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CARRABELLE STORM SWEPT
Disastrous Gulf Hurricane Almost Annihilates
A Fair Florida Town.
GREAT DAMAGE REPORTED IN OTHER SECTIONS
Crops and Turpentine Interests Reported as Ruined.
Train Blown From Track.
According to special dispatches the
town of Carrabolle, Fla., a prosperous
port on the Gulf of Mexico,
of Tallahassee, was almost completely
destroyed by a terrific wind and rain
storm which passed through that soc
tion during Tuesday and Tuesday
night. Many boats which were in the
harbor were wrecked and most of the
Jong wharf is gone, together with large
quantities of naval stores. pavilion
At Lanark, the boathouses,
and boats have hoed destroyed.
Fully fifteen persons are reported
drowned at St. Marks. A few houses
were destroyed at St. Teresa. The
McIntyre, Ashmore and Curtis mills
suffered severely. A passenger train
on the Carrabelle, Tallahassee and
Gulf railroad, thirty-livo miles below
Tallahassee, was badly wrecked, but
no one reported killed or injured.
The turpentine interest in this section
is greatly damaged and much injury
has been done to the crops.
The regular midday southbound
train from Tallahassee to Carabelle
was caught in a storm at McIntyre
and blown from the track. The stout
new trestle over tho Ocklocknee river
at McIntyre was blown away.
A wrecking train left Tallahassee at
daylight Wednesday and found over 200
trees across the tracks in a thirty-mile
run. General Manager Chittenden
had charge of the train. He returned
in the evening, stating that all the
towns along tho line present scenes of
desolation. Houses,sawmills.churehes,
hotels, wharves and pavilions have j
been blown from their positions and j
many entirely wrecked.
Crops Totally Destroyotl.
Over half the trees iu the pine for- j
MORMON OFFERS REWARD
For Apprehension of Whitecappers
In Jasper County—WiH See
Governor Candler.
A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatch
•ays: President Ben E. Eich, of the
southern states missions of the Church
of Christ, Latter Hay Saints, will go
to Atlauta, Ga., at an early date to call
on Governor Allen D. Candler and de
mand of him protection for Mormon
elders who are preaching in that state.
President Rich decided on this course
after consulting his co-workers. Mr.
Rich is highly indignant at the manner
in which elders have been treated in
Georgia, aud ho is going to leave noth
ing undone to secure for them the
protection that is duo every citizen.
Mr. Rich will present letters to Gov
ernor Candler from the governors of
Idaho and Utah testifying to President
Rich’s character and high standing.
President Rich has offered a reward
of $500 for the apprehension and ar
rest of any member or members of tho
Georgia mob that assaulted the Mor
mon elders. In nu interview with
President Rich he said:
“I propose myself to bring this mat
ter to the attention of the governor of
Goorgia aud ask from him the same
protection for our elders that a citizen
of Georgia would want in the far
western states. We are living hero
under the constitution of the United
States, which guarantees religious
liberty to all her citizens. All we want
are the liberties aud rights guaranteed
us by our country,”
Tobacco Trust In Chicago.
Representatives of tho American
Tobacco company have purchased the
plaut aud business of August Beck –
Co., at Chicago, for $300,000. Only
a few weeks ago the American Tobacco
company purchased tho plaut of
Grudle Strotz.
MARYLAND DEMOCRATS MEET.
They Nominate John Welter Smith For
Governor of tho State.
The Maryland democratic state con
vention which wns hold at Ford’s
opera house in Baltimore Wednesday,
nominated the following ticket:
Governor—John Walter Smith, of
"Worcester county.
Attorney general—Isadore Raynor,
of Baltimore.
Comptroller general—Joshua W.
Hering, of Carroll county.
The convention was unanimously
harmonious and all the nominations
were made by acclamation, Edwin
Warfield, Mr, Smith’s principal oppo
nent, withdrawing at the last moment.
GARDES NOT PARDONED.
President Denies Application of the New
Orleans Itmbeuler.
I A Wellington dispatch says: The
president ,, ; nas , denied , . , toe application ,. ..
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for pardon for Henry Gardes, former
president of the American National
bank of New Orleans, who is now
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, Ohio . penitentiary . for misaiiplying . . the
funds of the bank.
ests are uprooted and large turpentine
interests ruiued. Crops in the tracks
of the storm are completely destroyed.
Oue mill hand is known to have
been drowned at McIntyre.
The sevoral summer resorts are
almost positively knowu to have es
caped loss of life, bin reliable news
from other places was unobtainable at
time of going t# press. Large relief
parties went from Tallahassee to the
stricken section.
For sometime after the storm noth
ing could be beard of the steamer
Cresent City, plying between Cara
belle and Appalachicola, with a crew
of eight and several.passengers. south
The wires were blown down
of Tallahassee and railroad service to
the gulf ports is suspended.
Storm Traveled Northward.
Tho storm was one of the hardest
that ever passed over that section of
Florida. It came directly up the gulf
and started northward. For hours the
wind was terrific, blowing at a high
rate and the rain fell in torrents, wash
ing away bridges, endangering thor
oughfares and railroads. The storm
reached the coast Tuesday morning
and there was no cessation until far
into the night.
Along the coast the fishing industry
has been severely interferred with,
Parties who returned ou the wreck
ing train which went to Carrabelle
Wednesday morning report that the
country along the route shows the
effects of the storm. The train was
compelled to run with great caution,
owing to tho condition in which the
storm had placed the roadbed. The
water had been over the tracks in
many places. Passengers on the train
which was wrecked say the train was
blown from tho track.
ASSAULTER IS JAILED.
Kxeitinjj Knee For life But Would-Be
Lynchers Were Foiled.
John Mullins, a negro, thirty years
old, attempted an assault on the wife
of Mr. James Cook, two miles south
of Seuoia, Ga., Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Cook was alone and was stand
ing at the window of her bed room,
eating watermelon, when, unawares,
she was seined from the rear by this
brute, who placed his hand over her
mouth, threw her to the floor, cursed
her and told her if she screamed he
would cut her throat.
The sound of a buggy crossing the
bridge near by is all that kept the ne
gro from accomplishing his dastardly
purpose. Mrs. Cook
The negro fled and gave
the alarm at once, and pursuers were
soon hot on bis trail.
Mullins was captured within a short
time and placed in the guard house in
Seuoia. A short time afterward it
was decided to take the negro to Now
nan for safe-keepiug and he was start
ed through the country in charge of
officers.
A mob of forty armed men quickly
organized and started in hot pursuit,
but the sheriff eluded them aud laud
ed his prisoner safe in the Newuan
jail.
JAILED FOR WIFE MURDER.
Albany Gunmnltli Is rimrgcil With Most
U«liioib Crime.
W. J. Glazier, a native of Germany,
who has resided in Albany, Ga., for
eight years, is confined in Dougherty
county jail on a charge of wife mur
der.
Glazier, according to the story told
by liis neighbors, administered several
severe beatings to his wife, who was a
small woman of weak constitution,
Wednesday morning it was discovered
that she was dead.
Glazier was arrested, charged with
having murdered her, but professed
his innocence.
FOUR SUSPECTED CASES,
But Little Ctutngo In the Fever Situation
at Hampton* Va.
Advices received by Surgeon Gen
oral \\ yman at Washington up to 9
o’clock Wedueday night from Hamp
ton show that tho ouly change u> the
yellow fever is the addition of four
suspected oases to those already iu
j existence, Hr. Wyman thinks it is of the ut
most importance that all persons who
have been exposed should be kept
1 under olose observation for ten days
j following their departure from Harnp
| ton and Phoebus, particularly those
who stopped over one night in either
place.
ALABAMA QUARANTINES.
j State Authorities Take Precaution Against
j t ' irj-lnla Towns.
k [ issued Governor state Johnston quarantine, of Alabama applying has to
p ersons au j p ersolla l baggage, against
i Soldiers’ Home. Pheobns, Hampton,
Old Point Comfort, Newport News and
°Gier P laces hereafter infected.
This applies to all persons who have
been in the above mentioned places
I w-ithiu ten days before arriving iu the
i state.
FALCON OF THE SEA.
> Idling In Cuban Water. With Ilia
Trained Keinora.
The occupation of Cuba and Porto
ltieo by Americans, gradually taking
place, may enable some of the sports
men among them to revive in those
islands an ancient sport which would
be a decided novelty—fishing with
trained remoras.
It was reported by the early voy
agers to the Antilles that the natives
of those coasts were accustomed to
use live remoras iu capturing other
fishes, and such other marine animals
as turtles, by keeping their trained
captives tethered, and pulling them
iu, prey aud all, as soon as they had
attached themselves to a catch. It
must have been good sport, and one
well worth reviving.
One of the oldest accounts of this
curious method of fishing is that by
Columbus or oue of bis companions,
given in Ogilby’s “America,” print*-!
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(From the only photograph of a living
specimen in oxistence.)
in 1671, as follows, attested by a very
quaint illustration:
“Columbus from hence [that is,
CubaJ proceeding' on furthpi West
ward, discover’d a fruitful Coast,
verging [the Mouth of a river, whose
Water runs boyling into the Sea.
Somewhat farther he saw very strange
Fishes, especially of the Guiacan, not
unlike an Eel, but with an extraordin
ary great Head, over which hangs a
skin like a bag. This Fish is the
Natives Fisher, for having a Line or
hansom Cord fastened about him, so
soon as a Turtel, or any other of his
Prey, comes above Water, they give
him Line; whereupon the Guiacan,
like an Arrow out of a Bowe, shoots
toward the other fish, and then gather
ing the mouth of the Bag on his Head
like a Purse-net, holds them so fast
that he lets not loose till hal’d up out
of the Water.”
Now this quaintly described “guia
can” is the large sucking-fish or remora
(Echineis uaucrates), fairly common
in the warmer parts cf the American
Atlantic, and shown in the accompany
ing picture. This illustration is no
table as a reproduction of the only
photograph of a living remora in ex
istence—photographs of any living
fishes are a rarity—which was
by Dr. Tarleton H. Bean from a fine
specimen in the aquarium of tho
United States Fish Commission. It
is the species best known of the five
along our Eastern coast, because it is
the one that most commonly clings to
the hulls of ships.
These, fishes, which constitute a
family related to our bluetishes, are
spread alt over the world, however,
most numerously in the warmer lati
tudes—one, inhabiting the Mediter
ranean, having been known from an
tiquity ns the remora, the literal
meaning of which is “hold-back,” in
allusion to many quaint fables aud
fancies, as we shall see.
• None is of large size, tho biggest,
probably, being that shown iu the pho
tograph, which may reach a length of
five feet, while the well-known Medi
terranean species is only eight inches
long.'^fvja^*- The extraordinary «• feature of these
fishes that gives them their name and
singular parasitic habits is not shown
iu the photograph, though indicated
by the peculiar flatness of the top of
the head,, which is covered with.au
oval “sucker” reaching back to the
two little erect tins, which are really
pectorals, properly pendent from the
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chest, but here strangely misplaced
almost upon tlio back of the neck. Tho
other fiiis are much modified, but none
so completely as the forward x>ne of
the two dorsal or back fius—which is
no longer, indeed, a fin at all, but has
been modified into the adhesive organ
that surmounts the head.
These fishes are excellent swim
mers, have a wide though somewhat
misshapen mouth, well furnished
with teeth, and are quite-as well able
as other fishes, apparently, to pick up
their living by seizing the small
fishes, crustaceans and other living
creatures or bits of carrion upon
which they 'feed. The possession of
thS sucker, hoAvever has led them to
abandon independent exertion as
much as possible, aud has given them
the great advantage of forcing
sea-animals to relieve them of a large
part of the labor that would otherwise
fall to their share.
A ton of oil has been obtained from
the tongue of a single whale.
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DESIGN FOR SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ MONUMENT.
The monument to be erected on Riverside Drive, New York City, to the
memory of tho soldiers and sailors who fell in the Civil War, is in the form
of a templfe of fame, and will be eighty feet in height, liuilt of pure white
marble. It will cost $250,000. round-topped rook at
Mount Tom, the site for the new.monument, is a
the foot of West Eighty-third street. It is the most elevated point on the
New York side of the Hudson for many miles, and when the monument’s
height of eighty feet is added to this landmark the effect will be magnificent.
There has never been a monumeht erected in New York in honor of the
soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, despite the fact that the members of the
Grand Army of the Republic were unremitting in their endeavors to secure a
fitting memorial; but finally the Legislature was induced to authorize the
city to issue bonds to secure a fund for the building of the monument.
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to Be Hold Annually.
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The great international athletic tour
ney is over and England is the win
ner. It was held at the Queen’s Club
aud tho Americans made a game fight,
but were beateu, 5 to 4. The Harvard
and Yale boys will have a chance to
retrieve themselves next year if the
Englishmen decide to come to this
country for a return contest.
Not in many years have Britishers
takon such an interest in track and
field sports. What were said to be
the cream of Uncle Sam’s amateur
athletes were sent over to do battle
with the pick of the country, and
royalty and commoners were alike
deeply interested in the outcome.
Many thousands witnessed the con
tests, and fabulous juices were paid
for seats. Several hundred Americans
were late in securing boxes and as
high as $50 a seat was offered, but the
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(Harvard’s star performer, who was in such
bad form that he lost the half mile race,
the English athletes thereby being en
abled to win.)
supply had long been exhausted and
the money didn’t tempt the holders.
The crowd which assembled was a
notable one. Two hours before the
first; event was called the spectators
began to arrive, aud by four o’clock
every seat on the field was taken and
spectators were lined up four deep
around the entire track. In all eight
thousand persons were present*
To an American the appearance of
the field was a revelation. Brilliantly
decorated stands, with colored awnings
and innumerable flags gave the event
quite a carnival-like appearance, such
as i 9 seldom seen at an American col
lege meeting. This "was, however,
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THE QUEEN’S CLUB, LONDON.
(Where the contests between the American and Brttish athletes took place.)
quite in accordance yito the ordinary
custom iu Englaul.
A pleasant feature of the day was
the presence of the London Y r ictoria
Military Baud, which throughout the
afternoon enlivened the occasion with
popular airs.
The Harvard and Yale supporters
filled two sections in the stand oppo
site the finishes, but with the excep
tion of a single cheer ou the occasion
of Fox’s win in the hurdle race there
was none of the organized shouting
that is a feature of the Harvard-Yale
contests.
Judging from announcements made
by several speakers at the dinner
given to the athletes after the games
were over, it is evident that the two
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ROBERT GRJ2EN INGERSOLL.
English universities contemplate a
return visit to America next year.
The members of both teams were in
excellent health and spirits, aud made
the dinner the liveliest ever given in
London, They joined in all the
popular airs which the band played,
and when American national tune3
were played, all stood in their chairs
singing" and cheering.
The Americans came in for great
applause from both the Englishmen
and Americans present. Fox, Rice and
Palmer being especially honored,
while Davidson, as the victor in an
event which all Englishmen feared
would go to America, was greatly ac
claimed as the saviour of the day.
Then came brief speeches from the
captains of the teams, Vassal saying
he Hoped,to go to America aud give
them revenge, and, despite the assur
ance which his neighbor, Roche, had
given him all during the dinner that
the climate had nothing to do with to-
day’s results, he was very much afraid
that the tables would be turned on
them in America.
Captains Roche and Fisher,, respec
tively of Harvard and Yale, who fol-
lowed Captain Vassal, both
modest and appropriate speeches
thanking the Englishmen for their
cordial reception and courteous treat
ment and asking that they be allowed
soon to try again.
I Sketch of He Sareer 1
J of Robert S. Ingersoll, |
The death of Robert G. Ingersollat
his summer home at Dobbs Ferry, N.
Y., removed a unique character from
the world’s stage. He did not leave
life as he had wished; he wanted to
die slowly so that he could note his
feelings and give to the world a fare
well message before he crossed the
threshold of the dead.
Colonel Ingersoll was the son of B
Congregational minister. His boy
hood was spent iu Wisconsin and Illi
nois. He was educated in the public
schools, studied law, and opened an
office in Shawneetown, Ill., with his
brother Eben, who represented the
Peoria district in Congress from 18G4
to 1872. and who died in 1879. Rob
ert G. Ingersoll was Colonel of the
Eleventh Illinois Cavalry in the Civil
War, aud made an exceedingly good
record as a soldier. He was cap
tured by a force of Confederate cav
alry, but he was paroled and he re
turned to his command. He was
Attorney-General of Illinois iu 18G6.
Colonel Ingersoll’s first attempt at
oratory was a failure, but when he
again essayed to speak he was suc
cesful, and finally developed into one
of America’s greatest orators. His
speeches were marked by an extraor
dinary facility of phrasing and an un
usual power of graphic portrayal.
The speech which he delivered at the
National Republican Convention in
1876, nominating James G. Blaine
and giving him the title of Plumed
Knight, attained for him national
fame.
His chief notoriety, however, rests
upon his attacks upon the Christian
religion. He wrote a number of books
and minor works, and several volumes
of lectures. He participated in several
theological discussions with men of
national and international reputations,
the most notable one being with Mr.
Gladstone. He delivered lectures on the
subjects which made him well known
in all parts of the country and they
drew overflowing audiences.. Colonel
Ingersoll was sincere in his convic
tions and it was due to them that in
1877 he refused the post of Minister
to Germany:
Colonel Ingersoll lias enriched Eng
lish literature by the enlogies which
he delivered at the graves of his
friends and by the patriotic addresses
which he made on national occasions.
The eulogy which he delivered at his
brother’s funeral is considered his
finest effort, and his address spoken
in New York City on Memorial Day in
1888 has become a classic. One of his
finest compositions is a prose poem
entitled “Life.”
Colonel Ingersoll was a man of large
sympathy. He was naturally a phil
antropkist and had many plans for the
improvement of the conditions of the
poor. He earned great sums of money,
both as a lecturer and as a lawyer, but
he let them go like water. It was his
habit to keep money in an open
drawer, to which every member of the
family was free to go at any time and
take what was wanted. His home life
was one of remarkable happiness, and
he was never so happy as when sur
rounded by his devoted family and by
his friends who thronged his house
from all the walks of life. He was a
constant student of Shakespeare,
whose works occupied the place in his
homo where in most homes in this
country the Bible rests. He was never
more eloqent or earnest or impressive
than when talking of the master play
wright. He never tired of delving in
Shakespeare’s works and finding and
displaying beauties hidden from the
careless reader. Wagner was another
object of his ceaseless admiration*