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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1897)
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
