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The in Bulloch Herald -z"': vi; y. .v- VOLUME I. INCENDIARY'S SPITE CAUSED HOLOCAUST Motive Found For New York's Latest Terrible Fire, < Threats Were Made If a Servant Was Not Discharged. * i A a v Now special • i Despite look -\r , say : ’acts became public Saturday which make it appear that the fire which last Friday destroyed thirteen persons was lhata )f incendiary origin. It transpired few hours before the flames were |een a policeman was sent for from the Andrews dismissed house, and was mysteriously by a servant, who said he vas not wiinted. Mary Flannagan, the dead maid seems to have been a central |gure In this alleged plot, aud the J hief object of the supposed perpe f&tor’s hate. The police have given three scurrilous, threatening an nymous letters which had been sent D members of the Andrews house bid. One was addressed to the serv nt, Mary Flannagan. ! The letters made charges against Flannagan addi ami il»» hntlar In n. Itter osaed to Mrs/St. John, the jriter said: i “I hope you and Mrs. Andrews on’t think lor one moment that I am Sconciled with Mary Flannagan, for, ldeed, I am not; and what is further, I dll not be until I get my revenge. I :el that I have given warning enough, «d I am going to fix her life, aud be luse you and Mrs. Andrew’s did not ive heed to warning, I am going to x you too. I am going to make 1 ime one throw something in your urse’s and children’s faces that will isfigure them and eat all the flesh off le bones. This I will do for spite, ecause you did not let Mary go—as I old you to do. You had just as well *it her go first as last. You will have o girl alive when I get through with er.” Funeral of the Victims. The funeral services over the re iiains of the members of the family of Wallace C. Andrews and G, 0. St. ohn, who perished in the terrible re, were held at the Fifth avenue ome of tho Andrews family fternoon. None but the very intimate friends nd relatives of the family were in at mdanee. The funeral oration was elivered by Professor Felix Adler, of ie Ethical Culture Society. There w ere no ceremonies save the •ration delivered by Professor Adler. or was there any music. All was lam and simple, in accordance with phe wishes of Mr. St. John. The pallbearers were: Russell Sage, -en. Burnett, Colonel Robert G. Tn ersol!, James W. Hawes, W. J. Hitch C. E. Orvis, Mr. Williams, Son T. 0. Platt, Horace A. Hutchins H. S. Ford. TROLLEY LINES BOUGHT. | ashvilie System Now In Control of : Frank Baltimore S. Hambleton Capitalists. and others of Baltimore, associated with local capi¬ havo secured control of the Street Railway Company and the Cumberland Electric Light and -ower Company. It is their intention to consolidate ie two, thereby consummating one of ie biggest deals manipulated in the ennessee capital for years. I A1AYOR HARRISON’S VOTE. • lie Consolidation Shows Plurality of 40,073 Over Opponents. A Chicago dispatch says: The elec ‘ on commissioners have completed the Ticial count of the ballots cast at last uosday’s mayorality election. Har sou received a total of 148,412 votes, arter 107,439 and Altgeld 47,162. arrison’s plurality, 40,973. STATESBORO. GA.. THURSDAY, APRIL 13. 1899. ENGLAND TO BLAME. So Declare Germans In Regard to the Samoan Row. The German Democrat, published in San Francisco has received a letter from one of the chief German officials at Samoa, which is interesting as giv¬ ing the German views of the complica¬ tions at Apia. The correspondent writes that with all the shooting that has been done not a single Mataafan bad been killed or wounded and that the Mataafans and Germans have apparently no respect for the fighting ability of the American and British sailors. The Mataafans are anxious for the ^ fotcM come ont nn( , flght iu tive implements of war, will have a chance against the modern weapons used by the Americans. The writer says that Admiral Kautz gave no warning of the bombardment, and that when it commenced he thought a salute had been fired. According to the correspondent, British Consul Maxse is greatly blamed for the trouble and there seems to be au inclination among the Ger¬ mans to hold the British responsible for the war instead of the Americans. The German commander of the Falke, in addition to receiving on board the women and children of his own nationality, extended to Ameri¬ can and English women and children the hospitality of his ship, which was greatly crowded. The German cor¬ respondent says that Admiral Kautz thanked the Germans for their court¬ esy by shelling the German consulate. The admiral later attributed the firing on the consulate to poor ammunition. The writer says that stores are being openly plundered by the Mataafans and the English cannot stop it. On March 24th Mataafa sent word to Admiral Kautz that he would stop fighting if the whites would let him alone. The admiral replied that he woiaia capture Mataafa and hang him. The English are very much incensed against German Consul Rose, and Captain Sturdee wants to proceed against him as a spy. According to the German writer the only cure for the trouble will be the sending of new consuls and new commanders, who will act in harmony. According to a dispatch from Wash¬ ington the German ambassador, Dr. Von Holleben, called on Secretary Hay Monday and went over thi 1 Samoan question quite fully. The ambassador expressed the wishes of the German government to have the commission begin its work at the earliest possible moment, in or¬ der that the pending difficulties may be overcome. Tho German positiou, as made known by the ambassador, while not a protest, at the same time questions the course of Admiral Kautz. There is uo disposition on the part of the German authorities to repudi¬ ate Herr Rose’s course. The Ivautz Rose incident, it is said, in the high¬ est quarters, official and diplomatic, will be quite immaterial in affecting the settlement under the high com¬ mission. The British ambassador, Sir Julian Pauncefote, also conferred with Secre¬ tary Hay on Samoan affairs. The president has selected Bartlett Tripp, of South Dakota, formerly minister to Austria, as the United States representative on the Samoan joint commission. DEATH OF JUSTICE FIELD. End of a Long and Notable Career as Chief Justice. Justice Stephen J. Field, of the United States supreme court, retired, died at Washington early Sunday morning. He had been in rather poor health for several weeks, but w r as not confined to bis bed but a little more than a week prior to the end. Justice Field’s retirement from the supreme court bench occurred Decem¬ ber 1, 1897, and Attorney General McKenna, of California, shortly after¬ wards was nominated to succeed him. During his incumbency he said he alone had written 620 opinions which, with 57 in the circuit court, and 365 in the California suprome court, made up a total of 1,042 cases deckled by him in his life. He took issue with the styling of the court as an aristo¬ cratic feature of a republican govern¬ ment, and said it is the most demo¬ cratic of all. “It carries,” he wrote, “neither the purse nor the sword, but it possesses the power of declaring the law, and in that is found the safeguard which keeps the w’hole mighty fabric of gov¬ ernment from rushing to destruction.” HEROES LAID TO REST. Bodies of Soldiers Killed In West In¬ dies Buried at Washington. With full military honors, in the presence of President McKinley and his cabinet and a multitude of people, the bodies of 336 dead heroes who gave their lives for their country in Cuba or Porto Rico during the Span ish-American -war, were consigned to Their last resting place in Arlington cemetery in Washington, Thursday afternoon. The bodies of the Spanish war dead were brought to New York last week by the steamer Crook in order that they might rest forever in the soil of their native laud. In accordance with the directions of the president, every honor, military and civil, was shown to the nation’s heroes. The government departments *~nd the federal coui’ts were all closed at noon, and the flags over the gov¬ ernment buildings, the barracks, navy yards and the forts along the Potomac were half-masted. The military es¬ cort comprised all the artillery troops at the Washington barracks, a troop of cavalry from Fort Myer, a battalion of marines from the navy yard and the entire national guard of the District of Columbia. Colonel Francis P. Guenther, of the Fourth artillery, had command of the troops and charge of the military cere¬ monies. The Cay was perfect. Tne sun blazed from a cloudless sky and the scene in the historic cemetery overlooking the Potomac river and the white walls of the nation’s capitol was profoundly impressive. interment The site selected for the is one of the most beautiful in the cemetery. It is in a direct line about one-half mile south of the old Lee mansion on the top of the slope toward the river. Here in parallel lines were the newly made graves with the flag draped caskets containing the of the dead soldiers at their sides. About the graves were f armed the tary in imposing array, while in the group stood the president, the mem¬ bers of his cabinet, and other distin¬ guished functionaries of the govern¬ ment. Back and around these was the vast concourse of people. The customary volleys were fired, taps were sounded and military dirges were played by the bands. The re¬ ligious services were very simple. There were no addresses or eulogies. The iuterment of the bodies began at the conclusion of the ceremonies and the departure of the militia. FATAL BLAZE IN GOTHAM. Six People Die In New York Fire Whf.e Many Are Hissing. Six lives are known to have been lost in a fire at an early hour in New York city Thursday, destroying the five-story dwelling at No. 2 East Sixty ninth street, the home of Wallace An¬ drews, president of the New York oteam Heating Company, and the five-story brown stone house of Alfred Adams, No. 3 East Sixty-ninth street. Several persons are still missing and several firemen were injured while battling with the flames. The dead are: Mrs. St. John, Wal¬ lace St. John, her son, seven years old; four unidentified bodies, found ou the third floor of the Andrews house. The missing are: Mr. and Mrs. Wal lance Andrews, J. St. John and his | two young sons; Mary Bolder, * Flanagan, Ann Marra, Eve Pay aud Kate Roth, servants. Tb.o Andrews house is iu the heart of the district occupied by the homes of New Yoik’s richest millionaires. The house on the corner is occupied by H. O. Armour. The house at No. 4 is occupied by Mr. Rothschild. The firemen found it impossible to save the Andrews house and devoted most of their energies to saving the Armour and Rothschild properties. ANOTHER LINCOLN MONUMENT To Cost a Million Dollars Considered By Illinois Legislature. A dispatch from Springfield, Ill • » says: The house committee on ap¬ propriations has prepared a bill pro¬ viding for the erection of a new Lincoln monument iu Springfield to cost $1, 000 , 000 . Of this amount $100,000 is to be appropriated at once for the commence¬ ment of the work; congress is to be requested to appropriate $500,000 and $400,000 is to be raised by a popular subscription. The bill was reported to the house Wednesday night and advanced to second reading. GOMEZ WANTS INDEPENDENCE. Old Man Is Desirous of Ruling Cuba and the People Thereof. A Havana dispatch says: The Cuban military assembly being dead, General Maximo Gomez will take up his pro¬ gram of solidifying the Cuban people into a party tbat’shall, without ceas¬ ing, urge the United States to with¬ draw from the island. His purpose is to make the people seem to have but one emotion, oue desire—the thought of independence and of absolute sepa¬ ration from the United States. General Gomez considers the dis¬ solution of the assembly as his per¬ sonal achievement, aided by the mili¬ tary administration here and counte¬ nanced at Washington. He believes that he emerges from the controversy with the assembly stronger than ever with the better classes. COMMITTEE ON DISTRIBUTION. Goruez, Roderiguez and Maso Will Assist Gen. Brooke. General Maximo Gomez had a talk with Governor General Brooke at Ha vana Saturday, in the course of which im said that General Mayia Rodriguez and General Bartolome Maso, former president of the Cuban republic, would act as a committee of the army with him to aid General Brooke in the dis¬ tribution of the $3,000,000 advanced by the United States for the payment of the Cuban troops. The governor general replied that he would be pleased to have General Rodiguez aiid Maso to take part, as they were reprt sentaiives of the Cubans. TO CONSTRUCT NEW ROAD. Work Will Begin On Columbia and Savannah Line This Month. A special from Raleigh, N. C., says: In the course of aa interview with-a leading Southern railway official, he said the work by the Southern railway of building its new line from Columbia to Savannah will begin this month. The surveys are well under way. The line will extend to the westward of the Florida Central and Peninsular rail¬ road and will be a triangle. There will be no trouble in getting into Sa¬ vannah. There are two lines from Sa¬ vannah to Jacksonville, but if neces¬ sary the Southern will build to Jack¬ sonville. STREET PREACHERS ARRESTED. Atlanta Baptist Ministers Protest Against Mayor’s Action. The Baptist ministers of Atlanta, Ga., at their regular Monday morning meeting of the city pastors, introduced resolutions condemning the action of Mayor Woodward in ordering the ar¬ rest of the street preachers Sunday, declaring the civil authorities have no right to interfere with religious teach¬ ers and preachers when they do not interfere with the rigts of others. LIST OF SPEAKERS Who Will Be Present At the Chicago Platform Dinner. Eugene V. Brewster, of New York, has announced the list of speakers for the Chicago platform dinner at the Grand Central palace April 15th. The list includes William Jennings Bryan, Supreme Court Justice William J. Gaynor, of Brooklyn; Jerome O’Neill, the labor man; George Fred Williams,of Massachusetts; Charles A. Towne aud John F. Crosby. BRYAN WILL ATTEND Chicago Platform Jefferson “Dollar’' Dinner In New York City. E. V. Brewster, who is managing the Chicago platform Jefferson dinner to be given in New York, received the following telegram from William Jqn nings Bryan Thursday: 4 ( Lincoln, Neb., April 6, 1809.— Eugene V. Brewster, Brooklyn, N. Y.: Will attend dinner April 15th. All speakers should be supporters of the Chicago platform. W. J. Buy an. ” MANY OPERATIVES IDLE. Strikes In Rode Island Causes Mills to Close Down. A dispatch from Providence, R. I., says: About 3,000 mill operatives are idle as the result of many strikes in this state, and more than 7,000 looms in the Pawtucket valley, 6,000 of them in the mills owned by Robert Knight, are in operation. The latest recruits to the strikers’ ranks are the employes of the Natiok mills. NUMBER 11. GOMEZ REINSTATED AS COMMANDER Cuban Generals Hold Meeting and Recall the Old Warrior. WILL NOW ASSIST HIM Board Appointed To Look After Distribution of Money. A special from Havana says: Tko Cuban generals met Friday at. Maria uao and officially decided to reinstate General Maximo Gomez as command¬ er-in-chief. They also decided to appoint au ex¬ ecutive board of three generals to as¬ sist him in distributing the $3,000,000, in the details of disarming and in the organization of the rural police force in the provinces. He will be officially notified of their action and a procla¬ mation probably will be issued to the Cubaus. General Rafael Portuondo, chair¬ man of the executive committee of the former military assembly, called on Governor General Brooke and dis¬ cussed with him the recent actions of the assembly leading to its dissolu¬ tion. He did not offer the Cuban muster rolls directly, though it has been intimated by several former mem¬ bers of the assembly that these are at the disposition of the military authori¬ ties whenever they are wanted. The Americans, however, will not make any request of the assembly's executive committee. BIG ATLANTA FiRM. FAILS. Affairs of O. A. Smith & Co. In Hands ~ of a Receiver. The largest suit which has yet been filed in the bankruptcy court at At lauta, Ga., is that of creditors of the firm of O. A. Smith & Co. to have the firm adjudged bankrupts. Judge Newman has also been ap¬ pealed to by the same creditors to have a receiver appointed, and he has issued an order requiring the plain¬ tiffs to give bond in the sum of $20, 000, and appointing T. D. Meador re¬ ceiver under a bond of $10,000. The liabilities of the firm are said to approximate $200,000 and it is ex¬ pected that the assets will be very near the same amount. The firm is said to have been badly crippled by the failure of Moody & Brewster last year. THIRTEEN ARE DEAD. Friday’s Holocaust In New York De¬ velops More Victims. In the fire at New York early Fri¬ day morning, which destroyed the handsome residence of Wallace C. An¬ drews, at No. 2 East Sixty-seventh street, twelve persons sleeping in the house were burned to death. Firebrands carried by the wind were blown into an open window in the home of Albert J. Adams, No. 3 East sixty-ninth street, two blocks distant, setting fire to the house and causing the death of a servant. All of the thirteen bodies have been re covered. PRESENT FOR CRUISER. New Orleans People Have Silver Serv¬ ice For City’s Namesake. Senator Caffery, Representatives Meyer aud Daley and citizens of Louisiana called on Secretary Long at Washington Friday and requested that the cruiser New Orleans be sent to New Orleans, as it is proposed to present to the ship a silver service and bell. The ship is at the navy yard under¬ going repairs, which will be com¬ pleted in five weeks, when the cruiser will probably be sent to New Orleans as requested. FOR COALING STATIONS. Government Will Establish a Number In the West Indies. A special from Washington says: At the suggestion of Rear Admiral Bradford, chief of the bureau of equip¬ ment, a comprehensive scheme has been adopted by the navy under which coaling stations will be placed at strat¬ egic points in the West Indies, so as to give the United States control of the Virgin, Mona and Windward passages and the approaches to the Gulf of Mexico.