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SOUTHERN RECORD SUCCESSOR TOt^ASSKiSsaiSS:! VOL. XXIV. Ill III fid IB Ml t ” HAS A MOTHER’S ADMONITION TO HER INNOCENT CHILDREN. STRYCHNINE IN BREAKFAST COFFEE Doctor Found Mother anil 4v»nr ot the Seven Children Cold In Death. A special to the Omaha Bee from Hchuyler, Neb., says that during the forenoon Sunday Frank Steinad came hastily in from Shell Creek precinct, nine miles northwest, to summon a physician to the home of Frank Davis, where he said the whole family had been poisoned. Dr. Sixta hastened out and found four of the seven children in the fam¬ ily and their mother dead, a fifth child in a dying condition and a sixth person sick. Davis and his oldest son went away early in tlie morning, leaving before the rest of the family breakfasted. When the meal was prepared all sat down, and early in the course of the meal Mrs. Davis made some such re¬ mark as: “Eat a good breakfast and we’ll all go to glory.” An older son’s mind was affected by tlie remark to the extent that he did not appease his appetite. A daughter, younger*than tlie son, after drinking a half cup of coffee, became sick aud vomited. The rest of the family continued the morning meal, although the children made very wry faces and said the cof¬ fee did not taste good. Strychnine had been put into the coffee. JAPAN’S ENTERPRISE. Moilejr A]tprM]iri:ite<l to Teach Americans Ho# to Mnhfe Ten. Keveritl months ago the Japanese Teft Guild sent to this country a spe¬ cial Commission to investigate the con¬ dition of the Japanese tea trade in the United States snd Canada, and to co¬ operate with its American representa¬ tives in giving publicity to the merits of Japanese teas and the best methods of preparing them. Tea bazaars are to be opened in many of the principal cities in the United States and Canada, where la¬ dies can enjoy a cup of tine Japanese tea made by experts, and at the same time receive instructions which will enable them to make it equally well at home. More than half the tea con¬ sumed in the United States and Cau- A, is of Japanese growth, yet most V Africans apparently do not under¬ stand how to prepare it so as to devel¬ op its delicious qualities. The Japan¬ ese government has appropriated a large fund to aid in prosecuting this educational work. The Japanese Tea Guild has issued thm official recipe for making Japanese tea: First—Use a small, dry and thor¬ oughly clean porcelain teapot. Second—Put in one teaspoonful of tea leaves for each cup of tea desired. Third When using Japanese tens pour on the required quantity of fresh boiled water, and let stand w ith closed lid from two to three minutes. Never boil the leaves. In order to retain the natural flavor Japanese tea leaves should be kept in tight can or jar, free from moisture. Note.—To thoroughly enjoy the uatural, delicate and sweet flavor, neither sugar nor cream should be used. NEAL DOW PASSES AWAY. The Gn-nt Prohibition Leader Dies At His Home. General Neal Dow died at bis resi¬ dence in Portland, Me., Saturday af¬ ternoon. The end was peaceful and lie retained consciousness until an hour before ho died, recoguizing his children, who were gathered at his bedside. General Dow’s death was due to the infirmities of old age. His vigorous body was worn out aud his strength had beeu gradually failing for a year or more, but until recently he had been able to take his accus¬ he tomed drives. A week ago Saturday was obliged to take to his bed. His mind was still clear, however, and only a few days ago he called for the daily paper and read a portion of it. CAR THIEVES IN LIMBO. They Syntematirally Robbed llie Southern For Twelve Years, Sheriff Nelms, of Fulton county, has in his keeping three members of the worst gang of freightear robbers that ever operated in Georgia. They were caught in the act and their admissions and the Southern railway’s records show that they have stolen iu the last twelve years at least $50,000 worth of dry goods, groceries, tobacco, notions and miscellaneous freight. Walter Bohannon was tli6 leader of the gang, which numbered ten. His associates in the Fulton county jail are Ed Pierce and Sam Painter. They operated at Dalton. Ga. M’CULLOUGH ON TRIAL lor lhe Second Time tlie Alleged Wife- Murderer Faces a Jury. For the second time John MeCul- bmgh was placed on trial at Jones¬ boro, Ga., Monday charged with the murder of his wife. Hon. Thomas E. Watson is defend¬ ing McCullough. He has been re¬ cently employed and appeared iu the - . *‘7 " r ie time. . ‘, great man 7 spectators are pre' - taWMerftair Imr.I Th. iougbt from .tart to iiuish. MAJOR GINTER DIES. Pioneer In Cigarette Busluess and Made a Fortune. the richest n, s niu the eontli. be entbefn Refofft. THIRTY-FOUR PATH NTS. The Fever Record at New Orleans For One Day. A New Orleans spe ia! says: After * m ^ rrmn,eut “ nd V he fe ' 8 ! tURU ° n 011 the fno« * nf % 1 r<cord w koo k «" ll >ewhat of turn Tuesday.^ , a For , forty hours there n«ih ee ?° dea hs an , d 1 Monda y tlle Early J u eday morninp, however, thfe rfeports of the new cases began to come into the board of health office with considerable lapidify and by] o’clock there had been fifteen cases and by 7 o’clock Tuesday night all concerned, with ,!£ prospects that others would tome In a few hours Ibreo deaths had been reported to the hoard. The physicians w ere no' at a loss to explain the increase in ra'es. They took practically t ie position explaihrd in the Associated Press reports and said it might be expected that numer- ous cai-o i would still continue daily to be reported. T In discussing the situation Dr. Olli- pliant said: - 1 “The stern enforcement of the law requiring all physicians to report promptly both suspicious and actual eases of yellow fever has had a mats- rial effect in increasing the number of cases. I am not pie; ared to say that we are less careful than we have been heretofore, but now that we have rec- ognized that yellow fever exists in New Orleans we are prepared to ac- eept the diagnosis of any reputable physician called in to attend a case. mnkes “Perhaps occasionally a doctor an error. I have known in- stances where eminent practitioners have asked me to have a flag taken down after they had declared a case of yellow fever ; but as a rule the nu- merical increase of cases is due to the fact that we have so organized our forces that the corps of the board of health is now so large and the activity the public so much excited that few if any cases are escaping attention and prompt report. “No, tbe board has by no means lost Control of the situation. The cases, as ft rule, ftre mild. They are being given strict attention. The foci are increas¬ ing but slowly. The disease is not spreading to any material extent and a large number of cases are being dis¬ charged daily. An epidemic is abso¬ lutely out of the question. New Or¬ leans is today not by any means nn- healthier than it has been for several years. The prevailing fever has caused iu several w eeks, not forty deaths.” Tuesday’s record showed thirty-four new cases and three deaths. Improvement at Edwards. Things seem to have brightened up somewhat at Edwards, Miss. AH of the seriously ill are doing extremely well. Niue new oases and one death was Tuesday’s record. WOODFORD HEARD FROM. He Send# An Official Notice to lhe State Department. A Washington dispatch says: United States Minister Woodford has been heard from at last by the state dejiart ment. A cablegram lias been received from him dated Madrid, Tuesday evening, addressed to Secretary Sherman, mak- ing the following announcement of the appointment of such officers of the new Spanish cabinet as may have to do with the foreign policy of the new government: n “New ministry formed. Sagosta, presi- dont; Gullon, minister of state; Moret, min- Ister of colonies. Woodford/* -The composition of the new cabinet is the subject of considerable gossip iu administration aud diplomatic cir- cles. It is felt that the three powers of the new regime, so far as concerns j Cuban affairs, are Sagasta. Gullon and* Moret, three names often noted in the state department iu connection with previous negotiations concerning in- dependence, autonomy and other movements at the time of the last long Cuban war. DATE FOR THORN’S TRIAL. Mrs. N'ack’s Case win Come Up Iuamedi- j ately Afterward. Judge Wit mot M. Smith, at New York Tuesday, set the trial of Martin j Thorn. accused of the murder of Wil- liam Guldensnppe, for October 18 in the Queen’s county * court, Long Island City will be tried after Thorn’s Mrs. Nack case shall be settled. COKE W AR IMMINENT. Most Extensive Producers In the Country Threaten to Cut Price#. Advices from Cleveland, Ohio, state that W. J. Raney, one of the largest coke producers m the country says that he has information which leads him to believe that on January 1st the Frick interests will advance the price of furnace coke to $2 per ton. “What will be your price?” was asked. ! “Well, Mr. Ranev answered . with ... u peculiar smile, “I think furnace coke is worth 90 cents. ” The market price of furnace coke is now $1.50. There is every reason to believe thatthere will be another war between Frick and Raney. MORE TROUBLE FOR DAUNTLESS, Crew of tl»« Filibuster Steamer Placed Ui-der Arrest. At Savannah, Ga., Thursday morn- ing, United State* District Attorney Erwin arrested Master J. W. Floyd, Chief Engineer Walter E. Masters and the entire crew of seven men of the tug Dauntless. The case will be in- vestigated later. The men were arrested on a warrant charging 8 them wiih being about to j Dominion g U m iHtarv expeditions dom.in ol against King- • of Cub., j dom of Spam;----- RESIGNATION WITHHELD. Wfjler Msy Still Be At the Hesd of the Cuban Army. IfcZ tad not weighed. TOCCOA. HABERSHAM COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 8,18517. NFW art 0RLEA>S f i vs JOl impvmfiTc R> ALISTS AD- DRESS FELLOW CRAFTSMEN. SCIENTIFIC QUARANTINE WANTED. Restrictions Oh Mail For the Crescent City Calls Out a Vigo¬ rous Protest. : have issued ,, * bein 8 P Iea: To Our Fellow Toilers of the Press * n Louisiana, Mis issippi, Alabama an< l Texas, from the New Orleans Dress Club —Greeting: is the sense of this body, whose 1 active membership is responsible for ^he accuracy of the local news of the dail Y P™ 88 New Orleans, and that sen8e 18 hereby expressed by the club in speeia mee mg assem ed, hat to 7°"; co-workers and brethren be sub- nutted by us the fallowing facts and suggestions: ! First, That with absolute fidelity and tputh all news relative to the pres- en ^ visitation of yellow fever here has been reported by us of the active pro- f® 8 sion to our em P . °D . Q g newspapers , j ami have by them without curtailment, c 010 ™ 1 !? or alteration been printed, Second, That the New Orleans news- P a P ers have consequently told the {&ct *’ and a11 tlie facts, with a fidelity which has been everywhere admitted and in some places criticised as oppos- ed to tlie city’s best interests. But trutJl was deemed the rule to inspire confidence at home and abroad ftnd ^ as been strictly adhered to as the highest journalistic principle. Third, That injury out of all propor- *ion *° ^ ie ac ^ ujd danger has been and * s wrought to every possible in- Merest of the city, state and neighbor- big states by local quarantine having no uniformity and no reference to science. Fourth, That, the most vile harm re- suits in the quarantine of the mail, thus absolutely cutting oft' all comma- nication, and this in spite of the fact that the enlightensd science of the world has pronounced that no patho- genic organisms can live through the process of disinfection which the United States is here subjecting news- papers and all mail under the personal ! and impartial supervision of Dr. Car- ter and the United States marine hos- pital service and under his guarantee of thorough protection against infec- tion. Fifth, That unless this quarantine be removed, the harm to the state and south, to localities, cities and towns may even be prolonged, as neither newspapers nor letters can bring tidings of the condition of affairs in New' Orleans to a great number of points. Sixth, That our brethren of the press addressed give conspicuous place to this special in their respective pa- pers and use their good offices, as brainy men and leaders in rational thought, with our fellow citizens in their localities to the end of removing the restrictions on the mail so that as citizens of one country we may hold intelligent communication and wisely direct our course of action in relation to the fever as it pertains both to our common safety and our common busi- ness interests. Seventh, That it is especially im- portant immediately to set to work on this proposition and first free the mail, since the fever appears on the wane and is certain in a few weeks to be ex- terminated by the cold, and in the clearer light thus afforded wisely iu time to set the wheels of commerce in the south free. Henry Rigiitor, President, J. M. Leveque, Secretary, New' Orleans Press Club. : QUARANTINE ^ T ., T 7Tv^r v^ vam MUflimi). nn. I Certain Fre Freights |“ WIU m ill Fnter Enter Alabam Alabama * From Atlanta, Ga. | A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says: Dr. Andrews, city health officer; Dr. Seelye, president of the state board of health, and Dr. Saunders, state health officer, had a conference in the gover- nor’s office Tuesday. j After a careful consideration it was recommended to the governor that the quarantine be raised against all freights from Atlanta, excepting bedding, car- pets, tapestries, laundry work, blan- kets, wearing apparel and trunks. WEYLER’S FRIENDS AROUSED. They Get Together and Ask that Captain General Be Not Recalled. The friends of Captain General ; We * , in Havana made a grand rallv hig behalf Tuesday, aud did all ^ to preve nt his recall. Spanish j hel<J a meet ing at the manv q{ the wealthiest class of c___:_ P rda vA itur ^ LrsingGeueral ^resent " ; I Resolu ions Wey- ler were adopted <f with great enthusi- ftnd a able meS sage was sent to government at Madrid announcing that the representatives / of the trading. mercantiI and industrial communities assembled at tbe mee ting were satisfied I ^ ^ cour?e by Wey ler. --- REWARD FOB ROBBERS. Tbe C., R. I. and P. Railway Company Will Pay 8500 Each for Them. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pa- c j dc Railway Company has offered a reward of $500 each for the capture of ^ be dve meu wbo b eld up and robbed jt s passenger train at Chickasha last 1 " I we ek. \ score of deputy marshals with blood hounds are securing the country f or the Jennings gang of outlaws, ; which is responsible for the robbery, A1 Jennings, leader of the gang, w'as { „ De time attorney general of Can.- Jl *“ c «“ n, £:_ MINERS QUITTING JELLICO. ! *p*r*tors Expect to Import New Men For the Mines. The Chattanooga agent of the Jellieo eo heretofore, Devoted to Southern Progress and Colonization. A DAY OF SUICIDES. Nearly » Score of Unfortunates Xn Mew York Commit Self-Murder. A woman and her four children were dead by asphyxiation in the West Shore hotel, Forty-second street and Eleventh avenue, New York, Fri- day morning. The woman had evi- dently killed her ohildren and then commitMd “ M4 «- I They were registered as “Mrs. Car¬ oline Bivinius, West Point, and four I children.” The children were two boys, one about fifteen and the other about seven, and two girls, about thirteen and five years old. Nearly a score of unfortunates met thfda-r 111 ^ * durinw " U lTa'ddmou^oth. Bivinius trageOy, Harmon £>. Burt, of Norwich, Conn., was found dead in bed from poison; C. F. K. Boyce, San Francisco found dead at the Grand Union hote , as- phyxiated, Dr. Robert W. Flagg, physician “ of Yonkers, leaped from a wi dow in the Murray Hall hotel and flied shortly afterward ; Theodore Mil- i er> suicided by shooting; Rudolph K nocho, out of work, drank carbolic acid and died an hour later; Edward L. Hafner and Frank C. Holly, of Norwalk, Conn., were found dead in their apartments at White Plains, aa- phyxicated by gas; Mrs. Bertha Hum- mel and Julia Cutto, each took carbolic acid and dicd; G Martin, serving a seuteuce for burg i ary in the Kings county penitentiary, cut his thraat with a piece of glass and cannot re¬ cover; Michael Walsh died at the Ful¬ ton hotel from the effects of drugs. TEXT OF WOODFORD’S MESSAGE To Spanish Government as Given Out by the Chicago Times-Heraid. A Washington special to the Chicago Times-Herald says: “It is now possible for the Times- Herald to give, not the exact text of the famous Woodford note to Spain, but a fair statement of its substance, “This now celebrated and much dis- cussed document simply expresses on the part of the United States the hope that the war will be brought to a close as speedily as possible, “No date is fixed when the consum- mation is to be reached, and that the interests of Spain no less than the in¬ terests of the United States, the inter- ests of humanity and the interests of the world at large are reasons why the war should end with the least possible delay. “Aud with that in view, acting as a friend of Spain because of the great stake which the United States has in Cuba financially and otherwise, because of the annoyance to which the United States has been put by maintaining a patrol over and preventing the sailing of filibustering expeditions, “And because civilization opposes war, the United States tenders to Spain its good offices to act as a friend between the mother country and her rebellious colony in the hope that she may be able to effect a settlement aud bring the warfare to a close, “This is all there is in the note. There is not the faintest suggestion of thi3 government forcing upon Spain her good offices if she does not care to voluntarily accept them, nor is there an intimation that the war must be brought to an end by a certain time, or that Spain must return her answer to this note by a fixed date.” WEDDERBURN DISBARRED. Famous Patent Attorney of Washineton ® e cIa f cd a f ra " d * Jonn vveacierourn 1 to., ot YYasti- . D. C., were disbarred Friday from practice before lhe interior de¬ partment as patent attorneys or agents, The firm is held to have been guilty of “gross fraud aud unprofessional conduct.” The postmaster general has beeu no- tified of the finding, which was made after a long investigation following complaints of other attorneys who filed charges against the firm. Wedderburn for two years has been the , most extensively advertised patent attorne y in the United States. SOLD HER HUSBAND. The “Other Woman” Buys John A. Truitt From Hi# Wife for 94,000 Cash. According to the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, John A. Truitt, a conductor >u the Northern Central electric street car line, was sold Friday by his wife for $4,000 to a woman who declared that she loved the man more than hi* wife did. DEATH IN A WRECK. Two Men Killed and Many More or Lets Seriously Injured. 0ae P er8 ° n killed, one so badly in- l ured that he dled 8000 after the acci ‘ dent aud others more or less hurt is tbe record of a wreck on the Denver a,ld Rl ° Urande narrow guage at Co- topaxi, seventy-two miles west of Pueblo, at 2 o clock Saturday morning, caU8ed b J the break of the journal on ou ,® tbe caches Ihe cars ^ ere a11 "°^ ded ^ lth ex ; cnrsiomsts bound to the festival , of Mountain and Plain at Denver. T bere was little excitement and not muc b wreckage as the tram was run- nmg very slowly._ COMER SAYS “NIT.” Declares He Knows Xanght of Hi* Ru¬ mored Deposition. President H. M. Comer, of the Cen- tral Railway of Georgia, returned to Savannah Friday morning from a 10,- 000 mile trip through the west, He denies that he is to be deposed from the presidency of the Central at its annual meeting on October 12th. If such a thing is contemplated he says he knows nothing about it. He got home in time to draw his dividend, declared i n Angn.t .nd payab le Friday. TA!i WT CK THE FAVORITE. - Result of “Straw” Ballot By New York’s Big Papers. The New York Journal has taken a straw ballot of 28,244 voters on the Of these Van famck Gleeeon, 1,917, AN OUTLINE OF THE DOCUMENT ALREADY MAPPED OUT. WILL BE ONE OF CONGRATULATION. . Conflw „ . Br,ef „ , , and : - to the Poinf , * Options , of Great import will Be Treated. -- Tlie Bpeeial correspondent of the Atlanta Journal at Washington wires M. paper „ follow.: The president will not be caught napping when congress meets. He is already at work on his message, his first annual message to the congress of the United States. In fact he has already prepared an outline of it and he will fill it in from time to time as he gets the opportnity. He hopes to have it finished before the congressmen begin to pour in when his time will be pretty well taken up. The message, so I am informed, will be comparatively brief and very much to the point. It will contain a well boiled down review of the work since the administration’s birth and a warm congratulation to the country ou the return of prosperity, giving full credit to the members of the house and sen- ate for the part they played in it. The president will point out the benefits to be derived from annexa- tion of the Hawaiian islands and urge a speedy ratification of the treaty by the senate. He expects now to report in his message the progress Minister oodford will have made in his nego- tiations with Spain looking to bring- ing the Cuban war to a close. He will set forth the Cuban situation as he sees it, extenuating nothing. But in case nothiug definite has been done by Spain toward the freeing of the island, he will ask congress to keep its hands oil a little longer, Should Woodford’s mission have failed it is thought here that the president will so state, as he will have nothing to gain by holding anything back from congress. He will strongly urge the enactment of some currency reform legislation and express the hope that before the fifty-fifth congress adjourns the theory of general arbitration will be made a fact by the putting into operation a treaty stripped of some of the objec¬ tionable features which caused the de¬ feat of the first one negotiated be¬ tween this country and Great Britain. The part of the message relating to the Cuban situation will be the only portion of the message held back for revision until the last. day. From noxv on the president will make appointments as rapidly as he can. He is anxious to get the matter of federal office out of the way. The office-seekers are still at Washington in great numbers; in fact, there are more of them than there have been at any time since the adjournment of congress.. The president is back to stay and it is xvell known that he in¬ tends to keep at the pie counter till the last piece worth eating has been given away. CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT. Shipherd’s rartner Says That He Made Way With Over S£300,000. John J. Shipherd, for several years prominent as an investment broker and street railway promoter at Cleve¬ land, 0.,was arrested Monday morning on the charge of embezzlement. He was released on $10,000 bail. The warrant was issued at the in¬ stance of Frank Robison, and the charge grew' out of the business deal¬ ings of Shipherd and Robison, who have been closely associated for sev¬ eral years in street railway enterprises in Cleveland and elsew-liere. The war¬ rant charges that Shipherd embezzled $183,236.15 of the personal property of Robinson, in addition to twelve street railway bonds of the value of $95,20°. ____ Water at Five Cents Per Quart- Owing to the long continued drought in the vicinity of Osceola, Ark., wells and springs have gone entirely dry and the people are now compelled to buy water for drinking purposes. Wa¬ ter sells rapidly at 5 cents a quart and the demand greatly exceeds the sup¬ ply. ROAD TO ISSUE BONDS. The C., R. & S. Railway Makes Arrange¬ ments to Pay Debts. At a meeting of the directors of the Chattanooga, Rome and Southern, at Rome, Ga., $500,000 50-year 5 per cent gold bonds were issued. A first mortgage will be given upon all the property and earnings of the road. The bonds are issued to pay the in¬ debtedness of the old Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus road, much of which is for back taxes. The road will also build a hand¬ some depot, to cost $20,000, on the site of the old Hamilton warehouse property. The bonds will be placed on the market in Now York. STUDENTS MOBBED BRANN. Article In His Publication Reflected on Their University. At Waco, Texas, W. C. Braun, edi¬ tor of Brann’s Iconoclast, was the vic¬ tim of a mob of 200 students of Baylor University, a Baptist university of that city Saturday afternoon. Brann was seated in the office of his publishing house when four young men, students of the university called him to the door, where they seized him and thrust him into a hack, which which v as lapidly driven to the col¬ lege campus, where Brann was rough¬ ly handled. BREWERS MAKE ASSIGNMENT. Viabilities at 8350,000 and Assets Slightly Above That Sum. The Phoenix Brewing Company, one of the oldest brewing associations in St. Louis, made an assignment Monday, with liabilities of $250,000 and assets slightly in excess of the the sum. President Weber states that the failure was caused by the filing of a number of attachment suits aggre¬ gating $13,000 dm. by Goepper £ Co., a Cmeinuftti CAN FIRE I EPUT1ES. An Important Ruling for Benefit of Inter* nal Revenue Collectors. A Washington special 6ays: Collec- outsid' 0?cWu a LrvL“iut1n n th<,°r4° pointments. The treasury department asked the attorney general for a ruling upon the question as to whether the terms of the deputies expires with that of the collector or not. The matter was referred to Assist- aut that Attorney General writing'his Boyd, who states he was now decision for the president’s approval. He did not hesitate to say that he thought, ‘ and had so decided, that the collectors I ^ a right to make their own appoint- j ; STM the civil seivice ^.“^"2^ commigsion for an eligible list. This ruling does not apply to store- keepers and guagers, he said. This means that every' deputy collector un- der Cleveland can be fired without rea- son, and the republicans who have not passed the civil service can be put in their places. ____ EX-SENATOR DIES. * _ Samuel McMillan, of Minnesota, Sue- eumbs to Anaemia. Samuel J. McMillan, United States senator from 1876 to 1888, died at his home in St. Paul, Minn., Sunday night of anaemia. He had been ill for uearly a year, He was born in Brownsville, Pa., February 22, 1826. He studied law in the offices of Edwin M. Stanton, afterward secretary of war, and after a distinguished career was in 1874 chosen chief justice of the Minnesota supreme court. He was elected to the United States senate as the result of one of the most noted deadlocks in the history of the state. In 1881 he was re-elected, While in the senate he succeeded Bosc-oe Conklin as chairman of the commerce committee. He was prom- tnent in the Presbyterian church and in 1890 was chosen one of the two men from the west on the committee of re- vision of the confession of faith of that body, THOUSANDS OF CHINESE DROWN. Sixty Villages In tlie Empire Swept Away By Floods. The steamer Victoria which arrived at Tacoma, Wash., Monday, brings news of the most disastrous floods that have visited China for many years. Sixty villages near Tung Chou, con¬ taining over 80,000 inhabitants, have been destroyed by floods and the peo¬ ple drowned or forced to flee. There is no means of finding out how many thousands have been drown¬ ed, but the number is estimated by Chinese authorities at 15,000 to 20,000. The flooded district is within twelve miles of Pekin, tbe capital of China. As a rule, Chinese officials make very little stir when a calamity like this happens, but the proximity of the dis¬ aster lias resulted in its being brought to the attention of the emperor, xvho has ordered that all possible relief be given. SPAIN’S NEW CABINET. This Ministry Will Urge Reforms In Cuban Affairs. The new Spanish ministry formed Monday is constituted as follows: Senor Sagasta, president of the council of ministers; Senor Gullon, minister for foreign affairs; Senor Groizard, minister of justice; General Correa, minister of war; Admiral Ber- mejo, minister of marine; Senor Pnlg- cerver, minister of finance; Senor Capdegon, minister of the interior; Count Xiguena, minister of public works; Senor Moret, minister for the colonies. After an informal meeting the new ministers proceeded to the palace and took the oath of office. WILL SLOP FREIGHT TRAFFIC. Quarantine Forces Southern Faciflc to Take Action. A San Francisco special says: In consequence of the yellow fever quart- antine in the southern states, the Southern Pacific company has decided to close its gulf route to all freight traffic. All arrangements have been perfect¬ ed by the Southern Pacific with the Texas and Pacific, w'hereby connection may be had with New Orleans and other points in the southern part of Louisiana. FAYORED BY SUGAR TRUST. A New In Factor in the Hawaiian Annex¬ ation Question. Advices from Honolulu state that by far the most important move toward annexation since the adjournment of congress has been a proposition to the Hawaiian government, known to have come in the last mail from the coast, to the effect that if this govern¬ ment will withdraw its opposition to the Spreckels interests in the islands, the Sugar Trust will not onlj cease its opposition to the annexation treaty now pending in congress, but will actually assist in procuring its ap¬ proval by congress during the coming winter. This story comes from a trustworthy source. LUETGERT IS SILENT. Acting on Advice of Attorneys He Did Not Tell Hi* Story. The defense in the famous Luetgert murder trial, at Chicago, rested its case Thursday after two witnesses had testified. Luetgert did not go on the witness stand in his own defense. Tue big sausage manufacturer yield¬ ed to the advice of his attorneys, but the disappointment to him was great. He has declared for months that he must tell his story to the jury. His counsel feared to put him on the stand a t I he accepted the situation with a fr wn. INDORSED ORGANIZED LABOR. .League of American Municipalities Adopt Important Resolution. The League of American Municipal¬ ities, in session at Columbus, O., passed a resolution Friday morning, offered by Alderman Lowry, of Pough¬ keepsie, N. Y., indorsing the efforts of organized labor and requiring that the published report of the league’s proceedings aud addresses hew the Typogtaphicul Uuiou i»b#l v SUBSCRIPTION RITES: SUN A YEAR. -- STRONG AND BITTER FIGHT BEING MADE ON HEALTH HOARD. , I : FEYER RECORDS BEING BROKEN. Doctors Are Loth to Report Cases, Giving as m Reason That It Curtails Their Practice. Friday was again something of a re- cord breaker in Ne w Orleans in the ! thirty reported, T XT j hey cropped up ^ in a11 directions, but the death record onl J thre< ? for da J- The fever is rapidly spreading in . niany directions, but tne laigest major- ^7 of cases are proving to be of a harmless type. Th® infectious character of the fever is > however, shown in the fact that there were again numerous instances of new cases in hoU8e8 wh6re sickness has already existed. The weather is warm and the conditions excellent for new cases. But the death percentage h as fallen considerably below the re¬ cord of 1878 ’ The usual care is not now beiDg taken in diagnosing cases, and it is quite probable that many of the cases that are reported as yellow fever are the result of hurried examinations by physicians. More cases were reported before 9 o clock Friday than ,, at , any time .. since . the fever has invaded the city. There were fifteen at that hour. The new cases were reported from all sections of the city. Doctors Having Trouble A . .... bitter fight is being made on the board of health because it is insisting in quarantining inmates of houses in which yellow fever exists and those houses which immediately adjoin. Dr. Guiteras expressed the opinion that it is possible to confine the in- fection within the room where the pa- tient may be lying so this has strength- ened the fight of the public agaiust these quarantine measures. In spite of the storm of protests, however, ; many eminent physicians, and profes- i sional men are urging the board to continue its present course in quarau- tining houses. The crisis is either present now or j close at hand, and it is not considered wise to jeopardize the health of the whole community by allowing people in infected houses or living next door to them to go among the members of the community at random. The fever has, of course, not been declared epidemic and for that reason physicians are disinclined to report yellow fever. A number of doctors state, in a for- mal protest, that if their names are re- ported in connection with yellow fever cases their practice will lie ruined. Nobody would send for them if they have had anything do with yellow fever cases. CriMis Approaching In Mobile. Newspaper correspondents at Mobile, i Ala., are in a quandary. If they tell the truth they are condemned locally as writing against the interests of the j city. If they draw it mild outside communities declare they are lying, An attempt has already beeu made to throttle the press by the prosecution of a local city editor, but it failed, and the case was withdrawn as an ignomi- nious and unpopular move. The truth of the matter is that a crisis is approaching in Mobile. Tbe fever has made unexpected leaps and within two days has broken out in two totally unexpected quarters. STRIKE THREATENED IN CHICAGO. Probable Tie-lTp of tlie City’s Street Rail¬ ways. The danger of a tie-up of the lines of the Chicago City Railway Company is not over yet. A mass meeting of street car employes was held Friday and res¬ olutions were unanimously adopted indorsing the organization of a local branch of the Amalgamated Association of Street Car Employes of America. The most important action taken, how-ever, was the giving by secret ballot the power to the executive com¬ mittee of the organization to order a strike without notice to the cqppany. The plan of the executive committee to resent any farther dismissal of em¬ ployes was thus ratified, and future action was referred to that committee. MILES HOMEWARD BOUND. Uncle Sum’. Army Commander Finite* ( Tour of Europe. General Nelson A. Miles, with Mrs. Miles and Major Camp, Captain Maus, sailed from London Saturday for the United States ou tbe American liner St Louis The commander of the army has been in Europe since Mav on his tour cf military observation and has in- spected everything of military inter- est in the armies of the great powers in tbe field of action. He has been looking over fortifica tions, barracks, camps, ordnance works j , of all classes and in the intervals of this work Las written three reports. BANANA STEAMER QUARANTINED. One of Her Crew Had Died of Yellow Fever—Cargo Thrown Overboard. The government quarantine officials at Philadelphia are not at all appre¬ hensive regarding the arrival of the steamer John ilson Sunday vith Ler chief engineer dead of yellow fever. The vessel will be held in quaran¬ tine for some time, while the most thorough disinfection is made. Monday the Quaker City Fruit Com¬ pany, consignees of the cargo of ba- nanas, gave permission to the officials to throw overboard the entire load. BIG BUILDING FALLS. Two Workmen Are Killed Outright and Ten Injured. Two men dead and ten injured was the result of the blowing down of a big new hotel at Lindsay park, near Charlevoix, Mich., Tuesday afternoon. About forty meu were at work in and around the building when the crash came. All were buried in the ruins. After the rescues were completed it was found that but two had lost their Uvea. NO. 47. THROUGH GEORGIA. Mrs. James Longstreet, formerly Miss Ellen Dortch, has returned to At¬ lanta to assume her duties as assistant state librarian. It is understood by her friends that she is still in the raoe for librarian for the next term. • * * The Montgomery, Ala., health au- ! ^°. state riti f health bave committee recommended that to freight the , from and through Atlanta, Ga., be allowed to come into the state. This municipality lanta has no embargo on At¬ freights, but they are kept out by the state quarantine. I A Washington dispatch states that suggestions have been made to the ano t bf , r notation His transfer to nn- ot h er government place in a small ca pacity in Washington or elsewhere is j B suggestion coming from his friends, « * # Before this month is ended the At- | lanta postoffice fight w’ill be decided. Alert, watchful and full of energy, both sides are awaiting the end. Any day the president may announce the appointment, and friends of the two candidates are exerting themselves to hard efforts in this final heat. The school book commission ap¬ pointed to devise some plan whereby the school books of the state may be purchased at less cost is to meet in a few days to give final consideration to its report. It is given out that the commission will not recommend the adoption of the state uniformity sys- tern, which is the plan now most large- , V considered conslderea with wlth reference reference to to tlie the * purchase of school books. Charleston has quarantined agaiust the mails of Atlanta. Superintendent Terrell, of the railway mail service, received notice to the effect that the Charleston board of health demanded f ba t a j{ mails sent out from Atlanta be f limiga ted. The board positively re- f nse8 receive any mail from the Ga t e City unless it has been thorough- Jy soaked in the fumes of formaldehyde gas This notice was 8udden and sur- pris i ng to the postal authorities, ... Tbe sub-penitentiary committee ap- po inted to draft a bill for tbe disposi- tion o{ convicts at the end of the pres- eilt lea8e ha8 perfected a bill and will mail it to members of the general joint committee as soon as the document can be printed, The baeis of the measure j s tbe Hall Ijill on the line of the sug- ge stions made by Principal Keeper Turner and approved by the governor, - The report of the Blalock commit- mittee is another legislative document that will furnish much entertainment f or the citizens of Georgia. From what ba8 already appeared in print with reference to the investigations of this committee, it is but natural to expect that some parts of their report will make “mighty interesting reading.” The question has been raised, and though its discussion was dropped, it bft s not been settled—will the legis- latnre appropriate money with which to pay for the services and to pay the expenses of the Blalock committee? * * * Stone Mountain has just commenced to push the fight for the county seat and the new courthouse that is to be where the site is located. The people of Decatur are going on with then- part of movement, and what the result w-ill be cannot be guessed with any degree of accuracy. The feeling on the part of the active workers on the two sides is increasing and they are backed by the citizens in the western and eastern parts of the county. The representatives of the county are divided on the question. The most interesting thing that has occurred in Atlanta in a long time,has been the open-arms reception that was accorded to the yellow fever refugees. People who fled from the scourge-in¬ fected districts were kept in close, stuffy cars enroute, aud in many places encountered shotgun quaran¬ tines. At Atlanta they were received without hindrance, and so far tbe city has suffered no ill effects from it. The people of Atlanta have paid very little attention to the one mild case that a refugee from Mobile developed, and now, that this case is convalescent, there is no apprehension of a spread of the dread disease. There can be no doubt now that President H. M. Comer, of the Central of Georgia Railway Company, will remain in that position for some time to come. The proxy of the Southern Railway Company, or at least whoever owns the stock of the Central, has been sen t to Mr. Comer and is now in his hands for tfie purpose of being voted at the . meeting of the coming directors of the system, to be held in Savannah October 12th. When Mr. Comer was last in New York he asked that the proxy empowering him to vote the oO 000 shares of stock be sent bim To this the holders of the stock readily assented and on his return from hl8 ^stern tnp he found that P™*7 band. Every vote on every proposition and for every dir^tor therefore, be cast by President Comer. NEW CABINET FOR GREECE. Official Lint of Those Who 'Will Accept tha Various Portfolios. It is officially announced that tho Gree ]j cabinet has been constituted as follows: M. Zaimis, the president of the council, will assume the portfolio of the foreign office. M. Tomas will accept the post of minister of justice, and minister of marine ad interim. M. Colkerpas, minister of the inte- * r or M. Panagitopoulo, minister of public instruction. COLLEGE LOSES SETH LOW. Candidate for Mayor of Greater New }'ork Resigns Presidency of Columbia. A New York dispatch says: "When the trustees of Columbia college met Monday President Seth Low,who is the Citizen;)’ Union candidate for mayor, tendered his resignation as president. it was resolved that the resignation be referred to a committee of five to , consider and report at the n^xt meet* iug of the trustees ou November