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VOL. I.
EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED IN AL
ABAMA—FIVE DEAD AT GENOA.
SCENES OF GRIEF ST ARLINGTON.
Southwest Georgia Experiences Heavy
Floods—Relief For Sufferers Along
the Mississippi.
All of the section to the northwest
and southeast of Americus, Ga., has
suffered severely from the storm which
was a continuation of the fearful cy¬
clone that struck Arlington such a
fearful blow.
The little town is still a scene of sad
disaster, for the gloom of sorrow
shrouds several homes while in mauy
others there are those who were injur¬
ed in the fatal destruction of the
school building. The people have
not recovered from the shock of the
sudden storm attack, and find it hard
to realize that one sudden sweep of a
wind could do so much damage.
The funeral of the eight little ones
occurred Tuesday afternoon, The
scenes were heartrending beyond de¬
scription.
Tbe wounded ones are slowly im¬
proving, with the exception of Dudley
Killebrew, while Professor Walker,
who was thought to have been fatally
hurt, is likely to get completely well.
Trains Blcekad«d*
On aeeount of several washouts on
the Central railroad below Americas,
two special trains conveying compa¬
nies of the Second Georgia regiment
and visitors to the Albany chautauqua
could proceed no further than Ameri¬
cus. There were ten companies and
at the request of committees of citizens
Col. C. M. Wylie, commanding the
regiment, ordered a dress parade and
inspection in the city park in the after¬
noon.
The total rainfall from Sunday af¬
ternoon to Tuesday evening was eight
and three-qnarter inches.
A special from Troy, Ala., says that
the rainfall for two days has been ter¬
rible. All schedules on the Central
of Georgia and the Alabama Midland
have been annulled. Many bridges
have been washed away and the Cone¬
cuh river is out of its banks. The rain
ceased Tuesday morning.
Reports from Eufauia, Ala., state
that the cyclone which swept over
Arlington, Ga., with such deadly re¬
sults, visited that section of Alabama
in its regular path, leaving behind it
an appalling list of dead and injured
and destroying much property. Alabama,around
From Henry county,
Abbeville, there come stories of death
and wreck, but no names have been
received. A family of five are reported
killed near Genoa. A second disaster,
that of floods, is now upon the county.
The rivers and creeks are swelling
with the rainfall, which almost resem¬
bled a cloudburst.
A total of twenty-one deaths have
resulted from Monday’s cyclone, touch¬
ing several points in Alabama and
south Georgia, doing its most appall¬
ing work at Arlington. From the
heavy rain storms that followed south
Georgia is practically under water, the
floods from.tlie swollen streams being
larger thar ever before in the history
of the se< .ion. The loss of property,
includ/Sg farming interests, is enor¬
mous.
News was received Tuesday morn¬
ing of the drowning of a family of
eight pei ons on the Alabama side of
♦he river in Henry county. Richard
Manson, with his wife and six chil¬
dren, lived in a cabin on the river
bank at the crossing of the Central
railroad from Columbia. The water
rushed in, surrounding the cabin. All
were lost.
Acting upon an appeal from Gov¬
ernor Jones, of Arkansas, for assist¬
ance, the Merchants’ Exchange, of St.
Louis, Mo., subscribed §3,000 for the
relief of the flood sufferers. This
money and future donations will be
banded over to the Memphis relief
committee.
A startling statement by a river pilot
bas just been published. He says:
“All the rescue work seems to be
done on or near tbe Mississippi river.
Nothing is known of the fate of the
100,000 people in the lowlands of the
White, the Arkansas and the Black
rivers in Arkansas. When the death
roll is made up it will be largely from
these valleys.”
TURKS KILL AND PILLAGE.
One Hundred Christian Armenians Mas¬
sacred While at Church.
Details of the outbreak on Sunday
last at Toka, in the Sivas district of
Asia MinoT, when the Turks attacked
the Armenians while the latter were
in church, show that one hunnred
Christians were massacred. The
Armenian quarter in Bazaar was
given orer to pillage for eight hours.
The representations of the ambassa¬
dors of the foreign powers
the disturbed condition of Anatolia
made but little impression upon the
sultan, who, having the support
Russia, is convinced that he has noth¬
ing to fear from the so-called
of the powers.
Wayne County r-... ■ $ News,
i -.
JESUP, GEORGIA, MARCH 26, 1897.
LIVELY IN THE SENATE.
The Civil Service law Roasted—A Relief
Bill Passed.
There was much applause in the
senate galleries Tuesday, when such
prominent republican senators as Gal
linger, Hawley and Wilson grew elo¬
quent and emphatic in their declara¬
tion that the civil service law as it has
been administered is an arrant hum
bng. There of laughter
were outbursts as
some of the absurbities of the exami¬
nations were pointed out, and the vice
president had to threaten to clea the
galleries after the demonstration which
followed Senator Wilson’s announce¬
ment that the republicans proposed to
push forward a bill to repeal that law.
The discussion of this law furnished
a series of interesting episodes. Final¬
ly a resolution paving the way for a
general investigation of the operations
of the law was adopted. made
Mr. Tnrpie, democrat, Indiana,
nn argument in favor of a constitu¬
tional amendment to make United
States senators elective by popular
vote instead of by state legislatures.
At the close of Mr. Turpie’s remarks
the senate went into executive session.
After a short time the doors were
reo pened and legislative business was
res f i. A bill was passed directing
7 jretary of war to supply a thou
s tents to shelter and relieve the
suflerers from the flood in the Missis¬
sippi river. bill (modi¬
The Torrey bankruptcy
fied) was reported and was, on motion
of Mr. Hoar, made the unfinished bus¬
iness, not to be called up immediately,
however. A constitutional amendment
to make the 30th of April inauguration
day was introduced by Mr. Hoar. At
3:45 o’clock p. m. the senate adjourned
until Wednesday.
A PIOUS THIEF.
Professor Dille Acknowledges Crooked¬
ness and Skips Out.
Dayton, Tenn., is revelling in a
genuine sensation. Prof. D. A. Dille,
formerly a professor in Dayton Uni¬
versity, at present principal of the
city high school, has been forced to
leave the city in order to avoid the dis¬
grace of a prosecution for theft.
When his school closed, about two
months .ago, he accepted a position
temporarily with the Dayton Coal and
Iron Company as bookkeeper.
Last Saturday the envelope contain¬
ing the wages of one of the company’s
employees, amounting to §90, was
missing. On investigation, Dille, un¬
der promise that he would not be
prosecuted, confessed that he had
stolen the §90 and immediately turned
it over to the company’s representa¬
tive, and left town at once.
Dille was president of the Epworth
Leage, leader of the Methodist choir
and a conspicuous figure in the society
of the little city.
A number of other peculations have
been discovered since his departure.
WILL PROSECUTE WOOD.
Another Probable Chapter in tlie Murder
of Pearl Bryan.
There is to be another chapter in the
murder of Pearl Bryan. Since the
execution of Scott Jackson and Alonzo
M. Walling, the friends of these men
have determined to prosecute William
Wood, a consin of Pearl Bryan, who
was charged by Jackson with her
downfall and getting Jackson and
Walling to help him out of trouble.
Wood has not been at his home in
Greencastle, Ind., for months and his
present whereabouts is unknown. It
is proposed to get the secret service
of the government after him. The
Bryan family are also wanting Wood
prosecuted and have been pursuing
him.
SEIZED COTTON SEED MEAL.
South Carolina Ha* In Its Possession
Ninety-Seven Tons.
The state of South Carolina has on
its hands ninety-seven tons of cotton
seed meal, which it bas come in pos¬
sesion of as a result of seizures of
adulterated articles.
According to the law, cotton seed
meal must be tagged with the privi¬
leged tax tags and the guarantee filed
with the authorities at the state agri¬
cultural college at Clemson. Failure
to comply with this regulation subjects
the meal to seizure and confiscation.
A Quake in New York.
At about 6:05 o’clock Tuesday even¬
ing there was a heavy earthquake
shock at Malone, N. Y., starting with
a sudden boom-like explosion, and
reverberating with a grinding motion
for some seconds. It seemed to travel
from southeast to northwest.
DAUNTLESS LIBEL CASE.
Judge Locke, at Jacksonville, Overrules
Some of the Exceptions.
In the case of the United States vs.
the steamer Dauntless, for forfeiture,
Judge Locke has overruled the excep¬
tions to the libel, excepting as to the
second count, and that overruled was
as to the fourth count of the declara¬
tion, but sustained as to all others,
and the government was given amended tnree
days in which to file an
answer, The second exception is as
follows: allege
“The said libel does not m
any of the articles therein contained
that the said steam vessel Dauntless
was fitted out and armed within the
limi ts of the United States.”
AWFUL WORK OF A CYCLONE AT
ARLINGTON, GA. *
SCHOOLHOUSE BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Scholars and Teachers Buried In the
Wreck—Dead and Dying on All Sides,
A Scene of Horror.
The gulf cyclone which
strikes into the Chattahoochee
of Georgia, carrying death and desola¬
tion along its path, paid the state an¬
other visit at an early hour Monday
morning, creeping slowly upward over
the old and well-beaten ground.
The wind of death swept down upon
Arlington and accomplished a work of
horror. In the tragedy which it left
in its wake in the peaceful little vil¬
lage it outstripped all its previous rec¬
ords since its first visitation in 1804.,
Eight school children taken out
dead and horribly mangled from school- un¬
der the debris of the fallen
house, about twenty others wounded,
several of whom are given up to die
have been enough to turn the village
into a home of mourning, such as even
a great battlefield could not exceed.
Arlington is situated in Calhoun
county on the Columbia branch of
Central railroad in the center of a levfel
plateau which lies between the inter¬
section of the Flint and Chatta¬
hoochee rivers, which come together
and form the Apalachicola in seeking
an outlet into the gulf.
As the happy school children were
trooping up to the school building
about 8 o’clock Professor Covington,
looking out of one of the windows
facing to the south, saw the coming
windstorm and hurriedly gathered in
the little ones already on the ground.
In this he was aided by Professor
Walker, when they closed the doors
and stood at the windows watching the
coming of the storm with curious in¬
terest.
It was not long, however, before
they saw that it was an agent of deaim
and ruin, for those at the windows
beheld it gather up negro cabins like
toy boxes, wrenching and splintering
them in mid air and sending the frag¬
ments flying in all directions.
The children, thoroughly scared,
clung around their teachers, who
vainly sought to quiet them. They
begged to go home, but that would not
do. In but a minute more the crunch¬
ing of the wind could be felt twisting
the house in which they stood. And
then the terrible tragedy began.
The roof was lifted completely off,
shivered into fragments and fell, thus
accelerating the falling of the already
crumbling walls which were swaying
under the lashing fury of the winds.
The doorways were blockaded and
there was no escape, and un’<w the
crushing weight of the falling bui : ding
those not killed before were ».anght
between timbers and crushed to death
and wounded in such a way that a
number of them are still expected to
die.
When tbe dead were extricated from
the wreck they were found to be:
Claude Roberts, aged 14, terribly
mangled and internally injured.
Mollie Parratnore, aged 17, crushed
beneath a chimney.
Albert Butler, aged 6.
Alice Putnam, aged 15.
Willie McMurrie, aged 10.
Kenneth Boynton, aged 7.
Mary Wellons, aged 8.
Maud Johnson, aged 10.
The dead were fearfully mutilated,
their bodies being crushed and bruised
by the falling timbers and debris.
Thirteen others, including the two
teachers of the school, were more or
less seriously injured^ some probably
fatally. Only five of the pupils es¬
caped unhurt. about completed
As the -wreck was
and the wind passed off to the north¬
west, a terrific rainstorm followed,
only to drench the hundreds of people
who, leaving their homes in the midst
of the storm, rushed to the school
house in the vain effort to save their
children.
The storm, of which this great
tragedy was the center, followed
the well-known beaten course of gulf
storms, crossing over the state of
Georgia and escaping into the ocean
again off the const of North Carolina.
THIS COMPANY SOLVENT.
Judge Decides in Favor of Building and
Loan Association.
Judge Clarke, of the United States
court, at-Knoxville, Tenn., rendered
a decision Monday in tbe Southern
Building and Loan case in which he
declares the association solvent and
orders its affairs back into the hands
of the officers of the association and
enjoins the stockholders from filing
further suits against the association on
the ground that a stockholder is a part
of an association and is not a creditor
and therefore cannot file bills for re¬
ceiver against such association. This
ia reversing the decision of the special
master.
CONDITION OF TREASURY.
How Uncle Sam’s Account Stands—Avail¬
able Cash Balance.
The following is a statement of the
condition of the United States treas¬
ury on the 20th day of March, 1897:
Cash in the treasury, §147,156,615;
gold bullion, §11,828,028; total, $188,
984,644. Net outstanding gold certifi¬
cates, $37,498,778, Standard silver
dollars, $382,603,030; silver bullion,
§821,566; total, §383,424,596. Net
outstanding silver certificates, §364,-
447,208. Standard silver dollars of
■I860, $10,136,048; silver bullion of
-1890(eost)’,$107,150,232.25; 286,380.251 Hess total,$117,
outstanding treasury
cy certificates, §74,430,000. Treasury
notes of 1890, §26,S59,335; national
banknotes, $13,084,098; fractional sil¬
ver coin, $15,879,724.91. Fractional
currency, $82.37; minor coin, §1.282,-
885.91; deposits in national banks,
$16,509,682.39; bonds aud interest
paid,§614,794.36; total, §74,230,602.94.
Less national bank, 5 per cent fund,
$8,160,588.44; outstanding checks and
drafts, $6,353,871.99: disbursing offi¬
cers’ balances, §27,824,028.94; post
office department accounts, §3,732,-
194.55; miscellaneous items, §2,596,-
814.18; total, §48,668,098.11.
Available cash balance, including
gold reserve, §217,200,053.
SHROPSHIRE MAKES DENIAL.
Says He Had Nothing: to Do With Finances
of Consulate.
A cable dispatch to The New York
Herald says Clyde Shropshire gives an
emphatic denial to the charges of finan¬
cial irregularities made against him in
The Tribune.
He frankly discussed the matter with
a representative of The New York
Herald at the boarding house at which
he is living in London.
“I have seen The Herald," he said,
“and you can imagine that these alle¬
gations have given me a painful shock.
I was quite sure, however, that Mr.
Morss would deny having made such
a report as mentioned by The Tribune.
I had some differences with Mr. Morss
before I left Paris, but these were in
connection with a law office with
which I was connected and had noth¬
ing to do with money matters or con¬
sulate affairs. In fact, as Mr. Morss
says, the handling of the accounts of
the consulate did not come within the
scope of my duties in Paris. ”
ESTIMATED REVENUES
Which Will Be Available Under New
Tariff Measure.
A Washington special says: The
ways and means committee made pub¬
lic. Monday a detailed statement show¬
ing the estimated revenue under the
new measure for each schedule, with
the average ad valorem rates under
the McKinley law, the present law
and the pending bill:
Dutiable value of merchandise for
the year 1893, §400,069,658; for 1896,
$390,796,361; estimated by proposed
law, §479,540,406. Revenues collected
in 1893, §198,373,452; in 1896, §156,-
104,598; estimated by proposed law,
§273,501,721.
Equivalent ad valorem under law of
1893, 49.58 per cent; under law of 1896,
39.94 per cent; under proposed law,
57.03 per cent.
OSBORNE SWORN IN.
New Con.nl General at London Ready For
Duty.
The new consul general at London,
M. McK. Osborne, is tbe first of the
foreign appointees of the administra¬
tion to enter upon his work.
He took the oath of office at the
state department Saturday and imme¬
diately began to accumulate the knowl¬
edge of his new office in the hope of
being able to relieve Consul General
Collins at the earliest possible mo¬
ment.
As soon as he can be made familiar
with the routine he will leave for Lon¬
don.
TEXAS COTTON FIRM ASSIGNS.
Convey Property Creditors. For the penefit of Their
Martin, Wise & i itzhugh, of Monday Paris,
Texas, made a deed of trust
conveying all their property to a trus¬
tee for the benefit of their creditors.
This firm was one of the largest and
oldest cotton firms in the south. They
are financially connected with the
Denison Cotton Mills, an unfinished
institution, that represents capital al¬
ready expended to the amount of half
a million dollars.
They also have their own cotton
compress in the state.
TWO STATES OF NEW YORK.
Bill Will Be Introduced With That Pur
pose in View.
A dispatch from Albany, N. Y.,says:
What has been feared and suggested
by the republican leaders from the in¬
terior and np-country section of the
state has come to pass. They argued
that the creation of a greater New
York was the first step toward making
a separate state out of the territory ad¬
jacent to New York harbor.
Assemblyman Trainor will introduce
two bills looking toward the creating
of a new state out of the counties of
New York, Kings, Richmond, Queens,
Suffolk, West Chester and Putnam.
S
TARIFF PROGRAM NOT SATISFAC¬
TORY TO DEMOCRATS.
NEW RULES CAUSE J RUMPUS.
Republicans Determined to Pass
Bill Without Delay and Outline
the Program yh^refor*, .f- „ ,
■ 7A Washington dispatch says:*" The
republicans Pf the house have
the decks for the great tariff tight.
There was a preliminary skirmish
Friday in the fight over the rule pro¬
viding the manner of the consideration
of the tariff bill, which indicates the
treatment which the measure itself
will receive, but the rule was adopted
by a strict party vote.
The democrats were formed into a
compact body by the program adopted
by the republicans.
democrats Party lines were at once drawn and
rallied as one man against
the tariff. The debate brought out the
fact that the democrats stood ready to
forget all other questions, for the pres¬
ent at least, and unite on the tariff as
the great issue.
The administration program is be¬
ing followed to the letter. The rule
admits of comparatively little debate
considering the magnitude of the meas¬
ure and eliminates even chance for
amendment.
While on its face it seems to give
opportunity for the consideration of
amendments proposed by individual
members, that provision is .tendered a
nullity by the rule which gives amend
ments proposed by the committee the
right of way at all times.
The rules of the house are absolutely
superceded by this special rule, which
gives the committee the power to force
the consideration of its amendments
and its amendments alone, no matter
what may be pending.
Mr. Bailey, of Texas, set forth the
democratic position in his short speech
against that rule. He declared it his
belief that the sooner the republican
program was put into legislation
the better it would be fox the demo
cratic party, for that much sooner
would the futility of the proposition
thnt. prosperity can be brought about
by taxing the people be demonstrated.
He protested against the arbitrary
action of the majority as embodied in
this rule, but declared the democracy
was willing to abide the test of the
tariff bill as a prosperity restorer.
Speaking for the minority, Mr. B..i
ly said: “The passage of the bill will
not be antagonized by filibustering
opposition. Knowing that we cannot
prevent its passage, we feel it to be
the best policy, from our standpoint,
that yon should pass it speedily. If
it shall accomplish what you claim for
it, the president should not be de
prived of the benefits that are to flow
from it. If it should not prove to be
what is anticipated for it, the sooner
it will be repealed and the people re
lieved of its unjust exactions.
“I never was more confident of any
event of the future than I am that
this bill shall demonstrate the futility
of the pretenses on which it is based,
and I firmly believe that you won’t
live long enough to get a patient hear¬
ing from the people on the absurd pro¬
position that you can make them pros¬
perous by taxing them. (Applause.)
“We challenge you to pass the bill
because nothing can more certainly
prove to the people that you are un¬
worthy of the trust now reposed in
you.” (Applause.)
HEAVY WIND STORM
Dors Considerable Damage In Texas
Friday Night.
A heavy wind storm, which in some
places assumed the appearance of a
cyclone, passed over a part of Texas
Friday night.
At Plano the gale leveled the sheds
of the Cotton Beit and Central road,
blew over freight cars and unroofed
several residences. A number of per¬
sons were injured at Plano, but none
were killed. Considerable damage was
done by the storm near Itasca and
Hutchinson. Telegraph and telophone
wires are prostrated and it is difficult
to learn the extent of the damage.
The worst damage reported so far
occurred at Denton, where over one
hundred houses were struck by the
storm, and all more or less damaged.
AWAITS GOVERNOR’S APPROVAL.
Tennessee Constitutional Bill Has Passed
Both Houses of Legislature.
Both houses of the Tennessee legis¬
lature adopted, Friday, the report of
the conference committee on the con¬
stitutional convention bills, and those
measures now go to the governor for
his approval.
As agreed on, this question will be
voted on the first Tuesday in August.
H a convention is called ninety-nine
delegates not less than twenty-seven
years of age will be elected the first
Tuesday in October, election officers to
serve without pay. The delegates will
receive only $2 per diem and sit only
seventy-five days.
NO. 37.
FLOODS’ FURY UNABATED.
Stories of Death and Disaster From Raging
Waters Still Come.
Advices from M mphis state that a
half-inch rise in tne Mississippi means
the devastation of property and proba
abiy a loss of life unequaled in the
flood history of that section. The rise
is threatened because of continued
rains.
Seventeen persons are reported
drowned fifty miles below Carnthers
ville, Mo. A stretch of country over
100 miles long from a point of seventy
•fitiles miles portli.of of'.the.Teunessee'metropo¬ jMenipliis to appoint 50
south
lis is submerged The* in nlac&s fertile to 4 depth of
of teh feet. valleys
Tennessee and,Arkansas 4nd are completely
inundated many lives have been
lost and stock drowned, fencing and
dwellings swept away, inhabitants des¬
titute and homeless, and left to starve
or drown by the remorselessly rising
tide.
Reports from tributary streams show
rains and rapidly rising rivers, floods
which will soon be emptied into the
Mississippi, adding to the danger when
hurled against the already weakened
levees.
The levees are patrolled hourly by
armed and desperate men, provided
with sand bags to strengthen weak
places or to close threatened crevices,
and rifles with which to Bhoot down any
miscreant who would venture to cut
the embankment and allow the waters
on his plantation to And vent into the
lowlands of his neighbor.
The floods now partake of the nature
of a deluge. As far as the eye can see
nothing but water meets the gaze.
MANY LIYES LOST.
Eater Reports from Arkansas Show Num¬
erous Drowning*.
Dispatches from Gavan, Ark., state
that for many miles the country is
flooded and the water is up to the
Iron Mountain tracks. Hundreds of
section bands are striving to keep it
back with dirt bags,
At every station the negroes are
gathering, waiting to be taken away,
Many get on the trains and are carried
without pay.
The list of fatalities is said to be
long and probably never will be known,
a mountain of household goods is
piled up a t every railroad station,
Whites and negroes beg for belp from
ever y train crew.
Houses along the road are sub
merged to roofs, and cattle standing
i n the fields with only their heads
above water,
Many corpses of hogs and cows are
washed up by the water,
BRAINED HIS CHILDREN.
Horrible Deed of an Old Confederate
Veteran.
Wright Smith, a farmer living near
Harlem, in Columbia county, Ga.,
murdered two of his children and then
killed himself.
He brained the little ones with his
crutch and committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head,
Smith went to Thomson Thursday
and drew his pension, he having serv
ed on tbe confederate side during the
late war - He returned home in the
afternoon in the best of spirits. Ho
had been in the house but a few min¬
utes when a disturbance arose between
he and his wife. Rather than fuss
with her, he gathered his crutch and
walked out to the corn crib to get corn
to feed bis pigs, as -was his evening
custom. In the crib were his two
boys, five and three years old.
The !ittle fellow-s were enjoying
their sport in the crib, and upon the
sight of their father they ran to him
with great glee. Seizing his crutch
he dealt each of them a blow over the
head, knocking their brains out.
They fell side by side in a pile of
shucks, dead.
WILL FORM A FEDERAL UNION.
Transvaal an<l Orange Free State to Work
Together,
It is stated at Cape Town, Africa,
on what is regarded as good authority
that as a result of the visit of Presi¬
dent Kruger of the Transvaal, to Presi¬
dent Steyn, of the Orange Free State,
a federal union of the republic* has
been decided upon.
Such union is regarded here with
much concern, as it would se: iously
complicate the situation.
The result of such a union would
not only open the whole question as to
the position of the Transvaal republic,
in a political sense, in south African
affairs, but would probably give Pres¬
ident Kruger greater strength.
PINGREE LOSES FOR ONCE.
Supreme Court Decide. Against Him M
Mayor of Detroit.
A Detroit, Mich., dispatch says:
For the first time in his political car
reer, Hazen S. Pingree has received a
terrible jolt. The supreme court haa
declared that he was no longer mayor
of Detroit and ordered that his sue
cessor be chosen at the regular election
on April 5tb next. Pingree’s elec¬
The court held that
tion to the office of governor vacated
the office of mayor. The fact is, that
his gubernatorial job has not come
up to its occupant’s expectations.
The legislature has failed to pass his