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OUTLOOK FOR REACHING KLON
DIKE THIS FALL IS GLOOMY.
fi NEW ELDORADO DISCOVERED.
■Ontario Comes Into Froininenee as a Pos¬
sible Rival of Alaska as a
Gold Producer.
Advices from Vancouver, B. 0.,
«tate that the steamer G’apitano, G’ap
tain Powers, returned Sunday morn¬
ing from Juneau, Dyea and Skaguay.
:Sho brought down one miner from
Juneau who is disgusted with the out¬
look for getting into the gold fields
this fall. Her cattle aud horses wero
landed safely, but American custom
officials charged a duty of $30 on each
liorse. On the way down the captain
spoke the steamer Bristol and the
stern wheeler Eugene, which left Vic¬
toria last week at Alert bay.
The Capitano brings no advices
of importance from the north. The
crush at Dyea and Skaguay is as great
as ever, and many disheartened peo¬
ple are daily turning back.
A New Klondike Found.
A special dispatch was received
Monday by The Detroit Evening News
from Wawa City, tlie newly laid out
town in tho Michicopocoton gold coun¬
try on Lake Wawa, Ont' The embryo
town is situated in the narrow pass,
which leads to Lake Wawa from the
lauding places on the shore of Lake
Superior, which is but six miles from
the gold discoveries. The News’ staff
correspondent writes:
* . As to the gold discoveries develop¬
ing into anything like the indications
given, it can be said that quartz has
been found that assays over $30 a ton.
It is found not in one section, but in
■different places, extending over sev¬
eral thousand acres. Quartz has been
found here containing free gold in
chunks as big as kernels of wheat,
gold in its pure form, which does uot
Lave to be subjected to a chemical
process to free it from the rock.
“Prospectors every day are finding
specimens that assay $50 a ton. Prob
»bly 100 prospectors are today work¬
ing in tho hills. Another party of 25
reached here yesterday afternoon.
Several thousand acres have already
Im'oii claimed, but there are all kinds
of disputes about priority claims, and
nobody can tell who will get a patent
from the government.
“The country where the discoveries
were made has never been opened up
for settlement. The only inhabitants
are Indians and Hudson bay traders,
and they are few.”
FRENCH CABLE CAUSES KICK.
May ho Cut Oil at Capo Coil l>y Government
Authority.
Officials of the state department at
Washington and of the attorney gen¬
eral’s office have beon conferring re¬
cently relative to the French cablo
which lands at Cape Cod.
The cable was first laid under au¬
thority given by the president through
Secretary Evarts iu 1879, aud recently
the French company has been replac¬
ing this line with a new copper cable.
This met with opposition, and Senator
Frye introduced a bill to prevent the
landing of cables without the assent of
congress, while Senator Nelson after¬
wards offered another bill leaving the
question with the president. Neither
bill passed congress.
Through the summer work on the
cable has progressed steadily, and in
formation received at Washington in¬
dicates that the last link in the line
will be completed iu mid-ocean in
about teu days.
The question before the state de¬
partment and the attorney general has
been as to the right to lind the cable
of a foreign company.
BRYAN TO WORKINGMEN.
Ho Reviews anil Addresses an Immense
Throng at St. Louis.
A feature of Labor Day celebration
in St. Louis was an address of Hon.
W. J. Bryan, at Concordia park. The
biggest crowd ever seen in the park
greeted the speaker. His speech
throughout was enthusiastically ap¬
plauded. Previous to the meeting Mr.
Bryan reviewed a parade of 15,000
laboring men.
BUD FULLER IN DIETED.
•Grand .Inry Orders Him Hold For Assault
To Murder.
Bud Fuller, the farmer who is al¬
leged to have left his little paralyzed
child in the woods to die, was indicted
by the Fulton county grand jury at
Atlanta, Monday, for assault with in¬
tent to murder.
Witnesses from the Jackson hotel
were examined to show Fuller carried
the child there aud left with it a day
before it was found in the woods. The
manner in which the child .was found
and its helpless condition were also
brought out, and there was no hesi¬
tancy about the action taken by the
grand jury.
THE FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS.
Louisiana State Board Announces Ap¬
pearance of Dreaded Scourge.
The Louisiana state board of health
kept faith with its sister bodies of the
south and the rest of the country Mon¬
day afternoon when it made official
announcement, as the result of a
careful autopsy, that Raoul Gelpi,
thirteen years old, had died of yellow
fever in New Orleans.
Gelpi was the son of prominent peo¬
ple and had been spending some time
at Ocean Springs, where he was taken
down with fever and from thence car¬
ried to his home in New Orleans.
Soon after arriving, despite the best
medical attention,he died. Dr.Theard,
the physician in charge, immediately
reported to the board of health and
expressed the opinion that death was
due to yellow fever.
Monday afternoon an autopsy proved
that Dr. Theard’s idea of yellow fever
was correct. Steps were promptly
taken to prevent a possible spread of
the disease.
As this case was one of importance,
the doctors expressed confidence that
they would be able to check the spread
of the disease.
The death of young Gelpi naturally
caused no little excitement in the city.
Physicians, however, expressed no ap¬
prehension and state their belief that
it was quite possible to arrest the
spread of the fever.
The board during the day had or¬
dered a rigid quarantine against all
points on the gulf coast and had taken
every precaution to guard means of
communication against the entrance to
the city from any persons from Ocean
Springs, Biloxi or other places on the
south, where it was thought the fever
reach.
During the day the bulletin boards
had been thronged about, the board of
health office besieged and the Western
Union wires freighted with messages
to and from the various coast resorts.
In the meantime, however, reassur¬
ing telegrams arrived from Ocean
Springs that the Mississippi board of
health had taken every precaution
possible to circumscribe the limits of
the epidemic and prevent its commu¬
nication to the outside world.
i i We have no fear,” said Dr. Walms
ley, acting president of the board of
health, “that the fever will spread in
New Orleans. The board of health is
prepared to spend a million dollars to
stamp it out and we see no reason to
feel alarmed. People ought not to
get frightened. This one case was
taken charge of in time and such
scientific fumigation has been applied
as to warrant the hope that xve shall
promptly and effectively stamp out the
disease.
i t We have made arrangements to
issue a circular to every practicing
physician in New Orleans, command¬
ing him promptly to report to the board
of health every suspicious case of
fever.
“We have made arrangements to act
promptly in every ease, and if, unfor¬
tunately, other cases of yellow fever
shall be brought to our attention, we
shall without delay notify the world
through the Associated Press of the
facts.”
THE JUDGES WILL ACT
And Convict Reform In Georgia Will Soon
Be UnderIVay.
The private misdemeanor convict
camp in Georgia will soon be a thing
of the past. The news is coming in
from all parts of the state that the
opening of the fall terms of court has
marked a reform in the treatment of
misdemeanor convicts and that the
judges are active in seeing that their
orders to the court officers ore no
longer violated.
The action of Governor Atkinson in
first calling attention to these evils by
making public the report of Special
Commissioner Byrd, and then forward¬
ing the information thus secured to
the superior and county court judges
and the solicitors general of the dis¬
tricts concerned, is rapidly bearing
fruit.____
ALTOELD ADDRESSES LABOR MEN.
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Washington Park.
Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld, of
Illinois, addressed an audience of
about one thousand people at Wash
ington park on the Delaware river
Monday afternoon.
His subject was “Municipal and
Government Ownership aud Govern
mentby Injunction.” through
The ex-governor was present
an invitation from the United Labor
League of Philadelphia.
REID MURDER TRIAL BEGUN.
Defemlent I* Charged With the Killing of
Halstead. In Macon.
The of . the , state . of , Georgia _ .
case
against Charles Reid, charged with
the killing of L. W. Halstead in a cir
cos tent in Macon, was taken up in the
Bibb county superior court Monday
Mrs. Reid and Robert Dennington
of They are charged under the m
be, “ g —•
No case of late years has attracted
more attention. Both sides announced
ready when the case was called.
HIKE KILLED II1 HE.
BODIES RECOVERED IN A TERRI¬
BLY MUTILATED CONDITION.
CAUSED BY Com DUST EXPLOSION
The Death Fiat May Reach a Score—Res¬
cuing Parties Organized to
Search the Wreckage.
At 6 o’clock Friday evening a terri¬
ble explosion of coal dust occurred in
the old Sunshine mine, owned by the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company,
twelve miles from Glenwood, Col.
Latest advices state that twelve bod¬
ies have been recovered, and so great is
the excitement that it cannot be learned
whether there are any more in the
mine or not.
Rescuing parties were organized at
once and began an exploration of tlie
mine, while great crowds surround¬
ed the entrance.
The bodies taken out were in a hor¬
ribly mutilated condition.
Following is a list of names of those
killed, so far as known: Antoine Mar
taltono, George Dannon, Louis Raki,
Joe Martini, Joe Casa Grandi, John
Jenneni, Antoine Eppice, Theodore
Potosi, John Andriani, Emil Andriani,
Francis McCloud.
FLORIDA’S PROPOSED CANAL.
Articles of Incorporation Have Been Filed
In New York City.
A New York dispatch states that ar¬
ticles have been filed with County
Clerk Purroy for the incorporation of
the Florida Trans-Peninsular Ship Ca¬
nal Company. The chief incorpora¬
tors are Robert M. Caffal, Freeman
H. Baldwin, H. Bolet Peraza, consul
general for the Greater Republic of
Central America in this country; Thos.
F Cromwell and Francis P. Fleming.
The capital is $75,000,000.
The projectors have in mind the
building of a ship canal and raihvay
to connect the Atlantic with the gulf.
The new canal will be of sufficient
capacity for the passage of ocean go¬
ing vessels. Consul General Peraza,
in speaking of the project, said:
“The new canal will.be of great ad¬
vantage in defense of country in case
of an international war, as well as be¬
ing a great commercial benefit in case
of peace. It will shorteu the time for
vessels going to Texas or Mexico by
three days. The waters around the
southern coast of Florida are very
treacherous, owing to the numerous
currents. All this danger will be done
away with.
“We expect that 15,000,000 tons of
freight will pass through the canal
each year, and even light tolls on this
will make the enterprise pay. We
have applied for the charter, and will
probably get it next month. As soon
as it is issued we will begin work.
“Mr. Caffal, our civil engineer, bas
already surveyed the ground, and all
arrangements have been made to push
the work. ”
The consul general further said that
the harbor of St. Augustine would be
the eastern entrance to the new canal.
The width of the waterway will be 200
feet through its entire length, and it
will be deep enough to allow the largest
ship to pass through. It will proba¬
bly be about five years before the caual
is finished.
PEARLS IN ARKANSAS.
Rivers Lined With People Engaged In
Hunting the Little Treasures.
A special from Helena states that
the pearl hunting industry, which has
been exciting the whole country, is
spreading all over that end of the
state. The St. Francis river, from the
mouth of the river to Jeffersonville, is
lined with white people and negroes,
all engaged in unearthing and prying
open the richly laden mussel shells.
One man exhibited a small bottle of
them taken from Phillips bayou, a
tributary of the St. Francis. They
are darker than the ordinary pearls of
commerce, but are handsomer shaped
and of good size All the chain of
^ akes ™ tlie kltbGrto impenetrable St.
Francis river bottoms are full of these
pearl-bearing mussel J, and should
they prove to be valuable the whole
country will presently be engaged m
the business to tne detriment of crop
gathering.
STEAMER RUN INTO.
The “Gate City” Struck by Unknown Ves
set anil Her Starboard Stove In.
A New York dispatch says: The
Ocean Steamship Company’s steamer
Gate oity was run into at 2 o’clock
FrWav moruing off E gg Harbor light
^ a f ar * g e ve ssel, the identity of which
m nofc k
own .
above Ihf wlferline Iml
5te , mer left SaY „ nnah for New Tort
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pension payments heavy.
Deficit of Fiv 5 Millions For First Two
Months of Fiscal Year.
According to a Washington dispatch
the pension payments are beginning
to frighten the republicans as -well as
the democrats. The total receipts of
the government for the first two
months of the present fiscal year from
imports at all customs houses was only
$23,954.49, and there have been ex¬
pended during these two months $28,-
349,378.20 for pensions, or nearly five
million dollars more than was
ted in our custom houses.
The treasury department in its bud¬
get calls attention to the large pension
payments and accounts for the great
deficit by this means. The deficit for
the last month was $14,351,794.01.
The deficit for the fiscal year was
about $25,000,000. The receipts from
customs have only been $6,986,702.84,
a little more than one-third as much
as the customs receipts of last month.
The decrease is, of course, due to
the natural cessation of imports fol¬
lowing the heavy and anticipatory im¬
portations during July, when the
Dingley bill was still pending in con¬
gress.
The internal revenue receipts were
for the month $11,198,194, or more
than two million dollars less than the
pension expenditures for this month,
which were $13,391,000. The receipts
from customs this month were less
than half the rmount required to pay
pensions. The government expended
during the month for the civil, mili¬
tary and naval establishments the sum
of $16,004,000. This includes the
salary of every officer from the presi¬
dent down to the chainvomen all over
the country, and all military and naval
officers, the federal judiciary, new
ships, fortifications, river and harbor
improvements and all public buildings
being built.
HESTER’S COTTON REPORT.
Secretary of Cotton Exchange Gives Fig¬
ures For the Fast Fear.
Secretary Hester’s New Orleans cot¬
ton exchange annual report was issued
Friday. Mr. Hester puts the average
commercial value of the crop at $36.76
per bale, against $41.09 last year and
$30 in 1894-95, and the total value
$321,925,000, against $294,045,000 last
year, nearly $28,000,000 more than for
the same period last year. The past,
crop cost growers less than any yet
produced. The total spindles in the
south is 3,851,991, an increase of 158,-
753. The total number of mills is
482, an increase of seven.
Mr. Hester says that, while the sea¬
son had not been favorablo to American
mills, final results indicate that the ex¬
tent of the depression has been decid¬
edly overstated in the public prints
and otherwise. The takings north and
south during the past year, practically
all have been consumed, have been ex¬
ceeded but twice in the previous seven
years. The mills of the north have
worked up as much cotton, while those
south used 138,000 bales more than
last year. Imports of foreign cotton
amounted to the equivalent of 106,000
last week. Of this 771,000 is Ameri
can, against 803,000 last week. The
total visible stock shows a decrease
compared with last year of 383.000.
W ILL FIGHT IT OUT.
D'Armitt Says His Company Will Stand
Firm.
A Pittsburg diseatek says: The set¬
tlement of the coal strike on the basis
of the proposition now under consid¬
eration at the Columbus conference
will have no effect upon the future ac¬
tion of the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal Company, according to the
statement of President DeArmitt.
Said he:
“Even if the great bituminous coal
strike is settled in every state and dis¬
trict involved, and all the strikers re¬
turn to work pending arbitration on a
new price, the miners of the New York
and Cleveland Gas Coal company still
have to fight it out with the company
and return to work to carry out the
contract legally signed and accepted
by the strikers.”
NEW GEORGIA POSfOFFICES.
A Washington dispatch says: Fourth
class postoffices have been established
at the following towns in Georgia:
May, Haralson county.
Rollo, Screven county.
Paulina, Harris county.
Townsville, Meriwether county.
The postotfice at Catoosa Springs
has been ordered abolished.
A NEW TURKISH MINISTER.
Rifaat Bey Will Represent That Country
at Washington.
Advices from Constantinople state
that Rifaat Bey, until recently
cilor of the Turkish embassy iu Lon
don, has been appointed Turkish min
ister at Washington in succession to
Mustapha Tahsin Bey.
FLEEING FROM CHOLERA.
. , hat lhe rh pMpIe „„ t
“dTihe "number °of
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THROUGH GEORGIA.
comG9 Columbus
Ohio, that Lewis Redwine has au! given
instructions aides at the to Ohio the state warden S
not to allow any of his penitentiaw
friends to old Geor ~ gla 4
see him. *
The corner stone of the new
house at Hawkinsville court
was laid wi h
impressive ceremonies, and in it
placed a photograph of Jefferson Da
vis a copy of The Federal Union, pub.
lished at Milledgeville, August K '
843; a $100 Confederate note and
wpy of The Hawkinsville a
and JSews. Dispatch
* * *
The bill of exceptions in the Fl aa
gan case has not yet been filed .
will not for some time, as the attor
neys for the defense have severa
weeks before they will be barred bj
the statue of limitations. Judge C'liand
ler has already signified his intentioi
to sign it. It will be materially tin
same as the motion for a new trial.
The superintendent of the mailin'
department of the Atlanta postoffiei
lias filed his annual statement. 1
shows a remarkable increase over th
year before and says that the people o
Atlanta write no less than 50 million
of letters every year. It is almost
!
inconceivable number, but it is trn
and the report shows that the busines
done in the Atlanta postoffice is
markable.
The tramp named Louden who VI
arrested in Atlanta some days ago, n:
der suspicion of being the man vh
assaulted Miss Heathcock and near!
killed her mother in Ringgold, v,
carried there for identification. T1
man was carried to the Heatlicoc
home and ushered into the preset
of Mrs. Heathcock, who, after
at him, immediately announced
he was not the assailant
The latest report from the race
that state librarian dark horse is has the been announeemej selected fl
a
the place. From the home of Govd
nor Atkinson that Hon. in James Coweta E. comes Brown, tlie fa rj
mor
merly of Newnan, state senator will be and appointed ex-postniastj by tl
governor at the expiration of the terl
now held by Captain Milledge. Gal
ernor the closest Atkinson of friends and Mr. and Brown both ha] a|
for years supported the other in tl
political field.
Dawson has secured a remora!
discrimination and the railroads against her have in met freigj it
rates, rej
a way that will give them more I
nue, with the result of high commissi] rates
Albany. The railroad
quiring heal'd the the case railroads and issued to an remove order il ]
crimiuation for approval. and This submit will the allow new the raj rl
road to equalize they do on not their exceed own the plan,] mal
long as will equal]
mum rate. Thus they
actually on higher average.
The weather bureau has highly i
eouraging crop reports from ah o'
the state. As a rule all crops are
excellent condition and the yield
each is large. With a good crop
wheat saved and demanding except
ally remunerative prices, ami
bright outlook of crops now
field, there seems to be a very
wave > of prosperity sweeping
farmers of Georgia at present. ^
is growing well and is non
picked 1 in good condition,
large early corn crop has been
and the late crop bids lair to it* 1
even a greater yield.
The tax rate for Floyd county a
been raised from $1 to $l.-o per v
bv the county board of eommis'^ ■
It was found necessary to iacrea "
rate of taxation on account of
,
crease of business in the courts. ■
unusually large number oM
cases with theii unprecedented the
of witnesses have cost •
thousands of dollars. - 0 '
in" the increase in taxable P r °P * *
() qq t y s y ear 0V er last, the '
( ’ compelled to raise tlw -
s pj U g rs a re personal proper^
QU rea ity and enibezz.e^
£nd er eent .‘ Bridges, murder, for enhi^
Echols, for
ense little less than 3<V""
e
pj j CO unty.
Colonel Phil G. Byrd’s Jtipp 1 ^
report on the condition o >' m
misdemeanor completed convict am cam.1^ - ^
s ^ a te was Atkl.m°
of Governor l
0 fjjee governor mv- ^ 1 M
urt ] aT . The
Jette j. to each of toe jm r viola^
i its the law has oee convict®
c rou misdemeanor
Liring ont of the;
q va te parties, bix in thi* 1
pl court circuit* are
superior within
of the 137 C v unities
an J
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