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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- - - "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. * 13 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. - MASSILLON MINERS AT WORK. - 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. , y 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. _ _ * Two Handred Taken From The Wreck Badly injured, Many of Whom win -- „ 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. - 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 — 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. - 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 ' g mia - 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. ) 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 : I f *“• **** | , 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 - 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 1 mone y--- 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, - 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. i 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 ** ‘ 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.