The Sylvania telephone. (Sylvania, Ga.) 1879-current, February 18, 1898, Image 1

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VOL. XVIII. ADVERTISING RATES. Per square, one inch, 1st inser tion ........................ $ 1.00 Each subsequent insertion...... .50 Advortisomonts from responsible parties will bo published until ordered out, when the timo is not specified in the copy, and charges made accord ingly. Communications for individual bon etit. or of a personal character, imjjrtion longer when than advertisement does not run payable one month; otherwise quarterly. Legal advertise mont.8 payable in advance. bio Correspondents alone are rosponsi for opinions expressed by them through these columns. Special rates and terms for adver tisemeuts to run longer than ono men th. Communications should be ad dressed, Telephone, Sylvania, Ga. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Oliver – Overstreet, Attorneys at Law, S YLVANI A, - GEORGIA. w. r. mms, Attorney - at - Loan Money on Farm Mortga, At 8 Per C'eut Ter AnnumJ E. K. 0VERS 1 RE Attorney at Imw SYLVANIA, - - Loaned to Bed Ra n| ■ , A Revolution in tho Piano anti ied. 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JUST OUT TAKE- DOWN. < J j) In 38-56 40-82, 40-65, and 45.70 15-90 Calibres. jtjt fiend for Catalogue to The Marlin Fire Arms Go. New Haven. Conn. RIFLES ff you arc interested in fancy rifles of su perior finish, send stamj< and ask for our book of hign-grade repeaters. • • » i /< SYLyInIA, GA.. FR 1 FEBRUARY 18, 1898. Over One Hundred Men Were On Board tun! Many Of Them Were Killed or Badly Injw/fe<l. J sh Boats ni|^^HLnii t Firemen Oo to Hie HoAcue anti («itc All Assistj^Wy^-Ti.o Catastrophe |tWos __ A special A terrible ter to 10 explosion o’clocJ^Bj^^^' tt^« place evening on board, a the United States battleship Maine in Havana harbor. Many are killed or wounded. . 1 All the boats of the Spauish cruiser Alfonso XIII are assisting. As yet the cause of the explosion is not apparent. The wounded sailors of the Maine are unable to explain it. It is believed the cruiser is totally destroyed. Tho explosion shook the whole city. The windows were broken iu alt the houses. Tho correspondent of the Associated Press says he has conversed with sev eral of the wounded sailors and under stands from them that the explosion took place while they were asleep so that, they can give no particulars as to the cause. TntetlSti Exeiteihent. The w ildest consternation prevailed in Havana. The wharves were crowded with thousands of people. It is be lieved the explosion occurred in a small powder magazine. At a quarter of 11 o’clock what re mained of the Maine was still burn ing. ftrtd officers Captaih Sigsbee othei Were Saved. It is estimated that over 100 of /thf crew were killed, but exact detail-#’ a-e lacking. Manterola ordered boats of woiflH|]if, dl^HOI t" The assist Havana the Maine firemen and also her gave mJ, tending carefully to the wounded is they were carried on shore. General Solano and the other gener als were ordered by Captain General Blanco to take steps to help tho Maine’s crew in every way possible. Captain Sigsbee says the explosion occurred in the bow- of the vessel. He received a wound in the bead. Orders were given to the other officers to save themselves as best they could. The latter, who were literally thrown from their bunks in their night clothing, gave the necessary orders with great self-possession and bravery. CAPTAIN SIGSBEE REPORTS. Communicates With Navy Department and Asks for Help. The secretary of the navy at Wash ington received the following tele gram from Captain Sigsbee: “Maine blown up in Havana harbor at 9:40 o’clock ami destroyed. Many wounded and doubtless more killed and drowned. Wounded and others on board Spanish man of-war and Ward line steamer. Send light house tenders from Key West for crew and few pieces of equipment still above water. No one had other clothes than those upon him. “Public opinion should be suspended til further report. All officers believed to bo saved. Jenkins and Merritt not yet ed for. Many Spanish officers, representatives of General Blanco, now with me and express sympathy. SiasmSE.” The officers referred to in the above dispatch and are: Assistant Lieutenant, Eiygiueer Friend W. Jenkins win R. Merritt. _ Prom the wording -of the®hpatch sible the navy that department they jA-ore thiukA^B^pn:: on ^ fjpB A s n c time of the accident. Tliceecretary of the navy received another dispatch from Key West at the same time with the above, but its contents were not made public. The orders for the lighthouse tend ers were at once sent to Key West in plain language, thus avoiding the de lay that would have arisen from the use of cipher. GOAL POOL UNDER WAY. Minos In Illinois Preparing For a Big Combine, A meeting at which representatives of nearly 125 local companies hand ling coal in St. Louis from the mines of southern, central and eastern Illi nois, were present, was held in that city Tuesday for the purpose of form ing a pool. These companies which control all the mines in the districts named, are considering an agreement to organize in East St. Louis, under Illinois laws, the Standard Coal com pany, which will take the entire out put of the mines. MANY MEN ADRIFT ON ICE. Party of Fishermen Are Probably Lost In Lake Erie. A special from Buffalo, N. Y., says: A number of men, estimated at be tween twenty and thirty, who were fishing through the ice on Lake Erie several miles up the lake, are believed to have lost their lives or are adrift. A heavy wind blowing from the east caused the ice to break away from the shore and nothing can now be seen or heard from the men. Telephone THE THE NEWS NEWS IN •HINGTON. offlcialg of )ho Navy ' iinpnrtmont Do e n„„ t<> DUm** (Jutastrophu. Secretary of theYhwfLonjr »ftt<h received Captain Sig.sbee’s but Press a few minutes dispatches before from the 0a\Bkvere jtssociatod handed b ; m He received the net’s with apparent calm, and his first nek was to comply with Captain Sigsbtjs request that assistance be sent ®,>irt Key West, He immediately whafi Id Captain pioefied Witll For sytli@; ttdval at Key West, to Havana liar the tender FerM bolt Secretary Long thru sent for Cap tain Dickens* and tha two discussed Captain Sigsbee's faj*i:f telegram. which The disaster is th; greatest has befallen the American navy since the disaster at Apia «.uany years ago. While neither the inclined secretary nor Cap tain Dickens are to discuss tlie probable cause A the accident, several suggestions Were Ventured Upon. another Later the secretary font teL Ogram to Key West; d recting that tho tender Mangrove also'oc sent to Ha van a, Tlio Main’s Crew. The Main is a battli-hip of tho sec ond class and is regarded as ono of tho best ships in tho new tavy. She was built at the Brooklyn navy yard and is 3l8 feet long,57 fi,G82 feet broad, 21.fi mean draught and tons dis placement. and six She carries four li) inch G inch breech loading guns in her- 1 main battery and seven fi-pounder and eight 1-pounder four gatlings in her and four Whitehead torpedoes. Tho officers of the Maine, besides Commander Sigsbee, are: Lieutenant Commander 1-tiehard Waiuwright. Lieutenant George F.’Holman. Lieutenant -John Hood. Lieutenant Carl Junior W, Tjngen, Grade Bio\V, Lieutenant John T. Blandin, Fiiatd W. Jenkins. Naval Cadets Jonas II. Holden, Watt T. Cluverius, Anion Bronson, David F. Boyd, ,Tr. Surgeon Lueien G. Ilensberger. Paymaster Charles W. Littlefield. Chief Engineer Charles P. Howell. Passed Assistant Engineer Fredrick C. Bowers. Assistant Engineeers John It, Mor ris and Darwin It. Merritt. Naval Cadets (engineer division) Pope Washington, Arthur Crenshaw. Chaplain John P. Ghidwick. First Lieutenant Marines Albertus W. Catlin, Boatswain Francis E. Larkin. Gunner Joseph Hill Carpenter George HU ms. SPANIARDS ARE DISPLEASED Over Keport That Cabinet Apologized To the United States. j A special from Madrid greatly says: enraged “The populace of this city is owing to the belief that the Spanish. cabinet lias apologized to the United I States. Tho popular . the dispatch adds, “are bitterly O) p >sed to such a course, are exceodingij hostile to the government and may make a demon stration. The people prefer war to an apology, thinking that Spain will suf fer the least thereby, as v toth^^^B exceedingly disastrous,- United States.” ^ commeycu of the ALLPOX IN a: Kpldcmtc Vluvint; Havoc With a Pro grefesive Kentucky Town. Smallpox has been declared epi demic at Middleboro, Ky. There are twenty-nine cases in the town. All saloons and tho public schools are closed. No loitering on streets is allowed. The mails are fumigated and all sur rounding towns are closed against Middleboro. ADDRESS FROM SILVER LEADERS. Appeal To Voters of file Country For Unity of Action. A Washington special says: The addresses 011 behalf of the democratic, populist’and silver republican parties, which _are the result of the conferences which have been iu progress among the leaders of these parties at thecapi tol were issued Tuesday. They se'ek to unito the members of the three parties in future elections upon tire financial issue as the question of paramount importance, and are separate appeals to each of tho parties to consolidate for this purpose. AGAINST THE THREE FRIENDS. Federal Court at New Orleans Decide* Against Tug's Owners. At New Orleans Tuesday morning the Federal Court of Appeals decided the case, of the government against the noted filibusterer, Three Friends, which came before the court on ap peal from the Florida circuit. The decision reverses that of the lower court, am the owners MBS. SOULES AGAIN SENTENCED. Day of Execution la SSt Fof March 2511* Next.. Mrs. Elizabeth Nobles, the old wo man oonflned in the Bibb county jail at Macon, Ga., for the murder of her husband in Twiggs comity, was taken to Jeffersonville Saturday afternoon, and for the fifth time was sentence to death. Mrs. ftoblefc feflcllcd Jeffersonville safely at half-past 4 o'clock ifi charge of Sheriff Jones and was taken imme diately to the courthouse, where Judge Smith was in waiting. TlicrO wfls^fl-r ji i q TLjdge l g ^udience Bmitii of spec Jatow-presllft. March fieri teneed Mrs. ITobles Ip hM>g on 2.5th. Ho ttsked her i^she had any thing to say why seatenGe Of death ghou]fl not be pasae(1 npon Ler . 8 he said nothing and appeared to treat the matter indifferently, Judge Smith advised her to prepare ful-deittil and suid ministerial offices would be tendered her. The old woman’s attorneys have several legal procedures yet left to them, so it is said, and if all of them are exhausted in vain, then, as a last resort, they will rCftomfilendatifin go before the prison for eomhiiSsiofi for commutation of sentence, and, if nec esfiftry, will appeal to the governor in iier behalf. Gits Families, Mrs. Noble's defioifi plice in the murder, was not carried to Jeffersonville with her, days, as be ! lias been respited for thirty and it was not necessary to resentence him. He calmly awaits the final re suit in Mrs. Nobles’ case. .He be lieves that he will share the same fate as Mrs. Nobles. If she is hanged, he knows that he will also be executed, If she is commuted, he thinks he will receive comfflUtotioil, Wmintinon ttUUllrUMI l uvYnn HLAH U tounrt *KUS. Mlnlsterat Ma(lri(1 Sen „ s cipher wtspatch to Slate Department. 1 A Washington dispatch says: Late Saturday night the state department received a telegram from Minister Woodford, It reliiteS presumably to the incident created by letter the publication to Cftnalljifeh of Minister DoLoiUeV Senor The cablegram is in . ’cipher ntul is The a*. st.ala - g'-v-a^Pl^^mrce.s. State Day Ai it Secretary of who lias been entrusted with the correspondence disettss by the president, said re faked it* the message, He merely in the that Imre was properly no development coilld be case a I h made public at ibis time. DEAD DORIES RECOVERED. Horrors of l he Itecenfc Pittsburg Holo caust Grow Apace. The results of the terrible fire and subsequent explosions on Bike street, Pittsburg, Pa., continue to grow in all their harrowing details. bodies At 10 bad o’clock Saturday night eighteen the been removed from ruins, nearly all of whom were found in ill-fated Mulberry alley. All of the bodies were more or less mutilated by bricks. the contact with flying timbers and Following is the list of the dead taken out during the day: William Edward Finch, fireman; George Ed ward Newman, Philadelphia, gfts iii spector; Will F. Doran, Prof. Jinxes Hoxon, David Benton Wookerly, D. A. Gray and John Contine. Thirty-five persons are still missing. The impression is strong that many of them have met death tinder the walls. ZOLA IS MOBBED. ijuestion of the Author’s Safety Seriously Exercising His Friends. A Paris special says: Upon arriving at his residence after the adjournment of the trial Saturday evening M. Zola was fr,crowd, j PW mtl who assailed ijjKjHkuickly abusive epi dispersed the anti-Zola ngitarl^H^^HfiaHug which q™^|P>nngK togeter with a whistle, mob of a professional ro'Wfss who«w,?ola _is near. The question of Zola’s personal safe ty is seriously exercising his friends, who assert that several notorious crim inals have been seen hovering about the court building throughout the week. It is suggested that they have been lavishly bribed to injure Zola seriously, even if they do not kill him. L. A. W. OFFICERS ELECTED. Potter Re-Elected President After a Strong ami Ueterinined Fight. A St. Louis dispatch says: Potter was re-elected president of the L. A. AV. Thursday on the first ballot by a vote of 212 to 107. Potter was op posed by Gideon and the most sensa tional fight ever waged in the L. A. W. was in progress until the official count was made. The other officers elected as follows: First vice president, Thomas J. Keenan, Pennsylvania. E. N. Hines, Second vice president, Michigan. C. Tattersall, New Treasurer, James Jersey. FRANCE HILL BACK SPAIN. The Fiffaro Say* the Demanded Apology Cannof. Bo Made. The Figaro (Paris) says: “No state could make such an apology as the United States demands from Spain without the loss of all dignity. If the United States should attack Spain under such a futile pretext as the De Lome incident the whole of Europe ■would support the l*tt«i" UHL WOODFORD ASKF.lt DISVVOVAL HUT WAS REFUSED, ACTION OF THE SPANISH CABINET. Sonoi* Itefnube Silcr««c1§ Letter Crtnrtlcjfts My the State Department* Advices from Madrid state that at a meeting of the Spanish cabinet, hold at 5 o’clock Monday afternoon, over which (lie queen regent presided, Senor Gull on, minister of foreign affair , in formed the ministry that United States Minister Woodford had just bunded him ft llote referring to Senor Dupuy DeLome’s letter arid to the meaning of several paragraphs in it. The note from Minister Woodford demanded that Spain should formally disavow the insults to President Mc Kinley contained ift Senor Dupuy DeLome’s letter to Senor Caufilejtts. The cabinet council, after a warm debate, it is reported, decided unani monsly to reply to Minister Woodford that Senor DeLome’s spontaneous fes* ignStion and the terms of the decree accepting it were considered sufficient satisfaction. It is understood that Minister Wood ford received this intimation and dis patched Washington, a long cipher telegram to At the meeting the cabinet selectod Sen Of Louis Polo Beruabe as minister to the United States to succeed Senor 1>eLome nn<1 subsequently Settor Gul Ion, minister of foreigli aflairs, informing sent a ( cablegram to Washington so the secretary of staitt. tetter Sent Canada*. A Washington special says: Monday ul S , bt ‘ , he stRte department . . . received . , official notice from Madrid of the se 0 { g e noi‘ Louis Polo Bernabe States minister to succeed pei^me. —g- -SiYif of'vice abe Spai^^K isl Mp engaged this country. in a special Senor tuient or the foreign ministry at Madrid, dealing with commercial mat ters and consulates. Actuated by a sense of strict idea taken of justice, tho state place nient has stops to of Senor CaualejaS, the letter was addressed, the epistle written by Senor Dupuy DeLome, which led to the resignation of the minister. The transaction is explained in the ' following brief statement given out by the state department: “Recognizing that the legal ownership of the DeLome letter is in Mr. Canalejas, and his agent and attorney, Mr. Carlisle, having presented proper authority to receive the same, the letter was delivered to him to day.” Mr, Carlisle was fully authorized to apply for and receive the letter, hav ing the cabled authorization from I Senor Canalejas. In the view of the j state stolen department document, aud the in that, letter like, was a any other piece of property, should upon application, be delivered to the right ful owner. There was no other course left open, for in the United States as in all other countries having a code of laws, a letter becomes the sole property of the person to whom it is addressed immediately it starts on its way hmm the sender. Even the writer cannot obtajujffios- ef- the session of it without consent person addressed; the limit uf his powers legally being in certain cases to stop the delivery of the paper. GENERAL APPROVAL LACKING. „ Doe, .. Not Order for a Uniform Strike Ficase Ail operativer From advices received fit Boston, Mass., Monday night from various mill centers, it seems to be the gen oral opinion in mill circles that the recommendation of the that a general strike beundenaken by the operatives in all New England cot ton mills where a reduction of wages occurred will not be accepted in all P lftoes ’ LEGISLATING FOR INDIANS. Senate Passe* BUI Carrying #8,000,000 For Tbelr Benefit. A Washington dispatch says: Con Bideration of the Indian appropriation Friday bill was resumed by the senate and after being amended ti some ex tent the measure wat passed The most important amendment to the bill was that offered by Mr. Petti grew, of South Dnkota, which, if final ly enacted, will restore the free home stead law so far as it relates to Indian lands ceded to the United States, for which lands the settlers have been obliged to pay the purchase price paid to the Indians. The bill parl ies appro priations aggregating $8,<j)00,0C0. CARPET MILLS SIH T DOWN. More Than Two Ilumlrrirt Operatives Thrown Out. of XVJork. A part of the plant of Thlompsonville, jhc Hartford Carpet company, at Mass., has been closed for an indefi affected. nite period. An More nnsatisfaif than jloo hands demand are ory is said to have been thl cause of the shutdown. ft A portion of th^, Wwtftcld 'Aim Plate company’s factory doors! at ipBonville also has closed its NO. ‘ 25 . TILLMAN’S BILL FAILED. It Was Directed Against Original Pack In South Carolina. A Washington dispatch says: The effort to strengthen the South Carolina dispensary law by legislation was Killed in the house committee on judiciary Friday, the committee divid ing equally on the bill to amend the Wilson law, and as the bill did not get n majority, there can be no favorable report. action that it will bis .This means allowed to another committee. ThiB bill, it will be recalled, was de signed to get around the original pack age decisions by which the present plan of controlling the liquor traffic iu South Carolina is declared to he be yond the police power of the state. It is understood that the fail ure of this bill to become a law means a s tv sigh tout fight for prohi bition, with the supporters of the dis pensary lining up on the prohibition As things stand the dispensaries must submit to the competition of the original package store.', and that means their death, or at least their conduct by rte state at a loss. judge ADVOCATE ANGERED. Hf U-uVers Some Scorcliing RcfflafUs in the Carter Trial. The tnyil by courtmartial of Captain O. M. Canter opened with a rush at Judge Savannah,\ Advocate Ga,, Barr Friday made an morning. impas sioned and\ heated address to the court upon vbe subject of refusal of witnesses to\urivet questions. Captain This was inspired n\y the refusal of Jacob Paulsen Thursday to give pri vate information*relative to the affairs of the Propeller Towboat company, of which he judge is president. advofate said all the press The published of the country had\doubtless Thursday af under startling and Friday,statement head^ues that ternoon made testify witnesses could not Lw to in this case. He dei.-’areir s ~Um^ EEn s was a court of justicA and witnesses should be compelled th testify; tha-t^a refusal to answer queVions justice;that on the part of witnesses had would swojjjkSn tugktt presence the witness ttrt of he his should God be to telUjr-^iole trjxfe, 80 exgtt a,1<1 ’ ifanao. --Tigress was nscessary. ( W r l^y^NSTARLES. ^R!!t 5^,1 Att : an Old Lady 1 Ke Vehurg, \ Ky., say morning, Coi c- at tem Pr ^ jjv n__ fmMj and an other dau!|p?jSHHF®' redmjPWas a fight „ , , for , life. officers few moments The battle tb^moke god for had a cleared and after away old Mrs. Grow was found dead and shot to pieces, and one daughter dead. Those who survived are ifi a danger ous condition. DELOME’S SUCCESSOR // -- and Present* Calls at 5*a<e Department Notification. Senor Du Bose called, at-the state de partfiient in Washington at noon Fri day and presented ifi writing the noti fication of the Spanish government DeLome thAt the resignation of Senor d been accepted nud that • Senor Du ...ose was authorized to represent his government as charge d’affaires ad in terim. purely formal, The notification wa* without giving the facts of transfer mention of the incident leading up to it. Having assumed his duties, Mr. Du Bose took occasion to pay a call of res pect to tlie auite departmentauthor it-ies. PREACHER TURNS' FORGER. Fasses -Forged Checks;' Xeft Town and e. Young Bride, ^ j A Chattanooga dispatch says: Ror. J. H. Phillips, a traVeliiig-evangelist, ^ c j d a highly successful meet j n g a t Athens, Tenn., "a short time ago, se eured $50(> in bogus checked in this 0 jty aud skipped,the town,...deserting jjj s , v jf e> whom lie married in Athens a f 9W weeks, ago. i* ^'Ga. left and niorhihg’ was. caytared itud in ]{ ^ on p’ ,-Friday car ac t to ChsHanqoga, : mmnber ;,u-ij v- of jj rs Phillips, who is a ^ e n to do Athens heart broken over the ironhipsA. .>^« OBSERVED LINUOLN My. Republican Club at Sfew Vo–k ’jt–ebrate* Willi a Ra»qtfet. • t The New York Republican $ub ob served Lincoln’s birthday as it has for twelve years at a banquet at Bfelmoni eo’s. Nearly 300 meipb|rwp|the club and guests were present Ana fifty la dies dined in the ‘’Empire hosta” be low. The toasts were: “Abraham Lin coln,” by Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, Indianapolis; “TheBepubiicariParty,’’ Bfmtelle; by Congressman Charles A. “The Mission of America, ” by Henry I). Estabroo, of Chicago, and the “Navy,” by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt,, v j ... , ... •>; SPAIN IS ACTIVE. • She Is Preparing ; For Emergencies By Additions to Her Navy. A dispatch to The Standard (Lon don) from Glasgow says the Spanish government has requested the Clyde Bank Ship Building company to push Spanish work. added, has de- . The company, it is spatched to Spain a high speed torpedo cruiser fully manned by Spaniards. In addition two torpedo boat destroy •» tr« being completed for Spain,