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SOUTHERN RECORD SUCCESSOR TO {"£"* «£KifiE& 1S&I
VOL. XXIV.
ffi III Silt ENDED.
RATCHFORD SAYS AN AMICABLE
SttUATION PREVAILS.
SATISFIED WITH THE RESULT.
Thing* will u« Serene From the present
Until the Beginning of
Next Year.
__ M _ ). _ RacMov.1,
rrosi.lcnt of the
United Mine Workers of America,
gave out tho following authorized
statement to the Associated Press Tues-
day:
“Today w ill see about 75,000 min¬
ers resume work in the bituminous
coal fields of tbe central states. The
strike generally ends today. This is
the middle of the twelfth week of its
duration. It was brought to a close
at our convention held at Columbus,
Ohio, on the 8th to the 11th of the
present month, the ten days’ time be¬
ing given to allow miners and opera¬
tors to come together in Illinois and
West Virginia to meet the p-ice fixed
—65 cents a ton in Pittsburg, 56 cents
in Ohio and Indiana and the same to
continue until the end of December.
The mining situation is not likely to
be disturbed again until the beginning
of next year, when they hope to be
able to settle the question amicably
and without tho necessity of a strike.
“I am well satisfied with the agree¬
ment reached and feel that it is the
greatest victory gained by trades
unions in years. While they have
dona the striking, trades unions and
organized bodies have supplied the
necessaries, without which the miners
could not possibly succeed. It w as a
victory for organized labor and not
for any particular trade, and we want
our friends who have helped us to
feel that it is their victory as well as
ours. I feel very grateful for the as¬
sistance given us by the American
Federation of Labor, and by the
kindly disposition shown at all timcR
by Mr. Gompers and the members of
his executive committee.”
Mr. Batch ford was asked as to the
situation in West Virginia and Illi¬
nois. He said:
“The greatest difficulty in the way
of an advance in the Illinois district
is the fact that contracts were taken
last spring, based upon a low mining
rate, as they were in Pittsburg ami
elsewhere. But this is a matter that
avo cannot be responsible for; it is n
matter of business to the operator him¬
self. No man has a right to sell a
man’s labor one year in advance with¬
out consulting the laborer.
“While Ave have always deferred to
theclaimsof men along those lines, the
time has come when no further consid¬
eration can be given them, because
the wages paid to the miner is below
the living point and the preservation
of life takes precedence over business
affairs.
“My advices from West Virginia ave
to the effect that our miners avIio are
standing firm, are Avell pleased with
the agreement reached and evince a
determination to fight their battle to
the end. Their pui pose is to bring
the miners and operators of the state
together in a joint, convention, that a
uniform mining price may be fixed and
paid for the same vein of coal, and a
fair relative price for other veins Avith-
in tho state. In short., fix a mining
rate that will give to West Y r irginia
fair competing opportunities and
nothing more.
“Fixing a mining rate that will give
fair opportunities is the object of
miners’ organizations everywhere.
We are working to bring operators of
the several states together with this end
in view. Though our efforts have been
futile, we will continue to advocate
that policy, believing there is such a
Avayto keep down strikes and disputes
which ave of advantage to neither side
and that is for the miners and opera¬
tors interested from the various states
to meet annually, mutually fix prices
for each district that are fair and just
and each party to the agreement to ob¬
serve it faithfully until a subsequent the
agreement takes its place. During
eight years this system avss in vogue,
strikes and disturbances of a general
character were unknown, and the
causes which gave rise to them can
noA\- be removed so that the operators
interested will 6ee their interests in
this light. ”
BIG FIRE IN COLUMBUS.
Iffift* Factory and the Southern** Freight
Depot In A*he».
One of the most disastrous fires from
which Columbus, Ga., has suffered
since the burning of the Rankin house
block twenty years ago occurred Mon-
luy night when the lumber yard, sash,
blind and door factory of Butts A
C >per, together with the Southern
railway freight depot, went up in
smoke.
Iu addition to tho factory aud
depot two Louisville uud NasliA'ille
freight cars loaded with cotton were
consumed. The loss will aggregate
*60,000, it is estimated.
SHERIFF MARTIN UNDER BOND.
It Was He Who Eed Deputies In the Eat
timer Slaughter.
Sheriff James Martin and about
forty of his deputies were arraigned Tuesday j
m court at Wilkesbarre, l>a.,
morning, charged with the murder o
enty " f r r *r ki g mmer8
LaUte Lattimer on September t l 10 0
After several witnesses had testified
tbe judge held the sheriff and hu
deputies in $4,000 each for trial. Bai
furnished and they returned U
Hazelt-on. ‘
LOFTIN CASE IN CABINET.
The Affair Disenssed by Jf're*ident and
HI* Adviser*.
A Washington dispatch states that a
member of the cabinet lias given out
tbe information that during the recess
°f the cabinet meeting Friday the^
shooting ♦in, of the negro postmaster, Lof-
der at Hogansville. Ga., had been nu-
discussion, and that some federal
action would be taken.
1 be postoffice department w ill prob-
ably offer a reward for the Rpprehen-
& jon of the assailants, as that was
about the only action that could be
taken, he said.
he mitbefn fUft t ♦
PRESIDENT WILL ACT.
The Shooting of Hog ansvllle’* Postmaster
Will Result In Prosecution.
The attempted assassination of the
colored postmaster of Hogansville,
Ga., has attracted the attention of the
whole country.
The shooting has aroused the gov-
ernment authorities, and President
oE Ebe negro punished.
District Attorney Angier announces
Uiat he will prosecute ex-Postmater
Hardaway to the fullest extent of the
law for violating the postal laws.
It develops that the Hogansville
people ®ent authorities had |« tliat t.U h; the'goven.-
they would lose
|“ 3 ei t f >0 postofflee. ^ C0 against if they Lo tin. did not raise
<-
The K general opinion of the federal
authorities is that the shooting of
Loftin was the immediate result of the
S 8lt of * he Poetoffice inspector to
Hogansville some days ago. The in-
spector tigate went to Hogansville to inves-
the reported boycott. He found
on arriving there that the citizens bad
not only boycotted Loftin, but were
mailing a postolfice of their own, with
ex-Postmaster Hardaway as their
postmaster.
The inspector called a meeting of
the citizens at his room at the Hogans-
ville hotel The business men of the
town responded and met the inspector,
who told them that they were violating
the law l>y operating a postoffice in
opposition" to the regular legal office
Ile further told them that they must
raise their boycott or lose the post-
office altogether.
No attention was paid to the inspec-
tor’s warning and his efforts to adjust
the trouble proved vain. When he
left they were still running the oppo-
•Mo. postoffice A <].y liter Loftin
was shot
District Attorney Angier has re-
ceived positive instructions from
Washington to 1 prosecute the case.
11KIN80N CRITICIZES M’KINLEY.
Intimate* That l’re*i»lent I* Accessory
to Hoganrtvllle Crime.
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, tel¬
egraphed the NeAv York Herald, in
response to a request for his views ou
the Loftin shooting, that President
McKinley is morally au accessary to
to crime ef the man who shot the Ho¬
gansville postmaster.
The governor does not defend the
crime of the would-be assassin, but
he blames the president for the condi¬
tion which brought it on.
The telegram was in response to a
request from The Herald for the gov¬
ernor’s views, and Avas substantially as
folloAvs:
“The oourt will convene in that county
in November and the grand jury will inves¬
tigate tho matter, and if there is evidence to
convict anyone thero will bo no trouble in
punishing tho guilty party. The officers
are capable men and will do their duty.
The shooting of tho negro i? universally
condemned by tho people.
“The same spirit of candor in which I
have written compels me to say that our
people are uniformly of the opinion that the
man who appointed tho postmaster at
Hogansville over the violent protest of
those citizens who furnish ninety-nine one
hundredths of the business of the office,
who own almost the entire property of the
community and who represent the forces
which made and constitute the civilization
of the community, knowing at the time that
the appointment would be taken as a delib¬
erate effort on his part to degrade and
humiliate them, was himself, from a moral
standpoint, an accessory to this lamentable
crime.
“EA-en these men, who took this view, do
not blame the republican party for giving
positions to the negroes who have been
faithful to them, but it would have been
better for the negroes and pleasanter for
the white people of the south if they had
given them positions where they were not
brought so directly in contact with the peo¬
ple to whom they are offensh-e as officers.
“You ask me what is going to be the ef¬
fect of this. I reply that the effect will be
the same it would be in Ohio if the same con¬
ditions prevailed. Leaving out the ques¬
tions arising from prejudice, what would be
the result in Ohio if the president, in mak¬
ing appointments, ignored the views of
property holders and all the best elements
of the community, and over their violent
protest appointed to office a man whom he
knew to be offensive to them?”
The governor concluded Avith the
statement that the law would be en¬
forced in Georgia without fear or fa¬
vor.
DIAZ’S ASSAILANT LYNCHED.
After the Deed XVa* Done Twenty of the
Eyncher* Were Arrested.
A special from Mexico City says:
Arroyo, who assaulted President Diaz,
was lynched Friday night by a mob.
About twenty of the lynchers were ar¬
rested. The mob apparently had no
organization, but it was directed in
some mysterious "broke way. jail by forcing
They into the
the doors Avith huge timbers bandied
bv a hundred men. They overpower¬
ed the guards and surrounded them,
while a detail of men ran down the
corridor and dragged out the trem¬
bling Arroyo.
INDIANA FACTORIES RESUME.
w , n >1A ij an) i Lamp Chimney Work* B«-
Operation* Anew.
A d - tch of Sundav from Ander-
^’ American wire
employing 700 men, the
LinDiucotljamp men^and chimney the" McBeth plant, which lamp
works 400 of
chimney cn 3 works with a like number
Hs rolls> have resumed in full
blast a after a shut down of some two
months a_____—
PASSENGERS DROWNED LIKE RATS
English and Austrian Steamer* Collide
and the Eatter Goes to the Bottom,
A dispatch to the London Daily
y ews from Vienna says that while t e
t ea mer Ika. with a crew of ten am
s Austrian passenger^
ca rrving fifteen Flume,
entering the port at on
sV as Tuesday evening,
tbe river Flumara, hard, she
a -hiie a storm was blowing
i co uid e d with the English steamer
Pv'iai which was leaving.
* r ihe bows of the Ika were stove m
aud s he sank in twenty minutes.
Boats were hastily put off and sa% e
tbe captain and seven others, but mo
0 f the passengers were drowned.
TOCCOA. HABERSHAM COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 24.1807.
MARINE HOSPITAL OFFICFRS NO.
: TIFIED AS TO THEIR DUTIES.
j
j FEVER IS SLOWLY PROGRESSING.
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I’unickv ‘ reeiin * in " New Orie * n * c u»cd
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Situation at t m. other Point*. f ,
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: A Washington special says: Surgeon
General Wtman has issued to marine
. . fniwitwr inatrne-
8 '
tions defining . „ . their field . of , operations .
behalf of the government in aid of
etate ailt horities in dealing with yel-
10 ,,ei ever ’
, Hurray, r . charge , of all
• urgeon in
matters between Louisiana and Ala-
ba “ a ’ hne but not deluding
Jackson and Nieksburg.
Surgeon Saw^elle, at Atlanta, in .
charge of Georgia.
Surgeon Carter in charge of New
Oceans . and AesJst Louisiana. f nt Surgeon Glennan,
at . Mobile, m charge of Alabama, and
P re PamUo establish a detention camp
ocar Mobde.
Past Assistant. Surgeon Geddmgs,
at Jackson, Miss., m charge of north-
Mississippi is establishing deten-
tlo “f a ™P neftr Edwarde ’
Bast Assistant A Surgeon Young, at
Memphis, . to aid Mississippi river in-
«pection and co-operate with local au-
.fir a 6 c * h 1 otlIce „ ? : 18 . to wire . daily , P® 8
» “ ‘
.. , . . . a,,d deaths
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b aAmna* ranaiv. ec ^ ed i Uwr jy Surgeon q „
r ( T , e ” ei a Y yman Fnday , ni 8 ht m *
ch l ded 1 tbe , fo lowing:
From Vicksburg, Miss., Dr. Hun¬
ter, president of the state board of
health, reported that there had been
one suspicious case at Nitta Yuma.
There is no one sick now.
From Mobile, Dr. Guiteras reports:
Day ending at noon, cases previous re¬
port, three; new- cases, two;suspicious
cases, three; deaths, two. Total under
treatment five.
The fever situation in New- Orleans
assumed a more serious aspect Friday
than at auy time since Sunday, when
six of the St. Claude cases were de¬
clared to be yellow fever. At G o’clock
in the evening the board of health of
the city announced the appearance of
eight new cases, and of these one
death. At the office of the board of
health reports w-ere considered some¬
what surprising and disappointing.
Friday was one of the hottest days
of the month, and as yellow fever
thrives in that character of weather,
there seems to have been a rapid
development of germs. The physi¬
cians still feel, however, that there is
much that is satisfactory in the situa¬
tion. It is true that the new- eases re¬
ported represent the extreme upper,
the extreme lower and the central
portions of the city, but there has
been no serious spread from original
foci, and the hopeful opinion is still
expressed that the disease may be
controlled and that there is no imi-
nent danger of an epidemic.
Secretary Patton, of the board, said
Friday evening:
“The appearance of eight cases to¬
day is not necessarily alarming. I
said three evenings ago that the pros¬
pects seemed to point to the develop¬
ment here of at least fifty cases as a
result of constant intercourse we have
been having with the infected towns
on the gulf coast and the fact that a
promiscuous throng of some 700 or
800 people had hastened into the city
on the Monday evening following the
declaration of the Ocean Springs sick¬
ness to be yellow fever. We have had
now- twenty-eight cases and two deaths.
The majority of the remaining cases
are improving. It is still quite likely
that there will appear numerous cases
in New Orleans, but the situation is
not distressing aud the chances of a
disastrous epidemic are remote.”
WORKING HOURS EXTENDED.
Ten-Honr System Adopted by the D. E.
and AY. Railroad.
Advices from Scranton, Pa., state
that the Delatvare, Lackawanna and
Western railroad has placed its several
hundred shop men in this city on ten
hours’ time, an increase of two hours
a day over the time worked the last
eight months.
LEE CONFERS W ITH PRESIDENT.
Consul Reviewed the Situation In Cuba at
Eength.
A Washington special says: General
Fitzhugh Lee had a long consultation
with the president at the white house
Saturday. It was the first time General
Lee had seen Mr. McKinley since the
return to this ... country about .
former s a
fortnight ago. He saw the president
by special appointment and all visitors
were excluded during the progress of
the conference except Secretary Alger.
The conference was a long one last-
ing almost two hours General Lee
carefully reviewed the length situation all in
Cuba, and explained at tbe
points on which the president n/ia
asked for information.
THE OLD STORY.
Five Children Xocked In Building and are
Cremated, ns Usual.
News of a terrible accident near the
little town of Richmond, in Little
River county, Ark., has been received.
Mariah Billingley, colored, living
on Ben Love’s place, went to church,
leaving her five children, the oldest
being eleven years of age, locked up
in her house.
During her absence the house caught
fire, and burned to the ground, the
five children bein£r cremated-
MODIFIED QUARANTINE.
Charleston TYJ11 Allow Farm Frodnct# to
Be Shipped In.
The board of health of Charleston,
S. C., has passed the following reso¬
lutions:
“Resolved, That the products of the farm
aid manufactured goods except sugar, rice
and molasses will be permitted to come into
Charleston from Atlanta, provided it does
"not originate in any infected portion or
places."
This raises the quarantine on At¬
lanta cotton.
Devoted to Southern Progress and Colonization.
WTMAN GETS DAILY REPORTS.
Surgeon General Keeps TVell Posted On
Yellow Fever Situation.
Surgeon General Wyman at Wask-
ington has received the following from
Dr. Linds ley, executive officer of the
Tennessee state board of health:
“Our board has state inspectors at the
following points: Memphis, Grand June-
££TS CSZX
all to co-operate fully with your service,
Please Instruct at once your men accord-
ingly.”
Orders were immediately given the
marine h ital forcea to co-operate as
Information has been received at
the marine hospital from Dr. John
Guiteras that the two cases of yellow
fever at Cairo, III., have been isolated
ftnd e precaut ion possible taken
to prevent spread. He says that the
cases are very mild and have caused
little alarm in Cairo.
TaynsHanrwvv lvagshu ke hea A irf KE ni uu. T
j j gtrike at Brunswlck Ag8ume8 a Uenoral
ami Serlou* Phase.
The strike is now general among the
j : longshoremen f and all dock laborers at
Bri nflwick ^ Ga
The gtri ers are aski for biglier
; ^Mallory 0 i aim i Uf , that some shippers on
i line and Brunswick Ter-
minal company ^ ^ have recently reduced
^ r y of the Mallory J ask
{or 2Q ceat3 L hom . * The c tton
laborerg wigll J d Tbe strik-
^ &yq circaIati petitions among
business men protesting against the
i mDor | t * a ti 0 n of foreien labor ’
ev n or eight eases of violence,
comm i tted by strikers, have been re-
ported. Should foreign laborers be
brought ticipjted from the north trouble is au-
, end the city authorities are
making preparations to protect per-
property, P P J
LATTIMER STRIKERS HOLD BACK.
Hungarian* Intimidate Miners Who At-
tempt to Work.
The strike situation at Hazleton,
Pa., again assumed an uncertain phase
Monday morning. An attempt to
resume work Avas made at Pardee and
Lattimer mines, but only 300 out of
1,300 miuers returned to work. These
Avere mainly Italians, Avith a feAV En¬
glish-speaking men.
During Sunday night the Hunga¬
rians paraded through the settlement,
beating tin cans and kettles and rais¬
ing a big racket. This Avas done to
notify those of their race that they
must not go back to work. The warn¬
ing Avas observed and Monday morn¬
ing a baud of Hungarians, led by
women, were massing and threatening
to march on the mines later in the
day. The Thirteenth regiment is keep¬
ing a close watch for further trouble.
PERPETUAL INJUNCTION
Against Eugene Debs and Others Granted
By Judge Jackson.
The featu re of interest in the open
iDg session of the September term of
the United States court for the dis¬
trict of West Virginia, at W’heeling
Monday, Avas the application of ex-
Governor A. B. Fleming, of Fairmont,
to make the injunction against Eugene
V. Debs and others, perpetual.
The governor was acting for his cli¬
ent, the Monongahela Coal Co., and as
there Avas no appearance for any of the
defendants, the injunction was made
perpetual.
In the course of his remarks in mak¬
ing this decision, Judge Jackson said
that if a like case were presented tfc
him now he Avould would make the
same kind of order he had made at
Parkersburg, where the temporary in¬
junction Avas made recently.
NEW ORLEANS* FEVER LIST.
Monday Broke the Record in Number of
Cases Reported
The largest number of cases report-
ed on auy dav since yellow fever first
made its appearance in New Orleans,
some two weeks ago, was recorded on
the books of the board of health Mon-
day , evening at , A 6 o , clock, . . although ... , at ,
that hour not a single case had proved
fata during the day
There were eighteen cases in al
including nine by Dr. Joseph Holt, all
of the latter having been duly flagged
and put under quarantine regulations.
The most sensational incident of the
day was the announcement from Dr.
Joseph Holt to the board of health
that he had discovered nine cases
among his practice.
“BAD POLICY,” SAYS BACON,
I* the Appointment of Colored Men to
Otlice in the South.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, . has
a
signed interview in the NeAv York
Herald, in which he says m part:
“Tbe appointment of colored men
to office in the south will certainly
lead to race antagonisms and estrange-
ments which would otherwise not ex-
, , s t. Such appointments are of small
J benefit to the few negroes thus ap-
j pointed, and are of very great injury
to the masses of the negroes in the ill
feeling engendered between them and
the whites, upon whose friendship
and good will they are wholly depend-
ent.”
ANNEXATION RATIFIED.
Hawaiian Congress Took Action on the
Treaty September loth.
The Chicago Times-Herald special
from San Francisco says:
; “The steamer City of Peking,which
. arrived lrom the orient Tuesday night
by way of Honolulu, brings word that
the Hawaiian congress ratified the
treaty of annexation on September
lfith."
“There was no opposition and the
nuanimous vote was cast in favor of
the treaty. ”
THREE GIRLS DIE BY FLAMES.
Their Home Destroyed by Fire and They
AVer® Unable to Escape.
The three daughters of Preston How¬
ard were burned to death Friday morn-
in g in their home at Port Alma, Ohio,
on the shore of Lake Erie.
The Test of the family escaped from
the burning building. The girls were
aged sixteen, ten and six years respee-
> lively. had escaped, but met
One of them
death in returning to assist her sisters.
DEATH IN J BURNING III
PANIC FOLLOWS DISCOVERY OF
firf " BE TV IN RFITF BELLE ELLEN FIIFX SHAFT anArl.
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F1VE MEN KN0WN T0 BE DEAD,
(
There Were One Hundred Miner* at Work
in the Slope AVhen the Catas-
trophe occurred.
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Shortly after the men went to work ,
^ . No. 2, of the Bessemer Laud
and Improvement company’s coal
mines at Belle Ellen, near Blocton,
B , bb wasSovered cmmtv kla Mond#v mornin ,
mainTone fi r e fa dmvn te the
About one °? ie hundred 1 \ untlrec J men men are are em- em
ployed in the mine ami an alarm was
at once given. A panic followed
among the workers and in the little
town of Belle Ellen.
Hundreds of men, w'omen and chil-
<*ren gathered at the main entrance of
the smoking mine, while rescue par-
ties were at once formed to relieve the
mi “ ers '
More tban , fifty were got out ^ from
the various entrances without harm.
A [ ere 0ve ^ ome by 8 “ ok ! and
fell by the wayside. These rr the brave
r f scuers fo,md and dra ^ ed oat > ,7 hlle
those at the entrance restored life to
tbelr unconscious friends.
A scene of wildest excitement pre-
vailed at the mine’s mouth. Women
aud children were screaming and
shouting for help, and a fire brigade
v-as at work endeavoring to overcome
the flames,
Five f- men who n aa- ere w-orking about , ,
the slope where the fire originated,
could not be reached, and it is regard-
ed as certain that they are dead. The
missing were:
Herman Framer, white; Hubbard
j Foley, Avkite; Henry Reeves, colored;
Frank James, colored; William Fair-
fax, colored. It is possible that two
or three others also may be in tbe
mines.
The fire brigade battled Avith the
flames all day in a vain attempt to
reach the entombed men, but at night-
fall the fire was still burning fiercely
and efforts Avere abandoned. A later
telegram from Belle Ellen says the fire
is thought to kaA^e originated from an
overheated steam pipe, Avkick ignited
gas in the mine. A careful check is
being made of the list of miners in the
mine where the fire broke out to ascer¬
tain if possible if the death list will
exceed five. So far it is not positive¬
ly known that any others are missing.
NO REFUGEES WANTED.
Governor Russell, of North Carolina Act*
Cautiously.
Surgeon General John Hey Williams
of the North Carolina state board of
health, telegraphed Governor Bussell
from Asheville Monday as folloAvs:
neets with your approbation, I
should be pleased to telegraph Marine Sur¬
geon General Wyman offering the mountain
plateau of western North Carolina as a
refuge for refugees from the yellow fever
stricken districts.”
The governor refers the matter to
the state board of health. He says be
does not like to act regarding it, as,
perhaps, a number of the refugees
might become destitute and have to be
supported and finally sent home by
the state.
BOUNCED NEGRO BOSSES.
Charleston Cotton Mill* Experience More
Trouble With fr mplo.yee*.
The managers of the Charleston, S.
C., cotton mills, where negro and
white labor is employed, undertook to
put in half a dozen negro bosses over
the white operatives Monday and the
latter hands went out.
They left the mill, making threats,
A «q«ad of policemen was detailed to
j P re vent trouble, but things became so
i squally that the colored bosses were
promptly taken out.
STEEL COMPANY RESUMES.
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j Work* at Beilaire, to Many Ohio idle Give. Men. Employ-
ment
After a two months shut-down and
expending half a million dollars for
( the erection of a blast furnace, steel
plant and plate mill, the Beilaire Steel
company at Beilaire, Ohio, started the
machinery of the plant again Monday
morning, giving employment to 600
j men. _____
A SWEEPING DECISION.
Judge Foster Say* Kansay City Live Stock
Association ia an Illegal Concern.
United States District Judge Foster
made a sweejnng decision at Topeka,
g an<> yf on day morning when he de-
c j ared the organization known as the
Kansas City Live Stock association il-
i ega | under the provision of the anti-
j tipst law
! The exch&nge is an organization of
commigsiou meQ who control the sal*
; | of hve 9tock in Kansas City. All stock
wb ich enters the city must pass
j throu h the hands of this organiza-
tion _ j udge Foster enjoins the com-
m i s «i on from doin^ business and de-
clareg it an un ] awiu \ combination,
BILOXI APPEALS FOR AID.
Mayor of the Town Call* for Help for Fac-
t0ry Peo » ,le -
_ Jhe city . council of Biloxi, Miss.,
| adopted resolutions calling on the pub-
lie for aid, stating all factories and
other industries have closed down,
; thus throwing laboring people out of
employment, that nearly all sick are
°* tba .t class and unable to purchase
I medicine and other things necessary
I 111 BUCa emergency. Tne appeal is
j signed by the mayor and council.
TREATY SIGNED AT LAST
And the Trouble Between Greece and Tur¬
key Is Adjusted.
The treaty of peace between Turkey
; and Greece was signed at Constanti¬
nople Saturday aftercoon.
Early in the week it was stated that
Lord Salisbury’s proposals for the
settlement of the questions rela ing to
the evacuation of Thessaly by Turkey
had been accepted by the powers,
The signing of the treaty ends a
long and troublesome negotiation as
the eastern problem has been since tbe
‘ between Greece and Turkey
war over
Crete was terminated.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Industries Established in the South
During the Past Week.
Trade conditions, according to re-
ports received the past week, continue
encouraging. Correspondents located
at the important industrial centers of
the south report a steady increase in
business, all Hues of trade showing
-p-***-* practical evidence of improved
conditions is the increase in the num-
ber or inquiries for machinery received
h 7 tbe Tradesman during the week.
Among A the most important indus-
tries reported are the following- A
200-ton copper furnace at Duetto™,
Teun ; the Natumal Development Co
capital $M>,000, Norfolk, Y a.;,tlie Pearl
° ers ’ ca P} ta Raud e *
“ an > C.; the Kentucky Co-o^rative
,capital51o,000 Louisville,
J and J Vater Co “
? apaC lty ? o0 ’ d0 °; Ennis, Texas; an
iron , foundry at Jessup, Ga., and the
Xewlin Steam Generating and Smoke
Consuming Manufacturing Co., capi-
tal $1,000,000, Augusta, Ga. The Oak
Hill Mining Co., capital $50,000, has
been chartered at Parkersburg, W.
y a . ; the Texas Tellurion and Manu-
f ac turing Co., capital $10,000, Austin,
Texas; { he Harriman Metal Bedstead
Co., capital $10,000, Harriman, Tenn.;
a celluloid plant to cost $25,000 at
Lambert’s Point, Ya.; the Ennis
and Manufacturing Co., capital $50,-
000, at Ennis, Texas; the New South
Oil Co., capital $50,000, Helena, Ark.,
and the Independent Oil and Gas Co.,
capital $150,000, at Cairo, W. Ya.
Woodworking plants will be establish-
ed at Decatur, Ala.; Pensacola, Fla.;
Paducah, Ky., aud Athens, Tenn.—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
SILVER CAUSES EXCITEMENT.
TT, T t h.
Cau8e ® H, ’ avy
The London Standard publishes a
j financial telegram received Tuesday
j from Bombay which says that the sil-
ver market there is very much excited
and in strong demand, consequent on
the up-country bazaar’s anticipating
i that the Bank of England will be a
1 probable buyer at early date, while
an
i it is also believed that a further im-
i port duty is imminent and that posisi-
1 bly the Indian mints Avill be reopened.
i The telegram further says that the
price has risen in Bombay 7.14 rupees
j per 100 tolos within a feAv days.
' Commenting this intelligence,
upon
The Standard says; “All this serves
to indicate Avhat incalculable mischief
comes by exhibits of humor in British
affairs, when the directors of clearing
houses could be relied upon to draw
up a strong and emphatic protest to
the government asking that steps be
taken to end these amateur efforts to
destroy confidence in the stability of
our monetary system, Avkich is slen-
derly enough supported by gold, as it
is.”
A TARIFF SECTION VOID.
No Discriminating Duty on Good* Im-
ported Through Canada.
A Washington dispatch says: Attor¬
ney-General McKenna has announced
his opinion in the matter of section 22
of the new tariff laiv. He holds in
effect that goods coming directly into
the United States from foreign coun¬
tries through Canadian ports are not
subject to the discriminating duty of
teu per cent, and also holds that for-
eign goods shipped from countries
other than British possessions in
British vessels are not subject to such
a discriminating duty.
Tavo questions were asked the attor-
ney-general, the first of which v;as in
effect whether the discriminating duty
of ten per cent provided for in section
22 should be assessed against an in-
voice of tea from China, which had
arrived from Vancouver in British
vessels and then shipped through
Canada to Chicago. The second ques-
tion was whether the discriminating
duty should be assessed against a
cargo of manganese ore from Chile,
which recently arrived in British ship
a t Philadelphia. Both these questions
the attorney-general ansAvers in the
negative «
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AC QUITTAL ^ FOR DR. HUNTER.
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Jury Decide* For Him in All the Bribery
C a*e*.
At Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday the
jury in the Hunter et al. bribery case
returned a verdict of not guilty in all
the bribery cases.
MEETS WITH DISFAVOR.
English Pres* Deprecate* the Effort* Made
For Bimetallism.
The London Evening Standard made
| the following announcement Tuesday:
“So profoundly moved is the city
about the extraordinary letter of the
governor of the Bank of England that
a meeting *of the representatives of all
the banks in the clearing house has
been called to discuss the situation.
When the bankers meet it is to be
hoped that they will enter an emphatic
, protest against further reform to please
the bimetallists at the expense of the
nation’s credit.
NEW TURKISH MINISTER.
Ferrouh Bey Come* To the United State*
Instead of Kifaat Bey, as Reported.
A special from Constantinople states
that Ferrouh Bey, councillor of the
Turkish embassy at St. Petersburg,
j has been appointed Turkish minister
to the United States as successor to
j Moustapha The foregoing Tachsiu dispatch Bey. conflicts with
a cablegram previously sent from Con-
stantinople that Moustapha Tachsin
Bey would be succeeded by Rifaat
\ Bey, former councillor of the Turkish
embassy in London.
NEW CLEMSON PRESIDENT.
Carolina'* State College Ha* a Sew Head
In Rev. Hartzog.
A dispatch from Calhoun, S. C\,
says: The board of trustees of Clem-
president^ pWtwf'tte TVv inJtRutL?’ Hpmv ^ S
president of the the institution.
Mr. Hartzog is a native of Barnwell
county, and is 31 years old. He grad¬
uated at the Citadel in 1886; after¬
wards he-studied law, and still later
he entered the Baptist Theological
i Seminary at Louisville. He has been
tcachiqg school in South Carolina
for four years.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $1.00
EVERY TRAIN CROWDED WITH
ft rLEElAG FFI YU RFFFttFFS Ktr ltituS.
_
THE PEOPLE ARE PANIC STRICKEN
New c»*e* and Additional Death* at
ocean Springs, Edward* and New
0 rie.n.-Piague In Cairo, m.
The announcement of eleven new
eases of yehow fever at Mobile, Ala.,
Sunday, following so closely on a sim-
liar number Saturday, and the fact
that the twenty-four twenty lour hours hours had had found fouu
one vlctim ’ COmbmed to brin g the
panic which commenced in the middle
. , QC+ : t „
Monday found the city practically
depopulated, many stores closed, and
wholesale business entirely suspended,
while retailers are apprehensive of
ut ^ r rum ‘
Mobile, There may have been worse days , m .
bu* the oldest inhabitant fails
*° remember them. The outlook now
m gloomy in the extreme not because
°J tbe P^ent^ f <ever aspect, but because
of tbe entire suspension of commerce
an J P artlal -stoppage of biismess
Every ° ne wb< ^ oan a ff° rd ^ wltb
tbe exception of those whose callings
« om P. el them \° re main has sought re-
m cities leyond le a .
Pj°P le m the city now do not fear
the feiei, but they tremble for ts co
Mayor Left the Town.
geea, f? and if a meeting Sf’th?' of the ^eJ^al general
council were to be called no quorum
would be found to respond.
There is one courageous band, of
which Judge Price Williams is the
leader, Avhich remains Avith the stricken
city in her hour of trial. They have
fought epidemics before.
Some of them went into the front
ranks against the southern scourge in
185^ and are gray headed men now,
and the constancy and heroism which
they haA-e formerly exhibited is still to
be witnessed. These spartans are en-
couraging,by all means in their power,
those aa-1io consider themsehes unfort-
unate in not having the means to de-
sert their homes
There were two deaths from yellow
fever at Edwards, Miss., Saturday
morning, one of them being just out¬
side of town.
A total of thirty-nine cases are pro¬
nouneed yelloAv feA-er by the doctors.
The rapid spread of the disease is re-
markable, and it is now well distribut-
ed through the toivn. Four new cases
were reported Sunday.
The fever situation at New Orleans
underwent little change Sunday. The
record book in the board of health
offiee shoAved a total of six n«Av vases
and one death
A special from Cairo, Ill., states
that Dr. Guiteras, the yellow feA T er
expert, arrived there from Mobile
at noon Sunday, and announced tAvo
suspicious eases at the marine liospi-
tal to be yelloAv feA r er of a mild form,
but OAving to the prompt measure taken
there is no danger of the pest spread¬
ing. The hospital is thoroughly
guarded.
ROAD CONGRESS ADJOURNS.
The Parliament Will Meet In Omaha
Next Year -
At the national road parliament in
session, at KnoxA r ille Friday, convict
labor in building roads aud govern-
ment aid were discussed. Experimen-
* al road bedding was advocated. Reso-
lutions recommending state aid and
aid by the general govenment and a
restricted use of convict labor were
adopted.
General Roy Stone was re-elected
president; E. Rosewater, Omaha,-vice
president, and the folioiving state
presidents:
Alabama—W. J. Kernochan.
Georgia—George W. Harrison.
Kentucky-M. H. Crump.
Michigan-A. Campbell.
Minnesota—William M. Hayes.
Indiana-Governor James A. Mount
Nebraska-C. C. Turner.
South Carolina-W. C. Cain.
Virginia—B. Chambers.
Wisconsin—Thomas B. Blackstock.
Tennessee—Governor R. L. Taylor.
The next meeting will be in. Omaha,
subject to the call of the executive
'committee.
MORE CHILDREN BURN.
Attend Church.
Andy Smith, a negro, and his wife,
living in the country near Donalds,
Abbeville, county, S. C., locked in
■ their bouse six children, four of thei *
own and two visitors from a neigh-
bor’s.
The youngest was eighteen months
of age and the oldest seven years. The
parents went to church, _ r
Anhourlater neighborsheardfnght-
ful screams commgfrom Smith s house,
the interior of which was in flames,
Negroes made heroic efforts to save
the children, but it was impossible to
reach them and jthey were cremated.
i TO INSURE PUBLIC PEACE.
Dr . Murray Ask* Permission to Take
| Charge of Affair* at Boloxi.
i fijg daily report to Washington
! from Ocean Spriugs, Dr. Murray re¬
fers to a visit to Boloxi, and says":
“it may turn out that the marine
hospital service will be called on to as-
8 } 8 t the state and city authorities in
j maintaining guards and insuring pub-
]i c peace. I wish permission to take
I charge if requested to do so by tbe
pro per authorities.
SAW ANDREE’S BALLOON.
Reported To Have Been Observed In
Central Siberia.
A telegraphic message received at
St. Petersburg from Krasnoyarsk, in
j the interior of Siberia, says that on
September 14th, at 11 o’clock at night,
tbe inhabitants of the village of Antz-
firowskojew, in the district of Yeni-
eeisk, Arctic Russia, saw a balloon be-
lieved to be that of Professor Andree,
the Swedish aeronaut, who left the
j Trotnsoe shortly before 2:30 p. m., on
July 11th in an attempt to cross the
Polar region.
NO. 4,T.
THROUGH GEORGIA,
The county commissioners of Deca¬
tur county have taken control of the
misdemeanor convicts in accordance
with Attorney General Terrell’s opin-
ion * and have lea9ed tbem to J - C *
Donalson for the balance of the year.
* * *
Clayton countv is first to begin a
au y one, her grand jury found true
bills against eight men, charged with
a conspiracy to lynch Henry Sims and
John McCullough.
rrn ™ !““ .. f +r - i •_ fbA
a ° pa „ A
of st a . A . T . Brooks, convict-
edof murder in Jackson superior
court, was heard at Lawrenceville Sat-
unlay and the motion was overruled.
Brooks and Reynolds will both be
ed FriJ ^ 24 ^ at j efferBon .
The Fitzgerald Driving Association
lias been reorganized, and will be
known hereafter as the Fitzgerald
Driving Club. The dates selected by
the club for winter race meetings are
NoA-ember 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th and
27th. Large purses will be offered
for trotters, pacers aud runners.
The situation of the strike among
the dock laborers at Brunswick is un¬
changed. It is said that the Ion g-
shoremen, composed of the laborers
who handle lumber exclusively, will
join the strike next week,butthis can-
no t be verified. Slow progress is made
in handling the phosphate and cotton,
as green hands are frightened away
from their work by the strikers befbro
they get accustomed to it.
In the enforcement of the law- which
directs the disposition and control of
misdeamor convicts several of the les¬
sees whose private camps will be
broken up as the result of Governor
Atkinson’s crusade have sacrificed
tlieir own interests to tbe good of the
state. Instead of contending with the
governor or the courts, they are doing
all in their power to reach an amicable
adjustment of their affairs with the
county authorities.
* * *
The mystery surrounding the Sprinz
murder, which occurredin Midville on
April 7th, seems to be increasing every
day. It appears that a number of tbe
residents of Midville believe that Dr.
J. J. Kilpatrick is guilty of the deed,
Avhile others believe it was committed
by ex-Marshal Morris. It is thought
that there is little doubt that the grand
jury will indict both of the men and
the fight for life will be made at the
trial, which will take place soon after.
*ate university . .. faculty . ,, feur ,
s .a
nays ago considered the petition of
the students regarding the admission
to the university of the young men
Avho Avere last year disbarred for al¬
leged violation of intercollegiate regu-
lations by playing baseball against
orders. After discussing the matter
the faculty passed the following reso-
lution: “Ihe faculty interposes no
objection to the registration of Homer
Johns, Floyd Foster,Will Sanford and
Jim Dougherty, but debars them from
participating in any intercollegiate
sports for one year,
Tho Talbot county grand jury ad¬
journed without indicting the Ryder
lynchers. When court was convened
at Talbotton, Judge Butt gave the
grand jury a strong charge on the sub¬
ject, in which he told them to probe the
matter to the bottom. Pursuant to in¬
structions, the grand jury investigated
the lynching, examining a large num¬
ber of witnesses. When that body ad¬
journed, hoAvever, no indictments were
returned against any persons charging
them with the lynching. The grand
jury presentment statements stated
that the body had investigated the
matter diligently, but had not secured
evidence enough to indict any one.
At the next term of the superior
court of Pike county the most impor-
ca9e8 -win be those of the state
agaiust Tom Langford and old man
Delk . This will be the fourth trial of
oJd man Delk and the of Lang _
ford . The court meets on the first
Monday in October and it is expected
that these cases will be the first to be
taken up They will be the most im-
por ^. tant on the docket for the term and
in be d j sposed G f as soon as po ssi-
b j e j s probable that Judge Beck
wiB bave ,j udge Henry to preside in
his place. The first motion to be
made by the attorneys on the defense
Avill be to ask for a change of venue.
tial JUtJ CMinOt bd obtai.ed in the
county. It ib said that a great deal
of prejudice still exists against the
gang of which Delk and Langford
Avere among the leaders.
DIAZ AGAINST LYNCHING.
An Inquiry to Be Instituted and Guilty
Parties PnnUhed.
Advices from City of Mexico state
that orders have been given to inves¬
tigate the lynching of Arroyo.
President Diaz has decided that the
inquiry be most rigorous and that the
guilty parties be severely punished, as
he feels that the act was a reproach to
the nation, which has taken pride in
the fact that lynch law has been un¬
known in Mexico.
Twenty-odd men arrested are still
in custody and formal papers are being
drawn up in their cases.
Food Is Higher In Spain.
Advices from Madrid state that the
| price of all kinds of food is rising
| steadily, owing to the growing depre¬
ciation of silver and of paper cur¬
rency.
FEYER SCARES NEW YORK.
1 Southern Visitor* Have Trouble Getting
Out of the City.
j The yellow fever scare is creating
j complications even as far as New
York.
j Southern visitors, and es
j southern merchants, goods who for have the
the city buying obstructed in their
are being refusal of e
return home by the the ri
roads to carry them unless they i
armed with a clean bill of health.
’ President Wilson, of the
health, has been appealed to
travelers who encountered d