Newspaper Page Text
( THE MORNING NEWS, I
. Established 1850. Incorporated 1888. V
( J. H. ESTILL, President. \
SWEEP OF THE SCOURGE.
feT. AUGUSTINE LOOKED UPON
WITH SUSPICION.
A Case at Callahan—No Denial of the
Reports of Small-Pox at B’ernandina
—The Situation at Jacksonville Im
provina—Only 6 Deaths and 70 New
Cases Reported by the Official Bulle
tin— Only 13 of the New Patients
White.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 30. —The of
inl bulletin for the twenty-four hours end
ing at 0 o’clock to-night, reads as follows:
few cases VS
heaths •• 6
hotel number of cases to date 3,626
total number of deaths to date 554
To-day’s deaths are:
Edward Williams.
Mrs. H. Governor.
W. W. Sampson (colored).
William T. Pyles.
James Hall.
Shad Miller (colored).
To-days new cases among the whites are:
W. T. W right.
Ida Frank.
Annie Jackson.
P. L. McDaniels.
Miss Grace McDaniels,
jl. G. Gertdorf.
Frank Lopez.
Anita Villret.
Emil Lormy, a nurse.
E. H. Elam.
John Dixon.
William Smith.
An infant of Mr. Mead.
To-day’s total is made up of 13 whites
Ind <56 negroes.
a more cheerful outlook.
The situation to-day seems greatly im
proved. The- weather was blight and
many of the convalescents and sick took
Idvantage of it by indulging in sun I aths.
E. W. Drake, a Harry Miner nurse, is at
Ibe hospital very low. Several others were
taken s:ck last night. Four nurses arrived
10-day—Mrs. Jerome from New York, and
three men from Philadelphia. The latter
v era advised to return home, as there were
tlready here more nurses than could be well
unployed.
ST. AUGUSTINE UNDER SUSPICION.
The existence of fever ac St. Augustine is
Itrongly hinted at. There have been sev
eral deaths there lately and many reports of
' dengue” fever. The latest phase of crazi
hess at St. Augustine is the refusal of all
mail from this city, letters being returned
marked refuse). The small-pox rumors
from Fernandi na to-day seem bettej authen
ticated than ever. A letter from there,
written three days ago, to a citizen here
•peaks or six or eight cases, and says that
the negroes are catching it. These rumors
fre .ted considerable excitement here.
:'A special from Fernandina to the Times-
Union says:
Twenty-live cases of all kinds are under treat
ment. All the sick are doing well. The only
problem Is to feed the unemployed laborers,
wh . have been quiet and well behaved so far.
The iienple now here do not want to leave. The
people are cheerful and hopeful, aud earnestly
ll work.
Dr. J. H. Caldwell left for Camp iPerrv
to-day.
CASHIER BAKER DYING.
Late to night it is learned that Cashier
W. N. Baker of the State Bark of Florida
(the institution of which Hon. H. A.
L’Englo, who died two weeks ago, was
manager,) is lying at the point of death.
MR. SCHUMACHER’S REPORT.
James M. Schumacher, acting for the
conference colunuttee, has made tue follow
ing report of sundry matters to the Auxili
ary Associatiou:
1 The matter of Dr. Eehmendia and the ferm
enting corps being placed under government
Control and pay has been submitted by the
board of health to Dr. Pot ter aud by Dr. Porter
to Surgeon General Hat.liltou. As soon as ad
vices are received respecting this matter this
committee will bo notified.
2. In relation to discontinuing the sanitary
fuarcts, now doing police duty in the city,
hairman Ktanse.ll is fully informed respecting
the views of the board und has a list of such
guards as the board deem necessary; that all
except those set forth in this list may be very
projierly discontinued, and perhaps in the dis
cretion‘of your committee some doing special
duty that are named in that list may he re
tained.
3. In the matter of male nurses not employed.
The hoard of health will consult with your
chairman of the bureau on nurses and medical
aid. The authority to discharge them in the
future will be delegated to Dr. Porter. Cer
tificates of their time and compensat on per
iliem will be banded to the chairman of the
committee on nurses and medical aid. Trans
portution is recommended to those physicians
and nurses who have come at the request of the
board of health ana you are requested to auth
orize your committee on transportation to pro
vide such persons with transportation when re
quested to do so by the board of health in due
form.
4. The board of health adopted a resolution
making all drug stores free to supply me feints
on the prescriptions of all duly authorized and
accredited physicians who are registered at the
bureau of nurses und medical aid. The resolu
tion provides that all prescriptions must be in
ordinary form and so th.A they can be under
stood by all druggists.
5 Tlie board or health takes decided ground
respecting tlio physicians who do not report
their cases as yellow fever. The government
aid cannot he extended to the patients of such,
ai. 1 its it is probable that there is only one, to
"it, Hr. I.cites, now remaining lu contempt, it
is recommended by your committee on confer
ence that u sitecial committee be delegated to
sc Dr. Bettes to submit to him the reasons of
t 1 is association for desiring him to comply with
tite rules of the board of health.
6. The board of health requests that D. H.
•V nnedy be permitted to act with your com
initiee ou claims as a representative of the
board of health, and that he be made a memlier
of that committee if that cau be properly done.
THE REQUEST GRANTED.
Acting upon the recommendation of the
conference committee, Mr. D. H. Kennedy
'vas nominated and elected a member of
the cominittco on claims, and Acting Mayor
Gerow was requested to explain the po-ition
of his committee to Dr. Bettis.
The men who have been working on the
streets were paid off last night, and some
of the barrooms did a good busi ess in con
sequence. Dr. C. J. Kenworthy’s force has
he"h steadily at work cleaning up the city,
i hey have cleaned over 1,000 closets in two
We. ks.
Business seemed to be livelier yesterday,
-•tuny people were on the str ots, und u
Rfeater variety of fruit and vegetables
could be seen in the market than for many
hays past
A DEPOT AT CAMP PERRY.
f 'liairman Osborne, of the transportation
committee, h.is received word that Surgeon
Dutton, in charge at Camp Ferry, lm-> had
il depot constructed near tho railroad, In
" ucu the trunks of refugees may be stored
"ml" they are pas ing thoir period of quar
”n,|ne. At the end of that time the trunks
Will be delivered td their owners, who can
chock them to such points as they may wish
*° Journey. This will be welcome news to
i e C’|,le who contemplate a stay in the camp.
It is also announced authoritatively that
reltigees going into the camp without liar
l* n g previously made provision ior their
irsiisjsirtation northward from ihe.e, must
shut lor themselves when discharged.
THE MESSENGER BOYS.
The fund now being raised in New York
and elsewhere for the benefit of the tele
graph operators of Jacksonville does not
include the messenger bovs who have stuck
to their post manfully during the preva
lence of the epidemic. There are six of
these at present on dutv —Charles S.
Greenwood, Charles H. Dingel, J. 8.
Campbell, D. Mahoney, F. DeMedicis,
?tid W. D. Davis. These boys
intend to start out to-morrow morning
with a subscription list for themselves as
thej' find it difficult to maintain themselves
on the pay of 2 cents a message. Business
is prostrated and very few messages are
being received.
An immense amount of extra work bas
been piled upon the operators in the trans
mission of press matter, but the boys derive
no revenue from this branch of the tele
graph busines--. The business men of Jack
sonville will to-morrow be asked to con
tribute to this fund.
LOOKING OUT FOR NEXT YEAR.
To prevont the occurrence of yellow fever
in infected houses during the present season,
and next summer,all infected articles of bed
clothing and wearing apparel worn by the
sick are to be disinfected. To accomplish
the end bed clothing and all infected gar
ments will be steeped in a solution
of corrosive sublimate for at least
six hours, and will then be boiled for at least
half an hour and dried. An ample supply
of a solution of corrosive sublimate is Kept
on hand at the corner of Forsyth and New
uan streets. Applicants are supplied with
the solution and directions for its use upon
application.
OVERCOATS COMFORTABLE.
For several nights overcoats have proved
comfortable to those who have been weak
ened by the prevailing disease, and to-night
is almost cool enough to mako ouo dream
of hoar frost and snow storms. For three
or four days past the resident physicians
have found time for some rest, and to-day
even the medical bureau was a rather
quiet place, the calls for doctors
being comparatively few. Dr. C. J. Ken
worthy, the city health officer, said to-day
that the epidemic which seems to have gone
out to the suburbs is rapidly abating, and
there is much lass sickness in the outlying
wards than was the case a week ago.
RESOLUTIONS ON DR. EDDY’S DEATH.
The medical staff of visiting and home
physicians assembled this afternoon at the
headquarters in the Barrs block to adopt
suitable resolutions on the death of their as
sociate, Dr. L. T. Eddy. After several very
laudatory addresses, the following preamble
and resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, It has pleased a divine providence
to call from our midst our beloved brother and
friend. Dr. L. T. Eddy of Louisville; and
Whereas, We admire the grand, noble and
self-sacrificing impulse to which he responded
so cheerfully and quickly, and the tireless
charity with which he labored, the absolute
forgetfulness of self in exposing himself con
stantly to a deadly pestilence: and
Whereas, There was no thought of reward
of ever so faint a shadow for the Christian fight
in which he fell, be it
Resolved, That we mourn for our dead hero,
and the stricken of Jacksonville have lost a
faithful and fearless champion and we an hon
ored counselor aud an invaluable friend: and
be it
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions he
sent to his family, to the press of his native city
and the public at large.
J. Y. Porter, M. D.,
L. C. Carr, M. D„
F. H. Caldwell, M. D.,
B. F. Sheftall, M. I),
Chairmen of each committee of the visiting
medical staff.
JACKSON’S REFUGEES.
A Proclamation Warning Them Not
to Return at Present.
Jackson, Miss., Sept. SO.—The official
bulletin of the state board of health will be
issued to-morrow declaring continued belief
in the existence of yellow fever here, and
warning refugees not to return until a
proclamation from the same source to be
made hereafter, when the danger may be
considered past.
REFUGEES RETURNING.
This measure is taken on account of the
return of a number of people whose cour
age had revived. For ten days no iuaii
matter lias been permitted to leave Jack
son, so none of the anxious inquiries re
ceived have been answered except by tele
graph. The people regard this as one of
the greatest hardships of the situation. The
postoffice department should nth >rd relief so
as to take letter mail after disinfection.
TWO DIE AT DECATUR.
Fifteen Cases Said to bo Now Under
Treatment There.
Memphis, Sept. 30.—The following has
been received by the Associated Press:
Decatur, Ala., Sept. 30. 1888.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Inman both died last
night. So far as I can learn there are 15
cases now under treatment here. Dr. Black and
Mr. Arnheiter are dangerous.
Jerome Cochran, State Health Officer.
FROST AT CHATTANOOGA.
The City Will Still be on Guard Despite
Its Arrival.
Chattanooga, Texn., Sept. 30. — Tho
first killing frost of the season visited Chat
tanooga this morning. The thermometer
registered 50* at 9 o’clock last night and fell
off to 37* this morning. Th • indications are
favorable for another heavy frost to-mor
row morning.
Tho board of health will still maintain a
rigid quarantine until all danger is past.
Warm weather is expected by the middle
of the week.
All trains entering tho city will bo in
spected as usual until cod woather sets iu.
ATHENS AS WHITE AS SNOW.
The First Frost of the Reason—Funds
lor the Fever Sufferers.
Athens, Ga., Sept. 80.—There was a
heavy frost here this morning, being the
Cist of the season. Housetops, bridges and
gardens were as white as snow, and over
coats have been in demand all day.
The young men of Athens gave a min
strel performance hero on Friday night last
for the benefit of the yellow fever suf
ferers. The entertainment cleared SSO, ami
itjwas sent on to-day to tho relief committee
at Jacksonville by Muuager Taylor of the
company.
Tho finest musical talent of the city will
give a concert liore next Friday night for
tho benefit of the fever sufferers in Ala
bama. ______________
A FalHO Report.
Lake Weir, Fla., Kept. 30.—An em
ploye of the Florida Southern railway re
ported a case of yellow fovor at Oxford,
Sumter county, twelve mllea southwest of
Ijiko Weir, on the Florida Railway and
Navigatio i Company’s road. A gentleman
just from Oxford suys there is no yellow
fever there, and has not beeu nay fovor
like it. A week ago an employe of the
Florida Railway and Navigation Com
pany’s road came to his home, rear Oxford,
sick. He bad a slight attack of malaria,
but has recovered.
One New Case at GalnasvlUa.
Gainesville, Fla, Sept. 80.— The
weather is clear and cooL
One new case should have beea reported,
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1888.
L. Hall, a nephew of Maj. Gruell?- He and
his sister are doing well.
There aro now no other cases in Gaines
ville.
Hope is reviving.
Umon services of prayer were held at the
Baptist church this morning.
Two Deaths at Sanderson.
Sanderson, Fla., Sept. 30. —During the
last twenty-four hours two deaths have oc
curred, those of Mrs. F. J. Pons, Jr., aud
her infant.
Two new cas?s have developed, those of
F. J. Pons, J r., aud a negt ess named Fan
nie Givens, who was a servant of Mr. Pons.
Lake City’s Cordon.
Lake City, Fla., Sept. 30.— The cordon
around Lake City has been strengthened to
about 150 men. The freight and lumber
trains passing into infected districts are not
allowed to stop m this town. This cuts off
the lumber business, which has been a
source of great trouble and danger to the
citizens of this county.
Camille Helps the Stricken.
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 30.—At a per
formance of Camille, given at the People’s
theater last night, under the auspices of the
Masonic fraternity for the benefit of the
yellow fever sufferers, the receipts were
$1,200,
A Case at Callahan.
Washington, Sept. 80. —A dispatch re
ceived by Dr. Hamilton, surgeon general of
the marine hospital service, says there was
one new case of yellow fever at Callahan
Fla., to-day.
Tallahassee All Right.
Tallahassee, Fla., Sept. 30.—There is
no yellow fever in Tallahassee and no sus
picious case. The health of Tallahassee is
excellen t.
TWO MEN SHOT.
The Coroner’s Jury Upholds the Negro
Who Pulled the Trigger.
Memphis. Sept. 30. —A terrible tragedy
occurred this afternoon four miles from
this city at Gill’s station. J. D. Smith,
William W. Eastman aud J. E. Jordan, all
residents of Memphis, took a trip on a
dummy engine to the station. Smith, see
ing a mule on the road, said he thought he
would take a ride.
BEGINNING OF THE TROUBLE.
As he approached the animal James Con
ley, a negro, called out ordering him to
leave the mule alone, at the same time ap
plying opprobrious epitht ts. Conley was
seated in his yard. Smith and Eastman
started toward him. Jordan remonstrated,
but they entered the yard. Conley ran into
the house and shut the door. A second aft
erward a shotgun was thrust through a win
dow and discharged.
KASTMAN INSTANTLY KILLED.
The contents struck Eastman in the head,
killing him instantly. Smith ran to East
man, and as he was bending over his dead
body the other barrel of the gun was dis
charged. He was struck in tho left side
with several buckshot and mortally wound
ed. Conley, after the shooting, fled. The
jury of inquest exonerated Conley, it being
proven that he was defending his house
from assault.
CLIMATE AND CROPS.
The Weather Last Week Generally
Favorable for the Planter.
Washington, Sept. 30.—The weekly
crop bulletin issued by the signal office says
the weather during the week was generally
favorable for all growing crops in all sec
tions, except New England, where heavy
rains are reported as unfavorable.
Throughout the cotton belt the reports
indicate that the w eather during the week
improved the condition of the cotton crop.
In Louisiana tho conditions were favor
able for cane and harvesting rice.
Generally throughout the gulf states the
weather was faiv able for cotton picking
an i seeding wl,it.
A light frost fell in the northern portion
of the gulf states, over the tobacco region
of Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia
and the middle Atlantic and New England
states, which will probably result in some
damage to growing crops, but warnings of
these frosts wore issued to the threatened
sections in time to enable those receiving
them to secure the greater portion of the
tobacco crop not previously cut.
THROUGH A TRESTLE.
One Man Killed and Five Badly In
jured Near Good water.
Columbus, Ga, Sept. 30.—About 2
o’clock this afternoon the railroad officials
at this city received information that a
frightful accident had occurred on the Co
lumbus and Western railway near Good
water, 100 miles from Columbus, In which
a freight train went through a trestle and
one man was instantly killed and several
badly wounded. A relief train left at once
with Drs. Grimes and Walker aboard.
The train re urned late to-night with the
remains of Charles Webster of this city,
who was on the engine when it went
through the trestle. The body was cut
nearly in two.
THE INJURED.
William Keene, the engineer, Morgan
Phillips, the flugmau. Joseph Hall, tho con
duct r, and two negro train hands were all
badly hurt. It is feared that the two train
hands will die.
The two physicians are still at the scene
of the wreck attending the wounded.
Transfer of passengers and baggage will
have to be made for a few days.
BURNED ON THE FLINT.
The Thronateeska Destroyed with 440
Bales of Cotton.
Bainbridge, Ga., Sept. 30.—Tlie steamer
Thronateeska, of the Poople’s line, Capt. C.
W. Marks, from Eufaula for Bainbridge,
with 440 bales of cotton for Savannah, was
burned at 10 o'clock this morning at tho
mouth of tho Flint river, thirty miles
below Bainbridge. No lives were lost. The
steamer burned rapidly, and was a total
loss. The cotton was shipped by J. W.
Tullis of Eufaula. The loss i< $33,000, but
is l<artlv covered by insurance. The crew
of the Thronateeska wero picked up by the
ste imer Naiad, of the Central line. The
Naiad left here at S o’clock this evening for
Columbus.
Two Suits for $50,000 Each.
Macon, Ga., Sept. 30. Houston supreme
court convenes to-morrow in Perry. Two
suits for $50,000 each against the Central
railroad, for killing a member of the
Shields’ circus, and young Clay, represent
ing the Kreibs Lithograph Conipauy of
Cincinnati, iu an accident near Powersvilie
several months ago, aro to bo tried.
Carlisle Goes ter Virginia.
Washington, Sept. 80.—Spoakor Car
lisle hst gone to Lexington, Va., to speak
to morrow night for St. George Tucker, the
son of J. Randolph Tucker. who is likely to
redeem that district tor the democrats by
defeating Mr. Yost, the sitting member.
WHITECHAPEL’S CRIMES.
TWO MORE WOMEN KILLED BY
THE MYSTERIOUS MURDERER.
One of tho Bodies Horribly Mutilated
—One of the Crimes Committed Be
neath the Rooms of a Crowded So
cialistic Club, and Not a Sound
Heard.
London, Sept. 30.—This morning the
whole city was astounded by the startling
news that two more murders had been
added to the list of mysterious crimes that
have recently been committed iu White
chapel. At an early hour this morning
another woman was murdered and a report
was also current that there was still another
victim. This report proved true. The two
victims, as in former cases, were dissolute
women of the poorer class.
ROBBERY NOT THE MOTIVE.
That the motive of the murderer was not
robbery is shown by the fact that no at
tempt was made to despoil the bodies.
The first murder occurred in a narrow
court, off Banters street, at an early hour
this morning, beneath tho window s of the
Foreigners’ Socialistic Club. A concert
was in progress, and many members of the
club were present, but no sound was heard
from the victim. The same process was fol
lowed as in the other coses.
HOW SHE WAS KILLED.
The woman had been seized by the throat,
her cries choked and tho murderer with one
sweeping cut had severed her throat from
car to ear.
A club man on entering the court stum
bled over the body which was lying only
two yards from the street. A stream of
warm blood was flowing from the body into
the gutter. The murderer had evidently
been disturbed before he had time to muti
late his victim.
THE SECOND CRIME.
“The second murder was committed
three quarters of an hour later in Mitre
square,five minutes’ walk from the scene of
the first crime. A policeman patrols tho
square every ten minutes. The body of
the unfortunate woman had been disem
bowled, her throat cut and nose severed,
the heart and lungs thrown aside, and the
entrails twist and into the gaping wound
around the neck.
DIABOLICAL DEXTERITY.
The incisions show that the work was
done with the utmost haste. Pending the
report of the doctors it is not known
whether or not a portion of the vicera was
taken away. The doctors, after a hasty ex
amination of the body, said that they
thought it must have taken about five
minutes to complete the work of the mur
derer, who then had plenty of time to
escape the patrol.
MITRE SQUARE.
Mitre square, the scene of the second mur
der is a thoroughfare. Many people pass
through the square early Sunday morning
on thoir vay to prepare for market in the
notorious Petticoat lane. The publicity of
the place adds to the boldness of the crime.
The police, who have been severely ontl
cisod in connection with the Whitechapel
murders, are paralyzed by these latest
crimes.
ACTION OF THE POLICE.
As soou as the news was received at
police headquarters, a messenger was dis
patched for Sir Charles Warrou, chief
commissioner of police, who was calied out
of bed, aud at once visited the scene of the
murders.
The inhabitants of Whitechaoel aro dis‘
mayed. The vigilance committees which
were formed after the first crimes were
committed, relaxed their efforts to capture
the murderer. At several meetings hel lin
Whitechapel to-night it was resolved to re
sume the work of patrolling the streets in
the districts in which tho murders occurred.
The Berners street victim was Elizabeth
Stride, a native of (Stockholm, who resided
in a common lodging bouse. The name of
the other victim is not known.
In consequence of tho refusal of Home
Secretary Mathews to offer a reward for
the arrest of the murderer, the people of
the east end Saturday petitioned the queen
herself to authorize tue offering of a re
ward.
MASSACRE OF THE GERMANS.
All Died with Their Faces to Their
Savage Foeman.
London, Oct. I.—Advices from Zanzibar
say the Germans murdered at Quiloa died
while nobly .defending themselves. A Ger
man gunboat was present, but was unable
to give assistance in the face of the
thousands of armed natives lining the beach.
The corpses of the murdered Germans wero
terribly mutilated.
LIVES SAVED AT LINDL
An English guuboat saved the lives of the
Gormans at Liudi.
Tho Germans escaped from Mikindari
half an hour before the arrival of the in
surgents, who fired volleys at their dhow
laden with thousands of pounds of gun
powder.
The entire wealthy community of British
Indian subjects at Bagomoys left that place
to-day terror-stricken, owing to a rumor
that a desce..t upon that town by natives
was imminent.
DERAIL’ D BY A OOW
A Brakeman Killed and Several Other
Men Injured.
Chattanooga, Sept. 30.—A freight train
on the Cincinnati Southern railroad, south
bound, struck a cow six miles south of
Spring City at 10 o’clock this morning, and
was thrown from the track badly wrecked.
Brakeman William Lanuon of Cincinnati
was killed, and Engineer Quigley of Oak
dale was probably fatally injured. The fire
man hail an arm broken, and suffered
severe bruises, but nothing serious. Slight
injuries wore received by others of the
crew.
Gen. Sheridan's Family.
Nonquitt, Mass., Kept. 30.—The widow
and child of Gen. Sheridan, in com, any
with Col. Sheridan and wife, left Nonquitt
this afternorm for Washington. Revised
proofs of the last chapter aud index af
“Gen. IS her id mV Memoirs” we o received
by Col. Sheridan from the publisher yester
day.
Will Sign the Ohlnese Bill
Washington, Sept 30.—President Cleve
land will probably > ign the Scott Chi .cse
exclusion bill (canceling the certificates of
returning emigrants) to-morrow. He has
until Wednesday to oousider.
Rome’s Unemployed Workmen.
Rome, Sept. 80.— The ilrat open air moat
ing of unemployed workmen, under tho
sanction of Premier CrGot, was held in the
Plaza Dante to-day. The speeches do
maniied state employment.
A Woolen Company Aanlgns.
Louisville, Kr.. Sept. 80.—The South
ern Woolen Manufacturing Company, M.
A Carloy president and H. 8. Gilmore sec
retary. assigned yesterday. 4fh liabilities
are $60,000. The assets are about equal.
CONGRESS’ LONG SESSION.
All Previous Records Beaton bv
Twenty-four Hours.
Washington, Sept. 30.—When the two
houses of congress are called to order at 12
o’clock to-morrow the session will have be
come the longest by t wenty-four hours in
An oilcan history. Tito longest preceding
session was that of 18.50, the yenr of the
Missouri compromi-e, which was adjourned
at noon Sept. 80. Constructively the
session of IStVS, following the impeachment
proceedings against President Johnson was
longer, adjournment sine die having taken
plaoe Nov. 10, but, as a matter of fact, con
gress tix>k a six weeks' recess from July 27,
and never afterward had a quorum or at
tempted to transact any business.
The House of Representatives has not had
a quorum for several weeks, but such busi
ness ns could be done "by unanimous
consent” has Iteon done, amt ns one of the
mutual appropriation bills, the general
deficiency, is still before the c mfurees of
the two houses, It cannot yet be said that
the year’s regular work for either house is
finished.
programme of the senate.
The tariff bill will be reported to the Senate
Tuesday or Wednesday of this week and is
to lie taken up for debate on Monday of
next week.
The unfinished business of the Senate is
the bill to forfeit tho unearned portion of
tlie Northern Pacific land grant, upon which
Senator Berry will to-morrow deliver a
political speech defending the public land
record of the democracy in answer to tho
speech of Senator Plumb last week. It. is
expected that Senator Dolph will also make
a speech upon tho measure, after which it
is likely to pass.
Senator Chandler's resolution for an in
vestigation of political methods in Lou
isiana is likely to furnish the text for further
political speaking during the week.
The territorial admission bills aro still
recognized os having certain rights of way,
anti next to them c moderation of the Sher
man bill is recognized as a possibility.
Tho Senate, however, lias consistently dis
regarded all its programmes for several
weeks past, and nothing but purely political
measures can be held to lie probable sub
jects for debate during tho remainder of tho
session.
The sessions of the Hotiso of Representa
tives will probably be sh .rt, and little busi
ness of interest is likely to he transacted by
that body during the present week. The
general deficiency appropriation bill now
in conferencs is expected to reach tho House
Tuesday or Wednesday.
AMERICAN BEER KINGS.
Some of the Men Who Have Grown
Rich Out efthe Amber Liquid.
New York, Sept. 29.—The thirsty
drinker who exchanges a simple nickel for
the foaming goblet with which the modern
beersoller serves bis patrons seldom realizes
that be is contributing toward a series of
fortunes so great as to already attract pub
lic attention and to throw into tho shade
the smaller accumulal ions of the more es
teemed vocations. Yet this is far from ex
pressing the true state of the case. The past
thirty years have done much toward con
verting the American people into a beer
drinking nation, aud in so doing have ad
ded to tho list of millionaires the names
of at least forty lager beer brewors.
Of these the pioneer is George Ehret, a
rugged, solid, stolid and meth dical Ger
man. To-day he is worth many millions,
yet thirty-five years ago he was a poor boy
Knowing but little of the English language
and still less of business methods. His own
description of his career applies to that of
uearly all his rivals, and is an iuterestiug
commentary upon tlie changes in American
habits in the pa t three decades.
“When I began business, the lager beer
industry was in its infancy. It grow but
little at the outset, but receiver! its first
great impetus during the civil war. At
first we lost mouev through trie dishonesty
of retailors, as well as through their ill-luck.
In the latter case we often advanced money
to help them tide over their troubles, and to
securo ourselves, took a chattel mortgage or
bill of sale of tb saloon as collateral security
for the loan. Before long we found that
thoro was considerable profit in the practice
and extended it in various ways. A cus
tomer over whom you hold a mortgage can
n>t defraud you of any largo amount and
seldom will change his custom to another
brewer. In some cases ho was too grateful
to do the latter; in others, too fearful that
you would foreclose without notice; in still
others that he would ‘get into law’ or still
further injure his credit. At any rate he
seldom changed his brewer. The profit on
beer bolng moderately large, the brewer
so n found tha: he could save money by not
charging interest on these secured loans, es
pecially when small. This sooms paradoxi
cal until you remember that a good cus
tomer who could pay libs interest to a conser
vative brewer, could easily borrow the
amount of his debt an I iutere.t from some
rival brewer who would gladly forego tlie
interest ton times over for the profit of this
retailer’s custom. In this wise these chattel
mortgage loans soon became invest outs
which paid no interest but secured profitable
trade. They also e :abled the breaertodo
something else. When a debtor proved
dishonest, drunken or incapable, they en
abled the brewer to foreclose, buy the placo
and put it in charge of some abler man.
There aro many places in New York an 1
other cities which nominally have belonged
to a score of owners lieforo they became
successful in the hands of the last, and yet,
piacticaily, all that time they were owned
by one brewer who paid neither rent nor
other exiiensu, and who, above all, niff red
little or uo loss no matter how great tue
losses of his so-called customers."
William Kramer is another plutocrat
whoso wealth came lergely from lager,
but in bis case from retailing and not from
selling. He is a German by birth who en
joyed no advantages in bis youth and came
to this country to better his condition. Iu
the fifties he started tlie Atlantic Garden,
then a little saloon and cheap restaurant ou
the Bowery, in part ership with Louis
Hamprecht and Christian A. Goetz, hot i
since deceased. At the start the three part
ners alter ated betwoeii the positions of
cashier, bartender, cook, wai or, scullion
and cleaner. Their energy and goodfeliow
sli pas well as their beer and good cooking
soon made them popular a .and their husiuoss
profitable. Tlie three men lnve toil their
profits in improving, l-autifying and there
after iu enlarging their place. With ouch
step lu this direction came an men u n iu
business and celubritv, until the pirtnera
wero all comparatively wealthy and their
place had become a favorite roeort for work
ingmen and especially Gormans. In the
seventies the partnership terminated, two
members of the ilrtu desiring to enter new
vooa ions. Kramer bought their interests
for a very largo sum and remained iu per
sonal chargo of the place, where be is still
to be found every day.
W. E. 8, Kales.
Close of tho Pope’s Jubilee.
Rome, Sept. 80.—Tho pope celebrated
high mass for the dead in St. Peter’s to
day to tolemnize the close of his jubilee.
The congregation numbered 26,000 (jersonx,
Admittance was by ticket. His holiness
was given an enthusiastic reoeption, and
was greeted with prolonged cries of "viva.”
He appeared to be deeply moved.
A GREAT CHAMPAGNE CONSUMER.
A Police Justice Who Spends ft For
tune for Wine Every Year.
New Yokk, Sept. 29.—Among the 1 igr
chanii'ngne drinkers iu New York one of
the most prominent is Andrew J. White, the
police justice aud politician, whose recent de
fection fi 0111 the County democracy has been
no of \he surprises in the present p litioal
campaign in the metropolis. White, whom
thenewspain'rs have only recently cared to
mention by the familiar soubriquet of
“Andy,” Is one of the characters of thii
l>in town. Dickens or Thackeray woul l
have delighted in his acquaintance, and
would undoubtedly have made him im
mortal.
Ignorant, and without the slightest
amount of culture, he is yot the boon com
panion of some of our foremost citizen ,
and is reputed to have a larger personal
following than any other politician iu New
York.
Iu acquiring his personal friends the
champagne habit has assisted him U> a con
s durable extent, although that is by no
m ans his only hold upon them. It is
White’s boast that he never drank a drop of
whisky, and that ho has indulged iu malt
liquors, brandy and ordinary wines only oc
casionally. It is well known that his salary
as police justice, SB,OOO a year, does not
begin to c iver his ch impaguu bills for half
that period.
Tlie larger part of bis income is derived
from the contr ct with the city for the dis
posal of its dead horses and other offal. The
day on which While opens less than a
dozen quart bottles should be mark td with
all the shades of red ill his calendar. lie
has no particular brand apparently, hut the
yellow-labeled Clicquot seams to bo his
favorite. *
His love for the gaseous fluid has led him
into doing some curious things; for in
st iiico: lio was sitting in one of the up
town resorts at the time that Abram 8.
Hewitt was elected mayor, and while the
police wore writhing in one of their virtu
ous spasms and were rigidly enforcing the
excise law. Hupt. Murray was striving
heroically to catch all offenders who kept
their side doors open oil .Sundays, and de
tectives iu citizous’ clothes were prowling
about town with suspicious eyes.
White would not forego his morning bath
in champagne nevertheless. W ithin a few
doors of the police court is a snloon which
wields a power in the ward, a id to tuis
White resorted every Sunday morning be
fore ascending the bench and there drank a
quart of’his favorite tipple. At that time
arrests for violating the excise <law were
frequent and lie invariably found a string
of prisoners awaiting him when be assumed
his judicial duties. The->e he hold strictly
to account, those who could not furnish
bail being sent to i risen. Wlien the court
cl .sed he would once more wend his way
to ;he saloon, this time in the company of
•some of the lawyers that frequent the
court.
Usually the party numbered four or five,
and they found s ats around a table in a
private room. White did all the treating
aud, if the capacity of his companions had
been equal to his own, the quantity con
sumed would have been enormous. As it
wa, a case of quarts usually proved sufll
eir.it.|l I his was before dinner. After a
drive up the road behind a te%m of swift
and handsome horses lie would betake him
self to the Manhattan club, of which hois
a member, and would invite two or three
friends to as-ist him in disposing of dinner
aud more champagne. The quantity would
depend on tno size of the party and the
tastes of the members. As long as any one
else could stand it the wine flowed unceas
ingly.
I liavo soon White drink champagne with
a small party of friends at the cafe of tho
M rton house until my head grow dizzy
counting the bottles. At an informal
gathering in Harlem, where he is at home
and whence he derives his political follow
ing, he recently began one of bis champagne
sprees, and he did not stop until lie Imd
eighty quart bottles on his bill. Hi i fame
a* a champagne drinker has become so
g eat that several of tb > loading champagne
houses have offered him tho same privilege
they have extended to such social lights as
Tom Howard and Ward McAllister and tho
ex-King of Dudes, Evander B. Wall—.hat
is, to drink as much as ho pluses free of
cost, provided lie drinks their sjieciul bran is
only. That is an opportunity extended
only to tho man whose evprcsse i preference
would influence a largo number of others.
But White prefers to remain unhampered
and to pay fur what he wants rather than
to drink for nothing at the dictation of
others.
H.s entire income exceeds $60,000 a year
and ho spends it all. He might tie a mill
ionaire if tie had practiced the ordinary
economy of rich men, but it is doubtful
whether much would remain after his
funeral expenses were settled if he were to
die to-morrow.
While the politicians are doubtful nb
the result of his leaving his old poll! al
affiliations, his standing as a consume,
champagne cannot be affected.
John Hob.
A FLOUB MILL. IN FLAMES.
Two Small Houses Opposite It Also
Totally Destroyed.
Toledo, Sopt. B*.—This morning tlio
Armiul i flouring mills caught flro from
fi lotion in the roller* a id tl.e entire struc
ture was entirely destroyed. The mills hud
a capacity of 800 hair. Is, employed thirty
iiauds and were run day ad night, l e
w rkmeu ail escaped without injury. Thu
.mil contained a largo quantity of grain
and (1 ur. Two small dwelling houses
lminedia oly across the canal from the mill
were also destroyed, llm it re loss is flott,-
000, on which there is insurances of 101,000.
uAoij AND BA i.
Roaults of the Day's Doings on tho
Diamond.
WAHIIIJCOTOJr, Hopt. DO. —Base hall games
worn (hayed to-day with the following re
sults:
At Cincinnati—
Cincinnati 2 0 u 1 2000 0— B
Baltimore 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 o—2
IIiS ’liilm Cincinnati 10, Baltimore rt. Errors
- Cue innati 8, Baltimore 8. Bat teres -limit h
and Mullune, Keenan, Kirby and Cant/.
At Ht. Louis—
St. Louis 0 0 O 8 2 2 0 4 8-18
Brooklyn 10 0 1 0 2 0 00—4
Ktse hits—.st. Louis 14, Brooklyn 9. Errors—
St. Louis 2, Brooklyn 4. Batteries—King anil
TrsxUfii, Hughes and Clark.
At I. uisrllle (first game)—
Louisville ....0 0002 1 00008—0
Cleveland ....0 1 100000 1 0 0— 8
Base lilts Louisville . Cleveland 8. Errors—
Louisville f, Cleveland 3 list tones—Ewing
and Vau {tin, O'Brien and McGuire.
Wen., and gume—
Louisville 2 0 0 3 1 0 I—7
Cleveland 2 4 0 0 1 0 0-7
liase lilts- Isvuiseille 11, Cleveland 8. Errors
—Louisville 4. Cleveland 8. Batteries Stratton
and Cross, Blakely and tiayrter. Game called
on account of narkness.
At KankMi City—
Kansas City 6 1 0 3 8 7 8 0 8-20
Athletic 1 1 2 2 0 2 O 4 0 -12
Base hits. -Kansas CTly 27, Athletic 18. Errors !
—Kaunas City 85, Athletic 7. Bulterlee—Por- j
ter and Honouue, MoUiuiore and Towueeud. |
Killed by a caw.
Calhocn, Ha., Seto. 80.—H. D. King, |
wboowneds saw mil) four miles east f |
her.-, whde sawing, Saturday, aocidentiy j
fall against the saw, which cut his heed al- |
most iu half, causing instant death.
( DAILY, $lO A YEAR )
s ft UK NTS A COPY. V
I WEEKLY, $1 ZS A YEAR. )
A CHARIOT OF CLOUDS.
TALMAGE’S BEAUTIFUL PEN PIC
TURE OF THE 3KY BANKS.
The Masterpieces of the Creator a Fa
vorite Bible Simile—The Wind the
Harnessed Steeds of the Biblical
Vehicle of Vapor—The Blessings Dis
tributed na It Rolls Along.
Brooklyn, Sept. 80.—The hvran sung at
the opening of the sorvi es in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle this morning was:
“Welcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Rord arise."
After expounding appropriate passages
of scripture, the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage,
D. D., took tlie text: Tsalm civ., 3: “Who
maketh tho clouds bi3 chariot (” Dr. Tal
mnge said:
Brutes are constructed so as to look down.
Those earthly creatures that tmve wings
when they rim from the earth still look
down, aud the eagle searches for mice in
the grass and the raven for carcasses iu the
field. Man alone is made to look up. To
induce him to look up God make* tho sky a
picture gallery, a Dusseldorf, n Louvre, a
Luxembourg, a Vatican that eclipses all
that. German, or French, or Italian art ever
accomplished. But. God has failed so far to
attract the attention of most of us by the
scenery of the sky. Wo go into raptures
over flowers in the soil, but have little or
no appreciation of the “morning glories”
that bloom on the wall of the sky at suurbe
or the dahlias in tho clouds at sunset. We
urn m echtaclos over a gobelin tapestry or a
bridal veil of rare fabric, or a snowbank of
exquisite curve, but see not at all, or see
without emotion, the bridal veils of mist
that cover the face of the Catskills, or the
swaying upholstery around the couch of the
dying day, or the snowbanks of vapor piled
up iu the heavens.
Aly text bids us to lift our chins three or
four inches aud open the two telescopes
which under the forehead are put on swivil
easily turned upward, and see that the
clouds nro not merely uninteresting signs of
wet or dry weather, but that tboy are em
broidered canopies of shade, that they are
the conservatories of tho sky, that they are
thrones of pomp, that they are crystalline
liars, that tney are paintings in water color,
that they are the angels of the mist, that
they arc great cathedrals of light with
broad aisles f raugelie feet to walk through
aud bow at altars of amber and alabaster,
that they are the mothers of the dew, that
they are ladders for ascending and descend
ing glories, Cotopaxis of belching flame,
Niagaras or color, that they are the master
pieces of tho J,ord God Almighty.
The clouds are a favorite
Bible simile and the sacred
writers have made much use of thorn.
After the deluge God hung on a cloud in
concentric bands the colors of tho spectrum
siying: “I do sot my bow in the oloud.”
Asa in >untain is sometimes entire y hidden
by the vapors, so, says God, “I have blotted
out as a thick cloud thy transgressions.”
David measured tho divine goodness and
found it so high ho apostrophized: “ihy
faithfulness reacbeth to the clou Is.” As
sometimes there are thousands of fl ■eces of
vapi rs scurrying across ti.e heaven*, so,
says Isaiah, will be the convert* in the mil
louuiutn “as clouds aud ns doves.” A* iu
tho wet season no sooner does the sky clear
than there copies anotbor obscuration, so,
says Solomon, one ache or ailment of old
folks has no more than gone than another
pain comes “as clouds return in tho rain."
A column of illumined cloud led the
Israelites across tho wilderne s. Iu
the book of Job, Elihu, watching
the clouds, could not understand
why they did not fall or why they
did not all roll together, the laws ct
evaporation and condensation then not be
ing understood, m i he cried out “Dost thou
know tho balancing of ha clouds?” When
I read iny text it suggests to me that the
clouds are the Creator’s equipage, and their
whirling masses are the wheels, and tho
tongue of the cloud is the pole of the ce
lestial vehicle, ami the winds are the har
nessed steeds, and God is the loyal occupant
aid driver “who inuketh the clouds his
chariot.”
To understand the psalmist’s meaning in
the text you must know that the chariot of
old was sometimes a sculptured brilliancy
nude out of ivory, so mime* of solid
silver, and rolled on two wheels which were
fastened to the axle oy stout pins, and the
awful defeat of (Knomaui by Relops was
caused by tlie f .ct that a traitorous
charioteer had inserted u linch pin of wag
instead of a linch pin of iron. All of the
six hundred chariots of Pharaoh
lost their linch pins in the Red
sea, for the Bible says: “The Lord
took off their wheels.” Lmk at ihe long
flash of Solomon's fourteen huudred char
iots, and the thirty thousand chariots of
the Philistines. If you have ever visited
the buildings where a king or queen keeps
the coaches of s ate, as I have, you know
that kings and queens have great varieties
of turnout. The keeper tells you: “Tin*
is the state carriage, and used only on great
occasions.” “This is the coronation car
nage. and in it ihe king rode on the day tie
took the throne.” “Iu this the queen went
to open parliament.” “This is the coach iu
which the czar and the sultan rude on the
occasion of their visit.” All costly and tes
solated and e richer! and emblazoned are
they, and when the driver takes the reins
of the ten white burses in his hands, and
a nid mounted tro< ps and bands in
full force rounding the national air, the
splendor sta. ta a id rolls on under arches en
twined with banners, and amid the buaza
of hundreds of thousands of spectators, the
scene is memorable. But my text puts all,
such occasions into insignificance, as it
represents the km; of the universe coining
to the dour of his paluce, and the gilded
vapors of the heavens rolling up to bis
feet, aud he, stepping in and taking the
reins of the galloping winds in his band,
stai tsin triumphal ride under the arches of
sapphire, and over the atmospheric high
ways ot opal and chrysolite, the clouds his
chariot.
My hearers, do not think that God belit
tle! himself when he takessuch coovev aoce.
Do you know that the cioudsaro among the
most wondrous and msjestio thing* in the
whole uuive s 1 Do you know that they
are flying lakes and rivers and ooeansl God
waved his hand over them and said: "Coma
up higher!" and they obeyed the mandate.
That cloud instead of being, ns it seems, a
small gathering of vapor a lew yards ids
anil high is really seven or eight miles
across, and is a mountain, from its base to
its top, fifteen thousand feet, eig teen thou
sand (cut, twenty thousand feet, and cut
through with ravines five thousand feet
deep. No, David did not make a fragile or
unwortoy representation of God in the text
when ho spoke of the clouds as bit chariot.
Bur a- ( suggested iu tho ca-e of nn earthly
king, he lia> his morning cloud efia iot and
his evening cloud chariot—the cloud oba iot
iu which he rode down to Winai to open the
law, and toe cloud chariot in which he rode
down to Tabor to honor the gos(iel, and the
cloud chariot in which ho will coma to
judgment. 1
When he rides out in his morning chariot
at tsis season, about Bo'clock, he puts olde!.
coronets on tho dotuee of cities, and til vert
the rivers, ami out of the dew makes a dia
mond ring for the Anger of every grant
blade, and bids good cheer ur invalids whu
In the night said: "Would God it weif
morning. ,r From this moruiug cloud cUur*