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VOL X. vo •*' GEORGIA SOLDIERS’ HOME BURNED Haven of Rest For Aged and Infirm Followers of Lee Reduced to File of Smoking Ruins. inmates escape in safety Temporary Quartero Are Quickly Pro vided For the Homeless Ones. Movement Immediately Begun For Rebuilding the Structure. The Georgia Soldiers Home, in the suburbs of Atlanta was totally de stroyed by fire Monday morning. Of the seventy inmates of the home, including eight invalids, all were ta ken from the home with safety. Nothing was saved from the build ing except a few personal effects of the old veterans. In some instances the men came out of the home with nothing but what they wore. The fire started shortly after eight o’clock, and was first discovered by Dr. E. S. E. Bryan, the surgeon of the home. At 8:30 o’clock Dr. Bryan went into the lavatory, which was located in the center of the building on th-- first floor. In the lavatory the Smead system of disposing of the refuse was used. Daily the crematory in connection with the lavatory was flred up. The negro porter who started these fires placed a wheelbarrow load of shaving and other timber from the premises into the furnace Monday morning. The Are burned fiercely and broke through the top of the furnace. When Dr. Bryan went into the de partment he noticed the flames. He ran out and asked if the flames were not too high. Superintendent James L. Wilson see ing the condition of the fire quickly gave the alarm. By this time the flames had commenced to burn the woodwork in the vicinity, of the fur nace. The smoke was pouring into the cen ter of the house in great volumes, and owing to the draft at this place the flames spread rapidly. The sight of the smoke brought all the veterans able to be out to the building. Eight invalid soldiers were in the building and these were taken out. The fire apparatus which extended throughout the building was put into use. Two large tanks of water oa the top of the building were turned on. Demoralization, however, prevailed among the old men on the premises, and the hose in the home was not long enough to reach to the lire. No check on this account could be given the flames. In twenty minutes the building could not be entered, and all hope of saving it or the contents of the home, even the personal effects of the old veterans was gone. The Atlanta fire department was no tified, and Chief Joyner responded with a hook and ladder wagon from headquarters. When the firemen reached the home the entire roof w r as gone and they could do nothing. Within an incredibly short time a grim array of blacKened chimneys, rising like specters from a smolder ing, shapeless mass of charred and twisted debris, was ail tnat was left of the abode that for the brief space of four months only had sheltered the confederate soldiers of Georgia who claimed it as their home. The Soldier’s Home was insured for SIO,OOO. Five thousand of this amount is with the Hamburg-Bremen and $5 - 000 with the Scottish Union National Insurance Company. The work of the people of the state, coveting a period of nearly twelve years. Jo provide a home which they had long owed to the surviving rem nant of gray-haired soldiers of the days of ei\lJ strife was swept away even as the doors had just swung open to these true and fearless hearts. The Home, with the additions and improvements that had been made thereon, represented a cost of $30,000. Inside the building were furnishings to the amount of $3,500. The building was insured for SIO,OOO and the furni ture for $2,000. The actual loss, there fore, is something more than*’s2o,ooo. The building was a uiree-story frame McKinley will probated. Judge Day and Secretary Cortelyou Appointed Administrators, At Canton, 0., Monday, the will of President McKinley was admitted to probate by Judge Aungst. The court appointed Judge William R; Day’ and Secretary George B. Cortelyou admin istrators of the estate. A joint admin istrator's bond of SIOO,OOO was filed. In their application for letters testa mentary Judge Day and Secretary Cor telyou say that the amount ot personal property left by the late president will he about $140,000 and of real estate about $70,000, aggregating about $210,000. STATE OF DADE NEWS. structure. It contained seventy-five rooms, of which sixty were sleeping apartments. With the first word of the disaster the news spread like wildfire through out the city, and car after car went to the scene of the conflagration, crowded to its fullest capacity. From the heart of Atlanta came one mighty throb of sympathy for the veterans who, without warning, had been rob bed of the home that gave them shel ter and comfort. When the officials of the Home real ized that the saving ot the building was impossible, they at once set about arranging temporary quarters for those who had been occupants of the home. Colonel Calhoun, the head officer, very soon after was told tnat the Thomp son hotel, on Marietta street, had been rented, furnished, for one month by The Atlanta Journal as a temporary home for the veterans. To this hos telry the occupants of the late home were taken in afternoon on special cars, and so far as personal comfort was concerned, nothing was lacking that desire could dictate or suggest. When the Soldiers’ Home was ac cepted by the state an appropriation of $15,000 for its maintenance during the first twelve months was made. To this was added something like $5,00$ from other sources, this latter coming in the nature of contributions. Treas urer Amos Fox said that there is still on hand about $7,000 of this fund, from which the bills Oi last month must be paid. It is said, however, that this amount will bridge over the needs for the present until some definite ac tion can be formulated looking to the future. Will Be Rebuilt at Or.ce. When tidings of the destruction of the Home had gone out, the sentiment was uttered with one accord that the home shall be rebuilt. It was a senti ment that found a responsive echo in the hearts of every being within At lanta’s gates. It was a sentiment that is destined to go resounding through out the cities of Georgia and the south land. The home was a gift from Georgia to the survivors of the grand est army that ever faced death in re sponse to duty’s call, To Georgia be longs the right to give another home to take the place of the one that is no more. When the flames were at their fierc est, and even while ihe remnants ■>! the home had not yet been consumed, material expressions looking to the immediate erection of another struc ture came pouring into the offices if Atlanta’s newspapers, and ere the last wall fell, a fund had sprung into ex istence to give back to the veterans as a tangible expression of gratitude that which is theirs by rignt—another home. A GHOULISH FAr\E? Story of Guard at McKinley Vault Is Now Discredited. A special from Canton, 0., says: The officers and men of Company C, of the Fourteenth United States infantry, on duty at West Lawn cemetery guarding the resting place of President McKin ley, worked diligently Monday inves tigating the strange story in which Private DePrend, who was on duty at the top of the vault Sunday night, figured so prominently. Tne same re ticence imposed by military regula tions which prevented the officers and men from making detailed statements concerning the incidents was still op erative. The representative of the As< sociated Press saw all of the commis sioned officers, several non-commis sioned officers and a number of pri vates and gleaned the following: All the commissioned officers and : the members of the company in gen eral accepted fully the story related by Private DePrend Sunday night and really believed that the prowlers were about the vault with no good purpose. Now only one of the commissioned of ficers adheres to the belief that an at tempt had been made upon the senti nel for ghoulish purposes. WHITE REPUBLICAN ACT, Members of Party In Georgia Will Send Petition to Roosevelt. The fight of the white republicans of Georgia for less recognition of the ne gro in the south during President Roosevelt’s term of office has appa rently begun in Savannah. The members of the Savannah Cot ton exchange have signed a petition to President Roosevelt asking that when the present term of John H. Deveaux, the collector of the port, is out that he be not reappointed, but that some white republican be given the place. TTtFVTOV. G.A FRIDV v. OCTOBER 1.1901. CREAfI OF NEWS Summary of the Mart Important Daily Happenings Tersely Told. —The Georgia Soldiers' Home, in the suburbs of Atlanta, was completely de stroyed by fire shortly after 8 o’clock Monday morning. Ail inmates, 72 in number, got out in safety, but all of their little effects were consumed with the building. —“Fighting Bob” Evan# was a wit> ness before the naval inquiry court Monday and went over the entire Santiago campaign. —Senate committee at Washington begins investigation of charges against Col. Heistand in connection with alleged Manila hemp combine. —President McKinley’s will was pro bated at Canton Monday. The court appointed Judge Day and Secretary Cortelyou administrators of the estate, which aggregates about $210,000. —Democrats favoring ratification of new constitution in Alabama are or ganized and will open the campaign actively this week. —Railroads are preparing a grand display of trains at the Charleston ex position for the observation of winter tourists. —According to a Manila special Com pany C of the Ninth infantry wa3 al most exterminated by Filipino rebels Saturday. Of the seventy-two men in the company, fifty were killed and elev en wounded. —ln a pitched battle between a mob of strikers and policemen in San Francisco Sunday seven men are known to have been shot, one of whom will die. —The guard at the McKinley tomb at Canton claims to have been atteck ed Sunday night. He fired a shot, and received a knife thrust from a second man prowling about the vault. —Lord Kitchener is banishing cap tured Boer leaders and confiscating the property of those still In arms. He asks for 25,000 more mounted men. —The people of nineteen Russian provinces are facing starvation owing to the failure of the crops. The gov ernment is taking measures to relieve the distress. —Prince Chun, the head of the Chi nese expiatory mission to Germany, left Berlin for home Monday. The kaiser would not permit him to visit other European capitals or the United States. —The empress of Germany is report ed to be seriously ill. Professor Gls >hausen, specialist, has been sum moned. —The closeness of the first race be tween the Columbia and Shamrock greatly raised the hopes of British yachtsmen as to the outcome of the series. —Georgia’s department of agricul ture has paid into the state treasury $47,457.19 as receipts for the inspec tion of fertilizers and oils for the past fiscal year, —Saturday’s session of inquiry court developed the fact that Admiral Schley’s message was garbled and the original cannot be found. —The yachts Columbia and Sham rock succeeded in making their first race Saturday. The Columbia won, but the Shamrock was dangerously close up. —Another effort has be*ep made by Kentucky officials to secure extradi tion papers from Governor Durben of Indiana for W. S. Taylor and Charles Finley. —A riot occurred at Canal Dover, 0., late Friday night between non-union men and strikers in which two of the latter were killed. —The United States will pay no money for ransom of Miss Stone, the American missionary held by Bulga rian brigands. —Seth Low has accepted the nomi nation of the anti-Tammanyites for mayor of New York, —The United States cruiser Cleve land was launched at Bath, Me., Sat urday. The vessel was ( ctiristened by Miss Ruth Hanna, daughter of Senator Mark Hanna. —Owing to light winds the first race between the yachts Shamrock II and the Columbia at Sandy Hook was called off. —The will ol' the late President Mc- Kinley was read to his widow at Can ton Friday. He leaves the entire es tate, valued at $250,000, to Mrs. Mc- Kinley. but specifies that SI,OOO shall be paid annually to his mother. —Before the Schley court of inquiry Friday a letter was read from Admi ral Sampson, asking that counsel might appear for him. The court re fused to grant the request. —According to a Paris dispatch Russia, France and Germany have agreed to combine against Turkey. —Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicara gua openly giving aid to Colom bian insurgents. DISPATCH (iAKHiiI) The Original of Schley’s Message Cannot be Located by Court. CIPHER EXPERT ON THE STAND He Stoutly Affirms That Message Was Not Changed, Yet Fails to Produce the Original t Copy. In the Schley court of inquiry Sat urday Captain McCalla, of the Marble head, concluded his testimony begun Friday, and the court heard the testi mony of Lieutenant Commander W. H. H. Southerland, who commanded the Eaglo during the Spanish war and ateo that of Lieutenant Cassius B. Barnes. The latter la a cipher expert in the navy department and his evi dence was devoted to showing that tho dispatch from Commodore Schley to the navy department of May 28, 1893, saying that he could not, much to his regret, obey orders of the department, as printed in the official report, was a correct translation of the message as forwarded from the Harvard at King ston. Before Lieutenant Barnes was call ed, Mr. Hanna made a statement con cerning the two version* of the Schley dispatch of May. 28. He referred to the fact that not onty. Uie translation of thia dispatch, but also translation of a navy department dispach of May 27 had been called into question. He, however, gave his special attention to the Schley message, saying: “There is no more important paper before the court than this telegram, and in order to discount Its impor tance, in order to weaken its terrible effect, there have been introduced oa tho record here suggestions that the dispatch as printed by the government is net correct. Now, we propose to show that that dispatch as printed in the appendix to the report cf the chief of the bureau of navigation for 1898 is precisely word for word as that dis patch was received by the navy de partment from the wires and confirmed by the telegraph company. We pro pose to show further that that dispatch as received by the navy department was cipher word for cipher word as i left the West Indies. As It was placed upon the wires at Kingston, so it is printed in the appendix.' Original Strangely Missing. Mr. Raynor cross-examined Lieuten ant Barnes, first asking him whether he had any knowledge that th# ci pher dis.patch in question is a correct translation of the dispatch that Com modore Schley gave to Capain Cotton. "I have no special knowledge that it was,’’ the witness replied. “Now, in Admiral Schley’s letter book I want to show an entry. The word ‘confirm’ occurs. Doe-s not that mean that the navy department has confirm ed that dispatch by comparing it with the original?” “tt does not mean that to me.” “What does it mean?” “I do not know who put it there.” Mr. Raynor: “I am quite sure we do not know who put it there.” The witness: “That was there when I first looked at the book, so was also the word ‘canceled’ in some of the other dispatches.” “Who has that original dispatch, th" original English dispatch of which this is a press copy?” “I do not know. I suppose that tho captain of the Harvard has it among his papers. It cannot be found among the papers he has turned in at the navy department.” Mr. Raynor: "Then we have here this case: We have a dispatch sent by Admiral Schley, delivered to Capta:n Cotton, translated into cipher and you do not know whether that cipher is a correct translation of the original and you cannot tell us where we can get that original dispatch so that we can ascertain whether this press copy does not correspond with the original dis patch delivered to Captain Cotton?” "I cannot.” Mr. Raynor and Captain Parker clos ed by stating there was no intention on their part to cast any imputation on the department. NEW CRUISER LAUNCHED. Daughter of Senator Mark Hanna Christens tno “Cleveland." The United States cruiser Cleveland was launched Saturday at the Bath, Me., Iron works. At a few minutes be gore noon the christening party, in cluding Miss Ruth Hanna, Senators Hanna, Frye and Hale, and Congress man Littlefield, mounted the platform at th bow of the cruiser, and almost at the stroke of noon Miss Hanna, with a daintily mounted silver hatch et, cut tire cord and as the big craft began to move broke a bottle of Amer ican over the bow, chris tening the cruiser “Cleveland.” IJ. T. HKOrfi, Ijlltor m<‘ I* r<j #■ i • * CZOLtiOSZ EHfcAkb DuV>l On Reaching Auburn Prison Assassin Suddenly Collapses and Gives Guards Trouble. Czolgosz, President McKinleys’ mur derer, in tho custody of Sheriff Cald well, of Erie county, and twenty-one deputies, arrived in Auburn, N. Y., at 3:15 a. m. Friday. The prison is only about fifty yards from the depot. Awaiting the arrival of the train there was a crowd of about 200 peo ple. Either for * fear of the crowd, which was not very demonstrative, or from sight of the prison, Czolgosz’s legs gave out and two deputy sheriffs were compelled to practically carry the man into the prison. Inside the gate liis condition became worse, and he was dragged up the staira and into the main hall. He was placed in a sitting position on the bench while the handcuffs were being removed, but he fell over and most abject teror. As soon as the handcuffs were unlocked the man was dragged into the principal keeper’s of fice. As is the case of all prisoners, the officers immediately proceeded to strip him and put on a new sui* of clothes. During this operation Czolgosz cried and yelled, making the prison corri dors echo with evidence of his terror. The prison physician, Dr. John Ge rin, examined the man and ordered bis removal to the cell in the con demned row which lie will occupy until he is taken to the electric chair. The doctor declared that tho man was suffering from fright and terror, but said that he was shamming to soma extent. The collapse of the murder was n surprise to every one. En route from Buffalo he showed no indication ff breaking down. He ate heartily of sandwiches and smokod cigars whan not eating. He talked to some and ex pressed regret tor his crime. He said: “I am especially sorry for Mrs. Mc- Kinley." He reiterated his former statement that he had no accomplices and de clared that he never had heard of the man under arrest in St. Louis, who claimed to have tied the handkerchief over his hand, concealing the pistol with which the president was shot. He says the handkerchief was not tied. He went oehind the Temple of Mu sic, arranged the handkerchief so as to hide the weapon mod then took bis place in the crowd. To Jailer Mitchell he sent this message to his father: "Tell him I am sorry I left such a bad name,” Friday afternoon Czolgosz was in a normal condition and seemed to have fully recovered from his collapse. There are five eells for condemned men in the prison and Czolgosz was placed in the only vacant cell, so all are now ocupied. HURLED INTO ETERNITY. Six Men Die instantly and Seven Others Injured By Explosion of Bifl Oil Tank. Six men, and possibly seven, were* killed and seven injured by the explo sion Thursday of an oil tank of the Essex and Hudson Gas Company at Newark, N. J. The known dead are: Lawrence Kirch, William Meyer, Otto Newman, Alfred Snyder, Nicholas Miller and an unidentified mau. Many witnesses say there is a body in the river, as they saw it hurled high in the air and thrown in that di rection, The tank which exploded was one of a number of immense steel rcser voirs which was undergoing its pe riodical cleaning. The men began witli chisels to cut a largo ring in the tank. It is suppos ed one of the chisels in striking the steef caused the emission of a spark, for instautly there was an explosion like that of a cannon and then a sheet of flame. Ten men were on the top of the tank at the time. They were swept away in all directions. Miller, Sny der, the unidentified man and the one supposed to be in the river seem to have borne the brunt of the terrific shock. The three first men tioned were not badly mangled, but not a bone in their frames was left unbroken, says the county physician, this fact being due to their being blown many feet into the air and the force with which they struck the ground. The tank was rent in twain and after all was over the bodies of the three men iu it were takeu out. FIFTY KILLED BY FILIPINOS American Troops Surprised While at Breakfast. SAMAR ISLAND THE SCENE Of Twenty-Twe Who Escaped Eleven Were Wounded—All Stores, Rifles and Ammunition of the Amcri- .. cans Were Lost—Disaster Shocks Washington. A special from Manila says: A dis astrous fight between United States troops and insurgents occurred Satur day in the island of Samar, near Bal&n --glga. A large body of insurgents at tacked company C, Ninth infantry, only twenty-two members of the com pany escaping. All the others are reported to have been killed. The company were at breakfast when when attacked and made a determined resist-ence; but the overwhelming num bers of the insurgents compelled them to retreat. According to the latest returns the strength of the company was seventy two. The survivors include Captain Thomas W. Connelly, First Lieutenant Edward A. Bumpus and Dr. R. S. Gris wold, surgeon. Captain Edwin V. Bookmiller, of the Ninth infantry, reports that General Hughes is assembling a force to attack th# Insurgents. The insurgents captured all the stores and ammunition of the company and all the rifles except 26. Saw Service In China. Company C. was a portion of the Ninth regiment of United States infan try, which went to China at the time of the boxer outbreak and while there troops went to Manila and were en gaged in provost duty in that eity. Dur ing the past summer a battalion of the Ninth was sent to Sasnar. Washington Is Shocked. News of the disastrous fight between troops of the Ninth infantry and the insurgents in the Island of Samar was sent promptly ljy General Hughes com manding in that island, to general Chaf fee, at Manila, and by him transmitted to the war department. It reached the department during the early hours of Sunday and Adjutant General Corbin realizing its importance, at onoe made it public, after sending a copy to the white house. General Chaffee’s dis patch, which agrees with the Associa-- ted Press dispatch, is as follows: “Manila. September 29. —Adjutant General, Washington: Hughes reports following from Bassey, southern Sa mar: Twenty-four men Ninth regiment United States infantry-11 wounded — have just arrived from Balaragiga; re mainder company killed. Insurgents secured all company supplies and all rifles except 12. Company was attack ed during morning September 28; com pany was 72 strong; officers, Thomas W. Connally (captain), Edward A. Bumpus (first lieutenant.), Dr. R. S. Griswold (major surgeon), escaped. “CHAFFEE.’* The news created a sensation in offi cial circles. It was the first severe reverse that has occurred for a long time. Still, the officials were not un prepared for news of just this charac ter. From Samar, in which the revo lution started by Aguinaldo still con tinues. Samar is a country about as large as the state of Ohio and the American forces of occupation num ber in all between 2,000 and 2,500 men. These are distributed among various posts in the island, a large number be ing located at the more important cen ters. Spain never made any effort to occupy Samar, and it only has been for probably three months past that the United States has undertaken that work. The latest report made by General Hughes to the war department was that tile number of insurgent rifles In the island aggregated about three hun dred. The Filipinos carried on a guer rilla warfare, and operations against them were difficult. The disaster to Company C occurred, it is believed, while it was engaged in an expedition, to clear the country of roving bands of these insurgents. The faot that tho Americans were attacked while at breakfast indicates the pluck and dar ing cf the insurgents. Immediately upon receipt of the dis patch Adjutant General Corbin cabled General Chaffee to send a complete re port of the fight and a list of the cas ualties. Colonel Dempsey Retired. Colonel Charles A. Dempsey, com manding the Thirtieth regiment of In fantry in the Philippines, was placed on the retired list Saturday after forty years’ service, >