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VOL. VI. NO. 18.
MARINE HOSPITAL OFFICERS NO¬
TIFIED AS TO TIIEIR DUTIES.
FEVER IS SLOWLY PROGRESSING.
Panicky Feeling In New Orleans Caused
Fy Report of New Case®—Serious
Situation at Other Points.
A Washington special says: Surgeon
General Wyman has issued to marine
hospital officers the following instruc¬
tions defining their field of operations
in behalf of the government in aid of
Btate authorities in dealing with yel¬
low fever:
“Surgeon Murray, in charge ot all
matters between Louisiana and Ala¬
bama, line sonth of but not including
Jackson and Vicksburg.
“Surgeon Sawtelle, at Atlanta, in
charge of Georgia.
“Surgeon Carter in charge of New
Orleans and Louisiana.
“Past Assistant Surgeon Glonnan,
at Mobile, in charge of Alabama, and
prepared to establish a detention camp
near Mobile.
“Past Assistant Surgeon Geddings,
at Jackson, Miss., in chargo of north¬
ern Misiissijipi, is establishing deten¬
tion camp near Edwards, Miss.
“Past Assistant Surgeon Young, at
Memphis, to aid Mississippi river in¬
spection and co-operate with local au¬
thorities.
“Each officer is to wire daily, if pos¬
sible, the number of cases and deaths
at points in district ”
The advices received by Surgeon
Genera! Wyman Friday night in¬
cluded the following:
From Vicksburg, Miss., Dr. Hud
ter, president of the state board of
health, reported that there had been
one suspicious case at Nitta Yuma.
There is no,one sick now.
From Mobile, Dr. Guiteras reports:
Day ending at noon, cases previous re¬
port, three; now cases, two; suspicious
cases, three; deaths, two. Total under
treatment five.
The fever situation in New Orleans
assumed a more serious aspect Friday
^ than at any time since Sunday, when
' six of the St.. Claude cases were de¬
clared to be yellow fever. At 6 o'clock
in the evening the board of health of
the city announced the appearanco of
eight new cases, and of these one
death. At the office of the board of
health reports wove considered some¬
what surprising and disappointing.
' 7 *’ Friday was one of tho hottest days
of the month, nud as yellow fever
thrives in that character of weather,
there seems to have been a rapid
development of germs. Tho physi¬
cians still feel, however, that there is
much that is satisfactory in the situa¬
tion. It is true that the new cases re¬
ported represent the extreme upper,
the extreme lower and the central
portions of • tho city, but there has
been no serious spread from original
foci, and the hopeful opinion is still
expressed that the disease may be
controlled and that there is no imi
nent danger of an epidemic.
Secretary Patton, of the board, said
Jf Friday evening:
“The appearance of eight cases to¬
day is not necessarily alarming. I
said three evenings ago that tho pros¬
pects seemed to point to the develop¬
ment here of at least fifty cases as a
result of constant intercourse we have
been having with the infected towns
on the gulf coast and the fact that a
promiscuous throng of some 700 or
800 people had hastened into the city
on the Monday evening following the
declaration of tho Ocean Springs sick¬
ness to be yellow fever. We have had
now twenty-eight cases and two deaths.
The majority of tho remaining eases
are improving. It is still quite likely
that there will appear numerous cases
in New Orleans, but the situation is
not distressing and the chances of a
disastrous epidemic are remote.”
WORKING HOURS EXTENDED.
Ton-Hour System Adopted by the I». I,.
hifif'ffrac’ed its several*
hours^time°!n”" fiouis time, an increase * n tla8 of cit two y °n hours ten
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NEW "CLEMSON PRESIDENT.
Carolina** State C^lTgTlfa* a New Head
In Rev. Ktuixog,
A dispatch from Calhoun, S C
says: The board of trustees of Cleni
elected,the son ccHege miet at the college and
Rev. Henry 8. Hartzo g
president of the institution.
Mr. Hartzog is a native of Barnwell
county, uateJ and is 31 years old. He Lt- grad
at the Citadel in 1886;
bo wardft’he entered studied the Baptist law, au d .still l^er
at Louisville: Ho Theological hj W
^taching. for four years. school in South Carolina na
A?*
WILSQN INST ALLED A S PRESIDENT
Of Ws^&lngpon and W Hnlra„„
J-erlngton, y Bt
Wllife Va.
raj*-JjjEr. sssK
At a£ eatly hdur students, friends
and alumni of Washington and Lee
university began to gather on the cam
pus to take part in tbe ceremonies
BULLOCH TIMES.
PRESIDENT WILL ACT.
The Shooting of HogansvlUe*s Postmaster
Will Kesnlt In Prosecution.
The attempted assassination of the
colored postmaster of Hogansville,
Ga., has attracted the attention of the
whole country.
The shooting has aroused the gov¬
ernment authorities, and President
McKinley himself is making a personal
effort to have the would-be assassins
of the negro punished.
District Attorney Angier announces
that he will prosecute ex-Post mat er
Hardaway to tho fullest extent of the
law for violating the postal laws.
It develops that tho Hogansville
people had been told by the govern¬
ment authorities that they would lose
their postoffice if they did not raise
the boycott, against Loftin.
The genoral opinion of the federal
authorities is that the shooting of
Loftiu was the immediate result of the
visit of the postoflice inspector to
Hogansville some days ago. The in¬
spector went to Hogansville to inves¬
tigate the reported boycott. He found
on arriving there that the citizens had
’not only boycotted Loftin, but were
mailing a postoffice of their own, with
ex-Postmaster Hardaway as their
postmaster.
The inspector called a meeting of
the citizens at his room at the Hogans¬
ville hotel. The business men of the
town responded and met the inspector,
who told them that they were violating
the law by operating a postoffice in
opposition to the regular legal office
He further told them that they must
raise their boycott or lose the post
office altogether.
No attention was paid to tho inspec¬
tor’s warning and his efforts to adjust
the. trouble proved vain. When he
left they were still running the oppo¬
sition postolfico. A day later Loftin
was shot.
District Attorney Angier has re¬
ceived positive instructions from
Washington to prosecute the case.
ATKINSON CRITICIZES 51’KINLEV.
Intimates That President I® Accessory
to Hoganttville Crime.
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, tel
egrapbod the New York Herald, in
response to a request for his views on
tho Loftin shooting, that President
McKinley is morally an accessary to
to crime of the man who shot the Ho¬
gansville postmaster. defend the
The governor does not
crime of the would-be assassin, but
ho blames the president for the condi¬
tion which brought it on.
The telegram was in response to a
request from The Herald for the gov¬
ernor’s views, and was substantially as
follows:
“Tho court will convene In that county
in November and the grand jury will inves¬
tigate the matter, and If there Is evidence to
conviot anyone there will bo no trouble in
punishing tho guilty party. The officers
are capable men and will do their duty.
The shooting of tho negro If universally
condemned by the people.
“The same spirit of oandoi In which I
have written compels me to say that our
people are uniformly of the opinion that tho
man who appointed the postmaster at
Hogansville over the violent protest of
those citizens who furnish ninety-nine one
hundredths of the business of tho office,
who own almost tho entire property of the
community and who represent the forees
which made and constitute the civilization
of tho community, knowing at the time that
tho appointment would be taken as a delib¬
erate effort on his part to degrade and
humiliate them, was himself, from a moral
standpoint, an accessory to this lamentable
crime.
“Even these men, who took, this view, do
not blame the republican party for giving
positions to tho negroes who have been
faithful to them, but it would have been
better for tbe negroes and pleasanter for
the white people of the sonth if they had
given them positions where they were not
brought so directly In contact with tho peo¬
ple to whom they are offenslvo as officers.
“You ask me what is going to bo the ef¬
fect of this. I reply that the effect will he
the same It would bo In Ohio if the same con
ditlons prevailed. Leaving out tho ques¬
tions arising from prejudice, what would bo
tho result in Ohio if the president, In mak
ing appointments, ignored the views of
property holders-*0'Wfce‘a man whom be
*? 8W l ° 1)6 offwu,ive to thorn?''
The governor concluded with the
statement that the law would be „„
iU Ge0rgia or fa
DISASTER TO SHIPS.
Storm n (
Japanese Coast.
Dispatches received at the Merch
ants exchange at San Francisco
Jn neWS f con
too the Japanese T ° “ terrifio burricano
on coast.
*.;L sailed h 7 e from / NorW v? Vancouver giftn b * rk for Alette, Yokohama, which
k*and was caught by the hurricane at Nishis
sailors was wrecked. Some of the
were drowned. A P ° rt ° f tie
cargo may be saved.
driven ashore. were
THE OLD STORY.
Children Cremated, lorarllnlllnUdln, , nd
gin** a. U.nal.
irs&KSrvrja
belD K eleven infas;s*af of
her b years age, h ’ locked ,oc * ed un U P
ln °«se.
„ Da^ng her absence the h ouse caught
fire * and burned to the ground, the
five children being cremated.
STATESBORO, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,1897.
EVERY TRAIN CROWDED WITH
FLEEING REFUGEES.
THE PEOPLE ARE PANIC STRICKEN
New Caaes and Additional Death® at
Ocean Spring®, Edward® and New
Orleana—Plague In Cairo, Ill.
The announcement of eleven new
cases of yellow fever at Mobile, Ala ,
Sunday, following so closely on a sim¬
ilar number Saturday, and the fact
that the twenty-four hours had found
one victim, combined to bring the
panic which commenced in the middle
of last week to its zenith: •
Monday fohihd the city practically
depopulated, many stores closed, and
wholesale business entirely suspended,
while retailers are apprehensive of
utter ruin.
There may have been worse days in
Mobile, but the oldest inhabitant fails
to remember them. The outlook now
is gloomy in the extreme, not because
of the present fever aspect, but because
of the entire suspension of commerce
and partial stoppage of business.
Every one who can afford it, with
the exception of those whose callings
compel them to remain, has sought re¬
fuge in cities beyond the state.
People in the city now do not fear
the fever, but they tremble for its oon
sequences.
Mayor Left the Town.
Even the government head has refu
geed, aud if a meeting of the general
council were to be called no quorum
would be found to respond.
There is one courageous band, of
which Judge Price Williams is the
leader, which remains with the stricken
city in her hour of trial. They have
fought epidemics before.
Some of them wont into the front
ranks against the southern scourge in
1853 and are gray headed men now,
and (he constancy and heroism which
they have formerly exhibited is still to
bo witnessed. J liese spartans are en
couragmg.by all means in their power,
those who consider themselves unfort
.mate in not having the means to de
sert their homes.
1 here were two deaths from yellow
fever at Edwards, Miss., Saturday
morning, one of them being just out
side of town.
A total of thirty-nine cases are pro
uounced yellow fever by the doctors.
The rapid spread of the disease is re
markable, and it is now well distribut
ed through the town. Four new cases
were reported Sunday.
The fever situation at New Orleans
underwent little change Sunday. The
record book in the board of health
office showed a total of six new »ases
and one death.
A special from Cairo, Ill., states
that Dr. Guiteras, the yellow fever
expert, arrived there from Mobile
at noon Sunday, and announced two
suspicious cases at the marine hospi¬
tal to be yellow fever of a mild form,
but owing to the prompf measure spread¬ taken
there is no danger of the pest
ing. The hospital is thoroughly
guarded.
ItOAD CONGRESS ADJOURNS.
The Parliament Will Meet In Omaha
Next Year.
At the national road parliament in
session, at Knoxville Friday, convict
labor in building roads and govern¬
ment aid were discussed. Experimen¬
tal road bedding was advocated. Reso¬
lutions recommending slate aid and
aid by tbe general govenment and a
restricted use of convict labor were
adopted. re-elected
General Roy Stone was
president; E. Rosewater, Omaha, vice
president, and the following state
Alabama—W. J. Kernochan.
Georgia—George W, Harrison.
Kentucky—M. H. Crump.
Michigan—A. Campbell.
Minnesota—William M. Hayg Ptiiiiij
South t. — uona—-(J. c. Turner.
Virginia—B. Carolina—W. C. Cain
Wisconsin Chambers.
Thomas B. Blackstock.
lennessee—Governor R. L. Taytor.
The next meeting will he in Omaha,
subject to the call of the executive
committee.
MORE CHILDREN BURN.
Negro Family l Mck Thcm In , BouU) and
Attend Church.
Andy Smith, a negro, and his wife
AiT 8 f. n the conntl 7 near Donalds,
Abbeville, county, S. C„ locked in
their house si* children, four of their
own aud two visitors from a neigh
bor’s.
The youngest was eighteen months
of age and the oldest seven years. The
parents went to church.
An hour later neighbors heard fright¬
ful screams coming from Smith’s house
the interior of which was in flames
Negroes made heroic efforts to save
the children, but it was impossible to
them and they were cremated.
TO INSURE PUBLIC PEACE.
Dr. Murray Ask* Permission to Take
Charge „f Affairs J at Itoloxi.
In his daily report to Washington
from Ocean Springs, Dr. Murray
fers to visit to Boloxi, says* re¬
a and
“It may turn out that the marine
hospital service will be called on to as¬
sist the state and city authorities in
maintaining guards and insuring pub¬
lic peace I wish permission to take
charge if requested to do so by f the
authorities.
INSURGENTS SUFFER DEFEAT.
Their Oamp Surprised by a Detachment of
Spanish Troops.
A special from Havana says: It is
officially announced that a detachment
of troops belonging to the Battalion
of Cuba reoently surprised an insur¬
gent oamp in the bushes near Baracoa,
province of Pinar del Rio, and after
killing several of the enemy captured
56 boxes of ammunition, 56 boxes of
Remington rifles of the Mauser pat¬
tern.
Th6 military commander at tho
Campo Florida, province of Pavana,
reports that while reconnoitering he
found 15,000 Remington cartridges
and a medical chest.
Unofficial advices from Turquino,
near Cienfuegos, province of Santa
Clara, are to the effeet that the insur¬
gent leader, Anastasier Jiminez, with
twelve of his followers, all armed with
rifles, have surrendered to the Span¬
ish authorities.
FEVER STOPS FREIGHT.
Shipments Prohibited In n Number of
Infested Ulstrlcts.
The Southern railway and other
roads working east from New Orleans
are suffering from a total stoppage of
freight traffic into Alabama and Mis¬
sissippi from fever infested points, and
tho same is true of business from those
districts to the city of Charleston.
The governor of Alabama has, by
proclamation, prohibited the shipment
of any freight from yellow fever in¬
fested districts into thnt state, and the
same thing lias been done by the state
of Mississippi and the city of Charles¬
ton.
This stops 7 to 12 cars a day of
sugar, syrup, molasses and fruits,
which would have gone into the state
of Alabama by tho Southern railway,
and the whole trade o:i all roads into
Alabama and Mississippi thus stopped
amounts to several train loads n day.
Several cars a day would go into
Charleston, and this also is prohib¬
ited.
This does not apply in Georgia,
where as yet there is no state quaran¬
tine.
IRRIGATION CONGRESS MEETS.
The 8oii.horii Amiocinlion Haiti* Kc-Hsion In
Nashville.
The meeti of tbe Southern Irriga
tion con waa field in Nashville,
Tenn ’ xh nrgdny
The Agates assembled at 1C
oV . lock in tho moruing ft t the Knox
ville building, on the centennial
gronnd8i all(1 wer e called to order by
President J. B. Hiuinieutt, of Atlieiisj
Gft He 8poke ft few wor< is on the
pnrposo * * of the meeting to enlighten
he pul)licon tUo quest ion of irrigation,
ftnd ften in t roduced Judge D. K.
Y of TenneaS e«, who delivered a
■t -
Prousse, of Kentucky, responded in
very gracious terms.
An interesting address was delivered
by President Hunnieutt upon irriga¬
tion in the south. Ho strongly ad¬
vocated a deeper interest and a closer
investigation in this important item in
a county whose pursuits are mainly of
an agricultural character.
TO FUMIGATE MAILS.
Train Inspection Service Inaugurated Oat
of Mobile and New Orleans.
A Washington special says: The
postoflice department has taken the
matter of the fumigatien of mai's
from the infected districts under con¬
sideration, and railway mail superin¬
tendents will be directed tojfumigato
mails from such places wlen it is
demanded by the local o flic ills.
Mail matter leaving New Orleans for
Texas points is being fumigted under
the direction of Assistart | Surgeon
Norman.
Surgeon Carter, at N# Orleans,
and Past Assistant Surgecf dirlted Glennan,
at Mobile, have inspectiojserviee been to es¬
tablish a train on
all passenger trains leavini each city.
Medical inspectors are linlof t(/accompany Georgia,
each train to tbe state
Tennessee, Arkansas and/exss.
Color of Postage #m}».
A Washington dispatf sav»: The
attention of the treasiV Ie department
Juts 6 pKiversal boon called to tigress fact that
, postal recent
y in session here (has agreed
upon a system of c irs of post¬
age the stamps to be used v all nations
in postal union. T eolor of the
,
wo cents United Sti is stamp as
agreed on was carmin so that the
proposed change to gt in will not be
made.
APPOINTMENTS BY RISIDENT.
*an, Plum* Fall I„ Varl Part, of the
Commonweal
The president mode a age number
of appointments Friday, ai.ong them
tho following:
snl George at Dusseldorf, D. Pettit, Genin of ijttburg, con
.
shal i i for the Uuitltl itatos mar¬
bama. northern di /trot of Ala¬
John A. Steele, regist r if the land
office at Huntsville, Ala. vise Ellis re
moved.
Herschel V. Catchinl receiver of
Avery moneys at Unit ville, Ala.,
removed.
TENNESSEE GOLDTES.
Executive Committee Meet.and Decide.
1**110 an Atldrffl,
At a meeting of the Te.nessee state
executive committee of he national
democrats held at Nashville Wednes
days speeches were madi by several
leaders.
It was decided to issue an address
g *rt rtb P rinc: P ,e3 Of thf
Dartv P art l r organization in
*
•Ute 4 will be maintained.
MOB OVERPOWERS JAILER AND
SWING UP SIX MEN.
DEPREDATIONS INCENSED PEOPLE.
Taken By Force From the Authorities and
Death Meted Out T€> Them By
the “Hempen Route.”
A special of Wednesday from Osgood,
T Ind., , says: “Incensed .. T . by numerous
depredations, Repeated burglaries and
daylight robberies, the people of Ripley
countv f’. Indiana have taken the law
into , their '. hands and . meted . out .... to the
ZvStorKm la aiTd m w ent n! S
from the autlorities lynched Lyle
Dev WdlliamJenkinsInd Bcrt AndrewB Clifford HiW SSuler Gordon
Stout ntoui ropes ropes, not not over over six six leet feet in in
length, had served to send each to his
eternity and their feet were but a few
!»<*» tlie
The mob was composed of citizens
from Milam, Sunman and other towns.
The mob on horseback entered the
town an hour after midnight and call
ed out Jailer Kenan, who, upon refus
ing to give up the keys, was overpow
ered.
The mob soon pushed its.way into
tho cell rooms and in their impatience
fired on tho five prisoners and then
dragged them to a tree a square from'
“•Jsrs? sarsj^,
been wounded, having been shot sov
eral times while attempting to rob a
store at Correct several days ago
Schuler was in school for attempting
burglary and Levi and Jenkins bad
been indicted by the grand jury for
robbery bond They lmd failed to give
and were put in jail.
It was thought that Levi and Schuler
woro both dead from the shots fired
by the mob when they were taken
from jml.
The bandages on the wounded men
were found later in lie day on the
streets through which the men were
dragged along.
Lyle Levi was an old soldier and
bore on bis face wounds received
during the civil war while fighting for
the Union.
None of the lynchers are known,
They all came from a distance. people
Versailles is a town of 800
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altb sta J> '1 r v' U ? ra,lr M "' ° Bd
J*~*l W4 oXrtfr tt it
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too, VJ9 „
longtary of Mloch counter tor t
havvices, to fix his salary, an< |, I 00 ®“
gau purpoBes.” This Bept. 15th. 1 "*"
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subj ii t3 eo; miteo is
“Gentlemen: The resolution of the ooti
poratlon of Brown university owthe' 1 st in
stant, communicated to me by you ims
been carcfpjiy considered, i take picture
in assuring you that tho action referred to
entirely does away with tho scruple which
led to my resignation. At the dato, how
whon you laid tho communication
before me I had undertaken to perform the
coming year certain work, which, after
learning tho judgment of the corporation
on this subject, I camo to regard as Incom¬
with
therefore felt obliged at first to adhere to
£ give U to tho h 1 " 11 university * 0 ' 1 ' IiUt my bei undivided " K now fm > to
‘ service
W “ rawu my resignation and have
ssr—* -
“I am, gentlemon, yours ■with sfneore os
teem, E. Bknjamin Asdbews,”
This move was entirely unexpected.
About a weok ago Dr. Anderson, sec
retary that of the corporation, admitted
he had received a letter from Dr.
Andrews renewing his resignation.
DIAZ’S ASSAILANT LYNCHED.
After thn. pec<L.Wani Hone Twenty, of the
Lynqlierq Were Arrested.
A special from Mexico City says:
Arroyo, who assaulted President Diaz,
was lynched Friday night l>y a mob.
About twenty of the lynchers were ar¬
rested. The mob apparently had no
organization, but it was directed in
some mysterious way.
They broke into the jail by forcing
tho doors with huge timbers handled
by a hundred men. They overpower¬
ed the guards and surrounded them,
while a detail of men ran down the
corridor and dragged out the trem¬
bling Arroyo.
INDIANA FACTORIES RESUME.
Wire Nall and Vdtuip Chimney Works lie-
gin Operation® Anew.
A dispatch of Sunday from Ander¬
son, Ind., says: The American wire
nail works, employing 700 men, the
Lippincott lamp chimney plant, which
works 400 men and the McBeth lamp
chimney works with a like number of
men on its rolls, have resumed in full
blast after a shut down of some two
months and a half.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
The county commissioners of Deca¬
tur oouuty have taken control of the
misdemeanor convicts in accordance
with Attorney General Terrell a opin¬
ion', and have leased them to J. C.
Donalson for the balance of the year.
* « *
Clayton county is first to begin a
crusade against lynchings in Georgia.
Quietly and without the knowledge of
any one, her grand jury found true
bills against eight men, charged with
a conspiracy to lynch Henry Sims and
John McCullough.
...
The motion for new trial in the case
of the state vs. A. T. Brooks, convict
ed o{ murder in Jackson superior
court, was heard at Lawrenceville 8at
urday and the motion was overruled,
Brooks and Reynolds will both be
hanged ° Friday, J the 24tli, at Jefferson,
+ +
The Fitzgerald Driving Association
has been reorganized, and will be
known hereafter as the Fitzgerald
driving Club. The dates selected by
the club for winter race meetings are
November 28d m oi.i, 2 t , | ^ oc*h and {
*ith. Large purses will 1( .
'« »“"■ * “J
The situation of the strike among
the dock laborers at Brunswick is 1111 -
changed. It is said that the long
shoremen, composed of the laborers
who handle lumber exclusively, will
pun the strike next week, but this can
not be verified. Slow progress is made
in handling the phosphate frightened and cotton,
ns green hands are away
from their work by the strikers before
“•
In the enforcement of the law which
directs the disposition and control of
m.sdeamor convicts several of thelos
hogs whose private camps will bo
broken up as the result of Governor
Atkinson’s crusade have sacrificed
their own interests to the good of the
state. Instead of contending with the
governor or the oourts, they are doing
all in their power to reach an amicable
adjustment of their affairs with tho
county authorities.
The mystery surround ***,„. ng the Spnnz
murder which occurred in Midville on
April 7th, seems to be increasing every
day It appears that a number of the
residents of Midville belieVe that Dr.
J J Ki patrick is gully of the deed,
while others believe it was committed
by ex-Marshal Morris. It is thought
that there is little doubt that the grand
jury will mdiot both of the men and
%h r -'LT ?
tml , > wlad n n V vl11 t“ke Place.soon after.
* * *
The state university faculty a few
days ago considered the petition of
iie
« tfie university of the
w k° were last year disbarred
violation of intercollegiate regu
! UI1H b J playing baseball against
erB. After discussing the matter
faculty passed the following reso
ion: “The faculty interposes no
ioetion to the registration of Homer
ans Dougherty, Floyd Foster, Will Sanford and
n but debars them from
,'tioipating for in any intercollegiate
>rts one year. ”
Hie Talbot county grand jury ad
rnod without indieting the Ryder
S \x Wlieu Cl)urt convened
m J albotton, n Judge Butt
n J'lrya Strong charge gave the
l* he on the sub
ln w lc n told them to probe the
“ att " *° t,ie b «ttom. Pursuant toifa
h r "!‘ ,tlobg nobtn >’ 8> tlie examirfrng ft T *“d jfiry investigated
•, r v of witnesses. When a large num
• how that body ad
i”!* f.‘ !,nrne, .‘ , “gainst . ever > no indictments were
16m W ‘ * tlle lynching. any persons The charging
iw • P reaentmen t statements grapd
Z ^ invofiti stated
" <hl, ellt| but had gated the
« y. not secured
° VUlence en °«gh to indict any one.
At the next term of the
court of Pike county the most irnnor
tnnt cases will be those of the state
“gainst Tom Langford and old man
® 0,k - This will he the fourth trial of
Monday in October and it is expected
that these cases will be the first to be
taken up. They will be tbe most im¬
j portant on the docket for the term and
will be disposed of as soon as possi¬
ble. It is probable that Judge Beck
will bave Judge Henry to preside in
his place. The first motion to be
made by the attorneys on the defense
will bo to ask for a change of venue.
They will set up that a fair and impar¬
tial jury cannot be obtained in the
county. It is said that a great deal
of prejudice still exists against the
gang of which Delk and Langford
were among the leaders.
DIAZ AGAINST LYNCHING.
An Inquiry to He Instituted and Gnilty
Parties Pnninlied.
Advices from City of Mexico state
that orders have been given to inves¬
tigate the lynching of Arroyo.
President Diaz has decided that the
inquiry be most rigorous and that the
guilty parties be severely punished, as
he feels that the act waa a reproach to
the nation, which has taken pride in
the fact that lynch law has been un
known in Mexico.
Twenty-odd men arrested are still
in custody and formal papers are being
drawn up in their cases.
Food Is Higher In Spain.
Advices from Madrid state that the
price of all kindB of food is rising
steadily, owing to the growing depre¬
ciation of silver and of paper eur
rency.
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BY THOS. A- MCGREGOR.
PANIC FOLLOWS DISCOVERT OF
FIRE IN BELLE ELLEN SHAFT.
FITE HEN KNOWN TO BE DESD.
There Were One Hundred Miner* at Work
In the Slope When the Catas¬
trophe Occurred.
Shortly after the men went to work
in mine No. 2, ’nt of the Bessemer Land
aud i Dnprmemeut mDrov company’s P T “ coal
mines a t " m, near oc , on,
.
Bibb county, Ala., Monday morning, the
fire was discovered far down Vi
main slope
About one hundred men are
P oyed in the mine and an alarmi f«
at once given A pamo foUowefl
among the workers and in the little
town of Belle Fllen.
Hundreds of men, women and ohil
dren gathered at the main entrance of
*i._ smokinir ZrZ‘oZ mine to™.? while rescue “h”,'tt. par
to
miners,
More than fifty were got out from
the vftrioU8 ontranceB without harm,
0t h er8 were overcome by smoke and
fe] , . the gide TheRe tho brava
re8cuerg found aml dragged out, while
tho8e at the entrance restored life to
tbeir unoongcionB f rie nds.
A scene of wildest excitement .. , pre
vailed at the mine s mouth. Women
*-?r ns a 1 0111 f ^
p ‘ “
Fiv who wero working abone
the fire originated,
coubl 1( ,t be reached, and it is regard
ed as certain that they J are dead. The
. .
” £ , YFramer, .
r a white; Hubbard
p , 4* whH ’ He " ReeT6 s, colored;
„ T , d . ’ William Fair
’
. ^fij^ , T . ■ Zybe i that two tie
in
.
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The fire brigade battled with the
vaiu attempt to
ento mbed men, but at night
flro wa8 still burning fiercely
were abandoned. A later ’
^ f Belle Ellen says the fire
to bave originat ed from an
’ ‘ . ’ ignited
, ■ cbeck - *
. u
f ma<le*oUhe list of miners in the *
mj|1( wh( , r(> tho fire brok e out to ascer
tain if possible if the death list will
s<| far it ig Bot p0 sitive
ly known that any others are missing.
NO amriW* REF UGEES WANTED V i ANTED.
“[ “‘’’p’ rolina Act*
Itej ~7l- ^neat
w
Surgeon rteneraUohn itoy William*
of tho North Carolina state board of'
fr J“ , om !alth Asheville , telegraphed Monday Governor Russell
"B h with as follows
meets your approbation, I
< 1,0 Passed to telegraph Marine Hnr
K °° D 0ont,r '* 1 Wyman offering the mountain
,,loto * u of western North Carolina as •
rufug0 for r,,f ugeeB from the yellow fever,
stricken districts."
The governor refers the matter to
the state board of health. He says ho
does not like to act regarding it, as,
perhaps, a number of the refugees
might become destitute and have to ba
supported and finally sent home by
the state. *
BOUNCED NEGRO BOSSES.
Charfeglnn Cotton Mill. k*p.ri„noo Mora
Trouble With tin pierce*.
The managers of the Charleston, S.
C., cotton mills, where negro and
white labor is employed, undertook to
put in half a dozen negro bosses over
the white operatives Monday and tho
latter hands went out.
A They left the mill, making threats.
squad of policemen was detailed to
prevent trouble, but things became s<x
squally that the colored bosses wort
promptly taken out,
STEELYOMPANY RESUMES.
Work, at Turn Men.
After a two months shut-down and
expending half a million ditflars for
the erection of a blast furnacq, steel
plant and plate mill, the Bellaire Steel
company at Bellaire, Ohio, started tho;
machinery of the plant again Monday
morning, giving employment to 500
men.
A SWEEPING DECISION.
Judge Foster Says Kansay City Lin Stoelfi
Association Is an Illegal Concern.
United States District Judge Foster
made a sweeping decision at Topeka,
Kan., Monday morning when he de
cslared the organization known as the
Kansas City Live Stock association U«,
legal under the provision of the anti«<
tiust law.
The exchange is an organization of
commission men who control the sale
of live stock in Kansas City. All stock
which enters the city must pasa
through tho hands of this organize*
tion. Judge Foster enjoins the com*
mission from doing business and de*
dares it an unlawiul combination.
BILOXI APPEALS FOR AID.
Mayor of the Town Call* for Help for Fac¬
tory People.
The city council of Biloxi, Miss.,
adopted resolutions calling on the pub-'
lie for aid, stating all factories and
other industries have closed down,
thus throwing laboring people out of
employment; that nearly all aiek are,
of that class and unable to purchase
medicine and other things necessary ft '
in such emergency. The appeal
signed by the mayor and counoil.