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COLUMBOS GEORGIA, MONDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 1, 188*.
AND
A TRAIN CRASHES THROUGH
SIXTY THREE FEET.
WHAT IS THOUGHT IN ATLANTA OF
THE PROPOSED INCREASE.
'NESTLE WAS TOO WEAK.; l0 “' THE GOVERNOR'S SALARY
CHARLES WEBSTER. —
The circumstances attending the death
of Mr. Charles Webster are extremely
saddening. About one year ago he was
promoted to the position of engineer of
the wrecking train. Previously he worked
as a fireman for many years under Engi
neer Keene. A strong friendship existed
between the two men. On the night he
met bis death he left his camp some miles
above Ooodwater, to accompany Mr.
Keene as far as Dadeville, the meeting
point for the Columbus and Birmingham
through freight trains. He intended to re-
19 ttORMOXISM A RELIGION?
'THRONATEESKA BURNED
THE LONGEST IN HISTORY.
Engine and Cars Piled on Each Other
and Human Lives Crushed Out
Beneath Their Weight.
The Dead and Dying.
Professional Expresses His Opinion in
Regard to the Constitutionality
of the Increase—The Wicked
Ones Trying Themselves.
Throughout the day yesterday crowds of
citizens wended their way to the U nion
depot for the purpose of learning the
latest particulars from the terrible acci-
dent'which occurred on the Columbus
and Western road, two miles above Good-
water, at about 10 o’clock on Saturday
night. The entire official staff at the
Central offices was on duty all day, and
from the press of business but very few de
tails of the disaster could be ascertained.
THE WRECKING CREW.
At 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning Super
intendent McClintock, Transportation-
Master Ford, and Drs. Grimes and Walker
left the depot for the wreck. Hhortly after
the wrecking train went up with a large
force of hands on board. A casket and
burial robes were also sent up for the pur-
Atlanta, Sept. 3j.—The Enquirer
editorial advocating an increase in the
Governor’s salary has been the occasion of 1,500 of them of Mormon parentage: were
Otnfral-Srrrrtarr Bliss’ Paper Before the
New Went Education Committee.
Chicago, Sept. 30.—The New West Edu
cation Commission, a society of the Con
gregational church, devoted to the educa
tion under Cnris'i *n teachers of children
and youth of the Territories of Utah and
New Mexico, has just held its eighth an
nual meeting to day. Fifteen members of
co-operative boards were present. During
the year $33.00.) had been seat in the sup
port of thirty schools and four academies
in Utah and New Mexico: 2,720 pupils,
This S*-««ion of fon*rf«« Ihr Ewr
WHITECHAPEL HORRORS
THE LITTLE STEAMER IS LOST WITH
HER ENTIRE CARGO.
She Left Eufaula Saturday Night and Got
as Far a* Flint River—Her Crew
Saved by the Naiad—Loss
Estimated at $35,080.
taught by sixty-four teachers. Iu tne cen
tum to his camp on the outgoing freight much discaasioa here, and has met with
from here. When the engine went down, genuine and emphatic approval. Whether tral towns the schools were crowded and
the deceased was sitting on the fireman’s this increase could be made by the next many children were turned away for lack
box. The engine toppled over on tnat side General Assembly so that it would be of of room. It was decided to erect new
and the boiling water peared out on him. , benefit to G jvernor G >rdon is held that school buildings in Sait Like and Peber,
the second of his family. the constitution contemplated preventing Utah, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Another melancholy circumstance con- , any Governor getting the benefit of an The General Secretary, Mr. Bliss, read
nected with his death is, that his brother increase of salary through an act of the an interesting paper upon Mormonism.
Louis was killed in a collision cn the Pied- Legislators passed during his term, and He said in part:
mont Air Line on October 21 of last year, that In case of Governor Gordon’s re-elec- “The question of facts is sometimejraised
tion does not change the case. ! whether Mormonism is a religion or some
one of the best constitutional lawyers in thing else, unworthy of that designation,
the city, however, gives it as his “There has been so much of fraud,decep-
opinion that the legislation is | tion and wickedness in the practice aiR^
perfectly feasible as the salary lives of its prominent founders and leaders
Louis was a fireman on the train when
he met his death. Both young men were
great favorites in Columbus and were al
ways noted for their gentlemanly, Chris
tian and virtuous characters.
The entire sympathies of the comma- being considered by a number of able ! that we grow impatient When men call the
t,un.il roDus weru hiho wut up tuu pur* * j » , ,
note of bringing back the remains ofl Mr. ' nity are extended to the bereaved parents lawyers, and with a diflerence of opinion, i product of all this scheming and cunning
c : i.. tir_ /-vi i tit , \\T *■ u«f aamaa : „ n n i: f ho nrnfi/I rpHannn is ran a of
Charles Webster, the youug and highly re
spected citizen of Columbus who was killed
in the catastrophe.
During the day the following particulars
were gathered.
scenes around the wreck.
At S o’clock yesterday morning the cen
tral ottioe was Informed by wire that the
special reashed the wreck at 7 o’clock.
Tne particulars wired about the crew of
tiie wrecked train, everyone of whom w s
more or less injured, were as follows: Wii-
and family. Mr. Charles Webster was
about twenty-three years old and unmar
ried.
INDIANA WILL NOT GO WRONG.
General HarrUmpH Railroad Record will
Kill His Chances with the Working Men.
Washington, iSept. 30.—Senator Voor-
hees takes a hopeful view of the situation
in Indiana, the remits of his observatio >s
on bis recent stamping tour. He says that
Harrison’s record during the railroad
liam D. Keene, engineer, scalded, badly strikes of 1877 would defeat him in Indiana
bruised and injured in the arm; Ike Weav
er the colored fireman, badly scalded and
bruised; Morgan Phillip*, flagman, badly
bruised and internally injured; Joe Rony,
colored train hand,bones broken and badly
shaken up; John Linceford, colored train
bund, skull terribly fractured and other
wise fatally injured; J. II. Hall, conductor,
badly bruised and otherwise injured.
It was later stated that Linceford
dying.
About 12 o’clock a dispatch was sent to
Geneva for more wrecking hands to get
ready for the scene of the wreck. The
train with the hands on board passed
through Columbus a few hours later on
its way to Ooodwater.
About 5 o’cloek the Central office
was informed that the passen
ger train from Birmingham
had transferred its passengers and mail,
and that it and the special train had left
for Columbus. Word was also-seut that
tiie wounded men’were doing as well as
could be expected, with the exception of
Linceford.
At 7:30 o’clock, the first party arrived in
Columbus from the scene.
if there was no other issue in the cam
paign.
“President Cleveland is strong,” said the
Senator, “because the people know him to
be a bold, courageous and honest man.
There has been some dissatisfaction in the
past regarding the distribution of patron
age.
“I, myself, am one of those who have
was not been wholly satisfied in that regard,
but so trifling a matter as that ought not
to be considered for a moment as against
his clean and able Administration, and I
believe I reflect our people correctly in
saying that it will not be.”
“Do you find the Iudiana Democracy
well organised?”
“I have never seen them in such excel
lent condition. The only thing I fear Is
over confidence. The whole State is a
blazing torch light procession from one
| end to the other. Even our opponents
concede that the advantage is now with
us. It is as safe to Cleveland as is Texas.”
When that legislature comes in Gov.Gordon
will have been re-elected, and his iniugu-
ration would not be long delayed. Leaving
aside the question whether he could sign
such a bill, in the spirit of the constitu
tion, could the bill be carried through the
Legislature in such a short time ? It may
be increased so as to apply to Gov. Gor
don’s second term.
At any rate, there seems to be no differ
ence of opinion that the salary ought to
a religion. Yet the word religion is one of
great breadth.
“It is utterly impossible to explain the
facts which meet one everywhere in Utah,
without granting,not only that Mormonism
is a religion, but also that the chief sources
of its present vitality and power lie in the
religious ideas, hopes and fears of its adhe
rents. The tenor of their discourses in the
tabernacle, the forms of devotion which
they observe, the enthusiasm which at-
Bainb ridge. Sept. 30.—The steamer
Thronateeska of the People’s Linc.Captain
C. W. Marks, from Eufaula for Bainbridge
with four huadred aud forty bales of cot
ton for Savannah, was burned at 10 o’clock
this morning at the mouth of Flint river,
thirty miles below this place. No lives
were lost, bat the engineer was scald.
The fire originated amidship and spread
rapidly. Tnree streams of water were
turned on but failed to check it. The boat
and cargo was a total loss. The crew were
picked up by the steamer Naiid, and left
hare on that boat for Columbus at 5 o’clock
i this evening.
! The Thronateeska has recently been
| thoroughly fitted up and was making her
I first trip for this season. Her esti-
! mated value was $15,000. The value of her
! cargo was $20,000; the cargo was insured
i for part of its value.
Hfld-l’msnunmr for tlip YYerk.
Washington, SepL 30.—When the two
houses of Congress are called to order at
12 o’clock to-morrow, the session will have
become the longest, by twenty-four hours,
in American history. The longest pre
ceding session was that of 1850, the year of
the compromise, which was adjourned at
noon, September 30. Constructively tho
session of 180$, following the impeachment
proceedings against Presilent Johnson,
was longer, adjournment sine die having
taken place November 10, but as a matter
of fact Congress took six weeks’ recess
from July 27, and never afterwards bad a
quorum, or attempted to transact any bus
iness.
The House of Representatives has not
had a quorum for several weeks, but such
business as could be done by unanimous
consent has been done aud as one of the
inual appropriation bills, the general de-
TWO MORE MURDERS ADDED TO THE
LIST OF HORROR.
The Same Blood Curdling Tale Is Re
peated —Two Victims in One Night.
Frightfully Mutilated—The
Police are Baffled.
TRYING TO CATCH THE NEGRO VOTE.
ff 1
■cieucy, still before conferees of the House
it cannot be said that the year’s regular
work for either house is fiuished.
The tariff bill will be reported to the
Senate Tuesday or Wednesday of this
week, and is to be taken up for debate on
Monday of next week. The unfinished
business of the Senate is the bill to forfeit
the unearned portion of the Northern Pa
cific land grant upon which Senator Berry
will to-morrow deliver a political speech,
be increased, and there is no reason why tends their frequent conference, the stead-
the next Legislature should not act on it.
A LONG WILL CONTEST ENDED.
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION EVERYWHERE.
When the special train reached the
wreck everything was in indisoribable con
fusion. The entire train,“consisting of
sixteen heavily laden freight cars, the
monster engine, No. 512, and the cah, were
totally wrecked. Tne body of Charles
Webster, terribly scalded and bruised, lay
on the grass. The wounded men were all
suffering terribly, thju'h the people who
lived in the neighborhood around were
doing all they possibly could to alleviate
their pains. They were promptly removed
to the Pop’a House, injGoodwater, where
Drs. Grimes and Walker did all that
science could suggest to save the lives of
all, aad to assuage their agonies.
SKULL MASHED INTO HIS BRAIN.
Linceford was unconscious and his life
blood freely flowed from the fracture in
hi- ht ad. The doctors opened the skull
and removed a large piece of bone, which
had been aim ost burled iu the brain. This
seemed to ease the unfortunate man very
much. At the time that the party left,
however, he had not spoken.
HOW IT ALL HAPPENED.
The particulars of the accident were as
follows: The traiu was approaching Good-
water at tho regular speed and on sched
ule time. Near Wild Cat creek there
is a very sharp curve. The train passed
round the curve safely, but while crossing
the trestle the structure gave way and
the whole train was precipitated to the
ground.
IT WAS BUILT OF WOOD.
Tfce trestle was built of wood and was
Be
Over a Million and a Half Dollars to
Now Distributed.
New York, Sspt. 30.—The long contest
over the will of the late James Stokes has
ended, the last suit in the case resulting in
an adverse decision to the claims and ob
jections set up by Henry Dale, who mar
ried a daughter of the deceased.
The decision frees some f1,500,000 in cash
and securities now remaing in the hands
of the temporary administrator to be di
vided among the seven heirs. James
Stokes was formerly a member of the firm
ot Phelps, Dodge & C >., and at the time of
his death, August 1, 1881, was one of the
firm of Phelps, Stokes & Co. He left a
fortune estimated at from six to ten mil
lion to be divided among the children.
The will was contested on the usual
grounds by the invalid daughter and her
husband, Mr. Dale. The major part of
Mrs. Dale’s share had been left in trust for
her, and at her death to go to her chil
dren, or, in the event of her death without
children, to revert to the Stokes family.
Before the trial ended Mrs. Dale died
childless.
THE SATURDAY NIOHT CRIMES.
Atlanta criminals held a high and bloody
carnival last night. Baside the murder
case reported in the Enquirer-Sun there
were a number of shooting and catting
scrapes. In two cases women were shot
at. In another, a merchant on Hunter
street, Mr. Abner, lately a Florida refugee,
was set upon by two negre thieves and
shot in the neck. The mounted police
this morning brought in two negro men
who are believed to be the guilty parties.
fastness of their devotion to their church
maintained by the great majority of them,
SHE SHOT AT HER HUSBAND.
WlK-re Judge Thurman Will Speak.
Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 30.—Judge Thur
man’s plans for the remainder ot the cam
paign are gradually assuming shape. He
will go to Washington on the latter part
of next week, to attend the argument of
the telephone cases, and will remain in
that city for about a week. The trip to
Broklyn is not likely to materialize, the
argument in the telephone cases coming
so late as to leave little time to reach In
diana. The October speeches in Indiana
by Judge Thurman will be four, and the
Mrs. Annie Gray, of Jeffersonville. Objects
to the Frtkence of Mr. Gray.
Louisville, Sept. 30.—Mrs. Annie Gray,
residing od Michigan avenue, near Seventh
street, in Jeffersonville, made an unsuc
cessful attempt to shoot her husband, Jas.
Gray, Thursday afternoon. Gray’s occu
pation is that of a street vender, and he
plies his vocation at fairs and public gath
erings. Several months since, on account
of his cruel treatment, as she alleges, Mrs.
Gray was compelled to leave him, since
which time she has supported herself and
two children by the aid of her needle. Re
cently she made application for a divorce.
At that time Gray was supposed to be in
Illinois.
Thursday he returned to Jeffersonville,
and during the afternoon visited ihts wiflpg
home. She saw him at the gate and for
bade his entering. Ha 'continued to ap
proach the house and was fired upon twice
with a revolver. Tne balls missed their
mark. Gray lost no time) in leaving the
premises when the firing commenced.
He is well known in this city, and was
formerly a railroad brakeman.
douf«, tiicked. It n. silty-three leet f °L 1 *
l-kt, ami',.bout 200 feet wide. t- that State ,s as follows: Shelbyv.lle, Octo-
The entire
structure was torn away, with the ex
ception of about thirty or forty feet.
CARS PILED IN A CONFUSED MASS, §
The cars were piled on one another in a
confused mass, aud their contents scat
tered everywhere. The engine was
g nashed to pieces, and the ruined cab lay
on its side on the bank.
It was considered useless to remove the
debris and the idea of burning the pile
was entertained.
The engine was one of those very large
machines called “conso’idation engines,”
and was only put ou this road a few weeks
ago. It was used to draw the very heavy
freights between Columbus and Birming
ham, and when equipped weighed 200,000
pounds.
THE ARRIVAL IN THE CITY .
Yt 0.35 o’clock last night the usual pas
senger train due in Columhns from Bir-
Biriuinghamat 7:10 reached the depot with
the special train attached.
The casket containing the remains of
Mr. Webster was brought in on this train,
niso the wounded engineer, Mr. Keene.
The depot was crowded, but a cordon ot
Police, under Captain Palmer, kept back.
the surging throng.
Amid the loud sobs of relatives and
friends and the subdued, sympathetic re
marks of those present the coffin was
transferred to the hearse.
The mournful cortege at once started
ior the home ofthe afflicted parents of the
dead. The sight was indeed a sad one.
A rush was then made for the car in
which Mr. Keene lay. The police, how
ever, prevented any one from entering.
Shortly after he was borne to a carriage
la waiting and driven to the residence of
Lis father, on Third avenue.
Mr. Keene, though badly wounded,
Lore up remarkably well.
A BRAVE ENGINEER.
In this connection it should be stated
that when the train was wreckedthe v
ber 15; Peru October 16; Fort Wayne, Oc
tober IS; Brazil, October 20.
Destructive Prairie Fires.
Jamestown, Dak., Sept. 30.—Reports ot
prairie fire losses are coming in from every
direction and the worst fears will be more
than realized. Between Jamestown and
Lamoure a strip of country fifty miles
Weekly Crop Bulletin.
Washington, Sept. 30.—The weekly
crop bulletin issued by the Signal Officer
says: The weather during the week has
been generally favorable for all the grow
ing crops in all sections except New Eng
land, where heavy rains are reported.
Throughout the cotton belt the reports in
dicate that the weather during the week
improved the condition of the cotton crop.
In Louisiana acondition favorable for cane
and harvesting rice existed. Generally
throughout the Gulf States the weather
was favorable for ootton picking and
growing wheat. A light frost in the lower
Gulf States, and over the tobacco regions
of Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina
and Virginia, and in the Middle Atlantic
and New England States,
probably result in some damage to the
growing crops, but warnings of frosts were
issued to the threatened sections in time
to enable those receiving them, to secure
the greater portion of the tobacco crop not
previously cut.
the constant departure of missionaries in
the face of continual discouragements, the
uninterrupted building of their temples,
the constant and universal recurrence to
the supposed miraculous origin and the
well known and rapid early progress of
their church, and the unabated confidence
of the early coming of a deliverer, who
will smite their enemies and carry for
ward their church to a position of great
glory and universal influence—all these
things are unaccountable save upon the
ground that Mormonism wherever it was
at first—has grown to be a religion, in
trenched in convictions and powerful as a
source of motives, hopes and courage.”
defending the public laud record of the
Douglass, Smalls, Lyuch and others of the J Democratic party, iu answer to the speech
stripe Issue a Boogaboo Circular. of Senator Plumb last week. It is expected
New York, Sept. 30.—Fred Douglass, that Senator Dolph will also make a speech quarters of an hoar later in Mitre Square,
------- 1 r 1 a few minutes walk from the scene of the
first crime, though poiiceiuou pat ruled the
London, Sept. 30.—This morning the
whole city is again folly aroused by more
murders being added to the list of mys
terious crimes that have recently been
committed in Whitechapel. At an early
hour another woman was murdered, ana
report is also current that there was still
another. victim. This report proved true.
The two victims, as in the former case,
were dissolute women of the poorer clam.
That the motive of the murderer was
not robtWry is shown by the fact that no
attempt mas made to despoil the bodies.
The first murder occurred In the narrow
court off Barners street, at an early hour
this morning, beneath the windows o r the
foreigners Socialistic Club. A concert was
in progress, and many members of the
club present, but no sound was heard from
the victim.
The same process followed as in the oth-
cases. The woman hail been seized by the
throat, her cries chunked and her mur
derer, with one sweeping cut, had severed
her throat from ear to ear. The clubmen en
tering the court stumbled over the body,
which was lying only two yards from tho
street, a stream of warm blood flowing
from her body into the gutter. The mur
derer had evidently boon disturbed before
he had time to mutilate his victim.
The second murder was committed three-
Robert Smalls, John R Lynch and halt a upon the measure, after which it is likely
dozen other colored Republicans have ; to pass.
issued a tremendously long address to the The Louisi ina award bill is ^lso a special
negro voters of the Union, and more es- i order for to-morrow. Senator Chandler’s
pecially to those in the doubtful States,! resolution looking to the investigation of
warning them of thetreason and suicide political methods in Louisiana is likely to
committed by any man of African de- furnish a text for further political speak-
scent who votes a Democratic ticket, ing during the week. The territorial ad-
Square every ten minutes.
m The body of the unfortunate woman had
BY FORCE Of ARMS.
Gov. Guy Would Not V* “Counted Out,”
aud Takes the Mansion by Storm.
St. Louis, Sept. 30.—Information comes
from Dougherty, Texas, that Gov. Guy
marched into Tishomingo, the Chickasaw
capital, yesterday, with an armed force
and took his seat. G-ov. Guy was legally
elected Governor, but was counted out
by the Byrd party, and Byrd took his seat
as Governor. But as it was illegal he
could not expfet to be recognized by the
United States Government or by the Guy
party. Gov. Guy quietly gathered some of
his force and took the capital and - ByrU’tf
party by surprise. The Legislature had
not adjourned. The administration has
Here are a few extracts:
No class of citizens have a deeper in
terest at stake or a more solemn responsi
bility resting upon them in choosing be
tween these parties than the colored peo
ple in the doubtful States, for it may in
volve not only the loss of the elective fran
chise, but the loss of citizenship itself.
This Democratic movement among
colored men has had more than four years’
growth, and should by this time have
borne some fruit. Can any of its advo
cates show that murder and rapine in the
South have diminished? Can any one of
them show that there is less repugnance
to negro suffrage in that section? Has any
Democrat become less vehement in denun
ciation of negro role? Have lynch law,
midnight raids, wholesale massacres in
Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, South
Carolina and A\abama ceased? Has any
Democrat on the floor of the Senate or
House of Representatives made a motion
to inquire into Southern lawlessness and
violenoe? O colored men, be not de
ceived !
Is it not plain that every colored man
who votes on that side stabs the cause of
his own people and makes himself, con
sciously or nnconsiously, a traitor and an
«nnmy to his own race ? Again we im
mission bills are still recognized as having
certain rights of way, and next to
them the consideration of the
Sherman trust bill is recognized
as possible
been disemboweled, the throat cut and the
nose severed. The heart and lungs were
thrown aside, and the entrails twisted into
the gaping wound around the neck.
The incisions show a rough dexterity.
The work of the dissection was done with
the utmost haste. Pending thereoortof
the doctors, it is not known whetner or
not a portion of the viceras was taken
away. The doctors, after a hasty exami
nation of the body, said they thought it
must have taken about five minutes to
complete the work of the murderer, who
The Senate, however, has consistently i J ) ^ 1 had pluaty ° f time 10 W0Ape the
disregarded all programmes tor several
weeks past, and nothing but pending po
litical measures have been held to be
probable subjects of debate duri ng the re
mainder of the session.
The session of the House of Rspresent-
atives will probably be short, as but little
business of interest is to be transacted by
that body during the present week. The
Mitre Square, the scene of the second
murder, is a thoroughfare. Many people
pass through there early Sunday morning
on their way to prepare for market in the
La
notorious Petticoat Lane.
The publicity of the place adds to the
daring of the crime. Tne police, wn<> had
been severely criticised iu connection with
the Whitechapel murders, are paralyzed
by these latest crimes.
As soon as the nows was received at
G 3 „er„l DaHoieDoy Appr.prl.MoD bill, ."“niftt
now in conference, is expected to be
reached in the House Tuesday sr Wednes
day.
THE SAVINGS BANK WILL SUFFER.
been calling on the Guy officers for the
possession of all moneyes, reports, etc.,
but was quietly put off until Gov. Gay was
ready to take possession again. Mr. Byrd
was so dumbfounded when he recognized
Gov. Guy at the head of his men march
ing to the capital that he was unable to
speak for several moments. There was no
trouble, but it is expected at any time,
and Gov. Guy will do all in his power to
prevent it. As soon as all the Byrd men
are aware of the change in Governorship,
hot times are expected. It was rumored
that Government troops will be held in
readiness to move to the capital at a
moment’s notice if trouble occurs between
the Byrd and Guy parties.
Purely Astrouomical.
Chicago, Sept. 30.—A dispatch from
Ottawa, Ont., says: Prof. Wiggins, in an
interview last night, said that the cause of
the yellow fsver in the South was purely
astronomical. On June 19, 1881, he said,
the planets were in the same line and the
which will ear th had yielded to the tendency to ap
proach the sun, and since then cyclones,
earthquakes, floods and cholera and yel
low fever had devastated our planet. The
advance had been only a few miles, but
the increased solar attraction con
tracted the earth’s surface, caus
ing floods. The unequal shrinkage
caused earthquakes. The atmosphere
had become denser and consequently held
Edison is No Doctor.
Chicago, Sept 28.—A despatc h from De
troit, Mich., says: “A leading physician
and chemist, speaking of Edison’s alleged j more carbon, and its compounds in solu-
discovery about an exterminator of yel
low fever germs, said:
“ Edison’s discovery is based on the
theory that the fever is caused by a mi
crobe or germ. This has been accepted
by some investigators, but never received
by the profession as even a tenable
wide was burned over. Among the latest i theory. Assuming, however, that Edison
losses reported, the largest are: W. B. S.
Trinnle, 2000 bushels of wheat; a farmer
named Warren, near Ypsilanti, 400 acres
ofavheat in shock. Hundreds of small
farmers sustained losses ranging from $100
has some occult means of proving it to
depend on a microbe, his methods are
inadequate to its distraction. His germ
icides, rhigolene and caustic soda are in
finitely inferior to many germicides in use.
to $1000. Nearly all the hay in the south The problem of killing the germs when
part of Barnes county was destroyed, and
the same may be said of wheat. Near
Montpelier names of a dozen have been
heard whose wheat escaped August frost
only to burn up in September fires.
They Prefer Crowrs to Peacocks.
New York, Sept. 30 —It having been
proved that all the scurrilous letters to
Mid\Ida Peacock were written by herself
with a view to awakening sympathy, the
Official Board of the St. Paul's M. E.
church, of Jersey City, has settled the case
once and for all by passing the following
resolution:
Resolved, TnatKhis Official Bsard would
rather have a flock of crows roost in the
choir gallery thin haye Miss Peacock any
longer spread her tale in oar church.
shown to exist and circumscribed in loca
tion is simple to the merest tyro in pa
thology, but to apply gasoline to the total
destruction of innumerable myriads of in-
flnitesmal hypothetical microbes is absurd.
When we consider that a glass . of water
may con tain many times the number of
tion, producing microbes and thus cholera
and yellow fever. Several planets were in
perihelion at the same time in the years
547 and 1635, and millions of people then
perished by the plague and black death.
All the planets, the Professor added,
were passing through the same severe
ordeal. Mars had an atmosphere so decse
and full of clouds that only portions of it
can be seen. But the people there flad no
yellow fever, and if they had such a place
as Florida they would so cultivate it that
it could not breed yellow fever. He be
lieved that the numerous canals on Mars’
surface were made to absorb the carbon
and prevent disease.
plore you to remember that the whole
question of the future of the negro in the
South is involved in the election now be
fore you.
A HARD LICK FOR DECATUR.
It is Thought that it Will Take Her Five
Years to Recover from the Fever.
Decatur, Sept. 30.—“It will take Deca
tur, Ala., five years to regain what she has
lost in three weeks by yellow fever,” said
a gentleman to-day, who is largely inter
ested in property there. Continuing he
explained that a boom was started there
two years ago and a large amount of North-
An Examination of Cashier Chapin’s Irreg
ularities—He Took Nothing Himself.
Fall River, S9pt 30.—An examination
of the books of the National Union Bank ; denToocurred"
pa
Commissioner of Police, who was called
out of bed, and at once visited the scene.
The inhabitants cf Whitechapel are dis
mayed. The vigilance committees, which
were formed after the first crimes were
committed, relaxed their efforts to cap
ture the murderer. At several meetings
held it Whitechapel to night, it was re
solved to resume the work of patrjlling
the sireets in the district where the mur-
and the Union Savings Bank shows that
the los3 by Cashier Chapin’s irregularities
will fall on the savings bans. The elimi
nation of the books was in progress nearly
all of last night, and was not then com
pleted, bat enough was discovered to show
that the Yunds of the savings bank have
seriously suffered, and it nas been decided
to put a temporary injuuction on the bank
on Monday.
In addition to Cashier Chapin’s irregu
lar loans, he allowed several customers to
largely overdraw their accounts. One con
cern alone has overdrawn its account $25,-
000. Chapin covered up these overadrfts
by manipulating the books and the entire
loss falls upon the savings bank. Late
last night the decision to close was made,
but. the newsof this intention was not gen
erally known. The savings bank examiner
was at work all yesterday.
The examinatiomwiil be continued to
morrow. No one now seems to know bow
Massacred by Savages.
LONDON, Got. L—Advices from Zanzibar
siy the Germans murdered atKilwadied
while really defending themselves. The
German gunboat was present but was un
able to give assist inoe in the face of the
thousands of armed natives lining the
•beach. The oorpae -of the murdered Ger
main were terribly mutilated. The Hn-
ylish gunboat saved the lives of the Ger
mans at Lind.
The Gormans escaped from Mikindani
half an hour before the arrival of the in
surgents, who fired volleys at their dhow,
w deh was laden with a thousand pounds
of gun powder. Tiie entire wealthy com
munity of British India subjects at Bago-
m »ys left that place to-day, torror strick
en, owing to the rumor that a descent up
on the t >'.vii by the natives is imminent.
GOOD NEWS FROM JACKSONVILLE.
The Fever I* Abating—Overcoats Comforta
ble—Situation Klnewnere In Florida,
ern capital had been invested. A number
of important industries were located j extendve the shortage will be, and noth’-
thcre, and these were operated j ng w ju definitely known until' the
principally with skilled labor from j thoroa gh examination, of the books fhas
the North. At the first appearance j been oompleted.
of yellow fever, these men with their fami- j It ta positively stated that Cashier Chapin
lies fled in terror, and few of them can did not appropriate any of the money to mlrked docre , a,, e in the number
his own use, and that the e itire deficiency
grows out of irregular loins and over-
drawal of accounts.
Jacksonville, Bept. 30.— Seventy-nine
new cases of fever are reported to-day,
thirteen whites. Six deaths: 8iad Miller,
colored. Eiward Williams, Mrs. II Gov
ernor, W. W Sampson, colored, Wil.iam
T. Pyles and Jas. Hall. Total number of
cases, 2,626; total number of deaths, 255.
The cool bracing weather has had i
ever be induced to return. Northern cap
italists will be slow to make new invest
ments, and many will sell what they have
there for whatever they can get for it.
The fact that all the victims of the fever
at Decatur have been new comers, none of
the old residents have taken it, will make
it extremely difficult to secure any further
immigration to the place. I cannot say
yet what will be the fate of the industries
already established, bat it is certain new
ones will not be started for.a long time to
come.
The town never folly recovered from the
effects of the yellow fever epidemic of 1878,
until the boom started there two years
ago. This time it will take it even longer
to recover.
most gratifying effect, as Is shown by the
or i
A BIG JOB IN PROSPECT.
Over a Thousand Cases on the Supreme
Court Docket.
Washington, Sapt. 33.—The Oupreme
Court of the United States will assemble
Monday, October 8, and it is probable that
all the Justices, except Mr. SAnley Mat
thews, who is ill, will be present. Imme
diately apod the opening of the court
new
cases reported here. For several nights
overcoats have proved comfortable to
those who have been weakened by the
prevailing disease, and to-night is almost
cool enough to make one dream of hoar
frost and snow storms.
For three or four days past our resident
physicians have found time for some rest,
and to-day the medical bureau was a rather
quiet place, calls for doctors being com
paratively few. Dr. C. J. Ken worthy, city
health officer, said to-day that the epi
demic, which seems to have gone oat to
the suburbs, is rapidly abating, and there
is much less sickness in the outlying warda
than was the case a week ago.
FROM KEKNANDIXA.
A special from Fernandina to the Timei*-
A Lace Merchant Charged With a Swindle
New York, Sept. 30.—James A. Wilson, that this number will be increased to about
Chief Justice Fuller will take the oath of
office, and after the transaction of a ron- ^nlonl says twentyffive cases of ail kinds
, i are under treatment. All are doing well,
tine business the body will adjourn to wait , The only problem is to feed the unem-
on the President. The next day the call | ployed laborers, who are quiet and well
ofthe docket will begin. There are already ' _®^® d , s ? far '_ dere _ dd
1137 cases on the docket, and it is expected
of the firm of Wilson & Willoughby, ^ b? the time the Court meets. The
No Room for Socialists.
Chicago, Sept. 33.—District Assembly,
No. 24, K. of L , recently selected George
Schilling, the weli-kaown Socialist, as a
delegate to the National Assembly, which
germs that there are inhabitants of Jack- meets in Indianapolis in October. Mem-
sonville, and that ;if the germs exist they bers of Local Assembly 4*30 and others who
are generally distributed on what is eaten, opposed the choice made formal protest to
drank and worn, its mode of application the General Master Workman, alleging as
wholesale dealers in lace on Broadway,was
arrested yesterday at his residence, No. 315
West Thirty-sixth street, by Detective
O’Connor, of the Tombs Court §qaad, on
the complaint of Charles H. Wight, of No.
341 Broadway, that Wilson had obtained
$10,000 from him under false pretenses.
Wight claims that on June 1, 1886, he
loaned Wilson the above mentioned sum
to start in business, on the latter’s repre
sentation that he had $14,000 worth of
stock and fixtures. This Wight declares
was false, and the money has not been
returned to him.
The defendant said that it was a business
controversy that ought to be settled in a
civil court. Justice White allowed him to
depart on his own recognizance.
is puzzling.’
engineer, having extricated himself fron?
his terrible position, climhfti up on the
track and, wounded and blefeding, walked
several miles, into Ooodwater, to wire the
authorities, at tho Central offices in Co
lumbus, of the disaster. . He then went
hack to the aid of his mangled crew.
FLAGMAN t MORGAN DEAD.
It was also reported last night that
Flagman Morgan, in" the midst of his suf
ferings, had the iifesenns of mind to reach
She Broke up the Bar-Room.
Wichita, Kan., Sept. 33.—When the
husband of Mrs. Mary Elmer failed to go
home Wednesday night she surmised that
he had been in a leading illegal liquor sa- jection well taken, and declares that the
loon. Arming herself with an axe she district will have to hold anotner elec-
went to the place yesterday morning. She tion.
had told the dealer that if he sold her hus- The Revision of the French Coustitution.
first case to be called is what is known as
the “Government Telephone case,” which
comes up on an appeal from the deci
sion of the lower court sustaining the de
murrer filed by the Bell Telephone Com
pany to the Government’s suits. The ques
tions involved are strictly legal ones, and
do not go into the merits. If the decision
of the lower court is sustained it will con
stitute an end to the Government’s suit,
bat if the court should overrale the court
below the case will then go back for trial
en its merits. There is a p>ssibility;that
the telephone suit, though at the head
of the iist, will not be first heard, on ac
count of Justice Matthews’.illness. Justice
Gray takes no part in the hearing of the
telephone causes, and there may be disin
clination on the part of the members of
cause of dissent that a number of the as
semblies whjch voted for the delegates
were ineligible from the fact that they had
not paid their dues to July 1st, as required.
Mr. Powderly. in his reply, finds the ob-
Died to Save His Hat.
Philadelphia, Sept. 30.—A passenger the court to proceed with only seven justi
on the Camden ferryboat, this morning,
not want to leave. Everybody is cheerful
and hopeful and earnestly at work.
NO FEVER IN TALLAHASSEE.
George M. Belton, M. D., President of
the Leon county Board of Health, tele
graphs from Tallahassee, denying the ru
mor that there is yellow fever there.
There la no yellow fever in Tallahassee
and no suspicious cases. The health of
tne city is excellent.
TWO DEATHS AND TWO CASES AT SANDER
SON.
A Sanderson special says that during the
last t w-n'y four hours two d-oaths, Mrs.
F. ink J Poos, Jr., and her infant; two new
cases, Mr. Pons, Jr., and a colored house
servant.
Jackson Not (Jalte Safe Yet.
Jackson, Miss., Sent. 30.—The official
bulletin ot the State Board of Health will
oe issued to morrow, declaring a continued
belief ia the existence of y«*low fever and
warning refugees not to return un
til a proclamation from the same
source be made that the danger
is pA3t. This measure is taken
onaccouatof the retara of a number of
peop e, whose courage had revived. For
was standing by the rail of the lower deck
when his hat blew off into the Delaware.
Although the boat was in mid-stream and
going fast, he jumped overboard for it.
There was no attempt to stop the boat,
tices. and they may postpone its hearing t * a day3 °° mail matWr peea Planted
.f W1 * to leave Jackson, so none of the inquiries
until Justice Matthews is able to resume 'received hav^ been answered, except by
his seat
Other cause3 which have been specially
assigned for hearing early (in the term are
one from Alabama involving the coostitn-
> The Close of His Jubilee.
Rome;, Sept. 30.—fThe Pope celebrated ban( j an y more liquor she would breakup Paeis, Sept. 30.—The Government will
high mass for the deafl in SL Peter s to-day ^ place. Finding the door locked she ask urgently for the revision ot the bill
to solemnize the close of his jubilee. The
congregation numbered 20,000 persons.
Admittance was by ticket. His holiness
was given an enthusiastic reception, and
was greeted with prolonged cries of vive.
THe appeared io be deeply moved.
/The first open-air meeting of unemployed
broke it down with the axe, broke open
an inner door and drove the barkeeper
from the house. In one of the roooras Mrs.
Elmer found her husband drank. This in
furiated her still more, and she broke the
glass in the bar-room, all the windows
and the furniture. When she hadcom-
workineu under the sanction of Premier pi e t € iy wrecked the p lace she gave the which contains no proposal to abolish
iT'Crispi, was held in the piazza Dante to- dranken husband a tew caffs, marched either the Senate or the Presidency. The
The speakers demanded State em- : him home and administered a first-class
which the Cabinet proposes to introduce
relative to the revision of the constitution
of France, and will consider the adoption
as a vote of confidence. The preamble
conveys the Government’s intention to op
pose all demands for a revision of points
other than those specified in the bill, j
and it continued on its way to the Jersey tionality of a law requiring railroad men
shore. Tne passengers were horrified to Be free from color blindness, and one of
see the man sink again after he came to familiar drummers’ tax suits. Four-
the surface, and as they did* not see him teen cases were taksn uniir advisement
rise, the supposition is that be was drown- when the court adjourned in May last, but
ed. He was not known to anyone on the ^ usual custom snonidlbe pursued no
boat, and is described as a thick-set man, opinions will be rendered in any of them
with a black mastache, and about thirty j until the third Moaday after the reassem-
years old. This afternoon the harbor bllog of the coarU The best kaown of
telegraph. Tne people regard this as one
of tne greatest hardships of the situation.
JUSTICE MATTHEWS.
old. This afternoon
police were searching and grappling for
the body. His bat was recovered by the
Tycoon yacht, whose commander saw the
man leap from the ferryDoat, and went to
his rescue.
these is the suit of Myra Ciark Gaines
against the city of New Orleans.
The Condition of the Eminent Jurist Said
to be Improved.
Washington, Sept. 33.—The condition
of Justice Matthews, who has been quite
sick for some time, grows more precarious
every day, although the seriousness of his
illness is studiously concealed by the at*
tendant physicians. Toe justice is suffer*
ing from a protracted attack of catarrhal
diarrhoea, the resme of improper digestion
sujierinduced by years of study and the
want of proper exercise. Tne mucous
day.
ployment.
A Cow Cause* a Wreek.
Chattanooga, Sept. 30.—A freight train
on the Cincinnati Southern railroad, south
bound, struck a cow six miles south of
Spring City, to-day at 10 a. m , and was
thrown from the track and badly wrecked.
Brakeman William Lonnon, of Cincinnati,
was killed, and Engineer Quigley, of Oak
dale, probably fatally injured. Theflr^
had an arm broken, and suffered
severe bruises, bat nothing serious. Slight
injuries were received by others of the
flogging with a boggy whip.
en*.
Tried to Burn Out “the Army.”
Nkuchatkl, Switzerland, Sept. 30.—
Daring concerted meetings of the Salva
tion Army at their various rendezvous to
night, sections of an apparently well or
ganized mob attacked the meeting house,
pourd on petroleum aad set Are to it. The
flames were pat oat end the partisans of the
Salvation Army gave oattle to the attack
ing party. A riot of considerable propor
tions ensaed, daring which many persons
were iqjored,
sole object is to restrict the financial pow
ers of tne Senate, and to deprive that Oody
of the right to dissolve the Chamber.
Everybody Want* to Strike.
Havana, Cuba, SepL 30.—Owing to the membrane of his stomach and intestines
continued strike of the cigarmakers and nas become so seriously inflmei by the
their threat to do mischief, 400 civil guards aLUck that the pati ent has been unable to
■ have been ordered here to patrol the
VirsiBii I’redits a Cyclone.
Ottowa, Sept. 30.—Wiggins, the weather
prophet, predict that a great cyclone is to
pass over the United States shortly. In
some mysterious manner he draws his cal
culations from the yellow fever epidemic
in Florida.
Warmer Weather.
Washington, Sept. 30.—The indications
for Georgia are wanner, fair, winds gener
ally aoutnw
^westerly.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEES.
A heavy frost is reported from Chatta
nooga. T.-n-- —* ~ >U1 „„„
The Southern Woolen Manufacturing principal streets and parks. The cigar and partake of food for several days. His wife
Company, of Louisville, made an assign- cigarette factories are under military pro- and daughters are at his bedside. Justice
, m ^ t »°. D h n m t ?hl a Lp 14biliti6< $30,000 and tection. The shoemakers arealso on a Matthews has been in Dad health for some
assets about the same. strike. The other anions MWeaten to
The Anuada flouring milis,of Toledo, O., i strike if the dgarmakers’ strike is
caught fire from the friction of the rollers * oAttlod.
yesterday and were burned. The loos is ,
about $150 000. A Benefit for Jacksonville.
Mrs. Sheridan, widow of Gen. Sheridan, j St. Paul, Sept. 30.—The performance of
and children, are on their way to Wash- [ Camille was given at the People’s Theater
nnjinr “ “•
not
lngton in company with Colonel Sheridan. 1 last night under the auspices ofthe Mason-
The proof sheeCa of the General’s memoirs tc fraternity for tha benefit of the ynllow
The reoeipte were $1,200.
months, and was not benefited by his sum
mer trip. He has been getting worse since
his return. His physician is In attendance
day and night, and has called in another
physician for consultation. The doctor
would only any, “He ia resting easier.’*
JnsUoe Matthews Is an ancle of Hon.
Henry Watteison.