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VOL VI. NO. 23 .
FRIGHTFUL LEAP OF PASSENGER
TRAIN INTO THE RIVER.
TWENTY-EIGHT LIVES WERE LOST.
Penned JTp By W»11 p> the Unfortunates
Could Not Kscnpe-Death List
May Be Increased.
A special from Garrisons, N. Y.,
states that a fearful catastrophe oc
curred on the Hudson River railroad
Sunday morning.
From the sleep that means refresh
ment and rest, to the eternal sleep
that knows no waking, plunged, in
the twinkling of an eye, twenty-eight
souls—men, women and children. Into
the slimy bed of the Hudson river a
train laden with slumbering humanity
plowed, dragging through the waters
the passengers. There was nothing
to presage the terrible accident which
so suddenly deprived those unfortu
fortunates of life,
The New York Central train left
Buffalo Saturday night and had pro
grossed for nearly nine-tenths of tho
distauee toward its destination, when
with tho great engine, plunged into
the depths of the river. Neither in
gineer nor fireman will ever tell the
story of that terrible moment, for with
his hand upon the throttle, the er<
ginecr plunged with his engine to the
river bottom and the fireman, too, was
at his post. Behind them came the
express car, the combination car and
the Bleepers, and these piled on top of
the engine.
It is known that the morning was a
trifle foggy and that the track was not
visible, but if there was any break in
flie lines of steel it must have been of
hour very before recent happening, for only an
there had passed over it a
heavy passenger train, laden with hu¬
man freight. Neither is there an ex¬
planation ready. All is conjecture.
The section of road was supposed to
be the Very best on the entire division.
What seems to have happened was
that underneath the tracks and ties the
heavy wall had given way and when
the great weight of the engine struck
the unsupported tracks it went crash
ing through the rest of the wall and
toppled over into the river.
Then there, happened what cn the
raibx'iid at any other time would have
caused disaster, but now proved a very
blessing. As the train coupling plunged over
the^embankment the that held
the last three sleepers broke and they
miraculously remained ou the broken
track. In that way some sixty lives
were saved.
V f eye witnesses, there were none
except the crow of a tugboat passing
with a tow.
They saw the train with its light as
it came dashing about the curves, nnd
then saw the greater part of it go into
the river. Some of tho cars with
closed windows floated, and the tug,
whistling for help, castoff its hawser
and started to the rescue.
There were in the smoker, in addi
tion to the baggage man, Herman Ac
ker, of PeekskilL who was in his com
partment; eight Chinamen, en route,
from the Canadian border to New
York, and a man supposed to be Thom
as Reilly, of St. Louis. AH of the^e
excepting the baggage master perished.
The day coach contained eighteen or
SAjrarsarr
How many of these escaped is not
known, but nt least twelve were
drowned or lulled in this ear. Behind
the Hermes, with twelve passengers;
tho Niobe, with eleven; the Diana,
with about fifteen; Anita, nearly full,
and the Backet River, with no passen
gers,
The total cargo of human freight
consisted of something over a hundred
people.
W. C. T. U. IN CONVENTION.
All lhe Old Officers Ite-Elected at Toledo
Convocation.
The biennial convention of the
world’s Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union was formally opened at
Toronto, Canada, last Friday. The
program of the meeting was full of in
teresfc. At"'the
meeting of the executive
board the officers were all re-elected,
SENATOR MORGAN ILL.
Alfectetl by a Severe Cold While En Hout3
Home From Hawaiia.
A dispatch from San Diego, Cal,,
due to a cold which he caught on tho
steamship Oregon.
Senator Morgan returned a few days
ago from the Hawaiian islands, where
wdthraglriul
While in Honolulu the senator was
in his usual good health,hut was taken
ill immediately after he sailed for the
United Htates, aud is now in a critical
condition, though no immediate dan
ger is apprehended.
BANK FOR ASHEVILLE.
Deputy Collector of tho Currency WI31
Supervise Orpaniz ilion of One.
Deputy Comptroller of the curren¬
cy, Coffin, left Washington Tuesday
to supervise the organization of a new
national bank of Asheville, N. C. , and
to look iuto the aflfeirs of the Ashe¬
ville National bank which recently
failed.
If found practicable, the new bank
probably will liquidate the affairs of
the failed bank.
ASKS FOR FROST DATES.
Surgeon General Wyman Makes Inquiry
of Weather Bureau.
bureau of lhe dates at which frost may j
be expected at various places infected
hv yellow fever and is informed that
the average date of the. first appear
ance of frost at Mobile is November
22d, at Montgomery November 12th,
and at Galveston December ]8tb.
The earliest date at which frost hns
been known at Mobile is November
2d, at Montgomery November 1st aud
at Ga’vc. ton November I th■
NEW' YORK IS ASTIR.
Municipal Campaign Monopolizes Atten¬
tion In tlie Gteat Metropolis.
With only a few dnys remaining in
which to complete the campaign, the
situation in Greater New York contin¬
ues to afford large opportunities for
coujectnre. So far as tho betting is
indicative of results, Tammany ap¬
pears to have the best of it, although
there is a lot of republican money up
at odds that would prove alluring to
those who have cash with which to
baek up their predictions that Van
Wyck, the Tammany candidate, will
be chosen tho first mayor of the groat
municipality. That
l?ui the strength of the Citizen’s L,
? n ‘ ic ket> headed by Seth ’ w >, 13
not held . contempt shown , tho
in is 111
space which is given in the journals
advocating one or the other of the
regular political parties. Columns and
even pages are devoted to assaults up
on Mr. Low’s record as a public offi
cial and as the head of Columbia uni
vorsity.
While the Jeffersonian democracy’s
strength, within certain limitations, is
conceded on all sides, it is only among
the most enthusiastic adherents of
Henry George, who hen Is their ticket,
that the claim is made that he will bo
elected. The real importance of his
candidacy lies in the source from
w hich his votes w ill he drawn. The
George!to campaign managers have
virtually abandoned the claim to reg
ularity in the following sentences:
“Tammany hall claims to lie the
regular democratic organization of this
city and county. Wo dispute that
claim, and although they have posses
sion of tho title, which is nine points
of the law, they have not as yet re
csived the word of approval from Sen
ator Jones or William J. Bryan, who
are the leaders of the national dem
ocratic party today, and I don’t think
they will get it. ’' in
Whoever shall bo the victor the
mayoralty contest w ill win by a plu
rality vote only. The total vote may
be 525,000, The secretary of the Cit
izens’ union asserts that Low will win
with 190,000, Van Wyck receiving
135,000 nnd Tracy and George 100,000
encli. The republican claim is 210,000
for Tracy, 145,000 for Van Wyck,
90*000 for George and 60*000 for Low.
In a recent article Bishop Henry C.
Potter pointed out the imperative 110 -
cessity of every citizen registering,
He deprecated in the same article the
laxity of citizens in this respect nnd
moralized to a great extent on the sub¬
ject. An examination of the list
showed that Bishop Potter, himself,
failed to register this year. He declines
to say anything about his failure to
enroll as a voter.
DELK GETS LIFE SENTENCE.
Tlie Attorneys on lloth Stiles Agreed to
Snell Verdict.
A special from McDonough, Ga.,
Baj , s . Taylor Dell:, the Pike county
outlaw, charged with the murder of
Sheriff Gwyn, for which crime Tom
Delk> Tay i’ or Drik’s aud son, M» been
^jig, JUtines HTOS8 Twiggs and
mawyers R. Lee Moore and Strange,
a- . lead, . , others .
P riC09
} fl metinies try to follow. 20 pounds
( <od rice for $1.00; river side
nH fecks at 5e the yd ; 12 lbs of good
an fi 0 e for $J.QQ. J. W. Oliiff & Co
r J^uiie _ , , Mock, T , or c Alien, k , a
jjder of Judge Martin, died oil
c Jednesday aud was buried yes
g Jrdtiv. She was about 00 years
age fj and has been sick since lft ft t
, Shc was thc mother of
**.>*«,»«»».
^j 1 B iu a0lii ^ months ago.
persons indebted to me bv
ofe or on opeu aoooullts will
1 ^ shall be iorCcd to put tho
otes and flQpoUdtS ill tb» Viands
n f attorneys for collection, R.
“luunons, %
T When the wcrld is on fire men
“ill be eating and drinking, and
ct st your table be found out ot
;der, supply it from my stock of
j tockery and glassware. C. A.
w anier.
We have known Qf parties, net
PM “‘vii.g in Statesboro, however,seud
“^thout their job work to the cities
giving us a chance to hid
t p.i it. Now we say to them that
letere are rrtany large firms in Sa
pliunah who have To their show work that done
, the country. our
ork is good, just pay your sub
ription and get the prettiest re
Foipt you ever saw.
I am doing a first-cla?s feed and
titftblas, dud will take the bfest of
erro ot your stock when you come
M towu and appreciate your pat
nage. C. M, Martin.
coin ^ VO» notice out Wednesday the Junior ? edi- It
we got
very large, but it contaiu
su| the latest news ill regard to
^ a urt matters and Giber happen
dei 8# G f our subscribers re
pjved one. And if you will re
” n imber there was no charge at
yhed to it. The Times proposes
keep its readers posted—give
An0m all the news all the time ro
rdless of cost. Now r is the time
Tne express car attached to the Sew
York Central railroad train that was
wrecked near Garrison, N. Y., was
raised luesday. One of the safes that
it should thought have that confined there is in missing.. the neigh- It
is was
borhood of 630 .*,0 >0 in the safe, for
one package contained $*>0,000, and
there was quite a number of packages
shipped.
SEEKING PARDON FOR RF.DWLNE.
spnai
A Washington dispatch says: fcena
tor Bacon ha 1 a talk with the president
Friday about the case of Lewis Red
wine, who is serving a term iu tha
Ohio penitentiary for lootin/ the Gate
City Representative National bank, Tnrncr/of at Atljjfiia, Georgia, Ga.
accompanied by Mr. Oglfesby, saw the
president for personal’' a few /hiinfite*. They
are warm friends, having
served in eongress Jrigethcr,
STATESBORO. GA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER ‘ 20 , 1897 .
FDEAIH8I
PLAGUE RECORD BEING BROKEN
IN NEW ORLEANS.
THE SITUATION AT OTHER PLACES,
Strict Quarantine Re^niatlnna Bain; F»t
Into Effort 1 ’roniUouou.ly—Tralk
Service Curtailed.
New
Cities. Cases. Deaths
New Orleans....... 57
Mobile............. j
Montgomery........ i
Memphis........... a
Cincinnati......... o
Baymond........... 0
Edwards........... 0
NittaYuma ........ o
Bay St. Louis...... a
Baton Rouge....... o
Biloxi............. l
Scranton........... o
Piueville, Miss..... 0
Pascagoula........ 0
Totals............. Ill 18
As to numbers Monday was the
worst day yet of ^ 1
kiYhe elening the score at the board
showed a totality of fifty-two cases, the
and there had then been deaths to
number of eleven. Heretofore the
highest number of deaths to , .togl.
day had been nine. tobecon¬
Unfortunately there seems fatalities
cealment of eases in the city, is not
occur because medical attention
called in, and the masses for the time
being in tt revolutionary mood, because of
of the enforcement of the system
house quarantine, are resorting ob¬ to
every means in their power constituted to put
stacles in the way of the
authorities. It is generally agreed
that the house quarantine is not ac¬
complishing the results expected. offi¬
President Olliphant and other
cials of the board of health were very
much disappointed at the mortality
showing of the day’s record, but they
Said that some, at least, of the fatal
cases were to be traced to an indispo
sition 011 the part of many people to
let it be know n that cases of serious
fever existed.
Board of health report: “Cases of t
yellow fever Monday, 57; deaths, 11;
total cases of yellow fever to date,
1,211; total deaths from yellow fever
to date, 138; total cases absolutely re
covered, 622; total cases under treat
ment, 451.”
Situation At Montgomery.
One death and five new eases made
the record in Montgomery Monday.
The board of health received a tele
gram from Surgeon General Wyman
stating that he had ordered Dr. Car
ter, now nt New Orleans, to report in
''Montgomery at oneo aud assume
fa barge of the fumigating and disin
fr icting of the city. He is said to be
cc n adept in this line. nearly
p ( The anxiety tension is not so
igh as it has been, nnd most of tho
eople who remain have about lian-
1 ■ oned any idea of leaving.
Sick Refugee In Atlanta, Gn.
tt} Dr. Alexander, president of wired tlie
Moan] of health of Atlanta, has
Kcie following to Dr. Guiteras:
da To satisfy inquiries which have been
mde of me from many quarters to
w< ay, I wish to say, officially, that
a “iere is hut ono ease of fever in At
hemtn, that of the refugee, Commer,
su.-otn Montgomery. He is improving,
bsolutely no fear of a spread is felt
ere. Fifty years’ experience here as
fit practicing physician has taught mo
aifiere is no danger of its spreading.
u{ James F. Alexander,
President of Board of Health. ,
ar sr 1 v . „ dne
tlimd i, ' Atlanta ami vi. health' iuilv T]. n
cL Members of'the board of are of
niiv ciilnmn tltot veilow tl,ere 1 ,as never been
L,\v dancer of fever there citr’ but
"lev that the Dost has visited the
aC sneak ii, with absolute confidence
sV- new cases one death und four
Ke was therenort nnblished hv
Mobile Via bourd of health
Oc fondav Total cases to date 216;
la»«tl,s trial,n„„t or,- racovei ies ’ ’ 150• ' ’ remaining 8
le„.i „• hiis ag
a* ■ Atlanta i! ’ Ga been ouarantined
fee i„ st iiabama on account of the
o;L, ve’llnw fever fonnd to be exist
o7ome, 11 ,Are in a refugee ° from Mont
v
rt
si DECK’S FOURTH TRIAL.
di. Is Arraigned Before Judge Candler
Sl* 6
at McDonough, Ga.
The trial of Taylor Delk, charged
fi'ith the killing of Sheriff Gwynn of
S, r*«K’J 5 ar
been Iried three
:! nr nies in Pike countv, but his counsel
r;“
ll6 eck, who presided over the former
ed beijals, arrauged an exchange with
ruicnit dge Candler, of the Stone Mountain
to preside at this trial. When
fate case was called the counsel for the
ofpite announced ready.
ICTOKY FOR “FIGHT HOURS.”
Co
import that Labor Fight is Practically
gi Won In London.
Advices from London state that the
executive committee of the Amalga
nia ted Society of Engineers issued a
statement saying that the fight
f or eight hours’ work per day, so far
a8 London is concerned, is practically
won , an d that arbitration or a confer
encc on that subject cannot now be
entertained.
ALL OVER THE CITY.
New Orleans Has Fever Gases Developing
rast
ber of cases rea died at New Orleans
Tuesday, and the death record "as
seven. The new cases were developed
from various sections of the city,
There is no longer any attempt to es
tablish foci.
Cases appear where there lias never
been fever before, and the doctors say
simply that the genus ar^ ^o flying be
around and tha; cases are not
restricted by municipal or geography
cal bouuuaries,
BT WAIL OB EXPRESS.
Officials of a Lending Company Comment
on the Itecent Loss.
From the New York Herald.
Recent press dispatches, reporting
the mysterious disappearance of n
large sum of money in transit through
the mails from a banking house in
Chicago to one of its western corres¬
pondents, prompted an inquiry ns to
tile cause for such an amount being
intrusted to tho postal servioe, and,
when approached on the subject, a
prominent official of one of the leading
express companies stated that the last
year had witnessed a radical change
in the trausporation of moneys, which
formerly had all been forwarded by
ex P ress , but were now being sent in
many instances by mail, the aggregate
postage and registry fees representing
a difference as compared with express
rates that tempted many to depart
I from the old method and adopt the
1
now.
The official added further that fre
quent train robberies had compelled
the express companies to go to great
expense in equipping their through
cars with stationary combination safes,
which as recent “hold-ups” had prov¬
en, afford security against any at¬
tempts on the part of road agents to
get at the contents, but that even
should they succeed in the majority of
cases little would now be obtained for
'beirpains on account of the diversion
and H would^ot he unnatural
expect that “Unde Sam” would
the «*.“ protection ha ™ hlfl ha of , n ^« the ™11 valuable LwceTs pa cels
lu 113 care , as ra ’,
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press car. the
Inquiry as to what steps express
companies would take to regain the
traffic elicited the reply that they had
expended all the revenues from this
source in the past ill surrounding the
money with every possible protection
and running down and punishing
theives, nnd that they would simply
wait until such losses as the one re¬
ferred to and tho attention of train
robbers to this new channel for trans¬
porting moneys proved it to be neither
a successful nor profitable experiment.
GIRL’S OWN SCHEME.
Sensational .Seuni-l to the Ileatlicock
“Assault” at Chickamauga Park.
A Chattanooga, Ten., special says:
A sensation that has set the people of
that section agog with excitement de
veloped at Chiekainauga park Friday.
Several months ago tho whole of
north Georgia, as well as Chattanooga,
was avonsei l over what was at tlie time
reported to bo a brutal attempt by an
unknown man with red hair aud blue
eyes to assault the seventeen-year-old
daughter of James Heathcock, an ern
ploye of tho park commissioners.
Ton or fifteen men, in a measure
answering the description of
“brute,’’were arrested and taken before
the Heathcock women, and a lynching
was only averted because they pro
nouneed each “not the guilty one. ”
man
The girl became a mother a few days
ago and Heathcock, the father, was
much surprised, he having along with
the public been misled by the story of
the criminal assault. Ho began an in
vestigation and now states that there
was no criminal assault, but that the
girl had been beaten into insensibility
by the mother on tho occasion when
she was found insensible by one of the
guards aud that the story of the crira
inal assault was concocted in order to
save the girl’s reputation. There was
a standing reward for tho arrest of tlie
“fiend,” which has now been with¬
drawn when tlie facts as stated became
known.
AGED COUPLE MURDERED.
Their Hama Burned Down Upon Their
Remains—Itobhery the Object.
Interest in the progress of the fever
in Biloxi was swallowed up in the ex
citcmcnt of a most horrible murder
a »-l «™on, committed Friday morning
upon a most estimable couple of elder-
7 people living out on Back Bay,
al| ont three or four miles from the
cit 7
^Vord was received, in tho city about
4 a. m. that the Parkhurst property had
been burned atpl that Mr. J. L. Pi rk
hurst and his wife had been consumed
in the flames. A man named Gibson,
liis wife and one Yolkes are under nr
rest. The autopsy showed that the
couple had been murdered for the pur
pose of robbery, and evidence showed
that they had been killed before they
retired.
SEAL CONFERENCE BEGINS.
Hon. John W. Foster Chosen as Chair¬
man of the Body.
The international fnr seal confer¬
ence convened at Washington Satur
ssarTsssars . . , ok , se- ..
el.im.n, .ml Mr. O. i. CI.rle, u
secretary.
—«■«. i« Behring .... The
“““ference adjourned to meet again
Monday morning, adjournment
After the delegates
were accompanied by Secretary Slier
man to the executive mansion and pre¬
sented to the president.
SELMA ALMOST DEPOPULATED.
Eleven Thousand Dollars Worth of Ball
road Tickets Sold In One Day.
On account of the official announce¬
ment of yellow fever in Selma, Ala.,
the town is practically deserted. About
$11,000 worth of tickets were sold
over the Southern last Sunday morn¬
ing.
Out of 2,500 white population but
300 remain to face the dangers of the
epidemic.
ALABAMA ENVIRONED.
The Slate Is Practically Bottled Up By
Ouaran tines.
being received that yellow fever exist
ed there. This practically bottles up
t)l e state except from the north and
cast.
Regulations have also been placed
against Opelika, Ala., because that city
Iirs nccepted a number of refugees
{,. om Montgomery. There have been
u0 modifications in regulations, and
toads running into the infected places
!iave ^tablished relay offices outside,
“YELLOW JACK” PERVADES ALA.
HAMA’S CAPITAL CITY.
NEW CASES DEVELOPING DAILY.
Dr. Guiteras Reports Discovery of 81 k
teon Patients—Governor Johnstou
Is Criticized.
A special from Montgomery, Ala.,
states that the board of health and Dr.
Guiteras held a conference Friday
night at which the latter made an ad
dress, ’ advising how the fever should
. be treated. . . He „ will ... file _. hi* report ,
with the surgeon-general.
After visiting the patients iti the
city he reported sixteen cases of the
fever.
Ten new cases were reported Fri
day -
Dr. Guiteras refused , to make a state
meut over his own signature, being
compelled to report to the government
first, he said.
The doctor says that the first killing
frost will exterminate tho disease. He
contends the disease is not contagions
and that no harm can arise from the
nurses or doctors circulating about
the streets. He says it is tho germ
which causes the epidemic. scattered
The new cases arc widely
over town and are not confined to any
class of people.
The following dispatch has been re¬
ceived from Selma;
“The committee of public health for Pal¬
las county considers the symptoms of II. I,.
Cliapln tts sufficiently suspicious of yellow
fever to ask Dr. Saunders, state health of¬
ficer, and Dr. Guiteras to come to Selma for
investigation.”
Governor Johnston is being severely
roasted for deciding to modify the
state quarantine so as to permit refu¬
gees to stop ut places in Alabama
where the authorities have not quaran¬
tined, but a little reflection is bound
to satisfy a just person that the gov¬
ernor is right.
Only ., , a very small ,, part , of , Alabama
» governed by municipal regulations
.." '''T' Y^'ill'e's/iall ^Z communities
a,m ,ie co t 7 v ,e,
overniu with .. relugee g
.
«oum permit tno tt a ‘ I
® V 7' PMnengers.-wnuieu uiom...
At Jven ' O rleans •
»«w cases nml live ‘
At Clinton, ,Miss., e
we ™ r ®P°““ ’ ,
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V.l^ WYCK _ LEADING*
Democratic Camii.Lto'Forging Ahead in
Now York Mu.iri n .i u-pu,«.
A special of Inday from new York
says: Every turn of the political
wheel here in the big city lias beon
favorable to I an Ryck. It is not that
he and his managers are so lunea wis
er than than any other political man
ngers, or that the judge himself isire
gariloil as possessing to the highest
possible degree, and beyond every
body else, tho qualifications essential
to the mayoralty, but the democratic
candidate seems to have been I’ 01 '”
under a lucky star. Every move of
his enemies has played iuto van
Wyck’s hands.
The latest great plays of the Low
people are to have Mrs. Grannis.attack
the democratic candidate for his visit
to the French ball some years ago,
and then to resurrect Farkhnrst, got
ting him to declare for Low.
bead Inday. Ihe leformer “S* write* wntts
from Switzerland, where he,has been
lor Rome time in a retreat. He de
dares for Low and hurls the rtsnal
“reform” criticisms at 1 lattism and
"Crokerism.”
SPAIN ------- REFUSES MEDIA 7.7v I ION.
—
Inform* Uncle Sam-* Gorornmant Thai
it. Rood omva. Are Uej,.vied.
The Madrid papers say that the re
p'.Y of tbe government to the United
States “declines mediation of any
kind in the question.
CANNON COSYICTED.
It wm Proven Tlmfc Me Bought Goods
From Kohnnnan.
“Mac” Cannon's trial at Dalton was
ended Friday by the jDry returning a
verdict of guilty. dra
The trial of Cannon was a most
matic one throughout. alibi
The defense had set up an
The slate assaulted it until it was a
question with the audience whether
the jury would believe it or reject iv
Twice did the accused man spring
from his chair to interrupt the state’s
counsel. Each time bis attorney, Col
onelWatt Harris, cheeked him, and
attempted to speak for him, but Judge
Fite would not hear the lawyer.
PRONOUNCED GENUINE CASE.
Turd Condactor MoFerrtt* At HfinphU
Has Yellow Fem.
SUgiSI that of B. H. McFerrin,
is re
ported Thursday night n» suspicious.
McFerrin is a yard conductor, and
was taken sick some days ago. Dr.
Thornton had the ca*e under observe
tion for three days.
NASHVILLE IS SAFE.
Heavy Front In the City Ha. Made the
People Feel Reassured.
,’lipr,- was frost in Nashville and
sr.rnSmting country Saturday utorn
s , Investigation shows fitYBkMs
z udrt eonctarning tbp tity.
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SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
New Industries Established in the South
UurlnK the Pant Week.
week, show* many enooaragiug feat
urea and prominent manufacturers and
dealers report a feeling of confidence
and continued satisfaction as to the
volume of trade.
The iron and steel production is
heavy and the mill* have orders on
B t0 k r * K4m b, " y Unti ' * h ° flr8t
of the vo
The lumber and textile industries
are active and coal operators report an
increasing demanddor their product.
Among the most important new in
f Thimiastdn, “Salisbury,
Ga., and Oo./eapi- N.
C.-, the Southeril Chemical
tal #100.000, at Winston, N.C. a
flnnrino Jwm* mill mill0^^ «t rhervwville Fli V Lnd’.“ C’-au
other 1)00*.‘an at Snartanlmre’H exteiisivA c” to cost
330 foundry and
aniTa works at Mining Anniston (io Ala the
Bi Gold Va!, capital
$ 50 0,000, at Richmond, and a
$30,000 company ..oilulcid to manufacture pa
Lii! . r ijuion’ etc at Nor
y >ri, Irrigating Co,
caniKMlO City' 000 1ms been chartered at
Peeoe ' Tcxtis- the Elk Oil and
' Charles
(i . 1? ( ■„ 'y. *50 Vauilioo o«0 at
{£’ t , n u? ^apdal nnd the TwZhiu&on, Tobacco
W 000,
\ r 1 - .
Wnodworkintr ,i,Yl tilants “ witl he estnli- (“ve
lis „t Huntsvilh Ala. ■ Green
Hpriug, Fla.'; Paducah, Ky.i iitfd Ham
jiton.N. C.--Tradesman (Chattanooga,
Xenn.)'
FIFTH WAS ON THE MOVE,
And Ovdoi** from SeriVtiny Ciago Failed
To lloaeh Colonel
A ChaUqtiooga despatch says: Col¬
onel II. 0. Gook and the Fifth United
States infantry ,aje somewhere now marching
through Georgia between
Cbick&maUgn Park and Atlanta. An,
order front diVscerttaiy of war order -
ing them to Nashville was sent after
him lint failed to overtake’the march
ing troops:
When the Fifth arrived nt the
Chiekainauga Park it was announced
that they would remain ubout fifteen
days. * - Colonel Qpok decided, however,
^ ^ Friday^ sunrise
he
It is said that the SroretnTy of the
military committee of the Centennial
had secured an order from tho soore
tary of war for the regiment to visit,
Nashville at the expense of the Ceil
tannial. In view of this
notice it is said Colonel Cook left
j Lieutenant O’Brien in Chattanooga orders to
forward to him by wire any
j that might Alger’B come. order Friday reached evening Lytli Sec- Hta
rotary regiment had been
Ron. where, tl»«
It, was promptly forwarded to Ring
gold, where-they were supposed to
camp Friday night, but before the tel
egrgjh office at Ringgold opened
urd^^ gthe regiment
marched again. No one was author
Ao/irwardAha .er^r from,Ring
gold> antl Colonel Gook. continued
marobing witllout j t>
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REVISED DEATH'LIST
0 f th« rearful Cstastroph* o» the Kew
\;«>rk Central.
A special of Monday from Garrison*,
^ Y., says: Tim complete list .of tha
killed in the New York Central aud
jpudsou RivV railroad wreck, a list
(fie railroad officials believe in
olndes all of those who could jaissibly
j lftTe b ee n lost, is as billows:
Engineer John G. Foyle, of. East
Albsuv; body -still in the river.
Fireman John.. AJ.. Tompkins, of
East Albany; body still in the river.
Ramuel Williams,,pf 781 Rest street,
jj u fl' a l 0 , ,
Thomas Riley, of St. Louis.
W. H. tt. Myers, uLTremont, N. Y.
A ’ Q ’ M®Kay,Ii»rlem; body still in
tb e river.
E> A.,Green, of Chicago,
WilliamScbenckenbecker, 89 South
Thirteenth street, Newark,N. J., other
w j 3c known ns Willinm S. Becker.
Guessippi Tnaguatii, of 38 Fnrk
street, New York city.
Mrs. Robert Lindspian, of Utica.
Unknown woman, not yet identified,
Eight Chinamen, three of whom are
Utt4dent!fie<l.
xhe number is nineteen, as given there'
ou t i )y the Associated Press, and
doubt that this is the total list
of the killed, ,
CLEVELAND SPEAKS.
|rg.]>rr.ideal Talk. Before Lairg. Audleuo.
at I'rlnccloa.
The first annual exercises iu com
meni pration of the day when a charter
was granted the college of New Jersey
were i ie ld Friday afternoon in Alex
under hall At Princeton.
j wo thousand people were present
anil the occasion was made one of nig
]ia) U11 j )nr tanc(> by the addresses of
y rover (jle\alaml, ex-I’reeident of tlie
United States, and Lord Aberdeen,
K( , vrrnor . g eneral of Canada. tjleveltuid
Tb( , ' K ., cei q, which Mr.
de |j ve r e(J was notable chidfty which marked for the
keavy.didacticscntences p' ’j,Ho doitihiOTits.
hj8 u 1
EXFEKT |*oB^CCQIHSTD TO jVEP.T.
9 dtHlBlnV Arrau***' * 'l^niforn, Method of
lh« Weed.
w jj; ^ held at the' appraiser’s' ware
* v.w York ’ lietinninv Novcm
^ “ij,. ^ Meeting
‘ i* called for the pur
of a uniform method
of classifying tobacco*.
DENGUE OF VIRULENT FORM.
Veni-l-atilo-lhixa.^udge Stricken Down In
tho Court Iioom. *
_
ditiufle •„,»*,. t ■ »A
His very sudden aattaek ip iffne
.Jempie foyyr. w.Uielu baa ia^Anaft
,W viru^tform. r j
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VANCED TO UNION PACIFIC.
‘
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nnimriAt BONDHOLDERS nrDO nCCCD OFFER nil FULL 1 CIIII SUM.
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* fc r l.r iii.torr of ti>« Relations no
*" to “ d ‘ h * U,,, ° n
* " <!l ll<;
A Washington special says: AI
though the government officials de
cline either to affirm or deny the re
P l 1 "-oj or ‘ 1l0,,1 tj«»n of ftliTreornanTlaGon the n3organi/nt on con"' com
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"'ore i* no reasonable ,l.mht doubt of Of its ac
^ This propoeition i* under
Btoo<Uo b « ““ '“crease of the original
S UfttR nteo bid of $50,000,000, equaling
amount of the government s
<' laim »««».»* tbe road
pt«>per, which on (Ictober l B t aggrega
As As to to the tho Kansas Kansas Pacific Pacino , road, road, nn(1 lhe the the
committee committee withdraws withdraws its its guarantee guarantee
und ami consents consents to to a a postponement postponement of of the the
sale s ®lc' to to any any date date to to suit suit the the convenience convenience
of the government. government. The The debt debt of of the the
Kansas Kansas, Pacific Pacific to to the the government government ag¬ ag
gregatek gregates nearly nearly $13,000,000. $13 0( 0,000.
The u ‘ net net result result of of the the new new arrauge arrange¬
ment nifnt so far fftr as aH concerns concerns the the Uifion l, mon
l’aeific L’f 10 1 ? 0 is “ regarded «« arilei1 by by the the oflcials oflcials a* as
highly biglily , advantageous adyantageous^ to to the govern- ® ov 5_ r ^
ineut, ns it sequres nil that it has t ever
.claimed to be due it and renders it
practically practically certain certain that that a a very very large large
share of the debt of the Kansas Pa
eifie will be realized whenever it may
desire to consent to its sale.
The agitation began in the senate in
the closing days of the extra session,
and so vigorously pushed by Senator
Morgan, Senator Harris, of Kansas,
and the other democrats, lias borne
fruit, Under the arrangement enter
ed into by the legal representatives
of the government and the reorgani
zation committee representing the
first mortgage bondholders, the prop
orties involved were advertised to be
sold on November 2.
Under thiH arrangement reor
ganizatiou committee agreed to make
a bid for tho property which would
i, riug to the government for its share
about $4(1,000,000. could The terms were
such that there he no hope of
competition aud the sum now repre
Rented therefore all that the govern
ment Could possibly, if the have received. its
Of course government gets
just dues there can be 110 objection to
the sale. The syndicate first raised
its guarantee to $50,000,000 and now
has made it the full amount of the
government claim, $oS,067,398.
Horn* Brief History.
Briefly stated the relations between
the government and tho Union Pacific
arc those:
Tliirty-thiee years age the United
States subsidized the Union loeific
railroad couipauy for a lino from Oma
ha to Ogden, a distance of 1,038 miles,
It grfve to the company 17,000,000 acres
, of the public domain on which the com
pany has already realized over $30,000
j HOO. It gave to the company $;13,0C(),
000 in bonds and paid interest on these
bonds for thirty year*, with the mt
del-standing that when the bpnds ma
hired" the company would reimburse
the government for its advance.
The principal of that bonded debt
to the United Htates, after deducting
tho government transportation nnd
other payments made during the in
terval now reaches $70,777,408, and
the government holds in tlie sinking
fund $17,062,000, leaving the net debt
of tlie Union Pacific to the govern
ment $58,715,408.
From its inception the Uuion Fa
cific has been wnstefully mismanaged;
lljn rights of the government ns a
creditor have been ignored; $113,000,
Otfil has been wrongfully taken from
its treasury and. to make a long story
short, the property was, in 1894, 111
anticipation of the maturity of the
goverhraent’s lien, wrecked.
A syndicate of bankers was formed
to get possession of the property. A
profit of $54,000,000 was figured out
by the syndicate wheae plan of opera
tion was to buy, acquire or '//ssipate
all liens prior to that of the govern
ment; to settle the government’s lieu;
then to readjust tho equities of the
junior security holders and to reor
ganize Union Pacific finances. It is
for this syndicate that the reorgauiza
tion committee has been acting. :
FATAL HOTEL FIRE.
Three I'enfda l ose Tlirir Um and Uth
or* Badly Burned.
Three persons were burned to death
and seven more wero severely injured I
in a fire that destroyed the Hotel
Brooklyn’, at Helletsvilie, Pa., Sunday
morning at an early hour.
The building was a three-story one,
roughly built of double boards, aud
burned like tinder.
At 2 o’clock a. m., when the firemen
first discovered it, there were seven
teen persons asleep in the hotel.
Six men on the second floor and
five'on the third saved themselves by
jumping from tho windows to the
ground below. * j
'TllAlX SERVICE CURTAILED*
l’*»»«nrer C»m Virtually Abamloned oo
Al*b»u»o Greot Souttiera.
—“Us Trains Nos. 3 and
below the city. 4
are annulled, while Nos. 1 and 2, the
C^snnoB do Ball nef New 4is(»|a»g« OHeai)s^?t*cigiiati Crtt^tlou
trains, orbaggage Alabama pas
sengers, express soutli <lBirmmgha». in
orMississippi
WINDS -AND WAVES
n.v Havoc Among Vessel. Plying the
Lower Jersey Coast.
.Jt site rial from Gape May N J.,
uroceetl Sinter way wni the
im . a dftted that i-ailimad nahl
0 %-i 14) ,, oast r-aorw - was
■ as
’fOjr; m
BY THOS, a. mm
BOHANNON GANG SENT!
.Judge rite Tempers JFustice With
Men.nre of Mercy.
w’sr«.s*.« the nine
.passed sentence on t
anf l their nine patrons and
Appeals in behalf of ah
'eased and convicted men came
all parts of the courtroom.
Before passing sentence, Judge kite
reviewed the case* of tlie men, taking
Xosed the y fonowing n se°ntencer in the
Waltor Bohannon, ten years
penitentiary; Jim Harris, seuteno
ferred; 8am Painter, lien Pearce, ■Ill
Kmnemau and Ed Morns, coi
l££™ ye”a» peuiteT _
in Die
tiary; Bal P\ E U “f *nd Whit^
(mo year each in . the chaingang.
F< ’ r rcc ™ atol * n * oods :
Cannon, „ $1,000 fine and costs, . and
twelve months in the chaingang, the
chaingang sentence to be snsjieuded
on payment of the tine and eostp.
C. J. Peeples, $600 and ousts, and
twelve months in the chaingang, the
utter part of the sentence to be sus
pended on payment of the fine and
costs. _ ■
John Bender, $250 fine and costs,
imprisonment on the same condition,
Kirk Farrar, $250 fine and costs, l
mid Hix months in the chaingang, on
the same condition,
W. B. McCar.on, fine and
costs and six months, on the same
condition.
Anderson Geddings, $200 fine and
costs, co8 , 8> 8am6 same imprisonment, with the
FBnle condition.
George Horan, $200 fin# and costs,
san)fi saule j ln j )r j SO nment, with the *ame
condition!
Clce c, m nl )ee , $60 fine and costa
an( j pum0 imprisonment, with the Bame
condition,
Ed Roberts, $25 fine and costs and
three mouths iu jail, the jail sentence
to be suspended on payment of the
fine and costs.
Jesse Langston was previously fined
This wan llie last act in tlie car rolw
|,ery trials and when it was ended a
fetrliiic of relief came over every one.
Wjth tllfl vor( jj c t against Cannon tha
public demand for blood wbb satisfied
a „q awavB 0 f sympathy swept over the
cominunitw “u nnrl lips which had been
“ g fm prosecu ion and conviction
w appeaUd tomercy. Among
It was a remarkable Beene.
the convicted were men who had stood
h; h jn th# bnHines8) political und
sol . in j b { e a f Dalton. They had fair
trials and able counsel and had been
found „ uiHy> A 11 indignant citizenry
]m(1 demanded their conviction and
j oow wfre present to witness the finale, two
tria!a bad ) )een on for
wet ,k S audeverydayhadbroughtsen- TbMrfi fftl
national BealuMiMHMHHHi developments.
been two shclid escape.™"^
.
man
j ur i e s having d« e their duty without
favor, the good people thronged to the
,. our t to hear the penalties,
MARCH OF YELLOW JACK.
Wor.e nt Montaoiiiary—Fever Offli-tatly
j Announced at Solum.
Two deaths and eighteen new cases
was Montgomery’s record for Sunday.
On Saturday thirteen new cases aud
one death was reported by the board
of health, and the information that
there were half a dozen othors that
were not reported because tbo attend
ing physician did not arrive until after
tho meeting adjourned* did not serve
to reassure the people. The death of
Alderman John W. Deming, who died
a few hours after his case was reports
ed, added to the excitemeut.
There is no longer any doubt about
yellow fever in Selma. Dr. Guiteras
reached the city on n special train from
Montgomery Saturday afternoon and
visitod the suspicious cases in theprao
tice of four ont of thirteeu doctors. Sev
cn wero prononneed yellow fever.
Dr .Unitor* expresses the opinion
that the disease has been in Selma
from four to six wcoks and that the
present patients represent the third or
fourth crop of case*. He says that
the disease i* unprecedentedly mild,
amounting to little more in Buffering
tliati a bad cold.
A case t>f yellow fever has appeared
in Atlanta, Ga. H. H. Commor is the
victim. He is a white man, hailing
from Montgomery, is a fireman on the
West Point road, and is now in a
boardinghouse at 179 Haynes street.
He is in a serious condition, black
vomit having set in Sunday afternoon.
DEATH IN A WRECK.
Two Man Killed and Many Ken sr IMS
Serloualy Injured.
One killed, badly in- / ’
person one so
juiod that he difed soon after the acci
dent and others more or less hurt is
the record of a wreck on the Denver .
arid Itio Grande narrow guage at Co
topaxi, seventy-two miles west of
Pueblo, at 2 o’clock Saturday morning,
caused by tho break of the journal on
one of the coaches. ' '7' x .-.
The cars were all crowdedwithex
curslonists bound to the festival of
Mountain aud Plain at Denver.
There was little excitement and nol
much wreckage, as the train was run
Ding very slowly.
EYANOELINA AT WASHIJilSTOX* -v’i&
Sh« »nd Her Reicner Call Upon Prwldent
McKinley.
EiilSiS Mists
Among them were Cisnei m
escaped Cuban girl- ,
She was accom
Mrs. Karl Decker
Logan.
Mrs. Logan introduced
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STAIN MAKES T1 fREATS.
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