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( THE MORNING NEWS, 1
s Established 1850. Incorporated 1888. >
I J. 11. ESTILL, President. )
BURNING UP WITH FEVER
fOURTEBN DEATHS AND 118 NEW
CASES THE DAY’S RECORD.
teventy-Two of the New Additions to
the Sick List are Negroes—Several
prominent Citizens on the List of
Unfortunates, and the Situation Not
Much More Hopeful.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 21.— Dr.
■seal Mitchell issues the following official
nillotin for the twenty-four hours ending
it 6 o’clock to-night:
Caw cases 118
{jeaths 14
fotH number of cases to date —1,582
Total number of deaths to date 196
DEATHS OF THE DAY.
To-day’s deaths are:
Mrs. Susan Zeither.
Laikd McCreary.
Mi'-s Ella Oulahan. >
Susie Laiuion.
W. Palmer.
J. VV. Foster.
Mr. Reagan.
Mr. Jenkins.
Mias Lula Smith.
John E. Seeley.
MiaS CONRADER.
Mrs. John Doyle.
Dr. Francis J. Gould.
John Stratton.
THE NEW CASES.
To-day’s new cases are:
Mrs. Jeffries.
E. M. Hunter.
Charles Marriox.
Two children of John McMurray.
Dr. F. E. Buck.
John Bryason.
Worthy Emery.
Willie Moor®.
Mr. Simmons.
Elizabeth Hoffman.
W. D. Williams.
Alice Frazier.
Dolly Smith.
James Baker.
J. S. Smith.
Mrs. Irene Baldwin.
A. J. I). Heins.
Emile Zollkr.
Fanny Goodrich.
A child of D. Y. Watson.
Mrs. Fanny Goodrich.
S. P. Bry-ant.
A child of M. Elliootl
Miss Maggie Jordan (relapse).
John Kennedy.
David Davis.
Ella Hudson.
Mrs. L. E. ZdINER.
C. T. West.
PI. Conway'.
M. D. Rocke.
Eddie Hays.
Miss Lydia Whitney
J. W. White.
Emma Taylor.
A child of William Burchfield.
A child of Katie Burchfield
Mr. Burchfield.
Paul Whitney.
Mrs. Bertha Miller.
Mrs. P. H. Griffin.
Mrs. R. D. Zahn.
Mrs. H. B. Brooks.
Mrs. I. A. Bohl.
W. C. Cooper’s son.
Elmo Acosta.
Of to-days new patients 46 are white, and
72 colored.
VERY DISHEARTENING
To-day inanv well know n and prominent
citizens are sick and tho situation to-night
is very disheartening.
Contractor W. A. .Me Du IF, a very prom
inent builder, was tak en sick this morning.
C. G. Elliott and J. L. Burch, both prom
inent citizens, the lattor a member of the
board of public works, were reported very
low this afternoon.
Dr. Mathows one of the city’s most
energetic physicians was also taken sick
to-day and is quite ill to-night.
One of tlie sad deaths this afternoon was
that of Mrs. Doyle, the wife of a prominent
merchant. She was about to become a
mother. The child died of yellow fever bo
foro being delivered, and yesterday an oper
ation was performed in hopes of saving tho
mother’s life, but she was too far gone, and
to-day she succumbed to the destroyer.
KILLED BY' THEIR MOTHER’S DEATH.
Two other sad deaths late last night wore
two girls at the Sand Hills named Smith.
They had been very ill, and were convales
cing, and were doing very well. Their
mother had been sick at St. Luke’s hospital,
and she died there the flay previous. Yes
terday, by some means, the younger of
the two obtained a eo y of the Timex-
I'nion, in which was her mother’s
•loath. SUo went weeping to her sister, and
was so weakened by her excitement and
grief that she fell down at her feet in a
dead faint. Her sistor was so alarmed that
she was seized with convulsions, and had a
relapse. The two sisters died almost simul
taneously several hours later. Such scones
are enacted daily and servo to koep the
hearts of the people heavy and their spirits
depressed.
COL. SOUTHMAYD IRRITATED.
Col. Fred Southmayd take* umbrage at
the reflections made' on some of tho s>-
called Cross nursei, and says their
ai rest and shipment to Camp Terry is an
outrage. He also borates Dr. Joseph Y.
Porter for his management of nlFuirs. and
says lie intends to lay his complaints before
President Daniel of tho Auxiliary Relief
Association, and if they are not attended to
there, ho pro|Kises to appeal to President
Cleveland himself. Dr. Porter, however,
has tlie confidence and esteem uf all Jack
sonville people, and his management of
affairs is universally approved and in
dorsed.
Drs. C. H. Mallet, Charles J. Burroughs
oud 11. It. Daniel are all doing well.
Rev. R. H. Weller isdoiag finely, and
Rev. A. W. Knight was discharged to-day.
EDITOR CARTER GOING TO ROME.
W. R. Carter, editor and part proprietor
of the .Metropolis , will leave soon for Rome,
Ga.. where ho Ims accepted a position on the
Trihu n unde.' his old chief, Mon. John T.
Graves.
'V. W. Douglass, Into of tho city staff of
the Metropolis, was out for the first time
yesterday since his recent attak of yelloiv
fever. Though decidedly w. nk lie managed
to get down on Bay street, whore ho was
met by innumerable friends an 1 acquaint
ances, who congratulated him on bis ro
eovery. As soon as ho is able Mr. Douglass
"ill Join his family in North Carolina.
THE DAY’S REOEiPTS.
The contributions to-day we it $12,700.
To-morrow Gamp Mitchell wilt be in
jected by a committee of colored m>u to
>< if their poople cannot bo induced to go
‘"'t t here.
DECATUR’S DESERTION.
Hundreds of Refugees Refused Entry
to Nashville.
Chicago, Sept. 21. —A dispatch from
Nashville, Tenn., says: “At a late hour last
night seventy refugees, who boarded a Lou
isville and Nashville train two miles south
of Decatur, arrived in this city. Officers
met the train at Mallory’s, six
teen miles out, and informed
the refugees that they could not be
permitted to stop at Nashville. Twelve of
the number had tickets for this city. Those
who didn’t pass through Decatur were
allowed to leave the train upon its arrival
here. The conductor reported that several
stopped at towns along the road. It was
learned that great excitement prevailed at
Decatur and that last night the people fled
iu all directions, going in vehicles and on
foot as trains were not permitted stop in
the city.
“It is reported that 100 more refugees from
Decatur will arrive in this city to-day.
Those will not, however, be allowed to get
off here.
“Most of those who went through are
bound for points north of the Ohio river."
birmingmam’s strictness.
Birmingham, Ala , Sept. 21. Since the
development of new cases of yellow fever
at Decatur an extra number of quarantine
officers have been employed to meet incom
ing trains, both freight and passenger. The
dirt roads leading into the city are closely
guarded and the sentiment of the city is to
adopt the shotgun policy if necessary to
enforce the quarantine, which lias never
been relaxed since Spencer’s death at
Decatur.
SELMA ON THE SAFE SIDE.
Selma, Ala., Sept. 21.—A dispatch from
Decatur this morning to the Times Mail
from Dr. Jerome Cochran, state health
officer, says: “I know of four cases of fover
here, and I believe there are others. The
local doctors have at last agreed that we
have yellow fever. The excitement is in
tense.” Selma is quarantined aguinst De
catur, Jacksonville, Fla., Jackson, Miss.,
ami all infected places. The city council
met this evening and adopted still more
stringent quarantine regulations. The
health of Selma is remarkably good. The
people are hopeful, and business is brisk.
DOORS BOLTED.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 21. —SpringSeld,
Tusoumbin, Athens and Limestone county,
Alabama, have quarantined against Deca
tur, Ala.
Vicksburg, Miss., has established abso
lute non-intercourse with Jackson, Miss.
La Grange, Tenn. ,has quarantined against
the world.
TWO DEATHS EXPECTED.
Birmingham, Ala., S-pt. 21.—A special
to the Herald from Dr. Jerome Cochran,
state health officer, who is now at Decatur,
Ala., says: “The local doctors now concede
that we have yellow fevor here. Two old
cases will die. To-day there are three or
four new cases. T>vo-thirds of the whole
people have left, and others are leaving by
ail possible ways. There are not enough
people loft to make a big epidemic. Only a
small section of the city is infected. No
mails can got out. There has evidently
been a focus of infection, independent of
Spencer’s case.”
Chattanooga’s course.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 21.—Chatta
nooga lias instituted a most stringent quar
antine against all infected points. No one
is permitted to enter tho city on any of tho
nine railroads without giving satisfactory
account of himself. The quarantine offi
cers board every train. Fifty-one mou are
thus employed.
The city council has adopted an ordinance
inflicting a fine of SSOO on any person enter
ing tho city from any infected district.
A large reward is offered for the apprehen
sion and conviction of such offender, and
for the conviction of any one harboring
such a refugee.
Memphis and Charleston railroad trains
stopping at Decatur, or within twenty miles
on either side, are forbidden entrance to
Chattanooga.
Meridian, Miss., was quarantined against
to-night, owing to a report that cases of
yellow fever have occurred there.
Chattanooga is enjoyiug the best of
health, and the county authorities are on
the alert, ar.d will go to any extreme to
keep refugees from the city.
TIGHT LINES AT NASHVILLE.
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 21, 10 p.m.—
The county health board to-day held a
meeting and decided to rigidly enforce
quarantine. Anyrefugees coming from in
fected districts of the south within the
borders of Davidson county will bo arrested,
lined and imprisoned as the law directs,
and detained for a period of ten days. Per
sons who hurbor such refugees, or fail to
report to the health board their presence,
when known, will be subject to arrest, fine
and imprisonment to the full extent of tho
law. The law permits arrest and a fine of
SSO in case of any person known to stop in
Nashville from an infected district.
MEMPHIS MORE CALM.
Absolute Non-Intercourse with the
Infected Districts.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 21, 10 p. m.—The
excitement which prevailed here to-day
over the intelligence of the outbreak of
fever at Jackson, Miss., has calmed in a
measure since the city authorities this
afternoon resolved to stop passenger travel
on all railroads east of the Mississippi river.
The pressure was so great from the people
for non-intercourse that a com
mittee of six from the cotton
aud merchants’ exchanges, who are
acting in couoert with the city authorities,
voted unanimously for the adoption of a
resolution favoring uon-intorcoun-e, and the
decree will bo rigidly iuforced commencing
ut noon to-morrow. Agents of all the roads
will be notified not to sell tickets for Mom
phis as no train will bo allowed to come
noarer tho city than ton miles, and a cordon
of armed pickets will guard the dirt roads
leading into Memphis, aud no one will be
allowed to on tor.
SAFETY CHEAP AT ANY COST.
The sentiment here is that Memphis can
hotter afford to spuro SIOO,OOO to keep tho
city free from infected poople than to have
even one cose of fever which would cost her
merchants millions of dollars in loss of
trade, not counting the lives of her citizens
which would be Jeopardized. The same
feeling prevails in tho statos of Loustuna,
Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama, ami
extends into Kentucky. Every town and
cit>’ from Cairo, ill., south to New Orleans,
has established u strict vuarantino against
infected points, aud in many instances
against tho world.
A SHOT GUN QUARANTINE.
A shotgun quarautino prevails along the
lino of the Illinois Central all the way from
New Orleans to Fulton, Ky., ami trams are
not allowed to stop at any of the stations
between Cairo, 111., and Canton, Miss. A
regular panic seems to have seized tho poo
ple, especially in the smaller •“••"or towns
where non-intercourse is tbo watchword,
armed men guard the roans leading into
those places. The lateness of the season ami
t I* uuar approach of c ol weather is lavor
able for the safety of those places not now
infected, aud a feeling of wou. ity wilt pre
vail, provided thoie to no further spread of
the fever from Jseason, Miss.,and Decatur,
Ala.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1888.
Telegrams sent early this morning to
Decatur, Ala., asking about the situation,
have not been answered.
While some uneasiness is felt here, yet
most active and stringent measures are
being put in force to keep out auy infected
passengers or freight. Memphis feels secure
from ail invasion of fever provided all the
energies of the people are directed
toward that end by enforcing
a strict quarantine against infected [xrints.
This plan is being carried out, aud ut a
meeting of the cotton and merchants’ ex
changes this morning a committee of six
was appointed to co-operate with the city
authorities iu the heroic efforts being made
to protect Memphis. The city at present is
healthy, and if money and vigilance are
the only requisites, Memphis will con
tinue so.
A non-intercourse quarantine will go into
effect at noon to-morrow. Telegrams from
Grenada, Corinth and other Mississippi
towns report a “shotgun” quarantine hav
ing been established against Dtcatur, Ala.,
Jackson, Miss., and other infected points.
It is reported that the Illinois Central trains
make no stop goitig north between Canton,
Miss., aud Cairo, HI.
FLOCKING INTO KENTUCKY.
Decatur’s Refugees Swarming all Over
the Blue Grass Region.
Louisville, Ky„ Sept. 21. —A train
from Decatur, Ala., which arrived this
morning brought to Kentucky between 200
and 300 yellow fever refugees from that
city. A large number left the train at the
smaller towns and have scattered through
the state. About sixty came on to this
city. Most of these had relatives or friends
to whoso homes they went. A few went to
the hotels but did not register from Decatur.
One of the refugees was found at the Louis
ville and Nashville office and said: “We
had to run the gauntlet through several
places in the south and had to conceal our
identity in order to escape being thrown
into quarantine.
THE SITUATION.
“When wo left Decatur there had been
four cases of fever reported, and I don’t
know how many have occurred since then.
For several days past there have been
rumors there that the scourge had broken
out, but tho officers of the board of health
believed that they could check the disease
and suppressed the facte in order to prevent
n panic. As soon as it became kno an the
wildest excitement prevailed, and all those
who could leave the city lost no time In do
ing so. There wore about 250 on the train l
loft on, but they dropped off at points a u
along the line, and not more than fifty
came to this city.
A TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS.
“A terrible state of affairs exists in all
Southern Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Florida. Business is practically dead.
Visitors shun the towns, and half the homes
are deserted. The suffering people need all
the help and sympathy that can be ex
tended to them."
LOUISVILLE NOT ALARMED.
Dr. J. W. McCormick, president of the
state board of health, and all the health
officers agree in saying that there is not the
slightest danger of fever in this city. The
train was stopped by Health Officer Galt at
a small station outside ot Louisville, and
all agreed to report hero to Dr. Galt, There
will De a special meeting of the state board
of health to-morrow to consider the situa
tion.
JACKSON’S INFECTION.
The Fever Supposed to Be the Result
of Excavating.
Jackson, Misa, Sept 21.—The excite
ment of yesterday was greatly increased
by three new cases this morning. No
deaths have yet occurred. It is generally
conceded that all tho cases originated here,
and were caused by excavations and dis
turbing filthy sewers on the depot grounds
during the past two months. Three fourths
of tho white population have fled. The
stores are nearly nil closed, and there is but
little food in the city for "the
can’t get aways.” No trains stop here.
A sptrial traiu will be furnished to-night
for such as wish to go through to the north,
taking on passengers some distance north of
the city.
The Howard, or Red Cross Society was
organized to-day.
SEVEN CASES AND TWO DEATHS.
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 21, 10 p. m.— Four
cases of yellow fever were reported to-day
—all the victims being workmen on the
new passenger depot of the Illinois Central
road.
The total number of cases to date is ssvon,
with one death.
There was also one death Wednesday,
supposed to be from yellow fever.
The Howard Association, that did such
noble work in 1878, was reorganized to-day,
aud has already assigned nurses. The asso
ciation has no means whatever, and must
relv upon contributions to meet expenses.
All trains are forbidden to stop here.
All stores, except the drug stores, are
closed.
Tho provisions havo nearly all been car
ried away by tho merchants, and the peo
ple who cannot get away are in a bad flx.
Nine-tenths of the white population, and a
few of the colored poople nave fled.
A special train on the Illinois Central
road took off a carload this evening to
points north.
A shotgun quarantine is now in force on
nearly all the dirt roads surrounding
Jackson.
every town on guard.
AU towns situated on or adjacent to any
railroad in Mississippi have quarantined
against Jackson, and in most cases shotgun
quarantines have been established, and an
omburgo placed on freight aud passenger
traffic from that point.
The “Little J” road, connecting Jackson
with Natchez and the Vicksburg and Mer
idian railroad, which connects Jackson
with Vicksburg, havo discontinued trains,
nnd communication but ween those points is
absolutely cut off.
It was reported bore that a portion of the
railroad track between Harrison and Vicks
burg has been torn up by tho frigbtenod
people in order to force trains to stop.
There is good ground for believing the re
port true.
LOUISIANA PRETTY SAFE.
There is scarcely nny fear that any
refugees wifi be able to run;h Loui-iuna or
New Orleans by river, for Jackson has neon
isolated, and people from there havo no
means of reaching tlie Mississippi river.
There is evidently a reign of terror iu aud
aliout Jackson.
A gentleman on his way from Birming
ham to Vicksburg, who wi forced to come
to Now Orleans from Moridian, said this
morning that he never saw |ample so fright
ened as are the Mi**i*sii>i>ians. They are
pauic-stncken with far that the scourge
may become general in their state. Sp-cinl
trains, ns requirod, will he sent to Jackson
by the Illinois t culral to c.iry north all
who wish to go.
Natchez excited.
New Orleans, Sept. 21.—A special to
the Picayune from Nalcoex, Mis-., dated
yesterday, says: “Thto oily is in n fover of
excitement to-night over the yellow fevor
report* from Jackson, aiul a shotgun quar
antine wifi be established at once. The
members of a larrn excursion oartr from
, Natchez, which visited Jackson, are shut
; out from their homes, all trains on tho
Natchez, Jackson and Columbus railroad
beyond Hamilton having beou stopiied. A
special train was sent out at 11 o’clock to
night to bring in the Natchez i>eoplr from
Cooper’s Wells, Harrington and other points
along tho road, who have not beou to Jack
son. By a shotgun quarantine in 1878 the
yellow fever was kept out of Natchez, and
it is believed it can be done again.”
WILD EXCITEMENT AT MERIDIAN.
Meridian, Miss., Sept. 21.—The nows
last night of yellow fever in Jackson set tho
town w ild, aud before an hour had elapsed
preparations had been begun by many to
get out of town on the first train, or by
private conveyance. This morning a train
from Jackson was Stopped two or
three miles out of town and all
the passengers were transferred to a
Northeastern train from Now Orleans
bound for Chattanooga. There were some
passengers on board for Meridian. These
were sent through, the train not being
allowed to stop in the city limits, but pas
sengers were allowed to get off a mile north
of Meridian and came back to town on the
southbound train in au hour after they had
been sent through. No trains will bo
allowed to como iu town from J ackson.
A NEW CASE AT GAINESVILLE.
The Patient a Member of the Guards—
Precautionary Measures.
Gainesville, Fla., Sept. 21.—One new
case of yellow fever developed here to-day,
that of Dr. M. Fitzmili.kr, one ot the
Guards who went to Fernand)na.
The weather is lovely.
The sick are doing well.
The city council to-nighc placed three
mounted police at the oomnmnd of the
board of health; ordered that no one be per
mitted in town from the country except be
tween the hours of 11 and 8 o’clock In the
dav; also that no refugee family be permit
ted to return to town until the board of
health decides it safe.
Col. H. F. Dutton placed SSOO to the
credit of the board of health.
CHATTAHOOCHEE CALM.
Visitors Not Received at the Asylum
—A Fight Over the Fever.
Chattahoochee, Fla., Sept. 21.—This
city has been somewhat quiet during the
last two weeks, notwithstanding the rav
ages of yellow fover in some parts of the
state.
Supt. Moseley, of the insane asylum, has
quarantined that institution against all
strangers who may come here with tho in
tention of seeing it.
A lady front one of the infected places
in East Vlorida passed here a few day's ago
en route for the west, hut upon arriving at
Pensacola she was immediately turned
back, aud when she got here she had no
place to go to. Mr. Rumph, of the Savan
nah, Florida and Western railway, said
that she should go on west, but Mr. Whit
taker, of the Pensacola and Atla tic, said
that she should not. Angry words ensued,
when Mr. Rumph walked over to Mr.
Whittaker and slapped hint in the face.
Trouble would have followed if they had
not been parted by some gentlemen. The
matter was settled by Mr. Whittaker tak
ing the lady to his house and entertaining
her.
FERNANDINA FREE.
An Official Denial of the Reporta of
Fever Cases.
Fkrnandina, Fla., Sept. 21.—Tho fol
lowing is furnished by the hoard of hoalth:
The board of health of Nassau county, basing
its opinion upon the individual knowledge
of its mem tiers and the unanimous approval of
the practicing physicians, the latter being yei
low fever experts, states most positively and
emphatically that there is not now. and has not
been for ten years, a case of yellow fever in tills
city. The lioard denounces as false any state
ments to the contrary, and oallh upon Surgeon
General Hamilton to investigate our condition,
or publicly acknowledge his mistake in creating
the impression that this place is infected.
H. E. DoTTEHBR,
President of the Hoard of Health.
We, the undersigned citizens of Fernandina,
fully Indorse the above, and state that we have
the fullest confidence in our board ot health
and physicians, and accept this assurance that,
should a case of yellow fever occur here, the
fact will lie promptly announced. John Harr,
mayor; W. A. Mahoney, collector of customs;
Charles W. Lewis, acting postmaster; D. K
Maxwell, general superintendent of the Florida
Railway and Navigation railway:. Fred W.
Hoyt, president of the Bank of Fernandina;
J. A. Edwards, clerk of the circuit court.
LAKE WEIR APPREHENSIVE.
The Little Outbreak at Gainesville
the Cause.
Lake Weir, Fla., Sept. 21.—Until a
day or two ago the people of Marion county
felt themselves safe from the ravages of
yellow fever. They had a quarantine
against Jacksonville, Tampa and Plant City
which so fur had proved effective, though
loosely conducted; but since the fever has
broken out among the militia of Gaines
ville, who bad been to Fernandina to sup
press the rioters, the people are becoming
alarmed, nnd fear what u day may
bring forth. The citizens of Lake Weir
met a day or two ago and parsed resolu
tions declaring that none of their vacant
houses should be rented to refugees from
any place, and no suspect* allowed in the
community. Up to date Marioh county
has been unusually healthful. The mails
have become irregular again.
ALBANY’S SICK NEGRO.
Many People Believe That He is a
Fraud Instead of a Refugee.
Albany, Ga., Sept. 21.—Albany has no
yellow fever, but somo of tho small towns
have quarantined against it. Leary and
Dawson are quarantined, and Pol ham is
quarantined against everything coming
from Albany except the jug*. Pelham is a
dry town. Tlie fever suspect at tlie quar
antine hospital has au enormous ap[>etite,
aud run a hog down to-day ttiat was dis
turbing him by rooting around his tent.
Many believe that he is a tramp negro, who
ha* fooled the doctors to be taken care of.
Burgeon General Hamilton was tele
graphed to by Mayor Woolfolk t> send an
ex|iert at the city’s expense to determine
positively whether the case at tile qu arart
tine hospital is really a case of yellow
fevor. He has not replied.
ATLANTA 3 ADVICES.
Supt. Turner Gets a Dispatch from
Jackson—No Word from Texas.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 21.—Supt. Turner,
of the railway mail service, has received
the following telograin from the postmaster
at Jackson, Mis*.: “There are three well
developed cuses of yellow fever here and
one death. The ii:ictor* so pronounce it.
There is a perfect penio here. The mail
service from this source will lie given more
trouble by the fover. For tho prisont all
through mail will go around Jacks in.”
Gov. Gordon ha not ’yot hoard from the
governor of Texas in reply to bis tologram
yu*teritay in regard U: fevor. Gov. Gordon
says he expected a telegram this morning
and is surprised that none has come.
•Sunt. Turner has received a teles ram
from John G. Mann, superintendent of the
Now Orleans division of the Illinois Central
railroad, saying: "Nono of our trains are
allow ini to stop nt Jackson, Miss., and
nearly all the stations on our line have
quarantined against Jackson.” Supt. Turner
lias wired Supt. Mann, t > have tho Jackson
mail put off at tho nearest station, and to
send a switch engino with a transfer clerk
to tho station for tho mail.
WAYCROSS OUT OF MONEY.
Tho Government Asked to Keep Up
the Local Quarantine.
Wayoross, Ga. , Sept. 21. —The following
preamble and resolutions were adopted at a
miss meeting of citizens hero to-day:
YV h tin has. Owing to the position of YVaycross
as a railroad center and general distributing
tioint, and being the principal gateway into
•’lorida and the main outlet from the yellow
fever districts, it is therefore all important to
the entire country, and especially to the cities
lying immediately northeast niid west of us,
that a rigid quarantine should be maintained ai
this point to prevent the introduction and
spread of said disease, and
Whkrkas, The mayor and council of Way
cross have already gone to the limit of taxation
allowed by the charter, and have exhausted all
the funds thus raised, as well as private contri
butions made by the citizens for the purpose of
placing tho town in good sanitary condition and
in supporting said quarantine; and
YVhkkbas, Without pecuniary assistance the
authorities hero will he forced to relax their
efforts in this direction; therefore, he it
Resolved, By tlie citizens of Wayoroßs, in
mass meeting assembled, that the general gov
eminent through Surgeon General Hamilton lie
requested to aid financially the mayor and conn
cil in maintaining a rigid quarantine here.
Resolved further, That a copy of these resn
hitlers tie furnished tlie associated press and
Surg on General Hamilton.
MUSTN’T HARBOR REFUGEES.
The Mayor of Jesup Issued a Precau
tionary Order.
Jkbup, Ga., Sept. 21. —Tho mayor issued
the following order to-day:
In view of the great danger of tho Introduc
tion of yellow fever In our midst.it is ordered
by the authority aforesaid, that it shall, aud
will he a violation of the quarantine regulations
for any citizen, boarding house or hotel keeper
to keep or entertain for utiy length uf time, any
person or person from any infected place, un
less provided with proper health certificates.
Any violation of the above order w ill he dealt
with as prescribed in seotton I*. article 1 of tlie
code of Jesup. John Mashky-, Mayor.
SUITS OUT OF A QUARANTINE.
The Eecembia Board of Health Sued
By Fourteen Vessels.
Pensacola, Fla., Sept. 21.— Among the
vessels tlmt arrived at this point during
this season since the establishment of quar
antine were fourteen that have commenced
suit against tlie hoard of health of this
county for $28,000, the suit being to recover
funds that these vessels paid into the
hands of the board of health, and
for ulloged excessive damages by reason of
such payment. While the suits are osten
sibly in tho names of the vessels, these ves
sels only reported to three consignees, and
os they are more interested in tho result of
the suit than are the vessels, for tlie latter
have long since left port, it is believed that
tbo consignees aud charterers are the insti
gators of tho suit.
GARNISHMENTS SERVED.
Simultaneously with the commencement
of the suit guarnishrnonte were served on
all banks and persons with whom it was
thought probable the lioard of health would
or were likely to have funds, which would if
accomplished seriously cripple and hamper
the board of health in their operations at this
critical juncture when vigilance is-required
in maintaining an efficient quarantine
against infected districts. A majority of
the local merchants, in fact all except tho
three stated, condemn this action, ami the
citizens have offered to the lioard unlimited
pecuniary assistance, and the efficiency of
tho board’s quarantine regulations will be
maintained. The city is perfectly healthy.
There is less sickness and a
rate titan at any time this soosour tor the
past live years.
HAMILTON VERY HOT,
His Thermometer Outdoes the One In
the Local Signal Office.
Washington, Sept. 21.—Dr. Hamilton,
surgeon general of the marine hospital
service, returned to the city to-night from
Camp Perry, near Jacksonville, whore he
has been superintending the work of im
proving tlie refugee camp. Tho work of
organization, he says, has been finished,
and the camp is now iu splendid condition.
“In fact,” said the doctor, “it is in as good
condition as a camp can bo made, in my
judgment. There are a couple more build
ings to bo built, including the laundry.
Fifteen buildings arrived the day I left,
ready to be put into position, and by
Sunday we will lie able to accommodate
500 people. I should think that tho number
of new cases at Jacksonville probably
reached its maximum to-day. There ure
now only about 1,100 or 1,200 white persons
free from tbo disease in the town. The
climate, however, is simply terrible. Tho
weather is very hot in Florida, and when I
passed througn Savannah, Ga., I noticed
that the thermometer registered 94”.”
THE PEOPLE MORE FRIENDLY.
The tone of the people of Florida toward
him, the doctor said, had greatly changed
and they now feel that the marine hospital
service was in the light. It would never
do, he said, to let people pass freely to the
north without quarantine. While the
weuther was cool aud there was little danger
of the disease becoming virulent, the places
thoy went to would become centers of infec
tion from which tho disease might spring
next sea-on. “Besides," said tho doctor, “if
you do not detain them, how are
you goin£ to know that they don’t go
to places in the south. I see it stated that
the people of Jackson, Ml**., who are sick
with fover had not boon out of town, but I
think it wifi be found that the disease was
caught from some infected person if the
matter is closely investigated. Somo of
these people who talk about, seme-less
quarantine should go into the fever district
and see w hat thoy could do with it at short
range.”
A STITCH IN TIME.
Some Rather Distant Cities Declare
Strict Quarantine.
Bt. Louis, Bept. 21.—A s|teclal to tho
Tost-Dispatch, from Cairo, IU., says: “This
city to-day established quarantine against
all trains from tho south on tlie Illinois
Central nnd Mobilo and Ohio roads. All
passengers from the north wifi be compelled
to have health certificates.
EVEN THE MAILS SHUT OUT.
Helena, Ask., Sept. 21.—A strict quar
antine has been declared. Trains from the
south are not jiernittted to even discharge
mud.
LITTLE ROCK RESTLESS.
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 21.— The news
of the appearance of yellow fever at Jack
son. Miss., created considerable uneasiness
in this city.
Uov. Hughes appointed a state hoard of
health this morning.
No ttarges are allowed to croa* the river
at Arkansas City unless they have health
certificate*.
The city authoritl** have Quarantined
against Jackson and Grenada, Miss.;
Decatur, Ala., and all Florida points. The
force of sanitary officers has been doublod.
Twenty passengers from Mississippi have
boon turned back, and not allowed to cross
the river.
TIIK WORLD SHUT OUT.
West Point, Miss., Sept. 91.—West
Point to-day closed her gates, not only
against the fever-stricken districts, but
against the world. The Aberdeen branch
or the Illinois Central railroad will shut
down operations to-night, and it Is very
likely that the last train on the Mobilo and
Ohio has been permitted to stop hero.
Armed police are scouring the city, and
every precaution will be taken to prevent
tLit' appearance of the terrible plague here.
These facts show the feeling generally pre
vailing in all the interior towns in Missis
sippi.
A FBVEB PHILANTHROPIST.
Off from Augusta to Jacksonville to
Work without Remuneration.
Augusta, Ga., Bept. 21.—Judge Milo
Olin, a prominent magistrate, leaves here
in the morning for Jacksonville to offer his
services as a nurse of the victims of yellow
fever there. Ho was prostrated with the
sickness in his early manhood, and alter
his recovery devoted much study to the dis
ease. He has nursed in Norfolk, Now Or
leans, Memphis and several other
points where fever threatened to
exterminate the community. He was
also a valuable authority on the disease in
Savannah during the fever there. He is a
prominent honorary member of the How
ard Association, and they have showered
on him many honors. He is very eccentric,
is about 70 years of age, and has great an
tipathy to newspaper notoriety, and much
of his work is done among the
poor who cannot afford skilled medical
attention. All the medical authorities
acknowledge his groat familiarity w ith the
disease, and when the president of the
Memphis board of health had the disease in
his family he wanted Judge or Dr. Olin, os
ha was then called, to at tend thn stricken
ones. He refuses all remuneration for his
services, and insists on paying his own ex
penses.
No Neod for Alarm In the North.
Washington, Sept. 21.—Dr. John H.
Rauch, secretary of the Illinois state board
of health, ami chairman of the committee
of epidemics and quarantine of the national
conlerence of the state boards of health, is
in the city. I)r. Rauch said to-night that
the season was too far advanced for the
spread of yellow fever in localities as far
north us this, and that there was no cause
for alarm hero, or iu Philadelphia or New
York.
No Aid. Needed at Hendersonville.
Hendersonville, N. C., Bent. 21. —The
following is furnished for publication in
tho News:
Parties having contributions for the yellow
fever refugees a this place will please forward
them lo Jacksonville, as assistance Is not needed
here. We are net the set of paupers as repre
sented throughout the country.
J, K. T. Bowden,
Chairman Refugee Relief Committee.
How Chicago Can Help.
Chicago, 111., Bept. 21. —The mayor
this morning received a telegram from Dr.
Neal Mitchell, president of the Jacksonville
board of health, saying that they needed no
physicians, but did need acclimated female
nurses. Any such who apply to the mayor
will lie furnished transportation to Jack
sonville or other fever infected points.
Montezuma’s Quarantine.
Montezuma, Ga.. Bept. 21.—The health
authorities of Montezuma this morning
established quarantine against ail jaunts
south of Ainericus. Inspectors will inspect
all trains from the south. Passengers and
freight will not bo allowed to stop here
without a satisfactory Health certificate.
Florida's Relief Bill.
Washington, Bept. 21.—1n the House
to-day, Mr. Dougherty of Florida, asked
unanimous consent for the passage of the
Senate joint resolution appropriating
$ loo, (XX) for the relief of the yellow fever
sufferers. Mr. Kilgore of Texas objected.
A Check from an Athenian.
Athens, Ga., Bept. 21.—Moses Meyers, a
prominent Israelite and merchant of this
{dace, to day scut his check for $55 toward
wiping the yellow fever sufferers at Jack
sonville.
EMIN BEY’S RELIEF.
Prof. Jamieson Dead -More About the
Barttelott Expedition.
Berlin, Bept. 21. —The Cologne Gazette
jileads for united action by Eugland, Ger
many, Belgium and the Congo Btate in an
endeavor to relieve Emin Bey, There is no
time or reason, it says, for jealousies.
Europe’s honor and prestige with the
Africans are ut stake. Thu Gazette pro
poses u Germua uxjexlition from oast, and
an English and Belgium expedition from
the Upper Congo, to meet at Victoria
Nyanzu.
SAD STORIES CONFIRMED.
London, Bept. 21.—Capt. Van Ode con
firms the stories of heavy mortality and
scarcity of food in Maj. Bnrtlelotl’s camp.
He says that the military escort was much
too small for such a dangerous journey,
consisting of only thirty Soudanese and
seventy Zanzibaris, and that the latter
were inclined to mutiny.
Mrs. Jamieson received a telegram from
her husband a few days ago warning her
against the false reports spread by Assad
Farran, the dismissed interpreter. Prof.
Jamieson is a relative of members of the
Dublin whisky linn of that name. He con
tributed £15.000 to the fund for tho exjiedi
tion.
GLADSTONE’S CABINET,
Conflicting Claims on lta Action Rela
tive to Parnell.
London, Sept. 21.—lord Solborn, who
was Lord High Chancellor in Gladstone's
last cubiuet, has Mint a communication to
the 1 iine.i, in which he says that he rocently
addressed an inquiry to John Bright, Joseph
Chamberlain, lord Hartington, Lord
Northbrook anil Lord Carlingford, who
were also members of the same cabinet, in
reference to Mr. Gladsl one’s nsiertlo i in his
review of the life of William K. Forster
that tho cabinet in ISB2 unanimously do
ubled that Mr. Parnell and other
slisjrected moiuliers of thn House of
Commons were not implicated in the crime
tliat prevailed in Ireland. Lord Bolboru
statue that each of tho gentlemen addressed
hue replied to his inquiry, ami that each
denies that such a question was raised in
the cabinet, l/ird He!born says that, thoi e
fore, there could have been no uuuubnity
on the subject, Mr. Gladstone j>rorinses to
produce documentary evidence iu answer
to Lord Holborn’s statement.
Russian Bullion.
St. Petkhhhurci, Bept. 21.—The Journal
Je St. I'etrrulmrg says: “Tile comptroller,
assistant Hnaiicu minister and bourse com
mittee bavu made an Investigation to ascer
tain the amount of bullion in the Imperial
bank, and found it to lie 221,472,495 roubles,
in addition to the 15,000.000 roubles guaran
tee avamst tbs usw credit notea”
I DAILY, #lO A YEAR )
-( ft CENTS A COPY. k
I WEEKLY, $1 lift A YEAR. |
CENTRAL IN A BOND DEAL
DREXEL, MORGAN & CO., TAKE A
BIG BLOCK OF 5 PER CENTS.
The Purchase Not Less Than $5,000,-
000, and Will Probably be $10,000,-
OOO—The Issue a 40-Year Collateral
Trust —Gen. Alexander Gets the
Glorv of Its Negotiation.
New York, Sept. 21. —It was whispered
in Wail street to-day, among those best in
formed in southern railroad matters, that
the Central ruilroud of Georgia had made a
big ltond deal with Drexel, Morgan & Cos.,
but tho particulars were not generally
known. By close inquiry the News
correspondent guthered tho follow
ing facts: Recently the Georgia Cen
tral directors authorized tho issue
of #10,000,000 of 15 per cent forty-year cob
lateral trust gold bonds, to be sold :is
needed. It is said that President E. P.
Alexander has been conducting the nego
tiations for several weeks, and that ho to
(lay sold Drexel, Morgan & Cos. $5,000,(X)0
of these bonds, jrositively, and practically
dossil the bargain with them for the re
maining #5,000,00(1.
EXAMINING THE COLLATERAL.
The collateral trust for the security of
the bonds is now being examined by the at
torneys of Drexel, Morgan & Cos., and if
found satisfactory, the big trade will Ire
immediately dosed. This elimination is
scarcely more than a matter of form, si .ee
all tho dolalls have been thoroughly dis
cussed and mutually agreed upon by the
contracting parties. The prion paid for the
bonds is kept secret, but it is reliably
stated that the terms of the purchase are
very flattering to the credit of the Georgia
Central company.
This is the largest transaction that Wall
street has made in any southern railroad
security since the war, and shows the steady
growth of confidence in the new south us a
field for investment.
EFFECTS OF THE FEVER.
All southern stocks were weak on ’change
to-day, owing to the distressing reports of
tho wider spread of yellow fever.
Louisville and Nashville, Richmond
Terminal, Norfolk and Western, and Ten
nessee Coal and Iron shares suffered the
sharpest declines.
The big bond salo by tho Georgia Central
to such sagacious financiers as Drexel, Mor
gan & Cos. shows that the depression in
southern properties oil the exchange is
more the result of the manipulations of
speculators than any disturbance of confi
dence.
LEOIBLATION FOR OEORGIA.
Savannah’s Public Building -Payment
for Occupation by Troops.
Washington, Bept. 2J.- The supervising
architect of the treasury will do everything
in his power to conform to the suggestions
of Postmaster l-amar uml Judge Speer as
to the Savannah public building. Ho was
anxious to get their ideas aud will meet
them as far as he can.
Mr. Clements got through the House to
day the bill for the payment of #5,000 to
the First Baptist church at Cartersville for
its use by federal troops during the war;
also, with the help of Mr. Crisp, the bill to
pay #5,000 to the Catholic church at Dal
ton for the same reason.
Mr. Grimes got through the bill paying
8. H. Hill #1,250 for the rent of buildings
under contract for the occupation of fetleral
troops during the time from April to De
cember, 1H64.
Mr. Holtnau objected to this, on tho
ground that it would serve to establish a
costly precedent, bnt Messrs. Blount and
Grimes answered htin so successfully, that
no one but Mr. Holman voter! against the
bill.
Franco Don’t Bollove It. - ;
Paris, Sept. 21. —Admiral Krautz, min
ister of marine, received a telegram from
Tahiti yesterday, but no mention was made
in it of any fighting in the Marquesas group.
In official circles, therefore, no credit ia
given to the report received at Han Fran
cisco that 200 French marines and thou
sands of natives had lawn killed
The government officials state that the
Marquesas gn-up has been under French
protection since 1842. A few gen d’armea
have always sufficed to maintain peace and
uphold the authority of France.
Stromboll'a Volcano.
London, Hept. 21. —The volcano on the
island of Htromboli is in a state of active
eruption. Hteauiers passing the island re
port that instead of the u.tntl thin vapor
which arises from the era-'or there is a con
stant column of flame. The deck of the
steamer Duchess of Sutherland, while pass
ing the island on her wny to Naples, waa
covered with ashes. Clouds of dust sur
round the mountain for a distance of tea
miles.
Prof. Jamloson Perishes.
Uhushels, Sept. 21.—Advices from Stan
ley Falls state that Prof. Jamieson, who
was engaged in organizing an expedition
for the relief of Henry M. Htanley, died of
African fever at ilangalas, on the Congo,
on Aug. 17. The organization of another
relief expedition is now regarded as pos
sible.
Explosion and Fire.
Paris, Hept. 21.—An explosion has oak
curred in a uniinite factory at Haint Omar.
Masses of burning debris were carried 300
yards by the force of the explosion. Before
the Annies were subdued six factories ami
two houses were burned.
Cotton Mills on Short Tim*.
London, Sept. 21.—The executive corns
mittoe of the Cotton Spinners’ Association
met at Manchester to-day and unanimously
adopted the proposition to run the mills od
short time in order to defeat the speculative
ring.
Zurich's Social Democrat.
ZURICH, Sept. 21.—The owners of the
(Firman paper, the Social Democrat, fears
iug that it would be suppressed by the
authorities, have removed its office to Lou
don.
Greece's Vigorous Proteat.
Athens, Sept. 21.—The minister of for
eign affairs has written u vigorous note to
the porto in relation to the recent seizure of
a Urcek vessel at Chios.
Cholera in Portuguese India.
London, Sept. 21.—The foreign office an
nounce* that all the port, in Portuguese
India are infected with cholera.
Fearful Work by Floods.
Madrid. Hept. 21.—Hundreds of live*
have been lost through floods in Aluieria,
Many i*>rsoni are ruined.
A Cyclone In Arkansas.
Little Rock. Ark., Sept. 21.—Aeyclon*
pus 1 over Mammoth Springs, Fulton
county, to-day tit noon. Seven bouses were
wrecked, tree* blown down and the cor*
and cotton crops are said to be ruined)
Several people were injured, but no one li
reported killed.