Georgia Historic Newspapers

    ( THE MORNING SEWS. >
] EtfTIBUUCDIWO.IMOOKrOKATBDiaea V
J J. H. EBTILL, President, \
TO GO TO MINNEAPOLIS.
THE BHPOBLICANB MEET IN THAT
CITY JUNE 7.
Seven Eallota Taken Before a Decision
Was Beached—Forty-eight Delegates
at the Meeting of the National Com
mittee—The Delegates Overwhelm
ingly in Favor of Blaine.
Washington, Nov. 23.—1 t wag a na
tional convention of forty-eight delegates
which listened to speeches all the afternoon
and evening, while a thousand men and a
few women stood In the rest of the great
banquet room of the Arlington. It was a
Blaine convention. Every orator who
wanted applause mentioned Secretary
Blaine, and he always got it. The premier
sitting in the red house half a block away
could have almost heard it at times. Presi
dent Harrison in the white house two blocks
away would have had to go to the Arling
ton to hear the applause for him. There
was applause for Harrison, but it was
obviously jumped up.
IT WAS A BLAINE CROWD.
If the national oommittee had been tbs
national convention Secretary Blaine would
have been nominated to-night by acclama
tion. All the federal oiHoe-holders in
Washington could not have prevented it,
much less those on the committee. There
was only one damper on the Blaine enthusi
asm. That was Senator Edmunds, who
wandered in and out of the proceedings
until he finally sat down with Mr. Clark
son and Mr. Fassett on the dais. He man
aged to break up the Blaine applause at its
greatest pitch when, during Mr. Scott’s
speech, the convention rose to its feet to
shout for Secretary Blaine.
EDMUNDS 1 RUDENESS.
Mr. Edmunds took that occasion to walk
solemnly up to Mr. Clarkson and, shaking
him solemnly by the hand,to enter into con
versation with him within two feet of Mr.
Scott. It was rude, but it worked off the
speeches. Mr. Fassett’s was the most elo
quent. It lifted the committee to its feet.
Ex-Gov. Foraker’s was the cleverest. His
fady allusions to President Harrison, Sen
ator Sherman and his other euemies were
thoroughly appreciated by his hearers.
Gov.-elect McKinley got by far the
most enthusiastic reception and made ono
of the most eloquent speeches.
The Pittsburg oratory was perhaps
the most Interesting, considering the
fact [that at a meeting of the
delegation at dinner time it was
proposed to abandon the fight and go home
at 8:40 o’clock. Tils proposition came from
Congressman Dalzell, Mayor Oourloy and
Messrs. Stone and McCandless who had en
gagements in Pittsburg to-morrow morning
and thought it idle to remain here since
Pittsburg had no ohance and it was useless
to go through the form of presenting her
name.
ROASTED FOR LACK OF LOCAL PRIDE.
Chris Magee aud Scotch-Merchant Fer
guson roasted them for it in fiery speeches.
Mr. Magee said if they esteemed their pri
vate business more important than Pitts
burg's business, aud if they proposed to
skirk a duty expressly imposed upon them
by Pittsburg to meet private engagements
to-morrow he would see to it that Pittsburg
conferred no more responsibilities on them.
Mr. Mavee was white withjanger, as also
whs Mr. Dalzell. and ttjeir lan
goage at last became lurid. Peacemakers
interfered before they came to blows.
Messrs. Dalzell, Gourley, Stoue and
McCandlesß reconsidered ami determined to
make tiieir speeches and return at 11:40
o’clock. The committee, as it listened to
the real eloquence of Messrs. Gourley and
Dalzell, had no idea how near it t ame to
(reaping. By the time the Pittsburg
orators arose, the committee and all the
spectators were tired, the hall was hot, the
air was foul, yet the oommittse had to
listen to the unexpected invitation of Chat
tanooga after that.
BLAINE’S BOOM GAINING ALL DAY.
The Blaine boom has been growing all
day. Tne visits of the national committee
men and other republican leaders to the red
house and the white house oontinued, the
activity this morning being greater than on
any former day. President Harrison’s
friends remained Harrison’s friends, but the
rest came away greater Blaine men, whether
they had just seen Secretary Blaine or Presi
dent Harrison. President Harrison denied to
night as emphatically as Secretary Blaine
did all the current stories about an agree
ment or understanding between Secretary
Blaine and himself. He said that he
did not know what Secretary Blaine pro
posed to do. President Harrison’* closest
friends in aud out of the cabinet have no
doubt that Secretary Blaine will accent the
nomination, and very little doubt that he
will get it. However President Harrison
will wait and see, and meanwhile relax no
effort to get delegates. For a time, at least,
wei shall see a contest between the President
and his premier, not the less intense aud in
teresting for being half concealed.
details op the meeting.
Du the Associated Press.
Washington, Nov. S3.— The republican
national committee met this morning,
r , a re **£Qations of Senator Quay and
J '*• Dudley as chairman and treasurer
were aocepted.
1 he action of the executive committee in
Clarkson of lowa as chairman,
and William Barbour of New York as
treasurer was approved.
One hour was granted each city to pre
sent its claims.
A - Hobart of New Jersey was
lice chairman of the committee and
C Flynn’s credentials as committee
an from Oklahoma were approved.
greSßman c Kenna opened the speech
d * n ? hy presenting the claims of Ban
as the place for holding the next
1 ~.v! nt ‘ on ' a,l| l was followed by M. H.
who°i UDf n?* the Ban Francisco Chronicle ,
wnoaiso filed the Golden Gate’s *50,000 bond
°“t its offer of defraying the ex-
8 ’ lu fi u ding the expenses of the dele-
n P to the\osemite valley,
for thi I? - e wlandß of Nevada also spoke
tor the Pacific coast.
- CHICAGO’S POSITION,
c Hie Illinois member of the
Si’' Ubmitlel on the part of Chi
bv n.-i-^ t oni aJ opted some weeks ago
Whs nnf 688 men to tha elTe ct that Chicago
but n„u competitor for the convention,
selected dd ° whttt sha had always done if
ex^S*nab!? 1, p f i Detroit were put forth by
ami Alim/ ? a i mer Congressmen Brewer
Senator w d S?“ tor Stock bridge,
of tho Hni, W ( U l hburn ’ Chief Clerk Johnson
“—Mifsas b°tt ko "’ to,a " ky
St. LiOuU y !‘ KUey Missouri presented
that hosho dd h B °°i? town > for the reason
of the committee V “ member
about buThome^tate l and cityf S ° m6 ~
Judge 4 11°T R SOMKWHAT RITTKR -
I claim* went * a ur K in f? Omaha’s
other cUiaa and lnir* *.' Te6t nothings of the
York and ifiTr? Bcarin * New Ya rk
oould not break VG lle atter he ,eillark6::l
b*ople who falth with the western
P*e who had given it the world’s fair and
fiflje JHofning
go un whipped of justice. Senator Mander- i
*n Senator Casey of Wyoming and John |
M. Thurston also urged Omaha's selection.
NEW TORE’S CLAIMS.
Elliott F. Shepard, Senator Hiscock,
Senator Hawley of Connecticut, and J.
Sloat Fassett, the last of whom was received
with tumultuous cheers, urged Now York's
selection principally on the ground that it
would help the ticket.
Ex-Gov. Foraker and Gov .-Elect Mc-
Kinley were both loudly cheered when they
pro ented Cincinnati's advantages.
Mayor Gourley and Congressman Stone
urged the claims of Pittsburg.
Speechmaking was closed by Col. Brad
ley of Kentucky urging that Chattanooga,
Tenc., be selected.
THE BALLOTING.
The first ballot stood: Minneapolis 13,
New York 9, San Francisco 8, Omaha 5,
Chattanooga 4, Cincinnati 4, Pittsburg 2,
Detroit 1, St. Louis 1.
The seoond ballot showed only slight
changes, but when the third was reached
all except five cities dropped out, with this
result: Omaha 4, Minneapolis 13, Cincin
nati 12, San Franoisoo 7, New York 10.
On the fourth ballot Cincinnati got 2
votes from New \ ork, leading with 15
votes. San Franoisco also got 1 from Now
York. On the next ballot Minneapolis went
up to 17, San Francisco falling back.
The sixth ballot resulted: Minneapolis
20; Cincinnati, 15; New York, 5; Omaha,
4; San Francisco, 8.
The seventh and last ballot stood: Omaha
0, Minneapolis 29, Cincinnati 15, New York
3. San Francisco withdrawn. So Minne
apolis will be the next meeting place of the
next convention. June 7 was fixed as the
date for the opening day of the conven
tion.
Minneapolis won through San Francisco
and Omaha throwing their votes that way,
as a result of the desire to have the conven
tion held west of the Mississippi river.
a’KINLEV’S SPEECH.
Gov.elect McKinley, in the course of his
presentation of Cincinnati’s claims, made
the following reference to the south: "Was
It uot worth while,” Mr. McKinley asked,
“to try to carry some of the republican
states of the south! West Virginia was just
as good a republican state to-day as Ohio,
and if the Republican party did half the
work In West Vlrginia and in Tennessee that
it did mttfl Ohio and New York
both those states would give their electoral
vote for the republican candidate. Let the
committee put the convention in Cincin
nati, and those southern states would be put
in touoh with it. Southern republicans
would be encouraged. They would come
to Cincinnati and take in some
of the inspiration that would
be ' found in that groat national
convention, wherever it was to be held. On
the questions of the protective tariff and of
the honest dollar the republican party stood
united, but it stood just as united on the
question of iusisting that every citizen of
the country should have the right
to vote and the right to have
his vote counted. [Applause]. That was
one of the [great cardinal principles
of the Republican party that should never
be forgotten: ana no republican speech
should ever be made in any part of the
union that did not insist on the recognition
of that constitutional right of suffrage in
every section and corner of the laud."
CHATTANOOGA’S CLAIMS.
Representative Evans of Tennessee,[intro
duced Col. Bradley to speak for the new
south, for Chattanooga, Teuu. Col. Bradley
said there were no more lovaljpeople on earth
than tbe republicans of the south. They
were republicans when it cost something to
bo so. The loyal part of Tennessee, East
Tennessee, sent more soldiers into the union
army than any corresponding area of this
country. After the war the republicans of
the north had forgotten their southern
brethren in the old whig states of Kentucky
and Tennessee, and left them to work alone
for their own salvation. But they had
with their own strong arms fought their
own battles and rolled up tlse republican
strength, as shown by the figures. There
was a place for republican missionary
work. While the vote was dwindling out
west it was increasing in the south,-
and if such men as Gov. MoKinley and ex-
Gov. Foraker and ex-Senator Fassett and
others came down and preached republican
doctrine there would be the greatest revival
on earth. “No hotel accommodations?
Why iu ’O3 Chattano ga had accommodated
200,000 men, and with them were
Gens. Grant and Sherman and
Thomas. Let the convention oome
and the people of Chattanooga
would build them a wigwam way up on
Lookout mountain, where old Gen. Thomas
fought his battle iu the clouds. Now there
came up from tbo south, from the land of
bondage came the cry. Come aud help us.
Give the south a ohance In God’s name.
The day would then come when would up
rise in the south a Joshua to lead the repub
lican hosts to viotory across the Ohio river,"
foraker’s speech.
Ex-Gov. Fornker’s speech was remark
able for the indorsement he gave Gov.-
elect McKinley and Senator Sherman.
After stating that Cincinnati would not
decry other cities, he said, turning to Mr.
Fasset: “You are precisely the kind
of republican the Ohio people like.
You are a fighting republican. Some day
you will be crowned with victory. Good
men have beeu defeated before.” [Great
and prolonged applause]. Then after
speaking of Cincinnati’s central location,
ne irjtho center of population, he continued:
“The convention was not needed to carry
Ohio. Thank God, Ohio was a republican
state. It hod bad its campaign of education,
and the people of Ohio had spoken upon
the questions to be met next year by tbe
country. After a brilliant campaign Will
iam McKinley bad beeu elected governor
[applause] and the vote by which
he had been elected was a test
vote upon next year’s issues.
All the other cities bad a trouble which
could be cured only by the convention. But
as five of them were troubled, why oure oue
at the expense of the others? Better have
them all oome down to Cincinnati,
where there was pure, una
dulterated republicanism that would
regenerate all of them and cure their
political ailments.
THE ALLIANCE A DEAD ISSUE.
“You would not hear tell of the farmers’
alliance in Ohio. The Bookless Simpson
was glad to get out alive, whiskered Peffer
tarried not long. The republicans met
them on the threshold when they came
boasting of their intention of over
throwing the grand old man John
Sherman, and drove them out discomfited,
disheartened and overthrown. [Great ap
plause ] The republicans of Ohio wanted
no such monkey ticket. They believed in the
principles of tbe Kepublioau party os exem
plified by President Lincoln, upheld by
President Grant and represented by Benja
min Harrison in the white house to-day.
[Applause.] .. , .
Gov.-elect MoKinley was the next advo
cate of the claims of Cincinnati.
dalzell’s speech.
Congressman Dalzeil was Pittsburg s
chief spokesman. New Yorkers, he said,
needed to be baptized anew in the republi
can principles and to have their lips
touched with a live coal from the altar
whore the party sprang into
life. As to halls, way, Pitts
burg had one that would seat
•JB.OOO people. He described succinctly the
course of Pennsylvania in upholding the re
publican presidential candidates by mag-
SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1891.
nifioent majorities, and when he alluded to
“84” and the white plume of western Penn
sylvania's son, aud to President Harrison’s
spotless administration, he’ was
greeted with great applause. He ad
jured the committeemen to remember that
ihe Republican party could not boast of
having no pledge unredeemed so long as
%verv man under the American flag could
not cast his ballot and have it counted as
cast. [Applause.]
Congieetman Stone of Pennsplvania
closed the arguments in favor of Pittsburg.
The next campaign was to be fought, he
said, on the MoKinley tariff, Sherman
money and Blaine reciprocity. [Applause.]
ff the convention wore held at San Fran
cisco the news would be four hours old before
it reached Pennsylvania; and if there was
anything that the people of Pennsylvania
hated It was stale news. [Laughter,]
Whereas, the other way San Frauoisco
would got the newß four hours before it hap
pened. [Laughter]. The committee had been
told to-day of the delights of fresh water;
but Pittsburg never offered fresh water as
an inducement to anybody. [Laughter],
There might be some inducement for the
holding of the democratio convention at
Pittsburg, and that inducement was the in
comparable, the world famous Monongahela
whisky. [Laughter].
BYNUM OUT OF THE RACE.
Ho Urge* Hla Colleagues to Support
Mr. Mills’ Candidacy.
Washington, Nov. 23.—Mr. Bynum of
Indiana has come out in a cord withdrawing
from tbe speakership raoe. He says he does
not know how tbe Indiana delegation will
vote, but says he will vote for Mr. Mills,
and he urges all tbe other democrats to do
so, because Mr. Mills represents the tariff
reform movement more prominently than
any other congressman.
In this card Mr. Bvnum says: “I never
pn ssed my candidacy and consented only
to the use of my name until it became evi
dent that the contest was narrowed down
between Messrs. Mills and Crisp.”
HOW INDIANA WILL VOTE.
“Whom wlil the Indiana delegation now
support?”
“In Indiana there is no boss rule. Every
representative votes aud speaks for him
self, and you will have to see the
representatives to ascertain their prefer
ences. As for myself, I shall heartily
support Mr. Mills. While many of
the candidates are strong tariff reformers,
none so prominently represent the position
of the party on this question as Mr. Mills.
He is knowii to the people as a prominent
figure in the House on this question,
and his defeat, would, in a great
measure, be accepted as abandonment of
tbe issue. The tariff is the Issue upon
which we must win in 1892, and there
should be no semblance of wavering or
baiting at this critical period. Unless
tbe party stands firmly and aggressively
in favor of this Issue the farmers of the
northwest, who gave us such a sweeping
vl 'tory in 1890, will become disc uraged and
may abandon hope of success through the
organization of our party."
Proctor’s Vacant Chair.
Washington, Nov. 93.—The friends of
Assistant Secretary Grant are quite confi
dent that he will be promoted to be Secre
tary of War. The faot that ho is from
Minnesota will conciliate, they say, the anti-
Harnson sentiment, which is ’so strong
there. The fact that he has been a good
officer will make his promotion gratifying
to the civil service reformers. Ex-Gov.
Cheney is understood to still think that ho
will get it.
Gov. Hovey Critically 111.
Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 23.— Gov.
Hovey’s condition at an early hour
this morning was critical. He is sinking
rapidly, and his friends have almost given
up hope.
Houk’s Majority.
Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 23.—Houk,
rep., has a majority over Williams, dom. ,
for congress, of between 7,500 and 8,000.
FABEWfiLL TO FLORENCE.
Tbe Remains of the Sleeping Comedian
in a City of the Dead.
New York, Nov. 23. —The body of Will
iam J. Florence bas found a temporary
resting place in the receiving
vault at Greunwood cemetery, whither it
was taken after funeral services in St.
Agnes’ church, and there it will remain
until the arrival from Europe of the widow
of the actor, when it will be conveyed to its
final resting place in the family plot. In the
early morning there was little about the
Fifth Avenue hotel to denote the solemn oc.
canon. Soon after 9 o’clock tbe pall
bearers began to appear. Mr. Palmer was
the first of these gentlemen to arrive, while
Edwin Booth was the last. The casket was
closed about midnight after tbe members of
the family had taken their last leave.
THE DEPARTURE FROM THE HOTEL.
When the body was taken from {ho
Twenty-third street entrance of the hotel
about 9:30 o'clock there was a large orowd
on tho street. Palin leaves sent by Augus
tin Daly were placed at the bead,
while the gift of Mrs. Barney Williams, a
similar offering, was placed at the foot of the
casket. The casket was taken out by six of
the undertaker’s attendants from the hotel
to the hearse, preoeaed by the pall-bearers,
with Edward Booth and A. M. Palmer in
the lead. Then foUowed the family, con
sisting of Mrs. Noonan W yard, Mrs. Bar
ney Williams, Mr. and Mrs. George 1L
Mitchell. Inspector Conlin and family,
Benjamin Conlin and family, Mrs. Brown,
Mrs. Seymour, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. and
Mrs. H. Pray and Mr. and Mrs. Martin.
The most direct route to the church was
taken and the remains reached there
promptly at 10 o’clock.
At the ohurcu the casket, preceded by
the pall bearers Edwin Booth, A. M.
Palmer, William Winter, John Hocksher,
Charles N. Vilas, C. F. Fearing, Clayton
McMichael and John Russell Young—was
carried to the altar. Mass was sung by
Rev. Henry Pratt of St. Columbia church.
After the services at the churob the re
mains were interred in Greenwood
cemetery.
A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY SUES.'
The Road it Was Building for Fails to
Produce Any Cash.
Nashville, Tkxn. , Nov. 23. —A Flor
ence ( Via.) special says: “A suit was filed
Saturday in the oircuit court involving the
sum of (104,352. A. G. Nogley, assignee of
the North Alabama Construction Company,
has sued the Florence Northern
railroad for the amount mentioned
on tbo ground of non-performance of
contract. The survey lias beea completed
to Linden, Tenn., a distance of seventy
miles, and tho roadbed graded to a point
twenty-seven miles north and the tics and
trestles furnished and ready for the rails.
The terrm of the contract are that the
Florence Northern railroad was to par
150,000 per mile for the roadbed completed.
No part of the consideration baa ever been
paid, and the assignee claims that one-fifth
of tbo work is completed. The suit has
created quite a stir and caused considerable
comment.”
A BLOW AT WASHINGTON.
A Tailor Caught in a Falling Wall and
Killed.
Washington, Nor. 23.— A torrifle wind
and rainstorm, amounting to almost a hur
ricane, passed over this city about 12:30
o’clock to-day doing a great deal of damage
to buildings, in the ruins of one of which
several people were buried, aud completely
prostrating telegraph wires. The storm
seems to have been quite general.
A MUStO HALL WRECKED.
The worst damage was done to the Cue
Metzerctt musio hall, the nails of which
were well advanced to comple.ion and were
at that stage of progress when they offer
the least resistance to storm. The wind
swept luto the high walls of this building
aud part of the structure wen? with a
crash, breaking Into several stores on F
street, near Twelfti adjoining the Met zero tt
music store. One of these stores was occu
pied by Georg) White, a ladies’tailor, aud
the second by Gude & Bro., florists.
FOUR BURIED IN THE lIUINS.
Four persons wore In the rear of White’s
establishment and were buried iu the ruins.
Three persons were taken out not very
seriously injured, but the life in proprietor
White’s body was extinct when ho was
reached. A number of parsons had narrow
escapes, but the accident occurred at tbe
noon hour, and the workmen aud others
were fortunately at lunch at the time of
the storm.
THE WHITE HOUSE DAMAGED.
A section of the stone balustrade around
the white house roof was blown down and
crushed through the roof of the portico at
the eastern entranoa of the basement. The
east portloo was also wrecked by falling
stone. The accident caused commotion in
the President’s household, but it was soon
found that no one was injured. The Presi
dent was receiving tbe Minnesota delega
tion at the time, and his first action was to
hasten to tbe private part of the house to
reassure tbe ladies of his family.
A GAS TANK FIRED.
Lightning struck one of tho large gas
reservoirs of the Wastiington Gas Company
In Georgetown, near the water frout, and
snapping one of the tall iron oolumns sur
rounding the tank, tbe gas was ignited and
500,000 feet stored in tho reservoir was con
sumed before the fire bad spent itself. Tbe
gas oompuny’s loss is about $50,009, with no
insurance.
Many buildings wore unroofe l and a num
ber were partly blown in.
The total loss will considerably exceed
SIOO,OOO.
The total loss in Washington will aggre
gate $250,000.
Reports received here from Williamsport,
Harrisburg, Altoona and other towns In
Pennsylvania, aud from Baltimore north
ward along the New Jersey coast to New
York, show that considerable damage was
done.
NEW YORK TOUCHED.
New York, Nov, 23.—The metropolis
experienced a touch of the storm, but not
much damage was done. The storm played
havoc with the telegraph wires. Wire Chief
Mitchell of tho Western Union Telegraph
Company said that the caul wires to Savan
nah, Augusta, Norfolk, New Orl-ans
nnd Florida were all lost.
Out of 100 wires to Washington but one re
mained intact. Beyond Baitimoie all the
wires are down. Half an inch of rain fell.
To the north it was much heavier, while in
the Ohio and Mississippi valleys it was as
great as two and three inches, three Leu
ng destruction of levees. Enough
rain has fallen in the Croton water
shed to avert temporarily any water fam
ine. The storm was the most severe this
section and the entire westerly line south
has experienced this year. The winds are
still high aud threaten to be stronger to
morrow morning, with tho temperature at
the freezing point.
GENERAL IN VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 23.—The end of
tho storm struck this city to-day, and while
little damage has been done in this imme
diate vicinity reports from various sections
of the stato show that the storm was
general; that many houses were unroofed,
and chimneys, trees and fences blown down.
Along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, as far west as Clifton Forge, tho
wind and rain together have played havoc
with houses and crops.
ROOFS BLOWN OFF AT ROANOKE.
Roanoke, Va., Nov. 23.—A terrific
wind aud rain storm passed over this city
early this morning. A number of houses
were unroofed. Glass in many houses and
hotels was broken.
In Salem a number of houses were un
roofed and other damage done. The dam
age done by the storm in tho couutry is
very small.
HEAVY DAMAGE AT STAUNTON.
Staunton, Va., Nov. 23.— There was a
terriflo gale here this morning. Housos
were unroofed, walls blown down aud ranch
damage to fencing was dono. The Gosuen
rolling mill building win carried away and
part of tbo Clifton Forge foundry.
SEVERE AT HIGH POINT.
High Point, N. C., Nov. 23.—A very
severe wind and rain storm ocourred here
this inorulug, blowing down trees and the
roofs off several housos.
Smokestacks of the,Snow Lumber Com
pany’s factory and the Carolina Manufact
uring Company’s factory were blown down.
TWO BOYS HURT.
Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 23.—A violent
wind storm occurred here about noon to
day. Falling limbs of trees struck two
boys, Charley Stone and John Briggs,
dangerously wounding them.
VERY SEVERE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
York, Pa., Nov. 23. —At Hanover, in
this county, the storm was terrible. .Many
private properties were damaged, and tho
Ketteror wagon works were completely
demolished, entailing a loss of $25,u00.
Howard Carbaugh was killed by a falling
building and seven persons were injured.
At Carlisle several school buildings were
blown in, but fortunately only two punils
were severely injured.
DIPHTH2RIA IN BELLEVILLE.
A Large Nuiqber of Deatba—Children
Token From the fcchoole.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 23, —Diphtheria is
raging in Belleville, and amounts almost to
an epidemic. It broke out in September
and Bince that time its ravages have been
very severe and a large number of deaths
have occurred. It has assumed such alarm
ing proporti ms that a large numbor of citi
zens have withdrawn their children from
the public and private schools. It i* esti
mated that there are between 200 and 300
cases in Belleville and its vicinity.
Clgarmakera Strike.
Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 23. -One hundred
and five cigarmakors employed by Oblmger
Bros. & Cos. of this city struck this morn
ing by order of the Cigarmakers’ interna
tional Union. The cause is a change in
the system of work, which the employes
claim moans a reduction of wages.
Storming in lowa.
Bublinqton, la., Nov. 23.—Chicago,
Burlington and Uuiocy officials report a
severe storm raging all along the line of
that road in Contra! lowa. At Croston over
six inches of mow has fallen. The storm is
moving rapidly eastward.
FONSECA OPT OF OFFICE.
HE YIELDS TO THE WISHES OF THB
PEOPLE.
Naval Officers Call and Warn Him
That They Would Not Support Him
Any Longer-One Man Killed In an
Attack on the Naval Arsenal-Quiet
Restored.
Rio Janeiro, Nov. 23.—A deputation of
naval officers waited on Gen. da Fonseca
to-day aud stated-that his aota as dictator
had created profound dissatisfaction among
the people of tbe oountry, and that if he re
fused to accede to the popular request
for his resignation, they would not be
answerable for the consequences. After a
short interval Gen. da Fonseca issued a
manifesto announcing his resignation of
the presidency of Brazil in favor of Floralno
Peixotto. President da Forseca stated in
his manifesto that bis determination to re
tire from office was taken for the purpoae of
avertiug civil war. Tho army is quiescent
and has mode no more since tbe latest de
velopments.
Hio is in a state of great excitement and
business is suspended, but no serious trouble
is reported,
Benor Peixotto is forming a government.
HOW it was accomplished.
Rto Janeiro, Nov. 23, 11 p. m.— The in
habitants of this city, whose sympathies
bavo beon with tbe congressional party,
have at last thrown off all guise of ad
hereuoe to the existing government, aud
have openly declared their determined op
position to the dictatorship of Gen. da
Fonseca and their resolve that he must
abandon the presidency, which he has held
for only a comparatively brief period. Like
ex-Em peror Dom Pedro, President da
Fonseoa has quietly yielded to the demands
of the people that the executive of the
Brazilian government he deposed from his
high office.
A POPULAR UPRISING.
The people of this city rose in arras
against the dictator’s government to-day
and the uprising baa thus far been very
successful, and the insurgents have aooom
ulishod tbo ends for wnich they had so long
beeu secretly planning. Among the flrst
things tho revolutionists did this morning
was to increase their store of arms and am
munition. A strong force of insurgents
made an attack on the naval arsenal and
after a weak aud only half hearted effort
on the part of those stationed at the place
to repulse tho attempts of the Invaders t”
affect an ontrance into the building, its
guardians soon oapitulated to the enemy
and the 1 utter triumphantly took posses
sion of the arsenal aud all the muni
tions of wur which it ooutalned.
ONLY A FEW SHOTS FIRED.
Only a few shots were exchanged, and
tho poor resistance made by the defenders
of the arsenal is shown by the fact that
none of the insurgent force is reported to
have been killod or soriously wounded. A
laborer employed in tho arsenal was
struck by one of the shots fired by
the attacking party, and is tho only one of
the contestants known to have lost his life
in the assault. One of the cannon balls
fired from the arsenal was badly dlreetod
and struck the Candelaria church, causing
considerable damage to the building.
A DISQUIETING KFFEOT.
The news of the uprising had a very dis
quieting effect, and created the greatest
alarm in this city among women and chil
dren, and those citizens who bad uot taken
up arms in support of either party; and
when the fighting began at the arsenal and
tho rattle of musketry and boom of camion
were heard, all were seised with a wild
panio and tied to pluoes of safety to hido
until the firing had ceased and the
conflict was at an ond. Merchants and
Bbopkeopers, fearful lest their place* be
looted by the insurgents or by thieving in
dividual* who would take advantage of the
confusion and excitement to pillage their
stock, made haste to close tbeir establish
ment* aud securely bolt both door* aud
windows, and take such other measures for
the safety of their property as the occasion
warranted.
THE AI,AR£t UNFOUNDED.
All their hurried preparations wore un
necessary, however, for, as already de
scribed, the attack on the arsenal was of
only short duration, and hoyond the smash
ing of a portion of the churob struck
by tho cannon ball, no further
damage was inflictod upon property,
and very little disorder prevailed among
the congressional forces. The fooling of
alarm in the city was gradually dispelled,
and all the people are now rejoicing at the
succees which has orowned the effort* of
those who took part in the revolution to put
an and to Gen. de Fonseca’s dictatorship.
THE CABINET ALSO RESIGNS.
The members of the cabinet which bad
beea organized by President da Fonseca re
signed when the triumph of the revolution
ists booarne an established fact, and the
manifesto of Gen. da Fonseos, announcing
that he would bow to the will of the peo
ple, had been issued. The state of siege
which had been proclaimed was at once
raised when the insurgents obtained
oontrol of the government. It is expected
that the members of congress, which had
been dissolved by order of Gen. daJKonseoa,
will be recalled to office. The provinces
have not yet been heard from, but it is be
lieved from advices hitherto received in
regard to the growing opposition through
out the country to Gen. da Fonseca’s
supremaoy, that the news of his downfall
will everywhere be reoeived with the same
satisfaction as at the capital.
FATAL FLAMES.
Four Lives Lost at Jamestown—Many
Business Blocks In Ruins.
Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 23.—a special
from Jamestown says: “The Old Home
stead hotel was burned at 2 o’clock this
morning. The flame* cut off escape by way
of the stairways ond the guests lowered
themselves from second story windows.
Three servants undone child wero burned
to death.
OIL MILLS IN ASHES.
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 23.— The De Soto
oil mills were burned this morning. The
loss is (00,000.
BUSINESS BLOCKS IN RUINS.
Middlebury, Vt., Nov. 28.— Half tho
business portion of the town has been
burned by a flro that started in the Smith
& Sheldon block, on the east side of Mam
street. The Smith & Sheldon blouk, the
Weldon bridge crossing Otter creok, the
Butolph block, the Battell blook, the high
way bridge across the railroad, the Cobb
block on the west, the Sheldon blook, the
Sun grist mill and the old cotton factory
were burned. The Allen block, across the
street from Beckwith’s blook, was also de
stroyed. The loss is probably (150,000.
STORES BURNED AT PARAGOULD.
ParagOULD, Ark., Nov. 28.—Fire last
night in the Bertig blook destroyed Bertlg
Bros’, famous dry goods and clothing store,
Dr. Hicks’ drug store, Gallamore’s saloon,
J. H. Bryant’s saloon, M. G. Nelson's
grocery store and H. Goldman's dry goods
store. There was a heavy snow storm at
the time, which probably saved the town
from destruction. The loss i* estimated at
(100,000.
BOUND TO OOMB TO SAVANNAH.
A Report that tbe Louisville and Nash
ville Will Combine with the 8. A. U.
Amkhicus, Ga., Nov. 83. It is tbe
general report here that the Louisville and
Nashville aud the Savannah, A morions and
Montgomery roads have formed a oombl
natiou by which the connecting link from
Lyons to Savannah will speedily be built,
giving anew freight and passenger line
from the north, westward to New Orleans
and points west by a now boat Itoa from
the north to Bavaunah, and thence by the
Savannah, Americus and Montgomery
route aud Louisville aud Nashville to N ew
Orleans. The officials of the Savannah,
Americus and Montgomery road refute any
information on tbe subject, but the report
Is generally believed that the Hue from
Lyons to Savannah will be built as speedily
as possible, and that a deal has been made
by the Savannah, Americus and Mont
gomery with the Louisville and Nash
ville.
LOST WITH A CARGO OF RICE.
The Schooner M. K. Glldersleeve
Founders off tbe Coast.
Norfolk. Va., Nov. 28. —The steamship
Almandine from Brunswick, Ga., to Liver
pool, bas arrived here with Gapt, E. W
Hill and the crew of the schooner M. E.
Glldersleeve, which foundered last Wednes
day. Capt, Hill had bis wife and three
children on tbo schooner with him, ana
thoy were all rescued and brought here.
The Gildersleeve was bouud for Wilming
ton, N. C., on Nov. 17, loaded with
rioe. That night she encountered a severe
gale and lost all ber canvas except the
foresail. The next day, while eoudding
before the wind, the vessel sprung a leak.
A signal of distress was put up, and the
party was rescued by the steamship Alman
dine, whioh was bound here for coal.
FHANCK'.I MINERS.
The City Council of Parle Votes Funds
to Aid Them In Their Strike.
Paris, Nov. 23.—The municipal counoll
of this oitv bas voted 121,000 fraues to assist
the miners in their strike.
There is now no doubt that the strike of
the ooal miners in the department of Pas de
Calais is a general one. Of tbe 40,000 and
more miners in tbe ooal fields of that de
partment there are to-day only 100 at work.
A number of meeting* bave been held at
various places in the department, which
generated into riotous gatherings, at whioh
many bitter threats were made against tho
mine owners. Troops scattered the mobs
without being oompelled to fire upon
them. M. Guyot, tbe minister of public
works, has sent instructions insisting that
the masters appoint five delegatee to form a
oommittee of arbitration in ooiijunctiaai
with five representatives to be appointed by,
tbe htinors.
SBLIGMAN’S MISSION.
France Wants England and Germany
to Take tba Initiative.
Paris, Nov. 23.—M. Seliginan, the New
York banker who was sent to Europe as
representative of the United States treasury
department witli a view to bringing about
the holding of an international conference
to secure tbo establishment of a bi-metallto
agreement, lias been in this city to secure
the co-operation of Frarce. Minister Reid
presented Mr. Scligman to M. Rouvier. the
minister of finance, to whom Mr. Heligman
set forth the object of his mission at length.
M. Rouvior gave Mr. Seligman a cordial re
ception. He expressed his sympathy with
the proposal to bring about a common ratio
between gold nnd silver, but stated that he
was not willing to take the initiative in the
matter. He expressed the hope that
Eugland and Germany might be induced to
00-operato with France to bring about a
conference to effect tbo desired end.
SUFFRAGE IN BELGIUM.
Labor Organizations Tareaten to
Strike if it is Not Granted.
Brussels, Nov. 23.— Delegates to the va
rious labor organizations yesterday decided
that unless the government shortly fulfills
its promise to grant universal suffrage in
Belgium they would again begin a gen
eral strike to force the granting
of their demand. Some month* ago there
was n great strike of Belgian workmen for
univereal suffrage, and it was only on the
promise of the cabinet, as yet unfulfilled,
to grant universal suffrage that the strike
was called off. At present the payment of
direot taxes, amounting to 40 franca per
year, is a prerequisite to voting.
PRINGS GEORGE’S ILLNESS.
Every Indication Now Points to His
Ultimate Recovery.
London, Nov. 28.—A bulletin issued
from Marlborough house this morning
states that evory indication in the ease of
Prince George of Wales, points to t)is re
covery from the attack of fever from which
he is suffering. The queen, who returned
to Windsor castle from Balmoral on Satur
day, visited her grandson this morning and
spent seme time at his bedside.
A CYCLONE IN BIAM.
Lives Lost by the score and Thousands
of Buildings Wrecked.
London, Nov. 23. —The Bangkok corre
spondent of the Standard, telegraphs an
acoount of the terrible destruction wrought
by a cyolone which swept over a portion of
that country, wrocking thousands of build
ings and causing great loss of life. The
correspondent says the towns of Chai Ya
and Bandon have been practically destroyed,
and that 320 of the inhabitants of those
places have been killed.
CROPS IN MADRAS.
Cotton Almost a Total Failure—Grain
Crops Withering.
Calcutta, Nov. 23.—Discouraging crop
reports arc received from the presidency of
Madras. Tho cotton crop in the districts of
Bellary, Kurneol and Cuddapab, in that
presidency, has proved almost a total fail
ure, while in several other districts the grain
crops are withering.
Vienna Rules Out Bookmakers.
Vienna, Nov. 28.—The exsoutive com
mittee of the Vienna Jookey Club have de
cided to exoludo professional bookmaker*
from the club’s raoe course. It is their
purpose to check it possible the mania of
the Viennese public for betting at the race
tracks.
Three Children Suffocated.
Paris, Nov. 23.—Three children belong
ing to an English family named Trump
were suffocated at their home in Rue
Dominique to-day, a red hot stove having
set fire to the bodstead in the abeenoe of the
children’s paronts*
I DAILY,SIO A YEAR, |
\ 5 CENTS A COPY. L
I WEEKLY, 1.8 A YEAR f
LAKE IAMONIA RONS 00T
THOMAS COUNTY THE SCENE OF
THE PHENOMENON.
A Similar Disappearance Thlrty-aavea
Years Ago—Supposed to Have
Drooped into a Subterranean stream.
Tbe Aotlon of the Tide Supposed to
Have Had Some Connection With the
Mystery.
Thomabville, Ga., Not. 33. —Tbe beau
tiful Ism mis lake is no more. Its tranquil
beauty had given it a fame whioh bad been
spread to every part of this broad land by
many of the thousand* of visitors who an
nually frequent Tbomasville. But iU
serene waters, so long crowned with luxuri
ant magnolia forests, and so long affording
a home for myriads of living creatures,
hare glided through an opening in the
lake’s bottom, pod are now In the close and
dark embrace of mother earth. So tbs
beauty of charming lamonia has doparted,
but only for a time. For like the fair on*
who disappears before liar bridal day only
to reappear afterward more lovely than
ever, so this oharming lake will fIU again
some day as if by magic, and shine forth
beneath the sun with its orown of laurel
apd beech with a beauty more radiant than
before.
For sevorol weeks it has been reported
that lamonia was running dry, but news
came ywetrday that the rush of waters had
been very rapid and tbe lake had run out.
This carried the Newh correspondent aud
scores of other* to tho scene to-day.
WHERE THE LAKE LIES.
lamonia lake is about twenty mile* from.
Tbomasville across the Florida line. It t*
about thirteen miles long ana from three
fourths to two miles wide. There are
thousands of acres of land in tbe lake, bill
the grrator pert Is covered with grass;
whore tho water generally' stood from two
to throe feet deep. There are about 154
acres where tbe water was quite deep and
free from grass and bonuets. This was ths
basin in general. The basin proper prob
ably has forty acres iu it and is nearly
circular iu shape, dipping at a short de
cline and where the water stood from thirty*
five to forty feet deep.
The lake has the peculiarity common to
oertain other Florida lakes of running out
at the bottom at oeriain times. There is
left at present an oblong pool of muddy
water over the main exit 100 feet the longest
way and 50 feet aornes, and 21 feet in tna
doeiiest part, exoept over the fissure through
which tbe water escapes. The 21 feet In
this pool added to 85 feet of general depth
of basin gives tbe depth of pool now left
when the.take is full at 59 feat. A sounding
line was let down 100 feet, into the fissure
when tho lake wont dr; before but did nut
roaoh the bottom of It.
AN AMAZING SIGHT.
An amazing sight greets the visitor os h
look* ovor the mud-covcred bottom of th
basin. There are many thousands of yellow
streaked-neck terrapin to be seen literally
everywhere. Some are orawiing heavily
through the soft mud, and stopping at in
tervals to rest. Many nave dragged them*
solves to drier mud, where they continue to
orawl, loaving perfect!v dlstloot and long
trails behind them. Others, still, have
climbed to dry land; some into th
grass, hundreds into tho woods,
scores of the poor hunger-tortured
and frightened creatures roll back from thi
declivities of the basin and have to star!
their weary Journey anew. Thousands ol
them have reached the high lands and art
scattered over the surrounding country.
Their number cannot be well exaggerated.
They would make many carloads. There
are atto hundreds upon hundreds of soft
shell turtle-. They too are visible on ever*
side. These have been hauled away by
wagonloads and are still being carried ofl
by the score. Large numbers of logger*
bead or snapplug turtles, sometimes
oalled alligator turtles, are to bs
seen pulling along ia the mud. These am]
the terrapins looked upo i at some little dis
banoe, with a load of dried mud upon theis
backs, slowly plodding along, resembls
miniature caravaus traveling in a desert of
mud.
The carcasses of alligators are to be seen
on every band. Many hundreds of them
have been shot, while many have esoapsa
to other waters,
DEAD FISH WITHOUT NUMBER.
Another sight is tbetbarrels, and wagons
load*, and tons of dead fish left by the subJ
siding waters. Suckers with their glisten
ing scales, ohoioe bream, blue and common,
pretty red gills, noble trout, catfish, poll 3 ,
wrfgs and blue heads, the lordly jaokfisb,
sluggish mudfish, giant gars aud delicate
silvers, with many smaller fry, all lie lu
heaps; the noble and tho ignoble piled to,
gether in grim death. The stench arising
from theee putrlfying masses is sickening.
Stilt another queer sight which made the
flesh creep and crawl on the bones of those
who looked on wore tens of thousands of
black eels from a few Inches
to four feet in length. la
shallow pools of water they !ay In masses,
thousands of them, with their snake-liks
bodies, crawling, squirming, wriggling,
climbing upon and over each other, twist
ing around eaoh other, while ever and anoq
some poor fellow, more tired and sickened
than the rest, eould be seen to struggle to
land and give up tho ghost, i. e., if such!
miserable, wriggllug creature* have ghosts to
givo up. Asa matter of ouriosity I entered
a boat aud worked my way to such a
squirming mass, which was found to be
more than a foot deep. Imagining myselfl
cost naked among them, I fancied I would
know the terrors of delirium treinau*.
THINGS ON THE BOTTOM.
In walking over the lake’s bottom large
numbers of shells of the fresh Water clams
and snails were noticed, also old plow
shares and iron weights of many kinds once
used as auchors for fishing boats; also,
many stranded boats. Yesterday a negro
found an old rusted shotgun, accidentally
dropped In the lake by a duck hunter ulna
years ago. The carcass of a 4-foot gar
fish, which must have weighed twenSv-flve
pounds, was seen lying to one side. Thera
wa? not only black mud in the lake bot
tom, bnt quantities of iron ore and rook,
flint, pbospbatic, lime and sand stone. The
distinct tracks and trails left by the orawl
ing terrapin and the croaa checks in tho
shrinking mud as it dried aud cracked,
sometimes two inohes wide, showed very
plainly how footprints and gross checks
and water marks were impressed upon
rocks remote ages ago. Already I noticed
one place where the wind had blown the
dry white sand over these checks and tracks
which will preserve them indefinitely.
▲ TIDAL CONNECTION.
In some places along tbe shore the dif
ferent stages of the falling water were
plainly impressed. This would suggest
some tidal connection, especially as the wa
ter subsides awhile aud then increases
awhile. So while I found the water left in
tbe pool about stationary it may begin to
move at any hour and soon run completely
out.
People coma from every direction to see
the wonder, and they will oontinue to come
for several days. Several thousand must
have visited the lake during the
last few days. An incalculable number of
fish were taken before the water became
too low. Som > troi;t were caught weighing
seventeen pounds. The negroes around have