The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, December 18, 1900, Page 7, Image 7

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deadly knock-out drops. ~ ,rni U'S IHKIN %KW YORK IJUB ~, ,11TB VICTIM* BV Tin; HI MIMED. W ,, B „ Well •• Men Administer (11 or*l ll y drat" I® Make Nokkrr. , a.tcr Crlwir® loin* Vo* ~l rl #_lluw Ikr Uru* !■ oh ml nr >1 „„,| Adnilnllert. bTom the Nk York Sun. ; over the country attention Wa* at* ~ rj by lb* cga* of Jennie Boi>< hlctrr .terscn to the use by men of knock. they are called, in the ac t-turn ul of criminal purpose* aga last „. ie. Tha us# of knock-out drop, nrvar. by any menu*, cotvtln.d ' u.'n by men. Woman of the vicious use them In robbing men Rob irlio eaaler and safer If the mm • rendered senswlesa, the ktiock nre brought Into play as soon I respective victim ran be Induced 6 -ske a .irlnk. The advantages of their , , . twofold. Flrat. tha vtcUm U easily l, , m ptly relieved of more money . ~ r could otherwlae be Induced to „ r i A second advantage lieu tn that for a certain period at ' will he • bl vlous of his surround , In that time the robber can get way and. tf It be desirable, with some degree of safety go . • r place where she met him and • ready game For whan kno, k ,ue used tly victim Is generally a. iv from the resort wlterg he i ,| tiiem before ha la robbed, and :t loft whero he will not too Mscotered . of knock-out drops by male against other men Is to the 1 iid llttis different In method ~ti pursued by these women. The c.v. n In drink of last tort. TBs may be seeing the sights, or he ire to get Into a quiet game of • Into a gambling house without ■c *he way Into one. or he may want to be aoctabJa and so ready I 'ake up With any sleek talker who y. . . that all men are friends over , „v, and acta on bis belief when the , appears. It Is said that the male ~a!s usually give a audit lent amount irujr to make sure that their vtc . nip I.*, consciousness utterly, and t y..n so careless as to other result* may of their ucttm* die. On the and. women especially if thev ; a victim to a well-hidden room hired he purpose, are sometimes content i 'minister merely sleeping potion. the use of the. knock-out drops for - * i -nose of taking advantage of young -iwever. attention has been drawn (.*•’!■ clarly since the Paterson murder. ~ In cases ot mysterious Illness in •. •. ports of the country Inveattgu h t.c been directed In a way to bring f tie possible use of mr such stupe rug The result has been a dec c in many Instances that In knock ..... has been found the solution of • mystery ard the further discovery •', a lesort to drugs ts a matter of f- .dent occurence in certain commuiri case of Abbie Whitney of Auburn, Me .! to Investigation and disclosures T h Induced the correspondent of a paper, writing from Lewiston. \p- to say: "It now come* out that of respectable girl* have been me.i, have been assaulted and mal i-a'H In various ways, at these dances ts dance hall dances, at one of y was laid the scene of the Abbie V h'irvv assault). The tough element of i- r.- r iur%ssJ (iround this and other tun - halls In the outskirts* of these Hid with drug* and threats preyed ir. n ' girls that fell Into their clutches. ?-■ re isn't much likelihood that there *, I* prosecution*. Tha names of a Ann young men who have been doing • • ►rt of business ere bandied around i- Ity. Many of the men aro fairly . i , In aeveral caeca sutp* of i. . have been paid to settle the mat people of the State of Maine v ■ have len shuddering over that P.tmson rase may now do a little thlnk tn. over home affair*. The fact of the i ~ <r Is, ip**r* downright brutality has .1 *h wn tn tills S*battle assault than . i.rportod 1n relation to tile Paterson .is correspondent tells of an Auburn i I who was assaulted so outrageously • ?, r months ago that she ha* been confin ed to her Ited for eleven weeks and will t- .in Invalid for Ilia remainder of her ", ll,r assailant was admitted to hall aid escaped, and he correspondent says ,• no effort has been made to calch hm. 'These things Jar our selfrlghteoue- Ia little." he says, "but they mak* for meekness." V t only In the Bast, but In the Wees *ul 111* Southwest as well tha knock ed Is familiar method employed In the t . n of girls. Just a* It Is employed In t - robbery of men. In cHlea of large P >ulatton where there Is n numerous r an contingent, rascals ready to re ► '. to tha knock-out drops find a field h they are not slow to take advan ’ re of. Places of refreshment quite re. I able, to whteh German woman and ■ can men of the neighborhood resort, ’•..■me familiar to the daughters of the f,mules, born In America, and sooner or later they are Invited Into less harm- Ii resorts of a similar appearance In * tier parts of the town At these places i r u time many of them fall prey to ns practitioner* of the knock-out. In Bt. I .!. for example, crusades have beet, • ducted to drive such reaort* out ot business. ?:rny people associate tho words ktw*-k --* . drops with pellets. It Is said that In some Instances pills are used by men • - ; women, but the more common form '' tha drug of drugs usad Is the liquid f m. which Is more convenient and less likely to he detected by the prospective ms The stupefying dose Is carried In -naH phial, which may easily be con i' !d In the hand which holds a bottle fr m which a convivial drink I* to be |o red. and some or all of Its contents • allowed to rur, Into the victim's drink In New York the results of the work of knockout drops or men and * men. according to me freely made -moot* of the police, iJ appal ting The fact that knock-out drops have In extensively used tn the borough ot Manhattan for the past two years Is welt knr .vn to physicians about town. Time *''■! again they have been called to at •’tel patients who had returned to their •> me* m a dazes condition and 1n not a f‘ * of the cases the patients have died f r :he reason that the person admlnls -1 ring the drug wo* not familiar enough ” ’ jt to know the safe limits of a d<**e. •■•rly all the physician* connected with '*■* •'oroner’a ofhre have been called upon 1 perform autopsies upon bodies of per. * n* Who died from *n overdose of the *rug, but In these cases It has been dlf -1 dt for the police to get evidence on ' h to base a conviction '•■any men found unconscious In the •et and taken to a hospital are sup- Id to l,e suffering from alcoholism 'Then H Is too late to render relief the covary la made that the man ha* ■ drugged and Is suffering from some * ' of ou!son that seems to puasle the f‘! Jans at the hospital. When dsatb ■illy results In a case of this kind the * oners physician finds from his autopsy i death was due to the fact that the f nt had a waak heart, llaart failure ’ coll M In moat of the caaea. but If J 1 * P lysltlan who performed the autopsy 1 *J been taml lar with tha history of tha *• be wquld promptly have said the * of death waa a dose of chloral too • ’* for tha parson <© whom H was b 'mistered. I>r Philip O’Hsnlon, who he* been needed with the coroners' office fur 1 *cy years Is of fb,* opinion that hun ' *“ of insn die In ItU* city every veer * f w havtag been the victim* of knock °'' drops. Dr. O’Hanlon era* cm of tha i k*'*ia inetrumeotal In procurlop, the law shut make* It a crime n> have knock out drops in one's possession. "What Is commonly known as knock out drops t* chloral hydrate," *axi Dr. O llanlan. "from li to 30 grains of It pro duces a sleep that lasts three hours. Of course the steep u derp.-r tf the drug ls adintnutered In large amounts. Then It produces a mate ot coma Fatal syn cope sometime* nwr occur <'hior*l hy drate wot* as a hypnotic on the l.ratn, lipt when the hmrt , weak It ktlla. I hav* known of cases where thirty giatns prov. ot fetal, although the crooks at->ot town who make use of It usually administer much mure titan thirty grains Hey dis solve the cryetsls In water and often ■ smipound the mixtur* by a rough guess that is bound to result fa telly to the icr >on who gels a dose " In at least titty drug stores In this town t stranger ran buy gtilural hydrate with out a physician's prescription Bom- of the druggists know what use tt ts to bs put <o at the time they sell tt, but tlvi charge t! or U for n ounce bottle of he mixture and so long as.they get a good price for tt they ask no queetlonr. 1 here art two drug stores in Manhattan that aie thriving on the sale of chloral hydrate Tbclr custom, ta are thieve* who make a practice of drugging and robiiing own who come to New York to oee tho town. The thieves have their headquar ters tn Chinatown, anu get in much of thetr work In that part of the city. They '■ oik In conjunction with the proprietors of cheap hotels In the vicinity of Chatham tiquare. and divide their booty with them In the Tenderloin district there are many young women who use chloral hy drate for the purpose of carrying out thtir [dans of robbery Moot of them have been taught to use u by the men with whom they associate, in many Instance* cabinet, who have made a practice of ’rugging strangers In the hotel district. The young woman selects the victim and drugs him while sitting In one of me up town saloons or amok ng parlors. The vic tim selected Is usually a man who has been drinking heavily. The woman 6r- Irr* bo tried beer, and volunteers to pour t Into her companion s glass It Is while doing this that site holds a small bottle of cbicral in her hand and pours the chloral into the glass with the beer. A few minutes later, after the victim has swallowed the contents of the glass, he becomes dosed. He stands up to go, and maguwe he's Intoxicated. Tic cabman who ia In tne game la uaar at band. The woman calls a matter, says her friend la drunk and nsks the waiter to help him Into the cab at the door The robbery incurs later in the cab. probably while the cab hi be.ng driven through Cerural Park. Afler the woman gets possession of tho victim's money and Jewelry she In forms the oabtnan, who drives through a •lark street. The victim l lifted out and left on a stoop or lying on the side walk only to be found laser by the police man on port who sends for the patrol wagon. in some cases the victim t* taken to a hospital. In other c-asea ho awakes to find himself arraigned In court on a charge of Intoxication. But that 1* only one of the ways the women of the Tenderloin make use of knock-out drop*. I'p there they call It "Peter." "Put a lUtl Peter In my friend's glass." i woman remarks to the bartender tn the resort they happen Into. The bartender may put the "Peter" tn the water that he serve* with whisky, or he may put .t m the glare before the victim pours out tils drink The young woman, of course, pays the bartender for hi* port In tho robbery, and often helps to drag the victim to a Balnea low hotel room where the robbery t* eaaler. Often the "Peter" people use chloral m riehy or soitgar Bometlmea they put ,t in the victim's gin In such eases. alt Is colorless, It Is not detected. The place* where it ts mostly used are situated on !h upper M'et Bale of the c!ty. In some of the so-called smoking parlor* it 1* used, and tn a few places on Third avenue and along Sixth ave nue. t H 4I.FHHF.KD S CBU3I BAB. Juilsr l.anuvi ortliv Tell* * Story nf t rlntinnl l.otv tn Old Kentoekr Usyi. (■>om the New York Tribune. The old Judyc wae In a mood of remin iscence. lie had not always been a Judge, and hie memorial harked back 114 the day# of his *re*t triumphs a Ihe best-known criminal lawyer 111 Kaatern Kentucky. Those were lawless day*, and. an Judge l.angworthy said truly enough, murders were so common that "like it not everybody In the eouiriry would a-been hanged e'f they hadn't bad a right smart lawyer to defend 'em." And that WWs how il happened that the moot desperate ouHhro.ll brought to bay. the worst outlawed murderer, tho man for whom a (loxen nooses were yawning, would always come to "Bam" I.angworthy for help. If there was any looidiol* of escape. If there waa tha slightest weak ness on the port of the prosecution. Law yer Bam was sura to setae It and squeewe the prisoner through. Ideals in the law in Eastern Kentucky were none 100 htgu In llmee days, and "Ham" Lsngworthy nJver dreamed of turning * client down because he happened 10 be guilty. That was a circumstance that the lawyer was generally pretty *f* In taking for granted "Well.” said Judge Lsngworthy. re flectively. "of all Ihe case* I ever had I do believe that Jim Lightbtrd's waa ihe one that gave me the most bother. "Jim Lightblrd. ye see." Mid the Judge seWltng back In his chslr and crossing hi* fret carefully oil the table In front of him. "Jim Lightblrd wu a half-breed In dian a sour, sullen sort ot seacook. cruel a# a shark and superstitious ass nig ger There must a-been bad blood In the whole lot somewhere, for of Jim's five brothers, one had been hanged for murder, and not lees than two of the other" would have swung years before tf I hsd not g<K ’em out of their killing ,f - Wefl o' course, Jim Lightblrd knew Id helped his brothers; In fact, he'd done 1 lot of ihe work to corn money for my fees But no slwsya seemed Just sort of quist and sulky, and I never thought he and get into serious trouble. about 7 o'clock one August niaht and I • •*•*' 0,1 th veranda of my boardin' place in Conway tbsi s th* county seat. There wee a great red glow tn th* West, and the moon, pale and peokedllke. wa* Ju*t slldln' shove the dark pines over to lb# EssD I wss thlnk ln' how pesoeful ihe whole world would he if there wasn't any men In It to raise ruction*. RM 10* 1 ,h " t • l ® ns came Jim DightMrd lookin' as solemn as judgment day. And who should be ran nln' alongside of Jim but Lot Johnson s wife Now. Lot WSS a nice. old. pesce sMe farmer that lived down by th" creek, sixf hsd a decentiah Mt of property, too. He had married s girl twenty year* younger than he was. and not much of a looker *1 that Bhe come of a poor While family. nd wasn't In Lot's crios everybody said that. .... " 'Judge ' Whispered Jim. layln Ms hand on my knee (they had already begun to call mo Judge; sort of cornin' event* cast in' shsdows racket, I suppose): he as Id. and he was as cool as the North pels. 4 w* want lo speak to y# a MU' "But Farmer Johnson's wife, she didn't look #0 game. Bhe wss fluttered a good Wt and her lips were all a twitter. "X took 'em both upstairs to my room. SICK HEADACHE Kerxford x Icid Phosphite Soothes and strengthens th* nerve*; relieve* pain in th* temple*, depres sion and nauaoa. "1 • -ksewsasw Roatseeo’e eajasgw^ THEMOKNING NEWS. TUESDAY; DECEMBER 18.1900. fß.veother accessoreirxi ELLOW LaBEI WHISKEY On wet days a nip of Yellow Label will often forestall a serious cold. A helpful tonic in case of illness or indiges id a pure Rye for those who pleasmg stimulant. (It’s tht driuker’s favorite.) nr 11 tchtrtcrr good liquor* art sold. Ihe dltTereacel, great between 11 - ■llt'lfc ww s g* g r cal, ~g „rd!or> whuLn tnshowtt., | dlttercoee will tend you temple bottle free, on receipt of tact, to (trine packing, rfc. Address PUS* W pvrrw* *OO. *7 e.e-wv,vi e rttri.i-n -recu eutm... as It was too far to go down to the of fice. Then I squared off In front of the fireplace, and, 'aim. what's up?* I said "Tho hilfhreed gave a queer look at Johnson s wife, and men he said ‘Judge you saved two of my brothers, Haldv and Torn. Now I walk you to save me.' And then he tat down as calm as you please, and with Johnson's wife right across the room, puttin' In a word now and then, ho told me the "It wasn t a nice story, and it didn't do credit either to the halfbreed or to poor tort's wife. But. a* for tb.it mutter, murder ts never genteel. Here's the gist of what Jim l.tghtbrd. the halfbreed.told me that night, with the moon rtsln high er and h ghor. and ->pr, adtn whiter and ghostlier about the rom every minute: "It seems that Jan was doin' a hit of work for Farmer Johnson, and took a groat fancy to Johnson's no-*count wife. He made up to her quite a lot wmen the old men wasn't around, and she cotton ed to him a good bit. Thing* went on that way for a couple of months, and then the two of 'em began to fidget to get the old man oirt of the way. The,' bed to he careful and on the lookout all the rime with him around, even though he was such an Irmocesn and unsuspectiu' old man. Finally, they go* Impatient, mode up their minds to put the old man under the sod. and then run the place to aull themselves They didn't etop to look alu-ad or plan the thing out carefully. They Just went along without waitin' for anything "Jim. he rode over to the next town and got a big wad of strychnine and he helped Johnson s wife mix It in with the cof fee Then, when the old man came tr. for dinner the next noon, hi* wife rave hun a big bowl of coffee < hockful of the poison. Poor old Dot thought it tasted kind of queer, but he wes hungry, and gulped It all down without rayin' any thing. . ~ •■ln about five minutes the poor 01,l sucker was roliii around the floor, groan in' to beat the band, and in terrible dis tress. Just as soon as she saw the poison begin to get in Its work. Dot * wife w. n* to the door and blew the horn for >he halfbreed, for that was the signal agreed on. Jtm was hangln' around In the next lot. and he trotted rlgh* In. "The two of 'em lifted the poor old farmer on the bed and then sat down to watch him die. Johnson was already In a state of co,lapse, for the strychnine wae burrin' bt* inside* up. and he was in the agonies of a regular hell Shlrst. He kept moanin' for water. So what did that brute halfbreed do but chuck a tot more strychnine in a pall of cold water and then begin ladlin' this out to the poor old sufferer, who had never done him any harm It was dreadful cold-blooded and heartless, but perhaps it was more merci ful to end the old man quickly rather than let him die slowly. But he would have died quick enough anyway. "M,wnwhtle. the wife had sat by the bed, and with never a tremor or a sigh had watched the agonies of th„ kind okl man who had raised her from poverty and always been a* good as a father to her. "Well, the old man swelled up pretty bad. and In tn hour he wws dead. Then tt wae. and then for the first time, that the halfbreed and the woman began to realise what they had been about They had gone Into Ihe thing blind with un provoked rage at the old farmer, and they hadn't left a single bridge to escape by. They couldn't have proved an slibl. even tf they had known what that meinl. with the bloated body right before them, they got geared tt an officer would poke hts heart In llvu door any minute and string 'em up before they could asy a word. "80. as soon as sunset, off they postcd to me. and there I was with as pretty a pair of murderers on my hands as ever cut a throat, and the most cruel and atrocious killing lo defend that I had ever dreamed of." "Thot is all. I* It?" eagerly inquired the groin* around Ihe Judge. "All!" lie said. "Well. I should say not. That was Just Ihe beglnnln' of the trouble. I have had some preisy tough oases In my time, oral don't account my self Chicken hearted. But I vow 1 would have turned those two ecoundreto right down If II hadn't been for one thing That was that the hslfbreed Insisted on tskln' the whole fault on Ms shoulder*. He declared If M cam# lo draggln' lle woman up to trial, he'd go on the aland and swear he'd done tha whole murder: he'd swing, he sold, before he'd let Ihe law touch the girl. "Now that seemed pretty square lo me. for the woman dirt th* real murder her self. So a* I Shouldn't have lo defend her. and Ihe hslfbreed was only second hund at the Job on Ihe okt man. 1 agreed lo lake up the case. I made th" two of 'em clear right out fbf HAib". and told *m to lake quietly the arrest that wao sure to com* pretty quick. "There's no us* go*n' into all th* de tails of how I prepared for that trial." pursued the Judge, "but anyway, lo make a long story short, it wa* In less than a month that Ihe ease came up ami 1 was In the courtroom defending Jim DightMrd for murder In the first degree Four of Jim's halfbreed brothers were In the llttis olufly courtroom which wa* packed and Jammed Everybody knew Jtm was guilty all right, but then every body knew I wasn't likely 10 let my rep utation as a criminal lawyer suffer If I could help It. People cam" tidin' over from all pari* of the country, and I'll lict the! If you go down there now any body can tell, you how old Lot Johnson was murdered and how Jim LlghlblrJ. th* halfbreed, was tried for It. "Well, Jim made an Steal witnrss. H" was as cool and glum a* a crocodile, and he had his story down pal. The district attorney, who woo a* smart a chap as you're likely lo ran against, end after ward attorner general for Ihe slat*, laid ahoiri fifteen trap* for the halfbreed, but couldn't catch him It teemed altogether best to tne 10 put Lightblrd on lit" stand, beraua* he told ms fake story so straight and made a good Impression on the Jury “The upshot of It wa* that thera wa* no one point on which Ihe Jury could convict, and aa th* trial was drawin' to .1 close I began to feet that my man was safe. "Pul there wa* one thing I hadn't reck oned on. and that was the prisoner's su perstition. and that wa* where the dis trict attorney got me Those niggers and half-breeds In he Kentucky mountains all wear a charm bag around their neck* that la practically their whole religion It waa on the lari day of the trial and. aa I said. I was beglnnln' to feel safe, when the proaecutlon suddenly leaned over to the prisoner and sold: 'Jtn\ Lightblrd. lei's have that charm beg of yours!’ "Jim started back like he wa* shot and clutched at hi# breast. where the charm bag was hid. He wouldn't give It up. bt* the district attorney 00 some pre text or other, got th* Judge to rule tbart Jgrt should let gw Him then it took a couple of constable* to force the bag away from poor Jim * clutch. "No sooner had the prosecuting attor ney got his hand* on the bag than he out with his knife, riptawl the bag Pf„-n and chucked it on the table. Out fell all of Jlm'a poor little letlrhee—a rattle snake's rattle, a dried weasel's foot, two or thres rusty nails, an,l the like. "You could have heard |kn drop In the court room when these wretched gew gaws tell rattling on the table. And Jim flushed suddenly Crimean and than came a sickly yellow again "It was the beginning of tho end All the courage ran out of the half-breed as sands out of a glass, and ho sat there shaking and afraid. Ills charm bag was gone, what was to help him now" The sweat stood out lit Mg drops on his fore head. and ha cast a look of despair at ms like a lost soul. "Tha prosecution was quick to see its advantage, and tn a few minute* of ques tion* had Jim ali tied up and contradicted a doten times. He stuck to his old stoty, hut his nerve was all gone, and the dls tnot attorney simply punched holes tn everything Jim sold A more complete breakdown I never saw In my life, aitd everybody knew that Jim * goose woe cooked. The Jury stayed out half <n hour for'form s sake, bu, the Judge didn't waste mors than two minutes In passing the dsath sentence on Jtm and he was to be hanged within a month at that.” The Judge sighed, and slowly removed his feet from the table, knocked out hts pipe and prepared to leave the hotel title*. ‘*Wa# there a big crowd at IJghtbird's hanging. Judge? ' inquired one of the sympathetic auditors. The Judge bit off the end of a big cigar and lighted It before he answered Then, taking It out of hi* mouth, he said ekrwiy. "Why, as to Jim Lightblrd, he didn't hang after *ll. “I could make quite a story ou! of that." ho added: " ‘another etory,' a* these new fangled literary chaps say. But It'll only take a minute The wray Jim escaped tne nooae waa Just this. After that sentence he was kept at the Court House for a couple of hours, and then they were go ing tn take him across country to the state prison Just as I said good-bye to Jim. a little piece of paper was thrust into my bend It asked me to meet Jim t brothers at once tn a certain saloon Just down the street. "I had no Idea what they could want and I hased to see them right after Jlm'a conviction But I went. They were all together tn a llttis room upstairs, and they pounced upon me. and said 1 must get word to Jim that at the llawkshee >Crossroad*, five mile* from Conway, they were going „ waylay the sheriff’s men that were taking him to the elate prison In the fight that would ensue Jtm must clear out, cut acroae two fields and then on an old deserted road he would find a man In a buggy, with a fa*t horse, wait ing to hurry him across the state border, twenty miles sway. "Of course, I at once told the hunch of half-breeds that 1 could countenance no such attempted rescue as that, much b-se take pert In It. And then I set myself to work showing them how furile the at tempt would he; how they were sure to kill a couple more men, and that meant certain hanging for the whole lot of them. Anyway, the sheriff's party was strong and well armed, and would quite likely clean out the Dlghfblrd hunch in the light. "But all I could say was of absolutely no weight. Their minds were msde up •Brother Reub.' they said, had been hanged over In the next county, and therb Shouldn't lie a *e,-ond hanging in their famliy. Not only this, hut If 1 wasn't prepared to help them out they would kill me quietly right thcr* and then "Of course, that was a Muff, amt It did not bother me But what 1 did know wa-t that the half breeds were set upon I laving a desperate fight. A couple of (hem might be killed in It but they would certainly kill more than a like number of the sheriff's party, and the who I* county would b atlrred up for months on end over the affair It would be telegraphed all over the United States, end would give us too much notoriety All this I wanted to avoid Then, too, I knew a couple of the conatahtea with nice fam ilies I dldn t went them waylaid and killed. "80, finally, to escape all this, I prom lied Jim's brothers that If they would give up this stiompl at rescue I would see to It that Jim should not swing They accepted mv promise without a wool, and Iqt me go "What did I do? I took the next train for Covington, and 1 Jut camped down In front of Ihe Governor for a week I had a pretty big oontract on ny hands, but Ihe Oovornor trusted me. and at the end of that time I had His Excellen cy’s signature, commuting Jlm'a sentence to life Imprisonment. "On the whole, I wa* pretty wrell satis fied with Ihe way thing* turned out. and It seemed to me everybody l a* good as he deserved, except poor old lx* Johnson, whe drank the alryehnlno. He certainly did get the short end of the stick.” .♦ BRUNSWICK AND HIM Ml Mill IR. Survey ina Party Is Already at W ork In the Field. Brunswick, Ga.. Dec. 17.—Chief Engin eer B. W. Roberts, and full engineering corps reached Brunswick one day ahead of tliAn to-day and commenced th* pre liminary survey on the Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad. President Mac hen and party leava to morrow morning via private conveyance through the country to prospect for Con ner tlona along ihe proponed rout*. The road deal has been worked on quietly for weeks and within twelve working hours, after Ihe charter wa* granted. th road was organised all She capital stock sub scribed and the ehgtneering corn in the field. It I* tilts push and enterprise that ha* characterised President Mschen'e past work and It give* Ihe people here great confidence In him. Uncle George's Hkeanaallam Care. From the Nashville Benner. Brownsville. Nov 30—I met an old ne gro. Oeorge by name, and after Ihe usual salutation, the old negro said his health hsd improved since I had lest seen him. Bald I: "Uncle Oeorge. how did you get rid of your rheumatism’" Th# old man replied: "Well, boss, FU •ell you J*a sackly how I cured It. I heard o fellow say If you go find a place whar a hog rubbed and ef you rub dar and squeet like a hog your rheumatli would leave you Bo I went and rubbed whar * hog rubbed and squealed same as a bog. and. boas, 1 ain't had no rheumat ics sines.” THE WEATHER. _____ Forecast for Tuesday ami Wednesday! j Georgia: Fair Tuesday; warmer hi cerirm portion. \Vrdnaaday fair, light southerly winds. Eastern Florida: Batr Tueeday and ; Wednesday: light to fresh northeasterly winds. Western Florida: GenrraHy fair Tu**s d.iy and Wednesday; ilg tit southerly win dr. Houth Oarollna Fair and warmer Tues dy WidtU'Sday far variable wind*. Yesterday's weather m Savannah.— Maximum temperature S p. tn 5? degrees Minimum temperature ? JO a tn It. degree- j Mean tempi rature 41 degrees Normal temperature 13 degrees Deficiency of temperature 0 degree* Ac. umulwt'-d deficiency since .. Dec. 1 Ui degrees Accumulated deficiency wlllcc .. J Mg 1 331 degree* Hakifall Oil Inches Normal to Inch Deficiency since Dec I .10 inch Deficiency since Jen. I ? g Inches River Report -The high! of Ihe Haven nah river at August*, at 3 a in (?slh me rldisn time yes.erday. w* *.* feel, a fall of 3 I feet during the pre sdlng twen ty-four hours. Observations taken at the same moment of time at all station*. Dec. 17, I*o*. I p ■ m , TSth meridian time. Name of Mtatton T V Rain Boston, clear 7777. Mil.! .0® New York city, clear ... 34 | s no I’htiadelphta, clear | 1, i no Washington city, clear ..j XI | D | .00 Norfolk, clear |S3 10 no Hatters*, clear ...| tu j. no Wilmington, clear jag l, no Charlotte, clear I xx s on Raleigh, clear ; M j U no Charleston, pt ctdy 144 * on Atlanta, clear |so and no Augusta, clear j 44 D no Havannah. n ear {44 ) ], no Jacksonville, clear |S3 g off Jupiter, clear |s l on Key W*M. dear M j 14 00 Tampa, dear !gj j |, 00 Mobil*, dear ] Id g .Ort Montgomery, clear S3 1- ,do Vicksburg, clear 1 M , .no Nsw rirlsans. clear j m J, no Ga-veaton. clear | *0 | g ; .** Corpus Chrlstl, pt ddy..,j 4 t| T (‘.Destine, dear t4l j a ul Memphis, dear {gf 1g lAt Cincinnati, pt cldy -as j 1, , Pittsburg, cloudy 2S | D 08 Buffalo, cloudy 33 g 00 Detroit, cloudy | 1 D , Ot* Chicago, cloudy jxx T Marquette, cloudy j X{ 11 no Bt. Paul, cloudy >l4 | x ot Davenport, doudy jXX | D l St loniD. clear jS4 13 OH Kansas City, clear jBO' 14 on H. H Boyar. Uocat Fore, osi official OXU OUR FAVOMITK IXMT. Bloomfield Woe the trirat Hare Iml Wat IHsqeallHed. New Orleans. Dec. 17 Strangest waa the only beaten favorite, Bloomfield finished first in the first race; Inn waa dtequallfied for tmerlervnue. and T. Kan. who rode him, wa* fined 135 and set down until Jan. 1. Bummarlm Ftrst Race-One mile. Bloomfield, T to 1 TT7I shed first, hut wa* disqualified; llelle Simpson g to 5. second, and Dum.ige. 7 to I. aei-end, and Btar ration, 30 to 1. third Time 144',, Second Rs/te-Uelltu*. five furlongs Animosity. 13 to 8, won. trtih Dtvonne, 3D to 1, eccofiri, aiat liraclou*. X to 1 third. Time MB. Third Race—One mile and a quarter, selling Admetus, S to a. won. with Silver Coin, 7 to 1, second, and Hoods Brigade, 7 to 1, third Time 3:13. Fourth Rare—One mile handicap. Fran glide. 6 tv> S, won. with Ida Drdford, X to 1, second, and Mini Sauce, 13 4o 3, third Time 143 Fifth Rat—Seven furlongs, selling:. Docust Blossom. 1 to 1, won. with Judge Magee, X to J. second, and Heroic", 7 to 2, third. Time 1:31 Sixth llaor—Six furlongs, sailing Sir Curlstopha". 3 to 1, won. with Dlgg". lu to 1, second, anal Deiisterswtvsl, 3D 401, third. Time 1;I6>. MAW lIKI.K4.ATU* NAURU. Harrrae Promised t* Maritime I grrti of Hrnaatvlrk. Brunswt.V Ua . Dsc. 17.-official notifi cation has been received of th* appoint ment of delegates to the National Mari time congers# from Denver, Nsw York, Doulsvllle. Nsw Orleans, Philadelphia and other piact* Intersst I* growing In the congress, which convene* ia*r Jan M aoxt- The Brunswick Board of Trade has Is sued a statement regarding th* <ongrea. which slates that Ire* and untrammeied discussion will be accorded to ail who at tend. and the large number of delegate* booked already. Indicates a Mg aucceee Will lee the Mayor To-morrow. Th* oorpniittew of three, appointed at a recent meeting of the workers of the four city district* to arrange with Mayor Myers for an appointment when he could he Informed by Ihe larger committee of Sixteen, of the meeting'* Indorsement of hie candidacy for th* Mayoralty, reported to the larger commit lee las: night Mayor Myera will receive tne larger committee to-morrow mgnt, at tne DC Boto. Dr R D Hick*, f. 8. A . Mr. R D Olgnll'iat and Judge Paul E Ke*brook will leav* the city 10-ntght for Darien, from where they will go 10 Bt. Cathar ine's and to Blackheerd Island on a hunt for big game. Bone Meal Tor Chicken Feed and r#rtlll#r. , NITRATE OF SODA Invaluable for "home-mlxad" fertiliser Th* cheapest and most concentrated on the market Bend for particulars HAY. GRAIN. COW FKfull. BRAN, HTI , SEED OATS AND RYE’ T. J. DAVIS, •Phone 121 Ul Bay street, west S Sunset Route. SOUTHERN PACIFIC v COMPANY. TH* Paverlt* sad Best Real* Lias To LOUSIANA. TSXAB, MEXICO. CALIFORNIA, and all Points West. STANDARD PULDMANB on all train* dally. EXCURSION PALACE PULDMANS dally, except Monday, from New Orleans to California and Dragon print*, at .tt) per berth. FREE CHAIR CARR dally. New Or leans to Dalis*, and all Middle and Northern Texas print*. DAILY THROUGH PULLMAN* to Mexico Oly and Ban Fr* net aro The Famous BUNBET LIMITED, every Monday. Thursday and Saiuntu), New Orleans to Ban Francisco. For ail Information, address CLARENCt W. RIUBPMBY, T. P. A , U East Boon St, Savannah, Ga. CASTORIA for Infants and Children. C’HAtnrln I* a hiimikme unbuiltut fur Csator Oil, P*rn tfurit', limps mul Soothing Niruim. Ii is Hteoannt# It iDulaliM nr! 1 lier Opliuii. >lor|ihltio nor ullirr Nareotto mibsLint-ev. It ilmlrtiyx Wurma anil allays I'cirrlslinras. It rums IHurrlitrix ami Wintl CaUr. It reilrve* Tcrth tnc TinubUs autl rums I'niifl|>nttnn. It rrjfiilutrs tho NtunuM'b autl ltuWfla, tflving lirnttln mill ualiirial slrrp. Thr Uhlklmn’s I’uiiarrn Tut- Mather's I ritiml. The Kind You Have Always Bought jy Bears tho Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. JLT 4 ' \mpii,g jg; MS 1Z an garoo b\ Z/ A unkhl' Apple Butter Cat WJ nr rr ** JOHN W. HARRINGTON. i “A dainty and amusing volume of animal stories, pleas ing to young and old, and just the thing for a pretty Christm** gift.” —New York Commercial Advertiser. jrt iriwi ■ ’ 48 illuitratioßx and cover design in two colon by J. M. Condc. Bvo. Ji.oo or you* sookulu* ok write to McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. Publishers, New York FSAHTA CLAUS "ii WANTS TO KNOW Are You Thinking and worrying yourself over what to get for 1 Iff m) for your sister, your cousin, or your aunt, or your broth er, or your mother, for your husband, or your wife, or even your sweetheart. Take Santa Claus' advice and come right straight to Lindsay & Morgan’s, who are headquarter* for the nicest and most suitable things that you or any one else could suggest for a Christmas present. We will take the liberty of giving you A Few Suggestions . and we think out of the number of articles mentioned you will certainly lie able to please yourself and the person for whom you are buying it. Our goods are all useful, and will last a life-time. Remember our motto, "Not How Cheap, But How Good.” Our stock consits partly of the following, all of which will make a suitable present: I Kideboiird, China Closet, Chiffoniers, Smyrna. AxmlnHter or Hair ItugH, Shaving Stands, Writing Desks, Dressing Tables, Lace Cur tains. Portieres, Table Covers, Leather Couch, Rattan Rocker, Gold Chair, Hook Case, Leather Chair, Parlor Table. Silk Mantle Drapery, a handsome Carpet. Brass Bedstead, with a Per fection Mattress. FOR THIS WEEK ONLY, The rejpllar fw.< n has been *2X 00. We have A Qy I 9 Wool Smvrna * Ru * t<n “ “ "“•* b * aU lh ** n w * r\ 7a Id. W UUI only II let have so many ood :htn* that w* can't n.,_ ton tell you ayout them all. but want you te r\Ug VpzU. come and e* for yourself, and we as* aura you will be pleased. &/fi\ A rviewol have a special shipment for Chriat ® f\ n 1111 a l ,n • ■ t. ■ . __ ® n _ You mu.t he sure to see there Don't for- •) • l\Ugs cel that Ihe time hi abort, and tho good thlnfe are picked up first. We waflt V*U to be first. Won't you? (I®®®®®®®®®®® ®®®c. •••••• McDonough & dallamyne, w Iron Founders, Machinists, g | fllncb.n, Itb. It 11. r -I. aLc r . mannf ar t are r■ uf "latlon sM* .r, and Pnrlal.l# l(.to . Vr.iical -...1 1u„ Hnnnlns („„ Hill. (,#.. Vim ">"t Pan. M"a rnlic. etc Jpe _ TELEPHONE NO. 123. IF YOU WANT GOOD MATERIAL AND WORK ORDER YOUR L!THO GRAPHED AND PRiNTED STATIONERY AND BLANK BOOa FROM THE MORNING NEWS SAVANNAH* GA. 7