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NARROW ESCAPE
FOR KING EDDIE
Was Aboard Yacht When
Vessel Was Wrecked.
MIRACULOUSLY MISSED DEATH
Fated Boat Was Lipton’s Cup
Challenger, Shamrock II,
Caught In a Squall.
A London special says: During the
race between the two Shamrocks and
the Sybarlta, in the Solent Wednes
day, a sudden squall struck the
yachts. The topmast of the Shamrock
II was carried away and then her
mainmast went by the board, carry
ing all her sails with it and leaving
her practically a wreck. The top sail
of the Shamrock I was also carried
away in the squall. The disaster oc
curred while preparations were being , ,
made for the start off the Brambles
buoy.
The accident endangered the life of
King Edward and several distlnguish
ed persons on board, Including Sir
Thomas Lipton. The results of the
disaster, which could scarcely recur
without great loss of life, can best be
judged by the statement made by Sir
Thomas Lipton as follows:
“My deepest regret is that today’s
accident prevents me from toeing the
mark at the appointed hour and com
pels me to ask the New York Yacht
Ciub to grant me an extension of
time. If they will be good enough to
do that I shall race, even if I have to
build a boat between now and the
date agreed upon. I still believe the
Shamrock II a boat worthy to be the
challenger and that, when this unfor
tunate chapter of accidents comes to
an end, she will still stand a good
chance of lifting the cup. I have not
a single complaint to make against
my boat.
“For the many telegrams of sympa
thy received from America today I
am deeply grateful. No one is more
thankful than I am that the catastro
phe ended without fatality, and I may
perhaps say that throughout the try
ing moments his majesty was as brave
as a lion. His first thought was to in
quire if any one was injured.”
Yacht a Pitiful Wreck.
Circumstances have reduced the
Shamrock II to a pitiful, sparless
wreck. She now lies off Hythe. The
story of the catastrophe is best told
by Sir Thomas Lipton himself. After
seeing his royal guest off to London,
Sir Thomas made the following state
ment:
“We had just begun to make for
the starting line when a fierce breeze
sprang up. King Edward, Lady Lon
donderry, Mrs. Jameson, Mr. Watson,
Mr. Jameson and myself were on
deck, hanging on as best we might,
for the challenger was almost at an
angle of 45 degrees. The king started
to go below. Just as he did so every
thing collapsed. A heavy block fell
between the two ladies and a wire
rope struck me on the head and mo
mentarily stunned me. A sudden
squall, an unexpected strain and ev
erything had given way. King Ed
ward was half in and half out of the
companion hatchway. What happen
ed, how all the falling spars and
sweeping sails did not kill or sweep
some one overboard is more than I
know. When I came to I saw the king
clambering over the wreckage trying
to discover the extent of the damage
and asking: ‘Is any one hurt?’ ”
HEALTH BOARD LOSES.
State Snpreme Court Decided Against
Atlanta Municipal Authorities.
The Georgia supreme court Wednes
day handed down a decision declaring
that the Doard of health of Atlanta
was wrong in tearing up the depot
flooring, reversing the decision of
Judge Lumpkin.
The decision declares that except
in cases of nuisances per se an inves
tigation must be held before attempt
ing to abate such alleged nuisance to
determine whether it does constitute
a nuisance. It also declares that in
cities of more than 20,000 inhabitants
the police court and not the board of
health must be resorted to.
FAILEI) to call doctor.
A Quartet of Faith Curists Get Into
A Trouble at Chicago.
coroner’s jury at Chicago, which
or two days listened to the evidence
in the case of Mrs. Emma Lucy Judd,
wife of one of the officials of John
lexander Dowie’s Zion, returned a
verdict holding Dowie, H. W. Judd,
nusband of the woman, and Mrs.
Sprecher and Mrs. Bratsch to await
tlle action of tue grand jury. The
two women named in the verdict
in attendance were
er dea upon Mrs. Judd prior to
. -th. The charge against them
s ii criminal responsibility” the
eath for
of Mrs. Judd, as they failed to
a 1 in a physician.
narramore not guilty.
"oman Who Murdered Her Six Chii
oren Acquitted On Insanity Plea.
billed Elizabeth A. Naramore, who
her six children at their home
Cold brook Springs, Mass., March
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la8t beat ing out their brains
with an aX * l
Th an< a c u l ) > was tried
urgday and found not guilty be
L se insanity, and Mrs. Naramore
Une la committed to the Worcester in
hospital for life.
riANY LIVES LOST.
Storms and High Water In East
Tennessee Do Incalculable
Damage.
A Knoxville, Tenm, special says;
Millions of dollars’ damage has been,
done and at least eight lives lost in
upper Tennessee by the floods, which
began their work of destruction when
a dam across the Doe river at Eliza
bethton gave way Tuesday afternoon.
The dead, so far as known, are:
Mrs. Gregg, Mrs. Filley, — Souchong,
colored; three children of Joseph Hill,
— Bolivar, unknown man.
Little mountain streams emptying
into the Doe and Watauga rivers
swelled those streams beyond all pro
portions hitherto Known, submerging
Elizabethton, a town of 2,000 people,
located at their junction, and drown
ing Mrs. Gregg and Mrs. Filley and
the negro Souchong. ,
All property in the path of the rag
ing flood was destroyed and the peo
ple rendered homeless in a twinkling.
Four other lives have been reported
lost on the Chuckey river. Three chil
dren of Joseph Hill were drowned in
his house while he was at his barn
looking after his stock, and unaware
of the danger at his house. On this
river six bridges were swept away, do
ing a damage of about $60,000, while
the damage to farms houses and
stock along its course in Greene coun
ty alone will amount to one-half a mil
lion dollars.
At Leeper’s mill, on Chuckey river,
two Bolivar brothers fell from a boat
into the river, one being drowned.
A narrow escape from death by the
flood occurred near Greeneville, where
Mrs. James Johnston and two other
women were rescued from the second
story of their dwelling as the flood
was rapidly overwhelming the house.
The Holston river rose with remark
able rapidity. At Morristown, twelve
houses floated past and one corpse
went past on driftwood.
The French Broad reached within
four feet of its famous flood of 1867.
Elizabethton, where the chief dam
age was done, is in upper east Tennes
see. On Tuesday it was a flourishing
little city of 2,500 inhabitants, but to
day it presents a horrible spectacle.
Scores of people are without homes
and raiment and utterly destitute. Al
most the entire portion of the city ly
ing between Main street and Lynn
mountain is totally devastated, and
nothing remains but banks of sand,
rock and debris. A few of the most
elevated and substantial structures
are yet to be seen. Many persons are
believed to have lost their lives, as
several dead bodies were seen floating
in the tide.
The island portion of the city was a
solid sheet of water one mile wide at
the crossing of Broad and Main
streets. The town is divided into
three separate portions, each being
shut off from the other.
The manufacturing interests suffer
ed severely. The Whiting Lumber Co.
and the Tennessee Line and Twine
Co. were the greatest losers.
Hundreds of acres of wheat are de
stroyed and miles of railroad washed
away both on the Virginia and South
western and the East Tennessee and
Western North Carolina railroads.
Telephone and telegraph communica
tion are cut off, but it is believed the
towns of Bueler and Allentown are
totally destroyed. All traffic on rail
roads Is suspended.
All bridges along the principal wa
ter courses are washed away.
LIST OF FIRED STUDENTS.
Names of Young Would-be Warriors
Discharged From Military Academy.
The names of the cadets who have
been dismissed from the military
academy at West Point, N. Y., as a
result of recent disturbances there
are as follows:
Henry L. Bolby, of Nebraska; John
A. Cleveland, of Alabama; Trangett F.
Teller, of New York; Raymond A.
Linton, of Michigan; Birchie O. Me
haney, of Texas.
The following cadets have been
suspended: Olan C. Aleshire, Illi
nois; Benjamin F. McClellan, Missis
sippi; James A. Shannon, Minnesota;
Charles Telford, Utah, all of the sec
ond class.
Also Thomas N. Gimperling, Of
Ohio, and Harry Hawley, of New
York, of the third class. These ca
dets are suspended without pay until
April 1. 1902.
WEALTHY NEGRO DIES.
Peter Postell, Who Amassed Fortune
In Kentucky, Passes Away.
Peter Postell, probably the richest
negro in the south, died suddenly of
heart disease at Hopkinsville, Ky.,
Wednesday. Postell went to Hopkins
ville from North Carolina as a slave.
He ran off and joined the Federal ar
my. Returning home he started a
grocery store from which he accu
mulated a fortune estimated at $500,
000. He was one of the most public
spirited negroes in southern Ken
tucky, and his obsequies will be the
most elaborate ever held in that sec
tion.
Roads Enormously Damaged.
Railroad officials estimate the dam
age from the rains on the Asheville,
N. C., division and the line to Salis
bury in the neighborhood of half a
million dollars.
Delegates Named By Beckham.
Governor Beckham, of Kentucky,
has named fifty delegates to the South
era Industrial convention which will
meet in Philadelphia June 11th to
14th.
SENATOR M'LAURIN
MAKES HIS DEFENSE
Explains His Course In
Speech at Greenville.
A LARGE AUDIENCE PRESENT
South Carolina Senator Vehe
mently Declares That His De
mocracy is Still Intact.
United States Senator McLaurin ad
dressed a large gathering at Green
ville, S. C., Wednesday in explanation
and defense of his political course.
At least thirty counties were repre
sented and many of Piedmont coun
ties had from three to twenty repre
sentatives. It was a representative
gathering, consisting of farmers,
bankers, mill men, merchants, law
yers, doctors, ministers and profes
sors. There was also a large number
of ladies present, who showered the
speaker with bouquets after his
speech.
Although Senator McLaurin spoke
nearly three hours, there was close at
tention to everything he said. It was
the most orderly political meeting
held in Greenville in ten years. There
was not an interruption throughout
the whole time and applauce was fre
quent and vigorous. There were be
tween 1,500 and 2,000 people present.
Senator McLaurin’s friends believe
that his explanation that he expects to
act within the democratic party will
strengthen him in his contest for re
election to the senate.
The senator began by referring to
the campaigns of 1890 and later, de
claring that these were not waged in
the interest of “bossism,” but for
principle; and he contended that he
should not be criticised for his inde
pendence when the alliance delegation
which was sent to congress went
there under pledge that it should not
be bound by the democratic caucus.
On the subject of political parties, he
said:
“Political parties under our form of
government are a necessity. They
grow out of the political relations
established by the government itself.
There have been since the birth of
the nation and always will he two
great political parties; if there were
no real issues they would divide and
fight over the mere spoils of office.
“Party platforms have always been
supposed to be the exponents of these
views. A bloody civil war settled the
question of states’ rights, and for a
quarter of a century the waving of
the ‘bloody shirt’ on the one side and
the ‘nigger in the wood pile’ on the
other constituted the divided lines.
I say that every man, on a purely sec
tional question, like white supremacy,
is a traitor and a renegade who does
not stand by his own section and his
own people.
“Fellow citizens, there is no great
er menace to the stability of our gov
ernment than a large minority in the
American congress voting upon broad,
vital, non-partisan American ques
tions from purely sectional considera
tions. I am a democrat, honestly de
sirous of remaining so, and witness
ing the triumph of the party to which
I am attached by association and here
dity. It was never contemplated by
the founders of that party that it
should become a purely sectional af
fair, yet today there is no democratic
party capable of making itself felt
outside of the south. In the north
and west it is permeated with social
ism, and has dwindled away into the
party of a section, not a nation.”
After brief reference to the money
question, he asked how he could best
serve the interests of his state, say
ing:
“Believing as I do that there are vi
tal issues which, growing out of
changed industrial conditions, are
higher and broader than mere party
questions, I have, as your senator,
looking beyond the line marked by
sectionalism and partisanship, striven
to promote the material, political and
commercial interests of our common
country—far in so doing I ''an best
serve the interests of the state of
South Carolina. For this I have been
arraigned before the people of this
state and charged with allying myself
with the republican party. Criticism,
abuse and gross misrepresentation
have been indulged in. Not content
with this unfair method of attack,
some of the papers in their vile perse
cution have deceived the people by
withholding information on one side
of these great national issues and em
phasizing and publishing everything
on the other.”
Negroes to Build a Town.
A number of Atlanta negroes have
closed a deal by which they secure
control of 200 or more acres of land
eight miles east of Atlanta and two
miles southeast of Decatur, Ga., on
which they propose to build a negro
settlement.
Cup Races In September.
The America’s cup races will begin
on September 21, Sir Thomas Lipton
having by cablegram agreed to that
date and promised to have a formal
request fixing that as the new time
sent by the Royal Ulster Yacht Club.
Mistook Wife For Burglar.
At Louisville, Ky„ Sunday morning
F. H. Richardson shot and killed his
wife, Kittle Richardson, mistaking
her for – burglar.
FOURTEEN DROWNED
IN EAST TENNESSEE
Floods More Destructive
Than First Reported.
GREAT SUFFERING IS ENTAILED
Propperty Loss at Elizabethton
Quarter of a nillion—Tlany
Fertile Farms are Ruined.
The Tennessee river reached the
height of 35.8 at Knoxville Thursday
afternoon, and then began falling. Its
tributaries in upper east Tennessee,
where the greatest loss has resulted
from the flood, have rapidly receded
into their banks, revealing wreckage
of houses and bridges and ruined
crops.
The loss of life thus far reported ag
gregates fourteen, though it is not
improbable that there are others.
Three bridges are reported swept
away in addition to the twelve report
ed Wednesday. There were two road
steel viaducts in Washington county,
over the Nolachucky river; Sullivan
county steel bridge at Devault’s ford;
Ohio river and Charleston railroad
bridge near Devault’s ford.
The loss at Elizabethton due to the
flood is conservatively estimated at
about $250,000. The damage to the
town of Watauga is estimated at
$150,000.
The Holston river, near Hogersville,
was higher than it has been since
1887. The water touched the tracks
on the Southern railway’s steel bridge
near there.
At Knoxville the flood did a great
amount of damage. The Onega, steam
er, largest vessel plying the Tennes
see above Chattanooga, was wrecked
Thursday afternoon, being a total loss.
Traffic via Bristol on the Southern
railway, Norfolk and Western route,
will be delayed until the bridges that
were carried away are replaced.
The Southern hopes to handle trains
by Asheville and Spartanburg, to and
from the east, while the road through
Asheville, via Salisbury, will not be
in use for several days.
The damage in North Carolina from
floods is far worse than at first report
ed, especially to the crops and the
fields. Many fertile bottom lands
were entirely denuded of soli and are
totally worthless.
Aii Southern railway trains between
Charlotte and Atlanta were tempora
rily operated by way of Columbia and
Spartanburg on account of a washout
about 300 feet of a trestle at the
to the Catawba river bridge
miles below Charlotte.
The heaviest damage to the South
ern railway is on the Western North
Carolina division. Ia many places
along the line great gaps are found
.on the track.
Asheville is without water. The
flood so badly damaged the water
works plant that it may be several
days before It can supply the city
again.
LEPERS ARE BARRED.
Louisiana Citizens Demolish Building
Intended For a Lazaretto.
The Louisiana state leper board re
cently quietly purchased a large plan
tation in Jefferson parish, opposite
New Orleans, and made arrangements
to establish there a leper lazaretto.
When the news became public Jef
fries and St. Charles parish were
aroused to indignant protest and
threats were freely made that the
torch and the rifle would be employed
to prevent the transfer of the leper
colony to the point selected.
At a meeting Wednesday the hoard
heard vigorous protests of the citi
zens of the two parishes, but decided
to take no action at present. The pro
testants concluded that the board was
determined to at least attempt to es
tablish the lazaretto in Jefferson.
The result was that during Wednes
day night the proposed home and
other buildings on the plantation se
lected were fired and totally destroy
ed. The facts will be at once reported
to Governor Heard.
WAS HIS LAST “HOP.”
Three Young Men In Birmingham
Jail Charged with Murder.
Oscar and Webb Winn and Ollie
Robbins, three young white men un
der twenty-one years of age, are in
the county jail at Birmingham, Ala.,
the charge against them being the
murder of William Knaves, a very
worthy colored man residing near
Robbins, where he was assassinated
and where the young men also reside.
it is charged that the young men
deliberately took shots at the negro as
he was passing along the highway, re
marking one of them: "Let us see
him hop.”
WATERS STOP MILLS.
Many Cotton Manufactories In Pal
metto State Forced to Close.
A special from Spartanburg, S. C.,
says: The rains of Monday and
Tuesday were very damaging in this
section. High water caused the clos
ing down of the large cotton mills at
Clifton, Glendale. Pacolet and Tuca
pau, seven in number, At least ten
important bridges in the county are
either gone or badly wrecked.
Hfl^VEY ENGLISH,
ROOF FAINTER, ALBANY, GA,
Paints Metal and Paper Roofs only. All
work guaranteed.
Gordele Ga., Nov, 19th, 1900.
Mr. Harry English has painted the roof of our
shops, and stopped some every bad leaks. Wo
are well pleased with the work he has done for
us,
Tomlin-Habkis Machine Company.
By R. C. Harris, General Manager.
Albany, Ga., Jan. 28th, 1897.
Mr. English has painted the roof of the engine
room of Albany Waterwooks with his roof
paint, and I am well satisfied with the work.
He has also done some work for .me personally,
two years ago, which has proved satisfactory. Waterworks.
C. W. Tift, Chief Engineer
Hawkinsville, Ga., Sept. 1, 1899.
To whom it mav concern :
Mr. Harvey English painted the roofs of my,
office building and stores, and the job is entirely
satisfactory. Before he worked upon the same
they leaked badly and since he has completed
the work they have not leaked a particle, though
several hard blowing rains have tested them.
They are now as good as when new.
J. H. Martin
ENGLISH PAINT STOPS LEAKS YES IT DO.
Vienna Drug Co.
Wholesale and Retail Druggists
VIENNA, OA.
We have opened up the best and most complete stock of
Drugs, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals
etc,, ever offered in Vienna, Our stock was bought with
special regard to freshness and purity, price being a minor
consideration, though we are selling everything in our
line at Macon prices. We’specially solicit the patronage
of the physicians. We are well prepared to handle their
trade, having a full line of Merck’s fine chemicals, Mer*
roll’s, Sharpe – Dome’s fluid extracts, pills, elixere, etc.,
which we otter at wholesale prices. Careful attention will
be given to orders sent.
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Co
Time Tables —In Effect February 8d, 1901.
SvCteJwet to Cli.s.Eig'O Notice.
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System, arid with St. Johns and Ockiawaha River steamers.
NO. 6 NO. 4 tt NORTHBOUND NO. 1 NO. 3 NO 5
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Trains 1 and 2. and trains 3 and 4 carry Pullman Buffet Sleeping cars between
Louis and Jacksonville, Fla. Trains 3 and 4 also carry local sleeper between
and Palatka. Trains 6 and 6 are shoo-ffy trains.
Full information from the undersigned.
G. HALL, T. P. A. C. B. liHOE S, Gen. Pass. Agt, Macon, Ga.
S Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga.
BL N NS, F. 1*. A.. Jacksonville, Fla.
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