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VOL. XXVIII-NO. 298
OUR ALANTA NEWS.
The Saying* and Doing* of the People’s
Servant*.
•labrsBCM Of Opinion Between the Two Hom.es.
A Senator Whose Handwriting Impedes I,egls-
lotion—Loral Items from the Uate City Tersely
Told.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1886.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Atlanta, December 14.—The finance
•ommittee reported adversely upon the
bill to repeal tne act establishing the school
of technology..
Mr. Harrell, of Webster, gave notice that
a minority report would be submitted ask
ing that the bill do pass.
Senate amendments to the general ap
propriation bill were next considered. The
amendment increasing the appropriation
for visiting the convict camps by the peni
tentiary officers from $800 to $1000 per an
num was not concurred in. The amend
ment to increase the salary of the clerk of
the railroad commission from $1200 to $1500
was not concurred in. The amendment
appropriating $150 to Jackson T. Tavlor
for indexes to journals of the present'sta
tion of the general assembly was not con
curred in. The amendment increasing the
appropriation for the lunatic asylum $SOOO
to get Detter water supply was adopted bv
substituting $3000. y y
The amendment to appropriate $100 to
bind the engrossed acts in the secretary of
state’s office was concurred in.
The amendment providing that so much
of the appropriation for the new capitol as
exceeded $180,000 per annum must come
from a surplus in the treasury was not con
curred in.
A joint committee was appointed to visit
the North Ueorgia Agricultural college at
Dahlonega and inspect the buildings.
The following bills were read and passed:
For the relief of H. J. Adams, treasurer
of the North Georgia conference, M. E.
chnrch south.
To amend the act fixing the fees of the
sheriff and jailer of Stewart countv for
dieting prisoners.
To incorporate the Merchants’ bank of
Rome.
On motion of Mr. Pittman, of Troup, a
senate amen -ment to the bill to incorpo
rate the Macon, Birmingham and La-
Grange railroad company, was concurred
in.
Mr. Atkinson, of Coweta, offered a reso- j
iution reciting allegations against the ad- j
ministration of affairs in the agricultural i
department, and providing for a joint com- I
mittee of five from the house and three
from the senate, to investigate the allega
tions. The resolution also empowered the !
committee to sit during the reces3. On
motion of Mr Simmons, of Sumter, the :
resolution was tabled.
At 1 o’clock the house adjourned.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon session of the house was I
principally occupied in reading bills the
third lime. The following were passed:
To amend the act establishing a city j
court in Muscogee county.
To submit to the voters of Macon the
proposed contract between the city and
(Be Macon Gas Light and Water company.
To amend the charter of the Macon Gas
Light company.
To incorporate the Elberton Loan and
Savings Bank company.
To Incorporate the Rome and North
eastern Railroad company.
To incorporate the Austel Insurance
Company and the Neal Loan and Banking
Cempany, of Atlanta.
To incorporate the State'Banking Com
pany, of Gainesville.
Th amend the charter of the Marietta
and North Georgia railroad.
The house voted to adhere to its non-
concurrence in the senate amendments to
the appropriation bill, and a committee of
conference was appointed.
The house adjourned at 5 o’clock.
Semite Proceedings.
Atlanta, December 14.—The senate was j
called to order at 10 o’clock, President
Davison in the chair. Prayer was offered
by the chaplain.
After roll call and the reading of the
journal standing committees on education,
special judiciary, banks and enrollment
submitted reports.
A message from the governor was re
ceived accompanying a sealed communica
tion, to be considered in executive session.
■ A message from the house was received
announcing concurrence by that body in
certain acts of the senate, and non-
concurrence in acertain amendment to the
bill to incorporate the Macon, LaGrange
and Birmingham Railroad company.
On motion of Mr. Jackson, the rules
were suspended and the bill refeired to
was taken up. . . ,
The senate voted to insist upon lis
amendment. (It is understood that the
house old not object to the amendment on
Its merits, but because they were unable to
decipher the handwriting of the honorable
senat >r who offered it.)
On motion of Mr. Powell, the rules were
suspended in order that all bills ready lor
a second reading might be taken up.
Reading bills a second time is about the
most uninteresting thing imaginable.
They are no longer new, nor are they
ready for passage, and during the hour oc
cupied in this uninteresting proceeding tne
senators answered their correspondence,
read the papers, or withdrew into the com
mittee or cloak rooms.
On motion of Mr. Powell the general tax
bill was taken up and read the second time
and recommitted.
BILLS PASSED.
On motion of Mr. Powell bills for a third
reading were taken up and disposed oi as
follows^ ^ regulate the registration of
voters in Greene county.P as8 'r. d ■ .
A bill to incorporate the At,a “^ and
Edgewood Street Railroad Company.
Passed*!! to incorporate the Commercial
Telegraph Company. Passed.
A bill to repeal an act consohdating cer
tain county offices iu Oconee county.
Passed^ wag received from the house
announcing that they had reeeded irom
their action and had concurred in the sen
ate amendment to the bib
the Macon, LaGrange and Birmingham
railroad company; also, that the ho us
had refused to concur in certam senate
amendments to the appropriation bill,
motion of Mr. Butt the senate took up the
appropriation bill and ‘“fisted upon its
amendments to same, and ° rdered
notice of their action be at once transmit
ted to the house. .
On motion of Mr. Peek the senate went
into executive session, and confirmed t
following appointments by the goi ern .
Hon. Howell Cobb, judge of city court m
Clarke county, for four years from beptem
e Hon. Richard M. Jackson to be judge of
Oconee county court for four years lr
November 18, 1887. „ . .. . . 11q
Under a suspension of the rules the ml
to incorporate the Athens and
railroad company, and the bank oi Lumi
kin, were read the second time.
Adjourned at 1:10 p. in.
The Coopers Strike.
3tS5 NCINNATI ’ .December U.-Elevon hun
dred coopers in this city and Riverside
stopped work to-day because the proprie-
n/r,.,i I US ^ t0 sip L n the scale <»f uriees pre-
pared by the workmen. The scale is very
rjjl* P x * n £ Prices for all classes of work,
«UoorH I f and u that a day ’ 8 work shall not
mcceed ten hours, including lunch time,'
with an hour off on Saturday without loss
of pay. Efforts have been made during
the past two weeks to reach an agreement,
hut all have failed.
They Snatched a Body That Wasn’t Dead.
Baltimore, December 14.—The grand
jury to-day found bills of Indictment against
Anderson Perry, JohnT. Ross and Albert
Hawkins, all colored, for the murder of
Emily Brown oil Friday last, aud whose
body they sold to the Maryland university
tor dissecting purposes. They each pleaded
not guilty. It is the intention of the state
to go to trial early in the January term in
the criminal court.
They Worn Hurried Folks.
Cleveland, Ohio, December 14.—Au
gust Debdke to-day sought a reconciliation
with his wife, whom he had deserted. She
rejected his overtures and he beat her over
the head with a hammer until he supposed
her dead. He then out his own throat ef
fectually and separated the arteries in his
wrists and died. His wife will probably
recover.
President Cleveland's New Batch of Nom
inations.
■ r. Mnrrlion Waal* to ilrarli Kcsenue Legislation.
• a Railway Trying lo (let Through the Tellow
Stone National Fork—Various Points from the
Nation's Capital.
ON CHANGE.
A liny of Fluctuation and Comparative Quiet.
New York, December 14.—The stock
market gave promise of some Improvement
in the early hours, but was feverish and un
settled to a large extent, although quota
tions advanced later. The bidding up of
money to an extremely high rate offered
another opportunity to the bears to vigor
ously raid prices, and a decided slump
bordering on a panic was the effect. In
last hour the uusettled condition of New
England kept the market feverish and ir
regular when it would otherwise have
been firm to strong. Southern specialties
by enormous declines, coupled with selling
of New England, were the principal feat
ures of afternoon trading. The favorable
factor iu the situation was the buying for
foreign account) which was specially no
ticeable in the forenoon, and the further
drop in rates for sterling exchange. All
such influence, however, counted for
naught in the rush to sell in the afternoon.
In the morning there was some improve
ment. in Jersey Central on the announce
ment that the Baltimore and Oiiio was
now using the road under contract, and
the stock bought by foreign people were
prominently strong, including Reading,
Erie and Louisville and Nashville. Boston
parties threw New England upon the
market iu large amounts when it
became apparent that the control
would pass into tho hands of New York
parties. At the same time advantage was
taken of the absence of the principal sup
porters of the stock by bears, and room
traders to hammer it vigorously, resulting
in a break of over 6 percent. The opening
was active and strong, although there was
an absence of the usual result at that time
of the day. The advance over last even
ing's final figures ranged from 4 to 6 per
cent., though a few stock* showed
slight declines. After some slight
hesitation an advance occurred covering
the greater part of the first hour. New
England broke badly, however, and in
many cases under its influence early gains
were lo3t. Toward noon the upward
movement resumed, and at that time frac
tional advances were general throughout
the list. In the afternoon, however, a gen
eral decline took place, southern stocks
leading, which was checked before 2
p. m. A fractional rally . was
followed by a renewed weakness
and in the last hour declined. About one-
third of the day’s business was trausacted
in the last fifteen minutes, and the market
closed very active and weak at the lowest
prices of the day. The sales of stocks were
576,000 shares. Closing prices again show
material declines throughout, and Chatta
nooga leads with a decline of 22! per cent.,
Tennessee Coal 22, New England 6L Nor
folk and Western preferred 32, Louisville
and Nashville 3|, West Point 34, Canada
Southern 2jj, Lackawanna 21, Reading 2
and others smaller amounts.
OVER THE WATERY WASTE.
.Hr. IllUmi Pleads His Own Case onil (lives Heavy
HiiiiiI for Good Behavior.
Dublin, December 14.—John Dillon ap
peared for himself to-day in the action
brought by the government against him
for agitating in favor of the plan of cam
paign. In his address to the court, Dillon
contended ttiat the language he used in the
speech selected as the basis ot prosecution
was justifiable, and that the crown was
straining the law against him. The judge
declared that the plan of campaign was
clearly and absolutely illegal. He ordered
Dillon to give a personal bond in the sum
of £1000. with two sureties for £1000 each,
for good behaviour in the future, within
twelve days, or go to prison for six months.
France.
THEY PASSED THE BUDGET.
Paris, December 14.—The chamber of
deputies to-day, by a vote of 508 to 12,
passed the provisional budget for two
months, asked for by the new government,
and not for two departments of the gov
ernment as heretofore stated.
England.
REDUCING THE ARMY IN EGYPT.
London, December 14.—England has
decided to reduce the Egyptian standing
armv to 10,000 men and the army of occu
pation to 3000, thus largely reducing the
cost of armament to the Egyptian govern
ment. r
Awful Italians l'hoy Are.
Auburn, N. Y., December 14.—The six
Italians who assaulted four white laborers
at Port Byron yesterday, are sate in
Auburn jail. Lester Burgess, one of the
victims, who was stabbed three times and
had his skull fractured, died in a few
hours. Captain Pratt and Henry Dayhars,
who received terrrible knife wounds, are
not expected to survive.
A Boiler Explosion.
Evansville, Ind., December 14.-A dis
astrous boiler explosion occurred this fore
noon at Charles Hofferburth’s extensive
saw mill, in the western suburbs of this
citv Three forty-foot boilers exploded,
wrecking the mill, killing one man and
wounding seven, ail employes. Lorty-one
men were working in the mill. The ex
plosion was terrific. < m .
All Oily Drummer Oral)lie*.
Philadelphia, Pa., December 14—A
grocery salesman was held in $1000 bail by
United States Commissioner Bell to-day
on four charges of selling oleomargarine
which was not marked us prescribed by
Huston Goes Beiiinrructtc.
Boston, December 14.-Ufie city vote for
mayor with two precincts missing gives
Obevan .democrat! 22,883, Hart (republi-
| can) 18,174, McNeill (labor; 3u72.
Washington, December 14.—Among
the memorials presented in the senate was
one by Mr. Spooner, from the German Aid
society of Wisconsin, expressing the idea
that there was no further necessity for
stimulating immigration to this country,
and that no satisfactory reason cau be as
signed for allowing foreigners to vote and
hold office after one year’s residence and
before they are naturalized, and suggesting
the enactment of laws making naturaliza
tion and suffrage conform to a uniform
standard. It was referred.
On motion of Mr. Hoar, the house
amendments to the electoral count bill
were non-conourred in, and the conference
asked that Senators Hour, Edmunds and
Pugh be appointed conferees on the part
of the senate.
Mr. Morrell, from the committee on
finance, reported back favorably the bill
for the retirement and recoinage of the
trade dollar. Calendar. The senate then
took up the bill repealing the tenure of of
fice law.
Mr. Edmunds opposed the bill. The law
had been In existence nearly twenty
years. President Johnson (to restrain
whom it was enacted) obeyed it, although
he believed it unconstitutional, and all his
successors recognized Its validity as aguide
and restraint. This bill was brought for
ward apparently to aid their friends on the
other side, and to relieve the president of
the difficulties and embarrassments now
attending removals and suspensions. It
was an invitation to him to make short
work of the whole civil service business
and expel from office at once all officers
who are within purveyance of the statue.
Mr. Hoar advocated the passage of the
bill. It had been reported from the judi
ciary committee at the last Bession, but on
account of the controversy then existing
with the president on the subject of offices
he had deemed it proper to ask the senate
not to act upon .it., hut as that
question had subsided, he now
deemed it proper to ask the senate to vote
I whether it would return to the ancient
j policy of the government lo rule, which
* had existed from 1789 to 1867 and which
(notwithstanding the condition of the stat
ute hooks) had practically existed since the
accession to power of General Grant in
March, 1869. President Grant had recom
mended its repeal, so that he (Hoar) was
acting under pretty substantial republican
authority in trying to get rid of this legis
lation. It seemed to him to be totally in
consistent with the constitutional theory
of the government for the president,
in whom executive power was
expressly lodged by the constitution to be
compelled to answer to that responsibility
when instruments were forced upon him
against his will, or in whom he had no
confidence. While expressing himself in
full sympathy with the principles of civil
service reform he still declared bis convolu
tion that the people of the United States
expected and demanded that no man
should be kept in any executive employ
ment who had not the confidence of tbe
person responsible for tho success of these
executive functions.
Executive seasion and adjourned.
The House.
Washington, December 14. — The
speaker laid before the house a letter from
the secretary of the treasury submitting
the book of estimates for the fiscal year
1888.
Mr. Herbert, chairman of the committee
on naval affairs, called attention to a dis
pute which had arisen between that com
mittee and the committee on appropria
tions as to which bad jurisdiction over the
estimates for navy yards and stations and
the new naval observatory. After fully
examining the question he had come to
the conclusion that the position taken by
him on Saturday, that the estimates were
within the jurisdiction of the appropria
tion committee was erroneous, and he
offerred a resolution referring to the com
mittee on naval affairs so much of the
book of estimates as had reference to those
objects.
The speaker called attention to the fact
that Mr. Herbert’s resolution disposed of
only a small part of the book of estimates,
and on motion of Mr. Blount, the resolu
tion and book of estimates were referred
to the committee on rules in order to en
able that committee to report a resolution
for the distribution of the estimates.
On motion of Mr. Cabel, of Virginia, the
bill was passed appropriating $10,000 for
gruding and paving the approaches to the
national cemetery uear Danville, Va.
A hill was reported from tho public
building committee for repairing the pub
lic building at Charleston. 8. C.
Iu the morning hour, Mr. Payson, of
Illinois, on behalf of the committee on
public lauds, called up the bill granting to
the Cinnabar and Clark’s Fork railroad
company the right of way through the
nortnern portion of the Yellowstone park
in Montana. After a long debate,in which
strong objection was shown to this enter
ing wedge, which might cause the ulti
mate destruction of the park, as the hill
was being considered in the committee of
the whole, Mr. Cox moved to strike out the
enacting clauses. This was agreed to by a
vote of 107 to 65. But before action gpis
taken by the house the morning hour ex
pired.
Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, said that in
view of the absence of several members he
desired to give notice that on Saturday
next he would move that the house go
into a committee of the whole on the rev
enue bills. The house then went into a
committee of the whole on the sundry
civil appropriation bill.
The bill was read by paragraphs for
amendments. On motion of Mr.
I McComas, of Maryland, the item for the
1 Baltimore postofflee building was in-
: creased from $100,009 to $287,000.
j On motion of Mr. Dougherty, of Florida,
! an amendment was adopted, increasing
I from $50;000 to $70,000 the appropriation
I for a public building at Jacksonville,
! Florida. Several similar amendments
! were adopted increasing items for public
buildings in the north and west. The
committee then rose and the house
adjourned.
Taking op the Trade hollar hjr the Ear.
Washington, Deeember 14.—The senate
committee on finance, this morning order-
j ed a favorable report on the hill for the
redemption and reeoinage of the trade
1 dollar, with amendments providing that
i the amount to be redeemed shall not ex-
| ceed $.500,090 monthly, and that it shail be
j counted as a part of the monthly purchase
of bullion for the mint.
Prcuhleiitiiil Appointments.
, Washington, December 14.—Tbe presi-
j dent to-day nominated to ho collectors of
customs: Peter F. Cogbull, district of
I Petersburg, Va.; Jito. F. Wheaton, district
j of Savannah, G.i.; Edward Hoplcings, dis-
| trict of Saint Johns, Fia.; Cooley Mann,
district of Vicksburg, MisB.: surveyor of
customs, James F. Tobin, port of Memphis;
Lawrence N. Buford, of Mississippi, to be
deputy fourth auditor of tho treasury;
Hugh A. Haralson, of Georgia, deputy
auditor of the treasury for the post office
department. Postmasters: Mrs. Blanche
C. Law, Darlington, 8. Cg Mary Sue Du
bois, Marlon C. H., 8. C.: Daniel W. Stan
ley, Bartow, Fla.; Kittle llostwick, Wes
son, Miss. ^_■
A III* Fire.
St. Louis, December 14.—A special to
the Post-Dispatch from Poplar Bluff, Mo.,
reports the destruction of tne county court
house and the partial destruction of the
county jail. The county records were
saved. The prisoners had to be removed
from tho jail atone time, but were returned
to the cells after the fire was quenched,
Loss $46,000.
A Maryland (’onmigration.
Baltimore, December 14.—A fire last,
night destroyed a large burn and sevorul
outhouses on the farm of Moses Fox, about
nine miles east of this city. Sovonty-ttvo
head of cattle were burned to death. Val
uable machinery was also destroyed. The
loss is estimated at $30,000, partially in
sured.
BEATEN BY A BRUTE.
Colonrl (liovcs Is Assaulted By Mayor Perry, of
Greenville. Ala.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.
Montgomery, Ala., December 14.—A
disgraceful affair occurred at Greenville, a
town fifty miles south of this place, this
morning. The people held a liquor elect ion
there yesterday and the auti-prohlbitiou-
ists won by a small majority.
Some weeks ago, by invitation of the
best people of the town, Messrs. Chcves
aud Beauchamp, 4wo prominent temper
ance lecturers of Kentucky und Georgia,
went down and entered the prohibition
fight. About daylight this morning the
lecturers weut to the depot to leave for
their respective homes. Col. Chcves was
attucked and brutally assaulted by the
mayor of Greenville, J. T. Perry, and a
crowd of whisky men and roughs.
A gentleman, who wus an eye-witness to
the difficulty, staled tbe troublo to your
correspondent as follows : Yesterday Col.
Clieves said, someth!ug in his speech which
offended Mayor Perry, though tin one
knew that the mayor’s feelings had been
ruffled at the time. This morning, about 6
o’clock, while Col. Chcves and Mr. Beau
champ were waiting at the depot for the
northbound passenger train Mayor Perry,
tile city marshal and several whisky men
attacked Col. Cheves with clubs and brass
knucks. I have no doubt that Cheves
would have been brutally murdered had not
tile approaching train compelled Mayor
Perry to get out of the wuy. Perry had
knocked him down on the track with
brass knucks and continued to pound him
for several minutes. Beauchamp had
drawn his pistol to shoot Perry, and had
not the conductor interferred he would
have killed the enraged mayor. Col. Cheves
was helped on the train,
accompanied by Beauchamp, and reached
Montgomery early this morning, beaten
up and covered with blood. Beuucliamp
went 6n to Troy, where -ho will fill uu en
gagement to-night, and Col. Cheves re-
turned to Greenville by tbe next-train, and
swears that justice shall be done him.
To-day Gov. Seay granted a respite to
Jim Miller, a negro sentenced to be hung
in Choctaw county next Friday for mur
der. He is respited until tbe 14th of Jan
uary.
The Mayor KuKliun of Greenville, Alabama.
By Associated Press.
Montgomery, Ala., December 14.—A
special to the Advertiser from Greenville
says, the local election for prohibition in
Greenville yesterday resulted in a victory
for the liquor men. For a week or more,
Messrs. Cheves and Beaucamp, temper
ance lecturers from Kentucky, were en
gaged in the campaign. This morning as
Cheves alighted from a hack at the
depot to take the north hound train,
J. D. Perry, mayor of the city, assaulted
him, beating him violently over the head.
Cheves was finally rescued, and is now in
cure of physicians. Ilis skull has two holes
in it, aud there are other bruises on his
person. Mayor Perry was on tne liquor
side in the contest, and claims that Cheves
insulted him in some speeches made lust
week. The mayor has uot been arrested.
THE EARTHQUAKE SUFFERERS.
The Relief Committee Makes a Guuil Slum Inn of
IVork.
Charleston, December 14.—At a meet
ing of the city council to-, ight Mayor
Courtenay submitted the preliminary re
port of the executive relief committee,
showing that the total amount of $634,258
was received by them for sufferers by the
earthquake, and that tho disbursements
amounted to $148,119. The report says :
“The committee will have repaired in
all about 1850 houses out of a total number
ot' over 70(10 in the city, at an average cost
of about $250 each (not including over 100
houses at Mount Pleasant uml in the vicini
ty of the city, aud not including contribu
tions, amounting to $20,733, sent to the
Summerville committee.) Of the balance
of $186)139 the committee will reserve $86,-
139 us m their opinion an ample sum for
tho plastering and closing up of the unfin
ished business of house repairs, and will
make a special deposit with the city treas
urer of tbe sum of $100,000 to be applied to
the rebuilding of tbe city hospitals aud
alms house, repairs of the public school
buildings, orphan house, old folks’ home
and other charity expenditures for the
[ poor. They would remark that this dis
position of a portion of the contributions
; sent to Charleston is in consonance
with the wishes of the donors expressed
i by them in letters to Mayor Courteny.
I No better use could he made of this sum of
money and none which would be more
| satisfyiugto the donors everywhere than to
! replace the wrecked buildings necessary
| for the comfort and care of the needy,
' sick and poor, and thus make a permanent
] memorial of the munificent giving of the
j American people in this our year of great
calamity. With tho committee’s re-
1 port, are tables showing receipts
from different states and cities.
These are, however, necessarily
incomplete, and do not include donations
received by tbe relief committee appointed
immediately after the earthquake nor the
receipts by individuals for reliqf purposes,
and by charitable organizations. The
News and Courier estimates that the total
subscription to earthquake relief fund w ill
I amount to about $115,000; leaving a loss of
over 65,500,000 by the earthquake of 1886,
I aud the cyclone of August 1885 to he borne
| by individuals, corporations and the gov-
| ernment.
Oiii' Hull) Found.
St. Louis, Mo., December 14.—A body of
! one ol tbe Shopleigh Cantwell company
I employes was found in the debris of the
1 burned steamer last night. It wus that of
! Arthur W. Palmer, a clerk. It was almost
1 consumed, only a portion remaining; but
j enough of the clothing remained to blenti-
I fy him. Molin, the missing porter, has not
been found.
sim Lire m lost.
Burning of the Great Steamer J. W.
White on the Mississippi.
A Heartrending Story tf llleanter and Heat h.
Kereaminit Women ami Children Are Hushed by
the Flames—An Accident Unequaled In Many n
Day.
Memphis, December 14.—It is currently
reported here that the elegant steamer
J. M. White, running between Vicksburg
and New Orleans, waB burned at an early
hour this morning near Baton Rouge, La.,
and that fifty lives were lost.
11:66 A. M.—The loss of the steamer J.
M. White has been confirmed. She burn
ed to the water’s edge at 11 o’clock last
night while lying ut the hank near Bayou
Sara, Lousiaua. About sixty lives were
lost, consisting largely of women aud
children. Nearly all the crew wore saved.
Among tho passengers reported lost is the
superintendent of tho Vldolia railroad at
Natchez, who together with his wife and
children perished in tho disaster. The
books of the boat were lost. These mea
gre details were received hero over tho
wires of tho Louisville, New Orleans and
Texas railroad.
Tiie J. M. White was the finest steamer
on the Mississippi river. She was e» route
to New Orleans, and had a cargo of cotton
on board estimated at not less than 2000
bales.
Surviving passengers and tho crew were
conveyed to New Orleans this morning.
New Orleans, December 14.—Several
survivors of the disaster reached this city
to-day by the Mississippi Valley railroad
from Baton Rouge. They had been taken
to that point by the steamer Stella Wilde,
which came along soon after the destruc
tion of the White. Col. S. L. James, a pas
senger who was in his state room, managed
to get. ashore. He was taken to his home,
No. 277 Prytania street, on his arrival,
where he is now in a critical condition.
He stated that the sight was hor
rifying) and could not be described.
Colonel James positively declared that
there muhI have been sixty persons lost.
William McGreery, chief engineer of the
boat, says:
“About, 10:10 o’clock lost night while ly
ing in Doctor Fratt’s place above post
office landing at Point Coupe, at which
place the boat was loading cotton seed, a
fire broke out amidship between the en
gines on top of the cotton below the hoilor
deck. Engineers Rorry and Gently were
on watch and gave the alarm, and l iio
pumps were put to work, but without
avail. The watchman gave tho alarm by
ringing the bell. Clerks Callahan and
Bell aroused the people in the cabin. Tho
fire spread rapidly, and in less than fifteen
minutes the boat had burned to the water’s
edge. There were four kegs of powder in
the magazine, and the moment the fire
reached them the flames shot about 100
feet high. The sight was
the most heartrending ever wit
nessed.
The shrieking of women and children
for help was awful. Ho saw the superin
tendent of the Vidalia railroad, standing
aft of the ladies’ cabin, throw liis lit lie
daughters into the water. Ho stood there
and burned to death with his wife. There
were in the cabin nine lady passengers and
about eight men. At New Texas twenty
deck passengers were taken on
board; all are supposed to he
lost. It is learned that Andrew Pierce, a
sailor, and Antonio Rehuttu. a fireman,
are tne ones to whom nil tho credit of
saving the survivors is due. All of the
officers and nearly all of the crow escaped.
Four or five of the cabin crew only are
known to ho lost. No authenticated list
of the lives lost can be made. The names
of those given are personally known to
some of the survivors.
The States has the following account
gathered from the officers and crew: They
had innded to take on a pile of cotton seed,
and there were between thirty five und
forty roustabouts engaged in Hie work,
when precisely at 10:16 o’clock everybody
was startled by the ringing of the hell by
the watchman, Tom Muller. Immediately
after the cry of “fire” was token up by
twenty voices. In an instant the direst
confusion reigned. Men darted to and fro,
and the work of arousing the sleeping pas
sengers was begun. The fire was discovered
by Thomas Barry, second engineer, who,
with his partner, Stephen Jammy, was on
watch at the time. The first intimation he
had of the fire was a small light on top of
a row of cotton bales amidship, which
greatly resembled the flame of a lantern.
Barry left his post to investigate, and was
astonished to discover that tile light was
caused by a hale of cotton briskly burning.
He gave the alarm,his voice ringing through
the deck room of the vessel. Watchman
Muller took in the situation at once, ami
I rang the huge bell located on the second
deck. Muller stood at bis post ringing the
bell until he wus forced to retreat by the
fast encroaching flames. The noise of the
clanging hell aroused Wm. MeGreevy,
chief engineer, who was nsieep in the
texas. He sprang out of bed and groped
his way through tho smoke to wake up his
partner, John Pali osier, second assistant
engineer, who was asleep in the forward
part of tho “texas.” About midway he me
Pallasierwho had also been aroused by
the bell and was on his way to hunt for
MoGreevy. The two men then looked as
best they could through stifling smoke for
others who slept in the “texaH,” but not
seeing any one and believing that all but
themselves hodileft, they crawled out on
the hurricane deck and were compelled to
climb down on one of tho staneheons to
right side of the boat whence they got
oil shore. In the meantime two
streams of water were brought to play on
the fire, hut the heavy black volumes of
smoke drove the engineers back. They
fought the flames step by step, hut were
at last forced to
DROP THE HOSE AND SAVE THEMSELVES.
! The tire burned with frightful rapidity and
j in Jess time than it takes to tel) it the en
tire left side of the boat was a mass of
j flames. Tiie fire soon caught the railing
| of the cabin deck, and before assistance
was to be hail the boat looked
; as if she was encircled by a
I stream of fire. The crackling of flames
i and the shrieks of the passengers aud crew
' caused the most intense excitement. Wlieu
I the alarm was first sounded, Alex. McVey,
■ head clerk, was sitting at the stove in his
! cabin. Tiie first peal of the bell caused
him to rush outside, and, seeing the flames
leap high in the air, he ran hack to the
cabin and endeavored to get the books and
, money. Tho fire gained rapidly on him,
j and lie was compelled *o leave the office,
! but - not before he had secured a sum
of money. McVey then turned his
| attention to saving the cabin passengers,
' of whom there wore about fifteen or eigh
teen, including eight ladias. He first awoke
I tho second clerk, John Callahan, who ran
out of his room in his undershirt and trous
ers. Callahan and McVey went to each
room, and awoke the initiates. The terri
fied passengers quickly got out, nearly all
of them in their night garments. Among
them was a gentleman, name unknown,
: but recognized as the superintendent of
t he Vidalia Southern railway, ile hud his
[ wife and two children,girls of 9 and 12 years
with him. He called them around and bade
them follow him. By this time the flames
had reached the cabin, through which
thick smoke was rolling. The panic-
stricken passengers quickly made for an
entrance, Borne to the stern and others to
the front. The gentleman referred to was
among those that went to the stern. On
reaching the deck he threw his children,
ono at a time, into the river. Before ha
and hiB wife could follow tha
flames had reached them and they
were burned to death. The two pilots
on watch, John Stout and Bob Smith,
were in the pilot house and were compell
ed to jump into the river, where they
wore picked up. They had a narrow es
cape from death. The fire burned so
quickly that it was impossible to see who
was saved and who was lost. The deck
was crowded with roustabouts and deck
passengers, thirty of the latter having got
on the vessel at, New Texas iuiiding, just
nbovc where tho boat was burned. Nearly
all of these were lost.
While the passengers and crew were es
caping from the boat, the steampipc blow
up and was hurled 300 yards in the air.
The force of the explosion caused over
twenty bales of burning cotton to ha
hurled high in the air, where they re
volved Bcveral times and then foil in the
river. Immediately after the explosion
shrioks were heard coming from the stern
of the vessel. For an instant two colored
women were seen standing on tho gallery
just back of the wheel house, and tho
next instant they were hid
den trom view by tho smoko
and flames. The first part of the boat to
give way was the wheel house. It fell into
tho water and a draft being created, tho
flumes swept through the centre of tho
bout. Those who escaped- were taken
away from tho scene by the steamboat
“Stella Wild,” which plies between Bayoa
Snra and Natchez. As the “Wild” was
backing out, four kegs of gun
powder that were in the hold
exploded and cotton and burning timber*
were hurled in all directions. This virtu
ally put the fire out, and what was once a
palatial steamer was now a blackened
wreck. A loud cry for help came from tho
middle of the stream. A boat was lowered
and wns quickly pulled in the direction of
the cry. Through the darkness tho crew
saw the figure of a man grasping a bale of
cotton, but before they could reach him
the bale turned over and when It was
righted the man was gone.
INTENSE EXCITEMENT IN YORKVILLE.
A Band of Murderers In Unearthed and Will Pro fi
ll lily fin Fy nrllcil.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.
Atlanta, December 14.—J. H. Kirkland,
conductor on the Air Line railroad, who
came in to-night, Huys J. W. Littlejohn, of
York county, S. C., boarded his train last
night at Black’s en route for Spartanburg.
Ho had just come from Yorkville, and
says the town is in the greutest state of ex
citement over tho arrest of about 100 mon
who are implicated as belonging to tho
secret or^er of murderers and thieves la
that section, and which was de
clared in the stories told by the murderers
of young John Lee Goode. Mr. Littlejohn
says all out twenty-five of the prisoners
had been liberated, and these were to be
I taken before a magistrate to-day. Tho
feeling is intense against them, and lynch
ing was freely talked of. It was thought
Judge Lynch would hold high carnival in
York county to-night. The story of find
ing the beheaded body of young Goode haa
already been published.
FATHER McGLYNN.
Sieiiiitlonnl Hiirinoii by a “ llifarnitd Catholic.’ 1
New York, December 12.—High n: i38
was celebrated this forenoon at, St.
Stephen’s Roman Catholic church, ot
which the Rev. Dr. Edward MeGlynn is
pastor, hut he did not perform the func
tions of the celebrant. He sat within tbs
rail, wearing surplice and beretta, as
though he were a visitor in his own
church. Father O’Callalian was celebrant.
Father McLaughlin preached a sermon on
“Humility.” The Rev. Dr. MeGlynn offi
ciated at low mass in tiie ehureh early in
the forenoon. It wus the only service at
which he took a prominent part. It wan
rumored among the congregation that ho
had been suspended anew from celebrating
high mass, hut he himself, when asked, re
plied that he hud nothing to oommunicate
to the press.
At the arehicpiscopal residence, at Fif
tieth street and Madison avenue, it wa a
said at tbe door that Archbishop Corrigan
lind not returned home and that McDon
nell had no statement to make.
The Kev. J. O'Connor, the ex-priest who
is conducting u “Reformed Catholic
Church,” talked to his congregation in the
Masonic Temple lust night about Dr. lio-
Glynn. He took a slightly sensational
view of the case, declaring that a number
of priests and bishops who had been
summoned to Home had never
been heard of again, while others
had been imprisoned in monasteries. “Tho
power of the propaganda,” said Mr. O'Con
nor, “ is so great that a priest could be im
prisoned for years and his friends would
not learn of his whereabouts. I hope that
if the pope orders Dr. MeGlynn into a re
treat that he will have grit enough to re
sist the power of Rome, and, if necessary,
to call upon his country for protection if
the propaganda attempts to resort to foul
means.”
TWO MEN KILLED IN BIRMINGHAM.
The Otllreri Raid a Negro Gambling Dea and •
Hattlr Fiimicn.
Birmingham, Ala., December 14.—A
sheriff’s duputy and four policemen made
a raid on a negro gambling den near the
city last night, when a fusilade occurred
between the occupants of the house and
the officers. Thu result was that five of
the gamblers were captured und two were
killed. Noue of the officers were hurt.
Crooked Financier* Under Arrest.
Virginia City, Nev., December 14.—
Solomon Frnnkel, a member of the stock
broking firm of Frankel & Co..which failed
a few days ago, was arrested last night,
charged with embezzlement. W. IL P.
Blauvelt, proprietor of the Gold Hill bank,
was also arrested, charged with a similar
offense.
Stabbed Through the Brain.
New York, December 14.—Joseph Ma
son was picked up last night from the
sidewalk and carried to the hospital,
where the examining surgeon found a
murderous stab wound in the back of the
head, the knife-blade having penetrated
the brain. Death followed this morning,
j The blow was that of a stealthy assassin.
Terror on tho Ties.
Lynchburg, Va., December 14.—A col-
' lision occurred on the Norfolk and Wesb-
| ern railroad near Cripple Creek Junction
i this morning whereby two engines were
1 wrecked and one exploded. No lives were
j lost, but ono engineer named S. J. Roberta
1 was wounded. Six freight cars were
: burned. The loss is $50,000.
