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MORE DEAD IN NEW ORLEANS Negro Desperado, Charles, Claims Total of Eleven Victims. BE IS FINALLY RIDDLED. Discovered In Hiding: and Build ing Set on Fire--In the Mean time Fearful Execution Was Wrought by Winchester. A New Orleans special says: With the advent of the citizens’ police force Thursday night the threatened race war came to an end, the turbulant ele ment yielded and peace and order were restored. Friday morning the better class of the negroes resumed their avocations free from molestation, and the restoration of order promised to be permanent. The early hours of the afternoon, however, wrought a wo ful change in the situation. The des perate negro, Robert Charles, whose crimes caused the terrible events of the past two days, was located in a ne gro’s dwelling on Saratoga street and in effecting his capture the lives of four more white men—two police offi cers and two citizens—were sacrificed. Charles’ resistance cost him his life and with him was killed a nagro com panion who had aided him in his war on the whites and his defiance of the re- vived the turbulence of the unruly ele ment and added strength to their forces. The citizens’ police force has been increased to over 1,000. All companies of the state militia are un der arms and are guarding the prison and other important points. The gen eral belief is that the force in hand will be ample to suppress the lawless element. BATTLE LASTED SEVEBAL HOURS. It was after a most desperate battle, lasting for several hours, and in which Charles succeeded in killing Sergeant Gabriel, Porteons, Andy Van Kurem, keeper of the police jail, and Alfred J. Bloomfield, a young boy; fatally wounding Corporal John F. Lally, John Banville, ex-Policeman Frank H. Evans, A. 8. LeClerc, one of the lead ing confectioners of the city, and more or less 6erionsly wounding several citizens, that the desperado who killed Captain Day and Patrolman Lamb and badly wounded Officer Mora, was smoked out of his hiding place in the heart of the residence section of the city and literally shot to pieces. The tragedy was one of the most remarkable in the history of the city, and 20,000 people, soldiers, police men and citizens were gathered around the square in which Charles was finally pnt to death. Tremendous excitement reigned in New Orleans as the battle went on between the police and citizens and the negro with his winchester. After the tragedy was over and Charles was dragged from the mud and slush in which he had fallen, with the mob bowling for the burning of his body, statements were made that the man killed was not really the desperado who had killed Day and Lamb, but papers found on his person and the fact that he fought so desperately for his life and shot so accurately seem to leave little doubt that the right man was put to death. Sergeant Gabe Porteons, one of the best known officers on the force, and Sergeant John F. Lally, who has a fine record for bravery, were informed during the day by a negro that Charles was in hiding in a house on Clio, near Saratoga street. Determining to take him alive if possible, the officers sum moned a number of patrolmen to their assistance and went to the house where Charles was supposed to be in concealment. The negro informant of the policemen accompanied the officers. They entered the side alley of the house and were surprised in practi cally the same way as were Day and Lamb. Before the officers were aware of their danger, Charles, who was hidden behind a screen on the second floor of the building, raised his win chester and began a furious but accu rate fire. Lally fell with a bullet in the right side of the abdomen. Porteous was *hot through the head and dropped dead across Lally. The other officers and the negro fled the scene. The re ports of Charles’ winchester and the fact that two officers lay bleeding in the yard, raised tremendous excite ment. Hurry calls were sent to the mayor, the chief of police and Colonel Wood, in command of the special po lice, and as fast es possible armed help was rushed to the scene. In a little while there was au immense armed crowd encircling the square in which Charles was located. In the mean time a priest was summoned to admin ister extreme unction to the police officers, who "were lying in the alley. The priest responded promptly and h. w.s .noiDtmgtiw body oi Protoous with Alfred J. Bloomfield, a young boy, standing bf his side,whe» Charles again •„ appeared at the „ window. in A n „ tu The lad saw him at once and begged the desperado not to shoot him. Charles immediately fired his Winchester again and Bloomtxeld fell dead. The priest, unhurt, left the scene. At this time the ambulance arrived and two citirens volunteered to go in to the alleyway and bring out the body of Lally. They entered, and while they were attempting to take the body of the dead officer from that of his colleague, Charles fired again, The i.ue citizens citizens, nevertheless neverineitss, got got Lallv’s Liany s body out of the alley and afterward succeeded in taking Porteous’ body out also. In the meantime an immense throng bad gathered in the vicinity, and schemes were set on foot to get Charles out out of 0 the the buildino building. Charlps Charles, bow- how ever, did not propose to be captured without selling his life dearly. Time after a time he aac came A.CAAAO to tu the aaao window «aaauuw and nun as citizens, one by one, entered the alley, he blazed away at them. In thin manner a number of people were wounded At this time the .. extra police , began to fire indiscriminately at the negro, and Andv Van Kurem , keener of the police l- jail, • m got a a i bullet lll imf ; in T , *Vi„ the body j_ ami i fell dead. Immediately afterward H. mortal 1 ^ v wnnndor! ‘ — Ultimately . it . concluded ij,i by was those who were handling the situation that the burn* only way to get Charles at all was Ill to ° the building ; g in ? which he was entrenched. It T was determined that the fire department should be called out, in order to protect sur rounding rounding property, nrnnertv in in cjisp case it it should sVinnld be resolved to burn the building. At the moment of apparent iDdecision some one “ Ju went J to * a neighboring “ * g "f. g g gro eery, purchased a can „# of oil and, a pouring it over the rear steps of the building, applied a match and soon bad had the the building building in in flames. flames bo fiercely did the fare burn that it became.evident that no human being could H live in the building and oicked P men from the police, special squads, s members of the soldiery stationed themselves about the building to pick off on the the desperado desperado, as as he he attemotad attempted to to leave the house. A young soldier named Adolph Anderson, a member of the state militia was one of the first to see boo CharAes pi. Qr ' oc as >.„ he rnn ran down the *u„ steps o nna leading to the second story. Charles ran across the yard and entered tbe second room. He fired several times at Anderson and the latter who was armed with winchester rifle, shot the negro in the tbe breast b e and a he e fell fell a and a died soon after. As soon as the negro fell,numbers of people armed with winchesters and re voiverB rashetl in and fired into the body. Shortly alter the body of Charles had been taken from the scene a re port spread that there were still some negroes in the burning building. The square was again quickly surrounded and a special sqnad made its way into tho building. In a »-< com which the nre had not yet reach m d three negroes were found dressed in female attire. They were hustled out and immediate iy sent ,0 prison in a patrol wagon. Subsequently a fourth negro was din covered in the building. He made a desperate resistance and while in the hands of the police was killed by a shot fired from a pistol in the hands of one of the disorderly mob that had congregated in the vicinity. A list of casualties up to Friday night was as follows: August Thomas, negro laborer. Baptiste Filean, negro, aged 75 years. Lewis Taylor, negro laborer. Gabriel Porteous, white, sergeant of police. John F. Fally, white, oorporal of police. A. Van Kurem, white, workhouse keeper. Alfred J. Bloomfield, white. John T. Day, police captain. Peter J. Lamb, policeman. Robert p A , 0 Charles, author of r.t the trouble, Anna Mabry, negro woman. Unknown negro, companion of Charles — The list of wounded, ,, so far . as known, is twenty-eight, the majority being negroes. NATIONAL GUARD FUND. Georgia’s Fro Fata Share of Appropria tion Will Be 8X2,000. Governor Candler has been notified by the war department that Georgia’s pro rata share of the increased appro priation to the national guard will be 822,000. This is fully 87,000 below what was expected under the act of congress which gives almost twice as much to state troops as dur ing any former year. The governor j has been informed that the reasoD the entire appropriation hasf not been diuded out is because the war depart ment thought best to reserve $200,000 to be used at another time. •D r\ CT/ EL V t\*q D -r- ! 7 /re v | L-/V\/^Vcn r* tv r* c. t . r\. The Eminent Divine’s Sunday Discourse. Sul*ect: The mission of Christ — now Divine Power Will Ue»l the Worl.l Jesus the Surgeon Who Will Extir {Copyright laao.i Washington, D. C.-In this discourse Dr. Talmage puts in an unusual light the nuajion o{ Christ, and shows how divine power will yet make the illnesses of tlie "gg SS k {^£ t ^wedailthe ' S the , h^ar. “Doctor,” I said to a distinguished sur “ Sf.KSj'tSnSi distortions ^he Tnd SS t of human body?” “Oh. V no,” lie answered; “all ^ that j Lie^own ™r~me Ken fEl“h" ofl^ W gery. Catastrophe and disease entered the earth so early that one of the first wants of the world was a doctor. Our • su^ge^anTfamUy jn , tumnivefl human rare nailed for before physician The first for many years thev came. surgeons who answered this call were ministers of ^f^Tfcd^thin^aifderg^en were also doctors, all D. D.’s were M.'D.’s, for there are so many cases where body and soul need treatment at the same time. ami consolation and medicine, theology therapeutics. As the first surgeons of the world were also ministers of religion, may these two professions always be in full 8VTOUa thv’ But surieoM under whaf disadv–nta early dissection worked from the fact that of the human bodv and vias forbidden, first bv the pagans the brutes most like the human race, were dissected, but no human body might be unfolded for physiological and anatomical exploration, inside and the surgeons temple had looking to guess what was the bv at the outaide G f it. If they failed persecuted in snv surgical and driven oneration, of the they eitv, were Archa out bold as was gathus because of his but urtsuccess ml attempt to save a patient. But the UX(rld from the verv beginning w calling for surgeons, and tlieir firtrt skill is spoken of in Genesis, where they sacred employed rite, their God art making for the incisions of a surgery the predc ces8or o{ baptism, and we see it again in II Kings, where Ahaziah, the monarch, steppeo on some crocked latticework in the palace, and it broke, and he fell from the r to tbe lower floor and he WM ^ hurt that he sent to the village of Ekron for aid, and Aesculapius, who wrought *®ch wonders of surgerv “built that he was dei Usd and temples were for his wor shi Podelirius at Pergamoe; introduced and the Epidaunis of and the for relief world phlebotomy, and Damocedes cured the dislocated ankle of King Darius and the cancer G f his queen, and Hippocrates nut successful hand on JSF fractures and intro- £ nioved obstructions, and Herophilus began diasectiftn. and Erasistratus removed tu morB< and Celeus. the Roman surgeon, re mover! cataract from the eye and used the Spanish °* ^e fly; throat, anu Heliodorus and Alexander arrested Tralles di» ease of treated the ^ , tnd RhaMls caulerilse d for the val prevention of hydrophobia, combat diseases and of Perci- the Pott came to 8 faine, and in our own century we have had, among others, a Roux and a Larray ^ 1 , rancG( Rn Astley Cooper and an Abernethy Mott in Great Willard Britain Parker and a Samuel Valen tine and and D. Gross vn America, and a galaxy of liv ing surgeons as brilliant as their predeces sors. What mightv progress in the baf fling ancient of disease cities since the laid crippled along and sick the were ^° 8treetfl that ^ ev 1>een hurt or disordered in the same way might suggest what had better be done for the patients! Si rf”them h ttoE m sands of years ^hS^fetationoMhel old, and in our Bibles we ea°rt of m Deutwonomv, the sunstroke of a child carried from the fields of Shunem, disease Jyheadl of the feet, ntjtaadr which was “at nothing Ktay A™; but t; defection of teeth, te«h. that called caiw to for dental surgery, the the skill skill of of which, which, almost almost ftSStf! AtfttSS £ – ^nd by the JpOgJ-, M in the wae h c^the d young man . often fallfag Imagined l° hon | ria , £ o£ ° NebuclidneSS and who himself an ox witberedhand, going out to Ae fielda to pasture; the paralysis of tbe chief nerve; the wounds of the man whom the thieves left for ^tfe5rine dead on the road to Jericho, d "^”.Sd and whom n S°c£™e 'th P e' > oil to soothe it. Thank God for what sur gery has done for the alleviation and cure Of human suffering! „ But , the ., world wants a surgery without .... pam. Drs Parre and Hickman and Simp Son and Warner and Jackson, with their amazing genius, came forward, and with their anaesthetics benumbed the patient With narcotics and ethers as the ancients did with hasheesh and mandrake, and qtueted him for awhile, but at the return 01 consciousness distress returned. The world has never seen but one surgeon who could straighten the crooked limb, cure ''h 6 e ^ e ^ reconstruct the druni of a soundless ear or reduce a dropsy without If 1 ®, and that grandest, surgeon was gentlest Jesus Christ, ^ be mi yhtiest, and most er m P atb f tlc surgeon the world ever saw or £ ver and He deserves the confi aence and love and worship and hosanna of all the earth and halleluiahs of all heaven. The blind receive their sight and the lame walk^ the lepers are cleansed and the deaf near. I notice this surgeon had a fondness for chronic eases. Many a surgeon, when he has had a patient brought to him, has said: “Why was not this attended to five years ago? of recuperation You bring him to me You after have all power is gone. waited until there is a complete contrac tion of the muscles, and false ligatures are formed, and ossification has taken place. ,, . ,. thTs“gSlemeft , , , prefer nemorrhage inveterate of twelve cases. year*, and One He stopped was a {** Another was a curvature of eighteen Wa^ a cripple of\h£tjr-eight years, and he walked out well. The eighteen-j-ear pa was a woman bent almost double, Jl Ihe “eXhT tW their''com! bined skill could not cure body so drawn out of shape. Perhaps they might stop it from .getting any worse, perhaps they might contrive braces by which she might be made more comfortable, Yet but it di- is, humbly speaking, incurable. this vine surgeon put both His hands on her, be and from that doubled up posture she gan to take on a healthier hue, and the muscles began to column relax from their adjust rigidity, it and the spinal began to self, and the cords of the neck began to be more supple, and the eyes, that could only the ground before, now looked After eighteen weary and exhausting years, straight! .The poise, the gracefulness, the beauty of healthy womanhood reinstated, 2 he , lay,on thirty-eight years case the was mineral a man y* 1 ® a mat tress near !'«v l^peonlf aet Ae advan tage ®f these mineral baths. The stone “’"’SeSi™l,“r?( nitufe t£ ut A’ J 20 's' 1 lo "^. fortv *"* ' vid ' and f ,Rht feet , ^P- A\ I ? 0 ? r “Yl"L+ lf , tSt miLml totS mnnlji r«m^ yon. my, twmty-«ght y»m is more than e?,t„S^, avera ve 8 ,~'n!i e e w, 1 ^ S rulR.? nn<1^1 i’v* • urgeon walks 11 along those baths, and I have no doubt passes by some disordered patients who have been onl F six months or a y car ? r bvo ^ ears ; ai i, d comes to the hmttress of ., had been nearly made ^ght whole? years’ invalid ’said, “Wilt thou be !,r e mightiest scientists have put t heir Bia , ® to its retuning, ami sometimes they stop the progress of its decadence or re move temporary obstructions, but not J®? 1 *? “ ian one really deaf ear out of 100, “ e '^ r CT ^T e It took God j a to make , the ., and , it .. a ear, takes a God to mend it. That makes me curious to see how Christ the Surgeon sue ceeds as an anrist. We are told of only two case* He opere "ted on ns an ear surgeon. His fnend Peter, naturally high tempered, saw Christ insulted bv a man by the name of Man chus, and Peter let his sword fly, clipped aiming at the man s head, but the sword a ® d hewed off the outside ear, and our Surgeon touched the laceration and an other ear bloomed in the place of the one that had fceen slashed away. But it is not the outside ear that hears. That is only a funnel for gathering sound and poking it into the hidden and more dab orat e ear. On the beach of Lake Galilee Surgeon found a man deaf and dumb. Th f 1^*'^ ^ elt > n perpetual silence an ^ ' vas speechless. He T could not hear a not f of m««ic °r» clap of thunder He C v-i^ J n0 ? a father or mother or wife or children v, by name. What power can.waken that dull tympanum or reach that chain of bone ! or «v» v « that, auditory nerve or open the v gate between the brain ??. d outside world? The and Surgeon agitated put in thp deaf ears them and kept , on agitating them until the V1 hr at icm gave vital <?n<»rgv to all the dead ^ SP TT^ d Sur Ke<m withdrew His fingers from the €ars ^ he two tunne1 ^ of sound were clear t° . afa r sweet of and friendship, r voices music For the first time in his life he heard the ^ avt j s ®f been Ihrough built the ^. in « 8 highway t of painful of silence resonance had and acclama- a £ had 10 ?* * , leaped ^ from wa ?. his lip. Speech ^°, wor( was ^ ever chained under his tongue. \ ocalization and accentuation were to him an impossi P^ty- He could express neither love nor indignation unbarred nof his worship. will Gur burgeon, unloose Vin P ear, now ^e *v shackle of his liniment tongue. The salve Surgeon that will use the same or He used on two occasions for the cure of His own mouth. aT The application is made, Qn d 1°; the rigidity of the dumb tongue is relaxed, . and between the totague and teeth £ ras P°, rn a w u°! e vocabulary and words flaw into expression. He not only heard, but he talked. One gate of his body swung sour jd enter, and the other gate ®wung out to let sound depart t a V Wade oH 161 " surgeons j alLirttT^cK" f. t ra I^^ r ni' SdTHTtoShS meb nnd a ^ damb M a torab - 0h ’ Thou greatest of all artis ^t C ° mpel U8 to hear and help US 40 th f”‘ ■t,,*. ^'afdTr? , _ ‘ifS backs! a n and withered hand, and crooked lb e skill and the t painlessness of the op hundreds and thou w£e the cases Jol M He ™,“^aah“r? SdHenrtefet wealth a cure in the houw of a centurian of ^ grea at ^ ho lMd ? nt of his own built a By J n–°* a \ l a zL °JJ M ra : H wealthy^pe^fe d } rc e hundreds of in Jerusalem and among the merchant ? afitles alon A. Lake Tiberias who would b \ e q^*Y? . n ^ ur 8 eoa hou«es and lands a ” d f the y ^ for 6uch cures “ He could J5 s r J™ 5 J '-woT^fi’Tn w ' L k ™ w '° f H (m ' h .wJ W of f hom T 1 on B P eak received not a * shekel, , not a pennv, not a farthing. x n His whole earthlv life we know of Hj s having liad due, but by 62% His cents. omniscience When His He taxes were the knew of a fish in sea which had swal lowed a piece of silver money, as fish are apt to swallow anvthipg bright, and He gent that Peter fish, and with a nook which mouth brought up from its was ex tracted a Roman stater, or 62 1 / 1 cents, the only money He ever had, and that He paid ou ‘t for taxes. This greatest Surgeon of all the centu r ; es K ave all His services then and offers a ll His services now free of all charge. “Without money and without price” opened you niav and spiritually dumb have unbarred, blind eyes and your ears wounds your dumb tongues loosened, and your healed, people and hurt your of soul body, saved. mind If Christian soul, let (hem rertember get that is or hurt, surgery apt to hut it cures, and you can afford present pain for future glory. powerful Besides that, there are anaes thetics in the divine promises that soothe and alleviate. No ether or chloroform or cocoaine ever made one so superior to dis tress as a few drops of that magnificent fdT anodyne: good those “All things work God.” together “Weeping to who love may endure for a night, but joy . cometh in the morning.” What « grand thing for our poor ht» man race when this Surgeon shall have completed the treatment of the world s wounds! The dav hospitals, will come when there will be no more for there will be no more sick and no more eye and ear infirmaries, for there will be no more blind or deaf, and no more deserts, for the round earth shall bo brought under arboriculture, and no more blizzards or sunstrokes, for the atmosphere will be expurgated of scorch and chill, and no more war. for the swords sliall come out of the foundry bent into pruning hooks, while in the heavenly country we shall see the victims of acci dent or malformation or hereditary ills on earth become the athletes in Elysian fields. Who is that man with such brilliant eyes close before the throne? Why, that is the man Surgeon who, cured near Jericho, his ophthalmia! was blind Who and our is that ercet and graceful and queenly wom an before the throne? That was the one whom and our could Surgeon found bent almost dou ble in nowise lift up herself, and He made her straight. Who is that listening with such rapture to the music of heaven, solo melting into chorus, cvm bal responding joining the to trumpet, anthem? and Why, then that him self in is the man whom our Surgeon found deaf and dumb on the beach of Galilee, and by touches opened ear gate and mouth gate. Who ir that around whom the crowds are gathering with admiring looks and thanks giving and cries of “On, what He did for me! what Oh, He did what for He the did world!” for my family! That is Oh* the Surgeon of all the centuries, the oculist, the auriRt, the emancipator, the Saviour. No pay He took on earth. Come, now, and let all heaven pay Him with worship that shall never end and a love that shall never die. On His head be all the crowns, in His hands be all the scepters and at Hfa feet be all tbe worlds! PROMINENT PEOPLE. The King of Sweden is an accom plished linguist Captain Dreyfus is still at the Villa. Ilauterive, at Coligny, near Geneva. The Prince of Wales receives on an average between 500 and GOO letters a day. Herbert Spencej never made any money on bis books, and in several cases lost some. Presklent McKinley has beside bis Scotch Presbyterian blood a strain of English Puritan blood. David It. Henderson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, is spend ing the summer with Mrs. Henderson in the Adirondacks. ! Congressman Champ Clark, of Mis souri, is authority for tii* announce ment that he will be a candidate for tbe Senate to succeed Seuator Vest. General Cronje, on hearing of the capture of Pretoria, is reported to have remarked, “It had to end so. I saw it from the first, and 1 think we all did.” Samuel Alseliuler, of Aurora, Ill., who lias been nominated for Governor of Illinois on the Democratic ticket, was born in Chicago in 1859. He lias served two terms in the Illinois Legis lature. General Lloyd Wheaton is the only Illinois man in the regulav army hav ing tho rank of generaL He was born in Michigan, but spent his boyhood in Illinois, and enlisted froqi that State in tbe Union army. All Ferrouh Bey, the Turkish Min ister to the United States, is a regular member of tlie Washington Fencing Club, of which Count Cassini, the Rus sian Ambassador, is president, and is one of its best swordsmen. Senator Chandler, of New Hamp shire, while at his home, in Concord, is an enthusiastic mountain climber, and may be met almost any fine after noon on one or another of the many peaks within ten or fifteen miles of thfe town. CHINESE WAR NOTES. The Chinese army has .000,000 Mau sers. Japan will send nearly 50.000 men to China. r flie Boxer forces in Manchuria are estimated at 40.000 men. The Engineer Corps at West Point lias been ordered to China. Vessels loaded with Chinese prison ers arrive at Vladivostock daily. Tlie Russian government has or dered army surgeons to Manchuria. Ammunition for the American Navy sufficient for several months is in China. Ten steamships have been chartered by Germany to convey 12,000 troops to China. German postal clerks will be sent to China at onee to handle mail for Ger man troops In the field. Tlie British Admiralty has suspend ed the granting of furloughs to the . Channel and Reserve Squadrons. Rigors of the Chinese fall and win ter have caused orders for increased winter clothing for American troops. The armored cruiser Kaiser Karl VI. and the torpedo boat Asperau have been ordered to China to protect Aus trians. British troops in Canada, if ordered to China, will go from Quebec direct to Shanghai by the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Japanese Cabinet meets daily to consider war measures, ancl is noiv discussing tlie dispatch to China of another army corps. Destruction and poverty have noth ing to do with the present Boxer trou bles in China, according to a report of from Consul-General Goodnow, Shanghai. Leading firms in Moscow, Russia, have received news that their ware lwaises, filled with tea and silk, at Kal gan, have been plundered and burned by the Chinese. The goods destroyed are valued at $5,000,000. . . . GERMANY MAKES ACCUSATION. i Her Fregg Aggert That United Stateg I* Trying to Forsake Powers, Tfae German c f oreiKn f office omoc, , which received . , additional from China no news Thursday, points out that the condi tioUB for mediation demanded by Pres ldeD • t McKinley, ■». published in H e ’ place the United States in substantial' ly the same position as Germany and France * Nevertheless, . the ,, German _ press „ co tinites to assert that the Washington government is trying J ° to part r company powers.
