Newspaper Page Text
CRISIS NOW IIIEW US
STRONG ANI> BITTER FIGHT BEING
MADE ON HEALTH BOARD.
FEVER RECORDS BEING BROKEN.
JL>octorN Are Lolli to Report Caiea, Giving
ntt a Rnnuon That It Cnrtaili
Their Practice.
Friday was again something of a re
cord breaker in New Orleans in the
matter of now cases, there being
thirty reported. They cropped up in
*all directions, but the death record
was only three for the day.
The fever is rapidly spreading in
many directions, but the largest major
ity of cases are proving to be of a
harmless type.
The infectious character of the fever
is, however, shown in the fact that
there were again numerous instances
of new cases in houses where sickness
has already existed. The weather is
warm and the conditions excellent for
new' cases. But the death percentage
has fallen considerably below the re
cord of 1878.
The usual care is not now being
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 Flavins Trouble
A bitter fight is being made on the
board of health because it is insisting
iu quarantining inmates of houses in
which yellow fever exists and those
houses which immediately adjoin.
Dr. Guiteras expressed the ornnion
that it is possible to confine the in
fection wdthin the room where the pa
tient may he lying so this'has strength
ened the fight of the public against
these quarantine measures. In spite
of the storm of protests, however,
-many eminent physicians, and profes
sional men are urging the board to
continue its present course in quaran
tining houses.
The crisis is either present now or
close at baud, 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
canes their practice will be ruined.
Nobody would send for them if they
have had anything to do with yellow
fever cases.
CriHix Approaching In Mobile.
Newspaper correspondents at Mobile,
Ala., are in a quandary. If they tell
the truth they are condemned locally
as writing against the interests of the
city. If they draw it mild outside
communities declare they are lying.
An attempt has already been 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. The
fever has made unexpected leaps and
within two days has bi oken out iu two
totally unexpected quarters.
STRIKE THREATENED IN' CHICAGO.
Jrobable Tie-Up of the City’s Street Kail
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,
however, was the giving by secret
ballot the power to the executive com
mittee of the organization to order a
strike without notice to the company.
The plan of the executive committee
to resent any further dismissal of em
ployes was thus ratified, and future
action was referred to that committee.
THIS QUARANTINE HURTS.
Alabama Business JJfen Slake Strong Pro
test Against Policy.
The freight situation between At
lanta, Ga , and Alabama remains un
changed, with a little more liberal in
terpretation of the quarantine regula
tions.
There is some prospect of a modifi
cation now that the effects of the quar
antine are being sorely felt in the bus
iness of Alabama.
Wednesday morning a strong dele
gation from Birmingham went to
Montgomery to protest against the
rigid quarantine against Atlanta. The
.oal and iron people are hard hit by
the interruption of traffic.
HIGHWAYMEN \t WORK.
JTiickcd Mon Hold Up a Bock Inland
Paßienger Train.
A Rock Island passenger train was
hold up Friday teu miles north of
Chickasaw, I. TA NARUS., by five masked rob
bers.
The highwaymen made two attempts
to blow up the express safe, but were
unsuccessful. The robbers made the
passengers get off and line up and
secured S2OO or §3OO, besides the reg
istered mail.
Ten deputy United States marshals
started immediately in pursuit.
MINERS QUITTING JELLIUO.
Operators Expect to Import New Men
lor the Mine*.
The Chattanooga agent of the Jellieo
"'oal Company states that the miners
at the Jellieo region are leaving in
Troves and that very few of the men
•remain. There is none of the Jellieo
no ill in Chattanooga and only a few’ of
tho small mines are running. The
operators expect to import men, but
they have had some difficulty in doing
~o heretofore.
A lUY OF SUICIDES.
Nearly a Score of Unfortunate. In Now
York Commit Self-Murder.
A woman and her four children were
found dead by asphyxiation in the
West Shore hotel, Forty-second street
and Eleventh avenue, New York, Fri
day morning. The womau had evi
dently killed her children and then
committed suicide.
They were registered as “Mrs. Car
oline Rivinius, West Point, uud four
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
tragic deaths in and about the city
during the day.
Iu addition to the Kivinius tragedy,
Harmon S. Burt, of Norwich, Conn.,
w-as found dead in bed from poison; C.
F. K. Eoyce, San Francisco, found
dead at the Grand Union hotel, as
phyxiated; Dr. Robert W. Flagg,
physician of Yonkers, leaped from a
window in the Murray Hall hotel and
died shortly afterward; Theodore Mil
ler, suicided by shooting; Rudolph
Knoche, out of w-orlc, drank carbolic
acid and died an hour later; Edward
L. Hafner and Frank C. Holly, of
Norwalk, Conn., were found dead iu
their apartments at White Plains, as
phyxicated by gas; Mrs. Bertha Hum
mel and Julia Cutto, each took carbolic
acid and died; George Martin, serving
a sentence for burglary 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-Herald.
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 w ill he brought to a close
as speedily as possible.
“No date is fixed when the consum
mation is to he reached, and tlmt 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
w-ar should end with Iho least possible
delay.
“And with that in view, acting as a
friend of Spain because of the great
stake 'Ahieh the United States has in
Cuba financially and otherwise Meeause
of the aunoyance 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 and
bring the warfare to a close.
“This is all there is in the note.
There is not the faintest suggestion of
this 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 he
brought to an end by a certain time,
or that Spain must return her answer
to this note by a fixed date.”
WEDDEKRL'RN DISBARRED.
Famous Patent Attorney of Waghinctoil
Declared a Fraud.
John Wedderburn & Cos., of Wash
ing, D. C., were disbarred Friday
from practice before the interior de
partment as patent attorneys or agents.
The firm is held to have been guilty
of “gross fraud and unprofessional
conduct.”
The postmaster general has been no
tified of the finding, which w T as made
after a long investigation following
complaints of other attorneys who filed
o'larges against the firm.
Wedderburn for two years has been
the most extensively advertised patent
attorney in the United States.
SOLI) HER HUSBAND.
The “Other Woman’’ Buys .John A. Truitt
From HU Wife for 94,000 Cash.
According to the St. Louis Post
tispatch, John A. Truitt, a conductor
<ll 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 his
wife did.
GREEK CA BIN IT RESIGNS.
M. lialli Denounce* Germany For Work
ing Againwt Greece.
Advices from Athens state that the
Greek cabinet has resigned.
The Athens correspondent of the
London Times says:
“M. Ralli, when presenting the
chamber the preliminary treaty of
peace, took strong exception to its
terms, attributing to Germany all that
had been done against Greece.
“He declared that he would not sub
mit a resolution approving the treaty,
because it was executory and there
fore did not require approval; and
also because such a step would be con
trary to the sovereign rights of the
state and the crown.
MORE TROUBLE FOR DAUNTLESS.
Crow of the Filibuster Steamer Placed
Uitder Arrest.
At Savannah, Ga., Thursday morn
ing, United States District Attorney
Erwin arrested Master J. W. Floyd,
Chief Engineer Walter E. Masters and
the entire crew of eeven men of the
tug Dauntless. The ease will be in
vestigated later.
The men were arrested on a w arrant
charging them w'ith being about to
engage in military expeditious against
Dominion of Cuba, domain of King
dom of Spain.
INDORSED ORGANIZED LABOR.
League of American Municipalities Adopt
Important Resolution.
The League of American Municipal
ities, in session at Columbus, 0.,
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 and addresses bear the
Typographical Union label.
SPAIN’S CABINET GIVES IIP.
REBIGEATIONS OF MINISTRY 18
ACCEPTED BY THE (JUEEN.
NO SURPRISE IS MANIFESTED.
Affairs Brought to a Crisis Through Dls
sentious Among: Supporters
of the Government,
A Madrid special states that the
Spanish cabinet has resigned and that
the queen has accepted the resignation,
but has asked General Azearraga to
continue in office until a solution of
the crisis is found.
Her majesty will summon the lead
ers of the various parties and the pres
idents of the chambers to consult as to
the situation.
United States Minister Woodford,
the duke of Tetuan and the president
of the senate, the Marquis Pazo <le la
Mertzed, held a long confererice Wed
nesday, and General Woodford pre
sented to General Azearraga the mem
bers of the United States legation.
Owing to the cabinet crisis tjie Cuban
pour parlers have been postponed.
It is said that Senor Sagasta is in
favor of superceding Captain General
Weyler, and of granting autonomy to
Cuba immediately. Senor Gamazo
will probably be minister for foreign
affairs in the new cabinet.
Washington Officials Not Surprised.
The news of the Spanish cabinet
crisis was first brought to the attention
of the officials of the state department
and diplomatic officials at Washington
through the Associated Press bulletin
from Madrid. It is surmised that
Minister Woodford’s failure to cable
the department was attributable to
the fact that it was after nightfall in
Madrid before the news became known.
It cannot be said that the event
caused surprise among the officials of
the state department or among the
members of the diplomatic corps in
Washington.
The ministry, it was explained by
diplomatic officials entirely familiar
with the facts, is conservative through
out. It was chosen after the assassi
nation of Canovas and was regarded as
a continuance of the Canovas regime.
As to what is to follow the resigna
tion of the cabinet, officials at the
capital are completely in the dark.
Secretary Sherman does not believe it
will materially affect the relations
of Spain either to the United
States or to Cuba, which seems to in
dicate an expectation on his part that
when the cabinet is reorganized it will
be found to be still of a conservative
tendency.
On the other hand, high officials in
the administration expect a liberal
cabinet under the leadership of the
veteran Sagasta will be erected ou the
ruins of the Azearraga cabinet. If
this should be the case the future is
held to be full of promise for Cuba,
for it is recalled the liberals have not
hesitated to express their opposition
to the great expenditure of human life
aud vast, treasure iu the effort to carry
out the repressive conservative pro
gramme for the conduct of the war.
Iu the event of the formation of a
liberal ministry, Minister Dnpuy Do-
Lome would undoubtedly submit his
resignation as the Spanish representa
tive at Washington, as is usual on a
change of political control of the cabi
net, and the minister is, moreover, a
conservative iu politics.
LOSSES LED TO SUICIDE.
Ex-State Secretary of West Virginia Gets
Off tlie Earth.
A Wheeling W. Vn., special says:
Ex-State Secretary Alexander Dorsey,
Wednesday morning at Moundsville,
shot himself through the head with a
revolver. He w r as one of the most
daring oil operators in the state, and
his act was due to despondency,
brought on by some recent financial
reverses.
COSTLY BLAZE AT MOBILE.
Warehouse and Four Hundred and Fifty
Bales of Cotton Damaged.
A fire early Wednesday morning in
Magnolia warehouse, on Lipscomb
street, Mobile, Ala., destroyed one
shed and damaged 450 bales of cotton.
The loss on the building was $1,000;
on the cotton $5,500.
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 New York.
A WOMAN LYNCHED.
Ghastly Kind of a Party of Hunters In
Virginia Mountains.
A special from Cowan’s Depot,
Rockingham county, \a., in the Slien
andoah valley, says that news of a
most ghastly discovery in the Mas
sanutan mountains, six miles east of
there, has just been received.
Several hunters found the body of
Peb Falls, a notorious white woman,
dangling at the end of a rope fastened
to the limb of a tree. When discovered
the body was in the first stages of de
composition. It is supposed that th
woman was hanged by negroes.
RESIGNATION WITHHELD.
Weyler May Still He At the Hoad of
the Cuban Army.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press at Havana has investigated the
report printed in New York saying
that Captain General Weyler had sent
his resignation to Madrid, to take
effect so soon as practicable, and has
been informed from the best source
available that up to the time the inves
tigation was closed the captain general
of Cuba had not resigned.
THREATENED WITH BULLETS.
Train Road of PliyHiciaiiH Receive a Warm
Reception lu Louisiana Town.
The effort of the business men, city
and health authorities of New Orleans
to effect a modification of the rigid
quarantine restrictions of the various
parishes of the state, by a conference
of the parish and town quarantine
officials along the Southern aud Texas
Pacific roads, ended abruptly Wed
nesday afternoon.
The train carrying the physicians
who were to take part in the confer
ence to be held on hoard the train
which left Aigeirs passed through La
fayette in the afternoon, but failed to
proceed any further than Rayne,where
the people, armed with shotguns, re
fused to let it go through. The deadly
weapons were pointed at Engineer
Gregory and he was told that the
wheels would have to stop. Members
of the body of citizens threatened to
tear up tlietreck if the train persisted
to run through the town. The recep
tion was too warm to even permit of a
parley, and the officials of the train
decided that it would he wise to make
its way back.
The train then returned to Lafayette.
Among the passengers were Dr. S. R.
Olliphant, Dr. Carter of the United
States marine and Dr. Guiteras, the
celebrated fever experts.
It is reported that Dr. Guiteras was
trying to make his way into Texas,
where his service are wanted as a fever
expert.
Wednesday’s Fever Record.
Twenty-five new cases aud four
deaths were recorded Wednesday in
New Orleans. Edwards reported twen
ty-four and no deaths; Mobile four
and no deaths; Biloxi fifteen new cases
but no fatalities.
From this report Wednesday in Now
Orleans was a record breaker in the
number of new cases reported, while
the deaths equaled in number those of
any day since the fever was first dis
covered in the city.
There are various reasons given for
the spread of the disease, but the
principal ones are two, that the
weather turned warm again, and ow
ing to the much wider field to cover,
the board of health had some difficulty
in getting every house as closely
guarded as was possible when the
cases were few in number and the
trained officials of the board were sta
tioned about the quarantined houses. •.
The fact that the death rate has been
small and that the chances of an epi
demic have been constantly growing
less, have made the general public
somewhat careless and there has been
increasing friction between the quar
antined people and the authorities.
Imprisoned inmates of houses have
been going over back fences and
sneaking out of side doors iu order
not to be confined, and the result has
been that more germs have been scat
tered and rapidly developed iu these
warm days.
SCRAMBLE FOR SEABOARD.
Ryan Syndicate Supposed to Be Planning
For Its Possession.
Thomas F. Ryan, F. M. Colston and
Henry Crawford, moving spirits in the
syndicate that is now endeavoring to
secure control of the Seaboard Air
Line, arrived at Norfolk, Va., Wednes
day.
There were several conferences be
tween them and certain large stock
holders in the big southbound system,
but just what this portends it is not
easy to say; but that the syndicate is
using every means in its power to ob
tain control of the property there is
no doubt. The three gentlemen seem
to be very confident of success, but on
the other hand the Seaboard officials,
w'hile very reticent, seem to have abso
lutely no fear of the syndicate.
DON’T WANT GREENLAND.
Canadians Believe Uncle Sam Is After
the Frigid Island.
According to a London cable dis
patch, there is a rumor in Canadian
circles that the government of the
United States has made overtures to
the government of Denmark with the
object of acquiring Greenland from
the latter country.
Washington officials ridicule the
story attributed to Canadian sources
that the United States government is
negotiating with Denmark for the ac
quisition of Greenland. It is posi
tively denied that the United States
has any designs upon territory in that
part of the world.
WILL SETTLE FOR GOLD.
Japan’s Trouble Willi Hawaii To Bo Ad
justed On Financial Basis.
An official announcement of the de
parture of the Japanese cruiser for
Yokohama, together with the state
ment that the immigration question
raginf? between Japan and Hawaii is
likely to he shortly settled without ar
bitration, has thrown a peaceful aspect
around American questions in the Pa
cific.
The most important statement made
by Minister Sewell is that the Ha
waiian-Japanese authorities have
agreed that SIOO,OOO in gold will set
tle the claims of the latter against the
Dole authorities.
ALABAMA STANDS I*AT.
She Will Not liaise Quarantine Against
Atlanta Ju*t. Yet.
A suggestion that the Alabama state
quarantine against Allan’s be raised
appears not to meet with favor in
Montgomery at this time.
The business men of Montgomery
have been inconvenienced no little by
the stringent regulations, but they
have an all-abiding faith in the dis
cretion of the state and county health
officers and seem entirely w’illing to
leave the matter with them.
SCARE IN TEXAS SUBSIDES.
Diiaruntine Raised and Bu*iness Resumed
In Many Towns.
A special from Dallas says: For the
first time in two w’eeks the people of
Texas are on their feet again.
The official declaration of Health
Officer Swearingen, that the suspicious
case at Houston was not yellow fever,
has been almost immediately followed
by the raising of the extreme quaran
tine measures which have been in
force in many counties and all tho
towns below Corsicana.
“i’ll fill GO IG GLORY,”
WAS A MOTHER’S ADMONITION TO
HER INNOCENT CHILDREN.
STRYCHNINE IN BREAKFAST COFFEE
Doctor Found Mother and Four of the
Beven Children Cold
In Death.
A special to the Omaha Bee from
Schuyler, 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 the morning, leaving before
the rest of the family breakfasted.
When the meal was prepared all sat
down, aud 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
the remark to the extent that he did
not appease his appetite. A daughter,
younger than the son, after drinking a
half cup of coffee, became sick and
vomited.
The rest of the family continued the
morning meal, although the children
made very wry faces and said the cot
fee did not taste good. Strychnine had
been put into the colfee.
JAPAN’S ENTERPRISE.
Money Approjii’iatofl to Teach Americans
How t< Make Tea.
Several months ago the Japanese
Tea Guild sent to this country a spe
cial commission to investigate the con
dition of the Japanese tea trade in the
United States siul 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 ill the
United States and Canada, where la
dies can enjoy a cup of line 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 iu the United States and Can
ada is of Japanese growth, yet most
Americans 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 iu prosecuting this
educational work. The Japanese Tea
Guild has issued this official recipe for
making Japanese tea:
First—Use a small, dry and thor
oughly cleau porcelain teapot.
Second—Put in one teaspoouful of
tea leaves for each cup of tea desired.
Third—When using Japanese teas
pour on the required quantity of fresh
boiled water, and let stand with 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
natural, delicate and sweet flavor,
neither sugar nor cream should be
used.
NEAL DOW PASSES AWAY.
The Great Prohibition I-radcr Die* At
Ills Home.
General Neal Dow died at his resi
dence in Portland, Me., Saturday af
ternoon.' The end was peaceful and
he retained consciousness until an
hour before he died, recognizing 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 and
his strength had been gradually failing
for a year or more, but until recently
he hail been able to take his accus
tomed drives. A week ago Saturday
he 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.
MILES HOMEWARD BOUND.
Uncle Sam’s Army Commander Finishes
Tour of Kurope.
General Nelson A. Miles, with Mrs.
Miles and Major Camp, Captain
Mans, sailed from London Saturday
for the United States on the American
liner St. Louis.
The commander of the army has
been in Europe since May on his tour
cf military observation and has in
spected everything of military inter
est in the armies of the great powers
in the field of action.
He has been looking over fortifica
tions, barracks, camps, ordnance works
of all classes and iu the intervals of
this work has written three reports.
THE COMMISSION ADJOURNS
In Order to Give Members Time to Col
lect and Classify Suggestions.
A Washington special says: The
monetary commission adjourned Wed
nesday until October 11th.
After the appointment of the three
sub-committees the commission de
cided upon an adjournment to give
the secretaries an opportunity to col
lect, collate and classify such sugges
tions as might be received. These are
coming from all parts of the country.
When the commission reassembles
its real work will begin.
IIAY STATE REPUBLICANS
Hold Their Convention at Boston and
Name a. Ticket.
The Massachusetts republican state
convention assembled in Boston Wed
nesday and nominated the following
ticket by acclamation:
Governor —Roger Wolcott.
Lieutenant Governor —W. M. Crane.
Secretary—William M. Olin.
Treasurer—E. P. Shaw.
Auditor —-John W. Kimball.
Attorney General —H M. Knowltoa,
MANY SITES OFFERED
For Location of Georgia’** I’ropoied New
Penitentiary.
The following properties have been
submitted to the state of Georgia on
invitation of the sub-committee of the
joint penitentiary committees of the
house and senate, as sites for the
proposed penal colony:
Dado county coal and iron lands. —
Off* re I by the creditors of the Georgia
Mining,Manufacturing and Investment
Company; 49,052 acres of developed
and improved coal and iron property
in Dade county. Price $581,000.
Magnolia plantation.—Offered by
Chester B. Howard, rejiresenting
former Governor W. J. Northen;
12,000 acres, situated on the Flint
river seven miles west of Fort Valley.
Price $120,000.
Sapelo Island.—Offered by Captain
William C. Wylly, representing eight
property owners; 10,025 acres. Price
$125,000.
Sapelo Island. —Offered by William
C. Wylly, representing four property
owners; 0,025 acres. Price $40,000.
Turtle Creek plantation. Offered by
Messrs Brobston and Fendig, 6,000
acres in Glynn county, on Turtle creek.
Price $75,000.
Long Island. Offered by Messrs.
Brobston and Fendig, 25,000 acres,
Price $19,000.
Little Cumberland Island. Offered
by Messrs. Brobston and Fendig, 3,-
000 acres. Price SIO,OOO.
Ossabaw Island. Offered by Colonel
Houston Richardson Harper, 30,000
acres, equipped with penitentiary
buildings. Price $125,000. Or 8,000
acres equipped with penitentiary
buildings. Price $85,000.
The proposition of the Georgia
Mining, Manufacturing and Invest
ment Company to soli to the state their
coal and iron mines in Dade county
changed the entire convict situation
over night, and threw anew element
into the discussion. The proposition
has become an unexpected factor in
the settlement of the vexed question
which the committee lias to handle.
Captain Anderson, who is chairman
of the committee of creditors of the
Georgia Mining Manufacturing and
Investment Company, made the offer,
agreeing to sell the 29,000 acres of
land controlled by the creditors at the
government rate of S2O per awe, and
to throw in all improvements which
had been built thereon.
He urged his plan not only because
he felt tliat it would result in a profit
aide enterprise for the state, but be
cause it would give to the state prop
erty oil which the convicts could im
mediately be placed without waiting
for the purchase of other property,
the employmept of architects, or the
erection of buildings.
In reply to questions from members
of the committee, Captain Anderson
said that the machinery and equipment
on the property were in good repair,
but that to pi.it the place in perfect
conditioner the housing and main
tenance of 2,000 or more convicts an
expenditure of $25,000 would he nec
essary in the Dade and Castle Rock
mines, and of $75,000 on the lands of
the Walker company.
FEVER SUMMARY.
Progress of tUo Kpidemic as Compiled lly
Surgeon General.
A summary of the progress of the
yellow fever epidemic up to Thursday,
made in the office of the surgeon gen
eral of the marine hospital service at
Washington, gives a total of 099 cases
aud 02 deaths in the entire country,
distributed by cities and towns as fol
lows:
Edwards, Miss., 215 cases and 0
deaths; New Orleans, 203 cases and 24
deaths; Biloxi, Miss., 135 cases and 8
deaths; Mobile, Ala., 09 cases and 8
deaths; Scranton, Miss., 39 cases and
3 deaths; Ocean Springs, Miss., 23
cases ando deaths; Clinton, Miss., 7
cases and no deaths; Barkley,
Mississippi., 15 cases and 4 deaths;
Cairo, 111., 4 cases; Atlanta, Ga.. Lou
isville, Ky., Perkinton, Miss., aud
Beaumont, Tex., one case each, the
cases at Louisville and Beaumont
proving fatal.
Official reports from the yellow fever
districts to the surgeon general of the
marine hospital service for Wednesday
give the total new eases and deaths for
that date as follows:
“Biloxi, 15 cases, no deaths; lid
wards, 24 new cases, no deaths; New
Orleans, 25 new cases, four deaths;
Scranton, three new cases, one death;
Ocean Springs, one new case, no
deaths; Mobile, report delayed; Camp
Fontainbleau, seven refugees admitted.
FAVORED BY SUGAR TRUST.
A Sew in Factor in the Hawaiian Annex
at ion 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 only 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.
REWARD FOll ROBBERS.
The I. 1. and I*. Hallway Company!
Will laj #SOO Each for Them.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pa-!
cific Railway Company has offered a
reward of SSOO each for the capture of
the live men who held up and robbed
its passenger train at Chickaslia last
week.
A score of deputy marshals with
blood bounds are scouring the country
for the Jennings gang of outlaws,
which is responsible for the robbery.
A! J Minings, leader of the gang, was
at one time attorney general of Cana
dian county.
M’KINLEY IS WASHINGTON.
President and Secretary of State Sherman
llolil a Conference.
President HcKinley and party ar
rived in Washington at 10 o’clock
Thursday morning over the Pennsyl
vania road.
Mr. McKinley had hardly reached
the white house before Secretary of
State Sherman appeared and held a
brief consultation with him, presum
ably iu reference to the fall of the
Spanish cabinet.
WEYLER 18 GALLED HOME
HE DID NOT ( ABLE RESIGNATION
AS WAS REPORTED.
HIS SUCCESSOR NOT YET NAMED.
AzcarragM Was Askwl for His llcißlg nation*
as tlc* Oimm’ii Thought Him
Too Slow.
A special dispatch received at Lon
don from Madrid Saturday says that
Captain General Weyler lias been re
called from Cuba. His successor, it
is added, has not- yet been officially
announced.
It was rumored the day following
the fall of the old cabinet that Weyler,
anticipating his recall, had resigned;
this proved, however, to be untrue.
The head of a government army can
not, according to military precedent,
resign during a state of war.
The recall is the result of the estab
ment of a liberal cabinet under Senor
Sagasta, Weyler being a representa
tive of the conservatives.
A special from Madrid says:
“Tn all her consultations with Span
ish generals and leaders of political
parties, the queen regent has laid
stress chiefly upon the question of
Spain's relations with the United
States, and the best means of averting
the loss of Cuba through prolongation
of the war and consequent American
ntervention, thereby imperiling the
taliility of lier son’s throne, let alone
placing it into the hands of tlio republi
cans and Carlists who have beeu espec
ially troublesome of late.
The queen also insisted strongly
upon discussing whether her Spanish
rule in the West Indies would not he
jeopardized by a too extended grant of
autonomy, thus enabling the separa
tists and autonomists to prepare grad
ually and legally their evolution to
wards independence.
“She earnestly asked the statesmen
if they believed a liberal government
would be strong enough to make the
majority of the Spaniards accept ex
tended home rule, involving as a sac
rifice the Spanish material interests in
the colonial islands and a heavy bur
den for the Spanish treasury, if sad
dled with the Cuban debt,.
“The queen questioned whether
Sagasta would be able to reslrai i pub
lic opinion and the press of the oppo
sition parties, if he made concessions
to the colonies under the pressure of
diplomacy.
“The queen cannot believe success
would crown so complete a reversal of
the policy which had been followed
for the last two years and a half.
“It seems that some, if not all, her
loyal advisers had the courage to tell
the queen regent that the alternative
lies between a sincere trial of the new
policy embracing ami understanding
with the United States and the greater
per cent of a conflict with America,
probably entailing the loss of the col
onies.”
Marshal Blanco, it is stated, in all
probability will accept the post of cap
tain general of Cuba.
As to Azearraga.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Standard says:
“The queen regent took a strong ini
tiative during the crisis aud profoundly
surprised General Azcarr’aga by leav
ing him no alternative but resignation.
She frankly expressed her disapprov
al of the*conservative administration,
especially in its treatment of the an
archist prisoners at Fortress Mont
juich.
“She said she had allowed Senor
Canovas to remain ill office in the hope
that he would modify the rigor of his
repressive policy in Cuba, and that
she iiad repeatedly called the attention
of ministers to administrative scan
dals and abuses. Moreover, her
majesty said she waited patiently for
two months after the death of Senor
Canovas, in the hope that the new
government would correct these evils.
“On its failure to do so, she con
sulted General Campos, Senor Silvela
aud others as to the best means of
pacifying Cuba by an endeavor to sat
isfy the autonomists and thus virtually
to steal a march ou American diplo
macy.
“All the statesmen whom she con
sulted appear to have advised a liberal
cabinet as the best means of attaining
th e queen’s wishes.
GEORGIA FOOTBALLISTS.
State University Team Arranges Schedule
of Gaines for tlie Season,
A schedule of football games for the
University of Georgia was arranged at
a meeting of the Athletic association
at Athens Thursday. One game will
be played on the home grounds and
four in Atlanta.
Georgia will play all the leading
universities and colleges of the south
this season and the outlook is very
line for Georgia. Material for the
team is unusually fine this year and
the university will probably have the
greatest eleven in her history.
The first game of the season opens
at Athens October 9, and the final
game will be at Augurn, Ala., Nov. 25.
STUDENTS MOBBED BRANN.
Article In His Publication Kellected on
Their'Unl versify.
At Waco, Texas, W. C. Brann, edi
tor of Braun’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 seatccj in the office of his
publishing house when four young
mien, students of the university called
hifii to the door, where they seized
him and thrust him into a hack, which
which was rapidly driven to the col
lege campus, where Brann was rough
ly handled.
MAJOR GINTER DIES.
Was Pioneer In Cigarette Business and
Made a Fortune.
Major Lewis Ginter, the cigarette
king, a pioneer in the business, out of
which lie has made a fortune of $lO,-
000,000, died Saturday night at West
Brook, liis palatial home, near Rich
mond, Va.
Mr. Ginter was the largest individ
ual owner of American Tobacco stock,
and the richest man in the south.