Newspaper Page Text
SPREADS IN MONTGOMERY.
“YELLOW JACK” PERVADES ALA.
HAMA’S CAPITAL CITY.
NEW CASES DEVELOPING DAILY.
Dr. Gutterhh Report* Discovery of Six
teen Ptlent*— Governor Johnstou
Is Criticized.
A special from Montgomery, Ala.,
states that the board of health and Dr.
Guiteras held a conference Friday
night at .which the latter made an ad
dress, advising how the fever should
be treated. He will file his report
with the surgeon-general.
After visiting the patients in the
city he reported sixteen cases of the
fever.
Ten new cases were reported Fri
day.
Dr. Guiteras refused to make a state
ment over his owu signature, being
compelled to report to the government
first, he said.
The doctor says that the first killing
frost will exterminate the disease. Ho
contends the disease is not contagious
and that no harm can arise from the
nurses or doctors circulating about
the streets. He says it is the germ
which causes the epidemic.
The new cases are widely scattered
over town and are not confined to any
class of people.
The following dispatch has been re
ceived from Selma:
“The committee of public health for Dal
las county considers the symptoms of H. L.
Chapin as sufficiently suspicious of yellow
fever to ask Dr. Saunders, state health of
ficer. an<l Dr. Guiteras to come to Selma for
investigation. ”
Governor Johnston is being severely
roasted for deciding to modify the
state quarantine so as to permit refu
gees to stop at places in Alabama
where the authorities have not quaran
tined, but a little reflection is bound
to satisfy a just person that the gov
ernor is right.
Only a very small part of Alabama
is governed by municipal regulations.
Tire cities can quarantine and protect
thousands, but the small communities
and the country districts could be
overrun with refugees if the governor
would permit the trains to stop wher
ever passengers wanted them to.
At New Orleans there were fifty
new cases and five deaths Friday.
At Clinton, Miss., eleven new cases
were reported.
At Edwards there were four new
cases Friday; total to that date, 487;
deaths. 26; discharged, .346; convales
cent, 48; under treatment, 37; in the
country, deaths 4, all white; total
eases, 550.
VAN WYC'K LEADING.
Democratic Candidate Forging Ahead In
Now York Municipal Campaign.
A special of Friday from new York
says: Every turn of the political
wheel here in the big city has been
favorable to Van Wyck. It is not that
he and his managers are so much wis
er than than any other political man
agers, or that the judge himself is re
garded as possessing to the highest
possible degree, and beyond every
body else, the qualifications essential
to the mayoralty, but the democratic
candidate seems to have been born
under a lucky star. Every move of
his enemies has played into Yan
Wyck’s hands.
The latest great plays of the Low
people are to have Mrs. Orannis attack
the democratic candidate for his visit
to the French ball some years ago,
and then to resurrect Parkhurst, get
ting him to declare for Low'.
The Parkhurst matter came to a
head Friday. The reformer writes
from Switzerland, where he has been
for some time in a retreat. He de
clares for Low and hurls the usual
“reform” criticisms at “Plattism” and
“Crokerism. ”
SPAIN REFUSES MEDIATION.
inform* Ifnrlo Sam*# Government That
Its Good Office* Are Rejected.
The Madrid papers say that the re
ply of the government to the United
.States “declines mediation” of any
kind in the question.
WAS COMMANDER OF MONITOR.
Admiral Worden,Retired, Died At the Age
of Eighty Years.
Admiral John L. Worden, retired,
died in Washington Monday. He
commanded the Monitor at the time of
its engagement with the Merrimac at
Hampton Bonds during the late war.
In 1886 he was retired w ith the full
rank and pay of an admiral, the only
instance of the kind on record. He
also received the thanks of congress
for his gallantry in the war.
Pneumonia was the immediate cause
of Admiral AA r orden’s death. He was
eighty years of age, and up to a few
days ago was in very good health.
SOLDIERS FOR KLONDIKE.
Military P.t < ti‘<l In Alaska til lta
iliur of 100 Miles of at. Mli'llni'll.
The secretary of war has issued an
order creating " i itiilitary reservation
in that part of Alaska lying within a
radius of 100 miles of St. Michaels.
The purpose is to confer upon Lieu
tenant Colonel Kaudall the necessary
legal authority to preserve order and
protect property in this section of the
country, both of which are believed to
be jeopardized by the large number of
lawless characters gathered near the
mouth.of the Yukon.
DEAD JOURNALIST BURIED.
Dana Funeral Services Were of Simplest
Nature.
The funeral services of the late
Charles Anderson Dana were held
Wednesday morning at the beautiful
St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Olen
Cove, Long Island, and the interment
was in the churchyard there.
Hundreds of distinguished citizens
were present, including many men and
women whose names are prominent in
journalistic and political circles.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Nw Industrie* KstabllOiud In tho Sonth
During the Pa 4 Week.
Among the moat important new
industries reported for the past, week
are the following: Brick works at
Palatka, Fla ; the Union Compress
Cos., capital $24,000, Augusta, Ga.; a
flouring mill to cost $120,000 at At
lanta, Ga.; the Cyclone Air Power
Cos., capital $500,000, Alexandria, A T a.;
the Green & Strengele Irrigation Cos.,
capital $40,000, Beaumont, Tex.; the
Calhoun Automatic Scale Cos., capital
$50,000, at Charleston, S. C.; the
Phoenix Cotton Oil Cos., oapital $50,-
000, at Phoenix, Ark., and an electrio
or compressed air power plant to be
ereoted at New Orleans, La. A 7,500-
spindle cotton mill will be built at
Fort Smith, Ark., and a cordage fac
tory at Paducah, Ky.
The Reynolds Tobacco Go., capital
SOO,OOO, has been chartered at Bris
tol, Tenn.; the J. B. Pace Tobacco
Cos., capital SIOO,OOO, at Richmond,
Va.; the Apalachicola Lumber Cos.,
capital $50,000, at Apalachicola, Fla.;
the Kidder Lumber Cos., capital $50,-
000, at Wilmington, N. C., and tho
Cameron Lumber Cos., capital SIO,OOO,
at Point Washington, Fla. A SIOO,-
000 planing mill and box factory is to
erected at Nashville, Tenn.; a $5,000
lumber mill at Ellzey, Fla.; one to
cost SIB,OOO at Columbus, Ga., and
other woodworking plants at Prairie
Grove, Ark.; Fitzgerald, Ga., and
Hamilton, N. C.
A system of water works to cost
$2*50,000 will be put in at Augusta,
Ga., and other plants will be con
structed at Hazlehurst, Miss.; Lum
berton, N. C., and Canadian, Tex.—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
ENGLAND AGAINST BIMETALLISM.
Flan of Monetary Commissioners Conies
to Naught.
Advices of Monday from London
state that the United States monetary
commissioners have received no official
information regarding the action taken
by the British cabinet on Saturday
last. Private advices, however, con
vince them that the cabinet has dealt
the death blow to their mission.
It is expected the commissioners
will shortly be informed that her ma
jesty’s government regrets being un
able to accede to their proposals, but
is willing to listen to any other plan
they may suggest.
But both parties to the conference
know that no other practical scheme
can be advanced.
In the event of the expected reply
being received, the United Stptes com
missioners will return to the United
States.
The commissioners believe their
failure means that no further effort in
behalf of bimetallism will bo made for
many years to come. They attribute
their failure to the opposition of the
bankers and of The London Times.
Until these forces were aroused all
signs pointed to the co-operation of
the British government.
TO CURE MILLIONAIRE ROUES.
The “Great Physician** of India Comes to
American Shores. *
From far-away India a man has
come to America to practice an ancient
medical art upon New York’s blind
•millionaire, Charles Broadway Rouss.
He is Dr. Guelph Norman, of Bur
mah, aud he has now had All*. Rouss
for a jiatient for over a week.
Dr. Norman’s proposal to restore
the blind to sight was treated with
disdain by the regular medical frater
nity, but if the patieut himself is to be
believed a wouder has already been
worked. Mr. Rouss says he cau see a
little. He is yet skeptical, however,
and Dr. Norman will have to do much
more before he establishes the reputa
tion here that he is said to enjoy in the
Orient—Abut of the Great Physician.
DENIAL FROM BIIVAN.
Says That Ho Has Not Kxpcessed Prefer
ence In the New York Campaign.
Referring to the belief expressed by
tbe followers of Henry George that re
cent utterances of William Jennings
Bryan indicated his support of the
George ticket in the Greater New York
campaign, Air. Bryan wired the follow
ing to the Associated Press Monday
night:
“Norfolk, Neb., October 18.—-I have not.
expressed any opinion in regard to the New
fork mayoralty campaign, and do not care
to express any opinion in regard to it.
W. J. Bbyas.”
DALTON TRIALS RESUMED.
Captain Peeples Faces Charge of Par
chasing Stolen Tobacco.
The car conspiracy trials at Dalton,
Ga., were resumed last, Tuesday, when
Captain T. J. Peeples was arraigned
for receiving 8 boxes, 220 pounds, ot
stolen tobacco from the Bohannon
gang.
The only two witnesses the state had
to sustain the alleged transaction be
tween tbe gang of train robbers and
Captain Peeples was Walter Bohan
non, chief of the car pirates, and a
negro.
When the time came for the defense
no evidence was introduced but the
statement of T. J. Peeples, who denied
the charges in toto.
DENGUE OF YlKl CENT FORM.
Veiieraiilo TexiiK Judge Stricken Uown In
the Court Itomn.
The venerable Judge William H.
Stewart, of the tenth, Texas, judicial
circuit, while delivering an opinion in
court at Galveston Friday morning
fell in a dead faint.
He was resussitated after consider
able effort and removed to his resi
dence, where he lies in a critical con
dition.
His very sudden attack is due to
dengue fever, which has assumed a
most virulent form.
BRYAN IN DEMAND.
vrai Tafco tile Stump In Ohio to Follow
Senator Hanna.
A special from Columbus, 0., says:
The democratic committee will bring
Hon. William J. Bryan into Ohio for
the last four days of the state cam
paign. He follows Senator Hanna’s
speeches at Montpelier, Defiance, Van
Wert, Mt. Vernon, Newark, Shawnee,
Logan, McArthur, Jackson, Waverly,
Greenfield and perhaps Cincinnati,
MONETARY CONFERENCE OFF
BRITAIN REFUSES TO TAKE PART
IN NEGOTIATIONS.
SALISBURY MAKES FINAL REPLY.
By* India*. Mints Cpnnot Ho Keopencd.
Bimetallism Is Thus Turned Down
and Silver is Sidetracked.
A London cable dispatch soys: Lord
Salisbury, Wednesday night, sent to
Ambassador Hay the reply of the Brit
ish government to the proposals of the
American bimetallist special commis
sion, beaded by Senator Wolcott.
It is a diplomatically worded note.
His lordship says that the govern
ment of Great Britain is not able to
re-open the India mints at present.
He regrets the inability to accede to
the proposals of the American com
missioners. Great Britain having as
great an interest as the United States
and France in securing a stable par
exchange for gold and silver and an
enlarged use of silver.
In these circumstances, continues
Lord Salisbury, the British govern
ment does not see the desirability of
an international monetary conference,
but will be pleased to consider any
other practical suggestions from the
United States.
Lord Salisbury incloses with the
note a copy of the statement of Sir J.
Westland, head of the financial de
partment of India, which was under
discussion at the meeting of the cabi
net council last Saturday which takes
strong grounds against the reopening
of the India mints.
Ambassador Andrew White came
from Berlin last Saturday. He has
avoided publicity, but has had several
conferences with Senator AVolcott.
In the course of an interview with
the correspondent of the Associated
Press, Mr. White said that Germany’s
action as to bimetallism will depend
upon England’s.
NO RECEIVER APPOINTED
For the Southern B. and 1.. Association of
Huntsville, Ala.
The case of Mrs. M. L. Straton et al.
vs. the Southern Building and Loan
Association of Huntsville, Ala., asking
for a receiver to wind up the company’s
business was dismissed by Judge
Bruce in the United States court.
The bill alleged the association to
he insolvent and to have practiced
continued frauds upon its stockholders
among whom were the plaintinffs.
Attorney for the defense adduced evi
dence showing the assets of the South
ern to be over a million dollars.
On convening court Judge Bruce
asked the plaintiff’s Attorneys how
much more time the case would con
tinue if heard to the end. They said
they wanted three more days.
Judge Bruce then announced that in
the two days devoted to the case he
had found the allegations in the bill
to be groundless. He then dismissed
the case without argument.
BRITONS ARE JEALOUS.
They Say That We Are Distancing Inem
In Iron InduHtrles.
The Pall Alall Gazette Wednesday
afternoon, in the course of a long ar
ticle on American competition in the
iron and steel industries, says:
“Today we find the United States
not only challenging our supremacy in
neutral markets, but even obtaining a
foothold in England.
“The causes which are giving the
United States such a favorable recep
tion are permanent and everything
points to the United States remaining
the cheapest steel-producing country
in the world.”
OFFERED TO UNCLE SAM.
Bethlehem Iron Works Would Sell Their
Plant To the Government.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Will
iam Wharton, one of the largest stock
holders of the Bethlehem Iron Com
pany, confirmed the report that the
Company has made an offer to sell its
plant to the government.
Air. Wharton said lie understood the
Carnegie company had also made the
similar offer, but doubted whether
either of the propositions would ever
amount to anything.
FEARFULLY FATAL CYCLONE.
Thousand* of l’coplc Reported Killed
in Philippine Islands.
A dispatch received at Madrid from
Leyte, one of Philippine islands, says
that place has been almost devastated
by a cyclone, that many persons have
been killed and that damage to prop
erty is incalculable.
Tbe cyclone, it is further announced,
destroyed the towns of Tagloban and
Heruanion on the island of Leyte, as
well as several villages. It is esti
mated that 4,000 persons lost their
lives through the disaster.
The cyclone also swept the Island
of Samar. The full extent of the catas
trophe is not yet known.
SUSPICIOUS CASE IN MEMPHIS.
President <>r Board of Health, However
Says There In No Fear of a Spread.
Dr. G. B. Thornton, president of the
board of health of Memphis, Tenn.,
anaouuces a suspicious case of fever in
the southern portion of the city.
The sick man is B. H. McFerrin, a
yard conductor in the employ of the
Illinois Central railroad.
In an interview Thursday night Dr.
Thornton said that even if the case un
der observation should prove to be
genuine yellow jack, there is no reason
for excitement or alarm.
PRONOUNCED GENUINE CASE.
Yard Conductor McFerrin at Memphis
Has Yellow Fever.
President Thornton, of the Mem
phis, Tenn., board of health, officially
declared Friday night that a case of
yellow fever exists in that city. The
case is that of B. H. McFerrin, re
ported Thursday night as suspicious.
McFerrin is a yard conductor, and
was taken sick some days ago. Dr.
Thornton had the case under observa
tion for three days.
FEVER IS GAINING.
More Casea In lH. r (>iitatii.ry nntl Record
Broken at New Orleans.
Three new coses of fever were an
nounced at Montgomery, Ala., Tues
<l*7, and the stampede from the city iH
astonishing in its magnitude.
Every available vehicle is constantly
employed hauling people to the trains
and to the country. Many, of course,
cannot leave, and a few who could, if
they wanted to, decline to go.
There is little doubt but that the
disease has prevailed in the city for a
month or more during weather favor
able to its spreading. Probably as
many as fifty people have been sick
with the same sort of symptoms, and
only one death, so far, can be even in
directly traced to the disease. Most
of the other cases have recovered after
a week’s illness.
The local courts have adjourned for
the month on account of the fever ex
citement.
The sixth week of the fever at
Mobile began with five cases Tuesday,
no deaths and eleven recoveries.
There was neither hope nor encour
agement in the fever situation at New
Orleans Tuesday. The deaths did not
run up to an unusual mark, but there
were enough of new cases and fatali
ties to disappoint those who were in
clined to believe that the fever was on
the wane.
As early ns 7 o’clock Tuesday morn
ing there were forty-three cases.
There have never heretofore been
more than forty-nine cases. Cases
are being reported from all sections
of the city.
There has been in the city up to
date over nine hundred cases. Of
these, more than a hundred have died.
The record is bad enough as x it stands.
But it is quite possible that cases are
being hidden, and as a matter of fact
if they were reported the death rqfe
would be less than it is now.
The board of health officially re
ported Tuesday: “Cases of yellow
fever, 56; deaths, 4; total cases of yel
low fever to date, 921; total deaths
from yellow fever to date, 104: total
cases absolutely recovered, 463; total
cases under treatment, 354.”
IN JURY’S HANDS.
Fat* of I.netß.rt, Charged With IVifo
Murder, llangs In Balance.
A Chicago special says: The fate of
Adolph L. Lmetgert, accused of mur
dering his wife and dissolving her
body in a vat filled with caustic pot
ash, was placed in the hands of the
jury Alonday afternoon.
Judge Tuthill finished his charge to
the jury at 4:45 p. m., and five min
utes later the jury filed out aud were
locked in the jury room.
The twelve men spent the night
without reaching an agreement. Tues
day was passed with no result, and at
nine o’clock Tuesday night the jury
had gone to bed on cots, placed in the
courtroom, aud it was announced by
Judge Tuthill that, even though by
one chance in a million the jurors
should wake up on the morrow and
agree upon a verdict there would be
no announcement and the court room
would, under no circumstances, be
opened until 10 o’clock Wednesday
morning.
Just before retiring for the night the
jury took another ballot, the vote
standing nine for conviction and three
for acquittal.
PARDONED BY AVEYLER.
Eleqen Prisoners Released From Spanish
Penal Settlement.
A dispatch from Havana states that
General Weyler has ordered the release
from the isle of Pines, the Spanish
penal settlement off the coast of Cuba,
of eleven prisoners who were, it is
alleged, concerned in tho uprising
which resulted in the imprisonment
of Senorita Evangelina Casio y Cisne
ros, who recently escaped from the
Casa Reeojidas in Havana and who is
now in New York.
JURORS OFFERED BRIBES.
Judge Vincent In Possession of Letters
Bargaining For Luetgert’s Liberty.
A Chicago dispatch says: Two letters
offering bribes to the foreman of the
jury in the Luetgert case have been
received by Judge Tuthul 1 and are now*
in possession of the state’s attorney.
State’s Attorney Deneen is not dis
posed to regard the attempted bribery
seriously, but Inspector Schaack and
Assistant State's Attorney McEwen
look upon the matter with suspicion,
OLD DIRECTORY RETAINED.
Annual Meeting of Georgia, Southern and
Florida Stockholders.
The annual meeting of tlie stock
holders of the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad was held at Alacon,
Ga., Wednesday.
The following directors were re
elected: Samuel Spencer, H. H.
Tift, H. P. Smart, T. D, Tinsley,
Morris Happ, AY. C. Shaw, J. F. Han
son, George AA 7 . Parrott, T. B.
Gresham, *‘A. S. Pendleton and J. M.
Johnson.
The annual report, in which such a
splendid showing was made for the
road by the present management, was
submitted to the stockholders!.
COMPETES AVl'i'H SOUTHERN.
Tlie Seaboard* Will Build a Branch Koad
In South Carolina.
A 7 iec President St. John, of the Sea
board Air Line, met Captain E. A.
Srnythe, of Pelzer, and Colonel James
L. Orr, of Piedmont, at Abbeville, 8.
C., Tuesday to confer about running a
spur of tlie Seaboard Air Line from
Abbeville to those two manufacturing
towns in Greenville aud Anderson
counties.
The conference settled the fact that
the road will be built from Abbeville
to those towns, a distance of forty
miles.
EMBEZZLER IS CORRALED.
diaries H. CaUwaliader Loratud In Janes
ville, Wisconsin, Jail.
I The St. Louis police think they
have located Charles H. Cadwailader,
who is wanted in Union City, Ind., on
a charge of embezzling $50,000 in 1896.
From a source that is said to be re
; liable, detectives have learned that a
man who is in jail at Janesville, Wie.,
is in reality Cadwailader. He is
charged with shooting Wilburn Butters,
j t citizen of Janesville.
ILUETGERI JURY DISAGREES.
MISTRIAL DECLARED IN THE CEL
EBItATED MURDER CASE.
THREE STOOD OUT FOR ACQUITTAL
The Biff Snusagemnker Furnishes a State
ment Id Representatives of the
Associated l'cess.
A Chicago special says: The Lnet
gert jury failed to agree and as a result
a mistrial in the celebrated case was
declared by Judge Tuthill Thursday
morning.
As soon as the court was called to
order Foreman Heickhold handed the
following to Clerk Knoch, who, by
order of the court read it aloud:
“We, the jurors in the case of the
people of the state of Illinois, vs. A.
L. Luetgert, tender to the presiding
judge, the Hon. Richard S. Tuthill,
and the brilliant state’s attorney,
Charles S. Deneen, and his no less
brilliant assistant, Mr. W. M. Mc-
Ewen, as well as tlie attorneys for the
defense, our most heartfelt thanks for
the very kind treatment we have re
ceived at their hands, and we do not
hesitate to state that were it not for
the way in which they have attended
to our personal comfort, as well as to
our sanitary condition, the hardship
would have been very great.
“As to the trial we wish to state
that, while the evidence was such that
we were unable to agree upon a ver
dict, one thing we did agree about,
and that is that the circumstances
were such that the police had ample
reason to prosecute on the showing
without hearing the defense, and we
commend them for having done their
duty on this case. ”
This was signed by Foreman Heick
hold and the balance of the jury.
The jurors were evidently of the
opinion that the statement was enough
to give the public at this time.
The twelve meu were divided as fol
lows:
For conviction and the death penal
ty—Heickhold, Boyd,Bibby,Mahoney,
Behmiller, Hosmer, Shaw, Frauzen
and Fowler.
For acquittal—Harley, Holabirn and
Barber.
I,u■! out ’# St a t emeut.
Thursday night the Associated Press
obtained the one great feature missing
in the famous trial—the sworn testi
mony of the defendant himself.
Standing in the gloomy jail adjoin
ing the grim looking gray stone court
building in which his remarkable trial
had at last been brought to a finish,
the burly sausage manufacturer capped
the climax of the extraordinary series
of events which began with his sensa
tional bankruptcy and tho alleged
frightful diabolism of boiling his wife
to death at midnight in a vat in his
factory cellar.
Closely following the final result
of the trial, which has attracted
world-wide attention, Luetgert made
under oath a statement for the Asso
ciated Press concerning the fearful
crime charged against him, the first
sworn statement yet made by him,
and the first sworn statement of such
kind ever known in newspaper au
nals. The affidavit was put in writing,
in due legal form, and is certified to
by a notary.
The affidavit explicitedly declares
Luetgert’s innocence. The document
in full is as follows:
“To the Public—The result of iny
trial ended today is a victory for me
because of the disagreement of the
jury, but I am very much surprised
that the jury did not bring in a ver
dict of not guilty.
“I did not kill my wife and do not
know where she is, but I am sure-that
that it is only a question of time until
she comes home.
“I did not go upon the witness
stand because my lawyer, Judge Vin
cent, was bitterly opposed to my do
ing so, and because lie advised me that
it was not necessary.
“I am grateful for the tremendous
change in public sentiment in my fa
vor, and time will demonstrate that I
am not only an innocent, but a very
grievously wronged man.
Adolph L. Luetgebt.
“Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 21st day of October, A. D,,
1897. M. F. Sullivan,
Notary Public.”
talked Civil service.
Cabinet Devotes Several Hours In Dis
cussing the Subject.
A Washington special says: The
cabinet Tuesday devoted considerable
time to a discussion of the civil service
and how to obtain the best results
from the recent order promulgated by
the president.
A decision was reached that each
department should prepare and adopt
regulations to meet the order.
While each department will formu
late its own regulations, there was a
general sentiment that it would be
well to have ihem along the general
lines of the regulations issued by the
treasury department to carry out the
president’s order.
LYNCHED FOB ARSON.
Masked Mob Takes Two Negroes Away
From Officers.
Reports from Summerville, Ga.,
thirty miles north of Rome, state that
two negroes named Penn and Hazle
ton were lynched Sunday night.
The men were accused of arson and
had been arrested by the sheriff and
posse. While returning with their
].risen ers a masked mol) overpowered
the officers and disappeared with the
negroes into the woods. Nothing has
been seen or heard of the prisoners
since.
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING
Of tlie Woman** Homo Missionary Society
of Methodist Episcopal Church.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
Woman’s Home Missionary Society of
the Methodist Episcopal church began
at Baltimore Wednesday morning and
will last a week. About two hundred
delegates from every state in the
union are present and it is expected
that business of great importance will
be transacted at the present session.
SIXTY NEW CASES
Wm Fever Record In New Orleans Wed
nesday—Hlx Deaths.
All previous records as to the num
ber of new oases of fever in New Or
leans were broken Wednesday. Early
in the evening sixty new cases had
been entered.on the books of the board.
At the same time there had been six
deaths. These had all occurred dur
ing the early hours.
The flight from Montgomery con
tinues. Upwards of 500 refugees from
Alabama’s capital are in Atlanta, Ga.
The tables have been completely turn
ed, and those who were so violent in
insisting on & stringent quarantine
against Atlanta have been compelled
to seek refuge within her gates.
Montgomery’s board of health at 1
o’clock Wednesday afternoon reported
five new cases and one death.
The executive department of state
has been removed to Birmingham.
The department of agriculture is also
there temporarily, and the convict de
partment has taken its books to
Speigners.
Birmingham is now practically the
southern terminus of traffic on the
Louisville aud Nashville. For fear of
the inadequacy of the state quarantine
the towns of Jacksonville, Auburn and
Tuskegee, for which places a very
large percentage of the refugees were
headed, have organized local quaran
tines.
Selma, however, has the most de
termined quarantine of all. Every
avenue into the central city is guarded.
APPROVE SOUTHERN HISTORIES.
Virginia Ex-Confederates Want tlie Truth
of Events Taught.
The Grand Camp of Virginia Con
federate Veterans met in Richmond
and adopted the following resolutions:
“Resolved, That only such histo
ries as fairly present the principles
and facts upon which is grounded
our American republic be used. In
this spirit we would recommend
as Virginia histories, those by Mrs.
Mary Tucker McGill and General
IX 11. Maury, and as histories of the
United States, those of Mrs. Susan
Pendleton Lee, Rev. J. William Jones,
Shinn, Hansel series and Holmes.
Further, we would suggest for its
moral and patriotic influence as aux
iliary reading the admirable life of
General Robert E. Lee, by Mrs. Mary
Williamson—in our opinion it might
be adopted—such is its clearness and
verbal simplicity, as a current reader.
“We desire, also, to express our ad
miration of the recent utterance of the
grand commander of the Confederate
veterans of Virginia, Col. John Cus
sons, in his trenchant arraignment of
the sonth in his “Glance at Current
History.”
STOCKHOLDERS HIT HARD.
Their Investment. In I.ooted Southern
Mutual May Como To Naught.
Stockholders of the Southern Mutual
Building and Loan association, which
failed in Atlanta last February, have
received the report of the receivers,
James A.Anderson and M.H.O’Byrne,
showing the condition of that concern,
and the report makes it clear that
stockholders will not receive more
than 25 ner cent of the amount paid
in.
The general report of Accountant B.
F. Moore, attached to tho letter of the
receivers, shows assets of $651,262.53
and liabilities of $879,208.66, leaving
a deficit of $227,946.13. The real de
ficit will be much larger than this be
cause most of the items in tho list of
assets are worth considerably less than
their face value.
BOHANNON ROBBERS FOILED.
Gang Made Almost Successful Attempt at
Jail Breaking.
Bohannon and his accomplices were
caught Wednesday night in all attempt
to break jail at Dalton, Ga. They had
obtained a small steel saw and had cut
seven bars in two. They had three
more to cut to get to the brick wall.
An hour’s work would have let them
out of the cage. They did most of their
work during the day while it was rain
ing hard.
At night the prisoners in the cage
appeared to.be very jolly and sang for
an hour. The singing, which was to
drown the noise of tlie saw, aroused
suspicion and they were detected at
work.
There are twelve in Bohannon’s
cage. All the car robbers are there
except Kinneman and Morris, who
are in another cell.
IGNORED BY SOUTHERN.
A Rumor That Seaboard’s Slash of Rates
Will Cause No War.
If the Southern railway retains its
present attitude in regard to the an
nouncement ol lower rates made by
the Seaboard Air-Line, there is to be
no rate war.
With the calm indifference of one
not effected, the Southern will give no
attention to the cut and declares that
it will not go into the slashing contest.
But the Seaboard Air-Line lias made
a big swipe at rates and has filed with
the interstate commerce commission
figures which are almost as low as the
cut made last year when the Simonton
injunction came on.
TROUBLE OYER SUNDAY WORK.
Contractor* Had To l’*c Gun# To Prevent
Interference.
There was a small-sized row at the
government fortification works on
Tyliee Island Sunday. As the con
tractors are pushing the work, ti e
men were asked to work on Sunday.
They demanded $2 a day for this ser
vice, which was refused. Eleven of
them, all South Carolinians, then be
gan intimidating about a dozen other
workmen who did go to work. Shot
guns were brought into requisition to
drive the intimidators away.
EVANS TO FOUND SCHOOLS.
Kic'ii American In Pari* Will Bea Phil
. anthropist.
Announcement is made at New York
that Dr. Thomas AV. .Evans, the Amer
ican dentist of Paris, whose wealth is
variously estimated at from $30,000,-
000 to $35,000,000, will spend a part
of that huge fortune in founding and
maintaining educational institutions in
different cities of this country.
Dc. Evans left for Paris on the
French liner La Touraiae, which sail
ed for Havre Saturday.
ENGLISH PRESS IS AROUSED
OYER BAD TREATMENT OF A NEWS
PAPER MAN IIV SPAIN.
CHRONICLE’S STRONG EDITORIAL
British Lion May Be Awakened SutiL
eleutly to Call Spain to Term*
Regarding Alleged Outrage.
The London Daily Chronicle in it*
issue of Tuesday morning, comment
ing upon the death in Cuba last week
of W. Hughes, correspondent of Black
and White, (newspaper) of London,
who is said lo have starved to death in
the streets of Havana, after having
been maltreated and robbed by a party
of Spanish guerillas, says:
“If the story of his death is trim, fresh
execration of Spanish action will arise, anil
the British government may have something
to say.”
Hughes was found dead on the
Prado, Havana, Thursday night a
week ago. Ho had recently visited
Pinar del Rio with a pass from the
military governor. It is said that
while there a party of guerillas in
broad daylight and in the presence of
Spanish officers, assaulted him and
robbed him of everything lie had ex
cept his clothes. Hughes, it is al
leged, appealed to the military com
mander for help and demanded tho
restitution of his property, but was
only laughed at.
He was obliged to return to Havana,
walking the entire distance, aud reach
ed the city ragged and starving. Hav
ing lost his passport, he could not
establish his identity or communicate
with his friends in England. He
starved to death in the streets.
Hughes had earned an excellent repu
tation as a war correspondent in Afri
ca, having followed the Soudan expe
dition, and also traveled in Western
Africa. His father is a retired Brit
ish army surgeon. The case has been
reported to the British consul at
Havana.
GEORGE PULLMAN DIES.
Tlie Well Known Palace Par Magnate
Suddenly Stricken.
George M. Pullman, the palace car
magnate, died at his residence in Chi
cago at 5 o’clock Tuesday morning.
Mr. Pullman, who was in his 66th
year, had not been enjoying his usual
good health during the summer. The
extreme heat of last week greatly ag
gravated his disease, known to medi
cal scieuce as angina pectoris, but no
serious trouble was anticipated.
Mr. Pullman was at his office in the
Pullman building daily and dined Mon
day with friends at his club. Later in
the evening he remarked having a slight
pain in the back. He retired at his
usual early hour. At 4 o’clock mem
bers of the household were awakened
by a disturbance in Mr. Pullman’s
chamber and upon entering found biin
standing in the center of the room,
dazed and apparently suffering excru- 1
ciating pains in the region of the
heart. The family physician was
hastily summoned and restoratives
were applied, but to no purpose, and
at 5 o’clock the millionaire manufact
urer aud philanthropist passed away
without speaking and with scarcely a
struggle.
Airs. Pullman, who, with her two
sons—George and Banger has been on
an eastern tour, was wired at once.
George M. Pullman went to Chicago
in 1859. He at once took a prominent
place in business circles. In 1880,
owing to the growing demands of his ,
manufacturing interests, lie put into
execution a pet theory for the estab
lishment of a “model town” as a home
for his car works and tho thousands
of employees. A site was selected on
the shores of Lake Calumet, twelve
miles south of Chicago. Air. Pullman
devoted his personal attention to the
, erection of the little city and succeed
ed even beyond bis own expectations
in making it a model town. Pullman
now lias a population of 11,000.
Air. Pullman’s wealtht is variously
estimated at from $12,000,000 to $30,-
000. His financial interests were con
fined to a few corporations, the hulk
of the holdings being stock in the
Pullman Palace Car company, of
which he owned about one-fifth. •
WHISKIES OF POOR QUALITY.
Chicago Parties Detected In Gigantic
Liquor Counterfeiting Scheme.
lu a musty and darkened cellar at *
No. 131 Sangamon street, Chicago,
lawyers, detectives and constables
have unearthed what they claim to be
one of tbe largest liquor counterfeit
ing schemes ever operated in this coun
try.
After four hours’ work $25,000 in
counterfeit labels, representing all the
leading brands of liquor, bottles and
cases were found.
Tlie loss to tlie liquor dealers and
manufacturers through counterfeit has
been nearly $500,000, and it may even
reach a higher figure.
DEBTS WILL BE PAID.
Tennessee Methodists In Conference Hear
a Bit of Good New*.
For years past a heavy debt has j
hung over the board of missions of the
Methodist Episcopal church, sou'.n,
with headquarters in Nashville.
About two years ago Dev. Dr. Henry
C. Alorrison, one of the missionary
secretaries, inaugurated a movement
to pay off this debt, and Wednesday
be had the satisfaction of announcing
to the conference that subscriptions
have been received to the amount of
$150,000, which will wipe out every
cent of the debt.
BOARD COULD NOT AGREE
■ 1
And Its Two Members Go To Jail For
Contempt of Court.
A Norfolk, Va., dispatch says:
Some days ago Judge Prentiss, of the
circuit court, issued an order that un
less Messrs. Finley Cromwell and R.
L. Shea, members of tho electoral
board of Norfolk county, agreed on a
third member by 2 p. m. Monday,
tliey were to go to jail fer contempt of
court. They failed to agree and both
gave themselves up.