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SOUTHERN RECORD SUCCESSOR IQISS&MSttSBt}
VOL. XXIV.
Listing steamer triton goes
TO BOTTOM OF OCEAN.
,||Y SPANISH SOLDIERS ABOARD.
fty.Two of the III-FiitciI Ve#*el’* l’as-
#rnger» Were Miraculously Saved.
Others Are Post.
k special from Havana says: The
^sting steamer Triton, from Havana
pallia Honda, province of Pinar del
ban been wrecked between Do-
nca and Marie!, ou the north coast
that province. The steamer Avent
pore Saturday morning during heavy
lather, grounding about eight miles
Lm the coast.
L friio Spanish gunboat Maria Cris-
and the tug Susie left Havana at
[,. ht e for the scene Triton of the Avreck.
is said the had on board
L>r 2>>l) passengers, soldiers and civil-
Hih.
■Owing to the heavy sea that Avas
■uning the gunboat Cristina found it
■possible to Saturday reach the scene of the
■sister till night.
■On board the Triton was $31,060 in
■ver to he used for the payment of
If Spanish military and naval forces.
■ The Triton, it is stated, Avas over-
laded. She carried a largo quantity
I groceries and ammunition Hint had
I board ninety-three rifles for the
Irernnient troops.
I A later dispatch states that the gum
[oat Maria Christina returned to Ha-
uttia Ireek, Sunday from the sccno of the
lusie, accompanied by the gunboat
which Avent with her.
I The two vessels arrived at 1 o’clock
|i In the board afternoon, nineteen the and gunboat having
the tugboat
wonty-three of the members of the
ist ship’s company, of whom thir¬
teen are civilians and soldiers. The
hereabouts of the others of the com-
aiiy ure unknoAvn.
It seems that the Triton struck tho
»ek during a heavy rainstorm. Her
urge shifted and fifteen minutes later
ho stink in 120 fathoms of Avater.
A scene of terrible confusion and
snic ensued as soon as the passengers
ealizetl the meaning of the crash. In
,wild struggle they rushed for the
mais. The first boat that Avas loAvered
upsized immediately and nil of its oe-
npnnts were drowned in tho whirling
niters. The next was struck by an
mormons Avave and turned over, droAvn-
netv.nity, but the frail craft righted
i|3ii f - ul eight who had been thrown
fat regained it.
r Some were good swimmers and kept
homselves afloat for hours; others
loafed about for twenty-four hours on
flanks. Four soldiers on planks,
idiom the strong current carried east
)f Havana, opposite Morro castle,
were saved by a pilot boat going to-
nanl Cardenas. They declare that on
Saturday evening there were many
others near them on planks, but Avhen
Sunday morning dawned all others had
disappeared. Some of them probably
became food for sharks.
LUETGERT JURY APPLAUDS.
Judge Vincent’* Closing Speech For the
Defense Was a Rouser.
The last words in defense of Adolpli
Luergert on trial at Chicago tvas
ppoken Saturday. Former Judge Vin¬
cent, chief counsel for the defense in
tho great murder trial, closed his ad-
•’resa to the jury. As he bowed to the
jury and took his seat an outburst of
applause shook the courtroom.
The jurymen stood up and the court
bailiffs shouted in vain for order. Sev¬
eral hysterical liulies were escorted
hem the room. Judge Tuthill ordered
the jury to its room aud delivered
himself A-ery forcibly on Avhat he called
a disgraceful sconce.
After order had been restored court
State’s was adjourned until Monday, when
Attory Deneen closed for the
prosecution.
IT BAN WOMENA RIl ESTEP.
A* b' E'»ng*Hn» Cisneros Case, They Ar«
Charge*! With Conspiracy.
the According to reliable information
police of Gaines, Havana province,
have arrested and imprisoned Senorita
Blanca Ortega, a young woman of
distinguished Kargina family, aud Senorita
Castellanos.
MAJOR GINTEIt’S WILL.
-
Th# Document Probate*!—Hulk of K»tat*
Goo* to Relatives.
The will of Major Ginter was pro-
bate*! i n the Henrico county court at
Richmond Wednesday. The bulk oi
Lis property is willed to immediate
relatives. Bequests of from $2,500 to
110,000 are made to all the charitable
institutions in Richmond and provision
made for the continuance of certain
Improvements in iu the couuty that Avere
progress at the time of Major Gin-
ter s death.
There is also a long list of bequests
to friends, servants*, etc. The total
'a!ue of the estate is estimated at bo-
tween $7,000,000 and $8,000,000.
COTTON SBLAZE 05 STEAMER.
1 ffieen Hundred Bale* Were In the Hold.
Early Damage Not Estimated.
covered Sunday in morning fire was dis¬
^ the British the forward compartment
steamship Bothefield,
Due at Adger’s wharf in Charleston
loading cotton for Liverpool.
Ihe compartment, which held 1,500
s es of upland cotton, Avas flooded
and the fire extinguished. The dam-
by fire and water not yet estimated.
Ihe llothefield was ready to sail.
COMPETES WITH SOUTHERN.
Tf »* Seaboard Will Build Branch Road
a
In South Carolina.
' ice President St. John, of the Sea-
Air Line, met Captain E. A.
‘ *iiythe, of Pelzer, and Colonel James
• ^ rr > of Piedmont, at Abbeville, S.
•» Tuesday to confer about running a
Seville °/ * be Seaboard Air Line from
- to those two manufacturing
ms us iu Greenville and Anderson
duties.
,, he oouference settled the fact that
road will be built from Abbeville
those town#, diitknee of forty
salts
lie onlheftt en y
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
InJnstrie* Established In the South
During the F»*t Week.
industries Among the most important new
reported for the past week
Co., are Palatka, ‘^TZ Vnlt £$£
capital §24,000, Augusta, Ga. j a
flouring mill to cost §120,000 at At-
the Green A Htrengele ’
capital §40,000, Irrigation Co
Calhoun Beaumont, Tex.; the
Automatic Scale Co., capital
$50,000, at Charleston Co.’, S C ■ «,*
Phoenix Cotton Oil capital $50,-
000, at Phoenix, Ark., and an electric
or compressed air power plant to be
erected at New Orleans, La. A 7,500-
spindle cotton mill will be built at
Port Smith. Ark., and a cordage f*c
tory at Paducah, Ky. °
$0(1,000, The Reynolds’ Tobacco Co capital
has been chartered at Bris-
tol, Tenn.; the J. B. Paco Tobacco
£ ■ zxrs;. tssrst
capital $50,000, at Apalachicola capital $5()' Fla •
the Kidder Lumber Co. -
000, Cameron at Wilmington, N.’c., and the
Lumber Co., capital $10,000,
at Point Washington, Fla. A $100,-
000 planing mill and box factory is to
erected at Nashville, Tenn.; a $5,000
lumber mill at Ellzey, Fla.; one to
cost $18,000 at Columbus, Ga., and
other woodworking plants at Prairie
Grove, Ark.; Fitzgerald. Ga., and
Hamilton, N. C.
A system of water works to cost
$200,000 will be put in at Augusta,
Ga., and other plants will be con-
strutted at Hazlehnrst, Miss.; Lum-
borton, N. C., and Canadian, Tex.—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
ENGLAND AGAINST BIMETALLISM.
duii of Monetary Commissioners Come*
to Naught.
Advices of Monday from London
state that the United States monetary
commissioners have received no official
information regarding the action taken
by the British cabinet on Saturday
last. Private ad\'ices, hoAveA’er, con-
A'ince them that the cabinet hai dealt,
the death blow to their mission.
It is expected the commissioners
Avill shortly be informed that her ma¬
jesty’s government regrets being un-
able to accede to llieir proposals, but
is Avilling to listen to any other plan
they But may suggest.
both parties to the conference
know that no other practical scheme
can be advanced.
rii the eA'ent of the expected reply
being received, the United Stpte s com-
missioners will return to the United
States.
The commissioners beliei'e their
failure means that no further effort in
behalf of bimetallism Avill be made for
many years to come. They attribute
their failure to the opposition of the
bankers and of The London Times.
Until these forces Avere aroused all
signs pointed to the co-operation of
tho British government.
TO CURE MILLIONAIRE KOUSS.
The “Great Physician” of India Comes to
American Shores.
From far-away India a man has
come to America to practice an ancient
medical art upon Neiv York’s blind
millionaire, Charles Broadw ay Rouss.
He is Dr. Guelph Norman, of Bur-
mah, aud he lias hoav had Mr. Kouss
for a patient for over a Aveek.
Dr. Norman’s proposal to restore
the blind to sight Avas treated with
disdain by the regular medical frater¬
nity, but if the patient himself is to be
believed a wonder has already been
worked. Mr. Rouss says he can see a
little. He is yet skeptical, however,
and Dr. Norman w ill haA-e to do much
more before he establishes the reputa¬
tion here that he is said to enjoy in the
Orient—that of the Great Physician.
DENTAL FROM BRYAN.
gay* That He Ha* Not Repressed Prefer-
ence In ll.e New York Campaign.
George ticket in the Greater New York
campaign, Mr. Bryan wired the follow-
mg to the Associated Press Monday
“ Norfolk, Neb., October IS. I Imi’e not
expressed any opinion in regard to the New
York mayoralty campaign, and do not care
to express any opinion in regard to it.
W. J. Bbtah.”
« THIEF AND MURDERER.”
John McCullough’* Brother-In-Law Make*
Damaging Charge*.
Damning _ and . . bitter «,, , arg
c
brought against John . c n oug y
Mr. IvHnsey Jones, as oc - «*
Cullough with the murder of Ms sis-
^ er He is accused iy is iro er m
law with being “first a thief and then a
murderer.
.
Mr. Jones says that the next tria
will develop a case against a let u OI1 P
that will be twice as strong as e aa
trial showed, lhereare many facts
he says that were not brought out at
the last trial, and the next trial
lie is determined to bring out every-
thing.
MORGAN COMES HOME.
Alabama Senator I* Strongly In Favor of
Annexation.
, , W • „ f Honolulu state that
' * for San
bena „ or a * r ^ „ an leave
Francisco xue.y, , accompanied i hr his
daughters. ^
* t the
Alabajna, ana , ,a ■ a ^ )r j e f res sen-
atoi am Mhin n , hoping
toarr’.Ae *e j tthe middle of No-
>er. e , . *» * jj e been
a em . ,. mind
th^th^ ^ Qwn
annexation of the islands is
the right thing.
TROUBLE OYER SUNDAY WORK.
Contractors Had To Use Guns To Prevent
i ° terference.
There was a row at tbe.
government or i works on
Tybee Islam * con .
*' jj
, wor
tractors demanded are P^; J ^. ork on s u ’ n dav.
They $2 a day for this ser¬
vice* which was refused. Eleven of
&rive the *?*
TOCfcOA. HABERSHAM COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 22.1807.
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OTEE BAD TREATMENT OF A NEWS-
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CHRONICLE'S STRONG EDITORIAL,
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British Eton May Be Awakened sum-
cientiy to Cali Spain to Term*
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Tbe Lcmdon r ^ Daily Chronicle in its
* 8 sue of Tuesday morning, comment-
ing upon the death iu Cuba “ last week
w •^ xr u ^bes, u correspondent of _ Black
*
and Wblte * (newspaper) of London,
who is said to have starved to death in
the streets of Havana, after having ^
xrr f bpamsb gnerillas, ted r says: " y •
“ If tbe riory of hia death is true frreh
>
execration of y I ,anish action will arise, and
the British government may have something
to say.”
Hughes was found dead ” n tbe
Prado, Havana tt ' Thursday rm i night , . a
pfnlr I mar Ti* del -r Rio with fv a reCPnt pass *T from V1S t the ed
mihtary governor. It is said that
while there a party of guerillas in
broad daylight and m the presence of
Spamsh officers, assaulted him and
ro >bed him of everything he had ex-
cept his clothes. Hughes, it is ai-
leged appealed to the military com-
mander for help and demanded the
restitution of his property, but Aias
only laughed at.
He was obliged to return to Havana,
walking the entire distance, and reach¬
ed the city ragged and starving. Hav¬
ing lost his passport, he could not
establish his identity or communicate
with his friends in England. He
starved to death in the streets.
Hughes had earned an excellent repu¬
tation as a war correspondent in Afri¬
ca, having followed the Soudan expe¬
dition, and also traveled in Western
Africa. His father is a retired Brit¬
ish army surgeon. The case has been
reported to the British consul at
Havana.
GEORGE PULLMAN DIES.
The Well Known Palaec Car Mng-nafe
Suddenly Stricken.
George M. Pullman, the palace car
magnate, died at his residence in Chi¬
cago at 5 o’clock Tuesday morning.
Mr. Pullman, who was in his 66th
year, had not been enjoying his usual
good health during the summer. The
extreme heat of last iveek greatly ag-
grai-ated his disease, * knoAvn to medi¬
cal science as angina pectoris, but no
serious trouble was anticipated.
Mr. Pullman was at his office iu the
Pullman building daily and dined Mon¬
day with friends at his club. Later in
the evening he remarked having a slight
pain in the back. He retired at his
usual early homr. At 4 o’clock mem-
bers of the household were awakened
by a disturbance in Mr. Pullman’s
chamber and upon entering found him
standing in the center of the room,
dazed and apparently suffering excru¬
ciating pains in tlie region of the
heart. Ihe family physician ... was
hastily summoned and restoratives
were applied, but to no purpose, and
al 5 o’clock the millionaire manufact-
urer aud philanthropist passed aAvay
without speaking and with scarcely a
struggle. ;
Mrs. Pullman, who, with her two
sous George and Sanger has been on
in 1859. He chtago
at once took a prominent
place in business circles. In 1880,;
OAving to the growing demands of his i
manufacturing interests, he put into ;
execution a pet theory for the estab- !
lor lishment H. of work., a “model aad town” H.oarand. as a home j j
oar ,bo
of Employees. A site Avas selected on
tb ® sbore 9 ^ ake Calumet, twelve j
^“ha^a f population £ of Tl t 000* ^ j I
Mr Pul m u - S wealtht ia vario usIy
est i mated at f ro m $12,000,000 to $30,-
000. His financial interests weTe con-
g ued to a few corporations, the bulk
0 f holdings being stock in the
p u H man Palace Car company, of
*
which he owned about one-fifth.
HOSPITAL SERVICE INCREASED.
Uncle Sum Add* to Force Necessitated
By Spread of T.llow F«»*r.
Tbe continued spread of yellow
feA*er necessitates many additional em-
ployes in the marine hospital service
^Washington. At the recommendation of the
snr-
geon general of that bureau, the treas-
ury department has appointed thirty- j
four assistant surgeons and fifty-two
g Uar ds to do duty in the yellow fever
section and on the borders of the
states Avhere the disease may spread.
These appointments will be increas-
ed if nec essary. The appointments
are temporary, the appointees receiv-
ing pay by the day.
EMBEZZLER IS CORRALED.
Chari** H. CaJwallader Located In Janes¬
ville. Wisconsin, Jail.
The St. Louis police think . they
have located Charles H. Cadwallader,
who is wanted in Union City, Ind., on
a charge of embezzling $50,000 in 1896.
From a source that is said to be re-
liable, detectives have learned that a
man who is in jail at Janesville. Mis.,
is in reality Cadwaliader. He is
charged with shooting William Butters,
k citizen of Janesville.
NOVA SCOTIA TOWN IN ASHES.
Historic Windsor Suffers rrom Destructive
Conflagration.
Historic Windsor, . one of the most
beautiful toAvns iu the province of
Nova Scotia, was devastated by fire
Sunday morning. escaped
Among the buildings that
are the Windsor cotton factory, Kings
college, the Anglican church, toe L.age-
hili school for girls and the Buftrin
The latter is the only hotel left
*Wiag.
Devoted to Southern Progress and Colonization.
BOTH MET DEATH.
W"htle Dying From Wound*, a Constable
Kill* His Slayer.
A special from Perry, Ga., states
S*, 4 ,.*® tbe £3 resalt $f of a duGi between
a“
whose property he attempted to levy
Fnday afternoon, both men were
dyi ° gwithia “ feet ° feoci
Lizzenby’s father is a justice of the
£ eaC 'f’ and on the A{i J stated William
lift ent before 7 h ° 7 him &a »“ d i° 88 secured landlord an *
attachment against his property.
Th ® JUatl ? tu ™ ed over the at j ach -
“ eu * to hls twenty-seven-year-old son
^ illiaui for execution, and the latter,
bj M \. Rl f sb y, 1dr °™
over to the negro’s , cabin to make the
levy. On arrival at the house Lizzen-
b Y acquainted the negro with his mis-
81 °?’ and tbe latter remarked thafc.“no
* m “ ab onld levy on his proper-
T
Arnos became involved m an lmpas-
810ned dl8 P ute -
Rigsby attempted to interfere, but
Amos angrily thrust him aside and
stepping into his cabin secured his
shotgun, and holding it bnt a few feet
from bis vict i m rapidly discharged
both barrels at him. The shot struck
Lizzenby’s breast, making a fearful
laceration a few inches above the
heart. He staggered and fell, but
with his dying strength raised himself
on his elbow and fired two shots at
Amos, both of which struck the negro,
who tottered a few feet and fell dead,
Lizzenby lived only a few minutes
a f ter the negro’s death,
OVATION TO EVANGELINA.
> T ew Yorkers Turn Out To Greet Mis*
Cisneros and Her Rescuer.
The popular reception to Miss Evan-
gelina Cossio y Cisneros in New York
Saturday night was an extraordinary
demonstration. Fully 50,000 persons,
probably one-third of them well dressed
Avomen,crowded the upper half of Mad¬
ison Square park and filled Broadway
and Fifth avenue and waited patiently
for the congratulatory speeches to be
finished and tho Cuban heroine to ap¬
pear.
A stand had been erected south of
the Worth monument, from which the
speeches were delivered, and on which
the Seventh regiment band was sta¬
tioned.
Finally Mr. Decker, the rescuer, led
his charge down the aisle between tho
musicians to the front of the platform.
Miss Cossio Cisnero’s appearance
was the signal for a tremendous dem¬
onstration by the great crowd, Avhich
stretched out for one hundred yards
before her. The men yelled and Ai aved
their hats, the Avomen Avaved their
handkerchiefs and the band played a
Cuban battle song. Later Miss Cis¬
neros was drix-en around the square and
back to Delmonico’s. The reception
there was continued.
Among those present at the recep¬
tion in Delmonico’s were former Am¬
bassador Eustis and wife, Colonel
Ethan Allen and Charles Dana Gibson.
Nearly every prominent member of
the Cuban colony was present.
EDITOR DANA PASSES AWAY.
Aciii«ve<l Greatness as Critic, Historian.
Jouruslist and Politician.
Charles A. Dana, editor of the New
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, f , ea ia , ected ,
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/ several hours, and , his , . family aud
^ for aeve f„, mont ^“ hat
iss f r ily r " k 38 r ° t g0 0
bedside ot mLnimr moment hi
On SufnrHar ® h i a re ’
ftTl A it wn ^
T J™r J Z S i.M b °T£ rd /
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laBt long.
The cause q{ Mr j) RTlft . 8 death
York. He was seventy-eight years
Not as a journalist merely, but as a
historian and politician, has
been achieA-ed by Charles A.
editor of The New York Sun.
manifold ability and industry
him well in the lead of newa-
managers of his day.
WAS COMMANDER OF MONITOR.
Admiral Worden,Ketired, Died At the Age
of Ligbty vear*.
Admiral John L. Worden, retired,
<}i e d j n Washington Monday. He
commanded the Monitor at the time of
its engagement with the Merrimac at
Hampton Roads during the late Avar,
i n 1886 he was retired with the full
rank and pay of an admiral, the only
instance of the kind on record. He
a i so received the thanks of congress
for his gallantry in the war.
Pneumonia was the immediate cause
of Admiral Worden’s death. He was
eighty years of age, and up to a few
days ago was in very good health,
BOARD COULD- NOT AGREE
And It* Two Members Go To Jail Pof
Contempt of Court.
A Norfolk, Ya., dispatch says:
Some days ago Judge Prentiss, of the
circuit court-, issued an order that nn-
less Messrs. Finley Cromwell and B.
Shea, members of the electoral
board of Norfolk county, agreed on a
third member by 2 p. m. Monday,
they were to go to jail for contempt of
court. They failed to agree and both
gave themselves up.
LYNCHED FOR ARSON.
Masked Mob Takes Two Negroes Away
From Officers.
Reports ^ from / *j Summerville, n Ga..
thirtv miles north of Rome, state that
two negroes named Penn and Hazle-
were lynched Snnday night..
The men were accused of arson and
had been arrested by the sheriff and
po9se> While returning Avith their
prisoners a masked mob overpowered
the officers aud disappeared AAith the
negroes into the woods. Nothing ha,
been sem or heard of the prisoners
since.
BOARD OF HEALTH MAKES REPORT
AFTER LONG CONSULTATION.
CASE ANNOUNCED IN BATON ROUGE
Tabulated Statement of New Case* and
Fatalities at Various Points
For Monday.
The board of health of Montgomery,
Ala., announced tAvo cases of yellow
feA T er in that city Monday. They are
Patrick W. White, a young lawyer,
whose life is now despaired of, and
Thomas Graydon, a railroad engineer.
As has beeu intimated in specials
from that city for a week past, a dis¬
ease resembling yellow fever has pre¬
vailed in the first ward for more
than a month. The physicians have
treated it for malarial fever, believing
it came from the miasma arising from
the m r er, Avliieh has been unusually
low.
For some days, however, the public
had been pretty well convinced it was
yellow fever, and several thousand peo-
pie left the city.
Several thousand more will likely
leave as quickly as the trains will car-
ry them.
To a layman, it appears that the
board of health, backed by nine-tenths
of the physicians, has sadly miscon
ceived the whole situation. All of the
physicians, except four or five diag-
nosed the case to be something else
than yellow fever.
These four or five doctors, Bragg,
Wood and Bibb, Jackson, and prob¬
ably Dr. Naftel, have advised their
patients and friends for some days
that the disease was yellow fever, but
withlveld, on account of medical ethics,
to take issue in a public utterance with
the board.
The board says in its bulletin an-
nouncing tire two cases of fever:—
“There are a few suspicious eases un-
der observation.”
The average citizen believes there
are a score of yellow fever cases in
the city. The physicians will not
confess as much, however.
The city council has adjourned the
schools until after the disease has
abated, and ordered the first ward, in
which the disease appears to be con¬
fined, to be disinfected. The city is
in almost perfect sanitary condition,
and this fact, together with the indi¬
cations of frost at an early date, fur¬
nishes some consolation to the people.
Following is a tabulated statement
of the fever situation for Monday:
CITIES. NEW CASES. DEATHS.
New Orleans........37 7
Mobile...... 6 1
Montgomery 2 0
Flomaton...........21 0
Biloxi......... 1C 0
Scranton..... 12 0
Cayuga....... 3 1
Edwards..... 2 3
Canoe Station 4 0
Baton Bouge... 1 0
Patterson, Ala.. 2 1
Franklin, La.... 2 0
Bay St. Louis... 0 1
Pascagoula ..... 2 0
McHenry....... 2 0
T ° ta,S ............ 112 14
Wy man Receive* Information.
A Washington b :” special H says- The
yel1 ,, ,™ f , eVe J 8ltuatl ™ Monday ^ as re¬
ported + to Surgeon General disease Wyman,
was not so favorable, the hai T -
made its appearance at Baton
Rouge, La., whero there is one case,
aad at Montgomery, Ala , both of
SlL romThe'di/eaM ^ 016 I
a ai r e v rom w***?-,
, COU M a o ruder » Gaheston, dated
Sunday, u i says no cases of fever had
beeQ reported for seven days, ^he
advl s m ^ boa i'd—two mem-
bers who had diagnosed 1 . yellow fever ;
r f ^^d-declared XV^rZZ'Z unanimous-
been raised by Health Officer Swear-
i ngen-
At Dalton, Ga., Monday night, Sam
Blackwell, night Ayatchman of the
estern and Atlantic railroad yards,
and Ed Hill, clerk for the Dalton Gro-
eery company, Avere arrested and placed
under guard. The arrests Avere made
by order of Judge Fite, who wired the
police from Calhoun, where he was
holding an adjourned term of court.
DEATH IN A WRECK.
Two^Men Killed and Many More or I,es«
S.ri„,.„y Injure.
One person killed, one so badly in-
jur^d that he died soon after the acci
dent and others more or less hurt is
the record of a wreck on the Denvei
and Rio Grande narrow gnage at Co-
topaxi, seveuty-two miles ivest o/
Pueblo, at 2 o’clock Saturday morning, ,
caused by the break of the journal on
one of the coaches.
The cars Avere all crowded with ex-
cursionists bound to the festHal of
Mountain and Plain at Denver,
There avus little excitement aud not
much wreckage, as the train Avas run¬
ning very slowly.
ANTI-BIMETALISTS ACT.
They Formulate a Memorial and Present
Same to Chancellor.
At London, Friday, Avas presented
to Sir Michael-Hieks Beach, the chan-
cellor of the exchequer, the memorial
which has been in progress of signa-
ture among the leading banking houses
ami financial and mercantile enter-
prises ia the city of London, and also
a copy of the resolutions against bi-
metallism adopted by the Canadian
Bankers’ Association on October 6th.
CONVICTS AS COUNTERFEITERS.
Prisoners In Pennsylvania Penitentiary
Operate a Mint.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa.,
says: Warden t,- E -c* c< S. Wright, -n- • i of the
Riverside penitentiary, has discovered
that a number of the con\’icts confined
i n the institution have been manufac-!
tuiing counterfeit 50-cent pieces,
He has unearthed the metal from
which mo^ the inThlch “queer” monev ^o^an AA'as made lThl J *
uames of eeveral cofvicta who are irn-
plicated.
FEVER IS GAINING.
More Case* In Montgomery and Record
Broken at New Orleans.
Three new cases of fever were an¬
nounced at Montgomery, Ala., Tues¬
day, and the stampede from the city is
astonishing in its magnitude.
Every available vehicle is constantly
employed hauling people to the trains
and to the country. Many, of course,
cannot leave, and a few who could, if
they wanted to, decline to go.
There is little doubt but that the
disease has prevailed in the city for a
month or more during weather favor¬
able to its spreading. Probqbly as
many as fifty people have been sick
with the same sort of symptoms, and
only one death, so far, can he even in¬
directly traced to the disease. Most
of the other cases have recovered after
a week’s illness.
The local courts have adjourned for
the month on account of the fever ex¬
citement.
The sixth Aveek of the fever at
Mobile began with five cases Tuesday,
no deaths and eleven recoveries.
There was neither hope nor encour¬
agement iu the fever situation at New
Orleaus Tuesday. The deaths did not
mu up to an unusual mark, but there
were enough of new cases and fatnli-
tie® to disappoint those who were in¬
clined to believe that the fever was on
the wane.
As early as 7 o’clock Tuesday morn-
i n g there were forty-three cases,
There have never heretofore been
more than forty-nine cases. Cases
are being reported from all sections
°f the city.
There has been in the city up to
d ^ «te over nine hundred cases. Of
these, more than a hundred hai*e died.
The record is bad enough as it stands.
But it is quite possible that cases are
being hidden, and as a matter of fact
if they Avere reported the death rate
would be less than it is now.
Tho hoard of health officially re-
ported Tuesday: “Cases of yellow
fever, 56; deaths, 4; total cases of yel-
low fever to date, 921; total deaths
from yellow fever to date, 104: total
cases absolutely recovered, 463; total
cases under treatment, 354.”
15 JURY’S HANDS.
Fate of Yuetgert, Charged With Wife
Murder, Hang* Iu Balance.
A Chicago special says: The fate of
Adolph L. Luetgert, accused of mur¬
dering his wife and dissolving her
body in a vat filled with caustic pot¬
ash, Avas placed in the hands of the
jury Monday afternoon.
Judge Tnthill finished his charge to
the jury at 4:45 p. m., and five min¬
utes later the jury filed out and were
locked in the jury room.
The twelve men spent the night
Avithout reaching an agreement. Tues¬
day Avas passed with no result, and at
nine o’clock Tuesday night the jury
had gone to bed on cots, placed in the
courtroom, and it was announced by
Judge Tuthill that, even though by
one chance in a million the jurors
should Avake up on the morrow and
agree upon a verdict there would be
no announcement and the court room
would, under no circumstances, be
opened until 10 o’clock Wednesday
morning.
Jnst before retiring for the night the
jury took another ballot, the vote
« ta ”duig mne for convietion and three
for acquittal.
PARDONED BY WEYLER.
^j * eqen Prisoner* Released From Spanish
Penal Settlement.
A dispatch from Havana states that
ban ordered tbe release
^« f eleven
G prisoners who were, it is
alleged, concerned in the uprising
-which resulted in the imprisonment
of Senorita Evangeliua Casio y Cisne-
ros , wbo recently escaped from the
C asa Recojidas in Havana and who is
JURORS OFFERED BRIBES.
Judge Vincent In Possession of Letters
Bargaining For Luetgert’* Liberty.
A Chicago dispatch says: Tivo letters
offering bribes to the foreman of the
jury in the Luetgert case haA’e been
received by Judge Tuthull and are now’
in possession of the state’s attorney,
State’s Attorney Deneen is not dis-
posed to regard the attempted bribery
seriously, but Inspector Scbaack aud
Assistant State’s Attorney McEwen
look upon the matter with suspicion.
TALKED CIVIL SERVICE.
Cabinet Devotes Several Honrs In Dis¬
cussing the Subject.
A Washington special Sajn: The
cabinet Tuesday devoted considerable
time to a discussion of the civil service
and how to obtain the best results
from the recent order jiromulgated by
the president.
A decision was reached that each
department should prepare and adopt
regulations to meet the order.
While each department Avill formu-
late its own regulations there was a
general sentiment that it would be
well to have ihem along the general
lines of the regulations issued by the
treasury department to carry out the
president’s order.
CUSTOM RECEIPTS HEAVY.
The Treasury Department Announces the
Largest Income For One Day.
At the treasury department attention
is called to the fact that Tuesday’s
receipts from customs were $681,423,
’w hich is considerably in excess of any
previous day Biuce the new tariff act
went into effect.
As compared with the same day last
year this is an increase of $318,300, or
about 85 per cent.
CONVICTED OF MALPRACTICE.
Two Yirginia Physician* Find Themselves
Facing Penitentiary.
The jury in the case of Dr. H. P.
Irwin and William F. Wilkin, at
Woodstock, Ya., who were indicted
for ma i practice> returned a verdict of
guilty Friday afternoon after being
out for half an hour, and fixed the
term of imprisonment in the peniten-
itentiary at six years for each.
The crime for Avhich the prisoners
. . , , ,
5^*™ in^ordev W
requested a ^ J o{ sentence
to makj application for a new trial.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $1.00 A YEAR.
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MORE SENSATIONS SPRUNG 15
THE CAR PIRACY TRIALS.
CAPTAIN PEEPLES IS CONVICTED,
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H« Was Agent of the w. & A. Railroad,
Another Prominent Merchant
I# A.rrested.
Nearly all of Thursday and Friday
in the now celebrated car robber cases
at Dalton, Ga., was taken up in the
trial of Captain T. J. Peeples, the
agent of the Western and Atlantic
railroad at Dalton.
Notwithstanding that Captain Pee¬
ples was ably defended, the jury
brought in a verdict of guilty.
Peeples has beeu the biggest game
so far that the prosecution has brought
down. His conviction created terror
among the accused, Avho have not yet
been brought to trial. There Avas
some doubt about getting twelve men
with the courage to find him guilty.
He has the reputation of a tighter.
• The defense had the jurors polled,
but every one answered that it Avas his
verdict. Judge Fite did not pass sen¬
tence. There may be another case
against Peeples. It is rumored that he
may be tried for receiving stolen tobacco
from Bohannon. The penalty in the
case already decided may be either a
fine or imprisonment in the chamgang
or penitentiary. The recommenda-
tion leaves it to the judge to say
whether it shall be punished as a mis-
demeanor or as a felony. Captain
Peeples lias been agent of tlie Western
and Atlantic railroad in Dalton for five
years.
Peeples Avas charged with buying a
carpet from Walter Bohannon. The
latter said that he sold it to Peeples
and received the money for it. The
defense attempted to impeach Bohan¬
non, but the jury believed him, and
the citizens generally believed. Pee¬
ples was deserted by his tAvo sqns at
the critical hour, and he had to rely for
his defense wholly upon his own state¬
ment and the evidence of a negro em¬
ployee. The defendant said that his
son DreAv, a member of the city coun¬
cil, had bought a carpet for him a year
ago last summer in Chattanooga. The
father did not produce any receipt or
memorandum of any kind to show
where they got the carpet that ruined
him.
“There Are Others.”
Anderson Giddings, a small mer¬
chant of Tunnel Hill, pleaded guilty
Friday to an indictment charging him
with receiving stolen goods. Sen¬
tence was deferred in his case, too.
The case against Mack Cannon was
called, hut it Avas passed. Cannon’s
trial will probably last tAvo days.
This will be a sensational case. Bo-
hannon says that Cannon often bought
goods of him. I. here Avas one lot of
clothing for which the-Southern rail-
CM ^ noxvl b e >
$1 ’. 20d ; Foliannon says that Cannon
paid him $8o for the lot.
Cannon is the Avealthiest merchant
in Dalton, and has the largest clothing
trade in north Georgia. Everything
is done in his Avife’s name. The store
is known as the Baltimore Clothing
House.
W. B. McCarson, who runs a large
store in North Dalton, was arrested
Friday for dealing w r ith Bohannon’s
band of robbers.
The grand jury has beeu inA r estiga-
ting C. C. Bemis, the father-in-law of
Drew Peeples, w ho skipped.
There is an indictment against one
Buckholtz, Avho has a restaurant.
Many Ladies Present.
More ladies Avere in court Friday
than at any previous time in Whit-
field’s history. The ladies are for
convicting nearly every time. One of
them asks that it be clearly stated that
the members of Dalton’s 400 do not
regard Bohannon as a hero.
Lee Arwood, avIio pleaded guilty to
buying a bicycle from Bohannon, with¬
drew’ his plea and went to trial while the
Peeples jury was out. Bohannon stat¬
ed that he did not think Arwood
knew the bicycle Avas stolen. Arwood
said that he did not know it, aud on
this testimony Judge Fite directed the
jury to acquit tlie young man. So he
was really tried and acquitted within
the ninety minutes that the Peeples
jury was out. This Avas the first one
to get off, and he had pleaded guilty.
NEW YORK’S REGISTRATION.
The Number of Yoiers Are Some Few Less
Than Last Year.
Saturday was the fourth and last
day of registration at Neiv York.
The total registration of Greater
New York is 570,749. The total reg¬
istration in New York city is 394,806,
as compared with 330,618 last year.
The registration in Brooklyn is 204,-
503. The total in 1896 Avas 207,272.
The registration of Long Island city
is 8,572. The total last year was 8,421.
The registration of Staten Island is
12,673—1,500 more than last year.
The registration is only a few thous¬
and less than last year’s.
GORMAN HEARD FROM.
He Write* a Highly Sensational Letter to
Publisher Abell.
A Baltimore special says: United
States Senator Gorman issued an open
letter Friday to Edwin Abell,publisher
of the Baltimore Sun, in ivhich he offers
to relinquish the leadership of the
democracy in Maryland, provided Mr,
Abell will accept it and support the
democratic ticket in the coming state
and legislative campaign.
MILL MEN LOOKING SOUTH,
Eastern Capitalists Are Inspecting Loca-
tiong at Columbia, 8. C.
The Columbia. S. G\, Water^ Power
company, composed principally of east-
ern capitalists, is about to bring a
large party of Massachusetts mill
men, who are contemplating a ehange
of base, to Columbia.
This company having purchased the
Columbia canal, built an electric power
house and developed all the power,
hai’e, besides v. bat they use in their
own big duck mill and what is fur-
nished another eottou mill, about 8,000
horsepower of electricity to dispose'of.
NO. 49.
I THE CEILING CAME DOWN.
j ^he “Danger* of <* Great City” Realistically
Experienced In Cincinnati.
“The Dangers of a Great City,” on
the stage of Robinson’s opera house at
Cincinnati Friday night, was cut short
iu its performance by a tragic realiza¬
tion of the actual dangers of a great
city.
i w£* wi™ w?,ko£
: warning and with crash, the great
a
i central truss of the ceiling, eighty feet
long and thirty feet wide, came plung-
ing down. The ends of it struck on
j the two gallery wings and doubled it
j up the in parquet the center, with sending scattering it down into
a great of
joists and timbers.
Pandemonium reigned. The news
j spread rapidly and there was a rush of
patrol wagons and of firemen to the
scene. The salvage corps with its
wagon was first on the ground and it
was followed by all the police patrol
wagons, who carried’ the injured to *
the Cincinnati hospital.
The list at the hospital showed three
dead, five dangerously, if not fatally,
wounded and twenty-six more or less
seriously injured.
j NOTED ROBBERS CAUGHT.
I
Chicago l’olice Trap Four of the Most Dar¬
ing Crooks Kxtant.
A Chicago dispatch says: Chief of
Detectives Collerau and four of his
men have effected one of the most im-
portant captures of criminals recorded
f or y ears past,
As a result of effoi'ts of the officers,
j f onr G f mo st successful aud daring
j j burglars of the United States and
Canada are under arrest and $25,000
wort b D f stolen property in the hands
0 f the police aAvaiting identification,
The men under arrest are: “Bheeny
Joe » Rubenstein, the leader and
brains of the gang; James Williams,
Harry Rogers, James Flaherty.
Letters in tlie men’s possession,
which have passed between them show
that they had been taking a flying trip
from coast to coast, robbing right aud
left. These letters also showed they
had agreed to meet in Ncav York City
October 1st and then go to St. Louis,
where the goods would be disjiosed of.
DISPUTE OVER BOUNDARY.
Maryland and Virginia Have Difficulty
On Their Hunt!*.
A Richmond dispatch says: Gover¬
nor Lowndes, of Maryland has inform¬
ed Governor O’Ferrall that in his
opinion it is necessary to have tho
boundary line between Maryland and
Virginia in the Pocomoke sound and
river established and that he himself
Avill have the matter attended to.
The matter referred to has been re-
peatedly investigated by both the
states concerned aud Virginia has al-
Avays taken the ground that the pres¬
ent boundary line is the one laid doAi-n
by the Black and Jenkins aw ard. Four
years ago the legislature of both states
appointed special commissioners, who
; wen t over the ground very carefully
and the y irg i n i a committee afterward
i re p 0 rted in favor of retaining tho ex-
isting boundary line.
The Maryland people declined to
! accept ^ this line.
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j TENDER JUMPED THE TRACK.
j Quarantine Regulations tho Indirect
Cause of a Train Wreck.
A fatal accident occurred ou the
Mobile and Birmingham railroad, near
j Milhouse elation, twenty-five miles
south of Selma, Ala., Friday afternoon.
Xhe engineer and liremau were killed
an q several persons injured.
The road is cut in tAvo by quaran-
j tine regulations and a local j a-senger
train is run down tho line each morn-
ing. returning in the ei’ening. There
is no Avay to turn the engine, and it is
run backward on the return trip.
While approaching Milhouse at a
rate of twenty miles au hour on straight
track the tender of the engine in front
jumped the track, causing Ihe whole
train to go doAvn a twelve-foot einbank-
ment. The men killed were caught
under the engine.
EDITOR STEAD’S LATEST.
He Declares Uncle Sam Will Destroy Neill
If Question Is Not Settled.
The Review of Reviews (London)
says that Editor Stead, while in Wash¬
ington recently, discovered that unless
the sealing question is speedily settled
the United States Avill order the de¬
struction next season of the entire
herd of seals on the w hole of the Prib-
ylof islands.
IGNORED BY SOUTHERN.
A Rumor That Seaboard’s Slash of Rates
Will Cause No War.
If the Southern railway retains its
attitude in regard to the an¬
nouncement of lower rates made by
the Seaboard Air-Line, there is to be
no rate rar.
With the calm indifference of one
not effected, the Southern will give no
attention to the cut and declares that
it will not go into the slashing contest.
But the Seaboard Air-Line has made
bl , . . at . rates , and , . has bled
a g swl P e
the interstate commerce commission
figures which are almost as Ioav as the
cut made last year Avhen the Simonton
injunction came on.
PRESIDENT’S DOCTOR DEAD.
Surgeon General Newton Bates .Succumb*
to Hines* In Washington.
Surgeon General Newton L. Bates,
of the navy, the president’s family
physician, died at the Shoreham hotel,
Washington, Monday. He was ap-
pointed Burgeon general about two
weeks ago to succeed Surgeon General
Tryson, and was obIi &w d, on account
of the illness which finally resulted in
his death, to take the oath of office iu
bed.
LANGTRY’S HUSBAND DEAD.
Concussion of the Brain Due to » F»H
Results in His Demise.
A London dispatch states that Ed»
ward Langtry, the husband of Lily
Langtry, the actress, died Friday
night in the asylum for the insane at
Chester, to which he was recently
committed by a magistrate, haA’ing
been found wandering in a helpless
condition in that vicinity,
It is supposed that Mr. Langtry was
suffering from concussion of the brain,
! due to falling down the gangway of
the steamer on which he trav’eled froaj
Dublin to Holyhead.