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VOLUME XVI.
DALLAS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7,
WAS VIBST REPORTED AS BATING
SUICIDED.
DEATH DUE TO
Tortara Wm Ruit Frightful— Member of
British location Mobbed aad Arnea-
toan Mlsilonerle* Stoned.
A special dispatch from Shanghai,
published at London Saturday, says
telegrams furnished by the Taotal, or
local governor, to a Chinese paper
there, allege that the emperor of China
committed suioide on September 21,
after signing the decrees whioh placed
the dowager empress at the head of
affairs in, China. This, it is added, is
understood to mean that the emperor
was assassinated.
All the English-speaking secretaries
and the principal members of the Chi
nese foreign office, it is further an
nounced, have been banished.
A later dispatch announces that the
death of the emperor is confirmed.
The reports ns to the moans employed
as to his taking off differ. One story
has it that' be died by poison, and
another that death was caused by
strangulation, while a third states
that he was subjected to frightful tor
ture, a red hot iron being thrust
through his bowels.
The foreign office at London receiv
ed a dispatch Saturday from her maj
esty’s minister at Pekin saying that
Mr. Mortimer, a member of the British
legation, on returning home with a
lady, was insulted and attacked by a
mob, which stoned him and covored
him with mud. , . ■.
Later in the day, the dispatch adds,
some American missionaries were sim
ilarly attacked, as was the Chinese
secretary of the United States lega
tion. The latter’s ribs were broken.
Sir Claude McDonald, the British
minister at Pekin, reports that there is
a dangerous feeling abroad.
StopB have been taken to call the
attenion of the Chinese government to
these outrages.
YELLOW FEVER SPREADS.
President Souchnn. of Louisiana Board of
Healths Mokes Report.
Dr. Sonchon, of the Louisiana state
board of health, reports as follows:
New Orleans—Five cases, one death.
Harveys Canal—Three cases, three
deaths. a
Baton Rouge—Two oases, no deaths.
Franklin—Niue cases, no deaths.
Wilson—Nine cases, one death.
One case has been reported in St.
James parish.
Recapitulation to October 1st:
New Orleans—Thirty-three cases, si*
deaths.
Harveys Canal—Fourteen oases,
three deaths.
Wilson—Fifty cases, one death,
franklin—One hundred and seven
ty-two caBes, five deaths.
Baton Rouge—Three oases, no
deaths.
• Houma—Two cases, no deaths.
Clinton—Two cases, no deaths.
Plaquemine—One caBe, no death.
DeLogny—One case, no death.
The board of health is daily apprised
of all sorts of rumors concerning the
health of the city. Several rumors
were run down and denied, and as for
the rest, tne official report iB the an
swer. '
AGUINALBO SPEAKS.
SHAFTED SCORES THE PRESS.
The Philippine Insurgent's Remarks
Cense Comment.
There is considerable comment in
Manila upon Aguinaldo’s speech at
MaloloB a few days ago. The keynote
was the independence of the Philippine
islands. During the course of his re
marks Agninaldo said:
"Our friends, the Americans, came
for the purpose of demonstrating the
generosity and grandeur of their gov
ernment, and to assist in releasing the
people from slavery without annexing
the islands, thns setting a good exam
ple. We now understand and appre
ciate the famous Monroe dootrine of
‘America for Americans,’ and justice
demands that they add, ‘the Philippines
for the FiliDinos.' "
HAY’S SEW ASSISTANT.
Oeeerel leys Newspaper Article. About
■tm Are Outrageous Lire.
I* • letter to Postmaster Wills, of
Nashville. Tenn., General Shatter
says:
"The attacks of the yellow press up
on me and others of the administration
are simply outrageous. The artiole of
Davis, in the Harpers, is filled with
untruths, beginning with the one that
I was responsible for the equipment
of the army with Springfield rifles,
which you and every other sensible
man knows is a lie. The behavior of
some of the yellow journals was so
outrageous before we even got into
Cuba that I had to put my hand on
them, and after we got into Cuba it
was worse. Their letters are the re
sult of personal spite. If I had come
baok with a defeated army there might
have been some exouse for their talk,
but having commanded one of the
most successful campaigns of modern
military history, it is simply an out
rage.
“I am very fond of Evans, pension
commissioner, and am very glad that
you are defending him. Some of the
Grand Army of the Bepublio men are
simply unbearable and seem to think
if they can’t have the treasury turned
open to them they are being defrauded.
Very trujy yours,
"William R. Shafteb."
Dr. D. J. Hill, of Rochester, Appointed
By the President.
President McKinley has appointed
Dr. David J. Hill, of Rochester, first
assistant secretary of state tq sucoeed
John Bassett Moore, resigned. Dr.
Hill is president of the Rochester
University, is a scholarly gentlema n
and is particularly known through his
knowledge of international law.
He lias takon a prominent part in
New York politics and has delivered
many public addresses during recent
campaigns. He is now in Holland,
but is expected to return at once, hav
ing accepted the position tendered.
HEN. UORDON TALKS.
Says That No One Ie Eligible to Bear
Mice Davie' Title.
General John B. Gordon, command
er-in-chief of the United Confederate
Veterans was shown the Associated
Press dispatch from Chicago in whioh
Miss Lucy Lee Hill claims to have had
the title of "Daughter of the Confed
eracy” conferred upon her by her
southern friends since the death of
Winnie Davis. The general was asked
if the title conld be thus transferred,
and replied with great earnestness:
"Emphatically no. Miss Winnie
was the only daughter of President
Davis born in the confederate 'white
house’ during the life of the confeder
acy. As Jefferson Davis was the only
president of the confederate govern
ment, no daughter of any offloial
could trujy represent the oonfedoraey.
For that reason it would not bo ap
propriate to call even the daughter of
Robert E. Lee the 'Daughter of the
Confederacy.’ To designate any one
else as ‘Daughter of the Confederacy'
would not only be 'inappropriate and
meaningless, but woald deprive the
title of all its value.”
HAV TAKEN THE OATH.
New Secretary of Htnte Is Formally Ii
stalled In Office.
Colonel John Hay was sworn int
office as secretary of state at Washing
ton Friday morning. The ceremon;
took plaoe in the president’s room a
the white honse and the oath was ad
ministered by Justice Harlan, of the
supreme oourt. Mr. Hay immediately
joined his colleagues in the regular
Friday oabinet session.
On leaving the white house Mr. Hay
went to the department of state and
entered actively into the discharge of
the duties of his new office. During
the afternoon he reoeived the heads of
bureaus, clerks and other employes of
the department, in many eases renew-
leg acquaintances formed when he
was asBistaut seoretary of state many
years ago. Although no appointment
has yet been'made, it seems to be set
tled that Mr. Spenoer Eddy, who was
Mr. Hay’s Beoretary in London, will
be his private seoretary in the state
department.
NOMINATE HENRY GEORGE.
SOOTH GETS ARMY CAMPS.
■ORB SOLDIERS ARE DESIGNATED
FOB PORTO RICO.
TO EMBARK AT AN EARLY DATE.
■lata of Georgia acts Nm Camps, South
Carolina Thraa White Other Mate*
Will Not Ba Ovarlookad.
Chicago Platform Democrats of New York
Formulate a Tleket.
At a meeting of the Chicago platform
democrats at New York Friday night
Henry George, the son of the single
tax advocate, was nominated to head
an independent democratic ticket. The
nomination of Elliott F. Danforth foi
lieutenant governor by the regular
democratic convention at Syraouae wa
indorsed. The other candidates non?
inated are aa follows:
Beoretary of State—Gideon Tuokei
Comptroller—J. McDonough, A1
bany.
Treasurer—M. 0. Caton, of Buffalo
Attorney General—Ole F. Snider,
Buffalo.
Engineer and Surveyor—General
James A. Lee, Rockland county.
The Chicago platform in its entirety
was reaffirmed.
MANY SICK AT PONCE.
Twenty-Fine Per Cent of Oar Troop* In
Porto Hlco Are Invalid*.
A special from Ponce, Porto Rico,
says: It is the well grounded and
almost unanimous opiniou of the med
ical staff of the American army in
Porto Rico that the condition of the
volunteer forces here necessitates their
removal north.
Sickness is increasing and has been
increasing during the past three weeks
at an alarming rate. Today the sick
report 3hows over 2,700 in hospitals
or in quarters out of a total command
of 10,000 men, that is over 25 per cent
of the troefs on the Biek list
A Washington speoial of Monday
says: The war department has decided
to send more troops to Porto Rico.
Orders have been issued directing
that the Fifth regular cavalry now at
Huntsville, Ala., the United States
volunteer infantry, now at Chioka-
mauga, and the Forty-seventh New
York, now at Fort Adams, shall pro
ceed to such point in Porto Rico as
may be desired by the commanding
general in that island.
The Eighth United States volunteer
infantry and two companies of the In
diana colored volunteers now at Fort
Thomas, Ky., will relieve the Sixth
volunteer infantry at Chickamanga.
All the troops at Camp Meade will
soon be ordered to points in tlio south.
Some of them may go to Cuba, but
the majority will for the present occupy
the new camps recently solectod in
Georgia and South Carolina.
Southern Army Camps.
The department has accepted army
camps at the following placos in Geor
gia: Atlanta, Augusta, Athens, Albany,
Americns, Columbus and Macon.
Camps will bo established in South
Carolina at the following placos: Co
lumbia, Greeuville, Spartanburg.
The revised order for southern
camps in which Atlanta, Albany and
Columbus, Ga., was Included, was
issued at 9 o’clook Saturday night.
It is thought that troops sent to gar
rison duty in Cuba will not remain
loug, but when they havo seen service
for a few montha will return to this
country. The same is probably true
as to Porto Rico. It is also intimated
that when the troops return the volun
teers will bo given sixty days’ furlough
and be mustered out. By that time
congress will have an opportunity to
determine what shall be done in re
gard to gorriaoning the new posses
sions.
This determination ia no doubt due
to the pressure that has been brought
by members of congress for the mus
tering out of the volunteers from their
states and districts.
The responsibility for furnishing
the troops for garrison duty and for
army .duty generally will be upon con
gress. The recommendations of the
president and the war department will
have been made before the return of
the troops from either Cuba or Porto
Rico and the necessities of the oase
made known.
CHAPLAIN M’INTYKE’S PLEA.
SOUTHERN PEACE JUBILEE.
MoT.rn.Rl SltriRd to Hold m O.UbnMn
In Atlanta, Qt.
Atlanta, Ga., and the south is to
have a Peace Jubilee. The oelebra-
tiou of the cessation of hostilities and
of the glorious victory of the United
States in its recent encounter with
Spain has led to a period of rajoioing
throughout the country which has
erystalixed in oelebrationa that have
been held in New York and Washing
ton and are to be held in Philadelphia,
Chicago and Boston.
The fact that the southern states
contributed as much as any other sec
tion of the country to the magnificent
verdict of the wnr has led to a con
siderable discussion as to what the
south ought to do in commemoration
of the war’s results, aDd Atlanta has
led off with an invitation for every
other city of the south to join’her iu a
jubilation of poace.
At an informal conference of promi
nent citizens held Monday it was de
cided to inaugurate at once a move-
meat to this ond. Mayor Collier was
asked to appoint a preliminary com
mittee of arrangements, whose duty it
will be to map out roughly the scope
of the celebration, and then sub-oom-
mittees will ho selected to work out
the details. The mayor enterod heart
ily iDto the spirit of the snggestiou,
aud promised to give it his immediate
and careful consideration. The fact
that Atlantn is tho only big city in.the
south to t.Bc up the matter was iu
itself an iuspiratiou which enthused
nil those present at tho briaf confer
ence.
It is expected that a date can bo
fixed at which tho troops to be located
in Atlauin will be able to tnko part iu
the ceremony. General Fitshugh Lee,
who is to be one of the guests of
honor, will leavo for Cuba on Novem
ber 5tb, and, consequently, the date
selected will bo aa earlier one ou
which his attendance can be seeurod.
General Joe Wheeler has already
promised to be on baud, and an earnest
effort will be made to get President
McKinley and his cabiuet to be pres
ent.
PROHIBITION VOTE REDUCED.
Preacher Declare* That He Wa* Irrespon
sible at Time of HI* Lecture.
At Monday’s session of the oonrt-
martial trial at Denver of Rev. Joseph
McIntyre, of the battleship Oregon,
for sensational charges against brother
officers of the navy in a lecture deliv
ered in Denver on August 8th, the
chaplain .went on the stand in his own
defense.
His testimony is intended to estab
lish a plea of irresponsibility for his
utterances on the oocasion.
In a straightforward, simple, yet
graphio manner, he told the story of
the Oregon’s wonderful trip from San
Francisco around Cope Horn; of the
terrible heat and cold passed through;
of the nervous strain which the con
stant dread of meeting the enemy
caused; of the excitement of the
blockade and the great battle of July
3d, followed by a nervous collapse on
the part of the narrator.
He told how, after he reached Den
ver in hia weakened condition, he re
peatedly refused to lectnre, only con;
senting finally because hia effort
might be of benefit in a financial way
to the Young Men’s Christian associa
tion, himself declining to reoeive a
cent of the procoeds. He told how,
with racked brain, he stood before
his audience and then of his horror
next morning when he read the pub
lished report of what he had said. He
made no denials of the reports, saying
that he could not remember hia words.
He only knew what he intended to say.
YOUNG HOBSON SUSTAINED.
He Will De Given Encouragement In Ef
fort to Ral.e the Colou.
A Was.,..igton dispatch says: As
sistant Seoretary Allen, directly in
charge of the arrangements made for
raising such of the Spanish war ships
sunk or stranded in the battle of July
3d as cau be romoved, said Thursday,
referring to Constructor Hobson’s
work on the Teresa, that tho'navy de
partment had given the yonng con
structor all of the assistance which it
was possible to extend in the prosecu
tion of his work. Moreover, it is now
proposed to give him further aid in his
effort to raise the Colon, by far the
finest of the Spanish squadron.
Great Dissatisfaction In Queheo Over He-
•ult of Klectlon.
Advices from Quebec state that there
is great disaatiafactiou iu that city
over the result of the prohibition elec
tion held throughout the provinces of
Canada last week.
Although prohibition carried by
about 10,000 majority, there was a
great falling off in the prohibition
vote from that of several years ago,
when the anti-liquor people carried
the eleotion by nearly 100,000 ma
jority.
Iu Quebec public sentiment is op
posed to prohibition, and that prov
ince voted against it, aud there will bo
little change in tho liquor regulatious
of the city. There was great interost
manifested in the outcome of the elec
tion and the retnrns havo been closely
studied by tho Canadian people.
There will bo great difficulty in en
forcing the prohibition regulations by
reason of the scarcity of funds for the
purpose.
RICE CROi'S DAMAGED.
Grower* In South Carolina Lu«e Heavily
Through the Storm*.
A Charleston special says: Sunday’s
hurricane nnd the storm of two weeks
ago caused heavy losses to rice grow,
ers. Even tlio damage done by the
great storm of 1893 has boon exceeded.
It is variously estimated by the planters
and rice brokers that the loss will be
from 30 to 50 per cent. The damage
is entirely dne to the excessive high
tides and easterly winds that have
prevailed along the coast as a result of
the two stormB.
The tides have kept the water in the
fields for a week and the draina refuse
to draw. The Masterly wind serves to
keep the water backed np in the
streams. Breaks in the banks have
opeurred on the Pon Pou, Ashepoo
and Combahee rivers and these sec
tions have suffered most severely. In
some cases the entire crops in those
sections are lost.
CAMHON’S SUCCESSOR
Count d'AublRiiy XVIII Kepre.ent Franco
at Washington.
The Figaro (Paris) states that Connt
d’Aubigny, now French charge d’af
faires at Munich, will replace M.
Cambon as minister to tho United
States and that M. Cambon will go to
Madrid. These changes, the paper
says, wore decided upon at Monday's
cabinet meeting.
SPANIARDS ASK FOR TIME.
Peace Commissioner* Take Four Day* 1
Adjournment to near From Madrid.
A Paris spocial says: Monday's ses
sion of the American-Spanish peace
commission was short, and while it is
the general impression that the meet
ing was again devoted to preliminaries
and that the adjournment, which was
taken until Friday, was takon only to
enable the secretaries to draw up a
schedule of work, it . is stated that the
Americans have made a demand of
such chnrncter that the Spaniards
found it necessary to ask for an
adjournment in order to enable them
to conault the government at Madrid
Shipping «| F.mnndlna, Darien, Bruns
wick and Other Points, Damaged
Hy Hailing Element*.
A apeoial from Savannah saya:
Though the state of Florida i* still
cut off from telagraphio communication
and the trains are not even running
through many parts of the state, infor
mation was received from Fernandina
Tuesday that ahows how badly the
town suffered from tho effeota of the
high wind aud water that passed over
tho south Saturday night and Sunday
last.
The highest tide that ever rose at
Feruaudina was experienced Snnday.
Many homes were flooded over the
first floor and there was water in some
of tho stores as high sb the eonnters.
Evary wharf in Fernandina is swept
away aud all lumber and other staff
piled up on thorn is gone. There is
uot even ii pieco of piling loft.
Tho British steamship Gladiator is
aground at the foot of Centre street,
whore tho city wharf waa. ‘She ia a
wreck. The wreaking tug North
\merica, with tho three masted
schooner Ida E. Latham iB aground in
the marsh, 100 yards from high water
mark. The fonr masted schooners
Mary Dawo and Laura Anderson, in
the sound collided and both are dam
aged. The pilot boat Frances Eliza
beth lias a hole in its bottom nnd is
sunk. Several dredges and scows
were lost and an unknown sohooner is
aslioro in Cumberland sound. It has
gone to pieces. The crow is lost.
An unknown schooner is ashore on
Jeltyl island nnd is wrocked. The
whereabouts of the crew is unknown.
Tliore was no snch thing as a safe har
bor anchorage in tho vicinity of Fer-
nnmlina and practically all tho ship
ping in port is damaged. The quaran
tine station whs swept away entirely.
The orow at quarantine got.away on
n life boat and were saved. The other
deaths reported, exoept those of ships’
crow, as noted, ware those of two
children who lived in a small home
noar the water. Every member of the
family got away except two children.
At Old Town, near Fernandina, the
churches were all demolished. The
town is badly in need of assistance.
All the bonts belonging to tlio govern
ment at this point are lost, or is the
railroad elevator. Xll railroad tracks
are washed away.
Along Ike Georiln Const.
It is reported that Campbell island,
twelve miles from Darien, on the Al-
tamaba, was swept by water, and overy
man, woman. and child except three
were drowned.
The most reliable information to
date is that not less than twenty, and
perhaps fifty, people were on Camp
bell island. It is a truck growers’
island and inhabited by colored peo
ple.
The tug H. H. 0. Smith, which
renched Brunswick Monday night
from Fornaudina, roporta fifty people
drowned there. There are a number
of small islands at various points
around Brunswick, Fornapdina and
Darien, on which small groups of fam
ilies live. It will be some days before
reports from these arrive and a fairly
accurate total of the lives lost given.
At Darien the water is reported high
and the town badly damaged by the
storm. Information on this score U
meager, but considered reliable.
At Brnnswiok only fourth deaths, as
previously given out, are recorded.
Conservative men still hold that the
damage will be fully half a million
dollars. ThiB is based upon carefnl
surveys of tho flooded business aud
residence districts, docks and ship
ping.
A revised aud practically complete
list of damaged vessels in Brunswick
and vicinity has been made.
Not less than twenty vessels broke
from their moorings ond went adrift.
Homo of them were sunk, while others
were beachod and irreparably damaged.
In reply to questions he stated he
never heard of any shortage of com
missary or ordnance supplies at San
tiago, but be had been told that the
mcilical supplies were short, yet he
iasd no personal knowledge on this
point.
lteplying to a question from Colonel
Denby, General Wheeler said the reg
ulars had shown a greater ability to
take care of themselves than the vol
unteers.
Captain Howell asked to what he
attributed the developments of disease
after the capitulation of Santiago, and
General Wheeler replied that it was
due to the climate and to the exposure
made necessary. All tho men seemed
to bo more or less affected by the con
ditions.
He fuse, to Accept Nomination of Chlcega
Platform Democrat..
A New York dispatch says: Henry
George has declined the nomination
for govoruor on the tioket placed in
the field by the Chicago platform dem
ocrats anil the committee having au
thority to fill the vacancy uominated
Henry M. McDonald, of the county of
New York, for tho plaoe. Mr. George,
in his letter, says that by pursuing
uninterruptedly tho duty of writing
his father’s biography he can do more
for the principles of freedom tbau by
engaging actively in politics. ,
McDonald is a New York lawyer,
and was formerly a banker of Pierre,
H. D. He is president of the New
York Bi-Metallic association.
CALIFORNIA HAN CLAIM.
Mate Want, n100,000 For Property t ufa-
cd Over to the Gocerument.
A San Francisco dispatch says: Ad*
jutant General A. W. Barrett, of the
national guard, as the agent of Gov
ernor Build, will leave for Washington
in a few days to present to the sear*
tary of war a olaim for $100,000 on
behalf of the state for property turned
over to the government during the wo*
with Spain.
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