban soldiers that officers who commanded the insurgent forces possesses the man for the emergency is Gomez. He has been reported as distrustful of Amer ican occupancy and not in full sympathy with the visit of Garcia’c commission to Washington. Nevertheless he has steadily counselled acquiescence. Gomez has re mained at his camp in Santa Clara pro vince, refusing to transfer his headquar ters to Marrianao on the ground that he was not needed and did not intend to make a show of himself. His actual objection was rsaid to be due to his willingness to recognize Spanish sovereignty. The period of Spanish authority is now so brief and his counsel so badly needed by the Cubans that he may change his mind and come at once. TAYLOR’S NEAR DOOM Preparations for the Execu tion of the Wife Mur derer. Abner Tavlor, the wife murderer, has only two more days to live. He will be hung Friday morning between the hours of 10 and 12 o’clock. The gallows has been arranged and the rope is being stretched. He will be hung on the steel death trap that is in the jail. Taylor can see the gallows from his cell and to a man under the sentence of death and with only two more days to live it must be a terrible sight. He is being closely watched for fear that he will commit suicide at the last moment. He is very despondent and looks as if he will not have enough nerve to go on the stand. He has been behaving very for the past two weeks and has given the officers no trouble. His brother will be present when he is hung. WAS ONLY DRUNK. Wnep. he Referred to the War Lord as “Sheeps Head” By Associated Press. Berlin. Dec. 14—The trial of Frank Kaaak, of New York charged with Lese majeste to referring to the emperor as "Sheepshead” has been fixed for Decem ber 20. He is still in prison, bail being re fused and the United States embassy is unable to interfere in the case. The de fence will prove that Mr. Knaak, Novem ber 24th, the day he is said to have spoken disrespectfully of his majesty, was intoxicated and when sober always spoke respectfully of the emperor. AT THE CAMPS Officers and Soldiers Well Pleased With the Parade THE POPULAR SEVENTH Men of the Third Engineers Indig nant—Waiting on Orders General Gossip. The weather has been very cold for the past two days and the number of visitors to the soldier camps have been very few. The soldiers suffered great deal last night and the weather man said this morning that it was the coldest night of the season and he says that it will probably be colder tonight. The scarcity of tent stoves makes it very unpleasant for the men and they generally build up big fires and sleep around eo as to keep warm. The white soldiers at Camp Fornance suffer more than the others, as they are camped on one of the coldest sites around the city. Tie men of the Seventh cavalry are well fixed for the cold weather and each tent has a stove. All of the men in the tent sleep with their feet to the fire and they say that they never know that the weather is cold until they awake in the morning. The tents of the cavalrymen are the conical tents and are large enough for sixteen men to sleep in, though the present regiment has only eight. The negroes do not suffer much from the cold, as they all have tent stoves. They do not seem to mind the cold much, as they stay out of their tents all the time. Last night a large party of them dressed in civilian’s clothes and came to the city. They did this in order to escape the provost guard. It is said that a num ber of them do this every night. It is a dangerous practice, however, and if they are caught they will be severely pun ished. The third battalion of the Third En gineers will leave tomorrow night for Port Tampa, where they will take the transport, for Cuba. It was first ordered that the men would sail from 'Miami, but the order has been changed and they will go from Tampa. They will land at Man tanzas and be stationed there until the arrival of the first army corps. The En gineers do not like the idea of going to Cuba and say that they want to be mus tered out. They are kicking about the statements made by some of their officers in regard to their character and want him corrected. The regiment will be one of the last to be mustered out. however, as it was one of the last to be mustered in. William Capus, the negro who was shot by Mr. W. S. Simmons som n time ago. has been eent back to his regiment. He has entirely recovered from his wound and has reported for duty. It was thought at one time that the negro would die. but he is now entirely well. A true bill has been found by the grand jury against Mr. Sim mons for assault with intent to murder and he is at present out on bond. It is not known when he will' be tried. A military hop will be given by the offi cers on Monday, December 26. It will be held in the armory of the Macon Volun teers and the music will be furnished by the Second Ohio band. The hop will be much on the order of those given at the military posts and will be a very swell affair. Captain Wright, who was examined at Huntsville several days ago for a. captain cy in the regular army, returned to his duties here this morning. He passed the examination and will receive his commis sion in a few days. He will return to Huntsville in a few' days and will act as adjutant general of the first army corps. The men were not very much fatigued by the parade yesterday and they all seem to enjoy it. Both General Wilson and General Bates expressed themselves as being well pleased with the parade and they say that they never saw things work better in their whole military career as they did in the review yesterday. It is understood that no changes will be made in the line of march or the forma tion. Everything worked satisfactorily yesterday and the parade wil no doubt be the same next Monday. The review next Monday will be a grander thing than the parade that is to take place in Atlanta this week, as they will only have two regi ments in line where Macon will have seven. The railroads will run excursions here from all points in the state and it is expected that fully ten thousand people from outside places will be here. It is still rumored that the troops at Knoxville will come here. The two regi ments are in General Bates’ division, and it is understood that he wants them to gether. The regiments are the Thirty first Michigan and the Sixth Ohio. The Macon boys w’ho were in the First Georgia are anxious for the Thirty-first Michigan to come here, as there was a warm friend ship between the two regiments while in camp. They were in the same brigade and camped side by side all during their service in the army. The two regiments coming to Macon would make the total number of the troops that ft ere coming to Macon 10,000, and would be a great benefit to the city. While not officially confirmed that the troops will be sent here, one of the officers who is in a position to know intimated as much this morning, and it is very proba ble that they ft’ill come. The men of the Third Engineers are mad, and if the writer of the article that appeared in yesterday morning’s Tele graph in regard to the men of the regi ment could be found he would be severely dealt with. The article, no doubt, does the Engin eers a great injustice and the men of the regiment claim that there is no private in the regiment of such a name as was signed as a "private” to the article, and they say that if it was written by anyone connected with the regiment the writer was not a "private.” Several of the men called at the News office yesterday afternoon and denounced rhe writer in the strongest terms. The article spoke of the men as “bums ’ and "tramps” and it can be seen that there is not a nicer body of men in the country than the Engineers. The privates say rhat their officers have misrepresented them to the public and that they want it corrected. They say the regiment wants to be mus tered out and does not wish to remain in the service. The writer of the article in the Telegraph is "laying low.” but the men are making a search for him and if he is found his feelings are liable to be hurt. PRI si FIVE CENTS KILLED AND CREMATED Horrible Tragedy Developing in Hot Sorings, Ark. BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S TATE Murderer Burns Her Body Piece by Piece In His Own Fire place. By Associated Frees. Hot Springs, Ark., Ike. 14.—Gradually the mystery surroundiing the disappearance in this city several weeks -ago of (Mrs. Nel lie J. • Horne, a beautiful young woman, who has been visiting the health resort and who, the authorities believed, wan murdered by Young Haidy Sheffield and robbed of her money, is being cleared up and by tonight the sheriff hopes to have evidence to prove that the most heartless crime ever commited in this community was that which cost Mrs. 'Horne her life. Hardy Sheffield is in jail charged with murder. The sheriff returned to the city today from the home of Sheffield’s brother, (where it was reported the body of Mrs. Horne had been found. (He brought with him a sack containing grewsome evidence oj a human ibody having been cremated, piece by piece in Sheffield’s home. Tho sack con'tiainde human bones, ashes and other particles, which were recovered from the fire place of Sheffield’s 'home. The ex perts are at work making a scientific ex amination of tfheec ghastly relics. It is al leady established that the bones are those •of a human being. Sheffield’s brother, in whose house tthe crime is supposed to have ; been committed, was brought to Ho. Springs by the sheriff and placed in jail, i There are also several other® who ai\- dharged with being accessories to the i crime. A MALIGNANT BONE. ■ ~ It Sent Luetgert to Prison and Poisioned a Policeman. By Associated Press. Chicago, Dec. 14.—The sesamoid bone that sent Adolph Louis Luertguert to a felon’s cell for life has laid Captain Wil , liam N. Knoch on a bed of pain from which he may never arise. Luertguert was made its victim by the evidence of this tiny osseous particle, while Knoch has been feeled by the virus that clung to its scaly sides. A serious ailment that kept Knoch confined to his bed several weeks was pronounced by physicians to be un doubtedly blood poisoning and the nistory of it they concede is clearly discoverable in the malignant little sesamoid. When the first trial of Luertguert begun Knoch was made custodian of the exhibits in evidence by the prosecution. Among these was the sesamoid bone, regarded by tho state’s attorneys as a convincing evidence that Mrs. Luertguert had been murdered and the body dissolved in the vat until it was a saponaceous mass and flooded away as sewerage. One day in July, after hand ling the seamoid. Captain Knoch rubbed his hand on his bare breast on account of the heat and perspiration caused by the torrid weather. Not long after that event he felt ill. The physician pronounced the ailment to be sepsis. The cause of the blood poisoning was inquired into ax the time and laid at the door of the seamoid. After an illness of six weeks he recovered sufficiently to be about. Two weeks ago he was taken ill again and again the ill ness was pronounced to be sepsis. The doctors say it is a recurrence of the old attack and due ro the same cause. VAN SYCKLE LEAD THE TICKET Only 524 Votes Cast in Yes terday’s Aldermanic Election. The election yesterday was one of the quietest ever held in Macon. No interest was taken and none of the candidates were seen around the polls. The total vote just did pass the five hundred mark and was one of the smallest ever cast in a city election. . The scenes at the polls yesterday and on the first were different in every respect. The total vote polled was as follows: Van Syckel. 524. Sheridan, 519. g <1143 Taylor, 521. Moore, 520. The consolidated vote was made known at the meeting of the city council last night and Clerk Smith was instructed to notify the gentlemen that they had been elected and to be present at the meeting tonight to take the oath of office. The members who go out tonight are Aidermen Williams and Huthnance. Both gentlemen have made good officials and their work is appreciated by the people.