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CORNELIUS VANDERBILT DEAD DEATH WAS CAUSED By A SUDDE/N STROKE OF PARALySIS. Was the Head of the Famous Vanderbilt Family of Financiers and Millionaires. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the head of the Vanderbilt family and multi-mil lionaire, died of a stroke of paralysis at 5:45 o’clook Tuesday morning at his home in New York city. He was iu his fifty-sixth year. Mr. Vanderbilt arrived at home from Newport Monday night, apparently in the best of health. He arrived at the Grand Central station at 9 o’clock,and drove to his home, which he reached a few moments later. Mrs. Vanderbilt, his daughter, Gladys, and his young son, Reginald, were with him. He had not been more cheerful or appar ently in better health in a long time. He had spent most of the summer at Newport, partaking in a mild degree of the social life there. Immediately after reaching his resi dence he retired and was sooa sleep ing. About midnight he was seized with a serious attack, and the house hold was aroused. Telegrams were sent to Dr. Walter B. Janeway and several physicians. Only Dr. Brown could he located. Everything possi ble was done for the patient, but he grew rapidly worse until the end. Physicians worked upon the distin guished patient for several hours, but nothing they could do would revive him. Mr. Vanderbilt remained in a semi-conscious state for five hours, when he died. The attack had occurred with such suddenness that there had been no time to send for Mr. Vanderbilt’s friends or relatives in town. At his bedside were only his wife, daughter, young son Reginald and some of the family servants. They were present when the end came at 5:45 o’clock, a little more than four hours after the attack. The direct cause of death was heart failure as the result of the stroke of paralysis. Messages were sent to his brother, his sisters, his son Cor nelins and other relatives and friends, announcing the sudden end. Senator Chauncey M. Depew was one of the first to appear at the house of the deceased and be was deeply moved by the death of the man who had been his associate in business for a number of years. William K. Van derbilt, the brother, was next at the scene of death. He was xveeping when he entered the house. It was William K. Vanderbilt who has managed the great railroad properties of the Van derbilts in recent years. Conelius Vanderbilt made a trip to Europe last spring. He came borne on June 24th in company with his wife and daughter, Gladys. The family went to Newport at once and remained there until last Monday. He left Newport at 1:20 o’clock Monday after noon for New York in his private car. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., was in New port at the time of his father's death. Mr. Vanderbilt's son Alfred is now in Japan. Ho left in June with two friends for a trip around the world. A cable dispatch was sent to Yoko hama for Alfred Vanderbilt. A coroner’s physician made an in quest into the cause of death and found that it was due to cerebral hemor rhages. The coroner also viewed the body and indorsed this finding. Per mission for burial was given and the body was embalmed, The reason for calling in the coroner was that Mr. Van derbilt’s regular physician was not with him at his death and a strange doctor was in attendance who had been called into the case loss than twenty-four hours before death ensued. Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on Staten Island November 27,1843. Wil liam H. Vanderbilt, his father, was at that time a farmer, and Cornelius, at Abandon Trip To Paris. Indignation over the outcome of the Dreyfus trial has caused a party of over 700 Chicagoans, who were going to the fair in a body, to abandon their trip. RAILROADS REJOICE. Only One Stamp Now Necessary On Freight Bills of Lading. The latest information in reference to revenue stamps is a circular sent out by the commissioner of internal revenue, notifying railroad men and shippers that hereafter the govern ment will require but one revenue stamp for the bills of lading of a con signment of freight, instead of one stamp for each bill, which has been required since the revenue act went into effect. The railroads rejoice at the decision of the revenue department, for it wiil mean the saving of thousands of dol lars to them. FEVER STATUS IN NEW ORLEANS. Seven New Cases Reported By Phy sicians For Two Days. The Louisiana state board of health reported four cases of yelloA fever Tuesday, making seven in all. Three of these cases were reported to The the board Monday by the doctors, board still thinks it unnecessary to quarantine the rest of the state against New Orleans, the county members agreeing with those of the city on this point. the age of sixteen, left school and se cured a piece as messenger in the Shoe and Leather bank. His grandfather, “the commodore,” learning of this, sent for him and asked why he had not applied to him for a place. “Because I did not want to ask you for anything," was the reply. This pleased the commodore, and it is said that he made a codicil to his will a few days later, leaving $ 1 , 000 , 000 to his grandson. Cornelius left the Shoe and Leather bank to go into the employ of Kissam Bros., bankers, but later his grand father asked him to enter the railroad service. The young man was making $60 a month, and he declined to leave his place unless he got more money. He was given $65, and he accepted it. He was then about twenty-one years old. ,The first place he was given was that of assistant treasurer of the New York and Harlem railroad. His rise was rapid, and he succeeded his father as head of the Vanderbilt system. Mr. Vanderbilt’s active career was practically closed when he suffered the paralytic stroke in 1890. Despite his enormous business in terest, he found time to devote to church and Sunday school work, which he began early in life. He gave freely to the railroad branch of the Young Men’s Christian association, and to the work of St. Bartholomew’s Protestant Episcopal church in New York city. Mr. Vanderbilt’s great business career made his life necessarily method ical, and he was noted for his punctu ality. When Mr. Vanderbilt was twenty three yearR of age he married Alice Gwynne, the daughter of a Cincinnati lawyer. His first born son, William H., died in 1892, while he was a stu dent in Yale university, Mr. Vanderbilt left five children— Cornelius, Gertrude, Alfred, Reginald and Gladys. Cornelius married a daughter of B. T. Wilson, the banker, about two years ago, and later Ger trade became the wife of Harry Payne "Whitney, son of the former secretary of the navy, William C. Whitney. At the time of his death Mr. Vanderbilt was president of the Canada Southern railway, vice president and director of the Beach Creek railroad, president of the Detroit and Bay City railroad, di rector of the Detroit and Chicago rail road, director of the Dunkirk, Alle ghany Valley and Pittsburg railroad, director of the Hudson River Bridge Company, president of the Joilet and Northern Indiana railroad, president of the Leamington and St. Clair railroad, president of the New York and Harlem, president of the Niagara River Bridge company, president of the Spuytou, Duyvil and Port Morris railroad, di rector of the Wagner Palace Car com pany, director of the West Shore rail road, director of the West Shore and Ontario Terminal company, director of the Toledo, Canada Southern Bail road company, director of the New York Central and Hudson River rail road and a dozen other affiliated rail roads. Cornelius Vanderbilt,Jr., and Harry Payne Whitney and his w’ife arrived at the Vanderbilt mansion late Tues day. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., remained at Newport. All of Mr. Van derbilt's children were in the city Tuesday night with the exception of Alfred, and he will undoubtedly come home. The home-coming of Cornelius Van derbilt, Jr., was an unusually sad one. The estrangement between his father and himself because of the young man’s marriage with Miss Wil son had never worn away. Ammunition .For Transvaal. A consignment of 547 cases of am munition, presumably bound for the Transvaal, has been landed at Louren zo Marquez, Delkgoa Bay. DISTRICT CITIZENS AROUSED. Washingtonians Hold Hass Meeting and Protest Against Verdict. About 1,000 persons attended a mass meeting at the Masonic temple in Washington Tuesday night to protest against the verdict of the Rennes case. The speakers included all creeds, Hebrew, Protestant and Cath olic. After a number of addresses the meeting adopted a set of resolutions affirming belief in the innocence of Dreyfus, condemning the proceedings of the courknartial and pledging those present to use every lawful and proper means to prevent the co-operation of this country in the Paris exposition. PROniNENT CAROLINIAN DEAD. Hon. Leander Childs Passes Away Suddenly At Saluda, N. C. A Columbia, S.C.,special announces the sudden death at Saluda, N. C., of Leander Childs. In his death South Carolina prohibitionists who have gained muoh strength recently, lost perhaps their strongest advocate; Co lumbia one of her wealthiest citizens, and Carolina farmers a progressive brother. TARTAR RELEASED. British Officials At Hong Kong Decided It Unwise To Inter fere With Transport. A Washington dispatch says: Clear ance papers have been allowed the Tartar at Hong Kong. It is expected that she will proceed to the United States at once. The information that clearance had been allowed came in a dispatch to Adjutant General Corbin Thursday morning from Colonel Metcalf, com manding the Twentieth Kansas and the troops aboard the transport. It is supposed that clearance papers were allowed upon the suggestion of the British foreign office to the British governor at Hong Kong that it would be unwise to interfere with American transports. Another dispatch from Colonel Met calf, in reply to one sent Wednesday, states that the Tartar was no more overcrowded and that the food was as good as on other transports leaving Manila. He said that the trouble arose among the discharged regular soldiers who were returning home on board the ship. The incident is now regarded as closed. It is learned at the state de partment that the representations made to Mr. Choate, our ambassador at London, on this subject were in the nature of a protest. HOB LYNCHES HENDERSON. One of the Assailants of Mrs. Ash Swung Up. A wierd scene greeted the citizens of Ty Ty, Ga., when they awoke Thursday morning. A tall, slender, black negro about 25 years old, who was charged with raping Mrs. Ash, was dangling from a telegraph pole within three hundred yards of the Brunswick and Western depot. Ed Henderson was arrested atTifton Wednesday and carried to Ty Ty, and when in the presence of his victim he was immediately identified by her and her little brother, who is about nine years old. When Ed Henderson was arrested he was wearing different clothing from those worn when he was iu Ty Ty the day of the crime, but the clothes he had discarded were secured by parties in Tifton and carried to Ty Ty, and they were recognized by the victim beyond a shadow of a doubt. Henderson claimed his innocence to the last, but from his story related, which was very conflicting, his guilt was fully established in the minds of all present. The crowd was as orderly as if at a legal execution. No insult or indig nity was offered the prisoner. Not a shot was fired, even while his body was swinging. Not an oath uttered or a shout raised. No lantern or torch was lighted, and only the silent stars looked down on the scene of retribu tion. After the execution all quietly dis persed, but a determined search is be ing made for the other criminal, who is the real ravisher, Henderson only being his accomplice. In reporting this crime the victim’s name was given as Mrs. Ash Johnson, and the boy her son, but we find the lady was a Miss Johnson, and married a Sir. Ash, and that her name is Mrs. Jennie Ash, and the little boy who was in the cotton field with her is her brother. DELEGAL GUILTY. Slayer of Deputy Sheriff Town send Gets a Sentence of Life Imprisonment. The case of John Delegal, of the Darien, Ga., rioters, sent to the Ef fingham county court on change of venue from McIntosh county, was concluded Thursday at Springfield in a verdict of guilty of murder with a recommendation to the mercy of the court. He was sentenced to life im prisonment. John Delegal, it will be remembered,, shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Townsend, who went to arrest him during the time of the riots. His brother and sister, who were indicted with him, were acquitted. , The case of Henry Delegal, for rape, which, after a mistrial in Darien last week, was also sent to Effingham county on a change of venue, was taken up Thursday afternoon. This covers the case out of which grew the riots. There was no trouble in secur ing a jury and the evidence was quickly submitted. SHAMROCK TO TAKE PART. Owner of English Yacht Will Aid In the Dewey Celebration. Sir Thomas Lipton, owner of the America’s cup challenger, Shamrock, will make a noteworthy contribution to the marine demonstration in honor of the home-coming of Admiral Dewey. Sir. Thomas’ steam yacht Erin will at night be lighted with 3,000 electrict lamps. The outlines of the yacht will be etched against the darkness in ropes of light and transparencies of the Shamrock’s flag and the stars and stripes will be displayed. TO CANCEL SPACE. Austria and Italy Show Condemnation of Dreyfus Verdict. Proposals have been made to both Austria and Italy to boycott the Paris exposition relict Rennes. as a protest against the at Demonstrations in denunciation of the verdiot occurred Sunday in several Italian cities. At Naples the demon strators tried to attack the Freaeh consulate and the polios were com pelled to intervene. BOYCOTT TALK Paris Exposition to Be Placed Under the Ban. CAUSED BY DREYFUS CASE Our Government Will Be Asked Through Congress to Withdraw Support and United States Exhibit. A Washington special says: It is believed that when congress assem bles there will be considerable agita tion of a proposition for this govern ment to abandon its participation in the Paris exposition. It is known that widely sympathised in, and it is thought that if the conviction of Drey fus is permitted to stand there will be very ,.fo. little frieudiy ...... feeling for t _ trance among members of either the house or senate. Such a move, however, would be a grave one. It is pointed out to withdraw from participation in the ex position would be regarded as an ofTi cial insult to France. No further leg islation on the part of congress is needed to carry out the plans of this country for the exposition. About $1,200,000 has been appropri ated for the expenses of the commis sion and the government exhibit; the commission has been appointed nnd the space desired for exhibits from this country has been secured. There are now only two ways in which congress could interfere, one would be to revoke aach part of the appropriation as has not been already expended in the expenses of the com mission and the other would be to pass a resolution declaring that on ac count of the unsettled conditions the valuable government exhibits should not be sent to Paris. To do either of these things is suf ficient, it is believed, to break off all friendly relations between the two countries. Congress and the state de partment may look at the matter from different points of vieiv. The president and the state depart ment, having the responsibility for maintaining our relations with foreign governments, cannot be expected to find iu this affair a reason for involv ing the country in an international complication, and it is likely that the executive branch of the government will use what influence it can to pre vent any hasty action. Unless congress expressly forbids it, this government will proceed with the preparations for the exhibition and will send to Paris such government exhibits as are decided upon, but this will be done with a realization of the probability that much of the space se cured with such difficulty for private American exhibits will be left vacant. Little doubt is felt that the latitude allowed the private citizen will be quite extensively availed of to with draw from participation in the expo sition. Another difficulty in the way of an effort to prevent participation in the exposition, however, will be found in the fact that before congress has as sembled much of the government ex hibit probably will be packed and on its way to Paris, if not actually there. The exposition opens in April, and the work of transporting and preparing the exhibit will have to begin some mouths before that time. Up to this time, it is said, the preparation of the government exhibit has not begun, but the work will proceed as soon as the government officials are ready. Bepresentative Hepburn, of Iowa, said that he had ceased to marvel at the methods of French army justice after observing how the trial of Drey fus was conducted. No such trial or verdict was possible in the United States. He did not think it would in any way affect diplomatic relations between this country and France, nor did he think it would interfere with the United States exhibitors at the coming evposition. VAN WYCK SCORES MOSS. New York's Mayor Appears Before Investigating Committee. A New York dispatch says: Mayor Bobert A. Vau Wyck occupied the witness chair Thursday before the as sembly committee charged with inves tigating the Various departments of the municipal government. examination of From the outset the the mayor by Connsel Moss took the form of an acrimonious colloquy, in the course of which Mr. Vau Wyck intimated that Mr. Moss was seeking to reach a seat on the supreme bench by pressing d partisan investigation, and sneered at the counsel’s attain ments as a lawyer. MOORE SEEKS NEW TRIAL. Badger Claims That He Has Found New Evidence. Application was made to Recorder Goff at New York Wednesday for a a new trial in the case of William A. E. Moore, who last year was sentenced to nineteen years’ imprisonment for blackmailing and assaulting Martin, a hotel keeper of that city. The ap plication is based upon the alleged dis covery of new evidence. MTHMOPOUSB in convention An Interesting and Enthusiastic Meet ing Held In Chicago. PROMINENT MEN PRESENT Te “* M “ Se ' er “ l7 Soor “ ,he Trusts and Combinations. The Ome Federation conferences on the uses and abuses of trusts-and combinations began at Chicago Wed nesday with less than half the dele gates appointed by the various states in attendance. New York, headed by \V. Bourke Cookrau, and Wisconsin were most numerously represented. The meeting took place in Central music hall and was called to order by Franklin H. Head, president of the half of Governor Tanner, who by ill ness was prevented from appearing in P e Il°“, With the .. progress of ... the speaking . . it .. beoame evident that many of the del egations had come with firm convic tions for or against trade combina tions. The speech of Mr. Wooten, of Texas, delivered during the afternoon, hammering the trusts in merciless manner, aroused the wildest euthusi asm in the ranks of the labor repre sentatives and the delegations from many western and southern states, while the easterners generally smiled critically. Mr. Wooten was frequently inter rll pted by cheering and was rapturous ] y rece ived by his fellow delegates from the Lone Star state upon the com pletion of his peroration. He said in par t: “Accepting in good fsrith that ame ndment which the heroic legions „. W ,d aato do.tlr 0 n a thousand battle fields, we be Ueve that <neither slavery nor invol un tarv servitude, except as punish ment for crime) shall exist within the United States or anyplace subject to their jurisdiction.’ And we confi dentlyassertthat the commercial and industrial bondage being rapidly im posed upon the toil and talents of 70,- ! 000,00(1 American citizens by the syn- ■ dicated wealth of a few corporate mo- ! nopolies is more dire and dangerous , than the slavery which bowed the ^" rde " e a th8 bflcks of 4,000,000 southern black , , men. “And above and beyond these great written guarantees of equality justice, we look to the lessons of history and appeal to the authority of existence. "When we are told that the spirit of commercial combination promises golden rewards to the pres ent tendencies of our economic republic system, we remember that no has j ever survived the mercenary despotism 0 f merchants and money changers.” j Mr. William Fortune, of Indiannpo ]j S) president of the Indiana state j board of commerce, made an earnest | j plea for hopeful conservative than procedure the applica- as a more course tion of revolutionary or too radical measures to an evolutionary problem. He indicated a grave doubt of the use fulness of the doctrinaire in arriving at a radical solution of the question. He guardedly suggested the danger capital may bring to itself by heedless abuse of its power and indicated the importance to it of seeking proper reg ulations which will make trust meth ods acceptable rather than obnoxious to the people by whose permission and toleration only can their existence con tinue. The committee on permanent or ganization met after the afternoon ad journment of the conference. The committee, consisting of one delegate from each state represented and each organization of geneval scope, was, in part, as follows: Texas, Hon. A. B. Davidson; Flor ida, John Franklin Forbes; West Vir ginia, J. B. Harris; South Carolina, B. C. Kaufman; Mississippi, J. W. Culver; Louisiana, W. W. Howe. A programme for Thursday was pre sented and adopted. It was the inten tion to have W. Bourke Cochran talk Thursday night, but he objected to the arrangement and expressed a de sire to speak Friday evening, follow ing W. J. Bryan. TO INTRODUCE BOYCOTT BILL. New York Congressman Will Ask For Withdrawal of Exhibit. A New York dispatch says: Con gressman Jefferson M. Levy announced Monday that as soon as congress meets be will introduce a resolution in the house withdrawing the support of this government from the Paris exposition on account of the Dreyfuscase. Preachers on Dreyfus Verdict. At the meeting of the Methodist Preachers’ Association of New York a resolution was unanimously passed deploring “the shameful miscarriage of justice iD the reoent condemnation of Captain Dreyfus.” NEWS FROM MANILA. Filipino Rebels Attack Three Towns But Are Unsuccessful. A Manila dispatch says: A force of 450 rebels with one cannon attacked Santa Bita, Guaga and San Antonio simultaneously. All the attacks were repulsed without loss to Americans. Colonel Bell and his regiment,while attempting to take the rebels in the rear, met two small patrols and suc ceeded in captaring a rebel captain^ a lieutenant and six privates. TARTAR HELD jthokgkong By British Officials Who Ciaim Overloading. OUR SOLDIERS ON BOARD Authority For tlis Detention of ths Ves* sel Is Being Inquired Into By the Washington Officials. A Washington dispatch says: The war department was informed Wed nesday that the steamship Tartar, which is returning to the United States from Manila with a large number of soldiers on board, was detained at Secretary Root had a conference with the president Wednesday after noon regarding the matter. When he returned to the war department he g aye oa t the following two cable mes sages as an official statement of the case: “Hong Kong. September 11.—Cor bin, "Washington: British authorities re fase to clear Tartar because over crowded; authorize eight twenty four. “Mitoalf.” » “Mu.ila, September 18.—Adjutant General, Washington: The Tartar was gen t Hong Kong to dock, as re quested by Major Long, no dock be j n g ) ar g e enough at Nagasaki. She bas capacity for 1,145 men and 111 4 ab j n passengers. She took hack j ’ 244 men and sixty-one cabin passen s _ On her trip from San Francisco gh e carried comfortably 1,145 men and fifty-five cabin passengers, Otis. ” „»£ , ZAm . „ ab1fi ““fatatZd.b? from Hone K » J* 400 disoharired "£“IS regulars 13 on board re f " rh . Twentielh volnn * . . , _ ith Geneval Funstou Bab oard the Tartar, but it is under gtood thftt the volunteers make no F !aint and are anxious to have c]ea , anoe nted the Bhip in orde r th th r/ m pr0 ceed homeward. The artflr is a Britigh ship . 8he bgI * s to the Canadian Pacific Steam £mbia c mpany> plying between British Co and Australia. She was chartered by the quartermasters’ de part £ ment of the United States army to Relieved United gtates troops, but it ; g in Washington that this oharter could in any respect affect her nationality. 8 he could, cease to be a British ship and become entitled to American registry only by act of con gress. It was stated at the war department that the Tartar matter had been re ferred to Ambassador Choate, which makes an international question out of it. The contention of the war depart ment is that notwithstanding the Tar tar flies the British flag,, being char tered by the United States govern ment, tne assumption of British au thority over her is unauthorized. STORM IN BERMUDA. Great Damage To Property, But No Loss of Life Resulted. A cyclone swept over the island of Bermuda Tuesday night, Houses were blown down and others unroofed. The storm raged the whole of the night. No lives were lost, but heavy damage, estimated at $500,000, was done to public and private property, fruit and cedar trees. The causeway was badly injured and the government house was damaged. The storm was the worst known since the hurricane of 1880. In fact, many of the inhabitants say it exceed ed the gale of 1880 in violence. ENGLAND WILL NOT BOYCOTT. Government Takes No Official Cogni zance of Dreyfus Verdict. A London special says: While the papers are full of letters from individ uals and several firms announcing their withdrawal from the Paris exposition and urging the goverumet to do like wise, there is no intention upon the part of the British government of taking any suoh steps. ROBBERS KILL THREE. mother and Her Two Sons In Texas Were the Victims. Mrs. Joe Barber and her two sons, Wiley and Levi, were murdered by unknown robbers in a crossroads store in Itastoke county, Texas, six miles from Pleasanton and twenty-five miles south of San Antonio. They were killed with a hatchet, their heads hav ing been smashed to a pulp. A sack containing $100 in silver was secured by the robbers. Footprints iu the sand indicated that there were three men implicated in the crime and they left in the direction of San An tonio. HURRICANE WAS DISASTROUS. Belated Advices Regarding the Storm Which Swept Anguilla Island. Belated advices received Thursday from the Island of Anguilla, one of the British West Indian islands. Lee ward group, say that a hurricane dur ing the night of September 8 th de stroyed 200 houses and rendered 800 people homeless. There was considerable loss of prop erty and similar damage at St. Martin.