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REDUCING RATES
WILL CAUSE WAR.
The Seaboard Air-Line Throws
Down the Gauntlet.
CUTS PASSENGER FARES.
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Road Stands Ready to Make Still
Further Reductions.
Once more the Seaboard Air-Line
and the combination of its big rivals
headed by the Southern railway, are
engaged in a battle royal. Open war
has again been declared and the tight
will probably be one to the death.
The) circular just issued by the Sea
board announcing a differential pas
senger tariff on through and local bus
iness and the reduction of 33 1-3 per
cent* in fares contained therein is the
tirst shot in what may terminate in a
long continued struggle between the
associated railways which have refused
to haul the Seaboard through cars and
the Seaboard.
The rates are subject to change, and
this phrase, as defined by General
Passenger Agent Anderson, means
that the Seaboard will cut as often as
its lower rates are met by its competi
tors in order to preserve the different
ial features.
When questioned concerning the
possibility of interference by the
United States courts, as has been the
case in former rate wars, Mr. Ander
son said:
“This road is proceeding upon dif
ferent lines from those adopted previ
ously, when cuts were merely made
without any reason being given. We
are proceeding upon logical grounds
and have adopted the differential rates
as our weapon, as the northern and
western roads in an endeavor to equal
ize rates, have done long since. The
new rates go into effect October 25th
and have already been filed w-ith the
interstate commerce commission.
“During the past three or four years
the Seaboard Air-Line has made many
and frequent efforts to secure for itself
and the public the same through
sleeping car service enjoyed by its
competitors—to say nothing of their
solid train service—between New York
and Atlanta and New York and New
Orleans, but requests for such equal
facilities between these points has in
every instance been met with a decli
nation by connections, who have given
as a cause for such refusal first- one
reason and then another, a majority of
which has been to an extent unsatis
factory.
"The Seaboard, therefore, and in
view of such continued discrimination
against its interests and the interests
of its patrons, has determined, for the
purpose of equalizing to an extent
disadvantages under which it operates
its fast mail and express trains to
adopt similar action to that taken by
trunk lines betw'een New' York and
Chicago, St. Lous, Cincinnati and
other cities, which action is recognized
fry the trunk line association as being
jtroper and right where disadvantages
exist. ”
TAMMANY HALL RATIFIES
Nomination of Candidates In New
York flunicipal Campaign.
Thursday night Tammany Hall rati
fied the nomination of its candidates
for municipal offices in Greater New
York.
The attendance at the meeting, in
the Wigwam was not as great as was
expected. While the hall was well
tilled, there was a crowd of several
thousand surrounding the stands on the
outside of the headquarters of the
regular democracy. Ex-Governor
Campbell, of Ohio, who had been in
vited to speak, sent his regrets as did
also Colonel William L. Brown.
SCHEME FOR FEDERATION.
Railroad Brotherhood Adopts Plans at
Peoria fleeting.
The conference of the four railroad
brotherhoods at Peoria, 111., did not
end until 11:10 Thursday night, when
it adjourned sine die. having agreed
upon a plan of international federation
which will be submitted to the ap
proval of the lodges of the trainmen,
telegraphers, conductors and firemen
in the United States, Canada and Mex
ico, and returns will not all be in un
til the first of January.
against eight-hour law.
A Kansas Judge Renders a Decision of
Much General Import.
Judge Wells, of the Kansas court of
appeals, has rendered a decision which
several lawyers declare practically ren
ders the eight-hour law in Kansas a
dead letter.
A contractor named Billingsley, m
doing a job for Marshall county,
worked his men ten hours a day and
then made a claim for two hours extra,
which the commissioners refused to
pay.
Judge Wells holds that in working
his men over eight hours Billingsley
not only subjected himself but the
commissioners to prosecution.
EDWARD LANGTRY DIES.
Was Well Known as the Husband of
the “jersey Lilly.”
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, having
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 traveled from
Dublin to Holyhead.
NEGRO PROTECTED HIS HOME.
Fires Into Gang of Whitecaps, Killing
One and Wounding Four.
Whitecaps attacked the home of Dot
Price,a negro living near Milan, Tenn.,
Tuesday night and fired into the house.
He returned the fire, killing William
Sires, a white man, and fatally wound
ing four others.
The negro was shotthrough the arm.
Intense excitenent prevails and a race
war is expected as a finale to the
bloody tragedy.
ELLISON FOUND GUILTY.
Jury Convicts Him of Receiving Goods
From Bohannon Gang.
Again Tuesday the members of Jin
lmunon’fi band were arraigned in court
at Dalton, Ga., and they pleaded
guilty to each indictment.
Walter Bohannon, Tom Kinnemnn,
Jim Harris, Sam Painter, Eli Morris,
Ben Pearce and Luke White, all en
tered pleas of guilty.
There were three indictments against
some of them. They admitted every
thing, for they saw that there was not
the smallest hope of escape if they
went to trial.
Ralph Ellison, one of their fences,
was convicted after a trial in which
he was defended by able counsel.
Judge Bender, a councilman and
formerly a merchant, demanded trial,
and be, too, was indicted for receiv
ing goods knowing that they had been
stolen.
Jesse Lan gstonwas brought in from
Murray county, and he plead guilty.
He is worth several thousand dollars.
At Wednesday’s session of court
Ellison volunteered to testify for the
prosecution in any ease if needed.
Sensational developments came thick
and fast during the day. An indict
ment was found-against Tom Peeples,
agent of the Western and Atlantic
railroad at Dalton, and his son, Drew
N. I’eeples. They are charged with
stealing nine barrels of New Orleans
syrup from the Western and Atlantic
freight depot in August, 1890. Drew
Peeples is another city councilman.
Things got too hot for Drew and his
brother Tom and they skipped out.
Clee Cumby stepped up to the bar
and plead guilty to receiving stolen
goods. He bought a bag of coffee
from the gang.
Jesse Langston, who plead guilty
to receiving stolen goods, was sen
tenced to pay $750 and serve twelve
months on the chaiugang, hut the im
prisonment was conditionally sus
pended.
Langston, who is nearly fifty years
old, made a statement in which he de
clared that he bought from Bohannon
in good faith and did not know the
goods were stolen.
EX-SENATOR ROBINSON DEAD.
He Represented South Carolina Under
the Reconstruction Regime.
Ex-United States Senator Robertson
died in Columbia, S. 0., Wednesday.
He was senator from South Carolina
under the reconstruction regime, and
w-as succeeded by ex-Senator Butler.
Mr. Robertson had been paralyzed for
years. His estate is estimated to be
worth nearly a million dollars.
During the civil war he was a de
cided and open Unionist. He w-as a
member of the state constitutional
convention that was held after the
passage of the reconstruction acts of
congress, and was elected as a repub
lican to one of the vacaut seats in the
Upited States senate.
He was re-elected for a full term,
serving altogether from July 22, 1808,
until March 3, 1877, and held the
chairmanship of the committee of
manufacturers.
niSTRIAL IN ATKINSON CASE.
The Defendant and Her Friends Ex
pected an Acquittal.
There was a mistrial at Glenville,
W. Va., Wednesday, in the famous At
kinson forgery case. The case went to
the jury late Tuesday night, and after
remaining out all night and during
the forenoon Wednesday the foreman
announced that no verdict could he
be reached. When questioned as to
how the jury stood he said seven were
for acquittal and five for convic
tion.
The judge announced the case a
mistrial and court was adjourned.
The mistrial was a keen disappoint
ment to Mrs. Atkinson and to her
friends, who confidently expected an
acquittal.
MORE PRESIDENTIAL PLUMS.
A Number of Southerners Given Ap
pointments By McKinley.
President McKinley made the fol
lowing appointments \\ ednesday:
To he consuls of the United States:
Talbot J. Albert, of Maryland, at
Brunswick, Germany.
William A. Prickett, of New Jersey,
at Klieims, France.
To be collector of customs: John S.
Bet-hell, for the district of Richmond,
Va.; Jesse W. Elliott, for tie district
of Newport News, Va.; William B.
Shepard, for the district of Apalachi
cola, Fla.
FIENDS INDICTED.
Men Who Assaulted Mrs. Gleason
Will Have Speedy Trials.
The special jury of Campbell county,
Ivy., Thursday night reported the in
dictments of the gang that criminally
assaulted Mrs. William Gleason on
the night of October 6. Seven were
indicted for criminal assault, the pen
alty for which in Kentucky is death.
Six were indicted for complicity in
the outrage, the penalty for which is
from ten to twenty-one years. John
Shannon, Matt Meeniu, Hubert Met
ter and William Schorely were releas
ed. All those indicted are in jail, and
there will be speedy trials.
A JAIL DELIVERY.
Desperate Men at Brunswick, Ga.,
Effect Their Escape From Prison.
Nine desperate prisoners escaped
from Glynn county jail, at Brunswick,
Ga., at au early hour Thursday morn
ing.
Within thirty minutes their escape
was detected, and a quartet of blood
hounds put on the trail.
Following them were officers on
horseback and citizens afoot. At each
block the yelping, baying hounds and
the yells from the men brought forth
armed citizens to join in the search.
FOUR AT A TIME.
Two Boys and Two Girls, Quadruplets,
Bless a Troy, N. Y., Home.
Mrs. YVilliam J. Olmstead, wife of a
motorman on the Troy City railroad, at
Troy, N. Y., recently gave birth to
four children, two boys and two girls,
at her home in Albia, a suburb of
Troy. .
The mother and children are doing
well. The children weighed six and
one-half pounds each. Mr. and Mrs.
Olmstead have four other children.
FEVER FATALITIES
AT NEW ORLEANS
Break All Previous Records For
Tewnty-Four Hours.
DOCTORS ARE SURPRISED.
Tabulated Statement Regarding
Progress of the Scourge.
CITIES. NEW CASES. DEATHS.
New Orleans 29
Mobilo 7
Biloxi 17 0
McHenry, Miss 1
Scranton 7 1
Totals 91 U
Wednesday was the record smasher
in the number of deaths in a siugle
day from yellow fever since the sick
ness was first reported in New Or
leans. It is difficult to find the cause
except in the fact that concealment,
neglect and rebellion against the
authority of the board of health have
made it difficult for the best physi
cians to give proper attention to cases.
At 7 o’clock Wednesday evening
there had been nine fatalities reported
during twenty-four hours. Hereto
fore the highest number of deaths in
any one day has been six
At the board of health meeting there
w r as some discussion among the gath
ered physicians as to whether the dis
ease had assumed suddenly a more
ivirulent form or whether an aggrega
tion of circumstances had sent up the
/list of deaths. Prominent doctors say
'they do not believe the disease has be
come malignant in type. They believe
that the fact that on some days there
have been four or five deaths, ou suc
ceeding days no deaths, and then four
or five again, goes to prove that the
fever has been as eccentric before as it
is now.
At Mobile.
Seven new- cases in the city proper
and six brought into the city from
Magazine Point, three miles out, made
up the record at Mobile, Ala., Wed
nesday. Eight recoveries are reported;
no deaths for seventy-two hours.
l>r. Guiteras Turned Down,
No new cases w-ere reported as sus
picious in Galveston Wednesday and
there were no deaths from yellow
fever. All the cases reported as sus
picious are dismissed by the doctors,
or are convalescent.
The city council met and passed a
resolution calling upon Surgeon Gen
eral Wyman to have Dr. Guiteras
return, or to send some other expert to
investigate other towns in Texas and
to w-atch the progress of the disease
there and elsewhere.
The city council adopted a resolu
tion refusing to accept Dr. Guiteras’
diagnosis.
WANT EV ANGELIN A AR RESTED. !
Military Judge at Havana Gives Orders
For Her Apprehension.
Wednesday’s Official Gazette at
Havana, published an edict signed by
the military judge calling upon Evati
gelina Cisneros to present herself for
a term of fifteen days in jail and
ordering all civil and military author
ities to endeavor to apprehend her
and, if 'captured, to send her to
Havana jail.
It is reported that the young lady
arrived at New York Wednesday on
the Ward Line steamer Seneca.
AGED MATRIMONIAL ASPIRANTS.
Groom Is Eighty-Eight While Pros
pective Bride Is Ninety.
Benjamin F. Hunt, a former resident
of Rochester, N. Y., now in his eighty
eighth year, is about to wed Mrs. Julia
A. Sherman, of "Watertown, whose age
is given as ninety years. The event is
set for the 20tli instant.
Mr. Hunt resides in Boston with
one of his sous. The bride-elect is
said to he possessed of a fortune of
more than $1,000,000.
BANDITS LOCATED.
Men Who Robbed a Rock Island Train
Have Been Spotted.
Inspector Houck, of the postoffice
department, inis been notified that the
men who recently held up and rob
bed a Rock Island train are in hiding
about twenty miles from Tulsa, I. T.
Honk, with other officers left Tulsa
Wednesday for the scene, and thinks
he will succeed in capturing the des
peradoes.
SCHOONER WRECKED
And Her Crew of Seven Men Find
Watery Graves.
Advices from St. Johns, New Found
land, state that the schooner Blood
hound is a total wreck near Cape Pine,
on the sonthern part of the peninsula
of Avalon. Her crew of seven men
perished.
IDAHO HAS SNOW STORM.
Crops In Southeastern Portion of the
State Greatly Damaged.
A heavy snowstorm, beginning early
Thursday afternoon and lasting all
night, swept over southeastern Idaho.
It will do much damage, as much grain
■vnd lucerne is still out.
REYNOLDS FURTHER RESPITED.
Murderer of Hunt Will Live Until the
Third of December Next.
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, has
respited Grady Reynolds, the murder
er of Hunt, until December 3d, in or
der that he may be a witness in the
case against Bud Brooks in the event
that anew trial is granted.
It will he remembered that a few
weeks ago the governor respited Reyn
olds on the same ground. The former
respite having lapsed, Reynolds’ lease
on life has been extended.
DEATH IN FLAMES.
Residence Burns and Three Yonng
Girls Lose Their Lives.
The three daughters of Preston How
ard were burned to death Friday morn
ing in their home at Port Alma, Ohio,
on the shore of Lake Erie.
The rest of the family escaped from
the burning building. The girls were
aged sixteen, ten and six years respec
tively.
One of them had escaped, but met
death in returning to assist her sisters.
FIELD’S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.
President Congratulates the Venerable
Jurist On His Long Service.
The following letter signed by Asso
ciate Justice Field was given out
at, Washington Thursday afternoon:
“Supreme Court of the United States,
Washington,D.O., October 12.1897.
“Dear Mr. Chief Justice and Breth
ren: Near the close of last term, feel
ing that the duties of luy office had
become too arduous for my strength,
I transmitted my resignation to the
president, to take effect on the first
day of December next, and this he
has accepted, with kindly expressions
of regard, as will be seen from a copy
of his letter, which is as follows:
“ ‘My Bear Sir In April last Chief Jus
tice Fuller, accompanied by Mr. Justice
Brewer, handed me your resignation ns as
sociate justice of the supreme oourt of the
United States, to take effect December X,
1897.
“ ‘la hereby accepting your resignation,
I wish to express my deep regret that you
feel compelled by advancing years to sever
your active connection with the court of
which you have so long been a distinguish
ed member.
“In entering upon your great office in
May, 1893, you will on the first of next De
cember have served upon this bench for a
period of thirty-four years and seven
months, a term longer than that of any
member of the court since its creation and
throughout a period of special importance
in the history of the country, occupied with
as grave public questions as have ever con
fronted that tribunal for decision.
“I congratulate you, therefore, most hear
tily upon a service of such exceptional du
ration, fidelity and distinction. Nor can I
overlook tho fact that you recoived your
commission from Abraham Lincoln, and
graciously spared by a kind providence,
have survived all the members of the court
of his appointment.
“Upon your retirement both the bench
and the country will sustain a great loss,
but the high character and great ability of
your work will live and long be remembered,
not only by your colleagues, iiut by your
grateful fellow- countrymen.
“With personal esteem and sincere best
wishes for your contentment and happiness
during tho period of rest w-hich you have so
well earned, I am, dear sir, very truly yours,
William McKinley.
The judge’s letter continues:
“When my resignation takes effect
my period of service ou this bench
will have exceeded that of any of my
predecessors, while my entire judicial
life will have embraced more than
forty years. I may be pardoned for
saying that during all this period, long
in comparison with the brevity of hu
man life, though in the retrospect it
has gone with the swiftness of a tale
that is told, I • have not shunned to
declare in every ease coming before
me for decision the conclusion w-hich
my deliberate convictions compelled
me to arrive at, by the conscientious
exercise of such abilities and require
ments as I possessed. ”
WHOLESALE ASSASSINATIONS
Seems to Be the Order of the Day In
An Alabama County.
A special from Selma, Ala., says:
law lessness runs rampant near Rich
mond, in the southern end of this
county. Several months since West
Ethridge rode up behind Allie Cole
man, a wealthy farmer, and blew the
top of his head off with a double-barrel
shot gun. He has managed to elude
'arrest.
Later Barrett Duckworth, Coleman’s
body servant, was assassinated in his
house, and publio opinion laid the
crime at Ethridge’s hands.
A month ago Shelley Sumner, a
nephew of Ethridge, was killed by
Charles Nelson, a relative of Duck
worth.
Last Wednesday night Frank Banks,
a cousin of Nelson, was shot down from
the darkness while standing in the
door of liis home.
All of the murlers are thought to
have grown out of the Ethridge-Cole
mau killing. Not an arrest has so far
been made, although officers have
made repeated raids.
KILLED BY FALLING VATS.
Two Men Dead and Many Others
Seriously Injured.
A dispatch from Lille, France, in the
department of Nonl, announces a ter
rible disaster at Cambria, thirty-two
miles from Lille.
A large piece of the boiling vats of
the Central Sugar factory fell Thurs
day, burning or crushing fourteen
persons.
Two of the injured are dead and
many others are expected to die.
TOBACCO WAREHOUSES BURN.
Great Quantity of the Weed Destroyed
By Fire In Durham.
Seven tobacco warehouses and eight
cottages in Durham, N. C., were
burned Thursday afternoon, entailing
a loss of about SIOO,OOO, with 8200,000
insurance. It was the most destruc
tive fire Durham has known since the
big blaze of 1885.
Three buildings occupied by the
American Tobacco Company were
gutted. The company had about two
and a half million pounds of tobacco
in three houses. Their loss is un
known. W. T. Carrington had about
500,000 pounds of tobacco; $20,000 in
surance.
FORCED TO BUILD DEPOTS.
Railroad Commission of South Caro
lina to Take Action.
The South Carolina railroad com
mission has requested the attorney
general to begin action against the
South Carolina and Georgia and Flor
ida Central and Peninsular and Atlan
tic Coast Line.
These roads were ordered by the
commission to build a union depot at
Denmark. They have delayed doing
so for one reason and another. The
commission is empowered to enforce
their requirements.
GORMAN CREATES SENSATION.
Maryland Senator Writes Open 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 which he offers
to relinquish the leadership f the
democracy in Maryland, provided Mr.
Abell will accept it and support the
democratic ticket in the coming state
and legislative campaign.
MORE CONVICTIONS
OF DALTON MEN.
Daptaiu Peeples Fouud Guilty of
E-eceiving Stolen Goods.
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MORE ARRESTS ARE MADE.
Car Conspiracy Trials at Dalton
Develop Lively Sensations.
Nearly all of-Thursday and Friday
in the now celebrated ear robber oases
at Dalton, Ga., was taken up in the
trial of Captain T. J. Peeples, the
agent of the Western and Atlantio
railroad at Dalton.
Notwithstanding that Captain Pee
ples was ably defended, the jury
brought in a verdict of guilty.
Peeples has been the biggest game
so far that the prosecution has brought
down. His conviction created terror
among the accused, who have not yet
been brought to trial. There was
some doubt about getting twelve men
with the courage to find him guilty.
He has the reputation of a fighter.
The defense had the jurors polled,
hut every one answered that it was his
verdict. J ulge Fite did not pass sen
tence. There may he another case
against Peeples. It is rumored that he
maybe tried for receiving stolen tobacco
from Bohannon. The penalty in the
case already decided may be either a
fine or imprisonment in the ehaingaiig
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 has been agent of the Western
and Atlantic railroad in Dalton for five
years.
Peeples was charged with buying a
carpet from AValter Bohannon. The
latter said that he sold it to Peeples
and received the money for it. The
defense attempted to impeach Bohan
non, hut the jury believed him, and
the citizens, generally believed. Pee
ples w-as deserted by his two sons 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 Drew, 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.
“Thor*! 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, but it was passed. Cannon’s
trial will probably last two days.
This will be a sensational case. Bo
hannon says that Cannon often bought
goods of him. There was one lot of
clothing for which the Southern rail
way paid McTeer & Cos., of Knoxville,
$1,200. Bohannon says that Cannon
paid him SBS for the lot.
Cannon is the wealthiest merchant
in Dalton, and has the largest clothing
trade in north Georgia. Everything
is done in his wife’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 with Bohannon’s
band of robbers.
The grand jury has been investiga
ting C. C. Bemis, the father-in-law of
Drew I’eeples, who skipped.
There is an indictment against one
Buekholtz, who has a restaurant.
Many Ladies Present.
Move ladies were 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 he clearly stated that
the members of Dalton’s 400 do not
regard Bohannon a a hero.
Lee Arwood, who pleaded guilty to
buying a bicycle from Bohaunbn, 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 was stolen. Arwood
said that he did not know it, and on
this testimony Judge Fite directed the
jury to acquit the young man. So he
was really tried aud acquitted within
the ninety minutes that the Peeples
jury was out. This was the first one
to get off, and he had pleaded guilty.
MURDER CHARGED TO SHAW.
Police Say That He Is Slayer of His
Mother and Grandmother.
At Camden, N. J., Friday Eli Shaw
was placed under arrest by the police
officials and formally charged with the
murder of his mother, Mrs. Sarah
Shaw, and grandmother, Mrs. Emma
Zane, which occurred several days ago.
The arrest was based on newly dis
covered evidence, including the find
ing of a 32-caliber revolver, of which
two chambers had been fired, at the
bottom of a chimney. The pistol was
thrown into the cliimney through a
stove hole in the room in the third
story, which had been occupied
by Shaw.
OBSERVED ANDREE’S BALLOON.
The Monster Air Ship Reported to
Have Been Seen in Siberia.
A telegraphic message received at
St. Petersburg from Krasnoyarsk, in
the interior of Siberia, says that on
September 14th, at 11 o’clock at night,
the inhabitants of the village of Antz
firowskojew, in the district of Yeni
seisk, Arctic Russia, saw a balloon be
lieved to be that of Professor Andree,
the Swedish mronaut, who left the
Tromsoe shortly before 2:30 p. m., on
July Uth in an attempt to cross the
Polar region.
AMBASSADORS TRANSFERRED.
M. Jules Cambon Will Represent the
French Republic at Washington.
At the French cabinet council held
in Paris Thursday President Faure
signed the appointment of M. Jules
Patenotre, the retiring French ambas
sador at Washington, as French am
bassador at Madrid, and that of M.
Jules Cambon, the retiring governor
general of Algeria, as French ambas
sador at Washington.
DOUBLY FATAL DUEL.
Constable, In Dying Struggle, Kills
His Slayer.
A special from Perry, (in., slates
that ns the result of a duel between
William Lizzonby, n justice court
bailiff, and Bartley Amos, a negro, on
whose property he attempted to levy
last Friday afternoon, both men were
killed, dying within a few feet of each
other.
Lizzenhy’s father is a justice of tho
peace, and on the day stated William
Rigsby, who was Amos’s landlord,
went before him and secured an
attachment against his property.
The justice turned over the attach
ment to his twenty-seven-yenr-old son
William for execution, and the latter,
accompanied by Mr. Rigsby, drove
over to the negro’s cabin to make the
levy. On arrival at the house Lizzen
by acquainted the negro with his mis
sion, and the latter remarked that “no
white man should levy ou liis proper
ty.” Lizzenby insisted on the regular
attachment procedure and he and
Amos became involved in an impas
sioned dispute.
Rigsby attempted to interfere, hut
Amos angrily thrust him aside aiul
stepping into his cabin secured his
shotgun, and holding it but a few feet
from his victim 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 dyiug strength raised himself
ou 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
after the negro’s death.
HONORS TO MISS CISNEROS.
New Yorkers Turn Out En Masse to
Greet Her.
The popular reception to Miss F.van
gelina Cossio y Cisneros in New York
Saturday night was an extraordinary
demonstration. Fully 50,000 person s.
probably one-third of them well dressed
women,crowded the upper half of Mad
ison Square park and tilled Broadway
and Fifth avenue and waited patiently
for the congratulatory speeches to be
finished and the Cuban heroine to ap
pear.
A stand had been erected south of
the Worth monument, from which the
speeches were delivered, and ou which
the Seventh regiment band was sta
tioned.
Finally Mr. Decker, the rescuer, led
his charge down the aisle between the
musicians to the front of the platform.
Miss Cossio Cisnero’s appearance
was the signal for a tremendous dem
onstration by the great crowd, which
stretched out for one hundred yards
before her. The men yelled and \n aved
their hats, the women waved their
handkerchiefs and the band played a
Cuban battle song. Later Miss Cis
neros was driven around the square and
back to Delmonieo’s. The reception
there was continued.
Among those present at the recep
tion in Delmouico’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.
DEATH OF CHARLES DANA.
Attained Greatness as a Journalist,
Politician and Historian.
Charles A. Dana, editor of the New
York Sun, died at his home in Glen
Cove, Long Island, at 1:20 o’clock
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Dana’s death had been expected
for several hours, and his family and
physicians were at his bedside when
the end came. His condition had
been such for several months that the
members of the family had kept them
selves in constant readiness to go to
his bedside at any moment.
On Saturday morning he had a re
lapse and it was apparent that recov
ery was imp ssible. Several times,
however, he rallied, but toward night
began to sink. During the night
there were feeble rallies, hut they did
not last long.
The cause of Mr. Dana’s death was
cirrhosis of the liver. On June 9th he
was at his cilice apparently strong and
healthy. The next day he was taken
ill and he never afterwards visited
New York. He was seventy-eight years
old.
Not as a journalist merely, hut as a
critic, historian and politician, lias
greatness been achieved by Charles A.
Dana, editor of The New York Bun.
His manifold ability and industry
placed him well in the lead of news
paper managers of his day.
REGISTRATION IN NEW YORK.
The Figures Are But Little Under
Those of Last Year.
Saturday was the fourth aud last
day of registration at New 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 was 207,272.
The registration of Long Island city
is 8,572. The total last year was 8,421.
The registration of Btaten Island is
12,673 —1,500 more than last year.
The registration is only a few thous
and less than last year’s.
SODDY MINERS SATISFIED.
Trouble Over Wages Adjusted and
They Resume Work.
A Chattanooga dispatch states that
the Soddy miners, who were out on a
strike, held a conference with the op
erators through their executive com
mittee Wednesday at Bathburn. After
some parleying the request of the meu
was complied with and with the un
derstanding that wages are to he re
duced if prices should decline.
They at once resumed their work.
Nearly 700 men are affected by the
settlement.
FIRE IN COTTON STEAMER.
Fifteen Hundred Bales Damaged In
Charleston Port.
| Early Sunday morning fire was dis
} covered in the forward compartment
j of the British steamship Rothefield,
! lving at Adger’s wharf in Charleston
: loading cotton for Liverpool.
The compartment, which held 1,500
hales of upland cotton, was flooded
and the fire extinguished. The dam
age by fire and water not yet estimated.
The Rothefield was ready to sail.
A STEAMER SINKS;
MANY DROWNED.
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The Triton Struck Upon Rocks
and Goes Down,
HER LOAD WAS TOO HEAVY
Spanish Soldiers and Civilians
Among the Lost.
A special from Havana says: The
coasting steamer Triton, from Havana
to Bahia Honda, province of I’inar del
Rio, has been wrecked between Do
minca and Mariel, on the north coast
of that province. 'The steamer went
ashore Saturday morning during heavy
weather, grounding about eight miles
from the coast.
The Spanish gunboat Maria Cris
tina and the tug Susie left Havana at
once for the scene of the wreck.
It is said the Triton had on hoard
over 200 passengers, soldiers and civil
ians.
Owing to the heavy sea that was
running the gunboat Cristina found it
impossible to reach the scene of the
disaster till Saturday night.
On board the Triton was $31,060 in
silver to be used for the payment of
the Spanish military and naval forces.
The Triton, it is stated, was over
loaded. She carried a large quantity
of groceries and ammunition and had
on board ninety-three rifles for the
government troops.
A later dispatch states that the gun
boat Maria Christina returned to Ha
vana Sunday from the scene of the*
wreck, accompanied by the gunboat
Susie, which went w ith her.
The two vessels arrived at 1 o’clock
in the afternoon, the gunboat having
on board nineteen and the tugboat
twenty-tliree of the members of the
lost ship’s company, of whom thir
teen are civilians and soldiers. The
whereabouts of the others of the com
pany are unknown.
It seems that the Triton struck the
rock during a heavy rainstorm. Her
cargo shifted and fifteen minutes later
she sank in 120 fathoms of water.
A scene of terrible confusion and
panic ensued as soon as the passengers
realized the meaning of the crash. In
a wild struggle they rushed for the
boats. The first boat that was lowered
capsized immediately and all of its oc
cupants were drowned iu the whirling
waters. The next was struck by an
enormous wave and turned over, drown
ing twenty, but the frail craft righted
again and eight who had been thrown
out regained it.
Some were good swimmers aud kept
themselves afloat for hours; others
floated about for twenty-four hours on
planks. Four soldiers on planks,
whom the strong current carried east
of Havana, opposite Mono castle,
were saved by a pilot boat going to
ward Cardenas. They declare that on
Saturday evening there were many
others near them on planks, hut when
Sunday morning dawned all others had
disappeared. Some of them probably
became food for sharks.
VINCENT SWAYED JURORS.
His Closing Speech For Luetgert Elic
its Wild Applause.
The last words in defense of Adolph
L. Luergert on trial at Chicago was
spoken Saturday. Former Judge Vin
cent, chief counsel for the defense in
the great murder trial, closed his ad
dress'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 ladies were escorted
from the room. Judge Tuthill ordered
the jury to its room and delivered
himself very forcibly on what he called
a disgraceful scence.
After order had been restored court
was adjourned until Monday, when
State’s Attory Dcneeu closed for the
prosecution.
SPANIARDS ARREST WOMEN.
Cases Are Similar to That of Evange
lina Cisneros.
According to reliable information
the police of Guinea, Havana province,
have arrested and imprisoned Senorita
Blanca Ortega, a young woman of
distinguished family, aud Senorita
Vargina Castellanos.
CHARGES BY BROTHER-IN-LAW.
Jones Says McCullough Is Both “ 1 hief
and Aturderer.”
Damning and bitter charges are
brought against John McCullough by
Mr. Kimsev Jones, who charges Mc-
Cullough with the murder of his sis
ter. He is accused by his brother-in
law with being “first a thief aud then a
murderer.”
Mr. Jones says that the next trial
will develop a case against McCullough
that will be twice as strong as the last
trial showed. There are many facts
he says that were not brought out at
the last trial, and the next trial
he is determined to tiring out every
thing.
MORGAN LEAVES HONOLULU.
He Is More Strongly in Favor of
Annexation Than Ever.
Advices from Honolulu state that
Senator Morgan will leave for San
Francisco Tuesday, accompanied by his
daughters. They will go direct to
Alabama, and after a brief rest the sen
ator will leave for Washington, hoping
to arrive thereabout the middle of No
vember. He states that be has been
strongly convinced in his own mind
that the annexation of the islands is
the right thing.
PARDON FOR CUBAN EXILES.
Spain’s New Cabinet in Council For
mulates Important Orders.
At the Spanish cabinet council at
Madrid, Thursday, it was decided to
pardon all Cuban exiles not included
in previous amnesties and to suspend
the decree of September 12th rela
tive to legislative reforms in the Philip
pine islands.
The decree ordered a vigorous sup
pression of political associations and
the secret pact of blood societies.