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VOL, 1. SILVER FO3ION IN NEBRASKA THE THREE PARTIES COMBINE AM) HOLD CONTENTION. M ALLIANCE MAY BE FORMED. W. .1. Bryan Makes an Address In Which He Urgos the Necessity of Co-Opera tion For Silver’s Cause. The Tripartite Alliance of the Ne braska free silver forces was given considerable headway at Lincoln, Wednesday, by three large conven tions held, respectively, by the demo crats, populists and free silver repub licans. These gatherings, conducted under separate organizations, acted in per fect harmony, and when this routine work had been disposed of the repre sentatives of the united parties gave their attention to addresses by leading free silver advocates. The nomination of a fusion state ticket seems assured. During the morning the democratic state central committee agreed upon C. A. Shallenberger, of Alma, for tem porary chairman; the silver republi cans selected F. W. Loomis, of Oma ha, for the same position, and the pop ulist state central committee decided to leave the election of a temporary chairman to that convention. The three conventions were called to order at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, the populists meeting in the Lansing theater, democrats in the public hall and the silver republicans in the Young Men’s Christian Association auditorium. Had there been a hall in the city large enough to accommodate the crowd the three conventions would have been merged into one. The democratic convention was probably the most enthusiastic of the three. The hall was hilled to its utmost ca pacity. The three conventions appointed their committees and took a recess until 7:30 o’clock. At 4 o’clock the delegates gathered in the statehouse grounds and listened to a number of addresses by W. J. Bryan, ex-Congressman Charles A. Towne, General Weaver and others. Mr. Bryan said iu substance: “The democrats, populists and silver re publicans were led to co-operate last year be cause they agreed in opinion upon the subject of bimetallism and also agreed in the belief that the money question was the paramount issue before the people. “If bimetallism was right then, it is right now. If co-operation was wise then; it is wise now. The three parties can net together without injury to their party organization; without sacrifice to principles and without harm to each other. “The money question must be settled be fore other questions can be seriously consid ered. To light each other in the presence of a united and unscrupulous enemy would not only postpone the restoration of bimet tallism, but endanger the success of every necessary reform. “In this great contest men are only valua ble as they contribute to the success of the cause. Personal ambitions must be subor dinated to the public good. The man who here or elsewhere urges his own candidacy to the detriment of the cause is unworthy of the office to which he aspires.” At the evening session Attorney General Smyth, of Douglass oounty, was chosen permanent chairman of the democratic convention; W. A. Poynter, of Boone county, was chosen by the populists to fill the same position, and A. J. Weaver, of Richardson, was the selection of the free silver republicans. Conference committees were appointed and immediately set to.xvork to form a fusion agreement. At 12:30 a. m. no conclusion had been reached. The democratic con ferees were uuinstrueted. The plat form adopted by that convention in dorsed the Chicago platform [denounc ed the proposed retirement of green backs; deplores the delay in settling the Hawaiian question, and extends sympathy to the striking miners. The platform is very brief. The declarations of the other conventions contain strong free coinage planks. During the evening the waits of the report of the conference committee were filled in by speeches. The three conventions finally adjourned until midnight to await the action of the committee. A ROMANCE DISSIPATED, General T-ee Keports His Investigation of the Evanjjeliim Cisneros Case. Consul General Lee’s investigation into the circumstances attending the arrest of. the young Cuban girl, Evan gelina Cisneros, has resulted in sweep ing away a great deal of the romance that was attached to her case. He cables the state department from Havana that the girl is not the niece of the marquis of Santa Lucia, as has been publicly proclaimed, but is the daughter of a j>oor and respectable Cuban named Augustine Cossio. Her mother’s name being Cisneros, was added to her own, making her full name Evangeline Cossio Cisneros. BOILER EXPLODED. Two Children Killed and Electric Eight Plant Demolished. The Morton, 111., electric light plant owned by Byer Bros. & Cos., valued at $14,000, was completely demolished by the bursting of the boiler from some unknown canse Sunday evening. Two girls, aged five and nine years, were killed outright, and two boys, aged four and twelve years, seriously hurt. They were the children of Mose Byers. Banks County Journal. PENSION PAYMENTS HEAVY. IVflrlt of Five Millions For First Two Months of Fiscal Year. According to a Washington dispatch the pension payments are beginning to frighten the republicans as well as the democrats. The total receipts of the government for the first two months of the present fiscal year from imports at all customs houses was only $23,954.49, and there have been ex pended during these two months $28,- 349,378.20 for pensions, or nearly five million dollars more than was collec ted in our custom houses. The treasury department in its bud get calls attention to the large pension payments and accounts for the great deficit by this means. The deficit for the last month was 814,351,794.01. The deficit for the fiscal year was about 825,000,000. The receipts from customs have onlybeen 80,980,702.84, a little more than one-third as much as the customs receipts of last month. The decrease is, of course, due to the natural cessation of imports fol lowing the henvy and anticipatory im portations during July, when the Dingley bill was still pending in con gress. The internal revenue receipts were for the month $11,198,194, or more than two millinn dollars less than the pension expenditures for this month, which were $13,391,000. The receipts from customs this month were less than half the rmount required to pay pensions. The government expended during the month for the civil, mili tary and naval establishments the sum of $16,004,000. This includes the salary of every officer from the presi’ dent down to the chairwomen all over the country, and all military and naval officers, the federal judiciary, new ships, fortifications, river and harbor improvements and all public buildings being built. HESTER’S COTTON REPORT. Secretary of Cotton Kxcli2tng;e Givß I’i|f nres For the Fast Pear. Secretary Hester’s New Orleans cot ton exchange annual report was issued Friday. Mr. Hester puts the average commercial value of the crop at $86.76 per bale, against $41.09 last year and S3O in 1894-95, and the total value $321,925,000, against $294,045,000 last year, nearly $28,000,000 more than for the same period last year. The past crop cost growers less than any yet produced. The total spindles in the south is 3,851,991, an increase of 158,- 753. The total number of mills is 482, an increase of seven. Mr. Hester says that, while the sea son had not been favorablo to American mills, final results indicate that the ex tent of the depression has been decid edly overstated in the public prints and otherwise. The takings north and south during the past year, practically all have been consumed, have been ex ceeded but twice in the previous seven years. The mills of the north have worked up as much cotton, while those south used 138,000 bales more than last year. Imports of foreign cotton amounted to the equivalent of 106,000 last week. Of this 771,001 is Ameri can, against 803,000 last week. The total visible stock shows a decrease compared with last year of 383.000. IVILL FIGHT IT OUT. D’Annilt His Company Will Stand Firm. A Pittsburg diseatcli says: The set tlement of the coal strike on the basis of the proposition now under consid eration at the Columbus conference will have no effect upon the future ac tion of the New York ar.d Cleveland Gas Coal Company, according to the statement of President DeArmitt. Said he: “Even if the great bituminous coal strike is settled in every state and dis trict involved, and all the strikers re turn to work pending arbitration on a new price, the miners of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal company still have to fight it out with the company and return to work to carry out the contract legally signed aud accepted by the strikers. ” NEW GEORGIA POSTOFFICES. A Washington dispatch says: Fourth class postoffices have been established at the following towns in Georgia: May, Haralson county. Rollo, Screven county. Paulina, Harris county. Townsville, Meriwether county. The postoffice at Catoosa Springs has been ordered abolished. A NEW TURKISH MINISTER. Rifaat Bey Will Represent That Country at Washington. Advices from Constantinople state that Rifaat Bey, until recently coun cilor of the Turkish embassy in Lon don, has been appointed Turkish min ister at Washington in succession to Mustaplia Talisin Bey. FI.EEING FROM CHOLERA. The Scourge Sail to 15** Gaging In British Columbia. It is reported that the people are fleeing for their lives from the town of Saudou, B. C., on account of the chol era, No estimate of the number of deaths has been received. SETH LOW ACCEPTS. Hr I. Willing In Content For Mayoralty of Greater New York. A dispatch states that President Seth Low, of Columbia university, has accepted the nomination of the Citizens’ Union for mayor of Greater New York. He was officially notified of his nom ination by a special messenger of the Citizens’ Union. In his reply Presi dent Low stated that he would soon prepare a letter formally accepting. HOMER, GA., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9,189 L II SOUTH 18 PROSPERING CROP REPORTS FROM EVERT STATE ARE ENTHUSIASTIC. THE FARMERS ARE REJOICING. New Orleans Tlmei-Democrat’s Annual Trade Edition Contains Facts and Fig ures From Commissioners. The New Orleans Times-Democrat is out with its annual trade edition and contains a summary of the crop conditions in the south reported offi cially from the various states by the commissioners of agriculture. The reports are by telegraph made on a September Ist basis, and the condi tions on the whole are more encourag ing than they have been in many years. The reports confirm the statement .that there was a heavier acreage planted than ever before in the south. Not only is the cotton acreage 8 per cent larger, but corn is 12 per cent larger, and cane, rice, potatoes, tobacco and nearly every crop grown. The southern farmers were determined to do all they could to bring themselves on a good, sound financial basis again. They planted more food crops than usual, so as to reduce their expenses. Virginia cut down its tobacco acreage somewhat because of a decrease in the foreign demand, and planted the land in wheat—a fortunate change, for wheat has boomed in price, and the 6tate will profit by it. North Carolina is enthusiastic over its prospects which are the best since 1880. It planted more land in cotton than usual this year, and was reward ed with a prolific crop, so that the yield will be the largest ever raised in the “Old North State.” South Carolina is equally successful. She also increased her acreage in cot ton, and with a good yield will raise not only the largest crop ever grown in the state, but the largest by 75,000 bales. Georgia will pass the 1,100,000 bale limit in cotton, will raise the best wheat crop in years, one of the best corn crops, freeing the state entirely from dependence on the west. There will be plenty of “hog and hominy” in Georgia this year, and Commission er Nesbitt predicts that the farmers will be “happy and contented” if they only get a fair price for their cotton. Florida’s cotton crop is below the average, and so is corn, but the oat crop is the largest iu acreage and the heaviest for many years. Sugar cane and rice are both doing well, and to bacco is 40 per cent ahead of last year aud of fine quality. Oranges will yield close on to 300,000 boxes this season, haviug recovered from most of the losses from the last freeze. In Alabama the cotton crop has re cently deteriorated, but the others are doing well. Wheat is the best in years, and so are potatoes. Corn is above the average; hay very good, and will supply all the local demand; oats are fine, and tobacco, with an increas ed acreage, will yield better. The fruit crops are above the average. Mississippi will do well with her crops this year in spite of the overflow of the Yazoo Delta. The overflowed lands were replanted, but the crop is naturally late. Louisiana cotton, particularly in the northern part of the state, deteriorated during August in consequence of the drought. The other crops promise well. Corn will be greater than the big yield of last year. Texas makes a less favorable report than the other states, for the rains came too late there to benefit the cot ton much. The present season is declared in Arkansas to be the most bountiful ever known in that state. Cotton was hardly au average, but Arkansas has of late diversified its products, instead of concentrating its efforts on cotton. Crops have been good in Tenuesee except in the western portion of the state. The wheat crop is heavier, larger and of finer quality than ever before. Tobacco is extra good; sorgh um is a wonder, and so are peas and millet. Fruit, however, with the ex ception of apples, is a failure, and the live stock interests are suffering. SOUTHERN CONVICT QUESTION Will Be Discussed At a Convention To Be Held In Nashville. A convention has been called to meet in Nashville, Tenn., September 28 and 29, for the purpose of taking into consideration the disposition of convicts in the southern states. All of the southern states have been asked to send delegates to this convention. Among other things that will be dis posed of will be the practicability of working the roads of the several states with the state convicts, aud the estab lishment of a seed farm, where the short term women convicts will be worked. The idea being to supply new seed at cost price to the farmers and gardeners of the state. INDIANA BANK FAILS And a Bank Examiner Placed In Charge By Uncle Sam. The comptroller of the currency at Washington was advised Thursday of the failure of the First National bank of Greensburg, lud. It has a capital of SIOO,OOO, and on July 25th the deposits were $84,000. Examiner Packard has been instruct ed to take charge. This is the first bank failure report ed to the comptroller for some time. TWO GAS EXPLOSIONS In Wlilili Sl* Mm Arc Rost null Twi nly- Flve People Seriously Hurt. Two frightful explosions of natural gas occurred in Broad Ripple, a sub urb six miles north of Indiapolis, Sat urday. Six persons were burned to death and thirty people are lying in the homes of neighbors burned, scarred and with broken bones. Four build ings occupying a block of the town are iu ruins. Of the six dead nothing but charred and blackened bones remain. Two of the dead are still unidentified, there being no way of identification except by listing those who remain. The business part of the tow n took fire aud the largest buildings were de stroyed. The city of Indianapolis was called on for help and sent engines and doctors. The first explosion occurred in a drug store from an unknown cause. Five men were working there and the building was set on fire. Across the street was the Odd Fellows’ hall, un derneath which was a grocery store. Seeing that the fire was spiraling, twenty men were removing the stock of groceries when a crushing explo sion occurred in the store. The walls were blown out and the upper floor fell in on the men. The fire spread from the Odd Fel lows’ hall and the drug store, leaving ruins in every direction. Five build ings xvere on fire at once, and were doomed before hell) could be attempt ed. BRYAN ON PROSPERITY, He Says Folltics Has Nothing To Do With the Better Times. The St. Louis Post Dispatch prints a letter from W. J. Bryan, the first utterance after three months of travel and observation during the return of prosperity. Among other things he says: “Wheat has risen because the for eign crop has been exceedingly short. “The fact that silver and wheat have parted company will cause no dismay to those who understand that the law of supply and demand regu lates the price of both. “Nothing can better disclose the weakness of the republican position than the joy manifested by the repub licans over events for which their ad ministration and their politics are in no wise responsible. “If the republicans desire to claim credit for the high price of wheat they must assume the responsibility for the famine in India “A great rise in price should be fol lowed by a rise of wages.” Mr. Bryan says that the joy over the increase of money from wheat is evident that we have too little money; that if the farmers are benefitted by the rise in one of their products, how much better would it be if the rise was universal; that the price of wheat will fall when the foreign demand be comes normal, and that the present spasmodic rise will aid rather than in jure the cause of bimetallism. BAD FOR LUETGERT. Damaging Testimony Against Chicago k Sausage Maker. Saturday was a bad day for the de fense in the Luetgert murder trial at Chicago, wherein Luetgert is charged with the murder of his wife. The strongest evidence which has yet been given against him was brought out, and some of it was dam aging. The witness who gave the strongest evidence against the sausage maker was Mrs. Christian Feldt, a widow, with whom the prosecution alleges Luetgert was infatuated, and to whom it is claimed he has written a number of love letters since he has been con fined in jail. Mrs. Feldt said that on various occasions Luetgert said to her that he did not care for his wife, and once said that lie thought more of the domestic in the house than of Mrs. Luetgert. He also said that he had many quar rels with his wife, and when Mrs. Feldt asked him why he Aid not secure a divorce, he said that as soon as his financial troubles xvere over, he xvould settle with her. He repeated this sev eral times, aud called his wife a car cass” and other names. Money May Succeed George. A special from Jackson, Miss., says: Governor McLanrin may not name a successor to Senator George for some weeks, but when be does it seems sure that lie will appoint Sena tor-elect Money. GERMANY Ts SUSPICIOUS. She Wants an Explanation Regarding Franeo-Bussian Alliance. It is asserted upon reliable authority that the German government will de mand from France an explanation of the dispatch sent by M. Meline, the French premier, in reply to the mes sage of congratulation of the Alsace- Lorraine Society upon the signing of the Fi laco-Russian alliance, in' which dispatch M. Meline expressed the hope of a reunion of Alsace-Lorraine xx-ith the French Republic. Germany, it is announced, will also demand satisfaction for the excesses committed before the Germau embassy in Paris on the evening of President Faure’s return from his visit to Russia. MOONSHINER CONFESSES. He Will Now AM In Capturing Other Murderers of Deputies. A Little Rock dispatch says: John Church, an old moonshiner, was cap tured in the mountains Thursday. He made a full confession and prom ises to aid in the capture of others im plicated in the murder of Captain Tay lor and party. The posse proceeded with Church under a heavy guard. This xvarned him that any attempt at treachery xvould be paid with his life. TWELVE KILLED IN II Mi. BODIES RECOVERED IN A TERRI BLY MUTILATED CONDITION. CAUSED BY COAL DUST EXPLOSION The Death Fiat May Bea<-li a Score—Res cuing; Parties Organized to Search the Wreckage. At 6 o’clock Friday evening a terri ble explosion of coal dust occurred in the old Sunshine mine, owned by the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, twelve miles from Glenwood, Col. Latest advices state that twelve bod ies have beeu recovered, aud so great is the excitement that it cannot be learned whether there are any more in the mine or not. Rescuing parties xvere organized at once and began an exploration of the mine, while great croxvds surround ed the entrance. The bodies taken out xvere iu a hor ribly mutilated condition. Folloxviug is a list of names of those killed, so far as known: Antoine Mar taltono, George Dannon, Louis Raki, Joe Martini, Joe Casa Grandi, John Jenneni, Antoine Eppice, Theodore Potosi, John Andriani, Emil Andriani, Francis McCloud. FLORIDA’S PROPOSED CANAL. Articles of Incorporation Have Bern Filed In New York City. A New York dispatch states that ar ticles have been filed with County Clerk Purroy for the incorporation of the Florida Trans-Peninsular Ship Ca nal Company. The chief incorpora tors are Robert M. Caffal, Freeman H. Baldwin, H. Bolet Peraza, consul general for the Greater Republic of Central America in this country; Thos. F. Cromwell and Francis P. Fleming. The capital is $75,000,000. The projectors hax - e in mind the building of a ship canal and railway to connect the Atlantic with the gulf. The nexv canal will be of sufficient capacity for the passage of ocean go ing vessels. Consul General Peraza, in speaking of the project, said: “The nexv canal will be of great ad vantage in defense of country in case of an international xvar, as well as be ing a great commercial benefit in ease of peace. It xvill shorten the time for vessels going to Texas or Mexico by three days. The waters around the southern coast of Florida are very treacherous, oxving to the numerous currents. All this danger xvill be done away xvith. “We expect that 15,000,000 tons of freight xvill pass through the canal each year, and even light tolls on this will make the enterprise pay. We have applied for the charter, and wi l probably get it next month. As soon as it is issued xve will begin work. “Mr. Caffal, our civil engineer, has already surveyed the ground, and all arrangements have been made to push the work.” The consul general further said that the harbor of St, Augustine would be the eastern entrance to the new canal. The xvidth of the waterxvay xvill be 200 feet through its entire length, and it will be deep enough to alloxv the largest ship to pass through. It xvill proba bly be about five years before the canal is finished. PEARLS IN ARKANSAS. Rivers Lined With People Engaged In Hunting the Little Treasures. A special from Relena states that the pearl hunting industry, xvliich has beeu exciting the whole country, is spreading all over that end of the state. The St. Francis river, from the mouth of the river to Jeffersonville, is lined with white people aud negroes, all engaged iu unearthing and prying open the richly laden mussel shells. One mac exhibited a small bottle of them taken from Phillips bayou, a tributary of the St. Francis. They are darker than the ordinary pearls of commerce, but are handsomer shaped and of good size. All the chain of lakes in the hitherto impenetrable St. Francis riyer bottoms are full of these pearl-bearing mussel i, and should they prove to be valuable the whole country xvill presently be engaged in the business to the detriment of crop gathering. STEAMER RUN INTO. The “Gate City” Struck by Unknown X'es ael anil Her Starboard Stove In. A New York dispatch says: The Ocean Steamship Company’s steamer Gate City was run into at 2 o’clock Friday morning off Egg Harbor light by a large vessel, the identity of xvliich is not known. The Gate City’s starboard side was stove in just above the xvaterline and abaft the engine, a large section of the deckhouse also being broken. The steamer left Savannah for Nexx- York on August 31st xvith txventy-one pas sengers. In the confusion folloxx-ing the col lision the other craft drexv off without having been made out distinctly. VEST MAKERS STRIKE. Five Thousand of Them Demand An In crease of Wages. At New York, Friday, vestmakers to the number of 5,000 went on strike for higher wages. The strikers are affili ated with the Hebrexv Trades and So cialistic Labor Alliance of the city and vicinity. Half of the strikers are women. The demand is for an advance of twen ty to twenty-five per cent in wages. TILLMAN TALKS TO NEW YORKERS. South Carolina Senator Makes One of HU Characteristic Speecliea. Benjamin Tillman, senior United States senator from South Carolina, opened the local campaign at a mass meeting of 8,000 people in Brooklyn Thursday for those democrats of the Greater Nexv York xvho stand by the Chicago platform and xvho insist that its essential points must be emblazon ed upon the standard to be carried by the party nominee in the approaching election. Tillman was introduced as “the peo ple’s advocate and the foeman of the sugar trust and every other form of monopoly.” Folloxving are some of the things he said: “The democracy xvas .born 100 years ago and went down to defeat in its first struggle through the efforts of the aristocrats. Anew, regenerated de mocracy was born in Chicago last year, and it went down to its first defeat under the blows of the aristocrats and the influence of the tens of millions of tribute levied upon them by Mark Hanna. But just as sure as yon live that regenerated democracy will come to the front again in 1900 and xvill elect William Jennings Bryan. (Prolonged cheering). “The republican party in its thirty years of rule succeeded, xvith the aid of an occasional so-called democratic president, in emancipating the black slaves of the working people of the north. “In 1860 the millionaire xvas a rare bird, but noxv there are thousands of them all over the country, and there are some men worth even $200,000,000. It is millionaires by the thousands noxv, but it is paupers by the millions. Bead the history of Rome, Athens, and of the great empires xvhich stood where there is nothing but wilder ness now, and you xvill find that they fell because the few enslaved the many, and then governments became cor rupt. Wake up, or before you know it you xvill have a king! “Why is it that here in New York you always haxe a political boss? It is because you are such infernal fools that you don’t knoxv any better than to carry a yoke around your neck. Yon have just been sxvapping bosses he e year after year. The boss runs the machine which names the candi dates, and then you just go and vote the ticket like a lot of blind asses. (Laughter.) “Who did you send to represent you at the Chicago convention?” “A lot of dirty dogs!” shouted a listener. “You sent a delegation xvith YVhit ney aud Belmont and Floxver at its head,” Senator Tillman went on, “and they traveled xvest in parlor cars to keep the democratic party from dis gracing itself. But the xvest and the south had risen, and they found out that New York, Pennsylvania and New England xvere not the whole United States, aud by God they ain’t! Why, in your local campaign here they are asking you to give up all you won as democrats last year. What for? To get some money from the dirty boodlers who have stolen your fran chises and everything else. Sell your birthright for a mess of pottage. But you say you have no money to rnn your campaign. Well, don’t get your money from your Whitneys, your Bel monts and your Flowers, for after election they will rob you of $lO for every dollar they gave you. “They are singing the praises of dol lar xvheat. Who gave us dollar xvheat? Did McKinley do it? No. It was the failure of the crops in Europe. This dollar xvheat will go glimmering in an other year when India and Russia and the Argentine raise another crop and the supply equals the demand. The only xvay to bring lasting prosperity Is to remonetize silver!” (Cheers). BIG FIRM DISSOLVES. The House of A Cos., Goes Out of Business. After thirty years of unvarying and steadily increasing success in cotton the firm of S. M. Inman & Cos., went out of business on the Ist, the new firnj of Sanders, Sxvann & Cos. succeed ing. Mr. S. M. Inman also severed his connection xt iththe firms of Inman & Cos., Houston, Tex., and Inman,San ders & Cos., of Bremen, Germany. Mr. Samuel M. Inman, who has so long been at the head of the great bus iness house, retires voluntarily, so that he may iay down some of the burden which he has borne through more than a quarter of a century of business life MARBLE PREFERRED. It Will Be Used In Building: Minnesota's New Capitol. A dispatch from St. Paul says: Af ter several xveeks’ consideration, the new capitol commissioners have award ed the contract for a superstructure of the nexv Minnesota statehouse to the Rntler-Kyan company, of St. Paul, for $690,000, deciding on St. Cloud granite for the basement and Georgia marble for the rest of the superstruc ture, excepting the dome. The contractors from all over the country xvere interested in the matter, and there has been a lively contest to secure the use of some Minnesota stone for the entire building. BROOKS WANTS ANOTHER CHANCE. Murderer of Hunt Will Ask For a Nexv Trial. Bud Brooks, now under sentence of death at Jefferson, Ga., for the murder of M. C. Hunt, of Belton, will not go to the gallows without making a last fight to save his neck. He is sentenced to hang on the 24th instant, bnt will hardly die on that date. His attorney has filed a motion fol anew trial, which xx ill be argued soon before Judge Hutchins. NO. 23. EPIDEMIC Of YELLOW M OFFICIALLY DECLARED TO BE RAG ING AT OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS. TEN FATALITIES HAVE OCCURRED. People Hurrying; Away and Rigid tine It* Being Ksiahlishcil Against the Plmre. The health officers of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi—Drs. 'j/. H. Sanders, of Mobile; S. R. Oll*- phant, of New Orleans, and 11. 11. Harrison, of Jackson—assisted by M. Wisden, of the United States marine hospital service, and a number <jf medical experts from New Orleans, pronounce as yellow fever an epidemic which has prex-ailed at Ocean Springs, Miss., for the past six xveeks. The toxvn has a population of about 2,000, which is augmented in the sum mer by numerous visitors to the gulf coast. It is said that over six hund red cases of fever, from which, up to last Sunday, ten deaths had resulted, have occurred since the disease began six weeks ago. Among the deaths was that of Dt. W. H. Bemiss, of New Orleans, who succumbed last Thursday after an ill ness of txvo days. Dr. Bemiss went to Ocean Springs to attend the sick, and it is declared that the day he was stricken lie sent xvord home that the cases of illness ho had attended were of a gravely sus picious nature. Dr. Bemiss’ death first attracted outside attention to the disease. The medical experts mentioned abovo arrived at Ocean Springs Sunday noon and after careful post mortem examin ations upon three subjects xvho died Saturday, decided the sickness xvas yellow fever. Upon receipt of a telegram from Dr. Sanders the board of health of Mobile, Ala , convened and upon their recom mendation the mayor declared a rigid quarantine against Ocean Springs, For the past two xveeks there has been a pretty general exodus from Ocean Springs, caused by the general nature of the epidemic and the ref ugees are quartered in nearly every toxvn and city along the coast. PRIZES FOR GEORGIANS. Savannah Hiflpmen Win Ali Honors <ifl Sea Girt. The Nexv Jersey state and national rifle association shoots at Sea Girt came to a close Saturday with Georgia marksmen winning everything in sight. The principal matches of the xveek, the Wimbledon cup and the presi dent’s match, were shot during the day. The latter, the first stage of which began at 11 o’clock, was for the mili tary champoinship of the United States. The match xvas divided into txvo stages, the first stage at 200 and 300 yards, ten shots at each, competi tors to shoot xvith the rifle adopted by the state they represent. In the shoot-oil for the champion ship, Private Battey, of Georgia, xvon, scoring 48 points at the 500 yard and 49 points at the 600 yard targets, or 97 points in all. The Wimbledon cup was won by Lieutenant C. Wilson, of Georgia, xvith a score of 125; Private George Doyle, ul the Seventh regiment, New York, and Colonel George T. Cann, of Georgia, tied for second, with a score of 117. Cann xvon the cup last year. Before the shoot wa“ resumed Sat urday morning the Georgia team re eeix’ed the folloxviug telegram from Governor Atkinson: “The whole state is ringing with praise of Georgia team. Citizens wiiii with enthu siasm.” Telegrams from Atlanta and Savan nah citizens xvere also transmitted. COTTON BURNED. Over a Thousand Bale* On a Fighter irt New York Destroy*)*!. Txvelve hundred and eighty-nine bales of compressed cotton, which ar rived in New Y'oik Sunday from the south by the Morgan line and was to have been shipped east by the City of Fall River, xvere burned on the lighter Mystic alongside the Fall River line pier on the North river front. NOTED (RIMINAL OAIIGIIT. O’Hara Enjoyed Si* Fear, of Freedom After Breaking .lull. Eugene O’Hara, alias Joe Bates, alias James Brown, forty-two years old, burglar, highwayman and des perado and probably murderer, xvho cut his xvay out of Jefferson Market prison at New York six years ago, and xvho has been hunted ever since, xvas recaptured Sunday by detectives. After his escape O’Hara, with an other fugitive from justice, Joe Strao alian, made his xvay to Colon, from xvhich place they later proceeded to Europe, where they committed a series of housebreaks and other serious crimes. SULTAN AND CZAR CONFER. Report That a Mutual Arrangement* Has Been Agreed Upon. The Constantinople correspondent of The London Standard says he is cred ibly informed that the sultan has been in direct communication xvith the czar and the correspondence has resulted in the making of mutual arianpementsby xvhich the sultan agrees never to use his influence against Russia in Central Asia and the czar pledges himself to uphold Turkish rights in Europe.