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J ESTABLISHED 1850. INCORPORATED 1888 -
| ‘ J. 11. ESTILL, President. j
YELLOW JACK OSIHE MARCH
Suspicious Cases at Gardi, Fancy
Bluii and Waresboro.
Burgeons to Investigate Them To
dav—Fears that that Entire Sec
tion is Infected Twelve New
Cases Reported at Brunswick.
The Fever Carried to St. Simon’s
by Miss Dart Surgeon Murray
Criticised for Sending for His
Family -His Object in Doing so
Explained.
Brunswick, Ga.. Oct. 2.—Twelve new
cases of fever were reported to-day, as
follows: Infant of Blount Bowen, K
street; Mrs. Ward Land, A street; Mary
Lee Brock, 614 A street; Tim Hennepin,
comer (lloucester and Bay streets. The
name of the man reported yesterday as
unknown is J. A. Hill, 1108 Mansfield
street. All of the above are white. Mi
nerva Jackson, 613 A street; Mary Fergu
son. 013 A street; Eva Green, 903 Carpen
ter street; Alice Munroe, 714 South
Cordon street ; Emma Reed, S2B Ellis
street; Annie Reed, 828 Ellis street; all
colored.
On St. Simon’s Island two cases were
reported, Miss Orilla Dart and her
brother. Eugene Dart.
Twe deaths occurred to-day; one at 3
o'clock this afternoon, the infant of
Blount Bowen: and one at 10:30 o’clock
to-night, Miss Rosa Nisi, who was suffer
ing from a relapse. These two deaths,
not occurring until after the regular daily
meeting of the board this morning, will
not be officially reported until to-morrow’s
meeting.
There are now four cases on Jekyl
island two of, which have been reported
to date. All are whites and members of
the Talkerson family.
Recapitulation—Cases under treatment
74. discharged 38, died 10; total 122.
Up to 8 o'clock to-uight Surgeon Mur
ray had heard nothing further from
Jesup, but will go there on a special train
to-morrow morning.
SUSPICIOUS CASES IN NEW PLACES.
Surgeon Murray left this afternoon on
a special for Camp Detention. Before his
departure he received instructions from
Surgeon General Wyman to go to Gardi
and investigate a suspicious case at that
point.
Private Secretary James 11. Gragg in
forms the Morning News correspondent
that Surgeon DeSaussure, who has charge
of the hospital at Camp Detention, has
been ordered to Waresboro by Surgeon
General Wyman, to investigate a suspi
cious case there.
A steamer was sent over from Fancy
Bluff to-day for Surgeon Faget to proceed
immediately to that point and investigate
a suspicious case there, reported to be
John It. Doerflinger, the mayor. Surgeon
Faget Will proceed immediately to
Fancy Bluff alter he returns from
Jekyl Island, where he has been all day.
Fancy Bluff is six miles across the bay
and marshes from Brunswick, adjoining
South Brunswick. Its population, white
and colored, is about fifty.
Gardi is a turpentine station on the
East Tennessee road, twenty-five miles
above Brunswick and fifteen miles below
Jesup. ]ts population is about 100.
Waresboro is a small town sixty-six
miles above Brunswick on the Brunswick
and Western railroad. Its population is
about 300.
THE ENTIRE SECTION INPECTED.
Surgeon Murray will leave on a special
train in the morning for Jesup, and on
the way will stop at Gardi and investi
gate the case there. . He will, while en
route, endeavor to trace the source of in
fection. From this point of observation
it is apparent that yellow fever has .ob
tained a foothold in this entire
section and only the most rigid quaran
tine will keep it out. Those towns and
cities that have been cautious in quaran
tine l'egulations are exnected to escape,
hut the outlook for the balance is consid
ered gloomy. Surgeon Murray is very
anxious about Jesup, but does not want
the people to become panic-stricken and
fiee to the woods, as that would result in
more deaths than would result from yel
low fever. He cautions them to be dis
creet in their habits and trust to the doc
tors.
There are not over 700 people in Jesup
who could possibly catch it and only part
of them in any probability will be down
at one time if the worst should come, and
with the aid of the local physicians Sur
geon Murray could successfully take care
of an epidemic there. He is favorably
impressed with his treatment there, and
will do everything possible to help them.
THE SITUATION ON ST. SIMON’S.
On St. Simon’s Island several hundred
refugees are taking matters coolly. Of
this number about i()0 are ladies, but all
are confident that the disease will
not greatly spread. The germs
were carried to St. Simon’s in Miss Dart’s
clothing, she having recently visited
Brunswick and entered her home to se
cure some wearing apparel. The house
was in the infected district where Sur
geon Branham died, and had been closed
for weeks. This should prove a warning
to refugees who return to their homes
before they are well aired and disin
fected.
If Mayor Doerflinger of Fancy Bluff has
the fever he caught it from either going
to and from Brunswick or from some
one's clothing who had spent the day
were.
H°w Gardi. Jesup and Waresboro
could possibly be infected is an unsettled
question that will be thoroughly investi
gated.
A heavy rain fell in Brunswick this
afternoon and the clouds hang heavy to
tnglit, making the situation more gloomy.
At least twenty cases can be expected to
morrow if all the physicians can report.
Surgeons Murray and Faget, Local Phy
anians Davis, Hazelhurst, 11. Bur
i°™> Dunwody, Butts and Robert Bur
lord are overworked and on the go day
and night. One colored physician named
'jest, formerly employed by Surgeon
•Murray, became panic stricken and fled
, c amp Detention. The other, Dr. Blair,
“ here working hard. The relief com
mittee and health board are working
nard relieving the distress.
NEW YORK SUPPLIES.
Lmd Fabian, Brunswick agent for
4 uerson, Downing & Go., of New York,
received an acknowledgment of his tele-
Lam saying that help was needed badly,
amt was assured that Now Yorkers were
work getting supplies.
1 he manager of the telegraph office has
ranged for operators in case the local
°r' <■ is further depleted by sickness.
"ut t 'harles W. Floyd, of the Bruus
v" k and Western road,and Ticket Agent
i >mery, have volunteered to assist in
’ -'faulting if needed.
T.V Mdent Churchill, of the Brunswick
I 1 hdnal Company, was seen to-day
o'cence to the published report about
j,, ' 'unjlliig the cotton at Jesup. He said
. had nothing to say on that
•boil panic uhtrly, but could handle
fllje JHofnitig ffotojj.
it if the shippers desired him to do so. as
his company did not quarantine cotton or
other goods.neitherdid they have anyfever
or any other infeetion at their docks, and
did not anticipate any sickness whatever.
He has gangs of cotton handlers undergo
ing ten days’ detention at the camp,whose
time has nearly expired and his work will
proceed uninterruptedly.
On his return from camp to-night
Surgeon Murray stated that he had ar
ranged for an extension of the limits, the
camp having proven too small for present
needs. The camp now covers about six
acres.
Two lunatics are confined in the county
jail and fifteen prisoners. The luuatics
are violent and give Sheriff Berrie much
trouble. One is white, Charles Gardner
of Macon, and the other is colored. There
is no sickness in the jail.
SURGEON MURRAY CRITICISED.
Surgeon Murray's arrangements to
bring his family are being criticised by
the press. Surgeon General Wyman
w ired him to that effect to-night, and re
quested information on the subject.
Surgeon Murray replied: “I desire to
have my three younger children, ages 7, 8
and i3, become immunes as soon as possi
ble to save them from annual scare and
worry. My two older daugh
ters, aged 15 and 17, are
immunes, but are now in college. I have
perfect confidence in my skill and do not
fear that any one will die if I treat them.
In view’ of your telegram I have directed
them not to come, not wishing to dis
please you and if you forbid will stop
them. I consider the chance a lost one.’’
Surgeon Murray said that owing to his
pressing calls outside the city he was not
aware of the order' issued on the 18th
by the Secretary of the Treasury forbid
ding any one to enter an infected
district until after he had
wired his family to come,
that they were now ready and he was
, especially anxious for them to arrive so
that if his children caught the fever his
entire family would be immuned. Such
pluck and confidence illustrates the
wonderful man in charge of Brunswick's
epidemic and should inspire confidence in
these remaining who will follow his in
structions
At the health board meeting Col. Good
year again took up the gauntlet for the
newspapermen. He said he had beenre
liaby informed that the afternoon press
correspondents were hampered in getting
their reports off in time
owing to the lateness of the
hour at which the board met
and that they should consider the bene
fit to Brunswick the papers had been and
grant any favor in their power. He there
fore moved that the board meet at 11
o’clock and give the newspaper men what
they wanted. It was carried. Col. Good
year then went before the relief asso
ciation, made the same plea and was suc
cessful. Col. Goodyear and both boards
have proven friends to the press and de
serve cordial support.
WARESBORO PUTS IN A DENIAL.
Waresboro, Ga., Oct. 2.—There is no
suspicious case of fever here. The Morn
ing news correspondent has made
a thorough canvass of the
town, and can assert posi
tively that there is not a case of sickness
of any kind here. Dr. J. M. Spence, the
only 'physician here, says there is not,
neither has there been, a case of fever of
any kind here in the past three months.
Any reports of suspicious fever cases here
are erroneous and groundless.
FIVE SUSPECTS AT JESUP.
Jesup, Ga., Oct. 2.—At a regular meet
ing of the council here this afternoon
Mayor Steele reported that be had placed
a strong guard around the Warren resi
dence and that no one would be permitted
to communicate with it.
The quarantine restrictions against
Brunswick are being made ipore rigid, and
extra inspectors have been placed on duty.
Mayor Steele made a personal inspec
tion of a majority of the houses this morn
ing and finds everything in a good sani
tary condition.
There being five suspicious cases re
ported by Dr. Tutten, Mayor Steele for
warded the following telegram to Surgeon
General Wyman at Washington: "All
contiguous cities have quarantined
against us. One case is pronounced yel
low fever by Surgeon Murray. Five
cases of fever here are reported suspi
cious by local physicians, but the patients
are convalescent. There is no experi
enced physician here. The town is pan
icky. Will you not detail an experienced
man to take charge of the situation here?
Answer. ’.’
Since the above telegram was for
warded, Dr. Tutten reports the five cases
as very suspicious, their temperature
ranging from 100 to 102, and indications
of black vomit with one of the patients.
NO TRAINS STOP.
No trains of the Savannah, Florida and
Western stop here and all communica
tion by rail is cut off, with the exception
of one train on the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia railway.
Trains have been running through the
city at rates variously estimated from
twenty to forty miles. •
On Motion of Alderman Floyd the rail
road officials were notified that they
could not pass through the town
at a greater speed than ten miles
per hour. The Morning News cor
respondent here stated in his report
which appeared in Sunday's issue of the
News, that Warren, who died Saturday,
had not been in any infected district for
the past three weeks. It transpired at
to-day’s meeting of the council that War
ren was in and around Brunswick and Da
rien during the past three weeks, and was
taken sick a few days after his return
here, which proves most conclusively
that Warren did not contract the disease
here from passengers, freight or baggage,
as reported in to-day’s News.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The following resolutions were passed
in council, with the request that the
Morning News correspondent be furn
ished with a copy for publication :
Resolved, That this council condemn the
account sent the Savannah Morning News
by their Brunswick correspondent as inaccu
rate and misleading to the public and dam
aging to the town of Jesup, wherein It is
stated that Warren contracted yellow fever
by association with baggage and freights
passing through Jesup from Brunswick, anl
that he had not been in Brunswick since July
26 last, leaving the impression that yellow fe
ver originated here, while we have positive
and conclusive evidence that he had visited
Brunswick between the Bth and 13th of Septem
ber. and it is highly probable from other cir
cumstances surrounding his actions that he
was in Brunswick at even a later date,
Resolved further, That the Savannah
Morning News be requested not to publish
any news damaging to the town of Jesup sent
them by correspondents outside of the town
before having the same verified by their local
correspondent.
Burgeon Murray wires for a special to
morrow moruing to bring him to Jesup
that lie mav see the suspicious cases.
A number of families are
preparing to leave town since
since the suspicious cases were reported.
The Wilkins hotel is closed, but other
excepl’on of railroad and express, they
being put*.' great disadvantage on ac
count of the quarantine restrictions.
VYAT< KOSS QrAHY^TINRH.
Way<*ro#. Ga., Oct. 2.— Waycroa lias
<|iiur.Witiucd uK&iust Jesup.
SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1893.
MOBILE SWEPT BY A BALE,
Two Men Drowned Up to Noon and
Great Damage Done.
Men Wading Through Business
Streets Up to Their Arm Pits in Wa
ter—Several Boats Blown Ashore.
Heavy Loss of Life in the Marshes
Feared—Boats Used in Navigating
the Streets of the City.
Mobile, Ala , Oct. 2, Ip. m.—A south
east gale broke out here this morning
about 4 o’clock, and the wind has been in
creasing in velocity ever since until, at
this hour, it is blowing at least fifty miles
an hour. The barometer is still falliug.
The wind has blown the water in from
the gulf until the river has reached
Royal street, which is four blocks from
the river, and at an elevation of
about fifteen feet from the river's usual
surface.
There is no possible chance of estimat
ing the money damage. The wholesale
and a great portion of the retail district
of the city is some four feet under water,
and thousands of dollar’s worth of goods
have been damaged.
BOATS DRIVEN ASHORE.
The pilot boat Ida Low has been driven
on the wharf at the foot of St. Francis
street.
The bay boat Heroine was driven on the
Mobile and Ohio wharf 'and almost to
tally wrecked. The Crescent City, an
other bay boat, left Point Clear at the
same time the Heroine did this morning
and has not since been heard from.
It is reported that three dredges, work
ing on the channel, have been lost.
It is also reported here that, some fifty
miles of the Louisville and Nashville rail
road along the coast are underwater, and
that the Biloxi bridge has been swept
away by the gale. Nothing has been
heard from the gardeners in the marshes
east of the city and the worst is feared.
Telegraphic communication is cut off in
almost every direction and from the
present outlook we will be entirely cut off
from the outside world when dark comes.
HEAVY DAMAGE IN THE CITY.
In this city houses have been unroofed,
trees blown down, and one cotton ware
house has succumbed to the fury of the
gale. All the smokestacks of all the man
ufacturingestablishments have been blown
down. Street car traffic has been totally
suspended because of the damage to the
electric wires, and the city will no doubt
be in darkness to-night, as the waves are
fast encroaching on the electric works,
which may be under water in another
hour.
The business thoroughfares of the city
are being navigated in boats, and parties
are wading up to their armpits iu an effort
to save goods.
It is given up by all to be the worst
storm that has ever visited Mobile. The
southern part of the city presents a scene
of wreckage as if it had been bom
barded.
The towers on the court house and
Christ church are tottering.
TWO MEN DROWNED.
Dredge No. 5 turned over near the light
house and three men were thrown into
the angry waves. At great peril the
crew of the tug Capt. Sam steamed to the
rescue and saved two of the men, the
other being lost.
An unknown white man lost his footing
while wading from the union depot at the
foot of Government street and was swept
under the bridge and drowned.
BLEW 75 MILES.
Mobile, Ala., Oct. 2.—10 p. m.—The
storm reached its height about 1 p. m.,
when the wind reached a velocity of 75
miles an hour. From that hour the fury
of the gale began to increase, and the
wind gradually changed from southeast
to west. The rain has been falling in
torrents the entire day, and to-night the
city is in darkness and there is not an
electric light of any kind burning.
The bay steamer Crescent City dragged
her anchor seven miles and went ashore
on the beach between Arlington and
Monroe park, about three miles below the
city on the western shore of the bay.
Capt. Frank Lumsden and his crew and
one passenger, a cotton broker named R.
A. Lewis, donned life preservers and
swam safely ashore through the angry
waves.
Nearly every bath house along the
western shore was blown down, and at
Morgan’s, an attendant named Graham
was swept away with five bath houses
and drowned.
• The Magnolia and Cooley warehouses
were blown down, and two unknown
negroes were drowned in the cotton yard.
Magnificent oaks all over the city are
laid low, and the earth is covered with
the green leaves whipped from the trees
by tlie force of the wind.
Houses all over the city have been un
roofed and fences blown down, and to
night it is simply impossible to give the
details. Nothing has been heard from
the eastern shore, nor from the market
gardeners in the marshes, where it is ex
pected great damage to property and pos
sible loss of life have occurred. The
storm, at this writing, riias abated and
the waters have receded.
There is not a wire in tlie Western
Union office affording intercourse with
tlie outside world, and this is written to
be sent several miles out of town, where
it is hoped communication may be estab
lished.
Tne loss of the Crescent City represents
$1,200; Cleveland Bros., grain dealers, es
timate their loss at between $5,000 and
$7,000; one merchant lost 1,000 barrels of
cement, another 1,000 sacks of salt; an
other a quantity of lime. A large quan
tity of grain has been lost. It will be
several days before all the details can
possibly be known.
ALMOST A CYCLONE.
New Orleans, La., Oct. 2.—A very high
wind storm, amounting almost to a cy
clone, reached this city, doing great dam
age to telegraph and telephone wires and
causing considerable loss by blowing off
tiles, .etc. Patrolman Ulrick Bauer, of
the Beylan private police, was struck and
killed by falling bricks from an office
building at the corder of Tchopitoulas
street and the levee. No further loss of
life is rejxirted.
EX-GOV. WAUMOTH DRIVEN OUT.
Ex-Gov. Warmoth brought his family
to the city to-day because yesterday's
storm made his home on Magnolia planta
tion uninhabitable. Nearly tho entire
roof was blown off and the house
flooded. The sugar house was partly
unroofed, The draiuage machine was
blown down. The cane shed, cook house
and blacksmith shop were leveled to the
ground. No lives were lost on the place.
The orange crop all along the lower coast
has suffered incalculable injury. The
fruit literally strews the ground.
STERFLBS BLOWN DOWN.
Reports of a serious accident have been
received from Itoiiit La Cache and viclu
ity. The tower of the court house and
tho steeple of the Catholic church were
blown down. Several houses were
wrecked, and it is said that four jieople
were killed.
Almost every plantation on the lower
coast has suffered. It is reported that
three children wcrekilled in one of the
little settlements below Magnolia planta
tion. Every stick of sugar cane is now
but may not be much damaged as the cane
is liable to recover from the blow. tfcrOV
Warmouth said that this storm was the
worst experienced in Louisiana since 18,1.
The hurricane of 1888 was not half so
violent and destructive.
TROUBLE OF THE TRAINMEN.
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern
Cars Under a Boycott.
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 2.—The local fed
eration of railway employes last night
adopted a resolutionordering a boycott on
all Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern
freight and cars. A boycotted Chesapeake
and Ohio South wortern car last night was
turned into the Kansas City, Memphis
and Birmingham yards and tho yard crew
refused to handle it. No discharges were
made, but they are expected to-day, as
under the interstate law, it seems im
perative upon the Kansas, Mem
phis and Birmingham peoplo
to handle the freight offered
by the Chesapeake and Ohio South
western. When these discharges are
made no doubt there will be a strike on
the Kansas City line. The trouble on the
Illinois Central and Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley roads has not yet extended beyond
Memphis, but as soon as the organizations
of trainmen have time to act it will prob
ably take in the entire system, as the
men are determined to resist the efforts
to reduce wages, and there seems to have
previously been a general understanding
among the employes of all the roads.
SWITCHMEN OUT.
All the switchmen in the Chesepeake,
Ohio and Southwestern yards are out to
day and only one yard engine is being
worked. It is in charge of the train mas
ter. The coal heavers, wipers and sec
tion men in the shops are also out.
The switchmen on the I-ouisville, 'New
Orleans ond Texas and Illinois Central
have refused to handle Chesapeake, Ohio
and Southwestern cars and they too have
gone out.
The switchmen in the Memphis and
Chattanooga yards, it is understood, will
strike to-day, and it is stated by the
strikers that they will be joined by the
switchmen in the service of all the roads
cenloring here before night. This state
ment is hardly true, as to the Louisville
and Nashville, as none of them attended
the meeting last night. The yards are
being guarded by policemen and deputy
sheriffs. There is no disorder.
A CONFERENCE.
The switchmen of the Illinois Central
and Yazoo and Mississippi valley held a
conference with the officials at_ll o'clock,
but refused to handle Chesapeake, Ohio
and Southwestern ea .? and,the strike is
still on.
l The Kansas City, Fort Scoit and Gulf
switchmen will probably go out to-night.
A tie up now will seriously interfere with
the movement of cotton, which is begin
ning to move in large quantities.
NO CHANGE IN THE SITUATION.
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 2. 11 p. m.—The
strike on the Chesapeake, Ohio and
Southwestern and the Illinois Central
and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley rail
roads at this jioint has not changed mate
rially to-day, though the outlook for the
disaffection to extend to several other
roads is more positive.
The Illinois Central and Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley strikers were offered
inducements to return to work this morn
ing but refused. These men struck be
cause a crew was discharged for refus
ing to handle a boycotted Chesapeake,
Ohio and Southwestern car.
This morning the local authorities re
instated the discharged crew and all
hands on the Illinois Central and Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley roads returned to
work. A short time later the men walked
out again, saying they guessed they would
not work until the Chesapeake, Ohio
and Southwestern trouble was adjusted.
On the Memphis and Charleston, Iron
Mountain and Kansas City, and Fort
Scott and Memphis roads, the men have
refused to handle the Chesapeake uud
Ohio and Southwestern ears, but they
have been told that if they will not strike,
that the managers will provide non-union
men to do the scab work so the provisions of
the interstate law may not be violated.
If. however, the men refuse also to
handle Illinois Central and Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley cars as they threaten
to-night, strikes may he precipitated all
around.
MIXING UP THE ROADS.
Washington, Oct. 2.—Officials of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railway direct at
tention to the fact that in dispatches from
Memphis, Tenn., as to the railroad strike,
because of a reduction of wages, the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad has been
confounded with the Chesapeake, Ohio
and Southwestern system, now called the
Newport News and Mississippi Valley
railroad. There has been no reduction of
wages and no strike on the Chesapeake
and Ohio. On the contrary, everything
is prosperous.
IMPORTED MEN FILE SUITS.
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 2.—Twenty-five
suits in behalf of workmen who were
brought here from the south to take the
places of the striking shop men of the
Louisville and Nashville road were filed
to-day. Ten thousand dollars are asked
for in each case. The grounds of the
suits arc that the plaintiffs were brought
here under misrepresentation, to their in
jury, that they were locked up and re
strained of their liberty, and that they
were refused transportation back to their
homes.
TUE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE
STRIKERS.
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 2.—Fourteen of
the striking shopmen of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad returned to work
to-day. About twenty of the new men,
however. Joined the strikers. Sixty-three
men arrived this morning from Chicago,
St. Raul, and other cities from the north
west, and were taken at once to the
shop.
PRESTON TO BE FOUGHT.
Silver Men Will Endeavor to Defeat
Confirmation.
Washington, Oct. 2.—lt is understood
that the western silver senators will op
pose the confirmation of Mr. Rreston,
nominated to be director of the mint. One
of them to-day said that they would use
every means possible to defeat the man
whom they charge with nullifying the
Sherman act.
A Blaze at Holly Spring*.
Memphis, Tenn . Oct. 2<—Afire Is rag
ing at Holly Springs, 60 miles south of
Memphis. Eire engines have Just left
here on a peol! train.
TWO WOMEN IN A MURDER.
One Severs the Other’s Jugular With
a Bullet.
The Cause of the Shooting a Mystery
Which the Murderess Refuses to
Clear Away—The Murdered Woman
tho Wife of a Policeman—The Up-
Town Residence District of New
York the Scene of the Shooting.
New York, Oct. 2.—A murder with all
the elements of mystery was committed
to-day in the uptown residence district.
The utmost recticence regarding the mat
ter is maintained by those most concerned,
and the police for some roason or another
seem to be anxious to keep the secret
within themselves. The story as told by
neighbors is-to the effect that shortly af
ter 4 o’clock this afternoon a tall, dark
woman dressed in deep mourning was
seen passing to and fro along Eighty-sixth
street, as if waiting for somebody. It
was noticed by those who watched her
that she cast furtive glances toward the
topfloorof No. 515. Suddonlvjshe ascended
the steps, and immediately four sharp
cracks from a revolver were heard.
A POLICEMAN’S WIFE SHOT.
A crowd gathered and, rushing in
to the hall, they found Mrs. Carrie
Pearsall lying at the foot of tho stairs
with a bullet wound iu the neck and
bleeding profusely from the mouth and
nostrils. When the crowd entered the
hallway the woman pocketed her revol
ver, drew her wrap about her and walk
ed down tho stops. A few of the
neighbors followed her and found that she
went to the eighty-eighth street police
station to give herself up. She told what
she had done, and said her name was Mrs.
Catherine Fitzgerald, and that she lived
at No. 2510 Eighth avenue. She said she
was 43 years of age. The woman who
was shot was Mrs. Carrie Pearsall, wife
of Policeman John W. Pearsall of tho
East 88th stroet police station. Mrs.
Pearsall is a blonde and rather good look
ing.
HER HUSBAND MYSTIFIED.
Her husband said she was 35 years old.
She was married to Policeman Pearsall
about seventeen years ago and as a re
sult of the marriage they had two chil
dren, girls, aged respectively 9 and 16
years. They had lived for the past four
years at 515 East Eighty-sixth street.
When asked for the reason of the crime.
Policeman Pearsall said: “I am utterly
at a loss to account for it My wife, as
far as I know, was a good woman, at
tentive. home-loving and kind. I have
never heard of nor seen Mrs Fitzgerald
before, and as far as I know she was an
utter stranger to my wife I was asleep
in the station house at the time of the
shooting and know nothing of the partic
ulars ”
THE PRISONER REFUSES TO TALK.
Mrs. Fitzgerald was transferred to the
One lundred and Twenty-sixth street
station house shortly after her arrest.
This evening Capt. Brooks of that pre
cinct said that the woman refused to talk
regarding the shooting and what
prompted it.
Of the four shots fired but one took
effect. This entered Mrs. Pearsall's neck,
severing tho jugular vein and passing
through the right lung. She died fifteen
minutes afterward.
Mrs. Fitzgerald, the murderess, is the
wifo of John J. Fitzgerald, an examiner.
It was said late to-night that she is a sis
ter-in-law of Police Inspector William W.
McLaughlin.
FOUR TRAGEDIES IN A DAY.
One a Murder, Two Probable Murders
and the Fourth Manslaughter.
Washington, Oct. 2.—Four tragedies
disturbed the peace of Washington yes
terday. One was a case of murder, two
were probable murders, and the fourth a
case of manslaughter.
John E. Shoemaker, white, a respecta
ble young farmer, with a wife and three
children, while drunk killed a negro man
named Thomas Matthews, near Tennally
Town, a suburb of the city.
James Owens, white, was disemboweled
by an unknown colored man, on North
Capitol street and will probably die.
Solomon Jackson (colored) was found
badly mangled iu Trumble court, there
being no clue to his assailant, and he is
not expected to live. i
Wood Reid (colored) was instantly
killed by a bullet from Sergt. Skinner’s
revolver, the shot being fired in the nick
of time to prevent Reid from plunging a
knife into tho body of Officer Skinner,
who was attempting to arrest the negro,
A DUCKY DAY FOR GEORGIANS.
Six Assigned to Positions Under the
Government.
Washington, Oct. 2.—To-day was s
lucky one for Georgians seeking minor of
fices.
Miss Lizz-io Thweatt of Forsyth, neice of
Peterson Thw’eatt, was appointed to a
good position in the pension office.
Maj. Slack called on Secretary Larnont
to-day iu behalf of Lieut. McCoy, who
now wants to be made a quartermaster
in the army.
Col. Russell landed P. H. Gillen in the
public printing office. This closes his
share of patronage in that department.
Speaker Crisp to-day secured the ap
pointment of J. F. Fitzgerald, a young
lawyer of Americus, to a place under
the interstate commerce commission. He
also put J. E. Bowen of Abbeville as elo
vator man in the House end of the capi
tol.
L. F. Garrard, jr., ofColumbus, was to
day appointed topographer in the geologi
cai survey, and Sirnri Murphy of Hamil
ton an Indian agent.
RELIEF WORK AT BEAUFORT.
The Red Cross Societies 'Assumes the
Care of 30,000 Persons.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 2.—The follow
ing telegram has been received from Miss
Clara Barton, president of the American
National Red Cross at Beaufort, S. C:
The Ked Cross has to-day officially accepted
and assumed control of the relief of the sea
Island sufferers, tendered two weeks ago by
the governor and committees of South (aro
lina This implies the housing, feeding,
clothing and nursing of 30,900 people for eight
mouths with no aid from the government and
no fuud but direct charity from Ibc American
people. Our headquarters and address Is at
Beaufort, C.
Scooped by a Trust.
Knoxville, Ton a., Oct. 2 —lt is reported
here that the Bessemer ore trust has se
cured eoatroi of the Magnetic properly at
Cranberry. N C. The price (said is said
to have been f l.uuo.wsi.
SIAM’S SURRENDER.
The Convention Exacted by France
Violative of Treaty Rights.
Paris, Oct. 2.—M. Dcvelle, minister of
foreign affairs, to-day received a dispatch
from the French special envoy to Siam
stating that the new convention between
France and Siam was signed yesterday.
M. Develle states that the new convention
includes a proposition for a customs
regime more favorable than the previous
treaty, which was to commence between
the French jiossessions and the Siamese
frontier
IN CONFLICT WITH TREATY RIGHTS.
Bangkok, Oct. 2.—Foreign residents of
this city consider several articles in tho
convention to be in conflict with existing
treaty rights. The convention was ac
cepted only after strong protests
from Siam. Prince Devanwagons,
Siamese minister of foreign affairs,
at the last conference handed M. Develle
a strong form of remonstrance. But the
pressure exercised by M. Develle was too
much, and the minister assented to tho
convention, although reluctantly. Tho
clause providing for the trial of Siamese
under French supervision is denounced
here as a complete violation of the treaty
rights.Theclause.concerning the prolonged
occupation of Chautaboon is regarded as
menacing Siamese independence. Yes
terday was the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the king’s accession to tho throne.
Owing to the critical juncture reported
in the negotiations, the fetes in celebra
tion of the event woro not held as
planned.
BRAZIL’S REVOLUTIONISTS.
The Insurgent Squadron Still In the
Bay of Rio Janeiro.
London, Oct 2.—The Brazilian legation
in this city to-day furnished the United
Press tho following information received
in dispatches from tho government at Rio
Janeiro, bearing date Oot. 1: "The in
surgent squadron under command of Ad
miral Mello is still in the bay of Rio
Janeiro with its fighting elements weak
ened. Many of the members of the crews
of the rebel warships are deserting daily.
During recent engagements between the
land forces and fleet tho shore artillery
damaged some of the rebel vessels. Two
steamers that attempted to land insurg
ents at Santos and on the Island of Santa
Catharina were repulsed. Tho land
forces are united and loyal to the govern
ment Public opinion is wholly opposed
to the insurgents.”
FIRING RESUMED.
A dispatch received by the telegraph
company says that Admiral Mello, who
commands the iusurgeut Brazilian fleet,
yesterday reopened fire upon the forts de
fending the bay of Rio Janeiro. The dis
patch adds that the bombardment con
tinued without cessation throughout the
day.
Provisions in Rio Janeiro are selling at
famine prices, uud a panic among the in
habitants again prevails.
A FLOOD IN TONQUIN.
Many Dwellings Swept Away With
Heavy Lobs of Life.
London, Oct. 2.—Dispatches to the
Times from Paris, say the delta of the
Touquin was entirely flooded by a hur
ricane recently, which swept away many
dwellings. A number of their occupants
escaped on rafts, but many were drowned.
The vicar apostolic has issued a press
ing appeal for funds to avert a famine, as
the crops are ruined by the hurricane.
Hundreds of Slaves Liberated.
Berlin, Oct. 2.—A dispatch from Zanzi
bar says: “Mayor Von Weissmau, with
his expedition, arrived at the Anganyika
on July 7. after numerous hard fights
with tho Arabs. Ho was victorious in
every fight, and liberated hundreds of
slaves. ”
A Scheme to Settle a Strike.
London, Oct. 2.—The mayors of Shef
field, Ijeeds, Bradford, Nottingham,
Derby and Barnslet to-day formulated a
scheme to settle the coal strike, which
will he submitted to the owners and to
the men.
A Hotel Collapses.
Berlin, Oct. 2.—The Golden Dragon, a
hotel at Kouigswirter, a resort of Rhine
tourists, a short distance below Drachen
feld, a noted mountain, collapsed to-day,
killing seven persons.
16,000 On a Strike.
Charleroi, Oct. 2. —An auditional 4,000
men struck work to-day, making a total
of 16,(KM) men who are now out on strike;
there was no disorder.
Strikers Resume Work.
London, Oct. 2.—Six thousasand coal
minors in Yorkshire, who went on a strike
on July 25 last, resumed work this morn
ing.
THREE TRAMPS KILLED.
A Fast Freight Rushes Into Three
Loaded Cars.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 2.—Ats:3oo'clock
this morning freight train No. 03, on the
tho Big Four railroad, ran into three
loaded freight cars at Edgewood. The
engine was lifted bodily from its trucks
and the tender thrown down a 30-foot em
bankment. On the front of the first car
of the train three tramps from Columbus
were riding. They were pinned in the
wreckage and two of them were burned
to death b.v escaping steam. The other
was fearfully crushed about tho head and
breast and was taken from the debris
only to die shortly afterwards. The
track was torn up for about 200 yards.
A wrecking train was summoned and
the crew began the work of clearing the
track. While prying a car off the rails a
tie flew up and struck William Hobusch
in the pit of the stomach. It is thought
he is fatally injured.
The names of the killed are Joseph J.
Jordan, a chairmaker of Columbus, O.;
James Murphy, a Columbus fouudryman,
and Joseph Blanch.
The injured are: Frank Brofferman
of Van Wert, Ohio, both legs broken;
K. M. Hughes of Edgemont, leg broken;
William Hobusch, section hand, inter
nally injured.
Supt. Gibson of the Big Four places
the blame on the switch engine erew
They had run three loaded cars on the
main track and had gone back on- the sid
ing for more cars, trespassing on the fast
freight's time.
South Carolina's Collectorship.
Washington, Oct. 2.—South Carolina's
colleclorahip light opened up again to-day
with the arrival of a delegation of work
ers from Greenville in the interest of Ban
Perry, Senator Butler's candidate. Those
in the delegation arc City Attorney J. A.
McCullough, W B. McDaniel. M. S.
Scruggs, J. T. Williams and it. 11. Rice.
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MARSHALS AT HIE POLLS.
Southern Members Denounce the Elec
tion Laws.
Dinamore of Arkansas Declares Them
an Obstruction to the Cairying Out
of the Wishes of the People—Denson
of Alabama Declares Supremacy of
the White Race Inevitable—Clark of
Missouri Makes a Strong Speech on
the Negro Question.
Washington, Oct. 2.—Tho attendance in
the House this morning was small, and
the speaker directed tho clerk to call tho
committees for reports, but none worn
submitted.
The debate on tho federal election repeal
bill was resumed, and tho House was ad
dressed by Mr. Dinsmore, dem , of Ar
kansas, in support of the measure. Ho
denounced the election laws as improper,
unauthorized, unjust, unwise and wrong.
They stood as an obstruction
to the carrying out of tho
wishes of the people. He expected to
see the pledges of the Democratic party
on this question redeemed. Such a courso
was vital to the interests of tho govern
ment and the happiness of the peoplo.
The people had thrust tho
Democratic party into power in
order to enable it to ropeal
those laws which had been put into force
by the republicans. It was tho duty of
the Democratic party to repeal tho laws
permitting federal interference at state
elections; and that duty would bo faith
fully performed.
Mr. Denson, dem., of Alabama, followed
in a speech of a similar tenor, in which bo
denounced the federal election laws.
Referring to the war, he created a laugh
by tho sentence “You were successful,
but you did not whip us; we woro our
selves out trying to whip you.”
CONFLICT OF THE RACKS.
□ Proceeding to a review of tho recon
struction measures, he asserted that
when the Anglo-Saxon race came Into
conflict with any other race, than tho
Teutonic, the Anglo-Saxon race must pre
vail. When the Anglo-Saxon and Teuton
ic races came into conflict, war would
be the rosult. He did not denv that there
had been violations of the federal elec
tion laws in the south, but no law had
ever been euacted that had not been vio
lated in the north as well as
In the south. The men from
the north could not tell the men from tho
south that, “You have tho beam in your
eye and we have only the mote in ours.”
[Laughter.j There were some men who
said tliero might bo another war. Ho
was not one of those. He had enough
of that. [Laughter. I He had fought his
distinguished friend Gen. Henderson
of Illinois, and ho did not want
to see that fight any more.
[ Laughter.] He then proceeded
to argue against the federal
election laws on constitutional grounds;
and he and Mr. Ray, rep., of New York,
grew controversial and argumentative on
this point, Mr. Ray taking tho contrary
position. He also got into a colloquy
with Mr. Blair, rep., of New Hampshire,
but the colloquy was uninteresting, and
ho closed by declaring that free and in
dependent states were the reservoirs of
tho rights and liberties of the people.
[Applause.]
Mr. Cooper, dem., of Florida, opposed
the federal election laws. They wera
productive of nothing but evil, and ought
to be wiped out with ail the speed that
could be given to tlio legislative proceed
ings.
A LOVE OF FAIR PLAT.
Mr.o Clark, dem., of Misssuri, said
that one of the reasons why tho people
had hurled tho Republican party from
power was that that party was the Invet
erate enemy of free elections. The
average citizen likes fair dealing. Tho
people did not like the idea of United
States marshals swaggering around the
polling places with bludgeons in their
hands and their pistols by their sides,
saying who should vote, or who should
not vote, on any pretense or no pretense
at all. The people intended to remain
free, and did not like the idea of having
tho army saying who shall vote.
THE NEGRO qUESTION.
Discussing the negro question, Mr.
Clark predicted that within a short time
tho people of the south, white and black,
would be found working together on all
economic questions. Ho contrasted tho
attitude of the Republican fparty toward
the negro with that held by the Demo
cratic party. The republicans gave him
taffy; the democrats gave him the plain
comforts of life; the republicans stuffed
his head with aesthetics and philosophy,
the democrats built schools and provided
teachers to educate his children; the re
publicans gave him pamphlets; the dem
ocrats administered to his wants in
time of trouble; the Republican party
asked him to break into the society of the
south; the democrats gave him honest
employment; the republicans endeavored
to stir his heart to mutiny and rage; the
democrats took him kindly by the hand
and said to him, “My brother, we are in
the same position, in the same locality,
traveling to the same destiny. Now let
ns return together, live in peace and
make the best of a bad situation, and
with malice toward none and charity to
ward all, solve, if we can, the most diffi
cult question ever presented to the chil
dren of Africa.” [Applause.]
LOVES HIM ONE HAY IN THE YEAR.
He then ridiculed the love which, ho
said, the Republican party pretended to
feel toward the negro. For 364 days of
the year tho Republican party had no use
for the negro. It was on the 365th day
only, that it called out Sambo and covered
him with love and affection. [Laughter.]
The affection that had existed between
David and Jonathan was nothing to the
love that the Republican party had for
the negro when the ballots were going.
|Laughter.] The Republican party bad
gone out of i>ower, and it would
stay out. While it lived, it
lived in clover; and when
it died it died, all over.” [Laughter.] In
conclusion Mr. Clark said that the dem
ocrats were honest and earnest in this
business. Whatever the republicans
might think about it, the democrats had
no doubt about holding the executive
branch of the government, and would
soon hold the Judiciary branch, for the
next twenty-five years, with the full con
sent of a majority of the American
people.
The House then, at 5:25 o’clock, ad
journed until to-inorrow.
The Chickamauga Park Monuments.
Washington, Oct. 2.—The President has
approved the joint resolution of congress
empowering the national board of com
missioners of the C’hicamauga and Chat
tanooga National park to authorize the
state boards, or organizations, building
monuments in the park to use materials
in the park agreeable to the roguisUous
it may adopt.