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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEEKLY °«r, BBT A BUSHED 1846. MACih. 'MUilA TUESDAY >>EC* 1?c: „JER25„l>8a—TWELVE PAGES. m DIED ON THE RIVER. I ThSS?5 1 JE^ 1 £^”^ul?2irS2? , 352!; I LIFE LICKED UI> BY FIRE.! -— I The water was very cold, which benumbed FRIGHTFUL. LOSS OF L IFE ON THE I and'to^thU U attrfbiTfed t?i™ greatesUlos^of I AN APPALLING DISASTER TO FIREMEN n IIICOIOCIDDI I AT OIMOlWIiUri vue LXV^ o. m. MISSISSIPPI passenger Steamer Burns anil About lw-utj-t.se persons Low Their U»e*i Mostly Colored—Bero- l 6 m ot Officers and Crew. MJHPHIS, Tenn., Dee. 25.—The elegant nge r steamer Kate Adams, running as xini weekly packet between Memphis and Ukauet® City, burned this morning near *: mmereCl Miss., forty miles south of this She was en route to Memphis, and had LLt 200 people aboard, including her entv five cabin and sixty deck passengers, twenty-five colored cabin passengers. The Ore. which caught in some cotton near forward end of the boilers, was discov- id about 8 o’clock. The passengers were breakfast, and when the alarm was given ,et all made a rush for the forward deck, t die time the steamer was about 300 yards the Mississippi side of the river, and r bow was at once headed for the shore. they stood to thkib posts, Pilot J. A. Barton was on the watch and „j be remained heroically at his poflt until ,e was safely landed. Ilnrry Best, the ,nd clerk, who was seated at the table „ the alarm was given, had brought all (ladies and children forward and assisted n ashore. Capt. Mark Check, who was the hurricane decks, remained there, B g his commands until the stage plank safely lowered. i be flames, by tois time, had spread all ouch the cabin and the captain was com- led to retreat to the rear and climbed «the rails and descended to the cabin, re he found Chief Clerk W. C. Blanker, bo had made an effort to save the money la papers of the steamer, which were in the 't! He managed to grab the money, but cat off from the bow and forced back „ the cabin. As he was groping hir way he stumbled and fell over some chairs lost all the valuables he had secured, it was with great difficulty that he eeded in reaching the rear through the ding smoke and flames which filled the FLOATED three miles. 'apt Cheek seised a life preserver, and ling it on Chief Clerk Blanker, helped overboard into the water. He floated .o about three miles before he was res. ,d by parties who had walked ashore and lowed him down the river. Capt. Cheek bed several others in stenting life pre- ,'en. aud when it was no longer possible him to remain without beiug burned he med into the river and sworn ashore, here were about twenty-five colored in passengers who were saved along with white passeugers. la the lower deck, however, a fearful lie seised the crew and the deck passen Tnose wi.o were ent off from the bo compelled to jump overboard to sure lives. The Hern of the burning sieai.V r ntc out into tlie river and an (Roll Bade to launch the yawl. It W! (y the crowd which tilled it, and a occupants drowned. They were mostly red men, hut there were three or four see in the crowd. The lots of life so far u be learned, ia as follows: THE DEAD. hiti Cornet, Ihird cleric, Aged 3D years, had launched a yawl and was trying to a colored woman on the lower deck, IctTca s wife, who resides in St. Louis Porter, Andrew Redse, Jackson, . _Kelson. Senator Coleman and Hillard K Bnta of the colored cabin crew; Lee Fin. till' * ,,n k Wells and a colored roustabout addition about fitcen deck passengers, ot whom were white men, were also ted. |:lhe list of unknown were three colored ta and two children. They were coming 'empbis to spend the holidays. The <i had been working on the levees and mines and destination are unknown, k burning steamer drifted away after istthe bank for twenty minutes and •ddown the river, her hall sinking at had of Peters Island, four miles below TH* BOAT’S HISTORY, i Kate Adams was owned by the Mem Iaad Vicksburg Packet Company. She |hull by James Rees A Sous of Pittsburg Bind cost 1102,000. Shews* the fin [latest steamer of her typo and her w tbia summer spent (20,000 in repair »r at Paducah. She was Insured fur pi in St. Louis, Cincinnati and other offices. Tbii would have been the 'tion of her six hundred and second i the Memphis and Arkansas CUy trade. *i sffieers were: Mark B. Cheek, cap- '!».C. Blanker, Harry Best, George *Hand William Donahue, clerly; Billy tad Joseph Barton, pilots; Lou *d Dick Young, engineers; Tom i ted Frank Brady, mates; Jerry Mat itswrd. “ p rsrgo consisted of 1,161 bales of cot |1Jpu lacks of cotton V j bafi it lud sgood list of lunilri.-. Ifca NttN l^iped to Memphis merchants, and 1 • ' .t< ,1 l!. Iheir open policic, Mrank 4 Co., Hill, Fontaine A Co, H. Alien 4 Co. were the largest Tilt t'ARIN PAB8KNGBKS. * cabin passengers wh* VtrtSS board I* and Mrs. Thomas McLemore and f^fidren, oi BoUver county, Miss.; Mrs. * fields, of Memphis; Mrs. John land five children, of Roaedsle, Miss, inurii *nd wile, of Laconia; 1 time. All speak in the highest terms o( the cool- I ness and bravery displayed by the officers. The captain, clerks, pilots and engineers nil remained at thtir posts until the liiBt, and it was through their efforts and courage that 1 the laay passengers were safely taken ashore. INJURED 1'ASSBSOEItS. John Woods Harris, who was a passenger, jumped from the stage plank before it had been 'lowered and was internally injured. Mrs. Dr. Harris of Laconia also sustained a sprained ankle by falling front a cotton hale in descending from the cabin to the lower deck. Capt. Elisha Evans, who is an old steam boat pilot, was a passenger on the steamer. He was in the pilot house with Barton when the fire was discovered, and nided in safely landing the steamer. He came down and assisted Clerk Harry Best in getting the omen and children ashore. Mr. John D. Adams, the principal owner of the steamer, arrived early this moruiog frtra Little Rock. He was on the bluff about noon looking for the boat to arrive when in formed that she had burned at Com 1 merce. COL. HUNTER’S THRILLING NARRATIVE. Col. J. M. Hunter of Louisville, solicitor for the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company, who was a passenger on the ill' fated Kate Adams, gives a thrilling account of his experience on board the steamer. When the alarm was given he was at break fast and hastily repaired to his state room to save his effects. By the time he had gathered bis valise he found that his escape by way of the bow of the boat was cut off by the flames, which had spread with lightning-like rapidity, and he made for the stern of the inpiuuji, nuu lie uiauc tut me Dieiu ui boat. The distance to the stern fully 100 yards ani he saw at a glance that it was to be death or swim, so he disrobed himself, and, securing a life preserver, pre pared for the struggle. He remained aboard until almost suffocated by smoke, aud as the pilot house of the steamer fell in be jumped overboard, and, after a struggle in the water of ten minutes, succeeded in reaching the shore. He had nothing on but his undorclotes and was given a pair of pants taken from a white man who had been rescued from the water but who afterwards died. THE LATEST FBO.U STANLEY. •in its. illH :b its—^ nth I 1*1 at at ! T! H.' I Y atfora FOB CooB wortk. One Poor Fellow Lost in a Horning Build- lug and Several Others Crushed by a Falling Wall — A Montana. Hotel Holocaust. Cincinnati, O.. Dec. 22.—A fire at L. A Btrobel’s picture frame manufacturing es tablishment this morning not only caused an overwhelming loss, but'resulted in a dis aster to the firemen that is appalling. Jerry Bray, captain of fire company No. 14, weut down with the fifth floor when it fell, and was burned to death. After the fire had been raging for some time, the wall on the east side of the struct ure fell and the firemen barely escaped in time. Then shortly afterwards the north wall fell outward. In front qt it, <yi a lum ber pile, were a number of firemen to whom escape was impassible, and the brave men seemed doomed to death. As soon as the wall had fallen other fire men rusbed in to rescue their fellows and soon extracted Firemen Morton, Anderson, John Flaherty, George Bushing and Thomas Hunt who were all injured more or less and were sent to the hospital later. Firemen Davis and John McGuern were also rescued and sent to the hospital although their inju ries were not apparently serious. John White was also injured. At the hospital, it was found that Ander son and McGuern were quite seriously in ured internally. Bashing was also badly turt. The others received painful but not serious wounds. it is thought that the fire started in the fifth story in a small varnish room and can only be accounted for on the theory of spon taneous combustion. As far as known there was no fire about the establishment after 0 o’clock. The building was divided about midway by a brick wall with only two openings, and these were closed by iron doors. The fire was therefore confined to the rear half, known as the old part bf the building. The goods in the front part, however, are dam aged by water. THE SOUTH 18 ON A DOOM- King Leopold Received is Telegram Con- firming tlie St. Thomas Report. Brussels, Dec. 22.—King Leopold has received from St. Thomas a telegram eon firming the report oi the arrival of Henry M. Stanley and Emin Pasha on the Aruw bimi. Zanzibar, Dec. 22.—One of the special messengers sent into the interior, in October, in the hope of obtaining news ot Emin and Stanley has sent a dispatch announcing that be met Arab traders from VYadlai why port lively affirmed that Stanley met Emin then a 1 -'-in .Ian. 'JO. ot ililt-v, tIra,If-J salt! flssoUicitand plenty oi stores. lie im* ilured great privations, hut he and all hi rty were well, although extremely ex united. Tne delay ia rsaebing Wadclai was due to the dilBcnftiea encountered on the routes, the expedition having to make a long de tour tow nrd the northeast in order to avoid the swamps and hostile tribes. Emin was then in a good position, ailhoagh some of hi* Egyptian officers were grumbling, and many of hit soldiers had deserted. The kings of Endanga and Unydona were hostile to Emin, who was obliged, in November, to repel predatory incursions from the east. His general health was good, but he had been sufiering from an affection of the ey two months. A fortnight after Stanley’s arrival Stanley received, via I .ado, a message from the Mahdi pompously intimating his intention ***' to subdue the whole country at far as the great lakes, and promising good treatment if tiiniu submitted. Emin replied that before evacuating he mast wait for the Mahdi to prove the ligitimacy of his claim to the province. Stanley, in the meantime, applied himself to restoring order among the troops and distributing stores and munitions. Emin told Stanley that be did not desire to leave Wadelni. The entire route to the coast was most daogeronr on account of the incessant agitation among the tribes and the hostility of Wangn. Toward the middle of April, hearing that the force of the Mahdi was coming, Emin ordered his advanced posts between Dutile and Lade to retire to Wadelaf, and Stanley sent messengers to the King of Uodanga and Unyo. About the end of April, when traders left Wadelai, Stanley was anxious, owing to the absence of news from the rear guard,on the Aruwhimi, and was arranging to send a strong detachment in search of them along the route which he had followed. Stanley again urged Emin to leave Wadelai with him and regain the coast. Stanley sent out sev eral cou.iers'wlth the news for Europe. One was a courier, who was sent by the foreign consuls nt Zanzibar to apprise Emin of the departure of the relief expedition. Thu courier hod remained at Wadelai and was sent back to the east coast after the arrival of Stanley. Another courier was sent in the direction of the Arnwhimi. Two Deaths at Byron. Btron, Dec. 23.—Mi«s Minnie Holle- man, daughter of Mr. D. H. Hoih-ntao, died last Thursday night at the home of her father, two miles from town, of heart disease. She was a young lady possessed of many rare tnd lovable trait* of ch.-rac- ter, and will lie greatly missed, both in the church and community. ; Mr. Thomas Hardison died nt ms home near here last Tuesday. He was 17 years AT CINCINNATI. -IDE AT COLUMBV?. i it Principal Street ci| Its Head Crushed. Cou fb ^ j) ec . 23.—[Special.]—Between 9 and 10 clock yesterday Officer Smith foumi the l.todv of a newly-born child -in. a ditch, nenr^he mouth oi a sewer, on Third avenue, beYveen Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. Tlo hod** was wrapped in a Mack cloth, ' 6 hull was crushed. The offi* cer tclepljjiifcj for Chief Palmer, and Coroner i Griffin was also notified. Dr. K. f. Meyer tesu.Vd: “It is a jtyde child (colu.'-'d), full term of nine monifr. The cause of de*th seems to have been) a fracture of the skuil. Hem- orrhage from the neglect of the cord would, also, have )>Au sufficient to produce death. I think the child was born alive.” =; .1 At 12:30 j>. m. an autopsy of the body was ordered, during which the jury took a recess. When the body reassembled Dr. Meyer, who performed the autopsy, was again called to the stand and testified: ’ “After an examination, 1 find that the child breathed after birth, its lung beiujgin- flated with air. I f- und uo other marks of violence, save the crashing of the skull and neglect of the cord. My opinion is that it is a case of infanticide.” After a little discussion it was deemed best to • * ,i nnrrt‘®U Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock, ijj which time it is thought more facts in the case may be brought to light. The child was a mulatto, aud its body was found on one of the principal streets cf the city. A RUMORED BECRKT MARRIAGE. Tne city is somewhat exercised over the report that a secret marriage recently took place here between two prominent society people. It i< believed that the facts in the nse will come to light in a day or two. HUE WAS CRUELLY UKATKN. A Report Showing the Increase tn Southern Wealth for the Ten JYcarg Past. Chattanooga, Dec. 21.—Tne Tradesman has compiled a table for its issue o! January 1 showing the aggregate taxable wealth of each Southern State in 1888, compared with the aggregates in every preceding year since 1*86. This table it made up on the reports furnished to the Tradesman by the auditors and comptrollers of each of the Southern states and shows, in actual figures, the growth ot the Southern states in the past d cade. It also contains estimates of popula- tion of each of the Southern states at the preseat time. The following an extract* from th#* ex bit— total assessment of 1888,reai estate, pttmmalitv, railroad*, etc.: Alabama. $260,889,109; Arkansas, $171,- 70,000: Florida, $110,000,000; Georgia, $357,167,458; Kentucky, $565,488,250; Louis iana, $213,000,000; Mississippi, $145,808,772 North Carolina, $222,700,000; South Caro lint, $162,000,000; Tennessee, $329,495,356; Virginia, $394,801,000; Texas, $660^00,000; iuitu, $3,001,740,945. The total increase of taxable wealth in the states named between 1880 and 1888 is $1,301,176,604. The percentage of increase for eight years by states, is as follows: Alabama, 69 per Terriblo flipping Given a Lady the Night Previous to Hit Marriage. Lawken' EVii.le, Dec. 23.—An outrage ous siffair occurred six miles west of here in Gwinnct* county, a few nights since, the details >f which are just coming to light. It wia the brutal whipping of Mrs. Couch, a respectable widow lady, by some ;;n known peiDuu. Mrs. Couch has three children living with her, hut on the night the whipping occurred they were absent, lectin g her en tirely alone. She retired aff the usual hour and fell asleep. Bheyealaroused by a noise in'the room and befoi^she could cry out she a as seized by the %iroat and cruelly kicked and beaten with a heavy stick until' he was senseless. It was im possible to recognize her assailant in the dark. Tlie asaai. t is a very mysterious affair, and no rea* mable explanation of it has been offeree Mrs. Couch is a lady of good stand:: • and well connected, and it wan not the* i^ht t>he had any enemies. What mu le the assault more outrageous wes he fac that on the next da^ she was to have bee- married to a prominent citi zen o! Gwit- oil county. Arrangements for the weddin. had >een completed, but Mrs. Couch was h> j - rated bv her terrible experience .hat • marriage badMp be poetporvA, inere’V a suspicion that *ho ubjsMfcf the assault w;«* to-prevent the marriag but thus h\r no evidence h«n been dvvel oped to substantiate this suspicion. MR. GILBERTS DETENTM/j while HE ABUKRS KINDNESS fillo\* HIM. HIS RELATIVES say he is IN THE I ■f RIGHT PLACE. His Path#tic Chnrg* About Cruel Treat- mw ‘ Saltl t4 » D® an Utter Fabrica tion- An Interview with HU Wife—The Asylum Story. Nor does he tell tint his hVl-heart*^ brutal d.'Ct. rs out of (•ympatbv\aad*'eom> passion, for him allow him to wiTcy.nt and that nt the first opportunity heA<aV« goes right home, gets drunk an/ ?ri«*sTtVkill somebody until the authorities (here are compelled to arrest him aud i»f nd bin Albany, Dec. 23.—[Special.]—With er-jy gard to ilr. John D. Gilbert, now confined in the asylum, the follow iug statement is nee- essary to show up the true state of the case after the publication of Mr. Gilbert’s letter: Mr. Gilb* Vbelong to one of the first and best far ^ the state, but his story as published ka g the shadow of tryth about it, as } relatives here are con- to the It is t good fan n or the th it he with a brothe chain do gang, belonj r a nd : to ■. Gilb* V ’ belong to on best far Jy the state, l iblisheti kiV g the shud t it, as } scii5^ - relatives 1 cerned. Mr syiDy .b/as reared in Albany and wa* a y j^.'tian of fine business quali 41 ““ before t. yd nr* ' ‘ ’ ** • Vi misfortune overtook him " OVR OK NO AVAIL. ame a habitual drinker, ties before Mr. and the;^ of a devoted wife and kid ^nsidfeiAve ami patient brothers could ftot stop him ia his downward course. Finally he became violently insane and made violent attacks on Dr.* \V. W. Bacon and others of his kind friends. He was tried for lunacy according to the laws of the state and sent to the Asylum for the protec tion of himself and family,and the whole board of physicians of Albany will testify that he is a fit subject for his present quar ters. If any one does, your correspondent knows Mr. Gilbert, and held a conversation with him at the Central depot in this city when he was at home last. HIM WATCH FOR A DRINK. I was waiting for the train and Mr. Gilbert approached me and wanted to pawn his gold watch for 25 cents or a half pint of liquor. I remonstrated with him and told him to go home to hi9 wife and children. “No,” said he, “I will die if I don’t get n drink, and if you won’t take the watch someone else will. 1 am not in a tit cond iluu iogo io my family and I am going hack to Milledgeville, were I can be cured.” His quotation from Hon. Lewis Arnh* is not true. Ilis wyfe and children are danger of their lives wnen he is nt home, and it will be found if Mr. Wright listens to the story of a distorted mind and makes an investigation that Mr. Gilbert’s story is not true. CONFINED BY HIS WIFE’S REQUEST. As to his being detained by bis brother it is true, and bis detention is sanctioned by his deeply grieved wife and every one of Albany’s good citizens, and their actions in this case are through tbe kindest of feeliti the patient >uu Mi. uunco s tu,« and children. Your correspondent la personally ac quainted with the patient’s family and reht- tiv.es, knows well Mr. Gilbert’s periodically violent condition, and the story as written by him is simply untrue. Dr. Powell in Veil acquainted with the particulars of this case and 04u get aU the PrtMkjecesiory to juMily Mr. Gilbert's de* . I children have a his eftv, where they for the best tbit he is until a kind provi* suppoM I that tin lawyi Th< wiftVaJ ille|$L mtto A. step* IcK or some A UlMKr.ilN MERCHANT FLXK9. lie Gets Into Financial Tr Secretly for T I.uii pk in, I)*c. 23. nsation of the week ii been the sudren disapp' a C. Feed of the firm of Pee »me time la.st week Mr lo several gentlcnu :eived a telegram leadi of his father requesting him to a.l,- hasty pr.'par horse and buggy mble nnd l.t tvet -[Sp . ial.]—The I Lumpkin has •anceof Mr W. 1 Sc May. . Peed announced n that In* had just re- informing him of the at Hamilton, (in., nnd • me immediately. He it ions to leave, engaged 10 tnko h' C'olurn- i th the i.im at i> wife, > lather bus, hade his family farewell ' remark that .hev would hear fron. an early date. S*.range to say, t«, he did not im ntion the death of h which he had reported to other*. The driver who accompanied him to Columbus returned the next d ty, hut could or would give no information to where he had left Mr. Peed. The whole affair began to wear a “fishy” look to cer tain parth s who lm 1 tin inkling of the state of Mr. Peed’s all irs, nnd minors began to fly about town that Mr. Peed had fled the country. Soon it was stup-d on good au thority that Mr. Peed’s father, instead of being dead, was hh hale and hearty as a man could well be. This only htrength- ened the rumors that he had tied, and his ilighi was fioaiiy confunnd beyond ques tion by a statement from :t Cuiunthu^ gen- tlemnn that he had seen Peed buy a ticket for Texas at Columbus. Financial einlmrrasMnent is said to have caused Mr. PecdV sudden departure. The debts of the firm j.repaid to amount to sev eral thousand dollar* more than the assets, and when nil the facts are known some queer transactions may he exposed. ASH t> .ASIIKH EVERY W t EUK. dp he prboL^ecessory to juitif A £ riag j , comfortable home iiitli A tllchlKHii I.tnyO-rlug Town Tojally De- s troy eel by Fire— «‘jr»o,ooo. Menominee, Mich., Dec. 23.—The town «oI liermaonville, in the upper peninsula, forty-seven miles north of here, has been entirely destroyed by fire. IlermansviUe is a lumbering settlement at the croMtM'OP the Menominee division of tbs ChictaTiud * Northwestern and Hatf! 8t«f Line railroad, and had a PopawLlofM about ■100. The tire originated In otusCLth. two large saw mills owned by itte Wlseouia Land aad Lumbar Companjt. U tbought, ped vf a work- MOtmZDMA'j oiik.it LO- fropi a match careless dropp matr.-” ' ‘ ‘ liil'.irlH the lir lill uuocrt, I.; Arkansas, 77 percent.; Florida, 211 percent.: Georgia, 42 percent.; Kentucky, 50 per cent.; Lonislana, 20 per cent; Mis sissippi, 20 per cent.; North Carolina, 30 per rent; South Carolina, 26 percent.; Tennes see, 44 percent.; Virginia, t8 per cent.; Texts, 107 per sent. The foliowing is the estimate of the comp trollers of each state of the population of each. In 18H&: Alabama, 1,600,000; Arkansas, 1,125,000; Florida, 342,551; Georgia, 1,750,- 000; Kentucky, l,fl.*O,(X'0; Louisiana, 1,100.* 000; Miaslsiipi, 1,310,000; North Carolina, 1,700,000; South Carolina, 1,500,000; Ten nessee, 1.800,000; Virginia, 1,550,000; Texas. 1,750,000. Total, 17,117,551 against a total in 1880 of 11,035,673. Ju.t What Sir. Whitney Expected. Washington, Dec. 23 Secretary Whit ney, when shown the Associated Press dis patch announcing the surrender of tlie steamer Hatian Republic, said that he had expected such a termination of the matter. So ftr as tbe Navy Department was con cerned, it was a satisfactory settlement oi the afitir. He supposed d demand for in- demnily would be made, but that was a mat ter belonging to the State Department The secretary said that the United States vessels would cruise about in the neighbor hood of Hayti fora short time to protect the interests of American citinn* and watch the progress of events. It wou,d probably be a day or two before anything would be heard from Admiral Luce. Tlie Execution* Wilt Not Take Vlacr. ZaNXIDab, Dee. 23.—O.Idb to tho protest of the British representative here the sultan has cancelled his order for the wholesale exeention of criminals. The German war ship Leipzig has cap tured another dhow with fourteen slaves, The squadron has captured no arms or am munition. This shows the coast nati>es are amply supplied. Johnson and child, of Laconia; «!d !c<v»* *numher. f -C. oioster, assistant engineer of [n tlii* section relatives nppl levee board; John Wood* 1" Memphis; Capt. Elisha Evans, of '••nd w, p, Jaci.man, agent of tbe s Cotton Seed Oil VnM OoM^HF* **fe several other female passengers Klr James could not be learned. John william.’ Alleged Murderer Caught. AlfHUCCa, Dec 23-—Robert Wiggins, the alleged murderer oi John Williams, -—. cum am uo leunieu. an account oi which wa* sent you on the •» contained about $5,000, about, ,18th inot., has been captured and is now in Jf l>«lon*ing to passengers who 1 *Sumter county, jail. Hewaa captnnd in f ■ - ' - • 6 ' Stewart county, bv SheriffHolder of that countv, going under the ussuraed name o! Hams. ... He den : ea ihe killing, but hi. unsalis- factory statement only tends to confirm 1 .i imii. f In hi« criiilt. Wliile in t f° 1110 the clerk for aafe keeping. aJ* {“wogtra nnd crew arrived at Tj* tbii afternoon at 6 o’clock, having ** Louisville, New Orleans and Texas . triin at Kobinkonville, whieb station Lj~*J** distant in the interior from hlaveTrnfilc Must liebuppressed. Roms, Dec. 23.—Cardinal Lavigerie made an address on the slavery question today. lie ■aid that the general expression of public opinion was needed to force Enropean gov ernments to take action in the matter. The Mussulman princes must be compelled to fulfill their engsgements. It was impossible to expect the abolition of dome tic slavery, but the traffic in slaves mu*t be suppressed. «uty lliiri>0<t—Work ot Incendiaries. Montezuma, Dec. 23.—[Special.]—About 4 o’clock this morning fire was discovered in the cotton wurehouse of Brown Sc West brook. It was a wooden building and was soon in ashes. Four hundred and fifty hales of cotton, together with 300 bushels of oats- .’hni buslu N of rotldin seefl and ft lot of agri. cultural implements were totally destroyed, Messrs. G. W. Forehand Sc Co., general merchandise, adjoining the warehouse, lo.«e about $1,000 by water. They Hre Insured. The cotton was insured, except ubout fifty bales. The building was insured for (1,500. Mf-nr.s. .1. M. Harrison Sc Sons lose 300 bushels of oats, with no Insurance. Mr. W. P. Maxwell loses 600 bushels of cotton seed and about $1,000 worth of agri cultural implements, with no insurance. The loss will aggregate $20,000. The fire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The cotton is still burning and the water supply is very near exhausted, but no further outbreak is anticipated. X DjnnntUe Magazine Explodes. Wheeling, W. Va., Dec. 23.—At 2 o'clock this afternoon a dynamite magazine on the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad at Mount Pleasant, fifteen mile* west of this city, in Ohio, exploded, wrecking windows ami burning buildings. The shoclc was felt and tfi»- r«*j »rt heard all around. It it reported that several persons were killed. The de tails are meagre and a full report will be impossible before Monday. THAT ALAI* A HA TRAIN bTKALUt. Will liv -J. B. Uo Is in *!nil—Railway Autliorltl Make an Kxnmplo of Him. Albany, Dec. 23.— [Special.]- Smith, the man who uncoupled the engine and two cars from the freight train at Ala paha, has been orrtbted. He, after detaching the engine and can from the train, took his gun and ran the fireman off the engine, the engineer bein;i in the telegraph office, and started the trair off on its mad run and then jumped off'. The dastardly deedcaused a great deal of excitement along the line and train on the road that day was side tracked. It is said that the company will an example of him and give trim the full extent ol the law. > with Mr. rhim unsafe and , and he ought to Ht*« Bid a Rough l*Assnge. Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 23.—The schooner John S. Wood, from Pascagoula yesterday, reports very severe weather dur ing the entire passage, and while in the straits of Florida had her deck load of lum ber washed overboard. She is leaking ■lightly. An KpUcopM Church Burns. F.astObasoe. N. J., Dee. Christ 1 A Woman (Stops a Marrii Fort Gain re, Dec. 23.- of negroes had assembled marriage of Afcbuxy Spc this place, and the cere mo being performed when were rudely interrupted b Augusta Foster, a leruc who stoutly j rote nf I did not keep hil pr< ght (< she said: “I never expect to try Gilber again, for I considi subject for the asylum, have been in tbe ns/luii long befor* ent there. He is a confirmed morphine In- briate, and was for years before any one knew it. It was first administered by a . hysician, and from that it became habitual with him,.and I have known him to ea a lollar’s worth in a day. He claimed that it had a pleasant effect and allayed his thjrst i»»r liquor. “Mr. Gilbert esetped from the asylum rice, went to Augusta and three sold his atch and came home. Ills brothers are very kind to him and would have tried to keep him at home had be not returned un der the inffueuce of liquor or morphine. IIB 18 UNCONTROLLABLE. “lie is nncontrollable at such times, and when he arrived here about a month ago he was immediately placed under arrest at the request of Dr. Pcwell. I am very sorry that there has been any publicity of the matter, but your letter snows up the true state of the case aud is but doing justice to his brother. “Mr. Gilbert should not be allowed to write any such letters for publication or anything else.” HTOUY OF Till: AHYLU31 <)UrtfOKIUKS, Gilbert's Charges Again*t Dr. l'uwrlt Man- urnctured Out of Whole Cloth. Millbdosvillk, Dec. 23.—[Special.]—A patient named Gilbert from Albany, duh committed to the asylum several years ago, has created some excitement in Atlanta by managing to get published in the Kvei Journal a long, pathetic letter, abusive of the institution, and particularly of Dr. Powell, superintendent, and Dr. Hall, the physician in charge of the ward he is in. lie claims that he was committed without authority of law and is wrongfully and ille gally incarcerated, and appeals to any sjm* pathetic lawyer to aid him In being released —aad it seems', from the Journal, that sev eral lawyers iu Atlanta propose taking it ia hand. He says that Representative Arr from his ccunty, told him, while at the^ asy lum ayea» ago lu-.t summer, with t‘ committee oi toe Mouse, investigating tne asylum, that he was illegally committed and detained there. ARNE KIM MIf*REFRE8KXTP.D. Iu that, he must have misrepresented Air. Arnheim, foe your correspondent know s that Air. Arnheim, who knows the patient and is acquainted with all the c e, told at least one • institution that Gilbt , ... Any lawyer or legfrla that, while such things private asylums, the sup ate lunatic asylum coul would, adroit a patient t by the proper papers from the ordinary of hi verdict of a jury of his peer*. IILS PA JAB STORY A5CUT PE. h made th* 11 i » prevent the spread of ■H extended to the ad- l'Ii, together with the , quifkly fell a prey to r tin ery eflo hnmlise in tlie and goods in the dwellings. The work was prosecuted with great vigor in the face of n Utterly cold northwest wind laden with particles of snow which rendered out of door work extremely difficult and exhausting. A grest part of the personal property of the inhabitants was saved, how ever, nnd the tents and rude shanties were constructed in the woods on the outskirts of the town for the accommodation of women aud children who suffered greatly from ex poMire t'» cold. No lives were lost. The Iom will approximate $250,000, a large part of whieh will fall upon the Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company. Till: WARRANT WAS A SHOTGUN i Alabama n Morin h Negro Mol> ll»> or It ii 1 lot <4. :. 22. A special to the n Monte vail o, Ala., says: place Thursday a negro hoy made a criminal asiault on a young white girl, but she escaped from him before he ac complished his purpose. Yesterday several J, and when taken bc- Mitified one of them a* With Namivillb, Ne fore the girl the party who Last night a cr John White, a < rounded tlie boas WhiU called on in the yard and warrant on which negro. The white companions in tbe double barreled wa At this Ihe ne, "«« promptly retui about ten shots White, the leader • er.il of .his party negroes then fieu with them. No ( pa ted. ulted her rowd of , led lx sWi.rr by fiuk :d fr The , Dec Hoc I I brought b I of drtais and rumors - I. trKt-r < oiif«-*sloh». | •r will be given concessio cs left out, and that the Mil \ changed. John g, China, ye»- f the steamer of the Mit- hey »ny that ^ •“sstill*. but were prosid 8* rT** ^ *fie «ind citizens ol Ci ” colored cabin crew tbe well-jinowu •j** 1 j f ii*rr>«lual shield lor transcontinental reil-1 J. Thomn- 'gS'MSToZ*™ Extortion.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The weekly telegraph. (Macon, Ga.) 1885-1899, December 25, 1888, Image 1