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GENERAL NEWS
Current Events of the Day Epi¬
tomized.
FATHER SHOOTS HIS SON.
Peace at Last Declared Between Greece
and Turkey.—A Rapist fleets Summary
Punishment.—Revolution Rife in the
Nicaraguan Republic.
Sylranus Johnson was hanged at
Key West, Fla., Thursday for rape.
The Missouri fruit crop will aggre¬
gate $25,000,000 for the present year.
Early frosts in Kentucky and Ten¬
nessee killed much tobacco last Tues
da..
Carrie Fleming, a refugee from Mo¬
bile, died in Atlanta of yellow fever
Thursday.
The Cumberland Island hotel, near
Brunswick, Ga., has been destroyed
by fire, the result of a stroke of light¬
ning.
Revolution is rife in the Nicaraguan
republic. The government is using
str’ngeut measures to suppress the re¬
bellion.
Almost the entire business portion
of Arlington. Ga., was destroyed by
fire last Tuesday. The loss was about
$75,000.
At Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday
the mercury dropped to 49 degrees,
breaking all previous records for Sep¬
tember.
A would-be rapist by the name of
Sam Jenkins, at Crawfordville, Fta.,
was caught, bound and thrown into
Mud Lake.
Joe -Tones, a colored man living at
Palatka, Fla., got drunk, fell into a
shallow stream aad was drowned In
fourteen inches of water.
At Columbus, Ga., the Southern rail¬
way’s freight depot and the sash, door
and blind factory of Butts & Cooper
were destroyed by fire. The loss ag¬
gregates $60,000.
Ex-Inspector General of Police Ve¬
lasques of Mexico City committed sui¬
cide in prisons where he had been
placed for killing Arroyo, the assailant
of President Diaz.
It was officially announced Monday
that peace between Greece and Tur¬
key had been signed, and the ministers
of war and marine have so notified all
the Turkish military and naval com¬
manders.
Joseph C. Stephens, of Baltimore,
aged 64 years, shot and dangerously
wounded his son, Robert J., aged 23,
in a quarrel over the latter’s intended
marriage, which was to have taken
place Thursday night.
The bankers of London have made a
vigorous protest against the policy of
the government of the Bank of Eng¬
land Ion announcing its willingness to
maintain one-fifth of Its bullion re¬
serve In silver.
An appeal has been made to Sur
geonvGeneral Wyman to order Dr.
Guiteras to investigate immediately
(die very suspicious fever now pre¬
vailing in Galveston, Houston, Dallas
and San Antonio.
Burrell Tillman, colored, was way¬
laid and shot at Blackshear, Ga., by
unknown parties as he was leaving
home. Tillman was not seriously hurt.
Suspicion rests upon Marshall Good¬
man and Marion Bailey.
W. E. Clark, a resident for the past
vighteen months of Linton, Fla., a
town at the south, end of Lake Worth,
drowned Mmself in. one of the fresh
water lakes in the edge of the Ever¬
glades near that place List week.
In the reorganization of the Central
of Georgia John M. Eagan, now- vice
president, will be elected president.
This marks another step in J. Pierpont
Morgan’s project to secure control of
all the railway and steamsnip lines
In the Southern States.
A Floridian from Cuba reports that
the recent filibustering expedition for
the island was captured, and that
tuneteen men on. the vessel were slain
by the Spaniards. He adds that Ha¬
vana is now suffering from a beef
famine.
The bridge over the Tennessee river
at Chattanooga was badly damaged
by fire Wednesday. The actual loss
was about $15,000, with no insurance.
The bridge was built in 1889.
The brew house of the John Gund
Brewing Company at La Orosse, Was.,
was destroyed by fire Thursday.» The
loss will exceed $300,000, insurance
covering about one-fralf of the value.
Horn. W. L. Wilson, president of the
Washiogton and Lee University, re¬
cently received a check for $1*000 from
Hon. W. C. Whitney, of New York,
to be applied to the fund for the erec¬
tion of the Tucker Memorial Hail at
the University of Virginia.
A feud of long standing between
James Reeves and Lawrence Austin,
brothers-in-law. had a bloody termi¬
nation near Roby, Chester county,
Tenn. The two men met in the pub¬
lic road and Reeves shot Austin in the
head with a double-barreled shotgun.
Austin died, and Reeves escaped. Both
are well-known planters.
Frank Short, a well-known country
merchant, a few miles south of Abing¬
don, Ya.. was killed in a runaway late
Tuesday evening while on his way
home from Abingxlon in a cart. A pe¬
culiar feature which connects itself
with his death is the fact that his life¬
less body was picked up on the very
spot where some three years ago his
brother, Bird Short, shot and killed
two men, Lee Simmons and Hender¬
son Dinkens.
JUDGE KILGORE DEAD.
The Well-Known Ex-Congressman From
Texas Passes Away.
Judge Kilgore, ex-Oongresman from
Texas, died at Ardmore, 1. T., Thurs¬
day.
As a member of Congress from
Texas, Judge Kilgore was one of the
best known men in public life. He
was called “Buck” by his intimate
friends, and attracted wide public at¬
tention in the Fifty-first Congress by
kicking in a green baize door which
had been locked by order of Speaker
Reed during one of the filibustering
scenes that made the first “quorum
counting” Congress memorable, He
supported President Cleveland ardent¬
ly, and after he was retired from con¬
gress the President appointed him one
of the judtges of the Indian Territory.
Mr. Kilgore was born in Netwnan,
Ga., February 20, 1835. In 1846 he
removed with his parents to Rusk
county, Texas, where he received a
common school education. He served
in the Confederate army, first as pri¬
vate and by successive promotions
reached the grade of adjutasit general,
serving as such in Ector’s brigade, Ar¬
my of the Tennessee. He was wound¬
ed at Chickanuiuga and in 1804 was
confined as a prisoner In Fort Dela¬
ware. He was admitted to the bar
after the war aad in 1875 was a mem¬
ber of the Texas constitutional con¬
vention. He was a presidential elec¬
tor in. 1880 on the Hancock and Eng¬
lish ticket and in 18S4 was elected to
the State Senate for four years and
in. the following year was chosen
president of that body for two years.
He was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty
first and Fifty-swmd Congresses as a
Democrat
BANISH A KING.
Drunami, of Benin, Sent to a Penal
Settlement.
Lagos, West Coast of Africa.—Dru
nami, the king of Benin, who has been
on trial at Benin City since August
last, with a number of his leading
chiefs, charged with being concerned
with the massacre of the unarmed ex¬
pedition under Brltiah Consul Phillips,
has been condemned to be transported
to Calabar, a slave settlement of Brit¬
ish West Africa. Three of the king's
chiefs were previously sentenced. Two
of them were shot and their bodies
displayed hanging In the streets for
twenty-four hours. The third of these
chiefs escaped a similar fate by com¬
mitting suicide.
FATAL MINE EXPLOSION.
Several Miners Were Killed and Oth¬
ers Entombed.
An explosion terrible in its effects
occurred in the Williamson Compa¬
ny’s coal mine, three miles Dorth of
Marion, Ill. Fifteen wounded miners,
two of whom have since died, have
been rescued; one was found dead
when the rescuing party went down
the shaft. Several are severely crush
ed, and may die. They say there ar<*
five or six miners imprisoned in the
burning mine, but they cannot be
reached on account of smoke and
fire. These men are no doubt killed.
The explosion was caused by natural
2 as.
big shipment of sponges.
W. P. K. Decker, the leading sponge
dealer of Anclote, Fla., has shipped all
the sponge he had ready to Philadel¬
phia, in response (0 an urgent tele¬
gram. The value of the three hundred
bales he sent there is estimated at
$5000.
DON CARLOS ONCE MORE.
Bay*. 100,000 Volunteers Are Ready to
Back Him.
Don Carlos, the pretender, has writ
ten a letter denying emphatically that
he has abandoned his claim to the
throne of Spain. He declares after the
sacrifice whKh has been made in. a.a
behalf he would be a coward to *«
nonoce his rights.
He says 100,000 volunteers are ready
to take up arms in his cause.
lie says Spain must abandon Cuba,
aad the loof that island will em¬
phasize the existipg deep discontent.
It is expected that the pretender will
shortly Issue a manifesto.
SGRPR
United States’ Atm uses a
Sensation in IV
OVERCONFIDENCE EYLER
The General Impression rid is That
the Spanish Oovernt VIII Try to
Drag Negotiations , Unless It
Rejects Uncle Sam’i tffices.
The attitude of th‘ ied States
has caused a. great s .on at Mad¬
rid, because opinion 1 den lured on
by the optimistic coi licatlons of
the Spanish minister Washington
upon the character 1 duration of
the correct attitude the United
States government, a that, too, de
spite several warnin fvom Mr. Ol
ney and Mr. Clevelar message.
The official bulletin Captain Gen
oral Weyler have a • received too
much confidence. ’ the United
States every month hit) receiving
from its consuls ac special envoys
totally different new
The general impw on at San. Se¬
bastian and Madrid that the Span¬
ish government will Jr to drag nego¬
tiations along, unless I rejects purely
and simply the goo< offices of the
lic United opinion States, and on tl f * j ground further of ground pub¬
on
that the opposition intervention, joukl not permit
it to tolerate foreign; i even
though amicable.
The government, ''fgans roundly de¬
ny that Minister ^ J. bodford has men¬
tioned ant ultimate %v but the public
mind is not altogr relieved there¬
by. The policy of }e government In
denying rectly denying and suppr< the f&uth j ng news of and almost di¬
everything in any fway unpalatable
must always tend to Increase public
uneasiness.
The use of the word ultimatum is
exaggerated. General Woodford
doubtless expressed himself energeti¬
cally, but between this and Pxing a
period of six weeks to end a wide¬
spread insurrection under pain of tak¬
ing up this- cause of the insurgents
against a friendly power, there is a
very wide distinction, and more es¬
pecially so in the present political sit¬
uation, when a ef ange of government
more or less radical eartnot be distant.
YELLOW FE|ER SITUATION.
Grows More Alarrr.ing at Infected Points
Orleans,-i-Eminent as the fays Go By.
New physicians
believe that the work of the Board of
Health is productive of good results,
and that the fever is not spreading,
but on the contrary, is being confined
to localities. Up to Friday there have
been a few less than. 100 eases and
fifteen deaths. The death rate Is In
the neighborhood o> 15 per cent. It
was in 1878 16 per cent, so that up to
the present time the disease is about
as virulent as ft wu in the last great
epidemic that visited New Orleans.
Mobile.—Up to and including Friday
there have been forty-one cases, six
deaths, nineteen discharged and six¬
teen under treatment. With one or
two exceptions, the sick are doing
well. The board have still the sat¬
isfaction of reporting very slow prog¬
ress of the fever toward an epidemic
visitation. Much active work of a
sanitary nature is being done by the
city authorities, and new methods of
quarantine and disinfection are about
to be put in practice under the advice
of the board.
At Edwards, Miss., the situation is
jrtill growing worse. There have been
133 cases reported up to Friday, with
only four deaths; 44 are convalescent,
and 85 under treatment.
At Biloxi the sprea. of the fever is
not eo rapid, though there are new
cases reported dally. There have been
fifty-eight cases to date.
The situa on in other Infected towns
along the coax: remains unchanged,
with a small number of cases develop¬
ing da Mr.
The second ease of yellow fever to
develop in Louisville, Ky., was an¬
nounced by Health Officer White ’aat
Thursday. The first case was that of
Frank DeRumscy, who died in an in
fimuary in that city on August 16.
ALASKA APPOINTMENT^
Three Men Are Now Inspector?— As¬
sistant Slirgeon at Mobile.
Tbe 8ecretarJ r 0 f tlxe treasury has
appointed Thomas S. Luke, T. A.
Marquam, Eiaannel Herrmann and
Charles I. Roth a« customs inspectors
at Sitka, Alaska, at $5 per day. These
appointments were made necessary by
the exodus to the Klondyke region.
The secretary also has appointed Ira
W. Porter as assistant surgeon. of the
Marine Hospital service at Mobile,
Ala., to aawtot It the care of yellow
feter.
THE CUBAN LEAGUE.
President Allen Sees Freedom for the
Cuban Patriots.
President Ethan Allen, of the Gu
bau League of the United States, on
Thursday issued the follor^ng address
to the membership of the League:
A year of patriotic work is about to
eml in grandest results, Last spring
nearly every governor of this repub¬
lic. at our request, backed by the leg¬
islature of his State, spoke for Cuban
Independence, Many htnmreds of
thousands of citizens, responding to
the appeal of this League, have made
it manifest that public opinion is on
the side of the Cuban Insurgents amd
hostile to their oppressors, Now the
hour of emancipation for Cuba is at
hand. The commanding voice of the
nation has at last reached the execu¬
tive. Though the delay has been
much too long, still the retribution at
hand will excuse past delinquencies.
Our minister in Spain, with a patriotic
president behind him. will do that
which shall end the murder, plunder
and medieval tyranny in Cuba, allow¬
ing its entry Into sovereign states. The
nation is ready with guns, if necessa¬
ry. Every member of this League
should be alert to uphold the president
In such policy. Let all, when the mo¬
ment comes, say to him: “All divis
Ions end at the water’s edge.”
WIIAT WAR COSTS SPAIN.
Statement of Number of Men. and
Munitions of War Furnished.
An official statement has been is¬
sued showing the number of men and
the quantities of the munitions of war
sent to Cuba and the Philippine is¬
lands during flit* insurrections now in
progress in those quarters.
Between November, 1895, amd May,
1897, the Spanish government sent to
Cuba 181,7,'i8 soldiers, G,2«Vl officers,
of whom forty were generals, 212,542
guns, 320,40(5 kilograms of powder,
92,088,(570 cartridges, 1(50,712 swords,
91 cannons, 12 mitrailleuses and 29,-
500 shells.
Since the outbreak of the present
revolution in the Philippines the gov¬
ernment has sent 27,70(5 soldiers, 881
officers, of whom nine ’ggre generals,
43,100 guns, 24 cannons, 24,910 kilo¬
grams of powder, 21,726,585 car¬
tridges and 30,604 shells.
ELECTION IN CUBA.
B&rtolome Masso Vice President of
the Republic.
According to advices from Puerto
Principe, Senor Bartolome Masse has
been elected vice president of the Cu¬
ban republic, Gen. Maximo Gomez
has been appointed minister of war
and Callxto Garcia major general,
General Gomez remaining eommander
lm-chief of the Army of Liberation.
Word comes from Santa Clara that
General Gomez has ordered a new in¬
vasion. of Western Cuba, with a view
of profiting by the rainy season.
It may be safely estimated that
more than 150,000 native Cubans have
disappeared from various causes. In
certaio towns entire families have
been wiped out. Sickness continues
at a high rate among the troops, prob¬
ably about 37,(MX) soldiers being on the
sick list, most of them victims of fe¬
ver.
TERRIBLE CYCLONE.
A cyclone swept over Sava, Oria and
Latiano, all in tin* province of Lecce,
in Italy, Wednesday evening. Forty
persons were killed, seventy people
were wounded and twenty houses
were destroyed and telegraphic coou
munlcatiou with the scene of the dia
a*ter was cut off.
At Oriakora the railway depot wai
demolished, and all the railway mea
engaged there were killed. Two cha¬
teaux and thirty houses were destroy¬
ed In a neighboring village, where#!
were killed and 24 injured. At Me
eagne, a province of Lecce, fifteen
were killed and five injured. A gryat
tract of country has been devastated
by the hurricane.
GOLD COMING.
La Touraine, of the Frecich steam
■hip line, which sails from Havre on
Saturday next, will bring to New York
port $1,(XX), 000 In gold consigned to the
Hanover National Bank of Ne<w York
DEATH, iN A WRECK.
John D. Young met his death in a
h ead-end collision on the Georgia and
Alabama road Tuesday morning. The
colored fireman, whose name has not
been ascertained, was also killed.
Conductor R. G. Boyd was dangerous¬
ly wounded, and may also die. The
occasion was the attempt of an extrm
freight, laden with cotton, to make
one more station before the west
boued local freight train was due.
Owing to the heavy freight, it failed
to make the time, aad at 4:30 a. m.
came in collision. The two engine#
were a total wreck, together with
tu.-lve box cars.
TRADE CHECKED.
The Demand for Staples is N04
ticeably Decreasing.
SHARP ADVANCE IN IRON*
The Yellow Fever Quarantine, Which Ex*
tends from Texas to Georgia, hai
Brought Wholesale Trade to a Stand¬
still In the Gulf States.
iBradstreet’s review of trade for the
past week says:
There is a cheek to the sweeping de¬
mand In staples noticeable throughout
the country for the past six weeks.
The yellow fever quarantine, which
extends from Texas to Georgia, has
brought wholesale business to a prac¬
tical standstill throughout the greater
portion of the region embraced by (he
Gulf States. At centers of distribution
in Eastern, Middle and O/mtral West
cru States the recent activity in. dry
goods, hats and hardware lias fallen
olY, but at the Northwest and on the
Pacific coast buying by interior mer¬
chants and the free distribution of
merchandise continue to be features.
Demand for heavy textile fabrics has
been stimulated by colder weather,
and St. Louis merchants say the yel¬
low fever scare will have no effect
upon trade at that city, as Southern
merchants had supplied themselves
there before the quarantine was en
forced. The outlook for business in
parts of Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee
and Georgia is for a much duller sea¬
son than had been expected.
Favorable features of the week are
found in sharp advances in prices for
iroaa and steel, heavy sales of Besse¬
mer pig iron, steel billets and rails and
a prospect that iron and steel prices
will go higher in the iym - future.
Wool is also higher and woolen goods
for 1898 delivery are up 10 to 15 per
cent, with the outlook favoring a fur¬
ther advance. The increased volume
of general trade Is also stimulated by
the continued heavy movement of ee
reals to tide water, the almost un
procedently large quantities expjrtod
eacb week and the increased number
of i>eople finding employment In iur
dust rial and commercial lines as com¬
pared with a year ago, together with
the tendency of gold to come her#
from abroad.
Exports of wheat (flour included a#
wheat) from both coasts of the TJnltod
States and from Montreal this week
amount to 9,023,493 bushels, compared
with 6,2(59,948 bushels last week, 3,
030,000 bushels in the week a year
ago, 3,151,000 bushels two years ago,
2,562,000 bushels three years ago, and
as compared with 3,490,000 bushels In
the corresponding week of 1893.
Exports of Indian corn aggregated
4,027,142 in the week one year ago,
1,300,000 bushels t wo years ago, 1,040,
000 bushels three years ago and as
contrasted with 813,000 bushels In the
ll ke week of 1893.
There are 237 business failures re¬
ported throughout the United States
this week, compared with 286 last
week, 321 in the third week in Sep¬
tember, 1896, 198 in 1895, 204 in the
like week in 1894, and as contrasted
with 232 Jn 'the corresponulng period
la 1893
There are 35 business failures re¬
ported throughout the Canadian Do¬
minion this week, against 36 last
w-eek, 34 in the week a year ago and
35 in the corresponding week of 1805.
UNION WITH UNCLE SAM.
The Hawaiian Senate Ratifies the
American Treaty.
The Hawaiian Senate, in session on
/September 8, adopted the following
resolution by unanimous vote:
“Be it resolved by the Senate of the
Republic of Hawaii, That the Senate
hereby ratifies and advisee and con¬
sent# to the ratification by the Presi¬
dent of the treaty between the Repub¬
lic of Hawaii aiul the United States of
America on the subject of the annexa
t.oiz of the Hawai.au Islands to the
United States of America, concluded
in. Washington, June 16, 1897, which
treaty is word for word as follows:”
The text of the treaty then follows.
WOMEN TURN GOLD HUNTERS.
Six Oakland women have returned
from a search for gold mines in the
mountains of Shasta cotHtty, Cal for
trim For two weeks they tramped is
bloomers over hills, through canons*
fording creeks and braving all the
hardships incidental to a prospector's
life- They are back with a record of
seven placer and quart* mines loca
ted.
They left Oakland, each one fully
equipped with a miner's outfit. They
returned with hundreds of pounds of
ore samples and gold they had pan¬
ned from placer claims
