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SOUTHERN RECORD SUCCESSOR TOISSA Established Established 18 1890 72. :
VOL. XXIV.
vrw NEW „ CASES ™ OF YELLOW JACK
IN VARIOUS TOWNS.
MOBILE IS NOW IN DIRE DANGER.
New Orleans Show* Additional Cases of
the Dread Diseases--People Flee
From the Pestilence.
Three new cases of yellow fever
were officially announced Tuesday by
the board of health of Mobile, Ala.
Tho announcement caused much
more alarm than dhl the di.eov.ry of
the first case, which was regarded as
sporadic.
The people who can are leaving for
points of safety.
Some $700 worth of tickets to At-
lanta were sold during the day by the
Louisville and Nashville railroad ami
outgoing trains are crowded.
The same is true of the trains on the
Mobile and Ohio railroad.
I)r. Guiteras left S„ Mobile for Fd
™,1», Mi.,, ottered
ligate the di.ea.o prevailing there.
He declined to tell ini «uai what have na\e been neen his ms
observations, saying he had first to re-
|,ort to the surgeon genual at Y\ash-
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"From Mobile, Ala. Dr. Guiteras reports
two new cases in one house in the southern
pnrt of the »*ity near tho locality of tho case
reported today, and where tho disease. Dr.
Guiteras says, will to begin assume and cpi-
detnlc form.”
When asked upon what he based his
telegram to the surgeon general that
there would be a spread of the disease,
he said that the city has had a long
immunity from the disease and there
is much material for it to feed upon.
jHt-kwin'* Population IJrfnjfooinjf.
About half the population of Jack-
son, Miss., has fled, the exodus being
caused by rumors of yellow fever at
Edwards, twenty miles west, officially
stated Tuesday evening to bo yellow’
fever.
The state authorities have called on
Wyman for help.
Business is suspended, though many
people here, some of them the best
known citizens of the state, refuse to
leave. \11 mails have been ordered
fumigated by the health authorities.
The Howard Association has been
organized, with Colonel Stewart as
president, aud is ready for any emer¬
gency.
Situation at New Orleans.
At nightfall Tuesday the books of
the New’ Orleans board of health show’-
eil the following recapitulation of the
yellow fever situation:
There has been reported to the board for
investigation twenty-six eases which the at¬
tending physicians considered eonspioious.
Of these thirteen cases had been found suf¬
fering with a harmless fever, five eases were
regarded as suspicious but necessary to be
further Investigated before ft definite report
could be made upon them; there were no re¬
ports ns to four eases, and four cases had
been pronounced genuine yellow fever,
though one of the latter was classed as of a
mild type.”
The most serious of the four yellow
fever cases is located in the neighbor¬
hood of the French market.
USED WINCHESTERS.
Miners and Guards K.xehmise Shots In the
.Tellico District.
A special from Oswego, Tenn., a j
small station on the Knoxville and
Ohio road in the Jellieo mining dis- |
trict, gives account of an encounter
Tuesday night between eight United
States marshals and the stnkiug min-
ers.
The marshals are special deputies
sent to guard the property of the
Standard Coal Viands and Coke Company,
which is in the of United States
court receivers. Non-union miners
were put to work and trouble came as
expected.
A mob marched toward tbe compa¬
ny’s store when they were ordered by
the marshals to halt and leave the
property, which they refused to do.
The marshals then took refuge in a
blacksmith shop aud fired upon the
mob. The miners retreated, but re¬
turned the fire with tlieir winchesters.
WRECKED VESSEL FOUND.
But Nine of the Big Fortification Gun*
Were Located.
The wreck of the schooner Agnesi.
Grace, which sunk August 6th. with
four sixteen-ton guns for the Tvbee
fortifications on board, was located
Tuesday twenty miles southeast of
Tyl.ee sea buoy by the tug William
F. McCauley. The wreck had moved
about 1} miles from the position
buoyed by the 1 nited States buoy
tender Wistaria. 1
The Grace is fast breaking up.
RUNNING DAY AND NIGHT.
Psgle and Fhenix Mills Now Working a
Double Force*
No. 1 mill at the Eagle and Phenix
plant at Columbus, Ga., is now run¬
ning day and night. The all-night
schedule was inaugurated Tuesday
night with a full force.
All departments at this mill are now
being run day and night.
This arrangement will continue for
some time, at least, and may be per-
manent.
PARDONED BY THE PRESIDENT.
Bank Wrecker Notified of HI* Freedom
by Telegraph.
A dispatch from Michigan City, Ind.,
says: Francis A. Coffin, received
telegraphic McKinley pardon from President
sent from Somerset, Pa ,
and signed by Attornev-General Me-
’
He left the prison Saturday morn¬
ing and started for Chicago to join his
’wife, who has lived there with rela¬
tives since his incarceration.
Coffin was looking for a pardon, but
hot by wire.
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A MURDEROUS FAMILY.
Ghastly Crimes Committed by the Btaffle-
hack*—Lynching Probable.
A special dispatch states that the
j Staffleback murderTrials at Columbus,
Kas., have brought to light some
I bloody butcheries that rival the crime
of the Bender family twenty years
ago.
robbing have for year's been murdering ami
been people and five murders have
traced to them bv developments
in Monday’s and Tuesday's trials
Separate trials were given the three
Staffleback boys and their mother
Thev murdered a man named Frank
Galbreath at Galena, Kansas, last
July and threw the body into an old
abandoned mining shaft
On the trial George Staffleback
Woke down and not only confessed to
this murder, but told of other mur-
<lers that the family had committed.
His wife also revealed some of their
crimes, . One of the murders was that
of an unknown Italian peddler two
: His body was also thrown
I ^ aa abandoned mining shaft,
Two girls who were inmates of the
Staffleback house aud witnessed this
murder were killed and thrown into
* the shaft two weeks after the peddler’s
murder.
An old man w.„ killed and robbed
% the.e peop’e, live years ago in Jop.
Hn, ’ Mo. ’
Crowds of men are watching . , . the
^ bodies
bus SE&iace,.. han.
and representatives of the
V1 gda»ts uho lia\e organized to lynch
j^ mare e< ’ seeiI, g thatthey are notre ’
POPULISTS ISSUE ADDRESS.
special Committee Hold* a Meeting In
Lynchburg, Va.
The populist special committee
.vhioh met at Lynchburg, Va., Tues¬
day night has given out its address to
the “people’s party of Virginia.”
The address severely censures the
democratic state convention for its re-
fusal to nominate Captain Cocke, the
populist, for lieutentaut governor,
characterizing such refusal as au idig-
nity and insult to the populist party
under the circumstances.
The address, however, says that in
the opinion of the committee condi¬
tions have not so changed as to make
any further populist nominations desir¬
able; urges that populists use all honor¬
able means to elect Cooke lieutenant
governor, and to elect members of the
legislature wherever they can, the
committee affirming its belief that
many “patriotic democrats” will indi¬
cate their disapproval of tho demo¬
cratic convention’s action by voting
with the populists. Only three out of
the five members of the committee
signed the address.
STORM REPORT EXAGGERATED.
I.nter and More Accurate Dispatches Are
Being Received.
Later and more accurate reports re¬
ceived Tuesday from points in the storm
belts in Texas show that the reports
that reached Galveston were greatly
exaggerated.
At Sabiue Pass the following are re¬
ported as drowned: Captains Green
B. Moore, L. L. Bettis, George Wal-
ford and Engineer William Rateheliff.
These men were all on vessels which
sunk.
Along the Gulf and Interstate railway
several were injured, but none were
killed.
Port Arthur suffered the brunt of
the blast and half the town is estima¬
ted to have been destroyed or badly
injured. Only tw o people were killed.
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MASSILLON MINERS AT WORK.
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They Hold MMeeting and Decide to
Accept New Rate.
The coal miners in the Massillon, j
O., district helif ft delegate mass meet,
mg and deeded to accept the new rate |
for mining at the expiration of the ten
days' limit.
Parts of the compromise agreement !
were rejected, however, and a commit- j
tee was appointed to confer with the
operators. If the demands of the
men are not granted within ten days
the strike will be continued. Four
hundred men at the Goshen mines re- .
turned to work Tuesday ignoring the
ten days’clause. the Silver Creek ,
All the mines in
and Clinton districts, near Akron,
have resumed operations.
CIVIL SERVICE KNOCKED OUT.
j m j ae Cox, of District, of Columbia, lien-
ders Important Decision.
^ V Washington dispatch says: The
ba k door of removal is still open.
g X . a8 tbe decision of Judge Cox,
JXmbif, td — court of the District of <
Tuesday morning in
eaRe 0 f John D. Wood, superintendent
mads at Louisville.
askcd that Postmaster Gen-
Garv and Assistant Postmaster
General Heath be enjoined from remov-
SS civil
-lading the members of the ser-
vice commission.
MRS. GRAVEN LOSES.
Her Famous Salt Against th* Fair Estate
Disposed of.
^ b e famous case of Angus vs. Cra-
by which the executors and heirs
,f the late Senator James G. Fair
son „ b t to quit the title of Mrs. Nettie
t Craven, a school teacher of ^.an
p ra ncisco, to two pieces of proper you
q aU80 m aud Mission finally streets decided valued^ for the at
51 000.000 was Tuesday
oUintiffand the interveners
Superior Court Judge Slack.
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FITZ SAY» “N Ai l
Recline* t« light Ex-Champion Jim
Corbett.
an interview at Newark, N. J.,
Saturday Bob Fitzsimmons, the pugil-
2 - * Tni.n/cltib, in reply to tho offer of the North-
ot Sow Orlelitis, ot .
^ nf Ind *>0 000 for a fight between
If Corbett said:
he makes a reputation. quit like yellow
some one else. He a
cur on the 17th of last March.
TOCCOA. HABERSHAM COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 18!>7.
FEARFUL CATASTROPHE AND HO-
LOCAUST ON COLORADO ROAD.
I SOMES OF THE DEAD INCINERATED.
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_ * Two Handred Taken From
The Wreck Badly injured, Many
of Whom win
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„ Colorado ^ W ° r8t occurred “ at the 12:25 Llstory Friday ° f .
morning on the Denver and Rio
! Grande and Colorado Midland railways
, me a nd a half miles west of Newcastle.
After twelve houra incessant i work
b 7 wrecking crews in clearing away
the debris and recovering the bodies
of those who perished it was impossi-
b] t ISini th estimate tiZt the loss of
d f a ’ d W fnnS beei identified ne^r Snv kncfeJ? of
.. if£^ possible will be
J tha' t the immW
killed will w » always be m doubt
i ^ * ZZTZ Sieved STL
I to h.„ Perishe I, „l uhile 180 were were taken
* out . of the wreck suffering 0 from serious
• :„ riaa
| h betweTf Dfnver^d
en a colUskm
ft 8pecial Colorado Midland stock
train, running at thirty miles
Ho terrific was the concussion that
both engines, baggage and express
ears, smoker and day coaches and two
stock cars were totally demolished and
Lhe track torn up for rods in both di¬
rections.
To add to the horror of the scene,
the wreck caught fire from an explo¬
sion of a Pintsch gas tank on the pas¬
senger train and burned so rapidly
that many passengers pioned beneath
the debris were burned to death before
help could reach them.
Charred fragments of limbs and
bodies of a number of persons w’ere
taken out of the ruins.
The most generally accepted theory
as to the cause of the wreck seems to
be that Conductor Burbank, of ihe
Midland special, anticipating the time
of the passenger, undertook to steal a
station and beat the passenger into
Newcastle. Burbank escaped unin¬
jured and upon orders from Coroner
Clark has been placed under arrest by
the sheriff.
Midland Engineer Ostrander is mis¬
sing and a thorough search about his
engine fails to reveal any vestige of his
remains. It is thought that when he
saw the threatened laager he jumped
from his engine, and realizing the re¬
sult of his negligence, took to the hills.
As soon as the news of the wreck
reached Glenwood a relief train was
sent from that place aud the more se¬
riously wounded were removed to the
Denver aud Rio Grande company’s
hospital at Salida.
Ten bodies w’ere found in the ruins
of one car and four in another. The
charred remains of two women, appa¬
rently clasped in eaah other’s arms,
were found. Their heads aud lower
limbs W’ere burned off.
DETAINED A MAIL TRAIN.
Official* of Decatur, Ala., Say That Quar¬
antine Rules Must Be Obeyed.
Owing . to the continued . , refusal , , of .
the Montgomery and Columbus ro.d
to furnish passes for the quarantine
officers, the enstbound fast mail was
stopped Friday by the authorities of
Decatur, Ala,, just outside the city
limits and held until the train could
be inspected. The officers had orders
arrest the crew* of the train after
they arrived in tbe city un i ess they
complied with the red flag signal.
REWARD FOR RAVISHER.
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M * con “IV"* w,n P y r " M, “
chapman’* . Assailant.
A Macon, Ga., dispatch says: Quiet
bu t strenuous efforts are being made
to locate the assailant of Miss Sallie
Chapman. The offer of $250 reward
by Mayor Price will serve to make the ;
search no more thorough, but more
prolonged.
The governor will not be called on
to offer a reward, as the people of the j
city will in all probability, ’volunteer j
subscriptions to the amount of $1,000.
TO FORM BEER TRUST.
American Malting Company Organized
With Capital of *30,000,000.
Tt is <! learned at Chicago that the men
wllo ar tiie principal promoters in the
^teNew .• ma it inj r company which was form-
York a few days brewers ago are the
Milwaukee ‘ malters and
instead of being a simple combina-
tion of matters “ eaUo’interested it appears that the
r in the com-
b ination and that it is to be conducted
G s^« n such a gigantic scale that it will
,,hebMwto ® bn5iness
j-“ » ^
haye eapital of $30,000,000.
YYEYLER TO BE DEFENDED.
Government of Spain Will Proceed Against
Critics.
The Spanish government has decided
to instruct the military authorities to
take proceedings agaimst officers eriti-
cising the conduct of Captain General
Weyler, unless they are either senators
or deputies. due the
The decision is to numerous
outspoken censures upon Captain Gen-
eral Wevler’s management of the cam-
paign in Cuba.
FILIBUSTERS GET OFF.
Expedition Leave* Florida for Cuba on
.Schooner.
! the Information Jacksonville,Fla.,Times has been r^?eived Union and by
j Citizen filibustering from Carrabelle expedition announcing leftthere
that a
on a schooner at daybreak Friday
morning, om-rjing Ulirty CnW, be-
sides arms and ammunition.
It is believed that a transfer was
three Brothers, which were unde?
-nspiciou at Tampa, have returned.
Devoted to Southern Progress and Colonization.
DENOUNCED BY GOMPEBS.
De Declare* the .Slaughter at Haielton
Was Brutal Murder.
,In an interview Saturday, President
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor, after denouncing the killing
of the men near Hazelton as a brutal
murder, said:
| right to march to Latimer or any other
place on the public highway as the
sheriff or governor of Pennsylvania or
the president of the United States.
^he * heir mine supposed °P erato B in and the madness in their ef- of
! for * enslave labor, power, have
10 used judges
a “ d court * to S ive the color of law to
the most flagrant violation of the con-
stitutional rights of the people; sher-
' ‘f poHcylK'l^mra “ nd d6 P utios - fkingtlieircue «e“ting from
poacy >na lurneci men exercising tnen tMr
; lights under the constitution and the
la y* ~ *
In his published explanation . Sheriff
„ r artm makes a ? efiort to the
secure
t 1°/ ^ D f tlVe Am ^ r lcaus h 7 re
7 empk fT^ . hlS . stateluent )
it ““T ^ 1, , ^ f ore'gn-
It may be-true that these men
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were » atlve bu they
were the men brought here by the
greed and cunning of the mine opera-
h Z B “? * “ T® ' “Y “ ^ the y*“ ,“ 3 “>
foreign birth was heard, but . this « ■ cry
of foreigners \ ° is like a cloud of dust
. The
JSTIt vugje?they d^Sve" to whT;
thizers.”
LYNCHED YVHILE DYING.
Ex-Convict Confessed to Being Miss Chap-
man’s Assailant.
A special from Macon, Ga., savs:
Dying from a wound through a lung
and surrounded by a small detachment
of policemen and deputy sheriffs,
Charley Gibson, a negro ex-convict,
was swung to a limb by a maddened
mob near the city Sunday.
Before the rope was placed around
Gibson’s neck he confessed that he was
the man w r ho assaulted Miss Chapman
a few days ago, aud w r ould not deny
that he w r as Mrs. Couch’s assailant of
a month ago.
When Gibson received the wound
through the lung, of which he was
dying when lynched, he was making a
desperate resistance against officers
w r ho were seeking to arrest him for
murder—a crime wdiich he had just
committed. The officers w r lio had
Gibson had little idea at that time
that they were battling w r ith the man
who w r as responsible for one of the
most shocking crimes in the criminal
history of Macon.
Not until with his dying breath
Gibson confessed did his captors know
that the assault upon Miss Chapman
had been cleared aw r ay.
Early Sunday morning Gibson shot
Jim Smith, another negro, and was
fleeing from the officers for that of¬
fense when bullets from YVinehesters
brought him down in a stubborn
hand-to-hand fight.
MORE FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS.
Seven Newr Cases Reported by Board of
Health Officers.
A special from New Orleans says:
Shortly before noon Sundav the board
of health officers declared six of the
. . of . fever . n St.Claude . ,
suspicious ca3es on
street to be yellow J fever. A couple r of
, hours subsequently , ,, the board
1 ' announc-
ed , another pronounced -j case of • yellow 1,
fever at M no and Esplanade streets,
also in the lower part of the city, but
a mile or more away from the infected
square.
The announcement of the first six
cases as yellow’ fever was not unex-
pected, although it was hoped from
the delay on the part of the experts
that these cases were simply of bilious
malaria. No general alarm has re-
although the newt, rapidly
«P«*« through the city The author.
thee do not believe that the situation
“ onr f
five days ago, and they are still confi-
dent of their ability, with modern san-
itary appliances, to successfully quar-
autine the infected district.
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General Ruggles Retired.
A Washington dispatch states that
Adjutant Ruggles was retired Satur-
day on account of age, and Colonel
Samuel Breck was made a brigadier
general and appointed adjutant general
c f the army.
CONSUL LEE IN WASHINGTON.
He Will Confer With the President On
Cuban Affairs.
General Lee, United States consul
general ^at Havana arrived in Wash-
i mgton Saturday night.
He proceeded immediately to the
Shoreham, and declining to register,
retired at OECe ’ Gt : neral Lee was
thoroughly exhausted by the day s
and ™ { ™ ed to recelTe any eal1 '
; er ®‘
It his ...... intention to . stop , in . W
i» asn-
S
j Day before be 8 oes to bls bome in ^ 11 '
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I TEN BODIES REMOVED
j Ruins of the Denver and Rio
; From the
Grande Railroad AVreck.
Coroner Clark, of New Castle, Col..
says that only ten bodies have so far
j been taken from the ruins of the Den-
: ver and Rio Grande train wrecked
near that place. Holland,
; These, with Keenan, Hine?,
■ an d Gordon, make fourteen in all, but
j there is no doubt these are less than
half of those who perished.
ONE CASE AT MOBILE,
While a Humor of Fever at Selma Was
Unwarranted.
The Alabama state board of health
has notice of one case of yellow fever
at Mobile. Private telegram's from there
state that there are several more. The
bulletin ~r_, to the board of health Monday
,
case oi yeiiow , ev.r ew atieu d< , Te loMd P eu
, in . the hospital here today
j of yestow fever m Senna proved ua
j warranted.
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A BRACE OF TEAAS TILLAGES
ALMOST DEMOLISHED.
i MORE THAN A DOZEN LIVES LOST.
Many Houses Were Lifted From Their
Foundations and Sent Spinning
Through the Air.
j I A tornado, terrible in its velocity,
struck the little city of Fort Arthur,
iex “ at at an an carlv early hour nour Sundav bunday even- e e
( >■>*. and b.x people are known t° hare
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| , r ed.
Buildings were blown down and
great, damage was wrought by the
cyclone.
It is known that much destruction
was wrought at Sabine Pass, with
proba ble loss of life. Everything pos-
j sib I e is being done to establish com-
j | munication with that place.
The following telegram has just
; beeu received from a prominent citi-
-n at Beaumont,
“The relief train has ju.t returned
from Sabine Pass. It could not get
nearer than eight miles of the place.
It is reported that the new tow r n is
' completely gone. Nothing heard from
the old town. From reports things
are bad.”
The dead are: Frank Albright,
George Martin, unknown man, May
! Ainsworth, infant son of W. H John-
son aud Fritz Michaels, laborer.
! Many are reported seriously injured.
Man Y buildings were blown down,
j ^eluding the railroad roundhouse,
May A “ ls '"ortb was killed, the
^atatonum, the hank omlding Town-
"\ te co ™P au y a barns, Hotel Hayden,
Strong & League s building, Brenuan
building, Colonade Hotel, Spence &
j Lyon’s store, building, several C. barns, J. Miller’s gro¬
cery saloon, The Ivenady’s
Herald office, T. J. Wolfe’s
saloon, the Hayes building and M. M.
Zollinski’s grocery.
Several residences suffered severely,
one being carried across the street.
Many outbuildings were completely
blown away. From early morning the
sky was threatening and a stiff’ gale
blew. No rain ot consequence fell un¬
til 4 p. m., and then it was accompa¬
nied by a heavy wind that increased in
intensity until it reached a velocity of
eighty miles an hour. Every build¬
ing in the town is of frame con struct¬
ure except one brick, the Port Arthur
Banking company building, one end
and the roof of which were blown
away.
The bodies, of the victims were sent
to Beaumont for interment, no ceme¬
tery having yet been started at Port
Arthur.
Advices from Winnie, Tex., say that
nearly all the houses there have beeu
blown down. At Webb all of the
barns aud one house w’ere demolished.
A later telegram received from Port
Arthur reports seven killed, fifteeu
wounded, three lost at Sabine, damage
slight, maximum velocity of the wind
eighty miles per hour.
WOULD BUTCHER MILLIONAIRES.
So,nft F1 « r y Speeches by "social Democ-
racv M Leaders In Chieago.
A * Chicago dispatch says: Meeting, ..
of the various branches of the newly J
organized . Social 0 Democracy , held , 1
| ” w’ere
to ( , iscns9 the recellt Hazleton, Pa.,
0 , aQ(J 6om „ tlccideJJy J ,„ r d
guage was indulged in by the speak-
ers. Resolutions were passed by
Branch No. 2 which contained the
following:
“The blood of an idle and useless
arigtoc ig the most conven j ent me -
,. . rirnirishino’ ® the tree nf lihevtv fo/a
, for an and a tooth
F every ^ miner killed and
, vounded a minio ire should be treat-
_ r million,
September ,, reaponsih]e fcr ,. he ,,, n(5h .
ter of * loth, and we regard
w-pa-
P ^ ^ wield against them ”
.f Wnmltv P ’ 1
-r. said- n ’ d Rrifwb P » dn
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wb j cb he
<« Tbe miner8 should carry arms,
and nse them, too. The time has
come to meet force with force. I
should have told them to shoot to
km . 1 would kill twenty millionaires
today”
KLONDIKERS MAY STARVE.
A Shortage of Food Supplies In the Inte¬
rior Reported.
The steamer Humboldt arrived at
j Seattle Monday morning . „ from . , bt.
Michaels. She brought fourteen pas-
sengers and about $io,000 in gold,
The Humboldt also brings back
advices which reiterate the stones of
the untold wealth of Klondike and
; Yukon ami verify the previous rumors
! of * he shortage ° f f °° d 8npply “ th *
Tae.e will b be nrivation pniation, sickness, sickness
^ -ss
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MINERS RETURNING TO WORK.
Settlement of Strike in Wheeling Division
Has Been Reached.
The miners at nearly all the mines
along the Wheeling division of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad met
Monday aud decided to go to
work despite the ten days’ clause
a dopted at Columbus,
The Dnrr mine at West Newton and
the Jumbo, on the Pan Handle road,
resumed Monday. A general resump-
tion in the district is expected,
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CORBETT AFTER FITZSIMMONS,
Accepts the Offer of the Tulane Club for
Purse of 920,000.
A Wheeling W. Y. dispatch says:
Ex-Champion James J. Corbett has
just received a telegram from Chicago
informing him that the Northern Tn-
l«".ne club, of New Orleans, offers $20
000 for a contest between Corbett and
Fitzsimmons.
Immediately on receipt of the tele¬
gram Corbett authorized the Associated
Press to say that he accepts the offer
aud will await Fitzsimmons’ decision
in the matter.
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WARRANTS FOR DEPUTIES.
Additional New* of Slaughter of Miner*
at Latimer.
Saturday night twenty-one corpses
lay in ramshackle frame shanties scat¬
tered over the town of Hazelton, Pa.
Forty maimed, wounded and broken
figures tossed on the narrow cots of
the Hazelton hospital.
list.
Such was the execution done by the
one hundred and two deputy sheriffs,
armed to the teeth, upon about one
hundred and fifty ignorant foreigners,
whose total armament consisted of two
little penknives.
All the men killed ranged in age
from eighteen to forty-five years, all
foreigners Hungarian., Poles, Lithn-
■tinans and Slavs, aud nearly all had
amilies
First and foremost, the purpose
these men had in view when their
uarch reached its tragic end was con¬
summated.
The 1,500 workers at the Latimer
lines, to whom they were bound in
an effort to induce them to join the
-hikers’ ranks, have laid dow-n their
picks and sworn to do no more work
mtil all the demands of the men at all
he mines in the district have been
conceded.
Warrants for Deputie*’ Arrest,
Next in importance was the issu-
a ice of warrants for the arrest of
Sheriff Martin and the 102 deputies.
These w'ere issued at the instance of
the United Hungarian Societies.
Sheriff Martin was under the guar-
dianship of the soldiers 'and he could
not be reached.
Saturday afternoon constables made
an effort to arrest A. E. H^ss, who
led one company of tho deputies, but,
he had shelter within the military
lines of the Ninth regiment and they
refused to permit the constables to
pass the guards.
The warrants charge murder, as-
sault and battery and threatening to
•sill.
GOVERNOR’S WARNING.
Chief Executive of Pennsylvania Issues a
Proclamation.
On account of the horrible slaugh¬
ter at Latimer, in the coal region, Gov¬
ernor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, is-
ued a proclamation admonishing all
jjood citizens against aiding or abetting
inlawful proceedings.
“I do hereby notify them,” it reads,
“that the lives and property of all citi¬
zens of the commonw’ealth will be pro-
ected; that the laws will be enforced;
that the humblest citizen w ill be pro¬
tected in his right to earn a livelihood
and in the enjoyment of his home and
family, and that the safety of life and
property will be guaranteed to all at
whatever cost, and I do hereby com¬
mand all persons engaged in riotous
demonstrations and unlawful conduct
threatening the peace and dignity of
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to
disperse forhtwith to their respective
places of abode, warning them that
the persistence in violence or unlawful
assemblage will compel such use of the
military arm of tho commonw’ealth as
may be necessary to enforce obedience
to the law’s and the maintenance of
good order.”
CAMPHOR TREES WANTED.
Secretary Wilson Suggest* Tlieir Culture
In Florida.
Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural
department at Washington says that
arrangements will be made by the de¬
partment for the thorough introduction
of the camphor tree in Florida.
He said that there was no doubt that
the tree would be a success, as it had
already passed the experimental stage.
The department will give all posssible
encouragement in the way of supplying
seed and young trees, and Mr. Wilson
predicts that the country will soon be
producing a sufficient supply of cam¬
phor for its own needs.
He also announced his purpose to
adopt a policy for the encouragement
of the growth of the English walnut,
the tree of which will, he thinks, do
well anywhere south of Washington.
DYNAMITE^KILLS~THIKTY.
Magazine in South Africa Explodes With
Frightful Loss of Life.
Advices from Johannesburg, South
Africa, state that an explosion of dy-
namite took place in the magazine of
the George Gouch deep level mine,
causing terrible loss of life among the
miners. Five white men and twenty-
five Kaffirs are known to have been
killed.
MANY TOWNS QUARANTINE.
They Are Afraid of Contact With Passen¬
gers From Louisiana.
Advices of Saturday state that the
towns on every trunk line opening
into New Orleans have declared quar¬
antine against Louisiana. Burgs in
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Al¬
abama have declared that no people
shall get off trains at their stations
who come from the Crescent City.
Other towns, however, have refused
to join in the panic and say that until
yellow fever is known absolutely to
exist in New Orleans they do not pro¬
pose to shut themselves in. Some of
the cities have adopted more severe
measures and have surrounded them¬
selves with shotgun guards.
NEW TARIFF FOR CUBA.
! Lower Duties Have Been Fixed on All
American Imports.
The Official Gazette (Madrid) has
not yet completed the publication of
all schedules of the new Cuban tariff.
The reduction on the duty of Amer-
ican goods generally is considerable.
Upon crude petroleum the duty is
not changed, but there is considerable
reduction in the duty on refined pe¬
troleum. The duties on firearms and
canned goods are elightly increased.
BRUNSWICK TIKES ACTION.
Her City Council Decides to Use Every
Precaution Against Fever.
j The city council of Brunswick, Ga.,
j i has ordered guards placed at Everett
j City, Jesnp and Wayeross for quaran¬
tine station purposes. Surgeon Bur-
i ford, at quarantine station, is co-oper¬
ating with local authorities and will
prevent passengers coming from in¬
fected districts via boat lines. Bruns¬
wick i9 heartily co-operating with
other cities in preventing any one sus¬
pected of being from infected districts
entering the section.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 11.00 A YEAR.
I
i SHOT DOWN BY A PENNSYLVANIA
' SHERIFF AND
HIS DEPUTIES.
THE LIST 0F DESD ls SPPALLiN& -
Miners Were Marching and the Officer*
I Attempted to Stop Them—Troop*
! Called Out.
j
! '
The strike situation in Pennsylvania
| reached a terrible crisis on tho out-
8 kirts of the town of Latimer Friday
j atlern00 „ when „ baud ot a ,
I sheriffs , fired into infuriated ..... mob , of .
an
miners,
The men fell like so many sheep and
the excitement was so intense that no
accurate figures of the dead and
wounded could be obtained, _
| twenty-odd Reports w r ere that killed from and fifteen forty to
were or
more wounded, many of whom will
die.
j One man, who reached the scene
| mediately after the shooting, counted
; thirteen corpses. Four other dead lay
j i in Harleigh. the mountains between Latimer and
Those who were not injured carried
their dead and wounded friends into
the w'oods.
j Three bodies were found Friday
! night on the road near Latimer,
i -
HOW THE SLAUGHTER BEGAN.
The strikers left Hazelton at 3:30
o’clock Friday afternoon, announcing
th ir intention to go to Latimer. As
soon as this became known a band of
deputies was loaded on a trolly car
and sent whirling acres* the mountain
to the scene where the bloody conflict
followed.
After reaching Latimer they left the
car and formed into three companies,
under Thomas Hall, E. A. Hessel and
Samuel B. Price. They drew up in a
line at the edge of the village with a
fence and a line of houses in the rear,
Sheriff Martiu was in command and
stood in front of the line until the
strikers approached. They were seen
coming across the ridge aud Martin
went out to meet them.
The men drew up sullen’y and list¬
ened in silence until he had once more
read the riot act. This finished, a low
muttering arose among the foreigners
and there was a slight move forward.
Perceiving this the sheriff stepped
tow ard them aud in a determined tone
forbade advance.
Some one struck the sheriff and the
next moment there was a command to
the deputies to fire. The guns of the
deputies instantly belched forth a ter-
lible volley.
The strikers were taken entirely by
surprise and as the men toppled and
fell over each other those who remain-
ed unhurt stampeded.
The dejiuties seemed to be terror-
stricken at the deadly execution of
their guns and seeing the living
strikers fleeing and the others drop¬
ping to the earth, they went to the aid
of the unfortunates whom they had
brought down.
The people of Latimer rushed pell-
mell to the scene, but the shrieks of
the W’ounded drowned the cries of the
sympathizing and half-crazed inhabi-
t an t s
Sheriff Martin sent a telegram to
Governor Hastings, stating that mob
law prevailed in the lower end of the
county, and asking for assistance.
Governor Hastings ordered Colonel
Dougherty, Ninth regiment, N. G. P„
to start for Hazelton at once.
The regiment left Wilkesbarre for
Hazelton at 5 o’clock Saturday morn-
j D _ ^
TROOPS CALLED OUT.
A Harrisburg special says: Gover-
nor Hastings ordered out the Third
brigade, of which General Gobin is
commander, Friday night, and in-
structed General Shall to hold the
First brigade in readiness.
The troops mobilized at Hazelton,
and were on the scene before daybreak
Saturday morning. Captain A. R.
Paxton, United States army, attached
to the National Guard, started for Ha-
zelton by direction of the governor,
Superintencent Creighton, of the mid-
die division of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, was called into the conference at
the executive mansion, and arranged
for the speedy transportation of the
soldiars.
LIABILITIES VERY HEAYY.
J. R. Willard Snspentled From the New
York Exchange.
Regarding the failure of J. R. Wil-
lard & Co., brokers, reports were cur-
rent in Wall street Friday that the lia-
bilities are much larger than supposed,
One client lost about $500,000. He
may institute criminal proceedings.
A telegram from Chicago from J.
R. Willard says the capital of the firm
was supplied by tbe Dwiggins
Brothers, and says that he was guar-
ranteed a salary for the use of his
name, but had no other interest in the
business. J. R. Willard has been
suspended from the Consolidated
Exchange.
WOODFORD GOES IN.
He Succeeds Hannis Taylor as Onr Min¬
ister to Spain.
Advices from San Sebastian, Spain,
says: The retiring United States min¬
ister to Spain, Hannis O. Taylor, was
j received in audience by the queen re¬
gent Monday and presented 1m letters
! of recall.
j Soon afterwards, the new United
States minister to Spain, General
Stewart L. Woodford, was received by
her majesty and presented credentials.
SAVANNAH ADOPTS QUARANTINE.
Her Board of Health and City Council Sent
Out An Investigator.
Savannah has declared a quarantine
against New Orleans, Mobile and all
! the intervening towns.
.Advices were received from Dr.
George H. Stone, who had been sent to
the yellow fever section as a represent-
ative from Savannah, stating that a
case of yellow fever had appeared in
Mobile Monday. Dr. Stone has been
through several epidemics and is an
immune and a yellow fever expert
This adiHce decided the sanitary board
NO. 44.
THROUGH GEORGIA. *
J. W. Nall, of Troy, Ala , has been
appointed commercial agent of the
Central of Georgia Railway company
at Augusta to take the place of Mr. E. T.
Charlton, wh*o was recently appointed
eastern agent of the Ocean Steamship-
company at New York.
* * *
The report of Receiver Joel Hurt, of
the Suwanee Canal Company, lias been
placed on record in the clerk’s office
of the superior court at Atlanta. The
report states that the prospects for
realizing a good amount of assets from
the company are encouraging.
Dr. C. D. Wall, who was sent by
the Columbus authorities to Birming¬
ham a few days ago to investigate the
smallpox situation there, reported to
the board of health that the situa¬
tion is no worse than given out. The
board rocommended that the council
adopt stricter vaccination regulations
. and inaugurate a house-to-house ex¬
amination.
;
The much talked of Horse-Swappers’
State Convention will meet in Coving¬
ton, Ga., on the 21st day of Septem¬
ber and remain in session three days.
The object of the convention is to
elect a president, vice president and
other officers. Every horse-swapper
in Georgia has has a special invitation
to attend, and those in attendance will
be entitled to a vote at the convention
in any aud all matters brought before
the union.
Mr. Phil G. Byrd, Governor Atkin¬
son’s special commissioner, appointed
to inspect the misdemeanor convict
camps, has filed the supplemental re¬
port of his investigations which the
governor asked for some time ago. It
concerns the discovery and inspection
of several private camps that were not
known to be in existence at the time of
the filing of the first report, and is a
complete description of their location,
size aud condition.
At Hahira, ten miles north of Val¬
dosta, Sam Parker, a farmer, who lives
at Cecil, four miles away, was killed
by Shelton Dampier, a young man who
worked at the wood rack near Hahira.
Three years ago Parker prosecuted
Dampier for stealing meat from him.
Dampier was convicted and sent to
the chaingaug. He swore then that
he w’ould kill Parker on sight when
his term expired.
The tag business has at last been
settled. Commissioner Nesbitt has
let the contract* for 3,000,000 tags to
the Dennison Manufacturing company,
of New York, at 45 cents per thousand
and a $2,500 bond has been made for
the faithful performance of the eon-
tract, which provides for the delivery
of 3> 000,000 “G” tags and as many
more aa the agricultural department
may needj ftt 45 cents per thousand.
It is estimated that 4,000,000 tags will
be used before tho year is out. They
cost this year but little over one-fourth
of last year’s price.
A question . has been sprung which
ma 7 res ult in Chattanooga, which has
^ een known as one of the leading
* cities of Tennessee, becoming a Geor-
town. Doubt lias been thrown
u P on the accuracy of the survey of the
boundary Tennessee, line between this state aud
and if the theory of emi¬
nent legal authorities is confirmed, it
mn y found that Chattanooga is on
Georgia soil. This view is shared by
Colonel W. A. W imbish, special com-
missioner of the state for the W estern
and Atlantic railroad who has looked
mt <> the question in his official capac-
»ty, and expressed his strong belief
that a correct survey would bring the
city of Chattanooga within the confines
of this state,
The fight for the courthouse and
coun t y 8ea t of DeKalb county grows
warmer as the time for the legislature
to meet grows nearer, and the lines
wil i soon be definitely drawn. Much
arranging of detail is now being done
by tbe stone Mountain people and
they will present a solid front when
the time comes for final action. Their
representatives have been in eommu-
location with a number of the legisla-
tors and are getting their forces to-
g e ther and organized before the bill is
P resented to the general assembly,
it w jU be one of the first measures to
be acted on at this session, as it is
desired that the question be settled
as soon as possible, so that the
work on the new building may
begin immediately.
* * *
For years the hearing of arguments
and petitions for the pardon of con-
victs has taken up much of the time of
the governors of Georgia, and several
of them have tried to induce the legis-
lature to establish a board of pardons,
but failed. Now Governor Atkinson
comes forward with a proposition that
may be accepted, as it entails no ad-
ded expense. It is that the raliroad
commissioners, whose present duties,
require only a portion of their time, be
required to do the pardon business
without extra compensation. He will
recommend this, unless the legislature
creates a penitentiary commission to
supervise the convicts at the expira¬
tion of the lease, and in that event he
will suggest that this body be made a
pardon board. Hi3 idea is that the
pardon board shall hear all applica¬
tions for commutication and pardon
and then make recommendations to
the Governor, who will pass the final
order. In this way the responsibility
will be shared by several heads, in¬
stead of being placed entirely upon
one.
WILL BOOM SILVER.
Report That Bank of England Will Mak*
It Part of Reserve.
- y T^es^n"^arttele
a ial correspondent, to the
effect that the directors of the Bank of
, . j d had collBent ed to hold one-
» in silver,
of the bauk \ s reserve
caused much excitement on the
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C °T
b e governor * of the Bank of England
„. bea s tioned on tbe subject by a
^ reS entative of the Associated Press,
r , f ised ^ confirm 6r deny the report.