Georgia Historic Newspapers

    THE MOBNIKO NEWS. 1
l Estabubhid 1850. INCORPORATED 18S8. V
( J. H. ESTILL President. )
BLOODSHED IN BRAZIL.
PBB3IBTENT REPORTS OP A BIG
FIGHT AT BAHIA.
The Captain of a Steamer at Rio Heard
That 500 Had Been Killed—Eight
Naval Officers Loyal to the Emperor
Reported Shot in Prison—The War
Minister’s Treachery.
New York, Dec. 15.—The steamship
Horfox arrived here to-day from Brazil
She left Rio Janeiro Nov. 23. Although
everything appeared quiet at Rio Capt.
Henning says he heard many rumors
which indicated that the news of the change
of government had not been received with
an entire degree of calmness. One man,
DoGama by name, collector of customs, held
on to the flags of the empire and refused to
remove from his uniform the buttons on
which were stamped a crown. Threats
were of no avail, and the collector locked
himself up in his house to escape the wrath
of the republicans. Ten days after the
news of the deposing of tho emperor had
been made public DeGama submitted to
the demands of the new governor, removed
the objectionable buttons and gave up the
imperial flags. DeGama was not depriv ed
of his office, and a number of men who
held office under the empire were retained
in the same positions by the republic.
AN UPRISING AT BAHIA.
On the second day of the revolution a
cipher dispatch was received at Rio Janeiro
announcing that there had been an uprising
at Bahia, and that a fight had taken place
betweon militia and citizens, aud that
nearly 500 people had been killed.
Capt. Henning said that the gov
ernment at once stopped all Jcipher
telegraphic communication and placed a
strict watch on all ordinary messages that
were sent on the wires. The republicans
left no stone unturned to accomplish their
purpose.
So complete were their arrangements
that when the republic was announced all
of the imperial war vessels that for weeks
had been lying in the harbor were so fixed
that it was impossible for them to partici
pate in any uprisi ig that might have possi
bly occurred. The man-of-war Nitheroy
had been placed in the drv dock several
days before.and was partly dismantled when
the republicans made their groat move.
EIGHT NAVAL OFFICERS DEFIANT.
Besides Collector DeGama, there were
several naval officers who refused to sub
mit to the republicaus, but, unlike DeGama,
their fate is unknown. It was on the first
night of the revolution that these officers,
eight in cumber, are said to have defied the
authority of the new government. The
story goes that the men climbed on the
Liverpool steamer Chatham, which lay at
her dock, and, securing a boat, rowed out
upon the harbor bearing aloft an imperial
flag. A party of republicans gave chase in
another boat, and some shots were ex
changed. The naval officers were captured
and incarcerated in prison on one of the
small islands in the harbor. None
of the men had been seen up to the
time the Horrox left Rio, and
Cant. Henning said that the genernl belief
of the people was that they had been
secretly shot-in prison, ns the noise of the
discharge of firearms had been heard in the
prison the next day by some people who
were near the spot.
A MANIFESTO FROM THE EX-PREMIER.
Lisbon, Dec. 15.—Viscount De Ouro
Preto, the Brazilian imperial prime min
ister, has issued a manifesto to the people
of Brazil. He deals first with the position
of affairs on the eve of the revolution
in Brazil and the information
which the government possessed concern
iag the movement. He says it was im
possible to crush the plotters, as
the government could not rely
upon either the officers or soldiers, and
was betrayed by the leaders of the army
aud navy, including Minister of War
Maracaju. Tho minister continually re
ceived assurances of loyalty from various
military officers, who thus sought to mask
the conspiracy agaiust the throne.
“Maracaju,” says ex-Premier Preto, “acted
throughout the part of a traitor to his col
leagues. He even went so far as under the
guise of official business to conduct me to
the place where I was arrested.”
HIS PERIL IN PRISON.
Ex-Premier Preto proceeds to describe
the treatment he received in prison. He
declares that a platoon of soldiers was kept
, >n readiness to shoot him if his friends
offered armed resistance.
hi conclusion the ex-prime minister ap
peals to the people to exercise their freedom
of choice at the coming elections. He coun
sels his supporters not to sulk, but to vote
*or ali of his friends who may become can
didates.
The Count and Countess d’Eu havo post
poned their visit to Seville, owing to the
"mess of their son, Prince Luise.
I The British channel squadron will be
I present on the occasion of the ceremony of
I acclaiming Don Carlos king,of Portugal.
GAGGING THE PRESS.
I London, Dec. 10, 3a. m.—The Lisbon
I correspondent of the Times says: “Advices
I from Rio Janeiro up to Nov. 28 state that
I even local journals are threatened with
I suppression if they criticise or fail to
I approve the new reign. Private letters
I drought here by passengers on vessels from
I brazil paint the situation in that country
■ as rather alarming. The navy appears to be
I opposed to the new government, and
I sailors have been imprisoned and
■ shot for cheering for Emperor Dom Pedro.
I ,L? e , re P 01 't> states that 150 sailors were shot,
I j other reports place the number at fif
■ wen. It is alleged that espionage is rampart
■ even- where. The soldiery are also showing
■ symptoms of discontent, and it is reported
■ mat they sacked the private rooms
1 01 the ex-empress. The citizens
■ see recovering their moral courage and
■ are protesting against the military move-
I J ent " e government has become
I o*f me “> a! >d is massing its naval forces at
I fi? i lie province of San Paulo has ro-
In wo t 0 acc ‘Pt the governor whom tho re
■ public has accorded to that place.”
■ THE CZAR WON’T RECOGNIZE IT.
I RLIX > Dec. 15.—1 tis reported that the
■ .“S refuses to recognize the Brazilian re-
Ith u ’ an ? has broken off relations with
■ ” Brazilian minister at St. Petersburg.
I STATUS OF FOREIGNERS.
I u . ' e Brazilian consul here has received a
I thaP 8 ? 1 trom R‘° Janeiro, announcing
I iiiz\n f cree been promulgated declar
■ 1 foreigners residing in Brazil citizens
■ r . ri> public from the date on which the
■ ,. I ,h ‘ llo was pro laimed. and that all for
■ m the future shall be considered
■ tan?, , n subjects, aud enjoy all civil and
■ iir-Vw . ri Shts, except tho right of becoru
■ j,” “‘ ot . state, after a residence of two
■ th e 3 . a b ca ses the government reserves
■ u*,, ‘Rbt to refuse citizenship. The decree
■ P’ued by Ministers Da Fonseca and Loba.
II p Pc, rtugal to Face England.
.1 Dec. 15.—The Independence
■ ares tll at Portugal is resolved to
Hi: - v ' ‘gorously to her pretensions regard
■ Wid', ■ v ‘ lßSa!a ud. however menacing Eug
■ fls attitude may become.
iljje JUofning
POET BROWNING'S DEATH.
He Felt Certain to the Laat That He
Would Recover.
Venice, Dec. 15.—The expressions of
grief and sympathy called forth by the
death of Robert Browning recall similar ex
pressions on the death of Wagner. Brown
ing lefused to tho last to believe that he
was seriously ill. Every day, whatever the
weather, he went in an open gondola to
Lido. He was taken ill on' Nov. 27,
but he insisted on going to the
theater against the advice of his
friends. During the night he was seized
with a serious attack of bronchitis. The
disease dragged on until his heart became
affected, but ha constantly repeated that he
was getting better. On Thursday last, the
day of his death, he declared that he would
get up on tho following day. His family
did not suppose that the end was near.
HIS LAST WORDS.
At 7 o’clock in the evening he became
very weak and had great difficulty in
breathing. Shortly before he died he turned
to his sou aud asked for nevs from his pub
lisher. His son read a telegram saying
that the edition of his last volume of poems
was almost exhausted. The poet, upon
hearing this, smiled and murmured, “How
gratifying.” These were his last words.
The funeral service was held to
day in Palazzo Rezzonico. The
family desired to inter the remains at
Florence, but, in accordance with the desire
of the English people, the body will be
taken to London Tuesday for interment in
Westminster Abbey. At a service to-day
the coffin was covered with beautiful
wreaths, one of which had beon sent by the
municipal authorities of Venice. Many
diplomats and officials and a large number
of English and American residents, includ
ing Mrs. Bronson, an intimate frieud of the
poet, were present at the service.
THE CORTEGE.
The cortege started at 4 o’clock. The
body had been placed on a splendid funeral
barge, which was towed by a steamer of
the royal navy. On the barge as a guard
of honor were members of the municipal
guard and firemen. The family and inti
mate friends followed in separate gondolas.
The coffin was deposited in the central chapel
of the cemetery of St. Michael, where it
will remain until the conclusion of the
formalities attending its transportation to
London. Prime Minister Crispi sont a
message of condolence to the family of the
poet. A memorial tablet will be placed in
the facade of Palazzo liezze.
AN OBLIGING CONVICT,
He Views Hia Quarters la the Pen
itentiary.
Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 14.—This after
noon about 4 o’clock, a decent-looking
countryman went to the gate of the prison
and asked permission to go in and look
through. The privilege was granted upon
payment of the fee of 25 cents, and the man
remaiued within the walls about an hour,
wheu he left and proceeded to take la the
other objects of iuterest in the city. About
0 o’clock he returned to the prison, and,
introducing himself to the warden as Jeff
Fuson, he presented his commitment papers
as a convict, sent from Bell county, one
year, for malicious cutting. He came
alone, without guard, because he said tue
sheriff of Bell county was unwilling to put
the state to the expense of a guard. This
is the second Kentucky convict who has
come voluntarily and unguarded to the
prison pen.
AN OIL REGION EXPLOSION.
Throe Glycerine Magazines Blow Up
and Fire Two Tanks.
Titusville, Pa., Dec. 15.—Three sepa
rate glycerinemagaziues blew up this|moru
ing at North Clarendon, about seven miles
above Warren, Pa. Tho amount of glycer
ine exploded was over ten tons. The maga
zines were owned by the Rock Glycerine
Company of John Kunn and A. M. McKav.
The explosion set fire to two 25,000
barrel tanks full of oil belonging
to the National Transit Company. They are
still burning and will be total losses. Several
oil derricks and small wooden tanks were
also burned. No one, so far as can be
learned, was injure!. Nearly every window
in Clarendon was broken and much damage
was done to surrounding property. Tue
loss is estimated at $100,(WO. The oil men
claim it to be the largest explosion
of the kind in the history of the oil regions.
MULE SPINNERS ORGANIZE.
They Want Uniform Pay and an Eight-
Hour Day.
Fall River, Mass., Dec. 15.—Delegates
representing the mule spinners of
New Jersey and the New England
states held a convention here to-day and
formed a federation to be called the Na
tional Mule Spinners’ Association of
America. An endeavor will be made to
obtain a uniform standard of wages
throughout the United States, as the or
ganization believes that to he the fairest
plan for both manufacturers and operators.
The association will push the eight-hour
day matter and champion every measure
for the advancement of labor. It will be
allied with tho federation of labor. The
members on strike will be assisted by
an assessment.
A MASSACRE IN SIBERIA,
Exiles Shot Down for Refusing to
Withdraw a Petition.
London, Deo. 15.— Reports have beon re
ceived here of a massacre of Siberian exiles.
It is alleged that a party of exiles having
hesitated, contrary to orders, in regard to
the withdrawal of a petition, were
attacked by the police and soldiers. Six
were shot dead, including a
woman. Nine were wounded. The
pretext for the attack was that the petition
was of a rebellious character. A court
martial condemned three of the survivors
to death, and others to long terms of im
prisonment. One of the wounded was car
ried to the gallows o i a bed. When the
noose had been adjusted the bed was re
moved. Friends of the victims declare this
to be the worst case in the Siberian records.
Satolli’s Visit to this Country.
London, Deo. 15.—The Chi onicle's Rome
correspondent says: “Mgr. Satolli, In a
long interview with tho pope, gave an ac
count of the good reception accorded him
in America. He said he found the civil
authorities willing to grant full liberty to
Catb fficism, and expressed his belief that
the Washington government is favorable
to according a diplomatic representative to
the Vatican.”
A Grain Elevator Burned.
Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 15.— The Exchange
elevator, with a storage capacity of 350,000
bushels, the property of Greeue & Bloomer,
together with 250.000 bushels of barley, was
totally destroyed by fire this morning. The
elevator was the most eligibly located and
best equipped of any in Buffalo. Tne bar
ley was valued at $125,000, and the elevator
at SIOO,OOO. The amount of the insurance
is unknown,
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER l(i, 1889.
GO WEN HIS OWN SLAYER
A MURDER THEORY DISPROVED
BY A SALESMAN’S STORY.
The Latter Identifies the Pistol Found
With the Deceased as One Sold Him
a Few Hours Before the Suicide.
What Probably Prompted the Fatal
Shot.
Washington, Dec. 15.—Late this even
ing the superintendent of police was notified
by E. Smoot, clerk in the sporting goods
shop of D. N. Waiford, at No. 477 Pennsyl
vania avenue, near the National hotel, a
mile from Wormley’s, that on Friday he
sold a pistol like that described as having
been found with Guwea’s body to an elderly
gentleman answering to the published
description of Mr. Go wen. The police think
this was the pistol Mr. Gowen used.
THE SALESMAN’S STORY.
Smoot, the young man who sold Mr.
Gowen the pistol and cartridges, himself
said he paid no especial attention to his cus
tomer or to his purchase. It was a common
occurrence, and he wouliQiever have given
it a second thought if he bad not read in
the papers about Mr. Gowen’s using the
same sort of a pistol to kill himself, t hen
it occurred to him that it might be the very
pistol he himself had sold, and he notified
the police about the occurrence. He identi
fies the pistol in their possession brought
from Mr. Gowen’s room by Policeman
Cross as the one he sold on Friday to the
elderly gentleman answering to the descrip
tion of Gowen.
TIME OF THE SUICIDE.
Smoot's statement is important, not only
as establishing the fact that Mr. Gowen
committed suicide beyond peradventure,
but as giving the time of the suicide as
early Saturday morning and not late Fri
day afternoon, for Smoot states that the
transaction which he describes took place
between 7 and 8 o’clock on Friday evening.
As tho gas was not lighted and the bed had
been lam in, while Mr. Gowen was com
pletely dressed and evidently took aim be
fore the mirror, it seems certain that Mr.
Gowen shot bimse'lf early on Saturday
morning.
A DETECTIVE SUSPECTED MURDER.
Supt. Linden of the Philadelphia branch
of the Pinkerton system, who came down
last evening with F. I. Gowen, possessed
with the idea that Franklin B. Gowen was
murdered, because, having been closely
associated with Mr. Gowen all through the
Mollie McGuire troubles, he could not be
lieve that he would commit suicide, finally
came to the conclusion, after talking with
Mr. Gowen’s friends here and inspecting
the room at Wormley’s, that he had com
mitted suicide.
HAD NEVER CARRIED A PISTOL.
He thought that the fact that Mr. Gowen
had bought a pistol was very remaricable,
if true, nince Mr. Gowen had never carried
a pistol or any other weapon during the
Mollie McGuire days. But in the absence
of evidence as to where the pistol was
bought, Supt Linden declined at first to
believe that Mr. Gowen had bought it, and
regarded this as a reason for accepting the
murder theory. Another of his reasons was
that Mr. Gowen had made no preparations
and left no messages. But the evidence
of suicide was so overwhelming that Supt.
Linden’s theory fell under it.
WHAT WORRIED HIM MOST.
The thing that worried Ml. Goweu most
in the oil cases which he had been prose
cuting against the Pennsylvania, tho Erie,
and the other trunk railways, before the
interstate commerce commission during the
past year, was his inability to get the com
mission to order the production by the rail
ways of certain important papers material,
as he thought, to his case, such as their
agreements with the Standard Oil corpora
tions. He thought at the hearing at Titus
villa last summer that he had succeeded in
getting an order from the commission,
through Chairman Cooley, presiding, to the
Pennsylvania railroad to produce, at the
adjourned hearing in Washington, its secret
contract with fthe Standard Oil corpora
tions governing the oil traffic over its line.
JUDGE COOLEY’S ABSENCE.
But at the adjourned hearing in this city
in the fall Chairman Cooley was ab ent sick
in Ann Arbor, and Mr. Veazey, the new
commissioner, who had not heard the case
at Titusville, sat with Commissioners Mor
rison and Schoomaker, who had been at
Titusville, and wheu Judge Hancocs, rep
resenting the Pennsylvania railroad, stated
that he had the secret contract in his
pocket, and so had technically com
plied with the Titusville order
“to produce” it, but rofused
to exhibit it in any public way
unless directed to do so by the commission,
tho commission, to Mr. Gowen’s disappoint
ment and ebagi in, after listening to an
argument from Measrs. Gowen and Han
cock voted, Messrs. Schoomaker and Veazy
against Mr. Morrison, that Mr. Hancock
bad satisfied the Titusville order and need
not produce the contract publicly. Mr.
Gowen snowed his vexation plainly at that
time. It did not appear so evidently during
the Rice hearings this week, but there can
be little doubt that he felt it, for he lost
similar evidence by similar rulings of the
commission which he deemed equally essen
tial to his case.
JUDGE COOLEY MUCH SHOCKED.
The suicide of Mr. Gowen so shocked
Inter - state Commerce Commissioner
Cooley, who was also staying at Wormley’s,
that his health has been very seriously
affected. Judge Cooley came back week
before last, comparatively well, but his sys
tem is not strong enough now to stand a
great shock. Mr. Gowen was his personal
friend, and they chatted together on Friday
morning and again at luncheon Friday
afternoon. No one would the i have dreamed
that Judge Cooley would outlive Mr.
Gowen.
FIRE IN A CORN CRIB.
The Work of a Bucket Brigade All
that Saved an Adjoining Residence.
Madison, Fla., Dec. 15.—Between 8 and
9 o’clock last night fire was discovered in
the crib attached to the premises of W. L.
Parramore, at this place. The build
ing in which the fire started was entirely
destroyed, together with about 140 bushels
of corn aud a cart. Two mules were in the
stable at the time, but were gotten out in
safety. The loss is between S2OO aud S3OO,
but is fully covered by insurance. By the
exertions of the bucket brigade the resi
dence was saved. The fire is supposed to
have been of incendiary origin.
Legislative Corruption.
St. Louis, Dec. 15.—The Post-Dispatch
of this morning prints under flaming head
lines a five-column expose of alleged legis
lative corruption at Jefferson City, Mo. It
ciaimes that the live stock inspection bill
introduced by the St. Louis Butchers’
Union In the last legislature was defeated
by the absolute purchase of state senators.
Picked Up a Prize at Sea.
Fortress Monroe, Va., Dec. 15.— The
steamer Dispatch has arrived here with a
lumber laden vessel, bottom upward,(picked
up thirty-five miles out, supposed to be the
bark North Carolina, which was lost in
September last. She will try to reach
Newport News, " —-
MONTHLY CROP REPORTS.
A Plan to Give the Farmers as Much
Benefit as the Speculators.
Washington, Dec. 15—Secretary of
Agriculture Rusk bat had prepared a bill
to be presented by Representative Whiting
of Michigan to the House, which promises
to be of vital importance to the agricultural
community of the United States. For
some time past the farmers of the country
have been complaining to the Soeretarv of
Agriculture that the crop reports tinder
the present system reaca the speculator
first, and as a natural consequence to the
farmer’s financial injury. Se strongly in
trenched is the idea in some agricultural
communities that the department through
some of its agents is in conspiracy with the
speculators that the state agents of the de
partment have been boycotted from getting
reports.
RUSK’S REMEDY.
Secretary Rusk, upon the reeoption of
the above information, thereupon con
ceived a plan whereby the distribution of
tne monthly or special crop reports might
bo facilitated, and thereby protect the farm
ers. The germ of the idea was suggested by
William J. Walter of Utica, Mioh. The
bill, as prepared, authorizes and directs the
Secretary of Agriculture to furnisn copies
of the advanced monthly or special crop re
port to such newspapers or other publica
tions as may apply for the same, at or after
4 o’clock in the afternoon on such days as
the reports may be prepared for publica
tion, aud shall at the same time furnish one
or more copies to the chief signal officer of
the army through the Secretary of War.
TO BE SCATTERED BROADCAST.
Upon the delivery of the reports to him
the chief signal officer is to cause them to
be immediately transmitted by telegraph
to the observers at such signal service sta
tions within the United States as he may
designate as central distributing points for
the surrounding districts, and to cause tho
report to be duplicated by the observers,
and copies of the same distributed by mail
to each and every United States postofflee
in the surrounding districts with tho least
possible delay.
Each postmaster is to be furnished with
a suitable frame, with a glass front, in
which to place the reports of the Secretary
of Agriculture.
MUST BE PUT UP IN PUBLIC PLACES.
The Postmaster General is also authorized
and directed to cause each postmaster to
place the frame in a public and conspicuous
position iu his office, and to promptly dis
play the reports therein immediately'upon
their receipt, and t > cause one report to re
main posted in tho frame until the next
report is received.
Ths sum of $40,000 Is asked for to carry
out the provisions of the act, to lie disbursed
by the Secretary of Agriculture, for the
purchase of frames to be supplied the vari
ous postoffices, for duplicating appa-atus,
stationery, supplies, etc., to be furnished
the signal service observers, aud to defray
the expense of telegraphing the reports to
the several stations.
WHAT CONGRESS WILL DO.
The Holiday Recess to Begin on Friday
Next.
Washington, Deo. 15.—Congress this
week will provide for taking its usual
Christmas vacation, and will adjourn,
doubtless, from next Friday, Dec. 20, until
Monday, Jan. 6. Aside from the action
upon this subject, the completion of the
committee organization, tho further intro
duction of bills, and the confirmation of
numerous recess appointments, there will
probably be little to chronicle in the
Senate.
A GLUT OF BILLS.
Some means of permitting tho immediate
introduction of bills in the House of Repre
sentatives will probably be sanctioned early
this week, A prodigious number of now
and old measures now fill the pigeon holes
of tho 329 members awaiting opportunity,
and wheu the call on it begins not less than
two legislative days will be required to
complete it. The committee on appropria
tions intend to report, and will doubtless
promptly pass through the House the
urgent deficiency bill, providing for the
wants of the printing office aud the census
bureau.
THE BILCOTT COMMITTEE.
The Silcott committee is still wrestling
with tho legal questions upon which it has
to pass judgment, and its report, no matter
what the conclusion may be, will undoubt
edly give rise to lively discussion when it is
presented this week to the House.
Speaker Reed is not yet prepared to say
whether his list of committees can be com
pleted in time for prosentatio i to the House
during this week, but it is the general ex
pectation that he will have finished his task
by Friday.
MODIFICATION OF THE RULES.
Speculation is still rife as to what modifi
cations of the old rules will be recom
mended by the committee on rules, and as
to whether any code of rules can be formu
lated by the committee before the recess.
The prevalent opinion among the members
is that the modifications will be very slight.
If this view proves to be correct the code
will be adopted without any difficulty, but
should radical changes be attempted, with
reference to dilatory motions, a protracted
aud spirited debate will ensue, and very
possibly no action will be taken until the
new year.
A MISSION FOR FORAKBR
An Effort May be Made to Have Him
Sent to Russia.
Washington, Dec. 15.—A number of
eminent Ohio republicans, both here aud at
home, have been reported as anxious to
have President Harrison appoint Gov For
aker minister to Russia. It is likely that
some formal preseuta ion of Gov. Forakor’s
candidacy will be made this week. The
idea started when ho remarked that he
needed rest, and proposed to make an Eu
ropean trip when his term as governor ex
pired next month. It is probs la that he
woqld accept, but so far be has made no
move himself. Ohio republicans know that
Gov. Foraker’s defeat by his own party
will make trouble for years to come.
WOULD ACT AS BALM.
They argue that if he goes away for two
years the wounds would heal, and that he
could come back more popular than ever,
and find his party reunited. Gov. Foraker
is poor, and can’t afford a very extensive
trip abroad, besides ha would rather visit
Europe as a minister than as a private cit
izen. He has quite a family of daughters,
whom he would like to give a foreign edu
cation. Ohio men also claim that President
Harrison bas slighted the state in diplomatic
appointments. Under other Presidents
Ohio ha® always had at least one good mis
sion, while President Cleveland appointed
Messrs. Pendleton and Stallo to Germany
and Home, both being Cincinnatians.
A Steamer in Collision.
London, Dec. 15.—' The British steamer
Crete, from Savannah for Revel, which
arrived at Shield* Dec. 14, has her mainsail,
bulwarks and stanchions damaged and her
port main riggiug lost. She was in col
lision with the British bark Vale of Nitb,
The lAttgr’A HHm. riggWK if gone,
NO VERDICT GIVEN YET.
THB PUBLIC BEGINNING TO LOOK
FOR A DISAGREEMENT.
The State's Attorney Still Confident
of Conviction Judge McConnell
Points Out That the Length of the
Jury's Deliberations Need Not Mean
an Irroconcllable Disagreement.
Chicago, Dec. 15.— Another day of de
liberation has passed without bringing any
verdict from the Croniu jury. At 5:30
o'clock this afternoon Judge McConnell left
the court room, stating that he would again
be on hand to receive any return the jury
might have to make at 10 o’clock to-morrow
morning. The only instructions he gave
were that in the jury succeeded in
arriving at a verdict during the night a
bailiff might then conduct them to a hotel,
but that the verdict would not be received
by the court until to-morrow morning.
Rumors of all kinds have been afloat to-day
and to-night.
A MISTRIAL EXPECTED.
However erroneous it may be, the public
appears to have hastily arrived at the con
clusion that there is to be a disagreement
of the jury, and ’that the old attempts at
jury bribing have in some mysterious wav
proven successful. The statement that John
Culver of Evanston, a Presbyterian, aud
one of the most respected citizens of his
community, is the disagreeing juror has,
however, tended to shake this conclusion
somewhat, and the more conservative are
contented to await further results before
condemning anybody.
MAY BE ON A MINOR POINT.
It is quite possible that Mr. Culver’s
obstinacy mny only apply to some minor
point iu the case, or to tho guilt of Kunze
or Beggs, although the reports most cur
rent are that ho is voting on the broad
question of tho guilt of the prisoners as a
body. Tiie state’s attorney and conserve
tive citizens generally deprecate the severe
strictures made by the local papers upon
Mr. Culver’s suppled obstinacy, and no
man in tho city is probably more sanguine
of an ultimate agreement than is tho public
prosecutor himself.
THE JUDGE EXPECTS A VERDICT.
An Associated Press representative called
upon Judge McConnell at his residence this
afternoon and questioned him regarding the
status of the jury. “I had no intimation,”
said his |houur, “that the jury thinks
it will be u nable to agree, and 1 am of the
opinion that a verdict will bo ultimately
reached. I did not expect that any verdict,
even if agreed upon, would bo turned in to
day. It is, in fact, doubtful whether the
iury is considering the case at all to-day.
lost of the mem iers are religious men,
members of some church, and it is altogether
likely that it any particular man demurred
at considering tue matter to-day the jury
would at ouce acquiesce iu his scruples and
postpone further deliberation till to-morrow.
DON’T EXPECT A DISAGREEMENT.
“You do not, then, share in the general
belief that, there will be a disagreementf"
“I do not. I feel quite confident that the
jury will agree in time. There is no good
reason for this hasty conclusion of a diia
greement. There are thousands of instances
where juries have been out much longer
than this and yet finally agreed upon a
verdict.”
A COMPROMISE VERDICT.
“You anticipate a sort of compromise
verdict, then?”
“All verdicts are naturally ‘compromise’
verdicls as you term them. If they woro
not, it would mean that the opinion of each
of the twelve men was identical upon the
question of guilt immediately upon retir
ing. Asa matter of fact that is rarely, if
over, the case. In a case whore there is so
much to consider ai fit this, a departure
from the rule could hardly bo expected.
The verdict of a jury is necessarily a com
posite one. It is intended to bo. If it were
not there would be no need of twelve mon,
but a jury might just as well be composed
of one. It is the consensus of opinion that
the law contemplates twelve as being most
likely to insure justice.”
THE JUDGE’S INTENTIONS.
“It is stated that you intend to keep the
jury out until they do agree in this case, a
week or two, if necessary. Is such your
intention?”
“Of course it would be improper for me
to state at this time my intentions, even if
I could anticipate causes which might lead
to such a determination. It must De borne
in mind, however, that the court must
necessarily exercise discretion in such a
matter as that. The supreme court may
have to pass upon this case.”
WON’T COERCE THE JURY.
“Dropping tho Cronin case altogether, I
will illustrate with au imaginary case.
Suppose we have a case where eleven men
are agreed upon the question of the guilt of
the defendant and the twelfth believes in
his innocence. That jury, wa will say, is
kept out two or three days, and the status
of opinion is the same—one man still hold
ing out against eleven. Supuoso, then, as
you suggest, the judge should order them
out indefinitely, after they had stated
thoir inability to agree, and ultimately force
them to a verdict, the eleven men all the
time arguing with, remonstrating with,
and chiding; tho twelfth. Suppose the
case should then go to the supreme court,
and the twelfth man should come forward
anil state that he had been coerced and
worried into an agreement by his fellows
against his better judgment; that it was
only under stress of mental anxiety or
anguish that he had consented to the ver
dict. In such a case, do you doubt that
the supreme court would invalidate that
verdict and order anew trial? Of
course the jury should be given ample
time and every opportunity to agree, but
the demarcation between a deliberate con
clusion and a coercive verdict should be
closely drawn. Tho law d' es not contem
plate an inquisition to extort judgment
from tho mind of a juror.”
NO SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS ASKED.
“Have you received any request from the
jury for special instructions since it retired?”
“I have not I have never been in
the jury room, and, indeed, I have
no right to enter it. Snould they
request any further interpretation of
any instruction which the court has given
them they can only request it formally, and
then it is the duty of the court to cali them
into court and tnere, in presence of the de
fendants and their attorneys, interpret to
the jury’s satisfaction tne law applying to
tho evidence. No such request has been
made and no reading of the record of tbe
evidence has been asked for.”
MARRIED A 10-YBAB-QLD GIRL.
A Wedding That Promises to Get tbe
Parties into Trouble.
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 14.—William H.
Bailoy and Sallie H. Wallace of Waterford,
Miss., were married to-day at Bolivar,
Tena. Both parties are wealthy, and an
odd legal fight is promised. Tne girl is less
than ID years old, wears short dresses, and
seem* childish in everything save in au un
yielding determination to assert her marital
rights. Immediately after tbe ceremony
both parties were arrested and are being
held in jail. Just what can or will be done
ifijw. XIWW* w uvt kuvjm.
A BOW OVEB SUNDAY CONCERTS.
Augusta Ministers Think Church
Hymns Enough for the babhath.
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 15.—Gilmore re
turned to Augusta this morning from
: Savannah to give two sacred concerts to*
a y- He found that the ministers had cre
ated quite a sonsition by protesting against
the ix-rformanoes, nnd threatened legal
te ptevent tho giving of the concerts.
Legal s’eps were not taken, but several of
tin- ministers delivered sermons on the sub
ject to-day, or made reference to the con
certs at some point in their services. Their
opp jsition had its effect in greatly reducing
the attendance, though there was a good
audience bote afternoon and night. To
night i’rof. Gilmore thaukeilso many for
turning out, aud said he was surprised
to havo even ns ntanv as he did after all
that had been said. Ho had nevor known
anybody to tie injurod by hearing good
music, and he thought the ministers were
misguided In thoir zeal. They employed
music in tho cliurob, and ho thought It
good outside of the church. Certain of the
ministers are quite wrougnt up, and a meet
ing of the ministerial association has been
called for to-morrow to discuss what course
to pursue. A public indignation meeting
is suggested by some ministers.
GEORGIA’S MARBLHJ BEDS.
The Massachusetts Party to Return
Homo via Savannah.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 15 —A special car
bearing the Mas -achusetts oapitol commis
sion and a largo party of New England
architects, scientists anil contractors left
here this afternoon for the Pickens marble
quarries, which tho northerners go to in
spect. The excursion reached Atlanta last
night from Boston in charge of officers of
the Southern and Georgia marble com
panies. After spending two or three days
at tho quarries tue party will return to lh
north via Savannah. The contemplated
Massachusetts capitol extension will
be constructed of Georgia marble.
James G. Batterson, a large con
tractor of Hartford, who is build
ing the $1,500,000 Vanderbilt palace
at Newport of stone furnished from the
Southern marble works; E, A. Good now, a
bank president of Worcester; Charles
Brigham, architect of the capitol exten
sion; and Editor Cheney of the Worcester
Gazette, uro along. The governor of
Massachusetts expected to join the party,
but was unable to do so.
CIGARETTES FOR MINORS.
Violators of the New Law Brought
Up in Court at Tliomaavltie.
‘Thomabville, Ga., Dec. 15.—Superior
court adjourned Friday. Judge Hauseli
ruled that clorks in stores selling cigarettes
to minors, after being instruo ed not to do
it by the proprietors, are liable to punish
mont for the offense. There were several
cases of this character iu court this week.
Two proprietors pleaded guilty to violations
of tho law personally. A Chinaman
was spared puuishment for breaking
the cigarette law several days after its en
actment, by virtue of the statute allowing
three days for every 100 Indus u now law
has to travel from the capital after its en
actment to mnkc it operative.
M.ss Julia A. Chastain of this city and
James A. Jarvis of Gameivillo, Fla., were
married at tbe resideuco of C, W. Wiggins
Friday.
A Hunter Found Dead.
Patterson, Ga., Dec. 15.—One week ago
yesterday W illio Crawford borrowed Oma
Walker's gun to go huuting. Hi nee this
time nothiug had boon heard from the
young man until to-day, when, owing to
the buzzards, ho was found with bis shoes
off and a load of bird shot through his
brain. His parents are almost frantic with
grief.
Fire at Augusta.
Augusta, Ga., Dec. IS.—A fire occurred
just outside the city anil water limits this
afternoon which completely destroyed tho
dry kiln and 35,000 briCK* of J. H. & G. B.
Parker. The loss is SIB,OOO to $20,000. The
property is partly insured.
GEOLOGICAL FLORIDA.
A Survey Under Government Direc
tion Probable.
Tallahassee, Fla., Dec. 15.—A geo
logical survey of Florida by the United
States government is promised for the near
future. The last legislature passed a joint
resolution urgently requesting such a sur
vey, and State Chemist Norman Robinson
anil Commissioner of Agriculture L. B.
Wombwoll have followed it up by full and
exhaustive correspondence with the depart
ment, and with effective results. In a
letter just received by Dr. Itobinson from
Hon. J. W. Powell, director of .the
United States geological survey branch of
the department of the interior, he says: “I
hope te make arrangements to oomtnenoe
work on a scale worthy of your great state
during tho ensuing year, and have made
the necessary estimates to congress.” It is
well known that Florida is rich in phosphates
and gold and iron have been uneartuod in
some localities, though few know how rich
in minerals Florida really is. A thorough
and scientific survey will, however, open
the eyes of all.
TAMPA’S COMMERCE.
A New Steamer iu the Tropical Fruit
Trade.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 15.—A Tampa
special to the Times-Union says: “The
steamship Charles Morand arrived at
Port Tampa this morning from Ja
maica. Her cargo consisted of 20,-
000 bunches of bananas and 50,-
000 cocoanuts. This is the beginning of
commercial relations with Ceutral and
South America. The Morand is an iron
vessel of 760 teas. She will run regularly
between hero and West Indian and Central
American ports. On Tuesday next she will
sail for the port of Cortez iu Spanish Hon
duras.”
Orlando's Election.
Orlando, Fla., Dec. 15.—1n the munic
ipal election yesterday M. R. Marks was
re-elected mayor, as were J. F. Bennett as
marshal, J. K. Duke as clerk, James Knox
its treasurer, C. H. Munger as assessor, S.
H. Pucket as collector. Councilman C. E.
Johnson, George Macy, B. F. Bowen and
Dr. Dickinson are all new members.
End of the Synod.
Pensacola, Fla., Dec. 15.—The Presby
terian synod, which bas been in se aion in
this city during the present week, closed its
labors to-day and effected an adjournment,
to meet at Gainesville, Fla., on the first
Wednesday iu December next. Most of
the delegates left for their homes to-night.
An Assault on a Child.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 15.—James
Duffy, some 5!) years old, wa a arrested here
to-iay for criminal assault on a 6-year-old
girl named Annie Peacock, daughter of a
brick mason. The charge is that he enticed
the clillii into some old ruined building aud
1 irsQ there seen to make the t*ml%
( DAJTY, $lO A YEAR. .
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TALMAGE AT CAPERNAUM
THE STORMY PASSAGE THE SUB
JECT OF HIS SERMON.
The Seashore Village Once the Tem
porary Home of Chrlet—lmportano#
of Having Cariat In the Ship—Jesus
Was God and Man in the Same Be
in g.
Capernaum, Dec. 15.—The Rev. T. Dfl
Wit Talmage, D. D., preached here to-day
to a group of friends on “The Stormy
Passage,’’ talcing for his text the verges of
the gospel following: John yi, 17: "En
tered into a ship, and went over the <•*
toward Caperneutn;” and Mark it, 39j
“And he arose and rebuked the wind and
the sea.” He said:
Here in this seashore village was the terns
porary home of that Christ who toy
the mo tof his life was homeless. Ou the
site of this vill ige, n>w in ruins, and ll
around this lakt, what scenes of kindness
and power and glory end pathos whan our
Lord li red here! It has bee i tie wish of
my life—l ouun at say the hope, for I never
oxjiected the privilege—to stand on the
bnnlcs of Galilee. Wnut a • damalty and
what a rapture to bo here! I can now uns
dorttaud the faeli ig of the immortal Scotch-i
man, Robert McCheyno, when, sitting on
the hanks of this lake, he wrote:
It is not that the wild gazelle
Come* down todrinir tny tide.
Rut ho tha* was plercod to save from hell
< >ft wandored bv thy side.
UracHful around theo the mountains meet.
Thou calm, reposing sea;
Hut al< 1 far more tho beautiful feet
Of Jesus walkod o'er thee.
I can now oasily understand, from tha ,
contour of the country that hound* this,;
lake, that storms wore easily tempted to*
make those waters tbelr playground. From
the gentle way this lake treated our boat
when wo sailed on it yesterday, one would,
have thought it incapable of a paroxysm
of rage, but it was quite different!
on both the occasion* spoken of in
my two texts. 1 close my eyes and the
shore of Luke Galileo as it now is, with but :
little signs of human life, disappears, and
there comes buck to my visiou tue lake as it
was in Cdrist’s time. It lay ii a scene o£
groat luxuriance; the su.rounding hill* '
terraced, slopad, grooved, so many baugin®
gardens of beauty. On the shore were
castles, armed towers. Roman baths, every
thing attract!vo and beautiful, all style* of
vegetation iu shorter space than in almost
any other space iu all the world, from tha
palm trees of the forest to the trees of rig
orous climate.
It seemed as if the Lord had launched on®
wave of beauty on all the scene, and it
hung and swung from rook and hill end
oleander. Roman gentlemen in pleasure
b at* nailing this lake, and countrymen in
fish smacks coming down to drop their net*
pass each other with nod and shout and
laughter, or swluging i ily at their moor
ings, 0 what a beautiful scene!
lUt soems as if we shall have a quiet night.
Not a loaf winked in the ir; not a ripple
disturbed the face of Ueimesaret; but tberd
soems to be a little excitement up the bench,
and we hasten to soe wbat ft is, and we And
it an embarkation.
From the western rhore a flotilla pushing
out; not a squadron, or deadly armament,
nor clipp r with valuable merchandise, nor
piratic vessels ready to destroy everything!
they could seize, but a flotilla, bearing mes
sengers of light and life and [mace. Christ
is in the front of the boat. His disoi
plos are In a smaller boat. Jesus,
weary with much speaking to large
multitudes, is put iuto somnolence by the
rocking of the waves. If there was any
motion at all, the ship was easilv righted}
if tho wind passed from starboard to lar
board, or from larboard to starb >ard, the
boat would rock, and by the gentleness of
the motion putting the master asleep. And
they extemporized a pillow made out of a
fisherman's coat. I think no sooner is
Christ prostrate and his bead touched the
pillow than he is sound a leep. The breezes
of the lake run their Angers through the
locks of the worn sleeper, and the boat rises
and falls like a sleeping child on the bosom,
of a sleepi ig mother.
Calm nigot, starry night, beautiful night,
Run up ull the sails, ply ail the oars, and
let the large boat and the small boat gilds
over gentle Geunosaret. Hut the sailors say
there is going to be a change of weather.
And evea the passengers can hear the moan
ing of tue storm, as it comes on with great
stride, and ull the terrors of hurricane and
darkness. The large boat trembles like a
deor at bay among tho clangor of the
hounds;groat patches of foam are flung
into the air; the sails of the vessel loosen}
and the sharp wi ds cracklike pistols; the
smaller boats, like petrels, poise on the cliff*
of the waves and then plunge.
Overboard go cargo, tackling and masts,
and the dre ched disciples rush iuto the
back part of the boat, and lav hold of
Christ, and say unto him: “Master, carest
thou not that we perish V' That great per
sonage lifts his head from the pillow of the
fisherman’s coat, walks to the front of tha
vessel, ad looks out into the storm. AH
around him are the smaller boats, driven
In the tempest, and through it c mies the’
cry of drowning men. By the flash of tb
lightning I see the calm brow of Christ e*
the spray dropped from his beard. He hae
one word for the sky and another for the
waves. Looking upward he cries: “PeaceP*
Looking downward he says: “Be stiff !'*
The waves fall flat on their faces, the.
foam melts, toe extinguished stars relight
their torches. The tempest falls dead, and
Christ stands with his feet on the neck of
the storm. And while the sailors are bail
ing out the boats, and wh le they are try
ing to untangle the cordage, the disciple*
stand In amazement, now looking into tha
calm sea, then into the calm sky, then into
the calm Haviour’s couutenauce. and they
cry out: "What manner of man is this,
that even the winds and the sea obey himT’
The subject in the first place impresses ms
with the fact that it is very important to
have Christ in the ship; for all those boat*
would have gouo to the bottom of Gen
nesaret if Christ bad not been present. O
what a lesson for you and for me to lear&l
We must always have Christ in the ship.
Whatever voyage we undertake, into what
ever enterprise we start, let us always have
Christ in the ship. All you can do with
utmost tension of body, mind, and soul,
you are bound to do; but 01 have Christ
In every enterprise, Christ in every voyages
There are men who ask God’s help at the
beginning of great enterprises. He has
been wi h them in tbs past; no trouble can
overthrow them; the storms might come
down from the lop of Mount Harmon, and
las!) Gennesaret into foam and into agony,
but it could not hurt them. But here 'is
another man who star!* out iu worldly en
terprise, and he depends upon the un
certainties of this life. He has no
God to help him. After a while the
storm oomes and tos-es off the masts
of the snip; he puts out his life
boat and tha long boat; the sheriff and the
auctioneer try to help him off; they can’d
help him off; he must go down—no Christ
in tho ship. Your life will be made up of
sunshine and shadows. There may be in it
Arctic blasts or tropical tornadoes; I know
not what is beiore you. but I know if you
have Christ with you all shall be well. You
may seem to get along without the religion
oi Christ while everything goes smoothly,
but after a wtuls, when sorrow hovers o.ye*