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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. DAHLONEOA, OA. A college education in the reach of all. A.B., II.h.. Normal and lluslrie** Man's course*. Good laboratories; healthful. Invigorating ell- nnte; military discipline; good moral and religion* influence*. Cheapest board in the State; abundance of country produce; ex petines from $75 to $150 a year; board iu dormitories or private families. Hpeclul license course for teacher*; full faculty of nine; all under the control of the University. A college prepar atory cla**. Co-education of sexes. TlaLlnstl- ■gjli' J ' ‘ . jg|.a of lint „ ?ntld... Jou. 8. Stewart, A.M. 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