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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.